On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Su Shuang took Zhuo County blacksmith Zheng Cai to bring the Guangyang County military camp again and transported thousands of catties of high-grade iron. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hehe, welcome to Su Dongjia."

Su Shuang introduced: "Gao Junshi is good, this is a famous craftsman in Zhuo County, good at smelting and building!" ”

"Zheng Cai has seen the military advisor!" Su Shuang had told Zheng Cai about Gao Shun in detail, Zheng Cai didn't dare to be careless, and immediately saluted Gao Shun, the social status of craftsmen in this era was very low, and Zheng Cai was cautious.

"Master Zheng doesn't need to be polite, you are a distinguished guest specially invited by Su Dong's family, come, please come to the house." Gao Shun looked at Zheng Cai, who was tall and strong, powerful and powerful, and his face was swarthy from smoke and fire.

"Strategist, please!"

The two sides sat down, and Su Shuang introduced: "Military Division, Zhang Dongjia is raising funds, and Shuang is afraid of delaying the important affairs of the military division, so he invited Zheng Jiangshi to hurry over, and he also brought iron." ”

Gao Shun was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Thank you, Su Dongjia." ”

"Strategist, this time I brought five hundred porcelain altars, I don't know when I will be able to trade wine?"

"Half a month later, you can trade this month's shares."

"Thank you to the military advisor, and you can return to Zhuo County to raise funds."

After sending Su Shuang away, Gao Shun first ordered someone to set up a banquet, let Li Qiang drink Fang Liang as a companion, and entertained Zheng Cai warmly.

Zheng Cai felt flattered.

At the banquet, Gao Shun said to Zheng Cai: "Master Zheng, I want to take advantage of a few weapons for my generals, so I take the liberty to invite you to come, don't blame." ”

"The military advisor is polite, building weapons is a certain job, and it is an honor to be able to serve the efficiency of the military division."

After a few glasses of wine, he lost his defensive mentality, and Zheng Cai's conversation box opened.

Zheng Cai came from the Zheng family, a blacksmith family in Runan County, and was a distant clan.

The Zheng family is good at smelting, building weapons, there have always been clansmen as the royal blacksmith of the Han court, there is an ancestor named Zheng Ma, because he killed the descendants of the local famous family, was exiled to Gaochang County, Xiliang, in Gaochang County, the Western Regions forging process and the Central Plains forging process combined, to create a new smelting method, to produce a new material of steel, named hemp steel by the family, the weapon made of hemp steel is extremely sharp (the hardness of hemp steel is almost close to the hardness of titanium alloy, is to heat the medium and high carbon steel to a certain temperature and then quickly cool (quenching), The properties of this steel are high strength and hardness).

Because he was a distant member of the Zheng family, he accidentally mastered the knack of making hemp steel when he was an apprentice in the family, and was jealous and persecuted by the family members, and was forced to flee to the border county to hide his name.

Zheng Cai tasted this kind of wine for the first time, and received such a high courtesy, while telling about the unfortunate encounter, coupled with Li Qiang and Fang Liang's frequent toasts, Zheng Cai gradually lost himself in the high wine, and soon got drunk.

Gao Shun arranged for him to rest in the barracks.

When he woke up the next day, Zheng Cai was shocked and regretted that he was greedy for a cup and made a mistake.

But then a soldier came in to take care of him and take him to the officer's dining hall for dinner, and his nervousness relaxed a little, and it seemed that the military adviser had no intention of harming him.

During the meal, Gao Shun also came, and ate at a table with Zheng Cai, and introduced Zheng Cai to you by the way: "Everyone be quiet, this person in me is Master Zheng Craftsman, I decided to create a weapon for each military candidate, what kind of appearance everyone likes, draw drawings in advance, and communicate with Master Zheng to determine." ”

"Thank you, Lord."

"I won't introduce the craftsmanship of Master Zheng, what I want to say is that the weapons created by the craftsman will definitely become your heirloom, so you must be cautious and practical when designing the style of the weapon, otherwise, if you don't get your hands on it, you can only see it and not use it, and you will waste a piece of the craftsman's hard work."

"Yes, my lord!"

Gao Shun said to Zheng Cai again: "Master Zheng, I want to hire you as the arsenal craftsman of our army, and the salary is a thousand stones, how about it?" ”

Zheng Cai didn't know what kind of official the arsenal was, but he could understand the salary of a thousand stones; Thinking quickly, judging from today's situation, it is not okay not to agree; Besides, Gao Junshi has so many soldiers and horses, thinking that the backing is not bad, at least there is no need to be incognito, at least he can give full play to his strengths, and he has such a high salary, it would be a fool not to agree, and his mind has been decided, so he knelt on the ground and shouted: "Zheng Cai greets the lord, Zheng Cai is willing to take over the job of the arsenal craftsman." ”

Everyone began to be very happy, and after listening to Gao Shun's gift of a thousand stones, although it was not easy to persuade the lord, everyone had an unconvinced demeanor.

"Haha, Master Zheng, please get up quickly."

"Thank you, lord!"

Gao Shun saw everyone's expressions and persuaded: "You all understand that without a weapon at hand, it is difficult to give full play to your personal advantages in the battle; The same is true for the entire army, where the quality of weapons is one of the keys to victory on the battlefield; Reducing one's own casualties and increasing the strength of killing and wounding the enemy is not just something that can be exchanged for a thousand stones? I feel that there are not many for Master Zheng, but very little, if you can create a batch of sharp blades to equip the army, you will not hesitate to reward. ”

"Yes, my lord, I will definitely live up to my lord's trust." Zheng Cai immediately responded.

"In the next few days, I will arrange twenty assistants for you, first build everyone's weapons, and then set up a production base in Juyong Guancheng; In the future, the production of weapons for our army will be all under the responsibility of Master Zheng. ”

"Yes, my lord." Zheng Cai replied confidently.

"Any needs of Master Zheng can be collected at any time at the logistics of the barracks, and matters below 100 times do not need to be approved by me, and Master Zheng is in charge alone."

"Thank you for your trust." Zheng Cai was granted such great rights and trust, and he was moved to cry, and finally came out of it.

In the following days, Gao Shun synthesized 10 junior blacksmiths and 10 intermediate blacksmiths respectively, and asked them to assist Zheng Cai in building weapons and began trial production of hemp steel.

Similar to history, Guan Yu designed a long knife, Zhang Fei designed a long snake spear, others according to their personal preferences, some use spears, some choose spears or large knives, different weights, different styles.

Li Qiang did not lack weapons, but asked Zheng Cai to build a long sword and prepare it for Ge Hu to use.

Zheng Cai didn't want the high-quality iron to be wasted, and he was afraid that the weapons he would create would not be easy, so he used ordinary 30 steel-making to create samples according to your requirements, the same style and weight, let you test it first, and then fine-tune the weight and size to fully meet the needs of each officer.

It only took more than 20 days for each person's weapon to be built, and everyone was very satisfied, not only the weight and size were very handy, and they could give full play to each person's greatest advantage, and the weapon was extremely sharp, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as blowing hair and breaking hair.

Especially Zhang Fei, after getting the Zhangba Snake Spear, he immediately engaged in a martial arts battle with everyone, and everyone felt that after being equipped with a convenient weapon, his combat power increased greatly.

Zheng Cai was very happy to be affirmed by everyone, and then transferred to Juyong Guancheng under Gao Shun's arrangement, set up a smelting base, and prepared to make hemp steel as soon as possible according to Gao Shun's requirements.

The intermediate blacksmith that Gao Shun equipped him with was good at making iron and steel, and Zheng Cai was very easy to use.

With the help of Gao Shun regardless of money, Zheng Cai lived up to expectations and made hemp steel in only half a year, whose performance far exceeded that of 100 steel, similar to high-grade iron, but the cost was much lower than that of 100 steel.

Gao Shun was very happy and gave Zheng Cai the word as a subclass; This kind of high-hardness, high-strength special steel is named Bangang.

With this kind of weapon made of high-strength and high-hardness steel, if he is equipped with troops in the future, then he will be invincible and end the troubled times faster.