A large road parted the sides and led to a black city. Before arriving at Nanpi City, there was an endless stream of pedestrians on the road, which made Yuan Xi, who had been in the cold place of Youzhou for a long time, feel that he was full of popularity.

"What the hell is a big city...... and Yecheng have a fight ......"

Yuan Xi had also seen the world, and after a few words of opinion, he urged his subordinates to push the cart into the city. This time, in addition to the secretary Lu Fang, the staff officer Tian Chou came with him, and it was the bodyguards Zhao Yun and Lou Jingshu, the bearded girl. In addition, there were several members of the People's Army escorting the car, and Xu Dayan personally supervised it as a grassroots commander.

Xu Dayan This guy is also stuffy in Ji County, Yuan Xi and his entourage didn't bring him to White Wolf Mountain in Liaoxi before, which made him complain a lot, this time he took the initiative to ask the cart to do rough work, and the dead skin was to follow him to Nanpi. Yuan Xi said, "It's just transporting goods, go and go back", and he didn't care.

Seeing that Nanpi City had finally arrived, there was a cheer from the team.

Lu Fang cautiously asked, "Will the third prince really help?" ”

Yuan Xi said: "Of course, although my brother and I have an average relationship, we are ......brothers after all" To be honest, he doesn't have much confidence in this dead faggot, but the favorability system shows that there should be no problem.

The car clanged and made a clanging sound, and some of the well-made weapons were left, and the rest were picked and weighed, and some iron armor was selected to rebuild some tools, mainly agricultural tools, such as sickles and hoes, which would still be useful during the autumn harvest in the future. There are also some military ironware, which are also planned.

The iron smelting industry developed rapidly during the Han Dynasty. However, the technology was not very developed, and Cao Pi gathered the skilled craftsmen of the entire north under the premise of unifying the entire north, and he could only create five sharp swords. Of course, the technical content of the sword is indeed higher, and there is no problem with the ordinary ring-headed sword halberd. Among them, the experience of blacksmiths cannot be replicated, and the various processes are complex and the raw materials are expensive, which are significant problems. Therefore, Yuan Xicai came to Nanpi for help, and heard that the blacksmiths here were a little better than those in Ji County.

Compared with iron-smelting technology, imagination is the factor that restricts further development. Iron tools are used for many purposes, such as horseshoes to protect horseshoe from wear and tear, but they are not used until much later. There were also agricultural tools such as iron plows, which did not appear until after the Han Dynasty. So the current technology is actually enough, what is lacking is imagination. Yuan Xi drew a few drawings on the road, all of which were iron tools used in later generations, and there were still some processing difficulties, and he was going to discuss them in detail after meeting the blacksmith.

After entering the city, Xu looked left and right, feeling fresh everywhere. These people escorted the cart, which quickly attracted attention, and was finally invited by Yuan Shang.

When Yuan Xi entered the Taishou Mansion, Yuan Shang was sitting upright on the seat, with the bald Yuan Jin on one side and a beautiful singer on the other. In recent days, Yuan Shang has also found the feeling of being in love, and in the process of dealing with different women, he gradually awakened his male hormones, and his demeanor began to become masculine.

"Second brother, second brother, what kind of wind blew you here?"

Yuan Shang was very happy, and grabbed Yuan Xi's hand affectionately, almost giving Yuan Xi goosebumps.

Yuan Xi shook off his hand and said politely: "I have some official business to do, so I am here to borrow someone from you......"

Yuan Shang didn't listen carefully, just secretly tilted his head and whispered to him: "How is this girl?" ”

Yuan Xi followed his gaze and saw a woman with pink eyebrows standing on her side, looking like her skin was pink.

"It's okay......" Yuan Xi glanced at it hurriedly, he had long forgotten what he had said to his brother before, and he was a little strange in his heart that he let himself look at beautiful women, thinking about how the dead began to like women, and then continued: "I have a few carts of iron, and I want to find some blacksmiths to make ironware, I heard that the craftsmen here in Nanpi are skilled......

Yuan Shang said proudly: "This singer is called a poet, she is the most outstanding beauty here, I also discovered it by accident, what do you think of my brother's vision?" It's far worse than my sister-in-law, but ......"

"Wait...... Yuan Xi's face sank and said, "Do you have any thoughts about your sister-in-law?" ”

"No, no, no," Yuan Shang hurriedly shook his hand and said categorically: "Absolutely not." ”

"That's good......" Yuan Xi put away his fist.

Yuan Shang wiped his sweat and quickly changed the topic: "Second brother, you just said that you were looking for a blacksmith?" ”

Yuan Xi said: "That's right, I recently got a large amount of iron, although it is already a finished product, but I still plan to melt it down and make it into farm tools, you also know that there are fewer blast furnaces in Youzhou, and there are fewer blacksmiths, so I have to come to you to find it." ”

Yuan Shang smiled: "This is not a brother's boast, I just built a batch of armor a few days ago, and the quality is ......" Halfway through his speech, he suddenly remembered that this batch of armor had disappeared, so his words stopped abruptly. The big bald head of Wei Yuanjin next to him also looked ugly.

Yuan Xi said: "Come, let's take a look at the 'goods' I brought first......"

He pulled Yuan Shang and was about to go out, and the others had already parked the cart in the yard. Yuan Shang beckoned to Yuan Jin and said, "Yuan Jin, come over and take a look." ”

Yu Yuanjin answered, and then got up to follow.

Yuan Xi saw this big bald head, touched his chin with his hand, and said, "This ...... Have we seen this before? ”

Yuan Shang said with a smile: "This is the general I dug from Hanoi, quite courageous, now I will hand over the Nanpi garrison to Yuan Jin, don't look at his fierce appearance, he is very orderly to bring up troops." Second brother, you have never been to Hanoi, I'm afraid you have recognized the wrong person. ”

Yuan Xi said: "Oh, you may see that they are all bald, and they are a little confused." ”

The three of them walked out the door, leaving the singer Shi'er alone in the room, and the woman with the name of Nanpi raised her head, biting her lip, and her face was a little ugly. Just now Yuan Shang said that she was "far worse than her sister-in-law", and she happened to hear it by the tip of her ears, and there was inevitably a trace of waves in her heart. But seeing that Yuan Xi didn't even look at himself, could he really be full of confidence?

Where did the two brothers, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, know that this woman's mind was entangled, and when they went out, they arrived at the open space in the courtyard, where several big cars had already stopped. Zhao Yun and the others squatted aside to rest.

Yuan Xi came to the cart, directly lifted the cloth covering it, pointed to the iron helmet on it and said: "Look, that's it, although in terms of casting technology, it is a little rougher, but it is already good in this era......

Yuan Shang took a closer look, and with an "ah" sound, he almost fell. Wei Yuanjin hurriedly supported him, his voice trembled, and said, "Third prince, this ...... This...... Not our ......"

Yuan Shang quickly pinched his arm to stop him from continuing, hurriedly calmed down, showed a smile, and said to his second brother, "Where did these things come from?" So much iron armor is worth a lot of money. ”

Yuan Xi pursed his lips and said lightly: "These things are useless, who will wear heavy armor to the battlefield?" I just got it by accident when I was fighting thieves, and now I'm pulling it to you, and I'm going to melt it all down and forge it all to build a batch of farm tools. ”

Yuan Shang almost fainted, and said in a trembling voice: "What? You said...... To fight ...... Build a batch of farm tools? ”