He solemnly took out his brother's pie and said, "You have also heard the story of boiling fish that Ji Xia said, right?" If you ask why you cut the fish at the time, you don't have to cut the fish until you can make a bigger clay pot, and you have to do it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Both brothers nodded yes to show that they had memorized.

"Second brother, when will that paper be made?"

"It's almost there, it's almost. Ji Xia is going to join the leaders of Aeshiro and the rest of the cities after a while, and we have to bring some gifts, and we have to get some paper as gifts for the rest of the leaders before then. They can't write, but it's good to glue windows. ”

The third smiled and said, "Where do they use paper to paste the windows?" Grinding shells with slaves is, anyway, they have more slaves, and they can use them for these things. If they could write, they would be happy to give paper as a gift. But if they can't write, they may not be happy to deliver paper. ”

"Our smelting division is also preparing gifts for them, but second brother, the gifts we prepared must be better than those you have prepared, and they will definitely like them. It's just that these gifts are going to tire us out. ”

He stretched out his calloused hand, and said helplessly: "The fourth child is going to the farm to harvest wheat in a few days, and we are not much better. You didn't go to our place, it was tinkling every day, and it was hot inside, but now it's okay, and I don't know how to spend it in a few days. ”

The two brothers asked in unison, "The gift of striking iron?" Sword? ”

The third shook his head and said: "That's not it, you have to learn to strike iron, and the gifts are not iron, they are all copper." ”

Speaking of this, he said mysteriously: "Anyway, you will know in a few days, and Ji Xia didn't say that he wouldn't tell others." ”

Stretching out his hand, he measured the distance of about a foot and said, "That gift is about this length, half an arm." It is made of copper casting, and it has to be three or five pounds heavy, which doesn't look good at all, but it can be used very well. ”

Both brothers were intrigued and asked, "What is it?" ”

"Weapons!"

"Weapons? Copper? Half an arm's length? Sword? ”

"It's not a sword."

He thought about it for a moment, and finally thought of something that could be described.

"It's a bamboo made of copper, and it's empty inside, and the back of it is dead, and only the front is empty, and it goes to the rear. There is also a small hole at the back that can be stuffed into the fire rope, Ji Xia said that the small hole is called the fire door, and this thing is called the fire door gun. ”

"Guns?"

"Well, I don't know why it's called that, Ji Xia's random name is definitely a gun, I still recognize the phonetic words, and I will never be wrong."

"Stuffed with firerope? With gunpowder? ”

"Uh-huh, yes, with gunpowder. I stuffed gunpowder into it, stuffed a round ball made of lead into it, lit it with a fire rope, and with a bang, the lead ball flew out! ”

He danced and said, "Didn't you see it at the time, a wooden board fifteen paces away snapped and shattered, if it hit a person, wouldn't it be killed at once?" Later, Ji Xia caught a few more pigs, and as long as he hit the pig within thirty steps, the pig would be half dead. ”

The fourth brother followed the elder brother excitedly, but the second brother was keenly aware of the problem in the sentence and asked, "If you hit your body, you will die?" Does that mean there are still times when you miss? Thirty steps...... I may not be able to shoot a target with a bow and arrow, but I can still shoot a pig, right? ”

The third child smiled: "That's right, anyway, it's difficult to shoot if it's a little farther away, and with one hand, the other hand has to light the fire rope...... Later, a fast-burning fuse was added to the fire door, which could be aimed on time after ignition, but it was slower to shoot once. ”

"How slow?"

"Uh...... Anyway, it's at least enough to shoot six or seven arrows. It's slow, it's slow. But arrows can't shoot through planks or armor, but this thing can. ”

The second brother shook his head and said: "Other cities or Dongyi people also have some leather armor, and the leather armor is still very ordinary, what do we want to shoot armor-piercing things?" If this thing can only shoot thirty or forty paces, it's really useless for us to ask for it. Besides...... It's a hassle to make one, right? And it's copper? Can't use iron? ”

The third man spread his hands and said: "You can't use iron, iron is easy to explode, then it's not a gun, it's an iron thunder pinched in your hand." It's really troublesome to do, but it's different from a bow when you pick it up, it's so small that you can pinch it with one hand, and when you hit it, there is white smoke, and there are sparks, and it shatters when you hit your arm, and it can scare people......"

The second elder of the Li family shook his head and said, "No, I have to talk to Ji Xia, it's useless for us to ask for this thing." It's okay as a gift, but it can't be if we use it. With this copper and this kung fu, we can exchange food for more soldiers, and we can fight it. Besides, we have a bow, what do you want this thing to do? ”

The third brother hurriedly persuaded: "No need, Ji Xia said to do this, give it out as a gift, and we don't need this thing." ”

The second child breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "If it's just a gift, then it's easy to say." Give gifts to the rest of the towns, as long as they look good and look scary. I said, this thing is so expensive, we may not be able to use it. ”

"Yes, the gift is expensive, this thing is good, the most troublesome thing is the gift to the leader of Suyue, that's called trouble. But it's nice to make, I didn't even think it would be like this. It's just that if we have one soldier in the Xia Kingdom, I'm afraid we will have to save for decades. ”

"What gift?"

"A! Bronze armor! The bronze armor that can block the feather arrows, if that thing is armor, the leather armor is simply a pile of rags. If you shoot it with an arrow a few times, you can't shoot it at all, if the black-clothed guard has one hand, he will rush into the enemy's formation, and he won't have to be afraid of the copper sword piercing, and he won't be afraid of the feather arrow. ”

After saying that, he fantasized for a while, and finally shook his head.

"It's too troublesome to do, I guess it seems that this thing is just for takeaway in exchange for grain, cattle and sheep, and it is unlikely that we will wear it for the time being. Ji Xia said that a pound of copper can be exchanged for dozens of catties of copper if it becomes this thing, and now other cities have begun to look for copper mines, and I am afraid that copper may not be able to exchange as many things as before in the future. ”

"You have to beat a small piece of copper into a copper sheet first, and when it is half-soft, pass through a large iron plate with several holes and smash out a small section."

Then the horse pulled the cart, and the man sat on the cart, clamped the head of the copper wire with iron tongs, and slowly pulled it back and forth. At first, it is thick, and when it is finished, it is stuffed into a slightly thinner hole and continues to be pulled outward, until it is thin enough. ”

"After pulling the copper wire, you still need to hit the iron plate. The wrought iron is heated and then beaten little by little with a sledgehammer, and the iron is broken into small plates...... I was using a sledgehammer a few days ago, and my arms were swollen. I can't fight much in a day, so I'm in trouble. ”

I plucked a soft grass from the side and wrapped it around my fingers, as if I had put a layer of clothing on my fingers.

"When the iron plate is finished, wrap the copper wires around an iron rod in the same way that I wrap the grass, and pull out the iron rod, and the copper wire will be in a circle. Then cut it with iron scissors, and all of them became short thick copper wires of the same length. It's like weaving a fishing net, and then the copper wires are woven in circles and draped over the shoulders. ”

"On the chest was a thin iron plate, joined together with copper wires, and finally draped over the shoulders. Those copper wires can block feathered arrows and do not affect the movement of the shoulders; The iron plate below is much stronger than the copper wire. ”

"After making it for so long, so many people smashed it out, and it sank very much. But I'd rather wear this thing than get shot by an arrow. ”

"Look at it, this bronze and iron armor alone must have amazed the leaders of those cities, maybe they all want one......"

"I guess that's the case, otherwise why would Ji Xia let so many people practice smashing iron with a sledgehammer?"