Generally speaking, Liu Wei is not a murderous person, and he never sinners with his words. At this point, even the scholars who hated Liu Wei the most in the court had to admit that Liu Wei had a generous personality.

The reason why Liu Wei became so angry this time was actually mostly because of his own reasons. Subconsciously the annoyance that he betrayed his promise to Tang Ji and had disloyal thoughts vented on the person in front of him.

The man was a sturdy man in his thirties, who trembled like chaff when he heard Liu Wei's words, and shouted in his mouth: "Your Majesty forgives the sin, and the grass people ......."

Before he could finish speaking, the guards on the left and right had already set him up and dragged him out, and some of the guards muttered in their hearts: "It's really the same life, and it also disturbs the Son of Heaven, and the beautiful women write poems and send things; The man was dragged out and beaten to death. ”

The man was anxious, roared loudly, and said, "During the Fufeng shift, I have something important to tell Your Majesty, please listen to me!" ”

Fufeng shift period? Liu Wei suddenly had a little impression. It seemed that he was one of the merchants who were bidding for the secret recipe for sugar making, and when he thought of this, Liu Wei shouted to the guards again: "Stop!" ”

The guards who were holding the shift stopped, and Liu Wei walked up to take a look at the shift.

It's a shame that Liu Wei didn't have much impression of this class at all, the two of them didn't say anything, and the name of the class was not seen in history books like Mi Zhu and Weizi, and Liu Wei didn't pay much attention to him.

After watching for a long time, I don't have much memory of the shift, but this person can walk into the palace, presumably one of the merchants, Liu Bian's fire in his heart has also disappeared a lot at this time, although the shift collided with himself, he is not guilty of death, he doesn't want to kill innocents, so he ordered the guards to let him go, and asked: "The forbidden place of the palace is not allowed to trespass at will, you don't drink in the palace, what do you mean by running here?" ”

"The grass people have treasures to offer." Said the shift.

Offering treasure? Liu Wei was stunned. The merchants who entered the palace used all kinds of methods to appease him, and this offering treasure was the first time anyone had done so. As the Son of Heaven is rich in the world, I haven't seen any treasures.

However, Liu Wei still asked curiously: "What treasure is offered?" ”

"The grass people have a treasure sword, and they are willing to sacrifice it to Your Majesty."

Hearing that the sword was going to be sacrificed during the shift, the surrounding guards immediately became alert again. Even Liu Wei was vigilant in his heart. I don't think there's anything wrong with offering something else, but the words of offering a knife reminded Liu Wei of the scene where Cao Cao offered a seven-star knife to stab Dong Zhuo.

The shift in front of me has a big waist and a strong figure, so it shouldn't be a character like specialization and leaving.

However, after thinking about it, Liu Wei felt that it was unlikely. He is in the deep palace, and he is surrounded by heavily armed guards. Even if the shift in front of him is really a dead soldier, as long as he is careful, he will not have a chance to make a move.

Thinking of this, Liu Wei then asked, "Where is the treasure knife?" ”

"You are not allowed to carry weapons privately in the palace, and the sword is still in the hands of the servants outside the palace." The shift replied.

Liu Wei nodded. The security work of the China Merchants Association this time is still quite meticulous. The merchants who entered the palace searched the inner three floors and the outer three floors, and arranged for them to take a bath and change into new clothes, just for fear that assassins would get in among them.

It is normal for the bright and sparkling weapons of the class to be blocked outside the palace, so Liu Wei ordered Zhang Tao and the class to go outside the palace to get the treasure knife.

After a while, Zhang Tao walked back with a knife and the shift. Ten steps away from Liu Bian, Zhang Tao ordered the shift to stay in place, and came to Liu Bian with a knife in his hand and presented the treasure knife.

Liu Wei carefully looked at the treasure knife that Zhang Tao held in front of him, which was very different from the war knife in the Central Plains, and the shape was a peculiar arc, which was very similar to the style of the Western Regions. The cowhide scabbard is edged with gold wire, the scabbard is also inlaid with rubies, and there are two on the left and right sides of the handle.

Liu Wei pulled out the knife, the blade of the knife did not have any gorgeous decoration, the whole body was almost black, and by the light of the light, the blade still had small lines.

Liu Wei didn't know much about the cold weapons of this era, but Zhang Tao next to him was a sword enthusiast, and he sighed in admiration: "My subordinates have been interviewed outside just now, and this knife is as sharp as clay, and it is definitely a magic weapon." ”

Sharpen iron like clay? Liu Wei glanced at Zhang Tao and said, "Since you said that sharpening iron is like clay, then take down your saber and try it." ”

Zhang Tao was dumbfounded, and said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, my subordinate is a hundred refining treasure sword. ”

Liu Wei said: "If it is true that you say that iron is like clay, I will accept this knife and give it to you." ”

Zhang Tao's eyes lit up, and he immediately pulled out his saber and said, "Please try the knife Your Majesty!" ”

Liu Wei was amused by Zhang Tao's sudden enthusiasm, smiled helplessly, raised the treasure knife in his hand, and slashed it with all his strength.

The two knives intersected and made a crisp sound. The saber in Zhang Tao's hand was simply broken in two. Liu Wei was stunned for a moment, carefully inspected the treasure knife in his hand, the blade and blade were intact, and he couldn't help but admire: "It is indeed a divine weapon." ”

Zhang Tao saw that Liu Wei couldn't put down the treasure knife, so he pretended to be in pain and said: "This knife is a treasure dedicated to Your Majesty, if Your Majesty likes it, you can keep it, and your subordinates dare not take away Your Majesty's love." ”

Liu Wei looked at Zhang Tao and said that he didn't want this treasure knife, but his eyes kept staring at the treasure knife, and he knew in his heart that he was just talking back, aiming to remind himself to fulfill the promise of giving the knife.

Although Liu Wei knew that Zhang Tao was playing tricks, he was not angry, although this knife was good, but Liu Wei was not a mean and stingy person, Zhang Tao had always been loyal to himself, and he was a close guard by his side, even from the perspective of winning people's hearts, Liu Wei would give him the knife.

Liu Wei put away the knife and handed it to Zhang Tao.

"I am the king of a country, Chrysostom Yuyan, I just said that I will give you the sword, how can I not keep my promise."

Seeing this, Zhang Tao immediately took the treasure knife with a smile and carried it on his waist.

At this time, the class said on the side: "There are still more than 20 such treasure knives around the grass people, which are used by the grass people and their subordinates to do business and protect themselves, although they are not so beautifully decorated, but they are also indestructible weapons, and I wish they were all dedicated to Your Majesty." ”

Liu Wei was stunned. Although he was not familiar with the production of cold weapons, he also knew that it was not easy to make a sword that was as sharp as clay. Liu Wei has the impression that when making knives, he also needs the continuous heating and forging of the blacksmith master. Generally, it is best to forge more than 100 times, and the saber that Zhang Tao used to test the knife just now is a hundred steel knives, with a market value of about 9,000 to 15,000 yuan. In addition, there are "fifty refining", "thirty refining", and "seventy-two refining" steel knives divided by different forging times.

Liu Wei once saw in the historical books that there was a man named Pu Yuan during the Three Kingdoms period, who once made 3,000 hundred refining knives for Zhuge Liang in the Xiegu, which could split the wood and bamboo filled with iron beads at once.

Since Pu Yuan's year of birth and death and life are unknown, although Liu Wei wanted to find this person after succeeding to the throne, he had no choice but to order people to slowly find the Shu land where Pu Yuan appeared in history. However, with the strength of Shu and one country, only 3,000 steel knives were made, which shows that in the era of pure handicrafts, the production of 100 knives was quite difficult and laborious, which was deeply imprinted in Liu Wei's mind.

The knives offered by the class were sharper than the hundred refining knives, and it was more laborious to make them, and he was able to suddenly take out more than twenty such treasure knives, which naturally surprised Liu Wei.

Liu Wei asked curiously, "Why did Ban Zhuangshi get so many treasure swords?" ”

The class replied: "The Kushan Kingdom of the Western Regions produces a kind of fine iron, which is extremely sharp when made into swords, and the grass people occasionally buy some and then ask the swordsman who is good at making swords to make a treasure knife to wear with him, so that he can use it for self-defense when doing business. Now I came to Chang'an to participate in His Majesty's investment conference, and I specially decorated one of them with gems produced in Guishan before offering it to Your Majesty. ”

"I see." Liu Wei nodded thoughtfully. The Roman Empire, which was a powerful empire in the West, together with the Han Dynasty, was known as the four great civilizations of this era. The civilization of Anxi and Kushan is no less developed than that of the Han Dynasty, so it is not surprising that they can make this kind of divine weapon. However, Liu Wei had two other things in mind related to these two countries.

Uzi steel with Damascus knives.

The Damascus sword from Persia, the Japanese katana, and the Malayklux sword are known as the three most famous blades in the world. Among them, Damascus knives are made from Uzi steel from India.

The class said that the treasure knife offered was made from Guishan and made in peace, and it sounds very likely to be a Damascus knife, especially the blade of the knife in Liu Bian's hand, which is like flowing water, and the color is almost jet-black, which is indeed very similar to the Damascus knife that Liu Biao saw on the Internet in his previous life. It's just that the ancient Damascus knife was lost in the 17th century because of the deforestation of Uzi steel, and what Liu Wei saw on the Internet were imitations of Damascus knives with modern craftsmanship. Moreover, the Damascus knife was recorded around 800 AD, and it is doubtful that the craftsmanship of the current craftsmen of Anxiu will be able to reach the level of later generations. Therefore, Liu Wei was not sure that the treasure knife offered by the class was a Damascus knife.

However, the production of Uzi steel was already in the first century AD. It is very likely that the material of the treasure knife offered during the class is made of Uzi steel. With good steel, you don't have to worry about not being able to make good knives.

"Do you know how Guishan made this refined iron?" Liu Wei urgently asked about the class date.

The class shook his head blankly and replied, "This kind of refined iron refining has just emerged in Guishan, and the secrecy is very strict, and no one knows how to refine it. The grass people only bought it by chance from a Kushan merchant, and then they were transferred back to the Central Plains. ”

I see. Liu Wei nodded in disappointment.

However, Liu Wei was not discouraged at all, the iron casting craftsmen of the Han Empire were not inferior to anyone, not to mention the sword casting masters of Mo Ye who were famous through the ages, and the existing quenching and frying steel method and the steel filling method that arose in the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the future are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese working people.

The only thing that restricts the development of the metallurgical industry in this era is the temperature of smelting. In this era, charcoal was still used as fuel for ironmaking, although Liu Wei had sent people to find coal with higher temperatures, and even considered refining coke or mining natural coke to increase the smelting temperature, but these were only in the plan for the time being, and how to develop it was still a matter for later. If you can get the advanced smelting technology of other countries, it will naturally help the development of the domestic metallurgical industry, but if you can't get it for the time being, Liu Wei began to think about importing Guishan's Uzi steel cake for forging and processing after returning to China.

If the sword forged from Uzi steel can be equipped with the army, it will be a great boost to the combat power of the Han army. It's just that Liu Wei didn't have any idea about how to import Uzi steel from Guishan, and was thinking about it, when the shift suddenly fell to the ground.

Liu Wei was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"The grass people have something to deceive Your Majesty, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive your sins." Class Schedule.

"Something to deceive? What's up? Liu asked.

"The grass people don't have any money."

No money? Liu Wei was stunned, and he didn't understand the meaning of the class for a while.

The class explained: "Cao Min has been doing business in the Western Regions for a long time, and recently a batch of goods brought by them was encountered by bandits, and they lost a lot of money, and they had no cash to pay for the right to sell porcelain in Liangzhou, so I ask Your Majesty to forgive the minister's crime of deception." ”

The class said this, Liu Wei understood that the auction of the right to sell porcelain was not paid on the spot, and the class pretended to bid, and it was easy to get through the test and get the opportunity to enter the palace to get close to him.

It's just that the shift took such a big risk to deceive the Son of Heaven, just to enter the palace to offer a few treasure knives, Liu Wei didn't believe it. Thinking that there must be something strange in it, he pretended to be angry and asked: "You don't know the power of heaven and deceive the Son of Heaven, can you know that it is a capital crime?" ”

The shift was scared, and the whole lay on the ground, begging for mercy: "Your Majesty forgives me, although the grass people have no cash, but there are still thousands of catties of Guishuang fine iron to replace, I hope Your Majesty will approve it." ”

Just now, I was still thinking about how to import Uzi steel, and the shift immediately said that I had a thousand catties to offer, and I really wanted to fall asleep and come to the pillow. But Liu Wei understood. The class took great pains to offer the sword, just to arouse his interest in Uzi steel, so that he could use Uzi steel to replace the cost of the right to sell porcelain.

It's just that the current iron price is only 8 yuan per catty, and even if the Guishan refined iron has increased by a hundred times, it is only 800,000 yuan, which is far from the amount of money for the right to sell porcelain. The attempt of the shift is still a bit of an empty glove white wolf.

Liu Wei pouted and smiled, pretending to be a landlord and old wealth, and said, "This doesn't seem to be enough." ”

The class was full of red faces, and said hesitantly: "The grass people don't know enough, the grass people are willing to go to Guishan in the Western Regions again to purchase fine iron for His Majesty, in exchange for the right to sell porcelain." ”

In recent years, because of the loss of power by the two emperors of Huan Ling and the government, the countries of the Western Regions have gradually cut off contact with the Han Dynasty. In particular, the Silk Road has been interrupted, and it is impossible to understand what the situation in the Western Regions is. The shift in front of him could actually do business in the Western Regions at will, which couldn't help but arouse Liu Wei's curiosity.

"The Great Han hasn't been able to access the Western Regions for a long time, why can you easily enter and exit there?" Liu argued.

"The grass people have been doing business in the Western Regions for generations, and they are familiar with the doorway, so they can come and go at will." The shift replied.

Liu Wei suddenly realized something. He didn't pay attention to it just now, and he repeatedly mentioned that he often went in and out of the Western Regions, which made him ignore it. At this time, I thought of the hero in the history of the Han Dynasty who abandoned the pen and restarted the road to the Western Regions from Rong and issued the bold words of "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger".

To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter.