Chapter 356: [Pointing to Divine Iron]
Bai Dong finally understands now, it turns out that the hermit master is not as high and lonely as he imagined, and he can live by eating and drinking every day, smiling and pointing to Baiyun, Zhuge Liang is actually a rich second-generation landlord who does not worry about food and clothing, Zhang Liang is also a nobleman, like Ou Yeliang, who has no aristocratic background and no land, people have to rely on craftsmanship to eat!
'Three hundred catties of copper, three hundred catties of iron, a number of sulfur, ten catties of mercury, one hundred taels of gold, five thousand Zhao Qibu coins or five thousand Chu Qin yuan'
This is the price offered by Ou Yeliang, Bai Dong is really drunk, he has never seen such a lion with a big mouth, and he dares to open his mouth without asking himself what he wants to do? looked at the helpless Dr. Guiwei, and knew that he also had words of suffering.
Yue Guo uses swords to benefit the world, and the descendants of Ou Yezi are naturally respected, not to mention that the status of the working class in this era is not low, since people rely on their skills to eat, there is no reason to rashly add crimes, not to mention that the doctor can't, even if the temple family has always been rampant, they don't dare. Promised Ou Yeliang? Doctor Guiwei will be distressed, he, the doctor's family, does not have much surplus food, and now he is competing with the temple family, and he has to spend money everywhere, and a hundred taels of gold will make him quickly bankrupt! Although this Bai Zi is the richest man in the world, for this port and shipyard, he threw out 500,000 gold without blinking an eye, but Yue Guo has benefited too much, and now he is on his own land, and even this kind of trivial matter has to trouble other people's Bai Zi? He doesn't have such a thick skin.
"Interesting and interesting, this Mr. Ouyee is a dead money, I was not short of money, but this time I want to spend a penny, and I want him to do things obediently. Do you believe Dr. Guiwei? Bai Dong laughed: "I'll visit today." I want to meet this wonderful man."
Let's go too!
I heard that Bai Dong was going to see Ou Yeliang. The mulberry and the flea are in high spirits; They are all contemporary swordsmen, and they have long dreamed of getting a divine weapon, and Nie Zhu just stayed in Baijiazhuang and did not come with him, otherwise he would have rushed to Huiji Mountain a long time ago.
The son and the old man must also go, he is a person whose head is full of fairy stories, and the legend of the cadre Mo Ye has long filled his ears; Legend has it that this couple sacrificed their lives into the flood furnace and made the soul of the sword, I don't know if they can get eternal life? It is said that the cadre Mo Xie is the son and daughter-in-law of Ou Yezi. It should be Ou Yeliang's elder, this greedy guy must be aware Ma Qiao must follow the son and the old man, he is really a little nervous in his heart, for fear that the teacher will also learn to go to the Honglu in order to pursue the way of eternal life, this method sounds more convenient and fast, but it is much simpler than going overseas to find the sacred mountain.
Huiji Mountain is also the Maoshan that is full of mystery in later generations, but there is no Maoshan Taoist priest who can wear the wall painting charm in this era, during the period of Wu-Yue hegemony, it is still the military fortress of the Yue country, and there is a walled wall hanging on the mountain. There are mountain people in the mountains who have cultivated their land. It is said to be a mountain, but in fact it is a popular residential area.
Ou Yeliang's sword house is in the village under the main peak of Huiji Mountain. There are more than 1,000 Yue people living here, many of whom are the descendants of warriors who followed the Yue King Goujian into the mountains to resist Wu. After Gou Jian became a trend, Fan Li, the ghost spirit, took Shi Yiguang, the first beauty in the world, to run to Qi to have a good time, but Wen Zhong was given death by Gou Jian, these warriors who had made meritorious contributions to the country were disheartened, so they returned to live in the mountains, and the descendants lived in the mountains and did not come out, but because of this, they avoided the civil strife and war in the Yue Kingdom, and because they rarely had contact with outsiders, everyone had a simple personality, and when they saw outsiders like Bai Dong, they wanted to pull them into the house to entertain them.
Although Ou Yeliang is a greedy guy, he also has hospitality, as soon as Bai Dong and the others arrived at Jianlu, a child greeted him; The stone table to welcome guests is full of all kinds of seasonal fruits, and there are actually good baked cakes, but this thing needs caramel and cow and goat milk, and it is generally eaten by nobles, this guy is not bad for money?
Bai Dong looked at this great sword master carefully, and saw that he was thin and had a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and he really had a greedy look on his face, and he sighed slightly, sure enough, his ability and character are not proportional, who would have thought that Ou Yezi's descendants would actually look like this?
"I heard that Bai Zi is the first powerful minister of the Qin State, and he is rich in the world, when he was angry and destroyed Nanmo, he did not hesitate to spend millions of gold, why did Bai Zi treat the thief leader so generously, and when he arrived here, he became so stingy? It's so unfair. "Ou Yeliang was too greedy at the beginning, so he made Deng Lingzi angry and threatened to kill him, so he naturally would not be polite to Deng Lingzi in his words.
When Bai Dong and the others arrived, Ou Yeliang looked everyone up and down, and when he saw that their hands were empty, he was immediately displeased, and couldn't help but complain, and instead of beckoning everyone to sit, he asked the little boy to put away the fruits and snacks on the table, leaving only a few thick bowls and a pot of hot water to entertain the guests.
Everyone looked at each other, only to hear Dr. Guiwei say that this person is greedy, how great is the ability to refine swords, how greedy is it, but they didn't expect it to be so realistic, just because they didn't see the gold, copper and iron he wanted, they didn't even want to entertain fruit snacks?
Bai Dong smiled and sat down opposite Ou Yeliang: "Mr. Ou Ye is also a famous and world-famous swordsman, don't you entertain guests because you don't have gifts?" ”
Ou Yeliang glared: "Gift? All I want is pay! ”
"Remuneration? Mr. Ouyeel didn't even ask me what I was going to do, so he asked for 300 catties of copper and iron and 100 taels of gold? Even if I want to forge swords, I'm afraid these materials can be forged into dozens of sharp swords, right? Mr. Ouyee doesn't think he's too greedy? ”
"Hehe, there are also people in the Qin State who smelt iron and forge swords, I believe that as long as Bai Zi says a word, they will all rush to do things for you, so why bother to come to me, a greedy person? If it weren't for Bai Zi killing Deng Lingzi's madman, it would be considered a favor to me, and the cost of materials would be doubled! ”
Ou Yeliang sneered slightly: "If Baizi is too expensive, then please leave, I will not send it far!" ”
The shaft is rude!
Sang Wazi and the flea were about to explode, and when they saw that someone was going to drive their husband away, the flea didn't realize that her eyebrows were upside down, and she was about to draw her sword, but she was held down by Bai Dong. Bai Dong looked at Ou Yeliang, and suddenly laughed loudly: "Okay, good!" Mr. Ou Ye is really courageous, it can be seen that he is a great skill. Why don't you sir hear what I'm going to mint and then negotiate the price? Maybe the gentleman will hear it. I'm the one who made the offer."
"What kind of divine weapon has the Ouye family not refined? I'm still saying that. The cost of materials is less than a penny. White or not"
"I'm going to transform a piece of iron into a magical iron that Mr. Ouyee has never seen before! This thing is unique since the beginning of the world, once it is born, future generations should remember the name of the person, that is to say, if Mr. Ou Ye helps me cast this thing, it will definitely be famous in history, and the reputation will overshadow your ancestors Ou Yezi and the cadre Mo Xie! I wonder if Mr. Ouyeel is interested? ”
"Do you want divine soldiers like Long Yuan Tai'a and Gongbu Zhanlu?"
Ou Yeliang looked at the flea and the mulberry baby, nodded slightly, and said, "Not bad." These two have sword energy, but they are qualified to use such divine swords. However, refining such a divine sword requires ten times and a hundred times the cost of materials, it takes three or five years, or seven or eight years, and the probability of failure is as high as seventy percent, of course, if you can find a living person to sacrifice the furnace for me, there is an eighty percent chance of success."
"Human bones contain a miraculous substance that removes impurities from molten iron, and indeed makes iron purer. But this does not use living people, and the same is true for bones, and the bones of cattle and sheep can actually be used. Mr. Ouyee said that the furnace of human sacrifice was used. Isn't this an amazing statement? ”
Bai Dong smiled slightly, using phosphorus and calcium in human bones to remove impurities in molten iron is actually the same as adding lime to molten iron in a steel mill. This simple chemical reaction can even be understood by a junior high school student in later generations, but it is ridiculous that Ou Yeliang uses it to bluff himself: "What's more, I don't want to refine this kind of divine weapon." What if there are a few swords? Back then, King Wu had the king sword cast by Mo Ye, and King Yue had Chunjun, and now they are here? What I want to cast is a kind of heaven and earth divine iron, put it in the plate, the iron tip will go to the south, and the iron tail will go to the north, no matter the mountains and grasslands, the desert ocean, the wind and rain on sunny days, and the high-rise crypts, it will not be affected in any way. Anyone who has this divine iron can rely on it to show the way, and they will never get lost! Has Mr. Ouye, ever refined a fetish like this? ”
"Divine iron that can show the way? Not affected by the terrain weather? You just said that this thing can be forged from all iron alone? How is this possible! ”
Ou Yeliang looked at the public loss straight: "Listen to the little boy who welcomed the guest, this is Mr. Gong Zhizhi?" With the ability of the public loser, even if the guide car used by the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor can be rebuilt, it must be limited by the terrain and weather, and the direction can only be indicated under certain conditions. Something like this that can be pointed at without any restrictions, don't say I haven't seen it, I haven't even heard of it! ”
Bai Dong: This is not a joke, right?
Flea and Sang Wazi didn't feel anything, and the eyes of Zi and the old man and Gongyu who looked directly at Bai Dong all changed; If it weren't for the fact that in front of many people, the public would have wanted to pounce on Bai Dong and ask clearly, how could this thing be cast? Speak up, talk fast!
"If you want to change Fan Tie into Shen Tie, there is naturally a unique means. However, this is my master's secret tradition, just like Mr. Ouye's sword refining skills, but it can't be told to others in vain."
Bai Dong smiled: "But although I know the production method of this thing, I still need Mr. Ouye's iron-smelting technology, and the divine iron made can be durable; Therefore, if the gentleman asks, I will not hide my secrets, but I will ask the gentleman to promise me one condition. ”
"If you can really make such a divine object out of mortal iron, I will agree to any conditions! Let's go to the sword house with me, don't mention any more mortal iron, I have a tempered iron mother here, just enough to apply! ”
Ou Yeliang took Bai Dong's hand, intimate like an old friend who had not met for many years; Sang Wazi and Flea hurriedly followed, and Zi and the old man and Guiwei Doctor were also curious, although Ou Yeliang did not invite them, and followed in cheekily.
When I was outside, I felt cool, and when I walked into Ou Yezi's sword house, I suddenly felt a hot breath coming to my face. This sword house has an area of ten zhang in radius, and in the middle is a sword pond built with fire bricks, a combustible fire in the pool, and a refining pot, and there are many half-extinguished and half-bright charcoal fires in the sword pond at this time, which continue to bake the empty refining pot.
In the pre-Qin period, there was already an alloy process, the most representative of which was the bronze sword, so where the sword was refined, it must go through multiple procedures such as making, dispensing, smelting, looking at qi, hammering, etc., among which the dispensing and smelting were realized in this refining pot, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the core content of the sword refining process; Therefore, all experts in iron smelting furnaces must pay attention to the fact that the pot is not separated from the charcoal, even if they do not refine the sword for the time being. Nor let the pot get cold. Ouyejia is estimated to be more particular. Just look at the high-quality pine charcoal they use to protect the pot in advance.
On the side of the sword pool. There are also piles of bones soaked in clean water. If you look closely, there is a whole set of human bones, and one of them has not yet been stripped of flesh, and there is faint blood attached to it; After seeing it, the flea jumped behind Bai Dong, covered his mouth and nose and said, "It's disgusting! ”
She and Sang Wazi are both swordsmen who can draw their swords and kill people casually, but killing people is killing, but they have never done the disgusting thing of peeling off the bones after killing people. However, the old man and the doctor looked as usual, one of these two was a ruthless man who commanded thousands of troops and horses to fight on the battlefield, and the other was a 'half-fairy' who regarded all beings as ants. A mere human skeleton with blood is nothing.
"I bought this human bone at a great price, the person died of a strange disease, the family was poor and had no food, I spent a hundred gold to buy the corpse, now Bai Zi should know why I asked for a hundred gold? How can the Ou Ye family's sword refining be comparable to those ordinary people? ”
Ou Yeliang seemed to be blaming the fleas for their rare and strange appearances, so he glanced at everyone, opened the Tibetan iron vault and took out a piece of quenched iron: "Although this is not a hundred years and thousands of years of iron mother, it is also something that I have spent my time refining and is considered to be of the highest grade." Baizi, now it's time to tell me how to refine divine iron? Listening to what Bai Dong said, he was really itchy. I can't wait to start refining it now.
"Then use this piece of iron, and I want Mr. Ouye to turn it into a fist-sized piece of iron. After it is formed, it is tempered with a furnace fire and beaten non-stop."
"It's as simple as that?"
"It's not easy to say, when Mr. tempers, he wants to keep the iron in a state that seems to be melted but barely formed, and it can't be hardened or softened. After thirty breaths, I want Mr. to quickly put the iron into this sealed iron box, not quenched and cooled, can Sir do it? ”
Saying that, Bai Dong took out an iron box slightly larger than a fist from his body, and the material for casting the iron box was just ordinary iron, but at the end of the box, there was a similar iron needle-like thing, sticking out half a foot, which looked extremely strange.
"That's it?"
"This is not possible, and there need to be supported by other means. If you want to know, you have to talk about the conditions, otherwise when I use my means, I will leave the sword house and not be able to spy on my secrets."
"I said that if I can really refine divine iron, I will agree to any conditions! However, the Ouye family has always had ancestral teachings, stealing and raping ~ adultery is not allowed, and Bai Zi will not let me do these things, right? ”
"Mr. Ouye, don't worry, I only have one condition, after refining the divine iron, I will tell you the method, as long as Mr. goes to Lao Qin to be the head of the Ordnance Division, is Mr. willing to agree?"
"Bai Zi turned out to have this mind"
Doctor Guiwei was moved when he heard this, and couldn't help but look at Bai Dong. Isn't this poaching the Great Sword Master of Yue Kingdom in front of him? However, the Yue Kingdom now has to rely on the Qin State everywhere, and even the prince is a student of this Bai Zi, so he does not dare to have any dissatisfaction.
"Well, it's a deal! Let's get started! ”
Worthy of being the descendants of the Ou Ye family, Ou Yeliang's techniques are extremely skilled, from the fire, iron, embryo, to tempering, a fire tong in his hand and a hammer are waved like the wind, and the iron is as red as red pulp, as if the whole body is transparent, but it can be formed, and it really did what Bai Dong said, 'It seems to be melting, but it is formed', look at the thirty breaths coming, Ou Yeliang shouted: "Open the box!" As soon as Bai Dong opened the lid of the iron box, he clamped the iron block with fire tongs, threw it casually, and it fell into the box accurately!
Bai Dong's movements were also extremely fast, after closing the lid, he wrapped his hands in a thick cloth, picked up the iron box and walked in the sword house, after walking a few steps, it seemed that he had chosen a place, and placed the iron box on the ground, and the needles at the end of the iron box were a guide and a finger north, which was aimed at the meridian direction.
Ou Yeliang looked inexplicable, this white man walked a few steps with the box in his hand, and then put the box on the ground to achieve divine iron? I couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing here?" (To be continued......)
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