Steel King Li really lived up to his reputation, and according to the steelmaking method handed over to him by the Red Lady, with his rich experience, he successfully built a furnace and made a crucible. Then, according to the five steps of smelting and casting, the pot is loaded, the furnace is loaded, heated, cast and annealed.

Red Lady, Kong Huayang, Qi Dayong, Jia Binjiu, black-faced blacksmith Zhang and others watched the scene, feeling both excited and nervous, eager for success and afraid of failure.

Everyone stared intently at Steel King Li's every move until the molten iron poured out of the smelting furnace cooled into a casting block. Everyone looked left and right at this casting block, and there was no clue.

Steel King Li took out a delicate wooden box, opened it, and saw a scimitar wrapped in silk thick and thick inside.

Steel King Li held the steel knife in his hand and slashed at the corner of the cast iron, only to hear a crisp sound, leaving only a white mark on the corner of the cast iron, and did not move at all.

Everyone could see that this was a treasure knife and felt distressed. Jia Bin couldn't help it for a long time, and said: "I said Steel King, my old Jia sees that your knife is good, it's okay for you to cut the iron, if you don't like it, give it to me." ”

Steel King Li said coldly: "My steel knife, but it is a rare thing, it is cast with good black iron, and the iron is sharpened like clay, and until yesterday, there is no iron that it can't sharpen." ”

"Don't blow it, just now, just leave a mark, we can see it really, your name as the Steel King is a rumor!" Jia Bin has been speaking humorously for a long time, and Steel King Li has been with him for a long time, and he understands him and doesn't mind.

"As I said, until yesterday it shaved iron like clay, but today it shears not iron, but steel!" Steel King Li's tone was still as flat.

Jia Binjiu seemed to be enlightened and asked, "Wait! What did you say, it was a good steel cut just now? ”

"That's right! The best steel I've ever practiced. The well-informed Steel King Li's tone trembled a little.

"You're saying we've made steel?" Jia Bin raised his voice for a long time and asked loudly.

"That's right! We did it! -" Steel King Li suddenly said loudly

"Ahh That's great! Everyone cheered. They all stepped forward to look at this piece of steel, full of excitement and novelty. Everyone didn't believe that after such a short period of time, they could actually make good steel.

The steel of this era was mainly made into 100 steel, and the fried steel was repeatedly folded and forged to remove carbides, and finally became steel. For an ordinary piece of steel, the craftsman should heat and forge the "fine iron" more than 100 times, one forging and one weighing the other, until the catties are not reduced, before it can be called 100 steel. The steelmaking process is extremely cumbersome, the output is extremely low, and steel is extremely scarce among the people.

Today, Xincun uses this method to make steel, which greatly simplifies the steelmaking process and increases production, and from then on, Xincun can use this steel to make excellent weapons.

Xincun used the crucible steelmaking method, which was 100 years earlier than the Englishman Hunzman, and Li Kaihe, the steel king of Xincun, became the first person in the world to master the crucible steelmaking technology and became a veritable steel king.

The black-faced blacksmith Zhang used the first piece of steel to make a waist card, and the waist plate was Yu Xiang's number in the new village.

Since the steel was smelted, the good news of Xincun has come one after another, Huo De Zhenjun used the barrel mold making technology provided by the red lady to create steel pipes of the same caliber, and after polishing, steel pipes with the same caliber were manufactured. Fire made with these gun tubes. Gun, with the original fire. The gun, which noticeably feels different, has a significant increase in quality.

Huo De Zhenjun also made flint guns, which solved the shortcomings of the original arquebus ignition cumbersome, which was not conducive to rainy days and night operations.

He also improved the gunpowder filling technology, using the fixed gunpowder technology, the fixed amount of gunpowder and projectiles are all wrapped in a long paper tube, when loading, you only need to bite open the paper tube with your mouth, first pour some gunpowder to the fire door, and the rest of the gunpowder and projectiles are all stuffed into the gun. Gunslingers who were supposed to fire every two or even three minutes can now fire once a minute.

Increasing the rate of fire means taking the lead on the rapidly changing battlefield, and Qi Dayong's face turned red with excitement, and from now on, the weapons of the new army will dominate the world, coupled with strict training, good discipline, clear faith, and firm will, in time, the new village will train an army that will make all opponents fearful.

In just a few days, Xincun produced more than a dozen steel pipe flintstone guns. In accordance with Yu Xiang's instructions, Qi Dayong selected more than ten elite soldiers from the recruits to form a special service company, and the four Liu brothers were selected, and Liu Xiangzhong served as the commander of the special service company.

Qi Dayong obeyed Yu Xiang's instructions, and secretly observed the four Liu brothers, and found nothing abnormal, and this brother, among the recruits, is extremely able to endure hardships, very smart, what can be taught as soon as it is taught, and it can be solved as soon as it is dialed, among the recruits, the martial arts are the highest, so Qi Dayong decided that this spy company is mainly composed of the four of them.

Liu Xiangzhong held a steel pipe flint gun, aimed at the wooden sign 300 meters away, pulled the trigger, and a puff of green smoke came out from the muzzle, and the wooden board 300 meters away was shattered. He was deeply shocked, he was a guard in the Ouchi, he had received the most rigorous training from the imperial court, and had used the most cutting-edge weapons of the Ming Dynasty, but the gun in his hand was much more powerful than the weapons of the Shenji Firearms Battalion in terms of both well-made and range.

In the evening, the clouds were closed, and in a remote corner of the new village, a carrier pigeon flapped its wings and flew in the direction of the capital.

At night, thunder and lightning and storms! After a day and two nights of baptism, the new village is lush and verdant.

The pond is full of water, like a mirror, the water is clear to the bottom, in the pond, the water grass is green, and the small fish swim happily.

The water of the Dongshuang River swelled and flowed violently downstream.

Many of the water were barefoot, pulling up their trousers to help the new village fish, and at night, the fish swam into the puddle on the shore with the swelling water, and the river was over, but the fish could not enter the river.

How could Xincun let go of such a great fishing opportunity, Ding Dafu led some people, holding fishing gear, to catch the fish in the puddle cleanly.

This harvest was very great, and the buckets and bags brought were full, and I was afraid that there were 200 catties of fish.

The small fish are packed in wooden barrels and raised in the pond of the new village, and the big fish are taken to the new village canteen to improve the food for everyone.

Ding Dafu picked out two large carps, each weighing two catties, and handed them to a lot of water.

"Come, you've done a lot of work today, these two fish are for you."

"No, you don't! No! "A lot of water is busy.

Ding Dafu scared him and said: "If you don't accept it, if there is anything in Xincun in the future, I won't call you!" "This lot of water runs to the new village two times in three days, and the sweet potato planting technology is very good, will study, willing to ponder, the dog egg likes him very much, I wanted to get him to the new village, but I didn't expect Yu Xiang to have an accident, and this matter was delayed.

Now almost everyone in the new village knows him, and Ding Dafu also likes this clever young man.

When the water heard this, he took the fish and went home happily.

Walking on the road, swaying left and right, his spirit was vivid, Xu Lu, a wealthy man in the village, saw him and asked with a smile: "There is a lot of water, where are the fish you catch?" ”

"Shuanghe, I didn't catch it, it was sent to me by Minister Ding of Xincun." As he spoke, he lifted the fish high.

Xu Lu was a little jealous and said: "You have a lot of way in Xincun, Captain Mu, you are familiar with Minister Xu, hurry up and introduce me to you!" ”

"That's it, when I see them, ask them if they want to see you!" Many water words are full of pride.

Xu Lu shook his head and sighed, this kid, now next to the new village, looks down on people more and more, if he stays in the past, in front of himself, he doesn't dare to breathe, and now, he is still on the score.

He no longer paid attention to the water, and hurried to his pond to see if it was stored.

Some time ago, the water did not drop, the pond bottomed out, and the rice was wilting, and this rain came in time, and the fields were full.

As the temperature rises, the water in the pond becomes more and more expensive, and on hot days, the seedlings can lack water.

Xu Lu came to the pond, not bad, stored some of the most of the pond water, the pond embankment has a perforation, did not have time to repair, the pond embankment and rainwater and washed down a small section, the storage of these water, even if it is good, a lot of public ponds, no one maintains at all, the pond can not store water, when it comes to the use of water, they are rushing to use, the waste is very bad, the pond will soon see the bottom.

In the summer, if there is no rain for half a month, the crops in the fields of those poor households will be suspended. Therefore, the poorer the poor households, the weaker their resistance to natural disasters.

A few days ago, when he passed by the pond in Xincun, he saw that the pond embankment had been strengthened and heightened, and he was extremely professional, and he heard that a person named Chen Zhiping was specially tinkering with this matter, and he was proficient in pond water storage.

After this rain, all the ponds in the new village were filled. Unlike other ponds, even if there are no loopholes and bursts, if the pond is filled, it is still a question whether the pond can withstand it.

Xu Lu walked around his pond to see that there was no big problem, he came to another pond, and saw that Xu Shangao in his village was blocking the gap with mud, and the water in the pond continued to flow out of the gap.

When Xu Shangao saw Xu Lu, he greeted him while working: "Master Xu, are you busy checking the water situation?" ”

"Yes, God open your eyes, it's raining in time, you have to take a walk." Xu Lu said.

"No, rice is not as worry-free as sweet potatoes, and there is no shortage of water." Xu Shangao said.

Xu Lu took advantage of the words and said: "The growth of sweet potatoes this year is good, the branches are luxuriant, look at this posture, there will be a good harvest." The old Xu family in the east of the village, I don't know what kind of luck they had, they all planted sweet potatoes, and their family's big and small children had a lot of water, shouting five and drinking six all day long, and they were very angry. "There was something sour in the words.

"But isn't it, their family, borrowing grain everywhere at this time of year, this year they don't have to borrow, eat sweet potato stalks, the sweet potato sprouts picked are not wasted, all as food, don't say it, it tastes good, my family ate it yesterday." Xu Shangao said.

Xu Lu snorted: "This can also be eaten, our family has fed all the pigs." ”

With these words, he dared to treat all the people who had eaten sweet potato seedlings as pigs, so choked that Xu Shangao had nothing to say, buried his head in the gap of blocking the water, and ignored him anymore.

After eating at noon, Wu Yaozu returned home for a short stay and met his wife Zhang Xuemei.

Zhang Xuemei said while tidying up the house: "My parents wrote to say that they miss their grandson. ”

"It's up to you, if the old man wants to see the child, I have no opinion. It's just that I'm very busy now, and the distance is long, so I'm afraid I won't have the time to send them back. ”

Wu Yaozu is reluctant to have anything to do with his snobbish parents-in-law from the bottom of his heart, but he is still more open-minded and understands his wife Zhang Xuemei's feelings, after all, it is flesh and blood, and he can't give it up if he wants to.

When Zhang Xuemei was young, she also said that she was very favored by her parents, this is good, Zhang Xuemei will not forget it no matter what, some time ago, she wrote a letter to her parents to report her safety, and explained the current situation in the new village.

The new village is now famous, and Wu Yaozu is still in a heavy position in the new village, no, he soon received a reply.

Zhang Xuemei said: "I'm busy now, let's wait until this is over." Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something, and asked Wu Yaozu: "Xianggong, haven't you seen Miss Xu San for a long time, it seems that I haven't seen her since the day the chief was injured." ”

"yes, I'm still wondering! For a while, I didn't see her shadow. Wu Yaozu said.

At this moment, a young girl's voice was at the door: "Is Minister Zhang at home?" ”

Zhang Xuemei hurriedly put down the housework in her hand, went out, and saw that it was Liu Xiaocui of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and when she came to her at this time, there must be something urgent: "What's wrong?" Panicked! ”

Liu Xiaocui breathlessly said, "Miss Xu-Miss Xu is back, and she also brought back a miracle doctor." ”

When Zhang Xuemei heard this, she was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

Wu Yaozu heard it really well in the house, and hurriedly shouted: "Wait for me, let's go together!" ”

When he went out, where could he still find his wife, she had already run away.