Chapter 0540. Steel is better than steel

In the end, it is still the husband and wife of the same heart, seeing that Li Jie was in trouble, he dropped the newly forged cloud pattern Uzi steel sword in his hand, and the eldest Sun Zhi, the queen of the main palace, who accompanied him, slashed his fist to the back of Feng Changfeng's head without saying a word, and at the same time, his hand hurt and at the same time, he beat the strange craftsman in a daze, and let go of Li Jie's collar. {This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

I almost foamed at the mouth, and it took me a long time to catch my breath before Li Jie could breathe evenly, looking at the only remaining old-timer in the Chang'an Ranger scratching his head, Li Jie couldn't help but roll his eyes again in depression.

"Lang Jun, the concubine also thinks that Blacksmith Feng is right, why should such a high-quality material be sold to the Arabs, this group of guys has wolf ambitions, sooner or later there will be a day when they will fight with my Fujian country, why bother fattening the enemy?"

Seeing Li Jie coming slowly, he picked up the Uzi steel sword that fell to the ground with a cloud pattern like a magic seal, and the eldest grandson Zhi also asked with a small face in pain, seeing that his wife and old-timers were all stupid, Li Jie had to scratch his head helplessly.

"Come with me."

Confused, followed Li Jie out of this workshop, Feng Changfeng and the three of them took a group of guards into a larger blacksmith workshop, more craftsmen were busy, carts of coal and coke were transported in, the sound of tinkling wheels and hammers was endless, and even a polluted black canal flowed through this workshop area, and the canal drove a heavy sledgehammer in the workshop, and the power of water pressed the nail pieces again and again.

This is the main arsenal of Fujian.

As soon as the King of Min came to inspect, more than a dozen fat merchants all hurriedly greeted him, including Han Chinese, Tianzhu people, and the Indian businessman Justin who had sold it to Li Jiewuzi Steel for the first time. Bieber, kneeling down one by one, greeted respectfully on both sides: "The ministers see the King of Min." ”

Since the development of the Luzon colony, the defeat of a hundred cannibal tribes and the canonization of the Taiping squire, this title has always become the most basic and extensive title in Fujian, as for the high title of Fujian has not yet been issued, at most it is according to the war merits declared by the imperial court in exchange for the county male county son of the Tang Dynasty, and there is not even a Taiping squire value, and the military meritorious person is awarded a medal, a medal represents how many acres of land and the title of nobleman beyond ordinary people, and the starting point is also the Taiping squire.

Not only can the army get this title, but also the big businessmen who pay how much taxes they pay and make special contributions can also apply, and the few people in front of them who operate the Fujian Arsenal naturally have this title early on, and have the right to be a vassal to Li Jie, otherwise ordinary people can only call themselves grass people.

However, being able to call the ministers, a few fat guys are even more respectful, not only Li Jie is the ruler of Fujian, but also they are still leaders, these blacksmith workshops and arsenals, Fujian has eight layers of shares, Li Jie is the chairman, their God of Wealth.

This kind of government investment and private management got rid of the rigidity of the management of the government-run workshops, but in fact, the control of Fujian was not less, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Didn't disturb the work of these businessmen too much, after saying hello, Li Jie directly led Feng Changfeng, and the eldest grandson weaved a few into the arsenal workshop area, as soon as he entered here, it was really like entering the sea of swords, the built horizontal knife, the long lance was full of paintings, the three-edged arrows were held in frames, and bundles of knife embryos were stacked on the ground, and even water vapor was pervasive, which was caused by the quenching of cold water for the built weapons.

Coincidentally, in the messy workshop, the generals of the Fujian State actually met a large number of votes, Xue Qing, Wang Fangyi, Li Jingye, Li Yexu, Yao Geluo and even Qin Huaiyang, etc., a small half of the generals in Beijing came, and they also pretended to look at the sword, and when they saw Li Jie, they hurriedly rushed up to greet and salute.

Where is there such a coincidence, these guys are not training hard in the barracks, or they go to the Red Sleeves Shop on Third Street to watch the weapons together? And he also caught up with Changsun Zhi and Feng Changfeng to drag themselves to inspect the blacksmith shop, looked at the sneering Changsun Zhi, and then looked at Feng Changfeng, who was staring round, Li Jie understood that this group of guys was dissatisfied with their export to the Arab Empire Uzi Steel, and they all wanted to persuade themselves to cancel the order to export Uzi Steel to Arabia.

Is it no wonder that the general didn't want his army to be equipped with the best weapons?

But this is just right, it just so happens that these guys are here, and convincing them is equivalent to solving the exit matter, otherwise Xue Qing and the others have really done robbers, and Li Jie is really afraid that they will go to the mask and snatch the Arab caravan back.

Glaring at these guys angrily, Li Jie casually took a horizontal knife from the wall of the shop.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the most popular steel forging in China is the hundred steel, in fact, the hundred steel is the highest standard, most of the Tang army equipment can reach thirty training, Rao is so, after the steel copying method repeatedly forged thirty times, it is still laborious and laborious, and the sharpness of the forged sword is sharp, and the toughness is not enough, so the general hundred steel-making weapons also need complex steel-clad steel, and the wrought iron is used as the blade to strengthen the toughness, which is time-consuming and laborious.

Whether in the grassland campaign or the war with Goguryeo, the Shuo army under Li Jie still mainly used the hundred refining techniques, but after going south to Fujian, he accidentally came into contact with the steel filling method that was popular in the south of the Yangtze River.

During the Southern Dynasties, Lao Tzu's metaphysical thought came later, and even overpowered Confucianism, this method was still thought up by a Taoist priest named Qi Wuhuaiwen, who thought that wrought iron was soft for yin, pig iron was hard and yang, and the wrought iron was stretched and wound on the pig iron to beat and exercise together, and the oxide in the wrought iron reacted with silicon, manganese, and carbon in the pig iron to form a fierce boiling to eliminate impurities, and then forged with a heavy hammer to make it a purer steel.

Although the steel poured out by this method is not as good as the hundred refining treasure steel, it is superior to the fifty refining weapons, and Qi Wuhuaiwen also has a contribution is to break through the limitation of water, he is the first smelter who thinks of quenching with other substances, animal fat and urine.

The faster the cooling speed, the harder the metal becomes, the cooling speed is slow, the metal becomes flexible and slightly softer, the animal urine contains salt, the cooling speed is faster than water, so that the quenched blade is hard and not easy to break, and then the knife is inserted into the animal fat, and the part of the blade with slow temperature speed becomes flexible and elastic and not easy to break.

Just two small ideas, saving more than eight layers of time in fifty refining, the performance of the sword produced is far above the fifty refining, saving labor and effort and greatly increasing the output, now almost all the steel in Fujian is the application of this steel filling method and quenching method, the armor is after the steel is filled with a heavy hammer driven by the canal stamping, cold forging to produce a more tough armor.

This knife has just been tempered, and the knife body still has the sharp traces of new sharpening, and it was held in his hand and weighed it twice, Li Jie glanced at the silver mask general behind him, and the latter immediately pulled out her Uzi steel horizontal knife and handed it to Li Jie, and weighed it again, Li Jie then looked back at the curious eldest grandson weaving and the generals and explained: "Don't you want to know why Gu sold a large number of Uzi steel to the Arabs?" Here's why. ”

Boom, the two knives were slashed together by Li Jie's hands, and the force was so great that even sparks flew everywhere, the silver mask general immediately twitched in distress, and the rest of the generals with blank eyes plus the princess's eldest grandson weaving, the strange craftsman Feng Changfeng also felt that the roots of his teeth were sour, and Li Jie's shoulders were numb with such force, and he paused before raising the two knives.

Under the sun, a big hole popped up on the blade of the Fujian standard horizontal knife, but it basically did not affect the slashing and stabbing of the war knife, and it was still very early to break, and the mysterious and attractive ladder pattern blade of the Uzi steel knife also popped out of a small opening, which was only a quarter of the size of the horizontal knife gap in Fujian.

After being stunned for a moment, Xue Qing immediately shouted excitedly as if he was victorious: "Your Highness, you see, it's better to use the Uzi steel knife, Your Highness, don't export the Uzi steel to those barbarians." ”

"Yes, Your Highness, since such a divine weapon is given to the Min State, it should be exclusive to the Min State, and he will be able to gain an advantage on the battlefield in the future, Your Highness, order to stop selling it to the Great Cannibal, right?" Even Qin Huaiyang couldn't help but stand up and admonish.

"However, even the Uzi steel knife didn't cut off the horizontal knife of my Fujian country!" Li Jie's words once again stunned a group of generals, weighing the gaped Uzi steel knife, Li Jie turned his head to look at Feng Changfeng and asked: "Such an Uzi steel knife, ten workshops and a thousand people, how many can be punched in a day?" What is the price? ”

"You can't fight it in a day, such a high-quality blade, it takes at least two months, and now after the early investment, you can now play about forty to sixty pieces a day, and the price of one is at least fifty yuan." After thinking uncertainly, Feng Changfeng replied hesitantly, nodded, and Li Jie casually pulled over the master of a shop and asked again: "With such a knife, how many knives can you make in a workshop with a hundred people a day?" ”

"Return to the King of Min." Frightened, his legs were weak, the master knelt on the ground excitedly, and replied in a trembling tone: "A workshop like ours, if all the knives are played, the Fujian standard horizontal knife can be about eighty a day, and the sale to the outside world is two dollars per hand, of course, the Fujian * side order is the same money per hand." ”

Now Qin Huaiyang and the eldest grandson weaver understand, not to mention the cost, it is very difficult to equip the army with Uzi steel knives, and for the current Fujian standard horizontal knife, Uzi steel does not have an overwhelming advantage.

Seeing that Xue Qing still didn't understand, Li Jie simply threw the knife and shouted in his ear: "The Uzi steel sold to Arabia can only be exchanged for five pieces of gold, and it has to be transported to Damascus to be built, even if all of them are of the highest grade, even if the skilled craftsmen in Damascus are five times that of my Fujian country, let them fight for three years but only produce 50,000 knives." ”

"Two pieces of Uzi steel can be made into a long knife, and the army armed with 500,000 gold coins in three years can have at least 200,000, and the fully armed can even inlay you with armor on your teeth, with such an army, you can't beat the 50,000 Arab Uzi steel knife army, so don't do it all, go home to go home and plow the fields and pick up dung."

was sprayed with spittle all over his face, his ears were buzzing, and if he didn't understand the money, Xue Qing and a few guys really went back home to farm and pick up dung.

But even if he understood, thinking of the cold light, the beautiful and extraordinary Uzi steel weapons were cheap to outsiders, even the eldest grandson weaving had a painful expression on her face, looking at the appearance of her woman and a group of generals and various stingy ghosts, Li Jie was angry again, and jumped helplessly and shouted: "There is still a part of the Uzi Steel Fujian Kingdom left, and now five thousand horizontal knives have been created, and in addition to equipping the generals, the remaining two thousand Lone Guild are equipped to the most brave charging troops, you can do it yourself!" ”

As soon as the words fell, just now they had united with the same enemy in the hope of persuading Li Jie to take back their orders, and the generals' eyes were all red in an instant, dragging the eldest grandson to weave Feng Changfeng, Li Jie turned around and left, and he didn't go far before he heard a chaotic sound of ding, and in order to fight for two thousand knives, a group of cattle fought.

"Mine!"

"Our Min King Tielin's!"

"Nonsense, our left leading army guard is the most courageous charging force in Fujian!"

Listening to the hot fight behind him, Li Jie couldn't help patting his chest comfortably and muttering happily.

"Fortunately, I walked fast, so I didn't collapse into blood."