In order to break the heavy armor of the ironclad cavalry, Huo Guang can be said to have racked his brains for more than a year, but there has been no progress. One of the heavy armors was even transported thousands of miles and sent to Shu County to be handed over to Zhuo Junchen, hoping that this iron-smelting family could find a way to crack it.

"Originally, I also planned to tell the general about this, but the general suddenly came to the eldest brother." Zhuo Junchen looked at Huo Guang and smiled a little embarrassed.

"You really gave me too many surprises......" Huo Guang looked at the two old men, the more he looked at it, the more happy he felt, and the gloomy clouds of the past few days seemed to have dissipated most of them at this moment.

"General, please look at this." Zhuo Junchen took out something like a dagger from his waist, but this dagger was sheathed, and it was much smaller than the average one. Excluding the handle, the blade is almost two fingers wide and almost as long as a finger.

Huo Guang took the dagger with a curious face, and felt a little heavy in his hand, and took it out of his hand Huo Guang took off the sheath that was set on the blade, and a thin piece of metal iron was revealed inside, and the iron blade was exactly what the dagger looked like.

"Huh..... The texture on this is a little peculiar, like the natural texture of leaves, not like it is carved on the seal, but like a natural formation..... Could it be that what is the origin of this dagger? Huo Guang looked at the small dagger, and the lines on it naturally attracted Huo Guang's attention. He took it for granted that this was some kind of famous weapon, perhaps a sharp blade on par with treasures such as the fish intestine sword.

It is indeed not difficult for this kind of peerless sword to break through the resting heavy armor, but Huo Guang doesn't understand why Luo Hong and Zhuo Junchen would say that this thing can break the resting iron armor for themselves. You must know that the meaning of the words is to solve this great problem, not just a single case.

"Can you make these weapons in large quantities? Wrong..... Daggers simply cannot be used on the battlefield, and at worst they should be made into swords or spearheads. Huo Guang quickly discovered the suspicion, if it was to be used in war, even if it was made into an arrow, it would not be made into a dagger.

"The Great General will test his sharpness and sturdiness first." Zhuo Junchen pointed to the copper wine bottle on the desk.

Huo Guang also wanted to see what was so special about this dagger that was made so mysterious by Zhuo Junchen and Luo Xiahong? He held the wine bottle in his left hand and the dagger in his right hand, and the blade of the knife waved at the wine bottle to cut it.

The blade met the bronze wine bottle, and Huo Guang felt a resistance from the blade, but this feeling was very special, as if it was not a hard wine bottle that was cut up, but a piece of wood. Huo Guang used a slight force in his hand, and the blade actually went down, and it didn't take much effort to open a long gap on the side of the wine bottle.

"This ...... It's nothing more than blowing hair and breaking hair....." Huo Guang picked up the dagger and took a look, and he found that the blade of the dagger had not changed at all, which showed that the weapon made of this material was not only sharp, but also far stronger than other metals.

"It's a pity..... We're only going to make such a small dagger. If there is a large amount of raw materials, it will be able to equip the entire Hexi Army for the general in less than a year, and those resting iron armor will be difficult to stop the edge at that time. Zhuo Junchen said with some regret, it turned out that it was not that they didn't want to make other styles of weapons, but that the raw materials were limited to create such a small sample.

"What the hell is going on? If the material is too scarce and the cost is high, there is no practical value at all, and since you take this thing out, it means that it can be used in actual combat. Huo Guang knew that this weapon was not mass-manufactured, and there must be something wrong in it, and Zhuo Junchen was proposing it now to solve this problem by himself.

"This is an iron ingot forged by a poisonous man, produced in a place called Hyderabad. There is a special kind of iron ore produced in that place, which is not only high in iron, but also has some metal content that we do not know. Craftsmen there then mix and smelt the ore with the local plants and bamboo charcoal to form a mass of primitive coarse slag, which is then repeatedly smelted to form such iron ingots. Luo Xia Hong took out an iron ingot two fingers wide and one finger long from his arms, and there was obviously a section in the middle of this iron ingot, which seemed to be only half the size of the original, and this half of the iron ingot also had the special pattern on the dagger.

Huo Guang took half an iron ingot, and he felt that his hand was much heavier than a big Han iron ingot of the same volume, and both the feel and color were different from a simple iron ingot. Based on Huo Guang's extra experience, it can be judged that this is not an iron ingot in the general sense, but a certain alloy metal. The fundamental problem lies in the particular ore produced in a place called Hyderabad.

"This place was originally very close to Lu City, but now that Anxi has occupied the Western Regions, even if we know the existence of this ore, we can't send Lu Chengjun to occupy Hyderabad, and even if we occupy it, we can't transport it back to China. And on the contrary, it may attract the attention of the Sabbatarian, and if this kind of thing is allowed to be grasped by the Sabbath first, the consequences will be unimaginable! Zhuo Junchen continued, but his face revealed a deep worry.

"How did you get this ingot?" Huo Guang pondered for a while before asking. He estimated that the Hyderabad iron ingot in Zhuo Junchen's hand definitely did not flow in through the Western Regions, and if it was something on the trade route in the Western Regions, then he or the people of Anxi would have discovered it a long time ago.

"It was the southwest trade road that was opened a few years ago, and it was detoured from the Dian Kingdom to the body poison, and this kind of iron ingot is actually not much in the country, because the smelting process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the iron ingots formed are extremely difficult to forge weapons, so they haven't really discovered the value of it. And we have completely cracked the key process of this ore smelting a few months ago, as long as we get Hyderabad ore, we can smelt a large number of these iron ingots, and the forging technology is not a problem, and no matter what weapon is forged, it will be the sharpest weapon in the world. "In the field of smelting and forging, Zhuo Junchen is a real master in the world, and this is his field of expertise. When he stumbled upon this particular iron ingot, his instincts told him that it was an unprecedentedly fine metal.

"So what's the problem now? We can exchange gold and silk tea to poison the body for forged iron ingots, and as long as there is interest, they will naturally have more people to smelt this iron ingot. It may not be practical to transport ore, but it should not be difficult to transport the finished iron ingots, and we will have a decent number of weapons in less than a year. Huo Guang quickly understood the key, as long as this trade route was smooth, it would not be too difficult to buy a large number of Hyderabad iron ingots with Zhuo Junchen's financial resources, maybe it would take a long time, but it would never be just one sample like now.

Since last year, the southwestern monarchs such as the Marquis of Zhen, Qiongjun, saw that the profits of the trade route were huge, so they began to detain the goods of the caravans, and even intercepted the caravans. At present, the Southwest Trade Road has also been blocked. Even our Zhuo family's caravan can't enter the Dian Kingdom through this road to get poisoned...."Zhuo Junchen said with some anger, the southwestern monarchs such as the Marquis Qiongjun are nominally the monarchs of Fanbang who have surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and without the will of the imperial court, even the army of Shu County cannot attack these southwestern countries, and these people have no morality at all, as long as they have gold and silver treasures, they dare to intercept and kill the caravan.

"Bang...."Huo Guang slapped his palm heavily on the desk, and the bronze wine bottles on the desk fell to the ground.

How can this be..... These small countries in the southwest will really choose the time, and it seems that there is no need for them to exist. I will deal with this matter myself, who is the current King of Dian? Huo Guang's face was gloomy, and his momentum at this moment was completely different from before. Now Huo Guang has become the commander of the Han Dynasty who shocked the Quartet and wiped out the country and slaughtered the clan with a wave of his hand.

"Today's King of Dian is the son of Zhuang Sitong, named Zhuang Qi." Zhuo Junchen knows everything about the southwest, although the Dian Kingdom is still separated from Shu County by several countries, but its every move is in Zhuo Junchen's control, and now the Han understands the southwest, Zhuo Junchen even surpasses Da Honglu.

Da Honglu is the original Da Xing Order, after the chaos of Prince Wei, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed it to Da Honglu, and he is still one of the Jiuqing, but at the moment the position of Da Honglu is still vacant.

"You have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow Mr. Changgong will go to Changle Palace with me. I still have some things to deal with, so I'll take my leave! Huo Guang got up and said goodbye. Zhuo Junchen and Luo Xiahong have brought him too many useful things today, but there is still a lot of work for him to do to make use of them.

"Immediately pass my order, and Sima Zheng and He Tai's army will stop marching and camp on the spot." Huo Guang said goodbye to Hong and Zhuo Junchen, and immediately issued an order for Shu County Qianwei to station the army on the spot.

"In addition, I will go to the Taisun immediately, and at the same time inform Du Yannian and Zhao Yinhua, as well as Wang Yuanyou and Su Wu, and let them go to the Taisun dormitory as well." Huo Guang continued to order as he walked outside, even though it was late at night, Huo Guang still had a lot of things to deal with.

Soon, Huo Guang and a group of henchmen gathered in the Liu Jin dormitory of Weiyang Palace, and these people discussed together until the time of the son. When Huo Guang and the others were discussing, in the office of the imperial historian, Sang Hongyang was also sitting on the desk, reviewing and correcting official documents, and dozens of officials below him were also busy, even in the middle of the night in the imperial doctor's office, it was still in full swing.

"These are the taxes of the kings surnamed Liu for a year, and the amount has been decided, and they will be sent to various countries immediately, urging the kings to gather enough grain and grass to transport to the front line as soon as possible." Sang Hongyang pointed to a stack of documents on his side and said to the clerk beside him. In one day, he had already calculated the amount of grain borrowed from the vassal king, and now he only sent these kings surnamed Liu to gather grain and grass and transport it to the front.

"Immediately find the atlas of the river water network, and at the same time order the counties along the way to requisition boats, and the next step is to plan how to allocate ships to transport grain." Sang Hongyang continued to instruct while reviewing the documents in his hand. During this period, waterway transportation was the fastest and most labor-saving way, and the consumption in operation was also the least.

Another day's pilgrimage began as scheduled when the first rays of sunlight shone into Weiyang Palace, but at the beginning of today's pilgrimage, everyone found the atmosphere a little unusual.

"Appointed Wang Jun, the right auxiliary commander, as the lieutenant general, Su Wu as the great Honglu, and led the Shu County Qianwei for an army of 60,000 to attack the southwest Zhuyi. Let's go, don't make a mistake! Before everyone came to their senses, an edict signed in the name of the eunuch was read out directly.