Chapter 198: Sword Virtue
"Boom!"
The hydraulic stamping platform, which is more than ten meters high, is like a beast that has woken up, trembling all over and letting out a rumbling roar.
In the middle of the elevated highway, a steel hammer weighing tens of thousands of catties, driven by hydraulic machinery, slowly lifted upward.
When the hammer reaches its peak, it loses its grip and falls straight down.
"Boom!"
With an earth-shattering roar, the hammer slammed into a steel plate at the bottom.
The steel plate was splashed in flames, and a large area of red color appeared at the place of impact, which slowly subsided after a while.
After the steel plate is withdrawn, a concave figure appears on the surface, with clear outlines and lines, deeply embedded in the steel plate.
It was a full maple leaf, and the three wavy lines on the maple leaf curved down, like leaf veins, and like a flowing river.
The lines of the maple leaf are not ordinary shades, but undulating, full of movement, but also unified.
The whole maple leaf is three-dimensional and vivid.
Yes, this is the mark of the Sanchuan Ye family, and it is also the mark on all the long swords of the Wenjian Hall.
Now that the sword of Wenjiantang is sold all over the country, it is inevitable that some people will counterfeit it, which will ruin the reputation of Wenjiantang.
Therefore, the long sword produced by Qianjiantang must be marked with a clear mark, but also a secret mark and number.
With this powerful hydraulic stamping table, just the clear mark of stamping can discourage the vast majority of counterfeiting workshops.
Of course, the role of the hydraulic press table is not limited to this, whether it is the processing of iron ingots, the shaping of plates, or even large-scale cutting, this machine can come in handy.
Yu Jinping, with several apprentices, completed several hydraulic stamping tests, all of which were declared successful.
Everyone was overjoyed and applauded vigorously, and a smile finally bloomed on Jinping's tense face.
The relevant applications and processes can be arranged by Chief Elder Lu Wanfang, and there is no need for Ye Changsheng to worry about it.
Accompanied by several high-level executives, Ye Changsheng walked towards a construction site not far away.
This construction site is rather peculiar, because it was supervised by several monks.
Inspired by the Alchemist's Guild, Tangmen Temple also cooperated with Wenjiantang, and a small laboratory was to be built here to meet the needs of Buddhist weapons and magic weapons.
Ye Changsheng was only courteous, exchanged a few words with the monk who supervised the work, and then walked towards another construction site.
The site is under construction as a multi-purpose foundry.
The number of orders received by Kendo is increasing, and the types of swords cast are also increasing.
For example, Zixia Palace needs to order a batch of wooden swords and spar swords, which are mainly used for rituals and ceremonies.
Compared with the long sword of the combat system, the quality requirements of the wooden sword and the spar sword must not be low.
In addition, the Hanlin Academy and several Confucian societies ordered scribe swords were also very particular.
The scribe's sword, as the name suggests, is a sword worn by scribes and scholars, more to show status, and its own lethality is secondary.
Therefore, the materials used to cast scribe swords need to conform to the way of a gentleman, both in appearance and decoration, and must reflect a profound cultural heritage.
These must be studied by special personnel, which is why this multi-functional foundry room is created.
Although these non-mainstream long swords accounted for a very small proportion of Wenjiantang's orders, almost negligible, Changsheng couldn't help but pay attention to them.
Any casting process is a long-term accumulation process, and there is mutual transformation and utilization.
The carving and inlay process of the wooden sword can also be used on the iron sword, and the melting and polishing process of the spar sword can also be applied to other aspects.
The research and casting of scribe swords can enhance the aesthetic level of Wenjian Hall.
And this is one of the current shortcomings of Wenjiantang.
Even ordinary people want to buy a sword of good quality and beauty, not to mention those powerful people and everyone who pursue perfection?
Now the sword produced by Wenjiantang has entered the capital and entered the sight of more top magnates and masters, and these people are picky and outrageous.
In order to deal with the orders of these masters, Wen Jiantang was already powerless.
This kind of customized high-grade long sword may no longer need Ye Changsheng for casting, but from the process to the external design, Ye Changsheng still needs to design it himself.
This is not because of how high Ye Changsheng's own aesthetics are, but because the entire Wenjian Hall has been injected with a temperament by Ye Changsheng, which can also be called Dao Yun.
The reason why those masters ordered the sword of Wenjiantang was precisely because of this.
But this Dao rhyme can only be truly reflected in the long sword handled by Ye Changsheng.
If the quality of the sword itself is "Tao", then the temperament embodied by the sword can be called "virtue".
Virtue is the manifestation of the Tao.
"Sword virtue" is Ye Changsheng's requirements and expectations for Wenjian Hall.
Realizing the beauty of the sword body and improving the beauty of the sword body is just a process that must be experienced in order to achieve this goal.
The pursuit of the quality of the sword is the lifelong pursuit of every swordsmith, but not everyone can understand the "sword virtue".
It is no exaggeration to say that there are thousands of people in the entire Wenjian Hall, but there are no more than four people who really understand the existence of "Sword Virtue".
Ye Changsheng counted one, Elder Lu counted one, Zhang Daoxuan counted one, and Tie Anying counted one.
Whether it is Yu Jinping or Liao Changhai, it can only be counted as half.
The way of forging a sword is no different from the path of cultivation, it needs to be accumulated, it needs to be understood, it needs to go through failure again and again, and then stand up again and again from failure.
The road to ask Jiantang is still very long, and you can only take it step by step and go steadily.
Even if Ye Changsheng made a top-level design, he had to constantly revise and supplement it in practice.
Ye Changsheng asked the ambition of the sword world, and pinned it on this detail one by one.
Otherwise, with the popularity of the Sword Hall today, why do those thankless things?
Ask the corner of the Sword Hall, the two laboratories of the Alchemist Guild have been put under martial law, and the refiner and the apprentices are tinkering with something, mysterious and mysterious.
In the past six months, the Alchemist Guild has solved a total of six C-level puzzles, and these two laboratories have contributed four.
Of course, the laboratory would not stop Ye Changsheng, and wished that Ye Changsheng would personally guide them.
Although the high-level is deliberately erasing Ye Changsheng's contribution and credit, they are in it, can they not know the inside story?
Without the changes that Ye Changsheng brought to them, how could the Refiner Guild of Nine Winds City have today's scenery and achievements?
Whether it was the senior advisor of the Refiner Guild, or the young master of the Sword Hall, or the most talented sword forger in the Sword Hall, no matter which identity he had, he could let Ye Changsheng travel unhindered.
However, Ye Changsheng didn't want to make trouble for himself, so he just exchanged a few words of greeting, and in the disappointed eyes of the refiners, he walked in the direction of the No. 6 Sword Casting Room.
A very important test is underway.
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