Guogong Mansion, Outer Courtyard.

Dozens of people were waiting, dragging their families with their mouths, their eyes were full of confusion about the future, and when they saw Qin Huaidao coming, they bowed down and saluted, and one of them shouted sadly: "Young master, we are willing to leave by ourselves, but the child is too young to endure the suffering, I implore the young master to take him in, and give him food every day to live." ”

"Quick, get up." Qin Huaidao hurriedly went up to help, and his heart was moved.

The household registration system of Datang is very strict, and no one is allowed to leave the place of residence without permission, and now in order to reduce the amount of money and food used in the government, leave the money and food for the children to live, and be willing to leave.

In order for the child to live, in order not to drag down the national government, but without hesitation, this is the dignity of a soldier, and it is also a great and selfless love for licking calves.

At this moment, Qin Huaidao suddenly had a sense of belonging and recognition to these veterans, to the Qin Mansion, and to this new identity, and secretly said in his heart: "Since you occupy this body, then take on the corresponding responsibilities and missions, since you have come to Datang, you should do something." ”

The Tang Dynasty has been fighting endlessly, and it has been a hundred dead, but the living court will only give a meager pension, who really cares about life and death after that? Li Er is still benevolent and righteous, but the wealthy family controls the government and politics, and after layers of exploitation, how many more pensions finally fall into the hands of the soldiers?

It's better to meet a grandfather like Qin Qiong, who loves soldiers like a son, but who knows if he is miserable when he encounters a selfish one?

In the last life, he fought for the country without complaint or regret.

In this life, why not live for yourself and for these retired soldiers around you?

In life, you have to do something meaningful, not to seek eternity, but to be happy in your heart.

One thought flashed through his mind, and Qin Huaidao said solemnly: "Uncles, my father has passed away, but the Qin Mansion will not fall, if I have a bite to eat, you will never be indispensable, and you will have to mention it again after leaving, and the Qin Mansion will be trapped in injustice, as long as you work together, the difficulties will always pass." ”

"The young master is noble, but the house is ......"

"Back then, you followed your father to fight in all directions, lived and died together, and never abandoned it, but now how can the Qin Mansion abandon everyone and ignore it? Don't worry, I already have a way to make money, and I'm all gone, so let's go and do my job. ”

"Thank you, Young Master, for your grace!"

Although everyone didn't know where Qin Huaidao's confidence came from, when it came to this, continuing to insist on it was to trap Qin Huaidao in injustice, and the soldiers valued righteousness, and left one after another with suspicious foxes.

"Uncle Jia, send someone to Zhuangzi for a trip, and you don't have to pay this year's rent." Qin Huaidao looked at Jia Youcai and told him, since he has to take responsibility, he should do it thoroughly.

"Huh? Young master, you can't do it, there is no food to ......"

"Just do it."

"Whoa!"

Jia Youcai saw that Qin Huaidao's words were resolute, and it was not good to insist on it anymore, so he solemnly agreed, but his heart was warm, and when he saw Qin Huaidao leave, he immediately called someone and said: "The young master is benevolent and righteous, and you have the wind of the grandfather of the country, you can go for a trip." ”

"However, there is no rent, and there is not enough food in the house......

"Five hundred food towns are also old brothers, this year's grain production has been reduced by three percent, it is not enough to eat, and you have to starve to death half of the rent after paying the rent, you can't bear to watch the old brother die, since the young master said that there is a way, then believe in the young master once, for a month, if not, our old brothers will leave together, even if they occupy the mountain as the king, they must secretly protect the Qin Mansion, protect the young master and our descendants."

"Whoa!" The other party saluted solemnly and hurried away.

Jia Youcai looked at the direction in which Qin Huaidao disappeared, and muttered to himself: "Grandpa Guo, the young master is much calmer and more sensible than before, he has benevolence and righteousness in his heart, and he has opinions in his actions, but unfortunately the world is cold, but you can rest assured, even if the old brothers of the lowly and personal guard battalions sacrifice their lives, they will never let the Qin Mansion fall." ”

Qin Huaidao didn't know what Jia Youcai was thinking, he walked to the west courtyard, and heard a jingling sound from a distance, stepping through a round door, in front of an open shed, a middle-aged man was knocking on the repair tools, Qin Huaidao shouted: "Uncle Ma, busy?" ”

The middle-aged man hurriedly put down his tools and got up to salute, while explaining: "The village sent a batch of damaged farm tools, which must be repaired in the next two days, so as not to delay the farming work, what does the young master command?" ”

Qin Huaidao took a look at it at will, the farm tools are all made of pig iron, with low carbon content, too soft, easy to lack, or high carbon content, easy to collapse, no wonder it is used for repair, as an elite soldier, Qin Huaidao likes self-cooling weapons the most, and is very familiar with ironmaking.

"The young master is going to make weapons?" Uncle Ma asked curiously.

"Indeed, the tiger head gun handed down by my father is a little light, and the body of the gun is made of hardwood, there is a risk of breaking, if you want to make a pure steel, it is best to pour it in one piece, will you?"

"Pure steel?" Uncle Ma was a little surprised, and immediately smiled bitterly: "It's okay to make ordinary weapons, repair armor, etc., the pure steel old man said by the young master is unheard of, and there is nothing he can do." ”

Qin Huaidao asked curiously, "Then how did you build weapons in the past?" ”

"It's best to be a hundred refining methods, but this is too time-consuming, and is it less urgent?"

"How do you make sure that your weapon is sharp and doesn't break or break?" Qin Huaidao asked, as for the so-called method of refining a hundred times, it is just to fold and forge the iron more than a hundred times, and the iron can only be folded and forged if it is burned red and soft, that is, wrought iron, forging can only remove impurities, cannot increase the carbon content, and cannot be turned into steel.

Uncle Ma used to be responsible for repairing weapons, and he knew a little, so he hurriedly said: "Back to the young master, you have to use carburizing to improve the hardness of weapons, that is, wrap the weapons in paper and plant ash for forging, I heard that you can also cover them with charcoal to burn, add some fur, nails, etc., but this method is too profound, the specific dosage, heat, essentials, etc. are not clear, and I have tried several times, but I have not succeeded." ”

Qin Huaidao has heard of this method, paper, plant ash are infiltrating agents, but the carbon content of this carburizing method does not meet the standard of steel, and the distribution is difficult to be uniform, which will cause some places to be hard, some places to be soft, as for charcoal cover to burn, it is not good to master, but it will lose carbon, which is counterproductive.

After asking a few words, Qin Huaidao smiled after knowing it in his heart, Datang really doesn't have a mature steelmaking method, the idea of building a sword and selling it for a start-up capital is feasible, and it just happens to be able to create a tiger head gun to spare, so he said: "Uncle Ma, can you do a long crucible?" ”

"Will there be some, there is also clay, can the young master have a pattern or size?"

Qin Huaidao's eyes fell on the fine sand and clay not far away, worried that the other party's craftsmanship was not perfect, and the things he made would not meet the requirements, so he changed his words and said, "Forget it, help me melt a big pot of molten iron." ”

"This is simple, often done, two days ago I just purchased a batch of iron, forged ten rounds, removed the impurities, originally intended to be used to repair tools, I don't know if it is enough?"

Qin Huaidao looked at the iron stacked next to him, it was black and not slippery, but the carbon content was not high, it was wrought iron, much softer than pig iron, but it could already be directly forged into the required tools after being burned red in the furnace, which was considered a semi-finished product.

The tiger head gun that I want to make is also called a horse lance, and if I want to be formed in one piece, I can't forge and splic, I can only pour, so I said: "It's all melted." ”

"Whoa!"