Xiangyang City is a necessary place for the north and south.

Although it is not as smoke and willow as the southeast place, the wind curtain is green; But it can also be called a listed column, a household surplus Luoqi, prosperous since ancient times.

In this era, the war has not yet spread to Xiangyang.

North-south exchanges, merchant transactions, are all here.

The streets are bustling and bustling, and in the tea shop, it seems that someone is talking about books, and from time to time there is a sound of laughter, so it is not lively.

In the depths of the alley, there is a store, and at the door, there are rows of hoes, sickles and other farm tools.

The store is stained with soot all year round, and it is pitch black, filled with the smell of fire.

From time to time, there was a "clanging" sound of striking iron in the house.

In Xiangyang City, this iron shop is the oldest, and it is said that it was opened by a military household who retired from the northern battlefield that year. It's a pity that the imperial court forbade soldiers, and in peacetime, they could only build some farm tools for a living.

In the shop, an old man is fiddling with farm tools. With bare arms, his skin was dark as if he had been smeared with oil, his hands were covered with black calluses, and his thin body had refined muscles.

At this moment, a young man in white walked in.

"Childe, what do you need?" A hint of surprise flashed in the old man's eyes.

Usually, those who come here are some rough men, or rural farmers, like such a majestic and handsome son, who is not the son of a rich family, where would he usually come to this kind of place?

"I heard that you have the best craftsmanship in Xiangyang City, and I want to find you to create a weapon at hand!"

The young man in white was none other than Ye Jun, who came with the Xuantie heavy sword, intending to make the Xuantie heavy sword into a spear. However, ordinary blacksmiths only know how to build some agricultural tools. Although the spear does not require too high skill, the dark iron is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can make, and ordinary iron-striking methods cannot melt the dark iron at all.

After inquiring around in Xiangyang City, Ye Jun found here.

"I wonder what weapon Childe wants to build?" The old man was not surprised, after all, although the imperial court banned soldiers, how could the merchants and rivers and lakes traveling between the north and the south have no weapons? Everyone knows about the secret business.

Ye Jun reached out and tore off the package on his back, and with a slight shake, a jet-black thing fell out.

There was a muffled sound of "bang", and the bluestone on the ground was smashed to pieces.

"It's ...... Darksteel! The old man's eyes shrank suddenly, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

It's not a connoisseur, and it's recognizable at a glance. The few blacksmith shops that Ye Jun found before to make farm tools didn't know what Xuantie was.

"Can you make a gun?"

Hearing this, the old man was surprised and said: "The dark iron is extremely hard, much heavier than ordinary fine iron, if it is all made into a long gun, it will definitely be very heavy and inconvenient to use." It's better to only build the spear head, and the rest of the part can be made into a sword, which will definitely sharpen iron like clay, and be a peerless divine soldier......"

Ordinary weapons, mixed with some dark iron, can sharpen iron like clay. Such a large piece of dark iron, all made into a weapon, is inevitably a bit extravagant. In particular, if the barrel of the gun is also made of black iron, it is too wasteful.

If it is an ordinary person, it is naturally so.

However, for Ye Jun, if only the spear head was Xuantie, it was too light and not in line with his means.

Ye Jun's voice was lukewarm, and he said, "Shopkeeper, you can say if you can build it." ”

The old man saw that Ye Jun was dissatisfied, so he couldn't help but smile and said apologetically: "The old man is a little reckless when he sees such a fast Xuantie for the first time, and I ask my son to forgive me." ”

The guests can fight whatever they want, and which round of other questions will have to worry about themselves?

After a pause, the old man said: "Childe, the spear is easy to build, but the dark iron is not easy to melt, I need to configure some special materials." If Childe can trust me, he can come and get the weapon in three days. ”

Ye Jun bowed slightly, and asked, "How many silver taels do you need?" ”

"It is the dream of craftsmen all over the world to be able to build a dark iron weapon. The little old man didn't dare to make money, so he only charged a cost of work. Twenty taels of silver, what does Childe think? ”

In this era, the life of the common people was still relatively rich, according to the records of the Song Dynasty, the family property of ordinary people was about 80 to 120 yuan. In "Water Margin", Yang Zhi's treasure knife can buy three thousand guan, that is, three thousand taels of silver. It shows that the prices in the Song Dynasty were still quite high.

The price of twenty taels of silver is indeed not expensive. It can be seen that the old man is a real person.

Ye Jun nodded, agreed on a date, drew the size of the spear, and left.

……

Out of the blacksmith shop, Ye Jun squinted his eyes slightly, thinking in his heart how to earn the twenty taels of silver.

When he first crossed over, he had nothing to lose.

And this month, most of the time is spent in the valley with eagles as companions, how can there be time to make money?

When the money is used, I hate it.

In Lu Ding Ji, Ye Jun, as the emperor of a country, where will he be short of money?

Now, on the contrary, he is worried about twenty taels of silver.

As the saying goes, a penny is hard to beat a hero.

However, Ye Jun wanted to say, how could a hero be stumped by money?

In ancient times, these heroes shot dozens of taels of silver, where did they come from? It's not that if you don't have money, you go to a rich person to "borrow". In the Eight Divisions of Tianlong, when Qiao Feng went out of Yanmen Pass and had no money, didn't he pass by the county government and steal a few hundred taels of silver in the public treasury?

The beautiful name is called: robbing the rich and helping the poor.

Of course, it is the wealth of others who rob it, and it is the poverty that is helped by oneself.

"It seems that I am also going to be a hero of "robbing the rich and helping the poor"! Ye Jun sighed slightly, and immediately disappeared into the crowd.

That night, Ye Jun took advantage of the night to sneak into the Taishou Mansion.

This Xiangyang Taishou was the later famous "Lu Wende".

Lu Wende, a person who colluded with the powerful minister Jia Nidao, supported the army and respected himself, and was no different from the Emperor Tu in Xiangyang.

The Taishou Mansion was built extremely luxuriously, and it was much better than Wu Sangui's Pingxi Mansion in later generations.

As soon as Ye Jun entered the Taishou Mansion, he suddenly heard a burst of exclamations from the mansion.

"Caught a thief!"

"There are thieves. Escort ......"

Ye Jun frowned suddenly, he was discovered as soon as he came in?

How can it be!

If he was really discovered, he, a strong master, could simply commit suicide.

There was a lot of noise in the house, and the lights were lit up.

It can be seen that a team of guards is rushing to the backyard.

It seems that these people did not discover him.

However, Ye Jun was also curious in his heart.

Under the cover of night, he followed behind a group of guards and entered the backyard.

The backyard is a mess by this time.

It can be seen that in the backyard, there is a black figure, short in stature, as flexible as a spirit monkey, walking back and forth.

Dozens of guards were played around, and most of the day passed, and they didn't even touch the corners of the clothes of the man in black.

Ye Jun raised his eyebrows slightly, and a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, he didn't expect to meet a fellow practitioner for the first time "robbing the rich and helping the poor".

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