The blacksmith shop is very recognizable, and the signboard has a sword drawn, even Luo Yi can recognize it at a glance from a distance, after all, from the reflections of the people around her, she also knows that she has used precious iron to beat farm tools in these years, but it is really very advanced, and most of the iron is used to make armor and weapons.

Most of the customers who came to the blacksmith were swordsmen, and there were a few stones for tying horses at the door.

Luo Yi couldn't take his eyes off the tethered horse stone as soon as he saw it.

Because the stone used to tie the horse is too special, too illogical, it should be said, it is not a stone at all......

"Honorable Fu~ people, respectable Ji~ masters, welcome to the Baden-Baden blacksmith shop." Seeing this glamorous team from a distance, someone had already gone to report it, and I saw a red-faced strong man wearing a small hat and a dirty leather skirt on his head to greet him, he took off his hat at the door, and bowed to Luo Yi and the others, "Welcome, welcome, please put away your weapons, respectable Ji ~ Shi Master, this is an honest trader's shop, let my servants tie your horse for you." ”

Ned handed the axe and shield to his attendants, dismounted, and helped Luo Yi out of the car, and a little boy ran over and led the horse neatly and tied it.

Then the group followed the shopkeeper into the shop.

The moment she entered the store, Luo Yi couldn't help but ask, "What is the horse tied to the door?" ”

"Dear float~ people, that's the slag on the iron ore." The shopkeeper replied, "Sometimes there is a kind of slag from the furnace, which looks like iron, but in fact, it is not iron, it is not, and it is put at the door and tied to the horse, so that people can see it, and they know that we are a blacksmith shop here." ”

Shepp was a little surprised that Turnest, like other cities, had rules that were not too competitive, such as not to place goods in conspicuous places, to recruit only a certain number of apprentices, and so on.

The shopkeeper placed the thing, which looked like an iron lump, in a conspicuous doorway, but it was not a piece of iron for sale, but only the slag from the mine, which was not a violation of the regulations of the trade, attracting customers and cleverly circumventing the punishment.

He nodded appreciatively at the shopkeeper's business, and followed into the blacksmith's shop.

This shop is a workshop in front of the shop, this type of shop still exists to this day, in front of it is a spacious bright room, on the wooden shelves display a series of iron tools ranging from daily scissors needles to helmets and swords, and the sound of tintin-bellong striking iron is heard in the back.

Except for the lack of farming tools.

Luo Yi told the shopkeeper that he wanted to build a new type of plow.

The shopkeeper bowed respectfully and replied: "Respected float ~ people, plow ~ head, it's not impossible, but it's expensive, not cost-effective, easy to break, repair, and expensive." ”

“？” Luo Yi didn't understand, does an iron plow deteriorate faster than a wood plow?

"Iron is harder than wood, but if you touch it, it will hurt." The shopkeeper said, "Knives, swords, armor, respectable Ji ~ The old men all know the way, they are often sharpened, oiled, maintained, and not used every day, respect the floating ~ people, you also know the road, scissors, kitchen knives, needles, also to sharpen, serfs, lazy, not grinding, no maintenance, indiscriminate, the goods of the Baden-Baden shop are good, but the serfs do not know the way, do not know the way, they are stupid, can not be used, not suitable." Wood, cheap, for serfs, suitable. ”

In the final analysis, it is still a matter of cost.

Luo Yi insisted on being an iron plow.

No, she's going to make a batch of iron plows.

"If I do a good job, I'll do a few more." Luo Yi said that this is a bargaining technique – a modern technique, and that one iron plough is indeed not enough for six villages.

"No." The shopkeeper looked embarrassed, "There is not so much iron, and there is not so much time. ”

"Why don't you have time? Wouldn't it be enough to make a mold and cast it a few more times? Luo Yi asked.

"Mold? Foundry? The shopkeeper was stunned, and then showed a strange expression: "Respected Fu~ people, you ...... You may be mistaken, copper, copper is cast, iron, iron is hammered. He tried to make his words as intelligible as the Baroness could be understood, and tactful enough not to turn her face.

"Huh? What? Iron can't be cast? Luo Yi was also stunned at this time.

"No, respected Fu~ people, there has never been iron casting." The shopkeeper said with confidence in the gesture of insider authority: "Never, never, in my motherland, in my hometown, I have never heard of cast iron, only cast copper." ”

"......" Luo Yi was speechless.

She never thought that there was no iron casting technique in this world.

It is hard to imagine that the Chinese, who had planted pig iron (cast iron), wrought iron and steel in BC, would not have smelted pig iron (cast iron) until the 16th century.

The Renaissance began in the fourteenth century.

Two hundred years after the Renaissance began, they learned to make iron in blast furnaces, casting large quantities of iron at once by pouring hot molten iron into a fan (model).

Throughout the Middle Ages, no European had ever seen a bright and beautiful molten iron.

The European way of making iron was to burn iron ore and charcoal together in an iron-making furnace to produce a metal mass mixed with wrought iron and slag, which would be made into a long stick shape - some fantasy games with a medieval background such as DND will also set up, the underground dwarves sell "iron rods" to humans, this is the kind of thing - these "iron rods" go to the hands of the blacksmith, and the blacksmith patiently beats them to remove the slag, and then slowly hammers them into various iron tools and steel.

This method of removing slag is entirely dependent on the craftsmanship of the blacksmith, and some 15th-century steel armor is mixed with uncleaned slag.

Although they are both in the Iron Age, the "iron" of Europe and the "iron" of China are not necessarily the same thing.