Chapter 101: Ironwood
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Pan Guang's statement frightened Lin Zheng, ordinary people have such an iron tree, which is enough to live a normal life for several years. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But such a precious ironwood is only used as fuel for refining weapons in Chixiao Pavilion, which is really luxurious.
When he was in Jinyang, Lin Zheng did hear Uncle Zhao say that because of its dense texture, ironwood can provide a stronger and more durable high temperature than ordinary wood charcoal if it is used as fuel, and it can also play a role in the refining of some special metals. In addition, due to the slightly cool gold particles condensed by the gold yuan gas inside the ironwood, the refined metal will have better ductility, and its price has been high.
But with Uncle Zhao's more than 30 years of experience in making weapons, he rarely uses ironwood as fuel. After all, the price of ironwood is not cheaper than the same weight of refined iron. No matter how you calculate it, it's not a good deal.
Lin Zheng suddenly remembered that his uncle had said that on the peninsula, this Chixiao Pavilion was a refining force on the same level as Thunder Hell City, and among them, it was able to refine weapons above the Xuan Soldiers. Thinking of this, he was slightly more receptive.
However, just now Pan Guang seemed to be saying that these iron muns were for the purpose of building weapons for official disciples. If you say that, it's not easy to understand. Although there were only about 2,000 miscellaneous servants in the Chixiao Pavilion's service station, the number of sect disciples obviously could not be measured by the number of people in the service center.
After all, every year, at least two batches of miscellaneous servants will become outer disciples. This number has been accumulated over the years, and even if the number of formal disciples will be smaller, it will at least be hundreds. Even if only a hundred people choose to refine weapons as the direction of future development, the amount of ironwood that needs to be consumed each year is an astronomical amount.
Such a huge expense, even the Wei royal family, it is estimated that it cannot afford it. It seems that the wealth accumulation of this Chixiao Pavilion can no longer be simply described as a rich country.
"Pan Tou, do we have to cut down such a batch of forests every year? ”
"Every year, every month, I have to cut such a big piece. Pan Guang glanced at Lin Zheng and said indifferently.
"Every month?" Lin Zheng glanced at the other party, and after making sure that Pan Guang was not a lie, he became more and more surprised in his heart, the growth cycle of ironwood is extremely long, taking the ironwood forest in front of him as an example, it will take at least ten years to grow to such a scale.
At this scale, the area of iron and wood cut down by the government office should be at least 100 acres every year.
How defeated is this Chixiao Pavilion to make such a move.
As if seeing Lin Zheng's doubts, Pan Guang explained.
"The ironwood of this Chixiao Pavilion is different from the outside, and the maturity time of the ironwood here is only about three years. And because of special needs, there are dozens of ironwood forests in the mountains, and here is only the smallest one, less than one percent of the total. Pan Guang was very satisfied with Lin Zheng's low-key along the way, so he didn't mind saying a few more words.
"Don't look at the outside world, ironwood is extremely precious, but in the Chixiao Pavilion, ironwood is only used as the worst fuel. As long as the refining skills are slightly better, the disciples who can start to fight the Xuan soldiers will no longer use ironwood, and they will all go to Chiyan Mountain, where the Earth Fire Flame Furnace is the best place to really refine weapons. Pan Guang shook his hand and pointed to the depths of the mountain range.
Looking at the towering crimson mountain in the distance, Lin Zheng was terrified in his heart, he had already noticed the special nature of Chiyan Mountain. It's just that I didn't expect that it would be a place to refine Xuan Bing.
However, even if Tiemu couldn't compare with the conditions of Chiyan Mountain, it didn't seem to be able to explain the doubts in Lin Zheng's heart.
"Pan Tou, it seems that using iron and wood as a formal disciple's refining weapon seems to be a bit extravagant. ”
"Extravagant? Not necessarily, the metal that can be made of iron and wood certainly cannot be ordinary copper and iron. The metal made of ironwood is not only needed within the sect, but is also a good choice for trading. After all, Pan Guang has been in the door for a long time, and he knows more about the things in the sect, and he naturally has a different understanding of things that are unreasonable in Lin Zheng's opinion.
"You should have seen Black Iron City when you came, the city made entirely of Black Iron. It was the largest metal material trading city in the Wei State, and nearly half of the metal trading in the Wei State took place there. And the surplus weapons and metal materials produced in the sect were sold from the Black Iron City. The income from materials alone is more than the value of these ironwoods. ”
Black Iron City!
Lin Zheng had really seen Black Iron City, but he didn't expect Black Iron City to have such a strange effect. To be able to establish such a large-scale city near Chixiao Pavilion, the means and abilities of the person in charge of building the city in the first place can be regarded as remarkable. If the metals and weapons refined by Chixiao Pavilion were all sold through Black Iron City, that would explain his doubts just now.
Looking at Lin Zheng's relieved expression, Pan Guang hesitated for a moment and continued: "After you become a disciple of the sect, you will understand. In Chixiao Pavilion, everything involved in weapon refining, even the most basic metal purification, is the fastest way to obtain points. The benefits of the camp are simply unbearable. Saying this, Pan Guang's voice suddenly turned cold. "However, the premise is that you have to survive the life of the prison in peace. ”
"Alright, that's all that needs to be said, if it's okay, let's get to work. Pan Guang glanced at Lin Zheng, then turned around and walked towards the ironwood forest.
Faced with Pan Guang's sudden change of attitude, Lin Zheng shrugged his shoulders indifferently. He didn't really want to get involved in anything, and he didn't have that much spare time.
However, it seems that there are really some ulterior secrets in this group. Even Pan Guang, who has a taciturn personality, wants to take the opportunity to remind himself by speaking.
Most of the people in the Hai group had already walked into the iron wood forest, and Lin Zheng didn't want to look too special, so he also walked in with the iron axe he could get in his hand.
As soon as he stepped into the range of the Iron Wood Forest, Lin Zheng found something strange. It's just one step, and there is a huge difference between the vitality inside and outside the Iron Wood Forest. The concentration of earth and wood vitality in the forest is more than twice that of the outside world, and there is also a large amount of gold vitality mixed in it.
Under normal circumstances, civil engineering is understandably vigorous. However, the golden energy generally appears in ore veins or high mountains, and rarely appears in the plains.
Of course, if you consider that this is a man-made ironwood forest, it is easy to explain. I'm afraid that the abnormal vitality here also comes from the peculiar pattern effect within the sect. With the power of the pattern array, it is no wonder that the growth of ironwood here will far exceed the normal speed. I'm afraid that the quality of ironwood here is better than that of normal ironwood. After all, it is impossible for a naturally grown ironwood to control the amount of vitality as reasonably as the sect.
It seems that Chixiao Pavilion's use of the pattern array has been implemented in all aspects of life. Pattern arrays, imperial weapons, and flame ranks, these strange things make the inside and outside of the sect simply two different worlds.
However, although the earth-wood gold vitality here was strong, it was not suitable for cultivation. Especially for martial artists who have just been able to use their vitality, it will do more harm than good. If there is not enough cultivation, other types of vitality that are too strong will often lead to a lack of refinement in the process of cultivation. In particular, the restraint of the gold wood attribute is an unsolvable problem. Unless the person cultivating here has already entered the innate late stage and can completely ignore the influence of the Yuan Qi.
In order to determine his feelings, Lin Zheng even walked around the boundary of the Iron Wood Forest twice. His peculiar behavior naturally attracted the attention of many people.
It's just that these ordinary handymen don't understand Lin Zheng's purpose at all, they just think that he is a 'young master of the earth' who has never seen the world, and they are curious about the environment of the iron wood forest.
Ignoring the attitudes of other people, after confirming his discovery, Lin Zheng also walked into the Iron Wood Forest. (To be continued.) )