In three days, 1,440 long knives, Qin Shouzhuo mobilized nearly 700 people to do this, of which nearly 600 people were responsible for handguards, knife handles, scabbards and maintenance packaging, and there were only 100 workers from steelmaking to knife blades, including management personnel. Compared to the speed at which a dwarven master can produce a knife in three days, it is more than twice as fast. What's more, it can be shipped in three days, which is the speed that only dwarf masters have, and here are only some novices who have not been exposed to the forging industry.

Qin Shouzhuo would not say that all of his 700 people were low-level professionals with no bright future, although their strength was not strong.

Creating a steel mill with a high degree of automation that Qin Shouzhuo is familiar with out of thin air cannot be done even if there is magic, so this steel plant that has risen from the ground is extremely primitive in Qin Shouzhuo's opinion, especially in terms of automation. Fortunately, the Lawrence Empire has always had a tradition of emphasizing education, and in addition to the Imperial University in the imperial capital, each province has its own university, some of which are not worth one.

While it's not like every university has a corresponding academy of magic and martial arts, it's clear that magic academies and martial arts academies are not uncommon. Of course, a lot of talented students have been cultivated, but mediocre students account for the majority after all, which makes it not as difficult for Qin Shouzhuo to recruit workers with a certain amount of magic and vindictive cultivation as he imagined. After all, if magic is not accomplished, it can only be used as a trick, and the fighting spirit is too weak, and the difference between it and ordinary people is only physical strength.

However, after all, they are still a little different, compared to ordinary people, the strength of low-level samurai is also extremely strong, full of physical strength, plus the nourishment of fighting spirit, and the ability to continue to fight is extremely strong, which can be called a model of manual laborers. And the magic apprentices, although they can't release any lethal magic, but at least they understand the use of spiritual power, and their knowledge of magic equipment is not bad, and they act as system automation nodes.

On the way back, Hall Copperbeard kept thinking something in pieces, and the other young dwarves shrugged their heads and were demoralized. Qin Shouzhuo finally took them to the warehouse, the impact of the neatly stacked 1380 crates was shocking, even Hall Copperbeard, who claimed to have been fighting iron all his life, had never seen so many goods ready to be sent out at one time, especially when he came out, he saw a fully loaded flatbed truck waiting to be put into the warehouse. This morning, while they were negotiating, the newly baked 60 long knives had been oiled and packed, and were waiting to be put into storage.

It's horrible.

When Hall Copperbeard came back to his senses, he was already walking on the way back, still holding the sample knife that Qin Shouzhuo had taken out tightly in his hand. He was lying in the cabin of the airship, surrounded by only one dwarf, the prince of the Copperbeard tribe and his nephew. As soon as the young prince saw that Master Hall had woken up, he immediately put down the small piece of steel ingot in his hand excitedly, and ran over with a loud shout: "Eh!~Eh!~ Uncle, you have finally woken up! But I'm so anxious, as soon as you come out of the factory of the Baron Countcount of Rausch, you will fall, no matter how you shout, you will not respond, and I think you are stupid." ”

"Smack!"

"Stinky boy, you're stupid. Hall Copperbeard sat up and slapped his nephew on the back of the head, making the other man stagger, touching his head and smirking.

"...... this knife?"

"Oh, that's what kind of baron, see if you hold on to it, I'll give it to you. I also gave us a small piece of steel ingot, which is really generous, with two or three catties. I saw that it was all good steel, and I was going to go back and find the steel that I had saved before, and I would use it as a cutting edge ...... when I took two tomahawks."

Listening to his nephew's chatter, Master Hall wandered again. Yes, even these inexperienced young dwarves could see that these were fine steels, and even knew to put them on the cutting edges with better steel than their own. That young human baron is really terrifying, if his factory is fully operational, where will there be a place for dwarves to eat, this time I will go back, I have to discuss it with my eldest brother.

Bon voyage.

A month later, Hall Copperbeard and his nephew returned to the volcano known as the Copperbeard Furnace, and the other dwarves returned to their settlements with news from the Barony of Babia, and agreed to convene a meeting of the Dwarves of Ironforge in three months to discuss countermeasures.

In the Copperbeard Furnace, as soon as Hall Copperbeard returned to the settlement, he couldn't wait to find Raul Copperbeard, the patriarch of the Copperbeard Clan, and his eldest brother carefully reported to his patriarch eldest brother what he had seen and heard about the visit, especially emphasizing the strong production capacity of the Baron of Babia, and only briefly mentioning the long knife produced by the Barony of Babia. Because there are samples in hand, just display them directly, and it is useless to say more!

After listening to his brother's story, Raul Copperbeard was silent for a while before he said in a suppressed voice: "Hall, your worries are not unreasonable, in fact, we just lost an order from the Imperial Army, I thought it was because the Empire's financial situation was not optimistic, and the military was forced to choose inferior swords produced by the Terrans, but I asked the familiar merchants, but they did not receive any news of this order, but I didn't expect this order to be given to His Excellency the Baron who suddenly ran out." ”

Stepping out from behind his desk, Raul picked up the long knife that Hall had brought back, and then picked up the steel ingots confiscated from his son: "Steel is the finest steel, and the knife is the finest sword...... Come, get my sword!"

"Huh!"

His Royal Highness Prince Kiel Copperbeard, who was waiting outside the door, said yes, and hurried out, finishing it early, but he was still thinking about the steel ingots that had been confiscated. Hall Copperbeard immediately realized what the eldest brother wanted to do, and quickly stood up and persuaded: "Big brother!

Raul Copperbeard waved his hand, signaling Hall to silence, he needed to think, the future of the Copperbeard clan was on him, and he had to be cautious. After a while, Kiel returned to the study with his father's sword, put the short sword down, reluctantly glanced at the steel ingot, and was blasted out by his father again.

Raul raised the long knife and put the back of the knife on the iron felt, it should be said that it is worthy of the dwarven patriarch's study, even this kind of thing is there. Raul held the long knife in his left hand, picked up the short sword he had made when he was promoted to a master smith in his right hand, and raised it high, his body flashing with a fighting light, and the red light enveloped the entire study.

"Hey!"

"Wow!~"

The fighting spirit exploded, and the short sword raised high in his right hand slashed at the edge of the long knife with the momentum of splitting Huashan vertically, making an abnormal impact sound, and the air wave that erupted blew the wind in the study, and Hall couldn't open his eyes for a while.

When the wave of anger passed, Hall looked back at the big brother with a serious face, he had never seen his big brother show such an ugly face. Raul silently put down the long knife, held the short sword in front of his eyes with both hands and looked at it carefully, it was obvious that the blade of the short sword was a little curled, and a slight crack appeared on the sword body, if he was not a master forger, he would not be able to see that the short sword had suffered internal injuries.

Putting down the short sword in his hand, Raul Copperbeard picked up the long knife and put it in front of him...... That short sword was the work of Raul Copperbeard when he was promoted to a forging master, and it was a master-level weapon that had been recognized by the Dwarven Council, including the previous generation leader, and in the face of the impact that even the dwarven master-level weapon could collapse, I didn't believe that this human-made long knife could withstand it!

Raul Copperbeard took a closer look, and sure enough, he found a small gap in the long knife, but other than that, the blade was intact, and if it were on the battlefield, such a knife might not be issued to the striker, but it would not be thrown away as a scrap.

“...... Is...... Excuse me............"

............

Just two months have passed in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, it is time for the Dwarven Conference of Ironforge Castle to be held, and Raul, as the patriarch of the Copperbeard Clan, and Hall, as the vice president of the Dwarven Chamber of Commerce, are naturally bound to attend. In view of the fact that Hall Copperbeard's report to the Chamber of Commerce stated that the threat of Babia Steel was infinite, the leaders of the five major dwarven clans attended the same time for the first time in 20 years.

Of course, just like humans, the bigger the event and the more people attended, the less they could discuss anything, and even the clan leaders thought that Hall was alarmist, and no one cared about the long knives presented as physical evidence, and the conference inevitably fell into quarrels and abuse.

It's no wonder, for example, Qin Shouzhuo is a lawrence nobleman after all, and generally speaking, his range of activities will not exceed that of the Lawrence Empire and its vassal countries, and the station of the Hot Sand Clan is far away from the junction of the Blue Moon Empire and the Hot Sand Empire, and its traditional market is 108,000 miles away from the Lawrence Empire. According to the resolution of the Dwarven Assembly of Ironforge Castle, the dwarven weapons market in the entire continent is divided among the five major clans, and everyone agrees on the scope of business with each other, and it is discussed again every five years.

This time, almost all of the people who received Qin Shouzhuo's strong impact were the sphere of influence of the Copperbeard Clan, and to put it bluntly, the other four dwarves did not feel Qin Shouzhuo's pressure. They also looked at the steel ingots that the delegation brought back, but they didn't pay attention to them, just like "Eh~ What new toys have been made by those tall monkeys". Therefore, I didn't pay much attention to this conference, and even wondered if this was some big news deliberately made by the Copperbeard Clan, wanting to increase market distribution.

The dwarven assembly quarreled for more than ten days, and except for the main issue, how to deal with Qin Shouzhuo, a powerful challenger, and no conclusion was reached, all other issues were resolved.

“...... You stupid and stubborn dwarves will pay the price for your pride today!!"

Raul Copperbeard was furious, but to no avail, for the past two months, Babia Steel has repeatedly used its home-grown broadsword and dwarven broadsword in the downtown areas of the major cities of the Lawrence Empire to conduct destructive experiments - that is, violent slashing with each other, and achieved a complete victory, putting the name of Babia Steel on the altar in one fell swoop. As a result, the Copperbeard Clan's shipments fell by 86% in the past two months, and many contracts that had been negotiated were broken. Raul Copperbeard and Hall Copperbeard glanced at each other, and they both saw the exhaustion and bitterness in each other's eyes.

“...... Go back, to Lawrence City!"

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