The next morning, Evan left the Lord's House with several convoy soldiers and headed straight for the blacksmith in London. Deloris also wanted to go with Aven, but was stopped by Count Morlor and severely reprimanded.

Looking at the little girl's aggrieved appearance, Ai Wen promised to bring her something delicious when his affairs were over. That's what made Delores burst into tears and laughed.

I don't know if the blacksmiths smell like each other, or if there is some other reason, but all the blacksmiths in the city of London are concentrated in the south. Before he had even stepped into the south, Aven could smell the smell of burning coal.

Caught off guard, he only felt an itchy throat and couldn't stop coughing. After a while, after getting used to it, Ai Wenwei walked into the gathering area of the blacksmiths.

"Hello, Knight Aven. I've heard that you've brought us a lot of money." A short, stocky, bearded old man shouted loudly on the side of the road.

Evan stopped, not caring if the blacksmith's words were rude, and said with a smile, "Yes, respected craftsman. I don't know what I should call you?"

The bearded old man obviously liked the way Evan spoke, he stroked his beard and shouted, "My name is Karl, and I am the head blacksmith of the city of London, and everyone calls me Carl the hammer, and I can make anything with a sledgehammer. Knight Aven, if every nobleman were as polite as you, there would be a lot less dispute in this world."

Burst...... Evan was amused, this Cal President was really interesting, on his body, it seemed that he could see the traces of dwarves.

It's just that the guards behind Evan are a little unhappy, and they feel that they have been scolded by President Carl, but Evan is there, and they can't say anything, at most they don't hear it.

"President Karl. With the approval of Count Morlor, I am going to form a brand new army recently, so I would like to ask President Karl and the other craftsmen to craft a certain amount of weapons and armor for me." Evan got straight to the point and said the purpose of the trip.

"Wow, Knight Aven, you should know that armor and weapons have never been cheap. You'll have to bring enough money to travel." President Carr immediately exclaimed. The blacksmiths around laughed loudly, and many people took the opportunity to coax, saying that they wanted to raise the price and make a lot of money.

Evan didn't get angry when he heard this, and watched them coax happily. When President Carl saw Aven's reaction, he also felt new at the moment, and in his impression, the nobles were all misers, and they regarded money as more important than life, and when it came to spending money, they were all mothers-in-law.

He immediately made up his mind that either Evan was a generous man or he was a fool who didn't have a concept for money. No

He quickly rejected this assumption, and if he was a fool, would the Count of Morol allow him to raise an army? The Count of Morol was certainly not a fool, so the young knight in front of him would never be a fool either.

With this judgment in mind, President Karl pressed his hands, and the old god said, "Knight Aven, it's so comfortable talking to you. In response to your courtesy, I have decided to give you a modest reduction in the cost of gold coins. On the other hand, you'd better increase the number of crafts a bit. After all, as the president, I have to take care of everyone."

"Thank you, President Carl." Evan took a piece of chain mail from the guard's hand and handed it to President Karl, "President, this is the armor we exchanged from the Kents, and it should be easy for you to see if it's good or bad."

President Carl looked at it, and suddenly lost interest, "This kind of garbage is a kind of garbage that the Kent people have the face to trade."

Evan agrees with President Carr's point that he had discovered the problem with the Kentish trade very early on. But he didn't say anything, after all, it was good that people were willing to take out their weapons in exchange.

As for using it as an armament for the new army, forget it, using junk equipment on the battlefield is no different from sending it to death.

"President Karl, I wonder if you can make these chain mails into equipment that can be used on the battlefield? I know this is somewhat difficult for a strong man, but ......" Evan is a little embarrassed, even with the support of Count Morol, he can't completely use money to build equipment, it is too expensive.

"Knight Aven, you're underestimating me! I'm not polite to tell you that I've beaten more iron than you've ever drunk. We'll see, if we can't handle these things, I, Karl, will immediately resign as president of the Blacksmiths' Guild." President Karl blew his beard and glared at him, and said loudly.

Ai Wen smiled slightly, of course this was intentional, after all, he didn't know much about chain mail, so he could only use the Agitation Technique, so please ask these blacksmiths to bother a lot.

"President Karl, I still have a few drawings here, and I hope the craftsmen will create them." With a solemn expression, Evan took out three rolls of parchment.

President Karl's eyebrows furrowed, I'm afraid it won't be a simple thing to make Evan talk so seriously. He placed the parchment on the soot-covered table, and the blacksmiths gathered around him, hoping to see what was on the drawing.

The first two parchments depict a weapon, one of the famous axe and the other of a short-handled, triangular blunt-headed hammer.

The third piece of parchment depicts two parts, one is the cluster of arrows, and unlike the normal clusters, the clusters of arrows in the painting are three-edged and have barbs.

The other is a diamond-shaped piece of iron, which is described in detail in the description next to it, which is an iron piece sewn on the leather armor to increase the protective power of the leather armor.

The blacksmiths looked at each other for a long time, many of them had never seen these novel weapons, and many of them doubted whether they could be made.

After carefully reading the painting and the text description next to it, President Carl looked up at Evan, "It takes a lot of time, after all, it is difficult to create directly from drawings alone, and it needs to be tried again and again."

Evan nodded in understanding, "President Karl, this is Middlesex's highest secret, and please carefully select the craftsmen who will participate. If the enemy gets his hands on these things, Middlesex will never have a chance of winning."

Although he knew that these blacksmiths would not reveal secrets, out of caution, Evan still solemnly admonished.

President Carl glanced at the blacksmiths around him and nodded, "I'll take it seriously. Knight Aven, when do you need these things?"

"I need to get the first batch of equipment before the autumn harvest, and after the inspection, we need to produce more things in the future. As for the finished equipment, ask President Karl to put it in a wooden box and transport it to Laquis." Evan placed a bulging money bag on the table.

"Okay. If that's nothing, you can go back first. I don't need you to stay here." President Karl casually put away the parchment and money bag, and began to gather the blacksmiths to discuss the craft.

Seeing this, Ai Wen didn't stop any longer, and walked towards his next destination with the guards.

In the carpenter workshop in the east of the city, the president of the carpenters' association is also waiting outside, and unlike the blacksmith association, the president of the carpenters' association is a middle-aged man.

After a brief greeting, the middle-aged man ushered Evan to his residence. In the ensuing conversation, Aven understood that the Earl of Morloll had summoned the presidents of several associations in the city of London, informed them of the formation of an army, and told them to wait for Aven to come to visit.

In this case, Ai Wen did not hide it, and also took out the parchment he was carrying. The parchment depicts three things, a crossbow and a saddle stirrup, which is necessary for horseback riding.

Although the stirrups were supposed to be made of metal, in order to prevent failure, it was decided to use wooden ones first. Of course, more importantly, he has no money, so he can't afford to make metal.

When explaining the details to the chief carpenter, Aven mixed some of his own conjectures with the bits and pieces he saw on TV in later books, hoping that it would be helpful for the carpenters to reproduce these artifacts.

From time to time, the carpenter president would ask questions about some content, but Ewen answered as much as he could, but he couldn't answer them, so he had to ask the carpenter president to spend more time studying.

"Aven, I'm afraid you won't succeed so easily. We'll try to do it within the time you set for it." The carpenter's words made Aven feel a lot more at ease.

If you can successfully make these things, then compared with other armies of the same era, your own army will have a generation difference in equipment, although it is not as terrifying as firearms, but the advantage in fighting is still huge.

When leaving the Carpenter's Council's office, Evan also told the Carpenter to carefully select the carpenters who participated, and never leak the parchment to anyone else. The carpenter chief naturally agreed.

After a visit to the Carpenter's Guild, Evan immediately visited the armor master in the city, who was quite familiar with leather armor.

The leather armor designed by Ai Wen made the armor master extremely stunned, and other people made leather armor for lightness and strong mobility on the battlefield. Aiwen's leather armor is the opposite, pursuing protection and not paying much attention to mobility.

Rao is an experienced armor master who is difficult to understand, but years of industry literacy have made them quickly accept Aiwen's request.

They promised that as long as the raw materials were ready, they would make them as soon as possible, and try to complete all the leather armor before the autumn harvest, but in the end, they still reminded Evan that there might be problems with these leather armors.

Ai Wen could only smile bitterly, in his heart, this army should have been fully chain armor, but the astronomical amount of gold coins he could only settle for the second best thing now, making leather armor for the soldiers as transitional armor.

A penny is hard for a hero...... Walking out of the armor master's courtyard, Ai Wen felt a deep sense of urgency, he was still too poor, and he urgently needed a way to make money quickly. His eyes rolled, and Evan slowly had an idea in his heart......

"Knight, we're back in the Lord's Palace." The voice of the guard interrupted Aven's reverie.

Well, let's be realistic. Evan shook his head, dismounted and walked into the Lord's Mansion......

PS: Try to have another chapter during the day......