Guangzhou, Zhu Ming Mountain House.

Opposite the Tianhou Temple of Foshan Iron Industry Guild Hall, is the Lihuo Cutting Courtyard of Daohai Zongyuan, but the gate is tightly sealed by an iron fence. On the tiger title plate on the head of the door, the eight lacquered gold characters of "Ordnance Heavy Land, Idlers are not allowed to enter" are faintly revealing a sense of slaughter.

In front and behind the courtyard, there are students of the Qinggeng Academy's martial arts institute, with a thin steel hood decorated with black tassels on their heads, a long-barreled flintlock pistol with a walnut butt on their shoulders, and a crisp cyan round army uniform, and a half-body cuirass shining with a shiny cold light.

This dress once amazed the workers of Foshan's iron shop - not to mention anything else, the boots decorated with spurs alone were worth a month's salary of an ironsmith on the furnace!

A few years after the death of the former Qing Dynasty, everyone knows what kind of virtue the green battalion soldiers in Guangdong are. The green camp practices every five days and exercises every ten days, and can stand in a queue, and then pick up the kind of soft bow that even rabbits can't shoot and shoot a few arrows ten steps away, one out of ten arrows, even if it is qualified.

The flag soldiers of the Eight Banners have one more job to set off guns and cannons, but they are also generally fooling. Most of the cannons allocated to the city above were sold to the iron shop here in Foshan as iron, and when they went out to exercise, they filled in some gunpowder and listened to the sound.

There is no way, and the bannermen are not allowed to do business, and the salary has always been scraped down layer by layer. Even if the Manchurian generals in various places want to open up some welfare, they can only start with the ordnance.

The rules of the military system of the Qing Dynasty are big, all kinds of troops are indispensable, the flag should be distinct, the shield should be painted, and the tiger clothes and rattan soldiers in the southern green battalion are the best at the top, every time they set up a formation to parade, the colorful flags are displayed, the gongs and drums are noisy, and hundreds of people are seen dancing knives and guns, playing plum blossom arrays, flying dragon arrays, and gossip arrays, and the tiger clothes and rattan soldiers are wearing a whole set of tiger stripe tights, wearing a tiger head on their heads, and performing the rolling ground hall knife technique with a rattan card in one hand and a knife in the other, which is better than the team that sells the solution at the temple fair.

But a military horse, with low salaries and drills like performing arts, has been reduced to this kind of clown, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is not respected at all.

The former Qing Dynasty and the National Dynasty, these two changes are visible to everyone, although there are also former Qing Xiucai who have lost their status, and they can't help but say a few strange words that "the National Dynasty values Taoist priests and military weapons, but despises scholars". But the original green battalion soldiers and Eight Banner soldiers with folding fans on their necks and cigarette sticks and purses around their waists have been replaced by these cadets who are full of heroic spirit at a glance, and some people will inevitably have some envy.

There were also those who crowded into the crowd to see the excitement when the Qinggeng Academy opened, and at this time there was room to talk: "Do you know what the future of the students and soldiers of the martial arts institute is? The amount of gunpowder used each month alone is not a decimal. If you practice it like this, don't say it's martial arts, it's martial arts, it's nothing more than that!"

In this kind of discussion, there are also some small iron workers, and they can't listen to the old saying that "a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail", so he went to Qinggeng Academy with a little luggage to report for an infantry preparatory department, even if he learns it, he is just a musketeer, but it is better than being a firefighter by the stove for a lifetime!

In the eyes of people who were so envious, I saw a Taoist wearing a magnolia-colored Gesha crane, wearing a Dongpo scarf on his head, and his big sleeves fluttering towards the courtyard of the fire cut. He walked to the front of the courtyard, took out a green jade token from his sleeve, and carved the shape of the crane's wings, and the eyes of the tiger title plate moved brightly, and then the iron fence automatically shrank away.

The blacksmith who came out of the furnace on the opposite side also smacked his tongue: "Good guy, Tianhe Order! This is a token only owned by the Taoist official in charge of the party, isn't it a prestige?"

The man slowly walked into the courtyard with the Crane Order, nodded to the soldier who saluted him, and then walked to the depths of the courtyard with familiarity.

In front of a moon cave door, the eyes of the Taoist can vaguely see the virtual shape of the runes, flashing endlessly with a faint spiritual light.

This Dao rune seal is faintly arranged into a rune array, as long as someone dares to break through, it will cause the fire rune to scatter out, and the future offender will be turned into charred ashes.

But in the face of such a sinister talisman array, this person walked straight into it as if he was strolling leisurely, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After passing through the talisman array, the Taoist was already in a vast lower stone room, and what occupied most of the space in this stone room was a three-legged broad-bellied tripod with a height of nine zhang.

Ding is divided into three layers, there is a fire Jiao coiled on the top, entangled treasure bottle, a pearl is carried in the bottle to carry the sinking and floating; the middle is like a tower pavilion, between the layers of small windows are all stars and iron talismans are connected, the lower abdomen is round, the gossip is divided, and the inside of the big ding can be faintly seen.

This Dading is Wei Ye's order for several kinds of strange gold and forged it with one hand. Among them, relatively large materials such as fire copper and dark iron are still cheap, even if the alchemy workshop uses the method of sacrificial refining and purification, crowned with prefixes such as "red refining" and "black light", it is not expensive. But another kind of material called "Xuanyang True Iron" is not too easy to find.

Xuanyang True Iron is a special product of a special time and space called "Pingdu Xuanyang Realm", this mineral can be said to be extremely inert, and it will not be affected by the outside world, and it will react with other strange gold, minerals, and medicinal bait. However, it has excellent ductility and thermal conductivity, which is used to refine the Dan furnace, which can not only isolate miscellaneous gases, but also not be afraid of the impact of shock and explosion.

This kind of rare mineral deposit can be said to be a treasure coveted by the alchemy workshop, but the output is scarce, and there is no market. Daohai Zongyuan, the great ding, also thanks to Wei Wencheng's Hundred Refining Qinggang Sword Shop when he was recovering the crippled weapon, he found that between the conquest of the Pingdu Xuanyang Realm and other Void Worlds, some Xuanyang True Iron was left outside, and there were also people who did not know the goods, and they actually used Xuanyang True Iron to forge swords.

This batch of Xuanyang True Iron was finally cheaper for Wei Ye and became the main material of this Xuanyang Ding.

At this moment, in the four corners of the Xuanyang Ding, there are already Taoist priests in Zhuyi wearing iron crowns, ranking Zhou Tianxing, and the rings are lined up around the Xuanyang Ding, reciting mantras silently in their mouths. In the Xuanyang Ding, countless powders can be faintly seen boiling with water.

On the Kang Xing position guarding the Seven Nights of Canglong, a young Taoist priest held the bronze mirror in his hand and shouted: "The potassium nitrate solution has been saturated, and the degree of crushing of carbon powder and sulfur has reached the standard.