Volume 21 The City of Foundry
"There is no feast in the world, brothers, the boiling city is coming, let's say goodbye, there will be a period later!" Li Shiying arched his hand to everyone, because the night sneak attack had hit the robbers hard, and it was no longer possible to organize another operation, and the caravan finally arrived at its destination safely.
After arriving in Boiling City, everyone has their own things to be busy, and they have to go their separate ways, and this alliance formed in a short period of time has come to an end, although the time is very short, but it can be regarded as life and death together, and there is a certain friendship, but after saying goodbye, everyone still dispersed.
"Little Brother Gu, what are your plans next?" Liu Dali knew that Boiling City was just a foothold for Ming Xuan, and his destination was not here.
"Brother Liu, you talk about Boiling City so amazingly, I have to go shopping if you say anything!" Ming Xuan's face was full of anticipation.
"Hahaha, that's right, I don't have anything to do now, just take you for a good walk!" Liu Dali is obligated to be a tour guide.
"Then you're welcome. "With their friendship, there really isn't to be so polite.
"Boiling City is a big city, the area is not generally large, and the planning of the small city is completely different, it is divided into the inner and outer cities, the size of the inner city alone is comparable to the size of the three common cities, and all the shops and restaurants are concentrated here, of course, the main business is gold and silver jewelry, weapons, household utensils or something; outsiders want to buy boiling city casting things to the inner city can definitely buy; the area of the outer city is more than twice that of the inner city, all the processing workshops are here, I stay in the Zuojia iron shop in the outer city has a workshop, after it is done, it is sent to the store in the inner city to sell, the casting process is generally to collect ore from the stone mountains around the boiling city, sent to the suburban smelter for refining, and then the material is sent to the workshop in the outer city for casting processing, and the finished product is sent to the inner city to sell, this is the assembly line of Boiling City Casting, and our current location is only the suburb of Boiling City, which is the location of the smelter. Liu Dali was conscientious as a tour guide.
"Oh, no wonder. Ming Xuan looked around, there were mountains of ore and smoky refining furnaces everywhere, and there were constantly refined molten slurries pouring out, a busy scene.
"By the way, don't you want a good sword? We have a lot of iron villages, or I'll take you to pick a good one first. Liu Dali suddenly remembered their conversation on the road
"That's exactly what I mean!" Although Ming Xuan now has a famous soldier like the Flame Bow, it can't be used as a commonly used weapon, not to mention that it can't be shown yet, after all, the current Ming Xuan is not worthy of having its strength, and Ming Xuan is good at using a sword.
"That's okay, I also have to go back to the iron shop to report to the owner, and I have to put my luggage, so I have to run if I can't say it. Liu Dali happened to drop by and go back.
Along the way, Liu Dali began to explain all aspects of Boiling City for Ming Xuan one by one, including some customs, the rules of the inner and outer cities, and the beautiful and fun places, knowing that he was coming for the first time, so he explained in great detail.
"Boiling City is a big city, but also a famous city, there are many masters here, far from the small places that can be compared to the common city, so no matter how strong you are here, you have to be low-key here, after all, there are people outside the people, and there are mountains outside the mountains. Although he knew that Ming Xuan was low-key by nature, he still reminded him kindly.
"Got it, only people at the level of the city lord can walk sideways here. Ming Xuan said jokingly.
"Even the city lord can't do it! Although the city lord is already powerful, the people who come here to buy weapons also have a lot of powerful places, and they are all characters who can't be provoked, and even there have been immortals like the world's powerhouses here!" Liu Dali said solemnly.
"Immortals, what are they doing here, didn't you say that Boiling City can only cast mortal soldiers?"
"The immortal may look down on the mortal soldiers cast here, but it doesn't mean that his disciples and nephews don't need it, maybe it's other reasons. Liu Dali has also thought about this question a long time ago.
"Then there's no need to bother people of the level of immortals, besides, how do you know that he is an immortal?" Ming Xuan was still unwilling, from his grandfather's last wish, he also said that he was an immortal who had just crossed the immortal tribulation, and in people of their level, he was already detached, and he would not take everything to heart.
"A person who can fly with a sword is not an immortal. Liu Dali looked up at the sky and seemed to recall the pomp and circumstance of that time.
"Edgeworth Flying?" Ming Xuan was speechless at this time, he didn't know if this was the location of the immortal, but it must also be an unimaginable powerhouse.
"Yes, you don't know the scene at that time, a figure rushed over the boiling city, and the people of the whole city knelt on the ground, their expressions were sincere, and they didn't even dare to look at it. Liu Dali's expression was solemn, and he seemed to have returned to that time.
Mingxuan can imagine that kind of scene, it is a kind of heartfelt awe and worship of the strong, "One day, I can become so powerful!" Mingxuan secretly made up his mind.
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"Okay, this is the outer city, how can it be spectacular!" Liu Dali laughed and introduced Ming Xuan to Boiling City.
Rows of countless workshops are set up neatly, you can't see the edge at a glance, there are blazing iron furnaces everywhere, bellows that are whirring, and strong men with bare arms are clanging in iron, and the noise of firewood, bellows, and iron is mixed with bursts of heat waves, and here is the boiling city.
"There is nothing else in the outer city, there are countless workshops, making weapons, making household utensils, making gold and silver jewelry, and making decorations everywhere, and this is Zhenghe Street, the whole street is made of household utensils, and those made are all first-class goods, and any iron pot made by any one will not show its bottom even if it is used for decades, and a hoe can be used for a lifetime!" Liu Dali said proudly.
Ming Xuan casually picked up the iron tool and looked at it carefully, whether it was the material or the workmanship, it was indeed much better than the one he had used before.
"What you see is only a rough product that has just been typed, and it has not been carefully polished, and only after it is matched with exquisite carvings and accessories, it can be regarded as a fine product!" Liu Dali was obviously more familiar.
"It really deserves to be called a city of foundry. Ming Xuan couldn't help but admire from the bottom of his heart
"What you see is just the tip of the iceberg! The outer city is also divided, the outer streets and alleys are all common simple things such as household utensils, the middle streets and alleys are made of gold and silver and other ornaments, and the inner streets are the places where weapons are made, the more demanding things are, the closer the location of the workshop will be. Liu Dali was even more proud.
"Oh, isn't it more difficult to build weapons than those gold and silver jewelry?" In Ming Xuan's eyes, those gold and silver jewelry appeared more exquisite, and the price was not cheap.
As long as you refine a good gold and silver nugget, and then find a few good carvers, you can naturally make good things, but it is not the same to build weapons, not only the requirements for materials are higher, the general iron needs to be beaten repeatedly for a long time, and the refining can be made into steel, and the generally better weapons are not simply made of a material, it is more complicated, because the characteristics of each material are different, when to join, what heat is needed, how much time is used, there are very strict requirements, a little less may be refinedWhen our owner refined a high-grade weapon, a total of twenty kinds of materials were used, and it took a day and a night to refine it without sleep, and it failed three times before, and a bunch of rare materials were wasted, which was just a rough embryo, and a lot of fine processing was needed in the follow-up, and the energy spent was even more complicated. Liu Dali said eloquently, and Ming Xuan was stunned when he heard it, it seems that the difficulty of refining a good weapon is far from what he can imagine.
"Then when refining the Flame Bow, wouldn't it be against the sky!" Ming Xuan couldn't help but smack his tongue.
"This level of weapon, even our village owner has no way to refine it, only a few top refining masters in the city are possible in the case of great chance, and the difficulty is far from what we can imagine!" Liu Dali couldn't imagine how difficult it was, of course, this is one of the reasons why it can be called one of the top ten weapons.
"Brother Liu, what kind of level is your Tiezhuang in this Boiling City?" Ming Xuan was very curious.
"Last year, we were in the top ten, and this year we should be in the top five!"
"Hmm, last year, this year, can this change from year to year?"
"Hehe, this is the rule of Boiling City, you don't know it, in order to encourage everyone to create better boutiques and improve smelting technology, Boiling City has a rule, every year to hold a product conference, each workshop will take out their proud work, invite famous people from all over Zhongzhou to come to appreciate, so as to evaluate the best ten utensils, make a ranking, to represent the strength of each iron village, the reason why I rushed back is also because this matter to come back to help. Liu Dali said.
"Artifact Conference?" Boiling City is really pursuing excellence.
"Yes, after the end of last year's product conference, a next year's evaluation of the utensils will be announced, we have a year to prepare, will be required to do a good job, to see who is the best, this year's evaluation of the commonly used utensils is shovels, gold and silver jewelry is exquisite necklaces, and weapons are exquisite swords, when the time comes, you can see absolutely are fine works, every year can be selected into the top ten are rare gems!"
"yes, then I'll have to take a good look. Mingxuan is also looking forward to it.