Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Liu Cainiang looked at Xiao Zirong in a daze and said, "But...we won't." Xiao Zirong

It's not that she's modest, if you want to talk about doing farm work and so on, they can do it, and building a house is not too technically advanced, not to mention that Xiao Zirong's guidance is also barely competent, but iron smelting?

They haven't even smelted bronze ware!

Xiao Zirong waved his hand very calmly: "It's okay, I'm here."

This sentence comforted Liu Cainiang very well. Liu Cainiang went to find someone to build it, and what Xiao Zirong had to do was to produce drawings.

The drawings of the iron smelting workshop are actually not difficult, and the things needed are also simple. The only difficulty lies in nothing else, but in the temperature of the flame.

Copper has a relatively low melting point, so it was the first metal to be smelted. Iron has a relatively high melting point. Although it appeared in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, it was not popularized because of technical difficulties. Later, although iron smelting technology gradually developed, but Wu Huanhua has dealt a certain blow to the technological level of this land.

The overall level of technology has regressed a lot, and now it is difficult for the people to find ironware, and thanks to Yuanjia being the clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, otherwise it may not be possible to get iron ore.

And this time I can get it, I don’t know when the next time will be, so let’s use it and cherish it.

Xiao Zirong started to make a blower while sighing with emotion.

Oh, it’s the simplest blower, it’s still made of our old friend bamboo, directly make a T-shape with a bamboo tube, turn it upside down, and add a piston pusher on it, so that the air can be blown manually. As for More advanced...that requires electricity, that thing is too complicated, at least Xiao Zirong doesn't want to deal with it now.

It's just that a blower can't make the temperature of the flame reach the standard, so it takes several people to blow the air at the same time to melt the copper and iron.

This matter almost touched everyone's heart. Having metal utensils means that everyone's life is going further than before, so the little ladies are almost the result of caring more about smelting than Xiao Zirong.

After the blower was finished and there were no problems with the experiment, Xiao Zirong directly chose an auspicious day to start the furnace.

Originally, he didn't care about these things, he believed in ghosts and gods, but modern people still don't pay much attention to such things as auspicious days, Xiao Zirong has not been here for a long time and has not been fully assimilated.

However, with everyone's insistence, he chose a better day to start the furnace.

The blowers are selected from a few girls with relatively strong strength, and they have also been trained before taking up the job.

After all, if you want to keep the temperature of the iron smelting furnace for a period of time, it is not enough to blow the wind violently as soon as it comes up. Continuous power output is required.

How to allocate one's strength reasonably is also a science.

When the iron ore was melted into molten iron, the faces of the little ladies looked worse than the glowing red molten iron. Everyone was very excited but held back and dared not shout out, for fear of affecting the people standing in front of the furnace to observe the state of the molten iron. Xiao Zirong.

Everyone knows that the temperature of the flame and molten iron is very high. For this reason, Xiao Zirong didn't let them in except for the few girls who needed to operate the blower!

Xiao Zirong was observing the condition of the molten iron while comparing the pictures in his mind.

This is also the reason why he did it himself. Sometimes it is difficult to describe what the picture expresses in words, and he doesn't know how to describe it in words. Xiao Zirong has to come and see it in person.

Seeing that the molten iron was similar to the one shown in the picture, and matched the description in the text, Xiao Zirong took out the molten iron and poured it into the previously prepared mold.

It was what a sword looked like.

Xiao Zirong chose to make the first iron weapon here into a sword after thinking for a long time, and finally made the decision after soliciting everyone's consent.

Although it is good to make farm tools, it is at best a part of the farm tools, such as the plowshare part of the Quyuan plow.

As the first ironware produced in their hands, this ironware always has a symbolic meaning. It doesn't have to be very practical, but it can't make people feel that it is not noble enough.

Weapons are the way to go, and a nice longsword should be inspiring.

Of course, the most important thing is that no matter what kind of tool it is, it is impossible for Xiao Zirong to forge it entirely with iron. It must be made into an iron alloy, otherwise it seems that pure iron farm tools are not suitable for anyone.

Xiao Zirong waited for the molten iron to cool down for a while before taking it out of the mold. Of course, the stone tools were still used, and they were made of bluestone. Not to mention that the stone is really heat-resistant, and it did not appear when encountering such a temperature. what is the problem.

Xiao Zirong put the sword embryo on the forging table and began to forge it.

This time he was the one who forged it himself, originally Lu Liu and the others wanted to help.

After all, in their eyes, although the city lord is not weak, he is also gentle and gentle. He is born to sit behind a desk with a pen and read and write. How can he do such rough work?

But Xiao Zirong insisted on doing it by himself. After all, except for him, no one would be able to figure out how hard it must be forged to become a hundred steel smelters even if the steps were written down.

Yes, Xiao Zirong decided to forge [-]-smelting steel. As their first weapon here, it must be sharper to boost their spirits, which can be regarded as an encouragement for everyone.

Xiao Zirong took the stone hammer specially made for him by the little ladies and forged the sword body bit by bit.

As the forging gradually took shape, Xiao Zirong gradually became handy from being unfamiliar at the beginning. Although beating again and again was tiring, such repetitive work allowed him to temporarily empty his mind. a fake.

Because the temperature inside the room was very high, Xiao Zirong insisted on wearing clothes and refused to go bare-chested, which caused all the clothes on his body to be sweaty at this time, and the sweat from his forehead dripped down his cheeks to the ground. .

The little ladies who were already resting at this time couldn't help but want to persuade Xiao Zirong, but Xiao Zirong said: "You can't stop, this thing is done overnight, if you stop it, it will be useless. Okay, if you have something to say, wait until you finish it. Keep heating the fire."

During the forging process just now, he let the little ladies rest for a while, which caused the flame temperature in the furnace to not be very high.

The forging method of Bailian Steel is to knock out the carbon in the iron by beating again and again, so that the carbon content of the iron becomes lower, so that the composition of the iron tends to be uniform, the composition inside is refined, and the performance is improved.

Then every time forging, the iron needs to be heated again, but it does not need to be heated to the previous molten iron state, as long as it is red hot, and then forged again.

Knowing that the process of making steel is very complicated, at least the one he can use now is very complicated, so Xiao Zirong got up early today to prepare to start the furnace.

And the furnace fire was lit at the moment when the sun appeared. In the words of the little ladies, it was to use sun fire to make iron. After all, the temperature of the sun's flame is very high, which can make them go smoothly.

Everyone knows that this is just a good wish, but everyone is willing to believe it.

In fact, the process of wrought iron was really smooth except for being a little tiring.

At night, Xiao Zirong compared the long sword that was almost formed in his hand with the finished steel in his mind, and there was almost no difference with the naked eye.

But his eyes are not chemical instruments, and they are not professional iron smelting masters, so there should be some differences, maybe they can't compare with those magical weapons, but Xiao Zirong is already very satisfied.

This is the long sword he personally forged!

This long sword was forged for a whole day, and because of the fire, Xiao Zirong didn't stop when the sun went down. During the meal, he used the opportunity of burning the iron to let others burn it for him for a while, and then he took a few bites casually. Rice, barely stuffed stomach.

When the last bit of strength was exhausted, Xiao Zirong said very tiredly: "Let's call it a day, it should be almost done."

The other little ladies are also very tired. Although they don’t need to blow the wind all the time, they have to spend a lot of effort to blow the wind into the stove every time they need to blow the wind. If the wind speed is not enough, the fire will fail if it cannot reach the temperature. .

However, these little ladies are used to doing things, and it is more tiring to say that they are mentally tense than physically tired after this day. They are too afraid of ruining the city lord's affairs.

Xiao Zirong struck the hammer for the last time, and then brought the almost forged sword back to the room. Today, he wished he didn't even have the strength to take a bath, so he just washed it with water in a hurry and lay down on the bed to sleep.

Not to mention, after being tired, it really just sticks to the pillow.

And the disadvantage of sticking to the pillow did not appear until the next day - Xiao Zirong's arm was so sore that he could hardly lift it, let alone continue to forge the long sword.

He glanced at the nearly forged long sword, and his heart that wanted to be perfect surrendered to reality, and decided to just make up for it and live.

Anyway, it looks like it’s about the same, so let’s do it, if possible, Xiao Zirong would like to carve some patterns on the sword body, but last night was really tired, I thought that such repetitive labor would relax the brain, but in fact The brain will also short-circuit when the body is extremely tired, so I didn't think of this at all last night.

If you want to make it again today, you need to restart the furnace and heat the sword again until it is soft, and then engrave it when it is half soft but not soft.

When Xiao Zirong thought of this, he immediately vetoed his idea just now. Not to mention the trouble, it still consumes energy.

You must know that the firewood he consumed just to forge this sword yesterday was enough for him for a month, and he was very distressed when he saw the reimbursement.

The sword body has been forged, and all that remains is the hilt and sharpening the sword.

The way to sharpen the blade is not difficult, just a little bit of grinding, but there is no sandpaper these days, so Xiao Zirong can only choose sandstone for grinding.

Directly tie two pieces of sandstone together, leaving a gap in the middle, and then use a finer piece for final polishing.

After the long sword was thoroughly polished, Xiao Zirong felt a sense of accomplishment looking at the long sword with a dazzling silver light all over its body.

As for the hilt, although he also wanted to make something good, he could only use ordinary wood to make it. However, Zhai Ling was more skillful, and directly carved the hilt with beautiful patterns, and it was peach blossom. The shape is probably influenced by Xiao Zirong's previous imprint on the soap.

Looking at the peach blossoms, Xiao Zirong decided to ask for a few more peach saplings the next time he made a deal with Yuan Jia, and then find a place to plant them all, so that he could eat peaches in summer and see flowers in spring.

He fiddled with the long sword in his hand, even if he just pulled a simple sword flower, he still received a lot of applause.

Xiao Zirong looked at those little ladies applauding so hard that they couldn't laugh or cry. These little ladies are good at everything, but sometimes they are too flattering. No matter what Xiao Zirong makes, even if everyone can't figure out what they are doing If you use it, don't care about Sanqi 21 and just praise it.

When Xiao Zirong was about to tell Zhai Xi that he wanted to make a sword handle, Lu Liu brought someone back and said, "City Master, the person you asked us to watch has made new moves."

Xiao Zirong paused, and had a bad premonition in his heart: "What?"

Lu Liu's expression was not very good: "He bought a Zhuangzi on the side of Maomaotou Mountain, and it is said that he will transform it into a palace."

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The long sword in Xiao Zirong's hand fell directly to the ground, and he felt a little uncomfortable: Are you planning to leave?