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After sending Jun Yi away, Ye Yang obviously let go a lot. Seeing a few soldiers bring a half-waist-high tripod, he nodded in satisfaction, and then directed the first few craftsmen to make charcoal fires.

There are six steps in casting Longquan sword.

[-]. Hammering.Second, planing files.Three, polishing.Fourth, mosaic.Five, quenching.Sixth, steel grinding.

But now time is running out, Ye Yang gave up steps [-] and [-] and only needs steps [-], [-], [-] and [-].

Of course, the most important step is the first step, repeated folding and forging.A good Longquan sword must be folded and forged at least a dozen times.

Ye Yang explained it to them, but these craftsmen had never operated it, so one or two showed blank expressions as if they were listening to a scripture.

In the end, Ye Yang had no choice but to do it himself.

He fastened his wide sleeves with a drapey neck, took an iron sword and threw it into the calciner.

After it is red hot, use pliers to clamp it out, put it on an iron plate, and pick up a hammer to beat it.

Everyone looked at Ye Yang in bewilderment, and really didn't understand, what's the use of beating the red-hot iron sword like this?

"Everyone, this step is called forging. A piece of iron must be folded and forged at least a dozen times before it can be forged into a good sword."

Ye Yang explained while beating the red-hot iron block with a hammer.

To be honest, the craftsmen didn't understand, but they knew that this was arranged by the emperor, and they didn't dare to delay the business. Although they were full of doubts, they obediently followed Ye Yang's way of forging iron.

Due to time constraints, Ye Yang did not return to the palace, but stayed in the military prison all day, personally supervising these craftsmen forging iron.

In order not to waste a single minute and a second of time, he divided a total of more than a dozen teams into forging iron in turn, even at night, working overtime so that the craftsmen kept folding and forging iron blocks.

Afraid of failure, he forged five pieces of iron at the same time. If none of the five swords succeeded, it can only be said that God wanted to send him into limbo.

After five consecutive days of tossing like this, someone finally took advantage of Ye Yang's rest and complained.

"What exactly does Concubine Ye want to do? Why do you ask us to repeatedly fold and beat these pieces of iron?"

"that is!"

"A layman instructed us to forge swords, and I don't know what the higher-ups think."

"Hush!" A blacksmith immediately made a silence gesture, and said in a low voice, "It was arranged by the emperor, you should talk less, if these words reach the emperor's ears, you will die."

The craftsmen were so frightened that their faces turned pale, they quickly lowered their heads, and continued to knock on the iron block in front of them.

And Jun Yi in the palace learned that the blacksmiths were still beating iron blocks, and there was no shape of a sword at all, and he couldn't figure out what Ye Yang wanted to do?

Ten days later, when there were more and more complaints, Ye Yang finally stopped them from repeatedly folding and forging iron blocks.

Hearing that there is no need to forge iron blocks, they all looked happy. They followed Ye Yang's instructions and made sword blanks from the iron blocks that had been repeatedly folded and forged, and started the second step, planing and filing.

Planing file: Cut the file with a steel knife so that the thickness of the sword body is moderate, and there is a certain slope between the sword spine and the blade. The sword spine must be in the middle of the sword body and be in a straight line.

Ye Yang, who doesn't have a steel knife, can only rely on the sintering technique. He beats the red-hot sword blank repeatedly, and beats it into the shape of a sword. Due to his limited skills, the sword body he knocks out is as ugly as it is.

At the same time, in the side hall of Xingchen Palace, several ministers learned that Ye Yang was still beating iron, and couldn't help seeing the slander.

"Your Majesty, it's been ten days since Concubine Ye went to the Military Weapons Supervision, but I heard that he still makes the craftsmen beat the iron continuously, which is really puzzling."

Prime Minister Zuo stepped forward and said with a worried face.

"Your Majesty, if this goes on like this, I'm really worried that Mr. Concubine Ye won't be able to make the Longquan Sword he's talking about."

Officials in the same vein as Prime Minister Zuo quickly echoed.

"Your Majesty, I heard that this Concubine Ye has never touched a weapon, so asking him to forge swords is really a big joke in the world."

"Your Majesty, why don't you take advantage of the few days left and let the Military Weapons Supervisor produce a heavy and large sword. I won't believe that the black iron sword of the Huangyu Dynasty can't be cut."

Some people started to come up with what they thought was a good idea.

"Your Majesty, the method Lord Wang said is wonderful!" Someone agreed with it.

"Wonderful?" Jun Yi sneered and asked them back, "Who is responsible for lifting the heavy iron sword? You?"

The civil servants were speechless by Jun Yi.

"Hmph, if you are really worried, prove it with actual actions instead of slandering others here."

Jun Yi put the bamboo slips in his hands heavily on the desk, frightening the few officials below into silence, and dared not speak indiscriminately.

In the Military Weapons Supervision, Ye Yang, who had cast the sword body, looked at the sword he had personally forged, and was still very satisfied. He put the cast sword body into the calciner to continue calcining.

Then go to the next step: quenching.

Quenching: Use the traditional quenching method to make the sword body hard and soft, flexible and stretchable.

He put the red-hot long sword into the cold water in an instant, and only heard the sound of "sizzling", which made everyone come forward to watch curiously.

Seeing their curious faces, Ye Yang began to popularize science, "Everyone, this step is called quenching, which is to put the finished steel knife on the fire and burn it red, and then immediately dip it in cold water to let it cool down suddenly. , so repeated several times, the steel knife will become tough and elastic."

Everyone looked at Ye Yang's operation and nodded with a vague understanding.

After the quenching step was completed, Ye Yang handed the finished Longquan sword to the craftsman beside him, saying: "The rest is the grinder, polish the sword body and you will know what is refined into steel."

A few days ago, Ye Yang kept talking about steel, but they had never seen steel, so they couldn't understand it.

And the other craftsmen were not idle either. They followed Ye Yang's previous practice, making sword blanks from repeatedly folded iron blocks, and then began to quench them.

After repeated quenching several times, they took the sword to the whetstone to sharpen the sword repeatedly.

According to Ye Yang, sharpening a sword needs more than ten steps of rough grinding, fine grinding, and fine grinding until it is smooth and bright, with straight ridges and standard grooves, and the sword body has the effect of mirror and frost.

I also heard Ye Yang say: The sharpened Longquan sword has a cold light, and its flowers appear naturally, which is very beautiful.

All of them were full of energy, working overtime and night to grind the sword blade.

When they saw that the sword was shiny and completely different from the black it used to be, their eyes lit up.

This is the first time they have seen such a beautiful sword, especially the steel pattern on the sword body. Although the steel pattern is chaotic, it is also very cute. This is the first time they have seen steel pattern on the sword body.

"Young Concubine Ye, what is this? Why are there patterns on it?" Someone asked curiously.

You know, he participated in the whole process of casting the sword, but he didn't see Ye Yang's carvings on the sword.

"That's the steel pattern, which was folded and forged repeatedly. Isn't it beautiful?" Ye Yang sat on the stool with his sleeves rolled up and his legs crossed.

"It's beautiful, it's beautiful, it's so beautiful!"

Everyone looked at the sword in their hands and was very satisfied.

Probably the best looking sword they ever forged.

"Not only is it beautiful, but it is also very sharp. After you sharpen it, I will show you what a truly peerless sword is."

A group of craftsmen gathered around Longquan Sword, looking forward to how sharp the sharpened sword would be.