Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 39
Wrought iron came out. In the era of the end of the Han Dynasty, iron and steel smelting had come to an end. What was left was blacksmiths slowly carburizing, forging wrought iron into steel, making steel knives, guns, long halberds and swords. It is flattened in a carbon fire, folded, and then continue to be forged. This is the method of hundreds of refinements, and this is how it is made into steel.

But this is too protracted. It takes more than ten days to refine a good knife. Even if ordinary soldiers use more than ten or twenty to refine swords and long halberds, a skilled blacksmith can't make a few in a day, and the equipment is one hundred thousand. The working hours, manpower and material resources required by the army are simply astronomical figures.

Wang Hou really couldn't wait so long, and couldn't afford the food, so he cheated.

For the third time, these refined pig iron and wrought iron were thrown into the furnace again, but this time the matching was very skillful, just like buns, a lump of pig iron was wrapped with wrought iron beaten into pieces stand up.

While Wang Hammer looked around in amazement, Wang Yuan followed Wang Hou's step-by-step instructions, holding pieces of wrapped "buns" with tongs, and kept moving.

It's not easy to practice steel. Those black charcoal blocks baked at a strong temperature. People's eyebrows and hair seem to be scorched. In the strong heat, the pig iron first melts into molten iron, and then meets the semi-melted wrought iron Together, Wang Yuan changed places back and forth for these iron blocks. On the other side, under the blowing of the bellows, a large amount of oxygen combined with these iron blocks, and the last bit of impurities contained in the steel was also oxidized and decomposed on the surface. come out.

In an hour, more than 20 lumps were not considered regular in size, but they were dark and shiny, exuding metallic luster. The heavy steel blocks were placed in front of Wang Hou's desk. Rubbing his hands together, Wang Hou himself sat there resentfully and hummed, this daredevil has a craftsman spirit, but he is so blah, he almost choked me to death!
As if comforting a lover, his rough hands passed over these iron eggs. After a long time, Wang Yuan suddenly clenched his fists again with great excitement.

"Patriarch, these fine steels must be handed over to the villain for photos. The villain has the confidence to forge a magic weapon comparable to Moye Longyuan!"

However, looking at his big leopard eyes full of expectation, Wang Hou shook his head leisurely.

"no!"

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The sound of hurried horseshoes sounded crisply on the narrow path leading to the mountain. A group of more than ten knights briskly walked up the road on light snow, but when they reached the halfway up the mountain, the heroic female knight at the front was He reined in the horse's reins abruptly, and stopped in astonishment.

If it were in later generations, Wang Hou’s mine would definitely be a typical example of being banned. It’s only been a month and a half to less than two months. The originally flat and clean small mountain depression was destroyed by him, and the snow in other places is white. The snow here is black and covered with coal face. To the west, the exposed coal has dug out a spiral-shaped deep pit obliquely into the mountain, and there are many gray-faced young tenants carrying The wicker baskets bought in the market are constantly transporting coal. On another hillside to the east, there are rows of small houses straight like a chessboard, and some people are constantly burning bricks to cover them. house.

In the north, tenants drove cattle, stole wood from the deep mountains, and came back to support various buildings. In the south, closest to the crossing, there is a shed. It became a blacksmith's shop, with the sound of tinkling and banging and the black smoke of the iron furnace constantly evaporating.

One word to describe!That's messy!

What's even more weird is that the blacksmith's shop here, while blacksmithing, was still crying loudly, tilting his head in astonishment and looking at the chaotic coal mine valley that hadn't been here for more than ten days. Cao Hongjie dismounted neatly, threw back the rein, and ran towards the nearest blacksmith's shop with great interest.

"Where's Wang Hou's waste material? I heard that he got a lot of high-quality iron materials, so I quickly asked him to come out and make some weapons for Miss Ben!"

I don’t like red clothes, I love armed forces! Cao Hongjie’s education is no one else. As soon as she entered the blacksmith shop, she slapped the table and yelled. She shed a handful of tears, pointed inside, and then continued to cry while talking about the hammer. Every time the hammer went down, it was as miserable as smashing your hand.

With all his heart in mind to fight a few good swords, he put on a collar of armor, looked at it curiously, and Cao Hongjie briskly ran inside again.It is said that curiosity killed the cat, and that women are like cats!This girl is really unqualified as a woman, but Guo Jia, who is following behind, is qualified as a woman. The old boy is more curious than a cat. He is wrapped in a thick down jacket and a big robe he robbed from Wang Hou, and he is curiously looking at this fast girl. The 1.9-meter muscular man was crying like a 190-pound child, watching curiously as he fashioned a hoe from a steel block in his hand, put it on a new whetstone he was stepping on to polish the sharp edge, and then hung it on the wall.

By the wall, there are already a lot of hoes that have been built, and there are workers installing the handles of the hoes in an orderly manner. Out of curiosity, Guo Jia also took off one, weighed the weight in his own hands, and put it on again. He tested the edge of the sharpened hoe on the belly of his finger, and in an instant, he understood that Wang Yuan, a man of great pride, was crying for Mao, and when he slapped his thigh, he also screamed sadly.

"It's a waste of money!"

Flicking his sleeves, Cao Cao's No. [-] ghost also hurriedly got into the coal mine with a sad face.

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In the evil feudal society, everyone else lived in a small flat house, so Wang Hou took the privilege to build himself a big tile-roofed house, with an indoor kitchen and an indoor bathroom, and the windows were pasted with paper. Liuziliu drinking the hot tea that Chen Deng managed to get from the south with great difficulty, which is not very popular in this era, but for the first time, Cao Hongjie sat on the edge of the kang obediently like a good baby, listening to him slowly Speak straight to the brain.

"Wang Tu begging! Wang Tu begging! You're just reckless! Get your people to stop immediately and stop hitting hoes! You bastard! I bought a sword with hundreds of knives and the steel mouth is not as good as yours, so You don’t use a good steel spout to make weapons, but to make agricultural tools! I’m so eager to kick your feet!”

Those who are close to pigs are fat, and those who are close to mothers are fake!Although Wang Hou is not a bitch, but after living with him for a long time, Guo Jia also became vulgar one by one.

But it’s no wonder that he is angry and sad. Most of them still use charcoal for low-temperature smelting these days. Anyone who has studied chemistry in junior high school knows that the higher the temperature, the stronger the chemical reaction. With a furnace temperature of less than [-] degrees, many iron ores contain Non-metallic impurity elements cannot be oxidized and separated. These things in the forged sword will reduce the strength of the sword. Normally, a knife will be cut off in battle, and fists and feet are needed.

Coal is not without iron now. Coal does increase the furnace temperature, but coal is not without problems. It is buried in the ground all year round. Most of the coal contains sulfide. These sulfides are co-fired with the metal and enter the metal. The interior also makes the metal hard and brittle, and it is not even as good as the quality of the sword that is forged to remove impurities after low-temperature melting.

The big sword that Guo Jia carried with him, pretending to be handsome, was the product of this embarrassing situation. The famous blacksmith had forged him for 49 days. He also spent more than 100 guan, and almost broke his fortune. Good guy, the iron material is not as good as Wang Hou's hoe.

Guo Jia’s feeling now is exactly the same as that of Wang Hou, the later generation, riding a battery car, watching people pour paint into the Porsche fuel tank, and trying to see if he can get rid of the feeling.
However, Guo Jia yelled a lot angrily, but Wang Hou didn't blink his eyelids, and slowly shook the hot tea in his hand.

"Brother Guo! I, Wang Tuqiu, have been loyal to the prime minister, which made me disliked by many dignitaries in Xudu. If I hoard some manure here, a group of people will impeach me for destroying Fengshui. If you start making swords, you can't impeach me for rebellion? Brother Guo, my little brother doesn't look like being pushed to the execution ground and losing his head!"

"You..., oh..."

What he said made sense, even the genius Guo Jia was speechless, shaking his head, he could only look out of the window at the blacksmith's shop in pain, and after a while, he got angry and so sad yelling.

"What's the matter with asking me to come out of the city? Don't you just look at your prodigal family?"

"Of course not, of course not!"

Mentioning this, Wang Hou immediately didn't dare to pretend to be thirteen, and hurriedly poured another cup of tea for Guo Jijiu, and offered it respectfully, please sit down, and asked with a smile on his face, "Brother Guo is a chivalrous man." He has a wide range of friends, there are three religions and nine streams in the capital, and I admire him very much!"

"Speak quickly if you have something to say, and let the fart go!"

It was still Wang Hou's own catchphrase. Guo Jia sat down with his legs crossed while holding a tea bowl, and unceremoniously returned his words of scolding Wang Ganzi to him. With such a face, Wang Hou had no choice but to fist again.

"Then do you know Fang Ke, a warlock who knows alchemy and thaumaturgy?"

"Oh? You, Wang Tuqiu, actually believe in the words of alchemists like Dongfang Shuo?"

Guo Jia couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked in surprise, but immediately, a sinister cunning surfaced on Guo Guicai's face again.

"What's the benefit of introducing you to Guo?"

"Brother Guo, I just praised you for being quick and righteous..."

"Don't do this! I don't care what those Confucian scholars are talking about. You are a fine steel, give me ten big swords, and two lances. A, you can give me a collar. I want a full body armor. Don't get any The breastplate fooled me, Lao Guo!"

"Don't mind! Robbery!"

Hearing this, Wang Hou's face became even more like a bitter gourd, and he bowed in a very sad way. Unfortunately, who is Guo Jia?Don't eat his set at all!

"Brother Wang, the only ones who have contacts with alchemists in Xudu City are Guo Xun Lingzhong! By the way! Grand Master Dong Cheng, Yang Xiu Yang Lingguan and you Jinyang Wang family also have contacts with alchemists. Why don't you go and ask?" them?"

Wang Hou almost didn't spit out another mouthful of old blood. Xun Yu was barely his enemy, but he belonged to the gentry side, and he didn't like it. The remaining few, who were probably introduced to him by alchemists, he didn't dare to take. As soon as they turned around, they could go to Mr. Cao to make a small report, and they could hit their foreheads on any kind of victory or witchcraft curse. In desperation, Wang Hou raised a middle finger in contempt.

"Brother Guo's righteousness is beyond the sky, Wang is very grateful!"

"Brother Wang, what does this mean?"

"Oh! Jinyang is close to Hu Jing, and I raised this finger to express my gratitude!"

"So that's it! I've been taught!"

Unaware that he was fooled by Wang Hou, and took advantage of him for a long time, Guo Jia returned home satisfied. Cao Hongjie will stay here tonight, and he will return to Xudu by himself.

But passing by the blacksmith's shop, watching Wang Yuan weeping again, he hung a shovel on the wall, reached out to pick a hoe, waved it on the ground, and with a click, the sharp blade of the hoe was easily nailed to the blacksmith's shop. Looking at the undamaged hoe on the ground, Guo Jia couldn't help but sigh again.

"Prodigal!!!"

(End of this chapter)