Compared with iron ore, this crude iron is iron ore in the true sense.
It is something that can be used directly for forging.
Xiao Lingyue walked over, squatted down and inspected the split iron wood.
Then he frowned and said: "The inside of this iron wood has been hollowed out to form a mezzanine. These iron rods are hidden inside to seal the entrance and cover it up. It will be difficult for people who don't know the inside story to see the problem."
Ironwood itself is a very heavy wood.
The wood is very tight.
If a part is hollowed out and then filled with equally heavy iron, the weight will remain basically unchanged.
Next, all we need to do is cover up the gap that is filled with iron ore and camouflage it carefully.
An ironwood tree that is tens of meters long and as thick as a two-person hug is neither precious nor rare. It is impossible for someone to stick to the bark of the tree and examine it carefully inch by inch. It is easy to get away with it.
Zhan Beihan bent down and picked up a piece of thick iron, looked at it in his hand, and threw it on the ground with a sneer: "The Dragon Scale Guards are divided into two teams. One team is responsible for checking the remaining wood to see how much of this kind of wood is included.
Thick iron.
The other team cut open all the problematic wood and gathered the thick iron together to see how much there was!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" The Dragon Scale Guards responded solemnly.
The valley immediately became tense and busy. All Dragon Scale Guards had a clear division of labor, and teams were shuttled among the piles of wood.
The prince, Zhan Beihan and Xiao Lingyue stepped aside.
After having clear clues, the Dragon Scale Guard's inspection speed was much faster.
Just half an hour.
The wood that was found to be defective was moved to the open space one by one, almost piled up into a hill.
Another team of Dragon Scale Guards were busy with saws and axes respectively, sweating profusely.
The sound of "creak, creak, creak" of sawing wood, and the sound of "clang, clang, clang" of chopping wood come and go, mixed together.
Soon, the reports came to mind one after another.
"This one has it in it!"
"I have this one too!"
"Your Majesty, there is a lot of iron hidden in this piece of wood!"
"..."
As more wood was cut open, the Dragon Scale Guards gradually gained experience.
They found that the amount of crude iron hidden in different woods was different, some were more, and some were less.
And not all the thick iron inside the entrained wood has the shape of a fire stick.
Some are fist-sized iron lumps.
Some of them are even more bizarre, almost integrated with the wood, and it takes a lot of effort to peel them off.
In the end it took more than two hours.
All wood found to be defective was cut open.
The pile of thick iron found during the search was almost half the height of a person, which was breathtaking.
A Dragon Scale Guard quickly returned to Beijing and brought back a scale specially designed for weighing iron blocks, and weighed all the thick iron.
Good guy, a whole thousand pounds!
The prince laughed angrily on the spot: "It's just a batch of wood, but it contains a thousand kilograms of thick iron! It's not an exaggeration to kill everyone from the Ministry of Works!"
Don't think that one thousand kilograms is a small amount.
Northern Qin is not rich in iron ore. Among the three major iron mines under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, the fixed amount of iron produced every year is about hundreds of thousands of kilograms. This chapter has been completed!