Four words immediately popped into Li Song's mind: magic weapon...
He asked in shock: "Mr. Lang, how can you be so powerful?"
Nonsense, there are patterns all over the blade, and naturally there are also patterns on the cutting edge. This is equivalent to forming extremely fine serrations on the cutting edge, just like a steak knife. It’s a bad thing.
However, you can’t see it with the naked eye without looking carefully. You have to touch it carefully with your hands to feel it.
"It's so profitable..."
Li Chengzhi gave a lazy explanation and just asked impatiently, "How much can you say you can sell it for?"
"Erlang's snowflake steel knife is worth about ten kilograms of copper, and twenty kilograms of corn... This knife is far sharper than that one, and it doesn't even look twice as good. It should be exchanged for at least twenty kilograms of copper.
Up..."
Halfway through, Li Song bared his teeth again and felt distressed in his heart, "Mr. Lang, why are you selling such a treasure?"
He is bold and wild like Erlang of the Li family. He regards the snowflake knife as if it is his lifeblood. He has said more than once that he wants to pass it on as a family heirloom, let alone this one?
A true heirloom treasure...
Li Chengzhi glared at him.
Li Song has a miser's temperament. When he sees a good thing, he wants to hold it in his arms.
Why not sell?
Whether it is cavalry or infantry, the main weapon is a spear. Even if a horizontal knife is used, the one made of carbon steel is completely sufficient. If you replace it with a Damascus knife, it will be sharper.
And such a knife can be exchanged for nearly fifty stones of grain?
Li Chengzhi doesn’t sell it because his brain is swollen?
"It's better to sell it. Even if there is no shortage of food for the time being, it would be good to bring back some war horses..."
One can be exchanged for two or three horses, and at least another 300 war horses are obtained.
He handed the knife to Li Song: "Go to the cobbler, hurry up and get a scabbard for the knife... Remember to go to my room to get a few glass beads, set them on the handle of the knife and the scabbard, and try to sell it well."
Price..."
The colored glaze that Li Chengzhi mentioned was actually glass, which he fired with quartz sand during his steel-making on the mountain.
This thing has low technical content and is much easier than making steel. At that time, there were many people on the mountain, so Li Chengzhi only tried it once and burned some test products.
He doesn't know how to blow, let alone shape. Of course he can only cut some glass beads to play with, and they are not very round.
It looks pretty good. He had copper and iron at hand. Using only these two, Li Chengzhi made five or six colors including red, yellow, purple and green...
Seeing Li Song grinning and looking like he had been cut off from his heart, Li Chengzhi scolded him a few more times and drove Li Song away to scabbard his sword. Li Chengzhi took the old blacksmith and his three sons and taught them how to do it.
Smelting Damascus steel.
Like the two doctors, the father and son are already considered the core figures in Li Chengzhi's small group, and they are not afraid of them leaking secrets...
In addition to temperature control, there are many details that need to be paid attention to. Li Chengzhi could only demonstrate and provide guidance in person, and even slept directly in the work shed.
Fortunately, hard work paid off, and the hard work of a day and a night was not wasted. A total of two furnaces were made, and the two steel ingots were branded with dazzling patterns.
Not much, only about ten kilograms per furnace. Mainly because Li Chengzhi was afraid that the crucible would be too big and the iron material would be heated unevenly, so he deliberately made it smaller.
However, a total of six to seven hundred kilograms of iron containing manganese was smelted by four people in two furnaces, and it was finished in half a month...
The next step is to forge it into weapons.
The process is much simpler than making iron from wrought iron blocks. The difficulty lies in the furnace temperature during tempering.
Before you have accumulated enough experience and can't see the color of fire, you can only try it with a copper bar.
As for the vegetable oil, mutton oil and other substances used for quenching the fire, it is not a big deal. It is enough to quench more than a hundred knives...
After Li Chengzhi finished explaining to the old blacksmith, Li Song came back.
In his hand, he held a wooden box about four feet tall, with tigers and eagles carved on it, giving it a rather ferocious look.
Before he even arrived, Li Chengzhi smelled a faint scent of pine, and he knew it was made overnight.
I didn’t realize it, but Li Song is pretty good at things and knows how to make a knife case...
While he was admiring in his heart, Li Song opened the lid of the box. When he saw the glass beads on the scabbard, Li Chengzhi couldn't laugh or cry again.
He is indeed a miser...
I told him to take two more pills, but he actually only took two pills?
There is a red one on the handle of the knife, a yellow one on the scabbard, and not even an extra half.
If you want to give Li Chengzhi, you have to set up a Big Dipper array on both sides of him...
He sighed secretly and closed the knife case: "Go back to the city!"
Li Song doesn't know the market very well, so he has to let Guo Cunxin and Hu Baozong see how much they can sell...
……
The sky has already turned bright and cloudless.
The cool breeze carries some moisture and the smell of earth.
When you leave Zhuangzi, you can see villagers working in the fields.
It has only been five days since the sting, and there is still half a month left before planting millet and beans, but the ground has thawed and the soil can be plowed and loosened.
In the huge fields, there are many people densely packed, most of them are cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules harnessed to the plow, with people supporting them from behind.
This is not because there are many livestock in Chaona County, but because Li Chengzhi borrowed all the hundreds of horses used to pull carts in the army.
As long as the family members are drafted into the army, if they have no money, they will borrow money, if there is no one, they will borrow people, if they don’t have cattle, they will borrow horses...
For a time, the door of the military camp outside the city was almost crowded?
But Li Chengzhi was not very satisfied.
Without it, although they are all strong men, they are not the rich tribe he expected.
The five hundred cavalry he originally envisioned now only have three hundred.
This should be added to the more than 100 old soldiers of the Li family, the more than 70 soldiers of the Song family, and the more than 30 Taoist soldiers of Taipingguan.
It's like saying that Hu Baozong begged for help, not to mention borrowing armor, he didn't even borrow eighty from Baoding.
Li Chengzhi did not expect such a result, and was angry and laughing at the same time.
Chaona is a large county, with a total of 26 parties (similar to villages, each party has more than 150 households), 14 of which have Wubao, not to mention that each fort has twice as many castles as the Li family.
, but honestly according to the regulations of the imperial court, there are fifty soldiers in each fort, and there are seven hundred soldiers in total.
But Hu Baozong only borrowed one-tenth?
This was more than just not giving Hu Baozong face, but directly pressing his face to the ground...
It can be seen to what extent these powerful families have been disappointed with the Hu family in Jingzhou and the governor Hu Shichang?
From an objective standpoint, Li Chengzhi can only say that he deserves it.
But the question is, does he still expect these veterans to fight?
If the big clan really doesn’t send troops, will this battle not be fought?
Li Chengzhi is already riding a tiger and can't get off, and he can't allow him to give up halfway...
In desperation, he could only make two preparations:
On the one hand, Guo Cunxin is asked to take action, in the name of "protecting the family and the country, and jointly dispatching troops" to see if he can persuade the powerful North Korea.
On the other hand, recruit young civilians as soon as possible...