Seeing Li Chengzhi, Guo Cunxin welcomed him in with a happy face.
But Li Chengzhi always felt that his uncle's eyes were a little strange.
After the two sat down, Guo Cunxin sent Li Xian to guard the door, took out something from his arms, placed it in front of Li Chengzhi, and asked in surprise: "Is this made by craftsmen according to the smelting method you taught?"
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Li Chengzhi took a closer look and saw that it was a token.
A few days ago, he issued an order: When passing orders in the army, or when entering and exiting camps or city gates, regardless of official position, one must hold the order in hand.
It's this kind of brass token.
Taking a closer look, there was a gap sawed on the token. It was obvious that Guo Cunxin wanted to know if the inside of this thing was the same as the outside...
Li Chengzhi could roughly guess what he wanted to ask.
I want to say no, but what if Guo Cunxin pursues the coppersmith again?
Those are the ones who passed the gold for the Iron Buddha...
"That's right!" Li Chengzhi replied vaguely, thinking about how to fool him further.
Seeing his eyes turning rapidly, Guo Cunxin chuckled and leaned back slowly: "Don't even think about trying to deal with me. If you can, just say it. If you can't, I won't dig into it... I'm just curious about why this copper color is so bright.
?If it weren’t too hard, I would almost think it was real gold?”
Why else? Add zinc and it will naturally become brass.
Not to mention ancient times, even in modern times, people are constantly being tricked. Gold and brass are so stupid that they can’t tell them apart.
Li Chengzhi squirmed his lips: "I added something to it and wrapped it with a layer of copper clothing, so it looks bright..."
It's not that he doesn't want to say it, it's just that the method is too simple and he will know it as soon as he hears it: add some calamine and mix it with copper, that's it.
The main reason is that calamine is so common. It can treat trauma, carbuncles, and relieve pain and itching. It also has some anti-inflammatory effects. In addition, it is widely distributed, so as long as doctors or pharmacies have it,
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Adding one pound of pure copper to one pound of calamine can produce one and a half pounds of brass, which is lower than the cost of smelting bronze with lead and tin.
Another reason is that the heated zinc and copper are not easy to rust, so don’t be too perfect when using it to make money...
So let alone your biological uncle, you can’t even say that you are your biological father!
Guo Cunxin laughed out loud. He laughed for a long time before giving Li Chengzhi a meaningful look: "Okay, then I won't ask about this!"
As he said this, he reached under the counter, took out another piece, and put it on the counter with a "thud", which seemed to be very difficult.
It's a pair of cloth armor, weighing nearly twenty kilograms. Is it not strenuous?
Li Chengzhi's eyes changed slightly: Where did Guo Cunxin get it?
Looking at the bloodstains on Jia's body, he suddenly understood: among the three hundred soldiers Li Bai led that night when he left the city, one hundred of them were Li's soldiers wearing armor. In the end, more than seventy of them survived, but the chaos was quelled.
After being thieves, only twelve suits of armor were returned.
Later, six more mates were recovered from the private treasury of Suo Siwen and Jiang Rang, and three or four others were missing.
Li Chengzhi suspected that the county soldiers who were out of the city to meet him were sneaked there.
It seems that this is one of them...
"What about this one?" Guo Cunxin pointed at his nails and looked at him with burning eyes, "It's your father's fish scale armor, and even the leaves are not as strong as this armor..."
Li Chengzhi sighed secretly and said helplessly: "What does uncle want to ask?"
It turns out that the bronze medal was just a cover. What Guo Cunxin really wanted to ask was this?
Push it to the blacksmith?
This is not Hu Baozong. From an emotional point of view, there is no need to deliberately fool him.
Just don’t say it...
"I said, no wonder Li Song and others respect you like a god and obey your advice? It turns out that you can not only train soldiers, but also metallurgy and armor forging..."
Seeing that Li Chengzhi actually admitted it indirectly, Guo Cunxin breathed in a breath of cold air, and the image of Li Qi, Li Shiliang, and Li Shixian's father and son immediately appeared in his mind. Once they talked about the imperial court, they kept it secret and secretly hated it...
After hesitating for a long time, he said, "You are so wise, it's like a gift from heaven. Could it be that you don't understand that the time has not come yet?"
Li Chengzhi was stunned when he heard this, and felt a little dumbfounded.
"Uncle Mingjian, I have never thought about rebellion!"
Hearing what he said so directly, Guo Cunxin immediately believed it, and then mused: "If it were your father or your uncle, what would you advise?"
Li Chengzhi laughed: "No one can persuade me!"
If you don’t even have such an opinion, what kind of time traveler are you?
Can we still tell them about the direction of history?
Seeing that Li Chengzhi's eyes were firm and did not seem to be fake, Guo Cunxin breathed a sigh of relief and nodded happily: "As long as you are sensible... Then I won't ask this question..."
Li Chengzhi thought: Although his uncle is curious, he is not considerate and sensible. It would be great if the cheap dad also had this wisdom...
I was sighing in my heart when I heard Guo Cunxin talk about business: "As you asked, I have invited all the dock owners of the Fourteenth Fort in the past few days. As you expected, these fourteen families have already exchanged information, but not
It’s a bad thing...
They all said: They can lend you armor, soldiers, and even war horses. But there is only one thing..."
Guo Cunxin pointed to the armor on the table, "It doesn't matter whether the person survives or not, but afterwards, the war horses must be repaid in full, and all the armor lent must be replaced with this kind..."
Li Chengzhi was overjoyed at first: Sure enough, if it was Guo Cunxin who took action, the result immediately changed from bad to good. How could such a good thing happen?
The armor of this era was a mixture of raw and cooked. In order to increase the strength, the weight could only be increased. The armor leaves were not even twice as thick as those forged from fine steel, and each piece weighed at least forty pounds. p>
Take it back and practice it casually, and you will have a pair and a half...
But in terms of strength, it’s more than twice as strong?
The Li family's blacksmiths are getting more and more experienced. Without knowing the principle, they can smelt medium-carbon steel in eight out of ten furnaces. They even know how to temper the leaves when forging them...
The armor forged in this way has extremely high hardness, strong toughness, and is extremely light. Its overall performance is almost perfect...
This is the reason why these wealthy families are so generous.
But Li Chengzhi became wary again.
No wonder Hu Baozong had a bad start. It turned out that these wealthy people were just trying to catch him and were waiting here?
"How do these people know that my Li family can forge this kind of armor?"
"What else can I do? Two glasses of wine and a few sweet words, and I got it out of Hu Baozong's mouth..."
Guo Cunxin sighed again: "It's not that he is talkative, but he is eager to help you, and he doesn't think it is a secret, so he said it... I still guessed something from the abnormalities of Li Song and others..."
Li Chengzhi breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as it's not an insider leaking the secret, that's fine.
It seems that what Guo Cunxin said is true. From now on, all matters involving secrets must be left to his own people.
At least you know what to say and what not to say.
"Then change it, but this armor is more difficult to forge. I only have a few pairs a day, so I can only do it slowly..."
Li Chengzhi was flustered, and then mused, "One more thing, once Baoding enters the camp, he will be under my control, and no one has the right to transfer..."
"That's natural!" Guo Cunxin replied with a smile, "Every dock owner said that as long as you are willing to change your armor, it doesn't matter if you give the person to you..."
Li Chengzhi's heart was beating wildly: "Seriously?"