This is a cavalryman who can ride a horse and shoot a bow, but he doesn’t need to return it?
If it weren't for the fact that there were some city mansions, Li Chengzhi would have bared his big teeth in a smile...
Seeing his eyes shining, as if he had taken advantage of him, Guo Cunxin sneered and poured a basin of cold water on his head: "Don't be too happy too early. You have to be able to support him when he comes!"
Why can’t I keep it up?
Li Chengzhi thought for a moment and his expression froze slightly...
I was too happy for a moment, but I didn’t expect it?
Good guy, I asked you why you are so generous, but you are waiting here!
It's impossible for these cavalry to jump out of the cracks in the rocks, right?
He has a father, a mother, a wife and children. He is a strong man, but there are four, five, six or seven people behind him.
If it were normal, these big clans would naturally not let so many Dingkou come out of the clan, but it is different now: God knows when this chaos will be settled, what if it takes two or three years?
Even if the imperial troops arrive quickly, at least there will be no more land to plant this year.
Where does the food come from?
These wealthy families clearly want to take this opportunity to reduce population pressure.
And it will definitely not be given away for free. Maybe I have prepared a knife and am ready to bleed myself some more...
What if not?
No need to hesitate at all.
Li Chengzhi is willing to support more than a thousand monk households, but he still lacks hundreds of baoding households?
He said firmly: "Yes!"
Guo Cunxin stared at him blankly: "Why is it necessary?"
He originally thought that Li Chengzhi would never fall for such a trick.
Li Chengzhi smiled slightly: "The more cavalry, the better the chance of winning..."
This is the truth.
Now if he wants horses to have horses and armor to have armor, he will send people.
Not to mention thousands, as long as you can arm a thousand cavalry, you can probably defeat this group of thieves...
These wealthy families saw that he bought so many war horses at once, and Hu Baozong was too eager, so they concluded that they were in urgent need of cavalry.
It can’t be called a calculation, at most it’s just a sale waiting for a price.
Besides, it’s still early, and it’s still unclear who will take advantage and who will suffer...
Li Chengzhi's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he bowed down again: "I still want to ask uncle to make another trip... As long as the conditions are not too harsh, I agree to them... But one thing is that A will never be able to do it again...
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It’s not that Li Chengzhi is reluctant to part with it, but that this thing is somewhat taboo.
As if he had a toothache, Guo Cunxin's facial features suddenly squeezed together: "To put it lightly...to support so many people, where do you get the money and where do you get the food?"
Li Chengzhi chuckled: "There will always be a way, not less than these thousand people..."
He has more or less the ability to protect himself, and he no longer has to think about escaping, so for him, money and food are no longer a big problem.
If it doesn't work, just open a furnace and burn a few carts of glass beads, ask Hu Baozong to take them to Gaoping Town, and then ask Lu Gong to sell them to Rouran people.
It’s just a little slow...
If you say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the voices of Hu Baozong and Li Xian talking.
Li Chengzhi shouted and came in.
Seeing Li Chengzhi, Hu Baozong looked ashamed.
Asked him to borrow troops, but he only borrowed seventy, and asked him to raise food, but it was less than ten shi?
Grandpa used money to buy these bastard things, but he didn’t even sell them?
Before the loss, I vowed to pat my chest and say "I will live up to my trust"...
With thoughts swirling in his mind, Hu Baozong blushed and made a gesture to bow down.
Before he could say "Ashamed", Li Chengzhi held him up and cursed with a smile, "Why is this so?"
Even a stone is useful, not to mention the nephew of the governor and the younger brother of a noble concubine?
There are still many places to use Hu Baozong...
Li Chengzhi didn't talk much, sat him down, and said directly: "I came to you because I have an important matter to entrust..."
Hu Baozong breathed a sigh of relief: "Say it!"
It seems that I still have some use, otherwise it would be too embarrassing...
Seeing the embarrassment on his face, Li Chengzhi laughed loudly and said: "Don't worry, this is your strength, you can definitely do it... But don't worry, you can see the quality first..."
With that said, he took out the knife box and handed it to Hu Baozong.
Hu Baozong nodded and opened the lid of the box.
"Knife?" He called softly and grabbed it in his hand.
The knife is more than four feet long and is obviously a saber, but it doesn't weigh much at most. If you remove the scabbard, it might not even weigh four kilograms.
Before he even read it, Hu Baozong had a guess in his mind: It was probably a fake product.
There are no sabers he has ever seen weighing less than seven kilograms, and they usually weigh ten kilograms.
It's not that the heavier it is, the more powerful it is, but if it's too light and thin, the cutting force will be slightly greater, and the blade will either break or bend.
It's the same as iron armor. It's not strong enough, so you can only make it up with thickness.
Guo Cunxin’s eyes brightened slightly.
When I entered the door, I saw Li Chengzhi holding this thing in his hand, but he didn't even bother to ask what it was.
"Newly forged?"
"Yeah!" Li Chengzhi responded and urged Hu Baozong, "Take it out and take a look?"
He nodded and instinctively took off the scabbard, and then a dazzling silver light came into his eyes...
Then, Hu Baozong seemed to be frozen.
He actually saw a mouth from the blade, and every beard was clearly visible. Even the mole hidden under the beard could be seen clearly.
Is this a mirror or a knife?
No...why is this knife so bright?
Guo Cunxin next to him took a sharp breath and looked at Li Chengzhi intently.
He originally thought that what Li Chengzhi brought was at most a hundred-forged steel knife similar to the armor leaves in cloth armor.
But who would have thought that it would be this kind?
If Li Chengzhi hadn't admitted that it was newly forged, Guo Cunxin would have suspected that he had stolen back the one that Li Shixian regarded as a treasure?
But the question is, how was he forged?
Hu Baozong looked at the blade of the sword intently. It took him a while to recover, and he asked in surprise: "Iron sword?"
Not only was Li Chengzhi not happy, but his face sank.
Is this iron?
This is what he studied in college, how can he still know?
The so-called bin iron in ancient times, also called bin iron, refers to a patterned high-carbon steel passed down from Jibin (now Kashmir).
To go a bit further, this kind of steel was made by the Arabs who copied the method of making Utz steel from South India, but they didn't learn it all: they only knew about constant temperature control smelting and constant isothermal solidification, but they didn't know the specific temperature range.
A product made by mistake.
To be more professional, what is formed in wootz steel is carbon-iron crystals, while what is formed in ferroiron is carbide dendrites.
The texture of dendrites is somewhat like tree branches, and sometimes like connected snowflakes, so it is also called snowflake steel.
Li Chengzhi suspected that Li Shixian's knife was like this...
It is considered high-carbon steel. It is hard but not tough. The Arabs can only add some wrought iron to it and repeatedly hammer it, knead and forge it into medium-carbon steel.
Li Chengzhi estimated that in terms of overall performance, it is similar to the steel plate he currently uses to forge armor and gun heads, and is far from Damascus steel.