Three Kingdoms: Starting from zero, a wealthy party

Chapter 138 Iron

Now he only cares about what Jing Su has created, hoping that it can meet his wishes.

Outside the blacksmith's shop, Han Yang and Feng Lu had already arrived, and the sound of hammering iron in the shop was loud and loud.Han Yang walked into the shop and found that Zhang Ji was also there.

Zhang Jiben was found by Han Yang in a blacksmith's shop. It was interesting that he had developed his own hobby.

After Han Yang greeted him, he went inside to find Jing Su.

Jing Su is now staring at the black thing in his hand, without blinking his eyes, his attention is so concentrated that he didn't even know Han Yang came in.

Feng Lu wanted to call him, but Han Yang grabbed him, and Han Yang said with his mouth: Don't disturb him.

Feng Lu nodded and stepped back.

Jing Su looked at it intently for about an hour, put the thing on the table, sighed, and was about to sit down, when Han Yang's voice came: "I don't know what you saw, why did you show such a troubled expression?" ?”

Jing Su turned his head and knelt down, "I didn't expect the king to come already. I was too preoccupied just now, please forgive me."

"Those who don't know are innocent, get up and tell me, what exactly did you see?"

"Actually, the subordinates don't look at it, but they don't understand some things, so the gods drift very far away."

"Oh? What the hell is it? Tell me, maybe I can help you a little bit."

"It's like this. The iron ore brought back by the king from the Raksha Kingdom is indeed much better than the iron ore in our Central Plains, but this is not the point."

"This afternoon, after I just finished blacksmithing, I was about to wash my hands. I asked the new apprentice to let him watch the fire and call me after all the iron ore melted into molten iron. Who would have thought that when he put firewood in the fire, he put the firewood And put it in the furnace."

"I'm very angry because having charcoal in it would have completely ruined the iron ore and started it up again."

"However, after the poured molten iron condensed, the iron nuggets formed were no different from the original iron nuggets. I kept some salvage ideas, so I forged them all with a hammer. As a result, the new batch of iron nuggets The texture of the block is many times stronger than the iron blocks that were originally forged."

"These new iron blocks, I can assure you, the knives made of these iron blocks are extremely sharp. The original knives and the current knives made of these iron blocks will break if you touch them lightly without using your martial arts skills. .It’s just that I don’t understand how, why the effect will be so many times worse after adding charcoal?”

What Jing Su said meant that Han Yang was actually a little dizzy. He walked to the table and picked up the black iron block.

Using force in his hand, he felt the iron was very hard, and it seemed that it was iron.

As for what Jing Su said just now, it can be understood in a simpler and clearer way that adding charcoal makes the charcoal and the impurities in the iron react chemically at high temperature.

Then, under Jing Su's hammer and hammer strike, all those magazines disappeared, and the texture of the iron became very hard.

The original method of making iron was to melt all the iron ore into molten iron, and then forge it after the molten iron cooled. There were a lot of impurities in it, but now after adding charcoal, those impurities disappeared with the addition of charcoal.

He told Jing Su this idea, and the doubts in Jing Su's heart were solved, but Han Yang raised a fatal question at this time: "Jing Su, the appearance of this kind of iron can really change my mind. All the weapon configurations of the Xiliang Army."

"But have you ever thought about it? Our Xiliang Army are all ordinary soldiers. Not everyone is like Ji Ling and Zhang Liao. The swords made from these iron blocks weigh at least twenty catties. On the battlefield, weapons If you can't lift it up easily, how can you use it to fight the enemy bravely?"

Jing Su was stumped by Han Yang's question, which he discovered after observing for a long time. These iron blocks themselves are very heavy, let alone the weapons they forge, but the quality of these iron blocks has increased several times At most, as long as the weight problem is solved, after mass production, the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang army will be completely new.

Han Yang saw the struggle in Jing Su's heart, and knew that he was a person who regarded iron as his life. The question he asked just now was really difficult for him now, but Han Yang only knew how to distinguish good weapons from bad ones before. But I don't know how to make a magic weapon.

"You can consider using this method. When the iron is not completely melted, keep its temperature for forging, then heat it to become molten iron, and then forge it after cooling." Zhang Ji said from outside.

Jing Su asked directly: "Have you ever tried the method you mentioned? This method does not exist in the records at all. I want to know how you got it."

"This method was taught to me by the master craftsman in the small blacksmith shop in my hometown. He told me that once the iron was not fully heated into molten iron, he started forging. Although the process was a bit difficult, the forged weapon Light and sharp, the texture is almost the same as the iron on the table."

After thinking for a while, Jing Su clapped his hands suddenly, "I understand, I know what to do, General Zhang, thank you very much."

"You're welcome, everyone is doing it for the Xiliang Army and for the King, so there is nothing to thank."

Han Yang was very happy when he heard these words, and he couldn't help but think, as long as our Xiliang City is up and down, and the soldiers and civilians are united and twisted into one rope, why worry about not being able to calm the world.

He looked at Jing Su who was forging iron, and asked another question in a strange way: "Jing Su, what do you usually do after this weapon is formed?"

"Put the weapon directly into the water to cool it down, and the weapon will take shape immediately."

"I had a sudden thought just now, why not let this weapon cool down slowly in the air, or keep the temperature on the hot weapon that has just been built, and then cool it down later, what do you think? ?”

"My lord, to be honest, I really don't understand. What you just said is not bad, but will these make the iron block have any different changes?"

"Isn't this just a whim of mine, but I think there should be some changes. Tomorrow, you can build a few pairs of weapons according to the methods I just said, and compare them by the way. I think it is Our army has made a major breakthrough in ironware, and after passing this village, there will be no such shop."

"Then I will do it right away. Hearing what the king said, I also have some expectations in my heart. I really want to see what these weapons will look like if they are built like this."

"Alright then, go ahead and get busy, Feng Lu and I just wander around here."

Jing Su bowed his hands and retreated, went outside and started forging.

(End of this chapter)