Da Wei Chun

Chapter 63 Melting Copper
Five hundred pairs... plus the more than one hundred pairs on the old soldier, is it enough for three hundred Li's villagers to wear full armor?
Li Song didn't seem to have recovered from the shock, and said like a dream: "As long as Langjun can forge armor, not to mention five hundred sets, it is five thousand sets of armor linings, and servants can also weave them. …”

Five thousand sets, the tone is quite big?
Isn't the hair enough to pluck yours?
Li Chengzhi didn't answer, just pouted.

Li Song, however, became more and more excited: "After doing the math, I can forge sixty or seventy suits of armor in one day, and in five days, everyone in my Li family will have armor to wear...

At that time, Lang Jun can forge some more spear heads, arrows, horizontal knives, and it is better than these raw and cooked inferior things..."

Li Chengzhi sneered and squinted at him again: "I also want to forge, but where does the iron come from?"

Right now, the iron material has just reached [-] catties. Li Chengzhi estimates that only forging the armor and adding a helmet is enough to arm [-] soldiers. How can there be any extra iron forging weapons?
Li Song's expression suddenly froze.

Once people's ambitions are released, it's like opening Pandora's Box and can't be closed at all.

When he knew that Li Chengzhi could forge a hundred refined steel so easily, Li Song's heart became more determined...

He just thought about it, thousands of armored riders dare not think about it, after all, there are not that many horses.But at the worst, it is necessary to have a thousand soldiers put on full armor, each with a fine-steel spear, and a hundred-refined horizontal sword on his waist. This is the real good armor...

But I forgot that there is not that much iron material at all.

If the war has not yet started, you can naturally exchange some food for it, but now there is not enough to eat, how can you use it for iron?

As for silk?

With the dozen or so horses at home, at most five or six hundred catties of iron can be exchanged.

These burdens...

Li Song's teeth grew long for a while, and he wanted to kill all the six thousand monks and people...

He sighed in disappointment: "Unfortunately, the money is not enough, otherwise I can go to Liangzhou or Qinzhou to buy some..."

Is it not enough?
Why don't I think so?
Li Chengzhi rolled his eyes: "Isn't it enough to melt a few of those bronze Buddhas?"

Li Song was taken aback.

I haven't seen Li Chengzhi mention it again for many days. He thought that Lang Jun forgot, but he didn't expect that he was still making ideas about which Buddha statues?

"Lang Jun, it is absolutely impossible..."

Li Chengzhi urged urgently, "When the monks and the people were in chaos, the Buddha statues were all placed in the temple, but when we pacified Zhaoxuan Temple, the bronze statues disappeared? No matter how stupid those monks were, they could guess that it was my Li family. It was stolen... When the court asks, how should we explain it?"

"Who said that if you steal it, you can't change it?" Li Chengzhi rubbed his chin, "If I say, I have a way to change the bronze statue, so that the monk can't recognize it, you can change it or not. ?"

"Change?" Li Song looked at him suspiciously, "Could it be that Langjun wants to change to a clay sculpture? When the finger taps, the filling will be revealed..."

"Idiot!" Li Chengzhi scolded, "I already knew that Mr. Lang could wrought iron, but I never thought of replacing him with iron? When the time comes, with gold powder, who can tell?"

Li Song was stunned for a moment.

Replacing copper with iron?
It's not impossible...

But the question is, how can it be cast exactly the same?

This is not forging armor. You can make it look whatever you want?
The incense of Zhaoxuan Temple is extremely prosperous. Not to mention these monks, officials, monks and people, they are famous families in Jingzhou. There are also many people who believe in Buddhism. Will come to incense.

Aren't you afraid of being recognized?

"Elm head?"

Li Chengzhi scolded: "You can't see the ready-made models here? If you want to melt one, just lift the Buddha statue down, first use pottery clay to spread the pottery model out, and then pour the iron juice into it, right? exactly the same?"

Li Song was shocked and stared blankly at Li Chengzhi.

Why didn't you think of it?
Thinking about it carefully, it is so simple and very feasible...

Thinking of this, Li Song's eyelids jumped.

How dare you be so courageous, and you are encouraged by Langjun's three words?

But think about it in reverse, when the gold powder is over, who can tell whether it is iron or copper?

Thinking of this, Li Song's heart couldn't stop trembling, and even his breathing became a little heavier.

That's tens of thousands of catties of copper...

The Li family has accumulated for generations, adding up all the copper ingots in the two cellars of the big house and the second house. Is there so much?
Seeing Li Song's eyes light up, Li Chengzhi knew that this had happened.

He refrained from laughing and hurriedly urged: "You just say do it or not?"

Li Chengzhi knew very well that no matter how much Li Song listened to him, he would be more cautious and more cautious when it came to such a bad thing that would lead to the scourge of his family and his family.

Not only must there be enough benefits to impress Li Song, but also to convince him that he will never cause any trouble afterwards...

So in order to convince Li Song and avoid future troubles, Li Chengzhi thought about it for several days before he came up with this method.

Li Song must also agree, otherwise Li Chengzhi can still do it alone?

Not to mention the rest, he couldn't even remove the bronze Buddha...

Li Song hesitated for a long time before he gritted his teeth: "Langjun, let's cast one first, and the servant will take a look..."

Li Chengzhi was overjoyed: That's it!

"Start the furnace now, and when the blast furnace is dry, it will be tomorrow and night at the earliest!" He pondered, "You go to assemble the staff first, you don't need more, just add seven or eight of you and me..."

"No!" Li Song replied heavily.

How dare people know more about such a thing?

……

The next night, iron was still being smelted in an orderly manner in the backyard, while the front yard was silent.

A two-foot-high blast furnace rises from the ground, and the kiln gate and kiln mouth are all available.

That is to say, there is no room for it in the hall, otherwise Li Chengzhi would have to build it inside.

so exhausting...

Li Song, Li Bo, and their two sons: Li Zhang, Li Zhao, Li Ming, as well as Li Feng, the younger brother (cousin), and Li Liang, the nephew.

Plus Li Chengzhi, there are exactly eight people.

Afraid of revealing the wind, Li Song didn't even dare to use Li Xian.

Eight people, four people lifted it above, and four people supported it below. They slid the bronze statue into a wheelbarrow along two iron bars, and then pulled it into the blast furnace.

"It doesn't have to weigh seven or eight hundred pounds?"

After the bronze statue was put down in the car, Li Chengzhi wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked out of breath.

It's not just him, one counts as one, all of them are so tired that they almost collapse.

Li Chengzhi originally wanted to pick the lightest one, so he picked the statue of the maid next to the Buddha, and only when he fell down did he find out that it was solid?

Fortunately, the eight are all strong men as powerful as cows, otherwise they may not be able to lift them down.

Li Song slowed down for a while before replying, "It's just more or less..."

Eight hundred catties are eight hundred catties, they have already been lifted, can they still stand up?

Li Chengzhi pointed to the blast furnace: "Pull it in..."

If you want to be fast and keep it as secret as possible, you have to rack your brains to find a way.

Li Chengzhi poured the forged steel plate into the seam with iron juice, and welded a pair of iron boxes with a height of two meters, a square of one meter, a wall thickness of [-] millimeters, and a weight of nearly [-] kilograms.

The iron box is suspended in the blast furnace with iron bars and chains, and the bronze statue is first put in, and then the surrounding and top of the Buddha statue are filled with clay with graphite, and finally the box is sealed.

Start with a low temperature, wait for the clay to dry and harden and form, then seal the furnace and increase the blast furnace temperature, and continue to blast.

There is a hole in the bottom of the iron box, and when the bronze statue is melted, the copper juice will flow out from the bottom of the furnace.

At this time, it is necessary to control the furnace temperature, not only to be able to smelt copper, but also to be careful not to smelt the iron box.

When the copper juice runs out, put out the fire, and when the temperature drops, turn the iron box over, which is a ready-made model.

Insert the burnt inner mold, pour the iron juice, and a bottle of iron Buddha will come out...

The method is very simple, and the advantage is that it is fast. Li Chengzhi estimates that at least two bronze statues can be melted in one night.

The disadvantage is that it takes effort.

For the first time in two lifetimes, Li Chengzhi has done such heavy work...

(End of this chapter)