The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 175 Off topic again
Don't gossip, just show a good man Wu Erlang, no, Li Muyun.

When Chen Mu came back with the lard and horse urine, the knife blank in the mold was almost cold. When the iron was turned over, the knife blank was poured out of the mold with a light tap, and blacksmith Zhong found something to hold it. Yes, and entered the shop again.

In fact, the so-called shop is a half-open shed, in which there are all kinds of blacksmithing tools.

Li Muyun followed the blacksmith into the shop. While watching the blacksmith re-forge the blade, he poured the lard and horse urine into the blacksmith's box for quenching.

"Waiting, Lord Hou, what are you doing?" Blacksmith Zhong, who was forging the blade blank, saw Li Muyun's behavior, his expression changed drastically, and he kept shouting.

"Do your job, don't talk nonsense!" The things were poured into the box separately, Li Muyun resisted the pungent smell, and said to Blacksmith Zhong: "I'll use this to quench the fire in a while, do you know? First use horse urine, and then use lard."

"Ah?" Blacksmith Zhong was completely dazzled by Li Muyun. He had been forging iron all his life, but he used well water to quench it. How could it be quenched with horse urine in the hands of this Marquis today?

"Ah what, go ahead and hit your knife. Also, your way of playing is wrong, you have to fold the blade completely." Li Muyun said impatiently, while instructing Blacksmith Zhong to soften the blade, and then from Fold it in the middle, and then hit it again.

Originally, when Li Muyun first started, he wanted to shape it in one go and tap the steel directly.

But after searching around Blacksmith Zhong's shop, he found that he lacked a lot of things, so he gave up.

You know, the difference between iron and steel is the amount of carbon contained in it. If the carbon content is less than a certain level, it is wrought iron, and if it is more than a certain level, it is pig iron, and steel is a value in the middle of the two.

But right now, because of the lack of things, the iron smelted by Zhong Blacksmith cannot completely neutralize the charcoal, so the charcoal content exceeds the standard, and it becomes the pig iron in the pig iron. In this way, the iron can only be beaten continuously to release the carbon contained in it. A lot of charcoal is knocked out.

However, since the left and right also need to be hammered continuously, it would be better to beat it more beautifully. That's why Li Muyun asked Blacksmith Zhong to use the overlapping method of hammering, because it can create beautiful cloud patterns on the blade.

As for horse urine and lard, this is simple, it is ordinary two-liquid quenching.

Although liquid quenching has been invented more than 100 years ago, it is not widely known because of the inconvenient spread of ancient news and the fact that most people in this era are self-confident. Naturally, the blacksmith of Zhong Blacksmith, a small border county I know, even Li Yuan, Fang Yizhi and others don't know this quenching method.

Of course, this is not because they cannot find such materials, but because the status of craftsmen was too low in ancient times, and serious scholars would not bother to learn their knowledge.

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The sound of 'bang bang' hammering continued for a whole day, until it was about to get dark, at the request of Li Muyun, Blacksmith Zhong finally stopped and started the work of quenching.

Once, twice, after two times of quenching, it is polished and polished, but this time there is no need for Li Muyun to mix it in.

Finally, after another day and night, Blacksmith Zhong finally finished his work, and a horizontal knife with a bright blade and beautiful cloud patterns appeared in front of everyone.

"Beautiful, so beautiful!" Wang Jie held the horizontal knife and kept licking the corner of his mouth, as if he was afraid that his saliva would flow out.

"No matter how beautiful it is, it has nothing to do with you. This is based on Chen Mu's knife, so this thing belongs to Lao Chen." Li Muyun stood aside, looking at Wang Jie's expression of wanting to take the horizontal knife as his own. Said loudly.

"What?"

"I asked you for a sword yesterday morning, but if you didn't give it to me, who can be blamed now." Li Muyun spread his hands.

"Then, you should have said it earlier!" Seeing the duck in his hand flying away, Wang Jie roared anxiously with a pale face.

But this time Li Muyun didn't speak, just looked at Wang Jie with that kind of idiot eyes, so angry that someone wanted to go crazy.

Naturally, Chen Mu would not be polite to Wang Jie, and when he heard Li Muyun say that the knife belonged to him, he immediately stepped forward and took the knife from Wang Jie's hand, and caressed it gently.

But after receiving the news, Li Yuan, who came to watch the excitement, interjected at this moment: "The appearance of this knife is indeed good, but you have to try it to know if it is not a good knife, Chen Mu."

"exist!"

"Try the knife!"

"promise!"

After listening to Li Yuan's order, Chen Mu responded without hesitation, walked towards the open space not far away with a knife in his hand, and waved to his younger brother Chen Huo who was standing beside him.

Normally speaking, whether the knife is fast or not is usually determined by cutting some nails, but the current cottage obviously does not have such conditions, so it can only be the next best thing, two swords slashing, one blow determines the outcome.

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Li Muyun still has some confidence in the sword that he made under his guidance, but Su Wanqing and the others don't think so. Seeing Chen Mu and Chen Huo standing in the open space with their own swords, the little girls clenched their fists nervously.

At this time, the two brothers of the Chen family in the field didn't think too much. After they got ready, they both raised their knives and slashed at each other with a loud shout.

In a blink of an eye, there was a "clang", a silver light flashed in everyone's eyes, and a section of the knife had already flown out.

The knife is broken!

whose knife?Is it Chen Mu's or Chen Huo's?

It was too late to see the direction Duan Ren flew out from, and everyone turned their attention to the two people in the field.

It turned out that Chen Huo was kneeling on the ground with one knee, while Chen Mu was standing beside him, looking at the horizontal knife in his hand with some regret.

"Yeah, that's great!" After seeing everything in front of her clearly, Su Wanqing waved her fist excitedly.

Chen Mu's saber is intact, which means that it was Chen Huo's saber that was broken just now, which is enough to show that the saber made by Li Muyun can completely beat the so-called hundred-refined horizontal saber.

It succeeded, it really succeeded, Su Yatou, who had been worried for a long time, was so excited that she almost jumped up.

You must know that in this era, the Bailian Hengdao is already the best sword in the Tang Dynasty, and each one sells for at least three pennies.

However, the knife made by Li Muyun can break the Bailian horizontal knife, which is enough to explain many problems.

Blacksmith Zhong didn't expect that the knife he made could cut off the Bailian horizontal knife. His old face was already flushed red at this time, and his eyes moved back and forth between the broken knife on the ground and the horizontal knife in Chen Mu's hand. The fist is loosened and clenched for a while.

You know, the most he built before was farm tools, and the most he made during this time was horseshoes. These things don't have much technical content, so it can be said that as long as an individual can make them.

Now the knife made by him can cut iron like mud, how can this make him unhappy.

(End of this chapter)