Go back to the Three Kingdoms to grow vegetables

Chapter 58 Equipment Update
Simply put, the steelmaking process is to repeatedly heat, fold and forge the smelted iron sand or high-carbon fried steel to remove the oxide impurities in the steel, carburize, and finally obtain the blade.

The steel composite process is to forge and forge steel blocks with different levels of carbon together. After heat treatment and quenching technology, the knife is made stronger, and the grinding technology makes the blade more exquisite.

Jian Yong failed to find a blacksmith, only a few blacksmith apprentices. In a rage, Liu Bei selected dozens of young men with weak crowns from the Liu clan to study with the blacksmith brought by Zhang Shiping. Eyebrow: "Xuande, it's easy to be a blacksmith, but it's not easy to be a knifesmith."

In order to have his own knife maker, Liu Bei asked Jian Chuan to grind walnuts into powder for dozens of teenagers to drink. For this purpose, he also planted a few walnut trees.

More than a month has passed, and dozens of teenagers have been able to successfully cast knives. Everyone only learns one or a few processes, such as burning fire, forging forging, quenching and quenching, carburizing and carburizing, and grinding and grinding. .

Zhang Shiping was stunned by Liu Bei's actions, and asked in amazement, "How did Xuande come up with such a method?"

Assembly line operation was used in later generations, and it was first used in the Qin Dynasty.Liu Bei said: "I saw in an ancient book that the bow and arrow workshops of the Qin Dynasty practiced like this."

Zhang Shiping looked weird and suspicious, but how could he explain that he suddenly thought of this kind of operation method? You must know that the Zhang family has been a master of knife casting since the Western Han Dynasty.

150 knives and a few hooks inlaid with shields have been cast, and Zhang Shiping has figured out the temperament of the iron of the stars and started to cast divine weapons.

Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake Spear, Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Knife, Liu Bei's two Jushou Knives, and Han Dang's Longque Dahuan Knife are all mixed with star iron. The three hundred catties of pig iron was Zhang Shiping's reward for giving Liu Bei the remaining star iron.

The optimal ratio of star iron to pig iron is ten to one, so Liu Bei only needs to produce 32 catties of star iron. In order to avenge Zhang Shiping's scheme against him, Liu Bei only took [-] catties out of the mine, leaving only two catties Zhang Shiping was so happy that he couldn't help himself.

After the family soldiers supported by the Zhang family and the Su family in Zhongshan came to Liu's Wubao, Zhang Shiping stayed there for a few days, instructing the Liu family to refine the iron ore they collected and carburize it until the suitable steel quality was fried. Lead the convoy back to Zhongshan.

Liu Bei was a bit dissatisfied with his nominal uncle. Zhang Shiping had nothing to do with him, and he had donated 150 catties of pig iron, and helped him cast [-] knives and hook-inlaid shields, as well as production lines for steelmaking and knife casting. , and not only did he not produce anything, but he ate and drank every day, and he also took away Liu Bei's hundreds of bamboo spears, more than a hundred mulberry bows and tens of thousands of bamboo arrows.Therefore, Liu Bei was a little cold when Su Shuang left.

Liu Yuanqi looked at Liu Bei and asked, "Is Xuande angry with Duke Su?"

"No."

Liu Bei refused straight away, thinking: Is it so obvious that I am still too thin-skinned?

Liu Yuanqi smiled strangely: "Xuande, go and ask Xianhe, how many good things has Su Gong left for you?"

Liu Bei walked into his house suspiciously, Jian Yong walked straight up with a smile on his face, saw Liu Bei shouted happily: "Xuande, Uncle is really generous."

"Oh! What good things did uncle leave behind to make Xianhe so happy?"

Liu Bei's plain expression made Jian Yong a little disappointed, but he still said: "There are a lot of beef tendons, lacquer materials, animal horns, and silk. The most precious thing is a dozen master bow makers."

"Master Bowmaker?"

Although Liu Bei strongly suppressed the joy in his heart, there was still endless joy in the corners of his eyes: "Take me to see it quickly."

I?Jian Yong glanced at Liu Bei, he was so happy!
"Meet the owner."

As soon as Liu Bei entered the eyes of those master bow makers, they quickly stood up to salute.

"Homeowner?"

"Exactly, Patriarch Su has given the eyes to the Patriarch, this is the body contract."

An old man with white hair carefully took out a stack of animal skins from his arms and handed it to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei took the animal skin and thought about it, then handed the animal skin to Jian Yong: "Since you are all master bow makers, as long as you teach a master bow maker, you can get the deed back from a certain person. Each bow will be rewarded with ten gold, and each bow will be rewarded with an extra hunk of corn."

The old man in front was trembling with excitement when he heard the words, his beard trembled non-stop, and he didn't speak for a moment. A 30-year-old man behind him said: "The owner of the family can take it seriously."

"I never lie, this elder is everyone's elder! Brother Xianhe returns the elder's identity certificate to the elder, as for other people's identity certificate, you keep it first, and when someone is qualified enough to bring the apprentice Give it back to him."

"promise!"

Although Jian Yong was a little afraid that these bow-making masters would be difficult to control if they took the body deed, but Liu Bei had already spoken out, so it was not easy for him to refute Liu Bei in front of everyone.

The old man took the body deed from Jian Yong, knelt on the ground with a thud and said in a trembling voice: "The old man Su Yigong thanked the master first on behalf of his nephew, the master can rest assured, the old man will definitely teach his disciples with all his strength to repay the master's kindness."

The bow-making workshop is running slowly, from a dozen pieces a day at the beginning to dozens a day later, and this is when all the raw materials are ready.

"Sima, Zhang Junhou and Brother Guan are already three miles away."

A big man wearing a reed armor with a mulberry bow and holding a bamboo spear stepped into Liu Bei's house and yelled.

"really?"

When Liu Bei came to the gate of Wubao, he saw a puff of smoke coming from afar. He rode on a black-tailed horse (the five hundred horses Su Shuang left behind were crossed with Dian Feihuang in front of his claws) and headed towards the smoke. Ten white scorpion soldiers with two stone rhubarb bows on their backs, knives hanging from their waists, and bamboo spears made of bamboo and wood as stems and steel-smelted as spearheads and other new equipment.

"Yun Chang, Yi De."

Liu Bei shouted from a long distance, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also came to applaud Liu Bei when they saw Liu Bei coming up in person.

When the distance between the three was a hundred paces away, Liu Bei dismounted suddenly and strode towards them. Guan and Zhang dismounted as well. Liu Bei grabbed their hands and asked eagerly, "Did the journey go well?"

Zhang Fei said carelessly: "Brother, don't worry, don't you think we have come back well?"

Liu Bei's performance made Guan Yu's heart warm. In the past few years since he was alone in the world, he has seen the dangers of the world and the unpredictable people, and he also knows the deep friendship.But it didn't happen to him, and now Liu Bei cares about him, and he is so excited: "Thank you brother Xuande for your concern, XX and his family have returned safely."

"Oh! It's so awkward! So what are you doing, since the three of us hit it off so well, why don't we become brothers?"

Zhang Fei blinked and said, Liu Bei, who didn't know how to enter the stage of becoming a sworn brother in Taoyuan, readily agreed.

Guan Yu was overwhelmed by Zhang Fei's unrestrained thinking, and when Liu Bei agreed, he looked at him subconsciously and nodded.

Seeing Guan Yu nodding his head, Liu Bei was afraid that he would go back on his word and said, "There is a peach blossom forest in Yide Village. Now is the season when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, which is just suitable for our brothers to worship."

Guan Yu was astonished: "It's too late today!"

Zhang Fei was also a little confused, God knows he just said it casually: "That is, uncle, aunt and sister-in-law haven't settled down yet?"

Liu Bei said in a tone that could not be refuted: "Then tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)