Daqin: Playing Martial Saint at the beginning

Chapter 0118 – Great Harvest, Ready to Open the Furnace!!!

“Brother Guan, today a total of 431 catties of refined salt, 377 catties of copper, and 112 catties of iron were collected.”

“There are so few, many people should have come today.”

“It seems that because of the salt industry official camp, the merchants who came to Daqin did not bring a lot of salt with them, and the people who came to Xianyang to sell salt were all at a loss, so no one else dared to get it.”

“So that’s the case, how are you doing now?”

“This afternoon, we sold a total of 900 lake pens and 4,890 pieces of Cai Lun paper!”

“Such an exaggeration! Pang Xiang, you guys really made a lot of money this time! ”

“After deducting the purchase of salt and the purchase of copper and iron, there are still 5,300 yuan left.”

In Chang’an City, because it was late, Guan Meng had already packed up the guys to rest, and those merchants had already left.

After all, today is only the first day, and there are not many merchants who came, even if a few came too late because of time problems, Guan Meng had enough time to collect all their refined salt and copper and iron.

This part of the expenses all relied on the gold that Ying Zheng rewarded Guan Yu, fortunately, Guan Yu was not a loss, because today, Pang Tong and Huangqing cooperated with each other and earned him a lot of money.

After deducting the expenses, there was still a lot of surplus, which really surprised Guan Yu!

Pang Tong’s middle strategy was to attract merchants to Chang’an, and then borrowed merchant Jia Haoli to sell lake pens and Cai Lun paper.

Among them, Guan Meng, who is impatient, is responsible for acquisition, and Pang Tong, who is not easy to arouse the vigilance of others, specializes in selling lake pens and Cai Lun paper.

In order to allow these merchants to notice these two goods faster, Chuangqing also volunteered to cooperate with Pang Tong in acting.

Her strategy proved to be effective.

These businessmen were first attracted to her, and then attracted by Hubi and Cai Lun paper because of her words.

If an ordinary businessman, even if he has the eye to discover the beauty of the lake pen and Cai Lun paper, he is afraid that he will be reluctant to buy money.

But what is the level of businessmen who came to Chang’an this time?

That’s all for money to be able to run between the seven countries, and for the sake of interests, people who dare to come to a broken place like Chang’an!

Being able to travel between the seven countries must have vision, and daring to come to Chang’an is courageous.

Such a businessman with vision and courage, how can he not be moved when he sees the lake pen and Cai Lun paper!

Cai Lun paper naturally needless to say, not only has many advantages, but also the process is not known, no matter in which country, sales will not be bad.

As for the lake pen, it seems simple, but it is only a small improvement, but the simple step of soaking lime water alone is enough to dissuade many craftsmen.

Many secret recipes in ancient times are as simple as soaked lime water, but if you don’t know the door, you can never go further.

Both are epoch-making things, and they are the first to appear, even if the price is higher, many people will accept it.

The 5,300 dollars left today is the best proof of this.

“Shi Yuan’s wonderful plan, the prosperity of Chang’an, is just around the corner!”

“Tong does not dare to be greedy for merit, and General Guan is the first meritorious minister.”

“You and I don’t have to be so polite, tomorrow, the day the blast furnace opens, you must come, and the sale of lake pens and Cai Lun paper will be handed over to others.”

“No.”

Guan Yu was happy in his heart, praised Pang Tongfan, and then hurriedly invited Pang Tong to participate in the opening of the blast furnace.

Originally, there was no way to start the blast furnace in a short period of time, but today Guan Yu personally supervised the construction of the blast furnace by taking advantage of the busy time, which increased the construction progress of the blast furnace a lot.

If there are no accidents, the furnace will definitely open tomorrow.

And the copper and iron collected by Guan Meng can also play a big role.

Because iron tools have not been popularized on a large scale, the smelting method at this time is still stuck in the more primitive ‘block steelmaking’.

Simply put, charcoal is made on fire, and the iron block is forged separately with a small stove to remove impurities and improve the hardness of the iron block.

It’s just that the temperature of the charcoal stove is too low to meet the forging requirements, and the iron block knocked out is soft in texture and has many impurities, even if it is melted with a bronze sword, it will not be hard to anywhere.

And the Qin State, although it was a latecomer, caught up with it by absorbing the technology of the craftsmen of the Qin State, and now, it has learned to initially use the ‘hundred steelmaking’ method.

That is, through repeated beating, quenching, removing impurities in the iron, so that a special pattern appears on the iron, it is considered a success.

However, this method is more time-consuming and laborious than ‘block steelmaking’, and is generally used to forge swords, and only used when swords.

Korean iron is the most advanced, but because of its weak national strength, it cannot withstand such a large-scale iron forging project.

Whether it is human or financial, it is extremely reluctant.

Even the Chu State, which is sparsely populated, or the Qi State, which has strong financial resources, does not dare to start such a project.

Only Daqin, with the soldiers as the priority, will do whatever it takes to forge.

Of course, only the elite can use iron tools, wearing iron armor, ordinary soldiers do not have this treatment.

And now Guan Yu is ready to use this steel pouring method, directly skipping the stage after 100 steelmaking, frying iron, and directly pouring wrought iron with pig iron, so that the ratio of the two can achieve a perfect balance.

Soak in various oils and fats to get sharp, hard and elastic iron!

Pig iron is the high-quality iron obtained after the iron ore is purified and thrown into the blast furnace for smelting, while wrought iron is a relatively inferior iron block, iron utensils, and weapons.

Now because of the purchase of copper and iron in large quantities, Guan Yu has no shortage of wrought iron, as long as he smelts pig iron and mixes the two, he can get high-quality iron ‘Sugang’.

This piece of iron, no matter what kind of blade, can easily be cut like mud!

Of course, if you encounter a weapon made by the Outer Heaven Xuan Iron like the Blue Dragon Moon Saber, you still have to be cautious.

However, Guan Yu’s purpose is to create weapons for his subordinates, saddles and stirrups, and the enemies targeted are also ordinary soldiers.

Even if the enemy has a martial general as brave as Dian Qing, who also uses the Outer Heaven Xuan Iron to create weapons, with such weapons made by ‘Sugang’, the soldiers can also close the siege very well, and may even strangle each other.

Whether all this can be achieved depends on the situation of the old furnace.

He is not a professional craftsman, Chang’an City-related craftsmen, and there are even fewer pitiful, even if there is, he is not good at mud and tiles.

A group of half-hangers, to make a blast furnace, it is really laborious, can build, it is already lucky, want to make it not have the slightest accident, it is really hanging.

Guan Yu invited Pang Tong to come and watch the opening of the furnace, not only so that Pang Tong could witness this important moment, but also to let this phoenix chick help see the problem…

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