Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty Chapter 1422: Pin sword!
"Oh? Let me try!"
In the workshop office building.
Li Zexuan took a sword made of vanadium steel, looked at it for a moment, and couldn’t help but exclaim: “The sword is slender, blade is like autumn frost, and it is cold and cold. It has a very texture in the hand. It is already better than 95% of the swords on the market! Not bad, not bad! This craftsman who forges the sword has very good skills. I deserve a reward!"
Li Zexuan nodded in satisfaction. At this moment, he took another iron rod from the corner behind the door. This iron rod was made of pure iron with no charcoal added to it, even steel. In fact, although steel-making technology was available in ancient times, steel-making technology was only available in some steel-making workshops controlled by the imperial court and will be supervised. The ironware used in civilian daily life is mostly pure iron. less!
Li Zexuan picked up the vanadium steel sword and swiped it lightly, without using internal force, and slashed it on the iron rod so casually. He only heard the sound of a sword sound, leaving a strip about three deep on the iron rod. Millimeter of sword marks!
This is already quite remarkable. After all, he just waved lightly and casually just now. If he really uses his full strength, or even uses his internal force, then he is sure to use this vanadium steel sword to cut off the iron in his hand. stick!
This sharpness is not as sharp as his wind-chase sword, but it is far beyond the sword and weapon of this era!
Li Zexuan turned around and looked at the armor made of vanadium steel that Wang Ji was holding. This was a bright armor. The source of the term "mingguang armor" is said to be related to the round guard on the chest and back. Because this kind of round guard is mostly made of copper, iron and other metals, and the polished aurora looks like a mirror. Wearing a light armor on the battlefield, due to the sun's rays, will emit a dazzling "light", hence the name Mingguang armor.
Mingguang armor originated very early and existed in the Three Kingdoms period. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Mingguang armor and two crotch pieces were most commonly used. The two crotch pieces were made of small armor pieces with a general body armor and full scales. The length has been extended. To the abdomen, it replaced the leather armor skirt before the Sui Dynasty. The hem of the body armor is meniscus-shaped and lotus leaf-shaped nails to protect the lower abdomen. These improvements greatly enhance the defense below the waist.
In addition to these two types of armors, the Tang Dynasty also developed many new types of armors. According to the "Tang Liudian" records, there are also light, fine scales, mountain script, bird hammer, white cloth, soap juan, cloth back, infantry, Twelve other types of leather armor, wooden armor, chain mail, and waistcoat. Among them, Guangyao, Chain, Shanwen, Bird Hammer, and Scaly Armor are iron armor, and the last three are named after the style of armor pieces. Leather armor, wooden armor, white cloth, soap juan, and cloth back are named after manufacturing materials.
"The style of this Mingguang armor is very good. Could the craftsman who built it have worked as a supervisor or the Ministry of Engineering before?"
Li Zexuan touched the smooth surface of the armor and asked softly.
Wang Ji smiled and replied: "The mountain has a good vision! The craftsman who made this bright armor is named Zhang Hongsheng, and his father is Zhang Yajiu. He used to be a well-known master craftsman who will be a supervisor. The qualifications and skills are not in Yan. Under Shang Shu, he is now old and retired from prison. He inherited his father’s business. Zhang Hongsheng inherited Zhang Yajiu’s sword and armor skills. Although he only inherited 50 to 60% of the skills, he He is the most exquisite sword and armor master in the workshop!"
"Zhang Yajiu~?"
Li Zexuan heard the name for the first time, but he felt familiar. After murmured twice, his expression suddenly changed and he was shocked: "Zhang Yajiu? Mr. Wang, do you mean this Hongsheng’s father is Zhang Yajiu? Zhang Yajiu had been in prison before? He had also been a colleague with Yan Shangshu?"
Zhang Yajiu, the most famous sword-making master in the Tang Dynasty, the Yajiu sword forged by him is ranked 14th in the ranking of ancient and modern weapons in China. The famous Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi used to specialize in the crow Nine Swords wrote a poem called "Nine Crow Swords". The poem wrote: "A thousand years after Ou Zhizi died, the elves secretly taught Zhang Yajiu, and Yajiu cast the sword in Wushan, and the gods of heaven and sun borrowed their merits." /
In the poem, Bai Juyi believes that Zhang Yajiu's sword-making skills were secretly taught by Ou Yezi sent by the elves thousands of years ago.
As for who Ou Yezi is, anyone with a bit of historical knowledge knows that Ou Yezi is the originator of sword-making in ancient China and the founder of Longquan Sword. When Ou Yezi was born, it was a dispute between the countries of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. First, the State of Wu defeated the State of Chu, then Wu Yue. Successively annexed 45 countries south of the Yangtze River. In his youth, he learned metallurgical technology from his mother's uncle and began to smelt bronze swords, iron hoes, iron axes and other production tools. He discovered the difference between the properties of copper and iron and smelted the first iron sword "Seven Stars Dragon Abyss", or Long Yuan Sword for short. In the Tang Dynasty, because of avoiding the taboo of the great ancestor Li Yuan, the word "Yuan" was changed to the word "Quan", which was called "Seven Star Longquan", or Longquan Sword for short, creating the first cold weapon in China.
Bai Juyi believes that Zhang Yajiu's sword-making skills were taught by Ou Yezi in the dark. This shows that Zhang Yajiu's sword-making skills are superb!
However, there is almost no record in the history books about Zhang Ya’s nine personal lives, and only one or two can be speculated from some ancient poems. There is nowhere to find out about his birth date and resume, Li Zexuan did not expect In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, he could have heard about Zhang Yajiu's deeds, and this old man was actually a prisoner as an imperial servant. How could this not shock him?
"The mountain leader also knows Zhang Yajiu? Haha! Zhang Yajiu has a great reputation in Jianjian, and it is normal for Lord Hou to know him! This person will indeed be in prison for a period of time, and the current sage is still the king of Qin At that time, he loved the sword. He heard that Zhang Yajiu was extremely skillful in making swords, so he sent people to invite Zhang Yajiu to make swords, but at that time Zhang Yajiu had an aloof temper and directly refused his Majesty’s request.
But the saint was broad-minded and didn't feel annoyed. Instead, he personally visited the house. After three rounds of the thatched cottage, Zhang Yajiu finally agreed to go out of the mountain and serve as a prison guard. His Majesty’s sword today was cast by Zhang Yajiu! "
Wang Ji explained with a smile.
Li Zexuan nodded suddenly. He didn't expect that there was such a past in it. Suddenly, he felt that something was wrong and asked: "Zhang Yajiu is a master swordsmith, and he is also highly regarded by the sacred today. He is now old and has resigned from being a supervisor, but at the very least he can live without any worries? How can he let his son come to work in our workshop?"
Wang Ji frowned and couldn't help saying: "What do you mean, Shan Chang? Are all the craftsmen coming to our workshop for the sake of money? Is it not allowed for someone to be because of their own hobbies and to realize their ideals? Come here?"
Lao Wang’s self-esteem was obviously hurt by Li Zexuan’s words. I think he is now the head of the Department of Chemistry at Yanhuang College. He earns a lot of salary every month. He is not short of money and is not in the workshop every day. Busy? This is his ideal!
Li Zexuan knew that he had said the wrong thing and looked embarrassed. He quickly said: "Ahem! Mr. Wang, I didn't mean that. I mean Zhang Hongsheng's father was going to be a master superintendent before, why he Don’t recommend Zhang Hongsheng to be a prison guard, but will allow his son to work in our workshop?"
After hearing this, the old Wang stretched his brows and said: "The mountain leader has to ask Fu Guan Shi. This Hongsheng was recruited by Fu Guan Shi. The specific situation, the old man does not understand!"
"Master! This Hongsheng was personally invited by the old man. At that time, the old man told him that there are countless rare sword-making materials in our workshop. As long as he can come, all the materials can be transferred to him. Zhang Hongsheng is like his father. He loves making swords, and he readily agreed to this condition when he heard the old man’s offer!"
At this moment, Forber walked in from outside and said as he walked.
Apparently, he just listened to the "corner" outside the house for a while!
Li Zexuan heard this, and suddenly felt a little funny. He said: "Dare to love Fu Bo only used some materials, so he recruited a master trainer for the workshop! Great! Great!"
This is from the sincerity. Li Zexuan, who has a background in engineering, values technology and talent most. As long as you have technology, money is not a problem, materials or anything is not a problem!
If all the technical talents in this world can be recruited with some materials like Zhang Hongsheng's, Li Zexuan feels that there are too many, let's recruit 3000 people first!
Fu Bo smiled bitterly, and said helplessly: "Master, you don't know how much material this Hongsheng costs. Whenever the workshop gets good materials for sword casting, he will scramble for it. If you don't give it, you will lose faith. Yuren, please give it, and it will affect the task you assigned to you, Master. Just now, he ran over to the old man’s workshop and asked if there was a new type of steel called vanadium steel in the old man’s workshop, and asked the old man to allocate two hundred catties to him first. He wants to practice sword!
The old man knows that this vanadium steel is made from vanadium ore that the young master has finally obtained. How can I give it to him? He started to make trouble with the old man, saying that the old man didn't believe it! The old man had no choice but to come over to the young master for your help! "
Li Zexuan couldn't help laughing and saying: "Haha! Give him! Give him two hundred catties! Doesn't this Hongsheng like crafting? I just have a new set of armor here and I need him to help build it~! Song Xiaosi , You go to Fu Bo's place and invite Zhang Hongsheng over~!"
"Yes! Master~!"
Song Xiaosi responded and ran out quickly.
After a while, under the leadership of Song Xiaosi, a shirtless man of 27 or 18 years old walked in from outside.
"Zhang Hongsheng see Lord Hou!"
Entering the office, Song Xiaosi tugged Zhang Hongsheng’s sleeve, then pointed at Li Zexuan secretly, and then Zhang Hongsheng saluted Li Zexuan.
"Don't be polite!"
Li Zexuan smiled slightly and stepped forward to help Zhang Hongsheng up, and then asked: "I heard that you asked Fu Bo for two hundred catties of vanadium steel?"
Zhang Hongsheng's heart was tense. At this time, he saw Fubo still standing in the room. In an instant, he understood the key points in his heart and thought that Fubo was accusing him of the black situation, so he was somewhat Angrily said: "Hou Ye, when someone Zhang entered this workshop, Fu Guan promised me that the rare sword-making materials can satisfy me as long as I want. Now I have just entered the workshop for only three months. Does Hou Ye want to let Fu Guan fail to do anything?"
Looking at this guy stalking his neck, staring at his eyes, and looking like he was looking for someone to fight him, Fubo quickly frowned and reprimanded: "Zhang Hongsheng, in front of Hou Ye, don’t be rude! Besides, no one wants to rely on you. Account!"
"Haha! Fu Bo, it's okay! It's okay!"
Li Zexuan waved his hand and was not angry at all. Since ancient times, people with very good skills have often had a bad temper. For such people, Li Zexuan is very patient.
When Zhang Hongsheng heard the second half of Fubo's words, he was taken aback, not bad? In other words, Li Zexuan asked him to come here to give him vanadium steel?
Thinking of this, Zhang Hongsheng immediately changed his face, and said to Li Zexuan: "Hou Ye forgive me. Zhang was in a hurry at a certain time, and confronted Hou Ye and hoped that Hou Ye would forgive him!"
Li Zexuan smiled and said: "Why don't you do it! The two hundred catties of vanadium steel that you asked for the blessing officer before, you have been approved, you can go to the steel plant to get it soon!"
"Thank you, Lord Hou~!"
Zhang Hongsheng was overjoyed and quickly arched his hands.
At the same time, he thought that this young Master Hou was still very good at talking!
More than two months ago, after Zhang Hongsheng was "seduce" to the workshop by Fu Bo, he has been immersed in the blacksmith's workshop of the workshop to study the way of sword casting. I have never seen Li Zexuan before, even if I did. Someone introduced him to him, but he didn't know him either. Today was his first meeting with Li Zexuan.
In the morning, Wang Ji handed him a batch of new steel materials and asked him to build three swords and three armors. He was a little disapproved at the time. He felt that he would use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken, so he planned to let his apprentice build it.
Inadvertently, he discovered that the hardness of this steel was only seen in his life. So, out of curiosity, he personally made the swords and armors in Li Zexuan's office.
Of course, the sharpness of the final sword made him quite satisfied. When Wang Ji went to his place in the afternoon to "collect the goods," he couldn't help asking Wang Ji what kind of steel it was. After learning that it was vanadium steel, he ran to find Fubo for materials!
That's why there is such a farce.
"This Hou admires his father's name for a long time. I heard that Hongsheng, you are casting a sword. It is quite true to the father. There is a sword here. How can you help me?"
Li Zexuan saw Zhang Hongsheng's expression of joy, Xindao, a technical talent, is not so difficult to deal with, in order to win the chase, he unfastened his waist long sword, and then said to Zhang Hongsheng.
Zhang Hongsheng felt a little disapproving in his heart, secretly asking you a rich man, what good sword can you have?
However, in order to be able to get the vanadium steel as soon as possible, he still cooperated and said: "Yes! Please also ask Lord Hou to take a look!"
"Here! Here you are!"
Li Zexuan's mouth made a smirk~ IndoMTL.com~ even with the scabbard, he threw it to Zhang Hongsheng so "lightly".
When Zhang Hongsheng saw that Li Zexuan was throwing it so casually, he guessed that the sword was very light, so he also used one hand to pick it up casually.
As a result, he was tragic in a blink of an eye!
"Ouch~!"
When the wind-herding sword hit Zhang Hongsheng’s hand, Zhang Hongsheng realized something was wrong, but at this time, even if he wanted to use both hands to receive the sword, it was too late. He could only watch his body and was given it by the wind-herding sword. The "belt" fell down. Seeing that he was about to fall to the ground, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing in front of him, and then one hand pinched his shoulder, preventing him from falling further!
It was Li Zexuan who came to him and held him!
"Oh! Brother Zhang, I'm sorry! Ben Hou forgot to tell you, this sword is very heavy, it shocked you!"
Li Zexuan quickly apologized.
This apology immediately made Zhang Hongsheng flushed with embarrassment, and he waved his hand with shame: "It's Zhang who is so insightful. I don't even know that there is such a small but extremely heavy sword in this world! No wonder! Lord Hou! Zhang is now serving the sword for Lord Hou!"
After all, Zhang Hongsheng was also full of surprises, secretly asking what kind of weird sword this sword is? In terms of size and body shape, it is no different from an ordinary sword, but why is it so heavy? At least this sword is three to four times heavier than ordinary swords!
Because of this, he was caught off guard just now that he was almost "carried" to the ground by this sword!
After all, he couldn't restrain the curiosity in his heart. Zhang Hongsheng stood up straight and slowly pulled the wind-chase sword out of the sheath. He was shocked all at once!
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