It was not until the third day that Liu Feng gathered all the leaders under his command.
I briefly told everyone about my ideas for the construction of the county town.
"This area is all along the river. I want to build it into a pedestrian street with all kinds of shops."
"We have completely converted this area into a residential area. The distance between this place and the various workshops is close, making it convenient for everyone to travel."
"You should clean up the houses and farmland in Shanggou Village in the next few days. Spring is almost here, so we'll start planting crops then."
"The water fort should be almost there by now."
"It's cold, so the construction is progressing a bit slowly."
"I understand that, but the most important thing is the ferry, the New River Ferry. Without the ferry, how can it be called the New River Ferry? With the ferry, ships can come and go, and we will have income."
Liu Feng distributed the tasks to their respective members and then looked at Zhang Tiechui.
"Iron Hammer, how's the smelting of the iron ore going?"
"Village Chief, it's almost halfway done."
Zhang Tiechui answered immediately.
Liu Feng nodded. It was half done, so a lot of pig iron would be smelted. In that case, it was time to start the next plan.
Lots of steel.
"Okay, I'll go to the blacksmith shop later."
"Also, your house is too small. Now that Ruhua is here, you should at least make her life more comfortable."
"Also, I want you to formally take on a few apprentices and live with them. I'll arrange for special guards to be there."
"So, I'm going to build you a big yard."
A separate yard for repairs? All apprentices living together?
So mysterious, what is the village chief going to do?
Zhang Tiechui thought for a moment, then realized, "Village Chief, you're so mysterious, are you planning something extraordinary?"
Liu Feng grinned.
"Yes, you'll understand when you get to your blacksmith's workshop.
After assigning appropriate tasks to each person, they followed Zhang Tiechui to the blacksmith workshop.
He lingered for a moment among the waste left over from smelting the iron ore.
Liu Feng picked up a piece of medium-sized pig iron and smashed it with a hammer.
Then, he found a knife blank made by Zhang Tiechui and broke it into small pieces.
After doing all this, Liu Feng mixed the two together.
He threw it back into the furnace and pointed at the two apprentices to watch the smelting.
Zhang Tiechui kept watching the first part, and the apprentices did not let him watch it, but he didn't care about the smelting part.
It seems to be a very simple operation, but it is actually not simple. There is a lot of knowledge involved, including the choice between pig iron and wrought iron.
Liu Feng has not yet told Zhang Tiechui the selection criteria, and Zhang Tiechui will not be able to master this technology for a while.
"Village chief, what are you doing?"
Zhang Tiechui could naturally distinguish between pig iron and wrought iron easily. If he couldn't even tell the difference, what was the point of being a blacksmith?
But putting these two together and practicing them a second time?
What is this for?
Can I make good iron in this way?
"You don't have to be so anxious, just watch."
The fire was burning brightly, and it had never gone out since the furnace was built.
So in a very short time, the two types of iron were completely melted.
Liu Feng picked up another iron skewer and put it into the mixed solution and stirred it a few times.
Allow them to melt thoroughly and blend completely.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Liu Feng instructed two apprentices to pour out the iron solution and solidify it into iron blocks.
Since Liu Feng used a lot of iron, he had no problem making two scimitars with two more iron ingots.
"Come on, forge it while it's hot."
Liu Feng took out the scimitar blueprint he had designed in advance.
Zhang Tiechui frowned as he looked at the drawings.
"This scimitar looks strange. It looks a bit like a Northern Barbarian Sword, but it's different."
"Yes, the shape is somewhat similar, but the curved edge of the scimitar is smaller. This blade is straight at first and only bends at the back."
Liu Feng pointed at the drawings and explained to Zhang Tiechui.
Zhang Tiechui was extremely serious when he was forging iron. He nodded slightly and started to work quickly.
He began to forge hammer by hammer.
"Village Chief, did you improve this sword based on the Northern Barbarian Sword?"
Liu Feng just smiled and said nothing.
Zhang Tiechui had just fought a fierce battle with the northern barbarians, so it was nothing for him to think this way.
After a stick of incense, Zhang Tiechui had forged the iron into a uniform long strip. Zhang Tiechui's forging skills were beyond reproach.
But just as he began to bend the blade, Liu Feng held him back.
"Don't worry, temper it, cut it off, then press it together and continue forging."
Although Liu Feng selected the pig iron and wrought iron himself, the quality was impeccable.
But after all, this was ancient times, and the temperature of the furnace could not remove impurities.
Only by continuous forging can the impurities be removed and the quality of steel be improved.
"Keep cutting off."
Zhang Tiechui looked at Liu Feng with some suspicion.
He knew this technique of repeated hammering, but he didn't use it much in practice.
The main reason is that the cutting requires too high a material, and it is also a test of the blacksmith's skills.
"good."
Zhang Tiechui did as he was told.
I didn't think too much about it. Since the village chief said so, I just did what he said.
So the process of cutting off, superimposing and refining is repeated again and again.
However, Zhang Tiechui began to become more cautious during the repeated hammering.
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