"That's not right. Why didn't I see Tian Lao Ba today?"
Liu Feng looked around. Tian Lao Ba, as his most capable assistant, not only managed the horse farm, but also went around to check it out every day.
"The blacksmith's workshop is complete, and we're going to start smelting iron today."
"Tian Laoba took his men to the mountains to cut wood. It should be a blacksmith's workshop now."
Wang Shan answered.
Liu Feng nodded and signaled Wang Shan to continue working with his men, while he went to the blacksmith workshop not far away.
I get a headache when I think of Zhang Tiechui and Liu Feng.
Ruhua, Zhang Tiechui's childhood sweetheart, is now with Wu Jiang, recuperating in Wang Changsheng's compound. Because Wang Changsheng's compound is far away from the blacksmith workshop, the two have never met.
It was Liu Feng’s first time going up the mountain, and he never thought that Ruhua would be in the Tianwaitian village.
Thinking about Ruhua's emphasis on Wu Jiang, could it be that these two are already together?
Liu Feng had no way to tell Zhang Tiechui until he fully understood the matter.
If Zhang Tiechui asked, I could only give a perfunctory answer.
The blacksmith shop was built not far from the brick kiln. It was originally a slope with a large area.
In order to build a blacksmith shop, Tian Laoba led more than a dozen villagers to work day and night to raze it to the ground.
There are not enough bricks to build the blacksmith shop, so the blacksmith shop today is just a simple wooden shed.
Fortunately, high-temperature furnaces and other equipment have been completed.
Zhang Tiechui was directing several villagers to work, including Murakami's blacksmith.
This is the first time Liu Feng has come to see Zhang Tiechui since he went to Tianyong City and brought back all the tools.
Zhang Tiechui now looks completely different. He is no longer unkempt.
Compared with before, he looks more energetic and has a body full of muscles.
Zhang Tiechui is young, only in his thirties, which is the time when he is most powerful in blacksmithing.
With a square face and a small mustache, Liu Feng found him funny. If he didn't have such a muscular body, Zhang Tiechui's appearance and temperament would be more like that of an elegant scholar.
"village head."
Seeing Liu Feng coming, Zhang Tiechui smiled and walked up immediately.
Zhang Tiechui didn't have any high requirements for accommodation, so he chose an old, uninhabited house at the entrance of the village. It was small, dilapidated, and was being prepared for renovation.
She got the house deed and land deed from Liu Feng. He was already the most benevolent boss in the world, so she was too embarrassed to ask for anything else.
After listening to what Zhang Tiechui said, Liu Feng looked at him with even greater respect.
Now is a year of great famine, and there are many vacant houses in the village.
Zhang Tiechui chose such a dilapidated house, which shows that Zhang Tiechui has a kind heart and a conscience.
"How are the preparations going?"
"It's almost done. We can light the furnace tonight."
Zhang Tiechui pointed at several boxes of inferior weapons on the ground.
"It's not difficult to smelt this stuff. As long as the temperature rises, it can quickly turn into molten iron."
"It's a rare opportunity to forge the iron again after pouring it into a block. Now I'm alone and these guys are not familiar with it, so the progress will be slow."
"But once we get on the road, it will be much quicker to deal with these things."
At Zhang Tiechui's own pace, he could make at most three to five knives a day.
There were five or six boxes of inferior weapons brought back from the water fort alone. Zhang Tiechui would be exhausted if he had to rebuild so many of them.
In order to speed up the process, Liu Feng had already asked Tian Laoba to bring several reliable young men from the village.
However, perhaps because of his inherent arrogance and confidence in his own skills, Zhang Tiechui only left two.
These two guys knew nothing. The only one who knew a little was the blacksmith in the village, but his skills and techniques were not up to his standards, so he could only do odd jobs.
"There's no need to rush swords and other standard weapons right now. The most important thing is to forge a batch of spearheads, at least a hundred."
"If there's enough left, we'll make farm tools, axes, and other daily necessities."
Liu Feng was thinking that with so much land to be planted in the spring of next year, it would be impossible without farm tools.
Another problem is that the quality of these weapons is too poor. They are all made of very low-quality pig iron. If they are used to make standard weapons, the quality will definitely be poor.
Since we already have those long swords, why use these?
"That's all? This isn't that difficult, is it?"
Zhang Tiechui looked resentful. He thought it was a big project.
It was a complete waste of his skills.
Liu Feng laughed.
"Don't worry about making farm tools. The main thing is to familiarize the three of them. You have more important things to do in the future."
"I'm planning to make a set of armor. Think carefully about how to use the standard long swords I brought back to melt into armor plates."
"For example, the Eight Trigrams Kaitian Armor and the invulnerable chain mail."
"Chain mail?"
Hearing this, Zhang Tiechui's eyes immediately lit up.
Creating such armor is the most challenging task for a blacksmith. Each part needs to be melted and welded together, which is the highest level of skill a blacksmith can demonstrate.
The technology behind chain mail is extremely complex, and since it is made entirely of fine iron, it is both lightweight and defensive. Ordinary people are simply not qualified to wear it.
However, Liu Feng had already asked Wu Santong and Chen Buzhi about the relevant issues. The chain mail of the Dali Dynasty had gaps, which was not what he wanted.
What he needed was a piece of armor that could be passed down from generation to generation.
For example, the armor of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.
"Well, I'll give you a blueprint."
"More complex than existing chain mail."
Liu Feng took out the blueprint from his arms and handed it to Zhang Tiechui.
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