Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty

"Oh? I'll try it!"

Inside 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. Just relying on this, it has been It is 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 steelmaking techniques existed in ancient times, steelmaking techniques were only available in some steelmaking workshops controlled by the imperial court and would be supervised. Most of the ironware used in civil daily life was 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 the sword sound, leaving a sword about three millimeters deep on the iron rod. mark!

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 rod in his hand!

This level of sharpness, although not as sharp as his wind chasing sword, is far beyond the sword and weapon of this era!

Li Zexuan turned 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" was 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 light", hence the name Mingguang armor.

Mingguang armor originated very early and existed in the Three Kingdoms period. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Mingguang armor and two crotch pieces were most commonly used. The two crotch pieces were made of small armor pieces with the general body armor and full scales. The length has extended to the abdomen. 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 armor, the Tang Dynasty also developed many new types of armor. According to the "Tang Liudian" records, there are also light, fine scales, mountain script, bird hammer, white cloth, soap juan, cloth back, infantry, leather armor, Twelve other types such as wooden armor, locks, and vests. 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 name of the craftsman who made this bright armor is 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 under Yan Shangshu. , But 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%, he was a workshop. The most exquisite sword and armor craftsman!"

"Zhang Yajiu~?"

Li Zexuan heard the name at first, but he felt familiar. After muttering twice, his expression suddenly changed, and he was shocked: "Zhang Yajiu? Mr. Wang, you mean this Hongsheng’s father is Zhang Yajiu? Zhang Yajiu? Have you been in prison before? Have you been a colleague with Yan Shangshu?"

Zhang Yajiu, the most famous sword-making master in the Tang Dynasty, his cast of Yajiu Sword ranked 14th in the ranking of ancient and modern weapons in China. The famous Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi once wrote for Yajiu Sword The poem was called "Nine Crow Swords". The poem wrote: "A thousand years after the death of Ou Zhizi, the elves secretly taught Zhang Yajiu, and Yajiu cast the sword in Wushan, and the gods of heaven and sun took advantage of this work."

In the poem, Bai Juyi believes that Zhang Yajiu's sword-making skills were secretly taught by Ou Yezi sent by 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 during the disputes between the nations of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Forty-five countries to the south. In his youth, he learned metallurgical technology from his 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 Star Dragon Abyss", or Long Yuan Sword for short. In the Tang Dynasty, because of avoiding the taboo of the great ancestor Li Yuan, the character "Yuan" was changed to "Quan", which was called "Seven Star Longquan", or Longquan Sword for short, which created the first cold weapon in China.

Bai Juyi believes that Zhang Yajiu's sword-making skills were taught by Ou Yezi in the dark, which shows that Zhang Yajiu's sword-making skills are superb!

However, there is almost no record about Zhang Ya’s nine personal life and deeds in the history books. You can only speculate one or two from some ancient poems. There is nowhere to find out about his birth date and resume. Li Zexuan did not expect to be in the early Tang Dynasty. He could actually hear 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 Zhujian, and it is normal for Lord Hou to know him! This person did indeed stay in prison for a period of time. He loves swords, he heard that Zhang Yajiu was extremely skilled in making swords, so he sent people to invite Zhang Yajiu to make swords out of the mountain, but at that time Zhang Yajiu had an aloof temper and directly refused his Majesty's request.

However, the saint was broad-minded and not 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 become a general as a prison guard. Your Majesty’s sword today is 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 something was wrong again, and asked: "Zhang Yajiu is a master swordsmith, and he has also been respected by today's sages, even if he is now old. , I will resign as a supervisor and retired, but at least I can live without worry? How can I let my son come to work in our workshop?"

Wang Ji frowned and couldn't help but said, "What do you mean, Shan Chang? Are all the craftsmen coming to our workshop for money? Is it not allowed for anyone to come because of their own hobbies and to realize their ideals? ?"

Lao Wang obviously hurt his self-esteem by Li Zexuan's words. As the head of the Chemistry Department of Yanhuang Academy, he earns a lot of salary every month. He is not short of money, and does he work in the workshop every day? 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, since Zhang Hongsheng's father was a master superintendent before, why didn't he recommend Zhang Hongsheng? Going to be on duty, will he allow his son to work in our workshop?"

Hearing this, Lao Wang stretched his brows and said, "This mountain leader has to ask Fu Guan Shi. This Hongsheng was recruited by Fu Guan Shi, and the old man doesn't understand the specific situation!"

"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 materials can be transferred to him. Zhang Hongsheng is like his father and loves casting. Jian, after hearing the old man's condition, he readily agreed to it!"

At this moment, Fu Bo walked in from outside and said as he walked.

Obviously, he just listened to the "corner" outside the house for a while!

Li Zexuan suddenly felt a little amused when he heard this. He said: "Dare to love Fu Bo only used some materials, so he recruited a master trainer for the workshop! Great! Great!"

This is true and sincere. Li Zexuan, who has a background in engineering, values ​​technology and talents most. As long as you have technology, money is not a problem, materials or something is not a problem!

If the world's technical talents can be recruited with some materials like Zhang Hongsheng's, Li Zexuan feels that there are too many, let's recruit 3,000 people first!

Uncle Fu gave a bitter smile, 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. Give it, it will affect the task you gave, the young master. Just now, he ran over 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, and he wanted to practice. sword!

The old man knew that this vanadium steel was made by the young master using vanadium ore that he finally got. How could he give it to him? He began to make noise 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 said, "Haha! Give him! Give him two hundred catties! Doesn't this Hongsheng like refining tools? I just have a new set of armor here and I need him to help build it~! Song Xiaosi, you go Mr. Fu invites Zhang Hongsheng to come over~!"

"Yes! Master~!"

Song Xiaosi responded and ran out quickly.

After a while, under the leadership of Song Xiaosi, a shirtless man of twenty-seven and eighteen 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 Fu Bo still standing in the room. In an instant, he understood the key points in his heart and thought that Fu Bo was accusing him of the black situation, so he was a little angry: "Master Hou, when someone Zhang entered this workshop, Fu Guan promised me that the rare sword-making materials can satisfy me as long as I want it. Now I have just entered the workshop for only three months. Want to let Fu Guan fail to make things happen?"

Seeing this guy stalking his neck, staring at his eyes, and looking like he was looking for someone to fight, Fubo quickly frowned and reprimanded: "Zhang Hongsheng, in front of Lord Hou, don't be rude! Besides, no one wants to rely on you!"

"Haha! Forber, it's okay! It's okay!"

Li Zexuan waved his hand and was not angry at all. Since ancient times, people with great skills have often had a bad temper. For such people, Li Zexuan is very patient.

When Zhang Hongsheng heard the second half of Fu's words, he was taken aback for a moment. 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 handed over to Li Zexuan: "Hou Ye forgive me. Zhang was in a hurry 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 steward earlier, you have approved it, you can go to the steel plant to get it in a while!"

"Thank you Lord Hou~!"

Zhang Hongsheng was overjoyed and quickly arched his hands.

At the same time, he thought this young Master Hou was quite good at talking!

After Zhang Hongsheng was "seduce" to the workshop by Fu Bo more than two months ago, he has been immersing himself in the blacksmith's workshop of the workshop to study the way of forging swords. He has never seen Li Zexuan before, even if he did, no one gave him Introduced, he didn't know him either. Today was the first time he met 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 bit disapproved at the time, thinking that he would use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken, so he planned to let his apprentice do it.

However, inadvertently, he discovered that the texture of this steel was hardly 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 sword that was finally built made him quite satisfied. When Wang Ji went to his place in the afternoon to "pick up the goods," he couldn't help asking Wang Ji what kind of steel it was and found out it was. After the vanadium steel, he ran to find Fubo for materials!

Thus, there was such a farce.

"Benhou has long admired the great name of Lingzun. I heard that Hongsheng, you are casting a sword. It is quite true to my father. Benhou has a sword here. How can you help?"

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 pursuit, he unfastened his waist long sword, and then said to Zhang Hongsheng.

Zhang Hongsheng felt a little disapproving in his heart, secretly saying that you, a rich man, can you have a good sword?

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!"

There was a smirk at the corner of Li Zexuan's mouth~www.readwn.com~ even with the scabbard, he threw it to Zhang Hongsheng so "lightly".

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 a tragedy in a blink of an eye!

"Ouch~!"

Zhang Hongsheng realized that something was wrong when the wind-herding sword hit Zhang Hongsheng’s hand, but at this time, even if he wanted to use both hands to pick up the sword, it was too late. He could only watch his body and was "carried" by the wind-herting sword He 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 further planting!

But Li Zexuan came to him and held him!

"Oh! Brother Zhang, I'm sorry! Benhou forgot to tell you, this sword is very heavy, and it frightens 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 this world has such a small but extremely heavy sword! No wonder Lord Hou! Zhang is serving the sword for Master 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!

It is precisely because of this that he was caught off guard just now and 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 scabbard. He was stunned all at once!

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