Seeing Tienniu's longing look, Zhu Hongsan interrupted his fantasy and asked him: "How about it, how about I haven't come to give birth these days?"

Tieniu replied: "Old Liu is doing well on the steelmaking furnace. He has made three furnaces these days, and a total of 10,000 kilograms of medium-carbon steel you mentioned and 10,000 kilograms of low-carbon steel."

Zhu Hongsan frowned and said, "Have you used up all the ingredients?"

Tieniu nodded embarrassedly. Zhu Hongsan sighed and said nothing. The consequences of industrialization were so terrible. They used the raw materials they collected for a year and a half to use up in three days.

Zhu Hongsan said: "How do you think the steel you made?"

Tie Niu said with a romance: "It's great. In the past, I had to beat some steel a hundred times, but now it is directly transformed into molten steel. Medium-carbon steel and high-carbon steel can make weapons, and low-carbon steel can make armor. I made a few horizontal knives you mentioned in a few days. Come and take a look."

Zhu Hongsan and his arsenal, Tie Niu took out two horizontal knives, which looked exactly like he drew for him. The blade was straight, with a total length of about 80 cm, with a blade between sixty centimeters, and a grip about twenty centimeters, with a thin line wrapped around it. Zhu Hongsan held it with his hands, and it felt good, and it was also good to hold the knife in both hands to slash.

Tienniu took a cast iron rod and signaled Zhu Hongsan to try the knife. Zhu Hongsan cut it hard according to the cast iron rod, and then heard a clang. The cast iron rod was divided into two sections. Zhu Hongsan looked at the incision. The cast iron rod as thick as an egg was smooth, and then looked at the horizontal knife in his hand. There was no damage at all, and he nodded. He asked, "How long can this kind of knife produce one?"

Tie Niu said: "If you want to ensure the material, a blacksmith can produce one knife embryo in a day, but because the blade body is too steel and it is difficult to open the blade, a whetstone will be scrapped for two or three knives, and a knife embryo will take one person to polish it in a day. We blacksmiths don't have enough skills, so we can only produce two knives in ten days."

Zhu Hongsan nodded, thinking that manpower was a big problem. There were only 40 people in the entire village, and there were 30 steelmaking furnaces there, so there were not enough manpower here. Zhu Hongsan said: "The raw materials on Lao Liu are gone. Let them stop first and leave four or five people to maintain equipment. You can work hard to build horizontal knives and create five hundred first. As for the whetstones, you can find a stonemason to make the whetstone into a circle, and fix the holes in the middle, and then install a wooden handle. One person can sharpen the knife by turning it. This saves a lot of effort." As he said that, Zhu Hongsan drew the figures on the ground. Tie Niu said that he would find someone to make it in a while.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "How about the chain mail?"

Tieniu said: "It's still a matter of manpower. In addition, the chain mail is too complicated to make, so I think it's stopped."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and asked, "Tieniu, you are an expert. What kind of armor do you think is practical and easy to make."

Tien Niu thought for a while and said, "The armor is not simple anymore. If it is fast, I see that there is so much steel now, so I can directly beat it into iron sheets the size of a palm, and then put it in a pocket made of thick cotton. The defense is also good, but it is not good-looking."

When Zhu Hongsanyi heard Tieniu say this, isn’t this the prototype of the later bulletproof vest. He hurriedly said: “Tieniu, you can make one first, and you don’t need any other decorations, just two pieces of cotton cloth on the front chest and back. How long can it take to make it well?"

Tie Niu said: "This is too ugly, but if that's the case, it'll be fine for a day."

Zhu Hongsan said: "Okay, let's do it now, I will see the real thing tomorrow."

Tieniu agreed and led people to work.

What is the use of decorative objects? As long as they can save their lives, Zhu Hongsan thought about it and looked at the horizontal knife in his hand. The handmade iron ox is really good. This horizontal knife is made of steel clamping. The blade is made of high-carbon steel and medium-carbon steel for the blade body. This not only takes into account the sharpness but also ensures the toughness of the blade body, ensuring that the blade body will not be broken while fighting.

However, this is only a small-scale use now. In the future, if there are too many troops, it will be slower to do so. In the future, production will be carried out, the blade will be cast directly, and then processed with a grinder to become a horizontal knife. However, it must have a stable base.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan called over to Ma Youfu and said, "How about this horizontal knife?"

Ma Youfu looked at the knife, then looked at the broken iron rod and said, "This kind of steel knife is only sold in the north for forty to fifty taels of silver. If it goes outside the border, it can be sold."

"Oh? Your Ma family still has contact with the West Outer?"

Ma Youfu said, "No, son-in-law, we ship the things to SX and sell them to the Eight Great Masters, and then they ship them out of the Great King."

Zhu Hongsan knew it was Fan Yongdou and the others. But he didn't want to ask, now he couldn't guarantee that he had time to control things thousands of miles away. Zhu Hongsan said: "This time I will give you five thousand kilograms of ordinary steel, how about one thousand kilograms of steel making? Try to exchange me for pig iron and coal, if there is no pig iron ore."

Ma Youfu said: "Good son-in-law, if there is so much steel, it should be able to get 100,000 kilograms of pig iron, which is a long journey and is not easy to transport."

Zhu Hongsan said: "It's okay, I can afford to wait."

Ma Youfu saw that Zhu Hongsan had nothing to say and bent down and retreated.

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At noon the next day, Tieniu came to find him excitedly and said that the new armor was ready. He said that he brought in a large package.

When Zhu Hongsan opened it, he saw that it was a yellowish-yellow jacket, two pieces of cotton cloth, tied with ropes on the edges. The cotton cloth was covered with pockets the size of a palm. When Zhu Hongsan touched it, it was empty inside.

Tie Niu took out a piece of iron piece the size of a palm in the package and put it into the pocket on the jacket. There were about fifteen pockets in the front and twenty at the back, and they were all filled in a while. Zhu Hongsan held it with his hands and tried it. The jacket weighed about thirty kilograms, which was OK and could bear it by one person. Let Tie Niu put it on and tried it. It started from the waist and the back from the butt. He took out a piece of steel piece and looked at it. The steel piece weighed about one kilogram, which was very thick and one centimeter thick. It seemed that the defense should be similar.

Zhu Hongsan asked, "You haven't tried how you defend."

Tie Niu said: No need to try, this one will definitely not work. Brother, look, the jacket is cotton, and the iron piece will move around inside as soon as you move. The pocket will be cut off over time. On the battlefield, if the cotton cloth is cut by a knife, the steel piece will fall out and lose its defense ability.

Zhu Hongsan was disappointed. It seemed that the materials were not good. He forgot that later generations were all synthetic materials and cut-proof.

Tienniu continued: "But I have an idea, which is to replace the cotton cloth with leather, then thin the steel sheets, and drill holes around it, so that the leather is enough."

Zhu Hongsan's eyes lit up and said, "Yes, Iron Niu has you. And the butt of this armor doesn't need to be that long, just reach the waist. See how heavy it can be."

Tien Niu made up his mind and said, "No matter how much you say, you will have to pay twenty kilograms."

Zhu Hongsan said, OK, let’s do one first.

Seeing Tie Niu leaving, he quickly stopped him and said, "I forgot to ask you yesterday, how is the powder barrel doing?"

Tie Niu said, "I made a few, wait, I'll take them to see."

After a while, Tien Niu came back and took a few jars. Zhu Hongsan took one and looked at it. It was good, half lighter than before. The shell was also equipped with a prefabricated groove, which was beaten bit by bit with Zhaozi. Zhu Hongsan weighed it with his hand about one and a half pounds, and it was three pounds of gunpowder and a wooden handle. It was already very heavy. I don’t know how far it could be thrown.

Tieniu said: "This pipe is made of the low carbon steel you mentioned. It is much thinner than before. No matter how thin it is, it cannot guarantee sealing."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "You are doing well, go and do your business."

Zhu Hongsan did not hand over the gunpowder matter to Tienniu. Now steel and gunpowder are his two magic weapons and must not be in the hands of one person. So he has always used gunpowder himself, but fortunately he has not made it on a large scale and he can still deal with it.

I made some gunpowder myself, but at home, it seemed that I would go home. I decided to go out and ride a horse, call Zhao Goudan, and go home to get the gunpowder. Since the brothel incident, Zhu Hongsan figured out that his safety was important. Let Zhao Goudan follow him for 24 hours.

This time, Zhao Goudan was armed to his teeth, wearing a chain mail inside, and two newly made horizontal knives at his waist. This outfit was fine to deal with thirty or forty. When Zhao Goudan saw Zhu Hongsan leaving, he rode his horse and followed Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the horse under Zhao Goudan and was really sad for it. This horse was a purebred Mongolian horse sold by Zhu Hongsan for fifty taels of silver. Although it was not a good horse, it was not bad. However, under Zhao Goudan's weight of more than 200 kilograms and the weight of equipment of 100 kilograms, the horse could not live for a few years. But it was okay, it was not a leader of troops, it was just a tool for transportation, and it would be replaced in a few years.

Zhu Hongsan was chatting with Zhao Goudan while walking, and asked about his father's condition.

My uncle has not recovered since he got sick last winter. It was May and he was still bedridden. Zhu Hongsan knew that his uncle had an intrapulmonary infection. This disease would die in an era without antibiotics. It would be good for his uncle to survive until now. Zhu Hongsan was not easy to say anything, so he said some comforting words that auspicious people had their own heaven. Zhao Goudan didn't speak silent either.

After a while, he arrived at the city gate. Since Henan was destroyed by the peasant army more and more people have been evacuated in the past few years. Seeing the shed at the city gate, Zhu Hongsan remembered that he wanted to buy a few orphans to start military training last time when he entered the city. Zhu Hongsan secretly cursed: It was all caused by Fatty Qian, which delayed me a lot of trouble. This time he returned to the city, he must do this.

Passing the city gate, the two defenders who earned the city expenses at the entrance seemed to have not seen these two young men in bright clothes and angry horses. Zhao Goudan didn't say that one could beat them forty. Even Zhu Hongsan couldn't afford to offend him. Not to mention his identity as a royal family, no one knew the nine dead people in the county two days ago.

Although the government issued a notice saying that Zhu Hongsan was not guilty of murdering people in self-defense, but who was not blind? When he was carried into the county government, he was alive and died in one night. The next day, several relatives of several people even went to make trouble, and they were over in a few days. I heard that someone was passing a message to them, and since he killed nine people, he didn't care and was killing nine people.
Chapter completed!