At the end of the Shen period, a total of thirty carriages drove into the peaceful and peaceful Qinghe Town in a row.

The huge momentum immediately caused a sensation in the entire Qinghe Town, and countless people rushed over from all directions to watch.

You Jiao Liu Po ​​and the three pavilion leaders in the town were also alarmed, and they rode up on horseback with weapons and rushed up like facing a great enemy, but soon they all dismounted with surprise and greeted each other.

Chen Xu rode a tall horse in front, beside him were two burly guards, Wang Wu and Wang Qi, with his waist and big sword, and his eyes were not squinting. Next to Chen Xu, there were two neatly dressed young men, Zhao Qing and the leader of the Shui family who were escorting goods. They all looked energetic.

"Lidian, what are these... what are so many carriages transporting?" Liu Po ​​asked in surprise.

It’s not his fault that he was surprised. In fact, the entire Qinghe Town was surprised to see the bustling. The entire remote town has almost never been so lively.

Chen Xu jumped off the horse and said, "It's not something valuable. Hurry up and help arrange for people to unload the goods. Copper, iron, coal, and stone are all taken to the blacksmith shop and handed them to the maroon. He asked him to find a place to pile them first, and to get the wool to the papermaking workshop, and to transport the tea tree fruit to the sugar and wine shop to hand them to the reed roots. Put it under the straw shed and don't get wet. The others are taken to the grain warehouse. By the way, there is another patient on the car, so he asked Xu Han to take good care of him..."

With Chen Xu's series of arrangements, Liu Po, several pavilion leaders, Niu Quan and others also directed the villagers to start to get busy. More than 30 cars were quickly diverted to various places, and people shouted dogs and horses were neighing. It seemed that suddenly, the entire peaceful Qinghe Town became lively and noisy in an instant.

After most of the busy period, all the goods were unloaded and placed. Chen Xu was worried, so he rode his horse back and forth to patrol. He found that there was no big problem, so he arranged for all the coachman and his accompanying guards to go to the elementary school cafeteria to drink water and have dinner. In addition, it was too late, so he might be a mess when he rushed back to Zhi County. So Chen Xu asked Liu Po ​​and other big families in the town to free up a room to arrange for everyone to rest. He was busy until it was completely dark before he could take a break.

"Chen Lidian, why did you ask someone to collect so much copper and iron? Nowadays, there are many copper and iron workshops in Nanyang County. If you want to use copper and iron, you can buy them anywhere. Why do you have to do this forever?" Wang Wu asked in confusion while sitting in the room drinking tea and resting.

"I want to use it to smelite, to smelize different iron!" Chen Xu explained while drinking tea.

"A different iron?" Wang Wu and Wang Qi looked confused.

"Yes, iron tools are harder than copper tools, and they are cheaper. If I successfully refine them, my Daqin will be widely popularized and promoted, both weapons and agricultural tools!" Chen Xu nodded.

"Iron is indeed cheaper, but although iron weapons are hard enough, they are not strong enough. It is still difficult to make agricultural tools. It is absolutely impossible to make weapons, and they can easily break brittle!" Wang Qi shook his head repeatedly.

"Who said that iron weapons are not strong? You two have seen Wuya's iron swords, but they are much stronger than your copper swords!" Chen Xu said lightly.

"This is true, but Brother Yu's sword was forged and cast from the sky, and is incomparable to the gold and copper in the mortal world. The ancient Dragon Abyss sword was cast from meteorite, which was extremely sharp, but meteorite is extremely rare in the world. How can it be widely used?" Wang Wu couldn't help but say.

"Haha, if I use ordinary iron stone to refine fine iron comparable to meteorite iron, can I create a weapon comparable to a meteorite iron sword?" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Absolutely impossible!" Wang Wu and Wang Qi shook their heads together.

"Chen Lidian, this iron has been used for hundreds of years, but all craftsmen and sword-casting masters say that ordinary iron cannot be used as a soldier, it is fragile and rotten. Only this gold and copper are the best sword-casting material. When Ou Yezi, a native of Yue, made of the sharp Zhanlu sword, was made of gold and copper. In his life, he cast five peerless swords, Zhanlu, Juque, Shengxie, Fish Intestine, and Chunjun, all of which were made of copper and tin, which is no different from the current method of smelting copper. Longquan sword-writing was made of fine iron, but it was just a legend. People have never seen it before, otherwise why would there be no trace of seeing each other again?" In order to confirm his statement, Wang Wu brought out all the legendary sword-casting ancestor Ou Yezi.

Chen Xu was too lazy to continue talking about this unresolved topic. As the saying goes, hearing is false and seeing is true. He must make steel and make a unique sword today to convince them. This sword will also become his first gift to Qin Shihuang and Qin Dadi, because Qin Shihuang, a talented and stubborn figure, was definitely not something that could be convinced by fooling him by fooling him. The Fang family sorcerer who fooled him for immortality would either be killed or buried in the end, otherwise he would not dare to return to Qin like Xu Fu, and would never return overseas from now on.

Chen Xu naturally wouldn’t and dared not take it out as an excuse for immortality. This is the only way to seek death.

But as the emperor of the ages, Qin Shihuang did not just want to live forever. Even when he was about to die, he still defeated Baiyue and drove the Huns out more than 700 strength. He did not dare to go south for decades. Sang Hongyang even exaggeratedly said that the Huns did not dare to look south for more than ten years. It can be seen how miserable the Huns were beaten in that battle, and their courage was completely crushed. Even the year before Qin Shihuang died, that is, in 211 BC, he ordered 30,000 prisoners and civilians to migrate from the Central Plains to garrison the northern border. According to his idea, he would completely recover the Xiongnu from Hebei in a few years. It’s a pity... he died too early.

Originally, after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he wanted to prove that he was even better than Qin Shihuang, so he led the army to fight with the Huns, but was trapped in Baideng City and almost wiped out the entire army. He escaped by bribery. If Liu Bang had died in Baideng at that time, he would probably collapse again in an instant. The country's destiny was shorter than that of the Qin Dynasty, and became the shortest-lived dynasty in Chinese history. As for the subsequent direction, one can guess one thing, that is, the more than ten princes and kings who were founded and enfeoffed by the Han Dynasty would fight again, determine the overlord of China, and follow the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Only about 10 million Chinese people remained, and finally they were trampled on by the powerful Huns...

This scene is simply unintelligible, cruel and realistic.

The next day, Chen Xu rushed home early to report his safety, brought some rice and candy to Zhao Qing's subordinates, and asked him to take it back to express his gratitude to Zhao Qing. At the same time, he also gave more than ten bottles of wine and vinegar to the leader of the Shui family, so that he could bring it to the head of the family Shui Hong, which was considered to express his gratitude.

After seeing off two groups of people, Chen Xu then calmed down and began to arrange the next thing.

First of all, there were two trucks of wool. This time the quality was relatively high, almost all of them were fine and soft. I don’t know where Zhao Qing collected it in just a few months. Of course, with the experience of handling the last time, Chen Xu directly handed it over to several villagers who handled the wool last time, and assigned one of them to be responsible for handling the wool. Then he found all the women who could spin them in the town and spun them into wool. At the same time, You Jiao chose three skillful young women to send them to Xiaohe Village to learn knitting wool with his mother Chen Jiang. After learning it, he taught women to knit sweaters, trousers, hats, scarves, and gloves in Qinghe Town.

Then there is iron smelting. Iron smelting is more complicated and requires specializing in making furnaces. Because there is clay in the town, and a truck of graphite has been obtained, an experimental crucible furnace can be built. With coal, it can easily break through the current temperature limit to more than 1,200 degrees. There is no problem with melting pig iron. However, it is still very difficult to think about slag decarbonization. Iron smelting was very popular in the Han Dynasty not long after, and it seems to be the method of stir-frying. As for how to stir-frying... Chen Xu pinched his chin and frowned and thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out. But since there is a word for stir-frying, it is probably... it's similar to stir-frying, add some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar... Well, the materials for decarbonization and slag making are still needed to think about it carefully.

I only regret that I only have few books when I use them!

Chen Xu felt the poverty of his knowledge again. Other time traveling pig feet were either making gunpowder or making steel and glass. They were all casual and playful. Why did it be his turn to travel through time? When he wanted to make steel, he would be fucked.

Chen Xu was so depressed that he almost pulled down the skin on his chin. However, this kind of problem involving professional knowledge can only be thought about slowly. Anyway, it will take more than ten days to build the iron smelting furnace. First, it is necessary to burn a batch of fire-resistant tiles, and then make a special furnace. Graphite and clay have to be used to make crucibles. Iron and steel smelting have to continuously pump hot oxygen into it. Now the broken skin of the blacksmith shop is definitely not good, and it also has to build a high-power bellows...

Damn it, it’s so complicated!

Chen Xu felt instantly that he was not sure, and he didn't know if he could really make out the steel suitable for forging.

But no matter what, these things have to be arranged and done slowly. So he gathered the blacksmith, pottery Gao He, carpenter Liu Erwa, stonemason Liu Da'an and several craftsmen from Qinghe Town. After expressing their requirements, he asked them to work together to discuss the creation of the local steelmaking furnace they wanted.

Because it is experimental, this furnace is not very demanding, as long as it can produce about twenty kilograms of iron at a time.

Chen Xu drew the prototype of a steelmaking furnace according to his own idea, which is a simple furnace. Below is a coal-burning earth stove, a half-enclosed furnace on top, and a crucible can be placed inside. The furnace has a blowing passage connected to the bellows to transport oxygen to it. However, a bellows seem to be insufficient. The coal stove also needs a bellows to increase the firepower...

It took more than an hour for the four craftsmen to fully understand Chen Xu's idea, and then went to the blacksmith shop to conduct on-site investigation and design.

Although Liu Erwa, a bellows carpenter, had never seen it before, Chen Xu used the drawing to draw a simple drawing. The principle was the same as the air pump, but it still took a lot of effort to design it. After all, this is a brand new device. I don’t say I have seen it, I have never heard of it before. However, after Liu Erwa understood it, he said that the problem was not a big problem. The only difficulty was the flap door of the air inlet, but it was not very complicated, because this was a bellows, not water guns, and it didn’t need to be completely sealed and could continuously deliver air.
Chapter completed!