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Chapter 309 Hyderabad Iron Ingots

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    It can be said that Huo Guang has been racking his brains for more than a year in order to break the heavy armor of the Parthian armored cavalry, but there has been no progress.  One of the Anxi heavy armors was even transported thousands of miles to Shu County and handed over to Zhuo Junchen, hoping that the iron smelting family could find a way to crack it.

    "I originally planned to tell the general about this, but just now the general suddenly came to the elder brother." Zhuo Junchen looked at Huo Guang and smiled awkwardly.

    "You guys really gave me too many surprises" Huo Guang looked at the two old people, and the more he looked at them, the happier he felt. Most of the worries of the past few days seemed to have dissipated at this moment.

    "General, please look at this." Zhuo Junchen took out something like a dagger from his waist, but this dagger had a sheath and was much smaller than ordinary ones.  Except for the handle, the blade is only about two fingers wide, and the length is almost the same as a finger.

    Huo Guang took the dagger with a curious look on his face. It felt a little heavy in his hand. After taking it into his hand, Huo Guang took off the sheath on the blade. As expected, a thin piece of metal was exposed inside. The iron blade was exactly like a dagger.  .

    "Ehthe lines on it are a bit strange, like the natural lines of leaves. It doesn't look like they were carved with seals, but more like it was formed naturally Could there be some origin of this dagger?" Huo Guang looked at it.  The small dagger and the lines on it naturally attracted Huo Guang's attention.  He naturally thought that this was some kind of famous weapon, perhaps a sharp blade as famous as the fish intestine sword or other treasures.

    It is indeed not difficult for such a peerless sword to break through the Anxi armor, but Huo Guang didn't understand why Luo Xiahong and Zhuo Junchen said that this thing could break through the Anxi armor for themselves.  You must know that the meaning of Luoxia Hong's words is to solve this major problem, not just a single case.

    "Can you mass-produce this kind of weapon? No the dagger cannot be used on the battlefield at all. At worst, it should be made into a sword or a gun head." Huo Guang quickly discovered the doubts. If it is to be used for  In war, even if it is made into an arrow, it will not look like a dagger.

    "General, let's test its sharpness and sturdiness first." Zhuo Junchen pointed to the copper wine bottle on the counter.

    Huo Guang also wanted to see what was so special about this dagger that Zhuo Junchen and Luo Xiahong had made so mysterious.  He held the wine bottle in his left hand and the dagger in his right hand. He cut the wine bottle with the blade with a wave of his hand.

    When the blade met the bronze wine bottle, Huo Guang felt a resistance coming from the blade, but this feeling was very special, as if what was being chopped was not a hard wine bottle, but a piece of wood.  Huo Guang used a little force in his hand, and the blade went down smoothly, opening a long gap on one side of the wine bottle without much effort.

    "This it's nothing more than blowing hair and breaking it" Huo Guang picked up the dagger and took a look. He found that the blade of the dagger had not changed at all. This shows that weapons made of this material are not only sharp, but also  It is also much stronger than other metals.

    "What a pitywe can only make such a small dagger. If we have a large amount of raw materials, it can be used by the general to equip the entire Hexi Army in less than a year. By then, even those Parthian armors will be unable to stop it.  Edge." Zhuo Junchen said with some regret. It turned out that it was not that they did not want to make other styles of weapons, but that the raw materials were limited and they could only create such a small sample.

    "What's going on? If the materials are too scarce and the cost is high, it has no practical value at all. Since you have taken this thing out, it means that it can be used in actual combat." Huo Guang knew that this kind of weapon was not mass-produced.  There must be something wrong somewhere, and Zhuo Junchen now proposed to solve this problem himself.

    "This is an iron ingot forged by poisonous people. It is produced in a place called Hyderabad. That place produces a special kind of iron ore. This iron ore not only contains high iron content, but also some  We don¡¯t know the metal content. The craftsmen there then smelt the unique local plants and bamboo charcoal with the ore, and finally formed a ball of the most primitive coarse slag, and then repeatedly smelted it to finally form an iron ingot like this."  Hong took out an iron ingot from his arms that was two fingers wide and one finger long. There was obviously a cross section in the middle of the iron ingot. It looked like it was only half the original size. This half of the iron ingot also had the special pattern on the dagger.  .

    Huo Guang took half of the iron ingot. He felt that it was much heavier than a Han iron ingot of the same size. Both the feel and color were different from a simple iron ingot.  Based on Huo Guang's extra experience, he could judge that this was not an iron ingot in the ordinary sense, but some kind of alloy metal.  The fundamental problem lies in the special ore produced in a place called Hyderabad.

    "This place was originally very close to Lucheng, but now Anxi has occupied the Western Region. Even if we know the existence of this ore, we can't send Lord Lucheng to occupy Hyderabad. Even if we occupy it, we can't transport it back to our country. Moreover,  On the contrary, it may attract the attention of people in Anxi. If this kind of thing is allowed to Anxi?If you master it first, the consequences will be disastrous!  " Zhuo Junchen continued, but his face showed deep worry.

    "How did you get this iron ingot?" Huo Guang thought for a while before asking.  He estimated that the Hyderabad iron ingot in Zhuo Junchen's hands must not have flowed through the Western Regions. If it was something on the Western Regions trade route, then he or the Parthians would have discovered it long ago.

    "It's the southwest trade route that was opened a few years ago, detouring from the Dian Kingdom to Shendu. There are actually not many such iron ingots in Shendu, because the smelting process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the resulting iron ingots are extremely difficult to forge into weapons.  Difficult, so they haven't really discovered the value yet. And we have completely cracked the key process of smelting this kind of ore a few months ago. As long as we get the Hyderabad ore, we can smelt a large amount of this kind of iron ingots.  , Forging technology is not a problem, no matter what weapon is forged by then, it will be the sharpest weapon in the world." In the field of smelting and forging, Zhuo Junchen is the real master of the world, and this is his professional field.  When he accidentally discovered this special iron ingot, his intuition told him that it was an unprecedentedly good metal.

    "So what's the problem now? We can exchange gold and silk tea leaves for forged iron ingots. As long as there is profit, they will naturally have more people to smelt this kind of iron ingots. It may not be realistic to transport the ore.  But it should not be difficult to transport the finished iron ingots, and within a year we will have a considerable number of weapons." Huo Guang quickly understood the key. As long as this trade route is smooth, Zhuo Junchen's financial resources will allow him to purchase a large amount of Haide.  The Laba iron ingot won't be too difficult, and it may take a longer time, but it will never be the case with just one sample.

    "The problem lies in the trade routes. Since last year, the southwest monarchs such as Zuohou Qiongjun have seen the huge profits from the trade routes, so they have begun to detain business travel goods and even intercept and kill caravans. At present, the southwest trade routes have been blocked. Even our Zhuo family  The caravans cannot enter the Dian Kingdom through this road to go to Shendu" Zhuo Junchen said angrily, the southwestern monarchs such as Zuohou Qiongjun are nominally all monarchs of foreign countries who have surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and there is no imperial court.  According to the decree, even the army of Shu County cannot attack these southwestern countries, and these people have no moral character at all. As long as they have gold and silver treasures, they dare to intercept and kill the caravans.

    "Bang" Huo Guang slapped the table with his palm so hard that the bronze wine bottle on the table fell to the ground.

    "How unreasonable These small southwestern barbarian countries really know how to choose their time. It seems that there is no need for them to exist. I will handle this matter myself. Who is the king of Dian now?" Huo Guang's face was gloomy. At this moment, he  The momentum is completely different from before.  Now Huo Guang has become the powerful commander of the Han Dynasty who shocked all the barbarians and destroyed the country and the clan with a wave of his hand.

    "The current King of Dian is the son of Zhuang Sitong, and his name is Zhuang Qi." Zhuo Junchen knows everything about the southwest. Although the Dian Kingdom is separated from Shu County by several countries, every move he makes is under Zhuo Junchen's control.  Among them, Zhuo Junchen even surpassed Da Honglu in Dahan's understanding of Southwest.

    Dahonglu is the original Daxingling. After the rebellion of Prince Wei, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed it to Dahonglu. He is still one of the Nine Qings, but the position of Dahonglu is still vacant at the moment.

    "You guys have a good rest tonight. Mr. Chang Gong will follow me to Changle Palace tomorrow. I still have some things to deal with, so I'll leave first!" Huo Guang stood up and said goodbye.  Zhuo Junchen and Luo Xiahong brought him too many useful things today, but to make use of them, he still had a lot of work to do.

    "Immediately send me an order to have Sima Zheng and He Tai's army stop marching and station on the spot." Huo Guang said goodbye and left Xia Hong and Zhuo Junchen, and immediately issued an order for Shu County Jianwei's army to station on the spot.

    "In addition, make preparations. I will go to the grandson's place immediately. At the same time, I will notify Du Yannian and Zhao Yinhua, as well as Wang Yuanyou and Su Wu, and ask them to go to the grandson's dormitory." Huo Guang continued to give orders as he walked out, even though it was already  Late at night, Huo Guang still had a lot of things to deal with.

    Soon Huo Guang and a group of confidants gathered in Liu Jin's dormitory in Weiyang Palace. These people discussed together until they left.  While Huo Guang and others were discussing, Sang Hongyang was also writing at the imperial doctor's office, reviewing and correcting official documents. Dozens of officials below him were also busy, even though  In the middle of the night, the censor's office was still in full swing.

    "These are the annual taxes for the kings surnamed Liu. The amount has been determined. Immediately send people to various countries to urge the kings to gather enough food and grass to transport to the front line as soon as possible." Sang Hongyang pointed to a pile of documents beside him and said to the officials beside him  member said.  In one day, he had already calculated the amount of grain that the Han Dynasty had borrowed from the vassal kings. Now it was just up to the kings surnamed Liu to collect the grain and grass and transport them to the front line.

    "Immediately find the atlas of the river and water network, and at the same time, order the counties and counties along the way to recruit ships. Next, we need to carefully plan how to deploy ships to transport food." Sang Hongyang continued to give instructions while reviewing the documents in his hand.?Transporting grain by water was the fastest and most labor-saving way during this period, and the consumption during operation was also minimal.

    Another day of the court meeting started as scheduled when the first ray of sunlight shone into the Weiyang Palace. However, at the beginning of today's court meeting, everyone found that the atmosphere was a little unusual.

    "Appoint the right auxiliary captain Wang Jun as the Zhonglang General and Su Wu as the Dahonglu. They will lead an army of 60,000 soldiers from Shu County to attack the barbarians in the southwest. Set off immediately without any mistakes!" Before everyone could recover, a voice came out.  An edict issued in the name of the grandson of the supervisor was read out directly.
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