Gao Yuan said again: "Then how much time will it take for you to forge another Nine Refining Iron Sword?" ”

Li Boping said: "Back to my lord, the villain is now old, and he has long stopped forging swords by himself, among the disciples, they have not yet been completed, and the manufacture of the Nine Refining Iron Sword is extremely difficult, but it is impossible to find it, casting a hundred iron swords, and may not be able to cast a Nine Refining Iron Sword." Therefore, when the next Nine Refining Iron Sword will be cast, the villain can't say, maybe one or two years, maybe ten or eight years, maybe it's not enough. ”

Gao Yuan only then understood that with the current casting process, casting a nine-refining iron sword, to put it bluntly, is to hit the luck, fortunately, the main purpose of his visit to the workshop this time is not to buy a high-quality iron sword, and to buy a sword is just to throw stones and ask for directions. Therefore, he said: "How many refinements can you achieve with the usual iron sword?" How much time does it take? ”

Li Boping said: "Lord Huiyu, you can usually reach four or five refinements. It only takes two or three months? ”

Gao Yuan nodded, the iron sword of five refining is already very good, it can be better than most of the bronze swords, after all, it is impossible for every soldier to use high-quality weapons on the battlefield, most of them are ordinary weapons, and said: "I have a few weapons, I need you to build them with iron as well, you can use four or five refining first, I hope to see the first batch of samples in two or three months, can you see it." As he spoke, he took a long strip of cloth from the hand of a soldier, and when he opened it, it was a long wooden knife.

Li Boping took the wooden knife, looked at it, and felt very strange, he had been forging swords all his life, so he had a certain understanding of swordsmanship, but the model that Gao Yuan gave him was a completely different weapon from the sword. The blade body is slightly curved, with only one side of the blade, which is quite similar to the lai knife used by the people, but the whole body is slender, there is a handle and a gauntlet, and it is the same as the sword, it is indeed the first time to see it.

This is a wooden mold made by a carpenter after a carpenter who drew a pattern in the style of a later Japanese sword. The length reaches nearly one meter, and the length of the handle reaches twenty centimeters, which can be held with both hands, but the blade is slightly wider than the average Japanese sword, and the ratio of the blade to the whole blade is one to four, and the ratio of the main knife is one to two, which is the shape of the Chinese Tang knife. This is mainly due to the fact that there was very little metal armor on the battlefields of ancient Japan, so the sharpness of the sword was mainly pursued, while the opposite was true in China, where the blade also had the ability to break through armor, which is the so-called axe-shaped blade.

In fact, casting a saber that can be used on the battlefield is the ultimate goal of the plateau to come to the workshop, because on the battlefield, the power of actions such as chopping and slashing is far greater than that of stabbing, and the role of the knife in this regard is much greater than that of the sword. Although the sword can also perform movements such as slashing, due to the straight blade, the force and speed of the slash are much smaller than those of a curved sword. The Japanese sword is a combination of the common characteristics of the sword, the power is great when chopping, and it can be stabbed, it is indeed a fine product of the cold weapon era, so the Japanese also call the technique of using the Japanese sword swordsmanship. After the Three Kingdoms, with the development of the casting process, the sword gradually became popular on the battlefield, and the sword gradually became an ornament and lost its practical role.

However, after looking at it for a while, Li Boping also nodded and said, "Don't worry, my lord, such a weapon can be forged by a villain." I don't know how much adults need? ”

Gao Yuan said: "Let's make ten handles first, four refining or five refining can be, I hope to receive it in two months, at most three months." I've got some weapons in hand, so I'll give them all to you to forge together. As he spoke, he handed Li Boping a sample of the other two weapons.

These are all models made by the plateau based on the weapons of later generations, one is a double-edged axe, and the other is a throwing knife. Because Takahara also considered that in case the current process could not cast a good knife, then it could be replaced with a double-edged axe.

In fact, the axe has been a weapon in China for a long time, with a short handle as an axe and a long handle as a cymbal, but it is basically a single edge, and most of them are used for decoration and ceremonial guards. Because although the power of axes on the battlefield is quite amazing, and the casting process is not complicated, not many are actually used on the battlefield. The main thing is that it is too heavy, and only a few fierce generals who are outstanding can be used well. And there is also a plethora of materials used, and one axe can make at least four or five swords.

However, Takahara also took this into account, so the main juggling was a reference to the Nordic Vikings' use of double-edged axes, and also reduced the weight of the axe, which could be used by most soldiers, and the axe handle was four feet long (one foot is twenty-three centimeters) and the length was between the axe and the axe, which could be used both with both hands and hands. Although it is slightly less powerful, it can be used in large quantities in the army.

In the past, when training on the plateau, he spent a lot of energy learning the knife technique to cope with some environments where firearms could not be used. At a distance of less than 20 meters, it can almost reach 100 shots and 100 hits, and within 50 meters, it can also reach a hit rate of 6 or 70 percent. For each mission, Gao Yuan generally carries three throwing knives with him. But in this day and age, three throwing knives are far from enough, so a lot of spare ones are needed. The plateau requires 20 double-edged axes and 100 throwing knives.

Although the number of these two weapons is large, the casting process is much simpler than that of knives, there is no need to forge them many times, and there are models to make samples, so after Li Boping looked at them, he immediately agreed to come down and deliver them with the ten knives.

The plateau left ten yi gold as a deposit, and then left the Li Casting workshop with Wang Hu, Wang Bao and others.

However, Gao Yuan did not go back to the house directly, but came to Li Mu's mansion, because Gao Yuan had already agreed with Zhao Xuan and asked Zhao Xuan to instruct him in martial arts, but there was an incident in which Luo Huan was kidnapped, and Zhao Xuan had to defend Li Mu every morning to discuss matters, so he could only accompany Gao Yuan to practice in the afternoon.

When Gao Yuan came to Li Mu's mansion, Li Mu had just returned from the dispersal of the dynasty and told the plateau that at today's court meeting, Zhao Wang Qian had been relieved of Zhao Cong's position as the Great Sima, and Li Mu temporarily replaced Zhao Cong, a fake Great Sima. False, that is, the meaning of agency.

This is also expected by Gao Yuan, regardless of whether Luo Huan's abduction is related to Zhao Yang, but Zhao Yang appeared in the martial arts hall and prevented Li Yinghong from entering the martial arts hall to search, this is always a thing, so Zhao Cong must be out of responsibility. Moreover, Lin Wenqing's identity cannot be compared to that of ordinary businessmen, and he has a very close relationship with the military, although Zhao Wangqian wants to shelter Zhao Cong, but he has to be forced to remove Zhao Cong from his position under pressure from all sides. And now the only one in the entire Zhao Kingdom who can replace Zhao Cong is, of course, only Li Mu. Even Guo Kai had no reason to object.

Li Mu's mansion was very happy, because as the Great Sima, Li Mu was equivalent to officially grasping the military power of Zhao State, and it would be justified to transfer troops and generals in the future. But Gao Yuan knew that this was not a good thing, when Zhao Cong was the great Sima in the past, although he had some discord with Li Mu, but in terms of grand affairs, there was no obstacle to Li Mu, after all, he was the minister of the Zhao family, and he did not dare to mess around at the moment of Zhao Guo's life and death. But now Li Mu has replaced Zhao Cong as the Great Sima, whether Li Mu takes the initiative or not, but he has completely torn his face with Zhao Cong, and now that Zhao Guo's military power is concentrated in Li Mu, it is enough to arouse the suspicion of the monarch at any time, not to mention that Zhao Guo still has Guo Kai on his side, of course he will not let go of this opportunity to stir up discord. But there is no way to do it, and the plateau can only take one step at a time.

However, Li Mu told the plateau another thing, but the plateau was completely unexpected, and the Qin state sent the great master to make Yao Jia as an envoy, and the envoy Zhao hoped to negotiate peace with the Zhao state. At this time, they had already reached the border of Zhao, and the monarchs and ministers of Zhao discussed for a day, some advocated making peace with Qin, and some advocated ignoring Qin and driving Yao Jia away, but none of them came to a conclusion.

Gao Yuan said: "What is the official position of Dashangzao?" Who is this Yao Jia? ”

Ning Qi said: "Da Shangzao is equivalent to the secretary of the kingdom, Yao Jia is one of the important ministers of Qin, he can speak well, quite has the ability of Zhang Yi Su Qin, originally a native of Wei, his father was a prisoner who guarded the city gate, when he was young, he committed the crime of stealing, fled to Zhao State, and was expelled from Zhao State, but after arriving in Qin State, he was courteous and appreciated by Qin Wangzheng, and entrusted with important tasks, with a hundred cars, a thousand catties of gold, clothes with his clothes, dancing with his sword, and envoys to Shandong countries. so that the countries could not join forces to resist Qin. ”

Gao Yuan nodded, Shangqing is a very high official position, three levels higher than himself, the doctor, it seems that this Yao Jia belongs to the diplomatic talent.

Ning Qi said again: "Later, Han Fei entered Qin and made a statement to the Qin Wangzheng that Yao Jia was from a humble background and was a thief, so he was not enough to serve as the secretary, and he sent an envoy to the six countries, and with the wealth of the Qin State, he made good friends with the six countries to seek his own personal interests, which was not meritorious to Qin at all. But Yao Jia argued to himself: Only by forming a good alliance with the princes of the Six Kingdoms can he destroy the Six Kingdoms to resist Qin, not for his own benefit, and since ancient times, heroes do not ask where they come from, Jiang Taigong is an abandoned minister of the Yin Dynasty, and King Wu of Zhou uses him to call the king of the world; Guan Zhong was once a prisoner of the Lu State, and Qi Huan used him to dominate the princes; Baili Xicao became a slave, and Qin Mugong redeemed it with five sheepskins, but he used him to shock Xirong, so the monarch does not have to care about the stain of the past, but whether it can be useful to the state. No matter how good the reputation is, if it doesn't work for Qin, it shouldn't be rewarded. After hearing this, Qin Wangzheng still trusted Yao Jia, and later Yao Jia united with Li Si to attack Han Fei against Qin Wangzheng, resulting in Han Fei's death in Qin. This person is very good at words, proficient in the art of vertical and horizontal, and it is by no means a good thing to envoy Zhao State. ”

Gao Yuan was also a little surprised, of course he knew Han Fei's name in history, but he didn't expect to suffer a big loss at the hands of this Yao Jia, and this debate can be said to have ended in Han Fei's complete defeat. It also shows that this Yao Jia is indeed eloquent.

Li Mudao: "Yao Jia is the envoy of the Qin State, he wants to send an envoy to the Zhao State, no one can stop it, if he comes, he will be safe." Although the DPRK and China are still undecided on whether to accept Yao Jia, according to the usual practice, envoys from other countries always have to meet each other.

Gao Yuan also nodded and said, "Yes, we can only wait and see what he has to say now." He turned his head and said to Zhao Xuan: "I still want to ask General Zhao for a lesson or two." ”

Zhao Xuan also smiled slightly and said, "Come on." ”