Chapter 49 Foundry
Casting skills have always been Liu Yi's shortcomings, because Liu Yi usually does some wooden work, and iron tools are restricted among the people. At the beginning, no one would ask him to fight in Wolonggang, and he would only occasionally do some fragments like hoes or rakes. So now, Liu Yi's casting skills are only level 2.
This time, although Liu Bei placed not many orders, it also gave Liu Yi the opportunity to practice. The stove in Tiangongfang was very prosperous. Liu Yi put the red-burned iron ingots into the mold one by one and began to build the tool for the first time.
The biggest advantage of the system is that Liu Yi doesn’t have to bother to find skills about skills. As long as it exists in his skill bar, the system will automatically appear related knowledge. Of course, just like the Mohist mechanism, you have to rely on Liu Yi to understand it yourself.
The forging method in the Han Dynasty was to repeatedly heat and forge iron blocks to eliminate impurities inside the iron ingots. The system would not give him knowledge beyond the times. He was not very clear about how to forge Liu Yi in later generations, but in Liu Yi's view, the weapons forged by this forging method are no longer much worse than those in later generations of industrial processing.
In fact, the weapons used by ordinary soldiers are enough for nine refining, which can maintain enough weight. However, in Tiangongfang, Liu Yi was not satisfied, and he wanted to strive for excellence.
It seemed as if he was possessed by a demon, and it was constantly tempered and forged until twenty-six times. Liu Yi obviously felt that he could no longer continue to temper his ability. Twenty-six times was the limit, but in this year, the most famous one was a powerful tool for the craftsman! This has great requirements for the skills of the craftsman himself, at least Liu Yi still cannot reach that level now.
After silence, he shaped the ring-headed knife after twenty-six times. After repeated tempering, only seven or eight kilograms of material remained in the semi-finished product. After quenching and cooling, Liu Yi fixed the handle of the knife with some fine lines and silently watched the weapon he forged for the first time.
Twenty-six ring-first knife: sharp +2, strong +1
Not to mention the workmanship of weapons, the quality of weapons seems to be related to how much practice is. In terms of attributes alone, this attribute is garbage equipment in Liu Yi's current works, but at level 2, attribute bonuses appear, which does not exist in other skills. When he triggered attribute bonus for the first time, the woodworking skill had reached the level 3 perfection.
If it is just a soldier or some young generals, twenty-six refinements are enough, right?
After looking at the knife for a while, Liu Yi did not test the knife, but just looked at the hourglass beside him. Liu Yi was a little confused and forged a ring-headed knife. He took two hours. This was because his speed was faster than ordinary people under the influence of his skillful hands. On the other hand, he was attracted by the carpenters. In one morning, the man who worked as a carpenter had basically made a lot of guns and arrows, and the shield had been made for more than thirty sides.
Ten days, it’s really not a short time!
Liu Yi thought about it and left only ten people to continue working with him. As for the others, he went out to help build the village wall. He planned to wait until his forging skills reached level 3 before everyone could build it together, so that the speed would be much faster.
After the first forging experience, the second time was much faster. Liu Yi was not satisfied with the twenty-six refinements. Although he had skill levels, it did not mean that he could not do better at the same skill level. At least in the previous forging, Liu Yi obviously realized his shortcomings. If he could change some, he might be able to do thirty refinements.
The improvement of ability is not to do something repeatedly, but to constantly discover your own problems and shortcomings in the process of repeating things, and then remove them, just like this, steel making, during the repeated tempering, the impurities in it are removed bit by bit.
On the first day, Liu Yi only wished three swords early. When he was the third one, he finally achieved twenty-seven refinement. Although he was not stronger than the first sword in terms of attributes, as the caster, Liu Yi could feel the subtle changes in it. The sword he forged himself did become stronger.
And things like shields, gun rods, arrow rods, etc., even after reducing the number of studies, they will complete more than half of them on the first day. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be able to complete them all the next day.
The most important thing is those iron tools.
Liu Yi left Tiangongfang, and his brain, which had been immersed in the ironwork, became more relaxed, but he still unconsciously thought about how to make weapons better.
After eating some of the food that Deng's mother made for him, she fell asleep deeply.
The next day, he was in a surprisingly good condition. Not only did he create four ring-headed swords in one day, but most importantly, he finally created a ring-headed sword that was more than thirty refinings.
Thirty-six Ring First Sword: Sharp +7, Strong +5, Armor Break +1
The significant improvement in attributes also means that Liu Yi has approached maturity in his forging skills, and the casting skills have successfully reached level three after he created this knife.
Starting from the third day, Liu Yi hired ten students to start forging gun heads and arrows with him. No matter how powerful he is, he would never be able to create so many things alone in ten days.
Arrows are relatively easy. If you don’t pursue some special effects, the arrows of this era are four-edged or triangular, flat and long. After creating a general effect, you just need to sharpen the grinding stone. In the Tiangongfang, there are grinding stones that connect water trucks and use hydraulic power to rotate continuously. With this, grinding is not a waste of effort.
Although there are some ideas for improving arrow clusters in your mind, Liu Yi did not use it. There is no need. It is enough to have these. As for his ideas, such as barbs, grooves, etc., they are too lethal. With Liu Bei's current power, he cannot change the overall situation. It is better to study it slowly here and start promoting it after the forging skills reaches level 4.
Although the forging skills are now at the lowest level among Liu Yi's current skills, in this chaotic era, since he has made his first business, he may move closer to the direction of the Three Kingdoms arms dealers in the future and will not lack opportunities to practice.
Moreover, Liu Yi was also worried that the things he created were too shocking and caused unnecessary trouble to him. It would be better to develop in a dull way without much self-protection ability at present.
After silently fixing the last cluster of arrows on the shaft, checking the properties of the arrows, Liu Yi nodded with satisfaction and said to a craftsman beside him: "Go and notify Mr. Mi Zhu and ask him to send someone to carry it."
Chapter completed!