Zhou Shu was still in a daze when Sun Pingping tugged on his sleeve and whispered.
Zhou Shu came back to his senses, glanced at Zhu Chuanfeng, and then said, "Master Zhu is a great craftsman, so it is normal for him to disdain standard weapons, but if you say that the road to standard weapons has been exhausted, I don't dare
I agree."
"As far as I know, although Daxia's standard weapons are powerful, they are of a single type. Standard long knives, standard long swords, and even bows and arrows are all the same."
"This is the standard weapon. Although it is easier to cast, it is a missed change for the army."
"In my opinion, different military services should be equipped with different weapons. The cavalry has cavalry weapons, the infantry has infantry weapons, and the Praetorian Guard and the Border Guard are different."
Meng Bai nodded slightly, admiration flashing in his eyes.
Zhu Chuanfeng snorted coldly, "You are an ignorant boy, what do you know about the army?"
"Stop talking nonsense, have you ever forged weapons? If not, just admit defeat."
Zhou Shu didn't know if it was his own misunderstanding. He always felt that Zhu Chuanfeng was targeting him.
But think about it, he is a small soldier-making apprentice who has nothing to do with a great craftsman, so they won’t have trouble with him, right?
Without thinking much, Zhou Shu raised his head and pulled out the weapon soaked in cold oil.
As soon as the weapon appeared in front of everyone, Meng Bai and Zhu Chuanfeng stood up almost at the same time.
What Zhou Shu is holding is a weapon seven feet long, with a blade three feet long and a handle four feet long.
Just by looking at it, you can feel the lethality of this weapon.
In this world, including Daxia and several other countries, long weapons exist among the standard weapons, but they are usually just spears, spears and the like.
The long-handled broadsword has also been tried by weapon masters, but it was unsatisfactory in all aspects.
Zhu Chuanfeng is a master craftsman of weapons. Even if he has not mastered it, he can be sure that the sword made by Zhou Shu is a weapon that has never appeared in the history of Daxia!
He can even conclude that the power of this sword is not inferior to the Bailianhuan First Sword!
"Could it be that he is really a genius in making weapons?"
Zhu Chuanfeng frowned and thought.
"Show it to me!"
Meng Bai said solemnly, as for the weapon forged by the weapon-forging apprentices under Xiao Zongshui, Li Hongyuan and others, he just glanced at it and didn't even think about trying it out.
"Then, be careful!"
Zhou Shu said, casually throwing the long-handled sword over.
"You——"
Sun Pingping was startled, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.
This old Zhou, if you hurt General Meng, the three armies of Daxia will tear you alive!
Meng Bai laughed, stretched out his long arm, grasped the long handle of the broadsword, and then lowered his hand to relieve the force on it.
Zhou Shu raised his eyebrows. From beginning to end, he never used strength beyond that of ordinary people.
"What a heavy knife!"
Meng Bai said, he touched the blade with his fingers, then held the handle of the knife with both hands, and slashed into the void a few times.
"The Hundred-Refined Ring-headed Sword is good for cavalry to chop and fight on horseback. This sword can be used freely by horses and waterways."
Meng Bai said solemnly.
"The general knows the goods!"
Zhou Shu gave a thumbs up.
"However, there are also disadvantages. The First Hundred Refining Ring Sword weighs seven or eight kilograms and is relatively easy to use. However, this one is more than twice as heavy as the First Hundred Refining Ring Sword and requires much higher strength and physical strength from the user.
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Zhou Shu added.
"General, can you give me a look?"
Zhu Chuanfeng said in a deep voice.
Meng Bai casually handed the long knife to Zhu Chuanfeng and said with a smile, "Master Zhu tasted it and tasted it. Meng actually thinks that this knife is indeed a new standard weapon."
Zhu Chuanfeng's expression was serious. He stroked his hands over the long knife, and a faint white light emitted from his palms.
"The biggest problem with casting such a long handle from ordinary iron materials is that the weapon is easy to break, and such a long weapon requires extremely high casting skills. Ordinary weapon casting apprentices cannot cast it at all. Could it be that Zhou Shu's casting skills have already
Is it close to an ordinary weapon-smith?"
Zhu Chuanfeng said to himself.
He raised his head and looked at Zhou Shu, "This knife is not simply made of ordinary iron. What material did you use?"
Zhu Chuanfeng's tone was full of doubts.
If precious weapon-casting materials are used to cast standard weapons, it will indeed increase the power of standard weapons a lot, but that will also lose the original intention.
Wouldn’t it be more powerful to use precious weapon-making materials to forge high-quality weapons?
What you want from a standard weapon is high quality, low price, and cost-effective!
If Zhou Shu had used other materials, no matter how good the knife was, he would definitely lose in this competition.
"Awesome!"
Zhou Shu gave a heartfelt thumbs up. Although he didn't like Zhu Chuanfeng, he had to say that he was indeed capable.
Just by touching it with my hands, I can see the secret of this knife. The master craftsman really deserves his reputation.
"Did you really add other materials?"
Meng Bai said in a deep voice, his eyes slightly disappointed.
If other materials are added, there will be problems if the knife is cast in batches.
If the cost is too high, it is not a standard weapon. If the cost of a standard weapon is too high, then why not equip soldiers with high-quality weapons?
"It's understandable that you are young and energetic and don't want to lose, but cheating——"
Zhu Chuanfeng snorted coldly.
"Master Zhu, I won't take the blame for this."
Zhou Shu shook his head, "I did not forge this knife from ordinary iron, but if you say I cheated, I don't admit it."
"Here, even if I want to cheat, I have to do it under certain conditions. Will you give me the opportunity to search for other materials?"
Zhu Chuanfeng looked at the two boys he had left to supervise the work. The two boys shook their heads.
They have been monitoring this place for the past ten days and have not seen where Zhou Shu obtained other weapons-making materials.
"Master Zhou, what on earth is going on?"
Meng Bai said in a deep voice.
"It's actually very simple."
Zhou Shu smiled slightly and said, "Master Zhu saw that this long knife was not made of ordinary iron. That's because I used a new casting material."
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"This material is called Baili Steel."
"Hundred Steelmaking?"
Meng Bai's heart moved and he asked, "Is it related to the Bailian Huanshou Sword?"
"So to speak."
Zhou Shu nodded and explained, "The so-called Bailian is actually a casting method. I had a preliminary idea when I was casting the Bailian Huanshou Sword, but it was not perfect at the time."
"In the past ten days, I have been thinking hard day and night, and finally further perfected the Hundred Refining Method, and thus came the Hundred Refining Steel."
Sun Pingping curled his lips when he heard this. Are you thinking hard day and night?
You obviously sleep soundly day and night, okay.
But he was also quite curious. It looked like Lao Zhou was going to win.
That Hundred Steelmaking thing sounds very powerful. Is it possible that Lao Zhou is really a genius like me?
Should I consider waiting for him to become a weaponsmith and then let him help me forge high-quality weapons?
Sun Pingping rubbed his chin, his eyes rolling.
"Is it possible that the so-called hundred-refined steel you call is iron that has been processed by the method you mentioned?"
Zhu Chuanfeng is a professional after all. As soon as he heard Zhou Shu's words, he roughly understood what was going on.
Zhu Chuanfeng's eyes flickered, as if he was deducing the effect of this method.
The rest of the people did not understand what Zhou Shu meant at all. The method of hundreds of refinings and hundreds of steel refining were all too professional for them.
Even those apprentices who made weapons knew little about it.
"That's right, the method of Hundred Refining is to reduce the impurities in the iron material through repeated heating and forging, combined with certain techniques, and through special methods to reduce the carbon content in the iron material, so
Repeatedly, what you get is hundreds of steelmaking..."
Zhou Shu used his own understanding, deleting and deleting the words.
As for whether Zhu Chuanfeng can understand it, I'm sorry. Anyway, he won't explain the specific joints to Zhu Chuanfeng.
This is a secret that is not told!
Making steel is not just a matter of repeated forging, it also involves the proportion of iron, carbon, tin and other substances.
If you don't understand this, it's not that easy to make hundreds of steel.
Zhou Shu believed that even a master craftsman might not be able to find the perfect formula without trying thousands of times.
Why would a master waste so much time on this?
Obviously not.
This world is different from Zhou Shu's previous life. Various mysterious weapon-making materials are much stronger than steel-making. However, those weapon-making materials are expensive and only powerful warriors can afford them.
"Master Zhou, do you mean that you can make hundreds of steel using only ordinary iron materials?"
Meng Bai asked in a deep voice.
"Absolutely." Zhou Shu said, "General, do you want to ask about the cost of this sword?"
Meng Bai nodded and heard Zhou Shu say, "The main cost of steelmaking is the labor cost. After calculation, the cost of this knife should be twenty to thirty taels of silver."
"So cheap?"
Meng Bai's eyes lit up and he said.
Is this cheap?
Zhou Shu felt that he might have asked for a low price. He originally thought that the Huben knife only cost five taels of silver, and the cost of this knife was at most twice as expensive as the Huben knife.
You can make a profit by selling it for ten taels of silver, let alone twenty or thirty taels.
After all, the labor cost of the Weaponry Division is almost negligible...
"It's not bad." Zhou Shu pondered, "We try to reduce the cost as much as possible, and we should be able to supply this knife at this price."
"Master Zhou is indeed the pillar of the country!"
Mengbai looked overjoyed and said loudly.
"Master Zhu, who do you think will lose and who will win in this competition?"
Meng Bai looked at Zhu Chuanfeng and said with a smile.
"The so-called Hundred Steel Refining is just what he talks about. You have to try it before you know how it is." Zhu Chuanfeng said coldly, "In this world, fake goods are everywhere, who knows, this knife
Isn’t it a real product?”
"Master Zhu, are you saying that the general is blind, or are you saying that you are blind?"
Meng Bai snorted coldly, and a sense of majesty arose spontaneously. He said coldly, "Can't you and I still see the quality of a standard weapon?"
"Seeing is deceiving." Zhu Chuanfeng's scalp was numb, and his heart was shaking, and he said, "Even I can't be sure that I will make mistakes. I still have to try it to see if this knife is real or not!"<
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"Humph, since Master Zhu is so elegant, I will accompany him to the end." Meng Bai said coldly, "Today I will personally test the sword!"
"Master Zhou, does this knife have a name?"
He looked at Zhou Shu and asked.
"Yes!"
Zhou Shu said seriously, "This sword is called horse-killing!"