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Zhao Song frowned slightly when he heard this, "Your grandfather's sword has been with him for many years. It is an ancient sword with a strong blade. How could it be chipped?"

Zhao Hanzhang said: "The group of Xiongnu soldiers we encountered, the knives they used were excellent, and their weapons were no less than those of us in the Central Plains. I don't know where the iron essence they used came from."

Zhao Song thought for a while and said: "There are many iron mines in Bingzhou. Liu Yuan occupied Bingzhou before. If the weapons are due to the difference in iron essence, they should be obtained from Bingzhou."

Zhao Hanzhang was thoughtful. They needed higher purity iron essence for steelmaking. Mr. Ji bought two pieces from the county blacksmith shop and gave them to Fu Tinghan to practice. However, they found that the quality of the iron essence was very poor and steelmaking would be very expensive. Not to mention the strength, the refining rate is also very low.

It is difficult for the temperature of the furnace to reach the temperature for making steel. No matter how poor the quality of the iron concentrate is, it will be even more difficult for them to make steel.

Zhao Hanzhang threw the gun to Tinghe, "Fifth uncle, I want to refine this sword again, add better iron essence and beat it to make it stronger and sharper."

Zhao Song pondered, "If you want to make a sword again, you will have to hire a master craftsman to prevent the sword from being destroyed."

Zhao Hanzhang nodded with deep approval, "Does Fifth Uncle have any recommendations?"

Zhao Song shook his head, "There are many good blacksmiths in the hands of the Ministry of War and various vassal kings. How can we get such a great blacksmith?"

"You can look for people slowly. I believe that as long as you are sincere, you can always find them. It's just that good iron spirits are rare. I wonder if Fifth Uncle knows the people in Bingzhou?"

Zhao Ming:......

He looked at Zhao Hanzhang quietly.

Zhao Song stroked his beard and thought, throwing out the people he knew one by one from his mind. After a long while, he said "Ah": "Liu Yueshi is in Bingzhou, and he is now the governor of Bingzhou."

Zhao Hanzhang: "Liu Kun?" She vaguely remembered that Liu Kun's nickname was Yue Shi.

"Yes," Zhao Song asked, "Do you recognize him too?"

Of course she recognized him, but this famous official of the Jin Dynasty did not recognize her.

Zhao Hanzhang asked: "What is the relationship between the fifth uncle and Liu Yueshi?"

"So-so," Zhao Song said, "Your uncle is relatively familiar with him."

Oh, yes, they are both the Twenty-Four Friends, the twenty-four people who are famous in history for eating, drinking, having fun, and being wild and unrestrained.

Zhao Hanzhang thought about it and felt that starting from Zhao Zhongyu was too tortuous. The main reason was that she could not see Zhao Zhongyu and could not control many things.

So she still focused on the fifth uncle, "I wonder if I can contact him. Jinyang is now surrounded by the Xiongnu army. He must also want to contact the outside world. I am willing to exchange some other things for Tie Jing."

Zhao Ming couldn't help but look at her and said: "Sanniang, if you just mend a sword, it would be a waste. One basket is enough, so there is no need to specially exchange it for something? Isn't it just Tie Jing? Uncle bought it for you. ”

Zhao Hanzhang: "...Thank you uncle, but this sword was left to me by my grandfather. I want to do it myself. Can you take me with you when you send someone out? I will ask someone to follow you. The iron essence you buy must be fine." A carefully selected selection of the best.”

Zhao Ming, "Are you really just buying a basket of iron essence, or do you want to take this opportunity to contact the people selling iron essence over there and buy a large amount of iron ore or iron essence?"

Zhao Hanzhang raised his eyebrows at him without hesitation and did not deny this. He turned to Zhao Song and said, "Fifth uncle, you should have noticed that more and more refugees have flowed into Runan County recently. The people from Wubao are here." If the amount increases, the number of tribes must also increase accordingly to protect the clan. Iron is needed to train farm tools and weapons. If you can get good iron essence..."

Zhao Song: "You are right, but Bingzhou is too far away from Runan, and there are Huns in the middle who block traffic. It is too difficult to transport iron ore and iron essence. If you really want to buy iron essence from Bingzhou, I'm afraid you haven't left Bingzhou yet. Even our people and goods were robbed.”

"We also have iron ore in Runan." He lowered his voice and said: "The quality may not be as good as that in Bingzhou, but it is cheap, close, and safe."

Zhao Ming:......

Zhao Hanzhang immediately followed the stick and said, "I wonder if I can meet the iron seller? Maybe I can find good quality iron essence there, and my farm also needs to purchase farm tools. It will cost a lot to buy them all."

She said: "You also know that buying iron in the county is very restricted, and the blacksmith can't get so much iron."

Zhao Song understood that she had a unit in her hands, which, in addition to farm tools, must also be used to make weapons, and these had to be kept away from the eyes and ears of the Yamen.

Zhao Song thought for a while and agreed. Anyway, most of the big gentry in Runan were good at drinking tea with that person. Sanniang was one of his own, so there was nothing wrong with recommending it to her.

Moreover, Ji Yuan should know something. Even if he doesn't introduce it here, Ji Yuan will get there one day.

Zhao Ming looked at the happy Zhao Hanzhang and confirmed that she was dancing the sword with Xiang Zhuang with the intention of Peigong, and that Bingzhou and Liu Kun were just excuses.

Seeing that his father was still stupid and didn't know anything, and wanted to help her continue to think of ways to contact Liu Kun, Zhao Ming couldn't help but shook his head, walked aside and sat down to wait.

Zhao Hanzhang enthusiastically invited his fifth uncle to come down for dinner and said that he still had gifts for them.

Ting He came up with two boxes. Zhao Hanzhang opened the largest one and pushed it to Zhao Ming, "Uncle, this is a gift from me. Do you like it?"

Can the recipient of the gift still say he doesn’t like it?

Especially in front of his father, he has to hold it in even if he doesn't like it.

Zhao Ming lowered his eyes and glanced, then froze.

Zhao Song had already dragged the box over and took out the glass cup inside to look at it, "Is this... glass?"

This is a set of azure-colored glass cups. There is also a small glass pot in the middle of the box. It is clear and bright, but with a touch of blue.

The sun seemed to shine through the pot body and onto the table, and even the table was stained with that touch of azure.

Even a picky person like Zhao Ming couldn't say anything dissatisfying.

Zhao Song finished reading the set of glazed cups and carefully placed them in front of his eyes, "How can you give away such valuable things? You keep it. Even if you don't need it in the future, it's good to leave it to Erlang."

He admired in his heart that his eldest brother was worthy of being his eldest brother, and he could collect such good things.

However, didn’t Sanniang and the others lose all their luggage?

How was such a fragile treasure preserved?

Zhao Hanzhang pushed another slightly smaller box up and said with a smile: "Fifth uncle, this is for you."

Zhao Song opened it, and when he saw the gleaming glazed horse lying in the box, his expression slowly became serious.

Forget about the glass cup, it was indeed his elder brother's style, but how could his elder brother collect such a precious thing like the glass horse, which could only be seen but was not practical?

Zhao Song looked at Zhao Hanzhang, "Sanniang, where did you get these two things?"

It won't be long before the news about selling glass at Cai Tianzhuang will spread, and Xiping will definitely know about it. Instead of waiting for them to find out from others, it would be better for her to blow herself up.

Zhao Hanzhang raised his chin slightly and said, "Fifth uncle, these are all refined by us."

Zhao Song: "What did you say?"

See you at eleven o'clock