For experienced craftsmen, it is not difficult to roughly sort pig iron and wrought iron.

Dozens of craftsmen were busy, and soon more than a thousand weapons were sorted.

There is a pile of pig iron on the left and a pile of wrought iron on the right. The pig iron pile is long and has many weapons, the wrought iron pile is full of knives, and the middle pile, which is half large and not too small, still has many knives.

These fifteen hundred weapons randomly selected from the army are enough to represent the overall armament status of the rebel army. The source of the rebel armaments comes from the Yellow Turbans, and the source of the Yellow Turbans armaments comes from the Han official army.

It can be said that 1,500 weapons are enough to give an overview of the Han's armament production.

The Han Dynasty has mature steel-making technology, but the cost of steel-making is a bit high after all, and pig iron and wrought iron weapons still occupy part of the armament system.

Furthermore, there are more finely crafted weapons than finely crafted spears and knives. That is to say, out of ten hundred-refined weapons, six or seven are knives, and the rest are spears and spears.

It can be seen from this that the Huanshou Sword is truly the main battle weapon of the Han Dynasty.

Li Mengxi walked to the middle pile, which was neither pig iron nor wrought iron.

Iron is pig iron. The difference between wrought iron and steel is that it is neither pig iron nor wrought iron, so it can only be steel.

Li Mengxi didn't know how to distinguish between good and bad weapons, but he could tell at a glance that the remaining pile of weapons in the middle was obviously much more refined than the two piles on the sides.

I casually pulled out a ring-shou knife from it. The knife was a bit longer than the ordinary ring-shou knife. The handle was also beautifully decorated and the blade had regular lines.

This must be a steel knife, that is, a knife made by frying steel.

Li Mengxi showed the sword to Guan Yu. Guan Yu held up his hands and looked at it forward and backward. Guan Yu nodded and said, "It's a good knife, made by hundreds of refiners."

Li Mengxi's eyes widened, and he asked curiously, "I'm surprised, General Guan, can you tell at a glance how much the sword was made? It's amazing!"

"Well," Guan Yu said calmly, "sometimes you can tell."

"When can we see it?" Li Mengxi asked.

Guan Yu said expressionlessly, "When there is a mark on the blade of the sword, someone can tell whether it is a hundred or fifty refinements."

Li Mengxi was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

I thought that Guan Yu really had the ability to form a sword, but it turned out that the sword said "Hundred Refined Swordsmanship".

Li Mengxi took the sword and took a look at it. There were several inscriptions on the lower part of the blade. He looked at it carefully and found that it was indeed "Hundred Refined Works".

In the idiom, a knife that has been tempered a hundred times is worth folding and forging more than a hundred times. A knife that has been tempered a hundred times is considered a rare masterpiece.

This highly refined weapon is the highest-grade weapon among standard equipment.

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After all the weapons were sorted, Li Mengxi took a secret look around. He pulled Guan Yu aside and whispered, "The art of steel filling is a powerful weapon for the military. I don't know if these craftsmen have any hidden dangers of leaking secrets.

I want to isolate and monitor a group of craftsmen so that they do not have the opportunity to negotiate with outsiders, so as to eliminate the possibility of leakage of their skills."

"So, before iron is made, the ironmaking workshop needs to be surrounded by high walls..."

Before Li Mengxi finished speaking, Guan Yu interrupted Li Mengxi with a wave of his hand. Guan Yu frowned and said, "Don't trust the people you employ, and don't trust the people you doubt. Since you are worried, I will handle it for you."

After saying that, Guan Yu went towards the blacksmiths with his hands behind his back.

After that, Guan Yu called all the blacksmiths away and called them to a corner. He talked to a group of blacksmiths for a long time. I don't know what he said. Then he saw Guan Yu leading a large group of blacksmiths back.

The blacksmith, led by the leader of the blacksmith, came to Li Mengxi and knelt down in an uproar, saying that he was willing to serve with one heart and without any second thoughts.

Li Mengxi was suddenly kneeled down in front of him by a large crowd. He felt very uncomfortable and quickly asked everyone to get up.

He looked up and saw that Guan Yu was standing in the distance looking this way and nodded slightly.

Li Mengxi understood what Guan Yu meant. Guan Yu was against locking up the craftsmen in a method that was close to imprisonment. Guan Yu still believed in loyalty. Guan Yu must have felt that people's hearts were trustworthy.

However, no matter how reliable the human heart is, it must be guarded against. It is the human heart that is the most unpredictable.

Forget it, when conditions are sufficient in the future, just build a separate iron-making workshop somewhere else, away from the crowd, and then put it in a relatively isolated environment without a wall, which can also prevent the flow of technology.
Chapter completed!