In fact, the main purpose of Li Daozong coming to Lu Chen today was to ask about his sword. However, after Lu Chen took him to visit Liulicang, he temporarily forgot about it. Although he saw His Hundred-Refined Broken Sword was quite sad, but after seeing the huge glass and hearing Lu Chen's proposal, Li Daozong had long forgotten this sadness.
Now that Brother Lu actually remembers his stainless steel sword, how could Li Daozong not be overjoyed.
"It's rare that Brother Lu still remembers this matter. I have forgotten this matter!" Li Daozong had a smile on his face. In Lu Chen's view, the smile on his face directly reflected how much Li Daozong said what he said. Against my will.
"Since I promised the prince, I must do it! What I believe in is 'words must be followed, and actions must be resolute'!" Lu Chen smiled and led Li Daozong to the steel workshop. As for the steel workshop, that is The most important place in the workshop area now is Lu Chen's arsenal in the future. How could it be exposed at will? Even the steel workshop is located in the center of the workshop area in Lujiazhuang. In front of it are the steel workshop and Liulifang. It is directly surrounded by workshops.
Entering the steel workshop, it was originally called a blacksmith workshop, but after the availability of fine steel, it was called a steel workshop. Ai Xu greeted him. Ai Xu had met Li Daozong and saw Lu Chen walking with Li Daozong. Entering the steel workshop, he quickly kowtowed to the two of them, "Ai Xu, a common man, kowtows to the prince and the father-in-law!"
Under the leadership of Ai Xu, the craftsmen in the steel workshop also kowtowed to the two.
"Everyone, get up!" Li Daozong waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, Lord, thank you!" Ai Xu led all the craftsmen to answer in unison, and then stood up. Normally, Lu Chen would not allow craftsmen like them to kneel down and worship. Not only them, but also Zhuangzili Lu Chen didn't let the bankers kneel down to him, but today Li Daozong was here, so these people still had to kneel down.
"Ai Xu, are you ready with what I asked you to prepare?" Lu Chen looked at Ai Xu and asked.
"Back to you, sir, everything is ready!" Ai Xu bowed and said, then turned around and shouted, "Er baby, bring that box over here!"
As Ai Xu's voice fell, a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old went to the side and brought a long wooden box over. The box was made entirely of sandalwood. This sandalwood was bought by Lu Chen from a lumber shop in the city. , with a turning python carved on it.
Ai Xu took the sandalwood box from the young man's hand and held it in front of Lu Chen and Li Daozong. Lu Chen was not polite and directly reached out to open the sandalwood box. There was a layer of red satin inside, and a long handle was placed on the satin. The sword, next to the long sword is a black sharkskin scabbard. The front end and the mouth of the scabbard are wrapped in brass, with a layer of gold water on it, making it sparkle.
A red lantern sword spike more than three feet long lies next to the long sword. The tail of the sword is inlaid with a colored glass ball. Of course, in Li Daozong's eyes, it is a colored glass ball. The rosewood sword hilt has a golden sword grid in front. In front of it is a sword about three feet tall. The black sword body sets off the white blade, exuding a cold light in the sun.
"My lord, would you like to try?" Lu Chen pointed at the long sword in the sandalwood box and made a "please" gesture to Li Daozong.
Hearing Lu Chen's words, Li Daozong was not polite. He directly reached out and picked up the long sword in the sandalwood box. He weighed it in his hand, then stretched out two fingers and flicked the sword directly. The long sword made a "buzz" sound. "What a sword!" Hearing the sound of the long sword being flicked, Li Daozong immediately praised him happily. An expert in using swords can hear the sound of the sword being flicked just by hearing the sound. Whether a sword is good or bad, Li Daozong, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, can naturally be regarded as an expert in using swords.
Li Daozong was so happy to see that he was hunting. He directly held the long sword and held a sword flower. The red sword tassels fluttered with the long sword, giving people a free and elegant feeling. He followed Li Daozong and played a few more sword moves before copying He picked up the scabbard and inserted the long sword directly. With a "click", the buckle on the long sword got stuck on the spring of the scabbard.
"Huh?" Hearing the "click" sound of the scabbard, Li Daozong's expression was stern. He quickly lowered his head to check the sword. His expression was very worried. It was obviously this sound that made Li Daozong think that he had broken the scabbard. .
"Your Majesty, this is a normal phenomenon when the spring is stuck!" Lu Chen said while holding back a smile as he watched Li Daozong carefully inspecting the stainless steel sword.
"What is the spring?" Li Daozong felt relieved when he heard that the sound came from the scabbard, and then immediately raised his head to ask Lu Chen.
"The spring is a small invention invented by me to jam the sword!" Lu Chen smiled and continued to explain to Li Daozong, then took the stainless steel sword from Li Daozong's hand, "Your Majesty, look here!" Lu Chen pointed The spring mechanism was shown to Li Daozong, and Li Daozong discovered that there was a small round button in the scabbard close to the sword grid.
"Just press here and the stainless steel sword will pop out!" Lu Chen said, pressing the small round button directly, followed by another "click", and then he saw that it had The stainless steel sword that was sheathed was more than two inches long when it popped out.
"Oh? This is really convenient for drawing the sword!" Li Daozong's eyes immediately lit up when he saw the design of this spring.
For a long time, the swords of the Tang Army have been sheathed by metal parts such as Xi (Yin Tongzu) gold to fix the sword. To put it bluntly, this Xi Jin is the raised concave area on the blade or the sword body close to the guard. Slotted metal parts. So far, all sword sheaths have relied on this thing and the friction of the sheath itself to fix the sword.
Don't underestimate Lu Chen's small spring design. On the battlefield, if you draw the sword an inch earlier than the enemy, you may kill the opponent. What's more, it can pop out more than two inches away, and this design is even more It can make people easily pull the sword out of its sheath.
Li Daozong reinserted the long sword into the scabbard. After hearing a "click", he simulated the state of hanging the sword at his waist. He pressed his right hand on the hilt of the sword and pressed the spring with his left hand. With a "swish" sound, the long sword was released. He pulled it out, but this time it frightened Lu Chen, because when Li Daozong drew his sword, he rushed towards Lu Chen. Lu Chen dodged and jumped back more than a meter, and then he avoided Li Daozong's sword. However, the corner of his clothes was cut off by Li Daozong's sword and fell to the ground.
"I'm talking about you, Your Majesty! We don't do this! Fortunately, I can hide quickly. If I hide more slowly, I won't be disemboweled by you?" Lu Chen glanced at the clothes lying on the ground with a wry smile. Jiao, complained to Li Daozong.
"Ouch! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Li Daozong also saw the corner of his clothes on the ground at this time, and there was cold sweat on his forehead. If Lu Chen was injured with a sword, what should he do? Let Emperor Li Yuan know Why don't you kill yourself? Even if Li Yuan can let him go, can his third sister Li Xiuning let him go? Do you have to peel off your own skin? Li Daozong hurriedly apologized to Lu Chen.
"Good guy! It's too sudden for you!" To be honest, Lu Chen was so frightened by Li Daozong that he sweated. Of course, it was impossible for Lu Chen to say that he was disembowelled. After all, there was still something between the two. It was a distance, but if Lu Chen had to dodge slower at that time, there was still a high possibility of entering the palace directly.
"Brother Lu, I'm really sorry. I was also happy to see Lie Xin, so I unconsciously tested it! Sorry! Sorry!" Li Daozong rushed to Lu Chen and apologized repeatedly.
"It's okay, Your Majesty! Just don't make surprise attacks like this in the future!" Lu Chen also recovered at this time and raised his hands to Li Daozong and said, can Lu Chen still go up and beat Li Daozong without mercy?
"Brother Lu, can this spring be used in the military?" Seeing that Lu Chen was not too angry, Li Daozong felt relieved and looked at Lu Chen and asked.
"Of course you can. It's just that this thing needs to be made of fine steel. I'm afraid it's still a little difficult to popularize it now. But it doesn't matter. Hasn't His Majesty already begun to try the blast furnace iron-making method? I believe that when the pig iron production increases, the converter steel-making method will also It's ready to be used! It won't take too long!" Although Lu Chen couldn't leave Lujiazhuang, Lu Chen still knew that Li Yuan started to build a blast furnace directly near the mine. After all, Su Chang sent her servants out to purchase things, so she could I can hear some news.
"Oh! It seems that I can only try it first!" Li Daozong patted the sandalwood box very proudly. Li Daozong was the first person besides Bei Weiwei to obtain stainless steel weapons. This was enough for him. Damn it.
"Since Brother Lu has given me the stainless steel sword, I won't bother you anymore! Let's go to the palace to find His Majesty!" Li Daozong gave Lu Chen a "you understand" look.
Lu Chen nodded, "In that case, I won't keep the prince anymore!" Lu Chen also knew that if it weren't for the stainless steel sword, Li Daozong would have rushed to Li Yuan's house.
Lu Chen directly sent Li Daozong to the gate of Lujiazhuang, while Li Daozong asked his personal attendant to hold the sandalwood box. As for the fine steel sword, Li Daozong had already hung it on his body. A prince of the Li clan of the Tang Dynasty, because of a fine steel sword The sword created a feeling of "wealth never returns home, just like walking in brocade at night", but after all, Li Daozong was only in his twenties at this time, and he was at the age where he liked to play.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry that I can't send you far away!" Standing at the gate of Lujiazhuang, Lu Chen said with a smile to Li Daozong.
"Calculating the time, it will only last for ten days at most. Your Majesty's ban on Brother Lu will expire. By then, Brother Lu will have to come to the king's mansion to sit for a while!" Under the service of the servants, , Li Daozong, who was about to mount his horse, sent an invitation to Lu Chen.
