Rise of Rurik

On the first day, Kravason punched the iron forge ten times, and the sheer repetition made him very bored. On the second day, the boredom and boredom continued.

It's almost Hanukkah, what's new for this year's festival?

If a dagger that can satisfy the patron Rurik is made before the festival, the leader Otto will be satisfied too.

The next day, Rurik was still in the blacksmith's shop. He was supervising the work of the blacksmith, and he talked about the daily life of life in order to eliminate boredom.

If there was anything fresh for the two blacksmiths, it was the soap they bought for two silver coins after a day's work.

Hands are full of slag and toner, and ashes in the crevices of fingernails. With his gigantic beard and hair swelled by the heat of the flames, Clavason has always felt that the work of a blacksmith can turn a person into a big lump of bacon, which will always exude the smell of charcoal.

The use of soap changed all that.

The blacksmiths shoveled snow from a pottery urn from the outdoors, and the urn was roasted on the fire, and they washed themselves with clean hot water.

The wooden door was closed, the pottery urn was full of hot water, and it was easy to get more hot water if you wanted.

"It's been a tiring day at work, but your soap can save us." Clavason looked away, taking off his linen lining, while young Kawhi was doing the same thing.

Rurik immediately understood that they were not simply washing their hands and their hair, but bathing.

Their performance did not strike Rurik in the slightest, and what they did next surprised him even more.

Clavason used iron tongs to put the lid of the iron plate on the stove, and when it was hot, he poured water on it. The cold water immediately turned into a large amount of steam, and after a while, the dry blacksmith shop became a closed steam bath.

The whole room was shrouded in hot and humid fog.

Rurik barely saw that the two guys were already wiping their bodies with the damp sackcloth, and Kawi was also rubbing the soap on the skin without a teacher.

In the absence of a shower, this method of boiling water and wiping the body is probably the cheapest cleaning method, that is, they have to make the house damp by the way, so they have to go to a sauna.

But it's not a sauna, it's just Kravason's way of trying to make things a little warmer. As for the steam to wet the dry clothes, don't worry, the wooden door and the closed chimney will be opened after the bath, and the indoor will be dry soon.

They all cleaned themselves, and Rurik did the same.

At different times, rub all over with soap and rinse off with hot water.

"Ah! At least there is a sense of modern life..."

Or take a shower, and Rurik slept soundly that night.

Life is generally quiet and slow, and in the cold night, those guys who intend to go elsewhere to plunder and enrich their money boxes, they have to die.

Adults stay in warm homes and wait for the ice and snow to melt, while children spend almost their childhood in boredom.

A sense of boredom accompanied Rurik, and he felt that he had to do something. I used to be too young to be able to do anything at the age of five or six.

According to tradition, in the new spring, you can claim to be eight years old, and this Nordic body grows significantly faster. As height and strength enter a period of rapid growth, people's subjective initiative also needs to be improved.

Teaching blacksmiths more advanced iron smelting skills than their counterparts in this time and space is a beneficial start,

Later, in the research and development and production of weapons, he will definitely have a greater role.

So, can a medium carbon steel blade with a high carbon steel blade be successful? It depends on the in-depth processing in the next few days.

A comfortable bath, the soap took away the sludge and smoky smell of the two blacksmiths, and it seemed to take away their tiredness. starter

On a new day, Clavason and Kavey began to repeat the work of the previous two days with a hundred percent of their energy.

This is repeated ten times a day, with each cycle being critically calcined as a cut-off point.

In fact, the iron bars are calcined with plant ash and carbon powder, and the infiltration efficiency of carbon molecules is still poor. Compared with the carburizing method to manufacture alloy steel, it is not as efficient as the decarburization method at all. That is the limit temperature of charcoal combustion in blast furnace, producing a large amount of liquid pig iron, and then using some methods to decarbonize pig iron. Only this method can produce carbon steel more efficiently, and there is no need for "fifty refining" and "one hundred refining". "The craft of the exhausted blacksmith.

As long as the money is enough, Kravason and Kaway will no longer have any complaints.

Blacksmiths, in any clan their identities are complex.

The blacksmith did not believe in Odin, and was naturally sent out of battle by the warriors of the tribe. But all the production activities of the tribe require blacksmiths to make tools for them, and the tribe especially the warriors need them.

Due to the characteristics of traditional block iron making, it is most suitable to be made into an axe. One blade of an axe is a sharp weapon, and the other side is a hammer. The blade of the axe is the key to logging, and the hammer can smash through the armor of the enemy. The battle axe is really a suitable weapon, but it is too bulky.

Usually, unless a warrior's axe is broken, they will turn to the local blacksmith to help repair it.

The so-called cultivation of goodness, the situation is not much different from what Kravason is doing now.

But for the repair of goodness, it seems to others that the blacksmith burns the damaged product red and knocks it back to its original state. It seems that as long as the fire is mastered, any strong person can easily complete it. Just for the sake of good deeds, Kravassen's customers don't pay much, often only a few dozen copper coins.

Usually, he can only earn one silver coin after completing the repair of three axes, and also consider the charcoal consumption in the repair process.

Restoring the battle axe, it was beating against a huge iron block, compared to the one-third stika length iron bar requested by Rurik, any hammering was not very troublesome.

If they were all tools for repairing this kind of volume, Cravason figured it out. He was afraid that only six of them could be repaired to earn one silver coin. Thinking of this, Rurik gave more silver coins.

This was the case on the third day, and the same was true on the fourth day. On the fifth day, it was getting closer and closer to Rurik's requirement of repeating the calcination and forging fifty times, and Kravassen became more and more excited.

As a professional blacksmith family in the tribe, the family members are very unprosperous, and he attributes this to fate.

However, his son has inherited the blacksmith's career very well. He has been working in blacksmithing for a long time, and the two of them still figured out some skills from the boring work.

Although they did not spontaneously invent some new technology to make iron smelting more efficient.

They have good skills in smelting bronze, and in clay casting, they can cast more peculiar looking bronzes, such as those sold or given to high priests' houses.

For example, bronze ware is also smelted, and the amount of tin and lead content determines the color of the bronze ware. The two already knew how to adjust the weight of the raw materials to make the most suitable alloy solution, and the bronze ware has long been gleaming.

But in terms of iron smelting, the iron mounds made by the two people are all black, it seems that iron is like this.

Axes and swords need to be polished after they are made, they can reflect the luster of beautiful metals, for example, iron swords are a very nice silver gray, but they are not resistant to cutting at all, such as a few times hard to chop stones , the blade is curled.

Clavasson has always had an idea, counting the number of times the bar has been fired and forged.

With sweat on his forehead, he asked excitedly, "Rurik, it's the forty-ninth time, and our mission is about to end."

"Already finished?!" Rurik stood up abruptly, and patted the dust on the leather jacket again, "Keep doing it. After finishing fifty times, I have new requirements."

"Okay, my boy. Now there's something strange about this iron bar."

"Oh? What is that?"

"It's color has changed in the past few days." Kravason could no longer hide his doubts, because for decades, he had not seen the iron he made, except that it would turn red due to rust. Iron also has other color variations. "I think as the bar cooled, it brightened in color."

The description of the color grabbed Rurik's nerves for an instant.

Rurik hurried to the hot stove: "Really? Let him cool down naturally and let me see the color change."

The folded and forged iron weights turned back into iron bars, and the open wooden doors let in the cold air from the outside, and the interior became cold, only the heat by the stove was still hot.

Under the action of the cold wind, the color of the iron bar that has undergone forty-nine refining has really changed!

When it was completely cooled, it was held by Cravatsen in his hand. As long as it was compared with the iron tongs made of wrought iron, it was obvious that the color difference between the two was obvious.

It was as if the sun was shining on the forty-nine smelted iron bar, and its color was obviously brighter, and it seemed that a little white dye had been added to make the iron bar whiter.

Is it really spice up? certainly! That's carbon!

Rurik was happy as if he had eaten honey. He stomped his feet desperately and yelled. The joyous celebration scene did not mean that the five days of hard work by the blacksmiths were not in vain.

"Are we successful now?" Clavasson held down the excited Rurik.

"Yes! It was basically successful. After doing the last time, smear grease and stick with ash and carbon powder, and burn it for the last time. After that, let it cool naturally and make it into the shape of a sword."

When it was finally time to make the sword embryo, Kravassen took it for granted that this was Rurik's last request.

It seemed that with one more effort tonight, the sword that Rurik wanted was about to reach its final edge.

The last calcination was completed in the blacksmith's eager anticipation, and the bucket of water finally leaked cleanly. Clavason couldn't wait to use the tongs to take out the red iron bar. Can it still be called an iron bar now? No, at least it's also a bar of mild steel!

Instead of forging it in half, Kravason worked with his son Kawhi to strike while the iron was hot.

The shape of the iron bar into the shape of a short sword is really a good thing for the two of them, and according to the past customs and traditions, the shape of the sword is not the same as Rurik thinks.

Wrought iron swords are not suitable for slashing. Indeed, the invention of the sword is to lengthen the spear head as much as possible. From the very beginning, the killing method of the sword is mainly stabbing.

Wrought iron swords have inherited this tradition, so that the Kravatsen and his sons, on the one hand, have to hammer the sword into a shape with a middle ridge, and it also has a terrifyingly sharp-edged blade for the best thrusting effect at one time.

In the past, iron swords were all made in this way, and Kravason continued to use this method. Is it also suitable for processing steel swords?

The shape of the dagger satisfied Rurik. Look at that sharp blade, even if there is no edge, it is a very dangerous existence.

After some vigorous beating, coupled with countless fine hammering and chiseling, the short sword became more and more beautiful.

"As long as it is quenched for the last time, it should be done. As long as we are cutting it, we can see if it can cut through the iron." Kravason said, and asked his son Kavey to turn out the whetstone. .

Rurik immediately stopped Kawi and instructed: "There is still very important work to be done!"

"Huh? And?" Karawasen asked.

"Leave the sword like this for now, blacksmith, and make some more mud."

"Okay... okay."

Clavason didn't know what the kid wanted the mud for. He never lacked clay mud here, because all the stoves in his house actually took a long time to repair. Those iron-smelting slags are actually some catastrophic substances, and if they accumulate too much, they will destroy the bottom of the furnace. So the furnace needs to be repaired every once in a while, and the repair material is clay.

Some mud is done, but it can't be called mud, it's more appropriate to call it mud blocks.

Here, Rurik personally kneaded the mud into strips like he kneaded dough, and stuck the mud strips on the backs of the swords with ridges on both sides.

"Rurik, you... what are you doing?" Klavathon asked with a puzzled look.

"Covering the soil and calcining the blade, of course. Believe me, doing this will make the blade the hardest thing in the world." Rurik deliberately said so, but it seems that humans in this era can't create a carbon that is as high as carbon. Steel is harder for utility tools.

He went on to say: "You grease the blade of it again, stick it with grass ash and charcoal, and continue to burn it on fire. But this time we're going to burn it for a long time."

"about how long?"

"This..." Rurik didn't have a clue in his heart. He took it for granted and said: "Five buckets of water. When the five buckets of water are all drained, we will take out the sword again, and we will quench it directly."

How long does it take for a bucket of water to drain from the hole, Rurik doesn't think it's a short period of time.

In fact, it will flow out for at least ten minutes, and the "five buckets of water time" that Rurik said with a slap on the thigh has barely exceeded an hour.

Karawasson didn't talk nonsense, he put the sword into the carbon pile again, and began to really cover the soil and burn the blade.

Until now, Rurik had not told the blacksmith what was the rationale behind the series of bizarre processing methods he requested.

Even now Cravason has been asking, is it possible to burn an iron sword with a piece of ceramics?

Indeed, with a little more time, clay of any shape can be fired into flakes, and pottery processing is so simple that mass production of pottery is possible as long as there is enough clay.

The "time of five buckets of water" finally passed in people's anxiety, and Kravassen couldn't wait to take out the sword with two pottery pieces attached.ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм

Tao's attachments peeled off the moment he left the fire, and Clavasson looked at the sword embryo held by the tongs thoughtfully.

Rurik hurriedly urged: "Quickly quench it! Use snow water directly this time! Quickly."

There was no oil quenching, this time it was directly water quenching. The iron bar that was burned to 600 degrees was sharply cooled, and it took a few seconds to drop to a level that could be touched by human hands.

Now, when Kravason found the blade in his hand, it really became incredible. Because its whole body is still bright and white, and there are many small irregularities on it to be polished, but it cannot hide its unique color in the slightest.

The most amazing thing is the place where the blade is prepared. These areas are the brightest, as if it is not the same material as the back.

Unlike Kravason and Kawhi, Rurik was only happy here.

"Haha! I succeeded!"

"Kid? We really succeeded?!"

"Of course. Blacksmith, thank you for making it so far. I'm very happy that you helped me with the edge, and you made it as sharp as possible, for which I'll pay you two more silver coins now."

"Oh? And money?" Karawassen was pleased to leave Rick with further generosity.

"Of course! But I have to tell you that this sword is completely different from what you have made before, and its sharpening is probably a more laborious process. But your hard work will have good results."

"You mean that as long as a sharp blade is used, the iron sword in my warehouse can be cut off?!" Klava asked.

"Of course! I will always be with you. When my sword cuts through your ordinary iron swords, I will tell you how everything works. From then on, you can make swords."

At this moment, Kravason felt that the blacksmithing skills he had learned from his dead father were all weak. If everything came true, he would have to kneel down and face Rurik the "Odin Blesser" to thank him. Grants "Advanced Blacksmithing from Valhalla".