"This! Plus this! Can I move you?"
Zhao Che chuckled and placed the sword and salt on the table.
Brother Zheng subconsciously looked at the sword.
He slowly pushed open the scabbard, and what entered his eyes was a threatening sharpness.
Brother Zheng frowned.
It was not a good sword!
Then, Brother Zheng seemed to realize something.
"This is an iron sword?"
Zhao Che smiled and nodded.
"I've already mastered the technology to mass produce them. The cost is one-tenth of a Bronze weapon!”
It was a fact that copper was more valuable than iron.
Moreover, copper had always been used as a currency in feudal times.
The weapons and armor of the Qin Dynasty were all bronze weapons and armor.
Even if the production cost was not included.
You could also see that the wars during the Qin Dynasty were fought with money.
Brother Zheng's fingers paused for a moment.
To be honest, in terms of skill, the iron sword in his hand was actually inferior to the bronze sword.
This was not a joke.
In fact, the bronze weapons of the Qin Dynasty could already be considered as black technology.
The Qin Dynasty was the true peak of bronze ware.
As for Zhao Che, although he had the steel-making skills, it was impossible for him to compete with the representatives of the Iron Sword and Bronze Equipment with just a simple steel-making skill.
In fact, it was the Han Dynasty that replaced bronze with iron.
However, were the ironware of the Han Dynasty stronger than bronze?
That was not the case.
In fact, it was only during the Tang and Song Dynasties that iron weapons could be compared to the bronze weapons of the Qin Dynasty.
Then why was it replaced by iron instead of bronze?
Because of the cost!
Iron ore was much more abundant than copper ore.
That was all!
The cost of bronze equipment was too high, so high that it was difficult for an empire to afford it.
In addition, after the fall of the Qin State, some of the technology was lost, causing it to be unable to reach the bronze smelting level of its heyday.
Therefore, it was logical for iron to replace bronze.
In fact, most of the iron in this era was used to produce farming tools.
Moreover, they were not qualified to be used as farming tools.
The temperature required to smelt bronze was about 1,000 degrees.
The temperature of smelting steel started at 1,500 degrees.
In addition, there were still a lot of copper resources during the Qin Dynasty, and the bronze craftsmanship had already reached its peak. Therefore, ironware during the Qin Dynasty could not replace bronze.
Of course, this was also related to the fact that the Qin Dynasty had fallen too quickly.
Brother Zheng had seen the disadvantages of Green-Copper weapons.
Firstly, copper was a mineral used to cast currency, and the cost of producing weapons was too high.
Secondly, after the mining began in the Zhou Dynasty, the reserves of copper ore had begun to decline sharply.
Therefore, it was urgent to replace bronze with iron.
In fact, the Qin Dynasty's Shao Fu had already begun to produce iron weapons on an experimental basis, and a batch of them had been unearthed in later generations.
Even though Great Qin did not have the technology to make steel, it was clear that Great Qin had started to look for weapons.
Brother Zheng himself never expected this.
The weapon problem that had troubled him for a long time had actually come to an end in the hands of this kid.
The problem that had not been solved by the hundreds of thousands of people in the Shao Mansion was solved by a young man from Guangzong.
The biggest problem with ironware smelting was the temperature.
Great Qin's current furnaces could not reach the required temperature, so most of the ironware produced was extremely fragile and could not be used on the battlefield.
If they could solve the ironware smelting problem, Great Qin's military expenditure would be reduced by two-thirds.
This wasn't a joke!
Copper! That was money!
It could be directly melted into coins!
Once Iron replaced Bronze, Great Qin's Bronze weapons and armors could be reforged.
Great Qin's money was very valuable, and this was partly due to the popularity of Bronze equipment.
The copper was used to produce weapons. Just Great Qin had a million armored soldiers, so how much copper would they need to equip them?
In truth, even after Great Qin had unified the world, the problem of a shortage of currency had already appeared.
That was why Qin Shihuang collected all the weapons in the world to forge the twelve bronze men.
In fact, there was no such thing as a bronze casting man.
Brother Zheng wasn't a fool. What was the use of casting bronze men? Could it be used to charge?
"Take a look!"
Brother Zheng said as he threw the iron sword to Wang Jian.
Wang Jian pushed away the treasured sword and looked at it for a long time.
"It's not even as good as a standard weapon." Wang Jian was comparing Great Qin's high-tech Bronze Weapon to the iron sword in front of him.
But what Wang Jian said was also the truth.
Great Qin's black-tech bronzes were comparable to the ironware forged during the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Currently, Zhao Che's ironware production level was probably on par with the weapons production level of the Six Nations.
It could not compare to Great Qin's technology.
Wang Jian came from the army and was used to being arrogant. He did not even look at the iron sword in Zhao Che's hand.
But Brother Zheng liked it.
Ignoring Wang Jian, Brother Zheng rubbed the iron sword in his hand and placed it on the table.
"Are you tempted, Old Zhao?"
Brother Zheng nodded frankly.
Very tempted!
One tenth of the manufacturing cost, and one was a copper mine that was almost depleted, while the other was an iron mine that was rich in minerals.
Of course, Brother Zheng was tempted.
Very good!
The iron sword was very good!
But it will be mine soon!
Now that Great Qin had unified the world, the only enemies they had to face were the Xiongnu and the Baiyue.
The ironware was enough!
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