In the afternoon.

This huge caravan and the vendors who had walked along the way soon arrived at the gate of Danyang County.

But the gate of the county town was replaced with a new copper gate, and the entrance of the city gate was newly decorated. However, the mud wall at the top of the city was too short, and it was still obvious that this was once a small county town.

The earthen wall in the county is only three people high, mainly to protect against thieves. It does not have much defense against rebels and large bandits.

Outside the East City Gate, there were a row of ten city guards standing, staring at everyone entering and leaving Danyang City with a fierce look.

The soldiers in the county towns of the Great Chu Dynasty were almost all the same, and they were nowhere better than the yamen runners. Most of them were crooked and the air was flowing.

But these soldiers from Danyang County are completely different.

They were all big and round, with strong figures, wearing iron helmets on their heads, wearing brand new iron armor, protecting them from head to toe, holding treasure knives, stabbing shields, spears, and applying tung oil to the swords and guns, and the cold light was bright.

The monarchs and ministers of this caravan were shocked to see the soldiers in Danyang County so well equipped.

It's actually iron armor!

This power is extraordinary. One armored soldier is enough to cut ten armorless soldiers. Only these ten Danyang soldiers can cut dozens of armorless soldiers as melons. That is no problem.

Hundreds of bandits may change their color when facing them.

This complete set of iron armor does not even have iron armor in the guards of Jinling City, but uses leather armor. Only the imperial guards of the palace have iron armor.

Unexpectedly, even the soldiers guarding the city in Danyang County were all equipped with armor.

Although there are very few soldiers in the county town, usually only one hundred people, if they have one set of them, it will be quite expensive.

"Brother Soldier, you Danyang County Magistrate is so willing to spend money, why do everyone have a set of iron armor?!"

Kong Hanyou asked a captain of the soldiers at the city gate.

"It's a waste of money!

In Danyang County, every family is a man who makes a blacksmith, and these are all done by his own family. He has made a set of hundreds of refining armor in a month. How can he use the money from the county government?

The soldiers in Danyang have to serve half a month of corvee every year, and they bring their own equipment. They don’t wear armor or a sword, so they don’t have the face to stand at the city gate.”

The soldiers guarding the city patted their chests and said proudly.

These Danyang soldiers were not soldiers of the army for generations, but corvee-service soldiers, and were directly affiliated with the soldiers of Princess Danyang, the fief.

They were miners in mines and blacksmiths in iron shops before, so they could make irons and have all the strength of Kong martial arts.

However, this month's turn, they were in labor service and stood guard at the city gate.

Use a knife and a gun, and practice your martial arts temporarily.

Although there are only 100 soldiers in Danyang County, there are nearly 2,000 people who take turns to perform labor service every year. Every family of men must serve military service service.

Fortunately, they only need to guard the gates of the county town, and the task of corvee labor is actually quite easy. If it is for corvee labor to serve in the court, it will be very difficult to go to the north to serve in the army and defend the Huns.

Kong Hanyou's face was stagnant and he was speechless.

Emperor Xiang Yanran couldn't help but sigh when he saw the soldiers guarding the city.

This Danyang County!

It's just a cave of elite soldiers!

Miners and blacksmiths are all strong and capable, they are capable and strong, and they wave their arms all day long, and their arms are full of brute force.

They were born elite soldiers when they joined the army.

"The soldiers guarding the city are so fierce, aren't the merchants entering and leaving the city afraid?"

Xiang Yanran asked at the traveling merchant.

The quality of this stir-fried steel is excellent.

Without repeated forging, it is naturally much higher than the iron. It naturally saves a lot of manpower and time to temper iron.

Compared with the Great Chu Dynasty, almost all the other places were still pig iron and cooked iron, and they did not master the method of steelmaking.

There are rows of blacksmith shops along the streets and in the streets and alleys in the county town, almost nowhere to be seen.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding ~!"

In the blacksmith shop, many powerful and capable men were waving iron hammers and hitting various iron tools.

The middle-aged women were using small carts to push the ore from the mountain and transporting it to the county town.

The inns in the county are all living in vendors from all over the country, purchasing a large number of iron tools from Danyang County.

Emperor Xiang Yanran and the ministers of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers took a inn in the county and put down their luggage.

Then, the emperor and ministers went around the city of Danyang County.

The county government will definitely not go there, and the data is too easy to be faked. The officials of Danyang County said with their necks straight and said that the list of political achievements is true, but there is no way to confirm it.

I went directly to Danyang City and took a look. The situation in Danyang County is naturally clear at a glance.

They entered and exited the streets of the county town and various blacksmith shops.

These blacksmith shops, with signs hanging on the door plaques, "Li Widow Blacksmith shop, Wang Dachu Blacksmith shop, Iron Egg Blacksmith shop..."

There are various figures on the signboard - just draw one of the iron tools you can use.

Moreover, Danyang County has a special rule that each blacksmith shop only allows three to five types of iron tools to be fixedly punched, and no more punches can be punched.

In this way, when the merchants came to Danyang County, they could see the sign at a glance, and there was no need to ask more questions.

The iron tool was almost refined and was quickly bought.

They are all common iron tools such as large plows, hoes, sickles, kitchen knives, scissors, and small hammers. They are all the most commonly used iron tools in ordinary families.

It can be made as fast as a few hundred yuan, or as much as one or two taels of silver. It can be made quickly and sold quickly.

The big farmer ordered Yang Chu to wait at the door of a blacksmith shop and watched. When he met a merchant, he casually asked about the price of iron ore and iron tools, and quickly calculated the profits of each transaction. He was shocked.

Deduct all kinds of expenses such as purchasing iron ore, steel speculation, and taxes and other expenses.

A very small blacksmith shop, a blacksmith can earn 500 coins of copper coins a day and earn 15 taels of silver a month - this is also the income of a small wealthy family in Jinling City.

You know, a cooked cake is only two cents of copper coins and ten cents of copper coins, which is enough for a strong man to have a full meal.

However, in Danyang County, every household is making a blacksmith, and almost every household has such an income. If there are several males in the family, they will earn dozens of taels of silver.
Chapter completed!