Translator: churnie
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This last chapter contains ±8000 hanzi words
Imperial uncle Qing Zhang is the master of the house, in the midst of his busy schedule, he always takes some time to come over and personally offer his greeting, even if he didn’t come in person, he often send people to deliver all kinds of fresh products of the Tong Kingdom. Based on the courtesy, Feng Ming has to take the time to express his gratitude.
In addition, ever since Feng Ming nodded to Luo Deng’s “Aman River Newlywed Travel Project”, it has also been carried out immediately.
“The young master is so capable, why didn’t we think of such a profitable thing before?”
There’s a progress report almost every day, and each time Luo Deng came over personally to tell Feng Ming about the progress.
From the choice of the ships to the decoration of the ships, the fees, the places where the travel will pass, the way to play, and so on, all began to be discussed one by one.
Only then did Feng Ming see how enthusiastic the manager in charge of the Xiao family shipping business was to make money. No wonder Xiao family’s shipping business was famous all over the world.
Qiu Xing and several other maids thought that it was very interesting, instead they are more active than Feng Ming and put forward their own ideas one after another.
“The newly-married people like red which is very propitious, I think we should prepare a ship specially for this business, covered with red silk.”
“A vessel is better, one vessel can hold many guests, and each couple has a large cabin.”
Qiu Lan also began to use her brain, says earnestly, “In my opinion, prepare a few more boats tied to the back of the vessel. When encountering beautiful scenery and the weather is good, the guests can rent a boat and stroll around the river bank alone.”
“Yes! That’s right!” Qiu Xing claps and laughs, “This is more interesting, when it’s done, you and Rong Hu can have fun like this for a while. How happy they were when they rafted under the moon. Aih, only pity us who have no one to accompany”.
(t/n: boat/xiaochuan, ship/chuan, vessel/dachuan, fleet/dachuandui. Based on the Chinese it’s also difference. sometimes it’s confusing when the machine give me only one ‘ship’ translation, so i have to look at the Chinese words to differentiate them)
Qiu Lan was in a very good mood, imitating their appearance in a rare way, making faces and urging narrowly, “You are unaccompanied, I believe it, but how could Qiu Yue be unaccompanied? There is obviously a nerd waiting.”
Qiu Yue snaps on the back of Qiu Lan’s head and pout playfully, “Qiu Lan, you don’t learn well!”
Luo Deng has been with these maids for a long time, and so he’s no longer as restrained as before, watching them laugh together, he can’t help but feel happy, and says, “Stop quarreling and get back to business. I have great confidence in this new money-making project, when it’s officially launched, there must be many rich people who will be interested and at that time we will soon be able to earn enough money to make up for the loss caused by the attack on our big fleet.”
Almost all five of the Xiao family’s vessels that were attacked by He Di were severely damaged. Even if they were not sunk, they needed to be overhauled, which was indeed a great loss.
Of course, the Xiao family has more than a few vessels, but because it’s going to be used by the Young Master, they use all the best among the vessels under the Xiao family’s name. Five ships were seriously injured at once, according to Lady Yaoye’s words, it was pretty good that Xiao Zong didn’t come and stab Feng Ming with a sword.
Feng Ming stuck out his tongue in hindsight and sheepishly says, “Fortunately, except for the main ship, the other four ships didn’t sink in the middle of the Aman River, so the treasures on board were also more convenient to salvage. I hope Ran Qing can take all my father’s precious treasures back.” Luo Deng says, “Young Master rest assured, there’s an iron plate sandwiched between the door and the wall of the ship’s treasure house. It will not be scattered and taken away with the current, and even if the ship sinks, just send a good men to dive to the bottom to retrieve it one by one. Even if we lost it, we won’t lost much” In the middle of talking about it, the guard of the Xiao family came to report that Wu Qian come to visit again.
Since the last time Zhuang Pu and Wu Qian came to visit, Feng Ming and the two have become increasingly familiar.
He originally thought that Zhuang Pu’s words were monotonous and boring, but with Wu Qian’s joining, he discovered that Zhuang Pu was also a man of temperament.
Probably he began to maintain the caution of the imperial general in front of the imperial uncle and him, so the talk was always in order. Being with like-minded Wu Qian, Zhuang Pu has a lot of thoughts, which makes Feng Ming feel more and more that he is a friend worthy of friendship.
When he got to the side hall, Feng Ming glance at Wu Qian who’s waiting for him.
“Why didn’t Zhuang Pu come today?” After mingling with them these days, Feng Ming followed Wu Qian and started to call Zhuang Pu’s name.
It’s also more convenient, otherwise young master General Wu is coming and going to the Xiao family’s young master is a waste of saliva.
Wu Qian seems to like black very much, today he wears a simple black robe. He’s broad-bodied and unrestrained by nature, when he saw Feng Ming, he laughed loudly and waved, “Zhuang Pu is more or less a general, so naturally he has his own business to do. But I brought someone here for you to meet.”
He brings a man beside him and says, “Aren’t you interested in making armor? I brought a swordsmith to see you. Hong Yu, come, I introduce you to Xiao family’s young master, the world famous Feng Ming.”
Feng Ming look over joyfully.
The swordsmith was surprisingly young, probably only in his early twenties. In Fengming’s impression, most people in this industry have thick eyebrows and big eyes, big hands and big feet, otherwise how can he strike iron with a hammer? In addition, the foundry industry should be near the stove, smoke and fire, and the clothes will have many stains. This one named Hong Yu is just the opposite, his face is as white as a girl, his hands and feet are also thinner than ordinary men, and he wears a sackcloth, although the materials are common, it’s extremely clean and tidy.
He watches Feng Ming curiously and looks at him, arching his hand towards Feng Ming, “meet Xiao Family’s young master.” Then he shows his neat and white teeth and says cheerfully, “Please don’t listen to Wu Qian’s bragging. I am not a swordsmith, just a rookie kid who just starting out.”
Wu Qian says to Feng Ming, “Do you remember the weapon master Weng Heng I mentioned to you last time? Hong Yu is his disciple. He has always been obsessed with casting swords, so I called him a swordsmith.”
Fengming laughs, “Don’t call me Xiao Young Master, it’s too troublesome, just call me Feng Ming directly.”
People are divided into groups, similar things come together, which is really good.
Wu Qian’s friends are relatively straightforward and give a good impression to people.
“Okay,” Hong Yu nods. “You can also call me Hong Yu.”
Luo Yun and Rong Hu wait behind Fengming and look at each other, slightly dissatisfied.
This kid is a little too arrogant.
In this era, the status is so strict and can’t be crossed at all. Besides, Feng Ming almost at one level with Rong Tian, Ruo Yan and others. When ordinary nobles meet him, they may not dare to call him by name. Not to mention, this guy named Hong Yu doesn’t even look like a wealthy man, Duke Ming (the young master) casually said, he dared to nod his head so carelessly
More or less, you should be humble.
“It turns out that Hong Yu likes to cast swords.” Feng Ming is always a curious boy, he invite Wu Qian and Hong Yu to sit down and immediately start asking questions, “”Why do you like casting swords so much?”
Hong Yu replies without hesitation, “The sword is a gentleman in weapons, and it is not easy to make a good sword. I always like difficult things.”
“Oh, is it really so difficult to cast a sharp sword?”
Wu Qian smiles and says to Hong Yu, “You see, I’m not lying, am i? He really likes to discuss various things with people and chatting with him will be fun and fit your stomach.”
Looking at Feng Ming who’s not like other powerful people and just asking perfunctorily, but only with his radiance eyes like he was really looking forward to hearing more, Hong Yu is also very happy.
“It’s not just the sharpness.” Hong Yu’s eyebrows are very beautiful, when he smiled, his eyebrows raise slightly, looks like he’s an active person. “In fact, whether a sword can be called a sword depends on two points – sharpness and length.” In fact, Feng Ming is very smart when he was willing to use his brain.
He understood it as soon as he heard it, he nods and says, “Sure enough! If the length is long enough we can stab the enemy at a greater distance and keep the enemy from approaching, I have heard it before that many kings’ swords are special, only well-known swordsmiths can make such long swords, so there are not many of them. It can be seen that casting swords has technical difficulties.”
“There are many mysteries in it.” Speaking of casting swords, Hong Yu was beaming with delight. “Layman don’t understand why a long sword is difficult to cast. In fact, the answer is simple, the longer the sword, the easier it is to break when it’s used, it depends on the quality of the iron, to cast a long sword, the iron must be soft, and it must not be broken easily if it has a certain degree of toughness.”
Feng Ming shows a stunned look, and then says, “But if the iron is tough, the blade will not be sharp enough, so if the iron is hard enough, you have a headache about the length, if the iron is tough enough, you have a headache about sharpness, right?”
Although he is not an expert in weapon casting, but he has a positive attitude and take part seriously, and Hong Yu also feels that Wu Qian is justified and chatting with such a young energetic, handsome, amiable, and smart Xiao family’s young master, it really isn’t a distressing thing.
Hong Yu claps softly and sighs, “Exactly, this is where the swordsmith is most distressed. Of course, there are other problems, but none of them is such a headache.”
Wu Qian says amiably, “Master Weng Heng’s opinion on this issue should be moderate. Can not be excessively biased, too sharp or too short, or long but not sharp enough, neither can be regarded as a good sword.”
Feng Ming can’t help but want to scratch his head again, just about to raise his hand, his eyes subconsciously looks back at Luo Yun aside, he’s holding back, he murmurs, “This should be regarded as a technical problem in the world at present, isn’t it? Whoever can make a long and hard sword can dominate the war. Imagine if an army has longer weapons than the enemy, moreover it’s sharper, then the stronger and the weaker one will change immediately, it’s like a tiger fighting with a rabbit, i think of Qin Jun during the Seven Kingdoms period… uh, let ‘s not talk about that for the time being”.
Hong Yu says, “The world is not without a sword that is long enough and sharp, the most famous one is the sword secretly casting of the Dan Lin royal family. It’s truly an artifact, it’s extremely sharp, and the sword has a black pattern on its body, which is very beautiful, what is even more amazing is that the sword is not easy to break, it can be seen that iron is very tough, but it is very sharp. Such two characteristics that should not exist together can actually exist on a sword at the same time, it really makes people wonder,”
Wu Qian says, “It must be mixed with dual-luminous sands. No wonder dual-luminous sands is regarded as a divine object by many swordsmiths.”
“If it’s dual-luminous sands, then it’s easier to handle.” Feng Ming blinks his big black eyes and smiles. “I have reached an agreement with Prince He Di of Dan Lin to open up the dual-luminous sands route in the future. By that time, this problem is expected to be solved.”
“Not really.” Hong Yu shakes his head and says, “My master is a well-known master of weapons in the Tong Kingdom. There were also good iron stones and a small bag of dual-luminous sands sent by people from the Tong royal family, to ask the master to make a sword for him, although the final sword made by the master is indeed much more sharper than the ordinary sword, but in any case it can’t be compared with the sword made by the Dan Lin royal family. It can be seen that aside of adding the dual-luminous sands, the casting process of the sword of Dan Lin must have its unique features.”
What a profound technical problem…
Feng Ming thought for a while, but his head hurt, he tilts his head and frowns, “well, we can’t think of this problem even if we think about it. By the way, Wu Qian recommended Hongyu’s sword casting so much that it made me I was also curious if there were any finished products made by Hong Yu, take it out and let me see, okay?”
Hong Yu smiles, strangely not speaking, but instead turns his her eyes to Wu Qian.
Feng Ming looks at Wu Qian inexplicably and gives him an inquisitive look.
“Of course there are finished products, I’ll show you later, now let’s talk about business,” Wu Qian says with a smile. “Actually, we came here for something this time.” Feng Ming is even more confused and blinking at him, “What is it?”
“Begging for money.” Wu Qian smiles and says frankly, “Let me just say, Hong Yu has learned from Master Weng Heng, he has learned the skill of casting swords well, now he wants to start a foundry, but unfortunately he doesn’t have enough money.”
Feng Ming looks at them in amazement and laughs, “Having a long time, it turned out he had come to me to play the autumn breeze. Aih, does it cost a lot of money to open a foundry? I thought it was a fire stove, a few big hammers or something.”
(t/n: play the autumn breeze 打秋风 means using a various relationships to borrow money in the name of soliciting money from wealthy people.)
“Unfortunately, my money was recently spent on the armor given to soldiers for free, otherwise I wouldn’t have to bring Hong Yu to come with shy face,” said Wu Qian. “Of course, ordinary foundry workshops do not require much money, But the foundry that Hong Yu is going to open this time is not an ordinary foundry.”
Feng Ming’s curious eyes turn to Hong Yu again.
Hong Yu grins again and says smugly, “I want to build a fire kiln.”
“Fire kiln?” Feng Ming asks in surprise, “do you want to use this to increase the flame temperature?”
Hong Yu and Wu Qian glance at each other, and there’s an obvious shock on their faces.
Hong Yu says, “How do you know? The fire kiln is a combination of my experience of studying with the master for many years, I just came up with a solution to the temperature problem. Solving the control of high temperature can produce better iron, has anyone in Xirei come up with this method earlier than me?”
Feng Ming thought, yes, but not in the same world as you. In ancient China, kilns were built to burn porcelain or something. The principle should also be to increase the temperature. Otherwise, no good porcelain can be burned.
Until now, he couldn’t understand how his soul fell into this world, what exactly is the similarity and difference with the earth world he came from. Saying that they’re not Earth people?
But the people, customs, and objects are all similar with the ancient times in history books.
To say that his soul has fallen into ancient times, but the ancient dynasty and kingdoms do not match with one here.
Is there really a different dimension of the earth space?