One Piece: Starting from Turning Wano Country into Inazuma

The knife was soaked in water and a lot of white mist rose from the hot blade. Shimotsuki Niuwan stood in front of the stove with his bare arms and sweating all over. He picked up the blade he had just forged with pliers and looked at it vertically in front of his eyes. The pattern on the blade looked like flowing fine sand, even and soft, rippling like water waves. "Is the pattern of the blade sand flow? This is a good knife." The old man who was a forger beside him exclaimed. When he was young, the old man also made a knife of the fast knife grade, but now he is a little powerless after getting old. But even so, he still has a good eye. This knife blank only needs to be hammered again, and it can reach the grade of a sharp knife. This is already a very remarkable work.

Even the best swordsmith cannot guarantee that the knife he forges must be a sharp knife. Just like himself, he has actually forged a sharp knife, and he is considered the top swordsmith in the country.

"It seems that there will be one more famous knife in the world."

"That's what I said, but it's still not enough." Shimotsuki Ushimaru sighed. What he wanted to forge was a big sharp knife, but the sharp knife was too far away. However, he did not stop his actions because it was a sharp knife. As long as it was forged, it would be worth hundreds of gold. A knife can be exchanged for several houses in the Flower City. How could he give up?

After a long time of busy work, a sharp knife was forged.

This is the first sharp knife forged by Shimotsuki Ushimaru in this period of time. Although the knives he forged before were sharp, they were not qualified to be rated as sharp knives.

"Huh, it's not an easy task."

"It's because you haven't forged a sword for a long time, so your skills are naturally a little rusty." The old man comforted him. He had to admit that Shimotsuki Ushimaru's forging skills were much better than his.

And because he was a daimyo, he used very good forging materials. It might not be easy to forge a big sword, but for a fast sword, as long as you calm down and don't rush, you can still succeed.

"Let's do it again. By the way, let someone find some wine iron ore."

"Do you want to use wine iron ore?" The old man was surprised.

Wine iron ore is also a very special ore in Wano Country. The iron smelted from this ore is very tough and is a good material for forging weapons. Of course, wine iron ore is also very precious.

Shimotsuki Ushimaru wanted to try to forge a big sword. I'm afraid he had to go through countless failures during the period. Not every failure could be turned into a fast sword or a good fast sword. More often, the entire sword embryo might be completely wasted.

Therefore, it is a very extravagant and wasteful thing to forge swords with alcohol iron ore without sufficient confidence.

"You have to pay for it." Shimotsuki Ushimaru said.

It was still snowing outside the furnace where the sword was forged. I don't know how many people would be frozen or starved to death on such days. He wiped his forehead with a towel that had long been soaked with sweat, then sat down and drank a big sip of water.

...

While Shimotsuki Ushimaru was still forging a sword to visit Xia Lin, Xia Lin had already sent out a letter to visit Bai Wu. At the same time, he began to prepare a meeting gift for Shimotsuki Kangjia.

It's called a meeting gift, but in fact, part of it is used to pay for the rental fee of the diving port.

It's not known whether the matter can be negotiated successfully this time, but if you plan to get something for nothing, then others will never agree. Xia Lin plans to borrow the diving port by leasing, which can also avoid Shimotsuki Kangjia regretting his intention to intervene during the use of the diving port.

Xia Lin didn't think that Shimotsuki Yasuji would be completely unmoved by the idea of ​​using a port that would not be used for hundreds of years and could almost be said to be a decoration to exchange for a sum of money. Although the finances of Baiwu were acceptable, they were not very wealthy. The more money they had, the more things they could do.

However, being moved was one thing, and whether Shimotsuki Yasuji had the courage to break the hundred-year ban of Wano Country for this money was another matter.

After calculating the time, Shimotsuki Yasuji received a letter of visit from Xia Lin.

"The daimyo of Kuri, why did he come to visit me? Is it because he used to be a Baiwu person?" Shimotsuki Yasuji could only think of this reason. There were so many daimyo in Wano Country, but Xia Lin did not visit the neighboring Hime and Usagi Don, but visited him first, which made him feel strange.

He only thought that Xia Lin

He planned to go back to his original village to take a look. Xia Lin's identity was a trick played by Kurozumi Orochi at that time, but now Kurozumi Orochi has taken the opportunity of Kurozumi Muchan's trip to the Flower Capital to leave Baiwu.

Originally, he would have stayed in Baiwu for a long time, but Kurozumi Muchan was not spending her time in the Flower Capital during those few months. She had already taken that opportunity to use her ability to help Kurozumi Orochi arrange a position.

Shimotsuki Yasuie sighed. In fact, he felt that Xia Lin was very capable. He single-handedly pacified Jiuli, which was enough to prove his strength. But he still didn't understand the ways of the world.

"After all, Ximei and Usagi Don are also neighbors with him, so he should at least visit them first."

There were also frictions between the daimyo, but they were generally peaceful over the years, and the friendship between the tribes was deeper than the grudges. But the daimyo of Jiuli was different. He didn't have a good relationship with other daimyo. If he did this now, the daimyo of the other two villages might be a little dissatisfied.

Shimotsuki Kangjia felt that he should have a good talk with him about these social etiquettes.

However, his servants felt that Shimotsuki Kangjia was not worried about the interpersonal relationships of Jiuli Daimyo.

"Master Kangjia, you should think about preparing some return gifts." The servants worriedly said, "Last time I heard that Jiuli Daimyo brought gifts worth tens of thousands of gold to Huazhidu, but the general couldn't take out gifts of equal value at the moment, and the scene was a little embarrassing."

Shimotsuki Kangjia: ...

"Ten thousand gold? Is Jiuli's finances so abundant?"

A meeting gift is ten thousand gold, which is like a neighbor coming to visit and then giving you 100 million yuan to spend. With Baiwu's finances, there are certainly ten thousand gold, but the funds themselves are flowing throughout the village. It is not an easy thing for him to take out such a large amount of money in a short time.

You can't just hand over the gifts sent by the other party and send them back on the spot, right?

That would be a slap in the other party's face.

"It can't be described simply as wealthy." The servant said, "The lord of Jiuli is really very capable. Jiuli is now the richest place in the country."