Chapter 711: Cannon Casting (I)
The wooden window that was stretched open, and the thick window paper pasted on it, Chen Fang suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. At this time, looking at the moonlight outside, it seemed that he was standing in front of the small window of the stone castle again, and the moonlight was sprinkled, and the entire North Harbor could be seen.
Under the light of the stars and moon, the spire of the church in the distance looks quiet and sacred under the light of the stars and moon, and the stone buildings near it seem to be covered with a thin layer of frost in the cold air.
Someone behind him hugged him, and his body fell on top of him.
"Yi'er, it's messing around again."
As soon as the words came out, Chen Fang was shocked to realize that this was not Shibao, not the Northern Han Dynasty, not the South Port, nor the North Port, and it was not Liu Yi who was lying on him, but Wu Meiniang.
"Yi'er? Your heart is left in Beihan. ”
Wu Meiniang stood up at this time and stared at Chen Fang. Chen Fang was also slightly shocked in his heart, he was indeed in a trance just now.
"Mei Niang, my heart didn't stay in the Northern Han Dynasty, but someone left traces in my heart with a sword."
"Who is that Yi'er in your mouth?"
Wu Meiniang stared at Chen Fang, her expression was a little bad.
"Liu Yi, Princess Jingnan of the Northern Han Dynasty, the little sister of the Han Emperor."
"Forget her, this is the Tang Dynasty, I don't want you to have a princess of the Northern Han Dynasty living in your heart."
"Mei Niang, I'm afraid I won't be able to forget it in this life."
Chen Fang smiled bitterly, sighed, looked at Wu Meiniang, waiting for her thunderstorm and rainstorm, however, he didn't wait for anything, just waited for Wu Meiniang's hand to gently caress his shoulder.
"Chen Fang, do you know what Mei Niang likes you the most?"
"I don't know!"
"That honesty, not hypocrisy, will not say something that Mei Niang actually doesn't believe in order to fool Mei Niang."
Chen Fang pulled Wu Meiniang and pulled him to his side, the jade figure in the moonlight was extraordinarily charming, and there was a charming character in her name and surname, which was vividly interpreted by Wu Meiniang.
Chen Fang stroked that waist with his hand and patted it a few times, and couldn't put it down.
"Actually, everyone has secrets, including me, but Mei Niang, I won't lie to you when I say a word, you are the most important one in my heart."
"That's right, Mei Niang, I don't know what you like most about me when you asked me just now, in fact, I think of that unparalleled gun skills."
"Chen Fang, I want to hit you!"
"Let's fight, except that you can't fight here, and you have to use it to serve you, you can fight anywhere else."
"But Mei Niang just wants to hit the place where you won't let you hit."
"Then tap."
The early morning sun shines on this courtyard, and the bamboo in the courtyard gently sways in the morning breeze, and the shadow of the bamboo is reflected on the whitewashed courtyard wall, like a moving ink bamboo painting.
Wu Meiniang went to the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace, Li Hong fell ill, no one took care of the government, and she was going to start presiding over the government again.
In the past, he presided over the government for His Majesty, for the first emperor, but now for the eldest son and the new monarch. As for being the empress, Wu Meiniang didn't have this idea at this time. Chen Fang also felt that it was very tiring to let Wu Meiniang be the empress, so it was better to let Li Hong be the emperor.
Anyway, when Li Hong is the emperor, he still has to call Wu Meiniang the queen mother, and when he encounters some important things, he still has to ask the queen mother what he means.
But there is one bad thing, after Li Hong ascended the throne, Wu Meiniang changed from the queen to the queen mother. Although only the title has changed, nothing has actually changed, but Chen Fang always feels that serving the queen and serving the queen mother are not the same thing at all. Hey, but there is no way, the new monarch succeeds to the throne, and Wu Meiniang can only become the queen mother.
After Wu Meiniang left, Chen Fang did not stop at Tang Workshop, but greeted Dingyu and asked her to accompany him to the ordnance prison of the Nine Temples and Five Prisons.
The things that the ordnance warden does, as its name suggests, are to make weapons, flags, tents, and so on.
As soon as Chen Fang and Dingyu arrived here, the ordnance superintendent of the ordnance supervisor trotted over to salute the horses. The front one is the name here, and the back one is an official position, which belongs to the imperial court officials, and is on the fourth grade.
"Master Horse, what are you here for today?"
"Use your place and your hands! Convenient? ”
"Master Ma can come at any time, and it is convenient at any time."
"Well, take me to the place where the Tang knife is cast!"
"Please come with the humble position, it's a little messy here, be careful."
As the ordnance supervisor came to the workshop where the Tang knife was cast, several blacksmiths were sweating like rain, and the sound of clanging iron was endless.
Tang knife belongs to Baotou steel forging, and the forging process and process are actually extremely troublesome.
Even after the loss of this craft in the Tang Dynasty, later generations wanted to cast the Tang knives recorded in the annals, but they could not cast them.
The sharpness and toughness of the Tang knife can actually be seen from the Oriental knife of later generations, after all, the casting of the Oriental knife originated from the Tang knife, of course, compared with the Tang knife, the Oriental knife can only be regarded as half a defective product.
After all, the knife casting skills brought back by the international students back then were themselves half-drawn. It is impossible for Datang to really teach the Tang knife casting technology to other races.
It can be said that the Oriental sword is only a half-finished Tang knife, just like a weapon sold abroad in later generations, and it can only be called a monkey version compared with the one used in the country.
At this time, the casting process that Chen Fang saw was the complete casting process of the Tang knife, and it could not be imitated by later generations, or it could only be imitated by the Tang knife.
"Master Horse, this is the place where the Tang knife is cast, Lord Horse can take a look at it, if you have any high opinions, please give advice to the lower officials."
"The ordnance supervisor will show me the leftovers for casting Tang knives!"
"Master Concubine, please, the leftovers are piled up here, ready to return to the furnace!"
Chen Fang came to a pile of leftovers, took a piece of leftovers at random, tested the toughness with his hands, and asked Dingyu to test the hardness, and then nodded.
"Weapons supervisor, the steel used to cast the Tang knife is prepared for this horse."
"Master Horse, there are several kinds of steel used for Tang knife casting, and Master Horse knows that Tang knife is not cast at one time."
"The best steel!"
"Yes, Master Pony! The subordinate will go and order. ”
"Don't worry, there are four treasures from the study!"
"Come on, prepare the four treasures of the study for the master of the horse."
The four treasures of the study, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and the weapons supervisor are naturally not the best, but they are also of the highest quality.
With the help of a ruler, Chen Fang drew a drawing on a blank piece of paper.
In the Northern Han Dynasty for a few months, Chen Fang's biggest gain was actually browsing the notes left by Liu Naihe's predecessors, which was a valuable asset for this era. The value of those notebooks cannot be overestimated.
With these notes, Chen Fang believes that he can let Datang enter the industrial age, and there are no knowledge restrictions on steam engines, internal combustion engines, generators, and electric motors for Chen Fang at this time.
Of course, it still takes some effort to make it, after all, Datang is an agricultural society at this time, and if Chen Fang really wants to make these products, many processes and infrastructure cannot be achieved.
Chen Fang's drawings at this time are actually fire paper, Chen Fang told Wu Meiniang last night that he would make artillery and muskets in the past few days for Wu Meiniang to see their power, and he would naturally do it as soon as possible.