Rub, rub, rub. ”

After a lot of hard work with the drill, the barrel has loosened a lot. It was easier to get out than to go in, and the donkey was already trotting, and the drill was withdrawn at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Whew."

Da Niu took a deep breath, and then carefully picked up the barrel of the gun with both hands. Holding the barrel up to the sun, the bull looked inside. I saw that the rifling inside the barrel was simply perfect, and if it was drilled by hand, even a big bull would not be able to drill such a perfect barrel.

"Master Hou, take a look."

Da Niu said, and distributed the barrels drilled out of a few drill machines to the civilian scientists beside him. These people took the barrel of the gun and observed it carefully, like experts in treasure connoisseurship.

Li Chen also looked at the barrel of the gun, but with his eyesight, he couldn't see the difference between the barrel drilled by the drilling machine and the manual one. If Li Chen, who "inspects the car and test drives", is a good hand, he is really a half-baked person in this industrial manufacturing.

"This ......"

"This is simply the most perfect barrel made by our Lijiazhuang factory."

"Yes, it's impeccable."

"This rifling is not flawed at all."

The surrounding folk scientists were in an uproar, and they all exclaimed in amazement. Originally, in everyone's opinion, this tool invented by Da Niu is nothing more than to greatly increase the speed of drilling the barrel. These people are very confident in their craft, and they don't believe that a donkey pulling a machine can make something more skilled than them. But now that the facts are in front of us, this makes these citizen scientists happy, but also a little frustrated.

When drilling the barrel, the most taboo thing is to stop. As soon as you stop, no matter how much you try to control it, there will be more or less stutters left on the rifling. But human power is limited, and even a young and strong craftsman has to stop at least three or four times to drill the barrel of a gun. Skilled craftsmen can control the imperfections left by each pause to the extent that they are invisible to the naked eye. But the flaw is not a thing that doesn't exist if you can't see it. Xianyangzao is a very rough gun, this small flaw will not affect the daily use of Xianyangzao, but it will seriously affect the service life of Xianyangzao.

However, the original drilling machine pulled by a donkey perfectly solves the flaws on the intermittent rifling. This machine completely crushed the Daqin craftsmen in terms of quality, speed, and cost.

Although Li Chen didn't see the gap in the barrel, Li Chen could see the frustration of these folk scientists, so he said calmly: "The use of the drilling machine does not mean that you are inferior to donkeys, nor does it mean that donkeys are stronger than you. This is the change of science and technology and the progress of the times. ”

"Brothers, times have changed. Our Lijiazhuang also has to change from the era of hands to the era of brains. Come to think of it, wasn't this machine also invented by man? ”

"Times have changed......."

"From the era of hands-on to the era of brain......"

Li Chen's words roared like thunder in the ears of these skilled craftsmen, their lips trembled, and the whites of their eyes began to redden.

Yes, it seems that their craftsman skills have not been innovated for a long time before coming to Lijiazhuang, and their income is still passed down from the Mo family and the public losers during the Warring States Period.

Li Chen's words are simply better than reading ten years of books for the craftsmen. These people came to their senses and discussed whether they could continue to improve the drilling machine.

"The donkey's strength is a little small, can you use a stronger ox to replace the donkey, this speed is obviously faster." An old craftsman stroked his gray beard and said after a long silence.

As soon as his words fell, the people around him began to ponder. After a while, someone said, "I'm afraid that it won't work, although the strength of the ox is great, the speed of the ox is not as uniform as that of the donkey." The cow may rest when it is tired, which will still cause a pause in rifling. But donkeys are different, donkeys are stubborn, if we don't shout to stop, donkeys will definitely not stop. ”

Although his own proposal was rejected, the old craftsman was not angry, but discussed it with everyone without care. It was getting dark, and there were no major improvements to the drilling machine, except for a few small changes.

The appearance of the drilling machine made Li Chen very surprised, and even wanted to drink a few glasses. You must know that Daqin is an agricultural society, and the drilling machine should be a product of industrial society. This means that in the process of civilization, Daqin has changed from a young child who stumbled to learn to walk, to a young man who runs.

Li Chen has always been rewarded for his merits, and for Da Niu's merits, Li Chen decided to reward him with a dinner of Rong Luhou.

"Da Niu, you kid is really a talent, I'm afraid no one in our Li Jiazhuang is better than you on the road of craftsmen." Li Chen said while soaking the hot pot.

Da Niu stuffed the slices of meat floating in the pot into his mouth violently, and said vaguely: "Don't talk about our Li Jiazhuang, even the entire Daqin may not have someone with better skills than my Da Niu." ”

Li Chen knew that Da Niu was not boasting, after all, he was not himself. Maybe this is the talent of people, Da Niu has a talent in the craftsman that others do not have. Some things are not useful if you work hard, and without talent you will work in vain.

"Da Niu, do you want to be an official?" Li Chen took a sip of wine and asked suddenly.

"Think?"

"Aren't I in charge now? The director of our Lijiazhuang Arsenal, my craftsmanship is this, and these thousands of people in the factory have to listen to me. Da Niu said and put his thumb up and said proudly.

Li Chen looked at this rough man and said speechlessly: "I'm not talking about this official, I'm talking about the official of Great Qin." With your craftsmanship, I will give you a waiter in the Ministry of Works. ”

"No, no."

"That official, I'm not right." As soon as Li Chen's words fell, Da Niu shook his head like a drum.

"What's the matter, you just want to be a white household in Lijiazhuang." Li Chen hated iron and said with no steel.

Although he knew that Da Niu's personality was not suitable for being an official, Li Chen still wanted to find a good future for him.

"Master Hou, my mother often said before she died, there is no innocent person in the officialdom, if you want to be innocent, people will exclude you, and you can't get along."

"My mother said that I will be an official in this life, and I will be a dog in the next life. The more money you make as an official in this life, the more you will eat as a dog in the next life. ”

Da Niu lay in Li Chen's ear and said eloquently, as if he was convinced of what his mother said when she was alive.

After listening to Da Niu's words, Li Chen glared at Da Niu fiercely, and this hot pot didn't seem to be very fragrant.

Noticing Li Chen's gaze, Da Niu thought that this was a big official in front of him, so he hurriedly said in an uncertain tone: "Master Hou is a good official, and he will definitely not be able to be a dog in the next life." ”

"Master Hou, you eat, eat more, after all, you may not be able to eat it in the next life."

Da Niu looked at Li Chen, who had not moved his chopsticks for a long time, and said to Li Chen while quickly scooping up the hot pot.

(End of chapter)