Chapter 27 igniting Zhang Fei

"By the way, Third Uncle, Master Zuo has calculated your fate." Liu Hou said lightly. He mentioned the three brothers just now, he remembered the fate of these three brothers, and couldn't help but feel a move in his heart, and planned to mention Zhang Fei.

Guan Yu's fate is difficult to change, Jingzhou is related to the game between the two countries, and Sun Quan has never stopped plotting to seize Jingzhou. In order to seize Jingzhou, the Sun Quan group can be said to be endlessly intriguing and unsparing. Therefore, this matter is not just a matter of persuasion, you must personally lead the army to save him, and it will take several years to prepare and plan an operation, a war.

But Zhang Fei's tragedy, although it was also affected by Guan Yu's death, caused him to drink more and whip the soldiers out of anger, but it can be said that the reason is more due to his own personality problems.

Zhang Fei himself is a violent personality and a lifelong drinker, and he is easy to lose control when he drinks, which is commonly known as drunkenness. Such people are very prone to accidents, in history and in reality, there are countless people who drink and make mistakes, and unfortunately Zhang Fei is also one of them.

This situation is not completely unchangeable, although it is said that the nature of the country is easy to change and difficult to change, but it also depends on how to change and how to move, otherwise what will so many psychiatrists do in the future? Liu Hou doesn't understand psychology, and the only way he can think of is the intimidation method.

"Oh? My fate? Haha, isn't it rich and rich, princely general? Zhang Fei said with a big grin.

"That's right, you are a marquis, but unfortunately you didn't live long, and you died not long after you became a marquis."

"What? What nonsense are you kid talking about? Be careful I flatten you. Zhang Fei blew his beard and glared.

"It's not me talking nonsense, it's Master Zuo who said it, I don't believe you to ask him."

Zuo Ci's name as the number one god stick in the world is not covered, and this time it hit Zhang Fei a lot, I saw him wrapping one hand around his beard, silent, obviously thinking about things.

After a while, Zhang Fei finally came back to his senses, changed his loud voice, and asked softly: "Then does he have a way to crack it?" ”

"Of course there is, if there is no way to crack it, I will tell you what to do." Liu Hou said on the ground.

"Then tell me how to crack it!" Zhang Fei shouted. Obviously, when I heard that there was a way to crack it, my heart was much calmer, and my voice was raised.

Liu Hou's ears were buzzing with his shout, and he couldn't help but cover his ears and said: "Be quiet, do you want to shake me off my horse and fall to death like I did against Cao Jiang in Changban Slope?" ”

Zhang Fei laughed embarrassedly, and couldn't help but be happy when he heard Liu Hou mention his life's proud work.

"In fact, the solution is very simple, that is, tell you not to drink from now on, and not to beat and scold the soldiers. Master Zuo said that after 10 years, you get drunk and whip the soldiers, and some soldiers hold a grudge, so they cut off your head and use it as a urinal. The previous words are historical facts, and the last sentence is Liu Hou privately adding material to him.

"Wow, wow! What to be a urinal, I see who dares! Zhang Fei was really angry, staring at the big round eyes, and scolding. Liu Hou was secretly amused.

"Believe it or not, Master Zuo's words, I believe it anyway."

"Hmph, that old bird's words, who loves to believe and who believes, don't let people drink, and let people live?" Zhang Fei did have a problem of getting drunk and scolding the soldiers, and Liu Bei also persuaded him to change it. However, not letting him drink is worse than killing him, no matter how much he is determined to quit drinking, he will recommit it again after a few days.

After Zhang Fei finished speaking, he strode into the cabin, swearing in his mouth. Liu Hou looked at his back and laughed secretly.

However, since then, Zhang Fei has indeed reduced his drinking, and he has beaten and scolded the soldiers a lot less. Although he had a hard mouth, he had also heard that Zuo Ci had calculated that the Yellow Turban Thief had caused chaos in the world, that Cao Cao would be defeated in the Battle of Chibi, that Pang Tong would be killed by arrows in "Luofengpo", and so on.

All kinds of signs show that this old Taoist word would rather be credible than not, in Zhang Fei's mind, "Zuo Xianweng" is like the world's largest poisonous tongue, the crow's mouth in the crow's mouth.

"Little boy, what about me? What about me? Did the Governor Zuo calculate my fate? At this time, Zhao Yun, who was next to him, came over and asked.

In Liu Bei's team, Liu Hou and Zhao Yun are the most close, not only have two life-saving graces, but also have the reality of being a master and apprentice who passes on the arts, so it is not easy to brush his face, so he said: "Fourth Uncle Zhao, rest assured, you can live to be over 70 years old, just follow me in the future, and ensure that you are an invincible and invincible general." ”

Accidentally, the idea of "follow me in the future" was also said. Isn't this a clear attempt to dig into the corner of your own father's wall? However, Zhao Yun obviously didn't notice this sentence, and he was very happy to hear that he could live to be more than 70 years old. "70 years old", in this era, being able to live to 70 years old is undoubtedly considered longevity.

As for why Liu Hou called Zhao Yun "Fourth Uncle Zhao", it was because Liu Hou always felt that with Zhao Yun's ability, Liu Bei treated him a little badly, so although Liu Bei did not bow to Zhao Yun, Liu Hou automatically called him Fourth Uncle Zhao, which invisibly improved his identity.

Back in Jingzhou City, Liu Hou began to live a peaceful life again. Sun Shangxiang is gone, and Liu Hou's biggest gain is to get 120 female guards. These female soldiers were originally the first allegiance to Sun Shangxiang, but under Liu Hou's sugar-coated cannonball attack, Liu Hou successfully obtained the second position.

Now that Sun Shangxiang is gone, Liu Hou has naturally become the object of allegiance of all female soldiers. Although Sun Shangxiang left, Liu Hou played with 120 girls every day, and naturally he would not feel lonely. Liu Hou arranged for them to be guards in the backyard and trained them regularly. Since these warblers and swallows are all female guards left by Mrs. Sun, Liu Hou is still young, so naturally no one says anything gossip about Liu Hou.

During this quiet period, Liu Hou began to focus on the studies and research of Zuo Ci and Ge Xuan. He taught the two of them as soon as he had time, ranging from mathematics, chemistry, and physics to astronomy, biology, and geography, anyway, all the knowledge he learned from elementary school to university in his later life, including the knowledge he saw in extracurricular books, he still remembered, and instilled it in the two of them.

Due to the very large amount of information, Liu Hou spoke in a chaotic manner, and he talked about whatever he wanted, without systematization, which made Zuo Ci and Ge Xuan miserable.

Liu Hou instructed the two of them to write it down in a notebook first, whether they understood it or not, and then slowly sorted it out, and slowly comprehended it. The two also knew that the opportunity was rare, and they believed that these unheard of and unbelievable knowledge were heavenly knowledge and the truth related to the rules of heaven and earth, so they studied and absorbed them hungrily.

Fortunately, Ge Xuan is also a genius, and his paper research has also achieved good results, and after two years of research, he finally made cheap and high-quality paper. Especially under Liu Hou's prompt, the paper made of bagasse as the main raw material is not only cheap, but its quality is more than a step better than Caihou paper.

Liu Hou was overjoyed, which could undoubtedly improve his quality of life again. For Zuo Ci and Ge Xuan, the biggest gain is to have a lightweight notebook, and say goodbye to bulky bamboo slips.

And Liu Hou also extravagantly upgraded his toilet paper from straw paper to this bagasse paper. Of course, others are not so blessed that they still use rough straw paper.

Sugar cane was introduced to southern China around the time of King Xuan of Zhou during the Zhou Dynasty. In the pre-Qin period, it was called "Zhe", and the word "cane" appeared in the Han Dynasty. Under Liu Hou's instructions, Ge Xuan easily found a sugarcane field and a sugar extraction workshop, and obtained the bagasse left over after sugar extraction at almost zero cost.

Ge Xuan has made detailed research and records on all steps of papermaking, such as pulping, bleaching, papermaking, water pressing, and drying. With the help of Liu Hou, the key problems in all links have been well solved. He has basically # mastered the principles and processes of papermaking, and has begun to research and manufacture a variety of paper products, such as bamboo paper, rice paper, toilet paper, and so on.

After Liu Hou saw that he was almost made of paper, he told him to start studying printing. Of course, Liu Hou skipped woodblock printing and directly asked him to start with letterpress printing.

Ge Xuan found a blacksmith and tried to make a lettering mold with various metals and alloy materials. Liu Hou reminded them to use lead, and later # After many attempts, they came up with the best font mold made of lead tin alloy with tin. Such a stencil is easy to ink and the printing is clear.

Therefore, under the guidance of Liu Hou, the first book printing workshop was established, and at present, it is mainly printing some books and five classics to sell in order to increase research funds. Liu Hou intends to gradually realize the self-sufficiency of various workshops and laboratories, without Liu Bei's funding. But he also knew that he was about to enter Sichuan, so he did not make the workshop bigger, and he is still focusing on accumulating experience.

After Zuo Ci successfully set the ** formula at 75% saltpeter, 10% sulfur, and 15% charcoal, Liu Hou assigned him two new tasks.

The first task was the research and development of cement. Liu Hou only remembered that the cement was calcined with limestone, but he had forgotten the specific formula. In addition to limestone, I remember seeing the cement bags used in the decoration of my home with "Portland cement" printed on them.

Anyway, he didn't care so much, let Zuo Ci use limestone to mix all kinds of things and calcine. As soon as Zuo Ci heard about the various characteristics of cement, he was immediately as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. This is really an epoch-making building material, and its importance is no less than **.

Of course, that's because Zuo Ci is a pacifist, and in the eyes of careerists, it is natural that this kind of strategic material that is vital to fighting the world is of high importance. If it is not conducive to building a solid city wall, cement, which has more to do with people's livelihood, is estimated to be not worth mentioning in the eyes of many heroes.

Liu Hou is naturally not such a visionless person, so the research and development of cement is now proposed.

The second task assigned by Liu Hou to Zuo Ci was the research of smelting technology. China's ancient iron-smelting technology is actually far ahead of the world.

Early cast iron was white iron, which was brittle and hard, easy to break, and not durable. During the Warring States period, people had already mastered the technique of softening cast iron. They heat and forge cast iron to decarburize it to get white-hearted malleable cast iron, or it can be heated and annealed for a long time to obtain black-hearted malleable cast iron with better toughness.

If the decarburization is not complete, only the outer layer of the casting becomes steel and the inner layer is still cast iron, you can get a composite product of steel and iron, so that the quality of the casting is better, Europe will not have white malleable cast iron until the 18th century, and the United States will not have black malleable cast iron until the 19th century, and China's cast iron softening technology has been invented more than 2,000 years earlier than them

The difference between pig iron, wrought iron and steel is the difference in carbon content, the carbon content of pig iron is greater than 2%, the carbon content of wrought iron is less than 0.04%, and the carbon content of steel is in between.

Steel can be obtained by decarburizing pig iron or by carburizing wrought iron. A part of the weapons unearthed in Yanxia are to put the piece of iron-making in the red-hot charcoal for a long time to heat the surface carburized, and then forged into a carburized steel sheet, and the carburized steel sheet is folded and forged many times, this steel-making method is also called "a hundred steel-making", some steel knives made by this method in the Han Dynasty are often engraved with the words "three-dimensional steelmaking", "hundred steel-making" and so on.