Chapter 17: Start with the details
Yan Le reported his achievements to Zhao Gao, as if he would not be able to complete this huge task this time, and it was a foregone conclusion that he would be severely punished by the First Emperor for falling out of favor.
At this time, Zhao Gao obviously regarded Ying Gao, who was very close to Fusu and came from the same vein, as a chess piece and eyeliner that Fusu had placed in Xianyang, and before he personally suggested that Ying Gao should supervise the construction of the new palace, on the one hand, he wanted to let Ying Gao stay away from the court because of the heavy pressure of the new palace, and could not give Fusu a message, and on the other hand, he naturally wanted to take this opportunity to repair Ying Gao, and it was best to let him be completely beaten into the cold palace by the first emperor.
If Ying Gao knew that Zhao Gao and Yan Le saw themselves as Fusu's spokespersons in Xianyang, they would definitely be furious, and in his opinion, it was almost the same as saying that he wanted to train Fusu to be his spokesperson in Shangjun.
"Dealing with Gongzi Gao in the construction of the new palace is just a incidental thing, our real intentions and tasks, you must not forget, everything is based on the overall situation, and the king's body is ......"
Speaking of this, Zhao Gao shook his head slightly, and did not continue, but Yan Le, who was sitting opposite him, must have known the meaning of his words, and his face showed a rather taboo look, obviously the overall situation in their mouths was not the same thing as the overall situation that the people of the Win clan thought.
At this time, Ying Gao was in a daze in his own house in front of a bunch of tools that had just been sent.
He had long known that the lack of popularization of iron tools in Daqin was an important reason for the slow construction of the building, but when he saw the bronze tools used to build the new palace up close for the first time, he was still a little disappointed when he was mentally prepared.
It is said that it is a tool for the construction of the new palace, but it seems that there are only two or three main tools, that is, axes and saws, one is used to deal with finer wood, the other is used to deal with coarser wood, as for the other steps, then sorry, can only be done manually by craftsmen.
There is another point, that is, these large and small tools sent to Yinggao, without exception, are all bronze, and not the ironware that Yinggao has some expectations in his heart, Yinggao knows that although there are signs of mass production of iron tools since the Spring and Autumn Period, but Daqin pursues standardization and institutionalization, in this context, the iron-smelting technology that is not yet mature can only stand aside first, making way for the bronzes that have passed the test of time and can be institutionalized and mass-produced in Daqin.
Therefore, these tools made by the official department of Great Qin are all bronze.
"Now that we're here, we still have to push the pace of the times forward...... How can you always use bronze, you can't use it! ”
For a while, the promotion of iron tools was alive in Yinggao's heart, but he also knew that the first emperor was not stupid, and the reason why he didn't use iron tools was because there were too many impurities in the iron tools made in this era, and the end was very ugly, and it was not much stronger than bronze tools, so if you want to promote it, technical problems still have to be overcome.
After thinking about it, Ying Gao still decided to come to something simple, after all, the construction of the new palace has come to the forefront, and when he has studied the iron smelting, the first emperor has already thrown himself to build the Great Wall, and then Zhao Gao used his iron smelting technology to repair the Afang Palace, and he had no place to cry.
Picking up the tools on the ground one by one, Ying Gao tried his best to recall that he had come into contact with those tools in his previous life, and finally, when he picked up a saw that was not very large, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.
"Quickly call the official in charge of making these tools!"
The matter of supervising the construction of the new palace is not just the trouble brought to Yinggao, and there is a lot of power that comes with it, not to mention anything else, as long as it is related to the construction of the new palace, Yinggao will be able to control it all at this time.
Sure enough, within half an hour, a wheering official came to outside Yinggao's mansion, claiming to be the person who supervised the tools and utensils used by the royal family in Xianyang Palace......
"How can this saw, made like this?" Holding a saw, Ying Gao walked leisurely in front of the official, pointed to the sawtooth on the saw, and asked.
I saw the saw held by Yinggao, the sawtooth is large and small, and barely shows a tooth tip, the saw itself is a little thin, Yinggao does not try to guarantee that if you use such a saw to see wood, how slow and slow the sawing is not to say, not only is it difficult to sawing out a relatively flat surface, once it is stuck in the middle of the wood, it is extremely difficult to take it out.
With such a saw, in the eyes of Yinggao, it is not a waste of time, it is better to use a big axe directly.
"Childe didn't know that the process of this saw was a little difficult, and it was not widely used, so he ...... Hence ......"
Obviously, what the official wanted to say was that he was such a bear, what can you do? But because of the situation, he didn't say it, in his opinion, this thing that has been invented for hundreds of years has always been like this, what is the use of you as a son who has never used it.
"Bang dang!" Ying Gao directly threw the saw in front of the official, which frightened the official into a rage, only to see Ying Gao simply squatting on the place, stretching out his hand and pointing at the saw and opening his mouth again.
"Go back today, according to what I said, this saw will be corrected, you can remember, I only told it once, I can't do it and miss the start date, the king asks you and I have no way to crack it."
After Ying Gao showed such might, the official nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and in his heart he had already forgotten what Yan Le had told him before, the county official might as well be in charge now, he knew that if he didn't listen to Ying Gao today, it might be his death in a few days.
"The thickness of this saw is not enough, after going back, it will be thickened, the thickness of the back is three times the current one, and then it will become thinner and thinner, until the sawtooth is as thin and thick as today's sawtooth, and it must be built according to the standard of building weapons, and no corners can be cut! Moreover, this sawtooth is too small, double in size, and each sawtooth must be in the trend of canine teeth, all the saws you see today, no matter how big or small, are all made according to this method, and they will be sent here tomorrow, and I will check them again! ”
Ying Gao really finished talking about the transformation method in one breath, and the official obviously remembered it, but after hearing it, he was a little embarrassed, and said: "But if this is the case, how can it be ......?"
"Just do it! Success or failure, what do you do? Before the official finished speaking, Ying Gao interrupted it with a glare, and the official dared to say more when he arrived at this job, and hurriedly ran away with a saw.