Chapter 62: Sharpening Iron Like Clay
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On the fourth day, Mao Geng felt that the palm of his hand was no longer painful, there was an itchy feeling on his hand, and the burn on his neck was the same. It's just that one head had to be cut short because it was burned, although it was in line with the living habits of later generations, but it looked out of place in the Great Song Dynasty.
Tan Xiuzhu heard that Mao Geng was injured, and brought a bunch of medicines to Mao Geng the day before yesterday, and personally massaged Mao Geng's sprained foot and applied a layer of medicine. Fortunately, Mao Geng's sprain is not strict, which is all due to the set of exercises and medicinal baths taught by Fu Guoxi.
Even in Qujiatong, except for the first few days, Mao Geng has always insisted on practicing, Mao Geng has a personal experience, when he loses his freedom, practice helps to adjust his body and mind. As for the medicinal bath, Mao Geng once chatted with Xiang Yixuan, Mao Geng casually asked if Qu Jiatong had a medicinal bath, and the next day Mao Geng's house had a big wooden barrel, and then Mao Geng appreciated Qu Jiadong's medicinal bath, which is different from Fuguoxi's medicinal bath formula, Qu Jiadong's medicinal bath is obviously used violently, and the feeling of the first medicinal bath is like being subjected to some strange punishment, Mao Geng was very uncomfortable at first, and slowly got used to it. Mao Geng suspected that there were some drugs that stimulated the potential of the body, and it was no wonder that Qu Jiatong's people had always been engaged in bandit trading before, pursuing physical toughness, and it was expected that this medicinal bath would have the effect of strengthening muscles and bones, but the medicine was too strong, and I don't know if there were any side effects.
Mao Geng also asked Xiang Yixuan, why the Yao family's medicinal bath dispensing is different, according to Xiang Yixuan, the Yao people live in the mountains and forests, miasma poisons are rampant in the mountains, this medicinal bath has the effect of detoxification, and can strengthen the body, the formula of each family, the drugs to repel the poison are generally those kinds, but the drugs to strengthen the body, then each family is different, Qu Jiatong's medicinal bath formula is said to be very difficult to obtain, is Qu Jiatong's secret is not passed on.
Out of Qu Jiatong, Mao Geng used back the medicinal bath formula of Fuguo Xi, soaked in Qu Jiatong's medicinal bath, and came back to take the medicinal bath of Fujia, and felt that the medicinal power was very soft, anyway, the whole body was comfortable, but it didn't seem to be taking a medicinal bath, it could be compared with the spa that later generations paid attention to enjoying.
But unconsciously, the uninterrupted practice and medicinal bath persisted, and the already strong Mao Geng's muscles and bones became stronger, otherwise Mao Geng would never have been just sprained when he fell into the water from a high altitude that day.
Mao Geng recovered very quickly, and Ling'er was also happy in his heart.
That day, Mao Geng confessed loudly in the sky, there were one or two thousand people who saw and heard it with their own eyes, and now it is not only known locally, but I am afraid that the whole Song Dynasty will spread it by then, and in this regard, Ling'er can't help but feel a little sour in her heart. But people have love for Mao Geng first, and he took the lead by relying on disgraceful methods, Ling'er felt ashamed, so she comforted herself and thought: Su Zhiyan should have been Brother Mao's wife, Brother Mao also has feelings for himself, and he should be content.
In the evening, Ling'er asked Acui to boil another big pot of water, and then the two carefully helped Mao Geng into the wooden barrel, in order to prevent the wound on his neck from entering the water, a wooden bench was specially placed in the wooden barrel, so that Mao Geng sat in the wooden barrel, above the shoulder blade exposed to the water, and his two hands were on the edge of the barrel, enjoying the medicinal bath that Ling'er served throughout the process.
The water in the wooden barrel is steaming, and there are all kinds of Chinese medicine powder floating on the water, which is a medicinal bath prescription specially prepared by Tan Xiuzhu for Mao Geng, the medicinal taste is a little different from the past, and it is said that it can help Mao Geng's sprained foot to recover as much as possible.
Like yesterday, soaking, I felt that my whole body was soft, and my consciousness was gradually a little blurred, the medicine in the water should have a hypnotic effect, and the human body can better absorb the medicinal power after hypnosis, Mao Geng thought.
Mao Geng was dazed, only to feel that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and he slowly couldn't hold his eyelids anymore, so he fell asleep in the barrel again.
I don't know when, in a trance, I saw Su Zhiyan come to me, smiled shyly, her face was flushed, and then she suddenly stood on tiptoe and moved forward, and the soft red lips were printed on her lips, Mao Geng hugged it, only to feel that her chest was soft, Su Zhiyan gently arched in her arms, and her breathing turned short, showing her emotion.
Mao Geng wanted to make further movements, but his chest was empty, and he didn't know where to go.
Suddenly I felt a heat in my abdomen, and there was a feeling of itching and wanting to die, only to feel that my whole person was like floating in the clouds, Mao Geng tried his best to distinguish whether this was a big day with Su Zhiyan, why did happiness come so quickly!
Suddenly there was a pain in his foot, Mao Geng couldn't help but scream, stimulated by this, Mao Geng finally woke up from his dream, and then Ling'er's voice came:
"Brother Mao, it hurts you! Ling'er shouldn't, woo, woo, I just like Brother Mao. ”
Mao Geng realized that it was Ling'er who was emotional just now. Since the day of Mao Geng's declaration in the air, Ling'er's heart has been empty, and it is appropriate to see Mao Geng falling asleep is particularly charming, just remembering the scene of thousands of people shouting "Brother Mao, kiss a mouthful of ---" that day, I couldn't help but kiss Mao Geng, I never thought that Mao Geng in my sleep had a reaction, and hugged Ling'er into his arms, and then Ling'er felt that Mao Geng's bottom suddenly rose up, and Ling'er loved Mao Geng, so he used his mouth to extinguish the fire for Mao Geng.
Mao Geng only felt that Ling'er was cute and pitiful, and he actually cried aggrievedly at this time! Don't hurt Ling'er to have any psychological obstacles, Mao Geng joked:
"I said, Ling'er, the boudoir is very interesting, since you provoked it, just ride it. Silly! ”
When Ling'er heard this, she was immediately shy, and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito's voice:
"You have a wound on your neck! Sleep on your side these days. Brother Mao, you are bad, you are not coming! ”
Mao Geng smiled:
"Okay bell, let's come sideways."
The bell is a little cute:
"Is it okay to do it sideways?"
Suddenly realizing that this was inappropriate, he immediately said:
"Brother Mao, you are still injured, can you do it?"
Mao Geng felt that the somewhat cute bell at this time was simply very interesting, so he continued to tease:
"Ling'er, come on, see if you dare to doubt whether your brother Mao can do it!"
Although Ling'er is infinitely shy, she still cooperates sideways close to Mao Geng, and then the two of them linger as much as they can, until a wave of joy passes, Ling'er is still comfortable reminiscing about today's boundless charm, and carefully understands what Brother Mao said, "The joy of the boudoir is endless", it turns out that this is indeed the case!
The next day, Mao Geng felt that his injuries were no longer in the way, and he had already been tested last night, so he came to the place where the lathe was assembled on crutches and commanded it personally. In fact, although Mao Geng spent most of the first three days in bed recuperating from his injuries, he was not idle, such as constantly calling disciples to come over to ask for guidance, such as asking his disciples to record any new ideas. Of course, he also has to deal with Chen Liang, Chen Liang is like a reporter who is obsessed with digging deep into news materials in later generations, and he has to pester Mao Geng every day, Chen Liang has taken away a lot of valuable information in the past three days, and Chen Liang's "Alice in Wonderland" written accordingly has been serialized in "New Newspaper", but this is just the beginning, Mao Geng doesn't know if this kind of novel with science fiction can become popular in the Great Song Dynasty.
The assembly of the lathe is in the final stage, and Mao Geng sits on a chair to guide the installation.
The power of the lathe is the power output of the water wheel, and the water wheel power can be used to drive the lathe when the tug is not used. The degree of rotation of the water wheel is not fast, and the lathe designed by Mao Geng is not designed to be high-end, and the highest rotation is only two hundred revolutions a minute, because this lathe is not guaranteed from the stiffness and strength, although this lathe uses a large number of iron and copper parts, but many of the components are still wooden, which makes Mao Geng very uneasy.
In particular, some of the "fixtures" that clamp and fix the workpiece can not be on the table, you must know that there are no screws at this time, the screw nut looks simple, but it is very important, and it has to rely on the lathe to install it, so that it can be used to turn out the copper screw nut, and then there will be iron screws and nuts coming out. The consequence of the absence of screws is that the workpiece can only be fixed and clamped by driving into a wooden wedge, and the structure used to fix the workpiece on this lathe is so simple and primitive that there is no shadow of the three-jaw chuck and the four-jaw chuck of later generations. To put it more bluntly, it is an iron cylinder, stuffed into the workpiece, and then three or four wooden wedges of the same size are hammered into the circumference of the cylinder to fix the workpiece.
Tan Xiaochun has experience in making zuò woodworking lathes, and this time he also assembled them, but Mao Geng transferred a few people to help, and he also apprenticed by the way. Among them, Fan Biaoyong seems to have good qualifications, and another one named Yi Bojun also came out, the latter's understanding even surpassed Tan Xiaochun, and both of them are the objects that Mao Geng is preparing to focus on.
After many days of installation and commissioning, the first metal lathe designed by Mao Geng finally reached the conditions for commissioning, and this afternoon, ushered in the first test run of this metal lathe.
Considering that Tan Xiaochun has a lot of work, Mao Geng intends to train newcomers, so the first person to stand in front of this lathe for a test run is Yi Bojun.
Yi Bojun stretched a piece of iron rod that had been prepared into the iron cylinder on the spindle, found three wedges that matched it, stuffed them into the interval between the iron cylinder and the iron rod one by one, and then turned the spindle and compared it with the turning tool, and then beat the wedge little by little, until the wedge could no longer be beaten, and the iron rod was firmly fixed in the iron cylinder.
Although Yi Bojun is only 20 years old, he is born with quick eyes and hands, good at pondering, and can learn everything very quickly, and he can understand everything. Mao Geng was very satisfied with Yi Bojun's operation, and when he saw that this young man had loaded the turning tool and workpiece in three or two clicks, he immediately gave instructions to start.
Slowly, the turning tool is approaching the workpiece, this turning tool is a high-carbon steel made of crucible, after quenching, its hardness is much higher than that of wrought iron, but Mao Geng is not sure how effective this turning tool is to turn iron, and he tried it today.
With the sound of "boom", a spark came out of the rotating workpiece, and Mao Geng hurriedly shouted to stop. Waiting for the lathe to stop, Mao Geng stepped forward to take a look, the round iron rod was turned out of half a circle of about two millimeters of bright processing marks, and then looked at the turning tool that was regarded as a baby, but it was undamaged.
There's a play! Mao Geng asked Yi Bojun to close the clutch again, start the lathe, slowly enter the knife, and began to test the iron rod with real knives and guns.
Mao Geng explained first, Yi Bojun was very careful in entering the knife, and the feeding mechanism was also limited by the lack of a screw rod, and the method of hitting the wedge was also adopted. Although Yi Bojun's operation has been extremely careful, this method of hitting the oblique wedge into the knife is still inevitably uneven, and Mao Geng is worried that the turning tool will be knocked out every time.
However, the matter of the car knife was not born, and Yi Bojun successfully made a groove of about three millimeters on the iron rod, which was shiny and bright, so that the eyes of all the disciples present were bright.
Mao Geng checked the turning tool, and now he could go down again, so he asked Yi Bojun to put the entire iron rod on the car according to the predetermined plan, and turn out a complete cylinder.
As soon as Mao Geng turned around, he felt that Chen Liang also walked in, the sound of the lathe starting was rumbling, the sound of turning the iron rod was squeaking, and the noise was very loud, only to hear Chen Liang say loudly:
"I heard that this steel knife sharpens iron like clay, and I came here to see it."
Mao Geng smiled:
"Brother Tongfu, this is not a steel knife, as for whether it is sharpened like clay, you can see it in a while."
Chen Liang only saw that the iron rod was spinning and the iron filings were flying. Chen Liang was curious and wanted to find out whether the splashed iron filings were or not, but he picked up a small circle of iron filings casually, and he was immediately scalded and screamed. Chen Liang knew it very well, and then he stood far away, and he didn't dare to move forward anymore.
Chen Liang felt that he had waited for a long, long time before the lathe stopped, but the time reported was actually less than twenty minutes, Chen Liang looked at the time table placed at the scene, it was indeed true, Chen Liang said that he was in a hurry.
When Yi Bojun unloaded the turned iron rod, Chen Liang couldn't wait to get up again, and when he went up, he saw that most of the iron rod had been lowered by the car with a thickness of at least two copper coins, and only the part that was clamped was intact.
The section of the car passing by was bright, and Chen Liang wanted to touch it, but there was a lesson from the previous car, so he had to forcibly hold back, but his mouth was full of praise:
"Brother Yisheng, I have finally seen it, this is called sharpening iron like clay! The foolish brother thought, if this stainless steel is used to make weapons, no matter how powerful his golden soldiers are, their weapons will be cut off by the steel weapons of my Great Song Dynasty in three or two strokes, and they will still be a fart! The foolish brother wrote to the official family, and asked the official family to invite Brother Yi Sheng to Lin'an, and taught the people of the ordnance supervisor to build such a steel divine soldier, and waited until the 100,000 divine soldiers were successfully defeated, and then raised troops to the Northern Expedition and wiped out the Jin soldiers in one fell swoop. Yi Sheng, what does the foolish brother think? ”
When Mao Geng heard this, he laughed, and said in his heart that Chen Liang was very stupid and naïve at some times, and he even thought that with a treasure knife that sharpened iron like clay, he would be able to crisscross the battlefield and kill all the golden soldiers. Perhaps, this is the limitation of the times! It is also absurd to say that what the current Emperor Xiaozong dreams of is to restore the military system of the Tang Dynasty and dream of reliving the glory of the Tang Dynasty.
Mao Geng said with ridicule and half-truths:
"Brother Tongfu, but the younger brother heard that only when you have a knife in your heart can you run rampant in the world. Those soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, even if they held a treasure sword, they might not be able to defeat the golden soldiers with wooden sticks. Brother Tongfu, if I want to restore the rivers and mountains in the Great Song Dynasty, I can't count on these old soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty! Brother Tongfu, wait patiently! ”
After a pause, Mao Geng said again:
"However, in ten years, it should be about the same."