Chapter 303: Sideways Eyes

It is sad to ask for it, to give it up, to give it up without hesitation. According to Anya's meaning, no matter which possibility it is, Sima Cheng is destined to be a poor person.

"The one who bows, kneading the wood and the string is the arrow". The most important process of making a bow is to bend it.

The longbow has a simple rounded arc shape, and there is no complex shape of the Celestial Empire Angular Bow that curves back. If you don't need to roast the bow, it will reduce the tension of the bow, and you won't be able to bend it all at once, so that the back of the bow will not break and cause internal injuries and lose its elasticity.

The process of bending is called "taming the bow", which is to allow the bow back to gradually adapt to the bending. To do this, you need a special bracket. The bracket can be made of hardwood, with a groove dug vertically at one end to support the bow, and the other end managed to be fixed vertically to the ground.

Tie the rope to both ends in the relaxed state of the bow back, put the center of the bow back on the groove of the bracket, use even force, slowly pull the string, and hang it into the first string groove, and the bow back is slightly bent.

At this time, it is necessary to carefully check whether the curve of the bow is smooth and even, mark the areas that are too stiff, relax the bow back and trim and fine-tune until you are satisfied.

Then pull the rope apart, gradually increase the opening and hang the groove downward, and keep trimming the bow back until a satisfactory and uniform arc is formed.

It is precisely because Sima Cheng rarely goes out to show his head that the rumors about him in Luojing City will intensify.

Every time he gets closer to the "truth", Sima Yun's heartbreak is a little more.

Every three or four chord grooves are added, and the rope can be tightened. This process should not be rushed, especially before each increase in the opening, it is best to let the arch back "rest" so that the internal stresses can be relieved to avoid damage to the wood.

Don't tighten too much each time, it's best to tighten one inch at a time. When the full bow opening that is suitable for the archer is reached, the bow is tamed.

Refers to the maximum opening that the archer can pull out, which is equivalent to the distance from the palm to the chest when the arm is stretched out. At this time, remove the bracket and brush the arch back with several layers of linseed oil as a moisture protection layer.

When the oil is dry, you can hang the strings. The bowstring is made of sheep intestines or tendon tanning, and the elasticity and toughness are very good. The fixed opening when hanging the string is controlled by the distance between the bowstring and the center of the bow back to reach the height of the fist.

Great importance is attached to the development of the textile industry. Establish officials, have a fixed official office, and manage them by special personnel.

"Zhongshangfang and don't lead the other bureaus, Jingzhou Silk Bureau, Yongzhou Silk Bureau, Dingzhou Silk Bureau four bureaus", "Si Dyeing and don't lead Jingfang, Hedong, Xindu three bureaus".

War is frequent, but the government-run iron smelting industry in the middle reaches of the Yellow River can still maintain production. The area south of the Yangtze River suffered less damage, and there were still more iron-smelting workshops that continued to develop, while copper, silver, and gold mines were in decline and decaying.

At that time, the center of the silk weaving industry was still in the north, and until much later, Dingzhou was still the place where the most tribute and silk brocade were made. The fabric is very fine.

In the biography, it was recorded that Yuanzhong "once paid tribute to Shizong with a plate of peach wine, and Shizong reported it with a hundred practices", and some recorded that Zu Ting "went out of Shandong Dawen Aya and connected more than 100 horses such as Peacock Luo, so that the concubines threw the pu and gambled on it, thinking it was fun".

Eighteen kinds of martial arts are passed on by word of mouth, and they practice technical skills. Comforting myself as I walked, how could there be such a coincidence...... Nor is he alone......

At other times, there are also weaving bureau Lingcheng, weaving doctors, small weaving sergeants, as well as sewing workers, carvers, Wei workers, glass workers, wedge workers, performance workers, silk weaving, weaving, weaving groups, etc.

There is a saying in cotton cloth: "Fujian people take cotton as Jibei", and some people began to grow cotton a long time ago.

"Fu Zhen was born of play, all of them are China and the Western Regions, and other things are not as good as them, the yellow cloth of Daijun is fine, the Lelang practice is fine, and the Taimo cloth of Jiangdong is white, so it is not as good as the cloth woven by the white stack is fresh and clean."

The cloth woven by the white stack is the "white stacked cloth" produced in the Western Regions. At that time, the cotton cloth woven by ethnic minorities in the northwest region had been introduced to the Central Plains.

Later, cotton cloth was widely popular. Gaochang is a cotton-producing area, and in the ancient tombs of Hara and Zhuo, a kind of brocade with four colors of red, pink, yellow and white composed of geometric patterns has been unearthed, which is a mixture of silk and cotton.

In the tombs of this period, white cloth made of pure cotton fibers was also unearthed, and it was also found that in the first year of peace, there was a contract to borrow cotton cloth and brocade. Sixty pieces of cloth were borrowed at a time, and the cotton cloth was apparently produced locally.

Cotton cloth and brocade cloth are used as a means of circulation, which shows that the production of cotton cloth will not be very small.

It has been recorded in the biography that Gaochang "its land is high and dry", "the cold and summer are similar to Yizhou, and the nine grains are planted", "there are many plants and trees, there are grass such as cocoons, and the silk in the cocoon is as thin as this, and the name is 'white stacks', and the people of the country take and weave it as cloth. The cloth is very soft and white, and it is used in the market". In addition to Turpan, there are also cotton fabrics in the Yutian area.

After the party, Lu Ji's younger brother Lu Yun, an optimistic young man who loves to laugh, advised his brother not to be so impulsive:

"People are northerners, and it's normal that they haven't heard of our Wu County celebrities."

Lu Ji replied with a very famous sentence:

"My father and ancestor are famous in the sea, and I would rather not know, the devil dares!"

It is true that Lu Xun and Lu Kang are famous at home, but what is Lu Zhi a "devil"? Later, Lu Ji made a mistake under Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, and Lu Zhijin's slander caused Lu Yun and others to die.

In the future, the country may really change hands.

He has always attached great importance to Lu Ji's reputation, and Lu Ji and Zhang Hua felt like old when they met, he admired Zhang Hua's moral demeanor and treated him with the etiquette of a teacher.

Liberated from Lao Zhuang's metaphysics, he felt like a lonely boat floating in the long river of life, and the appearance of Yixue reminded him of his childhood Jin Se Liu.

lit a lamp for his dark night, but he knew that he was related by blood and couldn't give happiness to his sick body, so he chose to silently guard her behind his back, dressed all his life, and parked in the small pond of the royal family.

Bows and arrows are the best weapons that can be prepared on an improvised basis, and they are easy to prepare. It only takes a short time and you will be a beneficiary when you use them.

It's better to have a completely dry and sturdy marblewood material, and you should be able to make a good bow when you don't. If you expect to be in the area for several months, you should stock up on some fine marblewood.

Other marbles will have a shorter lifespan, so you can make a few more bows, and when you lose your elasticity, use another one.

Yew trees are ideal for bow making, and there are about five species of yew trees, but not all of them are common.

Others such as oak, willow, hickory, cedar, ironwood, elm, cypress, birch and hemlock are ideal for bow-making.

The raw material should be a straight part of the middle of the trunk, with a uniform texture, and no or as few knots as possible. Cut off most of the sapwood of the log to obtain a cross-sectional square and the length of the archer's bowed back material, from the cross-section, to take the middle part, half of the wood core, half of the sapwood.

The core is relatively soft and compression-resistant, and is placed on the inside, while the hard tensile sapwood is used on the outside. This can be judged by looking at the wood grain in the cross-section, with the relatively sparse side being the outside.

By cutting one side of the wooden core, the material is trimmed to a thickness in the middle and a little thinner at both ends, and then the two ends are slightly narrowed by the two sides, slightly like a flat shoulder. The two ends are further trimmed into an octagonal shape with a planer.

In the trimming, it is necessary to achieve a smooth surface, symmetrical at both ends, and consistent thickness in order to exert force evenly. Once the shape has been cut, a flexure test is performed to check whether the elasticity of the bow's segments is uniform.

Because it is difficult to be completely uniform with naturally grown wood, there may be some places that are harder, some places are softer, and the strength may not be the same just because the shape is uniform. Therefore, it is necessary to correct it through observation and make the hardness area slightly thinner. The dorsal aspect of the arch is darker, and the medial aspect is slightly lighter.

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