Chapter 53: Cui Qing's Divine Soldier
Renault was already holding a roll of paper and ran quickly to the toilet, there was actually a toilet in the room, but in these years, the door of the room was not locked, relying on a piece of wood as a bolt, which made Renault feel very unreliable. Huya burst into the room a few times at his convenience, which made him suspect that a few more times might lead to constipation.
Of course, this does not mean that the toilet is comfortable, and the toilet of this year is ......
Forget it, don't say more, even the tears are dry.
The quality of this hand paper can not be said, in order to increase the softness, Renault can add additives to the pool, although they are all natural, but the number is more, the consequences are still very serious, this broken paper can be kneaded a few more times, it can be crushed. In fact, you don't need to rub it more, fiddle with it in your hand for a while, and then start to drop the slag.
Drop it, at least it does look like hand paper, when you use it, fold a few more layers. It's so cool, Renault felt for the first time that wiping his butt with a tissue paper can also trigger a sense of happiness.
Coming out of the toilet and cleaning his hands, Renault staggered back to the princess's courtyard: "Lu Youde, keep in mind the materials in the pool, lime, oil, and those kinds of ore powder, reduce by one-third." ”
"Yes, the little one made a note of it. ”
That's it for this pool of materials, no matter what, it can be used, don't look at this pool is not big, there are at least hundreds of thousands of pieces of handpaper copied out, folded into handpaper, enough for him to use for a few months.
When Renault walked away, a familiar carpenter came over: "I said Lu Tou, you said that the kind of paper that the noble man asked for doesn't seem to be very good." ”
Don't say he's strange, Lu Youde didn't understand it, under the command of the Ninth Princess, paper was made in two days and two nights, and it was obviously much better than yellow paper, with more toughness and whiter paper. Although the copied paper is a bit thick, but it is not hand-born, they are carpenters, not paper workers, as long as he is given a little more time, not more, as long as three days, the paper will be better.
In fact, when Renault told them, when making paper, don't copy it repeatedly, as long as it goes back and forth, the quality of the copied paper is already excellent, even if it is not as good as the official paper, the difference is extremely limited.
But how much official paper can be produced in a year, in addition to the royal family, nobles use, are used when writing memorabilia and military reports for high-ranking officials, and if the official position is not enough, you can only use yellow paper to deal with it.
It is said that the largest amount of money is used by the household department, and important data such as money, grain, and household registration in various places will be recorded on official paper every year.
As for the merchants, not to mention, the small merchants don't even use yellow paper, and they are still using bamboo slips to engrave letters.
Lu Youde shook his head, he didn't answer the little worker's words, he couldn't figure it out, this papermaking doesn't look difficult, and the speed is quite fast, according to this method, as long as there are enough people, there is no problem with how much paper you want.
He is just a carpenter, so he naturally doesn't know how difficult it is to make paper in Da Chu, and the time for making the material alone is much longer than Renault imagined, as little as two months, and as much as three or four months, and then he has to deal with the material, wash off impurities, and then soak, he doesn't know how to steam, and there is no crushing process.
In this way, it will take at least half a year, or even nine months, for a pool of pulp to enter the final pool to make paper. Da Chu's paper manufacturing department, thousands of people, tens of thousands of ponds, is constantly taking materials and materials, even so, the official paper copied in a year is far from enough.
Before Renault arrived in the back garden, Cui Qing had already run in front of him, his face flushed: "Mr. Sir, Da Chu Halberd, and the horizontal knife ......."
"Huh?" Renault didn't understand, Cui Qing has not been mentally normal recently, and he is always in a state of euphoria, which is not good, he is prone to nervous breakdown.
"Sir, follow me. As he spoke, he ignored his superiority and humility and pulled Renault to the back garden.
On the stone platform, three sharp blades of different lengths shine brightly.
Renault was a little angry, this damn Cui Qing is always not doing his job, he has already told him, those refined iron is waste, this guy just doesn't listen, in the end, he transferred a blacksmith who is not much, and turned the waste into a weapon, what is this called, the vision is not enough, this is not a blind delay in hard work, with this time, he can smelt several furnaces of ore.
This is not nonsense, after seeing the arms manufacturing industry of this era, Renault no longer has any hope for this, of course he can improve, but it is too troublesome to want to improve comprehensively.
Early, that's just the beginning, it needs to be burned red and forged until the blacksmith thinks that the quality of the fine iron is up to standard, and then the outline is beaten, and then it is finely modified, and finally it is fired.
Take the most common horizontal knife as an example, even if it is ready-made fine iron, it takes a skilled craftsman to work for two days, if it is hit with wrought iron, then you just wait, it may be ten days, it may be half a year, or even a few years is not unusual.
Renault remembers that in history class, he learned that a sword was practiced for three years, but in the end it was unsuccessful, and the blacksmith was forced to be confined.
The history teacher also said that it was just a legend, and if you think about it, you will know how big a blacksmith furnace is, and it is difficult for two living people to stuff it in, let alone sacrifice the sword. Take a step back and say, both of them are dead, who refined the sword?
Pick up the horizontal knife, it feels very heavy, at least ten catties, wave it lightly, the blacksmith's craftsmanship is okay, they don't understand ergonomics, aerodynamics, they can often build weapons, what kind of horizontal knife is easy to use, far more than Renault, a layman.
The weight of the big Chu halberd is a bit amazing, the halberd head alone weighs more than 20 catties, plus the fine iron halberd rod, this big Chu halberd with a length of 3 meters and 8 meters, the total weight is more than 100 catties.
Legend has it that the second master's knife weighed seventy-two catties, and the weapons of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and Lu Bu, the first strongman of the Three Kingdoms, were more than 100 catties.
On Earth, it's just an example, or a legend, and no one knows if it's true or not. But in Da Chu, a weapon of more than 100 catties is really nothing. Even Renault can easily pick it up, a ninth-grade martial artist like Luo Yi, a hundred or ten catties in his hands, no different from a wooden stick.
In the battle of cold weapons, of course, the heavier the weapon, the cheaper, but this does not mean that the weight will be increased at will. When the general fights, there are a lot to consider, the weight of the weapon is just right, it is not usable, you must choose a slightly lighter one, this is to prepare for a long time of battle, lighter in order to last.
The last one is the horn knife, also known as the hand knife, which is usually hung on the waist and used to cut meat when eating, and can also be used as a last self-defense weapon in case of distress.
Holding the horn knife, he gently tapped the horizontal knife and the big Chu halberd, and the sound was crisp and melodious......
Well, in fact, Renault can't tell whether it's good or bad at all, and the God of Wealth can only provide corresponding data to prove that these three weapons are made of steel.
"Sir, please see. Cui Qing was so excited that he beckoned, and a Dingxi army pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist with a painful face, Cui Qing is going crazy, this is the eighth handle.
As a soldier, he naturally understands how much a good weapon can play on the battlefield, and it is easy to grab the errand in the back garden, and if he is lucky, he may really be able to get a magic weapon, even if he does not have such a chance, and when there is more fine iron in the future, maybe he can ask for a piece, and ask the blacksmith of the craftsman battalion to build one.
Cui Qing held the knife in both hands, and the chief stretched out the horizontal knife, and the blade was upward. Cui Qing slashed with all his strength, and there was a crisp sound of 'Cangchang', and the horizontal knife in the commander's hand was broken in response, and then looked at the horizontal knife in Cui Qing's hand, like a pool of clear water, and there was not even a big injury of a grain of rice.
"Sir, sharpen iron like clay, this is a divine weapon. Cui Qing was so excited that he was about to cry, he had been in the Dingxi Army for a year, and he was familiar with the craftsman battalion, but it was difficult for such a divine soldier to come up with a handle in a few years.
Following Mr. 's side, in just a few days, he came out with three handles, and the remaining fine iron can still make at least five horizontal knives.
Renault pursed his lips and ignored Cui Qing's excitement gorgeously, You are using steel Okay, even if it is garbage steel, it is also steel. If you look at the thing in Nashichang's hand, it is called wrought iron or not, even if Renault is ignorant, he knows that these are two completely different materials, and there is no comparison at all.
Why don't you try it with a bronze knife, to ensure that the wrought iron knife in the hand of the chief is also sharpened like clay.
Da Chu's metal manufacturing industry is really speechless, if you find a good piece of wood, you can use it as a weapon, no wonder the regular soldiers are using bamboo armor.
Renault didn't know that the wrought iron horizontal knife in Shi Chang's hand was actually good, as long as he built it, he added more iron material and hit it thicker, it was a good horizontal knife.
In order to ensure the supply of weapons and equipment, many soldiers still use pig iron knives, pig iron, I am afraid that it will have to fight with bronze. When fighting, I went crazy, and I used too much force, and the pig iron knife could be directly broken into two, without crumbs, as long as the strength was enough, the shock could be broken.
This is also no way, the smelting of Da Chu is still in the stage of relying on luck, and the iron material that comes out of a furnace is pig iron, wrought iron or refined iron, a small half depends on technology, and more than half depends on luck.
"Sir, smelt another furnace of fine iron, please. Cui Qing said excitedly, he felt that as long as he looked at it a few more times, he would be able to grasp the method of smelting refined iron.
It's exciting to think about, if every furnace in Dachu in the future, it will be fine iron......
"Don't refin, don't talk about these useless things, your task now is to refine the ore as soon as possible, I want things to get out as soon as possible, understand?" Renault was annoyed, if he knew how to make steel, he would help, but he wouldn't.
This is still with the help of the God of Wealth, so that a furnace of slag steel can be refined, let him refine it himself, and the devil knows what can be refined.
Renault is not a metal smelter, so it is already ...... to know the carbon content range of steel Because of those fantasy novels, when I was in class, I listened to it, who would remember those data.
Or ask Renault about electronic applications, electronics, particles, ripple countermeasures......
Listen to you stupid turtles, you can't help but refine steel, it's boring.