Chapter 560: Jumping into the pit
This time it's a restaurant on Jingyang Street.
"Lord Ren, the people of our Zhang family are here, and the competition can start at any time. Zhang Junzheng arched his hand.
"Two days from now. What do you want to try?" Ren Baqian played with a small box in his hand, took a sip in his mouth, and then opened his mouth to spew out a mist with the aroma of fruit, and even his face could not be seen clearly, as if the spirit in the spirit of the ghost was swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog.
This made the eyes of Zhang Junzheng and the three of them fixed on the box in Ren Baqian's hand.
"Lord Ren, dare to ask what this is?" asked Zhang Junzheng who couldn't help but be curious in his heart.
"A little thing. We call it steam smoke. Ren Baqian fiddled with the box in his hand and put it on the table. In fact, this kind of thing has been on Earth for a long time, but he hasn't paid much attention to it. One time when he went back, people passing by him were smoking this kind of thing, and he thought it tasted good, so he went to the steam smoke shop and took a look.
Then he felt that the cold fruit e-liquid in this vapor smoke was simply too pleasant.
Especially in a hot place like Da Yao, when you take a sip, your entire throat and lungs are cold, and your mouth is filled with the sweet taste of fruit.
He couldn't put it down for a few days.
Zhang Junzheng didn't know what it meant when he heard Ren Baqian's name say, and he looked at it a few more times before he put his gaze back on Ren Baqian's face: "Lord Ren, is the bet still according to what I said before?"
"Naturally. If I lose, I will introduce you to Your Majesty, and I will vouch for you. If you lose, the entire Zhang family will move to Dayao to shine, and you can also learn something from me.
Speaking of which, you're making a lot of money. Ren Baqian recited the entire Zhang family for a while.
No matter how you look at it, the Zhang family has indeed made a lot of money. The ship of the Cloud Kingdom itself will capsize, if they hadn't found Ren Baqian at this time, it would not have been the treatment to want to defect after the Cloud Kingdom was destroyed.
Not to mention being able to learn something from Ren Baqian.
Even if it's just some production techniques, it's enough for the Zhang family to be inexhaustible.
Zhang Junzheng was noncommittal when he heard this, and said: "There must always be a witness in the competition!"
"With Your Majesty as a witness!" Ren Baqian smiled and said, the other party put the time of the competition at this time, didn't he want to make a name for himself when the empress celebrated her birthday and when the dignitaries of all parties arrived.
Zhang Junzheng smiled, as long as the empress was a witness, this competition was the best opportunity to show the strength of the Zhang family.
"It's not complicated to compete in all three competitions. But it is not easy to do these three things well. The first item is dyed cloth, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple seven colors, we compare the durability and not easy to fade!" Zhang Junzheng said. It is important to know that durable fabrics that are not easy to fade are not so easy to dye, although each dyeing workshop has its own method, but the effect is different.
It's also a very intuitive way to tell if you're winning or losing.
He didn't mention the competition for color purity, because there is no uniform standard for color purity, and it completely depends on personal preference. This can be faked, but it can't be faked.
When the time comes, after entering the water, wash it with the pancreas, and it is easy to distinguish it.
Another reason is that it takes at least half a month to dye the cloth. The Zhang family has a special method that can be dyed in a short time, but the color is not as good as the cloth dyed in a normal half a month.
Therefore, Zhang Junzheng is very confident in this competition, and it would be good if the other party could dye it in such a short time.
After speaking, he took a closer look at Ren Baqian's expression, and saw that he didn't react, and he was a little disappointed in his heart. I don't know if the other party is really sure or if they don't understand the difficulties at all.
"The second is to create springs. Zhang Junzheng paused for a moment and continued.
"Spring?" Ren Baqian pondered these two words, but he didn't expect the Zhang family to make springs, which was a bit surprising. It takes a lot of force to twist the spring in your hand.
The Divine Crossbow Battalion in Great Xia had always thought it was a spring, but it turned out later that it was a multi-winding one, firing one row at a time.
Therefore, he has never expected much from the spring technology of this world.
You must know that the biggest problem of springs lies in the material, and the material is the biggest problem that limits the development of springs.
Since the Zhang family put it forward, it must have a considerable level in this regard, and it may also have unique features in materials.
"That's right, this is a spring, and as for what this thing is for, I'll sell it first. We tested the tension and elasticity of the spring. Zhang Junzheng put a fist-sized torque on the table and said confidently.
You must know that this is the latest technology in Yunguo, and the kind of crossbow car on the battlefield of Yunguo today is made of this torsion spring.
Although he knew that Ren Baqian had a small thing in his hand that could explode, he believed that a hundred crossbow arrows at a time, with a range of two hundred steps, would definitely interest Qi Zixiao.
Ren Baqian looked at the torsion spring on the table, although he had long known that this would be the result under the pressure of technology, but he still had a sense of irony when he saw the other party's confident appearance.
and modern technology than alloys, than springs...... Who gave you confidence in this?
However, Ren Baqian attaches more importance to this Zhang family.
Being able to make springs that meet a certain standard is enough to illustrate the value of Zhangjia craftsmen.
"What's the third item!" Ren Baqian said lightly as he put the spring on the table.
On that day, Lord Ren said that he knew how to make wine, and my Zhang family also had some experience in winemaking. Using the same sake as a base, we process it again and test the strength of the sake. Zhang Junzheng said again. In fact, the most important thing in this competition is the spring, and he knows the difficulty of making this spring.
Even the materials he used were brought by people from Yunguo.
He believed that Ren Baqian would never be able to do it.
As for the rest, it is just an addition, but it is not meaningless.
For example, winemaking, Qi Zixiao has always loved the spirits of Yunguo, and Dayao's caravan has to buy a lot of fine wine every time it comes to Yunguo, and the best wine in Yunguo is from the hands of the craftsmen of the Zhang family.
He believed that winemaking alone was enough to make Qi Zixiao happy.
And the torsion spring and the repeater are of great use to the whole of Dayao.
In public and private, the things he used to compete this time were enough for the Zhang family to gain a firm foothold in Dayao.
Not only that, but in order to prevent Da Yao from thinking about other things, all the craftsmen who came this time had taken poison in advance with the intention of death.
This also cut off the possibility that Dayao wanted to get these crafting methods from their mouths.
For the technology mastered by the Zhang family, he will never allow it to be leaked. Because this is the foundation of their foothold in Dayao in the future.
"That's it, the competition starts in two days, do you have any other requirements?"
"We need a yard, divided into two parts, and we can only transport materials into it, and we are not allowed to watch each other's production methods, and we can only take out the finished product for a competition at the end. Does Lord Ren agree?" Although these techniques cannot be learned at a glance, and there are many unique techniques and formulas in them, Zhang Junzheng is still vigilant enough, for fear that there is a trace of technology leakage.
Ren Baqian thought about it, and he didn't seem to have anything to say. I originally had the intention of bullying people, but now that the other party has confidently pushed the entire Zhang family into the pit, what else do I have to say?
He took a deep breath of steam smoke and threw out a large puff of smoke from his head.
Alas, life!