Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 549 Various troubles

  No matter what Huang Chengyan thought, anyway, for Fei Qian, the craftsmen who made the crossbow must find a way to get rid of some of them.

  Of course those other things like paper making, weapon making...

   The more the better!

   Especially papermaking!

  Paper has become Fei Qian's new grudge.

  Fei Qian hated the days without paper very much. He didn’t have to hold heavy wooden slips to exercise his arm strength every day, but mainly for the chrysanthemum in his butt! These days, when you go to the toilet, you have to pick a clean one without burrs...

   Otherwise, you can imagine the sourness of piercing a bamboo or wood thorn into such a delicate place...

   In the end, Fei Qian had to prepare a special one by himself, and he had to wash it every time, and then put it in the bag inside the sleeve.

  Although it solved a little problem, it caused another mental illness. Fei Qian always felt that the sleeve had a bit of honey smell, which lingered. This is really...

well!

  The problem of the Han Dynasty is not limited to this point. The biggest problem facing Fei Qian now is the standard of the Qin Dynasty, which has been completely lost until now!

   Liu Bang, that uneducated hooligan, became the emperor, but his head twitched and he wanted to make a Han standard!

  Qin ruler is generally about 22.5-23CM, and then that boy Liu Bang said how can our big man be the same size as Qin ruler? Then I added a little bit, probably the Chinese ruler is around 23.5-24CM, and the other measurement units are also slightly deviated. Anyway, the original unified measurement unit has become an extremely confusing thing.

   Then the great pioneer, Comrade Wang Mang, while practicing the concept of social average, also made further regulations on the measurement unit, and invented the vernier caliper...

In the current Han Dynasty, there are not only five length measurement levels of "fencunchichangyin", but also two tiny measurement units of centimeters and centimeters below the centimeters, creating a batch of copper Zhang, Zhuyin, and Tong Jialiang , copper balance rods and other items to further measure the national unit of measurement.

  Unfortunately, Comrade Wang Mang, this...

  Although the later emperors of the Han Dynasty also used these things, they did not pursue details as much as Wang Mang did. They were almost almost, almost enough, which led to the continuation of the national measurement units. Although there were, they were not accurate.

Such a result led to many instruments in the Han Dynasty, and even those items that are extremely remarkable for later generations, such as the Hunting Instrument, Seismograph, Guide Car, etc., are only unique, let’s not discuss whether they are practical or not. These complex machines, It cannot be reproduced on a large scale...

  The reason is that the standards are different, and even the length of the ruler between the teacher and the apprentice is different.

   This also exists in the Huang family. Fei Qian and Huang Yueying looked at the dozen or so rulers on the ground and scratched their heads...

These are the rulers used by the craftsmen of the Huang family, but there is a slight deviation in the length of these rulers. Although there are not many, the difference between them is only a few millimeters, but it is true. Yes, but the attitude of Huang's craftsmen is: "It's almost fine, just grind it twice."

  Yes, most of the handmade utensils, if there are some discrepancies during assembly, these craftsmen basically grind them casually and frustrate them a little bit, and it will be fine.

Fei Qian looked at these rulers, exchanged glances with Huang Yueying, and said: "It's better to unify, find the best one, make a mold, and pour a batch out, it's called 'Huang's Ruler', isn't it better?" Is it?"

   "'Huang's Ruler'?" Huang Yueying rolled her eyes wide and said with a smile, "Okay, I think it's pretty good!"

  The craftsmen of the Huang family also nodded.

  People are always like this, it is easier to accept what they agree with, but if Fei Qian jumps out to point fingers and say that all your rulers are not good and must be replaced with new standard rulers, it is estimated that many craftsmen will mutter in their hearts...

   Now that the name "Huang's Ruler" is used, these people take it for granted and accept it.

   The standard of scale has been unified, which is a small problem. There is another tricky thing before Fei Qian-there are many reasons why the institutionalized production of weapons in the Qin Dynasty disappeared in the Han Dynasty, and the most important factor is the change of materials.

  The Qin Dynasty used the extremely mature bronze technology to counter the black iron technology developed by the other six countries just now...

It's not that Qin Chao didn't want to use black iron technology, but that Qin Chao was located in Kansai at that time. First, there were no iron mines, and second, there were no talents who could cast iron, so they had to push bronze technology to the peak. However, Qin Chao's victory did not Means Bronze Victory.

  The ductility and rigidity of black iron is an absolute advantage over bronze, which is the most fundamental reason for the use of steel as weapons after the Han Dynasty.

  But bronze has a low melting point, so it can be easily molded, and then various instruments can be produced in large quantities, and after polishing, a whole batch of weapons can be produced.

But for iron, pig iron is too brittle. To fully display the ductility, rigidity and toughness of steel, it must go through many times of forging, but forging this processing technology is quite difficult to become a standard production. up. In order to pursue consistency, it will inevitably increase a lot of labor and repeated reheating, which will lead to a decline in overall production...

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, after the use of more advanced materials, the original institutionalized and standardized production of ordnance became an ideal state that was relatively impossible to achieve, so gradually no one did this thankless task from top to bottom. up.

   But such a result made it difficult for Fei Qian to accept.

  It turned out that he was still thinking, using the experience of those time-traveling novels in later generations, to develop an institutionalized ordnance standard, and then make an assembly line, and then wait for tons and tons of items to appear automatically, and finally just click A and everything will be fine...

  But now, this dream has been punctured in front of the superficial metallurgical technology and equipment of the Han Dynasty!

   In order to mass standardize the production of small objects like steel arrows, it must be cold-rolled steel like the later generations, and then directly molded, and then polished...

   Among them, the gap between the Han Dynasty and later generations is not only a matter of a few machine tools!

  I still take it for granted...

   But what to do?

   Fei Qian was a little worried, frowning, looking at a piece of bronze and a piece of steel in his hand. Obviously, it is impossible to fight against the bronze of hundreds of years ago and the steel of the Han Dynasty now, but to transform steel, a material that requires too much manpower, into mechanization and scale, in this, it is not just a few words, It can be done with a standard!

  So what should be the first step to improve?

   Trouble!

   Fei Qian was still frowning and thinking hard, but Huang Yueying who was at the side suddenly seemed to hear something, turned around and stretched out her arm, waved it, and said, "Father, we are here!"

  I saw Huang Chengyan coming in a hurry, and when he heard Huang Yueying's voice, he just nodded slightly, his face was full of seriousness, obviously something happened.

  Huang Chengyan walked up to Fei Qian, sighed, and said, "Liu Jingzhou is here and wants to see you..."

   Liu Jingzhou?

   Liu Biao wants to see me?

  What good can this big-tailed wolf come to do?

  Could it be...

   Liu Bei: Miss Yun, do you know that only four of the five generals are common sense...

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   Zhao Yun: I want to be quiet...

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   Liu Bei frowned...

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   A few days later, Sun Youtai died suddenly...

  (end of this chapter)