Qin Shizhi's Confucian junior master

Chapter 203, Academy of Sciences and Horse Urine Quenching

After visiting the entire Academy of Sciences, Xiangliguan and Gongshuchou roughly understood that they would work together in a new department in the future. Although there was no change in their duties, they were still in charge of developing and manufacturing various instruments, but Qin Mo's disciples and Gongshuchou The disciples of the family looked at each other, and the disgust in their eyes could not be said to be concealed, it could only be said to be undisguised.

"From now on, you will work together here." Ziyou said, looking at the two disciples.

Because of what happened to Qu Yuanli before, Qin Mo has always looked forward to Ziyou. Although he despises the public loser, he can only endure it. The disciples of the public loser can only say yes, but when he comes out, he still feels dissatisfied with working with Qin Mo's disciples. To put it bluntly, it is also a battle of orthodoxies. Both of them are leaders in the field of mechanism techniques. One pursues domineering mechanism techniques and advocates using mechanism techniques to serve the army and war. It is equivalent to a warmonger. To benefit the people and use one's own ability to stop those unjust wars is equivalent to an ideal mercenary regiment.

As the saying goes, everything should be compared with each other. The public loser and the Mohist are not only facing each other in terms of morality, but also want to prove that their mechanical skills are higher than the other party.

Ziyou waved at Zhao Gao, Zhao Gao nodded and took out an imperial edict from his sleeve

"The imperial edict."

The public loser and Qin Mo's disciples hurriedly saluted and waited for the edict.

"The public loser provided armaments in this battle against South Korea, and provided assistance for our Qin army to attack the city. He also invented a sharp weapon to reduce the casualties of our Daqin army. I am a slave, and I am a commoner of Qin."

Gongshu Qiu heard that his eyes were wide open, and a hot tear flowed from his eyes. The disciples of the Gongshu family behind him also shed hot tears from their eyes. Some even cried on the spot. It was not because he was granted the title of Marquis, but because King Qin exempted them. The slavery of the public loser, the public loser himself was captured by the Qin State. In order to prevent the forging technology and smelting technology mastered by the country from flowing out, all the skilled craftsmen of each country will be slaves, even if they have titles, their status is still Slavery, the public loser works so hard to serve the Qin State in the hope that one day he can get rid of slavery.

The Mo family is different from the public losers. The Mo family is a sect, or a great sect of hundreds of schools. They do not belong to the skilled craftsmen in the court of the Seven Kingdoms. They also used the identity of the Mo family when they settled in Qin, so they are common people.

"Tie Chenghou would like to thank you, sir. If you hadn't asked for credit for the public loser in front of the king, you would have proposed the exemption from slavery." Zhao Gao reminded.

Gongshuchou touched the tears on his face with his mechanical hand, knelt down and said to Ziyou on the spot
"Thank you sir for your kindness to my public loser. It is hard for a public loser to repay you. From now on, I am willing to serve Da Qin with all my heart and soul!"

The disciples behind Gongshuchou also knelt down to Ziyou. They finally got rid of slavery and completed the service of the times. From then on, their descendants don’t have to be craftsmen at birth, they can also study and join the army and enter the imperial court. They got the freedom they longed for.

"Tie Chenghou, please, the king has clear rewards and punishments, as long as he is a person who has made meritorious service to Qin, he will not be stingy with rewards." Ziyou helped Gong Shuchou and said.

"My subordinates will remember." Gong Shuchou said.

Ziyou looked at Xiang Liguan again and said

"I know that the concepts and orthodoxy between Qinnonghou and Tiechenghou are very different, and you also want to compete in the field of mechanism art. You will inevitably feel dissatisfied with putting you together to work."

"Don't dare." Xiang Liguan and Gongshuchou said hastily, clasping their hands together. Qin Mo and Gongshujia now owe Ziyou a great debt of gratitude, so naturally they dare not refute Ziyou's words.

"Putting you together is not to let you put down the orthodoxy and turn wars into treasures, but to hope that you can engage in healthy competition and compete in technology and skills. You are all responsible for the manufacture of Qin's utensils. Armaments, farm tools, etc. I don't leave you alone, but I put you together in the hope that you can make better contributions to Qin.

I don't care about your competition. Only through competition can you make progress, but I hope that you compete in contributions, skills and technology, not in some other places. Craftsmen should win with skills. " Ziyou said.

"I'll understand." Xiang Liguan and Gong Shuchou bowed their heads and said, they were relieved to hear that Ziyou didn't tell them to let go of their prejudices, and encouraged them to compete in mechanism skills. Serving in the Academy of Sciences is just a matter of course. It's all about competing in another place, and when I visited just now, there was a huge square to test their research and development items. Isn't the best way to test is to take the other party's things?

The same Ziyou provided them with a reasonable platform for competition. In the past, their competition was private competition between disciples. Now they can compete openly, which is also a good thing.

"This is South Korea's smelting technology and forging technology, please take a look." Ziyou handed over the technology handed over by Han Wangan to Xiang Liguan and Gong Shuchou. Ziyou still had some more advanced smelting technology in mind, such as the method of frying steel Everyone has a general impression of steelmaking, steelmaking and steel filling methods, and knows the general production process, but these all require extremely high temperatures to melt the iron.

"It turns out that the smelting technology in South Korea relies on such high temperatures. Shen Buhai is not only a master of Legalism, but also has a deep understanding of techniques." Xiang Liguan said.

"South Korea's smelting technology is easy to operate. These weapon atlases need to be studied carefully. In my opinion, there is still room for improvement." The most important thing is the research and development and transformation of weapons. With South Korea's mature weapon blueprints, they will soon be able to understand the principles.

Ziyou glanced at Gongshuchou, and thought of the bows and arrows used by Wang Jian's armor-piercing soldiers in the Mingyue of the Qin Dynasty. They can no longer be called bows and arrows. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are ancient hand cannons, especially because they can be fired in bursts. , and a similar enhanced version of the machine tool crossbow.

"If this smelting technology is applied to agricultural tools, it can greatly increase the efficiency of the plow and reduce the loss of iron plowshares." Xiang Liguan also said unwillingly, he must teach the group of war mongers who teach the losers what they know It is called ingenuity for the people.

"The arrows created by this smelting technology can be tempered, which can greatly increase the lethality." Gong Shuchou said not to be outdone.

"However, South Korea's smelting technology adds a certain amount of salt to accelerate the cooling when the iron is quenched. This is a good way, but the cost is too high." Xiang Liguan said, the faster the quenching and cooling, the harder the iron produced. The sharpness will also be higher. Chu Mo has rumors about forging swords by listening to the wind. The principle is the same.

Salt and iron are the strategic materials of the country, and the guards of all countries are extremely strict, and they cannot flow out at will. The places where the seven domestic salts are produced are all coastal areas, and Qi is the reason why the country is still proud of the seven countries after giving up its arms by relying on the export of salt.

The state of Qin does not produce salt locally. It mainly relied on the salt-producing places such as the Ba State and the old land of Chu State that were captured later, and the method of digging wells to extract brine and boil salt invented by Li Bing, which made Qin State get rid of the lack of salt. However, if you want to use salt to quench the fire, there will be countless salts, which will put great pressure on Qin.

"You can use horse urine and oil instead of salt." Ziyou said that the use of horse urine for quenching was first discovered during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it was discovered by accident, and the forged weapons were sharper and harder.

Both Xiangliguan and Gongshuchou looked at Ziyou in surprise, isn't it a joke to quench him with horse urine?
"You can try it now." Ziyou said.

Ziyou brought everyone to the Armory Workshop, where weapons were being forged. Ziyou mixed the horse urine he had found into the water. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the craftsman put the newly condensed long sword into the bucket. Under the gaze of people, the craftsman took out the long sword that had been cooled based on his experience in cooling weapons, and Ziyou looked at Gong Shuchou.
"It's unbelievable that the cooldown time is so much faster." Gongshuchou said in surprise. The few people looked at the cooled long sword and the sharp blade. Although it has not been completely forged yet, it is enough to judge the The sharpness of the sword.

"The sharpness has increased by more than [-]%. If this method is used, the quenching time will be greatly reduced and used to forge more weapons." Xiang Liguan said.

After confirming that animal urine can be quenched, Ziyou led everyone back to the Academy of Sciences and said to them
"You study smelting technology here yourself, and your disciples and utensils will be sent over by someone."

"Promise!" Gongshuchou and Xiangliguan said.

The two began to have a friendly exchange of greetings on the smelting technology and the weapon atlas, and expressed their opinions one by one. Although the technology of the Mohists is more agricultural, it doesn't mean that they can't make weapons. The weapons they make are not weak. Yu Gong losers, but there are not so many types, otherwise the Mohist would not be able to stop the war at will during the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Looking at Gongshuchou and Xiangliguan Ziyou who had understood his intention and were discussing skills, they nodded in satisfaction, and Ziyou, who thought of something, continued.
"The Academy of Sciences is related to the foundation of the Qin State. The items developed by the Academy of Sciences are not allowed to be leaked without the king's order. From today onwards, no one without the king's warrant is allowed to enter the Academy of Sciences. Anyone who violates the law will be killed. "

The Academy of Sciences must not be hidden, and Ziyou never thought of hiding it. What he wants is to continue the contention of a hundred schools of thought, so each family must have its own future and competition track. If you want a long-term future, you must let them The role of the science is revealed in the eyes of everyone, so that more people can be attracted to study, but in order to prevent the leakage of the things researched in the Academy of Sciences, they can only be strictly guarded.

"Promise!" Gongshuchou and Xiangliguan said upon hearing this.

Ziyou signaled them to continue the discussion, and the two started a heated discussion. After the two were tired, they let the disciples around them continue. For a while, Qin Mo and the loser quarreled, and Zhao Gao looked at the two families who were vaguely fighting. said with some concern

"Sir, will this be all right?"

"Don't worry, they can't kill people. These people have titles, they know it well, and this is not a deadly struggle." Ziyou shook his head and said. The dead, but this is in the Academy of Sciences, and they are all Qin officials. If someone accidentally beats someone to death, he will have to sit down.

"Send people to strictly guard this place, let Luo Wang mobilize an elite horse to watch here, to prevent intruders from sneaking in, and at the same time monitor everything around." Ziyou said.

"No!" Zhao Gao said.

Ziyou told Yingzheng about the Academy of Sciences, and Yingzheng immediately mobilized a group of imperial guards to guard, and at the same time asked the Black Ice Platform to protect in secret. Qin Mo and the public loser also knew their important responsibilities, and immediately mobilized their disciples Entered the Academy of Sciences, and strictly enforced the confidentiality agreement and so on.

At this time, Ziyou was thinking about how to improve the smelting technology in the study. After much deliberation, only the steel frying method is most suitable for the current state of Qin, because the steel frying method does not require high skills and is suitable for mass production. At the same time, Ziyou He also wrote down the methods of blast furnace and hydraulic blast on paper.

　Everything is perfect today

　　
　
(End of this chapter)