Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 63 Shoes for the horse!
The horseshoe is easy to be ignored, but it is also very practical. It can effectively extend the shelf life of the horse and reduce the damage rate of the horse.

This thing Zhao Si has the impression that it will be a long time before the birth of horseshoes in the Central Plains.

However, horseshoes and iron smelting in Zhuxia period are hard to describe. At present, they are mostly used in the field of agricultural tools, and it is not known whether the horseshoes are qualified or not.

The quality of the bronze must be qualified, but bronze is expensive, and a horseshoe is a ready-made Qin Banliang.

"What are you thinking?" Wang Li asked after noticing Zhao Si's thoughtful expression.

"I'm thinking about putting shoes on the horse." Zhao Si replied seriously.

"Put shoes on the horse?" Wang Li had a strange expression on his face.

"A horse is not a human being, so you can't run two steps with a pair of shoes? Besides, a horse has hooves and is not afraid of being stabbed. How can you put shoes on a horse?" Wang Li said.

"Horses are not afraid of stabbing their feet, but horseshoes are afraid of abrasion." Zhao Si shook his head.

Upon hearing this, Wang Li thought about it seriously.

"According to what you said, it is true. If a war horse runs for a long time, the hooves of the horse will indeed wear out. It must be taken care of for a period of time to raise the hooves."

No matter how mediocre Wang Li was, it was impossible for him not to know this kind of thing.

"But according to what you said, if you put shoes on the horse, I'm afraid it will wear out in two days. Even if it's leather, you won't be able to hold on. The loss outweighs the gain." Wang Li continued to refute.

"So, what about iron?" Zhao Si smiled and drew a horseshoe on the ground.

Like horse saddles, horseshoes are also not technically difficult. The main difficulty of this thing is how to nail the horse. If the horse is unhappy, it will be dead or injured if it goes down with a hoof.

A U-shaped horseshoe was drawn on the ground, and Zhao Si explained.

"According to the size of the horse's hoof, make a horseshoe of appropriate size, and nail this object into the horse's shoe, won't it be afraid of wearing the horse's hoof?" Zhao Si said with a smile.

The more Wang Li watched, the more delighted he became. The more he watched, the more he felt that what Zhao Si said was right. He clasped his hands together, with a joyful expression on his face: "Wonderful!"

Horseshoes, like saddles and stirrups, are a matter of design thinking. Even if there are technical difficulties, they are not a big problem, and they are relatively simple to overcome.

However, nowadays iron is generally relatively brittle, and Zhao Si doesn't know if there will be a situation where a horse runs two steps and the horseshoe is broken. If this is the case, it will involve industrial upgrading.

Pig iron is no good, wrought iron is definitely no problem.

Maybe it will speed up the transformation of Daqin's industry. After all, Daqin's copper mines are really not enough, and they have to be buried, weapons, money, and armor.

The practicality of horseshoes and stirrups is still there, the demand has increased significantly, and copper mines are indeed not enough, the speed of industrial transformation will inevitably be accelerated.

"Wonderful!" This time, it was the group of craftsmen who spoke.

There is emotion and regret in the eyes.

"These three things are simple, easy to make, but practical!"

Zhao Si just smiled. After all, he hadn't really used it. Everyone just judged from experience that this thing must be easy to use. When you get it out, you will know how meaningful this thing is.

These three things can directly double the combat effectiveness of the Daqin cavalry, or even more.

The training speed, including cavalry, will also be greatly accelerated!

What is the significance of freeing hands on horseback?
The mobility will also be greatly enhanced. After all, the comfort on the horseback and the difficulty of riding are reduced, and the wear and tear of the horseshoes of the war horse is also greatly reduced.

"Let's get it out first!"

After finishing speaking, Zhao Si asked again: "How about the paper I told you before?"

Mentioning this, the craftsmen have constipated expressions on their faces.

They proposed weaving and making paper before, but Zhao Si rejected it. Later, Zhao Si said that it was soaked in water, and after soaking, it was taken out with spun yarn and dried.

It's done, it's just... It's hard to say.

Under their leadership, Zhao Si witnessed the first piece of paper in this era.

The raw material is hemp, and the color is not white, it looks black and yellow unevenly.

And worst of all, the fibers are huge, in strips, the paper is uneven, and it has fucking holes.

Zhao Si was about to pick it up, stretched out his hand, and it shattered as soon as he squeezed it.

"It was made according to what you said before, and it really doesn't work."

"It definitely can't be used. The steps I mentioned are not complete." Zhao Si smiled.

The few steps he mentioned are the ones he can barely remember. Of course, papermaking is not that simple, and if I remember correctly, the ancient papermaking cycle was very long.

The prototypes that have been produced now are not paper to be honest, and it is enough to wipe the buttocks, but the significance is still very far-reaching.

Zhao Si carefully observed the things that could barely be called paper and analyzed the problem.

Zhao Si really can't remember the process of papermaking, but it is not impossible to analyze the principle of papermaking as a modern person.

Combined with the bad paper that appeared now, Zhao Si fell into deep thought.

The principle of papermaking is essentially a process of decomposing plant fibers and then reorganizing plant fibers.

There is a problem now, either because of the decomposition or reorganization.

Among them, the step of soaking can definitely exist, and the soaking should be to separate the plant fibers.

It is certain that some steps are missing in the middle. Combined with the failed test products, Zhao Si began to think deeply about the principle of papermaking.

"If you can't soak it, why don't you try cooking it?" Zhao Si said.

then……

Zhao Si tried his best to recall, from the impression that he had seen it on TV, and the final semi-finished product of this thing was very similar to water.

That said, plant photofibrils are not enough.

And the failed product also proved that the paper mixed with strips and heels of plant fibers that was fished out of the water after soaking was completely unusable.

"The raw material is plant fiber, not water!" Zhao Si seemed to have caught something.

After soaking, the plant fibers are still in strips, but they are loose, loose, and broken when they are barely dried together.

Then break up the rotten plant fiber after soaking and cooking, and get a blender...

Don't have a mixer in this day and age?It's ok, it can be done manually.

"Soak, boil, mash, mash, disperse, then chop and hammer until it's too thin, and then sieve it out with water. If one layer is not enough, two or three layers will be enough!"

"By the way, you can't directly dry it in the sun! You have to dry it in the shade!" Zhao Si suddenly remembered a crucial step.

Many people have the experience of washing money in the washing machine. Drying wet money in the shade and drying in the sun are completely two concepts. Drying in the shade is probably one of the key steps in papermaking.

Zhao Si crushed the bad paper made by the craftsmen.

"You should have informed me earlier that although there is no paper that can be used, it is already considered paper. Without it, I don't know when I will think about it." Zhao Si said seriously.

Failure is the mother of success, and the principle of papermaking is nothing grand, especially since Zhao Si still remembers a few of the steps.

Supplementing the key papermaking process of chopping, hammering, drying in the shade, Zhao Si has a feeling that success is not far away.

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　Tips, the summary of the protagonist in this chapter is something I imagined without Baidu's specific steps.

　　It is not much different from the complete papermaking steps.Of course, the paper produced by this method can only be said to be barely usable.

　　
　
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