The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 202 The aristocratic families gathered in Linzi

Liu Tai didn't know that Liu Kun wanted to cause trouble again, and even if he knew, he wouldn't be surprised.

Because in Liu Tai's impression, Liu Kun seems to be the kind of person who will cause trouble when he has the strength, and will be defeated when he makes trouble. After being defeated, he will receive various gift packages inexplicably, and then he will start trouble again when he regains his strength, thus continuing the cycle. !
Originally, Liu Kun was alone in merging the state, with little room for strategic maneuvering. Even if Liu Bei came over, theoretically he would have been defeated once and had to go into exile.

But Liu Kunqiang's strength is that he can always find reinforcements to turn defeat into victory, and he can always find various ways to restore his own strength.

Even if Xiaoqiang were to leave according to Liu Kun's fate, he would be completely dead, but Liu Kun seemed to be getting stronger as he lived.

Of course, Liu Tai could also see clearly that every time Liu Kun recovered was actually a drain on the Western Jin Dynasty's heritage.

It's just that this kind of foundation cannot be transformed into real strength even if it is in the hands of others.

But in Liu Kun's hands, it can work wonders, but I don't know if this is Liu Kun's ability.

At this time, Liu Tai also maintained a certain degree of vigilance towards the surrounding forces and did not focus on analyzing the various princes.

Because Liu Tai understood that he had to digest Youji for two weeks first, so that his policies could penetrate into these states and counties.

And with the end of spring plowing, a large number of laborers are freed up, and they can do more things.

Needless to say, the large-scale replacement of military armor is a matter that requires both time and manpower.

The main armor of his army is basically leather armor, and even a large part of the soldiers do not have leather armor.

After all, leather armor looks simple, but in fact many of them are left over from the forces of the Western Jin Dynasty or captured on the battlefield.

It can only be said that thanks to the early political corruption of the Western Jin Dynasty, he was able to fulfill his important responsibility as captain of the transportation team.

But the whole society is developing, especially Liu Tai, who to some extent has taken the route of elite soldiers. Naturally, the demand for soldiers' armor is higher, and the demand will naturally be higher. At least leather armor can no longer meet Liu Tai's expectations. .

Because when heavy cavalry appeared on the battlefield, Liu Tai knew that he must have heavy infantry to restrain them.

Otherwise, this time Liu Xia used heavy cavalry to penetrate Wang Jun. Next time, someone might secretly learn his heavy cavalry and penetrate his own army.

After all, the soldiers only wear leather armor. Even if their willpower is strong, they still have to succumb to physics in the end.

Therefore, it is a top priority for Liu Tai to replace all the troops with hundreds of steel-making grade armors.

First of all, Liu Tai wanted to use a hydraulic forging press to forge the deck. He would throw a piece of embryo into the grinding tool, and then directly forge it with a hydraulic hammer, and finally mass-produce high-quality plate armor like an assembly line.

But the actual hydraulic forging is just a material pretreatment technology, and its purpose is to remove impurities, not the final product.

Ultimately, this technology was born in the West to deal with the mismatch between single forging technology and smelting technology.

The impurities in the pig iron are removed by beating to obtain sufficient material properties. This is more like forging than forging.

In the end, plate armor still had to be forged manually, so Liu Tai gave up after trying it for a while.

Water conservancy forging only relies on natural water conservancy, which cannot allow the deck to be formed in one piece. The technology tree is still far behind.

Because before steam power technology brings enough pressure, it is simply unrealistic to achieve sufficient forging pressure.

Not to mention, in this process, if you want to finely forge steel, you need to make rapid progress in the overall industry.

Then I thought about it, if the so-called water conservancy forging machine could really be realized in ancient times, how could it be possible that the corresponding technology had not been born with the Chinese technology of playing with water.

In China, the steel filling method actually existed in the Han Dynasty, which in itself was a somewhat dimensionally reducing blow to this forging technology.

After all, the rough physical work of forging and removing impurities is not comparable to the chemical method of directly filling steel at the elemental level.

Therefore, if I want to increase the forging efficiency of Bai Steel, in addition to improving human resources, my greater hope is to put it on Ge Hong. It will be seen when he thoroughly researches the steel filling method and his production efficiency can be improved. promote.

Of course, I have basically been fighting in the past six months, but there is no shortage of materials for Ge Hong's research.

Almost every time steel is made, there are several blast furnaces dedicated to Ge Hong's experiments, and he keeps trying various materials.

There is no way, materials science has been a matter of chance since ancient times, and it is purely about burning money. In ancient times, steel was burned, and in modern times, semiconductors are burned. There does not seem to be much difference.

But if you want to make progress, you can only find a material that you can control yourself, then clarify the production process, and finally determine the product you need.

The only thing Liu Tai was thankful for was that he asked Ge Hong to start looking for elements from charcoal.

After Ge Hong has completely figured out the element carbon, he can try to solve the element iron and lay the foundation of the coal and steel industry through the research of these two elements.

If Ge Hong hadn't died of old age yet, it would be great to study the physical and chemical properties of water, a basic element.

That would basically establish the theory of industrial development at least in the feudal society stage.

Therefore, compared to the steel filling method itself, Liu Tai expected Ge Hong to come up with a foundation-level industrial theory.

Because China really lacks the productivity improvement brought about by this kind of theoretical guidance and practice.

If we can start from Ge Hong, the significance it brings will definitely be more important than forging and steelmaking.

As for now, there is no other way but to pile up manpower and materials and continue to follow the route of steelmaking.

After Jie Fei heard Liu Tai's instructions, what could Jie Fei do? He could only respond first and continue to work hard to improve.

When Jie Fei was about to go back and let the craftsmen improve the craftsmanship, Liu Xia stopped Jie Fei, took out a piece of information and handed it to Jie Fei, and said to Jie Fei, "Jie Si, these are the problems that have occurred with our armor on the battlefield. , you can help improve the armor after you go back.

Our heavy cavalry are in great need of new armor. The old armor is not very comfortable to wear on the battlefield. "

When Liu Tai heard Liu Xia's words, he came to his senses. Not only did his infantry need new steel armor, but even Liu Xia, who was covered in iron armor, also needed Jie Fei to design new heavy cavalry armor.

After all, as a first-generation heavy cavalry, I didn't feel much when wearing it at the time. But when the war really started, I realized the inconvenience caused by the armor.For example, the armor of Liu Tai's army is like fish scale armor, that is, the armor plates are overlapped one by one to form a channel. But the problem is that this kind of armor is made of laminated armor plates, which means that it will be different according to the hair of different parts of the body. Force, there will be differences between "the upper piece presses the lower piece" and "the lower piece presses the upper piece". When the equipment was first used, no attention was paid to the design.

At the same time, the first batch of armor did not take into account the icy and snowy weather in the north. The soldiers and horses might become sticky due to sweat, which could even cause the soldiers' armor to scratch the soldiers or even the horses themselves.

And actual combat itself will be the best demand. Faced with the opinions put forward by Liu Xia, all Jie Fei can do is to improve as much as possible. Speaking of which, Jie Fei will be very busy next time.

When it comes to design issues, we just need to make improvements according to needs. It is not difficult to modify them from the perspective of the political power.

The real difficulty was when Ge Hong could make a breakthrough in the steel filling method, thereby improving the production efficiency of high-strength steel. However, Liu Tai soon had no intention of worrying about this.

Because Yangman, who went out to visit aristocratic families, came back.

With the war over, Liu Tai entered a state of rest and recuperation.

Liu Tai knew that his next rest period would be very long to prepare for his next real conquest of the world.

Therefore, although Liu Tai was advancing step by step, in reality, Liu Tai was not in a hurry.

During this period, the busiest person in the entire regime under Liu Tai was Yang Man, who began to promote Liu Tai.

After all, Liu Tai defeated Wang Jun, and Liu Tai's voice was the most powerful at this time.

While promoting Liu Tairen's love for the family, Yangman said that Liu Tai planned to transfer part of his factory technology to the family.

The aristocratic families in Qingzhou mainly don't believe in the former. After all, Liu Tai's behavior in Qingzhou was too cruel.

All the aristocratic families currently living in Qingzhou, except those who have recently moved here, know Liu Tai's cruelty.

But precisely because he was in Qingzhou, he knew the significance of the materials produced by the factories under Liu Tai's influence.

Even if they don't understand the meaning even if they take a step back, they at least know that in this era of frequent wars, the materials that are continuously produced are money!

Don't worry about the supplies. After all, in this day and age, there are times when supplies can't be sold! ?
Especially when Liu Tai sells technology like paper, even if they are afraid of Liu Tai in their hearts, they really don't shudder in order to make money.

As for the aristocratic families who came to inquire from Youzhou, they more or less believed that Liu Tai was friendly.

Liu Tai's current liberalization of this technology should be to compensate the family for the thousand fields tax and corvee tax.

Of course, regardless of how they understood it, at least when they asked and it was allowed to return to Youzhou to open a factory after learning skills, some aristocratic families from other places naturally participated.

Because for the distant aristocratic family, things are not important. What is important is that Liu Tai gives him face, and nothing he can do can make Liu Tai lose face!
All in all, because of Yangman's greeting, more and more aristocratic families came to Guanggu City.

However, most of these aristocratic families came to Linzi temporarily.

Because everyone is familiar with this place, it is quite strange to bump into each other with various old friends.

After all, even in normal times, families from the three states may not always meet, let alone the current chaos of war. No one knows when they will meet next time.

In fact, as a large number of aristocratic families slowly gathered in Linzi, these aristocratic families in Youzhou and Jizhou couldn't help but sigh when they saw the bustling Linzi, because they had not seen such a prosperous city for a long time.

Linzi was originally the hub of Qidi, not to mention that Liu Tai asked Guo Pu to widen the river from Linzi to the Bohai Bay, so that ships from Youzhou could reach Linzi directly, thus accelerating the prosperity of Linzi.

Even though this city was in trouble a few years ago, now under Liu Tai's governance, the city has returned to its former prosperous appearance, especially the production of various materials, which seems to be even more than when the world was at peace.

For the Qingzhou aristocratic families, they have almost seen this kind of scene bit by bit, so the Qingzhou aristocratic families have become accustomed to it.

But for the aristocratic families in Youzhou and Jizhou, how afraid are they that Youzhou and Qingzhou have been under the governance of Wang Jun in recent years?

Now that I have seen the prosperity of Linzi, I feel a little ashamed of myself, but soon I am full of confidence.

After all, if Linzi can develop so well, even if my hometown cannot develop as prosperously, the gap is still limited.

After all, the prosperous Linzi itself has become the best example. Regardless of Liu Tai's attitude towards the aristocratic family, they either took a boat to ride the wind and waves, or rode horses all the way. When they saw the prosperous Linzi appearing in their eyes, At that time, this peaceful city itself became their best comfort.

"Brother, I didn't expect Linzi to be such a prosperous scene!" Lu Chen, who was following Wen Qiao, couldn't help but sigh,
"I originally thought that Qingzhou Liu Tai would be a fat and strong man, but I didn't expect that his governance skills would be so extraordinary."

After Wen Qiao heard what Wen Qiao said, he said, "Gong Liu has commanded his troops well and has not suffered a defeat so far. He should pay more attention to military affairs.

However, I heard that the mastermind Chu Hui was a prodigy of his time, and with such a scene in Linzi, I guess he must have put in a lot of effort. "

"Brother, when we meet with Liu Tai this time, do you think we can accomplish our mission?" Lu Chen couldn't help but ask.

"Whether we can accomplish our mission or not is just a matter of doing our best and obeying fate." Wen Qiao smiled and then said, "But I know that if you continue to call Liu Tai and Liu Tai by his first names, our mission will definitely fail. ”

"I just won't scream!" Lu Chen closed his mouth and said, "However, I seem to have seen the names of more than a dozen different families appearing on clothes, horses, and carriages. Not only Qingzhou and Jizhou, but also And youzhou, what happened?"

The aristocratic family has been inherited since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the names and even names of each family have gradually been integrated into the basic necessities of life.

For some aristocratic families whose inheritance still exists, the patterns on clothes will become a way of distinguishing themselves, which can be regarded as the earliest text embroidery.

People who understand understand it at a glance, but people who don't understand will turn around and forget even if they explain it.

Because this kind of knowledge is completely unnecessary for people who have reached a certain level.

For people above a certain level, there is no need to learn it. It is a kind of family etiquette that you can hold on to after you are full.

"I don't know why so many aristocratic families from different places gathered in Linzi, but at least we came to the right place to visit Duke Liu this time!" Wen Qiao said seriously to Lu Chen with a serious expression.

　I had paid off my debt, but in the blink of an eye I realized that I would have to recalculate my debt tomorrow, and I felt like I couldn't get through this day.

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