Three Kingdoms

No matter what Huang Chengyan thinks, for Fei Qian, he must find a way to get rid of a few craftsmen who make crossbows.

Of course, others such as those who make paper and make weapons...

The more the merrier!

Especially papermaking!

Paper has become Fei Qian's new resentment.

Fei Qian hated the days without paper. He didn't have to hold heavy wooden slips to exercise his arm strength every day, but mainly for the anus of his butt! These days, when going to the toilet, you must first choose a clean one without burrs...

Otherwise, you can imagine the sour feeling of inserting a bamboo thorn or wood thorn into such a delicate place...

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

Although some problems were solved, it caused another mental illness. Fei Qian always felt that the sleeve had a honey smell that lingered. This was really...

well!

This is not the only problem with the Han Dynasty. The biggest problem facing Fei Qian now is the standard of the Qin Dynasty. As a result, it has been completely lost!

After Liu Bang, that uneducated gangster, became emperor, his head was twitching and he actually wanted to establish a Han system standard!

Generally speaking, the Qin ruler is about 22.5-23cm. Then Liu Bang said, how can we big men have the same size as the Qin ruler? Then I added a little bit, and the Han ruler is probably about 23.5-24cm, and then the other measurement units are also slightly different. Anyway, the originally unified measurement unit has become an extremely confusing thing.

Later, the great pioneer Comrade Wang Mang, while practicing the concept of social average, also further stipulated the units of measurement and invented the vernier caliper...

In the current Han Dynasty, there are not only five length measurement levels of "measurement, length, and length", but also two tiny measurement units of millimeter and centimeter under the minute, creating a batch of copper feet, bamboo feet, and copper jialeng. , copper weighing poles, and other items to further measure national measurement units.

It's a pity, Comrade Wang Mang, this...

Although the later Emperors of the Han Dynasty also used these, after all, they were not as obsessed with details as Wang Mang. They were almost almost, almost, which led to the continuation of the national measurement units. Although they existed, they were not accurate.

This result led to many instruments in the Han Dynasty, which were extremely remarkable even in later generations, such as the Huntian instrument, the seismometer, the compass, etc., which are only unique. Let’s not discuss whether they are practical or not. These complex machines, Neither can be reproduced on a large scale...

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

This also exists in the Huang family. Fei Qian and Huang Yueying looked at the dozen or so rulers placed 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 they are not much, the difference between them is only a few millimeters, but they are indeed Yes, but the attitude of Huang's craftsmen is: "It's almost fine, just grind it a few times and it'll be fine."

Yes, if most of the handmade utensils are not consistent during assembly, these craftsmen will basically just grind them and frustrate them, and that's it.

Fei Qian looked at these rulers, looked at Huang Yueying, and said: "It's better to unify them. Find the best one, make a mold, and then pour a batch of them out. Call it 'Huang's Ruler'. Isn't it better?" What?"

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

The Huang craftsmen on the side also nodded.

People are always like this, and it is easier to accept what they agree with. But if Fei Qian jumped out and said that all your rulers are no longer good and must be replaced with new standard rulers, many craftsmen would probably murmur in their hearts...

Now with the name "Huang's Ruler", these people take it for granted and can accept it.

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

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

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

The ductility and rigidity of black iron are absolute advantages over bronze, which is the fundamental reason why steel was used as weapons after the Han Dynasty.

However, the melting point of bronze is low, so it can be easily molded, and then various instruments can be produced in large quantities. After polishing and polishing, a whole batch of weapons can be produced.

But for iron, pig iron is too brittle. In order to fully demonstrate the ductility and rigidity of steel, it must be forged many times. However, it is quite difficult for this processing technology to become a standard production. . In order to pursue consistency, a lot of manual labor and repeated re-melting will inevitably be added, which will lead to a decrease in overall output...

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 slowly from top to bottom, no one did this thankless task. .

But such a result is difficult for Fei Qian to accept.

It turned out that he was still thinking about using the experience of later time-travel novels to establish an institutionalized ordnance standard, and then build an assembly line, and then wait for tons of items to appear automatically, and finally just click A and everything would be fine...

But now, this dream was shattered in front of the crude metallurgical technology and equipment of the Han Dynasty!

In order to mass-standardize the production of small objects like steel arrowheads, they must be made of cold-rolled steel like later generations, then directly pressed into molds, and then polished and shaped...

Among them, the difference between the Han Dynasty and later generations is not just 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 compete with the bronze of hundreds of years ago and the steel of the Han Dynasty today, but to transform steel, a material that requires too much manpower, into mechanization and scale, in this process, it is not a matter of two words, You can do it if you stick to the standard!

So where should your first step be to improve?

Trouble!

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

I saw Huang Chengyan walking over in a hurry, and when he heard Huang Yueying's voice, he just nodded slightly, with a heavy look on his face. Apparently 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 happen if this big-tailed wolf comes to your door?

Could it be...

Liu Bei: Yunmei, do you know that it is common sense that there are only four of the Five Tiger Generals...

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Zhao Yun: I just want to be quiet...

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Liu Bei frowned...

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