Chapter 53 Cui Qing's Magical Soldier
Renault had already carried a roll of paper and ran to the toilet quickly. There was actually a toilet in the room, but nowadays, the door of the room was not locked, and relying on a piece of wood as a bolt made Renault feel very unreliable. Huya rushed into the room several times when he was convenient, which made him suspicious. If he had a few more times, he might have constipation.
Of course, this does not mean that the toilet is comfortable. The toilets these days...
Forget it, I won’t say much, even my tears have dried up.
The quality of this toilet paper is indescribable. In order to increase the softness, Renault added additives to the material pool. Although they are all natural, the consequences are still very serious when there are too many quantities. You can crush the broken paper by kneading a few more times. In fact, you don’t need to knead it too much. If you fiddle with it for a while, it will start to fall off.
Just drop it, at least it does look like toilet paper. When used, fold a few more layers. It's so cool. Renault felt it for the first time that using toilet paper can also trigger a sense of happiness.
After coming out of the toilet and cleaning his hands, Renault staggered back to the Princess Villa: "Lu Youde, remember some of the lime, oil, and some ore powders in the pool, which is reduced by one third."
"Yes, the little one has written it down."
This is the material in this pool. No matter what, it can be used. Although the material pool is not big, there are at least hundreds or thousands of pieces of toilet paper that can be folded into toilet paper, which is enough for him to use for several months.
When Renault walked away, a familiar carpenter came over and said, "I said Lu Tou, you said the paper you want is not very good."
Don’t say he was strange, Lu Youde didn’t understand it. Under the command of the Ninth Princess, paper was made in two days and two nights, and it was obviously much better than yellow paper, more tougher, and whiter. Although the paper copied out was a bit thicker, it wasn’t it hand-born. They were carpenters and paper workers. As long as they were given some more time, there was no need to spend more. In just three days, the paper would be better.
In fact, when Renault told them that when copying paper, don’t copy it repeatedly, just one round trip. The quality of the papers copied is already excellent. Even if they are not as good as official paper, the disadvantages are extremely limited.
But how much official paper can produce in a year? Except for the royal family and noble people, they write memorials to high-ranking officials and only use them in military reports. If the official position is not enough, they can only be dealt with with yellow paper.
The largest amount is said to be the Ministry of Revenue. Only important data such as money, grain, household registration, etc. in various places will be recorded on official paper every year.
As for the businessman, let alone the little businessman can’t even use yellow paper and is still engraving words with bamboo slips.
Lu Youde shook his head and didn't answer the labourer's words. He couldn't figure it out. This papermaking doesn't look difficult and it's very fast. According to this method, as long as there is enough manpower, it's okay to have as much paper as you want.
He was just a carpenter, so he naturally didn't know how difficult it was to make paper in Dachu. The fermentation alone was much longer than Renault imagined, from at least two months to three to four months. After that, he had to process the fermentation, wash away impurities, and then soak it. He didn't know that it would be steamed or cooked, and there was no process of crushing.
In this way, it takes at least half a year or even nine months for a pool of pulp to enter the last pulp to make paper. The papermaking department of Dachu has thousands of people and tens of thousands of fermentation ponds, constantly picking up materials and fermenting materials. Even so, the official paper copied out in a year is far from enough.
Before Renault arrived at the back garden, Cui Qing had already run to him, his face flushed: "Sir, Da Chu Ji, and the horizontal sword..."
"Hmm?" Renault didn't understand. Cui Qing was not very mentally normal recently and was always in an excited state. This is not good, and she is prone to neurasthenia.
"Sir, follow me." As he said that, he actually pulled Renault to the back garden regardless of the superiority and inferiority.
On the stone platform, three sharp blades of varying lengths shine brightly.
Renault was a little angry. This damn Cui Qing was always unemployed. He had told him a long time ago that those fine irons were scraps, but this guy just didn't listen. He drew up blacksmiths who were not many and turned the scraps into weapons. What's the point? He didn't have enough vision. Isn't this just delaying my efforts? With this time, he can melt several furnaces of ore.
This is not nonsense. After seeing the weapons manufacturing industry of this era, Renault no longer has any hope for it. Of course he can improve it, but it is too troublesome to make comprehensive improvements.
It's over after a piece of fine iron is released? It's just the beginning, and it needs to be burned red and constantly forged until the blacksmith believes that the quality of the fine iron reaches the standard, and then the outline is drawn, and then it will be modified carefully, and finally it will be in full fire.
Take the most common horizontal knife as an example. Even if it is ready-made fine iron, it requires a skilled craftsman to work for two days. If you use cooked iron, then you can wait. It may take more than ten days, half a year, or even a few years.
Renault remembered that in history class, he learned that he had practiced a sword for three years, but he still failed and forced the blacksmith to disappear. He first used his hair and blood, and finally felt that he was hopeless. The couple threw themselves into the furnace to sacrifice and refine them, and finally succeeded.
The history teacher also said that it was just a legend. Just think about it and you will know how big a blacksmith furnace is. It is difficult for two living people to stuff it in, let alone sacrifice and refine the sword. Let alone take a step back, the couple are dead, who made the sword?
When I picked up the horizontal knife, I felt it was quite heavy, at least ten kilograms. I waved it a few times. The blacksmiths were good at craftsmanship. They didn’t understand ergonomics and aerodynamics, but they often made weapons. What kind of horizontal knife was easier to use than Renault, an outsider.
The weight of the Great Chu halberd is a bit amazing. The head of the halberd alone weighs about twenty kilograms. In addition, the iron halberd rod is the 3.8-meter-long large Chu halberd weighing more than 100 kilograms.
Legend has it that the Second Master’s sword has 72 kilograms, the weapons of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and Lu Bu, the most powerful man in the Three Kingdoms, all have more than 100 kilograms.
On earth, that is just an example, or a legend. No one knows whether it is true or not. But in Da Chu, a weapon of more than 100 kilograms is really nothing. Even Renault can easily pick it up. A ninth-grade warrior like Luo Yi has about 100 kilograms in his hands, and it is no different from a wooden stick.
In combat with cold weapons, of course, the heavier the weapon, the more you take advantage of it, but this does not mean that you can increase the weight at will. When a general fights, he has to consider a lot. Weapons with just the right weight cannot be used. You must choose a lighter one. This is to prepare for long-term combat, and lighter ones can last longer.
The last one is the ox horn knife, also known as the hand-removing knife, which is usually hung around the waist and used to cut meat when eating. If you are in danger, it can also be used as the last self-defense weapon.
Holding the ox horn knife, gently tapping the horizontal knife, the Great Chu halberd, the sound was crisp and melodious...
Well, in fact, Renault couldn't hear the good or bad at all. The God of Wealth could only provide corresponding data to prove that these three weapons were made of steel.
"Sir, please see." Cui Qing was so excited that he waved his hand. A Dingxi Army pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist with a look of pain. Cui Qing was going crazy, this was the eighth handle.
No matter how sad he felt, as a soldier, he naturally understood how great a good weapon could play on the battlefield. He finally got the job in the back garden and was lucky. Maybe he could really get a magic weapon. Even if he didn't have such a chance, when he had more iron in the future, he might have to ask the blacksmith of the craftsman camp to create one.
Cui Qing held the knife in both hands, and the Shichang stretched out the horizontal knife, and the blade was facing upwards. Cui Qing slashed it with all his strength, and a crisp sound of "cang" was heard. The horizontal knife in Shichang's hand broke with the sound. Looking at the horizontal knife in Cui Qing's hand, it looked like a pool of clear water, not even the size of a grain of rice.
"Sir, Iron is like mud, this is a magic weapon." Cui Qing was so excited that he almost cried. He had been in the Dingxi Army for a year and was familiar with the craftsman camp, but it would be difficult for such a magic weapon to be produced in a few years.
After following the teacher, three knives were produced in just a few days. The remaining fine iron could at least create five horizontal swords.
Renault curled his lips and ignored Cui Qing's excitement gorgeously. You are using steel, okay, even if it is garbage steel, it is also steel. If you look at the tricks in your hand, it is called "familiar" or not. Even if Renault is ignorant, he knows that these are two completely different materials and are incomparable at all.
Why don’t you try with a bronze knife? I guarantee that the iron knife in my hand will also be cut into copper like mud.
The metal manufacturing industry in Dachu is really speechless. You can use it as a weapon if you find a better piece of wood. No wonder the soldiers are using bamboo armor.
Renault didn't know that the long-lived iron horizontal knife in his hand was actually considered good. As long as you build it, add more iron and make it thicker, it would be a good horizontal knife.
In order to ensure the supply of weapons and equipment, many soldiers still use pig iron knives. Pig iron is probably comparable to bronze. When fighting, they are crazy and use too much force. The pig iron knives can be broken into two pieces without any shatter. As long as they have enough strength, they can be broken.
There is no way to do this. The smelting of Dachu is still in the stage of luck. Whether the iron material produced by refining a furnace is pig iron, or fine iron, half depends on technology and most of it depends on luck.
"Sir, refine another furnace of fine iron, please." Cui Qing said excitedly. He felt that as long as he looked at it a few more times, he could grasp the method of smelting fine iron.
Thinking about it makes people excited and crazy. If every furnace of Dachu comes out in the future, the iron will be produced...
"If you don't practice, don't talk about these useless things. Your current task is to extract the ore as soon as possible. I want to get it out as soon as possible. Do you understand?" Renault was so angry that if he knew how to make steel, he would have helped, but he wouldn't.
This is still possible with the help of the God of Wealth to refine a furnace of slag and steel, so that he can refine it himself. What he can do.
Renault is not a metal smelting person. He can know the carbon content range of steel, which is already... Because of those fantasy novels, when I was in class, I listened to it and said, who would remember those data?
Otherwise, you ask Renault Electronics Applications, Electronics, Particles, Ripple Confrontation...
I heard that you silly gangsters can’t help but refining steel, it’s boring.
Chapter completed!