Chapter 74 Where is the beautiful jade born in Lantian?
Chapter 74 The beautiful jade is born in Lantian, where does Da Qiao hide it?
——"Is the cost of Qin Nu so high?"
This involves Guan Lin's knowledge blind spot.
He did not pay special attention to the exchange ratio between grain and iron.
certainly…
Not to mention this period, in later generations, the cost of a Type 95 rifle was about 5,000 yuan, and the cost of a top-grade military crossbow was as high as 50,000 yuan.
It is precisely for this reason that equipment such as crossbows is only used by special departments such as special forces or armed police.
However, this is the price of future generations.
From what Huang Chengyan said, even during the Qin and Han Dynasties... the cost of making the Qin Nu would not be that low.
You know, one hundred thousand hu of grain is enough to feed an army of 10,000 people for half a year.
Guan Lin asked Huang Chengyan doubtfully: "Old Huang, are you bluffing me? Is the Qin Nu so expensive?"
He put down his chopsticks and said seriously: "Old Huang, you are not kind. I, Guan Lin, am an old hen. I can't lay golden eggs every time, right? Where can I get one million dendrobium grains together?"
"I won't ask him!" Huang Chengyan said coldly when he mentioned Zhuge Liang, and his tone suddenly changed, "His kid is even less reliable than you."
Just imagine, ten thousand Qin crossbows are all made of arrow clusters made of hundreds of steel. If all ten thousand crossbows are fired together, what will be shot out is not the crossbow arrows, but pure gold!
Isn’t this a matter of tens of thousands of grains?
——"Hong Qigong!"
"Seriously." Huang Chengyan suddenly became meticulous, "Your father and your uncle won't give you the money to make Qin Nu, so... can't you cheat?"
Courteous and courteous...and generous.
"Looking for it from my father?" Guan Lin said "haha" and waved his hand, "Don't you know, Lao Huang? My father is a poor man. If he can scrape together one million grains, I will stand on my head and wash my hair."
, that’s all… let’s just eat hot pot…”
I'm just an empty nester, so it's inevitable that I'll be a little angry with my son-in-law. That's normal... normal!
"Then according to what you say, the 100,000 grains that I worked so hard to collect are of no use, and our plan for the Qinnu phalanx to reappear in the world is over!"
Huang Chengyan was not angry, and replied with a smile: "Didn't I learn that from you, a little crooked person?"
Guan Lin's mouth tightened. He suddenly felt that the hotpot mutton no longer tasted good.
Sun Ru cast an approving look at him, and as Zhuge Ke left, she and Zhuge Jin were the only two people left on this side of the ferry.
Thinking of this, Huang Chengyan quickly reminded: "Your father doesn't have it, but your uncle does? He just made a plan to go to Yizhou!"
At this point, Guan Lin rolled his eyes at Huang Chengyan again and added: "Old Huang, when did you become so naive? Like a child!"
It's too expensive. I can't afford to play this Qin Nu... Why don't I stop playing it?
Huang Chengyan saw Guan Lin's thoughts and panicked a little.
After the salute, Zhuge Jin asked without losing any sense of proportion: "I thought it would be Boyan who came to see me off, but I never thought, could you please Miss Sun San..."
"The little girl Sun Ru has met Mr. Zhuge."
…
Zhuge Jin was the first to speak.
If he could single-handedly reappear the Qin Nu phalanx that once swept through the six countries, how spectacular would that be?
As I get older, I have become indifferent to money, fame, etc., so I just want to do something "majestic" and do something that future generations can talk about.
These six swords are also made of hundreds of steel...
But why? Zhuge Jin couldn't figure it out for a while.
Guan Lin has already retreated.
Huang Chengyan continued, "What's more, Qin Nu's crossbow arrows are made of bronze, but now the arrow clusters made of bronze cannot be broken by ordinary armor, so they must be modified..."
Huang Chengyan casually mentioned some information, and Guan Lin's heart was already in turmoil, and this wave could be summed up in one word - "expensive"!
--too expensive!
Huang Chengyan immediately stood up and went back to the house to take out a crossbow. He pointed at the arrow cluster and said, "Did you see that the manufacturing process of this cluster head alone is extremely complicated! Not to mention the materials, the process alone would take a craftsman a full day to complete.
Not a few coins."
This woman is Sun Ru, Sun Ce's third daughter and Lu Xun's first wife.
And that material...
Liu Bei also made the "Eight Swords of Shu". He ordered people to forge them from the white iron of Mount Jinniu. They were three feet and six inches long. Liu Bei wore one himself, and the remaining seven were given to Liu Chan, Liang Wangli, Lu Wangyong, Zhuge Liang,
Weared by Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun.
Zhuge Ke once again let him pass and entered the cabin first.
Sun Ru looked down, looked at Zhuge Ke, and said with emotion: "This must be Zhuge Yuanxun, who is born in Lantian, right? Sure enough, at a young age, he has the air of a celebrity."
Of course, having said that, the actual operation is extremely difficult and requires extremely high quenching technology.
Zhuge Ke, on the other hand, also bowed his hands and saluted Sun Ru. "Junior Zhuge Ke pays homage to Mrs. Sun..."
Sun Ru, dressed in a smart woman's attire, said calmly: "I came here to see off Mr. Zhuge and his son on my husband's order."
Sun Quan was very surprised after seeing him, so he praised Zhuge Jin: "Lantian produces beautiful jade, and it is indeed well-deserved."
Pure and melancholy, a collection of contradictions, it was this unique temperament that made Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Ke stare at him.
"Liar?" Guan Lin was startled, and he made a "great and upright" attitude, "I, Guan Lin, are a noble man. I am a noble person, a pure person, and have escaped from people with low tastes. How could I cheat?"
Human? How could I be such a despicable, dirty, and dirty person?"
"When I first married A Chou, I promised that the couple would fulfill their filial piety by my husband's side. Now it's better. His son just went to Bashu. Instead, he abducted my only daughter, A Chou, to the land of Bashu. She hasn't seen her in several years.
...When I think of him, I feel so angry that I feel so angry!"
Sure enough, the so-called "a cannon fires, a thousand taels of gold" is not just talk.
To put it simply, the carbon content in pig iron is reduced, the slag is removed, and steel is obtained directly.
"I have sacrificed my life to serve the world. I use my knowledge to gain insight and my philosophy to protect my life." Sun Ru said in a polite way: "My husband always mentions my husband's way of serving as an official to my concubine. My husband has great respect for me and I also have great respect for him."
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Hearing the sound and seeing clearly the face of the woman walking out of the dock, Zhuge Jin was startled and quickly handed over his hands, "It turns out to be Miss Sun San... I'm sorry for you, I'm so rude."
"Haha..." Huang Chengyan laughed when he heard this, and he gently stroked his beard, "Of course you are not such a dirty person, but you can't help but think that there are people like this, and there are also people who are very good at deceiving people?"
"Iron won't work either!" Huang Chengyan was very sure, "Steel must be made with steel!"
Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Ke originally wanted to get on the boat, but because of the sound, they stopped on the shore and waited for the people in the dock!
Mother!
There are records in the history books that only Cao Cao ordered people to make five "Hundred Pi swords". In addition to wearing them himself, he also gave them to his disciples. Cao Zhi wrote a poem describing the scene of making the swords, saying: "The furnace is blazing, the iron is melting.
Ying. Wuhuo Fenzhui, Ouye is the camp."
Of course, Guan Lin will not doubt Huang Chengyan's ability. This old man is very skilled in all kinds of skills, and he can't do anything but tempering!
The only thing Guan Lin cares about is money...
The steel-filling method was not as popular as during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Although Baidu Steel appeared in the late Han Dynasty, due to the high requirements for quenching skills, very few could make Baidu Steel.
Sun Ru bit her lower lip lightly, and then asked meticulously: "I am here to ask you, sir. As an 'old man' in the Soochow court like him, he must know what my mother and brother are now.
Where are you?"
This is the rare hundred-refined steel sword in Cao Jun’s camp!
From the crossbow arm to the teeth, to the string, to the box, and then to the hand guard, in order to make the "tension" exceed a hundred pounds, make the shooting range longer and the shooting speed faster, the production difficulty of each process is extremely exquisite.
"Junior, please don't disturb father and Mrs. Sun!"
"What about using good iron?" Guan Lin blurted out.
Guan Lin put down his chopsticks and spread his hands...
…
At this moment, Guan Lin realized why weapons like crossbows did not become mainstream on the battlefields of the "late Han Dynasty" and the "Three Kingdoms".
Speaking of this, he paused and said, "According to our conception, these 10,000 crossbows are going to destroy the enemy's formation in an instant. In this way, ordinary iron tools cannot penetrate the shield and may be a threat to the cavalry.
, but it is not a big threat to the infantry, so we must use Baishang Steel instead!"
etc…
"I don't dare to take it..." Zhuge Jin handed her over again. After all, she was Sun Ce's daughter. Even if she was married as a wife, her status would still be noble.
——"Newly cracked and pure, as fresh and clean as frost and snow, I am always afraid of the cold weather when autumn comes..."
Despite his young age, Zhuge Ke was a well-known genius with great fame and great literary talent. Especially in debate...he was hard to find an opponent for.
As for Sun Quan, Cui Bao of Jin Dynasty recorded in "Annotations on Ancient and Modern Swords": "Sun Quan, the great emperor of Wu in the Three Kingdoms, had six swords, one was called Baihong, the second was called Zidian, the third was called to ward off evil spirits, the fourth was called Meteor, the fifth was called Qingming, and the sixth was called Baili.
"
Not long after, a graceful woman walked out slowly. The woman looked young, no more than twenty years old, and there was a strong sense of melancholy on her childish cheeks.
Even though I say so...
Don’t eat, I’m full!
"Where, where..." Zhuge Jin's mind was spinning rapidly. He had already realized that it would not be that simple for Lu Xun to send Sun Ru to see him off.
Got it, Guan Lin finally understood, this is the most expensive.
——"Old Huang, you are following me!"
"I heard that Liu Zhang's treasury in Yizhou has piles of gold, silver, jewels, silk and satin, and the granary is also full of grain. How can he get out all the one million dendrobium of grain?"
Qin Nu's powerful destructive power was based on his huge accumulation of money. Guan Lin was still a little naive at first.
I'm afraid even hundreds of thousands of dendrobium grains are not enough!
After all, no matter how expensive Qin Nu's crossbow machine is, it is a once-and-for-all investment, but the crossbow arrow... is a consumable, and it is a bottomless pit.
This kind of expensiveness made Guan Lin feel that he couldn't afford something like Qin Nu!
"Mrs. Sun, if you have anything to say, you may as well speak up. If I can be of service to you, I will do my best."
But Guan Lin could tell that the old man was still very satisfied with Zhuge Liang's son-in-law.
Just imagine, as an old man in his twilight years...
When he gets older and can no longer stand up, he will always have more beautiful memories while lying on the bed!
At this point, Guan Lin stuffed another piece of beef shabu-shabu into his mouth, and while chewing it, he said: "Old Huang, I find that you are becoming more and more unruly. We have agreed in advance that Qin Nu must raise 10,000 yuan."
Only then can we use it to achieve an overwhelming advantage and win by surprise! If it is leaked, we will not be able to achieve the desired effect."
You should know that Baishang Steel was born under the "steel frying" technology that appeared in the late Western Han Dynasty.
"who?"
The inscriptions on the sword were all written by Zhuge Liang!
This is also the technique used to make steel.
Just like the swords of Zheng State, the scales of Song State, the daggers of Lu State, and the swords of Wu and Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the reason why these are famous all over the world is not only their exquisite skills, but also the selection of materials is the most important thing.
As soon as these words came out, Guan Lin jumped three feet high:
Guan Lin knew that such a design complied with mechanics and allowed for unlimited expansion of guidance and lethality, making it naturally more difficult to manufacture.
——"You old man is not kind!"
Guan Lin noticed that the "sample" made by Huang Chengyan was almost a perfect replica of the drawing he drew.
In addition to arrow clusters, Huang Chengyan pointed out many other places.
The arrow cluster consists of a cluster head and a collar. The "cluster head" is in the shape of a triangular prism, and the "collar" is in the shape of a cylinder.
This kind of polishing process undoubtedly added a lot of difficulties to the manufacturing of Qin Nu.
At the ferry in Jiangling City, a beautiful female voice slowly sang out along with the fluctuation of the strings in a awning boat.
Of course...the more Sun Ru behaves like this, the more Zhuge Ke becomes clear-minded. She must have something to ask her father.
For a time, "Jade from Lantian" spread widely, and later it became the exclusive praise of Zhuge Jin and his son in the Soochow region.
"One hundred thousand grains, haha, not to mention ten thousand Qin Nu, even one thousand is not enough." Huang Chengyan continued to eat his hot-boiled vegetables and said while eating: "If we want to realize our important task of 'Qin Nu Army Formation'
The current plan requires at least one million hu of grain? Well, if you save a little, 10,000 hu of dendrobium is almost enough."
The most complicated thing is undoubtedly the meticulous and orderly distribution of grinding marks all over the blade. This design is no less than the "barbs" and "blood grooves" on the spear blade, which are used to bleed the enemy.
use.
Can they afford to play with crossbows?
hehe…
"As expected of Mr. Zhuge, he has a sharp eye and can understand all things."
The "jade born from blue fields" mentioned by Sun Ru was Sun Quan's praise of Zhuge Ke.
At this moment, Guan Lin thought of something. He asked Huang Chengyan, "Old Huang, you only told me to ask for it from my father and uncle. Why can't you ask for it from your son-in-law? Now you are in charge of the Yizhou treasury.
It's your good son-in-law Zhuge Kongming who is providing the money... Just ask, instead of asking for one million grains, we can borrow three or four hundred thousand to build it first. Isn't that a big problem?"
Well…
The elderly live for "memories".
Seeing that Guan Lin was a little excited, Huang Chengyan helped Guan Lin pick up a piece of boiled tripe and said with a smile: "You don't have it, does your father have it? Go and ask him for it!"
Huang Chengyan's words made Guan Lin slightly startled, but soon he shook his head and said: "Old Huang, are you kidding me? No matter how rich Yizhou is, who am I? If I ask my uncle, he will give it to me.
?”
day…
The same goes for Qin Nu...
This group of princes are all poor.
younger brother!
Sun Ru asked about the whereabouts of Da Qiao and Sun Shao.
As soon as he said these words, Zhuge Jin shuddered subconsciously, his legs staggered, and he almost fell to the ground!