Chapter 162: The Beginning of the Shock (Part 2) (5.8k)
The moment when half of the blade broke in Lao Zhong's hand.
The entire courtyard suddenly fell into silence.
The air is solidified and you can hear the needle drop.
True.
Because horseshoes have a certain thickness.
The short knife and the horseshoe are connected. Not only does the short knife not have the advantage, but it will also suffer some congenital disadvantages.
But don't forget...
This knife of Lao Zhong is not an ordinary knife. Lao Zhong once used it to break the breastplate of a heavy cavalry!
If not for the fact that he was the grandson of Zhong Shiheng and had made great contributions in the post of governor of the capital of Jingyuan.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to obtain a weapon made of this material.
Then the old man was silent for a moment.
Ignoring the knife head on the ground, he put down the knife handle and picked up the horseshoe on the table.
I only see this moment.
In the area where the horse's iron hoof comes into contact with the tip of the knife, there is no visible chip except for a very fine white grinding mark.
When the old man saw this, his breathing suddenly became stagnant.
Then he suddenly looked at Xu Yun, his beard briefly floated in the air for half a second, and asked
"Master Wang, how many of these iron tools can you make?"
"Envoy Chengxuan, just call me Xiao Wang."
Xu Yun bowed his hand to Lao Zhong very politely. His respect for the old general was not much lower than that of Wang Zhen.
"As you can see, as long as there is enough iron ore, we can cast as much iron as we need."
Lao Zhong pondered for a moment, turned to look at the coffin-like reverberatory furnace, and pointed to the magnesia bricks on the top of it.
"If I'm not mistaken, this thing is not just an ordinary adobe brick. I don't know its material."
Xu Yun thought for a while and said
"Wait for me."
After saying that, he went to an area near the wall where materials were placed, opened the sunshade cloth, and rummaged through it a few times.
Not long after.
Then he came back with a white ore.
He handed the ore to Lao Zhong and asked
"Can envoy Chengxuan recognize this object?"
The old man took the ore and looked at it for a few times, then stroked his beard and said uncertainly
"If I'm not mistaken,&bsp&bspThis thing seems to be porcelain gray stone?"
Xu Yun nodded,&bsp&bspaffirmed
"Yes,&bsp&bspIt is porcelain gray stone, a common ore that can be seen everywhere on Qinfeng Road."
"We only need to calcine it at high temperature, crush it and then press it using the brick making method to easily prepare magnesia bricks."
The old man's pupils shrank again.
As a veteran who has been fighting on the Western Front all year round, he is very familiar with this kind of stone.
Search outside any camp on the western front for half an hour.&bsp&bspUnless you are possessed by a Kunlun slave, you will definitely be able to bring back a large basket of porcelain limestone.
During the fortifications on the Western Front.
Because this kind of ore is extremely brittle, it is not even considered as leftovers, and is specially used to build houses for prisoners.
In fact, what the old man doesn't understand is.
The so-called porcelain limestone is the magnesite of later generations, and it is one of the ores with the highest reserves in my country.
The world's magnesite reserves are concentrated in the mainland, with a total amount of more than three billion tons.
That is to say.
What seems to be the most special material in the entire iron-making process is actually a resource that can be found extremely easily in reality!
Of course.
Strictly speaking.
In the entire process,&bsp&bsppure oxygen is the most difficult part to prepare. It involves many chemical reactions and even electricity issues.
But considering that Laozhong had never been exposed to the microscopic field, Xu Yun did not mention much about it.
This is also one of the reasons why he is confident that his skills will not be exposed.
Anyway, whether it is the military or the court, they will not care too much about the loss of common resources because they are confident of getting greater benefits.
Then Lao Zhong looked at the broken handle of the knife in his hand, turned around and looked at Wang Hou, who was older than him.
The two were veterans over fifty years old, and they had a tacit understanding and saw the same idea in each other's eyes.
I saw Lao Zhong cough lightly and asked Xu Yun
"My lord and my lord, if that's the case, can I say this?"
"If you have enough iron ore,&bsp&bspyou can produce countless amounts of molten iron.&bsp&bspIn addition to horseshoes, you can also cast knives or armor of the same material?"
Taken the bait.
The corner of Xu Yun's mouth raised slightly, but he quickly calmed it down.
I saw him touching his nose and replying seemingly normally
"Yes, the sword and armor are just a mold problem and have nothing to do with the craftsmanship."
"If Cheng Xuan is willing, there is no problem in building an iron house. It will still be as strong as a horseshoe."
Lao Zhong didn't lose his composure this time, but his left hand holding the handle of the knife instantly became a little more forceful.
It really works!
To know.
Same as horses.
On the Western Front, or on all battlefields throughout the ages, the amount of damage to knives and armor is also a huge factor that cannot be ignored.
Still taking Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty’s expedition against the Xiongnu as an example.
According to the records in "Tongdian".
By the time Huo Qubing sealed the wolf's residence in Xu,&bsp&bspthe Han army's baggage was "renewed with 400,000 swords",&bsp&bsp"the infantrymen were replaced by hundreds of thousands of troops."
Before Feng Lang Juxu, Huo Qubing and Wei Qing each led an army of 50,000, which means that 50,000 people consumed 200,000 swords. In fact, judging from the subsequent results, Huo Qubing should have consumed more resources than Wei Qing.
of.
Another thing worth mentioning is that.
"Tongdian" records that the number of weapons is "handles".
That is to say, it does not include bows and arrows, but mainly swords, guns, swords, etc.
At that time, Huo Qubing mainly fought with the Xiongnu Zuoxian King's tribe, killing 70,000 enemies at the cost of 10,000 casualties. In the process of going more than 1,000 miles deep, there were eight large-scale battles with tens of thousands of people and more than 120 small battles.
If ten small battles are loosely counted as one big battle, then on average one weapon will be damaged in three big battles.
certainly.
If you really calculate it, you definitely can't calculate it like this, but the final number probably won't deviate too much.
After all, there are not many documents recording baggage in history. Before the first thousand years AD, on average, one weapon was destroyed in three or four battles.
It can be seen from this.
Before the improvement of steel technology in the Yuan Dynasty, how much damage were caused to weapons in wars?
And if it’s just that the weapon consumption is high, that’s it.
If you are bad, I will be bad too. It is just more of a material reserve.
What you are afraid of is that on the battlefield, other people's weapons are better than yours. If your sword is broken during a confrontation, but other people's weapons are intact, then it is really like Melody watching a small movie, and it is a lot of fun.
So the moment I got the assurance from Xu Yun.
Lao Zhong and Wang Hou, the two veteran generals with the highest status in the army (Tong Guan is not even the envoy of Xihe Lanhuang Economic Strategy and Appeasement System), immediately thought of the possibility of using weapons.
think about it.
When the two armies meet.
The opponent is slashing at you with a big knife in a menacing manner. Wearing heavy armor, you stand still and let the opponent slash you.
There are only '-' and '-' on the health bar. When you get impatient, you raise your knife and chop off the opponent's weapon and head with one strike.
Bliss.
The old man wiped the non-existent Halazi and asked anxiously
"Xiao Wang, can you teach this skill to the weapon making bureau or to the weapons supervisor?
"I and the Royal Envoy can guarantee you that the imperial court will definitely reward you greatly!"
When Wang Hou heard this, he nodded quickly and agreed.
"What Ambassador Chengcheng said is true,&bsp&bspIf you really dedicate this skill, I and I will definitely recommend it to His Majesty before he comes!"
His Majesty?
Song Huizong?
Xu Yun shook his head slightly in his heart,&bsp&bspBut he still pretended to be hesitant on his face.
"It's not difficult to show off your skills. If you want to hide your clumsiness,&bsp&bsp you won't find all the masters to help you. There is one more important thing."
The old man glanced at him and asked
"What's the matter? Isn't that the only donkey who knows how to pull the bellows? It's simple, just feed it more food and grass."
"Put out a furnace of molten iron every half an hour, and let it rest for an hour every day. Then you can produce multiple furnaces of molten iron, which is enough."
Xu Yun shook his head
"It's not harmful, I'll just tell you this. According to the techniques passed down by Fengling Yueying Sect, if some materials can be added to the iron casting process, the finished product can be improved twenty to thirty times."
Clang——
Hearing Xu Yun's words.
The old man who originally thought he would not lose his composure again today failed to hold back his emotions again, and the handle of the knife in his hand couldn't help but loosen.
It fell to the ground with a clang and met the knife head again.
I saw him looking at Xu Yun blankly, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly, without the coldness of the military god of war before.
"Xiao Wang, are you saying that by adding some materials, the horseshoe can be improved by two, three or four times?"
"Returning to the missionary mission is twenty or thirty times more."
Xu Yun corrected Lao Zhong's statement and continued:
"Twenty or thirty times is just the basis. If the material conditions are suitable, it is not difficult to increase it by forty or fifty times."
Gulu——
In the silence, Wang Yue, who had recently recovered from his injury, swallowed his saliva.
If you were cut by that kind of knife, you wouldn't be able to recover even with allicin, right?
The old man opened his mouth and subconsciously wanted to refute "ridiculous".
But out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the broken knife head and handle on the ground, and his doubts stopped in his throat.
"Xiao Wang, do you have any evidence for what you said?"
"Of course."
Xu Yun nodded, took out another dagger from his body, and handed it to Lao Zhong
"You try this."
The old man took the dagger and weighed it in his hand a few times.
how to say
There is no obvious difference in quality, nor can I feel it in the hand.
Then he glanced at Xu Yun, and without further explanation, he struck at the horse with iron hoofs.
Qiang——
Only a crisp collision sound was heard.
The horseshoe where Laozhong's dagger had previously been broken with only a small mark suddenly appeared a deep gash!
If the old man chops it a few more times, he will definitely be able to cut it off completely!
The old man exhaled a heavy breath from his nose.
have to say.
Xu Yun brought too many surprises to him today.
Wang Hou, who was on the side, quickly stepped forward, touched the gap in the horseshoe, and looked at the dagger in Lao Zhong's hand.
He turned around, stared at Xu Yun, and asked
"Xiao Wang, is this dagger a finished product containing those materials?"
Xu Yun nodded
"good."
After the two of them talked like this, Lao Zhong came back to his senses and quickly asked.
"Xiao Wang, what exactly is the material you are talking about?"
Xu Yun raised his eyelids and glanced at him, and said slowly
"The name of this thing is nickel, which is a material extracted from the ore."
Lao Zhong was not a fool. He immediately heard another meaning from Xu Yun's words and guessed:
"Xiao Wang, is this type of ore extremely difficult to mine and therefore rare?"
Xu Yun shook his head and said
"The mining of nickel ore is not difficult, but its production area is somewhat special."
"What special method?"
"Its production area is not in the Central Plains, but in Yilou."
As we all know.
Nickel in steel can expand the γ phase area and form an infinite solid solution. The maximum solubility of iron in a is about 1.
And it will not form carbides, increasing the corrosion resistance of the finished product.
It is an excellent curing material.
Iron products with nickel added and without nickel are like whether Laoganma is added to fried rice, they are two completely different properties.
Whether it is durability, hardness or internal stress, the gap between the two is more than two series.
The dagger in Xu Yun's hand was added with an appropriate amount of nickel, and the related properties were raised to an astonishing height.
Of course.
Due to resource issues, the nickel Xu Yun chose this time did not come from ores, but from meteorites acquired by Lao Su.
This dagger is his ultimate goal!
Through two comparisons, he clearly told Lao Zhong a fact
Now there is a skill that can be called a dimensionality reduction strike in front of you. It has a crushing effect in both offense and defense. However, one of the raw materials is relatively rare. Are you or the court interested?
If your heart moves
Just go find it in Yilou!
Yilou is the Baishan Songshui of later generations.
It is also one of the origins of local nickel mines.
Of course.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Judging from the territory of later generations, Zhuzhou has the highest number of nickel mines, followed by Longyou.
The third place is Baishan Songshui, whose reserves are seven to eight times that of Zhuzhou.
But don't forget.
Zhuzhou currently belongs to western Liaoning and the hinterland of the Liao Kingdom.
If you can go to Zhuzhou to mine nickel ore and transport it back stably, what kind of nickel ore do you need? It has already been unified, okay?
Let’s not mention Longyou
This is because the Song Dynasty has never given up on the Western Front. Whether the nickel mine exists or not will not change the importance it attaches to. There is no need to give heavy medicine to that side.
Anyway, if nickel mines were found elsewhere after the Song Dynasty, Xu Yun could explain it with "I don't know", and no one would blame him for hiding it.
As for why Yi Lou is mentioned alone?
Because at this time, there is an old man named Wanyan Aguda over there in Yilou, who has just given birth to his grandson.
Even people like Wang Zhen, who are far away on the Western Front, have heard of Wanyan Aguda's name. It would be interesting if the Song Dynasty saw the unified Jurchen tribes and cooperated with some back-ups they deployed.
More importantly.
Although Yilou, like Zhuzhou, was located behind the Liao people.
But unlike Zhuzhou, which is all accessible by land, Yilou can be bypassed by water.
By then, if the people of Song Dynasty go around and around, they will find that the Tamluo Kingdom has been destroyed by Goryeo and only a father and son named Gao are left.
Then when the people of the Song Dynasty get to know each other a little bit, they will know another thing
Goryeo, which had robbed the treasury of the Tamra Kingdom, was now extremely rich, and its century-old legacy was even equal to the income of the wealthy dynasty of the Song Dynasty for more than ten years.
Moreover, the emperor Wang Yi was completely different from the poverty he showed during the interview, which was quite similar to that of King Zhou of Shang Dynasty.
Not long ago, there was an earthquake in the imperial capital of Hokyung. It was rumored that it was caused by the cruelty of the king.
As long as the people of the Song Dynasty were not stupid, they would have thought that they could use the name of upholding justice for the Tamra Kingdom to raid Goryeo.
At that time, although Xu Yun had already left this era 100%.
But as long as he left some description of Korean ginseng before leaving, Korea would no longer be able to escape the clutches of the future dynasty.
After taking over Korea.
As the Song people continued to move forward on their way to Yilou, they would find another small island.
The island is the base camp of the Japanese invaders. There are probably more than 40,000 people at the moment.
Plan pass jpg.
If there is a far-sighted monarch in the future, Southeast Asia will probably not be able to escape the Song Dynasty's grasp.
Not long after Xu Yun, Lao Zhong Wang Hou and others introduced the nickel mine.
Mr. Xie Duguan, who originally took Brother Donkey to rest, suddenly appeared outside the hospital.
I saw him hurriedly walked to Lao Su and whispered a few words in a low voice.
"What?"
After hearing what Mr. Xie said, Mr. Su suddenly looked stern.
Then he looked around and coughed lightly.
He gave instructions to Mr. Xie
"In the first year, you take the servants in the courtyard and Master Qi and take them down to have a rest.
They have been working hard for a long time, so they must be a little hungry, so they asked the kitchen to prepare more food for them."
Mr. Xie nodded respectfully and greeted the people present to leave.
After Mr. Xie takes charge of it.
Lao Su took a deep breath and said to the people around him
