Chapter 23: What!? Confucius wants to come to the Zhi family?
The Zhao family is good at herding, so other families don't know how to herd? No, it's just that they are afraid of being suppressed by the Zhao family, so other families don't dare to make their herding business bigger and stronger.
In the same way, many nobles also forge weapons and armor. Some families may have more powerful skills than the Wei family, but they are also afraid of being attacked by the Wei family and dare not speak out.
In Chinese history, the Zhao family extended its herding advantage from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period; the Wei family's advantage in manufacturing weapons and armor also carried into the Warring States Period; even though the Han family was relatively weak, the powerful Zhao family did not have the same advantages as the Wei family
Carry out "infringement" behavior against the Han family.
Why is that? Weak families are afraid that powerful families will feel that their interests are being violated and use force. Simple and friendly families cannot deliberately provoke each other.
Therefore, the "patents" of the Spring and Autumn Period were protected by force, rather than relying on legal or moral constraints.
"It doesn't seem like the Han family has researched and manufactured crossbows?" Zhiyao was confused. She didn't know whether it was because the Han family didn't use them extensively or because they haven't mastered the technology of making crossbows yet.
The Han family was not the first to invent and manufacture the crossbow. According to legend, the first country to invent the crossbow was in the Chu State, invented by the Qin family. However, the crossbow did not appear until the Warring States Period.
Not only had Zhiyao not heard that the Han family had a crossbow, she really didn't know anyone who had used one.
He has repeatedly studied smelting technology, and will definitely challenge Wei's "patent". Adding another Han family... seems to be that.
Of course, it is one thing when technology is developed, but another when it will be widely adopted.
"Just making a crossbow, does it count as a challenge to the Han family?" Zhiyao is not sure about this.
Han is good at shooting, mainly because of the word "shoot".
When Jin is engaged in a national war, the archers of the Han family will usually be split into various legions. The strongest combination is to team up with the Wei family.
The Wei family was good at defense and had completely abandoned chariots and adopted a complete infantry square formation method of warfare.
Of course, the Han clan has its own melee troops, but they are extremely weak compared to their long-range troops. With the Wei clan's army standing in front of them as human shields, the Han clan's long-range output is simply not very comfortable.
The Wei family's abandonment of chariots happened during the period when Wei Shu was the master of the country, and was criticized a lot at that time. Later, the monarch and the "Qing" discovered that the Wei family who no longer used chariots was stronger, and they followed suit without stopping them.
, and then the imitators were beaten all over their heads, which can be regarded as a demonstration of "those who imitate me will live, and those who imitate me will die".
"Actually... I haven't seen the Zhao family build up cavalry on a large scale, either?" Zhiyao thought to herself.
Of course, the Zhao family at the current stage does not have a professional cavalry unit, and even if it does, it is just a "single horse".
Those Zhao's armed forces who were able to march on horseback and then dismount to fight on the battlefield were actually a group of Di people and Zahu. They were mercenaries recruited by Zhao from the north.
Another point is that not to mention the early Spring and Autumn Period, from the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period to the middle of the Warring States Period, the foreign races around Zhuxia were completely destroyed.
At most, the aliens could only bully the Yan State, which had lost contact with the princes of the Central Plains in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. Against the Jin, Qin, and Qi States, they basically ended up getting hammered.
After the Warring States period? Anyway, no foreigners dared to provoke Qin and Zhao. On the contrary, Qin and Zhao felt a little unhappy and would go find fun with the foreigners. Even the Yan State, which was extremely bullied in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, could explode again and again.
Don Hu bullied him.
The change of roles is not that Donghu has become weaker, but that Yan has become stronger!
Zhiyao was a little distracted, and it wasn't until a wave of heat came that she came back from her thoughts.
That was the heat wave coming from a craftsman pouring copper water into a mold. The mold is a relatively thick earthen thing that looks like clay?
That's right, after the copper water cools, the mold will be knocked open, which is considered a disposable mold.
What troubles Zhiyao the most is that he has not found a way to increase the hardness of iron.
He had used horse urine quenching, but he didn't know if the method was wrong. Anyway, there was no significant improvement.
Since the iron cannot be turned into a liquid, the casting method was not considered, and the forging method was used in repeated tests.
What Zhiyao doesn't know is that quenching with horse urine alone cannot harden iron at all. It requires adding other materials to the iron itself, such as a certain proportion of carbon. The proportion must be correct, otherwise it will become scrap iron when smelted. Once the proportion is correct,
Once this is done, qualified pig iron can be produced, and even steel can be produced.
Of course, metal with added carbon will become very hard, but it still has the brittle characteristic.
There was a loud "dinging, clanking" sound at the scene, and it was painful to stay in such an environment for a long time, but that's what forging is, and repeated hammering is the essence.
Zigong had no interest in smelting, and the person responsible for supervising the smelting was Taihu.
When Zhiyao returned to where he was staying, he found that Zigong seemed to have been waiting for a long time?
"Gongsun." Zigong bowed first, hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "My master has been expelled."
Then what?
Zhiyao's mind was not here, and she did not guess what Zigong meant for a while.
I was a guest at Zhishi's house. I usually spent a lot of money on food and drink, wrote books, and taught students. My little life became happier day by day.
There are only a few great sages in the world, and there are very few who are knowledgeable and do not have a big family of their own. Generally, capable people will work as retainers in a big family, hoping to one day re-establish their own family.
Zhiyao was still thinking about the smelting technology, thinking: "The spongy solid block has low carbon content, soft texture, and many impurities. It is a type of wrought iron. Repeated heating and forging are how pig iron is made. To
How to carburize to produce carburized steel?"
Zigong, who maintained a respectful posture, saw Zhiyao looking thoughtful, thinking that Zhiyao was thinking about how to invite Confucius, and said eagerly: "My teacher came from Lu and was in Wei."
Really? Confucius, who couldn't survive in the state of Lu, went to the state of Wei to seek political asylum???
Zhiyao was a little out of sorts and asked, "But are you being entertained by Nanzi?"
At this moment, Zigong was thinking: "What the hell? Nanzi will entertain my teacher???"
Nanzi? She is the daughter of the king of Song Dynasty, and she married Wei Junyuan from afar.
This woman had great political ambitions when she was in the Song Dynasty. After marrying in the Wei Kingdom, she became obsessed with Wei Junyuan. She even got Wei Junyuan's connivance in having affairs with others, so she was allowed to stay in the Wei Kingdom.
Very powerful.
Although Wei Junyuan, who was very fond of having green grassland planted on his head, was the king of a country, Nanzi was in charge of many of Wei's government affairs.
So Confucius, who had done great things in the state of Lu and was expelled, went to the state of Wei. With Nanzi's powerful and curious mentality, he would definitely summon Confucius, right?
After asking the question, Zhiyao was stunned and thought to herself: "Do you want me to provide Confucius with a place of refuge, or do you want me to use the Zhi family as a backer so that Confucius can return to the State of Lu to fulfill his ambitions?"