Chapter 60: Addicted to Invention, Do Not Disturb?
There is a question: Do all cultural people have their own egos?
If we count the number of great writers and look at some examples recorded in history, we will find that none of them are normal people. They are often pretentious but have good personalities. Most of them like to do things that are inexplicable to ordinary people.
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Perhaps it is their differences from ordinary people that enable them to achieve those achievements in literature. Not only great writers have quirks, but many powerful people have their own quirks. To a certain extent, this also proves why normal people are ordinary people?
In the eyes of outsiders, Zhiyao also has his own quirks. For example, he likes to tinker with some weird behaviors.
Today, Zhiyao was watching the carpenter at work, making a kind of wooden board.
It’s not that the Spring and Autumn Period didn’t have the technology to make wood into wooden boards, it just lacked a lot of tools. Making wooden boards required carpenters to build them slowly and carefully. Not only was it time-consuming, but there were also a lot of waste products, so wooden boards became a luxury product.
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It was a thing of the past that it was difficult to make wooden boards at Lao Zhi's house. Zhiyao "invented" many tools, such as saws, files, planes, fixing racks, etc.
In fact, the most common types of axes used by craftsmen in carpentry are various types of axes. Large axes are used to break wood, small axes are used to remove branches and leaves, and smaller axes are used to smooth the wood.
This method of playing is still popular in the Black Continent in the 21st century. Many black people who make money by burning charcoal can complete all the tasks of burning charcoal with an axe.
Don't ask the black sorghums if they know about tools like saws. Why do they have to work so hard to cut down and break wood with an ax? They also need to have a place where they can buy saws.
Now, Zhishi's craftsmen fixed an entire log on a device, tied the saw with a rope to fix the position, and then the two of them started playing the "back and forth" game with one saw handle at each end.
Why does the saw need to be tied with a rope? The function of the rope is a kind of correction. When it is tightened, it will not move randomly and can more accurately ensure the horizontal line from top to bottom or from left to right. There is no rope for correction, relying on
It means that your hands are steady and experienced enough to ensure that the saw will not go wrong.
Don't ask why other methods are not used. Before there were machine tools, the saw was invented. It was a method of sawing wood boards and then processing them into wood boards in various ways.
Generally, after sawing the wood, a plane is used to straighten, thin, and polish it until it becomes a flat object.
In today's era, if you can mass-produce wooden boards, you can actually make a fortune!
What is Zhiyao doing here? Not only to see the wooden boards, but mainly to see how well the craftsmen have mastered the new tools, and to try out how to build a waterwheel.
In addition, other methods can actually be used for waterwheels, and it is most labor-saving to use bamboo.
The key point is that a waterwheel made of wood is more efficient in transporting water than a waterwheel made of bamboo. The water capacity of bamboo tubes and wooden barrels can be clearly distinguished, and there are other related factors.
A derivative problem.
If Lao Zhijia can make a waterwheel, it means that other crafts will also be improved, and Zhiyao can start to focus on researching water-powered forging hammers, and water-powered mills are not impossible to build.
Being able to easily make wooden boards is very important to the progress of Zhu Xia's civilization. To put it in the simplest way, it is like making wooden barrels.
Do you know how much convenience it can bring to so many people by using wooden barrels made of wooden boards?
Also, wooden boards are easier to make, which will definitely lead to a deeper evolution of Zhu Xia's building system and vehicle frame system!
"Gongsun, these utensils are really magical, they will make my family far better than others!" Taihu's face and words were full of pride.
Many projects developed by Zhiyao are not accessible to just anyone.
Wasn't he polite enough to Confucius and a group of disciples? Not to mention that Confucius and a group of disciples didn't know about these research projects. Even if they knew, they wouldn't be allowed to visit.
So, didn't Zigong know about it? You know the importance attached to "patent rights" nowadays. Even if Zigong knew about it, he wouldn't dare to spread it around, let alone bring his teachers or classmates to visit.
At the same time, retainers have their own ethics. They know very well what they can do and what rules they must not cross.
Zhiyao couldn't help but feel proud, her face was filled with joy at first, then she thought of something unhappy, her smile froze, and she said: "There is still no progress in the art of smelting."
Iron was smelted very early and took thousands of years to mature. Zhiyao wants to use four or five years to accomplish what countless people have accomplished with thousands of years of hard work? She is impatient!
Is it just that? After repeated research, Zhiyao already knows the key point. If you want to use coal to smelt, you must first understand the coking process and understand that it is strange to directly use natural coal to heat to smelt good iron.
So, Zhiyao first made briquettes, then started to study how to make coke, but now he got stuck on a certain tool.
"Wash the coal first, and the conveyor belt and other things will depend on the development of craftsmen's skills. For the time being, we will use local methods. The most difficult thing for making coke is the furnace!" Zhiyao was a little confused.
Those matters were almost entirely up to Zhiyao to research and figure out. Others could hardly help. You can imagine how big the project volume would be.
Zhizong asked Zhiyao to keep a low profile for a while. In fact, Zhiyao also wanted to concentrate on her own affairs, but this was impossible.
If she wants to make a difference, how could Zhiyao not be distracted by focusing on the current situation, and then repeatedly practice her physical fitness and killing skills?
Speaking of killing skills, in fact Zhiyao has almost no possibility of fighting in close combat with others. At this point, all the guards will be dead. No matter how high his killing skills are, he will just struggle.
After all, being able to kill all Zhiyao's guards means that there are a lot of enemies. He can kill one, two... or a dozen, and can he kill all the enemies by himself? It's just to waste time and see if anyone can.
Come to the rescue.
"The craftsman's skills are sufficient. We can try to see if rolling transmission can be used to speed up the efficiency of coal washing..." Zhiyao has not thought about the problem of pollution.
In terms of scale, it is difficult for Zhiyao to expand its scale. When the scale is large enough, it will be possible to think about such profound things as environmental protection.
"I heard from Confucius's disciples what kind of technology Wu has?" Zhiyao didn't remember the scientific name. It was probably metal processing, a technology that made weapons sharper and rust-proof. It seemed to be called tin plating or something.
Wu Guo, general Mo Xie, I don’t know if there are real characters of these two, anyway, they are mentioned in many books.
In fact, high-end smelting technology is in Yue, but it has not been widely disseminated.
"Yue Jian is quite famous, but its output is too small." Zhi Yao thought of Gou Jian inexplicably.
If nothing else, Gou Jian is brewing a revenge plan.
So, was there really such a beautiful woman as Xi Shi in history? Or was it like Diao Chan who was fictionalized and became a fictional real character because it was spread too widely and for a long time?
Zhiyao returned to the manor, called his husband, and said: "Take people to the Yue Kingdom and look for a place called 'Juwu Shuluo'. Huansha is popular here. Look for a woman named Shi Yiguang. And..."
The husband listened carefully, and without asking why, replied: "No!"
It’s not that Zhiyao has a habit of collecting beautiful women, it’s just out of pure curiosity.
The person he really wanted to get, Fan Li, was just a cover to find Xi Shi.