I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 23 What! ?Confucius wants to come to the Zhi family?
The Zhao family is good at herding, wouldn't other families know how to herd?No, it was purely because they were afraid of being suppressed by the Zhao family, and other families did not dare to make the herding business bigger and stronger.

In the same way, many nobles also forge weapons and armor. Some families may have better technology than the Wei family, and they are also afraid of being attacked by the Wei family and dare not speak out.

In the history of China, the Zhao family extended its herding advantage from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period; the Wei family also brought its advantages in manufacturing weapons and armor into the Warring States Period; even though the Han family was relatively weak, the powerful Zhao family was as invincible as the Wei family. "Infringement" against Han.

why?Weak families are afraid that powerful families will feel their interests are violated and resort to force, while pure and friendly families cannot deliberately provoke each other.

Therefore, the "patent" of the Spring and Autumn Period was guaranteed by force, not by laws or moral constraints.

"I don't seem to find that the Han family has researched and manufactured the crossbow?" Zhiyao was confused, not sure whether the Han family did not use it in large quantities, or did not master the technology of making crossbows for the time being.

The crossbow was not invented and manufactured by the Han family first. According to legend, the first country to invent the crossbow was Chu, which was invented by the Qin family, but the crossbow did not appear until the Warring States Period.

Not only did Zhiyao never hear that the Han family had a crossbow, but she really didn't know who had used it anyway.

He has repeatedly studied smelting technology, and he will definitely challenge Wei's "patent". Adding another Han... seems like that.

Of course, it is one thing to research the technology, and another thing when it is widely adopted.

"Just making the crossbow, does it count as a challenge to the Han family?" Zhiyao is not sure about this.

Han family is good at shooting, mainly because of the word "shooting".

During the national war of the Jin Kingdom, under normal circumstances, the Han family's archers would be divided into various legions. The strongest combination is to partner with the Wei family.

The Wei family is good at defense, and has completely abandoned chariots and adopted a complete infantry phalanx.

Of course, the Han family has their own melee units, but they are extremely weak compared to their long-range troops. With the Wei family's army standing in front of them as human shields, the Han family's long-range output is simply not too comfortable.

The Wei family’s abandonment of the chariot happened when Wei Shu was in charge of the family, and it was criticized a lot at that time. Later, the monarch and the "Qing" found that the Wei family who no longer used the chariot was stronger, and they followed suit without stopping it. , and then the imitators were beaten all over the head, which can be regarded as a demonstration of "the one who learns from me lives, and the one who imitates me dies".

"Actually... I haven't seen the Zhao family wantonly forming cavalry?" Zhiyao thought.

Of course, the Zhao family at the current stage does not have a professional cavalry unit, and even if it does, it is a kind of "riding alone".

The Zhao family's armed forces who knew how to march on horseback and then dismounted to fight on the battlefield were actually a group of Di people and miscellaneous Hus, they were mercenaries recruited by the Zhao family from the north.

Another point, 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 alien races around Zhuxia were completely rotten.

At most, the foreign race would bully the Yan Kingdom, which lost contact with the princes of the Central Plains in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. It would basically end up being crushed against Jin, Qin, and Qi.

After the Warring States period?Anyway, no foreigner would dare to provoke Qin and Zhao, on the contrary, Qin and Zhao would find fun with the foreigner if they felt a little uncomfortable, and even Yan, who was bullied so badly in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, could beat Donghu who bullied him repeatedly before. .

The role change is not that Donghu has become weaker, but that Yan Guo has become stronger!

Zhiyao was a little distracted, and it was not until a heat wave came that she recovered from her thoughts.

That is the heat wave from a craftsman pouring copper water into a mold. The mold is a relatively thick earth thing that looks like clay?

That's right, after the copper water cools down, the mold will be knocked open, which is a one-time mold.

What distressed Zhiyao the most was that there was no way to increase the hardness of iron.

He used horse urine to quench it, but he didn't know if the method was wrong, anyway, it didn't improve much.

Because iron cannot be turned into a liquid, the casting method is not considered, and the forging method is used in repeated experiments.

What Zhiyao didn't know was that quenching with horse urine alone can't harden iron at all. It needs to add other materials to the iron itself, such as a certain proportion of carbon. The proportion must be correct, otherwise it will become scrap iron after smelting. Once it is finished, qualified pig iron can be produced, and even steel can be produced.

Of course, metals with carbon added will definitely be very hard, but in fact they still cannot get rid of their brittleness.

The sound of "jingling jingling" was very loud at the scene, and it was painful to stay in such an environment for a long time, but forging is what it is, and repeated beating is the essence.

Zigong has no interest in smelting, and the person in charge of supervising smelting is Taihu.

When Zhiyao went back to the place where she stayed, she found that Zigong seemed to have been waiting for a long time?
"Gongsun." Zigong bowed first, hesitantly, he gritted his teeth and said, "My teacher has been expelled."

and then?
Zhiyao's mind was not here, and she didn't guess what Zigong meant for a while.

Lao Tzu is a guest at Zhishi's place, and usually eats and drinks well, entertains, writes books, and teaches students. His small life is getting happier day by day.

There are only a few great sages in the world, and there are very few big families who are knowledgeable and do not belong to them. Generally, those who are capable will become servants of a certain big family, seeking to re-establish their own family one day.

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 kind of wrought iron. Repeated heating and forging is how pig iron comes from. How to carburize to make carburized steel?"

Seeing Zhiyao's pondering expression, Zi Gong, who maintained a respectful attitude, thought that Zhiyao was thinking about how to invite Confucius, and said eagerly: "My teacher came from Lu, and I am in Weiye."

is it?Confucius, who couldn't get along in the state of Lu, went to the state of Wei to seek political asylum? ? ?

Zhiyao was a little out of shape, and asked: "But you are being treated 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 the Song Dynasty and married Wei Junyuan far away.

This woman was very politically ambitious when she was in the Song Dynasty, and after she married the Wei State, she became so fascinated by Wei Junyuan that even if she had an affair with someone, she would be pampered by Wei Junyuan, so she was allowed to live in the Wei State Very powerful.

Although Wei Junyuan, who likes to plant green grasslands on his head, is the king of a country, Nanzi is in charge of many government affairs of the country.

So Confucius, who had done a great job in the state of Lu and was expelled, went to the state of Wei. With Nanzi's power and curiosity, he must have summoned Confucius, right?

After the question, Zhiyao was taken aback, thinking: "Would you like me to provide a refuge for Confucius, or do you want to use the Zhi family as a backer to make Kong Qiu return to Lu to fulfill his ambitions?"

(End of this chapter)