The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 842 Turning Decay into Miracle (seeking votes for support)
"My lord, can volcanic ash mud be used to make city walls?" Luo Shixin asked, who was circling around the unhardened cement board.

Yang Tong frowned and said, "The volcanic ash mud sounds messy, but it will be called cement in the future, which is simple and easy."

"Here." Everyone obeyed, keeping the name in their hearts.

"Cement can harden into stone in water, so it's easy to build a city." Yang Tong answered Luo Shixin's question just now, and then said: "It's just that cement is a natural volcanic ash, so you don't need to use local materials. It would cost a lot of manpower, money and material resources to transport it from thousands of miles away, but the key is that this thing is too little, and if you use it up, you will lose a little bit, and it is purely overkill to use it for building a city, and it is really unnecessary.”

"The general understands." Luo Shixin was right after thinking about it, as long as the city is strong, the current materials are already very good.

Yang Tong pondered for a moment, then said to Jiang Xingben: "I remember that there seem to be volcanoes in the Yanshan Mountains and Changbai Mountains."

"What the Holy Majesty said is true." Jiang Xingben said, "This is the volcanic rock from Mount Yan. It entered the Wuhai Sea through wet water, and was transported by sea to the Yellow River and Guangtong Canal, and finally arrived here."

Yang Tong nodded and said, "Collect more volcanic ash and rocks and go to Luoyang to prepare for Li Shilang's bridge construction."

"Here." Jiang Xingben bowed.

"The cement board won't be able to dry for a while, let's go to the Shaofu Supervisor to have a look."

The Shaofu Supervisor is in charge of all kinds of craftsmanship, including smelting and forging, among which are the most outstanding craftsmen of the Sui Dynasty.Many weapons and equipment are designed by Kaitian Academy, and then built by the Shaofu Supervisor. Although Daxing is not the capital of the country, they also set up a branch. This is Yang Tong's imitation of Shen Fei and Cheng Fei. The Shaofu Supervisor used his brains in the competition to create more advanced weapons and equipment and utensils.

There are more than a dozen large stoves in the shed in the backyard of the Shaofu Prison. The fire is burning vigorously. Someone is pouring clean water into it. After asking, he finds out that he intends to use different water temperatures to temper the mold knife, hoping to optimize the sword. There is a large pot of warmed lard, which is also used by craftsmen for experiments.

Although I don’t know whether lard oil can optimize swords, but for Yang Tong, who came from the era when handmade soap was popular, he knows that animal oil can be used to make soap and scented soap.

Yang Tong thought of the dark liquid he used for bathing, and suddenly came up with the idea of ​​making a pot of soap, so he asked someone to pour caustic soda into it, and then kept stirring, and a strange smell wafted from the pot.After the oil pan boils, ask someone to take the cauldron off the stove and continue stirring.Until the lard, caustic soda is completely fused, add a small amount of salt water while hot
Then, the civil and military ministers who were watching curiously were shocked by the vision in the pot. Because the oil pot had an unexpected change, some light yellow substance like ointment appeared in the pot out of thin air. Li Jing, Huangfu Wuyi, Yang Gongren These civil and military men have never seen the scene of Yang Tong filtering the green salt, and they are very miraculous about this incomprehensible chemical reaction.

The temperature of the oil gradually dropped with constant stirring, and the pale yellow substance cooled and hardened, floating on the upper layer. Luo Shixin grabbed a large spatula from the hand of a craftsman, and according to Yang Tong's instructions, happily scraped off the layer of substance, poured it into the Prepare a tin basin, as long as it is allowed to dry naturally, it will be a large mass of soap.But the soap made in this way is of poor quality, and may have the smell of lard,

"Is this wax?" Yang Gongren asked in surprise.

Yang Tong looked at the muddy soap in the pot and the waste liquid at the bottom, his heart skipped a beat, and he said with a smile: "The wax is still in the pot, and this is poor soap, which is better than soap for washing, bathing, and hair washing." The corners are clean, and further processed, it will become a fragrant soap."

Yang Gongren asked again: "Can this soap be used now?"

"Soap needs to harden before it can be used. It takes a long time, longer than cement boards. Of course, it can be hardened by force, but for now, the wax must be transformed first." Yang Tong said.

"How did it change? Your Majesty, tell me, I'll help." Luo Shixin waved his hands and listened to the spatula with excitement on his face, and the expressions of the others were the same as his, eager to try, even the old man Li Jing was no exception.

man!
There is an extraordinary interest in experiments.

Yang Tong said, "Bring some brine."

"..." Many civil and military officials looked at each other in blank dismay. They killed people and plotted well, how did they know this?And generals like Luo Shixin and Yu Chigong didn't even know the location of the Shaofu Supervisor.

"I'll go find it!" Another craftsman ran away as if flying away.

Yang Tong was speechless: "I haven't finished yet."

"What else is needed by the Holy One, it's the same for the humble to get it." Another craftsman said.

Everyone admires this magical emperor so much, he can always use familiar and inconspicuous things to conjure some magical and unprecedented things.

"Make a filter."

This thing is very simple. First wash pebbles, fine sand, and charcoal of different sizes, and then ask the craftsman to take out an iron bucket with a bamboo tube, first spread a layer of cotton cloth on the bottom, and put a layer of Large pieces of charcoal, another layer of cloth, a layer of small pieces of charcoal, followed by fine sand, small pebbles, and large pebbles. These five or six layers occupy more than half of the iron barrel, and a simple filter is completed in this way.Just pour the liquid into the bucket, and the filtered liquid will flow out of the bamboo tube.

The filter was ready, and the artisan who went to find the brine also returned with a bucket of brine.

Seeing that it was ready, Yang Tong asked Yang Tong to scrape the turbid contents in the cauldron into a wooden basin, which consisted of unreacted lard, soap, and some other impurities.

Then let people mix the brine into the basin and stir together.

After a while, the contents of the basin gradually solidified.

This is a series of crafts he learned from making handmade soap when he was bored in the past. Adding caustic soda to lard makes soap after reaction; adding hydrochloric acid makes candles.

When the wax hadn't hardened, Yang Tong asked someone to fetch another piece of cotton thread, buried it in a basin with a wooden pole, and lit it.

This large pot of candles is still bright in broad daylight with almost no black smoke from oil lamps!
"My God! The candle is so simple. It is cheaper than butter wax, and it is brighter and less smokey. If you sell it to a supply and marketing agency, you will definitely make a lot of money!"

Yang Shidao and Ling Jing, the two big butlers in charge of money, glanced at each other, and they both saw coins in each other's eyes.

Candles are a luxury item in this era. The candles used in the palace are made of substances secreted by white wax worms, or beeswax. These two kinds of candles are extremely expensive. Apart from these two types, the tallow wax that appears in ancient books from time to time is also It is very expensive to refine it with high-quality oil.The lighting used by ordinary people is generally a vegetable oil lamp with a big bean!
This lard wax is low in cost and far more radiant than oil lamps. It will be popular all over the world in the future!

"What is this, there is still in the pot." Yang Tong's words are true, because there is still glycerin in the waste liquid!
"What else??" Everyone's eyes almost fell out. After getting along for several years, they thought they already knew this magical emperor very well.

Unexpectedly, it was just the tip of the iceberg.

Always inadvertently, again and again unexpectedly.

Amid everyone's astonishment, Yang Tong ordered the craftsmen to lift the cauldron and slowly pour the foul-smelling pale yellow liquid into another large basin, not knowing what the stinky water could be used for.Afterwards, the stinky water was poured into the filter, and the thin tube at the bottom of the bucket slowly flowed out clear and transparent water instead of dirty and foul-smelling stinky water, subverting people's subjective assumptions again.

"It's really amazing, but what's the use of this water?" One and two admire Yang Tong's method of turning decay into magic.

"As we all know, at the beginning of fermentation of wine, peach wine, and fruit wine, the wine is bitter and astringent, extremely unpalatable, and it takes a long time to fade away, but if the altar is not sealed firmly, or the light, temperature, humidity, etc If the factors are wrong, this wine is almost useless..." Yang Tong looked at Wei Zheng, and said with a smile: "Wei Shangshu's winemaking skills are very high, your wine is full of color, fragrance, and is not weaker than wine from the Western Regions... You should know this truth... "

Wei Zheng nodded slightly: "Indeed."

Yang Tong pointed to the glycerin that was still flowing out, and said: "This is called glycerin. It has a different sweetness from grapes. It can not only effectively remove the bitterness in wine, but also improve the quality and taste of fruit wines such as grapes and peaches. The best auxiliary thing for making fruit wine, so that your wine can get the wine you need without so much effort."

Everyone was shocked again and again.

A pot of lard was tossed and tossed by Yang Tong, and so many tricks were tossed out, it is really unbelievable!Could it be that the Holy One is really a fairy who came down to earth, otherwise why would he know all kinds of knowledge?

"Is this true?" Wei Zheng really wanted to say that he didn't believe it, but Yang Tong's pot of lard really made him unable to say it.

"It's true." Yang Tong said to Luo Shixin, "Xiao Luo, take a few soldiers to the West Market to buy a few jars of bitter, astringent, and sour wine, ten jars each of grapes and peaches."

There is no such inferior wine in the palace, so I can only buy it.

"Here." Luo Shixin saluted and ran out excitedly.

"Mingyue, go to Guanglu Temple's Treasure Department to get some milk, eggs, various spices, and pollen." Yang Tong then ordered Yinmingyue who came to watch.

"Here!"

After Yin Mingyue left, Yang Tong asked someone to make two transition devices again, and at the same time put the filtered glycerin back into the pot to boil again, in order to evaporate the water in the glycerin.

The viscosity of glycerin is higher than that of water. When the glycerin is boiled in the pot, the bubbles will change from cheerful to slow and thick, and the pouring is accurate.

It was more than half an hour later, and Luo Shixin and Yu Chigong had also returned one after another.

Yang Tong asked people to pour ten portions of wine and peaches each, one catty each, and he didn't know the best ratio, so he could only adopt a stupid method, adding one catty, nine taels, and eight taels to the ten portions of wine respectively... One or two glycerin and a few egg whites, in order to experiment with the ratio of the best taste.

After stirring well, strain one by one through the spare strainer.Portions of blood-red wine and clear peach wine appeared.Just looking at the color and luster, it has risen countless grades compared to the original wine syrup.

The next thing is to let Wei Zheng, the master brewer, taste the wine one by one.

"This thing really won't drink to death, right?" Yang Qinfang has been hiding from Yang Tong for a long time, but her nature is very active. When she heard that there was an experiment here, she ran over to watch again. At this time, she saw Wei Zheng' "Testing poison with one's body", everyone was worried about him.

"You can try it, the taste should be very good." Yang Tong said solemnly, this wine will definitely not kill people, at most it will cause diarrhea.Of course, Yang Tong himself would definitely not drink this semi-finished product...

"I don't." Yang Qinfang wrinkled her pretty face, showing disgust.

Yang Tong smiled, feeling a little bit of a headache... Ever since Cheng Dapao ordered this girl to hide from him for a long time, but when they met again, they seemed to get closer, almost smelling the faint fragrance of her body .

When Wei Zheng tasted the best portion, Yang Tong prepared a lot according to the same pattern and shared it with everyone. This surprised people who have tasted bitter, astringent, and sour wine. The taste changed drastically.

If all these inferior wines are collected and sold with glycerin, it will definitely increase a large amount of income, and it will also open up a source of income for the people, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Finished candles, glycerin blended with fine wine.

Go back to make soap again, divide the first soap out into several parts, add milk, pearl powder, mung bean powder, lavender powder, chrysanthemum powder, ginseng powder, rouge powder, Polygonum multiflorum bitter tea powder... Stir well, take Heat it in a pot to make it saponify quickly. This step is called the thermal method, which can make the water evaporate quickly. Put it into the mold, and at most one week, the soap with various scents can be used.If you are not satisfied with this shape, you can heat it again to liquefy it, and pour it into your favorite mold to harden.

Watching the craftsmen ladle all kinds of soaps into various molds, Yang Tong, who took the lead in experimenting, felt a sense of accomplishment, but also a great regret, because he is not a chemical engineer, and there are too few things he can make, otherwise If it is, it will definitely enrich the products of the Sui Dynasty.

But even so, it also surprised everyone.

After all, no one would have thought that ordinary lard could be used to make soaps, candles, and glycerin to change the taste of fruit wine.

Yang Tong conducted this experiment because he saw lard and its excitement, and hoped that through this experiment, the craftsmen could open the door to innovation and make them realize that many things that they take for granted can undergo unexpected changes.

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"Mr. Ou Ye, I need you to make several weapons." Yang Tong said to a craftsman in his sixties.

His old name is Ou Yeqian, his beard and hair are faintly gray, he may be a craftsman, his body is very strong, judging from his spiritual temperament, he is not like an old man in his sixties, he is a well-known craftsman, his smelting technology is first-class, Yang Tong's He personally forged the Morning Dew Sword and the 'Shengwu 36 Style'. Since then, he has been designing and building new weapons and armors. He is the chief teacher of Daxing Kaitian Academy and Shaofu Supervisor.The idea of ​​tempering knives with lard is an idea he came up with, but this big pot has become Yang Tong's soap, candles and glycerin.

"Your Majesty, please order." Ou Yeqian hurried out when he heard Yang Tong calling.

Yang Tong gave him the blueprints of Zhaolu Baodao and Wusheng 36 styles. Many of the 37 styles of weapons were made by Yang Tong from online games. Some fancy things are not practical, but they were created by Ou Ye. After the transformation, they became real objects one by one. During the improvement process, Ou Yeqian was deeply inspired. For example, ideas such as triangular army thorns and blood tanks began to be used in some weapons.

"The Duoguan Mountains in Yizhou are dangerous and the roads are narrow. The horizontal knife cannot be used in some places. For example, the plank road is very narrow and dangerous. If you use too much force and cut the stone wall, the soldiers may be bounced off the cliff, and the dagger If it is too short, it will not give you an advantage when fighting the enemy. So I want to create a weapon that is suitable for Yizhou and is between a long weapon and a short blade."

Jiang Xingben also suggested before that a complete set of weapons and equipment suitable for mountain warfare and jungle warfare should be designed for the Sui army, but until now, except for non-slip boots, light armor, and climbing equipment, weapons have not been greatly improved. When Yang Tong saw Ou Yeqian today, he thought of this question.

"Jiang Shangshu also mentioned this problem, but the weapons designed by the humble staff all have certain flaws." After Ou Yeqian finished speaking, he asked someone to take out a reduced version of the horizontal knife, and continued to introduce: "This is the weapon that the humble staff designed according to the Holy Grail. The short edge is designed with the characteristics of Zhaolu Baodao, Hengdao, and Miaodao, and the blood groove of the military stab is added. When the Hengdao and Miaodao in the hands of soldiers are inconvenient to use due to terrain and close-fitting, this knife becomes the dominant weapon in close quarters , when using this knife, even people with the knife are facing the enemy, and all cover the body with a barrier (barrier knife + body) to defend against the enemy, the barrier is also the concealer."

"Is this a barrier knife?" Yang Tong asked with a smile.

Gan Yegan said, "Exactly."

Yang Tong waved it a few times, carefully feeling the short blade's ability to kill the enemy, thought for a while, let Yu Chigong and Luo Shixin try it, and asked with a smile: "What do you think?"

"This barrier knife is portable and light, which is good for close combat, but it has a larger blade, so the stabbing effect is not as good as the military stab." Luo Shixin said.

Yu Chigong also said: "What I want to say is that it is too light. If it is heavier on the front of the blade, then the effect of killing the enemy will be stronger."

"I have the same feeling. The barrier knife is mainly used for stabbing and bloodletting. It is less effective in chopping, picking, and cutting. If the enemy is wearing thick armor, it is almost useless... I have an idea..." Yang Tong used the sharp barrier knife Carved the appearance of a Gurkha machete on the ground, saying: "This knife is top-heavy, wide in the front and narrow in the back, thick in the back and thin in the blade. When swung, the power is concentrated on the front of the knife, and it has the lethality of an axe. It is very suitable for hand-to-hand combat. And to open the way when walking through the forest. At the same time, the front part of the knife has two sides and a blood groove, which also has the function of assassination. Of course, due to the larger front part, the function of assassination is also weaker. "

Speaking of this, he carved a long Gurkha scimitar, which became a seven-eyed dog-legged scimitar. "After lengthening, it is a sharp weapon for infantry combat; compared with a horizontal knife with uniform strength, its strength is concentrated in the front half." , in line with the concept of 'cutting an enemy's ten fingers is worse than cutting off one'."

After thinking for a while, Yang Tong carved out the pattern of a Damascus knife again.This knife is even more powerful. During Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, the French army suffered a great loss. A French general said after the war, "The enemy cavalry wearing Uzi steel scimitars have caused great harm to our army. The damage can be described as astonishing. They just stretched the sword forward, relying on the momentum of the horse and the strength of the wrist to cut the blade into the body of our cavalry, or pull the blade horizontally, causing terrible wounds based on the relative speed; some Soldiers were even cut in half. After the battle, many of my subordinates were decapitated. Some of them were broken in two. "

Looking at Yang Tong's three design proposals, everyone felt a ferocious aura rushing towards them, and suddenly felt that horizontal knives and barrier knives were boring.

This is not to say that the barrier knife and the horizontal knife are useless, but the historical advantage. The horizontal knife is indeed invincible in this era, but it cannot remain invincible forever.The three conceptual drawings carved by Yang Tong are the product of more than a thousand years later. It is inevitable that they are better than the barrier knife and the horizontal knife, and no one can change it.This is like a cold weapon and a hot weapon. Although they are both killing weapons, their killing effect is simply incomparable.

"My lord, this year our army has fought continuously, annihilating the rebels Li Mi, Meng Haigong, and Lin Shihong, and also defeated the puppet Tang and Feng An. Not long ago, the holy lord wiped out the coalition forces of Tubo and Tuyuhun, and Youpushe also fought in Jingzhou. All this Although the battles all ended with great victories for our army, the war consumes a lot of weapons. After each battle, more than half of the weapons cannot be used and need to be replaced. The other half will basically be scrapped for another battle. That’s not counting arrows and arrows. So the pressure on the Ministry of Industry is really too great.” Jiang Xingben, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, expressed the difficulties of the Ministry of Industry at the right time, “Although we adopted assembly line work, and the rough and heavy work was handed over to the slaves. However, the artisans responsible for important links and weapon assembly are still so busy that they don’t even have time to eat.”

"Not bad!"

"Not bad!"

Ou Yegan and other craftsmen who were fighting on the front line nodded repeatedly, they had the most experience.

"I also know that everyone has worked hard." Yang Tong smiled wryly, "But we can't let the soldiers go into battle with broken weapons, right?"

As Jiang Xingben said, the war caused a staggering loss of weapons, arrows, and armor. A spear and a sword could not be used after several battles. This is also one of the important reasons why war consumes national power.

Ou Yeqian added: "Nowadays, the battle lances used by cavalry and the spears of infantry are all made of thin stalks soaked in oil, dried and then glued with fish foam glue. Although it does not take several years like horse lances, the process is the same. It is cumbersome and requires a lot of labor and materials. The existing craftsmen can make up to [-] weapon poles per month. Now it is completely beyond the means, so we can only use the previous inventory, but once the inventory is used up, our long weapons will appear Out of gear dilemma. Therefore, Beiqian has been considering replacing the existing weapon poles with wood."

"Have you found a substitute?" Yang Tong asked.

"Yes!" Ou Yeqian said: "The best natural weapon pole is thick wood pole. The red thick wood is hard and heavy, and the color of the material is bright red and beautiful. It does not crack, is extremely resistant to decay, and is not eaten by insects. It is said to be immortal for a hundred years. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the best material for boats, axles, and weapon poles; the second is ash tree. The poles made of ash tree are hard but not hard, flexible but not broken. The weapon poles made of these two kinds of wood are not as good as ours. Today’s oil-soaked poles are poor.”

"Where are these two kinds of wood?" Yang Tong doesn't know how the red sticky wood works, but he does know about the ash poles, which seem to have been used extensively in the Song Dynasty.

"Red thick wood is found in the Yanshan Mountains and Changbai Mountains. Our warships use the red thick wood from Yanshan and Changbai Mountains; as for the ash wood, there are more."

"Then pick it up and make it into a weapon shaft, try the effect first, if it's not much different from the current weapon shaft, then change it."

"Here."

"My lord, can you design this knife to replace the horizontal knife and the barrier knife, and mass-produce it now?" Ou Ye came from a family of self-made swords and swords, and has been studying weapons all his life. After seeing the painting and Yang Tong's general introduction, I understood the performance of the three kinds of knives, and I can't wait to create them immediately.

"This is a new weapon. Don't make a lot of it first, so as not to waste your time. What I mean is to make some samples to test." Yang Tong shook his head.

"I understand." Ou Yeqian thought for a while, and then said: "Just follow the method of pairing wine that the Holy Majesty just said, first let each skilled craftsman make a drink, and then remove the shortcomings and concentrate the advantages."

Yang Tong nodded and said: "This method is good. When the sword is completed, I will be notified to come to try the sword."

Ou Yeqian promised: "At most three days, the Holy Majesty will be able to see the mature samples of these three long and short weapons."

"Okay! Suspend the horizontal knives you are going to manufacture in large quantities! Wait for these three new knives to be tested before mass production." Yang Tong knew that these three knives were better than the current knives, so naturally he would not discard them. After it has been built, it will be gradually promoted to the whole army.

"Here." Ou Yeqian bowed and saluted.

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