Mythical Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Sui and Tang Dynasties, establishment of empire

Chapter 419 Three Tasks

After all, if you want to produce food intensively, mechanization will be very important. Otherwise, relying solely on pure manpower and production, no matter how strong your organizational skills are, it will only be as good as a family of five with 100 acres of land.

Naturally, it is impossible for him to modernize all kinds of equipment, but let Ma Jun have a guiding direction, and then continue to optimize and develop the existing technology from generation to generation. For Ma Jun, as long as he arranges it, such a thing is not difficult.

More importantly, Liu Hua's behavior gave Liu Hua a relatively stable supply location for ironware, which could be gradually improved.

Liu Hua did not deny that at least under the current circumstances, for him who inherited Qin's technology, bronze craftsmanship and forging technology were better than iron.

However, the unlimited development space and lower prices of iron tools will definitely slowly replace bronze equipment.

It's just that I need to give the ironware more time to update the ironmaking process. This can only be promoted slowly over time.

What Liu Hua can do now is just to ask Du Ruhui to take care of the places where iron ore is transported as much as possible when building roads, and build roads there so that iron ore can be transported more easily.

Ma Jun understood Liu Hua's emphasis on ironware, and felt that Liu Hua's so-called blast furnace ironmaking technology was feasible.

Blast furnace ironmaking involves loading iron ore, coke, and limestone from the top of the furnace during production, and blowing preheated air from the tuyere located at the bottom of the furnace along the furnace circumference.

At high temperatures, the carbon in the coke is blown with air, allowing the oxygen in the iron ore to be removed during the rise in the furnace, thereby reducing the iron. The smelted molten iron is released from the iron mouth. The unreduced impurities and limestone in the iron ore are The flux combines to form slag, which is discharged from the slag port. The generated gas is directed from the top of the furnace.

All in all, Liu Hua tried his best to explain the principle in his own words, but it was up to Ma Jun to figure out how to make iron in a blast furnace.

In this game, iron and steel are very important, but there is still a long way to go before steel can reflect national strength.

Because with the activeness of the essence of heaven and earth, many things can be artificially warmed, so that the texture of an object can grow by leaps and bounds in all aspects.

However, the material of the thing itself still determines the upper limit of temperature curing. For example, the temperature curing limit of steel is higher than that of bronze.

In addition, after being returned to the furnace for smelting, the warming effect will be destroyed, and you need to wait for the equipment to be built before re-warming.

In fact, this is also an important reason why iron can replace bronze.

Because the cost of smelting iron is lower than that of bronze, the quality of iron weapons after being warmed is no worse than bronze weapons.

Although temperature curing technology cannot kill materials science, the existence of the foundation of temperature curing has also curbed the development of materials science.

Of course, it will take at least three or four months for things like warming to take effect, and now the meteorites have just broken into pieces, and the aura of heaven and earth has just become active. It will still take at least a year or two for the technology of warming to appear.

Ma Jun carefully wrote down Liu Hua's request.

Since this is a key technology that Liu Hua wants to develop by himself, he naturally wants to conduct research on it.

To be honest, Liu Hua's requirements are not high. With this sentence and enough resources invested every year, he can develop a blast furnace in ten years, which will not be a loss for Liu Hua.

If you haven't researched anything in ten years... let's get rid of Ma Jun!

Ma Jun didn't know why he only felt the dark wind behind him. He raised his head and looked at Liu Huadao,

"I have made a note of this matter. I will try to build a blast furnace for ironmaking with Sima Chang and strive for results in five years."

"Yes!" Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction. After all, Ma Jun was born in the Mo family. This guarantee is still reliable.

Liu Hua continued, "In addition to blast furnace ironmaking, there are two other things you need to pay attention to. One is to help me research cement, and the other is to research paper!" "Please tell me the principle!" Ma Jun said directly , "I will definitely develop it."

At this time, Ma Jun's eyes were burning, as if he was inspired by something, and he said sincerely.

"This guy is so weird. Why did he just ask me to explain the principle without asking me how he knew it?"

Liu Hua was slightly confused, but still said: "The so-called cement is a super strong adhesive made from clay, limestone, sand and iron that melts when exposed to water.

This adhesive can be used to bond rocks or bricks together, making them extremely strong.

In addition, after this adhesive dries, it will be invulnerable to water, fire, invulnerable, and extremely strong! "

"My subordinates will definitely do their best to research this adhesive!" Ma Jun replied decisively to Liu Hua.

Liu Hua continued, "The last piece of paper for you to study is simply to peel off the tough filaments of weeds, tree bark, and fishing nets, and then cut, slurry, steam, soak, and finally try to mix it with other materials. Increase the toughness or make the surface smooth so that you can write directly on it without having to use a knife to carve bamboo slips!"

After Liu Hua said this, he said to Ma Jun, "You can probably understand the meaning of this matter!"

"From now on, all the books in the world come from the Mohist family!" Ma Jun said very excitedly at this moment, "Your Majesty is really a heavenly being!"

"Don't you have doubts about me raising these things, or why I asked you to invent these things?" Liu Hua saw that Ma Jun accepted his words so simply, but he didn't adapt to it!

Ma Jun answered of course, "Mozi said: "Today's princes, nobles, scholars, and gentlemen all want to benefit the world and eliminate its harm. If there are ghosts and gods, they must respect Ming. This is the way of the sage king. also. Your Majesty, you have been taught by gods and men, and you know it from birth. Aren’t you the Holy King of Ming and Ghosts, the lord we, the Mohists, have been searching for so long? "

Liu Hua looked at Ma Jun and felt at a loss as to where to complain.

As the most scientific school of this era, Mohism is the school that most believes in the existence of ghosts and gods.

Liu Hua said helplessly to Ma Jun. "Okay! I won't say anything else.

In addition to normal work arrangements, these three things should be researched as soon as possible, paper first, cement second, and blast furnace iron last. "

"Promise! Jun will definitely live up to the king's trust!" Ma Jun assured loudly.

After coming out of the Young Master General's Mansion, Liu Hua originally wanted Ma Jun to find a way to find a new weights and measures, at least to come up with a decimal system, at least he would be more accustomed to using it, but after much thought, Liu Hua chose to give up.

Because if he does this, it will probably end up in a very bad start. Zulong finally managed to unify weights and measures. If he takes the lead in destroying it, will it affect other kings who did not expect it to start to destroy it?

The weights and measures were destroyed, and the following series of books, cars, and rails, which brought the entire fragmented Warring States period together, would bring about twists and turns in the institutional unification.

Think about the Qin State's hundreds of years of hard work, but Liu Ji completed this great feat in just five years and unified the country at an incredible speed.

In addition to the reasons for Xiang Yu and Han Xin, a very important factor is that the fifteen years of Qin's unification not only gave latecomers a unified goal ideologically, but also laid a foundation for latecomers in terms of system.

The battle between Liu Ji and Xiang Yu was completely a battle between two kingdoms with the same origin. After defeating the other side, Liu Ji could quickly absorb the territory ruled by Xiang Yu as his own nourishment.

Therefore, weights and measures, currency, writing, and tracks, even if they seem unreasonable to me, in order to accelerate unification in the future, these things can only be changed after unification, instead of trying to complete them all now.

(End of this chapter)