Great Song Pirate

Chapter 120 The Butterfly Effect
After solving the problem of Cuiyu and the other, Xu Yi also let go of a stone in his heart. He was grateful for Yingchun's generosity in his heart, and he was even more considerate of Yingchun. The young couple spent a good Spring Festival together.

Drinking and frolicking are everywhere on the island these days. Even if you want to talk to Tiger Jin, you never see him sober. He drinks like a drunk cat every day. I came up with new ideas, but I didn't have a chance to talk to anyone, so I had to wait until after the Chinese New Year to talk about everything.

They are pirates, but they don’t know how to do business on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Anyway, they can’t find a few ships going out to sea to start trading, but Xu Yi still called the people from the fire yao workshop to start work in advance. Since there is such a thing, wouldn’t it be a waste of money if we don’t make more of it?So even the fat pork belly has been put into his soap workshop early on, and he started working in full swing.

Another happy event is that the population of pigeons raised by Fat Guang on the island has expanded a lot. With these pigeons, after breeding on Huangyu Island and Cancer Island, the two sides can exchange some to achieve faster communication. , This is what Xu Yi values ​​most. It seems that this time Shuimao and Qian Laoben can take some with them when they go out!

Before the festival, Li Bo asked those masons to make dozens of hollow stone bombs and put them in the warehouse of the workshop. Xu Yi took the time to fill a few bombs every day, sealed the mouth with yellow wax and wrapped them up for later use. Before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they were all loaded. Looking at these stone bombs, he started to make new ideas.

Qin Huzi was also very happy about Xu Yi's arrival. It was his honor to entertain the great military adviser on the island in his room, and it was a matter of face, so he asked his wife to arrange a few dishes quickly. Greet Xu Yi to sit down and drink.

Xu Yi asked him about his life on the island, and Qin Huzi laughed and said: "Thank you for your concern, the military commander. Life here is better than my life on land. There is wine and meat every day. Everyone is very polite to me, Lao Qin, and you don’t have to bear it at all. Let me go back now, and you can’t drive me away. Not only me, but those ship repair guys go and see now, which one is not for food? It's white and fat, and it's so moist! Even I feel that my stomach has grown a lot, and I'm all thanks to you, the military advisor!"

Hearing what he said, Xu Yi also laughed. It seems that these people have settled down. These craftsmen usually have no status on land. Now that they are on Dulong Island, people here treat them as gods. Of course they felt that it was good, so there was nothing strange about it. Xu Yi didn't put on airs, and asked Qin Huzi about blacksmithing.

It turned out that after listening to what Xu Yi told him about steelmaking, he took a blueprint of a simple indigenous steelmaking furnace that Xu Yi gave him, and combined his years of experience to create an earthen furnace. After a few trials, he really made good steel. After using these steels, his skills have improved by leaps and bounds. The fine steel that used to require a lot of refining is now through effective control of raw and wrought iron. The proportion of the molten iron after it comes out of the furnace can become good steel after forging for a short period of time, and the quality is not inferior to his previous [-]-smelting steel. Yi told him the use of coke and the method of making coke, which increased the production efficiency of his small furnace many times, so when Xu Yi was mentioned, this Qin Huzi was always very respectful and regarded Xu Yi as a god look at it.

Xu Yi was very surprised. He didn't pay much attention to Qin Huzi's affairs these days. He didn't expect that he would actually dare to make a small smelting furnace by relying on the simple drawings of the local steelmaking furnace that he drew half-handled. And let him really do it. In this way, doesn't it mean that he has indirectly promoted the world's steelmaking technology a lot?This was something he hadn't thought of at all, and he couldn't help but look at Qin Huzi with admiration.

"I came to you this time because I have something to ask for your help!" After chatting with him for a while, and seeing that the wine was almost drunk, Xu Yi revealed his purpose.

"It's polite for the military master to say that. If you have anything to do, just tell me, as long as Qin Huzi can do everything!" Qin Huzi quickly stood up.

Xu Yi took out two pieces of paper from his bosom. One had a sphere drawn on it, both in section and outline; Marked the size and handed it to Qin Huzi. After looking at it, Qin Huzi didn't understand what it was, so he asked: "What is this drawn by the military division? I have never seen it before. Do you want me to draw it?" How about making these things?"

Of course Xu Yi knew that he had never seen this thing before, so he explained: "These are things that will be of great use on the island in the future. I wonder if Master Qin can cast some of them?"

As soon as he talked about his old profession, Qin Huzi immediately regained his spirits. He didn't even care about drinking. He took Xu Yi's drawings and looked at them again and again, and finally said: "The shape of these two things is not easy to cast. But I can divide them into two pieces and cast them, and then buckle them together. This is not a problem for me. I will go to fire and try to make a few first. If the military division is not satisfied after reading it, let's talk about it. It's been reformatted!"

Xu Yi nodded in agreement, and after the two chatted for a while, Xu Yi left Qin Huzi's place and walked on the road. He thought about so many things he had created these days, and suddenly remembered the butterfly effect he had heard before. Time came to the Song Dynasty. Originally, he wanted to find a place to enjoy life in peace and stability, but it seemed that he was destined to have no such opportunity. He fell into the hands of a group of pirates and became a pirate. It was a dream to live in peace. That's why he passively started his "struggle". He has come all the way to the present. What impact will it have on history, but at least future scholars will write some pen and ink on Dulong Island when they write the history of Chinese pirates!And I am afraid that later generations will not know where the ballista was unearthed, and then make a big book, arguing whether the ballista spread from Europe to Asia, or Asia spread to Europe!Anyway, no one would have thought that there was an immortal guy who traveled through time and space to Da Song and brought these things with him!If they find a few more iron bombs and grenades like this, it will probably make Chinese scholars look even more proud!Thinking of this, Xu Yi himself laughed. The scholars of later generations must have been busy with his tossing, anyway, he couldn't see it!

(End of this chapter)