From Chief to Ball

It seems that there are a lot of people in the smelting department, but it will be enough to subdivide each department.The Smelting Department still adopts the method of division of labor and cooperation, and each person only takes care of one thing.

However, Chen Jian selected [-] old Chinese skilled workers and set up a special fine blacksmithing department that seemed useless for the time being, which was under his own jurisdiction and did not participate in the cooperation and division of labor.The clansmen will not object to such trivial matters, but they don't know what these people do. Chen Jian calls this small department "Bud".

1 Chapter Twenty

The supporting iron smelting workshop was being built according to the plan every day, and the fate of all the bricks and stones was controlled by people. When the dark clouds were thick and the wind was coming, the construction was basically completed, and then it snowed.

People can control the fate of bricks and stones, but sometimes their own fate is really elusive.

It's like when the wooden slip that Ji Yun was eager to express his merits after the snow was sent back to Yucheng, it was the time when Chen Jian was the happiest in the past few months, so he was so excited that he capitalized three words to show his mood. good.

If the iron smelting furnace hadn't been delayed until the end of winter and the ore had been requested earlier, I'm afraid Ji Yun would have been scolded, at least he hadn't completed the task.

If it wasn't for the fact that the workshop workers had already gone on strike, Chen Jian didn't need to focus on the island for the time being, perhaps Ji Yun's wooden slips would not be so valued.

If it wasn't for such a big sabotage accident in the farm before, making Chen Jian urgently need to find a positive model to publicize, I'm afraid Ji Yun's praise would not be so exaggerated.

Of course, the most important thing was the day when the wooden slips were delivered, and everyone on the island noticed that Chen Jian was very happy.Many people found out after inquiring that it was the small department called "Bud" that completed a task assigned to them by Chen Jian.

A very strange thing that these people could not understand at all-Chen Jian asked the old Chinese in this department to do two things before the snow fell.

A perfectly regular cylinder about a step and a half long, about three inches in diameter.

A ball with the same diameter as a cylinder must also be regular.

Wood can be regarded as a simple cylinder, but it is absolutely irregular; the centrifugal pottery wheel can also make a simple cylinder, but it only looks regular, but in fact it is of different thickness.

As for the ball... what looks like a ball is not necessarily a ball.

These people from the old country thought for a long time, but they didn't want to understand what the cylinder was for, but since it was Chen Jian's request, they also racked their brains to figure it out.

Until the snowy day, a few children were building snowmen in the snow and were picking up the snow with a pottery ring. An old Chinese who was making wax models in Xiacheng suddenly thought of a way.

He found a lot of beeswax, drew a circle with a compass, and then made a hollow bronze ring using the three-mode principle of the iron model he learned before. After precise hand-kneading, he measured it many times with a compass It was finally determined that the hollow bronze ring was a nearly perfect circle.

Then a large amount of beeswax was melted into a thicker wax column, and the bronze ring was clamped down from top to bottom. Using the vertical hanging wire to measure, it took two days to manually cut out a nearly perfect cylindrical wax model.

Then wrap the wax model with fine clay and wait until the clay is dry.

Until the night before Ji Yun sent the wooden slips back to Yucheng, the wax mold was wrapped in thick clay and dried without any cracks. Afterwards, the wax was melted by heating, and a perfect hollow cylinder mold was completed.

As for the ball, the method used is similar. Use the circular plate drawn by the compass to make a circle, cut it into a semicircle with a ruler, and rotate it in the wax mold to dig out half a sphere. The two layers of wax molds are put together. Form a hollow, pour slime into the hollow, wait until it dries and break the outer wax shell, and a perfect sphere in this era will appear.

These people came to Chen Jian in a hurry late at night, and Chen Jian couldn't help but praise a few words, and then told them to make more of this mold, and after the iron was smelted, cast a few cylinders like this with iron, Choose the perfect one.

Several people were puzzled, this kind of solid cylindrical iron bar seems to have no effect.Iron is obviously extremely expensive, and this kind of solid iron rod is extremely heavy. They can't figure out what it is used for, but they still do it as usual.

In addition, Chen Jian gave them another task: let them go to the Supply and Marketing Department to get some tin, and hand-grind and carve something.

Chen Jian has already drawn the picture of this thing, it is small, round, and very thin.On the front is a raised simple black-and-white bear and yin-yang fish, on the back are simple ears of wheat and a very simple character.summer.

Tin is very soft, and it is easy to make by hand. It can be cast or carved and polished. It is more than ten times easier than jade.

Chen Jian's requirements are not too high, a total of sixteen pieces have been polished, all of which must be exactly the same.

In addition to these sixteen pieces that are exactly the same, another one needs to be polished, which is more precise than the previous ones, and has more patterns on it. It is a curved river, thicker than the first one, it seems that the metal used for melting and casting in the future will be too soft.

All the above requirements are not something to be done now, so Chen Jiancai called that department "Bud".

What these thirty people will do in the future are things that are not needed for the time being but must be produced within a few years. Xiacheng has bronze, brass, gunpowder, high temperature, lead, wrought iron, matchlock, and simple. Geometry, some things do not necessarily have to follow the history of the previous life, but must appear when they should appear.

After those people left with the drawings and approval strips, Chen Jian was extremely excited. The smelting furnace had basically been built, and the final internal repair work was being completed. Everything looked good.

So much so that when he got up early the next morning, he was always smiling when he met everyone, and when Ji Yun's wooden slips were delivered, Chen Jian happened to have time to look at them.

Only after reading the beginning, I heard a noise outside. A few riders from Xiacheng were carrying something on their backs. They didn't hold any emergency flags, and there was no anxiety or panic on their faces. Apart from being tired, they were There is only joy left.

"What happened to Xia Cheng?"

"Good thing! Jixia, Baima helped a few weak grassland settlements defeat a large settlement in autumn, and robbed a lot of horses. Many settlements in the mountains and forests near Yangguan moved to live near Yangguan. I helped cut a lot of grass in autumn, and these horses should all survive."

"Wolf belts in the west led people to plunder many villages in winter. A group of old slaves from our city were bought by the warden with public property. They swore that they would never betray our city. The new slaves replaced those old slaves. live."

"Many children were born this year, the population is booming, and the health of the elderly is not bad. Although the old grandmother is still coughing, her body is still hard, but she needs to lie on her stomach at night because she always coughs. Your mother gave birth to you again. Two younger brothers, twins."

"The new army has changed into black clothes, and made a lot of meritorious service in the grassland with the white horse a while ago. The horses are riding well."

"By the way, I also built a few small sailboats and brought some things to Yucheng for the New Year. Some steamed and sealed peaches are not too many. Each person can share a can. By the way, the boat will stay here .”

"Didn't you ask the secretary to ask everyone to raise some money to build Yucheng last time? Everyone took out a lot, and asked if they want slaves here."

"Nowadays, the market between the various settlements is also very prosperous. The market in Yangguan trades with the grassland settlements every ten days. Horses, sheep, and leather can be exchanged for a lot every ten days, and there are some things we haven't seen before. The secretary asked me to ask you if this thing is useful."

After the rider finished speaking, he took out a leather tube from his pocket, opened it and poured out some white powder, some were wet, and some had already agglomerated.

"Where did this come from?"

"Do you still remember that those grassland tribes are not short of salt? They have a large salt field in the far north, and this thing was brought from the nearby settlements. They use this kind of thing to tan the grassland. Sihu said he didn't recognize it. This thing, so let me ask you. Know you like these strange stones or salt."

"Nitrope?"

Chen Jian touched the feel of the white powder, it was a little slippery, and shouted at the red fish in the house: "Bring a jar of vinegar, and a jar of spirits."

After bringing them all, Chen Jian grabbed a handful of white powder and threw it into the vinegar jar. Bubbles popped out instantly, and the foam overflowed out of the jar along with the vinegar. The smile on Chen Jian's face became even more beautiful. .

Dip some hemp fibers in the spirits and ignite it, then find a pottery stick, dip it in a little powder and burn it. The light yellow color made Chen Jian believe in his judgment even more.

"Good stuff! How far is that salt field from us? Can you grab it?"

The rider frowned and said: "I'm afraid I can't. It's five or six hundred miles away. How can there be so many people guarding there? If there are too many people, they can't get together, and if there are few people, they will be snatched back by the grassland tribes. There are many things. It’s just that it’s a little troublesome to transport, and a good pottery pot and a piece of silk can be exchanged for a lot.”

Chen Jian laughed loudly and said, "Then don't grab it. When will you go back?"

"The boss didn't say anything."

"Then you wait, go back first and tell my sister alone, take advantage of the winter to bring back a large amount of these things with sledges, except for horses, which are the most important, sheep and leather must be in the back. Tell the white horse, keep an eye on it. If there is any movement over there, if there is a large settlement, go to harm it, and unite with those small settlements to rob it."

After finishing speaking, he laughed for a while, and he didn't know what he thought of. It was rare for people in Yucheng to see Chen Jian so happy.

And Chen Jian, who was so happy, returned to his room, unfolded the wooden slip sent by Ji Yun, and was even more delighted. He couldn't hide the joy of several happy events in the past two days. He picked up a pen and commented on the back of the wooden slip. He wrote three big good characters.

One is good writing, two is good timing, and three is really good.

Chapter 121

In December, the people from the transportation department finally started to bring back the first batch of iron ore, and Ji Yun followed the people from the transportation department back, full of expectations.There are both expectations for my own future, and expectations for the appearance of the cape island. What others say is better than what I see.

The school on the island also took a break for a few days when the end of the year was approaching. The eight letters had already been studied, and a simple exam was conducted, and the results were mostly good.