I do research in ancient times

In mid-November, Ning Juzi left Wubao and headed north to Jiuling Lake, which Mozong had just acquired.

Jiuling Lake is located on the east line of Shituoling. Its source is the spring of an underground river in the mountain, which is connected to the branch line of Wuzhi River. It is about 100 kilometers away from Mozongwu Fort. It is the largest water system available nearby.

In fact, the division of labor within Mozong has not been refined, but is simply divided into blacksmiths, civil engineers and carpenters according to the materials used. Among them, the civil engineering team is in charge of building construction, the blacksmith workshop is in charge of metal smelting, and the carpentry team is in charge of some auxiliary work most of the time. Sexual work, such as installing window frames and window panels for houses built by civil engineering, and arranging furniture, etc., there is no special main business that can be sold.

Craftsmen also have a food chain, which is divided into ranks and ranks.

For example, the blacksmith workshop was originally the pillar industry of the great sage, and Yue Wanfeng tailored an unshakable position for his son, and even the blacksmith workshop in Mozong followed suit.Even though there was a technological gap due to the disappearance of all members in the later period, this status has been preserved from generation to generation and has not changed until now.

The rapid rise of the civil engineering group is due to the need for actual survival.

Following Juzi to leave the comfortable and spacious Yunfushan Academy, Mozong suddenly fell into a predicament.All the members of the blacksmith workshop disappeared, and the rest of them had to avoid the suppression and pursuit of various families, and their lives were always in a state of upheaval.

It wasn't until Juzi of the Five Dynasties led the crowd out of the customs that Yongxiguan was the territory of the Feng family, and the family from the Central Plains could no longer reach outside the customs, so they barely found a place to stay.

However, the outside of the pass is not a paradise, and there must be a tile to shelter from the wind and rain, so the construction of Wubao has become a top priority.Don't look at how well Wubao is built now, it was really difficult when it started back then.However, many people died during the mining group's selection of stone materials, not to mention the barbarians watching and harassing them from time to time.

It was in such a predicament that Yushan's master established the status of the civil engineering group step by step, and became an important part of the Mo sect that could compete with the blacksmith workshop.

In contrast, the carpentry class seems very mediocre.

Ning Fei asked Mr. Xie that among the Shaofu Supervisors and General Supervisors in this dynasty, the status of carpenters is actually higher than that of blacksmiths and masons.The top carpenter is responsible for the construction of the palace. He can build the entire pavilion with mortise and tenon joints without a single nail or any adhesive. The firmness and durability of the building have been passed down for hundreds of years.

This can no longer be called technology, but the art of architecture!

Of course, Mozong did not need to build a temple, so the carpentry class made some exquisite gadgets from the beginning of the sect, such as Luban stools and mechanism locks, which were positioned as auxiliary types of work in the blacksmith workshop.

Mozong Woodworking Class already has a complete set of customization process, as long as the customer makes a request, or provides a simple drawing, they can produce objects that meet the requirements.

In fact, Mo Zong's contrary behavior has also received a lot of criticism.For example, a descendant of Master Gongshu once stood up and said that the virtuous sage had humiliated the patriarch of the carpenter, and that the carpenters of Mozong were not worthy of being disciples of Master Gongshu.

After all, the status of carpenters has been higher than that of blacksmiths since ancient times. Several successive dynasties have implemented salt and iron official camps. Those who work in blacksmiths are descendants of sinners, and they are not free for life. They are not even comparable to poor people.For thousands of years, carpentry is the top class of the nine artisans, living at the top of the craftsman food chain!

"But carpentry skills are not something that can be learned casually."

Speaking of this, Elder Xie let out a long sigh.

"Not to mention anything else, if you want to become an apprentice from the master's house, those 30 to [-] years are too short. They can eat a lifetime of craftsmanship. How can you teach them without draining your labor?! Not to mention those great craftsmen who build palaces, It is passed down from father to son, from son to grandson, and the little lady in the family cannot peek at it, let alone teach it to outsiders."

"It's me, Mo Zong. Although I can't build palaces, I can learn skills freely."

Standing by the Jiuling Lake, Mr. Xie spoke with satisfaction.

"Many of the organs in Wubao were designed by my master back then. If he can live to this day, he will definitely be happy to wander around. Who would have thought that our sect would occupy such a large territory one day?!"

"organ?"

Ning Fei, who was checking the water quality, had a thought.

He shook off the lake water that got on his hands, stood up, turned his head and asked Mr. Xie.

"You said that all the organs in Wubao were built by our craftsmen?"

"nature!"

As soon as he mentioned this, Xie Lao's chest involuntarily stood up.

"When our carpentry class was started, we learned the chain locks invented by Master Gongshu. is angry."

"After the sage passed away, everyone could no longer get the mechanism, so they imitated the old model and figured it out for themselves. From generation to generation, they learned a lot of fun. The folded corner eaves of our sect and the continuous crossbow on the city, then We researched it ourselves, and everyone has put in a lot of effort!"

When he said that, Ning Fei remembered that the institutions in the city he saw when he came to Mozong on the first day were indeed infused with delicate thoughts.I thought it was Yue Wanfeng who exchanged it from the system mall, but I didn't expect it to be the original of the carpentry class!

Later he went to the city wall to see that in order to save manpower, Mo Zong used a torsion bar transmission device in the crossbow, and also made early wooden gears.Although the gears are a bit rough and the curvature of the rollers is not well designed, as long as the gears are made finer, this is a complete gear transmission mechanism.If you can add a belt, it will be a super imagination under the technology of the current era!

Ning saw that he touched his chin.

If this is the case, there is no main business in the carpentry class. This main business is too powerful!These are all talents who study machinery!

After studying cotton gins and looms in the past two days, he vaguely felt that the students in the carpentry class seemed to have mastered the basic transmission rules. The current shortcoming is that the knowledge is scattered and has not formed a complete system.As long as these people are sorted out systematically and some gaps are filled in, a group of junior mechanical engineering personnel can be quickly trained.

What kind of carpenter is this!These are engineers, good friends, good friends of researchers!

After owning an exclusive engineering team, it is impossible for Ning Sawzi's private team to join a mechanical transformation team! ?

Hehehe, as expected of him, really amazing.

Ning Zaozi was a little excited, and he didn't care that he was still surveying the terrain of Jiuling Lake. He took out the birch bark notebook he carried with him, and drew a picture of the water turbine.

"Xie Lao, can you make this thing?"

Before the invention of the steam engine, the water turbine was the easiest mechanical device to implement. Jiuling Lake is connected to the tributaries of the Wuzhi River, and the water flows from west to east, pushing waves one after another. It is a good hydraulic testing ground.

If the basic water wheel transmission device can be manufactured, the subsequent hydraulic spinning, hydraulic crushing, and hydraulic forging are also possible. Industrial iron smelting and forging is not a dream!With the help of water wheels to cultivate a group of mechanical talents and lay the foundation for the manufacture of heat turbines, maybe one day, he would rather see a train with black smoke running in this strange era!

He thought about it excitedly, but Xie Zeng took the birch bark book and pondered for a long time in the sun.

The mechanism on the bark does not look complicated, but every design and detail is extremely delicate, one link after another, which makes Mr. Xie more and more fascinated by thinking about it. His fingers are unconsciously moving around, very similar to cutting and planing himself. Make one to see the effect.

This is a water mill, and the power part is a horizontal water wheel. The upper fan is installed on the vertical shaft of the wheel, and the water wheel is used to drive the mill to rotate. It is suitable for use at the mouth of the mountain spring where they are standing now.

And the parts for making water mills are not difficult to polish, just water wheels, axles and gears.A little modification can also be a multifunctional mechanism that simultaneously drives pounding, grinding, pestle and milling, which can save a lot of manpower.

"I can..."

Xie Lao's voice hesitated.

"But this is a mechanism technique, the untold secret of the Gongshu Jiangpai. Where did Juzi know it?"

"The untold secret?"

Ning Fei scratched her head.

"It's not an unspoken secret, is it? Water can carry away quicksand, and can impact rocks to make the surface smooth. The power of water is very strong. These principles are placed between heaven and earth. It depends on whether you can discover them."

"That's what it says."

Mr. Xie put down the birch bark notebook in his hand, and there was a hint of worry in his voice.

"It's just that those disciples of the Gongshu Carpenter Sect don't think so. They will definitely say that our Mozong stole the secret of the Great Master Gongshu. When the Dharma Sage was giving lectures in the academy, some disciples of the Gongshu Carpenter Sect questioned the saint face to face. The principle of the mechanism, the sage can't explain it, so that person ridiculed the sage for stealing skills, which made the sect lose face."

"Since then, the Zongmen has stopped doing carpentry, and instead made iron. The skills of the carpentry class have not improved for many years, until they went out of the Great Wall to build docks."

Oh, there is such a paragraph.

Ning Fei nodded secretly.

He was surprised before that, according to the ancient technology line of Huaguo, it should have been the most developed carpentry.Yue Wanfeng's abandonment of the carpentry workshop, which already had a prototype of machinery, and the metallurgical line was almost a wrong answer in an era where industrialization was not possible. The original root lies here.

I exchanged the blueprint, but couldn't explain the principle, and was slapped in the face by the owner.

After thinking about it, Ning Fei said seriously.

"Gongshu master invented the mechanism, and he came to the truth by observing everything in the world. In this world, only those who are not as skilled as others steal from others. How can the master Gongshu have the face to say that we stole his second-hand goods?! Mo Zong There are so many disciples in the carpentry class, if everyone is good at discovering and summarizing, and devoting themselves to research and making a mechanism that surpasses Master Gongshu, then no one will say that we are stealing skills."

"Ha ha!"

Xie Zeng was excited by what he said, clapped his hands and laughed.

"That's natural! We Mozong disciples study together, and we definitely won't belong to the Gongshu Craftsman School!"

He glanced at Jiuling Lake in front of him, and a high fighting spirit suddenly surged in his heart.

"If we can really create a mill with water, we will also build a new city by this lake in the future! How spectacular it will be to use water to propel all mechanisms!"

Hearing what he said, Ning Fei smiled and nodded.

"Soon, so we have to survey the water conditions and terrain now. The frozen soil in winter is not suitable for cement concrete construction. It's just time to return to Wubao to concentrate on researching machinery. In the spring of next year, when we come back to Jiuling Lake, we can block the river. Building dams and digging canals to divert water is going to be a big job."