Becoming stronger from cutting Hu and Cao Cao

Chapter 367 Sheepskin Raft.

Liangjiangkou, the camp of the Qin Army!

"Military Master, the King of Qin has returned with dozens of sheep!" Liu Bowen was handling official duties in the camp when he suddenly heard the small school at the door come to report.

Liu Bowen smiled and said: "King Qin has a heart. It's because General Gan led people to clean up the river too hard. He specially bought dozens of sheep to improve food for General Gan and the others."

"King Qin, give these sheep to me, let's eat yokan tonight!" Cheng Yaojin said to Li Chen after entering the naval village.

"eat!"

"You just have a heart-to-heart. These sheep are of great use to me. Whether we can cross the river depends on these sheep." Li Chen glared at Cheng Yaojin and cursed with a smile.

Li Chen's words completely confused Cheng Yaojin.Cheng Yaojin scratched his head, and said to Li Chen: "King Qin, you just buy dozens of bastards. I believe you can carry us across the river. But this sheep can't swim, so how can it carry us?" cross the river?"

Upon hearing this, Li Chen smiled and said, "Don't tell me, these sheep can really carry us across the river."

At this time, Liu Bowen just walked over and heard all this.Liu Bowen was startled and thought, how could these sheep be able to cross the river with camels.

"King Qin, what are you going to do?" Liu Bowen also asked with a confused expression.

Li Chen smiled and explained: "This wooden raft and bamboo raft have low buoyancy and carry too little weight, so they are not suitable for sailing in big rivers. I want to use these sheep to make something called a sheepskin raft. This sheepskin raft is very Light, buoyant, and heavy-duty.”

Liu Bowen: "???"

Cheng Yaojin: "???"

Generals: "???"

Li Chen's words made these people who were doing it even more confused.This sheepskin raft was only invented during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms period, no one had ever heard of what a sheepskin raft was.

"Hey, I can't explain it clearly. I'll make one, and you will understand." Li Chen explained to everyone.

Making sheepskin rafts requires high skills in slaughtering and stripping. From the opening of the neck of the sheep, the whole piece of skin is slowly peeled off without scratching the fur.

After the sheepskin is depilated, air is blown to make the skin expand, and then a small amount of clear oil, salt and water are poured into it, and then the head, tail and limbs of the skin are tied tightly. After drying, the skin is yellowish brown and transparent, and looks like a bulging cylinder.

The folks have killed a sheep, peeled a piece of skin, blew on it, dried it for a month, and smeared it with oil.

Use hemp rope to tie the hard ash wood strips into a square wooden frame, then tie several wooden strips horizontally, and tie the leather tires under the wooden strips one by one, and the leather raft is made.

The steps of making this sheepskin raft are difficult to say, but simple to say.The difficulty lies in the fact that the person who peels the skin requires very high skills, but it doesn't matter if the sheepskin is scrapped if the skin is scratched a little in the process, if there is a leak in the middle of the road, it will be fatal.

Another point is that after all the steps are done, a piece of sheepskin needs to be dried in the sun for a month to completely dry it. Only in this way can the sheepskin withstand blisters and be used for a long time.

But this is not a problem, Li Chen doesn't plan to use this sheepskin raft for a long time, as long as he can have it temporarily.It's too late to dry, just use fire to dry it.

"Come on, go and find me the cook with the best knife skills in our camp, and the cook with the best fire control." Li Chen ordered to his subordinates.

Cheng Yaojin thought to himself, it seems that the prince wants to eat mutton, which brings the best knife skills and pyrotechnic skills, isn't this just cooking?

Not long after, the small school in the camp came with two people from the gang leader camp.These two gang leaders never imagined that they would meet King Qin one day.

"Who is the best at knife skills?" Li Chen asked the two of them.

"I am, I am." One of the gang leaders responded excitedly and incoherently.

"Peel me a piece of sheepskin. You have to peel it off completely. Except for the four hooves and the head and tail, there must be no holes."

"Can it be done?" Li Chen asked this person.

"Can! Can!"

"Eight generations of my ancestors have been butchers, it's not difficult!"

"If I make a hole in the sheepskin, I don't need you to tell me, if there are more holes, I will make a few holes in my body." The group of soldiers promised solemnly.

"it is good!"

"Among these sheep, you pick the fattest and biggest one and peel it for me first." Li Chen instructed this person.

Skinning sheep is not difficult for those who will, but not for those who are difficult.For a professional butcher, this is a basic skill.Don't shake your hands when peeling the skin, be careful, basically it will not damage the sheepskin.

About half an hour later, the whole sheepskin was peeled off.Li Chen threw the sheepskin to another gang leader, and said to him: "After removing all the wool, apply a layer of oil on the outside, and then put it on the fire to dry. Apply a layer of oil and dry it until it is completely dry. Until it's clear."

"Remember, keep away from the fire when baking, so as not to hurt the sheepskin."

Greasing the sheepskin and baking it is nothing technical, as long as you are careful when baking it.

Li Chen called a lot of team leaders to help peel and bake the sheep skin together, the whole camp was busy for a while.

The generals in the battalion heard that King Qin was looking for a cook to build a ship, and they all felt that this was a very new thing, so they all gathered to watch the fun.

Tonight, it was rare for Li Chen to rest, so he stared at it abruptly all night.When it was almost dawn, the skins of these dozens of sheep had been dried.

"Tie the hooves and the neck firmly!" Li Chen instructed his subordinates.

After the soldiers under him tied up the sheepskin, they handed it over again.Li Chen signaled to hand over the sheepskin to Cheng Yaojin.

"Bite gold, it's time for you to make meritorious service! Inflate this sheepskin with air." Li Chen told Cheng Yaojin.

"King Qin, my old Cheng doesn't want to take credit for this. How about you change someone?" Cheng Yaojin said embarrassingly.

Why did Cheng Yaojin say that he didn't want to give credit for this? This sheepskin is a ram. After the four hooves and the neck were pierced to death, what was left to blow air into it didn't happen to be that place.This made Cheng Yaojin how to get rid of it.

Cheng Yaojin is a lucky general, let this kid handle any unsure things, maybe it will bring some blessings.Li Chen also made this sheepskin raft based on the memory of his previous life, so it's hard to say if it's too specific.

Therefore, letting Cheng Yaojin brag about the first sheepskin is also to borrow this kid's blessing.

"No, you are our lucky general, this first sheepskin, you must come!" Li Chen said with a straight face.

After the King Qin's order was issued, Cheng Yaojin had to blow it up if he didn't want to, so he bit the bullet and blowed up the sheepskin.

Cheng Yaojin is a general. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. His lung capacity can be said to be very large. His cheeks are bulging, and the sheepskin raft is bulging at a speed visible to the naked eye.

(End of this chapter)