At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 130, even more powerful

Xu Fan realized that Zhou Zhang did not trust his statement, so he took Zhou Zhang to the Gongshu family. "Today, let Brother Zhou see the source of my confidence."

"Gong Shuqiu, I have met the generals of Shangzhu Kingdom and Zhou Changshi." Xu Fan and Zhou Zhang came to visit, which made Gong Shuqiu very happy. He immediately opened the middle door to welcome them.

After several people entered the Gongshu family hall, Xu Fan said: "I came to visit Mr. Gongshu this time mainly because I wanted to ask him to improve some mechanical techniques."

Gongshu Chou smiled and said, "General, please tell me."

As long as it is related to carpentry work, the Gongshu family still has this confidence.

"Now spinning requires manpower to spin one by one. It is difficult for a woman to get 1 kilogram of yarn in a day. However, our rebel army has a waterwheel that is turning every day. The spinning wheel is also turning. The waterwheel and spinning Can the speed of spinning be greatly increased by combining it with a car?”

Gongshu Qiu thought for a moment and said, "It should be possible, but some equipment needs to be improved."

Xu Fan smiled and took out a picture, which showed the gears, eccentrics and other patterns of later generations. Xu Fan told Gong Shuqiu about the principles of gears and eccentrics.

"How about improving with this?"

Gongshu Qiu was shocked and said: "General, even if he is a carpenter, he is the best carpenter in the world."

Gong Shuqiu sincerely admires it. It is easy to be a carpenter who imitates other people's instruments, but it is extremely difficult to make a groundbreaking instrument. The gears and eccentrics created by Xu Fan are not only groundbreaking instruments, but also extremely effective. Large and complex instruments can be used, just like his ancestors pioneered the creation of saws, which have now become indispensable tools for carpenters all over the world. This gear and eccentric technology will definitely appear in future instruments.

Xu Fan smiled and said: "I'm just talking on paper. If we really want to do something practical, we still need to rely on practical and skilled craftsmen like the Gongshu family."

White paper has become very popular in the sphere of influence of the rebels, and it has begun to spread even outside the rebels. After all, Xu Fan wants to earn foreign exchange (food and cloth), and it is impossible for him to spend hundreds of years to popularize such a good thing like the noble gentry. , so Gongshu Qiu had also seen a blank piece of paper. Xu Fan talked about war on paper, and he could quickly understand the meaning.

Gongshu Chou could only smile and praise: "The general really speaks his mind, he is indeed a man who is proficient in hundreds of schools of thought."

Xu Fan said: "The spinning wheel can only spin one thread at a time. Can we change the current spinning wheel from horizontal spinning to vertical spinning, and get more spindles at a time? This can increase the efficiency several times, so Women don't have to spend a lot of time spinning.

Of course Xu Fan didn't know the principle of this. After all, he had never spun yarn, but he remembered a story that the Jenny spinning machine was overturned by someone. It changed from horizontal to vertical, and the spinning wheel could change from a spindle to a spindle. Several or even dozens of spindles can be spun at the same time, and the spinning efficiency is increased dozens of times.

Gongshu Qiu said: "I will take the craftsmen to modify one and give it a try."

"Big head, little pig, take the craftsman and follow the big father."

The children of Gongshu's family are all in the rebel workshop. The only two children left in the family, Lao Lao Xiao Xiao, Da Tou and Xiao Dou, are in their teens. Each of them came to Gong Shu Chou carrying a toolbox.

Xu Fan said to Zhou Zhang: "Brother Zhou, prepare some wood and carpenters, and we will try to see the results within one day."

Zhou Zhang was shocked and said: "Is this what the lord wants to do?"

Xu Fan smiled and said: "It is difficult to double the grain production capacity, but it is easier to double the cloth capacity."

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, productivity was still extremely underdeveloped. For the people of this era, the first precious thing was food, and the second most precious thing was cloth. In this era, you might not be able to buy things with money, but you can buy them with cloth. If you buy it, even 1000 years in the future, the cloth can still be used with money. Increasing the production capacity of cloth will increase the wealth of the rebels.

Under Zhou Zhang's arrangement, 10 young men transported some wood to a waterwheel.

Gongshuqiu looked around the waterwheel for a few times, and after making mental calculations, he began to divide the wood. Although his two grandsons were young, they cooperated extremely well. It only took half a day, and under Gongshuqiu's transformation , the water wheel was combined with the spinning wheel, and then Xu Fan asked a female worker to come over to test this new product.

But unexpectedly, it was Song Shuang, Axiu's aunt who was an old acquaintance.

Xu Fan was a little surprised and said, "Why are you here?"

Song Shuang smiled and said, "I heard that you have a new spinning wheel here. I'll come over and take a look."

After saying that, Song Shuang started spinning flax with this water conservancy spinning wheel.

"It's so fast!" Song Shuang said in surprise after not long using it: "And it doesn't require any remote control. It's more than three times faster. It also saves effort. With this machine, our textile factory can double the number of Fabric.”

Even the family members of the rebel army became handicraftsmen, and women and children entered textile factories. Relying on economies of scale, several textile factories of the rebel army could produce 2 pieces of linen and 2000 pieces of silk every month. Most of the silk was used. The rebels can make inner armor for their own use, and the linen can bring hundreds of thousands of kilograms of food to the rebels.

Zhou Zhang was surprised: "Is this true?"

By doubling the production capacity of cloth, the rebels would be much more comfortable.

Song Shuang smiled and said: "Of course it is true. To weave a piece of cloth, spinning yarn is the most time-consuming. Now spinning saves three times the time, and doubling the cloth is no problem."

Xu Fan smiled and said: "This is not over yet."

"Old sir, can you get a spinning wheel with 10 spindles?"

Gongshu Qiu thought for a while and said, "I have a reminder from the general. I can give it a try."

There is no technical problem at all in hanging 10 ingots at the same time. It’s just that the thinking has trapped everyone. No one has ever done this.

Song Shuang immediately said after hearing this: "I'll ask someone to send 10 spinning wheels."

After the spinning wheel was brought, Gongshuqiu began to modify it, and this time it was faster. Gongshuqiu just lengthened the wood, linked ten spinning wheels together, and relied on water conservancy as a power source to make a larger one. 10-spindle spinning wheel.

When the first ten-spindle spinning wheel appeared, everyone present was shocked. Song Shuang said in surprise: "Such a machine can support hundreds of us."

Human spinning always needs a rest, and water conservancy can keep running as long as the yarn is hung up, but she quickly frowned and said: "But in this case, the workshop will have to be moved to the riverside."

For Song Shuang, it would be too much of a waste to have such a magical weapon but not be able to use it right away.

Zhou Zhang laughed and said: "I will make arrangements for the new workshop. I guarantee that you can see the brand new workshop within three days."

Increasing the yarn by three times can double the fabric production, and now that the production has increased by 30 times, Zhou Zhang dare not think about it later. Anyway, the financial crisis of his rebel army has finally been lifted.

Then Zhou Zhang saluted Gongshu Qiu and said, "Old sir, you have made great contributions to our rebel army. Please accept my bows from this junior."

Gongshu Qiu smiled and said: "You are so polite, Zhou Changshi." Xu Fan said with a smile: "Mr. Gongshu, you have not only made great contributions to our rebel army, but also to the whole world. Your invention can make weavers The efficiency is improved by more than ten times.”

Gongshu Qiu smiled and said: "This is all due to the general's guidance."

Xu Fan smiled and said: "Without your skills, my guidance would be in vain."

Song Shuang said: "It's just that the speed of spinning yarn has increased, but the speed of weaving has not increased. Only a few hundred spinning wheels like this can meet our needs. If there are more, we can't weave."

Zhou Zhang smiled and said: "We can use the remaining manpower to weave cloth, which will increase production capacity."

Then Xu Fan ordered: "Gong Shuqiu has made great contributions to the water conservancy and spinning level. He will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold and 2000 stones as a county guard."

Gong Shuqiu saluted Xu Fan excitedly and said, "Thank you so much, General."

Xu Fan helped him up and said: "Old sir, you are so polite. I really wanted to thank you, so I thought of a way to combine the waterwheel and the textile loom. You also heard that there is no shortage of yarn, but the speed of spinning has become an obstacle again." .

If you can increase the efficiency of the loom several times or even dozens of times, the old gentleman can be one of the hundreds of scholars. From now on, I will call you Gongshuzi, and your name will be as famous as your ancestors, and even Surpassing Lu Ban and conquering the world is such a great achievement. Houji's achievements in ancient times were nothing more than this. "

It can also be remembered in history, even more beautiful than the ancient sages. Who can withstand this kind of temptation? Gongshu Qiu immediately said excitedly: "I will live in this textile workshop from today on. I must build the water conservancy textile factory that the general mentioned and let the world The people no longer lack cloth."

At this time, Gong Shuqiu even had a hint of divine brilliance.
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After arranging the project for Gongshuqiu, Xu Fan took Zhou Zhang to find Qin Bo and told him about the water conservancy spinning machine made by Gongshu Qiu. He also talked about the progress of water conservancy spinning machine, and then said: "You Mohists can't fall behind. ”

Although the Mo family and the Gongshu family are not enemies, due to the debate between their ancestors hundreds of years ago and because their bases are all handicraftsmen, the two sides have an extremely strong sense of competition.

After hearing Xu Fan's words, Qin Bo immediately asked for orders: "General, please give an order?"

Xu Fan said: "Our rebel army lacks iron tools to make weapons and various agricultural tools. The current iron-making technology is too poor. The price of one pound of iron is equivalent to one stone of grain. It is too expensive and ordinary people cannot afford iron tools."

Qin Bo also looked embarrassed when he heard this. He didn't know how to deal with such a big issue.

Fortunately, Xu Fan immediately said: "I made a kind of coke that can burn the hottest fire in the world and melt iron ore, but I don't get much molten iron every time. I once heard that a kind of coke appeared in Chu State. A blast furnace can smelt tens of thousands of kilograms of iron at a time."

Xu Fan continued to cheat: "If there were so much iron, the people of the world would never be able to afford tools such as curved shaft plows, iron sickles, axes, etc., and having these iron tools would improve the lives of the people of the world." It’s unimaginable how much convenience it brings.”

As expected, Qin Bo was so excited by Xu Fan's deception that he planned to make ironmaking his career for the rest of his life to benefit the people.

Then Xu Fan told Qin Bo what he knew about blast furnaces, including refractory bricks, blowers, preheating chambers, top and bottom. In short, Xu Fan could talk endlessly about his theory without having to do anything, and he could even tell what alkali was. Sexual furnace, acid furnace, he also knows that kaolin is a good material for making refractory bricks, and what kind of graphite crucible can be used to make steel. In this era, the price of steel is comparable to gold. If there really is a graphite crucible, then this is really alchemy. The furnace is hot.

Xu Fan can talk endlessly about theoretical knowledge, but if you ask Xu Fan to tell you what the alkaline furnace is made of, what kind of soil is kaolin, and how the graphite crucible is made, Xu Fan can only wave his hands to express his ignorance. He can only provide theoretical support. As for practice, it is impossible for him to go to the steel plants of later generations to see the world.

But these are enough. Although he is young, he has enough practical experience. For Qin Bo, Xu Fan's theory is what he lacks. Every time he talks about it, he feels like he has a sudden enlightenment. Later, he will He even found a pen and paper to record Xu Fan's experience. Now Qin Bo looked at Xu Fan like he was looking at a high mountain, so he could only look up.

"My disciples will never let Master Xu down." After gaining so much theoretical knowledge from Xu Fan, Qin Bo finally felt confident that he could create a blast furnace.

Then Xu Fan called to Big Iron Hammer and said, "You have to satisfy Qin Bo with whatever materials he wants to use."

"No!" Big Iron Hammer knew that Qin Bo was a giant of the Mohist family, so naturally he would not object.

Only Zhou Zhang looked at Xu Fan with doubts on his face and said: "My lord, the blast furnace you mentioned really appeared in Chu State?"

His first lord was Chun Shenjun, and his second lord was Xiang Yan. They were both the top nobles of the Chu State. From them, they could get almost all information about the Chu State, but Zhou Zhang had never heard of any blast furnace. .

Xu Fan said: "Of course, I have seen people who can not only refine 1 kilograms, but even more. You just need to arrange people to support Qin Bo. He will not let you down."

The route of the blast furnace has been pointed out and the problem has been overcome. If the blast furnace cannot be built, Xu Fan will doubt whether Qin Bo is a disciple of the Mohist family.
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Finally, Xu Fan took Zhou Zhang to Xu Feng and said, "Old sir, I have a crop to plant, but I need a patient farmer to help take care of it."

At this time, Xu Feng shouted to the field: "Shang Nong."

Not long after, a middle-aged man ran out of the field and said, "Teacher, the disciple is here."

Xu Feng said: "My disciple is the most sincere and honest. He has never made any mistakes in farming in these years. His yield per mu is also the highest."

Xu Fan said: "I want to plant 1000 acres of sugar cane. Mr. Shang Nong will take care of it."

"sugar cane?"

Xu Fan showed a section of sugar cane to the merchant.

The merchant suddenly realized: "It turns out to be Gan Zhe."

At this time, there were a lot of wild sugar cane in the wilds of Chu State, and the people of Chu State also had a history of planting sugar cane. However, the sweetness of sugar cane is now not as sweet as that of later generations, and sugar-making technology has not yet appeared. Even the nobles of Chu State squeezed sugar cane juice and drank it. If Xu Fan wanted to subsidize the finances of the rebel army, there was no better cash crop than sugar cane.

The merchant frowned and said, "The villain has never planted anything."

Xu Fan said: "Sugar cane is also found in the wild. Just plant it as a normal crop. I won't blame you even if it fails."

The merchant said: "You little man, give it a try."

It was the simplest thing here in Xu Feng. Xu Fan just told him to plant 1000 acres of sugar cane, and the merchants agreed and left.

Zhou Zhang wondered: "Gan Zhe's subordinates have also eaten it. Although it is a bit sweet, it is just a wild fruit and is not even considered as food. Is it really so important?"

Xu Fan smiled and said: "Sugar cane can be used to make sugar. One thousand acres is nothing, but after planting 1 acres or 10 acres, sugar cane will become the biggest boost for our rebel army to fight against Qin."

Xu Fanke remembered that he had read a novel in which the protagonist relied on growing sugar cane to make sugar, and finally blamed Meng Yuan.

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