Two days later, Guo Shao found that the hammer workshop could not operate.
Let the donkey stop quickly!The craftsman leader Luo Jiye shouted, stuck.
Guo Shao looked up at the cast iron lumps that were forged hammers hanging in the air and could not fall. The chain was pulled and ticticactic, and it seemed that ten thousand grass and mud horses were whistling by in his heart.
This workshop has been busy for a month, and just like this, you can imagine his depression.
After a while, the donkey in the cellar next door was driven and reversed, and finally slowly put down the forging hammer. Fortunately, it did not damage the thing... If it collapsed directly if it could not be used in the first experiment, it would probably hurt even more.
The craftsmen have worked for so long, but they see that it is useless, and occasionally some people complain and discuss in the distance.
Someone quietly muttered, thinking that Guo Shao couldn't hear it, so why didn't people just pull the rope straight up and down and pound rice, but they had to repair such things...
Luo Jiye hurriedly took out the picture he drew, frowned and looked at it, bent down and said to Guo Shao: I am as General Guo wants, and I dare not cut corners.
There was also an official from the Afang Office next to him. The official said: What's going on?
Everyone looked confused. Except for a few officials here, most of them were craftsmen.
This thing seems to have deviated from the knowledge of craftsmen, and people don’t quite understand the problem.
An official from the Afang Office turned around and said to Guo Shao: General Guo, I know someone and have built a water truck. Why would you call him here to take a look?
good.Guo Shao nodded.
He gradually calmed down from the depression of failure. He knew that there would always be setbacks in trying. Scientists tried to build light bulbs countless times... Although this mechanical forging hammer is relatively simple in structure, mainly based on principles such as transmission belts and pulleys, the principles are not unfamiliar with Guo Shao; however, he did not have any spare time in fiddling with this thing before, and he had no practical experience at all.
It was indeed too novel for the ancients; the ancients were also creative, but the development of technology was based on previous experience, and occasionally making one or two details was a slow process.
Suddenly something completely new comes, and it takes a process for them to accept it... Just as there are words that are separated by actions like mountains, this is true for unfamiliar things.
Guo Shao walked back and forth in the two rooms several times and said: There is a problem with the design of the opening and closing pendant connecting the forging hammer and the chain, and the intention cannot be realized during operation, so we have to find a way again.
The experienced blacksmiths and shipbuilders around him were also confused, and no one could take on the topic of Guo Shao.
Guo Shao asked someone to put paper and ink in the workshop, and immediately drew a sketch according to the structure in front of him and thought about it.
What do you think? Semi-automatic design steps are too big and difficult to achieve for the time being. The structure needs to be simplified. The simpler the process, the less likely it is to have problems.
He also found that the chain at the edge of the millstone leads to the holes in the wall in a diagonal direction, and he intuitively reduced the distance the chain was pulled (the forging hammer could not be pulled too high).
I immediately drew a triangle on the paper, calculated it with the trigonometric function, and determined my own judgment.
The officials and craftsmen stared at Guo Shao drawing pictures in a daze, writing all kinds of symbols that they couldn't understand at all, all of them were in a fog.
Guo Shao didn't want to scare them, let alone explain it. Now, starting with the Arabic numerals and formula symbols, how can we explain it clearly to everyone?
There were also mathematicians in ancient times, such as those who wrote Nine Chapters Arithmetic and Pythagorean theorem, but they were a few after all; there were no less than a few thousand officials in Tokyo alone, and no one knew who was good at... Anyway, most people, including civil servants, did not understand the more complicated geometric rules, and perhaps the officials of the Imperial Heaven Supervision would be more expert.
These two mills must be repaired and raised.Guo Shao said to Luo Jiye, don’t put the donkey pulling the millstone in the cellar, put it on the ground; raise the "millstone" and lift it up.
Luo Jiye gestured and asked a few questions, understanding what Guo Shao meant.
Guo Shao took out the redesigned and simplified pendant installation diagram, walked to the forging hammer, pointed at the things on the spot and explained it to Luo Jiye.Some of the structures have to be reassembled, there is nothing we can do about it.
……
Guo Du left the government office early every day. I heard that he was with a group of civil servants and craftsmen?Shi Yanchao was doing nothing in the office in front of the hall, so he sat there chatting with Yuan Yan.
Yuan Yan said: Last time, the envoy Wang Shumi mentioned that it seemed that Guo Du wanted to make new armor.
Shi Yanchao was stunned and turned to laugh and said: I almost forgot, I heard that General Guo was a blacksmith before!Ha ha……
Yuan Yan was a little more steady. When he heard something joking about Guo Shao, he did not follow suit and sat there without saying a word.
Shi Yanchao said: I don’t understand. Guo Du ordered the Imperial Army General to do something hard, what should he do if he was in charge of military weapons supervision? If he hadn't asked Xiang Gong to fight Hanzhong and choose a good person, Hanzhong would have become our territory now... Now it's so comfortable. He couldn't steal chickens and lost rice. He spent a lot of money and food, but he didn't get anything. The court did a loss-making business.
Yuan Yan originally wanted to say that Xiang Gong was not a mediocre person, but Shi Yanchao didn't seem to be very fond of Xiang Gong, so he was too lazy to argue with Shi Yanchao.
...On the 12th day of the 12th lunar month, Guo Shao came to the workshop in the outer city again and found that the workshop was already operational.
There was a piece of felt on the anvil below, and the two big wheels next door turned and it was loud and loud.Guo Shao shouted: Prepare some tung oil and apply oil everywhere and it won’t be so loud!
Seven or eight donkeys pull the big wheel to rotate near the axis, and they don’t walk very quickly; but the other small wheel is several times smaller, and the speed is faster.So the chains here move up and down faster.
Wow!With a loud noise, the forging hammer weighing more than a thousand pounds was suddenly pulled to the height of the beam, like a large water gate being pulled open violently.
A wooden stick next to the forging hammer hit a pair of copper bells with a jingle.
The craftsman standing next to him heard the copper ringtone and pulled the rope hard. The iron hook of the oiled pendant was very thick and into a flat V shape, with both sides tilted; the chain deflected to the side as the craftsman pulled... The pendant was immediately unhooked, and the heavy forging hammer fell down...
There was a loud bang, and although the anvil was covered with felt, the forging hammer of more than a thousand kilograms still made a deafening sound when it hit it.
It was said that the chain head was driven and moved very quickly. There was also a bump of iron weighing dozens of kilograms hanging on the chain head, pulling the chain straight.
Due to the gravity of the iron lumps, the V-shaped iron hook directly pressed the inclined surface of the iron hook into the door shaped hanger of the forging hammer.
The re-engaged forging hammer was immediately pulled up by the iron chain. Two sounds of ding and ding, the sounds of the forging hammer rising and falling past the copper bell.
Bang!Smash on the anvil again, repeating this.
Haha... Guo Shao couldn't help laughing, and everyone laughed when they saw this, and for a moment, the workshop was cheering.
So the craftsman swept away the pounded felt grass, clamped a piece of red wrought iron with tongs, placed it on the anvil, and hurriedly pulled another square shield with an open hole to protect the front.
With a clang, the red square iron block was flattened.The craftsman carefully adjusted the position of the wrought iron with tongs behind the shield, and tilted it less, and then it was smashed with a clang.
After forging five or six times, he clamped out the already flat wrought iron; another craftsman clamped another red iron piece.
The thin piece of flat iron that was stuck in the cracks of the rock was bent with a hammer, replaced and folded and forged.
Guo Shao looked at it for a while and smiled: It is said that Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu, can lift a thousand-pound cauldron, but the King of Overlords cannot compare to this thing; we can increase the wheels and use a few more mules to lift two thousand pounds or several thousand pounds.
Luo Jiye laughed and said: The Western Overlord cannot hold the cauldron to do the blacksmith's work and to make iron in the shop.
Hahaha... Everyone burst into laughter again.
Guo Shao turned to look at the Afang Office and ordered Wang Hong: Another day, I will let Kaifeng Prefecture requisition land around here. You will summon the craftsmen who made Afang and let Luo Jiye build more workshops according to the sizes of forging hammers and gears here; make three sizes, and double the sizes of forging hammers, or double the sizes.With this thing, we can create a new brand.
Wang Hong said: The emperor will receive the order.
Guo Shao also said: All the craftsmen involved in this matter receive monthly salary like elite soldiers in the front office of the palace, and ordered them to keep the secret of the craftsmanship and behead those who leaked it to outsiders!
Everyone came to their senses from laughter... Since Guo Shao has been in the workshop for more than a month and has no airs to talk to craftsmen, everyone really rarely feels his power.
Guo Shao took out a drawing: The anvil and forging hammer cannot be all flat. First cast and anneale to be used for cold forging and stamping shapes.After making an anvil, try forging a few helmets.
The helmets used by the imperial guards are not uniform now. There are two main processes: one is the whole casting, regardless of strength, the disadvantage is that they are thick and heavy, and the cast iron parts cannot be thin; the other is the forged iron sheet inlay, and the holes are connected by rivets. The disadvantage is that there are many processes and are troublesome.
In fact, the disadvantage of the ring lock armor currently used is not mainly the problem of defense, but also the difficulty of building it, so the armor rate of the imperial guards raised by the whole country is less than one-third; a pair of ring lock armor needs to be connected by hundreds of iron pieces, and requires blacksmiths with experience and skills. It takes about twenty or thirty people a whole month to build a full body armor... It is so inefficient and expensive, mainly due to labor costs.
Guo Shao is doing this thing just to use cold forging to stamp it into a large-area plate armor.
The combination still uses the popular process at this time, and uses rivets to tap and inlay.
However, design is the most difficult part. If some moving parts are iron-clad, it will affect people's actions.
So it’s not time to start producing plate armor, so try making a helmet first.The plate armor is slowly trying to design... No matter what, at least the technical foundation of stamping has been realized.
Let the donkey stop quickly!The craftsman leader Luo Jiye shouted, stuck.
Guo Shao looked up at the cast iron lumps that were forged hammers hanging in the air and could not fall. The chain was pulled and ticticactic, and it seemed that ten thousand grass and mud horses were whistling by in his heart.
This workshop has been busy for a month, and just like this, you can imagine his depression.
After a while, the donkey in the cellar next door was driven and reversed, and finally slowly put down the forging hammer. Fortunately, it did not damage the thing... If it collapsed directly if it could not be used in the first experiment, it would probably hurt even more.
The craftsmen have worked for so long, but they see that it is useless, and occasionally some people complain and discuss in the distance.
Someone quietly muttered, thinking that Guo Shao couldn't hear it, so why didn't people just pull the rope straight up and down and pound rice, but they had to repair such things...
Luo Jiye hurriedly took out the picture he drew, frowned and looked at it, bent down and said to Guo Shao: I am as General Guo wants, and I dare not cut corners.
There was also an official from the Afang Office next to him. The official said: What's going on?
Everyone looked confused. Except for a few officials here, most of them were craftsmen.
This thing seems to have deviated from the knowledge of craftsmen, and people don’t quite understand the problem.
An official from the Afang Office turned around and said to Guo Shao: General Guo, I know someone and have built a water truck. Why would you call him here to take a look?
good.Guo Shao nodded.
He gradually calmed down from the depression of failure. He knew that there would always be setbacks in trying. Scientists tried to build light bulbs countless times... Although this mechanical forging hammer is relatively simple in structure, mainly based on principles such as transmission belts and pulleys, the principles are not unfamiliar with Guo Shao; however, he did not have any spare time in fiddling with this thing before, and he had no practical experience at all.
It was indeed too novel for the ancients; the ancients were also creative, but the development of technology was based on previous experience, and occasionally making one or two details was a slow process.
Suddenly something completely new comes, and it takes a process for them to accept it... Just as there are words that are separated by actions like mountains, this is true for unfamiliar things.
Guo Shao walked back and forth in the two rooms several times and said: There is a problem with the design of the opening and closing pendant connecting the forging hammer and the chain, and the intention cannot be realized during operation, so we have to find a way again.
The experienced blacksmiths and shipbuilders around him were also confused, and no one could take on the topic of Guo Shao.
Guo Shao asked someone to put paper and ink in the workshop, and immediately drew a sketch according to the structure in front of him and thought about it.
What do you think? Semi-automatic design steps are too big and difficult to achieve for the time being. The structure needs to be simplified. The simpler the process, the less likely it is to have problems.
He also found that the chain at the edge of the millstone leads to the holes in the wall in a diagonal direction, and he intuitively reduced the distance the chain was pulled (the forging hammer could not be pulled too high).
I immediately drew a triangle on the paper, calculated it with the trigonometric function, and determined my own judgment.
The officials and craftsmen stared at Guo Shao drawing pictures in a daze, writing all kinds of symbols that they couldn't understand at all, all of them were in a fog.
Guo Shao didn't want to scare them, let alone explain it. Now, starting with the Arabic numerals and formula symbols, how can we explain it clearly to everyone?
There were also mathematicians in ancient times, such as those who wrote Nine Chapters Arithmetic and Pythagorean theorem, but they were a few after all; there were no less than a few thousand officials in Tokyo alone, and no one knew who was good at... Anyway, most people, including civil servants, did not understand the more complicated geometric rules, and perhaps the officials of the Imperial Heaven Supervision would be more expert.
These two mills must be repaired and raised.Guo Shao said to Luo Jiye, don’t put the donkey pulling the millstone in the cellar, put it on the ground; raise the "millstone" and lift it up.
Luo Jiye gestured and asked a few questions, understanding what Guo Shao meant.
Guo Shao took out the redesigned and simplified pendant installation diagram, walked to the forging hammer, pointed at the things on the spot and explained it to Luo Jiye.Some of the structures have to be reassembled, there is nothing we can do about it.
……
Guo Du left the government office early every day. I heard that he was with a group of civil servants and craftsmen?Shi Yanchao was doing nothing in the office in front of the hall, so he sat there chatting with Yuan Yan.
Yuan Yan said: Last time, the envoy Wang Shumi mentioned that it seemed that Guo Du wanted to make new armor.
Shi Yanchao was stunned and turned to laugh and said: I almost forgot, I heard that General Guo was a blacksmith before!Ha ha……
Yuan Yan was a little more steady. When he heard something joking about Guo Shao, he did not follow suit and sat there without saying a word.
Shi Yanchao said: I don’t understand. Guo Du ordered the Imperial Army General to do something hard, what should he do if he was in charge of military weapons supervision? If he hadn't asked Xiang Gong to fight Hanzhong and choose a good person, Hanzhong would have become our territory now... Now it's so comfortable. He couldn't steal chickens and lost rice. He spent a lot of money and food, but he didn't get anything. The court did a loss-making business.
Yuan Yan originally wanted to say that Xiang Gong was not a mediocre person, but Shi Yanchao didn't seem to be very fond of Xiang Gong, so he was too lazy to argue with Shi Yanchao.
...On the 12th day of the 12th lunar month, Guo Shao came to the workshop in the outer city again and found that the workshop was already operational.
There was a piece of felt on the anvil below, and the two big wheels next door turned and it was loud and loud.Guo Shao shouted: Prepare some tung oil and apply oil everywhere and it won’t be so loud!
Seven or eight donkeys pull the big wheel to rotate near the axis, and they don’t walk very quickly; but the other small wheel is several times smaller, and the speed is faster.So the chains here move up and down faster.
Wow!With a loud noise, the forging hammer weighing more than a thousand pounds was suddenly pulled to the height of the beam, like a large water gate being pulled open violently.
A wooden stick next to the forging hammer hit a pair of copper bells with a jingle.
The craftsman standing next to him heard the copper ringtone and pulled the rope hard. The iron hook of the oiled pendant was very thick and into a flat V shape, with both sides tilted; the chain deflected to the side as the craftsman pulled... The pendant was immediately unhooked, and the heavy forging hammer fell down...
There was a loud bang, and although the anvil was covered with felt, the forging hammer of more than a thousand kilograms still made a deafening sound when it hit it.
It was said that the chain head was driven and moved very quickly. There was also a bump of iron weighing dozens of kilograms hanging on the chain head, pulling the chain straight.
Due to the gravity of the iron lumps, the V-shaped iron hook directly pressed the inclined surface of the iron hook into the door shaped hanger of the forging hammer.
The re-engaged forging hammer was immediately pulled up by the iron chain. Two sounds of ding and ding, the sounds of the forging hammer rising and falling past the copper bell.
Bang!Smash on the anvil again, repeating this.
Haha... Guo Shao couldn't help laughing, and everyone laughed when they saw this, and for a moment, the workshop was cheering.
So the craftsman swept away the pounded felt grass, clamped a piece of red wrought iron with tongs, placed it on the anvil, and hurriedly pulled another square shield with an open hole to protect the front.
With a clang, the red square iron block was flattened.The craftsman carefully adjusted the position of the wrought iron with tongs behind the shield, and tilted it less, and then it was smashed with a clang.
After forging five or six times, he clamped out the already flat wrought iron; another craftsman clamped another red iron piece.
The thin piece of flat iron that was stuck in the cracks of the rock was bent with a hammer, replaced and folded and forged.
Guo Shao looked at it for a while and smiled: It is said that Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu, can lift a thousand-pound cauldron, but the King of Overlords cannot compare to this thing; we can increase the wheels and use a few more mules to lift two thousand pounds or several thousand pounds.
Luo Jiye laughed and said: The Western Overlord cannot hold the cauldron to do the blacksmith's work and to make iron in the shop.
Hahaha... Everyone burst into laughter again.
Guo Shao turned to look at the Afang Office and ordered Wang Hong: Another day, I will let Kaifeng Prefecture requisition land around here. You will summon the craftsmen who made Afang and let Luo Jiye build more workshops according to the sizes of forging hammers and gears here; make three sizes, and double the sizes of forging hammers, or double the sizes.With this thing, we can create a new brand.
Wang Hong said: The emperor will receive the order.
Guo Shao also said: All the craftsmen involved in this matter receive monthly salary like elite soldiers in the front office of the palace, and ordered them to keep the secret of the craftsmanship and behead those who leaked it to outsiders!
Everyone came to their senses from laughter... Since Guo Shao has been in the workshop for more than a month and has no airs to talk to craftsmen, everyone really rarely feels his power.
Guo Shao took out a drawing: The anvil and forging hammer cannot be all flat. First cast and anneale to be used for cold forging and stamping shapes.After making an anvil, try forging a few helmets.
The helmets used by the imperial guards are not uniform now. There are two main processes: one is the whole casting, regardless of strength, the disadvantage is that they are thick and heavy, and the cast iron parts cannot be thin; the other is the forged iron sheet inlay, and the holes are connected by rivets. The disadvantage is that there are many processes and are troublesome.
In fact, the disadvantage of the ring lock armor currently used is not mainly the problem of defense, but also the difficulty of building it, so the armor rate of the imperial guards raised by the whole country is less than one-third; a pair of ring lock armor needs to be connected by hundreds of iron pieces, and requires blacksmiths with experience and skills. It takes about twenty or thirty people a whole month to build a full body armor... It is so inefficient and expensive, mainly due to labor costs.
Guo Shao is doing this thing just to use cold forging to stamp it into a large-area plate armor.
The combination still uses the popular process at this time, and uses rivets to tap and inlay.
However, design is the most difficult part. If some moving parts are iron-clad, it will affect people's actions.
So it’s not time to start producing plate armor, so try making a helmet first.The plate armor is slowly trying to design... No matter what, at least the technical foundation of stamping has been realized.
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