Chapter 63: Put shoes on horses!

Author: March

Chapter 63: Put shoes on horses!

Horseshoe is easy to be ignored, but this thing is very practical and can effectively extend the shelf life of war horses and reduce the damage rate of war horses.

Zhao Si has an impression of this thing, and it will take a long time before horseshoe will be born in the Central Plains.

However, horseshoe and horseshoe, the iron smelting in Zhuxia during this period is hard to describe. It is currently mostly used in the category of agricultural tools, and I don’t know whether it is qualified or not.

The quality of bronze is definitely qualified, but bronze is expensive. A horseshoe is just a ready-made Qin Banliang.

"What are you thinking?" Wang Li asked when he noticed Zhao Si's expression of contemplation.

"I'm thinking of putting shoes on horses." Zhao Si replied seriously.

"Put your horses shoes?" Wang Li showed a strange expression on his face.

"The horse is not a human, so you can't run two steps and a pair of shoes? Besides, the horse has horse's hooves, and you are not afraid of hurting your feet. It's unreasonable to wear shoes on the horse?" Wang Li said.

"The horse is not afraid of hurting the feet, but the horse's hooves are afraid of wear and tear." Zhao Si shook his head.

When Wang Li heard this, he thought about it seriously.

"So as you say, it is true. If the horses run for a long time, the horse's hooves will indeed wear out. You have to wait and rest for a while and keep the horse's hooves for a while."

No matter how mediocre Wang Li has a mediocre qualification, he will never even know such things.

"But if you say, putting shoes on the horse will be worn in less than two days. Even if it is a skinny person, it will not be worth the loss." Wang Li continued to retort.

"So, what about iron?" Zhao Si smiled and drew a horseshoe on the ground.

Like a saddle, horseshoe is also not technically difficult. The main difficulty of this thing lies in how to nail the horse. If the horse is unhappy, it will be either dead or injured if it goes down.

A U-shaped horseshoe was drawn on the ground, and Zhao Si spoke to explain.

"Make a horseshoe of appropriate size according to the size of the horseshoe and nail the object into the horseshoe. Wouldn't you be afraid of wearing off the horseshoe?" Zhao Si said with a smile.

The more Wang Li looked at him, the more he became more happy. The more he looked at him, the more he felt that Zhao Si was right. He put his hands together and showed a joyful expression on his face: "It's amazing!"

Horseshoes, like kicks and saddles, are both problems of design ideas. Even if there are technical problems, they are not a big problem, and it is relatively simple to overcome them.

However, nowadays, iron is generally relatively brittle. Zhao Si doesn't know if the horse's socks will break when the horse runs two steps. If this is true, it will involve industrial upgrading.

It is definitely no problem if pig iron is not good enough.

Maybe it will accelerate the transformation of the Qin Dynasty's industrial transformation. After all, the copper mines in the Qin Dynasty are really not enough. They have to be buried with them, weapons, money, and armor.

The practicality of horseshoes and stirrups is there, and the demand has increased significantly and there is indeed insufficient copper ore, the speed of industrial transformation will inevitably accelerate.

"It's amazing!" This time, it was these craftsmen who spoke.

There was also emotion and regret in my eyes.

"These three things are simple, easy to make, but practical!"

Zhao Si just smiled. After all, he had never really used it. Everyone just judged that this thing was definitely useful based on experience. When they were made, they would know how meaningful this thing was.

These three things can directly double the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin cavalry, or even more than once.

The training speed of cavalry will also be greatly accelerated!

How important is the significance of liberating your hands on the horse's back?

The mobility will also be greatly enhanced. After all, the comfort and riding difficulty on the horse's back are reduced, and the wear of the horse's hooves is also greatly reduced.

"Let's get it out first!"

After saying that, Zhao Si asked again: "How is the paper I explained before?"

When this is mentioned, the craftsmen have a constipated look on their faces.

They proposed to weave paper before, but Zhao Si rejected it. Later, Zhao Si said that they were soaking in water, and then took it out and dried it with yarn.

It was done, it was... hard to describe it.

Under the leadership of Zhao Si and others, he witnessed the first piece of paper of this era.

The raw material is hemp, the color is not white, and it looks uneven.

And the worst thing is that the fiber is very large, it is strip-shaped, the paper is uneven in thickness, and there are still holes.

Zhao Si was about to pick it up, stretched out his hand, and it broke as soon as he pinched it.

"This is what you said before, it really can't be used."

"It's definitely not useful. The steps I said are not complete." Zhao Si smiled awkwardly.

The steps he mentioned were several steps he barely remembered. Of course, papermaking is not that simple, and if you remember correctly, the period of papermaking in ancient times was very long.

To be honest, the prototype we have made now is not as paper. It is so irritating to wipe the butt, but it still has a lot of meaning.

Zhao Si carefully observed the problem of what he had made now, which was barely called paper.

Zhao Si really can't remember the process of papermaking, but it is not impossible to analyze the principles of papermaking based on a modern person.

Combined with the bad papers that appeared in the manufacture, Zhao Si fell into deep thought.

The principle of papermaking is essentially a process of decomposing plant fibers and then recombining plant fibers.

Now there is a problem, either the problem is broken down or the problem is reorganized.

There are certainly some soaking steps, soaking should be to isolate plant fibers.

It is certain that some steps are missing in the middle. Combined with the failed test samples, Zhao Si began to ponder the principle of papermaking.

"If you can't soak it, just try cooking?" Zhao Si said.

Then……

Zhao Si tried hard to recall and remembered that he had seen it on TV that the final semi-finished thing was very similar to water.

In other words, plant fiber optic is not enough.

And the failed product has proved that the paper with heeled plant fibers mixed with strips of heels after soaking is completely useless.

"The raw material is plant fiber, not water!" Zhao Si seemed to have caught something.

After soaking, the plant fibers are still in strips, and they will be loose, loose and broken when dried together after being loose.

Then break the soaked and cooked plant fibers and make a mixer...

There is no mixer in this era? It's okay, it can be manually done.

"Soak, cook, smash, scatter, and spread it thoroughly. Then chop and hammer the hammer until it is fine and cannot be finer. Then sift water seep out. If one layer is not enough, then two or three layers!"

"By the way, you can't dry it directly! You have to dry it in the shade!" Zhao Si suddenly remembered a key step.

Many people have experienced washing money in a washing machine. Dry money and drying in the sun are completely different concepts. Drying in the vagina is likely to be one of the key steps in papermaking.

Zhao Si crushed the bad paper made by the craftsmen.

"You guys should notify me earlier. Although there is no paper that can be used, it is already considered paper. Without it, I don't know when I will think of it." Zhao Si said seriously.

Failure is the mother of success, and the principle of papermaking is not very high-end, especially when Zhao Si still remembers several of the steps.

Addition to add the key papermaking technique of chopping hammer crushing and drying steps, Zhao Si has a feeling that it is not far from success.

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Tip, the summary of the protagonist of this chapter is something I have imagined directly without Baidu's specific steps.

It is not much different from the complete papermaking steps. Of course, the paper produced by this method can only be said to be barely useful.
Chapter completed!