On this day, when Fei Qian finished his official duties and saw Huang Yueying again, he did not expect that Huang Yueying was actually holding a knife in her hand!
What is this for?
Fei Qian's eyes widened.
Although the one in Huang Yueying's hand is not a hatchet, it is not a knife either. It has a slight curvature. Well, it looks a bit familiar...
"Ah! Lang Jun! I figured it out!" Huang Yueying was obviously thinking about something before. When she saw Fei Qian, her first reaction was not to put down the knife, but she said with a little joy.
"Uh..." Fei Qian was a little embarrassed. This line seemed to be inexplicably familiar, "Okay, just think about it, but can you put down the knife first?"
Huang Yueying was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head, and found that she was actually holding a knife. She couldn't help but burst out laughing, then put it on the table, beckoning Fei Qian to come over, "Don't stand so far away... this one
The knife has the shape you mentioned before, Lang Jun. It was forged with great difficulty and is really good for cutting... Lang Jun, look at it..."
Most of the Chinese war knives are straight curved knives, that is, if the sword is turned sideways, the blade will be tilted up. However, the current sword is a reverse curved sword, which is also commonly known as a dog-leg knife.
The advantages and disadvantages of the dog-leg knife are very obvious. Because the center of gravity is forward, it is almost full value in chopping. But when it comes to penetration ability, it can only be haha...
"I tried several molds and found that two feet two is the largest..." Huang Yueying stood next to Fei Qian and said with some regret, "If it were longer, it would feel like an axe, which is quite bulky...
"
Fei Qian nodded, looked at the blade on the kukri, and weighed it in his hand. Strangely enough, when holding this type of knife, he always had the urge to slash something, so he couldn't help but glance around.
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Huang Yueying covered her mouth and smiled, and then said to Huang Xu in the hall: "Zi Chu, let someone find a wooden target."
Fei Qian tipped the knife and walked toward the courtyard, saying, "What did you say just now?"
"I also changed some farm tools in Pingyang and found some old farmers on the road..." Huang Yueying recounted what she encountered on the road, "Then, I saw this knife, and then I was thinking
Ah, the same is true for the choices of old farmers. As for farming tools, there is really no way to cover everything. You can only focus on one area... just like this knife, which is good for chopping..."
This kind of kukri was originally specially developed by Fei Qian for the mountain soldiers, but climbing the technology tree is not like in the game. You can accumulate some skill points and click on them to use them immediately, and instantly change the equipment of the entire army.
, so now that the mountain soldiers are quite mature, this kukri can be considered successfully developed.
For mountain soldiers, the traditional straight curved knife is not very easy to use. If it exceeds three feet, they will often encounter tree branches, rattan, etc. when cutting, so now they use a smaller version of the straight curved knife.
But the shrunken regular scimitar, because its weight and length have been reduced, its fighting power is also reduced...
The dog-leg knife can make up for this problem.
At the same time, in the mountains, the dog-leg knife is also a very useful tool knife. It can be said to be a special weapon that is extremely suitable for mountain soldiers.
Huang Xu had someone carry a wooden stake covered with hay, then drove it into the soil in the courtyard and erected it.
Fei Qian stood in front of the wooden stake, exhaled loudly, focused his strength on the recurved blade, and slashed across the wooden stake with a single stroke, and the wooden stake broke with a sound!
"Well, it's really good! Here, you try it!" Fei Qian threw the dog-leg knife to Huang Xu, who was standing aside and was a little jealous.
Huang Xu was not polite. He took the knife and began to destroy the wooden pile. He chopped horizontally and vertically. After several cuts, the wooden pile was immediately chopped into pieces...
"Good sword! Good sword!" Huang Xu turned over again and looked at the blade which was still not dulled much. He couldn't help but praise it, "If the cavalry were also equipped with this kind of sword, it wouldn't be a big deal to cut off the horse's head with one sword!
"
"Cavalry?" Fei Qian smiled, shook his head and said, "Cavalry is not suitable for this kind of knife. This is a knife for close combat. Cavalry is a different kind of knife. It is lighter and sharper. It can cut and pierce... only
However, our current steel is not good enough, so we only temporarily replace it with the Huanshou sword. When the steel is better in the future, we can switch to a lighter and stronger cavalry sword... Think about it, this sword cannot be too long, too long
Not only is it heavy, but it is also inconvenient to ride on a horse. At the same time, the piercing ability of this knife is average... So if you want to pursue heavy-weight chopping, you might as well just use an ax..."
Huang Xu flipped the knife, a little surprised, and then nodded, "That's true... but this knife is really good at cutting..."
"Just keep it if you like it..." Fei Qian chuckled, and then said, "In terms of chopping alone, this knife is considered first-class..."
"Thank you for the reward, my lord!" Huang Xu happily prepared to put the sword into the scabbard, but found that the scabbard was also different from ordinary swords. It had a side hole. Although it was the first time he saw it, but with his understanding of weapons,
, Huang Xu knew how to store it without any instructions, "Hey, this scabbard... is a bit interesting, a bit interesting..."
Ignoring Huang Xu's muttering, Fei Qian waved his hand and asked Huang Xu to lead the people to clean up the mess in the yard. Of course, chopping wood piles was fun for a while, but it couldn't be fun all the time. After all, the wood residue and grass fragments all over the yard were not the same.
thing……
Fei Qian sat next to Huang Yueying and said: "Actually, the old farmer you just mentioned, there may be another reason for choosing which one is heavier... which one is heavier... has more iron...
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"Acridine?" Huang Yueying was stunned for a moment, and her big eyes suddenly became a little confused, "Isn't it for greater convenience and ease of use?"
Fei Qian chuckled. This kind of thing is like asking a man whether he likes short or long hair, and then actually the man likes bigger hair. For an old farmer, of course it is good for hoeing and turning the soil, but heavy
It means more iron, and an iron tool is a great asset for an ordinary farmer, so it is naturally heavier...
Weapons must be diversified in order to have a strong advantage when fighting in different areas, but the diversification of agricultural tools may not be an advantage sometimes...
"So, now..." Fei Qian said slowly, "There are too many types of farm tools handed down from ancient times, which are actually not suitable for ordinary people... and on the other hand, there are too many different types of farm tools.
, it is also a burden for ordinary farmers and women... We can simplify it now, for example... well, sickle, hoe, axe, plow... these four iron farm tools should be more necessary, as for the others...
...Maybe it can be made of wood, maybe it can be replaced..."
Some farm tools have some repetitive functions, such as hoes and shovels, both of which are used for digging soil. Sometimes hoes are better to use, and sometimes shovels are better to use, but they are somewhat repetitive. Another example is hammers and axes, hatchets and sickles.
etc……
The oldest agricultural tools in China are all made of wood. Of course, some people are still using them today, such as the rake. The rake is the oldest digging tool. It can even be traced back to the period of the slave society's collection economy. It was made by digging for plants.
Developed from pointed wooden sticks...
A crossbar is installed at the lower end of a pointed wooden stick to facilitate foot stepping and make it easier to dig into the soil. This is a single-pointed stick. Later, a double-pointed stick was derived, which improved the efficiency of digging. Then the blade of the single-pointed stick developed into a flat blade.
The broad, plate-like blade resembles a shovel and becomes a wooden blade, which further improves its effectiveness.
Later, on the basis of grass, many different agricultural tools appeared, such as adzes, axes, axes, shovels, plows, sickles, plows, etc., which are almost the same as eighteen kinds of weapons. If there is a complete set of
After all, it is actually a considerable burden for ordinary farmers and women.
Now under Fei Qian's rule, the significance of unification is not only formal or administrative unification, but also has many aspects, among which the unification of agriculture and mulberry trees is also a very important link. The agricultural calendar is about to be promoted, and
Along with the new farming calendar, there is a natural need for a complete set of farming tools, and in this, Fei Qian can also mix in private goods of a unified standard without being discovered...
For example, how much does a pound weigh and how long does a foot measure? As long as these standards are applied to farm tools, these farmers will naturally understand how to apply these standards to their actual lives. At that time, other standards will naturally be slow to follow.
Slowly being merged...
If, like Qin Shihuang, he forcibly ordered the world to implement a certain standard, he would naturally encounter various problems. But like Fei Qian, who took advantage of the opportunity of improving farm tools and mixed the standard into it, even if it was
After discovering this problem, I have nothing to say.
When farmers accept these relatively easier-to-use tools, they naturally also accept the measurement standards reflected on these tools. A unified and stable measurement standard is the key to the advancement of science and technology in industry, agriculture, and society as a whole.
A foundation.
An inconspicuous but important foundation.
There were no conditions before, but now the conditions are slowly maturing, and it's just the right time. Either too early or too late is not the best time.
"You should have paid more attention to this matter..." Fei Qian smiled slightly, looked at Huang Yueying, and joked in a low voice: "Maybe after thousands of years, you will be called the ancestor of craftsmen or the ancestor of farm tools..."
It is impossible to let just anyone do something like this where you can collect reputation and control standards. So no matter from which perspective, Huang Yueying is the most suitable candidate.
Huang Yueying smiled and shook her head, but looked at Fei Qian and said: "I just want to help you, Mr. Lang... The rest, nameless or not, doesn't matter..."
Fei Qian stretched out his hand, shook Huang Yueying's hand, and said with a smile: "I know...but you don't care about these reputations, but other people need them..."
Huang Yueying tilted her head slightly, thought for a while, nodded, and held Fei Qian's hand with her backhand, smiling, "I went to the academy before I left..."
"Ah?" This time it was Fei Qian's turn to be stunned. His heart skipped a beat and he glanced at it. Fortunately, Huang Xu had already put away the dog-leg knife.
"Sister Cai... Well, maybe we should call her Sister Cai? Well, never mind..." Huang Yueying also became a little confused, "It seems that she is worried... I asked, but she refused to say... and
Ah, that person from the Cai family that Chen Liu came to is also annoying. When you were not in Pingyang, you were relying on the name of your master... Xun Youruo is not easy to deal with either..."
Hearing this, Fei Qian couldn't help but frown and said, "Did this person do some evil deeds?"
"There is nothing unforgivable, I just talk a lot every day..." Huang Yueying wrinkled her nose, forming a few small wrinkles, "Speaking of doing evil, I really didn't do anything bad, I just talked about this and that all day long...
... Drinking and partying every day, chatting about people, the buzz is annoying..."
"Drinking and partying every day? How much money did he get? Oh... I see..." Fei Qian sighed, where else could the money come from? It must have come from Cai Yan. I knew this Cai before.
Yan's so-called relatives were not a big deal, so he didn't pay much attention to them. I didn't expect that this guy didn't know whether it was because he felt that Pingyang was too good, or because he felt that there was constant war in Shandong, or for some other reason, he actually stayed in Pingyang like this.
After settling down, he never returned to Chenliu.
The Han Dynasty valued filial piety, and in terms of seniority, Cai Yan was a junior. In this current social moral standard, for the sake of the elders, the juniors would even strip naked and lie on the ice in the winter to beg for fish, let alone just take some spare money.
drink wine?
Raise filial piety and integrity, raise filial piety and integrity...
This excessive emphasis on loyalty and filial piety, or blindly emphasizing loyalty and filial piety regardless of other political guiding thoughts, must be changed now, otherwise this mode of thinking will only become more and more extreme, even to the point where it will become more extreme in later dynasties.
The kind of look that is almost perverted.
Loyalty and filial piety are virtues, but only emphasizing loyalty and filial piety on one person will lead to this person not knowing anything else and having no talents. This may not be a good thing for the entire society.
"And..." Huang Yueying saw that Fei Qian was in a daze, so she couldn't help but pull Fei Qian's hand, "She said she didn't want to come to Chang'an..."
"Ah? Why?" Fei Qian couldn't help but ask.
Huang Yueying wrinkled her nose again, squinted her big round eyes, and showed a bit of cunning: "How do I know? She didn't say..."
"Uh..." Fei Qian was slightly embarrassed, "This...that..."
"Okay, let's not talk anymore..." Huang Yueying turned her head, released Fei Qian's hand, and said, "It's been so long and I haven't seen you ask Zhen'er..."
"This..." Fei Qian was a little dumbfounded. Didn't you bring up this topic just now? Why are you talking about me again? But it was quickly replaced by another emotion, "Where is Zhen'er? I'll go and see it right away.
