Hearing Ma Jun's words, Liu Ye felt a chill in his heart...
The smelting skills are far inferior. The same plate armor is 30% weaker, which is not unacceptable!
In order to improve Wei's technology and suppress the development of Chu, it is worth paying some price.
But despite all the efforts of skilled craftsmen, we can only produce a few dozen pairs per year?
This number completely dispelled Liu Ye's thoughts.
The Craftsman Camp of the Wei State was equivalent to the Ministry of Industry of the Chu State, plus some cooperating official workshops, which were responsible for developing new technologies and also controlled a large number of official craftsmen. The person in charge was the "Skilled Craftsman Military Advisor" Ma
Jun.
Not only does it represent Wei's cutting-edge technology, but it also represents a large part of Wei's official productivity...
In other words, almost all the blacksmiths in the official workshops of the Wei State did nothing but make dozens of sets a year?
And how is it possible to do nothing else?
"This... when Xu County rescued Miss Xiahou, Chu State dispatched hundreds of plate-armored heavy cavalry, and since King Chu was willing to trade, it was impossible for him to only have hundreds in his hands. Could it be that Wei State really had ten times more... No,
A hundred times as many craftsmen as ours?" Liu Ye asked in disbelief.
It is impossible for Chu State to stop all other projects, summon all craftsmen, and devote them all to making plate armor, right?
If this is really the case, how can it be easily traded?
"I suspect that some kind of mechanism technique should have been used when manufacturing the plate armor of Chu State." Ma Jun has a long face. Not only is he always stern, but he also speaks slowly.
"Mechanism technique?" Liu Ye said that he didn't understand. Isn't he a blacksmith? Why is it related to mechanism technique again?
"These sets of plate armor are almost identical, and there are no signs of forging. It seems that the fine steel plates were hammered into shape at one time with great strength." Ma Jun expressed his speculation.
Ma Jun also guessed correctly. There are currently two batches of Chu State's plate armor. The first one uses a stamping machine that lacks a power source and relies on the Jinling garrison generals to charge the energy in turn to stamp each component into shape at once.
, the second is to use water power to forge, save manpower, and slowly build...
The former is obviously of higher quality, while the latter is just equivalent to using water power, which saves pure labor and requires experienced blacksmiths to finish the work. Moreover, it can accept steel that is stamped in one go. It has lower toughness requirements and can have higher
intensity.
Not only can it be used to punch out concave shapes, but also for some buckle positions, it can also be used to directly punch a thin hole as long as a finger.
These fine holes are one of the important bases for Ma Jun to guess that Chu State used some kind of mechanism technique.
In comparison, the cost of hydraulically forged plate armor is still high and the quality is low.
Bai Tu doesn't plan to build plate armor forged by water power anymore. Water power will still be used for making swords, farm tools, or grinding and weaving.
Jinling is a royal city, and the nearby defenders are not only large in number, but also have a high proportion of elites. Without affecting training, it is still very easy to rush out of Wei State's two-year output every day - provided that there are no other large-scale Qi machine supplies.
capable projects.
"Having it hammered in one go? Doesn't it require a huge amount of force? How is that possible!" Liu Ye exclaimed.
Ma Jun turned to look at him, and after a few seconds of silence, he said: "The largest front armor part of the upper body, to hammer it so neatly at one time, requires about two thousand jun."
Qianjun, when mentioned generally, is just a function word, referring to a very large force.
One jun weighs thirty kilograms. One kilogram made in Han Dynasty is roughly equivalent to half a kilogram in later generations, which is 7kg. Qianjun...that is, just over 7 tons.
Liu Ye also didn't expect that Ma Jun would correct him so solemnly and "accurately" when he made a false finger, and it was twice as high as the false finger?
If Bai Tu heard what Ma Jun said, he would have a higher opinion of him - the estimate is quite accurate. The largest stamping machine in Chu State can indeed press up to more than 60,000 kilograms, which is equivalent to more than ten tons in later generations.
The stamping machine itself cannot be mass-produced, especially the force-bearing part. Like the tungsten steel seal, Yu Ji and Pang Tong cooperated and refined it bit by bit using "drawing symbols".
What is the concept of a punching machine with a capacity of more than ten tons?
An ordinary car body can be punched out with a fifty-ton stamping machine...
The largest part of the plate armor is much smaller and thinner than the car shell. It is just the "steel" mass-produced by the Chu State. Although it is as shameful as the steel produced by other princes, it is far less than that of later generations.
The texture, yield strength and hardness of steel cannot have the best of both worlds, so such a large stamping machine is needed.
"How is it possible? Two thousand pounds? Even Lu Bu..." Liu Ye said and looked at Xia Houyuan.
Seeing this, Xia Houyuan also shook his head and said: "Although I have not reached the level of a divine general, it is indeed very mysterious, but even General Dian...at most, he can only have the power of a thousand junctures when he explodes with all his strength."
Liu Ye:???
Really?
But Ma Jun's expression remained unchanged - he didn't know if he had a powerful force, but... it was useless if he had it. What's the use of a powerful burst of force?
Can it be used to break metal? Even if it can... what can it be used as a hammer for you?
One or two generals are of little significance for mass production!
Ma Jun's conclusion was actually very appealing to Pang Tong. For example, did Chu's first stamping machine rely on God to charge its energy in the future?
Even if Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Sun Ce were all summoned to provide energy together, they would still be able to produce three or four sets of plate armor in one day.
The reason for the large output is that more than 5,000 wood and stone warriors and more than 1,000 gilded warriors stationed near Jinling are charging the giant true energy storage device.
As for not converting the true energy, but directly operating the stamping machine with brute force?
Come on! Ten stamping machines are not enough for Sun Ce to dismantle in one day...
This is not a job that can be done with any strength.
Regardless of whether it was reasonable or not, Liu Ye at least believed in Ma Jun's estimate of Qiaojiangying's production capacity - dozens of pairs a year, which was impossible to count on!
In other words, at first glance, the technical content of this armor is not very high, and it is not even as heavy as human armor and has complicated craftsmanship. It will be the "specialty" of Chu State for a while.
And it’s impossible for Bai Tu not to know this. It seems that if he wants to purchase a large amount of plate armor in the future, he will definitely be killed.
…
At the same time, although other envoys did not know that Xia Houyuan actually came to Chu in person, they also knew that as a gift for the marriage, Wei was the first to get the first batch of plate armor samples!
Jian Yong, Liu Yi and others also hoped to see samples of plate armor here in Wei State in the name of visiting.
Regarding Jian Yong, Liu Yi and others' request to see samples, Liu Ye also pretended to be generous and agreed, but he didn't know whether the white picture would be sold to them.
Liu Ye was a little regretful. The envoys from all the major princes were basically there. If there were only one or two, he could discuss it privately and join forces to lower the price...
But now the Liaodong camp, represented by Liu Yi, even has a certain competitive relationship with Wei - they all want to be the first to eat the last remnants of the Yuan family.
Therefore, there is no such thing as joining forces to lower the price, and the price Bai Tu gives Wei Guo must be the lowest now, and Liu Ye doesn't want to be annoying in vain.