2537 Weapons Pavilion
It has been decades since the late emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and there has been no significant progress.
Therefore, when Eunuch Qi heard that Gu Xiaowan said that she could try it, Eunuch Qi was frightened and surprised at the same time.
This Princess Anping always has some weird things in her head. Maybe she can really come up with ideas for this iron and forging thing. If it is really possible to forge better weapons than Nanling, then the emperor will not have to worry about Nanling's iron smelting technology at all!
Thinking of this, Eunuch Qi was a little excited and asked Gu Xiaowan: "Princess Anping, do you really know how to smelt iron and forge? The emperor has been troubled by this weapon for so many years. We usually use better weapons. They were all picked up from Nanling on the battlefield, but there is no reason to pick up things that others have used, and I don’t know how Nanling is smelted and forged, but the weapons they make are much better than ours!"
Although Gu Xiaowan has never practiced iron, she visited many iron and steel smelting companies when she was studying, and she also learned from many masters.
The weapons smelted and forged in ancient times were either too hard or too brittle. The reason was all a matter of steel.
The higher the carbon content of the steel within a reasonable range, the harder it will be.
Gu Xiaowan said: "Eunuch Qi, don't worry. I have read about iron and forging in some book before, but I have never tried it myself. If not this time, we will go to the weapons pavilion to try it. If we can If we can make weapons more powerful than Nanling, then we don’t need to use Nanling’s iron smelting technology!”
Eunuch Qi's legs were shaking with excitement: "If that's really the case, princess, you will be the number one hero of the Qing Dynasty!"
Without further ado, the two of them quickly entered the weapons pavilion. It was said to be a weapons pavilion, but the only purpose here is iron smelting and forging, because the raw materials used for all weapons are iron. There is no good piece of iron, no matter how good it is. The weapons forged by the blacksmith will also be vulnerable.
The amount of steel inside determines the quality of the weapon. Therefore, there will be many scenes where people have seen cutting iron like mud. It is just the content of steel in the weapon.
The more brittle the weapon, the less steel content inside it. As long as it is hit by a hard object, it will be shattered. However, if there is too much steel content inside, it will break easily.
Therefore, everything must be done in a certain degree. Gu Xiaowan guessed that these masters did not know the secret of iron smelting and forging, so they forged batches of unqualified weapons!
After entering the weapons pavilion, the forging masters saw that Eunuch Qi, who was beside the emperor, was coming. They gathered around him and said, "Eunuch Qi, is the emperor coming to inspect again? Hey, Eunuch Qi, it's not that we are careless. , Actually, look at it, hey..."
One of the masters pointed at the scrap metal on the ground, which was either bent or broken, and a sword had been lying there in good condition. Gu Xiaowan's eyes fell on the sword, and Eunuch Qi saw it. , said: "That's Nanling's sword that we picked up on the battlefield. Look, these abandoned weapons were all made like this by it!"
Eunuch Qi sighed helplessly and said.
Gu Xiaowan picked up a piece of iron that was broken into two halves and asked, "Master, what is your surname? How long have you been coming to the weapons pavilion?"
The leader who came here should be the person in charge here.
The master hurriedly said: "The civilian's surname is Wan, and he has been in the weapons pavilion for more than a year!"
Eunuch Qi on the side said: "This Master Wan was already here when the weapons pavilion was built!"
Gu Xiaowan nodded and asked: "Master Wan, I'm not asking you how you smelted iron before or how you forged it. Can you help me? Do you have any unsmelted iron here?" "
She planned to start from smelting iron to forging.
When Master Wan saw a little girl talking, he didn't dare to look down upon her. After all, it was Eunuch Qi who brought her here himself, so he said, "Yes, what is the use of this girl?"
Eunuch Qi then said: "This is Princess Anping!"
When the masters saw it, it turned out to be Princess Anping, and they all came to pay their respects. Gu Xiaowan waved her hands and said, "There are not so many false gifts, let's start smelting iron first!"
The master hurriedly took out the ore and was about to put it in the crucible to burn it. Gu Xiaowan asked him not to worry, and then said: "You go get charcoal, black beans, and soil powder!"
It was the first time for Master Wan to see it cooked like this, and he was a little surprised. However, he looked at Eunuch Qi beside him, nodded and told them to do it, but no one dared to say anything and went to find charcoal.
Gu Xiaowan once told the iron smelting master that there was a special chapter on smelting in "Tiangong Kaiwu".
In this technique, the workpiece is shaped and placed into a container such as a crucible, then covered with charcoal, black beans, and soil powder, and heated outside the container. Charcoal and tempeh are naturally used for carburizing, and the soil powder is still a dispersant. The advantage of this carburizing technology is that the carburization of the workpiece is very uniform and stable, the carbon potential is very high, and the efficiency and effect are quite good.
In fact, this technique is still used in modern times and is the so-called "steel stewing method".
After bringing the things that Gu Xiaowan wanted to use, the masters began to cook them. It took a lot of time to cook them. Gu Xiaowan and Qi Gong agreed to come back tomorrow morning.
Eunuch Qi came out of the weapons pavilion and saw Gu Xiaowan, who had always been worried. He was also a little upset: "Princess Anping, is your method really feasible?"
Gu Xiaowan didn't know if it would work, but such a forging method was once written in "Tiangong Kaiwu". It should not be much different, so she said: "Eunuch Qi, don't worry, go back and serve the emperor as soon as possible. It will work." , I don’t know either, I can only wait for it to be forged tomorrow
After comparing the weapons with those from Nanling, I found out! "
Seeing Princess Anping say this, Eunuch Qi nodded in agreement: "Then let me send the princess back!"
Gu Xiaowan waved her hand and said: "No, the Princess Palace and the Royal Study are in different directions. The Emperor should have woken up by now. You'd better go back quickly. The Emperor cannot leave you!"
Seeing that Princess Anping was so attentive to the emperor, Eunuch Qi was also very happy and said with a smile: "If the emperor knows that you are so attentive to him, the emperor will definitely be happy!"