Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

After talking about “food and clothing”, we will talk about “housing”.

In terms of living, Jiang Tuan had only one suggestion for Jiang Qi: to build a kang.

Jiang Tuan's grandmother's family lives in the countryside, and they would burn a kang in the winter. When he was a child, he lived in his grandmother's house and slept a lot.

In winter, he would rather sleep on the kang than get up because it was really comfortable. He thought it was a good thing that could be made, so how could he not recommend it to the Great Xia Dynasty.

"You mean, once the kang is built, it will only take a small amount of firewood to warm the house?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, even if the whole room cannot be heated up, the kang will be warm.

Although it is not as convenient as thick clothes that can be worn everywhere, at least it allows people to use less firewood, survive the cold winter, and avoid freezing to death. "

After listening to Jiang Tuan talk about so many new things, Jiang Qi felt that only the kang could be used by the people immediately and was not difficult to make.

He decided to try to build a kang in the palace first. There were enough rooms in the palace anyway, and even if he failed, it would not affect their lives.

After saying "live", the last word is "OK".

However, Jiang Tuan had nothing to say about this. He didn't know how to build cars or roads. All he could tell Jiang Qi was something about cement. Sorry, he didn't know how to do it.

After talking about the four aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation, seeing that Jiang Qi was still looking at him expectantly, Jiang Tuan had no choice but to say, "Your Majesty, I have finished talking about everything written in this plan."

"Nothing else?" Jiang Qi continued to ask without giving up.

"That's all. Your Majesty, you can just tell me what you want to hear. Maybe I missed something."

Seeing that Jiang Tuan really didn't expect it, Jiang Qi could only speak frankly: "In the world you live in, there is no fighting? No need for weapons? Those weapons can't be used in Daxia?"

In response to Jiang Qi's three questions, Jiang Tuan answered: "There is fighting and weapons, so it can't be done."

A place like Daxia has nothing. All weapons are made of bronze. Not to mention airplanes and cannons, even the most basic gunpowder cannot be produced in a short time.

Of course, his studies were not in vain. He remembered what he had learned before about sulfur, nitrate and charcoal. But remembering did not mean he could make it!

To make qualified explosives that can be used on the battlefield, simple formulas are far from enough.

"Can't do anything?"

Seeing that Jiang Qi was not giving up, Jiang Tuan could only say in detail: “Your Majesty, making those things requires a lot of preparation, the first of which is to have enough good materials.

For example, when it comes to making weapons, Daxia’s metal is far from meeting the standards, and at least iron is required.

But I don’t know much about the method of iron smelting. I have to try it bit by bit. Maybe Daxia will finish fighting with the Xiongnu before the iron is smelted.”

"Daxia has iron!"

Is there iron? Jiang Tuan thought that Daxia had no iron, but was he just taking it for granted?

However, when he thought of iron, the first thing that came to his mind had nothing to do with war, but was still about eating and drinking. He wanted to make an iron pot and cook some stir-fried food!

"Your Majesty, what does the iron here look like? Can you let me see it?"

It was just an iron tool, not a difficult task, Jiang Qi immediately asked Ning Bai to bring one over.

Jiang Tuan had never farmed himself, but he had seen some farm tools at his grandmother's house. For example, the thing Ning Bai brought now, he thought, if he was not mistaken, it should be a hoe.

“Is this a hoe?”

"Correct!"

After getting the correct answer, Jiang Tuan's first question was why there was a hoe in a place like the palace. His second question was, since there was iron, why did Daxia still use bronze?

He had seen the weapons of the palace guards, all of which were made of bronze. Isn't it said that iron is better than bronze? Why did the Great Xia Dynasty choose bronze weapons instead of iron?

Seeing Jiang Tuan's confused look, Ning Bai seemed to know what he was thinking and explained, "Mr. Jiang, this hoe is used to grow flowers. As for why iron is not used to make weapons, please see, sir."

As he said that, Ning Bai walked to the stone steps outside the palace and knocked the hoe hard, and it broke.

Yes, it broke very easily.

Is this still what he knows about iron? Could it be that the iron of the Great Xia Dynasty is not the same thing as the iron he knows? This is not the same thing! Jiang Tuan was too confused.

Ning Bai brought in the broken hoe, and Jiang Tuan took a closer look and realized that it was indeed iron, but the iron from the Great Xia Dynasty was too rough and very brittle.

Now he understood why the Great Xia Dynasty did not use iron weapons. If a weapon broke during a battle, it could be fatal!

However, since we have iron and coal, refining good iron is just a matter of time.

"I understand what's going on. It's not a big problem. If we improve it slowly, we should be able to make the iron stronger.

It would be even better if we could refine steel. Compared with today’s bronze ware, steel can be considered a divine weapon.”

Divine weapon!

Just four words made Jiang Qi very excited. If the soldiers on the border could get the weapons that Jiang Tuan mentioned, they would not be able to win every battle, but at least they would not be so passive.

After talking about food, clothing, housing, transportation and weapons, Jiang Tuan told Jiang Qi about the progress of papermaking.

"Your Majesty, I have asked people to prepare the papermaking equipment, but is it really appropriate to do it in the palace?"

It's appropriate, what's wrong with it? In Jiang Qi's heart, the palace is his home. He can do whatever he wants here, and who can say anything?

Besides, Jiang Tuan wanted to make paper, which was said to be very convenient and could completely replace silk, sheepskin and bamboo slips. What if such an important thing failed without Jiang Tuan watching over it?

But if the papermaking was done outside the palace, Jiang Tuan would have to leave the palace, and he was worried, so of course he chose to make it in the palace.

Anyway, the palace is big and he doesn't have that many concubines, so it's okay to find a place to make paper.

However, where to do it was not a big problem for him; the problem was that he doubted whether it could be done.

"Jiang Tuan, are you sure that those broken fishing nets, tree bark, bamboo and so on can really be made into the paper you mentioned?"

"Your Majesty, it can definitely be done, but I have never done it before. I just watched others do it. There are some key steps that the papermaker may not let me see, so I don't know what it will look like."

"It's okay, as long as it can be done. As long as it can be done, it will be much easier to improve it in the future."

Jiang Qi understood that the right way was to first solve the problem of whether the product existed, and then solve the problem of whether it was easy to use. If you were to consider whether the product was easy to use before it was made, you would be asking for trouble.

Okay, since Jiang Qi said so, Jiang Tuan naturally had no worries.