Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 333: Forging hammer

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At noon, Guo Shao had a drink of wine at Chen Jiali’s mansion and was helped to take a nap in the wing.

I don't know how long it took, Guo Shao suddenly woke up. When she opened her eyes, she saw Chen Jiali looking at her with affection. Guo Shao let out a long sigh, his chest "dangdangdang" jumped, only feeling that he was sweating profusely and his mouth was dry; when he turned to look at the charcoal fire in front of the bed It's too hot.

"Am I talking in a dream?" Guo Shao said in a daze.

Chen Jiali said quietly: "I heard General Guo say ‘Don’t kill me’ and ‘Don’t kill me." Are you being chased by someone in a nightmare?"

"It was a nightmare." Guo Shao stretched out his hand and wiped his sweat, thoughtfully, "but not being chased."

Chen Jiali curiously said: "What kind of nightmare I did, it scares you like this."

Guo Shao glanced at her and murmured, "I can't remember the previous one, probably when I was going to be executed at the end of the road, the opponent put a gun... something like a crossbow into my mouth. , And then I waited for death; probably because the struggle was useless, and I couldn’t move my whole body. I was very scared, and felt that it might be painful at the end... I thought to myself, endure it for a while, and it’s over immediately. I don’t know the pain.

You can die anytime, but you don't know when it will come. But the man hadn't shot for a long time. Every time I flicked my finger, it seemed like a year, and I felt that it was very long. At that time, I wanted the other party to hurry. Finally heard the noise...with fear, it didn't seem to be very painful, like being bitten by a mosquito, and then gradually lost consciousness..."

Guo Shao took a long breath: "Then I woke up, now it's just a dream... It's pretty good."

Chen Jiali said quietly: "I didn't expect people like General Guo to have such terrible dreams."

Guo Shao said: "Maybe it is the sequelae of what I did before...I have seen too many **** killings. But fortunately, it is just a dream. No one can easily push me to the end!"

Chen Jiali comforted a few words softly, like coaxing a child. Guo Shao gradually calmed down and felt much better. He suddenly thought of someone who had almost forgotten: "Ms. Chen’s concubine who survived the persecution, treat her better. I suddenly felt that being violently threatened his life. What a terrible thing, she must often live in nightmares."

"General Guo is really a caring person." Chen Jiali said softly, "You will rest for a while, I will be with you, don't be afraid."

Guo Shao stood up and got up: "I have to go to the workshop in the outer city to see how they are doing... By the way, I haven't thanked Mrs. Chen for giving money and helping me to tinker with that stuff."

"It's a small matter, don't worry about it." Chen Jiali said generously.

Guo Shao devised a plan a month ago, but the yard at home couldn't satisfy the venue, and the inner city seemed not so good. So he asked Chen Jiali for help. She happened to have a yard as a warehouse in a relatively remote place in the southwest of the outer city, and Guo Shao asked him to come to make an experiment workshop.

So he hurriedly got up to get dressed, and Chen Jiali followed to the outer city.

...It's a very ordinary yard, and you can hear the tinkling beating at the door. When Guo Shao waited in, he saw Huang Tiesmith personally hammering and making things, as well as the artisan leader Luo Jiye. When he saw Guo Shao, he came up to see him. Guo Shao said: "You don't need to be polite, you are busy with your own affairs."

Several people saluted the woman wearing a veil next to her, most of whom didn't know who it was. Although the place belongs to Chen Jiali, the current personnel are not hers, including the artisan leader Luo Jiye who was hired by the Military Equipment Supervisor Jiafang Office, one of the "Five Supervisors" of the imperial court, and the craftsman was also a person assigned by the government.

The houses in the yard have been smashed into disarray. In a hall, a huge "milling disc" occupies most of the room. Guo Shao took Chen Jiali to look around, only to see some people were holding files and sharpening stones to polish the edge of the "grinding disc". "Shashasha..." "Swish..." The noise was endless.

The middle of this grinding disc is made of thick solid wood, and the bearing is cast iron and smoothly polished. The edge mosaic is also cast iron, nailed to the wood with rivets; there are iron teeth on the edge... it looks like a big gear. In the corner of the wall there is also a "grindstone" of similar shape, but much smaller than the main one in the middle.

The drive belt made of wood inlaid with iron between the two millstones is like connecting a large and small waterwheel, but the drive belt here is made stronger with iron.

Guo Shao pointed to the two grinding discs and turned back to Chen Jiali and said: "The same thing as a waterwheel. The cellar under the big wheels is driven by a mule horse. It spins slowly and saves effort; the small wheels over there spin faster. , The load is greater."

Chen Jiali whispered: "General Guo can also use a water truck, and it saves mules and horses."

Guo Shaodao: "First test whether this thing can be used, and then improve the power with water power."

There is a bent cast iron rod on the edge of the small grinding disc, and a chain is locked on the iron rod. But when the grinding disc rotates, the chain will be pulled... the position of the iron rod is turned to the wall, and the chain is pulled out; when it is turned in the opposite direction, the chain is pulled back. The chain passes through the hole made in the wall to the house next door.

Guo Shao took Chen Jiali to the next door and pointed to the hole in the wall and said: "The chain is the thing tied to the wheel just now."

This thing was designed by Guo Shao himself. He didn't need to look at the pictures and was very familiar with the operation, but Chen Jiali looked at it curiously.

...... After the chain passes to the house here, it is placed on a fixed pulley and changes the direction to move up and down. When the wheel rotates, the end of the chain next to it will be far and near, and it will pull this end to move up and down repeatedly.

A cast iron structure hung on the head of the chain, and Guo Shao named it "chain head". The chain head is stuck in an upright cast iron groove to prevent it from shaking left and right. This structure looks like a gate.

The chain head is hung on the "forging hammer" (a heavy cast iron lump) weighing more than a thousand kilograms below. The principle so far is very simple: the chain moves up and down, and the forging hammer is pulled up and down to achieve the purpose of forging. But just this is not enough... The chain can be slow when it is pulled up; when it is put down, it will be connected to the chain and synchronized with the rotation of the wheel because of the structure. It is impossible to forge things when put down slowly.

...... Guo Shao also had a headache with this problem, but now at least the problem has been solved in design. When the forging hammer rises to the highest point, it needs to break away from the transmission structure and fall sharply by gravity; then when it rises, it is connected to the chain transmission structure, so that it can be pulled up with power.

Guo Shao's initial design was manual. The forging hammer fell down and connected with someone; when it rose, let it go and let the forging hammer go down... Later I imagined that doing so would make the forging hammer very slow. After a few hits, the red iron would be cold and again. It has to be burned again, and the low efficiency has no practical value.

So he redesigned an opening and closing device, which he called "semi-automatic" opening and closing. The connecting part between the chain head and the forging hammer is an "l"-shaped forged iron piece. When l is in its original shape, it can hook the forging hammer; when pulled to the side, the hook on the forging hammer will slide down from the **** of l when it is pulled to the side to achieve the purpose of letting go of the forging hammer and letting the forging hammer fall freely.

The thing that controls the opening and closing device is also as the wheel next door rotates and pulls the connecting part. When the forging hammer is near the apex position, the l part will be deflected by the chain, and the forging hammer will be lowered...At this time, the hand next to it will shake another pulley to pull the l part again; after making the chain fall, reconnect with the forging hammer connection.

The entire mechanism is very simple, but all the ministries are made by hand. It hasn't been completed for a month, and it's almost finished now. The charcoal fire in the room was very hot, the bellows "whooping" and the blacksmiths clinked.

While Guo Shao was standing, he seemed to be in a relatively backward modern factory, like a large blacksmith's shop.