This time it was a restaurant on Jingyang Street.
"Master Ren, our Zhang family is here, and the competition can start at any time." Zhang Junzheng arched his hands.
"Then it will be two days later. What do you want to compete?" Ren Baqian was playing with a small box in his hand, took a sip in his mouth, and opened his mouth again to spray out a mist with a fruity aroma. It's unclear, as if the spirits in the ghosts and ghosts are swallowing clouds and mist.
This made the eyes of Zhang Junzheng and the others fixed on the box in Ren Baqian's hand.
"Master Ren, may I ask what this is?" Zhang Junzheng couldn't help but asked out of curiosity.
"A small thing. We call it vaping." Ren Baqian fiddled with the box in his hand and put it on the table. In fact, this kind of thing has long existed on Earth, but he has never paid much attention to it. When going back one time, people passing by were smoking this kind of stuff. At that time, he thought it smelled good, so he went to the vaping shop for a while.
Then he felt that the cold fruit oil in this vape was so refreshing.
Especially in a place as hot as Dayao, after taking a sip, the whole throat and lungs are cold, and the mouth is full of the sweet taste of fruit.
After a few days, he couldn't put it down.
Zhang Junzheng listened to Ren Baqian's name and didn't know what it meant, so he looked at Ren Baqian's face for a few more times and said, "Master Ren, should we still make the bet as we said before?"
"Naturally. If I lose, I will recommend you to His Majesty, and I will guarantee it with all my strength. If you lose, the entire Zhang family will move to Dayao to shine, and you can learn something from me.
Speaking of which, you made a lot of money. "Ren Baqian recited the entire Zhang family emphatically.
No matter how you look at it, the Zhang family has indeed made a lot of money. The ship Yunguo itself would capsize, if they hadn't found Ren Baqian at this time, it wouldn't be the same treatment if they wanted to go to Yunguo after Yunguo was destroyed.
Not to mention being able to learn something from Ren Baqian.
Even if it's just some production techniques, it's enough for the Zhang family to benefit from it.
Zhang Junzheng was noncommittal after hearing this, and said: "There must always be a witness in the competition!"
"Your Majesty is the witness!" Ren Baqian said with a smile, the other party put the time of the competition at this time, didn't they just want to make a name for themselves when the Empress's birthday was celebrated, and when the officials from all parties arrived.
Zhang Junzheng showed a smile, as long as the empress is the witness, this competition is the best opportunity to show the strength of the Zhang family.
"The three items of competition are not complicated. But it is not easy to do well in these three items. The first item is dyeing cloth, with seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. We are comparing durability and resistance to fading!" Zhang Jun said rightly. You must know that it is not so easy to dye durable and not easy to fade fabrics. Although each dyeing workshop has its own method, the effect is different.
This is also a very intuitive way to distinguish between winning and losing.
He didn't mention the purity of the color in the competition, because there is no uniform standard for the purity of the color, it depends entirely on personal preference. This can be faked, but the degree of fading cannot be faked.
After entering the water at that time, wash it with soap and it will be easy to distinguish it.
Another reason is that it takes at least half a month to dye cloth. The Zhang family has a special method that can be dyed in a short time, but the color is not as good as the cloth dyed in half a month.
Therefore, Zhang Junzheng is very confident in this competition. It is good that the other party can dye the color once in such a short period of time.
After speaking, he also carefully looked at Ren Baqian's expression, seeing that he didn't respond, he felt somewhat disappointed. I don't know if the other party is really sure or just doesn't understand the difficulty.
"The second item is to make springs." Zhang Junzheng continued after a short pause.
"Spring?" Ren Baqian thought about these two words, but he didn't expect Zhang's family to make springs, which was a bit surprising. It takes a lot of strength to twist the spring in your hand.
In Daxia's Divine Crossbow Camp, I thought it was a spring, but later I found out that it was multi-winding, firing one row at a time.
Therefore, he has never had any expectations for the spring technology in this world.
We must know that the biggest problem with springs lies in the material, which is the biggest problem restricting the development of springs.
Since the Zhang family proposed it, it must be because they have a considerable standard in this area, and they may also have unique features in the materials.
"That's right! This is a spring. As for what this thing is used for, Lord Ren, I'll leave it at that. What we are comparing is the tension and elasticity of the spring." Zhang Junzheng put a fist-sized torque on the table, full of excitement. Self-confidence.
One must know that this is the latest technology of Yun Country, the kind of ballista on the battlefield of Yun Country today is made of this kind of torsion spring.
Although he knew that Ren Baqian had a small thing that could explode, he believed that Qi Zixiao would be interested in a 100 arrows at a time and a range of 200 paces.
Ren Baqian looked at the torsion spring on the table, although he already knew that this would be the result under the pressure of technology, but seeing the confident look of the other party still had a feeling of irony.
Compared with modern technology, alloys, springs... Who gave you the confidence
But Ren Baqian paid more attention to this family.
Being able to make springs that meet a certain standard is enough to demonstrate the value of Zhang's craftsmen.
"What's the third item!" Ren Baqian said calmly as he put the spring on the table.
"Wine making! Master Ren said that he knows how to make wine, and my Zhang family also has some experience in wine making. Using the same kind of wine as a base, we will process it again, and we will compare the strength of the wine." Zhang Junzheng said again. In fact, the most important thing in this competition is the spring, and he is well aware of the difficulty of making this kind of spring.
Even the ingredients he used were brought over from Yunguo.
He believed that Yaqian would never be able to do it.
As for the others, it's just an addition, but it's not meaningless.
For example, in wine making, Qi Zixiao has always loved Yunguo's spirits, Dayao's caravan would buy a lot of fine wine every time he came to Yunguo, and the best wine in Yunguo was made by the craftsmen of the Zhang family.
He believed that the brewing alone was enough to make Qi Zixiao happy.
And the torsion spring and the ballista are very useful for the whole Dayao.
Whether it is public or private, the things I have used for this competition are enough to make the Zhang family stand firm in Dayao.
Not only that, in order to prevent Dayao from having other thoughts, all the craftsmen who came this time took poison in advance with the intention of dying.
This also cut off the possibility that Dayao wanted to get these production methods from them.
He will never allow the technology mastered by the Zhang family to leak out. Because this is the basis for them to gain a foothold in Dayao in the future.
"That's it! The competition will start in two days. Do you have any requests?"
"A yard is needed, divided into two parts, where materials can only be transported in, each other is not allowed to watch each other's production methods, and only the finished products can be compared at the end. Do you agree with Master Ren?" Although these techniques cannot be learned at a glance, among them There are still many unique techniques and formulas, but Zhang Junzheng still maintains enough vigilance, for fear of any possibility of technology leakage.
Ren Baqian thought for a while, he seemed to have nothing to say. I originally had the intention of bullying others, but now that the other party has pushed the entire Zhang family into a pit with confidence, what else can I say
He took a deep breath of vaping, then raised his head and exhaled a large mouthful of smoke.
Oh, life!