"What are you betting on?" Ren Baqian asked with a distressed expression, trying his best to appear anxious about his progress.
"Seeing your expression, this old man knows that you have a plan in mind, and you want to trick this old man." Tong Zhenye didn't accept his tricks at all, and after carefully observing Ren Baqian's expression, he immediately sneered and said.
Ren Baqian looked at Tong Zhenye with a bit of pain, who said that the ancient people are all upright
This old clapper just looks upright.
"Do you want the old man to find out the situation of the enemy for you?" Tong Zhenye said with a smile.
"If Mr. Tong is idle and has nothing to do." Ren Baqian said noncommittally.
"Haha, this old man is just talking. I have confidence in Lord Ren. If I go, they will make them look down on Lord Ren." Tong Zhenye laughed.
Ren Baqian is really itching this time, this old clapper is here to tease him today, right
Seeing Tong Zhenye sauntering out with his hands behind his back, humming a mountain song while walking, Ren Baqian was even more convinced of this.
Ren Baqian pondered for a long time and couldn't figure out how he had provoked him recently, so he didn't think about it, so Ren Baqian wandered back to the house and took out several bundles of steel wires of different thicknesses and threw them to the blacksmith.
Facing the spring steel wire that Ren Baqian took out, several blacksmiths were extremely surprised after trying it. Even if they have never been in contact with various modern alloys, they can still find that the steel wire that Ren Baqian gave them is completely different from anything they have seen before.
After winding the steel wire around the arm several times and then loosening it, the steel wire can actually bounce straight, instead of being out of shape like ordinary steel.
Not to mention that there is no irregularity in these steel wires at all, and they are thick and thin from the beginning to the end, but there are no traces of beating, which makes the blacksmiths feel that these steel wires seem to be made by nature, not man-made. .
Not long after, the sound of beating steel was heard in the yard.
However, a new problem soon emerged, which was that the steel wire would become brittle after they were heated and hammered, or other problems occurred.
Although giving them some time might find a solution, the most lacking thing right now is time.
"It's okay, I'm just giving you a try." Ren Baqian waved his hands and smiled at the blacksmith's question.
He had known this before. This is a special-purpose carbon spring steel wire, which is difficult to handle in this era. After secondary treatment, it is easy to change the free gas and carbon content in the steel wire, and at the same time change the performance of the steel wire in various aspects.
What he brought was just a deception.
After hearing his words, those blacksmiths were very excited to carry the coils of steel wire back to make various experiments, and soon discovered new uses for these steel wires, such as weaving whips, and half of them can be lost when the whip is pulled down. Life…
Regarding this, Ren Baqian can only say that he really underestimated the degree of paranoia of the ancient people in terms of weapons.
No matter what is in their hands, they will quickly find a use for attacking others
Even if it's just a steel wire, it can be used to smoke people.
Among the three items in the bet, the other one is dyeing, which went very smoothly.
Dayao has no weaving skills at all, nor does he have the skills to dye fabrics, so he just found a few clever craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry.
The dyes are the direct dyes of various colors brought back by Ren Baqian. Not only are the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, and purple complete, but each color is divided into three types.
For example, yellow is light yellow, lemon yellow, golden yellow, and red is bright red, bright red, peach red...
If it wasn't for the limited amount of things he was carrying, he would be able to bring back 30 colors for each item, and then he would produce 210 colors, which would definitely make the Zhang family start to doubt life.
As for the cloth, it is cotton cloth brought back from the earth, each piece is seven feet wide and three feet long.
The last is the color fixing agent.
The dye that Ren Baqian brought was bright in color, the only disadvantage was that it was easy to lose color when exposed to water, which was true of most dyes. Although Ren Baqian didn't know what method the other party used to reduce the fading, but he thought it was some simple method, even if the fading was reduced, it was only reduced to a certain extent.
The color-fixing agent is completely different. The epoxy group in the color-fixing agent forms a covalent bond with some groups in the fiber dye molecule, which can achieve the effect of stabilizing the dyeing.
First soak the cotton cloth in the dyeing agent for dyeing, dry it, decide whether to dye it again according to the situation, then soak it in the color fixing agent liquid at a certain temperature for 15 minutes, and then dry it. What these craftsmen need to do is very simple, and they have already done it in three days.
In fact, what Ren Baqian is busy with this time is wine making, which Zhang Junzheng cares least about, and what he has been doing in the yard is still distilling.
Ren Baqian has long wanted to make wine. We don't know whether this world is due to the special environment, or this world is filled with some kind of substance different from the earth. Not only is the meat delicious, but it also contains energy that can replenish the body. The taste of fruits and grains is also extremely sweet. If the same method is used to make wine, it will be much better than earth wine.
If it weren't for the fact that the brewing technology in this world is still a little behind, the empress wouldn't have to hold Erguotou every day.
After three days, Ren Baqian finally created a pot still.
At this time, the smell of wine in the yard next door had already begun to dissipate. It seemed that their wine had already been finished, but the sound of blacksmithing would resound non-stop every day.
On the fourth day, the courtyard where Ren Baqian and the others were located began to emit a strong aroma of wine, which was so rich and fragrant that people would drool just by smelling it outside.
Zhang Heqi and others in the yard next door were the first to discover, and then Zhang Junzheng ran out sleepily after receiving an urgent report.
As soon as he smelled the aroma of the wine, Zhang Junzheng's expression changed: "What a strong aroma!"
The progress of Ren Baqian's wine making can be known only with his nose. Now this is the first time that the aroma of wine can be heard from Ren Baqian's yard, and it is so strong that it almost surpasses the aroma of the Zhang's family that has been processed three times.
Although it is not as good as the Zhang family's spirits at this time, it has already made Zhang Junzheng a little worried.
After standing in the yard for a while, Zhang Junzheng glanced at the other people around, and said in a deep voice, "Do your own thing, this wine is worse than our Zhang family's wine. Affect the overall situation, you just have to do your own thing well."
After hearing Zhang Junzheng's words, the people who were attracted by the aroma of wine just now dispersed.
As for the taste of the wine, Zhang Junzheng was not surprised. What Zhang Junzheng used for the competition must be the best wine, in order to impress the empress.
What surprised him was that Ren Baqian was able to increase the aroma of the wine to such a degree just by brewing it a second time.