It can be said impolitely that in Mojia village, the four-wheel carriage business is the main business of Mojia village. As long as the four-wheel carriage business does not fall down, the status of Mojia village will be as stable as Mount Tai. Merton first showed Li Shimin the second generation of four wheeled carriage. The most important purpose was to prove the strength of the Mohist village to Li Shimin.
It proves that the Mohist school is still developing, not going downhill, and living up to the reputation of the first village in the world.
Li Shimin naturally didn''t want the first village in the world to be beaten so quickly. Seeing the potential of Mojia village, he nodded with satisfaction.
Merton continued: "the second generation of four-wheel carriage has added glass, but it is not perfect in the boy''s view. At the moment, the glass is still very brittle and will break if touched. In the boy''s vision, it will be more perfect if the glass can become as strong as steel, inlay it on the four-wheel carriage, and inlay it on the door."
When Uncle Zhang heard the speech, he immediately got the treasure and wrote it down. He smiled happily and said, "don''t worry, young master. My old Zhang will try to finish the young master''s order as soon as possible."
Li Tai carefully imagined Merton''s idea, which surprised him: "now I finally believe that this carriage is not your hand."
Li Shimin also couldn''t help looking at Merton in surprise, and then said with a straight face, "if it weren''t for the credit of Master Zhang, how could he think of these? It''s just icing on the cake. He''s smart!"
Merton immediately looked embarrassed and looked very different. Li Zhi and Princess Jinyang couldn''t help laughing.
"What about the pot workshop?" Merton quickly changed the topic. I''m afraid the pot workshop is the most serious loss among the major workshops in Mojia village. After all, there are too many iron making in the whole Tang Dynasty, and the pot is the easiest to imitate. Once a large number of low-cost iron pots appear in the market, the pot sales in Mojia village immediately lag and a large backlog.
Lao Zhang changed his face and said, "if you go back to the young master, although the quality of Mohist pots is superior, they still can''t compare with the low-cost pots of other workshops."
Merton couldn''t help sighing. He naturally knew the plight of the pot workshop, otherwise he wouldn''t give priority to asking the pot workshop.
"However, the pot workshop did the opposite and made cheaper pot tools!" Lao Zhang said with a gnash of teeth.
"Cheaper cooking utensils!" Morton frowned and said, "is it shoddy? The sign of Mojia village can''t be smashed!"
Lao Zhang shook his head and said, "whether it is good or bad, Lao Zhang is not sure. The young master will know at a glance."
Led by Lao Zhang tou, the people came to a warehouse in the East.
"Tie ping! The young master is coming!" with the call of Lao Zhang''s head, a thin man appeared in front of the crowd.
Tieping is Merton''s escort and Tieping''s brother. Although he was born to the same mother, Tieping is quite opposite to tall Tieping. He is thin and small. He doesn''t know any martial arts and makes a living by forging iron.
"Tie ping! I heard you made a cheaper pot!" Merton said again.
When Tieping heard this, he said proudly: "don''t worry, young master. Although the small pots are cheap, they don''t cut corners."
"Since we haven''t cut corners, why is it so cheap!" Li Shimin asked.
Although Tieping didn''t know Li Shimin, he knew that he was either rich or expensive by looking at his clothes, not to mention the young master''s personal escort. He could let the young master accompany him last time. However, Han Tiemian didn''t dare to neglect at present. He hurriedly replied: "if you return to your people, that''s because villains can make pots and utensils that can be made in the past ten days in one day."
"Seriously?" Li Shimin suddenly exclaimed, looking at the thin tie Ping with disbelief on his face.
In the suspicious eyes of the people, they directly took out a circular iron plate and put it on an inverted semicircular mold in a grinding plate general machinery. Under the command of Tieping, three cows made efforts to rotate the grinding plate at the same time. They were surprised to find that.
The original round iron plate was rotating rapidly and was soon ground into an iron pot by a machine similar to a grinding plate.
"That''s it?"
Li Shimin was surprised that even if he didn''t eat human fireworks, he knew that the iron pot was cast by mold and needed to be knocked many times to complete, but the iron pot made by tie Ping didn''t have this process at all.
"Yes! It''s said that only the iron pot made has toughness and durability!" Li Tai said in surprise.
Tieping explained: "Hui GUI, this round iron plate itself is the high-quality iron material of Mojia village. It was stamped in the steel furnace first. It is extremely strong. The durability of the forged iron pot is no worse than that of the forged iron pot!"
"Really?" Li Shimin still didn''t believe.
Merton solemnly nodded and said, "indeed, the thickness of the iron pot pressed by this method is uniform, which is not available for forging iron pot. What''s more valuable is that this method is extremely convenient and greatly shortens the manpower."
Tie Ping nodded solemnly: "except for labor, livestock and iron materials, the cost of casting an iron pot is probably only about half that of forging an iron pot, and the speed is several times faster."
Li Shimin wondered, "this is a good thing! The quality of the iron pot is not bad, the price is cheap, and the people benefit a lot. How can master Zhang frown?"
Lao Zhang said with a wry smile, "once this method comes out, the pot making skill handed down by our ancestors will gradually be lost."
He still couldn''t accept an iron pot without forging. In his opinion, the pressed pot had lost the craftsman''s ingenuity.
Merton understood Lao Zhang very much. An old man who had been using traditional crafts all his life suddenly saw that he had always adhered to the outdated state of mind. He couldn''t help comforting him by saying: "Zhang Shuke once thought that how many people in the world are still cooking in pottery pots. They need such a cheap iron pot, and the expensive and cumbersome manual forging pot can make the people all over the world use good and cheap things and benefit the world. That is the purpose of Mohism."
Lao Zhang''s head couldn''t help but be stunned. After thinking for a long time, he sighed dejectedly: "what the young master said is very true. It''s my appearance."
Merton then focused on tie Ping. If Lao Zhang''s head represents the peak of traditional technology, and tie Ping is the bud of Mohist mechanical technology, he solemnly asked, "tie Ping, have you ever been to night school!"
Tie Ping quickly replied, "I haven''t missed a festival!"
Merton nodded and said, "from now on, you will be in charge of the pot workshop! But it''s not making pot tools!"
"What''s that made?" tie PingTon looked at Merton puzzled.
Merton showed an inexplicable smile and said, "the machinery responsible for producing iron pots! When the cheap iron pots of the Mohist School spread, I believe there will be many workshops attracted by the name. The Mohist village only needs to sell pot making machinery."
Li Shimin''s eyes lit up and he couldn''t help admiring Merton. Once the pot making machinery spread, the people of the Tang Dynasty will be able to use cheap iron pots in the shortest time and benefit the world with the power of one village. How can such officials not be appreciated by Li Shimin?
"What about the blacksmith in the pot workshop?" tie Ping asked.
Merton waved his big hand and said, "all build machines. As long as you can use this method instead of forging, make corresponding machines for me."
"Yes, young master!" tie Ping said positively.
Merton looked at the simple pressure cooker machinery in front of him, and couldn''t help feeling surging. Mojia village finally broke through the pure manual technology. The era of manual mechanical technology has begun, and Tieping is the hope of the future of Mojia village.