After Zhu Xi visited the artillery and firearms, he was still not satisfied. Mao Geng and Lu Jiuyuan had to temporarily add projects, and then watched the mine explosion demonstration. After watching it, Lord Zhu Xi remained excited.

Mao Geng grabbed his scalp and thought to himself that you are a Confucian scholar and amateur astronomer. Well, you are also an agronomist. In short, you have nothing to do with the arms expert. What do you need to know so much arms knowledge? Then he remembered that the enamel project in Lao Qiu was also a little bit shy, so he recommended it to Zhu Xi, claiming that the white armor that Lao Qiu is being trial-made is unparalleled. Not to mention, Mao Geng said this and suddenly aroused Zhu Xi's strong interest. Mao Geng felt relaxed in his heart, and thought to himself that Lao Qiu would fool Zhu Xi, so that Zhu Xi and his disciples would always ask you "100,000 whys".

Lao Qiu was full of energy. Although Lao Qiu was very eloquent and organizational ability, it is undeniable that Lao Qiu cared more about participating in the big gold finger himself. Just kidding, if you finally traveled through time and didn’t burst a little gold finger, wouldn’t it be a waste of resources in your mind? By the way, crossing the boundaries requires horizontal comparison. By the time of contribution, you can’t come up with hard indicators. Just relying on soft indicators like mouth, you can imagine that you will definitely be run by a colleague, so Lao Qiu is quite committed to developing enamel with gold fingers.

The brothers Zhu Xuanqing and Zhu Xuanbai have been following Lao Qiu for a while, first firing cloisonné, and then firing enamel. The principle is similar, both are made of glaze, but in fact, the difficulty coefficient of enamel is not of the same level. At least the adhesion requirements of cloisonné are not that high. Enamel is different. At the beginning, the enamel layer of enamel products was easily removed. Later, Mr. Mao proposed to clean the iron blank first, and the stains and oils must be cleaned. For this reason, caustic soda was used, and the adhesion of enamel improved greatly.

The old Qiu in front of him is very famous, at least he has many ideas, but Lao Qiu's ideas become faster, and sometimes it is really difficult for the two brothers to keep up with his ideas.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Xi and his party suddenly appeared in the enamel firing site. That was Zhu Xi. The Zhu brothers thought it was really fortunate to see the famous Zhu Xi for three lives, and their eyes were straightened for a while.

However, there is nothing to see when firing enamel, and applying a low-temperature glaze layer is the core secret. Given that Zhu Xi has led so many disciples and talked a lot, of course, they cannot read the core secret casually. So Lao Qiu led Zhu Xi and his party to a brief look, and then led a group of people to a room similar to a conference room and display room.

Mao Geng originally accompanied Zhu Xi all the way to visit, but was called away by his disciples halfway through. Of course, this was an important thing. Besides, there was no need for so many people to accompany Zhu Xi, Mao Geng asked Lu Jiuyuan to accompany him here alone.

After sitting down, Lao Qiu began to show off his achievements. This was a project he led himself, so today Lao Qiu felt particularly exciting when introducing it.

Since there is a display room function, samples are indispensable. In addition to enamel products, there are also a few samples of cloisonné. Although they are bottles and jars, it is impossible to admit that these cloisonné crafts are indeed very beautiful. However, Zhu Xi’s interest is not on the beautiful cloisonné crafts. On this point, the host and the guest agree, and Lao Qiu also thinks that crafts are not the point. Lao Qiu understands that in Zhu Xi’s eyes, they are just some toys.

Zhu Xi and his party focused all their attention on three pieces of white armor. The three pieces of armor were indeed very eye-catching.

Lao Qiu is an artist. After coming to the Special Administrative Region, he immediately instructed the carpenters to make some wood models. All of them won with simple shapes and realistic human body structures. They were both exaggerated and realistic, and became the new favorites of fashion stores for a while. They were placed in fashion stores - well, they are not called fashion stores for the time being - such as Yan Rui's women's clothing store, which clearly adds a lot of color to the clothing store.

Here, the Qiu model is different from the models in the garment shops on the market. The model's faces are all firm lines, and the ubiquitous exaggerated muscle tissue shows the attributes of warriors. Exaggerated, generalized, or simple and freehand, full of expressiveness. This is the feeling that the wooden model here gives people.

The three wooden models were covered with armor, one of which was a full set of plate armor, the other two were fish scale armor, and the three sets of armor were all shining white.

Speaking of the most popular fish scale armor in the Song Dynasty, one of them is similar to the standard of the fish scale armor in the Song Dynasty, but the other one is obviously different.

Originally, there was no plate armor in the Song Dynasty. Lao Qiu followed the principle of easy first and then difficult, and the first thing he introduced was the fish scale armor.

"Please look at this fish scale armor. It looks almost the same as the regular fish scale armor of the Song Dynasty. However, it is more than one-third lighter than the ordinary fish scale iron armor armor, but has stronger protection."

"Why? I see that this armor is just shining on the outside. The protective power of the heavy armor is far better than that of the light armor. It is hard to imagine that the light armor is better than the heavy armor. Is this armor really as Mr. Qiu said?" The question is Chen Chun, a disciple of Zhu Xi.

Lao Qiu picked up a few enamel scales from a plate on the table, threw them on the table, and said:

"The mystery lies in this scale. Note that this scale is not flat. This is a concave and convex shape that is deliberately rushed out. Don't underestimate this concave and convex shape. It is because of its convex and concave, and its strength is greatly enhanced. It only takes half the thickness to surpass a flat scale of normal thickness. This is the first. The second is the advantage of this enamel. This concave and convex iron sheet specially stamped is already amazingly strong. In addition, this layer of enamel has a high hardness. Ordinary swords cut on it usually only break a layer of enamel. The cut sword will definitely break a hole, and it is difficult to destroy the scales and armor. As for arrows, the same is true."

"Is this really the case?" Zhu Xi was immediately interested.

"You will know if you try." After Lao Qiu said that, he ordered someone to wave his sword to try.

On the spot, someone raised a knife that had been prepared in advance and slashed hard at the wooden model's fish scale armor. The sound of the jingle was heard. When I saw the armor, it was indeed not a big deal. The scales that were cut off only dropped a layer of enamel on the knife marks. The scales deformed, revealing the iron inside. The entire armor was not damaged. The knife was originally intact, but now I saw that the blade was full of gaps.

After this verification, Zhu Xi and his friends believed it eight minutes. Lu Jiuyuan actually witnessed the white armored sword test for the first time, and he didn't expect the effect would be so good.

Lu Jiuyuan knew very well how the scales came about. These were the various benefits of stamping, so he picked up two enamel scales and handed them to Zhu Xi, introducing:

"Brother Yuanhui, look at the scales, all of them are of normal size and shape. This is made of stamping. Just send a large iron piece into the die of the stamping machine. With a snap, a scale will be formed. It can rush on two or three pieces in one second. It is fast and better. It is many times faster than artificially creating fish scale armor, haha!"

After saying that, I stroked my beard and couldn't hide my excitement.

In fact, stamping into concave and convex shapes to make fish scales is not Lao Qiu's contribution. Lao Qiu was obsessed with European plate armor at that time and believed that it was the pinnacle of violent aesthetics. Therefore, the first set of enamel armor trial-made was plate armor. Of course, that set of plate armor is not the set shown now. It must be said that plate armor is indeed eye-catching. But Mao Geng believes that although plate armor can also be stamped, it needs to be equipped with moving mechanisms at each joint. In this way, there are too many molds required, which is far less easy to stamp the scales of fish scale armor. As for scales, designed in concave and convex shapes, there are reinforcement ribs. Later generations

The thickness of color steel tiles and color steel wall panels is only 0.35-0.4 mm. Because the rollers are pressed into corrugated shapes, the strength has increased greatly. Now, using this reinforcement principle on the Song Dynasty fish scale armor is also excellent. It is both iron-saving and lightweight, and it is extremely simple to make. Even the leather padded on the scales is punched out. Each scale is a standard product. Just fix it on the armor, and a piece of fish scale armor is considered to be completed. You must know that the most time-consuming and laborious thing about traditional fish scale armor is to make scales. Therefore, with stamping technology, making fish scale armor is a simple sewing work.

Since it is a standard scale, if some scales are broken during the battle, you just need to replace the bad scales.

The key is that the enamel scales combine the strength of iron and the hardness of ceramics, making it the first step to make composite scales. Think about the later tanks that had ceramic composite armor, and there was a layer of ceramics. No matter how thin it was, the protection was not comparable to pure iron sheets. What's more, the armor sheet was not rusted, which was really the best choice for making fish scale armor.

If it is a plate armor, it seems that it is a bit unsuitable to use enamel. Although it is not bad, it looks mighty and has first-class protective effect, once you go to the battlefield, the plate armor will inevitably be injured by swords, guns and arrows. The enamel is dropped by a thread and a piece of it there. Even if you apply a layer of white paint to make it up, it will be much ugly. If the entire plate armor is replaced, the cost is really high. Therefore, Mao Geng’s suggestion is to mainly produce fish scale armor. As for plate armor, it seems that there is no need for this. It is about to reach the ** era. It is enough to have a fish scale armor transition, so there is no need to take the big plate armor.

However, Lao Qiu has a special liking for plate armor. Although he knew that Mao Geng could not tilt limited resources onto plate armor, Lao Qiu still insisted on making three sets of enamel plate armor samples. However, except for the breastplate part being stamped, the other parts, including the parts below the waist, are handmade. The reason why Mao Geng agreed to stamp breastplate on the stamping mold was because the breastplate can be worn alone as protective armor. With the inner leather armor, the protective power is already quite strong. Therefore, among Lao Qiu's full set of plate armor, the breastplate part looks particularly stylish and stylish. Lao Qiu designed the reinforcement ribs in it to be very visually impactful. Therefore, that set of plate armor looks really extraordinary.

Another fish scale armor is actually between the fish scale armor and the plate armor. Lao Qiu gave it many artistic elements. If later game people can see it, they can see the cartoon design elements at a glance. This is not so much a armor coat, but a work of art. Because the scales in each part have their own characteristics, the overall composition of the armor coat is full of artistic imagination, but beautiful is beautiful. Visitors including Zhu Xi just admire it for a while and directly ignore the artwork.

However, the full set of shiny white plate armor full of violent aesthetics has always been exuding a stimulating atmosphere, declaring his existence all the time. This set of plate armor puts a wooden model inside from head to toe, and Zhu Xi couldn't help but ask his disciple to take off the white helmet and take a look. The helmet was completely closed, but his eyes were exposed. Chen Chun put the helmet on his head and tried it, and the violence value suddenly increased several times.

The visual impact is really too strong! So Huang Gan asked:

"Mr. Qiu, is it the armor of Ha Tang Kingdom in this style?"

Lao Qiu thought to himself that we didn’t have to find excuses from the Ha-Tang Kingdom. Hehe, however, this is basically a European integrated plate armor. It seems that Zheng Chenggong’s Iron Man later had a similar concept, but the right to explain belongs to me:

"Yes, the country of Ha Tang inherited its mantle and focused on four words: "Truth, Goodness, Beauty and Strongness". It is reflected in this armor, which is two words: "Beautiful! Strong!"."

Well, this plate armor is indeed beautiful and strong enough, and most people in the house agree with it.

By the way, Lao Qiu was a little superstitious about the Renaissance, so after becoming a time traveler, he often linked the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. It is not surprising that Lao Qiu tried to combine art with political economy. Well, it is because everyone wants to give full play to their strengths, not! After a while, Lao Qiu proposed to build a differentiated time travel culture.

The homogeneous time travel story is the most boring! At least Lao Qiu thinks so. So Lao Qiu suggests unique, but Lao Qiu has no ideas in theoretical construction, so before the theory is improved, it is inevitable that there will be some copycat versions of the tone.

"I respect Confucianism in the Tang Dynasty and value benevolence and righteousness. The four words Mr. Qiu said may not be the essence of the Tang Dynasty." Huang Yiyong expressed doubts.

"There are slight differences in the statements, but they are just similar! Confucianism emphasizes benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. The country of Ha-Tang advocates 'benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, true faith, beauty and strength', and the same ends. Just imagine, if the Tang Dynasty was not strong, how could it be used to be kind and righteous to the world? If one is not strong, how could one cultivate oneself and manage one's family and dominate the world!"

Lao Qiu thought to himself, you are just a group of weak Qingtan families in Song Dynasty. They are too weak to even take care of the lives and deaths of the Han people under the iron hoof of the Jin soldiers. How can you talk to me about benevolence and righteousness?
Chapter completed!