"We have met Feng Laosi, why should we be like this?" The manager said politely, but he was very happy.
He doesn't care what the other party sends, as long as they have that intention.
Among the twenty-two villages, apart from his own village, only the heads of twelve villages came to deliver things in person.
The little thing given was not enough for a meal for the village. They came with a grateful face, it was enough!
He wasn't angry if he didn't come. He knew that some village chiefs didn't have enough authority. When renting animals, the chief would come over. When exchanging favors, other powerful people in a village wouldn't agree.
Unlike my own Xiaqiu Village, which cannot do such things, Xiaqiu Village has village guards!
Those who have had their fortunes told, those who prayed for blessings, those who have paid homage to their ancestors and entered the books.
Are there any in your other villages? Just make trouble in your village! All the villagers in my village are united and work together in one direction.
Feng Gui seemed to have thought of the same problem. He looked at Hanhan standing next to him and said, "Damn it! If I had known that my village would take good care of the villagers, Yichang, please lend me Hanhan..."
"Feng Laosi, where did you fart? Did the village guard bring a borrowed one?"
The director suddenly turned his face. Do you want to be stupid? I'll strangle you to death now.
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"What did the foreigners say? The colored glaze they brought before... Humph! How much was mined?"
After Zhu Yuanzhang got the physical utensils and firing methods, his whole person was completely different.
He has issued an order to cancel the export of Ming medicinal materials and increase the prices of silk, porcelain, etc.
Guan foreigners want silver, overseas medicinal materials, grain, jewelry, etc. to be reduced.
He knew in advance that most areas would be dry next year and was worried about not having enough food to eat, so he bought it from outside.
The construction of Zhongdu was also affected, attracting too many people. Wells were dug in winter in places that were about to be dry, and there was a shortage of manpower and skilled craftsmen.
What's more, it's winter in Linhao right now, so it's not easy to build. Let's wait until the weather gets warmer after the drought before continuing.
It turns out that the brick kiln that burned Jiandu took out a batch of refractory bricks. The recipe mentioned that hard firing can be done without soda ash, which is Fei kiln.
I also told you that there was a good alkali mine in Tongbai County in the Yuan Dynasty, which is now under the jurisdiction of Biyang. There is Tongbai Mountain in the east and the Huai River flows through it.
It is buried relatively deep. It takes more than 200 feet of digging to find a large amount of salt-containing alkali minerals. This can be dug out and processed.
Attached to the letter was a simple map with the locations marked.
The local alkali mines will not be used up for decades. You can make whatever you want. In many cases, it is better than stone soda.
When it comes to digging a well that deep, Zhu Yuanzhang would never send people to dig it. How can a well be dug at a depth of two hundred feet?
It requires a lot of wood support and digging down bit by bit, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
However, when Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he would not be able to use it up in decades, he decided to dig up the alkali. It is now known that the alkali can be used to make soap and burn colored glaze.
So he also urged the craftsmen to speed up, reward them, and pay attention to safety.
He wanted to use the alkali ore to see if the master was really so powerful that he could know everything buried two hundred feet underground?
"Dad, it was easy to dig in the beginning. My child specially sent them meat to eat. My child also wants to know whether the master is right or wrong."
Zhu Biao didn't care whether the foreigners' colored glaze was good or not. He stared at the alkali mines in Tongbai County. If he dug in, there would be something there, and if there was nothing, there wouldn't be anything. This was the easiest thing to understand.
He gave meat to the workers, used all the equipment that could be used, and paid double the money.
One person worked hard to dig, but after half an hour he ran out of energy. He changed people, and the one he replaced rested until he recovered, and then he could be replaced again.
Inclined shafts, vertical shafts, and drainage must all be provided. Those who move the earth must not delay those who dig the wells.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly: "We should give meat to eat. The stone alkali in Xiaqiu Village is not easy to get. Our colored glaze cannot be sold cheaply. The foreigners have not mastered the method of quickly burning colored glaze. The colored glaze I exchanged from them before... well!"
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed as he spoke, "I'm at a loss!"
The large number of glazed products sent to me by Xiaqiu Village are very beautiful, and they are made in large quantities.
For example, foreign candy, dare to sell it so expensively, are foreigners so poor and crazy? After harvesting sugar cane this year, a lot of it was sold to foreigners.
"Like other things, it has been kept strictly confidential. All participating craftsmen are sent to live together. It is forbidden to communicate with outsiders. People are sent to visit secretly to give more benefits to the craftsmen."
Zhu Biao explained how to keep it secret. Craftsmen and their families were not allowed to leave a certain area at all. Things they needed in life were sent to others.
The craftsmen were not allowed to tell anyone when they got home. Once discovered, they would all be killed and even imprisoned.
Each craftsman is responsible for different manufacturing links and communicates with each other separately.
Craftsmen are like this. Personal freedom is nothing in front of Ming Dynasty's interests. At least they can live with their families.
"Be kind to the foreigners. The craftsmen will let them go after the foreigners figure it out for themselves. As we watch the New Year, if we see what the village lacks, we will give it to the palace if we have it."
Queen Ma spoke from the side, and the village came up with good things to help Daming make money. It couldn't make people's hearts cold.
"Mom, they seem to have everything, and they are well versed in health care. Some time ago, the magistrate, county magistrate, and chief registrar of Xuancheng County all fell ill when they were preaching on the prevention and treatment of livestock diseases in other villages.
They went to Xiaqiu Village for medical treatment. They took medicine and the symptoms were relieved. They recovered in three days and recovered in a few more days to continue preaching. "
Zhu Biao had a smile on his face when he said that officials ran to the village when they were sick. How worried were they about the doctors and doctors in the county?
"That's so! Then write a letter to ask what medicinal materials are still missing. Among the hundred new prescriptions they brought, some crude medicines that have not been used as medicinal materials have begun to be collected."
Queen Ma also laughed when she heard this. Officials are not stupid and know where the chance of survival is.
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At the Xiaqiu Cunshan Temple, the friends kept a safe distance to watch Brother Hanhan making things.
Zhu Wentian's glassware was ready for use. He first burned it with green vitriol from the apothecary shop and a glass tube.
His method is better than the method of refining stone gallbladder to extract the essence, because it is sealed and wastes as little as possible.
After sulfuric acid is produced, if you want to improve its purity, heat it slowly and then consider how to make hydrochloric acid and nitric acid.
When sulfuric acid reacts with salt and adds water, it becomes hydrochloric acid; when it reacts with saltpeter, when water is added, it becomes nitric acid.
Then react the soda ash with lime water to obtain caustic soda.
If you want to turn stone soda into soda ash, heat it slowly.
Now that you have three acids and two bases, what is left to do?
If you still want to get phosphoric acid, you still need to use sulfuric acid to react with phosphate rock.
Zhu Wentian didn't do it in the past because he didn't have good utensils to preserve it, and he couldn't see the state of the contents inside the ceramic bottle.
Today he did the same thing to see the effect. It was ok and his hands were not rusty.
He looked at the sulfuric acid in the bottle, then looked at the glycerin in the bottle next to him, and chuckled: "Put the two things together, and then use diatomaceous earth, no, milk to extract lactose, add starch and sugar to make nitroglycerin tablets.
Now we have another first-aid medicine, which should be able to save many people. Other medicines are not as fast. "
"Brother Hanhan, can't adding that dirt save lives?"
The little girl heard it and thought that soil was more useful than other things.
"Uh... we can also save people, just our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Wentian thought about it and nodded in approval.
