Three months later, Dongchang sent Li Tong to him.
After Li Dan received Li Tong, he was completely relieved about the forces behind Zhang Qianfang, and he was also very enthusiastic towards Zhang Qianfang.
Zhang Qianfang also remembered that Li Dan was the first person the emperor said he wanted to make friends with, so naturally he tried his best to make friends with him, and soon The two seemed to have been friends for many years.
On this day, Li Dan asked: "Does Brother Zhang have a way to bring money from the Ming Dynasty?
If he exchanges the money for copper, he can get five to six times the profit."
When Zhang Qianfang heard this, he immediately The report was reported to the contact person in Dongchang, but Wei Zhongxian became interested.
He happened to have extra copper coins now, so he came up with such an idea.
Wei Zhongxian followed Zhu Youxiao's instructions and transported all the copper coins recovered by the bank from Tianjin and Nanjing to Quanzhou, and handed them to Zhang Qianfang for shipment to Japan.
Zhang Qianfang got so many copper coins at once, so he discussed with Yang Tiansheng to use Yang Tiansheng's ship to help transport the copper coins.
Yang Tiansheng was stationed in Japan to be responsible for importing copper coins into Japan, and he was responsible for transporting the coins by sea.
The two of them had more than thirty boats in total, and no one dared to rob them at sea, so it went very smoothly.
However, the copper supply was temporarily tight.
Zhu Youxiao instructed not to rush the copper coins to Japan, but to take their time and not to drive down the price of copper coins.
Okay, besides, Japan doesn’t have enough copper, so silver, sulfur, etc. will also work.
Japan happened to have a lot of these two kinds of minerals, so a lot of silver went into the mint and banks, while sulfur went into the weapons bureau.
Because Zhang Qianfang had made great contributions to the development of maritime transport but could not be promoted to an official position, the emperor issued an order and promoted Zhang Siyou to the eighth rank as an assistant teacher of the Imperial College, and a year later he was promoted to the sixth rank of Ye Zheng, director of the Imperial College.
This promotion speed is really like a rocket, but for a minister, it is not in the eyes of the ministers, and it does not cause any waves.
In the western suburbs of Beijing, a large river meanders down.
This is the famous Lugou River.
It is famous because it has another name: Wuding River.
There is the famous Marco Polo Bridge on the river, which is the only way for southern provinces to enter Beijing and an important gateway to Beijing.
Fifteen miles up the Marco Polo Bridge is the Mint and the Ordnance Bureau, which have become very popular in recent times.
The towering walls and soldiers patrolling from time to time tell you that this is a restricted area.
Opposite them and a little downstream, there is a large open space where many people are busy.
Shi Yuanya, the eunuch in charge of the inner palace, was accompanying a missionary with blond hair and blue eyes.
If the missionary said something, he would ask the little eunuch behind to take notes.
The emperor is planning to build a glass factory here, and this missionary happens to know glass manufacturing and is here specifically to survey the site today.
It was almost noon, and the construction plan was finally completed.
Shi Yuanya ordered the young eunuch to entertain the missionaries well, and then went to report to Wei Zhongxian himself.
Wei Zhongxian was losing his temper.
He sent people to Yanshen Town in Shandong to find old glass-making craftsmen, but no one was willing to come.
He wished that Dongchang would ransack their home, but he could only wish because the others had done nothing wrong.
After listening to Shi Yuanya's report, he gritted his teeth and said, "I don't believe in this evil.
The Holy Father has told us all the principles.
It turns out that the inner prison has glass-making craftsmen and missionaries to help, but there are just too many."
After trying it a few times, tell me, whoever can make glass faster and better will be rewarded, isn't it said that there will be a brave man under the reward?
, the Sa family wants to use easy-to-use and cheap glass to overwhelm them.
Lao Shi, you go to the Siyuan Bureau to find the little eunuch who used to make test records.
According to their methods, you will definitely be able to establish the production procedures.
I won’t go there this time.
Please, Your Majesty, I have to do this myself and let Your Majesty know that I, Wei Zhongxian, am not only loyal, but also virtuous and worthy of this name."
Zhu Youxiao wanted to make glass mirrors.
The manufacturing process of mirrors is now in the hands of the Venetians.
However, Zhu Youxiao had learned the silver mirror reaction in high school and could make better glass mirrors than those in the West.
It's just that he only knows the principles, including the principles of making glass, but he doesn't know how to operate it.
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Inner palace guards can also make glass, but the output is low and the quality is not very good.
Wei Zhongxian heard that the best glass maker was the workshop in Yanshen Town, Shandong Province, so he wanted to talk to someone about buying some technology or asking a few old craftsmen to help, but he was rejected outright.
In desperation, Duke Wei had to rely on his own efforts.
On the one hand, he asked Shi Yuanya to supervise and strive to build the glass factory as quickly as possible.
On the other hand, he asked the inner palace supervisor to start group experiments to find a fast and high-quality glass factory.
He offered a reward of four hundred silver coins for the best method of making flat glass.
Li was the first team to find the best production method, and asked people to start experimenting with the silver mirror reaction that the emperor mentioned.
However, the experiment on the silver mirror reaction was conducted under the close supervision of Dongchang, and it was decided in advance.
Tune, whoever dares to reveal any secrets will definitely have his family confiscated and his family exterminated.
Another of his confidants, Li Zhen, led people to conduct cement experiments.
Zhu Youxiao only knew how to first pound the limestone into fine powder, mix it with a certain amount of clay, add water, stir it evenly into mud, and heat and dry it.
The dry materials are then broken into blocks and then put into a lime kiln for calcination.
The calcined blocks are then cooled, crushed and ground to make cement.
But the proportion of clay added, the time and temperature of firing are completely unknown.
Therefore, the best formula and firing time can only be determined through experiments.
In fact, once you know the principle, as long as you have the opportunity to conduct a lot of experiments, you will always find a suitable method.
By the time the glass factory was completed under the guidance of missionaries, the method of making flat glass had been basically perfected, and the silver mirror reaction had achieved good results.
Zhu Youxiao looked at the crude mirror with disdain, while Wei Zhongxian was astonished.
He tried it himself.
When he saw himself clearly in the mirror for the first time, he thought it was another person looking at himself in the mirror.
But Zhu Youxiao knew that no matter what, this mirror was in the sky and on the earth compared to the bronze mirror.
So he ordered: "Factory Minister, you must guard this method of making mirrors for at least ten years.
We are the only ones in the world who can make this kind of mirrors.
I will use the mirror to collect all their money."
I have money in my hands, I can do a lot of things.
A great Ming Dynasty will be born in my hands, and you, my minister, are my closest assistants and witnesses.
I come, I see, I conquer.
Caesar's words are simply for this.
I made it tailor-made.”
Although Wei Zhongxian didn't know who Caesar was, he was moved by the emperor's word "nearest assistant".
The Holy One does not regard me as a slave, but as an assistant.
How can I not do my best to be the king's pioneer?
He immediately knelt down in the tunnel and said: "For the sake of the Holy Lord, I must devote my whole life to death
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