Steel Dynasty - Chapter 88

[Chapter 88 Glass]

“Your Highness… the common people are willing!”

Fan Zeng looked excited. He had done nothing in his life. He never thought that he would get such an opportunity in his later years. He would not seize it now, and wait until later.

“Well, the newspaper office in Bowen College will be completed by the end of the month. Although it is a bit crude, you can move in by then. Now you can choose the staff of the newspaper office. I also have the structure of a newspaper office here. You can take it back. Take a look.”

After Xiao Ming said this, he asked Luluo to go to the dormitory and take out a manuscript. This was a newspaper composition written by Xiao Ming based on the modern newspaper company and the actual situation of Dayu.

Once the newspaper is established, the newsboy will no longer exist, but will be renamed as a reporter. However, his reporter is not only collecting news, but his responsibility of going to the countryside to read newspapers cannot be changed.

The newspaper is divided into printing department, editorial department, logistics department and other departments, which is basically the prototype of a modern newspaper.

During this time, Xiao Ming got along with all kinds of people in the Great Chongqing Kingdom. Xiao Ming thought that the ancients were not stupid, but just lacked knowledge. But once these things were explained, they could quickly use them flexibly. People should not be underestimated in any era. Create minds.

Because of this, with the encouragement of Xiao Ming, the minds of the Equipment Department, Bowen Hall, and workshops gradually opened up, instead of being imprisoned by the decadent culture, and they were more willing to try all kinds of novel things. , learn scientific and technological knowledge and let them understand that technology is productivity.

He deeply felt that whether the people of an era could create a new civilized era depended entirely on the guidance of the entire civil atmosphere, and the source of guidance was these rulers.

The First Emperor of Qin burned books, harassed Confucians, imprisoned scholars, deposed hundreds of schools of thought, and only respected Confucianism. The one thing the rulers of the feudal dynasty always did to stabilize the country was to fool the people.

The only purpose of scholars is to serve as officials and maintain rule. For thousands of years, the elites of feudal dynasties have only pursued positions of great importance.

The emergence of newspapers was exactly when he changed this literary and artistic atmosphere that was like a pool of stagnant water. The Renaissance might not be impossible to appear in his fiefdom.

Now that the president of the newspaper has been determined, the next step is to prepare the newspaper step by step. With his guidance, the newspaper will not make any mistakes.

Fan Zeng returned home as if in a dream, looking at his wife who was usually fierce to him and straightened her back, but now he was the newspaper president who was more affectionate to her.

After telling his family about this, everyone in the family was naturally very happy. Fan Zeng’s wife, Sun, even killed the family’s chickens to reward Fan Zeng. After decades of frustration, he was finally proud and proud today.

The changes in Qingzhou are like the silent spring rain, which sneaks into the night with the wind.

Fan Zeng is just one of the people who feels this change. More people are just living in Lushan and don’t know the true face of Lushan. However, from the perspective of outsiders, this change in Qingzhou is particularly dazzling.

For example, for businessmen who enter Qingzhou from other places, everything in Qingzhou is quite incredible to them, but their focus is still on the workshop area hidden behind the tall wall.

Although I tried my best to pry into the secrets, I have gained very little now. I just learned that many strange machines have appeared in the workshop area.

And now there is something called a newspaper in Qingzhou.

Naturally, these businessmen first thought about whether this newspaper could make money, because they have now formed a habit of thinking this way as long as it is something created by King Qi.

However, after observing for several days, they unfortunately found that it seemed impossible because the cost of newspapers was not proportional to the selling price, and there were very few people buying newspapers.

“Hey, King Qi seems to have no new ideas for making money for a while.” In the restaurant, a businessman sighed.

The businessman sitting opposite said: “Just soap, perfume, and Zui Qingzhou have made King Qi a lot of money. Coupled with these products that Li Kaiyuan is now promoting, the sales of these three items have greatly increased. It is said that King Qi is now With a monthly income of one million, do you need anything else?”

“That’s true, but the merchants who stayed in Qingzhou are still a little regretful. After all, some merchants got the goods first, and the newcomers couldn’t even drink the soup,” the merchant said. , then picked up today’s new newspaper and read it.

When he saw the article at the bottom of the page, his expression suddenly tightened.

Because it says that King Qi is recently leading a group of craftsmen to produce a very magical thing in the Equipment Department. The article does not say much about what to study, it just says to let the merchants wait.

The news spread instantly among the businessmen along with the newspapers. The businessmen also paid attention to the newspapers for the first time. They did not expect that there would be such precious information.

For a time, businessmen in Qingzhou City were asking everywhere what King Qi was doing.

The only clue they got was that King Qi took a lot of sand from the river beach.

sand? The businessmen were confused, what was this used for?

For modern people, they basically understand that sand can be used to produce glass.

This is exactly what Xiao Ming wants to come up with next. In fact, Xiao Ming wants to produce glass not purely to make money, but more because he wants to use glass to make things such as telescopes and chemical instruments.

Because the chemistry laboratory does need these things to purify purer alkali, and the most important thing is that Xiao Ming has gathered the materials for producing glass.

This is the same effect as collecting all the Dragon Balls. You should summon the Shenlong.

Sand, limestone, and soda ash are the conditions for producing soda-lime glass. The silica in the sand and soda ash lower the melting point. The limestone provides calcium, and a pure and transparent glass can be born.

These are the materials needed for chemical instruments, beakers, measuring cylinders, test tubes, etc. With these equipment, there will be no problem in the chemistry laboratory.

After gathering the materials, the next step is to fuse. The formation of molten glass requires one thousand three degrees. This temperature is basically the same as coking, so in order to increase the temperature.

Xiao Ming had to design a device specifically used to increase the temperature, a regenerator.

The regenerators are brick buildings, usually separated by two, with a furnace in the middle. The two regenerators are filled with empty checkered bricks, and the heat from the two regenerators is blown through the furnace in the middle. Heat exchange thereby increases the temperature in the furnace.

There were no bricks before, so Xiao Ming naturally did not use a regenerator. Now that bricks are available and manpower is available, it is natural to replace the gun with a cannon. Now, whether it is blast furnace ironmaking or coking, regenerators are being built.

Thus the quality of the coke has improved, the quality of the iron has improved, and the glass has been fortunate enough to enjoy the furnace regenerator from the first.

Xiao Ming, a glass producer, taught Yiyi the knowledge of glass production. After the furnace regenerator is built, the materials can be mixed and thrown in. When the glass liquid comes out, it is time to anneal and blow the glassware. This can only be done manually. .

(End of chapter)