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Chapter 172 The Emperor Is a Technical Nerdy
Qianqing Palace.

Seeing Sun Yuanhua's anxious eyes, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help stroking his forehead, pretending to be thinking.

The emperor is smart, and he can think of solutions to many craft-manufacturing problems.Such as crucible steelmaking, such as coke iron smelting, and adding limestone to steelmaking...

This is the feeling gradually developed by Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and others. Even though they find it strange, they dare not ask in detail, and can only explain it with the wisdom of Tianzi.

In fact, this is what the young emperor learned from the vast network of knowledge in his previous life, and many of them were only half-knowledgeable.

However, it is this half-knowledge that often gives us the ability to enlighten the technical problems that plague Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua and others like a flash of inspiration.

Crucible steelmaking is successful, because the technology itself is not complicated, and the core is the production of clay crucibles.It is not difficult to solve it by doing more experiments with different ratios.

Steel with high hardness can be smelted, and it is only a matter of time before the carbon ratio is adjusted to produce steel sheets with strong elasticity.

In other words, the manufacture of flintlock guns has shown the dawn.

However, the difficulty Sun Yuanhua raised was the speed and efficiency of crucible steelmaking, that is, he wanted to greatly shorten the current time for melting iron from three hours.

Zhu Youxiao went to see the production of the capital steelworks, and felt that if the output was low, it would be better to make more crucibles.But this lazy person's thinking was defeated by Sun Yuanhua's responsibility and eagerness to learn.

"This, I think—" Zhu Youxiao finally found a way from his previous experience of visiting, and said slowly: "The blast is to make the coke burn and heat better, but the cold air blown in is not good. .”

Sun Yuanhua blinked his eyes, felt that he had found some ideas, and asked tentatively: "Wanzai means to heat up the air-conditioning first, and then blow it into the crucible?"

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Well, Sun Qing is very smart, that's what I think. Adding a preheating device to the air blowing channel and blowing in hot air may be effective, right?"

That must have an effect. Steel plants all have regenerators, and blowing cold air is to cool down. How can it be the same as hot air?
Sun Yuanhua was thoughtful and asked, "If hot air is also blown on the iron material, it should also speed up the speed?"

yeah?This is a bit like top-blowing steelmaking, but I don’t know the difference between blowing air and blowing oxygen?
Zhu Youxiao was noncommittal, and encouraged: "Sun Qing just go to the experiment, and you will know if it will work or not!
After a pause, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly changed the subject and asked, "Sun Qing, you said that a craftsman in the Weapons and Powder Bureau suggested casting a cannon with an iron core and a copper body?"

"Long live back, that's true." Sun Yuanhua cupped his hands and said, "My minister thinks it's feasible, and has already organized people to carry out experiments. First cast iron tires, and after they cool down, there will be clay molding method or lost wax method to make molds..."

Zhu Youxiao nodded again and again, stretched out his hand to interrupt Sun Yuanhua's long narration, and said: "Regardless of success or not, I will reward this craftsman first. Well, Sun Qing, if nothing else, you step down first, I still have important things to deal with .”

Sun Yuanhua got up quickly, and exited the palace after giving the salute.

Huh, Zhu Youxiao leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath.

I have come here to become an emperor, not to be a technical geek, okay?

Of course, if I can make money, I don't mind.Well, when it comes to making money, it seems to be coming soon!
Zhu Youxiao's eyes turned and stopped on a piece of glass on the table.

That's right, it's glass, and it's still transparent. Sun Yuanhua and others were ordered to work with several foreigners for several months to tinker with it.

Glass manufacturing technology is no secret in the West, and many countries can make it.But when it comes to the exquisiteness and brilliance of glass blowing, Venice in Italy is even more important.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't want to compete with Venetian craftsmen in "blowing", but to find another way to surpass another Venetian manufacturing process that made a lot of money.

Now, it's still a little bit worse.

Zhu Youxiao fiddled with this not-so-big piece of transparent glass, pursed the corners of his mouth, and showed a smile like a money fan.

Through the glass, Zhu Youxiao saw Wang Tiqian walking into the hall holding the box.Putting down the glass, the young emperor gave a dry cough.

"Your Majesty." Wang Tiqian knelt down and presented the box of the secret performance, "The secret performance of Wei Zhongxian, the admiral of Dongchang."

Zhu Youxiao reached out to take it, found a key from the drawer of the desk case, opened the box, and took out the secret music to read it.

Uncle Wei reported on the work of retiring the vassals to grant land and borrowing money to build the bank, and then talked about the Tang Palace in Nanyang, and attached the inscription book of Zhu Yujian, the descendant of the Tang Dynasty.

Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, well, he is still a grandson, and he has not inherited the prince!
Zhu Youxiao still had a good impression of the martyrdom vassal of the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't bother to look for it.But now that Zhu Yujian was in the title book, he couldn't just ignore it.

Although Zhu Yujian did not dare to say that he and his father were imprisoned by his grandfather in the title book, there is an explanation in Wei Zhongxian's secret performance.

This old Tang king is really cruel, for the sake of his concubine, he imprisoned his son and grandson like prisoners and abused them.

Zhu Youxiao groaned, thinking, and felt that he couldn't do what Zhu Yujian said in his inscription.Just summoning him and his father to the Zongxue of the capital, he got rid of the imprisonment, but he didn't gain much!

Zhu Yujian is considered ambitious, so can he use this incident to open a breakthrough or set an example in the work handled by the suzerain vassal?

Zhu Youxiao thought about it again and again, wrote a reply to Wei Zhongxian, and planned to send another person to deal with the matter, and then sealed it in a box and handed it to Wang Tiqian.

"Your Majesty." Wang Tiqian did not retreat immediately, but bowed and said with a flattering smile: "The shops in the city have started to operate, and the sales have been pretty good in the past few days."

Zhu Youxiao nodded with a smile, and said: "Ban Wang has worked hard. Don't look down on this small business, as long as you don't lose money, you can do something if you accumulate a little."

After a pause, the emperor thought of something again, and said, "The funds for the establishment of the Hall of Martyrs and the Hall of Famous Ministers have not been collected yet, have they?"

Wang Tiqian replied truthfully: "Going back to the emperor, there is still a shortfall of more than [-], but it will not affect the current construction. There are still a few months, and we can always make up enough."

Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly, and raised his hand to signal Wang Tiqian to retreat, but in his heart he resented the stinginess of the dignitaries in Beijing.

Just thinking about when to deal with this group of iron roosters, Liu Ruoyu walked in with a stack of notebooks, interrupting the emperor's thoughts.

While drinking tea, Zhu Youxiao listened to Liu Ruoyu reading the ministers' memorials and scriptures, and started his own work again.

Generally speaking, the overall situation is still developing in a good direction, and various reforms are being implemented.The key is that the fiscal revenue has increased a lot, and we have a lot more money.

Mainly, taking advantage of the aftermath of Wenxiangjiao's rebellion, the emperor used factory guards and troops to severely punish the Jiangnan gentry who owed taxes, money and food, as well as some landlords and evil gentry who invaded the military settlements.

No one is a fool, and they can't see it by killing chickens and monkeys.But under the hat of conspiracy and rebellion, no one dared to complain for these people.

On the contrary, deterrence has shown a great effect. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River paid all the money and food in arrears, and most of the landlords and evil gentry who invaded the military settlements in the northern provinces also quickly returned their farmland.

They're all cheap, they're not honest if they don't smoke.

(End of this chapter)