Following the direction Luo Youde pointed, Hong Tao saw a large crowd of black people coming out of the village. The head was a golden guy with a golden crown of more than a half meters high on his head, a golden armor hanging on his body, and even the shoes on his feet were golden. He was holding a golden stick in his hand. There was a round thing at the top of the stick. It was too far away to see what it was.

Behind the little golden man were more than a dozen people with silver glowing light. Their outfits were similar to those of the one in front, but the materials were different. Later, there were people wearing white robes. Each robe had a big golden sun painted on the chest, and there were golden flames around the sun, and a rat head in the middle.

The group of people walked to the pier and, under the leadership of Xiao Jinren, all knelt on the ground, not knowing what they were talking about. Anyway, the buzzing sound was heard from a long distance, and they could hear it when they stood on the boat.

"Don't look for it. Your wife is not here. She is on the top of the temple. There is your divine fire, which is never extinguished day and night. Several large tanks of whale oil will be burned every month. By the way, you have two more sons, two sticks, one of them has a birthmark on the back, which is a bit like the tattoo on your back. This is really strange, and tattoos can be passed down?" Luo Youde saw Hong Tao holding up the telescope and touching him back and forth, and knew who he was looking for, and pointed to the pyramid.

"Then who is this?" Hong Tao thought the little golden man in front was a picture, but the result was not.

"Your high priest, Joseph! Behind are the nineteen missionaries you have given, and now there are sixteen left. Three of them went out to preach, and were bitten to death by poisonous snakes on the way. Where did you get this group of people? They are simply not humans! The three who were bitten to death were made into human jerky, and they were placed in your temple. They said that the three of them were pious to God, so they were summoned to heaven and enjoy happiness. When I went in, I had to salute them three... What's this called!" Luo Youde saw Hong Tao and wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start, so he had to think about what he said, and his logic was a little confused.

"Hahahahaha... Don't be as familiar with them. They have died once. They are different from normal people. The fanaticism is understandable. As long as it is not harmful to us, just bear it." Hong Tao couldn't help it. He didn't expect that Joseph and the others could make trouble than Ouyang Qing, and they were more professional and more fanatical. This is a good thing, at least for now, it is a good thing. The problem he was most worried about was completely solved because of them. Looking at the thousands of white-robed men kneeling on the dock, it felt like watching a movie.

"Lao Luo, look at it. I'll show them another miracle. You promise you have never seen it before." There were so many believers kneeling below. Hong Tao felt that just using words to fool them into showing his abilities. It was meaningless to play the lighter trick. He touched his chin and thought about it. There was a way, so he got into the cabin.

"Come on, come on, go on, go on, go on, stand behind me!" Soon, Hong Tao lifted a wooden box from the cabin, wrapped tightly. After opening it, there were layers of straw and leather inside, with a piece of glass sandwiched in the middle of each layer. Hong Tao picked up one piece and stuffed it into Luo Youde's hand, feeling it was not enough, so he called the sea and the river over, stuffed one piece by one, and then raised one piece by himself, looked up at the sun in the sky, and began to look at the angle.

"Is this...glass?" Luo Youde had seen flat glass, but this piece of glass was different from ordinary flat glass. There was a thin layer of silver foil on the back! The glass was not transparent, but the glass could reflect anything in front, which made Luo Youde confused and couldn't tell whether the person inside the glass was himself.

The things contained in Hong Tao's box seemed very ordinary in later generations, just glass mirrors, two feet square. However, in the 13th century, there was not even flat glass, let alone mirrors. This thing is a new product trial-made in the Imperial Glass Factory. Due to process problems, the output is still very low. This box of glass mirrors requires the workers in the factory to work for at least two months.

The production process of this glass mirror is actually not complicated. The key point is that it is troublesome to find the correct ratio of raw materials, and it is also toxic. This thing was not created by Hong Tao, nor was it even the direction he pointed out.

When flat glass was made, Hong Tao told Li Yaofu and others that if a thin layer of silver was plated on one side of the glass, a glass mirror could be made, and a bronze mirror could be scattered for 100 streets. He said this at that time, how to plate silver on the glass? There was an experiment in middle school called Silver Mirror Reaction, which was explained very clearly. Unfortunately, he didn't know where to go in that class and didn't attend it at all.

However, the speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional. Li Yaofu is really attentive and keeps experimenting, but unfortunately he has never succeeded in one go. No matter what form of silver it is, it cannot stick to the smooth glass surface. But this child is not discouraged. What is more valuable is that he does not believe in every word Hong Tao said. He has the brain and dares to innovate by himself. When silver plating suffered repeated setbacks, he chose a more mature technology called tin amalgam.

What is tin amalgam? If Li Yaofu didn’t say it, Hong Tao wouldn’t know it. This is a very ancient alloy coating technology. To put it bluntly, it is to dissolve the tin foil with liquid mercury and then coat the metal.

According to Li Yaofu, this technology was found in the Tang Dynasty, and there were many gold and silver smiths in the Song Dynasty. It was originally created by alchemy Taoists. When the tin was dissolved by mercury, it became something similar to silver and water, called medicinal silver. Later, it was gradually applied to the mirror grinding process and gold-plated process, and gradually developed into silver plating and tin plating. However, it is usually plated on copper ware. No one has ever tried it on glass, and there is no raw material to try it.

Li Yaofu was the first person to experiment with tin amalgam on glass. He succeeded, and almost paid a high price for success. At the age of 20, his hair fell thin, his gums often bleed, and there were many allergic erythema on his skin. This is the cost of gaining knowledge. On the road to research, many people will fall down, but they did not sacrifice in vain, but used their lives to remind future generations that there is a big pit here!

With Hong Tao around, Li Yaofu was lucky again. When Hong Tao discovered his condition and asked about the objects he had contact with daily necessities, he immediately realized that the child was mercury poisoning. He immediately took the only feasible measure, which was to keep him away from mercury, and then use milk and copper sulfate solution to help him wash his stomach and intestines. Whether it works, it has to be tried. Fortunately, he has not been exposed to mercury steam for too long, and the laboratory is also airtight, so the degree of poisoning is not very serious. After resting for a few months, he slowly began to recover.

Luckily, Li Yaofu was basically successful. He used hundreds of experiments to find the approximate ratio of tin foil and mercury. After Hong Tao personally guided the experiment, he found the most suitable ratio after less than a month. Although the glass mirror produced by the tin amalgam method requires long-term dissolution and drying, the production process of a mirror will last for about a month, and the use of a large amount of mercury is also highly toxic, the world's first real glass mirror was finally born, and it was named Yaofu Mirror by the Imperial Parliament!

"This is a Yaofu mirror, which is much better than a bronze mirror. I will explain to you later. Now I will help me with miracles. Hurry up, stand behind me, raise the mirror high, face the sun sideways, and let the sunlight reflect on the dock like me!" Hong Tao had no time to explain the origin of these mirrors to Luo Youde, and the ship was about to arrive at the dock. Let's pretend to be a charlatan first, and there are thousands of believers waiting below.

Four people, two feet square mirrors, must be shining brightly in the sun. At this time, the flat glass was actually not smooth, and the coating behind it was even more uneven in thickness, but the effect was better because it could scatter more sunlight. Hong Tao's figure seemed to have really walked out of the sun in various dazzling lights, and no one could miss it in the future. But now, it was all right to miss these Indians who had never seen anything!

"The light of the sun god will always shine on the devout believers. Only by giving everything to God can you enter the Kingdom of God without night. God, please mercy on your people..." There were also some people who had never seen Hong Tao cast spells and wanted to look up and see what divine power the God envoy had. When they saw Hong Tao suddenly shrouded in a bright light, they immediately put away the little thoughts in their hearts. The voice of prayer must be louder than others, for fear that God would see through it.

"Lao Luo, they know how to speak Chinese?" Hearing thousands of people praying in unison, Hong Tao was very happy at first, and was very satisfied with his impatience, but soon he realized that these people were actually praying in Chinese!

"That's not, this is God's language. Not knowing God's language means being ungodly. Even an old lady in her fifties and sixties has to learn it! She cannot learn it in vain. She must offer the best things in her family to God, such as a young girl who is not married yet!" Luo Youde stood behind Hong Tao, holding up a glass mirror, and constantly denounced Hong Tao.

"Fuck! Joseph dares to abuse girls in my name!" This time, Hong Tao did not cover up Joseph and the others, which was beyond his bottom line. This was just to better rule the local people, not to be used to be powerful, nor to be used to sacrifice living people, boys and girls.

"No, no, I didn't make it clear! They didn't ruin girls, they just wanted to let girls go to priesthood and go to missionaries in the future. If they didn't force them, those who wouldn't let girls come out would have to stay at home to work, and they did it since they were very young." Seeing that Hong Tao was about to get angry, Luo Youde knew that he hadn't explained it clearly, so he quickly added.
Chapter completed!