Those who can hold a seat at the big conference table in Jiujian Hall are all important people. They are either former Confucian scholars or important ministers of the Guangzhou court, and there are many knowledgeable people among them.

But none of these people could recognize the two good things Yan Yuan held out that were related to the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty for three hundred years.

"Jian Guo, please stop being so secretive. We are so inexperienced that we can't recognize him."

"Jian Guo, this thing looks like stone and some kind of soil... What is the use of this thing?"

"Is it a gem? It doesn't look like it!"

"Jian Guo, please tell me, what are these two things?"

Zhu Heji smiled and shook his head, saying: "Look carefully... these are not two things, but three treasures!"

"Three treasures?"

"Earth, stones, what else?"

Zhu Heji reached out and picked up the porcelain bowl filled with soil, then poured out the soil in the porcelain bowl and raised the porcelain bowl, "Look, what is this?"

"This is...a bowl. It doesn't look very round!"

"It's just a white porcelain bowl...the color is quite nice. Is it some kind of famous porcelain?"

Zhu Heji said: "This is called milk white porcelain. It is made by adding cow bone powder and quartz stone powder to the porcelain clay... This kind of milk white porcelain has excellent hardness, color and light transmittance.

.This bowl was casually made by the craftsmen of Huangpu Iron Works. If it is made by a famous porcelain craftsman, it will definitely be made into the exquisite product that we are waiting for. The Gu family has sent people to Chaozhou, Zhangzhou, and Quanzhou to invite local porcelain masters to take a look.

If they think it is useful, I will teach them this method."

What Zhu Heji took out was a piece of bone china porcelain, which historically appeared in Europe at the end of the 18th century. After this kind of porcelain appeared, it was quickly sought after by wealthy people from all over Europe, and it also helped Europe's porcelain industry catch up and destroy China.

A rice bowl that is mostly made of porcelain – don’t underestimate this!

What is porcelain made of?

Made of soil!

This is a good deal of exchanging soil for silver!

For more than a thousand years, porcelain has been a top industry.

Moreover, Chinese porcelain has long established an extremely strong brand effect. Before the emergence of bone china, there were almost no competitors, and it was simply a matter of profit.

After the emergence of bone china, China quickly lost this top industry of "exchanging land for money".

Also in the late Qing Dynasty, with the strong rise of Japan's silk industry, another top industry monopolized by China for two thousand years - the silk industry - also completely declined.

Tea, sugar, and ironware, the three industries that were still dominant in the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, all fell by the end of the Qing Dynasty!

In addition to ironware, China's porcelain, tea, silk, and sugar were all very profitable and good businesses with a monopoly status.

Their total loss caused China to completely lose industries that could quickly accumulate industrial capital at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century...Without the profitable industries, China's road to industrialization would of course be extremely difficult.

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Now it was Zhu Heji's turn to lead the new Ming Dynasty to "capitalize". Naturally, he had to do everything possible to retain these advantageous industries. In addition, he had to find ways to destroy the advantageous industries of the Westerners - of course, zero-yuan purchases!

Zhu Hecai did not believe that Europeans could create an industrialized world by shearing sheep...

After talking about bone china, Zhu Heji picked up another stone with a surface covered with crystals and said, "This is called struvite. It is a treasure collected from the desert island of Dongsha by the prisoners of the Shang family army!"

"Guano?" Qiu Hui, who has raised ducks, immediately understood, "Is this fertilizer? Duck droppings are good fertilizer!"

"That's right!" Zhu Heji nodded, "This kind of struvite is mostly produced in overseas desert islands. It is formed by the defecation of birds on the sea for millions of years... It is an extremely high-quality fertilizer. Gujia

A rice field was opened on Huangpu Island, and struvite was used as fertilizer. The yield was twice as much as that of a rice field without guano fertilizer!

With this kind of good fertilizer, we Ming people will be able to suffer less from famine in the future!"

Zhu Shunshui, a bachelor, asked with interest: "Are there many struvites on Dongsha Island?"

"Not too much," Zhu Heji said with a wry smile, "but if the imperial court could mine Dongsha's dung before the Jiashen disaster, it might be able to alleviate the world's famine. And the world is so big and boundless, a guano island like Dongsha will definitely

There are many more...Mr. Shunshui, do you think this matter of opening up the sea is related to the mouths of hundreds of millions of people? And the food of hundreds of millions of people is the foundation of the country and the world for three hundred years?

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Zhu Shunshui nodded and said: "Zhiyu has traveled to the East and Southeast, so he knows how big the world is and the vastness of the four seas... The former Ming Dynasty was closed to the outside world and failed to use the wealth of the four seas to support the people of the world. This was a big mistake.

also!

If Emperor Taizu Gao had known that the guano from overseas could support the people of the Chinese dynasty, he would not have followed the ancestral precept of seclusion."

Eating is politically correct for Chinese people!

If what Zheng He brought back was struvite that could feed people, then going to sea would be politically correct!

Zhu Heji spent so much effort (actually it was the prisoners of Shang Jiajun who helped) to obtain so many struvites, not to feed many people now... but to develop now and in the future!

One is to use "guano to turn food" to turn overseas interests into political correctness!

The second is to provide guano fertilizer for the pioneering people - it is very difficult to colonize a barbaric land, and the probability of starving to death is not small! And guano fertilizer can greatly increase the grain yield, which naturally improves the development efficiency.

success rate.

"Bone china can be exchanged for silver, and bird droppings can be turned into food," Zhu Heji said as he picked up an unground white stone. "This stone is called dolomite. It is produced everywhere and is not uncommon.

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But it’s so useful… it can be used to make bricks!”

"Building bricks?" Guo Youde, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, became excited when he heard this. "Sage, do you want to use these white bricks to build a house?"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It's not about building a house," Zhu Heji said with a smile, "it's about building a furnace...a furnace for making iron and steel!"

Bricks made of dolomite are excellent refractory materials and can withstand high temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees Celsius. Moreover, this is an alkaline material, and furnaces built with it can be used for dephosphorization and addition of

Applying desulfurized quicklime can solve the problem of high sulfur and high phosphorus in iron ore - most of China's iron ores are high in sulfur and high phosphorus. In addition, the sulfur in the coal caused by coal ironmaking dissolves into the molten iron, so the sulfur removal

Phosphorus removal has always been a big problem.

Therefore, when the easily mined and high-quality iron ore is exhausted, the quality of China's ironware becomes a bit worrying... And most of the ironware produced in Foshan, a major iron smelting town, contains excessive sulfur and phosphorus.

The reason why Zhu Heji was not busy making steel guns and steel cannons, but toying with white sugar and copper bombs, was because he knew that Foshan could not provide a large number of light flintlock muskets, nor could it produce high-quality iron cannons.

Unless you get out the dolomite furnace and graphite clay crucible first!

However, although there are Baiyun Mountains in Guangdong, there are no large dolomite mines, so Zhu Heji had to wait patiently. It was not until Zheng Jing captured most of Fujian that he sent people to find some dolomites and handed them all over.

It was given to the Huangpu Iron Works for trial use. The iron sheet that saved Da Bo Ling's "breast" last time was made from the iron produced by the dolomite furnace of the Huangpu Iron Works.

Zhu Heji said: "With this kind of dolomite, our Foshan iron industry can reach a higher level... But the promotion of dolomite refractory bricks, graphite crucible furnaces and coke ironmaking,

It’s too late for the Gu family to take charge. Old Taishan, Nine Thousand Years Old, Master Qi, Master Guo, I’ll leave this matter to you.”

Qiu Hui, Eunuch Pang, Mr. Yu, and Mr. Guo are all "great gods" who cannot afford to offend Foshan Iron Industry. Among them, Qiu Hui is the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and a local snake in Guangdong. Eunuch Pang has a "Central Bank" in his hand

" Mr. Yu is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the Minister of Zhongshu, that is, the Deputy Prime Minister. Mr. Guo is the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and he is in charge of military orders!

Zhu Heji went on to say: "Before the Gu family sends troops to the Northern Expedition, you will find people for the Gu family, and the Gu family will pass on this craft to them... There is no need for them to pay tuition, as long as they
Chapter completed!