The large-scale production of hand grenades has been launched, and the improvement of the blowing equipment at the iron smelting plant and the development of the plate press have also entered the final stage.
This means that when it comes time to spend a lot of money, the first batch of new armies will have to be established immediately. All kinds of armaments, military pay, settlement money, etc. will cost more than 100,000 taels of silver no matter what.
The inner treasury of the palace is raking in as much as possible to collect 200,000 taels of silver. No matter what happens, new income will have to wait until the end of the year. This year, all the income from Nanzhili was transferred to the prince, and by the end of the year
It is estimated that the money coming in is only five to six hundred thousand taels, and there will be a war at the end of the year. King Qin's soldiers cannot let people run away in vain.
With this calculation, he will soon be driven to a dead end by money! Zhu Youjian feels that he is very embarrassed as a soul wearer. Others can earn millions of dollars through time travel without any effort, but he is better off because he controls such a large country.
, I actually didn’t come up with an idea to make money. Now let alone millions of taels of silver, even a small business making tens of thousands of yuan a month can save my life!
The anxious Zhu Youjian, who was short of money, fell into insomnia all night long! After a sleepless night, he felt dizzy the next morning. When he got up from the bed to wash his face, he actually brought a toilet that was placed in the palace.
Porcelain vase.
The porcelain bottle rolled around on the ground, making a crisp metallic sound. Zhu Youjian didn't pay attention, but continued to walk to the copper basin to wash his face.
While washing, he seemed to remember something! A sudden idea came to his mind.
"Come here, bring me the porcelain bottle that just fell to the ground."
The maid who was waiting for the emperor to wash up in the morning was startled. After she realized what she was doing, she quickly had someone carefully hand the porcelain bottle she had just gotten up to the emperor.
Holding the porcelain vase in his hand, Chongzhen looked at it carefully for a long time. This is not a porcelain vase, this is an enamelware! To be precise, it is a piece of copper embryo enamel. This thing also has a name, cloisonné.
After staring at the cloisonné in his hand for a long time, Chongzhen laughed loudly. While laughing, he said: "There is no place to be found after wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it! It turns out that the ways to make money have been around me for a long time, and I didn't even notice it."
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Is our Majesty going crazy today? Why is he laughing while staring at a piece of Jinglan porcelain? Could it be that he is crazy about money and wants to sell the tribute porcelain in the palace? The maids and eunuchs next to him asked the emperor
Sudden abnormal behavior means it is difficult to understand.
Zhu Youjian didn't care what the people around him were thinking. He was excited about the idea of an industry to make quick money.
What is enamel? In later generations, it also had another name called enamel. Later Wang Siming once saw a salesperson selling an imported enamel pot in a shopping mall, so he ran over to ask about the price of the enamel pot. As a result, the salesperson was white.
She glanced at him and said it was enamelware, not enamel. Wang Siming almost took out his mobile phone to Baidu to explain the theory that enamel is enamel to the salesperson.
If you can make copper body enamel, you can make iron body enamel! Copper is too expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it. If it is replaced with iron body, the price will not be much different from the current common porcelain! In the past, the appearance of iron body enamel was restricted.
The main reason is that iron is not as soft as copper and is not easy to shape, so it can only be shaped by casting. How heavy is the cast thing? It cannot be used as daily necessities!
Now Zhu Youjian has a solution. The plate press has been made. Although it is not very easy to use, the craftsmen have already figured out the direction. The principle of the press that presses the steel plate one centimeter thick is the same as that of the press that presses the steel plate several millimeters thick.
Yes, the production is not much more difficult. It just requires heating the steel plate red and then adjusting the gap of the plate press a little smaller.
With thin steel plates and a die-casting machine, the steel plates can be pressed into simple washbasins, teapots, and rice basins. You don’t need to make any complicated shapes at the beginning of production. Just get these things and they are enough. They are good.
Glaze is a serious enamel product.
Is there a market for enamel products? This is the question! Zhu Youjian feels that if this thing is not sold well when it is put on the market, he will be sorry for the business administration major he studied in college. For ordinary people, enamel has too many advantages and is durable.
It is drop-resistant, resistant to damage, and easy to carry. Even with the current methods of making iron and steel, its cost and cost are similar to those of ceramics. Its only disadvantage is that it is not as heat-insulating as ceramics.
Ordinary people will ignore this shortcoming of it. For them, durability and not being easily damaged is the most important thing.
"Hurry up and call Daban to the palace. I have important arrangements for him. Forget it, just tell Daban directly and ask him to summon the several craftsmen from Wansui Mountain, as well as the stewards of the iron factory and the stewards of Gongci Workshop.
Get up, I want to tell them to do something."
I originally thought about calling Wang Chengen over to give instructions and ask him to organize people to do this. Then I thought about it and simply called over all the key people who would be used to give instructions about the matter together and let them go hand in hand.
Soon these people were summoned to the office of Wang Chengen's Internal Affairs Hall. There were quite a few people there, more than a dozen, and Wang Chengen's small office was so crowded that it was not enough.
"Are you all here? Let me make a long story short. The craftsmen at the Longevity Mountain Research Institute have to make some uniform copper plates that are half as thin as copper coins within ten days, and then develop a machine that can press the copper plates into washbasins.
This is what I think about this machine. I use iron to cast a big hammer, and then use a winch to press down. You can figure out the details yourself. If you don’t understand the principle, you can find a hammer and line the copper plate into the stone mortar and push it hard.
Press down and you will be able to figure it out. Okay, the craftsmen in the research institute can go out to work first."
It was a bit chaotic with so many people crowded into one house. After Zhu Youjian told the craftsmen in Meishan what work to do, he sent them away first.
"In the next ten days, the people in the iron factory will continue to improve on the basis of the plate press they have built now. I want you to make a plate press that can press out half-cent thick steel plates within ten days. You can use the entire factory's
The craftsmen are all mobilized, and whoever can make a suitable plate press will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver."
After assigning the work to the people in the iron factory, Zhu Youjian turned around and said to the people in the Gong Porcelain Factory: "The work in your porcelain factory is very simple. Find a suitable formula that can evenly glaze the iron in ten days.
The requirement is that it can be burned without exploding. It doesn’t matter what color it is! After this is done, I will also reward you with five hundred taels of silver."
They came and left quickly. It took less than half an hour for these people to come to the Internal Affairs Hall and walk out. When they left, they were full of questions. What was the emperor going to do? He ordered everyone to be in such a hurry.
What kind of important thing do you want to do? Who cares, as long as there is a reward, just do it! Who can't get along with money? Besides, the tasks ordered by the emperor are difficult, but there is still a direction, but time is a bit rushed.