Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 63 Cement and Glass

"System, I want to check in again."

"Ding, it is detected that the host's current positive emotion value is 40000 and the negative emotion value is 10014. What kind of emotion value should be spent for repeated check-ins?"

"Positive emotional value."

"The system reminds the host again that the doubling function has been turned on, do you want to double it?"

The so-called doubling function means that you can double the emotional value to sign in repeatedly. The multiple is from one to ten. The larger the multiple, the richer the rewards you will get, but the rewards are still determined randomly.

This function was activated when Li Cunzhi took Huai'an. At that time, the system said that the system and the host complement each other. The actions of the host after crossing did not completely depend on the system, especially when attacking warlords relied on personal wisdom and strategies, and performed outstandingly , thus bringing about system upgrades and optimizations.

It turns out that this is still an upgrade game, and Li Cunming's repeated tricks are not in vain!
The gifts for Princess Changping, Wang Yi, and Ying Ying, as well as the bloody horse, were obtained by Li Cunming using the double function to sign in repeatedly.

There has been no war recently, and nothing major has happened, so he doesn't get much emotional value.After thinking about it, I decided to use positive emotional values ​​to sign in repeatedly.

"Five times!"

"Ding, 20000 positive emotion points have been deducted. Congratulations to the host for obtaining a cement formula and two tons of cement."

"Cement!" Li Cunming laughed loudly.

He said again: "Add five times, and do it again!"

"Ding, 20000 positive emotion points have been deducted. Congratulations to the host for obtaining a copy of the glass production manual. The glass costs 500 yuan."

"Glass!" Li Cunming laughed so hard that his branches trembled.

Alright, I finally got the necessary sharp weapons for these two traversers.With glass and cement, what bicycle do you want, what bicycle do you want?

Li Cunming felt happy from the bottom of his heart, and almost ran all the way to Tianzi No. [-] warehouse.This warehouse is specially used to store system rewards. It is guarded by heavy soldiers, and the only key is kept by the emperor himself.

Opening the warehouse door and walking in, I saw two tons of cement packed in many sacks, neatly stacked.

And the 500 yuan glass made Li Cunming even more excited. Each piece of glass is about three feet long (one foot is about 33 centimeters) and two feet wide, crystal clear.

Li Cunming hurriedly sent someone to find Song Yingxing, the dean of the Academy of Sciences, and said with a smile, "Song Aiqing, I will show you two good things. This is cement and this is glass."

Song Yingxing looked at the ornamental glass first, and praised: "As far as I know, there are records of glass around the Zhou Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, glass manufacturing technology has made great progress, and it began to be used to make decorations. However, the performance of glass is extremely unstable. , it explodes when exposed to heat, and is expensive, so it has never been incorporated into people’s daily lives.”

"But the glass in front of me seems to be much harder, and the texture is much purer, which is not comparable to ordinary glass."

Li Cunming said: "Song Aiqing is indeed a first-class scholar in my Ming Dynasty! I asked you to come, the most important thing is to introduce you to cement. As for the manufacture of glass, I can leave it to Bi Dengfu."

"Your Majesty, what is cement and what is it used for?" Song Yingxing asked.

"Simply put, cement is a building material that has the same purpose as glutinous rice lime mortar, but its performance is much superior."

With this explanation, Song Yingxing understood immediately. He said: "Nowadays firearms are widely used, especially the appearance of the Hongyi cannon, which has hit the city unprecedentedly. I have been thinking about improving the way to build the city wall, but I have no idea. If Cement is really more effective than glutinous rice lime mortar, it is really a blessing for my Ming Dynasty!"

Li Cunming smiled, and handed the cement formula to Song Yingxing, saying: "It contains the raw materials and manufacturing methods of cement. You should understand it carefully. I plan to entrust you with the heavy responsibility of cement production."

Song Yingxing looked at the formula carefully, thought for a while and said, "I have already understood the cement manufacturing method. It's just that the cement raw materials include limestone, clay, and iron-making slag. The first two materials are easy to get, but iron-making slag is not easy to get..."

"So I plan to send you south, to Foshan!"

"Foshan? That's right, Foshan is the center of iron smelting in the south of me, and the one with the most iron smelting slag." Song Yingxing said.

There were two iron smelting centers in the Ming Dynasty. The north was the Zunhua Iron Works. Unfortunately, it was closed during the Wanli period, and the north had already fallen. Now only Foshan is still making large-scale iron.

Li Cunming said solemnly: "I sent you to Foshan. Besides setting up a cement factory, I also want you to take over the iron smelting plant. Song Aiqing, I think you understand better than anyone else how important ironmaking is! Go, go Create an age of iron and steel, and make your eternal contribution!"

"The age of steel... the merits of all ages..." Song Yingxing was so excited that he knelt down and said, "I will definitely do my best to live up to your Majesty's trust!"

After Song Yingxing left, Li Cunming sent people to load all the cement into trucks and send it to Jining.Duoduo has withdrawn his troops from Yimeng Mountain, and Weng Zhiqi and Yan Yingyuan returned to Jining and started to manage Jining City.

Li Cunming wrote a letter to Yan Yingyuan, which contained a few words: "The management of Jining City is as significant as the previous management of Liaocheng. It must control the Grand Canal and become a sharp knife to resist the Tartars going south. But I will not do it again Let the tragedy in Liaocheng repeat itself, specially send cement, and attach a bag of secret strategies, Wang Qing and others will do their best."

He called Bi Dengfu again and showed him the glass.Zhu Cijiong followed Bi Dengfu to the warehouse, squatting motionless in front of the glass, dumbfounded.

This kid fiddled with black powder a few days ago, burned his hair and eyebrows, and looked very funny.

"Tosuke, I want you to make some mirrors."

"Okay, I'm going to buy brass now, and lead the craftsmen to polish the mirror."

"No, no brass, these glasses."

"Ah, can glass make a mirror?" Zhu Cijiong turned his head and asked.

Li Cunming laughed loudly: "Zhu Cijiong, the world is so big that there are no surprises. The ancients said that my life has a limit but my learning has no limit. You still have a lot to learn."

Then he looked at Bidenfu and said: "You can make a mirror by coating one side of the glass with silver powder. But the silver plating technology is very complicated. I leave it to you to slowly explore and study. I have a quick method here. I don't use silver powder, but apply it. An alloy of tin and mercury will do. But mercury is highly toxic, so you should protect yourself and wear a mask. Do you understand?"

"I will keep this in mind!" Bi Dengfu took the order.

Zhu Cijiong said: "Father, can I participate in making mirrors?"

Li Cunming curled his lips and said: "I haven't seen you once in ten days and a half months, how can I control you? You can do whatever you like, but you have to listen to Dengfu's command and teaching. Forget it, in front of me, you Let Bi Dengfu be your teacher now."

Zhu Cijiong hurriedly stood up, ran to Bi Dengfu, knelt down and said, "Greetings, Master!"

Bi Dengfu smiled and said, "His Royal Highness, I dare not be your teacher. Let's study with my uncle and Mr. Tang."

Zhu Cijiong said: "There is no limit to learning, and there are specializations in art. On the road of pursuing knowledge, people do not distinguish between high and low, and only pay attention to the degree of knowledge."

As he spoke, he kowtowed three times.

Li Cunming was very pleased and said: "Zhu Cijiong, I am very happy that you can think like this and have such a humble attitude. I am afraid that the old Zhu family will produce a great scientist!"

(End of this chapter)