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Chapter 209 Qiongdao Chemical Industry
"Call Zhang Ran!"

Returning to the Yangxin Hall, Hong Tao began to circle around the yard again. After getting tired from walking, he sat on the steps and stared at the sky in a daze.Yi stick of incense suddenly jumped up and trotted into the imperial study room, frightening all the eunuchs who were accompanying him. They chased him fiercely, but they couldn't catch up.

In the Guanghan Hall, Hong Tao watched carefully around a large dark green bowl, touching it from time to time, shaking his head and nodding.Even though he has been the Lord of the Forbidden City for seven years, it is still the first time he has climbed to the top of Qiongdao Mountain, and the first time he has seen this thing that is said to be the treasure of the Yuan Dynasty.

Qiongdao is the Qiongdao in Beihai in later generations, with a white tower standing on it.But in the Ming Dynasty, there was no White Pagoda here, only a Guanghan Hall and a half circle of ancillary buildings.Before the Yuan capital was built, Kublai Khan met with ministers and held court meetings in this hall.

This big bowl is not made of stone, but of jade. It weighs several tons and is carved with dragons and phoenixes to look like a bowl. It is called the Big Jade Sea.Hong Tao looks more like a big fish tank. I don’t know what kind of jade it is. Anyway, it is not as crystal clear as jade, and it is not as moist as Hetian jade. It doesn’t look valuable except that it is big.

"..." Following the sound of heavy footsteps, Zhang Ran ran in sweating profusely. Seeing that the emperor was concentrating on studying the Great Jade Sea, he quickly retracted his legs and planned to stand at the door and wait.

"Tell me!" Hong Tao was measuring the size of the Great Jade Sea with his palm, intending to use the density of the jade material to calculate whether it weighed several tons. He didn't even look up when he heard the footsteps.

"Long live my Lord, all the things have been shipped back. I checked carefully and found that not a single thing was damaged." Zhang Ran wiped his sweat and tried to breathe calmly.

When speaking to the emperor, there are strict requirements not only for the words, expressions, and gestures, but also for the breath. Otherwise, even if you are indifferent, you will deserve to be scolded at the least, or dragged to death with sticks at the worst.

Although Emperor Jingyang has been surprisingly kind to eunuchs since he came to the throne, and there is no such thing as casual killing of maids and eunuchs in the palace, this emperor is not merciless at all when he cleans up dissidents, and he still cannot treat them lightly.

"Well... let's sit down and have a sip of tea. What is Zhao Shizhen doing?" When he heard that the things had arrived, Hong Tao finally turned his attention away from Dayuhai. Only then did he notice Zhang Ran's sweat-wet front and pointed to the side. , took the lead in sitting at the stone table.

Since I spotted this place, the main hall has been vacated by the Cuju team in two days, and the stone tables and benches that were originally placed outside were brought in.No one among the eunuchs dared to ask why they did this. The entire island was sealed off. Even if Chen Ju and Wang An wanted to come in, they had to ask the emperor first.

"Shilang Zhao has not returned from Haihe Machinery Factory. I have found three master craftsmen and asked them to pack up the utensils according to the Holy Instructions of Lord Long Live. Everything is perfect." Zhang Ran actually wanted to answer standing up, but unfortunately the emperor had to give up his seat. He wanted to sit down, but he didn't dare to sit down firmly. It was like squatting on the stone bench.

"Oh, it's time to work again. I'm just tired of working. I always think that everything will be fine just by talking, but no one understands!" My subordinates followed the instructions 100% and completed the tasks they were told, even an hour ahead of schedule. Ordinarily, it should be It's a good thing, but Hong Tao is not happy at all.

The plan before was pretty good. Find hundreds of children, select the talented ones among them, teach them in different categories for a few years, and then you can just sit back and enjoy the fruits of victory.If you happen to catch up with one or two extremely talented people, they can still flourish.

But the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.The emperor is really not as free as the grass bandit who occupies the mountain as the king and has endless chores to do all day long.If you do it, there will be no results, but if you don't do it, it will be fatal.There simply wasn’t much time to teach students systematically, and I couldn’t even finish the lesson plans.

I have no choice but to give up my unrealistic dreams and continue to roll up my arms and sleeves to go into battle myself.It is said that there was an emperor in the Ming Dynasty who specialized in carpentry. He seemed to be his own son, but he was belittled by later generations.

Now, he doesn't have to wait for his son to become the carpenter emperor, but he wants to become the chemical industry emperor first. It can be said that his genetics are strong.I don’t know how the history books will write it, or how future generations will evaluate it.

"Call them in..." No matter how much work she complained, she still had to do it. The Empress Dowager gave up her own nephews. If she couldn't produce the finished product, she would really be alone in the future. No one would believe what she said. "Slave Gao Bao'er, I wish you long live the Lord!"

"Caomin Zhang De bows to the Lord Long Live!"

"Kowtow to the grass-roots king Xingyi, long live the Lord!"

The three people Zhang Ran brought in were quite neatly dressed, but they looked a little embarrassed.His body was covered in dust and his neck was dripping with sweat. It seemed that he had traveled a long way and he went to the palace to see him immediately, without even having time to wash up.

"Gao Bao'er, where are you originally from?"

These three people were all master craftsmen in the royal gunpowder factory, and one of them was a eunuch.There are also eunuch craftsmen in Time Workshop, Liuguangzhai, Yongdinghe Iron Factory and Haihe Machinery Factory, and their craftsmanship is usually more exquisite than that of outside craftsmen.

"Go back to Lord Long Live. This slave is from the Gunpowder Department of the Military War Bureau. In the second year of Jingyang, he joined the Royal Gunpowder Factory and was promoted to chief because of his merits in making maroon gunpowder." Gao Baoer is not very old, and he was born thin and small, looking like a sickly man. His speech was clear and concise.

"Where are you two from, and what skills are you good at?" Hong Tao knew it when he heard that it was the master craftsman who made maroon gunpowder, and turned to ask the other two people.

"Caomin was originally from Nanbaoyuan Bureau, specializing in refining mercury." Zhang De is older and has a strong southern accent.

"The grass-roots man used to work in the bank and was good at making charcoal." Wang Xing was very strong and had a naive personality. He knocked his head down after being called in and never got up. Even when he answered, he kept his head on the ground.

"Everyone, get up. Go take a shower, change clothes, and arrange your accommodation. Come back in half an hour!"

The previous jobs of these three people were somewhat related to chemistry, but it is not clear to Hong Tao whether they have talents in this area or their learning ability.There is no time to search slowly, so I can only find the horse on horseback and teach him at the same time.

In addition to three craftsmen with practical work experience and simple exposure to chemical operations, Hong Tao also selected [-] young eunuchs from the Cuju team who were better at cultural classes to serve as students, and set up a laboratory in Guanghan Hall, preparing to force evil Supplement your chemistry knowledge.

Teaching chemistry in later generations usually starts with the periodic table of elements.First remember the chemical properties of various substances, and then become familiar with various ready-made chemical formulas before entering the practical operation stage.

But it didn't work in the Ming Dynasty. Without a knowledge base, I couldn't understand what the elements were even after a month of teaching.At this time, we can no longer proceed step by step. We must neglect theory and emphasize practice, and start directly from experiments. What we need is to become familiar with it through repeated practice.As for applying what you have learned and extending your imagination, it is up to the students to use it freely.

(End of this chapter)