Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 57 Heading towards the industrial revolution?

That night, when Li Shuran left, he took away the memorial and the shockingly green piece of glass that he wanted to give to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Speaking of which, there is a small detail. In fact, the vassal king has the power to command the military, but it is difficult to directly intervene in local government affairs. Instead, the court issues instructions.

(As a book friend reminded me, it seems that I overestimated the power of the feudal lord. Sorry, sorry.)
Therefore, even the matter of paying tribute glass to the imperial court was done by the prefect Li Shuran.

But Zhu Chu didn't seem to understand this, as long as he was not allowed to work.

As for why Zhu Zhen had so much power, Li Shuran had brought a bunch of memorials to him before and asked him questions about both big and small matters.

One is that Zhu Yuanzhang may really want to replace Mu Ying, the Marquis of Xiping.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to raise a prince. He didn't even believe in his own son, let alone an adopted son.
So Zhu Chu is here to replace Mu Ying in all aspects.

Another thing, Li Shuran's memorials were mostly to let Zhu Zhen know about the situation in his territory, and secondly, they were about the disposal plan of the Curie House group.

That was a prisoner Zhu Ming had captured himself, and he must be asked for his opinion.

As for government affairs issues, they are all trivial matters, such as street sweeping?

So it's okay.

(The author made a few corrections, I understand. The main reason is that I can’t revise the article from scratch, and the workload is too heavy.)
After Li Shuran was escorted away by the escort arranged by Wang Fu, Wang Fu prepared a pot of tea for Zhu Zhen to drink when he was thirsty at night, and put down the chamber pot that the soldiers had washed during the day, and went down to rest.

But Zhu Zhen was not sleepy yet. He sat back on the chair, closed his eyes, and silently thought about today's events.

"Although the glass has been successfully fired, the fine craftsmanship still needs to be improved. Moreover, the glass can also be processed into mirrors and can also be sold as rare luxury goods."

"The only pity is that I don't have anyone on hand now, either Mu Ying's, Dad's, or a local like Li Shuran. At least there is no one who is devoted to me and can completely trust me. "

"So the glass thing cannot be kept secret, and it will be a matter of time before the court gets the formula. What I have to do now is to bake as much glass as possible as soon as possible."

"But the problem is, this requires a lot of materials. I have no choice but to find the system."

Zhu Zhen sighed and opened his eyes again.

The above are all psychological activities. Zhu Zhen is not afraid of being heard by people with ears through the wall. He will not say what is in his heart. That would be too stupid.

Turning on the system silently, Zhu Min browsed through the tax store.

After today's consumption, plus the technical drawings or formulas of the glass he bought yesterday, Zhu Zhen has consumed a lot of resources.

The technical formula requires [-] resources, and each bag of raw materials also requires [-] resources.

One bag of soda ash powder, one bag of quartz sand, one bag of limestone, one bag of feldspar, one bag of manganese dioxide, one bag of sodium oxide, one bag of sodium silicate and one bag of calcium silicate.

It is said that the glass he made this time is close to modern technology, just look at the materials he made.

All in all, he spent a total of 29 resources in the past two days, leaving 4000 and [-] resources left.

After looking at the remaining resources, Zhu Zhen didn't pay attention to the resources spent at all. Instead, he browsed through a bunch of things and bought them.

There are formulas for extracting soda ash and methods for extracting and manufacturing manganese dioxide.

And I don’t know if it’s luck or chance, but the source of soft manganese ore needed to extract manganese dioxide seems to be in Congjiang County?
Congjiang County belongs to Guizhou, and Yunnan and Guizhou are adjacent, so it should not be difficult to obtain it.

Quartz sand was no longer needed, so Zhu found that ordinary sand could still be used.

Moreover, the process of making quartz sand is still dangerous, which he will not consider for the time being.

But, limestone?
"It seems that limestone is still used to make cement, which is one of the main components of cement, right?" Zhu Zhen fell into deep thought.It's true that when the book is put to use, Zhu Zheng is already a little worried about the glass.

But he also has to consider other things. For example, limestone can not only be used to burn glass, but can also be used to make cement and lime, and can even be used to extract alkali.

At the same time, I don’t know if it’s just luck, but Yunnan is also one of the origins of limestone.

It is equivalent to saying that Zhu Chu only needs people to pay attention to the location of limestone.

Zhu Chu continued to calculate.

The glass ingredients he is currently preparing to use include ordinary sand, soda ash, manganese dioxide, sodium oxide, sodium silicate and calcium silicate.

As for limestone and feldspar, it depends on whether you can find them. If you find them, just use them. If you don't have them, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Therefore, in order to obtain the formulas for making alkali, manganese dioxide, sodium oxide, sodium silicate and calcium silicate, Zhu Chu spent a total of [-] resources, each of which was [-] resources.

Zhu Ming glanced at the 26 and two hundred resources left on hand, and couldn't help but feel a little sad.

If these more than 2 resources were used to directly purchase raw materials, it would probably fill a warehouse.

However, although the raw materials purchased directly can be used directly, it saves a lot of trouble.

The problem is that they are all one-off, and what these more than 2 resources purchased are sustainable manufacturing technologies.

"It's better to teach a man how to fish than to teach him how to fish, right? Even though I bought this for myself," Zhu Chu said with a little humor.

"Now that this is the case, why not buy the sugar manufacturing technology and even the soap manufacturing technology together?"

Zhu Ming's heart moved, these were all part of his plan.

He used to like reading time-travel novels, and he was envious of the protagonists who could make various inventions and make a fortune once they traveled through time.

So Zhu Chu had been thinking about this before, but it was a pity that both the method of making sugar and burning glass ended in failure.

As a result, in the end, I could only rely on the system’s cheats to cheat.

Now that this was the case, Zhu Zhen simply stopped being reserved and directly bought the two technical drawings again.

First is white sugar. The first step is to use sugar cane and beetroot as raw materials, and then squeeze the juice to get the 'sweet soup'.

These sweet soups are then made into syrup.

Up to this step, it is no different from how Zhu Chu made sugar cane juice into brown sugar before.

"If you tell me about the method of drenching sugar with yellow mud water again, I will curse you," Zhu Zhen warned while looking down.

Fortunately, the technology produced by the system does not deceive people.

I saw that the next step, after entering the syrup process, directly mentioned the clarification technology of sulfite method, which is a typical decolorization method for clearing sugarcane juice and syrup.

To put it bluntly, decolorization has always been the main problem in how to turn brown sugar into white sugar.

The sulfurous acid decolorization technology is quite good and does not require many steps.

But getting sulfurous acid also requires technical procedures, and Zhu Zhen couldn't help but cover his head and moan in a low voice.

I am rushing towards the end of the industrial revolution right before my eyes.

(End of this chapter)