In the evening, the delicious pot chicken made everyone in the palace satisfied. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Xiao Ming really didn't abuse them by letting the people of the palace eat his own leftovers, because in this era, there was a shortage of materials, and eating leftovers was commonplace.

He sometimes inevitably eats leftovers, not to mention that the chicken in this pot is served in a large iron pot, which is no different from eating at the same table.

What's more, this kind of delicacy is still unique in Dayu Country, thinking of the thousands of delicacies in the science and technology library, Xiao Ming is secretly proud, the days to come will be long, and there is time to present exquisite dishes one by one.

But now is not the time to think about luxury living, the most important thing is to make money.

After Ding Wanquan, in the next few days, people came to visit him in the palace one after another, and everything he did was a matter of Niu Li's overturn, and Xiao Ming sent it away at a price of three hundred taels of silver.

Some businessmen have a lot of money, but they don't care about the silver, and buy it painfully, while some businessmen hesitate, and some businessmen simply give up and go back to use their old waterwheels.

These days, Wang Shijie and others have been pondering the overturn of the cow, but in the end they still brought the silver and chose to buy it.

Things have developed to this extent, Xiao Ming basically has a bottom of the current scientific and technological level of Dayu Kingdom, and it seems that they can't imitate his rolling bearings.

"Your Highness, these days, this rolling bearing has been ordered for a total of about 5,000 sets, such a large number of equipment is really too busy, I propose to build another hydraulic lathe workshop, but to produce another set of lathes, the craftsman can't pull out."

After Chen Wenlong returned, Chen Qi went to the Bowen Hall every once in a while to attend classes.

On this day, Xiao Ming had just finished speaking, and Chen Qi stepped forward to suggest to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming frowned, now the equipment department is responsible for a lot of things, not to mention the briquette furnace, but also to provide Zhang Liang's shipyard with Galen ship accessories, and to produce steel, coke, waterwheel parts, and now there are so many orders for bearings, which naturally makes Chen Qi very entangled.

Xiao Ming is also thinking about this problem when he is in class these days, he feels that he can't let low-end technology occupy too many resources at present, such as the production of this briquette furnace, the profit is not high, but it also has to occupy a part of the craftsmen, which is very cost-effective.

It also affects the layout of the industrial base, and now the focus should be on steel production, which in modern times is often the symbol of a country's strength.

Now he has to make a choice.

"So, how many craftsmen are currently in charge of producing briquette furnaces?" Xiao Ming asked.

"Now we produce at least 300 briquette furnaces a day, and there are about 50 craftsmen working on this." Chen Qi said.

Xiao Ming nodded, "Now you transfer all these fifty craftsmen to the production of grinding machines, boring machines, drilling machines, milling machines, planers and these hydraulic lathes, in addition, the last batch of slaves purchased by the local people in Qingzhou are only one thousand, and the remaining two thousand people, half of which are arranged to steel production, Captain Lu now has silver in his hands, and he is rich, shouting that he wants to buy armor with this king with silver, and this king promised to produce a new set of armor for him, and I will personally teach craftsmen in two days." ”

"New armor?" Chen Qi was also interested, "Your Highness, I will do the scale armor too." ”

"It's not scales, you'll know then." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Chen Qi scratched his head, scratching his ears and cheeks, he was anxious again.

Lu Tong was very envious on the side, Chen Qi was about the same age as him, but now Chen Qi was able to take charge on his own.

Noticing Lu Tong's expression, Xiao Ming said, "Don't worry, this king also has time to hand it over to you, and it can be regarded as practice." ”

"Really? Your Highness. Lu Tong immediately said excitedly.

He knew very well that only by being able to do things like Chen Qi could he be reused in the future.

Xiao Ming nodded, his cultivation of Chen Qi and Lu Tong was different, Chen Qi's focus was on mechanics and physics, while Lu Tong's focus was on chemistry.

He has been teaching these teenagers literacy for the past few days, and now it's time to teach them about chemistry.

In this way, chemistry and physics can be carried out at the same time, after all, rare metals, alloys and other things need to be extracted and synthesized by chemical methods, and future gunpowder also needs the support of chemical systems.

And the most important thing for him is materials science, because only qualified materials can support qualified products, so from now on, these two hundred people will be in charge of chemical and material research.

"Naturally, it's true, King Ming will teach you the production of alkali, which is the first project you are responsible for." Xiao Ming said.

Lu Tong nodded, but he was very confused, because they still didn't understand what "alkali" was

Xiao Ming let the equipment department unload a lot of burdens at once, Chen Qi was naturally the happiest, he said: "Your Highness, then I will go back and make arrangements, but what does the Wang family say?" ”

"This Wang Hui said to the Wang family." Xiao Ming said that he was going to package and sell the technology of briquette furnace production, anyway, the technology of briquette was given to the Wang family, and he would not delay the briquette furnace.

At the end of today's teaching, Xiao Ming checked the learning situation of Lu Tong and the others again, and now they have mastered more than 300 common words.

Xiao Ming is very satisfied with this situation, his basic requirement now is to let these people read and write, teach them basic chemical symbols, and then he will take them to the workshop area to start the establishment of the chemical industry.

The current workshop area is divided into two, half of which is Chen Qi's, and the other half is reserved for Lu Tong.

In the evening, Xiao Ming asked Wang Shijie to come over and told them about the briquette stove, and the Wang family was naturally very happy that Xiao Ming would package the technology of gas stove production to them, and Xiao Ming's asking price was not high, but 50,000 taels of silver.

But in this way, they really control all the industrial chains of briquette furnaces in the six states.

"Your Highness, Brother Yu still has something to report to His Highness, recently our Wang family's merchants in Cangzhou discovered that there were merchants from other places smuggling horses, but these horses only stayed in His Highness's fief for a short time and went to King Wei's fief." Wang Shijie said.

"Smuggling horses?" Xiao Ming frowned, he looked at Wang Shijie, "Your Wang family has been concerned about this matter for a long time?" ”

Wang Shijie said: "Your Highness, the merchants who have poured into Qingzhou are mixed, not everyone has a good heart, and the foolish brother is also for the sake of His Highness, so he will stare at these businessmen for His Highness." ”

Xiao Ming had expected the rejection of foreign businessmen by local wealthy families, Wang Shijie's words were beautiful, but he also betrayed the mentality of these families in Qingzhou.

"How did they smuggle this horse, and why didn't anyone in Cangzhou tell this king about it." Xiao Ming's voice was full of anger.