Chapter 88 Glass
"His Royal Highness... Caomin is willing!"
Fan Zeng looked excited. He had been mediocre all his life and never thought that he would get such an opportunity in his later years.
"Well, the newspaper office in Bowen College will be completed by the end of the month. Although it is a bit rudimentary, it can be moved in at that time. Now you can choose the staff of the newspaper office. I also have a composition structure of the newspaper office here. You can take it back. have a look."
After Xiao Ming finished speaking, he asked Luluo to go to the bedroom and take out a manuscript. This is the composition of the newspaper that Xiao Ming wrote based on the modern newspaper office and the actual situation of the Great Yu Kingdom.
Once the newspaper office is established, the newsboy will no longer exist, but will be renamed reporters. However, his reporters are not only collecting news, but the responsibilities of going to the countryside to read newspapers cannot be changed.
The newspaper is divided into printing department, editorial department, logistics department and other departments, which is basically the prototype of a modern newspaper.
During this period of time getting along with all kinds of people in the Great Yu Kingdom, Xiao Ming thought that the ancients were not stupid, but lacked knowledge, but once they got through these things, they could quickly use them flexibly, and they could not look down on people in any era. Create the mind.
Because of this, under the encouragement of Xiao Ming, the minds of the Equipment Division, Bo Wen Tang, and the workshop gradually opened up, instead of being imprisoned by the rotten culture, all kinds of novel things made them more willing to try. , learn scientific and technological knowledge, let them understand that technology is productivity.
He deeply felt that whether the people of an era can create a brand new era of civilization depends entirely on the guidance of the entire folk atmosphere, and the source of guidance is these rulers.
Qin Shihuang burned books and slandered Confucianism, and deposed the Confucianism of a hundred schools of thought. One thing the rulers of the feudal dynasties did to stabilize the country from beginning to end was to fool the people.
The only purpose of scholars is to be an official to maintain their rule. For thousands of years, the elites of feudal dynasties have only pursued extremely high officials.
The appearance of newspapers was the time when he changed the literary atmosphere, which was like a backwater, and the Renaissance could not have appeared in his fief.
Now that the president of the newspaper office has been determined, the next step is to prepare for the establishment of the newspaper office step by step. With his guidance, the newspaper office will not go wrong.
Fan Zeng returned home as if in a dream, looking at the fact that he straightened his back to his fierce wife on weekdays, and now he is the president of the newspaper office he personally ordered.
When he told his family about this, the whole family was naturally very happy. Fan Zeng's wife, Mrs. Sun, deliberately killed the chickens in the family to reward Fan Zeng. After decades of suffocation, he finally raised his eyebrows today.
The changes in Qingzhou are as silent as the spring rain, sneaking into the night with the wind.
Fan Zeng was only one of the people who felt this change. Many people were just living in Mount Lu and didn't know the true face of Mount Lu, but to outsiders, the change in Qingzhou was particularly dazzling.
For example, for businessmen who entered Qingzhou from other places, everything in Qingzhou was a bit incredible to them, but the focus of their attention was still the workshop area hidden behind the tall fence.
Although I tried my best to spy on the secrets, but now I get very little, I just know that there are many strange machines in the workshop area.
And Qingzhou now has something called a newspaper.
Naturally, these businessmen first thought about whether this newspaper could make money, because they have now formed a habit, as long as it is something that King Qi came up with, they will always think so.
But after observing for a few days, they regrettably found that it seemed impossible, because the cost of the newspaper was not proportional to the selling price, and there were very few people buying the newspaper.
"Hey, King Qi seems to have no new ideas to make money for a while." In the restaurant, a businessman sighed.
The businessman sitting opposite said: "Just soap, perfume, and drunk Qingzhou will make King Qi a lot of money, and these three items that Li Kaiyuan is promoting now have greatly increased the sales of these three items. It is said that King Qi is now With a monthly income of millions, do you need anything else?"
"It's true, but the merchants who stayed in Qingzhou still have some regrets. After all, these products were sold by some merchants first, and the later ones couldn't drink the soup." The merchant said, and then picked up today's new newspaper and read it.
When he saw the article at the bottom of the page, his expression suddenly tightened.
Because it said that King Qi was leading a group of craftsmen to produce a very magical thing in the equipment department recently, the article didn't say much about the research, but just said that the merchants should wait.
The news spread among the businessmen in an instant with the newspapers, and the businessmen also paid attention to the newspapers for the first time. They did not expect such precious information.
For a time, the merchants in Qingzhou City asked everywhere that King Qi was doing.
The only clue they got was that King Qi took a lot of sand from the beach.
sand? Businessmen are confused, what is this for?
For modern people, it is basically understood that sand can be used to produce glass.
This is exactly what Xiao Ming will come up with in the next step. In fact, Xiao Ming wants to produce glass not purely to make money, but more to use glass to make things such as telescopes and chemical instruments.
Because the chemical laboratory really needs these things to purify purer alkali, and the most important thing is that Xiao Ming has already collected the materials for the production of glass.
This is the same as the effect of collecting all the Dragon Balls, and the dragon should be summoned.
Sand, limestone, soda ash, this is the condition for producing soda lime glass, silica in the sand, soda ash lowers the melting point, limestone provides calcium, a pure and transparent glass can be born.
This is the material needed for chemical instruments, beakers, graduated cylinders, test tubes, etc. With these equipment, the chemical laboratory is no problem.
After all the materials are collected, the following is the melting point. The formation of the molten glass requires 1300 degrees. This temperature is basically similar to that of coking, so in order to increase the temperature.
Xiao Ming had to design a device specially designed to raise the temperature, a regenerator.
The regenerator is a brick building, generally separated by two, with a furnace in the middle. The two regenerators will be filled with multiple lattice bricks, and the heat of the two regenerators will be carried out in the furnace in the middle by blowing air from the regenerator. The heat exchange thereby raises the temperature in the furnace.
Before there were no bricks, Xiao Ming naturally did not use regenerators. Now that there are bricks and manpower, it is natural to replace guns with guns. Now, whether it is blast furnace ironmaking or coking, regenerators are being built.
The quality of the coke has improved since then, the quality of the iron has also improved, and the glass is lucky enough to enjoy the furnace regenerator from the start.
Xiao Ming, a glass producer, imparted a change in the knowledge of glass production. After the furnace regenerator is built, the materials can be mixed and thrown into it. When the molten glass comes out, it is annealing and blowing glassware, which can only be done manually. .