The delicious ground-pot chicken at night satisfies everyone in the royal palace.

Xiao Ming asked the servants of the royal palace to eat their leftovers, which was really not a pity for them, because in this era there was a shortage of supplies and eating leftovers was common.

Sometimes he will inevitably eat leftovers, not to mention that the chicken in the ground pot is served in a large iron pot, which is no different from eating on the same table.

What's more, the food of Diguo Chicken is only one in the Great Yu Kingdom. Thinking of the thousands of delicacies in the technology library, Xiao Ming was secretly proud. The days ahead are still long, and there is still time to present the exquisite dishes one by one.

But now is not the time to consider a luxurious life, and the most important thing is to make money.

After Ding Wanquan, people came to the palace to visit him in the next few days. All the things they did were caused by Niu Li, and Xiao Ming gave it to the price of 300 taels of silver.

Some merchants are rich and do not care about the money and buy it in pain. Some merchants hesitate. Some merchants simply give up and go back to use their old water trucks.

These days, Wang Shijie and others have been thinking about Niu Li's failure, but in the end they still brought a lot of money and chose to buy it.

After things have developed to this extent, Xiao Ming has basically gained a foundation for the current technological level of the Great Yu Kingdom. It seems that they cannot imitate his rolling bearings.

"Your Highness, these days, about 5,000 sets of rolling bearings have been ordered. Such a large number of equipment companies are really too busy. I suggest building another hydraulic lathe workshop, but if another set of lathes is produced, the craftsman will not be able to take action."

After Chen Wenlong returned, Chen Qi went to Bowen Academy to attend classes every few days.

On that day, Xiao Ming had just finished his class, Chen Qi stepped forward and suggested to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming frowned. Now the Equipment Department is responsible for a lot of things. Not only does the coal ball furnace, it also needs to provide Zhang Liang's shipbuilding workshop with accessories for Galen ships, and produce steel, coke, and water truck parts. Now, the order of so many bearings is naturally awkward.

These days, Xiao Ming was also thinking about this issue during class. He felt that low-end technology should not occupy too much resources at present. For example, the production of this coal briquette furnace is not profitable, but it also needs to occupy some of the craftsmen, which is very unprofitable.

It also affects the layout of the industrial foundation. The current focus should be on steel production. In modern times, a country's strength is often the symbol of steel production.

Now he must have a choice.

"In this way, how many craftsmen are currently responsible for producing coal briquette furnaces?" Xiao Ming asked.

"Now, at least 300 coal ball stoves are produced a day, and there are about fifty craftsmen working on this." Chen Qi said.

Xiao Ming nodded, "Now you have transferred all these fifty craftsmen to produce hydraulic lathes such as grinders, boring machines, drilling machines, milling machines, and planing machines. In addition, the last batch of slaves purchased by Qingzhou only had one thousand local people, and the remaining two thousand people were arranged for steel production. Captain Lu now has silver in his hand and is rich and rich. He shouted that he would buy armor from me with the silver. I promised to produce a brand new set of armor for him. I will teach me the craftsmen in two days."

"New armor?" Chen Qi also became interested, "Your Highness, I will do it too."

"It's not the scale armor, you will know then." Xiao Ming smiled.

Chen Qi scratched his head, looking like he was scratching his ears and his forehead. He was anxious again.

Lu Tong was very envious of Chen Qi. Chen Qi was about the same age as him, but now Chen Qi can stand alone.

Noting Lu Tong's expression, Xiao Ming said: "Don't worry, I have time to give it to you, which is considered a practice."

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

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

Xiao Ming nodded. His training of Chen Qi and Lu Tong was different. Chen Qi focused on mechanics and physics, while Lu Tong focused on chemistry.

These days, he has been teaching these teenagers to read, and now it is time to tell them about chemistry.

In this way, chemistry and physics can be carried out simultaneously. After all, rare metals and alloys need to be extracted and synthesized by chemical methods, and future gunpowder also needs the support of chemical systems.

The most important thing for him is materials science, because only qualified materials can support qualified products, so from now on, these 200 people will be responsible for the research of chemistry and materials.

"Of course it's true. King Ming RB will teach you how to produce alkali. This is the first project you are responsible for." Xiao Ming said.

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

Xiao Ming asked the Equipment Department to remove a lot of burdens at once, and Chen Qi was naturally the happiest. He said, "Your Highness, then I'll go back and arrange it now, but what do you say from the Wang family?"

"I told the Wang family back." Xiao Ming said. He was planning to package and sell the coal ball furnace production technology. Anyway, the coal ball technology has been given to the Wang family, so it will not delay the coal ball furnace.

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

Xiao Ming was very satisfied with this situation. His basic requirement now is to let these people know literacy and teach them basic chemical symbols. Then he would take them to the workshop area to start the specific establishment of the chemical industry.

The workshop area is now divided into two parts, half of which belongs to Chen Qi, and the other half he left for Lu Tong.

In the evening, Xiao Ming asked someone to call Wang Shijie over and talked to them about the coal briquette furnace. The Wang family was naturally very happy that Xiao Ming packaged the gas furnace production technology to them, and Xiao Ming asked for a price not high, only 50,000 taels of silver.

But in this way, they truly controlled all the industrial chains of coal briquette furnaces in the six states.

"Your Highness, Brother Yu has another thing to report to Your Highness. Recently, our merchants in Cangzhou in our Wang family found that there were merchants from other places smuggling horses, but these horses only stayed in Your Highness's fiefdom and went to the fiefdom of King Wei." Wang Shijie said.

"Smuggling horses?" Xiao Ming frowned, and he looked at Wang Shijie, "You Wang family is concerned about this matter very often?"

Wang Shijie said: "Your Highness, the merchants who have poured into Qingzhou are mixed with fish and dragons. Not everyone has a good intention. I am also thinking about your highness, so I am staring at these merchants for your highness."

Xiao Ming had long expected the local wealthy family to exclude foreign merchants. Wang Shijie said this beautifully, but he also betrayed the mentality of these Qingzhou companies.
Chapter completed!