"Song Yingxing, the deputy director of Xuankaifu Department, met with him!" Wang Chengen shouted with Sang Zi, and then he heard it out loud.

When many civil and military officials heard this, they thought it was related to Song Yingxing, so what was he doing?

Curiously, almost all the officials turned around to varying degrees and looked back.

After a while, Song Yingxing was walking in the front, followed by a team of eunuchs, either holding or carrying things up.

Almost all civil and military officials, even the Jinyiwei and others, were stunned when they looked closely: Where did so many crystals come from?

That's right, the things in the hands of these eunuchs are very transparent, just like crystal.

However, as soon as they thought about this, they heard Song Yingxing speak loudly to Emperor Chongzhen: "I have received the heavy trust from Your Majesty. Now I can finally burn colorless glass, with different shapes. Please read it!"

When he first met Emperor Chongzhen in the 12th year of Chongzhen, the emperor explained to burn the glass and provided many ideas. As a result, it was not until the beginning of the 16th year of Chongzhen that the achievement was completed. The most important thing is that it was to use the power of the court to call on the best craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, work together to solve problems, and finally handed over this answer.

Song Yingxing was not very happy about this because he knew from the emperor that Western Yi had long been able to burn glass, and the Ming Dynasty only burned it now, so what can I be proud of!

At this time, although Emperor Chongzhen knew about it, he still looked closely and saw that the glass that Song Yingxing had someone placed in front of the imperial palace was diverse in shape, including hollow, solid, tubular, and flat...

Among them, there are glassware used for chemical experiments specially requested by Emperor Chongzhen, and Song Yingxing made them all. In addition, flat glass is actually quite difficult, and Song Yingxing has also made them. It’s not bad, it’s not bad!

Emperor Chongzhen praised in his heart and was very happy.

In this way, I believe that in chemistry, we can develop leapfrogly.

The glass industry is not only widely used in life, but also has great help to chemistry. It was impossible to burn glass before the Ming Dynasty because it was difficult to pass the transparent colorlessness. In other aspects, the Ming Dynasty actually had a foundation.

Among them, Yanshen Town in Shandong is an important place for the Daming ancient glass industry. The glass products produced by bead-wired lamp screens, chess games, tent hooks, pillow tops and other glass products are not only unique in style, but also pure in color. Various colors can be made according to needs, but they cannot be colorless and transparent. During this period, mold casting and press forming technology were also used.

In short, the glass industry in Daming is almost colorless and transparent. Therefore, although Daming's glasses and telescopes have been built, their raw materials are still made of crystals.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was excited and even walked down from the imperial throne and approached these glass products without Song Yingxing introducing them. He happily introduced them to all civil and military officials.

"See not, this can be used for windows and roofs, so the room will be bright!"

"Don't look at this thing in small ways. You can see faraway when combined. Yes, it's just a telescope. In addition, it can also be used as myopia glasses, which is a blessing for my Ming scholars!"

"And this one, there are standard scales on it. Well, it is stipulated by me. In the future, a unified unit of measurement will be accurate if you test it more. This will be of great help to many aspects of my Ming Dynasty..."

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Emperor Chongzhen was happy and immediately started to talk endlessly, and it was derived from the basic application of glass, including telescopes, magnifying glasses, glasses and other production principles, etc. The whole morning court became his home court alone, just watching him show.

At this time in the late Ming Dynasty, this knowledge was in an era of being half-understood. Those missionaries from Western countries brought the knowledge from the West, and many scholars and officials learned it in the Ming Dynasty, such as Xu Guangqi and others.

Many of these things in the West are even mysterious. For example, there are rumors that these Western arts are a bit of gold and can turn mercury into silver. Matteo Ricci records that a father and son in Zhaoqing believed this and joined the Western religion in order to learn this little gold.

In addition, when Emperor Chongzhen asked Song Yingxing and Chen Zilong to teach the prince, he also explained similar knowledge, and he also had a certain impression among the scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty.

If the person who doesn't understand the story of Emperor Chongzhen is confused, he doesn't understand at all, and he doesn't know what level of knowledge is. If people from later generations listen to it, as long as they have been to high school, they will basically know it, and there is nothing. But if these people who have some basic knowledge but don't understand it, they will seem profound.

For a moment, these civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty had an impression that the emperor's knowledge was really profound!

At the same time, many people stared at the glassware one by one. Their other abilities may be average, but the sense of making money is beyond words.

Not to mention anything else, just to solve the problem that scholars cannot see things clearly, no matter how much money they spend, they will buy them as long as they have money. And are scholars rich? Most scholars are absolutely rich!

Also, if the windows and roof tiles are replaced with this kind of flat glass, the so-called bright and clean windows are what everyone pursues? With good lighting, you will feel good when reading books. If there is a little money at home, who would think this thing is expensive?

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So, after Emperor Chongzhen finally finished speaking, many civil officials and generals began to ask the emperor indirectly, what would be the solution to this glass?

Since Emperor Chongzhen took it out, of course he had already planned it. He immediately announced that the state-owned glass factories were set up in the Ming Dynasty, the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court and the royal family invested 51% with technology, and the remaining 49% were taken out for auction. Well, it was auctioned one by one. In this way, more people could participate. Of course, Emperor Chongzhen did not break his promise to Song Yingxing's shares before and announced it in public.

At this moment, everyone looked at Song Yingxing, and their eyes were red.

This glass is definitely a treasure pot. Share auction, with the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, it is definitely a sky-high price. Song Yingxing owns one percent of the shares, and it is unimaginable how much money he can get in that year!

Even in the late Qing Dynasty, glass was money, and it was a consensus among everyone.

In the original history, in April of the 30th year of the Guangxu period, Boshan Glass Company published a "Prospectus" in Shanghai's "China and Foreign Daily" and offered a broad prospectus. According to Zhang Weiyong, the literary and historical expert of Boshan District, its shares are divided into five grades, one thousand taels of silver per share, one thousand taels of silver per share, five hundred taels of silver per share, one hundred taels of silver per share, one hundred taels of silver per share, fifty taels of silver per share, and ten taels of silver per share. Referring to the bank interest deposit case, interest is calculated at five cents and the year-end settlement is settled. Profits are divided into ten percent, one percent for government, one percent for provident fund, five percent for expansion and reproduction, and three percent for "popular".

However, the Boshan Glass Company ended up bankruptcy because all the technology and equipment were imported from Germany, and even the technicians were German. The monthly salary of the leader was 500 taels of silver. Generally, the technicians used to blow operations had 300 taels of gold every month. Each person was equipped with a horse, a groom and a chef. If this money was spent like this, it would not be enough for a treasure pot. What's more, in the late Qing Dynasty, there were all kinds of disadvantages, and it would be strange if it didn't go bankrupt.

On this plane, Song Yingxing secretly prepared for the past few years with his own control. He only announced his skills after he was controlled by others. It does not exist. The emperor also watched and distributed the interests to wealthy people of all levels of the Ming Dynasty. Can this glass factory go bankrupt? That's a strange thing!

The reason why one wants to set up a glass factory in both Beijing and thirteen provinces is mainly because the transportation in this era is too inconvenient. If only one glass factory is set up in the capital, most of the sales cost of southern glass will be in transportation, which is too unprofitable.

According to Emperor Chongzhen's opinion, this glass product cannot be sold too expensive. At least the glassware used for chemical experiments must be at a low price, so that ordinary scholars can afford it. As for those flat glass that are mainly used as luxury goods, it is okay to have a higher price. You can even use this high price to equally spread the cost of glassware used for chemical experiments.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen's decree was released, all the taverns, teahouses, and merchants in the Ming Dynasty were talking about the glass factory. Correspondingly, the branches of the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty in the 13 provinces began to grow rapidly again. After all, it was too inconvenient to carry the real silver item in the auction of shares.

In Emperor Chongzhen's plan, a glass factory in each province only covers the province, and it is necessary to build a large glass factory. The treatment of glass factory workers and workers in related industries can attract them to transfer from cotton spinning and other industries.

After the glass factory was established, the number of glasses craftsmen suddenly increased, and on the streets of the Ming Dynasty, there were also more scholars with glasses. After all, glasses are definitely much cheaper than crystal glasses. Ordinary scholars can afford to wear even if they are not rich and powerful.

The changes brought about by this glass can be said to have profoundly begun to change the Ming Dynasty.

One thing Emperor Chongzhen did not expect was that Song Yingxing's example made countless scholars obsessed with the research of various objects, and accordingly, it also led to the popularization of physics and chemistry disciplines. They fantasized that if they could invent a new thing that could make money like Song Yingxing, they could make money while lying down.

The chemistry industry, also called alchemy in ancient China, was gradually declining. However, many emperors of the Ming Dynasty had a hobby of cultivating immortals, such as the famous Jiajing Emperor, which led to the second spring of alchemy. Many chemical experiments, such as distillation and extraction of mercury, and nitric acid, were already mature in the Ming Dynasty.

But in general, the West is still ahead. Even many chemical methods in the Ming Dynasty were passed down by Western missionaries. However, the glass part has always been hidden like treasures in the West. Now Song Yingxing has developed it according to the will of Emperor Chongzhen, which is definitely a great promoting effect on the development of the Ming Dynasty's chemistry, or alchemy.

Empathizing with the importance of this glass, Emperor Chongzhen even sighed in his heart: If people from later generations can know it, it doesn’t matter what else. You must understand the method of refining glass. What if you travel through time? This is definitely a powerful tool for traveling through time, no one!

Because of the glass incident, Emperor Chongzhen began to pay attention to the various knowledge of the Ming Dynasty. Suddenly, he made many new discoveries. It was during the Chongzhen period that many Western missionaries had already brought Western learning from the Ming Dynasty, from astronomical calendar to geometric mathematics, from human anatomy to Western learning, from iron smelting to various refining, etc., many things were summarized, either incomplete, or lacking key things, but at least it was a scientific and systematic introduction to knowledge.

With this discovery, Emperor Chongzhen had to focus on sorting out these knowledge. Relatively speaking, even Song Yingxing's "The Art of Heaven and the Art of Kaiwu" lacked a systematic discussion of science and technology. In this regard, Western Yi really came to the forefront of the Ming Dynasty.

Since that's the case, why can't it be used?

Emperor Chongzhen had no psychological burden at all about this. Based on the knowledge he had collected, he began to supplement what he knew and make certain modifications based on the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty, so that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty could be more easily understood.

It has to be said that only Emperor Chongzhen can do this job in the whole world. Moreover, this job is easy to say, but it is very time-consuming to do. Therefore, except for some necessary political affairs, Emperor Chongzhen spent most of his energy on this aspect.

In this way, the scientific and technological knowledge revised by Emperor Chongzhen immediately shocked the scholars of the Ming Dynasty. For example, a very simple one, since ancient times, has always thought that the heart is the organ of thinking. However, the anatomy revised by Emperor Chongzhen clearly stated that the brain is the organ of thinking.

Also, why does the apple not fall into the sky, but into the ground? It is because all things have mutual forces, that is, gravity, and it is related to mass. Newton's law was announced in advance. Unfortunately, Comrade Newton, who was just born in January 16, could not become famous in the world with this.

Those Western missionaries had always wanted to get close to Emperor Chongzhen and wanted to open a breakthrough in missionary work in the Ming Dynasty through these knowledge. However, Emperor Chongzhen was too busy and they had no chance. When Emperor Chongzhen did not lead his troops out to fight, they wanted to continue to get close to Emperor Chongzhen, but suddenly they saw the books modified by Emperor Chongzhen.
Chapter completed!