In the workshop of the Imperial Supervision, Emperor Zhu You of the Tianqi, corrected and worked with the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor and the admiral of the Dongjishi Factory, and a young Taoist inspected the work inside.
At the beginning of its founding, the Ming Dynasty established the twelve magistrates, four departments and eight bureaus of the inner court to serve the emperor and his family affairs. Later, it was commonly known as the "Twenty-four yamen of the inner court".
Of course, the Twenty-Fourth Yamen was not entirely an eunuch system in the Ming Dynasty. It was only because its departments set up eunuchs to take charge of seals, so it was often misunderstood by modern people. Even the unofficial history of the Later Jin Dynasty showed that there were 100,000 eunuchs in the Later Jin Dynasty, while the Later Jin Dynasty was less than 100,000 eunuchs in the Later Jin Dynasty.
1. This proves that it is not as good as gold.
In fact, most of these so-called 100,000 eunuchs were craftsmen who moved from Nanjing in the twenty-four yamen. At that time, there were only 27,000 craftsmen in the capital, including other ministries, and each household was given one squad.
There are labor service personnel who perform labor service in five years, and there are also four years, three years, and two years. Therefore, it is very unsuitable for modern people to call "eunuch twenty-four yamen".
Especially the chief eunuchs in the twenty-four yamen have no rigid regulations, and they must use eunuchs. However, because of the royal trust, eunuchs are often sent to take charge of their duties. After the Later Jin Dynasty entered the pass, it was also similar to the Ming Dynasty.
There are thirteen yamen.
For example, the imperial supervisor where Gao Jingfei and his team are now in the imperial court, and all the wooden tools used in the imperial front, as well as red sandalwood, ivory, ebony, and rosydian. There is also a supervisor of Renzhi Hall, who is in charge of the
The books and picture albums written by the Book of the Wuying Palace were reported to the imperial court.”
In fact, except for the eunuch who is the eunuch who is a master of seals, the two officers of the Imperial Principal, the sect, the chief clerk, the chief clerk, the writing, the supervisor, etc. are all ordinary people.
At this time, the eunuch in the imperial prison was nodding and begging with the emperor and Jiu Qiansui, watching the supervisors and several craftsmen in the workshop operated in front of several kilns according to the guidance of the young Taoist.
Other subordinates are not qualified to approach the front line, and they are also for the purpose of keeping confidentiality and avoiding suspicion.
Soon, a sturdy craftsman used a wooden iron spoon to scoop a ball of red-hot glass liquid, and then slowly poured it on the smooth copper plate that had been prepared for red, and fixed it with copper frames around it.
When removing the stove at the bottom of the copper plate, the glass plate will slowly cool down and harden.
If you want to further cut and process it into a finished product, you also need to perform annealing, grinding and other steps.
When the cooling was over, the craftsmen took cotton gloves and picked up the hot glass plate to show it to the emperor and others. They saw a glass plate that was nearly two feet square, transparent but light blue all over appeared in front of everyone.
Everyone else was amazed when they saw it, because these craftsmen were familiar with the craftsmen of burning glass. After all, glass has a history of more than a thousand or two thousand years in Middle Earth. But such a large piece of flat glass,
The texture is so transparent that it is unheard of for these ancient people, let alone seen it.
However, Gao Jingfei was not very satisfied, and just commented lightly:
"It's OK, but this piece cannot be made into a mirror, so I can only smash it."
The color is a little blue. According to the chemical knowledge in memory, Gao Jingfei thinks that the glass may contain metal oxides, so it appears blue.
Although this light blue is more beautiful, it is not suitable for mirrors.
However, Zhu Youxiao said a little regretfully when he heard this:
"It's a great glass, not to make a mirror and make a screen. It's a pity to smash it."
The glass was immediately left behind, so that the craftsmen in the imperial prison could polish it smoothly, and then prepare to make the wooden frame by themselves, so that they can be placed in the study to enjoy it.
In the emperor's opinion, such a large piece of glass and color are probably expensive among the people.
Then another craftsman scoops out a spoonful of glass melt from another stove and spread it on the copper plate to cool it smoothly, but this time it turned red.
This time Gao Jingfei didn't say anything, the emperor spoke first:
"Go and polish this piece, and I will give it to the queen myself at that time!"
Then the third craftsman scoops out the glass melt from the stove again, but this time the glass plate formed contains green and is more turbid than the previous two.
Gao Jingfei shook his head and understood that this was the relationship between impurities mixed in raw materials or other aspects. Some metal components would make the glass look color-producing. In ancient times, there was no modern industrial treatment method, this was inevitable.
But what he wanted now was colorless and transparent glass, so he waved his hand to release a golden flame, and amid the screams of the craftsmen, he wrapped the light green glass and smelted. Soon some impurities turned into blue smoke and drifted away.
When Gao Jingfei took back the Shenxiao Golden Fire, the glass plate had become the purest white crystal colorless and transparent, which was transparent against the backdrop of the fire.
Of course, the few people around them did not like this colorless glass as much as the light blue and red ones before.
Because Middle Earth's appreciation of gems is based on color, it is best for anyone who is dark green and bright red. In Middle Earth, in addition to the warm white jade of mutton fat, all jade and gems are based on the color of green.
Crimson is followed by blue, yellow, green, white ink, and colorless, transparent or light-colored are considered inferior.
The same is true in modern times. After Gao Jingfei harvested the jade dragon vein in Shan Country, he had consulted the situation in the modern jade jade industry. In fact, before the 1990s, colorless and transparent jade was just a worthless category until
After the new century, some light-colored and colorless jade gradually rose sharply due to the pursuit of young people, but the prices of the same-shui jade with strong colors are still high.
Gao Jingfei, who completed these, said to Zhu Youxiao and his two people:
"According to this example, if you test it a few times, you can get transparent glass, supplemented with silver plates, and then polished carefully, you can create a clear mirror that can be seen by light."
"This glass silver mirror is not easy to make and is easily damaged. Such a large piece is an extremely rare thing. It should be very suitable to sell a bronze mirror for a hundred times, a thousand times price, right?
“It’s right, it’s right!”
Old Wei was almost laughing at the ear. The cost of removing labor on this glass plate was only a few dozen mosquito copper coins. Even if the labor and silver are added, it would be only a few taels of silver, but it could be sold for thousands of dollars.
A high price of more than two is simply a huge profit!
Moreover, Lao Wei felt that those colored glass creations could be sold at a higher price than those of glass silver mirrors after polishing them.
Gao Jingfei also guided Lao Wei according to the methods he knew in modern times:
"The number of early shipments of this mirror must be small, and there should be no too many tricks. One or two new tricks are produced every year, so that it can last longer for novelty, and it is necessary to create a priceless look, and then slow down.
Slow shipment, because others cannot copy it, so the pricing power is in our hands, this is monopoly!”
"So Duke Wei should pay attention to keeping the secrets and give the craftsmen enough oil and water and money, but they should restrict them from going out. Once one runs out or leaks the secret recipe, this trick will not work!"
"After all, wealth is touching, and those greedy people may not be able to do anything!"
Wei Zhongxian smiled grinned when he heard this:
"Which one of us dares to use Liulijing?!"
Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents, especially the royal transactions are related to the emperor's wallet. Wei Zhongxian attaches more importance to his own small treasury.
If there really is someone who is not open to his eyes, he doesn't mind letting the other party experience the methods of Dongchang and Jinyiwei Zhaozhu.