Su He is teaching his eldest son Su Shu how to speak.
The eldest daughter Su Rong was taken away by her mother Wang Wenjun to nurse.
They have passed the most dangerous period for babies, and as long as they don't get seriously ill, they can grow up safely.
Su He feels very accomplished during this time. He has taught his children to say mom and dad.
They are still young and now they can only talk about mom and dad.
"Son, call me daddy."
Su Shu stared at Su He with his round little eyes and said in a baby-like voice:
"Son, call me daddy."
I started to speak stumblingly and my enunciation was unclear.
After repeating it twice, you can say this sentence clearly.
He seemed to have discovered a new world. He looked at Su He and kept saying, "Son, call me daddy."
Su He couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this. He knew that babies' learning begins with imitation.
But imitating this sentence feels weird.
After Wang Wenjun heard this, he quickly came out of the back room with Su Rong in his arms.
She was afraid that Su He would be angry, so she comforted her by saying:
"Husband, if you teach them to speak now, they are just imitating, just like mynas.
The child now has no idea what this sentence means."
"Wenjun, I won't get angry with children.
Shu'er, if he can speak, it proves that his brain development is normal. This is a happy thing."
Su He was very happy. This was a happy event and he would not feel offended.
Boom, boom, boom.
There was a knock on the door.
Under normal circumstances, no one will bother him.
When they knock on the door, it can only mean that a major event has occurred or something that Su He has arranged to inform him immediately.
"come in!"
Qu Qingyi, secretary of the secretariat, walked into the room with a folder.
With the establishment of a complete security and defense system in the harem of the Prince of Qin.
Men are generally not allowed to enter the harem. They must be accompanied by multiple people and are not allowed to move alone.
Su He was resting in the harem, and the female secretary in the secretariat was responsible for disseminating information. The person in charge of this matter was Qu Qingyi.
When Qu Qingyi walked into the room, she first saluted Su He and Wang Wenjun.
Then he walked to Su He and handed an official document to Su He.
This is the Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company, officially mass-producing glass, and Su He is invited to cut the ribbon in person.
Glass plays a very important role. Su He had already informed the secretariat that when the glass was put into mass production, he decided to go and cut the ribbon in person.
Qu Qingyi heard Su Shu calling "Son, call me daddy".
She covered her mouth and snickered. This little guy was so cute.
Su He straightened his clothes and went to the front yard of Prince Qin's Mansion.
I saw many officials coming out of the Wenhua Hall, and it was time to get off work in the afternoon.
Su He asked his secretary to invite these officials to go to Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company together.
The early promotion of glass products requires the help of these officials.
In the pre-Qin period, there were cases where the King of Chu had a thin waist and many died of starvation in the palace.
He has always maintained his cat-loving persona and raised ferocious cats.
Almost every wealthy household in Hanzhong City keeps a cat.
Since cats were raised in Suhe in Hanzhong City, not a single plague has occurred.
Many people in other places have followed the trend of raising cats, and the incidence of plague has reached its lowest level in fifty years.
The effects of raising cats are beginning to show results.
Suhe also has people continue to optimize cat breeds.
Cats look cute and can be treated as cute pets, but in fact they are all good at catching mice.
The secretary called the carriage team from Prince Qin's palace, and everyone headed to Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company.
As the situation around Hanzhong City stabilized, no surrounding troops could break through the Qin army's defenses and attack Hanzhong City.
The urban area of Hanzhong City exceeded the scope of the city wall and began to expand to the surrounding areas.
The most typical place is the industrial zone in the south of the city.
At present, the power source of industrial areas is mainly hydraulic power.
In order to make full use of the water resources of the Han River, the industrial zone has crossed the Han River and built an industrial zone on the south bank of the Han River.
In order to facilitate the circulation of goods on the south and north banks of the Han River.
Su He personally gave instructions to build a new iron bridge on the Han River. After the bridge was completed, it was named Hanzhong Bridge.
It connects the old city on the north bank of Han River and the new industrial zone on the south bank of Han River.
Su He's carriage was walking on the iron bridge, and he looked out the window at this unique iron bridge in this era.
This iron bridge is one of the crystallizations of industrialization.
Its structural design, without the knowledge of mechanics, it is impossible to design this kind of iron bridge.
During the dry season, workers build dozens of huge reinforced concrete pillars in the Hanshui River.
The iron bridge is built on these pillars.
Only when steel production reaches a certain level can we dare to build iron bridges that consume several tons of iron materials.
The iron bridge is built using riveting technology.
Before the invention of electric welding, riveting was the best choice to connect steel fasteners.
The battleships of the British Empire hundreds of years later were the pinnacle of riveting technology.
The riveting process is not difficult, but skilled workers need to be trained in advance.
Workers hammered red-hot rivets into the prepared holes.
The red-hot rivet has an iron cap on one side and a cylindrical shape on the other side.
The workers used sledgehammers to hit the cylindrical side, flattening it directly.
After the rivets cool, they can lock the two steel components together tightly.
Su He looked at the iron bridge and saw how stable it was, let alone something as light as a carriage.
After steam trains were manufactured, this iron bridge could withstand the weight of the train.
Suhe asked the Ministry of Industry to build this iron bridge mainly to train bridge repair technology and workers.
Not to mention the wide Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, there is also the small river Hanshui.
Previously, the main mode of transportation on both sides of the Han River was still ferry.
The development of industrialization has certain requirements for logistics speed, and the ferry efficiency is too slow.
The ferry also charges a fee, which affects the exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Hanzhong Bridge only charges goods, not pedestrians.
As the convoy passed the railway bridge, its speed slowed down.
Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company is located in the new industrial zone on the south bank of Hanshui River.
The soldiers of the guard regiment arrived here first, Su He.
They surrounded Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company.
Some soldiers from the guard regiment even climbed onto the roof and used telescopes to observe the surrounding situation.
It was confirmed that there were no dangerous factors threatening His Highness King Qin in the surrounding area.
Su He got out of the car, and Secretariat Directors Qian Mingyi and Qu Qingyi accompanied him.
The second-rank officials who came with him were Zhang Youfeng, the Minister of Education, and Tian Wenheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, both of whom also accompanied Su He.
Su He walked towards Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company.
Qian Mingyi followed Su He and introduced the situation of Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company.
"According to His Royal Highness King Qin's arrangements for the company system.
The company adopts a dual leadership system, with the company manager responsible for business and company management.
The company's chief engineer is responsible for technical issues.
All major matters of the company must be signed by the people in these two positions before they are allowed to be implemented.
The tax bureau also dispatches specialists to regularly audit the company's accounts.
The general manager of Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company is You Sha, the chief engineer is Hong Feiyu and the deputy chief engineer is Qiao Zhenghua."
Su He had no impression of You Sha. There were too many company managers like him.
A company has a general manager and several deputy general managers.
Without unique qualities and talents, he would not be able to attract Su He's attention.
Su He had some impressions of Qiao Zhenghua.
This is a skilled mirror-grinding craftsman. All the high-quality telescopes in the military are made by this craftsman.
The lenses he ground have the most accurate focus, and the telescope they form has a good light-gathering effect, allowing you to see very clearly.
Su He knows Hong Feiyu better. He is truly a talent.
After the successful trial production of glass, Tian Jiapeng nominated Hong Feiyu as an academician of the Academy of Sciences. Su He had approved this application earlier.
Hong Feiyu led his team and was the first to deploy cement.
Now he has mastered glass manufacturing technology.
Cement and glass are two industrial products that have a great impact on society. Hong Feiyu deserves the title of academician of the Academy of Sciences.
Su He walked to the gate of Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company.
General Manager You Sha and Chief Engineer Hong Feiyu, along with the company's management and employee representatives, were waiting for Su He in front of the gate.
When they saw Su He arriving, they bowed collectively and said: "Warmly welcome His Highness the King of Qin, who has personally come to cut the ribbon for the opening ceremony of our Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company."
Hong Feiyu has the highest status. As the representative of Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company, he accompanied Su He to inspect the glass manufacturing company.
Su He directly asked Hong Feiyu to take him to the most important glass manufacturing workshop.
Hong Feiyu saw Su He was in high spirits and was about to enter the glass manufacturing workshop.
He immediately stopped and said: "Your Highness, King Qin, melting the materials used to make glass requires extremely high temperatures.
If the glass in the molten state touches the human body even slightly, the person will be directly burned into coke.
The manufacturing workshop is so dangerous that we can stand outside and watch what's going on inside through the glass wall.
After we succeeded, the glass melting furnace kept running and the furnace never went out.
When the furnace goes out, the glass in the furnace becomes solid, and the entire glass manufacturing production line is directly scrapped.
Restarting the entire production line requires re-debugging, which takes a long time.”
When Su He heard what Hong Feiyu said, he had no idea about entering the workshop.
In the production workshop of the manufacturing industry, accidents may occur at any time, causing work-related injuries.
If an accident occurs in the production workshop, detailed inspections and safety training can only be carried out to minimize the number of dangers.
It is simply impossible to avoid accidents.
"Okay, I'll cut the ribbon outside.
Are there many work-related injuries in the production workshop?”
Hong Feiyu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Su He agreed.
"His Royal Highness King Qin, while trying the glass formula, the glass melting furnace overflowed many times due to the formula.
Twenty-six people died and 57 were physically disabled.
We have compensated these workers in accordance with the relevant regulations of the Qin Palace.
The glass formula test was successful, and the industrial production of glass was also explored.
The glass production line is generally stable, and there are now very few work-related injuries.
Work-related injuries occurred, mainly when workers making glassware were accidentally burned."
Su He felt a little distressed when he heard that so many workers had had accidents.
It takes a long time to cultivate a mature worker.
But this is the inevitable price of the industrialization process.
Only through constant trial and error can you know which is the right path.
Hong Feiyu explained to Su He the differences in making glass with different glass formulas and their different uses.
They came outside a huge glass wall.
A glass wall more than ten centimeters thick separates the glass manufacturing workshop from the outside.
The glass wall has very good light transmittance. Su He could see what was going on in the glass manufacturing workshop while standing outside.
He saw the glass manufacturing workshop with several huge furnaces, where materials for making glass were being smelted.
You Sha and Qiao Zhenghua pulled over a red cloth strip.
Hong Feiyu stood aside and invited: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, please cut the ribbon for our Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company."
Su He pulled out the sword from his waist and lightly slashed the red cloth strip, which was cut into two halves.
Applause rang out from all around, and Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company was officially established.
Hong Feiyu shouted: "Open the valve and make glassware."
Someone turned around and approached the glass manufacturing workshop.
Su He looked outside at the situation inside the glass manufacturing workshop.
The hot glass solution in the furnace is controlled by workers using slings and gears to control the mechanical devices on the roof of the glass manufacturing workshop.
Under the power of the waterwheel, the mechanical device drives a steel rod to continuously stir clockwise in the glass solution.
Stir the glass solution to remove the gas in the glass solution and prevent bubbles from appearing after the glass solidifies.
The workers received orders and controlled the valves on the glass furnace by operating the control levers.
When the door of the glass furnace is opened, the glass solution flows out of the furnace and flows along the groove to the designated location.
Su He walked forward along the glass wall, and he saw the glass plate production workshop in front of him.
The workers poured the glass solution flowing down from the groove into a large iron plate and used tools to smooth the glass solution.
Make the height of the glass solution exactly the same at every position.
Wait for the glass solution to cool, remove the iron plates around the iron plate, and a large glass plate is completed.
Glass panels have many uses.
In order to promote glass panels, Su He planned to replace all the windows in Prince Qin's palace with glass windows.
The glass windows are transparent, allowing sunlight to shine directly into the house during the day.
It's almost winter now, and the papered windows can't block the cold wind at all.
The glass panel windows keep out the cold wind.
It will definitely form a new trend and bring huge benefits to the Qin Palace.
Glass plates can also create something magical - mirrors.
The emergence of the mirror can bring more benefits to the Qin Palace.
This kind of product can be sold well anywhere in the world.
The Academy of Sciences of the Prince of Qin's Palace has developed all the technical reserves for making mirrors, except for the glass plate with good light transmittance.
Now Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company is filling this shortcoming.
Su He watched the production of glass plates for a while.
He walked along the glass wall and walked forward.
In front is the glassware processing workshop.
Su He saw the worker using a tool to make a large ball of glass solution, took out a long iron pipe, and inserted it into the glass solution.
The other end of the iron pipe is held in the worker's mouth.
The worker took a deep breath and blew slowly with his mouth.
At the other end of the iron pipe, the glass solution began to deform.
A glass bottle appeared in front of Su He's eyes
Hong Feiyu introduced from the side:
"Glassware is made by workers through blowing techniques.
Novice workers can only blow some simple utensils.
Such as glass bottles, glass bowls, glass beakers, glass test tubes, etc.
Skilled workers can blow glass products of various complex shapes.
For example, curved glass products such as gooseneck bottles.
Su He saw the most skilled worker blowing the glass tube of the thermometer.
The glass tube required for the thermometer is extremely thin and extremely machined.
There are at least two or three workers in other workshops, but there is only one person in this workshop.
Su He walked slowly and visited all the production workshops of the glass manufacturing company.
After they visited, Hong Feiyu asked people from the company to bring out many small glass products and give them to everyone present.
When these people saw Hong Feiyu giving them something, they didn't know what to do.
It's not a good idea to hold it directly. His Highness the King of Qin is standing nearby. If you think you have the habit of taking advantage of small things, it's not a penny gain.
It would not be appropriate to refuse. Hong Feiyu is an academician of the Academy of Sciences and a person with direct access to heaven. It is not worth offending him for a trivial matter.
Su He saw the hesitation in these people's eyes.
"Keep them all! Go back and promote more glass products."
After hearing Su He's instructions, they accepted the glass products with confidence.
Qian Mingyi looked at the glass products donated by the glass manufacturing company.
A transparent glass bowl, three glass wine glasses of different sizes, and a beautifully made glass alcohol lamp.
There are also several glass balls, very transparent on the outside and shining in the sun, with colorful ribbons inside.
It looks very much like jewelry, more dazzling than crystal, and it looks very valuable.
If Qian Mingyi hadn't known that this thing cost less than one copper coin, he would have been bluffed by them.
He weighed the glass alcohol lamp, and he liked this item best.
The alcohol lamp originated from the laboratory of the Academy of Sciences.
He heard someone say that this was a lamp developed by His Highness the King of Qin.
However, His Highness the King of Qin directly denied it. He said that he only knew about this item accidentally and that the inventor was someone else.
No one else could find out who the specific inventor was.
It's just that this thing becomes a public patent and everyone can use it for free.
There are many porcelain alcohol lamps on the market, which are not very convenient to use and there is no way to see how much alcohol is left.
When Qian Mingyi saw this alcohol lamp, he was very satisfied with it.
People can directly see the remaining alcohol in the alcohol lamp, making it easier for them to purchase alcohol.
His family is the largest supplier of industrial alcohol under the rule of the Qin Palace.
Ma Qiankun's chemical laboratory and the major chemical research institutes under the Academy of Sciences cannot meet the consumption of industrial alcohol.
There is a lot of moldy food, and it is not allowed to eat moldy food now, even if it is fed to animals.
It can only be used to brew industrial alcohol.
It was not until the advent of alcohol lamps that industrial alcohol came into use.
Denatured alcohol is very cheap, far cheaper than candles and lamp oil.
"It's white and transparent, more crystal clear than jade. This kind of thing is so precious."
"Oh my God! This thing is actually produced from sand. It's incredible."
Many officials were marveling at the glass products.
Su He handed the glass product in his hand to Qu Qingyi.
"Academician Hong, glass production has begun. Let's go to the mirror factory to have a look."
Hong Feiyu said excitedly: "Commander Su, those few people you sent are really strong.
They came up with the mirror through only a few experiments."
They came to the glass manufacturing company, a factory building in the northwest corner.
There are soldiers from the garrison stationed here for a long time.
Many officials saw soldiers from the garrison.
They realized that the things produced in the factory here were not simple.
Except for a few factories such as steel plants, arsenals, and machinery factories, few factories can enjoy the services of the garrison stationed in the factory.
"Academician Hong, we won't go in and disturb them. We'll go directly to the warehouse to look at the finished mirrors."
Hong Feiyu guided from the front and led everyone towards the warehouse.
Except for a few researchers from the Academy of Sciences, no one is allowed to enter or exit the factory that produces mirrors.
There are security guards guarding the outside and secret guards guarding the inside.
The workers in the mirror workshop are all sons of the gentry who were sentenced to life imprisonment.
They will never get out of the mirror factory in their entire lives.
Even if these workers who were sentenced to life imprisonment escaped, it would be of no use.
The recipe for the silver mirror reaction is in the hands of a few researchers from the Academy of Sciences.
These researchers are all loyal to Su He.
They are all abandoned orphans and martyrdom orphans whose parents both died.
As their teacher, Su He also plays the role of father.
These people are not short of money and can devote themselves to scientific careers. They are also people who are not interested in fame and fortune.
Under the rule of Prince Qin's Mansion, they were students of Su He, and they were able to be happy with whatever experiments they were doing, and there were many like-minded people around them.
Su He couldn't imagine what kind of injustice he would suffer before someone would rebel against him.
What's more, the chemical industry is a systematic industry. If a certain point is leaked, it will be difficult for others to imitate it.
But in order to keep it as secret as possible, Su He monopolized the technology of making mirrors.
He also implemented the strictest confidentiality measures for the mirror factory.
Now all over the world, the West has also mastered the technology of making mirrors.
The technology they used was too backward. The paint on the back of the mirror used mercury compounds.
Mercury, a special metal, is highly toxic to humans.
Especially for infants and young children, direct damage to their nervous system can cause people to become stupid.
Suhe manufactures mirrors using the silver mirror reaction.
The coating behind the mirror is metallic silver, which is very safe.
The silver mirror reaction is very simple. Su He had already successfully experimented with the silver mirror reaction when he was training chemistry talents at the Academy of Sciences.
The materials used in the silver mirror reaction are mainly silver nitrate and ammonia.
Silver nitrate and ammonia do not require industrial production, and laboratory preparation is not difficult.
Other excipients are not difficult to make.
Sodium hydroxide solution can be produced using soda ash.
Soda ash is a natural rock mineral and it is not difficult to buy them.
Acetaldehyde is the most difficult to produce, but its use is very rare.
Acetaldehyde can be produced in small amounts using industrial alcohol, and the raw materials are also very easy to obtain.
The silver mirror reaction involves adding a few drops of sodium hydroxide to a silver nitrate solution.
This process generates a white precipitate, and then add dilute ammonia water to it until the white precipitate is completely dissolved.
The liquid obtained at this time is called silver ammonia solution.
Add a very small amount of acetaldehyde to the silver ammonia solution and heat the solution in a water bath.
Before the reaction, cover the inside of the glass and place it in the solution.
Soon you can see a layer of metallic silver as bright as a mirror on the unobstructed glass.
During the entire reaction process, the silver ammonia solution must be prepared on site.
Only in mirror factories would researchers from the Academy of Sciences be stationed to guide workers on site in preparing the silver ammonia solution.
Everyone came to the warehouse and saw glass mirrors of different sizes placed here.
The smallest glass mirror is only half the size of a palm.
The largest glass mirror is as tall as a person.
The officials approached and stood beside the glass mirror.
They can clearly see their physical condition.
Tian Wenheng exclaimed: "I actually have a mole on my face. I usually don't even notice it when I look in a bronze mirror."
"It turns out that mine looks so good! It feels so good to see my whole body for the first time."
When everyone saw the mirror, they were shocked by the clarity of themselves in the mirror. Everyone looked at their own image carefully in front of the mirror.
Qu Qingyi stood by the mirror, admiring the stunning little beauty in front of her.
She hasn't seen her true appearance for a long time.
When I usually wash my face, I can only see the appearance of my face.
I can't see my performance after putting on clothes.
When you look at yourself through the water, you can't see as clearly as through a glass mirror.
These glass mirrors can illuminate people very clearly, far more clearly than the bronze mirrors he used in Prince Qin's Mansion.
The bronze mirrors in Prince Qin's palace are dozens of times clearer than the bronze mirrors in ordinary people's homes.
The clarity of the bronze mirror that has just been polished by the craftsmen is only slightly inferior to that of the glass mirror.
But copper mirrors are very easy to rust, and after rusting, the light will not be clear.
We can only ask craftsmen to polish these bronze mirrors again.
It is not an ordinary craftsman to polish a bronze mirror that is comparable to a glass mirror, and the price is extremely high.
This kind of bronze mirror is destined to be rare and precious, and ordinary dignitaries cannot afford it.
The effect of glass mirror is better than that of copper mirror, but it can be found in thousands of households.
Just looking at so many glass mirrors placed in the warehouse, this kind of glass mirror must be able to be mass-produced.
