Enamel technology is now very mature, and the folk demand for enamel is also very strong, although the price is indeed not expensive relative to the income of ordinary people, an enamel bowl needs more than 100 money, a complex process of military kettle is more than 200 yuan, but as an industrial product invented by Qinghe Hou, it still has an unparalleled attraction in the minds of the people.

Porcelain, glass, enamel, and four-wheeled carriages are known as the four major pieces of the new era.

If the children of rich and aristocratic families can't get together these four things, they will be laughed at by relatives and friends.

But after all, these are not civilian consumer goods, and they do not have much to promote the construction of the country, so Chen Xu is far less interested in promoting enamel glass porcelain than major projects such as steel and cement machinery that benefit the country and the people, although the Red Star Enamel Factory has been established for many years, but it has always been tepid.

This time, the Dawan merchants asked for a large number of enamel to buy the emperor a little unhappy, mainly because the Western Army sold enamel equipment privately, but this matter is not absolutely a bad thing, at least let the enamel This kind of thing has aroused great interest in Western countries, so no matter how the Western Army's enamel equipment is finally disposed of, but the enamel can indeed start to be promoted on a large scale.

If you want to rejuvenate the country through commerce, if you want to make a lot of money back from the West, using silk with high cost and great consumption of people's power as a bargaining chip is definitely not Chen Xu's first choice.

The opening of the Silk Road is certainly a great success of the Chinese nation's foreign commerce, but how many people care about the suffering of the people at the bottom and write, and later generations are full of praise when they talk about the Silk Road, and they are eager to promote the business case at the strategic level of this country as the most successful model in Chinese history, and it has also aroused great national pride, but for the silkworm planters and silk weavers living at the bottom, it is a history of deep suffering, in order to complete the increasing tax requirements of the imperial court, In order to meet the increasing export needs of the imperial court, in order to meet the continuous demand of the Xiongnu, silkworm farmers and weavers had to work day and night, and many women sat in front of the loom almost all day and night to spin and weave cloth in exchange for meager living needs.

Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

Those who are all over Luo Qi are not silkworm breeders.

In any strong era, the people at the bottom are still the most miserable.

Although Chen Xu didn't have much contact with these, he still experienced them after crossing over, although it was short-lived, but the feeling of almost fainting from hunger when he woke up and the extreme poverty of being unclothed made him remember it deeply.

If in this era, it is still necessary to use silk that brings blood and tears to ordinary civilians to open this east-west trade route, it is unacceptable to Chen Xu, and it is also a shame for him, a traverser and the left minister of Great Qin.

It is necessary to use the cheapest products to make money from the West, and glass, ceramics, enamel, these cheap and delicate industrial products are the preferred targets of this new trade route, and when Westerners get used to drinking tea, those nobles who do not want to be porcelain-free people begin to pursue tea, China will make a fortune with the inexhaustible leaves of tea.

However, what he didn't expect was that when he proposed to vigorously promote enamel technology and start prying open this trade route, he was blocked by a group of officials of the Ministry of Industry with patent bills and process secrecy requirements.

Chen Xu was a little amused, the production process of enamel is definitely the most complex among all the civilizations on the earth at present, and there is no one, just like Zai Hong said, involving a series of complex manufacturing processes such as steel, casting, stamping, porcelain, glass, etc., any of which cannot be completed in the West.

Now Daqin's steel smelting technology is about to reach the level of World War I according to Chen Xu's view, at least in terms of hardness and toughness, there are more than ten different alloy steels, enough to meet the manufacturing and production from lathe cutter heads to ordinary civilian knives, casting technology also has a variety of different processes combining hot casting and cold forging, as for stamping equipment, it has involved complex gear mechanical structure, not to mention the most developed Rome and Greece in the West, even in Daqin, there is not enough technical reserves and guidance, With a full set of drawings and instructions, ordinary craftsmen can't figure it out, and now the manufacturing process of porcelain glass is still unknown to the people, and it is firmly controlled by the porcelain factory and the Academy of Sciences, and the complex process of firing enamel is even more mysterious in the eyes of ordinary people.

Therefore, Chen Xu didn't care about the diffusion of enamel technology, and it would be at least a few hundred years before Westerners learned it.

In the past, porcelain began to spread around the world from the Tang Dynasty, but it was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that Westerners finally learned how to fire porcelain, not to blame them for being stupid, but because it is indeed too mysterious, it has been known for a long time that porcelain is fired from a kind of soil, but the whole earth is soil, and what kind of soil has bothered Westerners for centuries.

Now with the arrival of the envoys of the Great Wan Kingdom, Chen Xu can basically infer that there are already Daqin's glass porcelain and other goods transported to West Asia and even the Middle East, if the West Asia and the Middle East are a little more stable, it is not uncommon for some things to be sent to Greece, Rome and Egypt, after all, commercial behavior is a relay transmission process, which will be centered on races and cities, and spread around in a circle like ripples, and the transmission speed is very fast.

However, since the Ministry of Industry officials have raised the patent bill to prevent the large-scale promotion of enamel technology, and at the same time want to increase the price by reducing the supply of enamel, this is certainly a very realistic business thinking, but for Chen Xu, the pattern and vision of these people are still too low, they greatly underestimate the power of commercial communication, and they are completely unaware of the current distribution and pattern of the world's population.

There are many Western countries, in addition to the Great Qin is isolated in the East, Central Asia, West Asia, the South Asian subcontinent and the junction of Asia, Africa and Europe are extremely developed civilizations, adding up to hundreds of millions of people, most of the West is a slave society, the princes and nobles live an extremely decadent and luxurious life, the demand for luxury goods is much greater than China, so the consumption capacity is countless times that of Daqin, according to the current industrial scale and production capacity of Daqin, how much production can be sold, The only obstacle is the serious obstacles of traffic and logistics.

Therefore, in order to completely pry into this situation, it is far from enough to rely on the trade route of the Western Regions, and it is necessary to open up the sea channel in order to meet this explosive growth in trade demand.

But since the First Emperor had already asked for the secret process, Chen Xu could only agree for the time being, but the emperor threw this one to him again, and the space that could be operated was much larger.

While Chen Xu sat down, many officials looked at Chen Xu with regret or envy and jealousy, some people have begun to fight Xiao Jiujiu, it seems that if they want to make some benefits from the enamel factory, they must go to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion to visit.

"Do you have anything to do?" The First Emperor spoke again.

"Your Majesty, the minister received an official letter yesterday, the two textile factories in Guangling and Hangzhou have been built, and one hundred textile machines have also begun to be installed, and the weaver has also begun to recruit, and it is expected that it will be officially put into production in the middle of this month, and the directors of the two factories will ask Your Majesty to allocate money to start purchasing raw silk in large quantities!" Cheng Feng Jing of the Ministry of Agriculture and Mulberry Affairs stood up and played the report.

"Accurately, this matter will be reported to the Ministry of Household for review by the Ministry of Households, and the money must be disbursed as soon as possible without delay!"

"Obey the order!" Feng Jing took a seat.

"Your Majesty, the preparations for the Customs Department have begun, and now there is still a lack of a chief officer in charge, please arrange a candidate as soon as possible!" Right Xiang Feng stood up and gave up his hand.

The Customs Administration, like the Commerce Bureau, came into being with the development of commerce, and the Commerce Department was mainly aimed at the trade exchanges between the princes and the vassal states of the Western Regions and the Western countries, although there were also some customs functions, but mainly to facilitate trade between countries. The Customs Department is different, it is completely aimed at overseas exploration and resource development and plunder, using licenses to control the expansion of the entire overseas, and in the end it is definitely a giant department.

Although the Customs Department has just prepared nothing, in fact, the civil and military officials who have been influenced by Chen Xu's business philosophy for many years and Chen Xu's early revelation that Yu Wuya and others will transport a large amount of silver and sulfur back from Yingzhou, everyone knows that the Customs Department will definitely be a department full of oil and water, and those businessmen who want to go to sea and make a fortune must have to deal with the customs, even if they dare not be corrupt and bribe-taking, the filial piety of businessmen will inevitably not be less, so Feng Qujian opened his mouth at this time, Countless officials of the three-grade and fourth-grade poor yamen above the court all moved their minds, and one by one they clenched their fists and began to hold their breath, panting and looking at the first emperor, hoping to get the emperor's favor.

"Is there a good candidate for the ministry?" Qin Shi Huang thought about it for a while and found that he had no good candidates, so he looked up at Shen Gongyan, the official commander.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has discussed this matter with Prime Minister Feng Cheng two days ago, and now there are three people ready to submit to Your Majesty for decision, namely Qu Tong, the Ministry of Industry will be the commander of the East Garden, Yang Zheng, the lieutenant general of the Ministry of Ministers, and one is Shi Sima Xin, the Minister of War, these three are all four grades at the moment, and their tenure has been five years, and they have excellent merit examinations, and they can be promoted to serve as the third grade administrator!" Shen Gongyan was fully prepared to take out a copy of the recital and read it, obviously having already passed the anger with his top boss Feng Qu.

"Well, these three are all old and serious people, but the customs is a new office, and there is no experience in the management of affairs, and the three Aiqing have never served as the chief officer of the agency, I am afraid they are not competent, let's discuss it again!" Qin Shi Huang groaned a little and rejected the three candidates.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Shen Gongyan sat down helplessly, and by the way, he exchanged glances with Feng Quji, Feng Quji's face was calm and indifferent and shook his head slightly, as if he already knew this ending.

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