Chapter 14 Stainless Steel Coins
When the old experts minted the first batch of stainless steel coins and put them in the bazaar to show everyone, the villagers of Meicheng were all dumbfounded, looking at this fluorescent and glittering substance, incomprehensible.
Compared to the copper plates they used in the past, this material was more luxurious and more beautiful, and this coin quickly gained the favor of the villagers. But now is not the best time to put it on the market, because the number of mints is far from enough.
The invention and use of stainless steel dates back to the First World War. British scientist Henry Brearley was commissioned by the British government's military arsenal to study the improvement of weapons. At that time, the rifles used by soldiers were extremely worn, and Brearley wanted to invent an alloy steel that would not wear easily.
In 1916, Brelley's invention of stainless steel was patented in the United Kingdom and began to be mass-produced, and since then, stainless steel found by chance from a garbage heap has become popular all over the world, and Henry Brelley is also known as the "father of stainless steel". During the First World War, British guns on the battlefield were always shipped back to the rear due to worn breeches. The military production department ordered Brearley to develop high-strength wear-resistant alloy steel to study and solve the problem of wear and tear in the chamber of the gun. Brelley and his assistants collected various types of steel produced at home and abroad, various alloy steels of different properties, conducted performance experiments on various machinery with different properties, and then selected the most suitable steel to make guns. One day, they experimented with a domestic alloy steel with a large amount of chromium, and after a wear-resistant test, it was found that this alloy was not wear-resistant, indicating that it could not make a gun, so they recorded the results of the experiment and threw it into the corner. One day, a few months later, an assistant came to Brelley with a shiny piece of steel and said, "Sir, this is the alloy steel that Mr. Mullah sent me that I found while cleaning the warehouse, do you want to experiment and see what special it does!" "Good!" Breerley looked at the shiny steel and said happily.
The experimental results proved that it is a piece of stainless steel that is not afraid of acid, alkali and salt. This stainless steel was invented by the German mullah in 1912, however, the mullah did not know what this stainless steel was used for.
Brelley thought to himself: "This kind of steel that is not wear-resistant but corrosion-resistant, can't be made into guns, can it be made into cutlery?" He said he did it, and made stainless steel fruit knives, forks, spoons, fruit bowls and folding knives.
There are many, many changes like this, and technology is changing people's habits. More importantly, the new coin is very beautiful and cannot be counterfeited.
The new spring of Meicheng is coming.
After dynastic changes and chaotic wars, people have long wanted to return to a peaceful life. So for anything that seems good, hope that it will bring extraordinariness to life.
On the one hand, Mei Xiaohan also began to enjoy this vigorous development pattern, which is not as exaggerated as modern society, but it is very desirable. The so-called sense of happiness is also full.
Zhao Kuangyin tried to unify this ancient empire, but he was always a little powerless on his own. Although he is young and has ideas, reality tells him again and again that everything is too much.
Mei Xiaohan didn't read many juvenile books, and was involved in the classroom of this society early, although his identity gradually became different, but he still couldn't let go of his past dropout of school.
For the school, he has some different feelings, Mei Xiaohan is deeply aware of the importance of education.
When the youth is strong, the country is strong! This is an eternal law!
The format of the classroom has changed a lot from ancient times to the present, but the only thing that has not changed is the teacher's teaching, and an outstanding and excellent teacher will definitely be able to teach an extraordinary student. It can even change the times.
In an era when the cost of reading is high, learning has always been a consumption that only the upper class of society can enjoy. Most ordinary people are not able to enter this ranks, and the concept of basic education does not yet exist.
Despite this, since the Sui and Tang dynasties pioneered the imperial examination system, changing their destiny through the imperial examination has become a straw for scholars in the world to climb to the upper class.
Mei Xiaohan tried to read the books of the saints, but he gave up again and again. The teachings of many of the saints seemed to him too boring. It was too boring for him to believe what he would do if he were a scholar in ancient times.
For the reform of education, Mei Xiaohan has already considered that there are enlightened people in any era, and there are of course possibilities for the so-called basic education reform, not to mention that it is still in the Great Song Dynasty full of cultural atmosphere.
This era that has been praised by the world and longed for by countless readers is a miracle.
Kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school and university, this kind of term that can only be understood by modern people is now thrown out by Mei Xiaohan, although most people do not understand, but they have great respect for this young leader.
He thought he could bring a different change to the city, and looked forward to the establishment of a new empire.
I have seen the trajectory of historical development and can understand that nothing lasts long. Everything has its uncertainties, and most of what can be done is just what you think you can predict.
Just like this stainless steel coin in front of me, who would have thought, who can know what kind of nirvana its birth has experienced. There are not many things that can be remembered in this era in the end. If you want to last a long time, it's a dream-like story.
In the end, what history looks like can only be left to future generations to evaluate.
Whether it is the establishment of a so-called empire or the rise of an era, it will eventually go through one ordeal after another. And go through the twists and turns, the baptism of wind and rain. Until the moment it returns to calm, everything becomes unrecognizable in the silence.
Just like Mei Xiaohan's ridiculous and childish dreams in childhood or youth, they have become different in the ordeal after ordeal.
Floating dreams, persistent pursuits, until re-establishing a firm idea.
There is nothing right to pursue, and there is nothing wrong with it, just like that, according to my once ridiculous childhood dreams, making tenacious dreams.
Make this land different from the past, make people's lives less boring, and change this era.
Everything is about to change!