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"If you want to become a character like an elder, you still have to have a blue sky on your head and a down-to-earth ground!"

Slowly waking up from his dream-like trance, Ferdinand bowed slightly. It's a dream, it's also the dream of 130,000,000 people, 1.3 billion people are too many, 130,000 Sardinians are too few, and a total of 8 million Spaniards is not too much. This world has just been pried into the corner.

For example...... Ferdinand's gaze turned back to his restaurant.

Although the Spanish catering company functions as an intelligence station, it is also the best catering company in Spain, after all, it has the most abundant raw materials, the lowest cost, and the best personnel.

The food flavor and service quality are top-notch.

Even glass windows are the same.

Well, glass, in this era, is also an important aspect of the embodiment of technological prowess.

Ferdinand also paid attention to the development of the glass industry.

At this time, Italy's glass-making technology was not fully appreciated, and even the government and the kings of Western Europe did not notice the value of the technology or have the idea of stealing it.

Well, this refers to glass technology, not mirror technology. The Venetians regarded the amalgam plating mirror as the most precious treasure, Ferdinand knew it well, Spain is the world's largest mercury country, and there is a lot of mercury.

As for the methods used to chemically plating silver mirrors from glucose, silver nitrate, stannous chloride, potassium sodium tartrate, etc., Ferdinand also knew very well that he could make two silver mirrors in his own laboratory, and they could be produced on a large scale.

For the glass industry, what is lacking is glass-making technology and glass craftsmen.

The Italian war became a great opportunity to harvest human resources. More than 1,500 glassmakers were recruited from Florence, Rome, Genoa, Milan, Venice, Naples and other places in two years, most of whom were sent to Sardinia to work in glass production. These craftsmen were then used to train the Spaniards to train their own glassmakers, and soon the number quadrupled or quadrupled. I won't have such a good opportunity in the future.

Ferdinand gave them a 1612 edition of The Technique of Glass, which discussed in detail fluxes, carbon dioxide, calcined frit and molten glass, colours, chalcedony, etc., and changed the glass kiln to a conical type with a modern closed-mouth crucible with a tubular opening to the operating outlet...... and the burning of glass with coal, the addition of a little lead oxide, and so on.

In addition, the use of simple equipment such as long elbow wooden chairs, which is convenient for glaziers, also greatly improves human-machine coordination and increases the productivity of the glass industry.

As a result, the cost of making glass fell, so the glass windows of the court and dining were greatly increased, and transparent glass became a profitable product in Ferdinand's hands, and a large number of glass products were sold from the royal family.

More importantly, the progress of grinding and polishing lens technology can play a significant role in the improvement of telescopes and breakthroughs in natural science, and it is also promising in military affairs......

Well, far away, Ferdinand stayed in his shop for a while, and didn't see the figure of the coffee powder nobleman for the time being, so he got up and left.

"Well, the king is here today, press E to ......"

"Shut up, don't talk nonsense, press M ......"

"Enough, let me go aside, and don't look at it, when, this is to be responsible for understanding it! Even if you die......" (This one is innocent, His Majesty has not had time to make this part of the spy tutorial)

Barcelona, a city that declared its independence in chaos and blood, now has a good look at the Basic Law, although there are a lot of performance artists, but they have almost disappeared under the crackdown.

If you don't know the history of Catalonia, or only look at the history of Catalonia from 1492 to the beginning of the 16th century, Ferdinand might have thought it would be better to develop Barcelona as a continental base. Unfortunately, the experience of later generations has taught it that the prosperity and harmony of the present cannot be trusted, and it still roars at Valencia as a "paradise" in the south, just like the enterprises that later moved away from the city.

Although he doubted Catalonia's loyalty, Ferdinand carried out some construction work on the city, such as the construction of large-scale public toilets, which could be written in a separate chapter, without going into details. At present, several roads leading from the port to the city are being built along the ancient city walls, which is the prototype of the later Las Ramblas.

These roads under construction have a fresh and refined feel compared to the rest of the city. Trees and flowers planted on both sides are secondary, and importantly, these are two concrete roads that are paved with Portland cement and the material is added with some aluminum.

It looks like a five- or six-story building was built on the edge of the countryside in later generations, and the dirt road was renovated.

Ferdinand looked around, trying to see a little change he had made for the times. Unfortunately, nothing other than the public toilets under construction was found. Agricultural products in the New World may have given rise to a novel Boquerian market, but due to the limited number of new crops and the regulation of the government, there has been no new market.

A pat on the head, well, see the change shouldn't be in Barcelona, it's a city that is not very trusted, so not much of Ferdinand's new gadgets are willing to put it here.

But! There is still one thing that Ferdinand is proud of, and that is that he invented the Spanish city management.

There are 3,000 city management ...... In fact, the urban management has indeed made a lot of contributions, and it has indeed strengthened urban management.

You see, the beggars on the street are gone, where have they gone? They all went to work...... This is a feat that has never been seen before in Paris and London! Spectacle! Only the later Soviet Union could have such a landscape, and the fly in the ointment was that Ferdinand was even more violent than Chairman Serov on this issue...... You can't blame him for being undemocratic, in this era, there is no need to even talk about human rights, and naturally choose the most efficient way......

Therefore, when he saw the mighty and majestic Chengguan Brigade, Ferdinand knew that the world had been changed by him!

The lonely Barcelona Cathedral stands in the center of the city, where this extraordinary thing is happening today, the church door is posted "Some Decisions on the Witch Question", which is the decision announced by the Inquisition (above), and the people at the entrance of the church rush to watch, many people are surprised to chatter, but no one dares to openly question and oppose it. At the end of the Middle Ages, Spain relied on Catholicism as its spiritual home, with faith in God and Christianity, and a desire to ascend to heaven, hundreds of thousands of rustic Spanish peasants wielding hoes (and perhaps not even waving) supported the kingdom in expelling the Moors.

Walking towards the square in the center of the city, Ferdinand, protected by several plainclothes guards around him, slipped through the rear passage and immediately startled the Bishop of Catalonia.

Although he had not been on business for a long time this morning, Ferdinand had business to do this Christmas.

Book burning.

Under the segregation of the Spanish police force, the real police of the modern system that was just a few years old, tens of thousands of people were isolated on the periphery, and order was stabilized.

Looking at the orderly people around the square, Ferdinand felt that the hope of Banya still existed, and the national character could also be shaped and changed. I hope that I can train the plate duck into an iron god duck, and it is no longer the national character of the stupid pig in later generations.

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"Therefore, the claim about witches is complete nonsense, and such fallacies should be destroyed! It is not the cult members who are being burned at the stake, but only your compatriots.

"I am very happy to be able to preside over this book burning ceremony today, I see that the world is changing, towards light or darkness, and Spain is on the path of light.

"As a king, it is my duty to help the masses to improve their knowledge, and a good and competent monarch should always represent the requirements of the development of the productive forces of Spain's advanced society; It is necessary to always represent the direction of progress of Spain's advanced culture; We must always represent the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the Spanish people. This is an important idea for me to fulfill the obligations and missions entrusted to me by God, an important way for me to explore the governance of the country, a strong country and a rich people, and a fundamental way for me to lead Spain to keep moving forward! ”

"Now, start ignition!"

The people around him maintained a respectful attitude, even if some people had some conflicts of thought in their hearts, they did not dare to express their opposition, no, he himself did not dare to think that he should oppose, but he had some strange feelings in his heart......

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"Hooray! Wow! ”

Hearing the sound of leading the way at the right time, Ferdinand nodded in satisfaction.

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