Wen Nan and Li Niang were specifically responsible for the maritime trade with the Mongol Empire, and he only needed to listen to the report, look at the documents, and sign a few names every few days. Too detailed work instructions he still can't help, when it comes to accurate calculations in terms of details, he is still not the opponent of Li Niang's professionals, too many questions or chaos.

He still couldn't get involved in the construction of a second base in Cape Town, and he didn't even have a chance to ask questions. Lacking convenient means of communication, it takes two months to run a round trip from Golden River City to Cape Town Harbour on the fastest Exocet-class sailboat, and who has the time to wait a few months before going to work. Therefore, in ancient times, there were generals who did not accept the orders of foreign kings, and if this sentence was put in the 21st century, it would be a standard grandson.

The Jinhe Empire does not raise idlers, this sentence was said by him, the emperor himself, so he was embarrassed to stay in an empty office all day, and then went to the opposite toilet to check the hygiene. So what? Hong Tao has a pastime, such as going to the tobacco plantation where incense is worshipping to see the tobacco that is about to be harvested. I went down to the field with my daughter-in-law, took turns to weed the tobacco with a hoe, and turned over the ground.

"Baixiang, do you want to have an artifact that can shine at any time? I don't have to carry a torch home, I can't see the way clearly. "Bai Xiang is a money fan, since he asked Hong Tao that this plantation is the royal family after eating and drinking, every morning and evening to take care of those seedlings, never call it a day and never go home after dark. Hong Tao is not afraid to walk at night, but sometimes he can't see the road clearly by the light of the whale oil torch. It's better to enter the city, especially the dirt road in the fields outside the city, he, the emperor, has already fallen several times and eaten.

"I don't want an artifact, I just want you to stop coming to the field tomorrow to plague my crops. Today you trampled on two trees in one day, and slashed five with a hoe, and so on. It's time for my fields to go extinct! Bai Xiang didn't receive the emperor's love, she was very unhappy that Hong Tao came to the field to cause trouble for her, because Hong Tao's broken mouth was not idle all day long, not only affecting the speed of other people's work, but also often inadvertently destroying her treasures.

"Hey...... Slow down, I can't see it! "Worship the fragrance and walk briskly along the ridge of the field. She is a child who grew up in the mountains, and even if there is no torch to illuminate her, she will not fall on her heels. But Hong Tao couldn't do it, and without the fire, he could only explore step by step, and when would he be able to walk home.

"Leave the torch for you, don't come tomorrow!" Bai Xiang is also Hong Tao's wife, and he couldn't bear to watch him being tortured one foot deep and one foot shallow on the ridge, but he was very angry, so he simply inserted the torch into the ridge. Turned around and walked away.

"I'm not angry...... I'm not angry...... I'm a mental worker, and I don't compare farming with them! "Being despised by my own daughter-in-law is much more uncomfortable than being despised by others. Fortunately, Emperor Hong is thick-skinned enough, and he enlightens himself while walking.

said so, but Hong Tao was definitely not convinced, he had to let Bai Xiang convince him, and he had to sing to conquer if he had nothing to do! How can you conquer her? It's useless to talk about warships, navigation, artillery, and steelmaking, for this simple mountain girl. Those things can't be eaten or drunk, and I'm not interested in listening to them at all. I can't understand it even if I want to hear it. If you want her to be convinced, there is only one way, which is to make a more high-end thing in daily life, so that she can have more specific feelings.

What is it? Hong Tao already has a goal, it is the artifact that he boasted about with Bai Xiang just now, and that thing that can shine at any time at night. Bulb! This time, Hong Mouse is going to plagiarize the invention of Edison's children. That's right, it's a child, if you count it according to the current year, Xiao Ai is still a carbohydrate.

"To make a light bulb, I first have to have electricity! Where to get electricity? "Abandoned by worshipping incense. Hong Tao didn't have the face to go to live in the courtyard of Baixiang again, so he had to run back to the Bozhu house. After dinner, he lay on the table with a cigar in his mouth and began to sketch, and from time to time he still had words in his mouth.

"You want to open a store? It's not appropriate. You are the emperor of the empire, and if you want to do business, you have to be someone else to come forward to meet the rules. What exactly do you want to sell? Tell me, if it doesn't work, I can go to my cousin and watch them out. Bo Zhu was washing Hong Tao's feet when she heard her husband speak and immediately interjected.

"You go to sleep first, I'm going to get busy with business, don't disturb me, or I'll let you go to the window and sing!" Hong Tao is so angry, everything is not going well today, the two wives are angry with themselves in turn, it seems that it is not possible to be domineering without showing some manhood.

"No shape...... Bo Zhu's face immediately turned red, she was satisfied with her emperor husband everywhere, but she couldn't stand his affectionate ways of changing tricks. Singing by the window is one of his tricks, knowing that he is easy to scream, he has to go to the window to toss. Every time she did this, she didn't dare to look up at her neighbors when she went to work the next day. Anyway, she is also a genuine queen mother, screaming at night, where to put this face.

"Try the hand-cranked generator first, the magnet is easy to find, and the coil is a bit troublesome...... There is no enameled wire, it is really not a matter of hanging paint by hand, and it should be no problem to use wax paper in the middle. Hong Tao didn't pay attention to Bo Zhu, he didn't hear what Bo Zhu was saying, and his mind was full of all kinds of coils, magnetic poles, and wires. He still remembers the simple generator principle, he learned this thing when he was in middle school, and it was not too difficult.

Copper wire, in the Song Dynasty, there was no metal drawing process, that thing had to be heated with electricity, Hong Tao didn't even have a hand-cranked generator, where did the electricity come from. But don't worry, the ancients could still make wires without electricity, and the method was very simple, all by hand and with the naked eye. As early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a craft for making gold and silver threads, and in the Song Dynasty, it was even more refined.

There are a few goldsmiths in the city of Jinhe who play with this thing, they first use small mallets to hammer the softer gold or silver into a very thin foil, then glue the foil to the thin sheepskin or whale skin, and then use a quick knife to cut the shreds. How wide is this filament? It's only about one-third of a millimeter wide, and it's not a skilled master who can't see it at all.

The cut filaments are flat gold threads, called flakes of gold. The ancients were not satisfied with a piece of gold, so they wrapped these filaments around the silk thread and turned them into real gold and silver threads, which were called gold threads.

The production process of copper wire is similar to that of sheet gold, which is also to cut the thin copper sheet into shreds first, and then use a small hammer to knock it into a circle little by little. It was a handiwork, and the goldsmith's eyes and hands were like a precision instrument that not only made wires as thin as a hair, but also fused them together. The enameled wire used by Hongtao to wrap the coil was hammered out by hand by three goldsmiths.

It is not enough to have copper wire, and it is necessary to brush a layer of insulation on it before it can be used. This job is not too difficult, the shipyard has paint, choose a few of them to brush and dry for later use. Why choose how many lacquers to choose? It's very simple, because Hong Tao doesn't know which paint is insulated, and it is impossible to have a multimeter or shake meter at hand to test, so he can only test one by one.

With enameled wire, Hongtao's power generation business has officially begun. He rode his horse to the gold and silver shops in the city to find a craftsman to get copper wire, and then ran to the shipyard to watch the workers paint the copper wire he had given him, and then hang it on the crossbar to dry. No one knows what he's doing, everyone has their own work to do, and there are quotas, unlike before, when they did more and less. At most, I took a few looks at the emperor's strange behavior, and no one paid too much attention to it, and they were all used to it.

"Uncle Emperor, do you want to weave so many copper wires?" There are also curious people, just when Hong Tao was looking at a large piece of golden copper wire and was full of ambition, someone behind him suddenly called him.

"Bush, why didn't you learn the craft from Minister Qi, why did you go to the shipyard?" Hong Tao looked back and knew that he was still a relative, and this young man's name was Bush.

In fact, his original name was Bu Xiaoer, and he was the nephew of Bo Xiaoer's wife, Bu Shi. His uncle's name is Bo Xiaoer, his name is Bu Xiaoer, Hong Tao felt that the generations were a little messy, so he broke his mouth and changed Bu Xiaoer's name with the attitude of a person from the Tanjia territorial sea. The changed name also has a strong Hong's style, plagiarism and spoofing. His surname was Bush, and as a result, he had the same surname as the later US president, or he became the ancestor of the Bush family.

This child has just turned 20 this year, and he belongs to the kind of goods that eat and do not work. It's not that he's lazy and annoying, but that he has too many problems. When he first entered the navigation school, he had a severe seasickness reaction, so severe that he vomited and became dehydrated every time, and if he was not rescued, he would die. You said that as a family member, he can't go to the sea, if there is no Hong Tao, how will he live in the future.

If you can't become a naval officer, you can't even get on a cargo ship or a whaling ship, and if you graduate, you'll be unemployed. So Bu Shi begged Hong Tao to come forward, wanting him, the emperor, to come forward and find an errand for her nephew in the government. Of course, Hong Tao couldn't agree, he repeatedly ordered that he was not allowed to engage in nepotism, and he couldn't take the lead in sabotaging it. But the face of relatives can't be refuted too cleanly, what should I do? It's easy to do, Bush is still good at studying, and if he can't be a navy or an official, he can still go to Cixi to be an intelligence officer.

Of course, Cixi will not object, and Bush also conforms to the recruitment principles of the Ministry of Supervision, which is nothing more than to take a little care when arranging work and try not to arrange it in dangerous places. Human affection is something that cannot be completely avoided in any country or system, and it is not human society. In fact, there is no need to avoid it completely, as long as the favor is limited to the rules and does not affect the overall operation of the rules, there is no big problem. (To be continued.) )