Chapter 20: Impressions of the Times
Sun Zhan looked at the paper in the shadows, reminisced about the story inside, and listened to Jian Chen's tone full of the anticipation of young people's desire to become famous, and laughed: "Make some modifications, of course you can perform in the theater." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Chen Jian breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly thanked: "Then thank you Mr. Yiyi." ”
"Why thank me? If you can't write something like this, I won't tell you you can perform in the theater. I can even imagine that once this play starts, we will have another playwright in Mincheng, a young playwright who is less than twenty years old! ”
"Mr. Yoshitsu praised it falsely."
"It's not a false praise, it's true. Jian Chen, Jian Chen, if you hadn't sent it, I would never have believed that it was written by a young man under the age of twenty. Do you know how long it took me to become so famous? ”
Sun Zhan sighed, shook his head and said, "Ten years, ten years." ”
After sighing, Sun Zhan said again: "In the past, our Fujian City was a little less flavorful of pen and ink, but this year is different. First of all, Lei Zhengxing's book of crew adventures, and then your scene, with the two of you, our Mincheng finally has some characters to talk about in the pen and ink books, and I will never mention that Mincheng thinks of a group of mercenary businessmen. ”
"It's just that becoming famous at a young age is not a good thing. Your scene is so well written, I'm afraid it will be difficult to write such a scene in the future. Although this scene alone can make you famous, but in the future, the pressure on your shoulders will be great, and then you will be accompanied by a strong tea oil lamp every day. It's okay if you can still write, but if it tastes like chewing wax, I'm afraid that you won't be able to bear the evaluation of everyone after the performance. ”
Jian Chen hurriedly said, "What Mr. Yiyi said is true. In fact, when I write these things, I have exhausted all my thoughts and thoughts since I was a child, and they are all in this scene. In fact, there is no need for Mr. Yiyi to say, how can I not know that I will not be able to write such a thing in the future? ”
This is a half-truth, and Jian Chen knows very well in his heart that he is not going to do this, because he really can't make a lot of money.
Again, I copied almost everything I could at one time, and it was too difficult to hold back those things that collected the essence of hundreds of years.
"Mr. Yiyi, in fact, I also know that if what I write is not revised by you, it will not be on the table. And I don't know anything about the curtain stage. I just hope that what I have been thinking over the years can twinkle like a meteor across the night sky, and how dare I dare to become famous at a young age? ”
Therefore, in this scene, the signature of the play is still Mr. Yi Yi, and Jian Yuan is the second assistant. If I don't have Mr. Yiyi's support, where will I have a chance? ”
Sun Zhan glanced at Jian Chen in a slight surprise, and saw that Jian Chen did not seem to be a fake, his face was still extremely respectful, and he suddenly smiled: "I, Sun Zhan, am not the kind of person who is greedy for the merits of others for himself, what is mine is mine, and if it is not mine, it is not mine." Don't think too much about it, even if you can't write a play like this in the future, this scene alone is enough to make a name for yourself. ”
"You don't know anything about the stage, so I'll take care of the rest, and I look forward to the performance. However, this play is a bit troublesome to rehearse, and I don't want to play such a good thing as a waster, it will take half a year. ”
"In half a year, your meteor will be brighter than the moon! Okay, it's getting late, you're tired from standing all afternoon, so go back, and I'll read it again. Tonight there is another drink. ”
Jian Chen said some words of thanks again, and then said goodbye.
Soon after I went back, it was the Chinese New Year, and I met some people and visited some people until the smell of the New Year faded.
Sun Zhan was still preparing, and Jian Chen also took a few looks, until he couldn't be anxious or impatient, so he could only wait with peace of mind.
For more than a month after the year, Chen Jian read a lot of books, rode around the vicinity of Mincheng for more than half a month, visited some large landlords, homesteaders, merchants, handicraft owners, mines, shipyards, etc., and gradually figured out the technical level and social contradictions of this era.
Thanks to the premature application and technology accumulation of large-scale blast furnace ironmaking, the iron output is extremely high, coupled with the reasons for the large-scale distribution of hydraulic hammers and connecting rod structures that were printed in books hundreds of years ago, the level of forging and casting is not low, and although there is no complete mechanical support for mechanical structures and other things, they are widely used.
But in the same way, because the large-scale iron smelting method can ensure the use of most industries, and the accumulation of materials science takes time, the steel production is extremely low, and some special steel is basically obtained by hand hammering carburizing.
This is also the factor why the principle of flintlock pistol has long appeared, but arquebuses are still used.
It is difficult to mass produce qualified steel bars, spring reeds and the like can only be quenched by the old blacksmith little by little, and can only become a self-defense weapon owned by a few people, and the standard equipment is too expensive.
However, because of the high iron production, the development level of the coal industry is not low, coking technology is very popular, the application of blast technology is good, and the output of raw wrought iron is considerable.
In addition to the iron smelting industry, all kinds of convenient smelting metals want to be good, the original chemical theory and alloy melting point, displacement and other primary theories make lead, tin, zinc, gold, silver and mercury and other metal industry develop well.
Even the level of various mining techniques is not low, and naturalism has appeared, basically becoming a system, and many ores have been discovered.
The simple chemical foundation of the previous life has also promoted the development of naturalism, and the chemical industry is still at the level of solubility extraction, and the salt industry and various mineral extraction industries are very developed.
A lot of ore has been discovered, and it is said that there is a special ore showroom in the school palace in the capital, which can be regarded as a continuation of his extreme love for stones in his previous life, and many people want to figure out what can be conjured in these stones.
The theory of struvite and other mineral fertilization fields that existed hundreds of years ago and the popularization of technologies such as compost fermentation also led to the development of agronomy.
For example, a potash lake found in the desert in the northwest can fertilize fields, and a large amount of raw potash fertilizer is collected by evaporation every year, and those who open the mines are now worth millions.
Of course, there have been accidents, for example, more than ten years ago, there was a situation where sea salt was mixed with potash salt and sold as fertilizer, and tens of thousands of acres of land were destroyed.
Some struvite on the coastal islands has also been mined and sold by sea vessels to farmers who own large amounts of land.
Basically, potash and phosphate fertilizers have used minerals, but nitrogen fertilizers are unlikely to appear before the emergence of synthetic ammonia, and the potassium fertilizers in those deserts should be potassium chloride instead of potassium nitrate, otherwise gunpowder can be directly used from the ore there instead of the nitrate method.
Because of the use of these simple ore fertilizers, the farmland yield of some large landowners was very high in this era.
Of course, it is limited to some areas along the river where transportation is developed, and some remote places still do not have such prosperity.
Due to environmental restrictions, some common fruits, vegetables, and grains were not found in Chen Jian. Sugar cane, corn, pumpkin, sweet potato, potatoes, tomatoes, and many spices are also absent.
The increase in agricultural production and the commercialization of food have led to the fact that many people can engage in activities outside of agriculture. And the foreign transportation of these grains, cotton, vegetables, livestock; internal transportation of fertilizers, ironware, utensils, salt; It has also led to the development of inland waterway shipping and the improvement of road construction.
Land annexation was severe, but the population was not too large, and the area of arable land was large, so a large number of landless people entered the cities to make a living by handicrafts, but it was not yet to the point where the population was so limited that the peasants revolted and redistributed.
The increase of urban population has also promoted the development of medicine, architecture, and urban water supply and drainage.
Anatomy developed rapidly, and many doctors understood what was going on, but they could not cure it due to material conditions. At the very least, there is no efficient anesthetic, so surgery and the like are basically impossible, but some major surgeries such as amputation can be done because the person can be tied.
The large number of simply literate people and the burgher class also led to the development of printing, using lead-tin movable type, and the paper and ink industries were also developing.
Papermaking also needs lime, so the lime firing industry is also developing, which in turn drives the mining and transportation of coal.
In addition to being used as a book, a large amount of paper is also used to make window paper and umbrella paper, which need to be soaked in oil, and the development of various vegetable oils is also OK.
The development of the construction industry within the city, in turn, led to the advancement of papermaking, and some wealthy people used small pieces of glass windows.
The interior decoration of the house required porcelain, wool, wood, tin, gold and silverware, etc., which in turn fed a large number of people. The glass manufacturing industry is also relatively developed, but there are many shortcomings.
Because some natural soda mines are in the desert in the north and the arid saline lake area in the southwest, the transportation cost is high, so only a few people can use it.
In addition, the level of glass manufacturing is the average level of this era, there are many bubbles, the color is green, and the blowing method is used, which requires a large number of skilled workers.
Some of the mirror grinding workshops use very rare glass with less bubbles, which is very expensive, and some also use natural crystal.
Glass is also made into mirrors, using the amalgam method, dissolving tin in mercury, it takes a month to get one side, and the basic work cycle of the mirror workers is five or six years, mercury poisoning is not far from death from severe pain.
The porcelain industry has developed rapidly, but compared to the real country of porcelain beyond the fog, it can only be said that this is garbage.
The level of some low-level luxury goods such as silk textiles and tea is not high, and there is no exquisite tea culture.
After 500 years of development, cotton textiles, hemp textiles and woolen textiles have reached a high level, and these industries have also fed a large number of citizens.
A large number of burghers also gave birth to the development of novels, literature, market culture, brothels, dramas, wine shops, restaurants, etc., and the folk customs were extremely open, and humanistic ideas were not restricted by such things as royal power and religion from the beginning, and the moral level was unlikely to be very high.
On the whole, it is impossible to get rich overnight if you want to make something new, and the way that Jian Chen can think of requires a lot of start-up capital.
Thinking about it, Jian Chen sighed. In this day and age, the fastest way to make a fortune is to go out to rob with arms, dig up gold and silver mines in the New World, and foreign trade is the most profitable, and the internal market has calmed down.
By the way, it is necessary to find an outlet for the large number of unemployed and bankrupt craftsmen caused by technological progress in the future, otherwise they will only implode.