Chapter 776: Tribute Paint

Although he knows the principle of the most basic steam engine with the small amount of physical knowledge accumulated from reading in his previous life, he is limited to the principle of the lowest steam engine, and then transforms the cognition in his mind into an idea until it becomes a reality, which is a long process.

At this time, there was no basic science, no pencils, no accurate drawing rulers and various instruments, and the difficulty of drawing the grass country can be imagined.

What makes Lotte even more headache is that drawing sketches is inseparable from pencils, and as for brushes, it is still provincial.

However, the difficulties encountered were not difficult for Lotte, who used graphite powder and clay to fully mix and then put into the coal kiln of steelmaking to fire, and obtained the original pencil lead, although it was not as straight and slender as the later machines made, but it was wrapped in hard paper, but it was not inferior to the pencil.

Based on the memories of his previous life, it took several days for Lotte to draw a sketch of the most basic steam engine, and then scribble and change it several times before the final design was formed.

The design is successful, just the first step, Lotte knows that there is still a long way to go, and even the long way to go is whether he can build this steam engine in this life.

The principle is simple, but the basic science of this era is extremely weak, just like when the Celestial Empire was just founded, scientists have the most advanced scientific concepts and can design the most advanced weapons, but they are subject to the weakness of the foundation, and in the end they can only become a mirror, and the Celestial Empire has suffered countless losses in this regard.

Although the steam engine is only the simplest and lowest level, according to the minimum requirements, the cylinder block and the bearing that does the work need to be made of carbon steel with good strength, plasticity and toughness, and comprehensive mechanical properties.

After all, it has to withstand long-term reciprocating motion, even if there is oil lubrication, the wear is also considerable.

How to get carbon steel has become a matter that Lotte needs to solve urgently, but it is very happy that the day has an eyebrow, according to the memory of his later generations, in addition to the use of steel filling and steel cladding method in ancient times, the steel used to cast Longquan sword and carved spear belongs to the carbon steel type.

However, there are many difficulties to overcome in order to make carbon steel, and according to Rakuten's seriousness, coke was used in ironmaking and steelmaking in later generations, and the coke was filtered out by the previous coking heating treatment, and the sulfide and other magazines were filtered out, and the combustion not only produced sulfide at high temperatures, but also reduced the quality of the finished iron.

After carefully observing the process of the blacksmiths of the Great Song Dynasty using ore to make iron, the blacksmiths of the Great Song Dynasty used coal to make iron, so the sulfides of the coal were melted into the steel, which undoubtedly increased the impurities of iron and reduced the quality of steel.

There is a Song Dynasty tea, iron, salt and wine are all government-run, iron is not only an official camp but also a sensitive material, will never be controlled by private individuals, for the blacksmith workshop, the government is strictly recorded.

Iron is run by the government, and under the ridge economy, the quality of iron produced by the Great Song Dynasty government can be imagined, and what the sulfides and impurities of iron will look like, don't think about it.

In order to solve this low-level mistake, Lotte only bought iron ore to make iron on its own, and at the same time as buying iron ore, Lotte also purchased a large amount of coke.

Although coking with modern industrial intentions was discovered during the first industrial revolution, there were workshops for burning coke in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it did not form an industry.

The great poet Bai Lotian of the Tang Dynasty once wrote "Selling Carbon", which shows that there was a word for burning carbon in the Tang Dynasty, but at that time the wood was used for carbon burning, but in the Song Dynasty, there was a workshop for refining coke. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the people of Bianliang all burned coal for heating, and the quality of coke was better than coal, not only the heat was high when burned, but also there was no coal smell of sulfide, and it was mostly used by wealthy families.

Iron ware|Official management, iron ore is also to be recorded by the government, in the purchase of ore, Lotte naturally has to think of some ways.

In order to obtain the right to make iron, Lotte said to Zhao Ji that the iron of the Great Song Dynasty government was mottled with too many impurities, the quality was too poor, and the yield of the hand-shot well cast was too low, and asked him to make steel by himself.

Zhao Ji, the son of heaven, is not a foolish person, knowing that Wang Huang made Lotte suffer a secret loss by pressing the well in his hands, plus the matter of seeking knowledge from the academy, his heart was somewhat guilty about Lotte, so he waved his hand and approved Lotte's request.

Lotte knew that there were countless obstacles to the manufacture of steam engines, not only in basic science, but also in politics, so he had to report it little by little.

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For the Song people, the hand-pressed well is a new play, you only need to add some water to it, and then press the handle to have clear, sweet and cool water flowing out; Because there is no wellhead, there is less risk of rainwater and sewage falling into, and there is no risk of falling into the well by the well.

After Xining's change, the Great Song Dynasty treasury was gradually filled, and Zhao Ji also enjoyed Fengheng Yuda more and more, and the things used in the palace were naturally perfect, but although this hand pressure well was convenient but not very beautiful, it was just a black lump made of cast iron, how could this get into the eyes of the artist Emperor Huizong.

In order to please Zhao Ji, Wang Hao ordered his own Yingfeng Division in Biandu to order the Yingfeng Bureau in Liangzhejiang to take the same lacquer as it was used to decorate and beautify the palace.

The two Zhejiang Muzhou lacquer gardens, located in Hangzhou, were sent by Wang Hao, and immediately put the matter of purchasing tribute lacquer in Muzhou.

But it is said that Muzhou Qingxi has such a number one person, the name is called Fang La, in Qingxi is also a famous character, his personality is bold, the family has a lacquer garden, the wealth is quite generous, often will help some poor, by its relief so it won the hearts of the people, can call on many people who live in poverty.

Fang La lived in Xiyu Village, Qingxi County, when Manichaeism was prosperous, Fang La entered Manichaeism, and now Manichaeism is prosperous, not only in Qingxi, but also in the entire Liangzhejiang Road There are many believers.

The Ying Feng Bureau passed the errand of paying tribute to high-quality paint to Muzhou, and the governor of Muzhou handed over the errand to Qingxi County, and after the Qingxi Governor got the errand, he hurriedly ordered the errand to apportion the matter.

Fang La's family has a lacquer garden, and the previous bureau set up by the imperial court often brutally extracted the production of the lacquer garden, and Fang La was resentful but did not dare to vent. In recent years, the court has been harassed by the incursion of flowers and stones, which has made the people of Liangzhejiang Road unbearable, and the resentment of the court is getting bigger and bigger.

For example, the palace only needs to pay ten barrels of tribute, but the official in charge of the supply has to release fifty barrels of supply, and after the decree reaches the locality, the local government will turn the fifty barrels into one hundred barrels, and in the end the tribute is only ten barrels of tribute, and the 90 barrels of the people's extra tribute are stripped by officials at all levels.

In addition, the money for ten barrels of tribute paint in the imperial court will still be distributed, but after the officials again strip it to the hands of the people, it is equivalent to snatching the paint from the hands of the people.

For this reason, the people of Qingxi took over the errand of tribute paint and began to complain.

Before, Fang La took advantage of the fact that the people could not bear the intrusion and oppression of the imperial court, secretly absorbed poor and unemployed people, relieved and befriended them, and pulled them into Manichaeism.

During the Yonghui period of the early Tang Dynasty Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, Chen Shuo, a woman from Muzhou, was really anti-and called herself Emperor Jia, so some people said that Muzhou had Tianziji and Wannian Building. Whenever he thought of Chen Shuozhen's rebellion, Fang Layi became confident because of this.

It is said that Fang La learned from his parents when he was a child that he had many grotesque and abnormal phenomena when he was born. Once, Fang La took a picture of himself in front of the stream, and saw that he was wearing clothes like an emperor, and since then he thought that he was very remarkable, and when he became an adult, Manichaeism grew stronger and stronger, and Fang La opened a fake Manichaeism to deceive people.

Once, Fang La let his wife wear a mirror and reflective objects, walking between the mountain roads under the sunny day, the sun shines in the mirror, and the people are immediately shining, provoking the people to worship, since then the people of Qingxi have more and more respect for the Fang La family, Fang La is not only in Qingxi, Muzhou, but also in the Manichaean people on Liangzhejiang Road, and the fame is also increasing.

However, Manichaeism is not a legitimate religion of the Great Song Dynasty, so these things can only be circulated privately among the people.

Zitong Cave in Qingxi County, Bangyuan Cave and so on are located in the valley deep and dangerous places, densely populated, many products, there are sumacs, trees, pines, cedar rich production, there are many merchants, like the spokes of the car gathered in the hub of the car gathered in this area, gradually these people more and more regard Fang La as the backbone, because of the increasing prestige, even by many Manichaeans as a god-like figure.

When it comes to Fang La, we have to mention Manichaeism.

I have to say that the power of religion is powerful, and religion is also applicable to any soil!

How powerful is religion? Far from it, in pre-Renaissance Europe, hundreds of years were completely controlled by the Church, and at the height of the control, the pope had the power to appoint and dismiss the king at will.

In the world, there is such a little-known sect, founded in the third century AD, also at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, founded by the Persian Mani, from which it was named "Manichaeism". And in China, he also has a name that is well-known to later generations: Mingjiao, and in the West, he has a well-known title: "Illuminati"!

From ancient times to the present, there are many Manichaean teachings that cannot be counted, such as: Fang La at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Han Shantong at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty...... In the West there are: Augustine, Galileo, Cothine, Heatler......

Thus, it can be seen that Manichaeism is a terrible religion, or it is more appropriate and appropriate to describe them as a "political organization".

After more than 200 years of development, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, this mysterious sect that originated in Persia has already attracted millions of followers in China.

Although there is no disturbance of the public fields of Jingdong, Jingxi and North China Zhulu, but because of the elegance of Huizong Zhao Ji, the disturbance of Huashigang has caused the people of Liangzhejiang to complain, and it is precisely because of this that the influence of Manichaeism in Liangzhejiang Road is getting bigger and bigger, and there are countless people who have joined the religion.

What the Great Song Dynasty didn't know was that because the tribute paint would soon become a fuse, these Manichaean envoys would soon be ignited and exploded like an explosive packet, setting off a wave of waves in the Great Song Dynasty.

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