"Shooting the Condor" can be said to be a big hit, and almost all men, women and children in the capital know about this book, even if they haven't read it, they have basically heard it. For the current cliché novels that mainly depict talented and beautiful women, this book undoubtedly paves a new path and injects new strength into the lifeless world of fiction.

Men look at the hero's national hatred, dazzling martial arts, and fascinating storyline. Women read the love stories of several women in the story, and in this era, women don't have much to spend their free time, and the novels they used to read were almost the same, and they were already boring. So the success of this novel can be said to be logical.

In the capital in recent days, whether it is the poor people or the dignitaries, the most talked about is "Shooting the Condor". The storytellers in the teahouse restaurant have basically changed their words to "Shooting the Condor", and the naughty boys who are playing on the street also shout "Eighteen Palms of the Dragon", and holding a branch is the "dog stick method". Even the housekeeper lady in the boudoir is not so much looking forward to the talent, but dreams that she can also find "Brother Jing" who loves herself alone and is a little stupid. The most amazing thing is that the people in the capital now see that the old beggars on the street are not as resistant and indifferent as before. Overall, this is a phenomenal novel.

Corresponding to it is Zhu Houwei's income, in 10 days, a total of 12,000 hardcover editions were sold, and 20,000 copies of the ordinary version were sold, excluding the expenses of all parties, a total of more than 50,000 taels were obtained from Zhu's mansion. Even if they were born in the royal family, it was the first time that the three brothers and sisters had seen so much money.

The market in Beijing is almost saturated, but the collector's edition printed by Zhu Houwei has just been listed at a price of 20 taels, and the profit in hand can also be 12 taels. The collector's edition uses the method of coloring and printing in stages, which is to use several printing plates of the same size to load different pigments and then print them on the same sheet of paper, which is called "multi-page multi-color printing" and "overlay printing". The main cost of this method is to make engravings, and with the increase of printing, the cost will be reduced accordingly. The collector's edition has been on the market for a total of 2 days, and 500 sets have been sold, and there are a large number of illustrations in each time in the book, all of which are good hands in the Ministry of Painting, plus color printing, and the price of 20 taels can not stop everyone's enthusiasm for buying. When those poetry clubs gathered, others took out the collector's edition, are you embarrassed to take out the hardcover version? Most people said they couldn't afford to lose that person, so the sales of the Collector's Edition also went all the way up. At present, there are booksellers from other places who come to negotiate the purchase of books and then sell them to other places, especially in order for Tianfu (Nanjing).

Jin Yong, the author, is very mysterious, no one knows who he is, and those who are well-informed know that it is related to the East Palace, and Jin Yiwei is also involved in it, it seems that the background is very large. So there is no piracy in the market. In this era, few people will make different versions of the book for different groups of people, so Zhu Houwei can be regarded as maximizing the benefits of this book. Looking at the steady stream of silver money sent into the Zhu Mansion, the three brothers and sisters couldn't help but feel happy.

The situation in Zhu's Mansion is getting closer and closer to Zhu Houwei's ideal appearance, in fact, he just wants to help Zhufu become an academy, and continue to cultivate talents in the future. Whether it's the 21st century or now the 16th century, talent is important. Zhu Houwei's mathematics course has also made great progress, and now he has taught four operations within 10,000. Zhu Houwei is ready to open another nature class next. Don't underestimate this course, in fact, this course is of great significance, because it wants to teach students to understand the knowledge of nature, so that they can know how natural disasters such as thunder, earthquakes, rains, locust plagues and their derived secondary disasters occur. People in this era attributed natural disasters to the emperor and the people in power at every turn, once there was a disaster, it was the emperor's immorality, and the carpenter emperor and the Chongzhen emperor at the end of the Ming Dynasty also had an edict because of the disaster. Zhu Houwei wants to slowly change people's thinking, starting with these students. But he can only take his time, now he is the only one who understands this, and he can only teach it alone, and he lacks skills.

For the people who made mistakes in Zhu's mansion, now there is not only the old routine of starvation and playing boards, Zhu Houwei ordered the ice cellar in the mansion to be changed into the notorious "little black house" in later generations. Since the first batch of experiencers came out of it, the whole house saw their miserable appearance, and there were no more naughty bear children in the house. Everyone has a new understanding of this "amiable" second young master, who has always been smiling, too ruthless, not to beat you, not to starve you, just locked up for 3 days, it almost made a few people collapse, and the people in the house also understood a truth, the words of the eldest young master should be listened to, and the second young master should not be offended.

Zhu Houzhao also asked Zhu Houwei at the time, why is the power of the "little black house" so great, but Zhu Houwei replied with a smile, "Lock you up in a room without a trace of light, no one talks to you, and there is only your voice in the whole room, if you come out in three days and your face does not change, it is definitely a hero, a good man, a real man" and then said in a seductive tone, "Why don't you try it, big brother?" "Bah, you're stupid to me." After speaking, he left Zhu Houwei's side without looking back.

Although the book was successful and brought a lot of profits, the popularity of the book has not yet reached its peak, and it is not yet suitable to continue to "create" the next one. The current money can also support the Zhu Mansion for a long time, and Zhu Houwei finally decided that the glass could be manufactured.

The history of glass manufacturing in China can be said to have a long history, as early as the Warring States Period, there has been glass, but at that time it was called glass. By the Ming Dynasty, there were many types of glass. However, there are still bubbles in the current glass, and there are very few colorless glasses, most of which have a faint green color. The green color comes from the small amount of iron in the raw material, and the compound of ferric iron gives the glass a green color.

The glass that Zhu Houwei wants to make is divided into civilian and military. The civilian is to make large pieces of glass, which can be installed on the window in the future, so as to replace the window paper, and make exquisite utensils with patterns for ordinary use, so as to break into the families of the rich and absorb a lot of money, and then make lenses and lenses for glasses cases and microscopes, so as to facilitate people's lives and promote the development of medicine. As for the military one, it's the telescope.

However, Zhu Houwei's knowledge of glass manufacturing is limited, can not give much help, the most developed glass technology in this era is far away in Italy, the great voyage has not yet reached the Ming Dynasty, so it is not realistic to want to plagiarize their technology. Moreover, in order to keep the secret of making glass, Italy sent all the craftsmen who could make glass to isolated islands, so even if there were Italian merchants in Daming, it would be useless.

Next, Zhu Houwei told Hongzhi his thoughts in the casual conversation between father and son after dinner, saying that he wanted a few glazers from the Ministry of Industry, but since then he has withdrawn from the Ministry of Industry and merged into Zhu's Mansion. Hongji felt that it was just a few craftsmen, and it was not a big deal, so he agreed.

The next day, there were 10 craftsmen came to the door of Zhu's mansion, Liu Jin sent someone to take them into Zhu's mansion, and arranged them to a more remote corner of Zhu's mansion, which was originally where horsemen and other miscellaneous servants lived, even if there are a lot of people in Zhu's mansion now, few people will come here.

For artisan households, there is little difference between going to Zhufu and being in the Ministry of Industry, because they are not in the Ministry of Industry, that is, they have no official position, and they only have that salary every month, and they can only barely let their families eat enough. Yesterday it was a eunuch who came to receive people, and the craftsmen also knew that this was the residence of the relatives of the emperor, and after the assignment of the Ministry of Works, these 10 households were selected. When they heard that each craftsman had 5 taels of silver per month, and that there was another reward for doing a good job, the craftsmen were even more relieved.

Of the 10 households, three are of three generations, and the others are of two generations, for a total of 46 people. The guards first divided the houses for 10 families, and the number of three generations was relatively large, so they were divided into several households. Everyone took their luggage and prepared to move in, but before they started moving, the two Zhu Houwei brothers came with Liu Jin. According to Zhu Houzhao's requirements, Liu Jin had to wear a beard every time he went to Zhu's mansion, coupled with his original good looks, he was not seen to be a eunuch at that time. At this time, I only heard Liu Jin say to the craftsmen, "These two are the eldest young master and the second young master of this Zhu Mansion, you will have to serve carefully in the future, and you will not go forward to carry your luggage." 46 men, women, and children hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted unevenly, "I've seen the eldest young master, the second young master." Although a few children knelt on the ground, a few of them were still not afraid to look up at the two young masters, as if they wanted to see what was the difference between these two young masters who were about the same age as them and them. The parents next to them hurriedly pressed the child's head, but pressed one but couldn't hold down the others, and then the adult was angry, so he slapped the back of the child's head, and suddenly the cry of the child in the yard, the adult's reprimand sounded. Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houwei both laughed, Liu Jin's face turned black and was obviously about to explode, and the three old craftsmen kneeling in front were trembling uncontrollably, obviously afraid that the two brothers would be angry. Zhu Houzhao said before Liu Jin went crazy, "Get up, it's inevitable that you don't know the rules when you first enter the mansion, just learn it slowly in the future." Then he pointed at Liu Jin and said, "This is Steward Liu in the house, if you have any difficulties, just tell him, and he will report to us to know." The craftsmen looked at the smiles of the two young masters and slowly stood up.

Zhu Houwei watched them from the side, these dozens of people all looked a little yellow and thin, and a few children were better, but they didn't look very healthy, and the clothes on their bodies, whether they were men or women, had a lot of patches, but they were still clean, but they were a little faded. Most of the clothes on the children's bodies did not fit well and were very shabby. The eyes of children are a little bright, but the eyes of adults are just numb. Zhu Houwei couldn't help but think, "This is the craftsman, the representative of the lowly households of this era." "My heart was slightly sour, and I thought about doing something for them. Looking at their restrained faces, Zhu Houwei said, "Steward Liu, first give them 5 taels of silver per household, and then settle the monthly money for this month, and send someone to the canteen to deliver 1 portion per person." "Yes, Second Young Master, don't you hurry up and thank the two young masters." The craftsmen woke up from their stupor, and immediately knelt down and shouted, "Thank you, two young masters." ”

Zhu Houwei looked at the three old men in front and said, "Get up and answer, among you people, which one has the best craftsmanship and the longest time to sin." The old man standing at the front arched his hand and said, "No, the old and decaying craftsmanship is acceptable, and it has been 40 years in this industry, and it is all ancestral craftsmanship." Seeing that the others seemed to be convinced by this old man, they said, "What is your name, the glass burned can be green and bubbles?" The old man replied, "Back to the second young master, the old man's name is Tan Qi, there are no bubbles in the glaze that is burned, but this glaze has been fired since ancient times, I don't know what kind of glaze the second young master wants me to burn?" As soon as Zhu Houwei heard it, he knew that this old man still had some ability to remove bubbles, as for the green of the glass, it was the original misunderstanding, restricting people's thoughts, so he said, "What I want is colorless glass, once it is fired, Zhu Mansion will not treat you badly, but in case it is made, then everyone must keep their mouths shut and not leak it out, otherwise once it is found, don't worry that Zhu Mansion is not polite to you." Everyone immediately knelt down again, shouting "The villain doesn't dare." Zhu Houzhao said at this time, "Get up, don't kneel still, the rules in Zhu's mansion are not so big, you should rest first these days, as for the glass-burning utensils, tell Steward Liu, let him go and buy it, okay, that's it for today, you can move your luggage in." As he spoke, he turned his head and walked out, Zhu Houwei followed, and Liu Jin didn't move when he still had to count the items to be bought. At this time, everyone still knelt on the ground and said, "Congratulations to the eldest young master, second young master." The two brothers glanced back and couldn't help frowning, but Liu Jin nodded very happily beside him, and his eyes were not so critical when he looked at this group of craftsmen.