121 Our Origin (II)

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"You're from the Three Divine Mountains of the Sea?"

Among all the Ming Dynasty scholars present, Wang Pu, the two-rank jinshi, should be regarded as the one with the highest level of education, and even he asked such a question, let alone others.

"You're immortals, aren't you?"

Those people at the bottom with a low level of education simply asked directly, and some of them even folded their hands to make a worship shape, almost kneeling collectively, and they were so shocked that Lao Xie and others waved their hands again and again:

"No, no, of course not."

In the past, when they first landed, there were also people who advocated that they should use their knowledge of chemistry and physics to engage in some tricks of pretending to be gods and ghosts, and use superstition to make the locals worship. However, this idea was quickly rejected unanimously by Professor Li and others - feudal superstition was essentially contrary to the development path of the technology flow they intended to implement.

If they plan to flicker a large number of cannon fodder into rebellion in a short period of time, then engaging in some kind of one-eyed mermaid belly book, learning how to call a fox, and so on, is a shortcut with little investment and quick results, but since they plan to develop the productive forces honestly, there is no point in doing so again -- it is easy to deceive the dead ghosts by sending cannon fodder in the short term, and it is impossible for long-term skilled workers to deceive them.

Similarly, on the side of Qiongzhou Mansion, Pang Yu did not plan to put on the coat of immortals for his group. Although that would have a good effect in a short period of time, as time went on, their divine aura would inevitably become weaker and weaker, and the citizens of Qiongzhou who had woken up would instead regard them as liars - and in fact, the actions of some people had cut off the possibility of them doing so.

"Of course we are not immortals, this should be best known to Sister Feng of Yixianglou...... Do you say yes? ”

Pang Yu smiled and pointed to a representative of the Qinglou industry in the audience and said with a smile, it was Hu Kai and the courtyard where they secretly went to enjoy it, and the old bustard surnamed Feng was stunned for a long time, and then laughed a little embarrassed with everyone around him.

"But I won't tell you anything. It stands to reason that we weren't supposed to be here. Our city, our country, and the Ming Dynasty where you are located. There shouldn't be any intersection, and even if you go to the sea to find it, you will definitely not find it. ”

Pang Yu began to "tell the truth" - in the way he had set it to.

"Just due to some kind of ...... Well. Even we don't quite understand why. There's a boat -- everyone must have been to the beach these days to see it. It was the Qionghai -- suddenly out of where we were...... Region. Drifted to you. It's near Lingao County. We had to land in order to survive. Then there was a bit of a conflict with the local government...... The two sides clashed. Step by step. That's where we are today...... This is also a last resort! We actually have no ill will towards the Ming Dynasty. The land is just to have a place to settle down. That's all. ”

After listening to the words, everyone in the lobby looked at each other. In particular, officials such as Wang Pu and Yan Wenchang have never seen a rebellion in such a twisted place. They have all captured the capitals of a land. still put on such a crooked look...... Especially Wang Pu and Wang Jieshan. Almost crooked nose - before he came to work. The reputation of the "short-haired bandits" in the coastal areas of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Fujian has become so loud that they can stop children crying at night. I didn't expect that there would be a sentence of "last resort" here. It really didn't make him know whether to cry or laugh.

"Do you want to go back later? Or will more people come? ”

Yan Wenchang asked with some eagerness. If these people end up patting their butts and walking. Then they will be unlucky. For this kind of thinking. The people who crossed the crowd and others had already been prepared.

"Rest assured. Lao Yan. You won't lose anything by doing it with us. ”

Xie Xi patted him on the shoulder:

"I don't know if more people will come in the future, but most of us are going to stay here for the rest of our lives. In any case, Qiongzhou Mansion will not be the same as before. Your safety is absolutely guaranteed. ”

"Then this place still belongs to the Ming Dynasty?"

Wang Pu asked eagerly, his eyes fixed on the short hairs opposite.

Pang Yu glanced back at Xie Xi, Ling Ning and the others, and finally had to talk about this issue, they had deliberately shown weakness in their words just now, just to draw out this sentence.

"We don't plan to change the dynasty, we just hope to follow the precedent of the mirror and temporarily borrow Qiongzhou Island to accommodate ourselves."

Jing is Macau, which was leased to the Portuguese in the 42nd year of Wanli. According to the previous Professor Li, Pang Yu and others have discussed many times. The course of action of the entire large collective was to start negotiations with the Ming Dynasty after the capture of the Qiongzhou Prefecture by force and the de facto occupation of the entire territory of Hainan Island, with the ultimate goal of leasing Hainan Island to the Ming Dynasty following the example of Macao.

At this time, Pang Yu finally threw out their negotiation conditions, but saw Wang Pu on the other side with a blank expression, and he didn't know where the so-called "mirror" meant. It's no wonder if you think about it - this matter is not a glorious thing for the Ming Dynasty, and naturally it will not be spread everywhere. It is normal for a newly transferred official not to know about this. It's like Vladivostok in later generations.

"Mr. Jieshan may not know, but that's okay. If you write back, your boss should have counted them. We can talk about this matter slowly, and we won't be in a hurry anyway. ”

Pang Yu smiled casually, Wang Jieshan, who had always been arrogant, was stunned this time. For this kind of reader, the most afraid is that he is not knowledgeable enough, if he usually wants to ridicule each other to save face, but this time, realizing that the matter is important, Wang Pu actually didn't do much verbal disputes, and left the hall in a hurry, presumably looking for information.

The rest of the peddlers and pawns didn't care about what they said at all, until Pang Yu announced the end of the meeting, and when a group of people went out, they were still talking about the pictures they had just seen with great interest, and making all kinds of comments, but they still held the thoughts of gods.

"It turns out that it came out of the Immortal Mountain!"

"Don't look at people as **mortals, this is stained with the aura of the fairy treasure land, and the ability is amazing......"

After most of the idlers had left the lobby of the state capital, five or six people stayed alone -- all of them were quite prominent merchants in the state capital, and they had been privately told by Yan Wenchang one by one to stay.

If it was so requested at the beginning, they might not dare to stay, since ancient times, merchants have been the object of exploitation, and the status of merchants in the Ming Dynasty was even lower, no matter who came to power, it was an attitude towards them: extortion.

However, after more than ten days of cold watching, coupled with the fact that I have just seen so many visually impactful pictures, these businesses finally left in doubt. Compared with the idlers next to them who just watch the excitement, the businessman is much more flexible and greedy. Once they were convinced that these short hairs would not harm them, these people immediately began to pay attention: what practical benefits might this new owner of the Qiongzhou Mansion bring to them?

Now it's Lin Feng's turn to appear, he didn't say any nonsense, and directly took out a number of commodity samples and put them in front of the other party for display, in addition to the well-known white sugar and salt, there is also an extremely eye-catching new product-

Several paper-sized, silver-glittering glass mirrors.

As early as the construction of the first iron-making blast furnace in the steel group, the industrial group and the chemical group followed up with a practical furnace to make glass. It doesn't take much technology to make glass, as long as there is a furnace that can smelt iron ore, the temperature is enough to melt quartz sand to make molten glass.

However, the glass itself is no longer worth much in these years, and all kinds of colorful glassware from Western sellers have long occupied the southern market, and even Cheng Yegao's family has several pieces, and there is no future by selling glass alone. If you want to make a difference in this area, you still have to take the practical road - for example, the market for glass mirrors still has a lot of potential to be tapped.

In the seventeenth century, there were already glass mirrors in the world, which were achieved by dissolving tin foil with mercury and coating the glass with a layer of tin amalgamation film. However, this technique is still in the hands of the Venetians, who have made a fortune by gathering all their glassmakers on the isolated island of Mrano, which later became known as the "Island of Glass".

Originally, the chemistry group had wanted to engage in this kind of stuff for a long time -- the technology was simple, the monopoly was strong, the market demand was large, and the profits were extremely high -- what better way to make a fortune than this? What's more, the development of the glass industry is also very important for the manufacture of telescopes, scopes and other military items, and it is absolutely cost-effective to do it.

It's just that their lives were at stake before, and they had to focus on making more important life-saving materials such as explosives, and they couldn't allocate manpower and material resources for such pure commodities for the time being. Later, I had time to start working on it, and I spent a lot of time on how to remove the impurities in the quartz sand and create colorless white glass with high enough clarity.

There were no comrades in the group who had worked in glass factories, so like many other modern technologies, they only knew some basic terms and knew the general direction of the technology. The specific production steps can only be slowly explored in practice...... This touch lasted for more than half a year, and it was not until they were relieved that the chemistry team hurriedly took out a few samples and asked them to go to the Qiongzhou Mansion market to explore the wind direction.

Fortunately, it is not too late to enter the market, and it was not until the years of history that the French stole the technology from the Venetians and spread it, and until then, glass mirrors were still classified as luxury goods. It is said that glass mirrors have appeared in the most luxurious Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty, but their prices are by no means acceptable to ordinary small rich families.

Pang Yu still remembers that he used to go to a famous garden in Suzhou, and there was a small building called Mirror Tower. Alone in a corner of the garden, the building is empty, only in the middle is placed a vertical glass full-body dressing mirror, next to the text description is: the purpose of building this small building in the Ming Dynasty is to place a large glass mirror that is extremely valuable and can reflect the whole body.

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