Zhu Yuanzhang bowed his head slightly, then looked at another box, and asked curiously, "Is there bone china in this too?" ”

Li Wei glanced down at the box that he had placed on the ground, and hesitated.

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's ignorant appearance, if he sees these clear and transparent glass tea sets, wouldn't he have to immediately accept them for royal use?

Don't let you sell anything, so isn't it in vain that he has worked so long?

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw his grinding appearance, he immediately understood that there must be other treasures among them. Immediately raised his head, put on the old man's shelf, stretched out his hand and ordered:

"Let's open it and take a look!"

“……”

Li Wei hesitated for a moment, but reluctantly picked up the box and opened it on his imperial case.

I saw that the neatly arranged glassware was like crystal, the whole body was crystal clear, and it also shimmered with reflected light.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened in shock: "This is ...... Is this a crystal? ”

It's not that he hasn't seen crystals, but this kind of crystal that is completely transparent and has no trace of impurities is extremely rare, and the utensils made of such crystals are simply treasures!

Li Wei pursed his lips and said, "No, this is glass, even something similar to glass, which is also fired." ”

The glass is fired at a low temperature, and the glass needs to be fired at a high temperature, and the difference between the two is still very big, but he doesn't understand it when he tells Zhu Yuanzhang about this, Li Wei is too lazy to bother with his tongue.

"Really?"

Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his head and looked carefully at these crystal-like tea sets.

"Your Majesty, don't look at this thing, it looks good, it's actually made of sand burning, nothing unusual."

Li Wei saw that his eyes lit up, and quickly belittled it, this glass will have many uses in the future, whether it is a reagent bottle for chemical experiments, or a variety of mirrors and telescopes, it is inseparable from this thing.

"Huh, huh?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked up at him when he heard this.

"Uh-huh!" Li Wei nodded again and again.

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, as far as Li Wei's careful thinking was concerned, he saw through it at a glance.

Putting Li Wei aside, he took out a small glass teacup from it, poured Kuding tea into it again, and held it up in front of his eyes.

Kuding tea is gently shaken in a transparent glass, shimmering with an alluring color.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a small sip and said twice: "Tsk, it's better!" This is also for royal use! ”

"Your Majesty, this glass has many other uses besides making utensils, if it is collected for royal use, then there are many good things that the minister will not be able to do."

Li Wei's face changed, and he hurriedly explained.

"What are you afraid of, let's just allow you to use it."

“……”

Li Wei couldn't refute it for a while, but this glass must not be taken back to the royal family, and they were counting on this thing to make a lot of money.

The development of science and technology is a very expensive thing, even the imperial court cannot always provide him for nothing, even now, the Ordnance Bureau as a big money-eater, other ministries are also quite complaining.

What's more, if he wants to do things later, he must rely on himself.

"Your Majesty, you allow me to sell one of these two things, otherwise I will have no money here, and I will not be able to make other things." Li Wei said helplessly.

"What are you afraid of, if we allocate money and food to you, there will be no shortage of you, how much do you say you need?" Zhu Yuanzhang said boldly.

Li Wei glanced at him, and directly opened his mouth: "Let's have a million first." ”

"One Hundred ...... Ahem, what do you want so much money for? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was choked and coughed, one million guan is not a small number, so many craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry, the salary in a year is less than 500,000 guan, plus the cost of various materials, it will not take one million guan a year, Li Wei only has an ordnance bureau, and he dares to open his mouth to ask for so much, which is too much!

Now the biggest money-eater in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the war department, is the Ministry of Industry, the world is in ruins, building cities, building bridges, building roads, and building ships all cost money, when the cabinet was first established, Li Wei gave Xue Xiang a budget table, and it took four or five hundred thousand yuan to build a ship.

If Lao Zhu hadn't stepped on the money printing machine, he wouldn't have been able to do all these things.

But Li Wei is indeed not asking for a sky-high price, as far as the steel-making furnaces of the Ordnance Bureau are concerned, each of them costs at least 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, and now these kinds of artillery he are building are a relatively cheap franc...... Well, the cost of the god cannon is about 100 times, and the big god gun is nearly 200 times, not counting those that were scrapped in the test stage, just over the past month or so, tens of thousands of pieces have been used up by the foundry.

In the era of firearms, wars were fought for money, and there was no need to do anything without money.

"Your Majesty, making firearms is a costly thing, if you really want to make firearms on a large scale, you have to spend a lot of money, I know that the imperial court is not rich, I don't want to share your Majesty's worries, you allow me to sell these things, I can make money myself, I can save a lot of expenses for the imperial court."

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Li Wei's nagging, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, of course he knew that firearms cost money, and the previous flintlock pistol was not less, but the power of firearms is far from being comparable to cold weapons, and these things still have to be made.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and put the glass and bone china cup together, looking at these two good treasures, he couldn't bear either one.

But he knew that what Li Wei said was also reasonable, and Li Wei was indeed very profitable, like the Minghuang Chamber of Commerce made two or three hundred thousand yuan last year.

"Your Majesty, just use bone china as a royal use, you see how beautiful it is! Milky white! ”

Seeing that he was hesitant, Li Wei hurriedly pointed to the white bone china cup and boasted.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, knowing that he just wanted to sell this glass, he took a long breath, and finally reluctantly cut his love.

"Okay, then you can sell this kind of glass."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Seeing that he finally agreed, Li Wei also breathed a sigh of relief.

"You get ready, let's go over tomorrow and see your new artillery."

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he commanded, Li Wei took out these two things casually gave him a lot of surprises, and he was looking forward to what those new artillery pieces would look like.

"Yes, I obey." Li Wei readily agreed.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, showed a satisfied smile, and said, "In the future, you can change your name to Father Emperor in private." ”

Li Wei was slightly stunned, and then readily agreed: "Okay, Your Majesty!" ”

After saying that, Li Wei secretly pouted in his heart, Queen Ma, I haven't changed my words, how can I change my mouth to call you this old man!

Now that he is in the Wuying Palace, it is not considered private, so Zhu Yuanzhang didn't bother with him.

"Your Majesty, if there is nothing else to do, the minister will retire first."

"Well, go ahead."

Zhu Yuanzhang said softly.

When Li Wei heard this, he saluted, turned around and left the hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the exquisite bone china and glass in front of him, and couldn't help laughing in a low voice, this stinky boy is finally willing to take the initiative to do things now, and it is in vain that he has used so many means.

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