Iron Dynasty

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye.

After the celebration of the completion of the Galen ship, another festive festival arrived.

It seemed that he couldn't bear to disturb the festive atmosphere of Qingzhou, and the heavy snow that lasted for more than ten days also stopped on New Year's Eve.

Yes, yes, yes, hang the lantern higher, you bastards, I won't come back for a few months, will you not obey me? Hmph, don't forget, the housekeeper of this palace is still I.

Qian Dafu pinched his waist at the door and reprimanded his servants dissatisfiedly.

After the heavy snow blocked the road, Qian Dafu returned to Qingzhou. After a busy year, he naturally wanted to celebrate the New Year in the Wangfu. After all, this Qi Wangfu was his home.

Aster stood beside Qian Dafu, the real housekeeper came back, and she had to step aside.

She has a clear mind, her status in Xiao Ming's heart is far inferior to Qian Dafu, and Qian Dafu has always been good to her and Luluo, so he has always respected Qian Dafu from the bottom of his heart.

As soon as the money came back, she immediately became her deputy.

Today is New Year's Eve, Xiao Ming didn't wake up until very late. The temperature during the day was almost minus fifteen or six degrees. He sat in the room and lay in front of the charcoal basin and was reluctant to go out.

Thinking that after today, it will soon be the eighteenth century, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

In this time and space, the development of science and technology has lagged behind a little because of the years of war and the deep-rooted clans and gentry, but this is not important.

The most important thing is that the Great Yu Kingdom, like the dynasties in modern history, has a problem, arrogance and narcissism, and extremely demonized science.

This is the eighteenth century. If his inferences are correct, basically all outside East Asia are now colonized by the West, and now the Great Yu Kingdom is still in the same internal and external troubles as in the late Ming Dynasty.

If the barbarian invasion is successful, it is impossible to say that the next dynasty will be a dynasty similar to the Pill Qing Dynasty.

Frowning his brows, Xiao Ming suddenly felt a little powerless at this moment, because he now seems to have the feeling that everyone is drunk and I am alone.

Now, as long as he can analyze the current world situation from a historical perspective, the entire Great Yu Kingdom is only living in the dream of the Great Yu Kingdom.

Your Highness, it's sunny today, why don't you come out and get some air? Qian Dafu's voice came.

Xiao Ming said lazily: It's too cold, this king doesn't want to go out.

How can this be done, Your Highness, there will be singing and dancing tonight, don't you watch this? Qian Dafu looked exactly like Xiao Ming.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming became a little more energetic, I can see this. Are Aster and Luluo going to prepare? This king can wait for them to dance.

His Royal Highness, the two of them went after hanging up the lanterns, but Your Highness, although this song and dance is good, you should think about other interesting things at night. After all, this time Niu Ben and other generals and Pang Changshi will come to cheer for His Highness.

Because Pang Yukun and Luo Xin were both from Chang'an, he simply let them come to the palace to celebrate the New Year together.

After all, it can be lively, and they are all shouting to watch the fireworks of the New Year.

After a little thought, Xiao Ming said, There are a lot of interesting things, but they probably won't be able to finish watching the show at night.

Oh? What else is there to play? Qian Dafu asked.

Xiao Ming laughed twice and said, This is kept secret for the time being, and you will find out at night.

This time, in addition to the singing and dancing of Aster and Luluo, Xiao Ming also asked the singers and dancers of the palace to choreograph some plays.

Now that it has fallen behind, it is necessary to catch up from all aspects, and this drama is the beginning of the Renaissance, and it is also the easiest to penetrate into the folk, thinking that a drama can contain too much information.

Wrapping the cloak around him, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered something, so he asked, Da Fu, do you know blue porcelain?

Is Your Highness talking about porcelain with blue enamel? Qian Dafu leaned in front of the brazier, and the warm charcoal made him feel comfortable for a while.

Xiao Ming nodded, It is this kind of porcelain.

His Royal Highness, this blue porcelain is available in the palace, and this blue is called peacock blue. What is your Highness asking about?

The point is not the blue porcelain. The point is that you know where the clay used to make the blue porcelain came from. Xiao Ming pondered.

Today, Qian Dafu's tungsten ore has not yet been found, but Xiao Ming can't wait for the tungsten ore to do other things. After all, the composition of tungsten steel knives is not only tungsten alloy. There is another important ingredient in qualified knives. That is cobalt.

Because in the sintering process, cobalt is the binder of tungsten carbide, and tungsten steel tools are rarely fired without cobalt.

Now that the tungsten ore has not been found, he can only confirm the cobalt first, because relatively speaking, it is easier to find cobalt in Da Yu, because the blue enamel is fired from cobalt soil.

I heard about this old slave when he was in the palace. There is this kind of clay in Jingdezhen. Qian Dafu said.

Jingdezhen? Xiao Ming nodded, as he knew, he said: In this case, after the New Year, you will go to Li Kaiyuan and ask him to sell some clay for firing blue porcelain from Jingdezhen, and wait for you to find it. After the tungsten ore, bring the two materials together.

Qian Dafu nodded, It was Your Highness who said that.

He didn't ask why, because for him, Xiao Ming's order was enough to execute.

After talking for a while, Qian Dafu went to the palace again. Xiao Ming likes Qian Dafu the most. He just does things and never asks why.

Tungsten mine, tungsten mine, when will I be able to find you? Xiao Ming sighed as he looked at Qian Dafu's disappearing figure.

Because he was impatient, he also asked Chen Qi to forge some high-carbon steel as a tool, but whether it was drilling or cutting, this tool was easy to soften, and even if a job was not completed, the tool would be useless.

After all, although the iron and steel industry in Qingzhou has made progress, the production of qualified high-carbon steel knives still cannot meet the requirements.

On the contrary, as long as you have tungsten, it is much simpler. After all, by adding tungsten and cobalt, you can get a tool that is much more durable than high carbon steel.

He stayed in the palace all day, and at night, Niu Ben, Lu Fei and others arrived one after another.

The palace also became lively in an instant. At the beginning of the night, the red lanterns in the palace lit up the night sky, and the lanterns everywhere were extraordinarily festive.

At this time, Xiao Ming also moved his place, from the bedroom to the main hall.

At this time, there were three rows of low tables on each side of the main hall, Niu Ben, Lu Fei and others were outside the door.

Seeing Xiao Ming coming over, they bowed to pay New Year's greetings one by one.

Come in, it's quite cold outside. Xiao Ming said with a smile.

In the main hall, a charcoal basin is placed at intervals, and the room is warm.