After I resigned, I became popular in the whole universe [Quick Transmigration]

After the meal, the fourth prince and his wife left in disgrace, while Si Qi and the prince stayed to continue discussing with the emperor about plowing the fields to increase production.

A group of ministers called by the emperor saw Si Qi for the first time, and after talking with him for a while, they were shocked and dumbfounded by the young man's unimaginable wealth of talents.

Afterwards, under the pleased eyes of the emperor, all the ministers with gray hair humbly asked Si Qi about various details, completely forgetting that the other party was just a commoner with no fame, and even under the age of [-], even taking the crown ceremony and taking the watch There are no words yet.

The more you get along with Si Qi, the more you can feel the confidence and ability in Si Qi's conversation.Recalling the memorials presented by the prince these days, such a talent must not be neglected, let alone be assassinated by someone like Zhao Er.

Thinking of this, the emperor issued an imperial decree, giving Si Qi a house with three entrances, twenty maids and servants, and 200 taels of gold.For a commoner from a poor family who has not yet achieved fame, it can almost be said that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not an exaggeration to turn over overnight.

Among them, the job of selecting servants to guard the courtyard was handed over to the prince by the emperor, which also deepened the relationship between the prince and Si Qi, and Si Qi was a member of the prince's subordinates by default.

This means that Si Qi's previous and subsequent contributions will be counted by the emperor on the crown prince as his extra points.

Prince Chu quietly got on a direct express train to the throne, maybe he didn't even know it.

"Is there any other reward you want?" the emperor asked with a pleasant face.

Si Qi answered bluntly and honestly: "Yes. When grass people research new things, they need to use a lot of ores and materials."

"ore?"

The right to ironmaking has been given away, and it is naturally not a problem to give some ore.

After pondering for a while, the emperor said, "I will send someone to inform the Department of Salt and Iron of the Household Department and ask them to cooperate with you."

It's Tobu again...

It's normal for a daughter of the world to be so good at making money and have a good relationship with the Ministry of Finance. No one would hate the God of Wealth, right?The quartz sand, lime and other things used in glass refining are most likely obtained by the Ministry of Households for her.

A while ago, Si Qi and the son of the servant of the household department had a grudge against each other, and the two sides had completely offended each other.This time I went to ask them to ask for ore, I am afraid I will encounter some troubles.

But no and impossible.

After discussing the matter with the ministers, Si Qi took the written list of materials and went to the household department.

Sure enough, when the officials inside heard about Si Qi's name, their expressions became haughty, and they said directly, "No!"

Si Qi: "Your Majesty has personally confessed the will and asked you to fully cooperate with me. Do you want to resist the order?"

The official looked at the ignorant brat in front of him with a half-smile, and said in a strange way: "What, Your Majesty has given you the will, can you conjure things that are not in the storeroom and send them to you? If you want, you You can go to the mine to pick it yourself!"

The officials watching the joke laughed and pointed at Si Qi and said, "However, even if you mine it, you are not allowed to embezzle state property without authorization. It needs to be sent to our Yantie Division for registration."

"As for when to register, it depends on whether the ore is important or not. Our household department is busy, and some of the more important things are waiting to be dealt with. Presumably the things that can be given to you are not important. Wait a minute After a year or so, maybe we will be ranked first.”

Seeing Si Qi being so humiliated, the people watching the joke also said: "Of course, there must be a priority for the registered right to use the ore. If anyone happens to need these ores, I'm afraid it won't be your turn." This is waiting for the unknown pawns! Maybe wait until the year of the monkey, you can get one or two as marbles to amuse the children, hahahahaha!!"

Several people laughed wildly, and had no intention of saving face for Si Qi.Seeing this, the officials from the household department all around looked like they were watching the excitement.Appreciating Si Qi's embarrassment under siege at the moment with gloating, he feels a little bit of comfort from watching from the sidelines.

Without changing his face, Si Qi turned his neck, squeezed his wrist, raised his arm and punched the official in front of him who was mocking and sarcastic.

I only heard the man let out a scream, nosebleeds flew, teeth were broken, and he flew upside down two or three meters away with a bang, and fell to the ground moaning.

The people around were silent for a moment, staring at the young man who beat someone with dumbstruck eyes, as if they couldn't believe their eyes.

Si Qi said coldly: "What do you think you are? The only son of the household servant's family tried to frame me, and he was put in a cell in the end, and he hasn't been released yet! It's up to you, still want to learn I?"

The surrounding officials looked at Si Qi with expressions of resentment, as if they wanted to refute the outspoken young man in front of him, Si Qi sneered: "Why, you don't think you offended me enough, and it's impossible to let that servant boy live in prison for the rest of his life ! Either, take out what I want now, or I will turn around and leave. If the minister can't save his son later, I will ask you to blame, don't blame me for not giving you a chance!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank silence.

The official who fell to the ground and had a front tooth broken by Si Qi's punch covered his mouth with grief and indignation. Losing a front tooth is equivalent to being disfigured in this era. I can't keep it.

Sadness roared from it: "You want to take something from us? You are dreaming!"

"Oh?" Si Qi didn't refute, just looked around, took a wooden chair from the side, held it up and walked straight towards the official.

The people around were so frightened by his posture that they didn't dare to stop him, fearing that this lunatic would do something crazy and even hurt them all.

The official who was missing his front teeth was so frightened that he scrambled to his feet and ran inside.

Someone sternly questioned, "That's enough! You're a worthless pawn who doesn't even have the qualifications to enter the gate of the household department. Get out!"

Si Qi put the chair in the middle of the lobby with a bang, Da Ma Jin Dao sat on it, folded his hands on his shoulders, raised his chin slightly, and said disdainfully: "The Ministry of Household Affairs is the department under His Majesty's hands. When will it become you dog officials? Is it a place to show off? I came here to ask for ores at the order of His Majesty, why do you need to agree! Not to mention that there are in those ore warehouses, even if they are not, you have to bring me all of them today! If you can't get it out, you are deceiving the emperor and resisting the order! I will ask His Majesty for an order, and I will kill you all!"

A group of people looked at the young man with a sneer on his face, and finally began to feel uneasy.

One person gritted his teeth, took a step forward, and was about to say something.

Si Qi looked at him and said directly: "What, do you have something to say? All right! Then come with me to His Majesty and see what you can say!"

The man's body was frozen in place, two or three drops of cold sweat emerged from his pale forehead, and after a while, he moved back stiffly under Si Qi's gaze.

Everyone around was silent, and no one dared to underestimate the young man in front of him.

It's no wonder that even if the servant boy took action against Si Qi himself, there was nothing he could do about him.This young man is really tough to such an extent, fighting him is like hitting a stone with an egg, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Si Qi watched everyone sweating profusely, and a sneer twitched from the corner of his mouth.

He will need to come to this place to pick up things from time to time in the future. If he scares this group of people not once, he will inevitably waste time in the future.

Just as he was about to continue to say something, he suddenly felt the expressions of the officials around him suddenly change, and they looked behind him in unison.

Si Qi also subconsciously turned around and looked over, and then saw the prince wearing a four-claw python robe striding over.

The prince originally wanted to come over to support the young man, but when he got here, he found that a group of people in the household department had been cornered by Si Qi alone.

Also... the young man has always been so assertive and confident in front of outsiders, no one can do anything to him, not even the wise Fourth Princess.

Recently, he and His Majesty have seen the young man's docile and well-behaved appearance so much that he almost forgot how rebellious the young man is by nature.

He glanced at Si Qi with a smile, then raised his head, his expression changed back to the indifference and majesty that everyone is more familiar with, and said lightly: "Si Ju has been here for so long, and there is no movement at the household department. Resign, there is no need for useless waste in the court."

After all, the prince is a prince. Even if he has been a little downcast recently, he is not something that a courtier can resist.

Even the fourth prince, who has been so powerful recently, has to stop and say hello to the prince when he sees him, otherwise he will commit a crime of inferiority and will be labeled as ignorant of dignity.The officials around didn't expect that Prince Si Qilian would be able to invite them, so they quickly apologized, took the list that Si Qi had slapped on the table, and ran into the warehouse. After carefully counting them several times, he came to Si Qi and Chu Yan with a smile on his face, bowed his knees and said: "Your Highness, Si Juren, everything is ready. Look, where are you going to send them?"

The crown prince glanced at Si Qi, and Si Qi said, "Does the ironworks have a warehouse?"

Because it was something Si Qi asked on his own initiative, the crown prince didn't leave it to others to deal with, so he knew it very well, so he replied directly: "Yes."

Si Qi: "Then send it there."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the man in front of him with a flattering smile, patted his head with his hand, and said to him: "Be smarter next time, if I want something, I'll deliver it right away. Understand." without?"

"Understood, understood." The official smiled very attentively, and he couldn't even see the slightest bit of reluctance, which was completely different from the attitude just now.

It must be because Chu Yan is here, Si Qi knows it well, and he said that it is easier to have a backer behind him.

If Chu Feng became the emperor in the future, would he not be able to get any ores and materials he wanted?

For a while, he was more active in wanting to help Chu Fen ascend the throne.

The prince picked up the list of materials written by Si Qi, and found that it was full of weird things, and asked curiously: "Sand? What do you want this for?"

Si Qi said, "Make glass."

The prince was surprised, he didn't understand how the cheap and unremarkable sand could be made into crystal clear colored glaze?

The household officials standing by were stunned, but showed a look of sudden realization.

No wonder the Fourth Princess always asked them for a lot of sand these years, but they never thought that this sand was the raw material of the precious colored glaze! !

It's really unexpected...

The prince became more and more enthusiastic about Si Qi's seemingly endless talents, and couldn't help but said: "Do you want to make glass objects for sale like the fourth princess? You need to find a professional craftsman for you to help you knead them." system?"

"Glass is different from porcelain, it is not made by hand." Si Qi shook his head: "However, I do need professional craftsmen to help make related utensils. But those utensils are not for selling money."

The prince asked curiously, "What is that for?"

What good can glass (precious stones) do other than look good?

Si Qi smiled slightly: "There are many uses."

The first is the test tube beaker used in chemical experiments.

That is a great existence that can change the world more than a few glass teacups.

It's a pity that it fell into the hands of the daughter of the world, and it can only be exchanged for a little gold and silver treasures.

The prince is very interested in how the fourth princess makes glass, and wants to see how Si Qi turns the sand that can be seen everywhere into transparent and flawless colored glaze.

Si Qi recalled the weapons of this era that he had seen before, shook his head, and said, "We need to do some preparations."

From the level of wrought iron production, we can roughly see how high the furnace temperature can be raised in the iron workshops of this era.Being able to smelt iron ore shows that 1300c is no problem, but no matter how high it is, there will be no problem.

The main raw material for making glass is quartz sand, and the melting point of quartz sand is 1750c. This is also the root cause of ancient glass refining, which is always mixed with various impurities, and is more like colored stones than glass.

Not warm enough.

There are two solutions here, one is to increase the furnace temperature directly, and the other is to reduce the melting temperature of quartz sand by adding co-solvent.

The most commonly used co-solvents, such as soda ash, plant ash or red lead, are not rare things.Add a little limestone as a stabilizer during the firing process, and add the three together to make simple glass.It is believed that the daughter of the world also made glass in this way.

However, since Si Qi wanted to manufacture a steam engine, the fundamental problem could not be solved simply by avoiding the furnace temperature and adding a co-solvent.Therefore, before refining glass, the furnace in the iron workshop must first be transformed into a blast furnace capable of producing molten iron.

It's not too difficult to make that kind of blast furnace. Si Qi already has the design in his mind, what's missing is the materials.

In addition to stone bricks, the manufacture of blast furnaces requires refractory clay to continuously build up the height of the furnace, and the molten iron can be tapped when it is repaired to a height of five or six meters.

Behind Si Qi, there is an entire country as his backer, and someone will send him whatever he wants, and things from all over the country can be allocated to him as quickly as possible.So he just draws the design drawings and acts as a supervisor, step by step, what he needs can be made after all.

Si Qi said to Prince Chu: "Your Highness, I need some craftsmen to help."

The prince liked the feeling of being relied on by Si Qi very much, and upon hearing the words, he agreed: "Okay, I will find a craftsman with any skill for you alone."

Si Qi thought for a while, and after a while, he showed a mischievous smile, and said with a chuckle, "First of all... we need someone who can blow sugar."

Prince: "...?"

Half a month later, His Royal Highness finally figured out what the sugar blower meant.

However, although the color of this "sugar" looks similar to caramel (maltose), it is orange-yellow, and it is also soft and semi-fluid.But the temperature was so high that it was inedible.

A trained craftsman is holding a thin and long iron pipe in his hand, constantly rotating it in his palm, blowing air steadily into one end of the iron pipe with his mouth, and sticking the half-molten glass to the other end. .

In the era without industrialized machine manufacturing, people blow the glass into a cavity by blowing, and then use gravity and external processing to make the cavity into various required shapes.

Finally, after a little cooling, the final glass product can be obtained.

Ever since the craftsman learned that what he was making in front of him was the priceless glass, his enthusiasm for work was unbelievably strong, and even every blowing was done with a correct and cautious attitude.

Afraid that his owner would waste countless money because of one of his mistakes, this craftsman has used other methods to train himself for a long time in private, and he must ask himself to be the best in every detail and every technique.

Therefore, even if Si Qi saw it, he couldn't find any faults in the final product.

That can't be said to be similar to the things on the design drawing, it can only be said to be exactly the same.

His Royal Highness looked at all kinds of strange experimental instruments on the experimental table, and held up a thin and long test tube to watch in front of his eyes. What's the use.

Seeing His Highness the Crown Prince enduring the high temperature of the furnace, standing in this vulgar smelter and refusing to leave, Si Qi thought that he liked these glass products.

Reciprocating peaches and rewards is also regarded as giving a gift to the friend in my heart, Si Qi asked with a smile: "Your Highness, can Rong Chen give you a gift?"

The prince's eyes flickered slightly, and he tried his best to suppress the corners of his mouth that were constantly raised, and said reservedly: "Oh? What gift?"

Si Qi asked the craftsman to stop after finishing the beaker in hand, while he himself stood in front of the fire, picked up the iron pipe to take a part of the semi-molten glass, and asked, "Does your Highness like cups, or do you prefer to put them on display?" ornaments?"

——Is Si Qi going to make a gift for him by himself?

Prince Chu couldn't help showing a smile, and said restrainedly, "Have a cup."

This can be enjoyed on the lips every day.

He has seen with his own eyes how glass is made, and it is made by blowing air through his mouth.

The glass cup blown by Si Qi himself... Hey.

Si Qi imagined the shape of the cup that Chu Yan would like in his mind, nodded, picked up the iron pipe, and took a breath.

"Wait!" Seeing this, Prince Chu hurriedly stopped him loudly.

Si Qi:?

Prince Chu tried his best to keep his tone and actions from being too anxious and obvious, took out the silk handkerchief, handed it to Si Qi, and said, "Wipe it."

Si Qi: "..."

Si Qi suddenly said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

It seems that this Prince Chu is a bit of a clean freak.

How could a clean freak let him make cups?Don't you mind that this life was blown out by him?

Wiping the mouthpiece of the iron pipe with a handkerchief, Si Qi skillfully twirled the blowpipe in his palm.Blowing on it slightly, he concentrated on observing the shape of the glass.

It didn't take long to make a cup with simple and beautiful shape and exquisite details.

Take this color and some red cups and put them in a ventilated place aside to cool.

After returning, Si Qi saw that the prince was holding the iron pipe in his hand, standing motionless in front of the hot fire.

Not too hot?Si Qi said, "Are you interested in this?"

The sudden sound startled the prince, he subconsciously withdrew the iron pipe in his hand, looked back at Si Qi slightly flustered: "Yes, yes."

Si Qi smiled and said, "If you don't mind, you can try it yourself."

The prince's face seemed to be a little red under the light of the fire, he nodded: "Okay."

Following Si Qi's actions, the prince lit some glasses and came over, turned to look at Si Qi, and said, "Gu also make you a cup."

Hearing this, Si Qi smiled slightly and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

There was a smile on Chu Yan's lips, he just liked Si Qi's calm and generous way of handling things.

It made him feel... as if he was a close friend of the other party, without any identity barriers.

It's indescribably comfortable to get along with.

Si Qi picked up the handkerchief and wanted to hand it over, but Chu Yan turned his head and blew on the iron pipe as if he didn't see it.

Si Qi: "..."

Prince, you are so looking forward to trying something new, so you forgot it for a while, right?

Don't remind him, lest he feel disgusted afterwards.

Silently putting away his handkerchief, Si Qi observed the shape and direction of the glass.

But I don't know if it was too cautious or what, Chu Feng's lips pressed against the edge of the iron pipe, and he didn't breathe much, until the liquid fell to the ground and there was no change.

The prince glanced at Si Qi in embarrassment.

"Just practice more." Seeing that there are still a lot of raw materials, Si Qi encouraged him.

The prince didn't speak, and lighted some glass again in silence.

Probably because the failure just now made him feel a little embarrassed. The prince rotated the iron pipe very fast, and his movements were very irregular, which would deform the shape of the blown glass, making it impossible to make a round and symmetrical appearance.

Seeing this, Si Qi took two steps closer, touched the back of the prince's hand with his palm, indirectly controlled the speed of the iron pipe, and whispered to Chu Yan, "Your Highness, don't be too nervous, relax..."

With a "poof", the prince's breathing became heavy in an instant, and this time he directly blew the cup into a twisted hollow test tube.

Si Qi saw that the prince was sweating on his forehead, his face was scorched red, and his breathing seemed to be short of breath, so he said, "If you feel uncomfortable, can you take a rest?"

The prince's eyes dodged, and he turned around trying to avoid Si Qi's gaze on him, "No, I don't feel well..."

Still quite stubborn, Si Qi nodded, and pointed out in a slow tone: "The breathing should be slowed down as much as possible and kept in a state of uniform length. When rotating the iron pipe, the speed should not be too fast or too slow, too fast or too slow will lead to the production The glass deforms and distorts."

The crown prince lowered his head, looking at Si Qi who pointed out the production method with his downcast eyes, his heart beat faster and faster unconsciously.

It must be too hot here, which made him sweat all over, and made him feel this flushed and dry mouth.

The prince was deceiving himself and looking for an excuse, his voice was hoarse, and he said pleadingly: "Can you show Gu again?"

"No problem." Si Qi took out a handkerchief, wiped the mouthpiece of the iron pipe under the inexplicably hurt eyes of the prince, and demonstrated it to the prince with slow movements as much as possible.

This time he made a single-handle teacup for the prince, which is not common in this era.

Explained: "It is more convenient to drink water this way."

The prince took a deep look at the teacup that looked a bit weird because of the added handle, and said, "Then I'll make this for you too."

Presumably in this world, only the two of them will use such a unique cup.

There are only two of these in the world, and they are made by each other for another person.

Thinking of this, the crown of the prince's ears turned red from the fire.

Si Qi saw it inadvertently, and thought that Chu Yan was so afraid of the heat, so he would make him a refrigerator and put some ice cream in it as a gift.

I wonder if he will return the gift?

Like make some pudding or something for him...

But can His Royal Highness make pudding?

You can't unilaterally think that people have the same personality just because they look alike.

After working for half an hour, Chu Fen finally made that teacup. Watching Si Qi put it next to the teacup that Si Qi made for Chu Fen before, think about what will happen next for two almost identical glasses. Being sent to another person, His Royal Highness smiled very happily.

Seeing this, Si Qi thought to himself that this is the charm of labor!The brain circuit was completely wrong and sighed.

After browsing the glass-making workshop, Si Qi took His Royal Highness to the iron-making workshop not far away.

Looking at the two-story high blast furnace, His Royal Highness said curiously: "This is what you said, you can smelt iron ore into molten iron, and even smelt..."

Seeing that the other party forgot what that noun was called for a moment, Si Qi said, "Steel."

"Yes, steel." Chu Yan asked: "Is the steel really as magical as you said?"

"Yes, both hardness and density are far superior to that of iron."

Steel can be produced by decarburizing molten iron. This step is also called annealing.Of course, the hardness cannot reach the modern level of the last world all at once. To say that it is steel may be a bit of gold on one's face, but it can definitely crush the ironware of this era.

The main reason for the low output today is that the efficiency of artificially crushing iron ore into iron powder is too low.

When the steam engine comes out, the problem of power will no longer be a problem. It is a power madman with infinite power and never tired.

It was also a few days of waiting for the molten iron to be shaped into correspondingly shaped iron sheets by the craftsmen. Several carts of sugarcane pulled from the south finally arrived in the capital.

Because the matter was so important, even the emperor personally arrived at the scene to observe Si Qi's sugar production process.

I thought it would be such a complicated and arduous project, but in just half a day, the sugarcane was turned into brown sugar.To put it bluntly, the process is to squeeze the juice → boil → evaporate the water → separate out the brown sugar → put it in a pot.

The well-informed emperor was stunned. While eating the brown sugar, he called out "Why is it so sweet, why is it so sweet", looking at the pots of brown sugar as if his eyes were shining.

With so many good things, the emperor, who has always been kind and loved his family, happily called the concubines and underage children in the harem immediately, and each of them distributed brown sugar at least the size of a fist.

Everyone burst into laughter, and the maids and eunuchs next to them were drooling enviously.

The princes and princesses surrounded the emperor, sweetly saying that the father really loves the children and is kind, and gave them all such precious things.Hearing that, the emperor's face was full of a fatherly smile.

Only the careful Si Qi keenly discovered that he clearly made four pots of brown sugar for the emperor, but only two pots came out.

Um…………

Just don't say anything.

Later, when Si Qi got out the monosodium glutamate and presented it to the emperor for him to taste.

The emperor, who has experienced many turmoil in the past few days, has learned to look at all things related to Si Qi with a calm eye.

That is to say, he calmly ate a few extra bowls of rice, and accidentally filled himself up.

It's all little things.

After eating, he had just turned a blind eye to watching Si Qi and the crown prince lecture the emperor, who was not partial to anyone in the household department, so he called the servant of the household department over and scolded him severely that day.

The reason is not only that the brown sugar, monosodium glutamate and glass produced by Si Qi can bring huge benefits to the state of Chu, but also because Si Qi's seemingly endless wisdom and talent are definitely not comparable to a mere household servant. of.

From then on, no matter what Si Qi wanted to take from the Ministry of Household Affairs, no one dared to interfere with it and made Si Qi unhappy.

The other ministers who are loyal to the fourth prince, even if they disagree with Si Qi because of party disputes, they will be more or less considerate when doing things and dare not go too far.After all, Si Qi is a celebrity in front of His Majesty.

It took only one month to travel back and forth, and Si Qi successfully became a pivotal figure in Chu State.

On this day, Si Qi asked a craftsman to make a wind chime with an elegant shape and a clear and melodious sound, and bring it back to play for Si Peihuan, who always stays at home and doesn't go out very much.

Because of the appearance of monosodium glutamate, his sister now likes to cook more and more.Even with a cook, he still chooses to cook for his younger brother himself, and always likes to pretend to be a chef in front of Si Qi with an excited face.

It is no wonder that she is so excited. Once the ancients tasted the power of monosodium glutamate, they probably couldn't bear to live without it for the rest of their lives.

"Now my sister's cooking skills are probably better than that of the chef in Piaoxiang Building."

The always shy Si Peihuan couldn't help showing off to Si Qi so tactfully.

Piaoxianglou, that is, the restaurant opened by the daughter of the world.This talented woman not only "writes good poems", but also "makes good inventions". The "homemade" pickled radish, pickled cucumber, lemon chicken feet, hibiscus chicken slices and other dishes have attracted the love of many wealthy businessmen and royal families, and the business is booming.

Si Qi was so busy making steam engines and doing chemical experiments these days that he almost forgot about Zhao Er's existence.This is not possible, Si Qi took two mouthfuls of food, thinking that he must find something for the daughter of the world, right?It can also be regarded as paying back for the evil things she has done in the past so many years.

Not to mention cutting off all the other party's sources of income all at once, and reducing her income by [-] to [-]%, it is still possible.