Daming Yinghua

Chapter 226 Technology Shares

In the city of Yanzhou, where King Lu of the Ming Dynasty was fief, and in the mansion of General Jingguo, Zhu Yipai, the most beloved nephew of the current king of Lu Zhu Shouhong, and his wife, Guo Shi, are hosting a banquet for Zheng Haizhu to wash away the dust.

The clan couple had a friendship with Zheng Haizhu when they first met.

In the past three years, the Liaodong labor force imported into the Yanzhou Coal Mine has also come from Kong Youde who was brokered by Zheng Haizhu. This time Zheng Haizhu also brought an expert who is said to be able to solve the problem of coal mine pumping.

Similar minds and intertwined interests.

In addition, now that Zheng Haizhu also has an imperial order, and she is a woman, Zhu Yipai and Guo Shi have treated her like an old friend in the inner house, not an ordinary retainer.The family banquet by the lotus pond in the backyard is impossible for Zhang Dai's father Zhang Yaofang to "enjoy" the long history of the Lu Mansion.

After drinking two cups, Zheng Haizhu looked at the tiara of Zhu Yipai's concubine Guo Shi.

Heart-picking bun is the most common hair bun style for Daming women. It is flat and round as a whole, with a pointed tip, like a triangular heart.

This refreshing and neat heart-picking bun that can be decorated with more beads is more favored by the female family members of the palace.Even Guo Shi, the daughter of a warrior, is just like Qin Liangyu, the all-powerful female general, in terms of love of beauty, she is no different from Yingying Yanyan's Jiao'e.

Seeing Zheng Haizhu staring at her heart-picking bun, Guo didn't hesitate to pull out a "covering the temples" and handed it to her.

"If you like it, I'll wear it for you. Your hair is too plain, and you're not an aunt in the nunnery."

Zheng Haizhu took the gold-embedded jewellery, and looked at it carefully.

The pure gold base is made into continuous clouds, and above the clouds is Manibao, embedded with three plain rubies the size of wolfberries.

The filigree gold thread technique is used below the clouds, like a fishing net, firmly fixing the three plain sapphires.

Zheng Haizhu raised his eyes again to look at the big hairpin in the middle of Guo's bun, which was inlaid with red and blue gemstones to form a lotus seat, supporting a golden chariot with three faces and eight arms, and a crown on his head. There is also Dainichi Tathagata, with two golden arms held up high, holding two red sapphires the size of dates respectively. About red represents the sun and blue represents the moon.

Zheng Haizhu returned the "covered temples" to the Guo family, and said with a smile: "Such a treasure has a solemn appearance. The original cover and the heart-picking hairpin are a complete set, so how can they be separated. Such a shiny red and sapphire treasure, but it is from outside Yunnan. The secret tribute from Burma?"

Mrs. Guo snorted, "Don't see that you don't like to dress up normally, you have really good eyesight."

Zhu Yipai was not surprised.

The country faces the south, and now counting the newly opened Songjiang, there are already three large customs ports, and Nanyang Xifanding also has a lot of precious goods imported into the ship. This woman has a trading company at home, and she knows about Myanmar's secret gems.

Zheng Haizhu seemed to be reading his mind, and said to Zhu Yipai: "Your Highness, no matter how high-quality the Qionghua jewelry from Nanyang is, if it is to be beautiful, it needs the skillful hands of my Ming craftsman. For example, it is like a dense Rubies are only worn by Fan people wrapped in soft tin, but skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can inlay them with gold, silver and silk."

Zhu Yipai listened pleasingly, but he was not as extravagant as the other members of the clan, so he said quite proudly at the moment: "Our Treasure House in Lu Mansion has masters like forests, and the ancestors with two craftsmen are He was transferred from Yingtian Mansion to King Lu's fief during the Hongwu period."

Zheng Haizhu felt more confident.

She bid farewell to Mu Zaohua and Xu San, and after entering Yanzhou City, she visited Zhang Dai's father, Zhang Yaofang, as usual, and asked Zhang Yaofang about the situation of the royal treasure house.

It is her consistent style to do preliminary research before speaking to a big shot.

So she didn't keep it secret, and confessed that she had persuaded the Gu family to go to Champa to try a special jewelry import business. This time she came to Yanzhou, and wanted to invite two craftsmen from the Treasure Institute to Songjiang to bring a group of gold and silver learners. The apprentice of filigree craft inlaying precious stones came out.

"Of course, Your Highness, Madam, I also understand that the Dianbao Institute is the internal manufacturing institute of the Lu Mansion. Some crafts are not allowed to be passed on to the outside world, and some shapes are not allowed to be presumptuously created by our private business. Therefore, ordinary craftsmen who draw and filigree are fine. With permission, our trading company will pick the best red sapphires and diamonds and send them to Lu Mansion every time the ship returns."

Zhu Yipai, an ancient man, naturally didn't realize that Zheng Haizhu's plan was a bit like investing in technology.

He just thought about it and felt that there was nothing unacceptable.

Miss Zheng understands etiquette, and speaks respectfully and humbly, nothing should be rumored or overridden. In fact, not to mention the fiefdoms of Beijing, Nanjing and the feudal lords, they are the larger state capitals in Huguang and Jiangnan, where dignitaries and wealthy gentry use. Things are more luxurious than the Zhu family, and there are many people there.

Just borrow a few craftsmen, and people are not borrowed in vain. It is clearly stated that you will offer jewelry to thank you.

Now that there are so many clans in various places, the treasures and rewards allocated in the Forbidden City have long since ceased.Miss Zheng sent real good things, which are much better than those foreign relatives of the Lu Mansion, Yibin, who used some broken stones to cheat the Lu Mansion of money.

Zhu Yipai made a preliminary approval at the dinner table, and Guo Shi also took the initiative to offer advice, saying that when he went to the palace to pay his respects to Princess Lu Meng, he found a reason to raise this matter.

Two days later, Song Yingxing arrived in Yanzhou by boat.

Like Xu Guangqi, the scientist who had his own name on the surface of the moon hundreds of years later showed a workaholic temperament after being at ease in Chongming Island.

Zheng Haizhu also unceremoniously treated him as a mule envoy, treated him to a meal of big sesame seed cakes with Hu spicy soup at the pier, and dragged him to Chaitan Mountain.

Now, here is the Yanzhou Coal Mine that Zhu Shouhong, king of Lu, handed over to Zhu Yipai to be in charge.

"Mr. Song, you have to build a big guy like a hydraulic hammer bed. However, those on Chongming Island are for borrowing water, what is needed here is drainage."

By the mine road, Zheng Haizhu pointed to the potholes all over the mountain, and said to Song Yingxing.

Song Yingxing looked at several mine pits where groundwater leaked out.

The shallow ones can still be pumped up with bamboo tubes, and the deep ones can't be done by manpower. There are several deep pits that can only be discarded.

No matter how great a scientist is, it is impossible for him to have a flash of inspiration in front of any difficulties.

Seeing Song Yingxing frowning, Zheng Haizhu enlightened: "Mr. Song, the ones who are stronger than humans may be cows, horses and mules, or maybe water."

Song Yingxing pursed her lips: "Then Madam said, Chongming's water hammer relies on water."

Zheng Haizhu said: "What I think is boiling water. We women cook in the stove, and we have seen a lot. The boiling soup can cover an inch-thick willow pot."

Song Yingxing's eyes moved slightly: "Ma'am, what do you mean, the power of water vapor?"

"Thinking wildly, I made Mr. laugh."

"Well," Song Yingxing pondered, "If the pot is big enough, the power of the water vapor will be even greater...but how to make the force go back and forth?"

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, that's all I can remember, and after all, you are a better scientist than Watt, the Light of the Chinese, as long as you give you a direction, you will be able to build a steam engine for pumping water.

As my man, you should contribute to the Yanzhou Coal Mine, the cash cow of the Lu Mansion, and I will be even more able to squeeze the wool of their jewelry craftsmen.

(End of this chapter)