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Chapter 179 Real technology (please support more when it will be released tomorrow)
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From the reduction of Jinhuayin taxation and the increase of food and payment for the Southwest rebellion, the trend of history has changed!

The young emperor who was far away in the capital sighed with a wry smile, the more changes, the less advantage the traversers have, and they can no longer rely on predictions to opportunistically.

This is a chain reaction, like dominoes.Of course, if the two sets are relatively independent, the impact may be smaller.

Time to perform real techniques!Shaking off his chaotic thoughts, the young emperor put on a mask, ready to start his big plan to make a fortune.

Yes, high-grade royal silk cotton, made by skillful maids, the world's first mask has appeared.

Under the complex and weird eyes of the palace people again, the emperor is going to robbery, no, he is going to the laboratory to complete the final work.

Stopping the others with majestic eyes, including Wang Tiqian and Zhang Yuer, the young emperor entered the palace with a few palace attendants.

In ancient China, chemists were alchemists. They had no theory at all, and they made a lot of chemicals even though they were tinkering around.

For example, calcined vitriol (ferrous sulfate) can produce sulfuric acid; dry distillation of saltpeter can produce nitric acid and so on.Of course, they didn't know what it was called or what it could do.

But for Zhu Youxiao, all theories are not difficult problems.

With glass instruments, he produced nitric acid and silver nitrate; he added alkali to urine, heated and reacted to generate ammonia gas, which was then dissolved in water to produce ammonia water.

He taught these procedures to more than a dozen people in Lingli Palace, and they were divided into three laboratories and three sets of people to prepare them separately, one for silver nitrate, one for ammonia water, and one for mixing reagents to brush the mirror.

In this way, leaks are avoided to the greatest extent.

Moreover, only Zhu Youxiao knew what was going on with this advanced stuff.That's right, it is the silver mirror reaction produced by adding fructose to silver ammonia solution.

Historically, this is the chemical silver plating method of German chemist Liebig.It is said that as long as the concentration of the solution is right, a mirror can be made in half an hour.

Zhu Youxiao doesn't expect half an hour, even if it can be produced in a few days, it will definitely satisfy him.You know, the mercury-tin reaction method takes more than a month, and the mercury used is poisonous.

After preparing the last solution, Zhu Youxiao directed the palace staff to apply the solution to the glass with a brush, layer by layer, several layers in a row.

By the time Zhu Youxiao walked out of the laboratory, more than half an hour had passed.Wang Tiqian and other palace officials waited anxiously.

"My lord." Wang Ti came up to him dryly, and ordered the palace servants to bring a water basin and bring towels, and asked Zhu Youxiao to clean his hands.

After washing his hands and face, Zhu Youxiao ordered the palace guard to lock the palace door and put the key in his waist.

At this time, Zhang Yu'er came together, her eyes were sleepy, it seemed that she hadn't woken up for a long time.

It didn't seem like much effort, the girl just fell asleep.

Zhu Youxiao thought it was because of the hot weather, so he didn't care, so he returned to Qianqing Palace.

After a short rest, Zhu Youxiao ordered Liu Ruoyu to come and read the test book.Regardless of the big or small things, you have to know it, and you have to be a responsible human stamp!

As far as the present is concerned, the reform has just begun, and apart from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Northern Zhili, where the gradual deepening of the Qingtun payment has caused a lot of noise, the impact on other places has been relatively small.

Of course, taking advantage of the aftermath of Wen Xiangjiao's rebellion, Zhu Youxiao severely dealt with the gentry and landlords who owed taxes.All the family members were exiled to Hainan Island and Dongfan, and the so-called culprit will be executed in late autumn.

The means are a bit disgraceful, but the benefits and effects are surprisingly good.The ransacking of the house earned hundreds of thousands of income, and all the taxes in arrears were paid in full, allowing the household department to finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The Qingtun payment will also show benefits after the autumn harvest, and the expenditure on military pay will be greatly reduced.This policy measure will also be implemented province by province, from north to south.

You know, according to the number of military settlements set by the Taizu, the Weisuo is the largest landlord.

Especially in the areas in the plains of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River that suffered from military disasters, Zhu Baba gave each soldier fifty acres of land.

It is precisely because the Weisuo controlled a large amount of land that it became the coveted target of generals, dignitaries, bureaucrats, and local gentry.

The encroachment of the northern military colonies was very serious, and the area in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was even more shocking.To put it bluntly, the resistance to Qingtun payment will become greater and greater.

That's why Zhu Youxiao was so ruthless that even the king of Qin would not let him go. He just wanted to use this as a deterrent and lay the foundation for future promotion and implementation.

Although the resistance is great, Zhu Youxiao is still confident.Not only because he is the emperor, but more importantly, the army is under the control of the court, and there are no warlords who do not care about the court in the late Ming Dynasty.

Through the reforms in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, Zhu Youxiao has also accumulated a lot of experience, and his methods have become more flexible and sleek.

First transfer local generals to the martial arts school, replace them with new generals from the martial arts school, and then bring in hundreds of new troops as personal guards and backbones, and basically control the military power.

Then, with the army as the guarantee, and the implementation of clearing the settlements with an iron fist, the probability of success is the greatest and the turmoil caused is the least.

To toss and toss, but also to strive for stability, Zhu Youxiao's ideas are not contradictory.

The powerful enemy is not destroyed, and there is no capital to toss about chaos and chaos, so this relatively mild method is used.Not only him, but even Sun Chengzong and others agree very much.

But judging from the current progress and effects, it is still very gratifying.At least after the autumn, Zhu Youxiao had the financial resources to reduce and exempt Shaanxi from taxes and let the common people breathe.

As for the more than 100 million taels of gold flower and silver entering the internal warehouse every year, Zhu Youxiao was able to pull out half of them to support the Southwest battlefield at once, but it was because the mirror was about to be successfully manufactured, and the income after listing was enough to compensate.

That's right, the mirror will bring Zhu Youxiao an unimaginable amount of money.

Believe it or not, in the [-]th century, tin amalgam mirrors produced in Venice were worth hundreds of times, and European princes, nobles, rich and wealthy were all proud of owning one.

At that time, when a French queen got married, she received the most expensive gift from Venice at that time—a small mirror worth 15 francs.

According to the calculations of later generations, one franc was equivalent to RMB 80 at that time, that is? ? !I'm sorry, it turned out to be 120 million.

Then convert it into the silver of the Ming Dynasty, if one tael is 2000 yuan (this is an easy calculation).That’s right, that’s right, hehe, haha, 2000 taels, [-] taels.

According to the current glass production capacity, dozens of palm-sized mirrors can be produced in a day, and book-sized mirrors are more valuable.

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