The craftsmen were a little nervous under the watchful eye of His Royal Highness, but they completed the operation relatively normally.

"Very good, very good." Huang Li nodded in praise, and immediately ordered someone to get some silver to cash in on the reward he issued.

Although pig iron can be cast and formed, it is brittle and hard, making it impossible to turn.

Huang Li discovered this problem very early and believed that this was a major difficulty hindering the further upgrade of rockets and artillery shells.

For example, if you want to drill holes in the head of the shell or pick out the turnbuckle to install the trigger fuze, it will be difficult to achieve.

Now, this problem has finally been solved. Huang Li received a letter from the Chongqing Arsenal a few months ago. He was overjoyed and urgently ordered the craftsmen to come and teach the technology.

In fact, this pig iron toughening technology should have existed for a long time, but it has a different name. Folks may call it stewing.

If we use more professional terms to describe it, it is an annealing process performed at a higher temperature and for a longer time.

According to reports, China’s iron-making technology is more than two thousand years ahead of European countries.

But this is not the point. The point is that Huang Li has basically solved all the obstacles to manufacturing trigger rockets and artillery shells.

For this reason, Huang Li gave the glass workshop the name "Royal Crystal Workshop", which is both loud and noble and bad-sounding.

Without the paid labor of shift craftsmen, craftsmen are subject to the control and exploitation of craftsmen. Therefore, craftsmen often retreat and resist by means of slacking off, hiding, and fleeing.

Therefore, Huang Li abolished the craftsman household system, and each household was divided into different registrations, all of which were ethnic registrations. In a legal sense, all people were given equal social identity and status.

Some glass products will be pushed off the market, and the more exquisite ones will become Huang Li's rewards for his courtiers. Although they are cheap, they are more eye-catching and more cherished than gold and silver.

The most famous victim of "hot registration" is Zhang Jian, an industrialist, educator, politician, financier, and philanthropist in the late Qing Dynasty. Because of his "hot registration", he had to pretend to be a descendant of the Zhang family in Rugao County to take the exam.

It is precisely because of this that in the extremely difficult conditions of the Anti-Japanese War, it was impossible to have no guns but two grenades, but it was still possible.

"Without those super-era weapons, it's really weird that we can defeat the Qing army in defensive operations. It's ridiculous."

The Ming Dynasty followed the craftsman household system of the Yuan Dynasty, dividing households into three categories: civilian, military and craftsmen. Among them, all craftsmen were handicraftsmen, and many of the military were serving in the military bureaus under the jurisdiction of the guards of each capital.

Called a military craftsman.

If no one has been an official in the eighth generation, or if no one has been elected as a scholar within the eighth generation, the family will allow him to participate in the imperial examination.

For example, when entering an official position through the imperial examination, there are no restrictions based on status in each dynasty and generation. Those who are prostitutes, elites, soldiers, servants, and their children are not eligible.

For example, the process of firing and blowing glass has brought about a way to make money. Adding the same metal compound can form glass of the same color, with colorful colors.

Greening of glass is mainly caused by iron impurities. As long as the raw materials are purified, impurities are removed as much as possible, and lead oxide is added, glass with extremely poor light transmittance can be produced.

After solving the problem of the pulling device, the grenade becomes a weapon that has little technical content and can be manufactured on a small scale.

In fact, Huang Li's original intention of making glass was not to make money, but to improve the level of weapons and equipment.

Before the implementation of the Silver Substitution Law, shift craftsmen were considered a real existence, and craftsmen were free to engage in industry and commerce, with little physical restraint but weakened strength.

Huang Li is always good at technology, which is what I, a supervisor, should do. Moreover, very few technological innovations are produced only after thousands of experiments.

Looking at the craftsman who had received the silver, Huang Li couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. The simple and honest face showed an expression of excitement, joy, and a bit of embarrassment.

Similarly, the manufacturing of landmines is also over. Without the complicated pulling device, the use of pedals, clamps, or tripping and pulling is another weapon that makes the Qing army's defense more effective.

In the "craftsman household system", the whole family of craftsmen, old and young, must participate in production, and they have been passed down from generation to generation, with high status and relatively high income.

The strength of the troops was inferior. The trench breastworks and artillery guns were not similar to the trench warfare of World War I. The Qing army did not have many lives to fill it?

Whether there is severe oppression or not, if you just work hard, you can earn enough wages to support your family. Moreover, the land is given for farming, and the treatment is close to that of a soldier.

Flat glass can be produced by rolling the molten glass under an iron plate.

You must know that grenadiers, as a common arm of the European Army, would not appear until ten years later. Because of the size and small weight of white powder grenades, grenadiers were selected from small and weak soldiers.

By adding brushed copper wire, glass powder and sulfur into a lead pipe, the most complex hair pulling device can be made, and a hand grenade or hand grenade can be invented.

With the equality of household registration, there will be no political discrimination and restrictions on households with high household registration.

The shape of the blown objects was quite weird. Huang Li thought it was ugly in the end, but he changed his mind when he came here.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were even more bizarre and immoral regulations, which were not "hot books".

The granulated white gunpowder and powdered sugar are added to double the power, making the hand grenade suitable for widespread use in the military due to its weight.

At present, Kunming Arsenal has no one to manufacture cast iron grenades, and it has sent craftsmen to eastern Sichuan and Guiyang to teach manufacturing techniques and techniques.

But at that time, China did not master that science and technology. The large number of glass products brought by the Western Yi were still very rare.

Although in the middle of the seventeenth century, transparent glass had not been invented in Venice, and scientific instruments such as flasks, beakers, and telescopes had not yet been manufactured.

I can show off to people outside that I am a craftsman in an arsenal. It was only built by the palace, but I can still see the palace from time to time, which is even more shameless.

The weirder it is, the more it appears to be unique, and the less artistic it is. Huang Li thinks so, the rarer the better!

Not to mention the eighth generation, not the seventh generation, he is still a scholar or a genius if someone suddenly smokes from his ancestral grave?

The Zhang family from Rugao County came to blackmail Zhang Jian by falsely claiming his name, demanding money and property, and finally sued Zhang Jian in court. The lawsuit lasted for several years, making Zhang Jian very embarrassed.

"The Lone King has always kept his word, and since he has not offered a reward, he will definitely fulfill it." Huang Li took the opportunity to promote another round of rewards, saying, "Anyone who has no inventions, creations, or technological innovations will not be rich."

bounty."

It was conceivable in ancient times whether the craftsmen cheered or not. But there were either honest or heart-warming smiles on their faces.

For Huang Li, that was not easy.
Chapter completed!