Chapter 277: Cobalt and the 18th century

Ten days passed in an instant.
After the completion of the Galen ship, another festive holiday arrived.
It seemed that he couldn't bear to disturb Qingzhou's celebration atmosphere. The heavy snow that had lasted for more than ten days also stopped on New Year's Eve.
"Yes, yes, yes, hang the lanterns higher, you bastards, I won’t come back for a few months because I’m rich, don’t you just let it go? Well, don’t forget, this palace’s housekeeper is still I."
Qian Dafu pinched his waist at the door and scolded Jia Ding dissatisfiedly.
After the road was blocked by the heavy snow, Qian Dafu returned to Qingzhou. After a busy year, he would naturally spend the New Year in the palace. After all, this is the home of his wealth.
Aster stood beside Qian Dafu, the real housekeeper came back, and she had to give way.
She was bright in her heart, and her status in Xiao Ming's heart was far inferior to Qian Dafu, and Qian Dafu had always treated her and Luluo well, so he had always respected Qian Dafu from his heart.
When the rich money came back, she immediately became a deputy.
This is New Year's Eve. Xiao Ming slept late and only got up late. The temperature during the day was almost minus 15 or 6 degrees. He was sitting in the house, lying in front of the charcoal basin, unwilling to go out.
After thinking about today, it will be the eighteenth century soon, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
In this time and space, due to years of wars and entrenched gentry and gentry, the development of science and technology in Da Yu is lagging behind, but this is not important.
The most important thing is that, like the dynasties in modern history, Dayu has one problem, arrogant narcissism, and extremely demonized science.
This is the eighteenth century right away. If his inference is good, basically outside East Asia, it is now a colony of the West, and now the country of Da Yu is still the same as the end of Ming Dynasty.
If the barbarian invades successfully, it can't be said that the next dynasty will be a dynasty similar to the pill Qing Dynasty.
Frowning his brows, Xiao Ming suddenly felt a little weak at this moment, because he seemed to have the feeling that everyone was drunk and I was alone.
Now the entire country of Da Yu can only analyze the current world situation from a historical perspective, and other people are just living in the dream of the kingdom of heaven.
"His Royal Highness, it's fine today, why not come out and breathe?" Qian Dafu's voice came.
Xiao Ming lazily said: "It's too cold, this king doesn't want to go out."
"How can this be done, Your Highness, there are singing and dancing tonight, don't you look at this?" Qian Dafu looked at Xiao Ming with confidence.
Hearing this, Xiao Ming felt a little bit more energetic, "I can see this, are Aster and Luluo ready to go? 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 the singing and dancing are good, you also want to think about other interesting things in the evening. After all, this time Niu Ben and other generals and Pang Changshi will come to cheer up your Highness."
Because Pang Yukun and Luo Xin are both from Chang'an, he simply asked them to come to the palace for the New Year together, but since the two were invited, they naturally had to bring others along.
After all, it can be fun, and they all shouted to see the New Year's fireworks.
After a little thought, Xiao Ming said, "There are many interesting things, but they might not be able to finish the scene at night."
"Oh? What else is there?" Qian Dafu asked.
Xiao Ming chuckled twice and said, "This will be kept secret for the time being, you will know it 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. The reason for this was that he wanted to start the Renaissance with the characteristics of Da Yu in Qingzhou as soon as possible.
Now that I have fallen behind, I have to catch up from all aspects. This drama is the beginning of the Renaissance, and it is also the easiest to penetrate the people. I think that a drama can contain too much information.
Wrapped in the cloak, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered something, so he asked: "Dafu, do you know blue porcelain?"
"Is your Highness talking about blue enamel porcelain?" Qian Dafu leaned against the brazier. The warm charcoal fire made him comfortable.
Xiao Ming nodded, "It is this kind of porcelain."
"His Royal Highness, there is this blue porcelain palace, and this blue is called peacock blue. Your Royal Highness asks what is this about?"
"The point is not blue porcelain. The point is that you know where the clay for making blue porcelain comes from." Xiao Ming muttered.
Today, Qian Dafu’s tungsten ore has not yet landed, but Xiao Ming can’t wait for tungsten ore to stop doing other things. After all, the composition of tungsten steel tools is not only tungsten alloy, but there is also a component in qualified tools. That is cobalt.
Because in the sintering process, cobalt is the binder of tungsten carbide, tungsten steel tools are rarely fired without cobalt.
Now that the tungsten ore is not located, he can only implement the cobalt first, because relatively speaking, cobalt is easier to find in Da Yu, because the blue enamel is fired from cobalt soil.
"This old slave had heard of it when he was in the palace. There is this kind of clay in Jingdezhen," said Qian Dafu.
"Jingdezhen?" Xiao Ming nodded, as he understood, he said: "In this case, after the New Year, you go to Li Kaiyuan and ask him to sell some blue porcelain clay from Jingdezhen, and wait for you to find it. After tungsten ore, bring these two materials together."
Qian Dafu nodded, "It's your highness."
He didn't ask why, because for him, Xiao Ming's orders could be carried out.
After talking for a while, Qian Dafu went to Zhang Luo in the palace again. Xiao Ming likes Qian Dafu the most. He just does things and never asks why.
"Tungsten mine, tungsten mine, when can I find you?" Xiao Ming sighed as he watched Qian Dafu's departure.
Because of the impatient waiting, he also asked Chen Qi to forge some high-carbon steel for use 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 was useless.
After all, although Qingzhou's steel industry has made progress ~EbookFREE.me~, the production of qualified high-carbon steel knives is still not up to the requirements.
However, as long as you have tungsten, it is much easier. After all, by adding tungsten and cobalt, you can get tools that are much more durable than high-carbon steel.
I spent a whole day in the palace. 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 lights everywhere were very festive.
At this time, Xiao Ming also moved his place from the sleeping hall to the main hall.
At this time, three rows of low tables were placed on both sides of the main hall, Niu Ben, Lu Fei and others were outside the door.
Seeing Xiao Ming coming over, one by one bowed to celebrate the New Year.
"Come in, it's cold outside." Xiao Ming said with a smile.
In the main hall, a charcoal basin is placed at intervals, and the room is warm.
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