The Rise of the European Emperor

The glass greenhouse is built on the side hall next to the main hall of Qin'an Hall. The main hall enshrines, of course, the serious "Emperor Xuanwu". It is the true god of Taoism that symbolizes the north, and the "Xuangui" presented by Ma Lin can only be regarded as the heir of "Xuanwu Emperor", so it is naturally enshrined in the side hall...

The construction of a glass greenhouse is very simple, that is, to build a house facing the sun in the south. On the south side, Marin plans to build a sloping exterior wall. Because the plate glass brought by Marin was not large, Marin asked the announced carpenters to build a large floor-to-ceiling wooden window with many grids. And the small plate glass brought by Marin happened to be inlaid in the lattice of this large floor-to-ceiling wooden window...

In this way, although the "skeleton" of these wooden piles blocks a lot of sunlight, in general, most of the sunlight still penetrates the plate glass and sprinkles into the glass greenhouse...

Moreover, those large floor-to-ceiling wooden windows are movable, and they will be installed only when the weather turns cold, so as to insulate the glass greenhouse from the cold air outside. If the weather is warm in summer, the large floor-to-ceiling wooden windows can be removed, so as not to affect the lighting of the "xuangui" inside...

Marin clearly remembers that the Galapagos tortoise likes the sun and has to bask in the sun for at least one or two hours a day. It seems that they need to absorb the energy of the sun to maintain their health...

Needless to say, in summer, the sun is directly overhead. If you want to bask in the sun, the Galapagos tortoise only needs to climb out a little from the south, and you can easily bask in the sun.

In autumn and winter, when it is cold, the sun is always southerly. Therefore, in this season, the large floor-to-ceiling wooden windows that were originally inclined to face the southern sky are now facing the winter sun...

At this time, in the glass greenhouse, the Galapagos tortoise is lying in front of the large floor-to-ceiling wooden window, and can easily bask in the sun through the plate glass...

And because the sun is southerly in winter, it is enough to ensure that there are large floor-to-ceiling wooden windows in the south. As for the north wall, east wall and west wall, it doesn't matter whether it is transparent or not. It just so happens that if you want to build a glass greenhouse with glass on all sides, Marin doesn't have enough glass...

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Under the command of Marin, the "horse foreman", the east wall and west wall of the glass greenhouse are naturally built with brick walls, so there is nothing to say. However, because there is no cement as a binder, these bricks are the same as the ancient Chinese city walls. The paste made of glutinous rice juice mixed with lime and sucrose is used to glue the bricks together, which is relatively firm.

As for the north wall, Marin naturally did not allow the wall to be built directly. Because the north wall is the source of the "warmth" of the glass greenhouse...

Therefore, after being robbed, Marin directly asked the craftsmen to build a wall similar to a heated kang. Among them, outside the north wall, there is a stove sugar, which is used to put firewood and briquettes to make a fire. However, its internal structure is not an earth-rock structure like a kang, but metal, mainly copper shell...

Metal dissipates heat better. After people burn firewood or briquettes in the stove, the heat will pass through the stove wall made of copper skin and penetrate into the glass greenhouse, causing the "greenhouse effect".

Even Marin, a somewhat professional "horse foreman", asked people to specially bend the chimney and penetrate deep into the glass greenhouse. The curved chimney is also made of copper skin. When the fireworks pass through the copper skin chimney, the heat brought by it is also dissipated inside the glass greenhouse...

As long as a fire is lit in the sugar stove outside the north wall, the heat will continuously flow through the copper-skinned stove wall and copper-skinned chimney, and diffuse into the entire glass greenhouse.

Moreover, because the fire is fired outside the greenhouse, it is not easy to bring black smoke into the greenhouse, which will not affect the quality of life of the Galapagos tortoises in the greenhouse.

Of course, in order to prevent the Galapagos tortoise from being scalded because it was close to the copper-skinned stove wall, Marin also asked people to make a steel fence to separate the habitat of the Galapagos tortoise from the copper-skinned stove wall. Spaced out so that Galapagos tortoises don't get scalded by approaching a burning copper stove...

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When the large floor-to-ceiling wooden windows on the south side of the glass greenhouse began to be installed with plate glass,

It alarmed Zhengde and a group of big shots to visit...

why? Because transparent glass is still a very rare thing in Daming!

Even the windows of the emperor's bedroom are currently pasted with paper, and the windows are made of plate glass. In the current Ming Dynasty, it is absolutely extravagant...

Therefore, whether it is Emperor Zhengde or the big men from the court who came to visit, they are very envious of the glass windows of the glass greenhouse where "Xuangui" lives.

If it weren't for the fact that "Xuangui" was the top auspicious sign of the Ming Empire, which was of great significance to the imperial court, Zhengde might have tried to snatch the plate glass on this large floor-to-ceiling wooden window...

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After seeing the envy in the eyes of Zhengde and other bigwigs of the Ming Dynasty, Marin immediately vowed that he would bring them more flat glass so that everyone's residences could be replaced with glass with excellent light transmission window……

However, Marin is not stupid, he will never admit that Beihai State has the ability to make glass. Because, once he admits that Beihai State has the ability to make glass, maybe these greedy bosses in front of him will ask him to offer the method of making glass. And once they make such a request, Marin, who is begging them, will have to bow his head at that time.

Therefore, Marin directly denied that the North Sea State had the ability to manufacture glass, but directly pushed it to the Republic of Venice...

Moreover, Venice is also an excellent backer. Why? Because the Republic of Venice really likes to monopolize glass manufacturing technology...

In order to monopolize glass manufacturing technology, the Republic of Venice specially concentrated domestic glass craftsmen on the island of Murano, isolating it from the outside world. In this way, it can also achieve the monopoly of high-end glass manufacturing technology.

For example, the current manufacturing technology of stained glass in Europe is monopolized by the Republic of Venice. At present, other countries mainly only know some ordinary green glass manufacturing technology and simple glass container blowing technology. The more difficult glass manufacturing technology was monopolized by the Venetians. In the future, the Venetians will monopolize the manufacture of glass mirrors for hundreds of years to make huge profits, until the technology of glass mirrors is stolen by the French...

As for the fact that the Venetians monopolize glass manufacturing technology, not only the Europeans know it, but even the Arab businessmen who have business dealings with Ming Dynasty also know this point.

Therefore, Marin's move to throw the pot away is not at all afraid of the Ming Dynasty finding someone to confront him. Even if you ask the Portuguese, they will admit what Marin said that "the Venetians monopolize glass manufacturing technology". Because, it's true...

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After the completion of the glass greenhouse for the Galapagos tortoise in the side hall of the Qin'an Temple, Marin suddenly remembered one thing—it seemed that the plate armor he brought hadn't had time to dedicate it to the Ming Dynasty...

So, he asked someone to fetch his special Maximilian plate armor, put it on, and begged to see Zhengde...

Looking at Marin wearing a full set of shiny silver galvanized plate armor, Masanori is unknown, so...

"Your Majesty, this is the armor of the minister, and its protection is amazing!" After finishing speaking, Marin also knocked on the plate armor on his body to prove its protection.

"How amazing?" Emperor Zhengde, who was good at martial arts, asked curiously.

"Your Majesty can find a few archers to try..."

After Zhengde found a few archers from the forbidden army, Marin stood still 20 steps away, pulled down his helmet mask, and shouted:

"Come on, shoot me!"

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