The Rise of the European Emperor

Zhang Cai had offended too many people, so the more Marin humiliated him now, the safer he would be. Conversely, the more you use him, the more dangerous he is.

Of course, this is talking about the internal affairs of Daming. On Taiwan Island, it doesn't matter. Anyway, the hands of those ministers can't reach Dongfan Island.

In addition, as time goes by, everyone will gradually forget Zhang Cai, who has withdrawn from the stage of history. After Zhang Cai left, Zhang Cai's wives and concubines Wu and Wang, as well as their two sons, Zhang Jiafu and Zhang Jiarui, were also sent as domestic slaves to the Huitong Hall where Ma Lin was.

Originally, Zhang Cai sent Wu and his daughter Zhang Jiafu to Wu's house in the capital of her natal family to hide, while Wang's plan was to take them back to her hometown and hide them in her natal Wang's house.

But now after receiving Marin's guarantee, Zhang Cai directly sent the two old wives and two sons to the Huitong Hall for Marin's present.

Because of the eyeliner surveillance of the ministers of the DPRK and China, after Marin summoned Zhang Cai's wife and children to explain the situation, he could only temporarily wrong them--Zhang Cai's two old wives were temporarily used by Marin as laundry servants. And Zhang Cai's two sons have temporarily become lowly servants like 9527, responsible for cleaning...

But in fact, whether it is Zhang Cai himself or Zhang Cai's wife and children, Marin has arranged for secret protection to prevent them from being murdered.

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On the other hand, through Li Qing'er's vigorous promotion, the perfume quickly became famous in the capital. However, Marin deeply understood the essence of "hunger marketing", and said that he really didn't bring much perfume this time. Moreover, the production of perfume is difficult, especially the collection of flower essence is extremely difficult... So, everyone should wait two years before buying...

So far, only Li Qing'er and other top brands have obtained rose-scented perfumes. In addition, the nobles in the palace, headed by Queen Mother Zhang, got a batch of lavender-type perfume.

The strange thing is that some eunuchs in the palace also seem to be very fond of perfume and like to wear perfume.

"It shouldn't be, eunuchs are not the same as feminized gays..."

It is unrealistic for Dongfang Bubai to like men since the queen of the palace as described in the TV series. The eunuchs are actually castrated physically, but they are still close to men mentally. Twisted, but not too feminine. After all, being too feminine would never have been accepted by the world in ancient times.

After inquiring, Marin learned that because ancient castration technology was backward and there was no alcohol disinfection, many eunuchs were "not very clean" during castration, which caused many eunuchs to suffer from some urinary system diseases, and they always smelled of urine. Therefore, they need perfume to cover odors more than women.

You know, it is difficult to be favored by nobles if you have a peculiar smell on your body, so you can only do some dirty work. After all, the emperor and concubines would not like to have a eunuch with a strange smell around them. Therefore, these people's desire for perfume is stronger than that of women. Even, what the perfume brings them is the hope of becoming normal...

In fact, some of the more powerful eunuchs also suffered from urological diseases, and their body smell was a bit abnormal. Moreover, they also use scented things to cover the peculiar smell on their bodies. For example, sandalwood and agarwood...

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Marin also noticed that some eunuchs had a strong sandalwood scent. But in fact, it was just to cover up the eunuch's unusual smell.

However, sandalwood and agarwood are expensive, but the effect is average. After all, those sandalwood and agarwood are raw materials, but the perfume uses the essence extracted from the fragrance raw materials, the concentration is very different, and the effect is naturally much stronger. Therefore, those eunuchs, especially eunuchs with peculiar smell, liked the perfume brought by Marin very much, and ordered them one after another.

And Marin didn't want to offend these small-minded eunuchs, so he agreed and promised to give them priority supply. Otherwise, if one of them is developed, it will be easy to find fault...

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The eunuch hasn't come to find fault yet, but Zhengde has personally come to find fault...

On the martial arts arena, Zhengde caught Marin who was watching the excitement, and asked:

"Ma Aiqing, why is the quality of the plate armor made by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty inferior to the batch of plate armor you sent?"

Ma Linxin said, can it be the same? The steel I use to make plate armor is secondary refined steel. However, when the Ministry of Industry and the Bingzhan Bureau of the Ming Dynasty used relatively brittle northern pig iron that contained more sulfur and phosphorus when making plate armor, it would be strange if the quality was the same.

To solve the problem of high sulfur and phosphorus content in pig iron in the north of Ming Dynasty, it can be easily solved by adding quicklime for secondary refining...

However, this is the biggest industrial secret of the North Sea country, and Marin will naturally not tell the people of the Ming Dynasty easily. As long as this technology is mastered, cast iron cannons are just like pediatrics. Therefore, Marin is reluctant to disclose this technology.

However, he changed the way to solve the material problem:

"Your Majesty, why don't you try to use better quality Fujian Railway and Guangzhou Railway?"

Hu Jian and Guangdong are mountainous and forested, and charcoal is often used for iron smelting. Therefore, Mintie and Guangzhoutie have relatively low sulfur and phosphorus content, and belong to the best quality batch of Daming pig iron. Generally speaking, the Ministry of Industry only mobilizes Fujian Railway and Guangzhou Railway for use only when it casts cannons. But plate armor belongs to the few elites who wear it, and it is very important, so it is no problem to use Fujian Railway and Guangzhou Railway.

Therefore, Zhengde immediately went back to organize craftsmen, and once again used the expensive Fujian Railway and Guangzhou Railway to create a new batch of plate armor. However, the quality seems to be a lot worse.

So, Marin approached three Beihai craftsmen who were in charge of teaching the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty the plate armor crafting technology, and asked why. The three craftsmen told the truth...

It turned out that the leader of the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty who was in charge of learning how to make plate armor was a person who believed in hot forging. Because hot forging can knock out the impurities in pig iron through repeated beating, and get real refined iron.

Moreover, the cold forging method mentioned by the craftsmen of the North Sea State requires the establishment of a powerful hydraulic forging hammer. This requires finding a waterfall to build a hydraulic forging hammer, or spending a lot of money to build a reservoir to drive the hydraulic forging hammer...

The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty who were in charge of learning how to make plate armor thought it was troublesome, and in order to save trouble, they saved the step of cold forging with a hydraulic forging hammer...

But the cold forging of plate armor is an important guarantee of quality. Without cold forging, the quality of plate armor will be difficult to meet the standard. Therefore, the plate armor made without the cold forging step is naturally unqualified.

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In fact, the problem of being troublesome and trying to save trouble is still common in later generations of China. Many Chinese workers of later generations pursue production speed when manufacturing products, and often some seemingly simple but important links are artificially ignored or skipped. Then, Huaxia Manufacturing became synonymous with low-end. In fact, the difference between Chinese manufacturing and high-quality products is often not technology, but rigor. The reason why Made in Germany can become the number one in the world depends on the perverted rigor of the Germans, not how smart they are. The production requirements of Devil Industry are also very strict, and Devil workers are also very obedient, so the quality is not bad. Only Huaxia workers, frank old people are smart and opportunistic, so they ruined the quality of the product and made it synonymous with low-end...

In his previous life, Marin worked in a factory and did a short-term quality inspection. As a result, he conscientiously controlled the product quality, and was accused by the workers of being fault-finding and dead-headed... At that time, when Marin inspected a process, 60% of the products were unqualified...

But it turned out that Marin was scolded by the workshop director, not the rough workers who were blamed...

Therefore, Marin left the factory in a fit of anger, feeling that a factory that does not pay attention to quality has no future. But later, Marin learned that most factories in Huaxia had that kind of virtue. It's not that Huaxia can't make good things, but that some people don't want to make things well... Sorry, I made a mistake, it's not some people, but many people. Including workers, as well as factory management. They only pursue output and don't care about quality at all.

By the way, the factory where Marin stayed produced the core components of vehicles. Maybe one day, because of quality reasons, a human life will be killed. That's why Marin left the factory without hesitation, because he didn't want to be the murderer who indirectly killed others...

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Marin sighed, and explained the reason why the Ming craftsmen could not produce qualified plate armor. Zhengde was furious, and ordered to kill the craftsman leader who omitted important steps without authorization. After all, plate armor is related to the outcome of future wars, and the craftsman leader actually deserves death.

However, the construction of the hydraulic forging hammer has become a long-standing problem. Because, on the North China Plain, there seems to be no waterfalls for building hydraulic forging hammers...

"How about going to the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River to build a hydraulic forging hammer?" Marin suggested.

"That's at the junction of Jin Province and Shan Province, far away from the capital..." Zhengde hesitated.

"But it's also Da Ming's territory!"

Zhengde nodded and agreed with Marin's point of view. Then, three craftsmen of Marin who were good at forging plate armor took a large group of Ming Dynasty craftsmen to Hukou Waterfall to build hydraulic forging hammers...