Valley Emperor

The positioning and role of the royal family industry within the Tang Dynasty is quite special. For example, making money to subsidize the royal family's expenses, but this role is actually the smallest, because there are not many members of the royal family, and the Li Xuan family has just turned from a small landlord into a royal family. It didn't take long.

Well, although the Tang Dynasty has gone through two dynasties, the previous few years were just a joke. The real life of the royal family was actually after moving the capital to Zhaoqing, but even so, the life of the Li Tang royal family was not luxurious.

On the one hand, Empress Dowager Bai was born as a small landlady, and she has a tight grasp on the expenses of the harem. To be honest, she has limited knowledge and cannot be luxurious. She can wear silk and satin, wear gold and silver, and every day, she is basically her. Cognitive luxury living.

On the other hand, it is Li Xuan. Now is the period of starting a business. He is so petty that even the palace is built, and he is willing to spend money to buy yachts and private jets. Most of the royal family's funds are used as guards. military spending.

Therefore, although the living expenses of the royal family are much more than those of ordinary wealthy families, the total amount is still not high. Therefore, although the royal family's industry needs to be supplemented by a certain amount of funds, it is not much.

Therefore, among the many functions of the royal industry, making money is only the smallest one.

The more important role than making money is: as a supplement to the state-owned industry, to fill some gaps in the industrial system of the Datang Dynasty or to invest in some state-owned industries. It is inconvenient to invest, but Li Xuan is what he wants to see.

After all, the Ministry of Industry has limited funds, and there are many factories directly under the Ministry of Industry, and almost all of them are defense industries. The investment is huge and the return time is relatively slow.

Therefore, this also caused the Ministry of Industry to sometimes lack sufficient funds to invest in other civilian production industries required by the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, there are also some industries that are inconvenient for investment by the Ministry of Industry, especially those non-core industries that do not greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

And these responsibilities are now borne by the royal family industry!

Of course, the above situation does not apply to the Royal Bank. The Royal Bank is a very special existence. It belongs to the royal family in name, but in fact its jurisdiction is not in the Royal Industry Section, but directly reports to Li Xuan. The Tang Dynasty existed as a policy bank, and its role was to maintain financial stability and transfuse blood for the Tang Dynasty.

The royal industry in the general sense is still held by Zhaoqing Soap Company and Royal Industry. At the same time, Guangzhou Hanchen Textile Co., Ltd. and Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard have introduced a certain amount of private capital.

But it is worth noting that the current royal industry is actually the same as the enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry, and its own scientific research capabilities are relatively poor, especially when it comes to relatively advanced technologies, almost all rely on the Royal Institute of Technology.

The things they produce are basically licensed from the Royal Institute of Technology and then mass-produced.

So don't look at the Royal Institute of Technology as just a school, but in fact it is very profitable, and it can earn a lot of patent dividends every month, but this situation is gradually changing.

For example, Zhaoqing Machinery Factory, which used to exist as a subsidiary of the Zhaoqing Arsenal, almost relied heavily on the predecessor of the Royal Institute of Technology, that is, the technical support of the young army camp.

But now, they are also beginning to use various ways and means to develop their own technical capabilities.

Even at that time, their level was still far from the Royal Institute of Technology!

For example, there is something recently developed by the Royal Institute of Technology that other factories directly under the Ministry of Industry cannot produce even if they spend a lot of effort. This is a microscope that is as high as 150 times!

Speaking of this microscope, we have to mention glass. Since the Datang Dynasty milled the lenses through crystal a few years ago, and then built military telescopes, the Datang Dynasty began to go further and further in the field of optical lenses, even in the field of optical lenses. There is a bit of a tendency to go crazy. On the one hand, the navy needs high-power binoculars to detect the enemy in advance.

On the other hand, it is also directly promoted by Li Xuan. In order to make rapid breakthroughs in medical technology in this era, so that he can live longer in this era, Li Xuan has spared no effort in promoting medical technology. The development of it is inseparable from the help of microscopes.

And this is also a major move to promote the continuous progress of optical lenses.

In the beginning, they were able to make a microscope with a magnification of 20 or 30 times, but it was still far from enough, so they continued to develop it.

Because a large number of various lenses were ground, and the crystals were used at this time, the cost was extremely expensive, which forced the Tang Dynasty to continue to carry out various experiments, and then try to make transparent glass.

And this transparent glass technology also achieved a breakthrough at the beginning of this year. After more than a year of repeated experiments, the project team of the Royal Institute of Technology finally successfully found a method of making transparent glass and successfully manufactured it in the laboratory. Clear glass came out.

It is a pity that the technology at that time was still too shallow, and the glass produced was relatively small. More importantly, its refractive performance was very general. This glass is actually similar to contemporary European Venetian glass.

And this kind of glass is not suitable for use as optical glass!

The people at the Royal Institute of Technology have no interest in the glass they have developed, because they want glass that can make high-power telescopes and microscopes, not just a mirror.

So they simply authorized the patent of this transparent glass to the Royal Industry Section. At that time, Li Xuan was quite excited, and immediately ordered the Royal Industry Section to build a glass factory, striving to achieve mass production as soon as possible, and then carry out Sales, after all, things like glass have long been a good thing used by many transcendental predecessors to make a fortune. Since they have been made, they naturally need to be put to good use.

but……

That's all this glass can do, it's not much use other than making a little more money for the royal industry!

And there are many gadgets that make money in the royal industry, not bad for glass.

Even Li Xuan himself was only excited for a few hours at first, and then he forgot about it. This kind of ordinary glass mirror cannot be eaten or drunk, and it is also a luxury ornament. Words are basically useless.

What Li Xuan wants is optical glass, optical glass that can manufacture ultra-high magnification lenses!

The Royal Institute of Technology is also not giving up. The members of the glass project team have clearly seen in the textbook that glass can be used to make high-power optical lenses. It means not finding the right direction.

So they continued to do it, and after spending a lot of money and time, they came up with a new glass, and this glass has a rather unique name, called lead glass.

Speaking of which, the appearance of this lead glass is accidental and inevitable, because in order to improve the glass process, increase the temperature of the glass furnace, and at the same time reduce the cost of mass production of glass, they tried to use coal as a fuel to heat the glass furnace, thereby Replace the previous wood.

And by doing this, they inadvertently obtained a new glass with a harder texture and better light transmission, which is lead glass.

Although the people in the project team are generally young people in their teens and 20s, all of them are old fritters who have been engaged in scientific research for one or two years, and with sufficient funds, all kinds of experiments do not require money. Do it randomly, don't care if it is effective or not, let's test it first. Although these young scientific research workers who have spent money on it, although they say that their theoretical level is not as good as that of later high school students and junior high school students, they have a lot of experimental experience. Can be seen!

As soon as they discovered this new glass, they immediately realized that the optical glass they were after so much might be it.

So they started to use this kind of glass to try to make a high-power telescope, and after a try, it was a coincidence, and it really came out.

Now, for the ordinary glass that can only be used to make mirrors, Li Xuan pays more attention to the optical glass such as lead glass, and pays more attention to the microscope. After learning that the research and development was successful, he also asked them to send a test product and try it out himself. this microscope.

This kind of thing, the promotion of medical technology, is immeasurable, so when it came out, Li Xuan just instructed the direct laboratory to manufacture more, and then used it for various microscopic observations, especially the observation of various animal and plant cells. .

However, although microscopes have greatly promoted medical technology, it is naturally impossible for such high-end things to become a widely exported industrial product~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and can be mass-produced or even exported as industrial products. The ordinary glass from before.

With the completion of the construction of the glass factory of the Royal Industry Section, after the first batch of glass was produced, they couldn't wait to bring mirrors made of this glass to the market.

Then those sea merchants discovered that there was another product in the Guangzhou Trade Zone that could bring them huge profits: mirrors!

Mirrors are actually not a rare thing. Venice in Europe has been producing glass for hundreds of years, but glass is fragile, and it is still difficult to transport it to the East, which also causes the price of glass in the East to be very high. high.

The glass produced by Zhaoqing Glass Factory, a subsidiary of the Imperial Family Industry Division, is similar to the glass mirrors of Europeans in the same period in terms of quality, size and transparency, but it is produced locally, and Zhaoqing Glass Factory is the same as other factories in the Tang Dynasty. , are produced by a large number of various contemporary most advanced machinery and equipment, with lower production costs, larger output and lower transportation costs!

Therefore, at the beginning of the listing, a simple and rude model of low-cost dumping was adopted!