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Seeing Song Yingxing's mysterious look, Tang Tong looked over with some curiosity, but it turned out to be a semi-transparent object. Tang Tong took it and looked at it, and couldn't help laughing. Isn't this glass? It's just glass that was not fired well. First, the transparency is not high, which is far worse than the transparency of glass in later generations. Second, there are still many impurities in this glass. It may be that the impurities in the material have not been removed, which is also the reason why this glass is not transparent enough. In addition, there are bubbles in this glass, which should be caused by improper operation. In general, it is still far from real glass.
"This can't be considered glass, it's far from it. You must find a way to remove the impurities inside. Also, there can't be bubbles. I guess this is caused by your improper operation. Old Song, aren't you researching perfume? How do you have time to deal with this?" Tang Tong returned the piece of glass to Song Yingxing's hand.
"This is not made by me. Didn't you ask me to bring a dozen students? This was made by several of them according to the recipe you provided, Dongqi. I think it looks a bit like the glass you mentioned. I brought it here today for you to see." Song Yingxing put the thing in his arms and said. He originally wanted Tang Tong to talk about the problem with it, not that he intended to give it away as a treasure.
"Well, these people are good. We should let these children have this kind of motivation and enterprising spirit, and give each participating child a bonus of two taels of silver. This will also increase their enthusiasm." Tang Tong said while lamenting that there are too few scientific and technological talents in this era. Now Tang Tong has no shortage of highly skilled craftsmen, but only scientific and technological talents.
The craftsmanship of the craftsmen of that era was indeed very high. For example, the blacksmith could even hammer out the round iron beads for Tang Tong. This skill left Tang Tong speechless at the time, and also enabled Tang Tong to manufacture simple processing machine tools.
Song Yingxing nodded slightly at Tang Tong's words, thinking that Dongyu was really generous in this regard: "Dongyu, you are really generous. Now, I'm afraid these children will rush to do these things. In addition, I have already made the Liushen Floral Water that Dongyu wants to make a few days ago. I brought it here to show you."
Song Yingxing took out another porcelain bottle. Tang Tong took it, opened the bottle, and smelled it. It smelled like floral water from later generations. He sprinkled some on the back of his hand and spread it. A ray of coolness came from the back of his hand. Tang Tong smelled it again and said, "Well, this thing is probably like this. When summer comes, we will make a fortune with this thing. Then we will have money to expand and equip our fleet. Damn it, it's time to let those hooligans go out and move around in the second half of the year. They can't always eat my food and still not be satisfied."
Tang Tong couldn't help but swear when he thought of the gangsters who were training on the ship. In the past, Tang Tong had plundered all the money of the Menglong Gang, and Tang Tong didn't let these gangsters do those wicked things again. As a result, these gangsters had no income, and Tang Tong had to support them with money. This made Tang Tong feel a little unhappy. Every time he gave them money, Tang Tong would think fiercely in his heart that he must squeeze the surplus value of these gangsters in the future.
Song Yingxing had also heard a little about the gang of hooligans that Tang Tong mentioned. Like the others, he had no idea of Tang Tong's malicious intentions. He only thought that Tang Tong was a kind man for nine generations, who used his own money to support these bad guys and prevent them from causing trouble. For such a good deed, the people with the surname of Qi in Changzhou were very grateful to Tang Tong.
Only those gangsters know what kind of person Tang Tong is, and only people like Tang Tong can make these people obey obediently. The so-called underworld is all about fists.
Song Yingxing also understood Tang Tong's swear words. After all, Tang Tong was a military general, and most military generals were rough people, not as good as them, so it was normal for him to say some swear words.
Tang Tong also talked to Song Yingxing about some of the later generations' concepts of perfume. Song Yingxing also took this opportunity to ask Tang Tong some physics and science questions. Tang Tong also patiently answered him because he still hoped that Song Yingxing would research more things for him after he learned well. On the other hand, he also hoped that Song Yingxing could train more students in the future. Only with successors can there be successor development. The most important thing is that if a group of talents can be trained, these talents will be the scientific sparks on this land, and ultimately science will change the productivity of this land and change the fate of this land in a few years.
Song Yingxing has a strong ability to accept science and technology. Today, he has become a leader in science and technology of this era. When looking at the essence of a thing, he will try his best to understand it with a scientific attitude. He is no longer like before, only knowing the facts but not the reasons. His enthusiasm for scientific research is also unprecedentedly high.
Since Tang Tong originally planned to visit his boss to wish him a happy new year, he didn't have anything good and cheap to give as a gift. Song Yingxing made perfume, so Tang Tong asked Song Yingxing to make a few bottles of perfume and floral water, intending to give them as gifts. This way, it would not cost Tang Tong too much money, and his boss would not have any opinions about him.
After Song Yingxing said goodbye, Tang Tong took Yagyu Saburo to pay New Year's greetings to Zhang Niujiao, Xu Yu, Zhang Yiheng and others, and then went to visit the Westerners who worked for him. These Westerners had different working conditions at Tang Tong's place. For example, those who could only teach foreign languages had a monthly salary of only 10 taels of silver. This price was already very high, so the requirements were also high. They had to speak Chinese well enough to have normal conversations with others. Those who knew navigation technology had a salary of 80 taels of silver. These people accounted for the majority. These people were generally older and did not want to be sea adventurers anymore. Naturally, they were very satisfied with the treatment Tang Tong gave them. Moreover, most of these people liked the prosperity of this land and were willing to live here for the rest of their lives. Only three missionaries were still obsessed with their missionary work, but Tang Tong had not noticed them at this time.
People in Da'an were celebrating the New Year, and these Westerners were temporarily given a holiday. In order to prevent these people from missing home, Tang Tong naturally came to visit them. Although the actions of leaders in later generations were just a face-saving formality, there was still some meaning behind it. In this era, information was not developed, and most people did not have so many ideas in their minds. These Westerners were also very moved by Tang Tong's behavior. It was a pity that English was not a popular language in this era, and the little English Tang Tong knew was of little use.
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General Qin was about ten years old, with a big belly, looking like a businessman rather than a military general. In fact, General Qin had never fought a battle in his life and had very little military knowledge. However, he was very good at making money and flattering others.
When it comes to making money, the previous Lord Tang was a blood-sucking captain, so this General Qin can be called a blood-sucking general. As the saying goes, live by the mountain, eat from the mountain; live by the sea, eat from the sea. After becoming the general, this General Qin had no other way to make money, but to ruthlessly withhold the military pay allocated from above. At that time, almost all the troops in Dali did this, the only difference was the amount of withholding. This General Qin was more ruthless, and almost half of the military pay fell into his hands.
In addition to making money, General Qin also has a hobby, which is to marry concubines. So far, General Qin has sixteen concubines. The youngest one was bought just a few years ago and is only ten years old. In the eyes of Tang Tong, who traveled from the future, General Qin is really a beast.
But such a beast, however, holds the second-rank official position and has a good relationship with the eunuch guarding Jinling. Therefore, he lives a very prestigious life in Jinling. More than two months ago, he heard that Tang Tong was making a lot of money, so he sent people to threaten Tang Tong. Faced with this situation, Tang Tong could only flatter General Qin unless he rebelled directly.
Tang Tong naturally didn't like to flatter people, so he thought of buying perfume, which didn't cost him much but didn't offend General Qin. General Qin didn't know what Tang Tong was thinking. He just thought that Tang Tong, the new rich man, would give him a good sum of money. So after Tang Tong came to the camp, he didn't let Tang Tong wait for long.
Tang Tong did not say that he made the perfume himself, but only said that he bought it from a Westerner for three thousand taels of silver. This made General Qin feel sad for a while, and he thought that Commander Tang was really a prodigal son. But on second thought, General Qin felt happy again, because he could use such a good thing to flatter others.
This bottle of perfume, this bottle of floral water, if it were produced in a regular way, would only cost a little over one or two taels of silver. But at this time, perfumes from the West could be sold for more than ten taels of silver, and there was no demand for them. Tang Tong's perfume smelled better than Western ones, so it didn't matter if he asked for a higher price. Anyway, when he planned to sell it officially, the price would not be lower than ten taels of silver.
Ten taels of silver is close to the level of ten thousand yuan in later generations. It is truly an incomparable sky-high price. Tang Tong's seemingly generous move made General Qin in a good mood, so he assigned Tang Tong an errand.
But this job was definitely not a good thing, because General Qin had heard that Tang Tong was very good at fighting, so he put this matter on Tang Tong's head.
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