Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 81 Fired Glass
After Zhao Wen's order was issued, the entire Longmen Castle became an extremely hot construction site.

More than 120 Longmen soldiers guarded the construction workers with whips.If that tartar dared to be lazy, he would get a whip in exchange.

As for the Tartar officers Wu Keshan and Anda, Zhao Wen arranged for them separately.If they are not arranged alone, it is easy to lead ordinary Tartars to make trouble.

The other Tartars were just digging pits, filling soil, and moving bricks, but they, Tartar officers, had to be taken to a quarry seven or eight miles away from Longmen Castle to dig stones.

Not to mention heavy work, if there is something wrong, the Longmen Army will be summoned to whip it.

It's not that Wu Keshan and the others had never thought of running away, but when he saw the soldiers standing around the quarry holding Type 56 and a half and Type 56 light machine guns, he gave up the idea.

For some unknown reason, the weather in May this year was extremely hot, and the sun hung high in the sky, emitting a venomous ray of sunshine.

Standing on the top of the city, Zhao Wen looked at the dusty construction site two or three miles outside Longmen Fort, and said slowly: "In a month or so, this cement factory will completely build the city. By then, it will be a big profit." It's time."

Li Xiaoying stood beside Zhao Wen, smiled sweetly, and said, "Brother Zhao is really capable. It's really unexpected that he was able to build Longmen Castle so well in such a short period of time."

"What kind of skill is this? It's all basic skills." Zhao Wen said casually.

Although Li Xiaoying couldn't understand Zhao Wen's meaning, she could hear his full sense of pride from Zhao Wen's words.

May I ask the entire Ming Dynasty, which official could have Zhao Wen's skills?

"When this matter is over, it's time for a large-scale conscription." Zhao Wen said slowly, looking at the construction site in the distance.

If I remember correctly, next year will be an eventful one.

Huang Taiji took a detour to Xifengkou, wantonly looting in the important areas of Gyeonggi, if there are not enough soldiers, how can we keep the peace of this side?
After a day of hard work, the Tartar captives were put back into the warehouse.

Wu Keshan, Anda and other Tazi officers were independently detained by Zhao Wen in the smallest and strongest warehouse.

Outside the warehouse, there are Longmen Army soldiers standing guard day and night.

Wu Keshan looked at the moonlight through the small window above the warehouse, and roared angrily: "These Ming soldiers are too useless, they are simply too useless."

"Taiji, save yourself, you have to work tomorrow, don't sleep well, where will you find the strength to dig rocks tomorrow?" Anda persuaded, as if accepting his fate.

Wu Keshan glared at Anda, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, it's because there are too many people like you on the grassland that it will decline."

Anda shrugged helplessly, ignoring Wu Keshan directly.

In this prison, do you still think you are Wu Keshan Taiji who is aloof?Stop dreaming, wash up and sleep.

Sitting in the hall of the Garrison Mansion, Zhao Wen looked at Wang Liuqi who was standing in the hall, and asked, "Do you know Liuli?" It’s not pure.)”

"Liu Li? I know, this is the favorite thing of the Taoist temple." Wang Liuqi looked at Zhao Wen with some doubts, not knowing the meaning of his words.

"Then you know how to fire?" Zhao Wen asked.

"How can a villain know how to burn this? A villain can only burn bricks and cement, and can't do anything else." Wang Liuqi said sincerely.

Zhao Wen squeezed his chin, looked at Wang Liuqi, and said slowly, "If there is a recipe and firing method, are you sure you can make it?"

"If these things really exist, the villain will definitely be able to bake them for the adults." Wang Liuqi said solemnly.

Wang Liuqi didn't know how to make cement at the beginning, but after getting the formula and firing method given by Zhao Wen, he also successfully fired cement.

After this experience, Wang Liuqi gained confidence.

"Okay, if you come to the Garrison tomorrow, I will give you the recipe and the firing method, and you will take someone to fire it. But, I need you to know that this thing is no better than cement. The recipe and firing method I will give you, No one but you is allowed to see it. Also, after the firing is successful, I hope you can memorize it, and then destroy the recipe and firing method I gave you. Did you hear clearly? "

Zhao Wen looked at Wang Liuqi sternly with a serious expression on his face.

Wang Liuqi hastily kowtowed to the ground, and shouted: "The villain's life is given by the adults. The villain swears to the sky that no one else will know except me. Even if that person is my son , and I won't let him know."

"Okay, then you go down first." Zhao Wen waved his hand at Wang Liuqi and said.

After Wang Liuqi went down, Zhao Wen looked at Zhao Daniu who was standing beside him, "Is the conscription going well these days?"

Zhao Daniu was a little embarrassed and didn't want to speak.

Zhao Wen frowned and said, "If you tell me what you want to say, what does it look like?"

"My lord, almost none of the people near our Longmen Fort are willing to serve as soldiers. From their point of view, Longmen Fort is so peaceful now, and working in Longmen Fort can make money. Therefore, few people are willing to serve as soldiers. So many of us God, after traveling to more than 20 villages, we only recruited more than 30 people." Zhao Daniu said in embarrassment.

"So few? Such a small number of people can't do anything." Zhao Wen said helplessly.

People in this era pay attention to being a good man and not being a soldier, and being a good man without nails.

As long as there is a little way to survive, almost no one wants to be a soldier.

In this era, the death rate of soldiers is very high.

In addition, there is nothing wrong in Longmen Fort now, and you can support yourself by doing something casually, so the people's willingness to serve as a soldier is not very high.

"Go further west and go to Xuanfu Town. I don't believe that no one in Hebei is willing to be a soldier?"

"Yes!"

After Zhao Wen sent Zhao Daniu away, he walked into the study alone.

He took down a huge piece of rice paper from the bookshelf next to him, and picked up the charcoal pencil in the pen holder on the table.

Because Zhao Wen is not good at using brushes, he always uses charcoal brushes.

Zhao Wen leaned on the chair in front of the table, narrowing his eyes slightly, thinking about the glass making process.

The process of making glass is no secret, and will be learned in high school chemistry for generations to come.

Li Xiaoying took Xiaohuan with her, and she came out of the account room just now, and after a few steps, she saw the study room with the lights on.

"Xiaohuan, go and tell the kitchen to make some chicken soup and bring it to Brother Zhao." Li Xiaoying looked at the study and said in a low voice.

"Brother Zhao, it's so late, are you still awake?" Li Xiaoying pushed open the door of the study, walked in, and looked at Zhao Wen with a smile on her face.

Zhao Wen opened his narrowed eyes and said with a smile, "Didn't you sleep too? It's been really hard for you these few days."

Li Xiaoying walked behind Zhao Wen and gently rubbed Zhao Wen's temples.

"The cement plant outside the castle is going to be repaired in the past few days, and it will cost a lot. I have to keep an eye on all the expenses, otherwise who knows if the people below will have dirty hands and feet." Li Xiaoying said slowly.

Zhao Wen smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm lucky to have you here, otherwise I wouldn't even know I was cheated."

"It's good that you know. I have to pay close attention to all kinds of bricks, tiles, cement, and food these days. Our Longmenbao family is small, and it is not as good as those deep cities. We can save a little bit."

"Haha, you really know how to manage a family. In the future, whoever marries you will be really blessed." Zhao Wen said intentionally or unintentionally.

Li Xiaoying was taken aback for a moment, and the movements in her hands stopped.

"I just don't know if I have this blessing?" Before Li Xiaoying could react, Zhao Wen continued.

"You, you, what are you talking about? Who said that I want to marry you." Li Xiaoying blushed, her heart was pounding, and she stammered.

Zhao Wen stood up from the chair and brought his face two fingers away from Li Xiaoying's eyes.

"You, Li Xiaoying, I'm married, even Buddha can't stop me, I said so." Zhao Wenxie smiled charmingly, and said loudly.

Li Xiaoying's face instantly became a little redder than before, her face was like dripping blood, and it was so red, in Zhao Wen's view, it was really cute.

Women in this era, especially young girls like Li Xiaoying, who are [-] or [-] years old, will inevitably feel uneasy after facing such a strong confession from Zhao Wen.

Li Xiaoying is happy and excited now, but also a little bit at a loss.

Li Xiaoying's heart was beating non-stop, and the roots of her ears were red up to her neck.

Zhao Wen looked into Li Xiaoying's eyes, couldn't help but pouted, and was about to move forward.

"Girl, here comes the chicken soup."

At this moment, Xiaohuan knocked on the door with a food box.

Hearing this voice, Li Xiaoying hurriedly avoided Zhao Wen's pursed mouth, opened the door and ran out at a trot.

Zhao Wen looked at the panic-stricken Li Xiaoying and said with a smile, "You really have a thin skin."

Xiaohuan looked at Li Xiaoying who was blushing in confusion, hurriedly put the chicken soup on Zhao Wen's table, and chased him out.

Zhao Wen opened the food box, looked at the chicken soup inside, and said with a smile, "You really are a considerate girl."

After Zhao Wen took a few sips of chicken soup, he picked up the charcoal again and began to write and draw on the rice paper.

The production method of glass is not difficult, the main production process is nothing more than a few steps.

The first is raw material preprocessing, crushing blocky raw materials (quartz sand, soda ash, limestone, feldspar, etc.), drying wet raw materials, and removing iron from iron-containing raw materials to ensure glass quality.

Then there is the preparation of the batch.

The next step is melting. The glass batch material is heated at high temperature (1550~1600 degrees) in the pool kiln or crucible kiln to form a uniform, bubble-free liquid glass that meets the molding requirements.

The next step is molding, which processes the liquid glass into products of the required shape, such as flat plates and various utensils.

The last step is heat treatment, through annealing, quenching and other processes, to eliminate or generate stress, phase separation or crystallization inside the glass, and to change the structural state of the glass.

The most important thing is to remove impurities from the molten glass. This step is also the most critical step. If there is no such step, the fired glass will be useless.

The main use of impurity removal is soda ash.As for soda ash, there are also a lot of soda ash mines in this era, and the output of soda ash is not a lot, so Zhao Wen didn't toss about the production of soda ash by himself.

After all, the industrial production of soda ash is much more difficult than the manufacture of glass and cement.

(End of this chapter)