Faced with everyone's gratitude and praise, it took Yang Fan half an hour to persuade these enthusiastic people to disperse.
Although he felt happy, it also made Yang Fan feel that his responsibilities were heavier.
As the saying goes, with greater ability comes greater responsibility.
If you are lucky enough to travel to this era, it is impossible to just live in a state of drunkenness and dreams.
When Yang Fan came to the outside of the glass workshop with some thoughts, the workers in the workshop had already gone home for lunch and seemed a little quiet.
The workers in the Liuli Workshop have been strictly selected by Yang Fan, and most of them are village households in his own town.
As long as they are selected, they can be assigned a house in Yangjiaping, so most of these people bring their families with them. Of course, this is Yang Fan's request.
He didn't want glass craftsmanship to spread so quickly, at least not until he earned enough money from aristocratic and wealthy families.
Therefore, even the workers in the glaze workshop have a strict division of labor, and only Wang Xuance knows the core technology.
As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the workshop, Wang Xuance, Yang Laifu and other key players were there. Yang Fan smiled slightly and said, "Bofu, Xuance... are all here? Thank you for your hard work. Why don't you wait inside? It's very hot outside."
Several people came forward with smiles, knowing that their young master did not pay much attention to superficial etiquette.
After a casual salute, Yang Laifu smiled and said: "Sir, this little bit of sunshine is nothing. It's not hard at all. It's a hundred times easier than going to the fields to farm. Nowadays, everyone rarely gets sunlight in the workshop, and their skin becomes dull." I’m so white. People who don’t know better think that our workshop is full of scholars!”
When he said this, Wang Xuance and the few people behind him burst out laughing, and then echoed.
Everything is difficult at the beginning. Although these days are like trying to cross the river and things are a bit complicated, it is indeed much easier than doing farm work.
Wang Xuance was deeply touched. He and his sister used to live in the open and live frugally in order to come to Chang'an in advance to participate in the scientific examination in the spring of next year.
After suffering from intestinal carbuncle, he was devastated and thought he would not be able to survive. Now, not only was the intestinal carbuncle cured, he was even assigned the responsibility of such an important project, which made him feel like he was in a dream.
He had already decided in his heart that he would serve Yang Fan for the rest of his life, so this hard work was nothing.
Seeing the worshipful eyes of everyone as if they were devout believers, Yang Fan didn't say any more polite words and directly asked them to take him into the Liuli Workshop.
After a brief tour of the production line, Wang Xuance and Yang Laifu guided them to the workshop warehouse.
The first thing that catches the eye is the rows of neatly displayed vanity mirrors.
The shelves of these mirrors are carefully crafted by carpenters and pasted with various foils. Together with the glass, they look simple and elegant, and look very classy.
The craftsmanship of these ancient craftsmen was really good. No matter what style they were, Yang Fan was very satisfied.
Seeing that there was no problem with the finished product, Yang Fan asked Wang Xuance: "How many of these glazed products can be produced in a day?"
Wang Xuance replied without hesitation: "There is sufficient supply for the production of colored glaze, but the supporting frames cannot be produced. We can produce about a hundred pairs of finished products every day."
He silently calculated in his mind that he could barely keep up with this speed. Anyway, his plan was to open before the Double Ninth Festival, and it would be sold in limited quantities, so mass production was not required.
After receiving Yang Fan's affirmation, Wang Xuance was happy and a little worried at the same time, which made Yang Fan a little confused:
"Xuan Ce, is something wrong? This is not like your behavior?"
Wang Xuance then slowly discovered that it turned out that someone actually wanted to bribe the workers of the glaze workshop to find out the secrets in the workshop, and there were even people who even sneaked into the workshop in disguise.
If these workers were not loyal, took the initiative to report, and the workshop security discovered it in time, these people might have succeeded.
This surprised Yang Fan. He didn't expect that some people with ulterior motives would target him before it went on sale.
Yang Fan thought for a while and said: "But I was negligent. The security here needs to be strengthened. Guards must be arranged at the entrance and exit of Yangjiaping to screen people coming and going. I will discuss this with Rengui, but the workshop Now that we are on track, let’s leave the affairs here to Uncle Fu.”
Although this was Wang Xuance's hard work, he did not put forward any opinions.
After glancing at Yang Fan, Yang Laifu said with some uneasiness: "Sir, my abilities are limited, so I may not be able to shoulder such an important task..."
Waving his hand, Yang Fan smiled slightly and said: "Uncle Fu is always strong. It's time to show off your talents. Just do whatever you want."
Then he sighed and continued: "The process of producing colored glaze needs to be kept strictly confidential. There are not many people I can trust, so Uncle Fu needs to work harder. Xuance has other uses, so don't put any psychological burden on you."
Seeing Yang Fan's trust so much, Yang Laifu certainly stopped being coquettish. His whole face glowed with excitement and he said: "Please rest assured, sir, I will certainly live up to my expectations."
After visiting the glass workshop, Yang Fan took Wang Xuance to the guard training ground without stopping.
From a distance, the training ground looks completely different from what we saw a few days ago.
Wang Xuance saw the doubts in Yang Fan's heart, so he explained: "Since Brother Rengui trained guards here, people often come to watch, which easily affects the training, so a simple fence was built."
Yang Fan suddenly realized that he had thought too simply before and had not even considered this most basic thing.
None of the special forces and military training I have seen before was conducted in a closed environment. Although these people are only guards on the surface, their future uses will definitely be more than that.
After the notification, Xue Rengui quickly ran over from the training ground.
At this time, he was much darker than before, but his face looked more determined, probably because he wore short sleeves for training.
With a straight posture, a strong physique, and well-developed muscles, especially the bulging chest muscles and abdominal muscles, the first impression given by the person is that he is strong, tall, and powerful.
Because the guards' uniforms are uniformly equipped according to Yang Fan's design, although they are not the olive color of later generations of soldiers, they not only facilitate training, but also show a person's temperament.
After a review, the people who were like stragglers at the beginning have now changed completely.
In addition to being physically stronger than before, people are also more confident.
After just a few words of encouragement on the stage, the group of people started to scream as if they had been given a shot of blood.
They know who gave them such a privileged life.
Yang Fan not only divided up the house and land, but also received silver every month.
When I train here, I get meat for every meal, and I eat three meals a day.
They had never dared to imagine such a beautiful life before.
Now that we have such an opportunity, of course we will not let it go, so everyone is training hard for fear that they will fall behind and be eliminated.
Seeing that the training was proceeding in an orderly manner, Yang Fan did not stay too long, but was led by Xue Rengui to the smelting field at the deepest part of the training base.
Although he knew that the ancient iron-making technology was very backward, he never expected that it would be so crude.
A small house was built against the hillside. There were several shaft furnaces in the house, which were probably used for iron smelting.
The height of the furnace is only over one meter, with a bottom diameter of about half a meter. The middle part is thicker and the two ends are slightly narrower. The outer layer is surrounded by cement.
There is a charging port on the top and a vent on the bottom. This design allows the furnace charge to drop and facilitate the rise of hot air.
The high temperature generated by combustion passes through the furnace and transfers heat to the charge, which is considered a heating process.
He had never seen what an iron-making furnace looked like before, but this did not prevent Yang Fan from understanding the truth at a glance.
There is no need to have any knowledge of smelting, as long as a modern person with some knowledge can understand it with a little common sense.
This thing is too crude and simple.
No wonder during the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao ordered craftsmen to make five swords. It took three years to complete. Yang Fan couldn't wait that long.
However, according to historical records, wasn’t the steel filling technology already mature in the Southern and Northern Dynasties?
Thinking of this, Yang Fan turned to Xue Rengui and asked, "Is this an iron-making furnace? Why not make steel?"
Xue Rengui replied with a wry smile: "Yes, this is an iron-making furnace. It took a lot of effort to build it. Only the craftsmen who are overseers of the imperial court understand how to make steel. The iron-making methods spread outside now, because of the furnace temperature If you can’t get up there, it will be difficult to even smelt wrought iron, let alone steel.”
Yang Fan certainly didn't want Li Shimin to send craftsmen to build weapons, which was like a rebellion.
Looking at the iron ore piled aside and the charcoal beside the stove, Yang Fan curled his lips.
Xin said that steelmaking needs at least about 1,500 degrees. This broken furnace is so simple and uses charcoal. How high can the temperature be?
It is difficult to make iron under these conditions, so there is no hope of making steel.
Although I am not majoring in smelting, casual design is probably better than this.
At first I was a little dissatisfied with my design, but now it seems that even a half-baked design is much more advanced than this.
I couldn't help but feel sultry in my heart, thinking that a loser like me could one day become a high-end technical talent after traveling through time.
Making steel, making cement, burning glass... maybe these things can push history forward a big step.
The first industrial revolution was caused by a steam engine. When the time comes, can you build one yourself?
Anyway, this thing doesn't have too high technical content. It's not impossible as long as the steel technology is matured.
If I build a steam engine car, I wonder if it will be named after him.
Well, this is a bit far-fetched!
He patted his forehead to bring his thoughts back to reality.
Let’s think about how to solve the problem of steelmaking.
I asked someone to bring a pen and paper, and wrote out the design of the steel-making furnace and the method of refining coke on the spot.
Whether it can be successful or not depends on the craftsmen slowly experimenting.
When Wang Xuance and Xue Rengui saw Yang Fan's design, they were both surprised and confused.
This steel-making furnace looks very big, more than ten times larger than the iron-making furnace in front of me.
They were even more confused about the method of making coke. Of course they knew about the existence of charcoal.
In their eyes, charcoal can be fatal and poisoning can easily occur.
"First burn the charcoal, and then use the remaining charcoal to burn the charcoal in a closed environment..."
Isn't this just a matter of taking off your pants and farting and putting in extra effort?
Is it really possible to refine the so-called 'burnt'?
The two of them looked confused and couldn't understand it at all. Of course, Yang Fan didn't explain.
Should we explain to the ancients more than a thousand years ago what carbon is?
What is carbon monoxide and what is chemical reaction?
Isn't this nonsense? Moreover, he only knows some theories and has never practiced it in practice.
