Liu Zheng met Zheng Yueru at the county houfu.
The eldest lady of the Zheng family, when she entered the house, she said something that made Liu Zheng confused.
"Brother Liu, should I congratulate you or sympathize with you?"
Zheng Yueru saw that she was dusty, so she sat down and took a sip of tea.
Liu Zheng was stunned: "What do you think Miss Zheng said?"
Zheng Yueru took out a pile of banknotes from her pocket and said with a smile: "Congratulations, this is Brother Liu's advertising method, which has opened the market for several fine wines in Liangzhou. The reserves of my Zheng family were robbed within three days." But Kong! This is the ten thousand taels this time, Brother Liu, please keep it!"
Liu Zheng was so excited when he heard that he wanted to hug Zheng Yueru and kiss her hard.
If you are really sleepy, just use the pillow.
I haven't seen Zheng Yueru in the past few days. It turned out that he was in Liangzhou for "promotion".
Ten thousand taels was enough for him to spend a while.
"What do you mean by sympathy?"
Liu Zheng collected the banknotes and looked at Zheng Yueru doubtfully.
Zheng Yueru sighed deeply, stood up and clasped her fists and said: "Brother Liu's love for the people and his kindness are obvious to all the people of Yinzhou, and it has even spread to the cities around Yinzhou. But this time, Brother Liu's production team really failed to consider it!"
Liu Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking that he was here for this matter, and said with a leisurely smile: "I thought that the Marquis of our county and the Zheng family were already brothers. I didn't want Miss Zheng to be a lobbyist as well." ?”
In the past few days, when the county magistrate was drafting the "production team" decree, many prominent families and landlords came to their homes to beg for help.
After all, this matter involves the production tools controlled by these noble families, how can they not be anxious?
In every territory, there must actually be at least two opposing factions. In this era, these two factions are the noble families and the common people.
If you want to rule this territory, you must either support the noble families and oppress the people.
Either support the common people or fight against the noble families.
Liu Zheng naturally chose the common people, because the base was very large, and this was caused by his three views.
Zheng Yueru smiled bitterly: "How dare Yueru, Yueru is just worried that Brother Liu's move will not only not achieve the expected results, but will also affect the spring plowing of the new year!"
Liu Zheng looked unbelieving: "Why do you say that?"
Zheng Yueru explained patiently: "Yueru just rushed back to Yinzhou today and read the decree carefully. Brother Liu made it clear in the decree that the captain of the production team will give priority to farmer representatives, right?"
Liu Zheng laughed loudly: "So Miss Zheng is worried about this?"
"Yes, Liu Zheng believes that farming belongs to the people and should be coordinated by the people! Miss Zheng, I have made up my mind on this matter, and there is no need to mention it again!"
He picked up the tea cup to see off the guests.
Zheng Yueru looked helpless, knowing that once the Liu family decided to do anything, even nine cows would not be able to pull him back. So he sighed deeply and looked at Liu Zheng provocatively, with a faint smile on his lips: "Brother Liu, why don't we gamble again?"
Liu Zheng was stunned and said: "How to bet?"
Zheng Yueru took a deep breath: "Yueru bets that the production team's decree will be difficult to implement, and it may even affect the spring plowing in the coming year! If Yueru wins by luck, Brother Liu will give me 10% of the ancient water that has not entered the market!"
Liu Zheng heard this very interestingly and laughed loudly: "What if I win?"
Zheng Yueru said: "If Brother Liu wins, the Zheng family won't take 10% of the profit from the ancient prickly water! Moreover, the Zheng family will give away 10,000 slaves to the county marquis for free!"
Liu Zheng was overjoyed and decided immediately.
He didn't believe that such an advanced production model of the Life Team would not work? Will it even affect spring plowing next year?
The two immediately entered into a "bet" contract.
Before leaving, Zheng Yueru looked deeply at Liu Zheng and reminded: "Brother Liu, Lu Zhengyi from Yangzhou is waging war and seems to be making some moves. Brother Liu should be careful!"
"Lu Zhengyi?"
Liu Zheng sneered again and again.
This son occupies Yangzhou, which is much richer than Yinzhou, and can't even stop bandits. Liu Zheng has never taken him seriously. It would be fine if he didn't provoke him. If he dared to provoke him first, Liu Zheng wouldn't mind teaching him how to behave.
After discussing with Zheng Yueru, Liu Zheng came to his workshop again.
Sure enough, under the management of the responsibility system, Shen Gongfang became more orderly, and there was no longer the chaos before. The person in charge of each department does not need to work, only needs to manage.
Today, he is developing another divine item!
Glass!
The reason why he asked Zheng Yueru not to put the perfume into the market for the time being. It's because those ceramic jars and bottles in Yinzhou are really not worthy of a real "luxury product" like perfume!
Good things come in good bottles!
In fact, glass is not a new thing. As early as 3700 BC, ancient Egyptians had made glass decorations and simple glass vessels. But at that time, there was only colored glass. About 1000 BC, China produced colorless glass. At the beginning of the 12th century AD, commercial glass appeared and began to become an industrial material. In the Qing Dynasty in the 18th century, optical glass was manufactured to meet the needs of developing telescopes.
However, the glass in ancient my country has always been relatively simple low-temperature lead-barium glass. Due to its chemical composition and firing temperature, it will explode when exposed to hot water, because it cannot be used as daily utensils at all. This also leads to the fact that this ancient glass can only be used as decoration and cannot be used in other fields.
What Liu Zheng wants to develop today is soda-lime glass!
This is truly practical glass, strong and durable, and will not burst when exposed to heat.
"Is the young master engaged in scientific research again?"
"What are you going to do this time?"
"Who knows this..."
He has probably formed a habit. As long as Liu Zheng stays in this workshop for a few days and does not go back, he must be tinkering with something different!
As for the word "scientific research", it was Liu Zheng who taught them.
The craftsmen understood it and were looking forward to it.
And this news will spread throughout Yinzhou as soon as possible.
at this time.
Wang family.
When Wang Zengming heard the news, the decadence he felt because of the production team was instantly wiped away.
"What? Mr. Liu is doing scientific research again?"
"Hurry, hurry, saddle up my horse!"
"No matter what, we must get there before the Zheng family and Cao family this time!"
Wang Zengming was refreshed and ran out of the house with his teeth and claws open.
In Zuiyinzhou and Xuejiaang, the Cao family and the Zheng family made a lot of money, which made people jealous. This made Wang Zengming very depressed, but the Wang family didn't get anything!
This time, he must come out on top!
Then, when he came to the entrance of the God's Workshop, he saw the carriages of the other two families. His face suddenly darkened: "Will these two beasts give our Wang family a way to live?"
The God's Workshop is absolutely confidential and cannot be entered by ordinary people.
So, the carriage stopped at a safe distance from the gate of the God's Workshop. Although it was freezing cold, no one wanted to leave.
"Hahahaha, Yuan Wang is here too?"
"Wang Yuanwai is late this time! We have been here for two days!"
Wang Zengming was so angry that he was trembling all over. At a glance, he saw that these two nobles from prominent families had already put stoves in the carriages with "Drunken Yinzhou" roasting on them. It seemed that they were here to fight a protracted war.
"Haha, you two are really working hard!"
Wang Zengming snorted, got into the fire-heated carriage, and sat down unceremoniously.
"Wang Yuan really doesn't see outsiders!"
"You two, don't go too far!"
"Without further ado, what is Mr. Liu developing this time?"
As for the old man of the Zheng family, Zheng Sheng rolled his eyes, stroked his beard and smiled lightly: "It probably has nothing to do with your two families."
"Old man from the Zheng family, please don't be arrogant!"
"That's not certain!"
The three old men started arguing on the spot, staring like children fighting over toys. This made some passers-by look very interesting, and they admired in their hearts. Before the county magistrate and his son came, none of these noble families had their eyes high above their heads and looked at people through their noses. Who would have thought that it had only been more than a month, and in Liu In front of the young master, he just farts and doesn't dare to fart.
"Bring me the wine!"
"Come on, come on, I'll ask the butler to bring a few kilograms of meat!"
"Whoever gets drunk will voluntarily withdraw from this competition!"
"good!"
…
At this time, Liu Zheng in the Shengongfang had burned out three furnaces of glass.
This was what he expected. If this thing was really so easy to burn, the Chinese people would have figured it out long ago.
The raw materials for making glass are quartz sand, limestone, feldspar, and soda ash.
As for the quartz sand and feldspar, they have been around since ancient times, because these two are important raw materials for ceramics. Our country's ceramics are famous overseas, so this quartz sand is still easy to get.
Limestone had been calcined by Liu Zheng when he was in Yangzhou, so it was not difficult.
And soda ash…
For Liu Zheng, this is even simpler. Because natural soda ash mainly exists in salt lakes! If Liu Zheng was in another city, this thing would be very difficult to deal with. But...this is Yinzhou!
Why did Liu Zheng choose Yinzhou as a fiefdom in the first place? Because there are salt lakes and mine salt here!
Therefore, probably in the entire Longyan Dynasty, only Yinzhou can produce the kind of glass Liu Zheng wants!
The materials are complete, and the next step is the craftsmanship.
The first is the ingredients. This is the longest process because Liu Zheng needs to constantly explore the proportions. Mixing these materials evenly, each with different proportions, will directly affect the quality of the glass.
Then the next step is calcination. The prepared raw materials are heated to a high temperature to form a uniform bubble-free glass liquid, usually between 1,200 degrees to 1,600 degrees. This temperature can be achieved by the blast furnace of Liu Zhengshen Workshop. The time required is four hours, that is, more than eight hours, before it can be fired into molten glass.
The third process is molding. What Liu Zheng currently wants to make is a bottle for carrying perfume, so he has already made a ceramic mold. He only needs to pour the glass liquid into it, and then after a cooling process, the glass is first made of The viscous liquid state changes to a plastic state and then to a brittle solid state.
The last step is annealing.
Glass undergoes severe temperature changes and shape changes during the forming process, which leave thermal stress in the glass. This thermal stress reduces the strength and thermal stability of the glass article. If it is cooled directly, it is likely to break by itself during the cooling process or during subsequent storage, transportation and use. In human terms, it means to keep a certain temperature, keep it warm or cool it down slowly.
Liu Zheng, on the other hand, added a certain amount of lead during the production process, which allowed the glass bottles to be made. With the added refractive index, the bottles could produce dazzling refraction.
In other words, what he is working on now is the crystal glass of future generations!
Then there are the various colors of tinted glass.
This time was different from the previous times. This was a real chemical reaction, so when Liu Zheng tried it, he had already driven everyone outside. Because if you are not careful, chemical accidents will occur.
He drilled in the God's Workshop for five days.
"boom!"
That night, a loud noise suddenly came from the Shengongfang.
"ah!"
"What's wrong?"
"Master!"
The entire Shengongfang was shocked.
