Pirate Song

When Gao Huaiyuan walked in the huge courtyard of Crouching Tiger Village with a fresh look, he almost couldn't believe that this was the Crouching Tiger Village that he had built by himself. He came back a little late yesterday, and now Gao Huaiyuan is in a hurry

I wanted to take stock of how my property was developing, so after breakfast early in the morning, I took Liu'er, Jia Qi and others into the backyard of Zhuangzi.

Although the entire front part of Crouching Tiger Villa has not changed much, the backyard has once again expanded a lot. The entire backyard is divided into several areas. The walls are tall and strong. It may not be eye-catching from the outside, but from the inside, it is simply

As solid as a small fortress, the backyard had undergone great changes during his absence during the year.

First, the large amounts of wood obtained from logging were not discarded in the mountains. Instead, they were cut into logs according to Gao Huaiyuan's previous method, and then carried back to the Zhuangzi by manpower, and then neatly stacked up to become the basis for building houses in Zhuangzi.

Even if they build dozens more houses, they may not be able to use up so much wood.

On the other hand, it can be seen how much work Zhou Laowu and his people did during this year to open up the road from Crouching Tiger Villa to the mountains. A shed was also built here and became Zhou Laowu's carpenter's workshop. It's okay.

At that time, I was responsible for making some farm tools and utensils needed by Crouching Tiger Village. Now it is regarded as an independent workshop.

After crossing the woodworking area, we saw the kiln in Liulicang. There was a new kiln here and more kiln workers. More than ten young people with artistic talents were selected here to learn from Li Tong and others.

Art, learning to make glassware.

After Li Tong caught Gao Huaiyuan, he brought Gao Huaiyuan into their separate display room. He pointed excitedly at the various glassware made by their Liulicang on the shelves, and cherished Gao Huaiyuan.

With a general introduction, Li Tong is no longer the depressed house slave who followed Gao Huaiyuan and left Shaoxing three years ago. He has become one of the gods of wealth in Crouching Tiger Village. After such a long time, Li Tong has also

He had already fallen in love with this kind of skill. According to Liu Er, Li Tong had hardly been out of Crouching Tiger Village in the past year. He stayed in Liulicang with the craftsmen all day long, thinking about how to produce glassware.

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Judging from the finished products placed on the shelves, Gao Huaiyuan himself had to admire that many of the glassware were quite beautifully made. Among the various glassware, the craftsmanship of many items had reached a considerable level. With something like glass

, and combined with the ideas of ancient craftsmen, produced many things that look antique and exude a modern atmosphere. At least Gao Huaiyuan asked himself, now he can't make such beautiful glassware no matter what.

Got it!

Among these glassware, there are not only decorations such as vases, but also daily necessities such as wine glasses, wine bowls, and dinner plates. Although they appear in various colors due to the metal components contained in the raw materials, the purity of the glass is not

There has been a great improvement, which shows that Li Tong has found the key technology that can control the production of glass liquid, which plays a vital role in the production of entire glassware.

When he picked up a crystal clear glass wine jug, Gao Huaiyuan immediately laughed. This glass wine jug was very well blown, both in shape and workmanship. It was beautiful, but Gao Huaiyuan was not smiling like this.

, but the material of the entire glass flask. The glass of this flask is completely transparent, without any variegation, showing the form of completely transparent colorless glass. A year ago, Liulifang had never seen anything like this.

It is not easy to produce such pure color glass from crystal-like glass, even if it is accidental.

Looking at this wine pot made of colorless glass, Gao Huaiyuan's heart moved slightly, and he immediately asked Li Tong: "Li Tong, when was this furnace of molten glass fired? Have you ever paid attention to the raw materials?

Is there any raw material left in this batch of colored glaze?"

Li Tong looked at the wine pot in Gao Huaiyuan's hand, and immediately showed a proud smile, and quickly replied: "I remember this pot of glazed wine pot very clearly. It was fired three months ago."

When I was young, I discovered the difference between the products made from colored glaze liquid, and even wrote down the recipe at that time. However, no matter what happened afterwards, I never produced such clear colored glaze again.

Xiao Xiao didn’t know how this furnace of colored glaze came to be like this, but Xiao Xiao felt that such things were hard to come by, so he only made a small amount of them and bought them. According to Huang Shibo, the first few items would be available as soon as they were available.

, it was immediately sought after by many wealthy people, and the price was even more ridiculously high, so Xiao Xiao stored the unused colored glaze and only made one or two items every month and gave them to Jubaozhai for sale. Now

But we have to take care of our treasure!

I regard the remaining colored glaze as very precious! There is still quite a lot left, so if Master is of use, I can just take it out for you!"

Gao Huaiyuan was overjoyed when he heard this. It seemed that this furnace of glass really appeared by chance, but it met his needs, because during the days when he was fighting in the field, Gao Huaiyuan had already felt that he had made great progress in mastering the battlefield situation.

This is an inconvenience because both the enemy and we have the same eyesight, so they often spot their opponents at the same time. If the opponent can be spotted in advance on the battlefield, it will play a vital role in the battlefield situation.

So he had wanted to make some telescopes for a long time, but he didn't have the right materials on hand at the moment. He originally planned to find a way to purchase some extremely transparent crystals from the market to grind some lenses after he came back this time.

To make telescopes, now that he has this clear glass, he has solved the problem of materials.

"Haha! Not bad! This kind of thing is hard to come by, and it is not easy for you to burn it. There is no need to produce these things anymore in the future. I will keep this batch of colored glaze. I have other uses for it in the future.

Please pay attention to the raw materials and formulas of each furnace of colored glaze liquid, and make detailed records. I believe that after a period of time, such colored glaze can still be fired. Then we can talk about making other items. I will leave all the colored glaze in stock for me.

Come down!" Gao Huaiyuan slapped Li Tong on the shoulder vigorously and ordered with a smile.

Li Tong was so slapped by Gao Huaiyuan that he grinned, his shoulders slumped, trying to avoid Gao Huaiyuan's big hand, thinking that his young master must have thought of something new again, otherwise he wouldn't be so happy, but you

It’s okay to be happy, why bother patting me on the shoulder? You don’t know how strong you are! After not seeing each other for a year, it seems that the young master’s strength has increased a lot!

Gao Huaiyuan turned his head and saw Li Tong grinning. He quickly raised his hand and did not dare to slap him again. He reached out and brushed Li Tong's shoulder and said with a smile: "Sorry, sorry! I used a little too much force! Haha! Be careful next time.

Yes! Haha!”

Liu'er, who followed Gao Huaiyuan, immediately pursed her lips and laughed. She was very happy to see Gao Huaiyuan so happy. Although Gao Huaiyuan didn't really eat her last night, he gave her a deep kiss.

Kiss, this kiss had already shown that Gao Huaiyuan would accept her love. Liu'er was so excited that her heart almost stopped beating, and she fell softly into Gao Huaiyuan's arms.

This kiss also completely brought the relationship between the two of them closer. Liu'er no longer has to worry about anything. From getting up this morning to now, Liu'er is in a very comfortable mood. She smiles at everyone she sees, as if she is back again.

It was almost a year ago, which made the people in Zhuangzi a little surprised, but they all immediately thought of the reason and were very happy for Liu'er.

When walking out of Liulicang, Li Tong suddenly said to Gao Huaiyuan: "Master, during this year, many people from Jubaozhai came to me and wanted us to provide them with some more colored mirrors. The ones made by Master last time

The glazed mirror caused an uproar in the market. There were many people wanting to buy it. However, the small ones did not know how to make such glazed mirrors, so they made a lot of money. After the young master came back this time, he had to make some more no matter what.

, that glass mirror is so beautiful! As for the flat glass"

Gao Huaiyuan slapped his head. When he led his team to the expedition, he had forgotten about this matter. Fortunately, he came back alive. Otherwise, the craft of making glass mirrors might have been lost in the long river of history again.

bingo!

"Look at my head, I am only thinking about something, and I have forgotten such a big thing. Don't worry, Li Tong, I will teach you this craft later. You can make as many glazed mirrors as you want in the future!

Haha!" Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but slap Li Tong on the shoulder again, and Li Tong was knocked to the ground by Gao Huaiyuan with a plop.

Everyone immediately burst into laughter. Gao Huaiyuan hurriedly pulled Li Tong up from the ground, while raising his hand and looking at his palm, thinking, is this such an exaggeration? Is his strength really so scary?

After coming out of Liulicang, Gao Huaiyuan raised his legs and entered the now huge courtyard of Soap Fang. There was an unpleasant smell everywhere and it was a steaming scene. Dozens of large pots were lined up.

There was a flame burning under the stove, and soap liquid was boiling in the pot. A group of teenagers held scrapers to continuously scrape out the soap liquid that had precipitated in the pot, and then turned around and placed it in the mold to cool and form. Some people kept pouring it into the mold.

The molds filled with soap solution were moved out to dry one by one, and the entire production was in full swing.

After seeing Gao Huaiyuan enter the workshop, everyone stopped and saluted Gao Huaiyuan. There were not only orphans from Crouching Tiger Village, but also some people who were tenants of the Gao family's old house working here. The scale of production is now quite large.

, so relying solely on the manpower of Wohu Village is obviously not enough.

The tenants at the old house of the Gao family are only busy during a few busy farming seasons a year, and most of the time they are relatively leisurely. Gao Huaiyuan has given them many favors in the past, so these tenants are very grateful to Gao Huaiyuan. Liu Er has spent more than half a year

, because of the lack of manpower, they thought of utilizing these tenants, giving them some wages every day, and letting them work in Wohu Village to earn some extra money.

These tenants had money to make, so of course they flocked to it and signed up one after another. Finally, Xue Yan came forward to select a group of people and sent them to Crouching Tiger Village to work. Now they are the first batch of workers in Crouching Tiger Village!

Although this matter was not approved by Gao Huaiyuan, most of these tenants were honest farmers. After accepting Jiang Peng's instructions, they all cherished this opportunity, so they kept a strict tone and no one went out to promote soap.

Things produced by Crouching Tiger Village.

After Gao Huaiyuan learned about the matter this time, he did not raise any objections. After all, these people worked here and had no access to the core secrets. They only knew that the oil in soap was the raw material, and they did not know about other raw materials.

, and after the industry develops to a certain extent, it is obviously unrealistic to completely use one's own people to do the work, and soap is not too mysterious. It will always become a mass consumer product one day, so it is very difficult to use these tenants to work here.

Huaiyuan finally agreed to Liu'er's decision.

The current soap factory is at least twice as large as when Gao Huaiyuan left. Because of the increase in sales from the Wang family, Jiang Peng continues to expand production. Now their daily output has at least tripled compared to before Gao Huaiyuan left.

The quality of the soap produced has steadily improved, and the consumption of raw materials has also decreased. Although the profit is not as great as Liulifang, at least in this era, it is almost catching up with drug trafficking!

Gao Huaiyuan watched these soaps being continuously produced. Thinking about the profits he had made, he felt a little ashamed. He had never thought of being able to do this in business.

Jiang Peng took Gao Huaiyuan around the soap workshop and reported the situation of the soap workshop to Gao Huaiyuan. The entire soap workshop has basically formed an industrial scale, and everyone here performs their duties, and finally completed

After all production, the soap is packed in wooden boxes. Every two days, the finished products are loaded on oxcarts and transported to Daye County, where they are handed over to the Wang family for transportation to various places for sale, so there is basically no need to do anything.

Heart.

Even so, the Wang family is still urging the goods, hoping that Wohu Village can produce more, but at present, the output of Wohu Village can basically only reach this point. After all, they still produce in a hand-made workshop style, without

If we want to double production with modern equipment, I'm afraid Zhuangzi won't be able to accommodate it!

"Master, the output of our soap workshop is increasing day by day, but there is a problem. After we produce the soap, there is still some grease left in the pot that cannot be used anymore. These things are small and we don't know how to use them, let alone

Dare to eat it, but it's a pity to throw it away in vain. I tried feeding some to a dog, but the dog was not dead, but it looked half-dead. What on earth is this thing? Is it possible to just throw it away in vain?

?" Jiang Peng asked Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately understood what Jiang Peng was referring to, so he smiled and said: "Don't throw it away, this thing is a good thing. It is glycerin, which is a by-product of soap! I didn't pay attention to this thing before, but today you mentioned it

It is a good thing to come out. If you throw it away, it will not only be bad for the environment in this area, but also wasteful! Let me tell you, there is no big problem in eating a small amount of this glycerin. On the contrary, it can be used as medicine, but no one knows how to use it now!

Generally speaking, glycerin has a wide range of uses. At least it can be applied directly to the skin now. It can prevent skin cracks in winter and play a role in moisturizing the skin. It can also be made into ice cream, which is a good thing for skin beautification.

In that case, it will be another good thing to make money. It’s just that we are still short of some raw materials. Later, when I think of ways to get some spices, I will launch the cream. By then, I can guarantee that women will definitely flock to it and compete for it.

I’m rushing to buy it! Haha!”

Jiang Peng was overjoyed and said with a smile: "It seems that I made a lot of big tanks and kept the glycerin. Otherwise, it would be like pouring money into the river water! Haha!"

Holding a piece of soap that had been formed, Gao Huaiyuan smiled and said to Jiang Peng: "Although this soap looks good now, it is still a bit inappropriate for bathing. It needs to be refined and subtracted some alkali. If it can be refined some more,

As for the fragrance, if you mix it in a little bit, it can be called soap. As for the fragrance, it is not difficult. There are many jasmine flowers in the mountains in our area, and there are also many three-flowered grass in the mountains and fields. Now is the jasmine flowering season, so why not

Please ask Huang Shibo to arrange for someone to purchase a large batch. The extracted essence can not only be used to make soap, but also to produce perfume. It will be difficult to make money by then! Haha!"

Jiang Peng was most interested in playing with these things. As soon as he heard that Gao Huaiyuan could refine essence, he immediately became energetic. He followed Gao Huaiyuan and was busy asking about how to refine essence. Gao Huaiyuan smiled mysteriously, shook his head and said: "

You can’t talk about it! I’ll let you know when I prepare the raw materials later! It’s all in vain if I say it now! Haha! You go to Huang Shibo about this and ask him to start preparing it, and wait until I have free time.

, and I’ll teach you how to make perfume!”

Jiang Peng had no choice but to give up, but immediately ran to Huang Zhen and asked him to help buy jasmine and some three-flowered grass. However, Huang Zhen showed his hands and said: "Jasmine is fine, but what is this three-flowered grass? I

I’ve never even heard of it, how can I collect it?”

Jiang Peng was surprised when he heard it! This was the first time he had heard of Sanhuacao. He didn’t even know what it was, so how could he get Huang Zhen to buy it? So he had to run back to Gao Huaiyuan to find out what Sanhuacao was and how long it grew.

What does it look like.

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan had already walked into the blacksmith shop. Before he entered the blacksmith shop, he heard the sound of clanging iron in the distance. When Gao Huaiyuan entered the blacksmith shop, he saw that the place was full of people. The same

It’s also a lively scene.dd