Pirate Song

Memories can only be memories. Gao Huaiyuan still had to consider the current matters. After shaking his head, he returned his thoughts to his eyes.

One of my father's previous industries included a glass factory, so the first thing he thought of was the production of glass. This was a rare thing in China during the Southern Song Dynasty. As long as it was developed, it would definitely be a way to make a fortune, and manufacturing

It's not too much trouble to get up.

He was a little happy at first and decided to start with this place first, but after thinking about it for a while, he immediately felt a little discouraged! The craftsmanship is easy to say. Since he was a child, he often visited the glass factory started by his father, and he learned all kinds of craftsmanship.

If you don't know everything, at least you are not an amateur, but you are stuck in the raw materials! Among the raw materials for glass, quartz sand, feldspar, and limestone are readily available, but if you want to make high-quality glass, you must also add soda ash.

, Dad’s glass factory used to produce glass, and soda ash was purchased directly from the market, but in this era, where can I get soda ash? Depressing!

Making soda ash? Tsk! He has the idea but not the ability. Chemistry is not his strong point and he can’t do it even if he wants to. What should he do?

If you can’t make glass, then make soap! This thing is the simplest, but you still need to use soda ash! It’s even more depressing! As for things like perfume, toothpaste, it’s easy to say, but I’ve heard of it, but I don’t know how to make it.

, then depressed! It seems that history is history, and the development of science and technology is also an interlocking matter. It is very difficult to intercept a section alone! Many things seem simple, but they are all related to various disciplines. Only

We have to go hand in hand. Gao Huaiyuan's mood began to become depressed. Is it so difficult to do something by himself?

After a few days of wandering around, the ambitious Gao Huaiyuan was deeply shocked. Is it possible that he, a guy with a lot of modern knowledge from later generations, was unable to make any money in the Southern Song Dynasty? Gao Huaiyuan even imagined it.

I can't wait to find a place to hit the wall and pull him down.

After walking around like this for a few days, he remembered the small porcelain kiln at home again, so he took Xue Yan around to the small porcelain kiln. When he saw the small porcelain kiln from a distance, he didn't know which muscle suddenly moved.

His mood suddenly became brighter, he slapped his head fiercely, and burst into laughter. Xue Yan, who was following him, was confused. He didn't know what the young master was up to.

"Haha! I'm really a bit over the top these days!" Gao Huaiyuan laughed and turned towards the small porcelain kiln.

The reason why Gao Huaiyuan suddenly changed like this is because he found that he had limited his thinking when it came to glass. He only wanted to make high-quality colorless glass, but he did not expect that glass was not a thing at all in the beginning.

They are all decorations, so what’s the harm in having a little color? What’s more, the first glass produced in Italy in history was all colored glass, which was originally used for decoration! What’s the harm if the quality is not high? Even so, it is enough to impress people of the world

I was very surprised. As for whether it has color or not, what does it matter? If there is no soda ash, just use trona. The glass made of it will still be sought after by the rich. Why worry about not being able to make money?

There is also soap. The ancients could make alkaline water from plant ashes. The lack of caustic soda only consumes more raw materials, but the price goes without saying. Once made, it will definitely be a luxury product of the era. Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty,

The soap nuts used by the common people in the era or the soap nuts in the north were much better! Although it cannot benefit the common people quickly, how difficult is it to take money out of the pockets of those rich people?

He is a dignified time traveler and has a lot of knowledge about future generations. If he still can't make money, he really should find a place to get a rope and hang himself! After thinking about these things, Gao Huaiyuan suddenly felt a lot more enlightened.

The depression was instantly gone, and confidence returned to his body again.

The small porcelain kiln is very small, with only three kiln workers, all of whom are domestic slaves of the Gao family. They usually bake some coarse porcelain and sell it to some tenants in the surrounding area at a very low price. After deducting the cost, there is basically not much surplus.

, so it has never been taken seriously by the Gao family. It is considered a dispensable business. It can earn some living expenses for the Gao family's old house. Gao Laogen is too lazy to work hard to make money here, so the three kiln workers work all day long.

They are all lazy, they work a little if they want to, and they just bask in the sun if they don't want to. They are just three idle people.

But their leisurely days finally came to an end when Gao Huaiyuan set his sights on them. Although the small porcelain kiln was not large in scale, it was very suitable for him to start here. After experimental transformation, it could be put into production.

He didn’t need to think about a modern glass factory, he just started with a small handicraft workshop!

Gao Huaiyuan was an absolute action man, and he did what he said. He called the three kiln workers together, first reprimanded them, and then gave them some rewards. He added carrots and sticks, and after some rectification, the three kiln workers

He immediately cheered up, and then he put forward suggestions for improvements to the kiln according to relatively primitive methods, but did not tell the three kiln workers why they did this. He only asked them to modify the porcelain kiln according to their own requirements, manpower

If it's not enough, find someone among the tenant farmers. Anyway, they have finished their autumn planting and have nothing to do. Find something for them to do to make extra money.

The kiln workers also knew Gao Huaiyuan's temperament and did not dare to neglect. They immediately started working. Gao Huaiyuan sent Li Tong out to collect river sand, feldspar, limestone and other materials. After bringing them back, he found someone.

Smashed into pieces, crushed and sifted. In order to keep it secret, he also made a lot of other unrelated things and mixed them together. Finally, he asked Xue Yan and Li Tong to secretly dispose of these unrelated things before mixing the raw materials according to the formula.

Than mix evenly.

This made a group of people very confused. They didn't know what he was doing and why these things were used in the kiln. However, the three kiln workers did not dare to ask more questions and could only work dully. For this reason, Gao Huaiyuan

Some very honest and loyal tenants were also asked to work in the kilns to earn some pocket money, but they were asked not to tell anyone about anything.

These people had all been favored by Gao Huaiyuan, so they naturally promised that they would never go out and talk nonsense. Moreover, these people were grateful to Gao Huaiyuan for giving them an opportunity to earn pocket money to supplement their families, so they worked very hard.

Lu Laoshi was not young yet, but he still took his two sons to work in the porcelain kiln day and night, unable to drive them away, which made Gao Huaiyuan feel very emotional.

After being so busy for a period of time, the porcelain kiln was finally converted into a simple vertical glass kiln. Gao Huaiyuan made some special drawings and sent Li Tong to find a blacksmith near the county seat to make a batch of tools. Everything was ready.

Dongfeng, in accordance with the requirements of the kiln workers, chose an auspicious day to light the kiln.

Although the three kiln workers were experienced in firing kilns, they had no idea what they were going to bake this time. Gao Huaiyuan asked them to mix up a pot of unknown powder and push it to the kiln.

He asked them to light the fire and burn the kiln, so they had to follow Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, work hard to fill the fire and blow the air, and work in shifts to increase the temperature inside the kiln. Gao Huaiyuan was also uneasy. After all, this earthen glass kiln was very primitive.

It is crude and lacks necessary thermometers. Whether it can meet the requirements of vitrification, everything can only be moved forward by groping. Who knows what the first kiln glass fired in this way will look like.

In this way, Gao Huaiyuan stayed in the glass kiln all day long and did not leave for many days in a row. After opening the kiln for the first two times, he failed. Although vitrification occurred, it could not meet the requirements at all, so he had to scrap it and pull it down.

The heavy firing made the three kiln workers exhausted, and they couldn't figure out what the situation was!

Gao Huaiyuan ignored them, adjusting the furnace temperature again and again and making detailed records. Finally, the hard work paid off. After several experiments, a pot of red glass juice was fired.

In the high temperature, Gao Huaiyuan looked at the products of this batch and finally grinned with joy.

"Succeeded! Haha! Our colored glaze was successful! Hahahaha... Now we are rich!" After seeing the furnace of glass, Gao Huaiyuan couldn't contain his excitement and started dancing.

But others really couldn't understand what this pot of sticky stuff with high temperature was. It was really uncomfortable, but Gao Huaiyuan didn't care at all and brought a special iron pipe.

One end was dipped in a ball of glass liquid, put it to his mouth and blew hard, and gradually a ball appeared at the other end of the iron pipe.

Everyone's eyes began to open wide, and they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

"Don't stand there stupidly, turn on the heat, you can't blow it when it's cold! Hurry up!" Gao Huaiyuan shouted to the kiln workers, pointing to a nearby stove.

These people quickly blew air into the stove. Gao Huaiyuan heated the hardening glass ball on the stove, continued to blow it hard, and continued to use some tools to trim the thing, until it gradually formed a vase.

shape, and then used iron scissors to cut the still soft vase from the other end of the iron pipe, put it in a tray and shouted: "Send it to the annealing room quickly, otherwise it will explode when it cools down!"

So Xue Yan hurriedly took the tray, used a long pole to carefully push it into a separate small room where the temperature was very high, and put it away.

"Don't be stupid, try to blow it, don't care what it looks like, just give it a try!" Gao Huaiyuan dipped the iron pipe into a ball of glass liquid again and greeted Xue Yan and others.

So these people quickly took an iron pipe and carefully began to imitate Gao Huaiyuan's example, blowing hard on the iron pipe.

Don't look at Gao Huaiyuan doing this job, these people who are exposed to glass for the first time are not good enough. Several people used their strength to blow, and the result was that they either couldn't blow, or they blew out a weird-shaped thing, not to mention how ugly it looked.

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