Chapter 51: Glass

The workshop has been built, and in three months, almost all of Tang Mo's attention has been on the workshop, where a lot of her efforts have been condensed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Today is the day of completion of the workshop, and the craftsmen are working on the last canal of the creek, which will be completed before sunset.

A few more hours passed, and the last bluestone fell, and the craftsmen began to clean up the dust in the workshop.

After cleaning, they lifted the stones that had previously blocked the water, and the water flowed from the outside into the artificial stream in the workshop.

Tang Mo watched the craftsmen leave one by one, the final payment had been paid yesterday, and now this place is completely Tang Mo's own.

Li Lingyue and Miss Luo were busy buying raw materials and didn't come here.

Tang Mo walked in the workshop and came to a rockery.

She turned her hand around a small tree in the rockery, and then a crack in the rockery opened, revealing a passage downward.

Tang Mo walked up to this downward passage, the passage was pitch black, and he didn't know where it led.

Walk down the passage until you reach the end, where you see a small iron door.

Tang Mo took out a copper key, opened the lock on the iron door, and then pushed the iron door open.

Inside the iron gate, there are three parallel corridors, which means that you can choose three directions to go forward.

Tang Mo first entered the right side, and in the passage on the right, Tang Mo planted several demonized man-eating vines, and then retreated.

Then Tang Mofu entered the left side again, and also planted several demonized cannibal vines on the left side.

Finally, Tang Mo came to the middle passage and entered it.

Along the middle passage, we walked to another node room.

There were six passages in this room, and Tang Mo planted demonized man-eating vines in four of them, leaving the passage to enter and the passage to the left to enter.

Then Tang Mo entered the left channel, and in the rest of the nodes and passages, he chose a random channel to plant the demonized man-eating vine, and memorized the order by himself.

Finally, Tang Mo came to the underground workshop located in the center.

This is the real heart of the area, where the glass will be made.

The first thing Tang Mo wanted to make was a glass mirror, which has not been passed down to China at all, so it is a rare treasure and the most valuable thing.

Tang Mo was going to make a silver-plated mirror, after all, mercury was toxic, and it was unreasonable to use it on a treasure-grade glass mirror.

Tang Mo arranged the demonized man-eating vine, and then left the underground workshop.

The next day, Li Lingyue and Miss Luo brought the raw materials back, and Tang Mo wrote down the method of entry on a piece of paper, and burned it directly after reading it to Miss Luo and Li Lingyue.

Then Tang Mo directly asked them to send the raw materials into the underground workshop.

After that, Tang Mo summoned the craftsmen and overseers he had hired before, blindfolded them, and led them into the core area of the underground workshop.

Untying the black cloth from their eyes, they came to a dimly lit place, with brass oil lamps lit on the walls and a blast furnace burning in front of them.

"From now on, you will work here, and you will have the opportunity to go home and visit your family once a year. Tang Mo said.

"What kind of place is this, boss?" asked one of the craftsmen.

"You don't need to know, don't figure it out to get out on your own, okay, I'll give you the formula, and you can get to work. Tang Mo took out the recipe for how to make glass prepared in advance.

"Boss, then we'll get to work. "After getting the recipe, the craftsmen discussed it together.

As experienced craftsmen, they have experienced a lot, and they naturally understand the idea that the owner wants to keep secrets, and they have no intention of leaving at the moment, and they begin to work hard to study the formula.

Seeing that the craftsmen were putting in their work, Tang Mo called a few overseers, "Your main task is to watch over them here, don't let them escape, I will ask Miss Luo to bring you your daily meals." ”

"Got it," the overseers got into the groove as well.

The first piece of glass was officially made six days later, pure and translucent, and made into a round solid glass sphere, which was the first attempt of the craftsmen.

On the eighth day, the first round glass mirror was made, and the surface was fairly flat enough to be used.

Tang Mo asked a craftsman who knew carpentry to make a wooden mirror for it, then took the glass outside and used an earthen battery to silver it himself.

This is the first mirror made in the workshop, Tang Mo held it and looked at himself inside, compared to the bronze mirror, it was a hundred times clearer.

It's just that due to the first manufacture, the craftsman's technology is not mature enough, and this mirror has more or less a lot of flaws, so this mirror Tang Mo has no intention of selling.

Tang Mo sent this mirror to the Yingchun Fang, placed it on the first floor of the Yingchun Fang, and built a special platform to display it, and called it "the ancient mirror of the Western Regions".

The girls who saw the mirror for the first time were amazed, and they crowded in front of the mirror to see what they looked like.

Those guests who came to Yingchun also noticed this mirror, and many guests wanted to buy it at a high price, but Tang Mo had no intention of selling it.

On the tenth day, the first glass mirror that could be sold was manufactured, which was half smaller than the previous mirror, which was also the reason why Tang Mo considered marketing, and he couldn't compare the old things from the beginning.

As before, let the carpenter make the mirror, gild it with silver, and set it in.

Tang Mo brought the mirror to the Yingchun Fang, and then released the news that the Yingchun Fang would auction an ancient mirror from the Western Regions.

Many people thought that the previous mirror was finally going to be auctioned, and they came to participate with a lot of money.

When Tang Mo showed a new mirror, it was not as big as the previous one, but it was much more refined, but the most important thing was the effect of this mirror, which could clearly reflect people and be a rare treasure.

Tang Mo set the reserve price of the mirror at 1,000 taels of silver, and many people felt that this reserve price was set a little low, but this was an auction after all, and it was understandable that the reserve price was lower.

Then the auction began, and for this palm-sized mirror, rich men competed to bid, and soon the price soared to 10,000 taels.

"I'll pay 10,000 taels!" The bidder was a wealthy family in the capital, with hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land at home and a net worth of more than one million taels.

"12,000 times"

"12,000 Times"

"10,000 taels, deal!"

In the end, this small mirror was sold for a high price of 10,000 taels, which is not bad, you must know that in this era, 10,000 taels of silver, there are really a lot of things that can be bought.

Tang Mo got a silver ticket of 10,000 taels, and then handed over the exquisite brocade box with a small mirror to the other party.

Haozu got the mirror, of course, he was very happy, he didn't care how much the mirror was worth, all he cared about was the word rare.

A mirror sells for 10,000 taels, but Tang Mo knows that the price of such a mirror will only get lower and lower for the second and third sides.

But even so, it was enough for Tang Mo to make a lot of money.