"Brother Tong, are these fried chicken wings delicious?" Xiao Yao looked at Xiao Tong, who was full of oil, and smiled flatteringly.

"It's delicious, it's delicious! I can't imagine that this chicken wing still has this kind of practice, and this is all you thought of. Xiao Tong nibbled on this copycat version of KFC fried chicken wings, and he couldn't make his words clear.

"Alas, but I may not have much time to come back to cook for you in the future, Brother Tong, my brother has encountered a lot of difficulties in the blacksmith's workshop, and his face is sad, and he can't go home for a month when he is busy, so I can only follow him there!" Xiao Yao also pretended to be worried and sighed.

"How can this be! No, I'll let my eldest brother let you go home, it's okay to have your brother there, what's the fun of you staying at the blacksmith's shop alone! Xiao Tong, a foodie, was immediately unhappy.

"But he's my own brother, I don't want him to be left there alone, and this is the first time he's done things for his father, if he doesn't do it well, his father may not like us, and maybe he will have to drive our two brothers out in the future! So now only Brother Tong, you can help us," Xiao Yao added another fire.

"And how can I help you?" Xiao Tong immediately asked.

"I've asked those blacksmiths, if you want to manage the blacksmith well, you have to ask the housekeeper for a lot of things, but the housekeeper usually doesn't take care of us very much, I'm afraid he won't give it!" Xiao Yao saw that Xiao Tong had taken the bait, and immediately came up with his purpose.

"Is it that simple? I'll take you to the housekeeper now, I'll follow him, and he'll give you whatever you want!" Xiao Tong patted his chest, he was so confident!

The glass process is actually relatively simple, and the main materials are so few: quartz sand, borax, boric acid, barite, barium carbonate, limestone, feldspar, soda ash and other ores, but when the housekeeper saw this material list, he was already panicking, what is this?

But fortunately, these are some ores, not precious metals, plus there is Xiao Tong's holy decree, after asking what these things are, the housekeeper still helped Xiao Yao go to Zhang Luo to collect these stones.

The raw materials were handed over to the housekeeper to help with the purchase, so Xiao Yao's main job now is to improve the production tools!

Bellows are an important auxiliary tool in the metallurgical industry, which has appeared in the Warring States period. By pushing the air, more oxygen is sent to the furnace, so that the coal in the furnace can be burned more fully, which is an important means to make the furnace get high temperature!

And now Xiao Yao wants to improve a kind of double-acting piston bellows: a rectangular wooden box, when the rectangular box is pulled out, air is sucked in from the far end; As it is pushed, air is sucked in from the proximal side. In both inward and outward processes, air is sucked into the box; In both cases, the compressed part of the air is pushed into one side chamber, where it is expelled through the exhaust port.

This simple tool is a god-like operation in the eyes of the blacksmiths.

"Childe, did you really make this box? It's much easier to use than the bellows we've been using, and it has more air outlets. The chief old technician among the blacksmiths, Master Li sighed.

"Of course, this is called the bellows, I took a look at the bellows you use, and then I found a way to transform it, you can see if the fire of the furnace is more vigorous, the temperature is higher, and the iron burns faster." Xiao Yao said proudly.

"Childe is really a prodigy, worthy of being the son of the Xiao family, we can't think of this kind of mechanism in our lives!" This group of blacksmiths all patted Xiao Yao's sycophants. Now they all admire this Xiao Gongzi very much, not only thunderous means, but also smart, when he is not angry, he is also approachable, like a child, and he is indeed a child who is only ten years old now.

"Haha, everyone can come out with any ideas that can improve production in the future, and I have a lot of rewards!" Xiao Yao said arrogantly to this group of old men.

After more than a month of collecting and blending, the housekeeper finally sent the materials over with a bitter face, after all, the Xiao family's business circle is all over China.

"Childe, what do you want these stones for in your blacksmith's workshop? You don't need these broken stones to build weapons, do you? The housekeeper asked Xiao Yao very dissatisfied, you must know that these days, in order to find these things, he has run away from all the shops of the Xiao family, and some materials have been specially transported from other places by merchants from all over the world.

"I've seen some cheats before, and there are some secret recipes for ironmaking, and these ores can make iron harder! You don't understand this, anyway, Brother Tong asked you to help me collect it, so you have to collect it well! After Xiao Yao moved out of Xiao Tong, the housekeeper immediately didn't dare to speak.

Xiao Yao moved all the materials into his special house in the iron workshop, Xiao Yao called it the experimental room, and no one could enter without Xiao Yao's consent, including Xiao Shan! And there are already stoves, bellows, crucibles and other tools prepared inside.

Xiao Yao ordered people to grind all kinds of materials into fine powder, and then according to the modern recipe for making glass, carefully mix the amounts of various materials, and finally mix them together and pour them into the crucible, so that Master Li can put them in the improved furnace and start firing the liquid glass.

Xiao Yao saw Xiao Shan with a nervous face, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother, why are you so nervous, you can make a glass bowl on the ancient book like this." ”

"Is that okay? If you put this pile of fine powder in the stove and burn it, can it really be turned into a glass bowl when the time comes? Xiao Shan's face was full of nervousness, his nose was sweating, and he didn't know if it was because he was close to the stove.

"Of course not, we'll have to work on it later! Oh, I almost forgot, brother, what do you want to make this glass bowl look like? Xiao Yao almost forgot that he would have to design the glass later.

"What does it look like? Aren't all glass bowls like that? Xiao Shan was rightfully authentic, because he had only glanced at the glass bowl in the pawnshop.

After adding coal and blowing the air on the furnace for almost 3 hours, Xiao Yao asked Master Li to take out the crucible, only to see that the original pile of powder in the crucible had now turned red, like molten glass like lava!

"It worked! It's a success! Ha ha! Xiao Yao shouted excitedly!

"Succeeded? The glass bowl burned out? Xiao Shan was also so excited that his hands and feet trembled, and he immediately surrounded him and asked nervously.

"Of course it worked, I personally concocted the recipe, brother, you see, this is the glass melt!"

"This. What is this? This thing doesn't look like a glass bowl, huh? Xiao Shan looked at the crucible and was speechless.

This was the first time in his life that he had seen something as thick as honey with a hot face, dark red, and even Master Li, who had been a blacksmith for decades, had seen it for the first time!

"Of course, it's not a glass bowl, this is the glass liquid used to make a glass bowl! I'm going to take shape later! Xiao Yao took out the iron spoon that had been prepared a long time ago, stirred it in the molten glass, and felt it: Well, the viscosity is zero and a little hard, but it should be able to be used!

"Molding? Oh, I see, pour this honey-like glass liquid into a bowl, and then it can turn into a glass bowl! Xiao Shan finally understood.

Xiao Yao scooped up half a spoonful of viscous glass melt with an iron spoon, and then pressed it on top with another iron spoon, the big difference between the two spoons was the thickness of this bowl.

After a while, it felt that it had almost cooled, and the molten glass began to harden, Xiao Yao poured out the glass in the copper spoon, and at this time, the color of the molten glass had already turned the original dark red and slowly became transparent!

"Look, this is the glass bowl!" Xiao Yao pointed to this hemispherical shape, simple shape, and even ugly glass bowl finished product.

"It's really like a glass bowl! It seems to be more transparent than the pawnshop one, and the surface is more rounded! Xiao Shan looked at the half of the glass ball, and couldn't help but reach out and touch it, but he was so hot that he screamed loudly!

"Don't move, it should be more than 100 degrees high now, your heart will burn you! Now you have to wait for it to cool down slowly, and you can't put it in water to cool down, or it will burst! ”

"Haha, Twelve, we made it! I see that the condition of this glass bowl is many times better than the one in the pawnshop! But his appearance is a little ugly. Xiao Shan said with a little regret.

"You know it's ugly! Didn't you ask what shape you wanted to make? You don't yourself. Xiao Yao complained about Xiao Shan.

"How do I know the glass bowl does this? , this glass bowl, although the color is better, but the shape of this hemisphere will also make it less valuable. Xiao Shan said with some pity.

"And what do you want to make?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Of course, those good-looking shapes that can be sold for a good price!" Xiao Shan thought about it for a while, and it was very realistic.

"How do I know what shapes are good, and I am not good at art." Xiao Yao shook his head and said.

"What is art?" Xiao Shan digressed again.

"Alas, forget it, I don't want to talk to you, let's recruit someone who is good at art and fine craftsmanship." Xiao Yao said helplessly.

"Move? Confession? Xiao Shan continued to digress.

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