Chapter 11: The First Pot of Gold
"Well...... I can't promise you'll have enough to eat. Zhang Hao said with a deep groan.
Zhang Hao is telling the truth, he doesn't have any family business now, he relied on Zheng Xuan to raise him before, and then he had to eat Tong Yuan's, if he wants to raise these people, it seems that he needs to think about it.
"I hope you will take it in." The five of them said in unison.
"Alright, get up."
"Master Xie."
"By the way, tell me your names." Zhang Hao said.
Several people are all poor, what are the serious names, what are the two dogs, Dali or something, Zhang Hao was speechless for a while.
"Well, that's it, since you are willing to be my domestic servant, you will be better with my surname Zhang Ke in the future." Zhang Hao looked at the five people and asked.
"Thank you, sir, please give me a name."
"In this way, according to your age, you will name the rivers, lakes and Haixi, take the word loyalty, and arrange them according to Uncle Ji You."
"Zhang Jiang Zhang Bozhong, see the master."
"Zhang He Zhang Zhongzhong, see the master."
"Zhang Hu Zhang Shuzhong, see the master."
"Zhang Hai Zhang Jizhong, see the master."
"Zhang Xi Zhang Youzhong, see master."
All five of them bowed down in unison.
"Get up, and come with me into the city." Zhang Hao commanded.
"Huh" The five of them agreed, got up and followed behind Zhang Hao and Tong Fei.
Zhang Hao bought some axes, saws, shovels and pickaxes in the city, and on the way back to the mountain, he arranged the five people on the mountainside, let the five people sort out a vacant land, build some grass houses for living, and followed Tong Fei back to the top of the mountain.
At the end of the day, Zhang Hao lay on the bed, thinking about what can be made with current technology, one person before, has been in Zheng Xuan's house, and now suddenly there are five more people to raise, since they have been adopted, they must be responsible.
After thinking about it for a long time, I denied it in the same way, and suddenly, I had a flash of inspiration and remembered a thing - glass, there should already be glass in this era, and a small amount of glass was occasionally fired when firing ceramics, but no one deliberately made it.
Early the next morning, after Zhang Hao exercised, he came to the mountainside, the five of them moved quickly, the thatched house was almost finished, and when they saw Zhang Hao coming, they hurried over to salute.
"Help me find something." Zhang Hao commanded the five people in front of him.
"Master, please command."
"After the grass house is built, build a pond kiln, and then find some sand and limestone to come back, and burn some grass and wood ashes and soak them in water." Zhang Hao relied on the memory in his mind and commanded them one by one.
After the order, Zhang Hao didn't stay much and returned to the mountain, but now, Tong Yuan didn't teach Zhang Hao, regardless of it, and didn't let Zhang Hao see it when he was teaching Zhao Yun, but Tong Yuan opened his study to Zhang Hao, so that he could watch it at will.
Walking into the study, Zhang Hao was a little surprised, he thought that Tong Yuan was just strong in martial arts, but he didn't expect that there were so many books, and when he got closer, in addition to the normal subset of scriptures and history, there were also many military books.
"It's ...... Sun Tzu's Art of War, Sun Bin's Art of War, Wu Zi, as well as Liutao, Wei Yizi, Sima Fa, ......, my God, basically all the military books are all here. The more Zhang Hao looked at it, the more surprised he became, and he picked up one of the six Tao volumes and read it.
At this time, Zhang Hao was like a dry sponge meeting water, frantically absorbing knowledge.
Three days later, Zhang Hao came to the mountainside again, Zhang Jiang and a few people had already prepared the things that Zhang Hao ordered, Zhang Hao crushed the limestone, mixed it with sand, grass and wood gray water, and then dried it, and then let a few people heat him in the pond kiln.
Zhang Hao only made a few cup-shaped molds with clay, waited until the raw materials liquefied into liquefied glass, put them in the mold, and after molding, they were annealed and quenched.
After it was done, Zhang Hao picked one up, shook his head slightly, and sighed, he wanted to make a few glasses, but this cup was made, but the glass was not crystal clear as imagined, there were a lot of variegated colors in it, and Zhang Hao was about to break the 'cup' in his hand.
"Master" Zhang Xi hurriedly stopped and asked, "Master, are you going to destroy this thing?" ”
"Yes, it failed, leave him to do anything."
"Is this a failure? Failures are so exquisite? Master, it's better to hand it over to the villain and let the villain go to the city to sell it. ”
"Oh? Can you sell like this? Zhang Hao was a little puzzled.
"Master, please give the villain three days," Zhang Xi said firmly.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Zhang Hao didn't care, as he spoke, he handed over all five cups to Zhang Xi, and he thought about it, why did it burn like this?
"By the way, you guys come and see." After thinking for a while, Zhang Hao patted his head, found a grain of sand that was close to transparent in the sand and gravel, and showed it to a few people.
"Look, in the future, as long as this kind of sand grains, the rest will not be needed." Zhang Hao commanded.
After the order, he returned to the mountain and exercised and read every day, this Tong Yuan was also strange, for some reason, he just didn't teach Zhang Hao martial arts.
Three days later, Zhang Hao came to the mountainside again, he had no expectations for the failed glass before, mainly wanted to try again with the sand and gravel screened, but Zhang Xi gave you a big surprise.
"Master, your cup has been sold." Zhang Xi saw Zhang Hao and said excitedly.
"Sold?" Zhang Hao didn't expect that kind of thing to be sold.
"Yes, master, a total of 1,000 pieces were sold." Zhang Xi said, patting a box beside him.
"A thousand?" Zhang Hao was blinded all of a sudden, a thousand dollars are consistent, and a hundred dollars can buy a stone of rice, how much is this, in this case, sell a few more to have a fortune?
"Yes, master, there are still a lot of people to buy here, but they haven't bought it."
Zhang Hao didn't know that this was a failure in his opinion, but it was a rare thing in the eyes of others, and coupled with Zhang Xi's operation, he bought it as a rare treasure.
"Yes, take out a hundred yuan, give you a few degrees, and keep the rest, recruit some people, expand this place a little, and you will run it in the future." Zhang Hao said.
"Thank you, master," the five thanked in unison.
"Do you remember the process I made last time?" Zhang Hao asked.
"Remember, master."
"Okay, it's up to you to make it today, this time using the sand grains you have sifted."
Hearing this, the five of them carefully made it according to the previous Zhang Hao's production process, Zhang Hao took the finished cup and looked at it, and nodded, this time it is much better, although there is still a little variety, but it is very close to transparent.
"Yes, I'll leave it to you later, and besides, not only can you make cups, you can make it into all kinds of things, and it's up to you to decide how it works."
"Yes, master."
"Young Loyalty"
"Master" Zhang Xi agreed.
"In the future, you will sell it, and you will be responsible for the accounts."
"Thank you for the cultivation." Zhang Xi replied respectfully.
Zhang Hao left after arranging, leaving the five of them to gather together to discuss.