Chapter 270: Glass Windows
In the next few days, Wang Ke kept laughing, and a group of old killers who met him greeted him with a smile on their faces, and praised him for doing this authentically, not only sent the prince back to the East Palace to study, but also the weapon preparation bureau was all in the hands of Li Ke, the best thing was to let Hou Junji be severely reprimanded by Comrade Li Er, and strictly ordered him not to participate in this kind of personnel appointment in the future, just bring a group of recruits in his hands.
Judging from the situation in the past few days, Hou Junji is really a lot more honest, staying in his military camp every day, training with those few hot air balloons, and he can't see him 'messing' everywhere, let alone going to the East Palace to chat with the prince.
Li Ke has also been following Wang Ke's suggestion during this time, and has invested more in the production of hot air balloons, Wang Ke thinks that Li Ke has just taken over the hot air balloon again, and he should speed up the progress of this matter, so that Comrade Li Er knows that it is a very wise decision to suspend the prince and let Li Ke take charge of this matter again.
And Wang Ke himself, in addition to going to his office every day to see what new trends in the imperial court, the rest of the time is all in the glass workshop, and now several craftsmen in the glass workshop have been able to produce glass, but for Wang Ke, he is still not very satisfied, the flatness of the glass does not meet Wang Ke's requirements for the time being, just the so-called flat glass is full of bubbles, it is enough for Wang Ke to have a headache.
In later generations, Wang Ke really did not care about the manufacture of glass, although when he was in school, he also knew what material glass was made of, but the production process was not understood at all, and he did not know what problems would occur in this production.
In this way, the process is very slow, but Wang Ke also knows that this matter is not urgent, the current production equipment is backward, the level of science and technology is not as high as that of later generations, everything is impossible to do in one step, if you are in a hurry, it will affect the process of several craftsmen, so you can only be patient with 'sex', good words to appease a few craftsmen, let them slowly find a way to solve it.
For Wang Ke's requirements, several craftsmen also know that this is the ultimate goal of glass manufacturing, and now the things that come out of their hands, that is, can barely be called glass, to become glass in the real sense, they have to meet Wang Ke's requirements to count, and now they finally know that the things they made before are how inferior things are, but they just appeared, and others don't know the good things of this thing, but in the eyes of Wang Ke, an expert, it is worthless tatters.
For these that have been made, in Wang Ke's eyes of the waste products, several craftsmen originally wanted to pile up there, and when they have free time in the future, they will be re-made in the furnace, Wang Ke does not think so, his new house has been repaired for a long time, and there is no glass when it was first repaired, and it has always been a white paper or white silk paste window, and now these glasses do not meet their own wishes, but it is no problem to make do with them to install on the window, no matter what, it is better than white paper or white silk, besides, It's also cold, the sun is still warmer, and after changing to glass, the sunlight can also 'shine' into the house, needless to say, the house is brighter, and the temperature will rise a little is no problem.
Wang Ke called the housekeeper of the village, and asked him to send someone to put on an ox cart to pull these defective glass back to his mansion in Chang'an City, and he and several craftsmen 'handed' on behalf of him when he was about to leave, the craftsman named Lapde walked up to Wang Ke and said: "My lord, this thing is hard, we have tried, and now if you want to disconnect it, there is really no way, we used this to make things in the past, and we can only make it what we want, if we do it wrong, it can only be invalid, and we will do it again." If you want to use the current way to make changes, I'm afraid there is no way! ”
As soon as Wang Ke heard this, he understood that these craftsmen were afraid that they didn't know the principle of glass, and wanted to work hard, but in the end, they ended up being beaten by a 'chicken' and eggs, and they couldn't get anything.
Although Wang Ke felt funny in his heart, he was still very moved by their kind reminder of himself, he must know much more about glass than they do, but these people don't know, and they are afraid of hurting their face, so they tell themselves so vaguely that no matter what, they should thank them for their good intentions!
Wang Ke smiled, patted Lapde's shoulder and said, "Thank you for the reminder, but I know what to do about this matter, I have a special tool to use to cut this glass, you can rest assured." When I have time, I'll bring you that tool to see, and find a way to make some of it, and teach you how to use it, and it will be much easier for you. ”
For Wang Ke to say that he has a special 'door' to cut through the glass, Lapde heard it in his ears, and the whole person was stunned, for them, this is completely a topic that cannot be believed, how can there be such a tool? They really can't understand that in Datang, a place where there is no way to even produce glass, there are tools that can cut glass, which is really something that they can't figure out even if they want to break their heads.
Of course they don't know, Wang Ke is a traverser, and in the later life, he is also doing decoration projects, and in his toolbox that others look like a treasure chest, there is a glass knife that can be regarded as quite 'colorful' in later generations, which Wang Ke bought at the beginning.
The general ordinary glass knife is a few yuan, more than a dozen yuan a piece, and a better one is about 20 yuan, which is already a big deal, but Wang Ke's glass knife is priced at more than 50 yuan, and there is no bargaining.
This hasn't been used a few times, it has traveled to the Tang Dynasty, and it has been put in the toolbox to sleep, and there is no opportunity to show its skills, but now it can be used, of course Wang Ke will not be put there and not used, how can it be taken out to show off!
Wang Ke smiled and patted Lapde on the shoulder again, without explaining anything, he turned around and walked out, he was still anxious to go back and replace the windows of his and Wang Si's two houses with glass.
Wang Ke hurried home, after all, his car is faster than the ox cart in the village, I don't know how many times faster, when he has arrived home, the ox cart with glass has not yet reached the city 'gate' of Chang'an City, Wang Ke is not in a hurry, pick up the paper and pen, next to the window by window to measure, the size of the glass required for each window is recorded meaningfully, so that the glass will be delivered in a while, and he can directly cut according to the measured size.
Looking at the young master who had not been at home during the day for a long time, like a madman, holding something that the young master called a tape measure, climbing up and jumping down to measure the large and small windows of the house, the people in the family all had the same thought: "The young master is crazy!" "Even more quickly, at this time, he has run out of the mansion 'door', to find his wife, aunt', 'milk' and a few young ladies, if it weren't for Wang Si's can't easily get involved, I'm afraid that someone will run into the palace to find Wang Si, let him hurry home to see what kind of illness his young master has committed.
As soon as Nanping heard the report of the people in the house, they didn't know what Wang Ke was going to do, although they also knew that Wang Ke would appear from time to time some things that they couldn't understand, but today this thing is obviously wrong, this window is originally good, Wang Ke holds a ruler, and jumps up and down.
Nanping didn't have time to think about it, so he sent a subordinate to find Li Ke over, and he rushed home with a group of women's army.
Back home, as soon as he entered the 'door' of the house, Nanping saw that Wang Ke was directing a group of subordinates, who were moving down different sizes from an ox cart, piece by piece, bright and clear, and could see through the things opposite, Nanping didn't care about what these things were, so he took two steps forward and stroked Wang Ke's forehead with his hand, wanting to see if Wang Ke was a little wrong.
Wang Ke was staring at the people in the house carrying the glass, and suddenly stretched out a hand next to him, and pressed his forehead, instinctively took two steps back, and was just about to scold loudly, only to see that it was Nanping standing in front of him.
Wang Ke hurriedly changed his face to a smile and asked, "Wife, why did you come back, did something happen?" ”
Nanping looked at Wang Ke in shock, and felt that Wang Ke couldn't see anything abnormal, so she was slightly relieved, but she didn't know what it was for the things that these people were carrying at home now, and she could see that her husband attached great importance to these things, which could be felt from the word "careful" that Wang Ke's mouth shouted from time to time.
Nanping asked Wang Ke with some curiosity: "General, what are these things, big and small, what's the use of taking them home, is it related to these things that you are circling around the window today?" ”
Wang Ke knew that they didn't know what it was, and what was the effect of taking it back, but Wang Ke didn't say it right away for the first time today, his idea was to finish it in a while, let them feel it themselves, and now even if they say it, it is estimated that they will not understand.
Wang Ke smiled slightly, and said softly to Nanping: "Don't ask now, you'll know in a while, it's a good thing anyway." ”
Nanping knows what Wang Ke is going to do, and he has no way to stop him, besides, he will not stop him, in Nanping's view, what Wang Ke does is reasonable, he can only stand behind Wang Ke, don't drag Wang Ke back, just silently support him to do what he wants to do, don't think about anything else.
Seeing that Nanping and Wang Ke talked for a long time and didn't ask for a name, the rest of the people also consciously closed their mouths, stood aside and watched the people carefully remove the glass from the ox cart, everyone was thinking in their hearts, what did Wang Ke want to do with these things.
Wang Ke waited for all the glass to be unloaded, and after sending the farmer who drove the car in the village left, he asked the people in the house to move a table over, and walked towards the study on the second floor, he was going to get his glass knife.
He can't let the people send all the glass into the study again, not to mention that there are so many glasses, they can't be piled up in the study, even if they are barely put down, it's not convenient to move around, isn't it, it's still spacious in this yard, and it's much easier to do things.
Nanping didn't know what Wang Ke was going to do, he was curious, and he followed Wang Ke to the house, Wang Ke knew that they were all caused by curiosity, so he didn't say anything, just follow if he liked, just bury his head and go upstairs.
took out the glass knife, Wang Ke reflexively went downstairs, which made the group of 'women' who followed him behind him really depressed, and followed the upstairs and downstairs to run, only to see that Wang Ke only took a small metal 'stick' and it was over, which was really too far from what they imagined in their hearts!