Wei Bao looked at the information until noon, and finally decided to try his hand at making glass and kerosene.

On the one hand, it is because he found that the most cost-effective thing that has been sold since crossing is glass. As for kerosene, it must be used to make kerosene lamps, and it can also be used to develop and produce diesel and gasoline.

In addition, he knows that the process of glass and kerosene is relatively simple, even if the quality is not high, as long as the appearance comes out, it can be put into sale, and the threshold is relatively low.

According to the information that Wei Bao currently has from the three 'Crossing Giant Enthusiasm' brothers, there are no large number of glass products in Europe. And from the information I had with Wu Shien before, we can also draw this conclusion that even if there are a small number of glass products, the craftsmanship is not perfect, and it cannot meet the needs of life, at most it is a luxury item played by a very small number of European nobles.

Around the 4th century, the ancient Romans began to use glass on doors and windows, and by 1291, Italian glass-making technology was very advanced.

Italian glassmakers are sent to produce glass on an isolated island that they are not allowed to leave for the rest of their lives.

In the original history, in 1688, a man named Nav would invent the process of making large pieces of glass, and from then on, glass would become an ordinary object.

For hundreds of years, people have believed that glass is green and cannot be changed. It was later discovered that the green color came from a small amount of iron in the raw material, and the compound of ferric iron gave the glass its green color. After the addition of manganese dioxide, the original ferric iron becomes trivalent iron and appears yellow, while the tetravalent manganese is reduced to trivalent manganese and is purple.

Optically, yellow and purple can complement each other to a certain extent, mixing together to become white light, and the glass will not be colored. However, after a few years, the trivalent manganese will continue to oxidize by the air, and the yellow color will gradually increase, so the window panes of those old houses will have a slight yellow tinge.

The main raw materials for glass production are glass forming, glass adjusters and glass intermediates, and the rest are auxiliary raw materials.

The main raw materials are the oxides, intermediate oxides and extra-network oxides that are directed into the glass forming network; Auxiliary raw materials include clarifying agents, fluxes, emulsifiers, colorants, decolorizing agents, oxidizing agents and reducing agents.

"Have you never slept?"

When Wei Bao came out at noon, Wang Qiuya asked.

Wei Baoqi said: "You can know if I am sleeping through the door?" ”

Because although it is a wooden house, it is very thick, and it is made of the best wood, with wall panels and doors, and there are no gaps at all.

"I have my way." Wang Qiuya's beautiful eyes sparkled: "You have to take care of your body, don't think that you can not pay attention to rest when you are young." ”

Wei Bao heard Wang Qiuya say this, and secretly felt funny, the women around him listen to him all day long, and now their way of speaking seems to be becoming more and more 'modern', "I know how you know if I am sleeping, you will look at your complexion, you can see from my face and eyes whether I am sleeping or not, right?" ”

"Not only that, when you go to bed and get up, your spirit is different from now, when you just get up, you always look like a little leopard, and your temperament is very big." Wang Qiuya smiled: "You have to rest early tonight." ”

Wei Bao nodded with a smile and looked at Xu Rui, he didn't take the initiative to talk to Xu Rui, and Xu Rui didn't take the initiative to talk to him, just waited quietly beside him.

"Relax, you're my secretary now, not your servants." Wei Bao laughed.

Xu Rui saw Wei Bao talking to herself, her face flushed, "I'm not nervous." ”

"Record it." Wei Bao Road.

"Let's eat first, shall we? Talking while eating. Wang Qiuya said.

Wei Bao frowned: "Work first!" What's in a hurry to eat? ”

Wang Qiuya snorted, too frightened to say more. Together with Xu Rui, a person took a small homemade notebook to record.

Wei Bao then said to Xu Rui: "I will go to see the coal digging and construction of the coal mine first, this is a major matter that needs long-term attention, you have to discuss a timetable with the person in charge of the production and construction of the coal mine with the person in charge of the selected coal mine production and construction, and make a good output plan." ”

After Wei Bao finished speaking, he thought for more than ten seconds and continued: "The monthly output cannot be less than 50,000 catties, which is converted into kilograms of 25,000 kilograms. ”

Originally, coal should be measured in kilograms or tons, but Wei Bao still used the kilogram that people in this era are used to as the unit, but his kilogram has been in line with the modern kilogram, and there are many weighing tools on the warship, which can be more standardized.

And Wei Bao carefully thought about whether to be in line with the current weighing unit of the Ming Dynasty, and then he still calculated it, mainly because now the officials and businessmen of the Ming Dynasty rely on the difference in quantity to make money, and the weighing tools in various places are messy, even if the royal family wants to unify it, it cannot be unified.

In addition, this is a unit of measurement that has been used internationally for hundreds of years, and the internationalization of the market will definitely be a general trend in the future, and he is also thinking about the future.

With modern catties and kilograms as units, it does not affect doing business with people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, and it can be converted separately.

"Not only coal mines, but also the mining of limestone rock layers, the mining of quartz rock layers, these two mines should also be carried out simultaneously, and the output will be determined separately, so as to meet the needs of cement production. The research and development of cement will also be put on the agenda today, and Lin Wenbiao will arrange a meeting later. People from the Heavy Industry Administration and the Military Industry Administration are here, Wang Blacksmith, Zhou Shimaon, Dong Huojin, Qian Xuexue, Zheng Ergou, Deng Daliang, and Deng Erxian must attend, and other personnel let them supplement themselves, a total of about 50 people, young and experienced as the standard. Young ones are chosen on the basis of experience, and experienced ones are selected on the basis of young ones. Wei Bao continued.

The reason why it is such a standard is because Wei Bao feels that they are just a bunch of illiterate people with a bit of technology, it is difficult to use any hard indicators to select them, and there is no way to start the exam, and the first batch of personnel can only be blindly selected like this, and when the institution has the ability to operate on its own, and then cooperate with the education system, everything will be on the right track on its own.

"Also, let Lin Wenbiao sit in on the few literate gentlemen he found from other places to observe, and after the industrial meeting, I will also hold an education meeting. Forget it, let's have two meetings together. Wei Bao continued.

Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya couldn't keep up with Wei Bao's speed of speech, and they couldn't understand many professional terms, but they could only record quickly, because they knew very well how much Wei Bao knew how much they knew, and if they didn't explain, they wanted them to understand slowly, and the people in the meeting must not know what Wei Bao was going to do.

After Wei Bao finished arranging, he started to eat, and Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya went outside first to explain the arrangements to Lin Wenbiao.

These things are timetables that need to be completed with him, Wei Bao also has a timetable for himself, mainly to arrange daily study tasks, although he has not yet gone to Shanhaiguan to study private school, but Wei Bao has not relaxed the study of traditional Chinese characters and the Four Books and Five Classics, and will spare two or three hours every day to familiarize himself.

Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui came back at the same time, and when they came back, there were more Wei Dakang and Huang Ying.

"Xiaobao, don't go around in the past two days, last night's earthquake, did you hear it? I don't know where the earthquake was. Huang Ying worried.

"It's so loud, it scared me and your mother to death last night, we came to see it at that time, and your followers were good, saying that you went to Yongping Mansion." "We came twice this morning, and your attendant said you were sleeping. It's not easy to see you now. ”

"That's it, Xiaobao, your house is next to my and your father's house, why don't you eat together?" Huang Ying said: "In the future, you will still go to our place to eat, it is not good to divide it into two places." ”

"I heard the earthquake, don't worry, there won't be any more big earthquakes now, don't worry too much about small aftershocks." Wei Bao smiled: "In the future, I will eat on my own side, I have my own affairs, where is the inconvenience?" It won't be wasted, we've eaten, aren't there still maids and followers to eat? If you want to see me, feel free to come and see me. What is the most precious thing? Time. Every inch of time is gold, I have to deal with so many things every day, and I have to find time to study, I really don't have time to run around. ”

As he spoke, he took Wei Dakang and Huang Ying to his bedroom, his bedroom was divided into two parts, one part was sleeping, one part was the study, there were a pile of books on the table, and all kinds of materials he copied, densely packed and thick.

"Isn't it?" Wei Bao showed Huang Ying and Wei Dakang what he did every day.

Huang Ying said distressedly: "Xiaobao, don't be tired, you do so many things every day, otherwise, you can concentrate on studying, right?" How much money do you have to make to make a head? It's good now, don't go against them anymore, there are thousands of acres of land, and our family will not have a good time in the future. ”

"Yes, Xiaobao, you got 3,000 people to work, can we use so many people with such a single person? I don't understand why you want to build the city wall, why you want to separate our Jinshan and the surrounding three miles from the outside, isn't this throwing silver into the water? Didn't I hear last time that you were going to build river embankments, sea walls, roads, and reservoirs? Repair of diversion canals and drains? What are you doing with these things? If you spend that silver on the villagers, they won't think of your goodness, besides, if you have some silver, you don't have tens of millions of taels of silver, right? Where is the silver to do so much? Vedakon babbled.

In fact, Wei Dakang and Huang Ying have been holding back these words for a long time, and when they met Wei Bao today, they poured them out.

Wei Bao didn't rush to explain, he had a lot to say, and he didn't know how to tell the two of them, if he said that he wanted to hold the four li in his hands in the future and form a vast territory of nearly 1,000 square kilometers, this territory was called Weijiazhuang, they would definitely be scared to death by their 'grand cause'.

"Daddy, relax your heart, don't you know me? I do things in a measured way. Wei Bao understood that the two of them were worried about spending their money indiscriminately, especially the two of them were thrifty, enthusiastic about their neighbors, and very good to people, which was good, but he couldn't accept that he gave away the money for nothing, and said with a smile: "I won't spend unjust silver, your son will spend a penny of silver, and he will be able to come back a tael of silver when the time comes!" If I want to become the biggest landlord in our area, I have to buy people's hearts, you know? Leaving the help of the villagers and gaining the admiration of the villagers are indispensable, I want to be in my hands, so that our Wei family will become the most prestigious family in the entire Liaoxi and Liaodong! ”

Wei Bao doesn't talk about getting four miles of territory, only talking about the things that Wei Dakang and Huang Ying like to hear, the glorious lintel is one of the topics that the two of them are most passionate about, and the other topic is that Wei Bao can make achievements on the road to the imperial examination, can take the official career, get an official position in the future, and be a county order or something, it can be regarded as a glorious ancestor, in fact, it can also be turned into a part of the glorious lintel.

Wei Dakang's face was full of excitement when he heard this, "Xiaobao's heart is really big, I didn't think about it so much." ”

"What do you know? How good is the son's mind? Huang Yingle smiled and said: "Okay, Xiaobao is big, he has his own ideas, and my mother agrees." But, Xiaobao, tell your mother the truth, how much silver do you have now? Mother will take care of it for you, right? ”

Wei Bao sweated, "Aren't you already in charge of the cafeteria?" What do you care about what I do with my money? I'll ask Xiaolin to put 10,000 taels of silver in your place, and you can help me keep it. ”

Huang Ying and Wei Dakang knew that Wei Bao had a lot of silver now, but they didn't expect Wei Bao to say that they would take care of 10,000 taels of silver, and they were all very happy.

"Xiaobao, then you also want to keep some silver, right? How much money do you have? Huang Ying continued to gossip.

"It's not much, just a little more than 10,000, and you're in charge of the big head, right?" Wei Bao laughed. I felt that the two of them still didn't seem to have enough things, and it seemed that they couldn't stay idle anymore, so they said: "Daddy, let's do it, in the future, all the things about farming in Jiazhong will be under your control!" "Xu Rui, when you talk to Manager Luo, tell him that my father will be the manager of the Agricultural Bureau in the future."

Xu Rui obediently agreed: "Yes, childe." ”

"That's good, that's good." Wei Dakang almost didn't hug Wei Bao and kiss him, although he is Wei Bao's father, he doesn't need to take the official establishment of the Tiandi firm, but he doesn't have an 'official title', in the end it is not enjoyable, and he is very envious of Wang Zhihui who has won the official establishment of the Tiandi firm and is compiled to do things under Luo Sanzi. Now I heard that Wei Bao had appointed himself the title of steward, and his heart was full of joy.

Huang Ying also said happily: "Xiaobao, you should have made a steward for your father a long time ago, your father is a good hand at farming." What about your mother? What am I going to do? ”

Wei Bao sweats, you also have to take care of things? "You're just a housekeeper, huh? Not enough, isn't it? Now there are dozens of maids and servants in the family? ”

"No, I'll have to get a steward, too." Huang Yingguan is also very addicted.

"Then you're going to be my father's deputy steward, right? It's done, right? Wei Bao laughed.

"Cheng, Cheng, that's good." Huang Ying smiled.

"I'll send it today to the red-headed document and officially appoint you two, now it's okay, right? I still have a lot of things to do, and I haven't finished this meal yet. Wei Bao drove people away with a smile: "You two also discuss the major matter of spring ploughing, right?" Those old and weak women and children in this armor are all your people, and they are all under your control, if you are too busy, you can recruit two people to help, and I will also give the official establishment. ”

"Uh-huh. I'll just find your Aunt Fan to help me, right? Huang Yingle smiled and said: "I know, hurry up and eat, I haven't eaten at this point, and I will eat every meal early in the future, do you know?" Don't be busy and skip eating. ”

Huang Ying said and walked away.

"Then I'll find your Uncle Fan to help me. Let him get a formal formation, so that he won't have to nag me about this all day long. Wei Dakang also happily told Wei Bao two sentences.

"Okay, okay, the two of you have the final say on the matter of the Agricultural Bureau! It's up to you to arrange it. Wei Bao laughed.

Wei's mother suddenly remembered something again: "Xiaobao, you eat first, while you eat, my mother will tell you something." ”

Wei Bao sighed, didn't care about the two of them, and continued to eat. Originally, he was also used to listening to reports while eating, and it seemed that eating was his most free time, because there were no TV movies to watch.

"Recently, a lot of people have proposed to me and your father." Huang Ying said.

Burst.

Wei Bao almost squirted out the rice in his mouth, and muttered, "Mother, why do you say this again?" Am I only 14 years old? ”

"14 years old is a year old, it can be regarded as 15 years old, and the children of better people who have talked about it are not common to marry a daughter-in-law at your age, and the current conditions of our family are not bad." Huang Ying instigated: "There are more than a dozen girls, I think it's good, if you vacate one day, my mother will let them bring their daughters?" ”

Xu Rui's expression on the side was very natural, Wang Qiuya's face was flushed, she kept her head down, and wanted to look at Wei Bao, but she couldn't help it, as if she was afraid that she would meet Uncle Wei's gaze when she raised her head.

"Yes, what are you not afraid of when you see it? What if you like it? Wei Dakang also encouraged on the side: "Dad has seen several of them, and they all think they are very good." ”

Wei Bao was very curious, secretly wondering that even if the two of them didn't like Wang Qiuya now, wouldn't there be Xu Rui and Fan Xiaolin? Especially the two of them seem to have always been optimistic about Fan Xiaolin? Why are you enthusiastic about introducing yourself again?

Wei Dakang and Huang Ying saw that Wei Bao and Fan Xiaolin had been together for so long, and they didn't seem to want to accept Fan Xiaolin, thinking that their son might not like Fan Xiaolin, and they were afraid that Wei Bao and Wang Qiuya would be together for a long time and fall in love for a long time, so they were in a hurry to help Wei Bao introduce them, and the two of them vaguely knew that Wei Bao liked Wang Qiuya a little.

"There's no rush on this matter." Wei Bao replied indifferently.

"It's not in a hurry to be in a hurry, but with a lady, your father and I can rest assured, and it will be good for you to start a family as soon as possible." Huang Ying said: "In the future, if you can go to high school, be an official, and have a daughter-in-law, you will give people the impression of being more stable." ”

Wei Bao feels that there is some truth in this sentence, not to mention being an official, you can't do anything without your daughter-in-law, that is, in business, a half-grown teenager who has not married gives the impression that he is also very unstable, and he will indeed deduct points, it is different with a daughter-in-law, no matter how young he is, he is already a family person.

"You don't have to worry about this, I promise you, before the age of 16, Zhun Bao will let you hold your big fat grandson." Wei Bao laughed.

Huang Ying was overjoyed when she heard this, knowing that Wei Bao has never spoken easily, and he will definitely do it if he says it, "You said it yourself, your father and I have remembered it, and I will let you and your father hug our grandson next year." ”

"The year after tomorrow!" Wei Bao corrected Huang Ying's time difference.

"The year after tomorrow will be the year after tomorrow, Xiaobao will agree to it." Wei Dakang helped Wei Bao Dao.

"Okay, the year after tomorrow will be the year after tomorrow. Do you already have a sweetheart? Huang Ying gossiped: "Is it the daughter of the shopkeeper Sun who came back to our A?" That girl is very good, but her father doesn't seem to be very good. ”

"Don't ask." Wei Bao smiled and said, "In short, there is never a time when I can't do what I promised!" ”

"Yes, yes, isn't Xiaobao already agreed?" Wei Dakang smiled like a flower and pulled Huang Ying away, for fear that Huang Ying would cause his son to be disgusted if he said too much. Huang Ying also thought like this, seeing that Wei Bao agreed, he knew that Wei Bao's vision was high now, and no matter how he picked, it would not be worse than the two of them helping to pick, and he didn't say anything more. The two of them felt that they were very respected and happy to talk to their son this time.

Wei Bao is also very satisfied with his arrangement, all the agricultural affairs are handed over to Wei Dakang and Huang Ying, and his territory will become bigger and bigger in the future, so they will be busy, and his ears and roots can be cleaner. Wei Bao is not afraid of Wei Dakang and Huang Ying knowing, but he can't treat his father and mother like ordinary subordinates, if they raise any objections, it will be even more troublesome, so Wei Bao is not very willing Wei Dakang and Huang Ying to participate in his own career.

"Xiaobao, it's good to be assigned like this, Uncle Wei and Aunt Wei were so happy just now." Wang Qiuya said with a smile. However, I was a little disappointed, because just now Huang Ying asked for an official quota for Fan Xiaolin's mother, and Wei Dakang asked for an official quota for Fan Xiaolin's father, but no one asked for a quota for her mother. She knew that whether it was Wei Bao's place or Wei's father and mother's place, the impact of her refusal to marry would never be erased, and the things she did would leave traces. The sharp blade hurts people and the scars are easy to close, and the bad words hurt people and hate them.

Wei Bao didn't care what Wang Qiuya thought, and after eating, he went to inspect the coal mining situation first.

Coal mine is divided into two kinds of open-pit and underground, coal is very strong in the earth's crust, just like stones, generally can not be made by manual labor, so before the coal diggers start to work, there are more professional personnel in the underground work area with a similar blasting method to blow up the coal seam that is very tightly pressed to soften, and then the coal diggers use tricycles to enter and exit from the entrance on the ground into a very deep tunnel.

There is no light in such a tunnel, and the workers can only rely on the miner's lamp on their head to illuminate it, and after reaching the deep work area, they begin to load the coal into the tricycle with a shovel, and then pull the coal out of the ground, which is very dangerous in such a process, because the top of the tunnel is not completely reinforced, and there may be large stones falling down and killing people at any time, and if it is a private coal mine, it will be even more inhumane, so the dangerous work has been repeated, and the government has no way to completely eliminate this kind of thing, as long as it is a house with interests, There will be a constant stream of people dying in vain.

Wei Bao definitely didn't have a miner's lamp at this time, but fortunately, the mining conditions in this area were very good, and they were all open-pit coal yards.

Wei Bao came during the day, and the situation was different from that at night, and he could see it clearly everywhere.

Luo San was stunned and had already transferred a hundred people to work, and everyone used the most primitive labor tools, most of them were made with iron tips in front of wooden sticks, the simplest kind of shovels.

"Childe, in such a big place, only so many people can come first." Luo San was stunned and reported to Wei Bao: "The quarry for mining limestone and quartz stone is also under construction. Three mines, construction starts today. ”

Wei Bao is very satisfied with this progress, it is convenient to do things on his own turf, and it is not like modern, what else does he have to approve.

Wei Bao knows that Daming is strictly controlled by metal mines, and others, such as coal mines, are just ordinary stones in the eyes of the government, or the kind of stones that no one wants, no one will care at all, limestone and quartz stone are also stones, after being known, they will only laugh at Wei Bao for being a fool, what is the use of asking for these stones? Now the main material for building is still yellow mud, which can burn bricks and paste walls. Where does anyone want these hard stones? It was not used to build the Great Wall.

"Well, well done, you have to try to set the price as soon as possible and adopt the piece system." Wei Bao instructed: "Also, these tools should also be improved, how much can be mined in a day with wood like this?" ”

"Yes, I'll discuss it with them more and do it as soon as possible." Luo San was stunned and agreed.

Wei Bao didn't want to build a modern cement factory in one step, because it was impossible, but the simple workshop had to be built immediately, and it was mainly manual at first, anyway, the labor force on hand was quite sufficient.

The raw materials of cement plants are mainly limestone containing CaO, which is generally provided by self-supplied mines. Sandstone containing SiO2, or quartz sand, depending on the process, clay, shale, etc., are also used in some places, and these things are abundant here.

At present, Weibao is mainly worried about raw coal, the cement plant is a high-energy-consuming enterprise, the amount of raw coal is large, and bituminous coal is generally used.

Then there is fly ash, an ancillary product of power plant desulfurization.

Wei Bao watched everyone work for a while, and said to Luo San stunned: "Wait for the meeting." ”

Luo San nodded stunned, "Steward Lin said just now." ”

Wei Bao asked Lin Wenbiao again: "When is the arrangement?" ”

"Shen Shi." Lin Wenbiao replied: "There are still two incense sticks to arrive." ”

Wei Bao nodded and said, "Okay, go back and prepare for the meeting." ”

At this time, a member of the escort came on horseback, first gave a military salute to Wei Bao, and then looked at Wei Bao without speaking.

Wei Bao understood that there was something inconvenient to say, so he said, "There are no outsiders here, let's talk about it." ”

"Lizheng Zhao Kehu wants to see his son, his daughter is also here, and the carriage is outside our Jiamen." The humanity of the convoy.

Wei Bao's eyes widened in surprise, he didn't expect Zhao Kehu to come, let alone Zhao Jinfeng?

Wei Bao really couldn't understand why they came out of nowhere, he had basically given up on the idea of making peace with a group of Lizheng Commanders now.

"Just the two of them? Anyone else? Wei Bao asked.