Chapter 254: Preconditions for the Making of Glass
saved Wen's life, but he didn't expect this kid to change his name to Gao Gao, and the two names before and after made Zhu Shun have a smile on his face.
Hopefully, this kid can invent a pyrometer as his name suggests.
The pyrometer is also the key to the industrial upgrading of the cement produced in the handle workshop.
The biggest difficulty in the firing of cement is the control of the fire, which requires the old craftsman to grasp the heat of the cement kiln according to a feeling.
I feel like this thing is the most mysterious.
Even the old craftsmen who have burned the porcelain kiln for twenty or thirty years often burn waste mud, resulting in low output and increased cost.
Relying on old craftsmen to fire cement has a huge drawback, and it is difficult to achieve mass production.
There are so many old craftsmen in total, and it takes at least ten years to train an experienced craftsman.
Now the private kilns in Beizhili are growing at an alarming rate, and firing porcelain also requires a large number of experienced old craftsmen, which also causes a shortage of old craftsmen.
With pyrometers, it is different, and it only takes a short time to train a large number of skilled workers who can fire cement.
When it comes to heat, just stare at the pyrometer.
With pyrometers, the success rate of firing cement is much higher than that of veteran craftsmen who have been working for decades.
In the snowy season, there are not a few days left before the workers' meeting.
High temperature invented the pyrometer.
The pyrometer can not only be used to fire cement, but also has a huge effect on the porcelain kilns of various brick factories, and it is a very popular new invention.
The price given by the Patent Appraisal Office of the Jingshi University Hall was 8,000 taels of silver, and the high temperature was only 800 taels of silver.
With these eight hundred taels of silver, he once again became the first Jingshi University Hall Xiushi to go to the south without hesitation.
Presided over the establishment of the Beiyang Sailor School.
With pyrometers, cement kilns have exploded, and Zhu Shun has begun to prepare for a turning point in Lixia next year.
The private kilns of the squires and officials in Tongzhou, such as Xing'anbo and Huang Zhang, have no constraints and have begun to grow explosively.
Just a few days after the pyrometer was put into use, the Porcelain Association was established, with the ambition to create a second Linqing.
Linqing is the first brick kiln in the world, and tens of thousands of kiln bricks are produced every day, and a large number of kiln bricks are spit out from the north and south of the Ming Dynasty through the horse's head.
Porcelain Guild because of the cheap clay blanks.
The use of pyrometers reduces the waste of kilns, reduces the dependence on old craftsmen, and trains a large number of skilled workers to build porcelain kilns.
The price of ordinary fine porcelain has dropped to twenty-five pieces of silver.
The president of the Porcelain Association, the second master of Xing'an Bofu, felt that the porcelain had plummeted from ten cents of silver to twenty-five cents of silver, and the advantage was still not obvious enough.
Only by controlling the price of ordinary fine porcelain at 5 cents of silver and 30 pieces of silver, can we sweep all the kilns along the southeast coast with an absolute advantage, especially the Guangzhou kiln, which occupies more than 60% of the share of foreign porcelain.
After discussing with the members of the Porcelain Association, the second master of Xing'an Bofu decided that Huang Zhang, the vice president, would go to Zhu Shun and try to establish a quartz sand steam factory.
Clay is the blank, quartz sand is the glaze, plus the pyrometer is a magic method.
The Porcelain Association hopes to control the price of ordinary fine porcelain at 30 pieces of silver in 5 cents, or even 30 pieces of silver in 4 cents, and the silver earned will be 50% more than the normal price.
Porcelain, silk, tea is the most sought-after goods in the world, every more than one percent, the extra money can be as many as hundreds of thousands of taels, not to mention fifty percent.
Huang Zhangshu sat on a brand-new Shu brocade Su embroidered sedan chair, came to Baifu, and stood at the door of the Huishou Mansion waiting for Zhu Shun to look up.
Zhu Shun felt as if there was someone at the door, and looked up, wearing a yellow palm case of silk and satin, standing in front of the threshold and playing with the Zhengde purple clay pot.
Zhu Shun said: "Yuan Chi, let Master Huang come in." ”
Huang Zhangxian raised his head and glanced at the man in the iron tower who was two heads taller than him, walked into the mansion of the head of the meeting, sat on the official hat chair next to him, and arched his hand: "The head of the meeting, I have something important to ask for this time." ”
Since Zhu Shun married his wife, Zhu Song personally trained several beautiful maids to follow Zhu Shun for him to drive.
There is no need for Zhu Shun to pour tea in person, a beautiful maid took the initiative to pour a cup of tea for Huang Zhang's case.
After Huang Zhang's case drank a few sips and warmed his body, Zhu Shun responded: "Master Huang, it's okay to say it. ”
Huang Zhangshu put down the teacup and said seriously: "After the discussion of the Porcelain Association, I hope that the head of the association can establish a quartz sand steam factory." ”
The establishment of the quartz sand steam factory was originally within Zhu Shun's plan, and now it is established, but it is just ahead of schedule: "I remember that in the hands of Xing'anbo, there should be a lot of quartz sand mines. ”
"You go back and report to the second master of Xing'an Bofu, go to my second uncle to approve a batch of new machinery used in the ore steam factory, and I will personally supervise the construction of the quartz sand steam factory in two days."
In front of a barren hill.
A large number of mules and horses came and went, transporting truckloads of cement, sand, gravel, and wrought iron.
Five or six miles away from the riverbank, a large number of workers, led by a few students from the Beijing Normal University Hall, who were already able to stand alone, excavated the foundation and poured concrete.
Zhu Shun wore a rattan hat and stood next to him, looking at the master plan designed by several students of Beijing Normal University who were in charge of the design.
The fifty or sixty steam factories on the banks of the Yongding River, all of which are ready to be renovated and built cement factories, are also in full swing.
Zhu Shunwei paid special attention to the quartz sand steam factory and came to supervise the construction in person, because quartz sand is not only a raw material for glazing porcelain embryos, but also a blank for making glass.
The Ming glaze business was monopolized in the hands of the Europa, and Zhu Shun wanted to use transparent glass in the future, reverse monopoly, and dump the glass into Europa.
As an important precondition for glass manufacturing, quartz sand steam plants will be established in advance.
The blasting group, the crusher, the mill, the warehouse, the weighing room, the management, the accounting room, and the water tower transportation system, these have not changed much.
The key lies in the removal of impurities in quartz sand, as well as the particle size of quartz sand.
Poor particle size control not only wastes fuel and increases costs, but also affects the quality of the glass.
Zhu Shun pointed to a location on the drawing and said: "Build a concrete waterway with an angle of 10 degrees here, and place a magnet to remove iron." ”
"The concrete waterways here need to be filled with clean river water, because the density of the water is also used to remove impurities."
"When the quartz sand is cleaned, before it is stored in the warehouse, it is necessary to use the screen for sorting, so that the particle size of the quartz sand can be controlled."
Several students from the Jingshi University Hall who were fortunate enough to be personally taught by the mountain chief carefully wrote down every word Zhu Shun said, and there were not many such opportunities.
Zhu Shun stayed here for three or four days, and it was about to be the year-end summary meeting on the winter solstice, so he left the barren hills in full swing.
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