Chapter 27: The Road to the Richest Man

One-year plan:

1: At present, Liangshanbo has opened a small hotel outside the mountain. Liangshanbo is located at the junction of Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and merchants from all walks of life are constantly coming and going. Within a year, the Liangshan Hotel will be expanded and renamed "Shuibo Liangshan Hotel", and all the delicacies of the later generations that were not available in the Song Dynasty will be brought up, including Western, Japanese, and Korean food!

Fortunately, Song An is a foodie who loves to ponder, and he knows some of these dishes.

And then there's a dragon! The Great Song Dynasty is reasonable and legal, and the government will not care.

2: Open a medical hall outside the mountain, with the divine doctor An Daoquan in charge, and then add some modern medicine that I learned when I was a mercenary. Opening a hospital makes money no matter which dynasty or generation.

3: Open a martial arts gym outside the mountain. Among the heroes of Liangshan, there are basically eighteen kinds of weapons and all kinds of kung fu. They take turns to be martial arts teachers. If today's damn peace is not peaceful, who doesn't want to learn some kung fu to protect themselves?

4: There are beaches outside Liangshanbo that no one cares about, and there are hundreds of thousands of acres. Within a year, a few thousand acres of non-seasonal vegetables will be planted. During the Song Dynasty, people all over the world did not know how to grow in greenhouses, even if the emperor wanted to eat some fresh vegetables in winter, he had no door at all, so he could only honestly gnaw radish and cabbage! Once planted, the market will definitely not worry.

5: Engage in "feudal superstition"! Build a temple next to the Yangsan Hotel. Plastic God of Wealth, Medicine King, Fu Lu Shou Samsung, Guanyin Bodhisattva and other gods that people like to see, the merit box is a pendulum, by the great god Gongsun Sheng as the abbot, for the masses of the people "pray for blessings and disasters", Wu for himself can also make a cameo appearance in a small old way, sure that the wealth is rolling in! The name of the temple should be comprehensive, atmospheric, and loud, and it will be called "Promotion, Wealth, and Peace Temple!" ”

Five-Year Plan:

1: "Upgrade Shuibo Liangshan Hotel" to a five-star standard.

2: Expand the medical center and upgrade it to a hospital.

3: Expand the scale of the martial arts school.

4: The greenhouse planting area has been expanded to tens of thousands of acres, so that non-seasonal vegetables can enter thousands of households in Sulu, Henan and Anhui.

5: Expand the scale of the "Ping'an Temple for Promoting Officials and Fortune".

Ten-Year Plan:

1: "Shuibo Liangshan Hotel" has launched a chain to the whole country.

2: Sell non-seasonal vegetables all over the Song Dynasty.

3: Build the world's largest temple and collect wealth - no, it is Pudu sentient beings!

Long-term plan:

1: The "Shuibo Liangshan International Hotel" chain will be opened all over the world.

2: Sell non-seasonal vegetables all over the world.

3: Promote the hot summer martial arts to the world.

4: Build 800 miles of Shuibo Liangshan into a posture, a comprehensive collection of eating, drinking, gambling, tourism, vacation, immortal cultivation, treatment, health care in one of the resort, the only one in the world!

Well, you can also learn from Yun Ye, the protagonist of "Tang Brick", who opened a modern school in the Great Song Dynasty!

YY feels good, standing at the gate of the small courtyard overlooking the sparkling eight hundred miles of water, Song An seems to feel that the sparkling waves that cannot be seen at a glance are not water, but countless silver!

On the edge of the cliff not far away, Hua Rong, Yan Qing and several other uncles are still tirelessly teaching those foolish minions, so far, a hundred people, and half of them are still at the level of falling from the sky, and more than a dozen have fallen and injured themselves for a while.

Take your time, anyway, the Great Song Dynasty doesn't have the energy to pay attention to them at the moment.

On the second day, Song An said his "one-year plan" to everyone in a few simple sentences.

The five-year, ten-year, and long-term plans were too far away for them to understand, so they didn't say anything more.

Everyone probably understands it, it is nothing more than expanding the scale of the hotel, opening a martial arts hall, and building a temple. It's just that no one believes that Song An said that vegetables can be grown in winter!

Song An didn't bother to explain, anyway, "greenhouse", "plastic greenhouse", "out of season" and so on, a bunch of 21st century terms, told their dad to them, and they couldn't understand it. Just said "this matter is wrapped up in the juniors" and prevaricated.

Song Jiang immediately arranged for a large construction project, expanded the hotel outside the mountain, and built a medical hall and a martial arts hall.

In addition to leaving 10,000 soldiers and horses to be responsible for the daily defense of the five commanders such as Guan Sheng and Qin Ming, the remaining 190,000 people, regardless of men, women, and children, as long as they can walk, are all engaged in the mighty project of building houses.

There were those who burned bricks and tiles, those who went up the mountain to cut trees, those who quarried stones, those who worked as carpenters, and those who dug foundations with shovels.

Standing in front of the small courtyard, condescendingly looking at the busy people on the shore in the distance, Song An was happy in his eyes.

However, his own affairs made him scratch his head very much.

He is currently facing a very serious reality.

If you want to make out-of-season vegetables, you have to do it in a greenhouse.

There are only two forms of greenhouses, one is a plastic greenhouse and the other is a glass greenhouse.

In the 21st century, ordinary people can buy a piece of plastic cloth to buckle a greenhouse, or buckle a few pieces of glass to make one. But in the Song Dynasty 800 years ago, this was even more difficult than ascending to the sky.

Where did the plastic sheeting and glass come from?

As for the plastic sheeting, Song An couldn't figure out how to make it in the Song Dynasty with his own hands and brain.

The main components of plastic sheeting are polyethylene and polyethylene, which can only be made after dozens of chemical reactions and physical reactions, and he doesn't have that ability anyway.

Facing the sun, Song An fiddled with two small yellow glass beads the size of walnuts in his hand.

As early as the distant Western Zhou Dynasty, our great ancestors had mastered the craft of making glaze. The unearthed Yue Wang Goujian sword was inlaid with glass on the hilt.

This glass material looks similar to the glass feeling, but the permeability is much worse.

It stands to reason that their production process should be very similar.

This pair of small beads was made by Sun Sheng, the dragon of the clouds, and he burned some various glass gadgets for his brothers to play with when he had nothing to do.

"Uncle Gongsun, can you make this kind of bead transparent?"

When he arrived at Gongsun Sheng's small courtyard, Song An asked him.

Gongsun Sheng shook his head.

"Ask my uncle to show my nephew how to make this bead."

Gongsun Sheng took him to the small blast furnace where he fired the glass.

The blast furnace is made of adobe bricks, and it looks similar to the earthen blast furnace made by the common people in the fields during the large-scale steel smelting. There are two baskets on the ground, one of which is quartz sand.

The raw material of the glass is quartz sand!

Song Anxin was overjoyed, and secretly happy that he was making glass again, because although he didn't know the specific manufacturing process of glass, he still knew that the raw material for making glass was quartz sand.

The other basket of ash is not slippery, like the ash of plants and trees.

After igniting the charcoal fire to heat the hearth, Gongsun Sheng poured a basket of quartz sand into the blast furnace inlet. Then, he had to pick up some "plant ash" and put it in the blast furnace.

"What are these?" Song An was surprised.

"Grass and Wood Ash."

"Why did Uncle put this thing there?"

"I don't know, anyway, that's how the glass craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors is what it does."

"Don't let me go, let me take a look."

Song An squatted down and guarded the exit below the blast furnace, waiting for the juice of the quartz sand to flow out.

There is a cast iron box under the exit, which Gongsun Sheng said is specially used to store the juice that flows down from the cooling, and only when the juice is about to cool down can he bring specially made cowhide gloves to knead and process the glass juice into various forms.

After waiting for a while, Gongsun Sheng was surprised: "Why hasn't the juice flowed out yet?" In the past, it came out as soon as I put it in. ”

When I opened the lid of the inlet, I saw that the quartz sand was intact and lying in it without melting at all.

"Isn't it too short?" Song An asked.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Song An opened the lid again, and the quartz sand still didn't melt at all!

"Looks like it's going to have to depend on them!"

Gongsun Sheng threw a handful of plant ash into the material port.

In a short time, the fiery red juice flowed out of the outlet.

Song An's brain spun up:

Why can quartz sand melt when it is put on alkali surface and plant ash, but it cannot be melted alone?

From the perspective of modern chemistry, it should be that the plant ash acts as an accelerant and reduces the melting point of quartz sand......

But if you put plant ash, it will be gray and misty, and the light transmittance is too poor.

How can you melt pure quartz sand?

Conclusion: Reach its melting point!

Song An didn't know what the melting point of quartz sand was, but he knew that coke was generally used for steelmaking in steelworks. Because coke has a higher ignition point than coal and charcoal.

Although the Song Dynasty had coal, no one knew how to burn coke.

But this is too simple for Song Ahn.

When he was a child in the Taoist temple, the old grandson who was in charge of tea and cooking in the temple burned the charcoal himself, and the senior brother would also go to help the old grandson in his spare time.

Step 1: Dig a three-meter-long and two-meter-deep ditch in the ground, and build a circle with a radius of three meters with bricks and stones around the ditch, with a height of about one meter. Iron netting was added to the ditch, and firewood was stuffed under the net.

Step 2: Fill the circle with coal and seal it with mud.

Step 3: Light the firewood in the ditch.

When the firewood is lit, the coal on it is slowly ignited, and after about 10 days, the fire is flooded with water and the coke is burned.

Because he was in a hurry, he didn't choose a good location for burning coke, so Song An casually asked the minions to start work according to his instructions in a place where no one was on the mountain.

Since the day the fire was lit, the small half of Liangshan was immersed in a piece of yellow smoke and the smell of sulfur with sour and spicy eyes, which lasted for ten days.