Li Zhi and the head of the Cai family couldn't make sense, so they got up and left. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Walking outside the door of the Cai family, Li Zhi saw the son who was kicked out of the house by the head of the Cai family kneeling outside the door.

Li Zhi thought that the head of the Cai family had taught this son the ability to burn porcelain, and secretly said that this person was also a talent, and if he was hired, maybe it would be okay, so he asked, "Young man, what are you kneeling there for?" ”

The young man glanced at Li Zhi, lowered his head and said, "Official, I have been kicked out of the house, so I can only kneel here and beg my father to forgive me, otherwise I will have no career outside and will starve to death sooner or later." ”

Li Zhi asked, "Are you willing to marry the daughter of the Han family?" ”

The young man shook his head, gritted his teeth and said, "I only have one daughter-in-law in my life!" ”

Li Zhi laughed when he heard this, and said intimidatingly: "If you want to marry Cui'er, how will your father let you go home." I'm afraid that if you kneel down here, your father won't change his words! ”

When the young man heard Li Zhi's words, his face was full of panic, and he asked in a panic, "Official, what do you say I should do?" ”

Li Zhi blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "Why don't you elope with Cui'er?" ”

The young man thought that Li Zhi was going to help him come up with some ideas, but he didn't expect to let himself elope, and immediately lost his spirit, and muttered: "This army is in chaos, where am I going to run with Cui'er?" Sooner or later, starve to death in another country! ”

Li Zhi clapped his hands, walked up to the young man, and said slowly: "I heard that your father has taught you skills for ten years, will you build a kiln?" ”

The young man looked at Li Zhi and said, "I will!" From the construction of the kiln to the selection of the crucible to the plastic embryo to the firing kiln, I am not worse than my father. After thinking about it, he said again: "But to build a porcelain kiln, you need to buy all kinds of materials, and the cost is hundreds of taels of silver, and I can't build it empty-handed." ”

"Do you really know how to build a kiln?"

"I really will, I have improved my porcelain kiln!"

Li Zhi came to his senses when he heard this, and said loudly: "Then the official will show you a clear way!" Come to Fanjiazhuang to build a kiln for this official! ”

The young man looked at Li Zhi's official robe, thought for a while, bowed his head and said, "No, I just starve to death, and I can't leak the family heirloom porcelain burning skills!" ”

Li Zhi scolded: "What is leaking, this official doesn't want you to burn porcelain, as long as you build a high-temperature cave to burn glass!" ”

The young man on the ground was stunned, looked up at Li Zhi, his eyes were shining, and asked, "Burning glass?" ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Yes, burn glass!" You follow my instructions to build a kiln, you don't need to take out your family heirloom of porcelain burning, just build a high-temperature kiln. If you help me work, I will give you four or two months of money a month, and I will also give you a villa at a cheap price to live in, which is enough for you and Cui'er to live! ”

The young man on the ground finally reacted and looked at Li Zhi in surprise: "As long as you are an old porcelain worker, you can build a kiln, why did the official choose me?" ”

Li Zhi said: "It is said that your Cai family has the most solid skills. Do you want to do it? ”

The young man hurriedly replied, "I'll do it!" I'll do it! This job will not reveal my family's ancestral skills at all, I will do it, official! ”

Li Zhi nodded with a smile and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"The little cheap name is Cai Huaishui."

Li Zhiyi stretched out his hand and took out twelve taels of silver from his arms, and said, "Cai Huaishui, I believe that you will build a kiln, and I will pay you three months' monthly money first." You took the money to say hello to Cui'er, and sent ten taels of silver to the girl's family, which should be a marriage. You and I will go to Fanjiazhuang to build a kiln, and in a few months save dozens of taels of silver and come back to marry Cui'er! ”

"Of course, if you can help me build a glass kiln. If you can't build a kiln in a few months, you can go home and marry a girl from the Han family. ”

The young man was overjoyed to see Li Zhi thinking so thoughtfully, and couldn't help but shed tears in surprise. He wiped away a handful of tears, got up from the ground and took the silver, nodded and said, "Official, I will definitely build a glass kiln for you!" ”

Li Zhi nodded, and asked Cai Huaishui to go to Cui'er's house to say hello. Li Zhi bought a horse in the county seat, and as soon as Cai Huaishui returned, he led the horse to him.

"How are you talking to Cui'er's family?"

"I told him that my father had an errand for four or two months, and his father happily accepted my money!" After a pause, Cai Huaishui said with a smile: "Cui'er is very happy! ”

Li Zhi smiled and said, "That's it, get on the horse, and follow me to Fanjiazhuang." ”

When he arrived at Fanjiazhuang, after Li Zhi emphasized the chance of secrecy, he showed Cai Huaishui the drawings of the glass kiln he designed. In addition to the main furnace and heat storage chamber, Li Zhi also designed an annealing channel.

The so-called annealing is to control the temperature change so that the high-temperature material can be gradually cooled down at an appropriate rate, and the residual stress inside the material is eliminated. If the residual stress is not removed, the glass will crack on its own.

Li Zhi and Cai Huaishui explained: The purpose of this kiln is to heat the glass raw materials in the crucible to a temperature a few points higher than that of porcelain, so that the material is completely melted into glass liquid, add saltpeter to remove color, and then enter the annealing channel for annealing, and finally use salt to clarify and bubble, and pour it into the molder for molding. According to this line of thinking, Li Zhi asked Cai Huaishui to design a glass kiln.

Cai Huaishui is really an old porcelain worker, Li Zhi said that he knows all kinds of later generations of techniques, and patted his chest and said that he can make this kiln.

Li Zhi gave Cai Huaishui 1,000 taels of silver to spend and let him purchase various materials. Li Zhi also set aside a piece of land in the southeast of Fanjiazhuang City for Cai Huaishui to build a factory, and hired five handymen to Cai Huaishui as helpers and apprentices, so that they could follow Cai Huaishui to build a glass-burning kiln.

The glass kiln is under construction here, and the six-pounder cannon that Li Zhi wants over there has been ready.

On 20 March, the five gunsmiths finally completed various tests and finalized the six-pounder gun.

Although the 650-pound iron-core copper cannon did not blow up and bored after firing 100 rounds, it was a big deal, and it was to make the artillerymen lose their lives, and a thousand rounds could not be blown up. To be on the safe side, the gunsmiths eventually set the six-pound cannon at the standard of 750 pounds. Under this standard, the double-layer bore wall of the artillery is thick enough to fully ensure the safety of the artillerymen's lives and will not make the artillerymen dare not fire.

On the 21st, the two six-pounder guns were arranged for formal test firing on the sandy ground south of Fanjiazhuang.

Li Zhi also came to observe the test launch. Not only Li Zhi came, but many people and children in the city also came to see the cannons. These people gathered around the cannon in a few circles, and finally Li Zhi had to send twenty more soldiers to maintain order.

According to Li Zhi's design, two six-pounder guns were mounted on a two-wheeled gun carriage. Each gun had another front cart for ammunition boxes, also two-wheeled. When transporting, the gun carriage and the front carriage were connected together to form a four-wheeled carriage for easy towing. Each artillery carriage was towed by four horses to ensure the speed of the artillery march.

The gunners drove the gun carriage to the sand, unclamped the bolt between the gun carriage and the car in front, and mounted the gun on the sand.

Seeing the artillery erected, the crowd of onlookers cheered, covering their ears one by one to watch the cannon fire shells.