Wei Renshi followed the guards to the palace of Guangling County, and when he saw Li Chun, he asked, "Prince Chun called me over, I don't know why?" ”

Li Chun smiled, clapped his hands, and walked out from behind.

Li Chun pointed at the person and said with a smile: "Finally, I didn't break my promise, I helped you find the person you wanted." ”

When Wei Renshi heard this, he immediately looked at the person standing there in surprise and asked, "Your Excellency knows how to blow?!" ”

"Back to the official's house, the small one can indeed blow, or learn from the big cannibal!" The one quickly replied.

Wei Renshi was stunned, how could he listen to the accent like an international friend in the later life?

Seeing that Wei Renshi was surprised by his accent, the man arched his hand again and explained: "The younger parents are both people of the Tang Dynasty, and one year when Tubo was on the border, my father was taken away, escaped halfway, was taken in by the caravan, and became a slave with the caravan. Later, because of her good work, she became a relative to another Han woman in the caravan, who was her mother. Then he stayed in the Western Regions, and then there was a small one. But in the end, it was an outsider over there, and he was always bullied, and the caravan was later stopped, and the small family was defeated, and his parents died. When I was young, I wandered around the Western Regions, and my accent couldn't be changed. However, my father taught the little ones since childhood, we are Datang people, and we will return to Datang one day! Later, the little one also followed Hu Shang, ran back and forth, learned to blow in Dashi, and learned a lot of miscellaneous things in order to beg for food, and has been used in the caravan. ”

Although that person's accent is a little different from that of the Tang Dynasty, he speaks fluently and smoothly, and there is no barrier to communication.

"You know how to blow it, but you can burn glass?" Wei Renshi sat down, Li Chun asked the man to sit down too, and then listened to Wei Renshi ask.

The man shook his head: "The small one won't be gone, the big cannibal is bad, just let us people blow it into shapes, but how that thing came out, we won't know at all." But the little one has seen the roast when he arrives, and he doesn't know it, and it looks a little transparent, but it's very muddy, and he doesn't know what it is. ”

Listening to what he said, Wei Renshi guessed that it might be something like quartz, quartz in nature should be difficult to find in this era at the moment, and there is a reason why the cost of this thing will be so high.

It's a pity that they don't know that what can be fired into glass is the silica in it, and the silica content in the river sand is extremely high.

Wei Renshi nodded, and asked again, "Then how did Prince Chun find you?" ”

"Back to the official's house, the little one doesn't know! After the small one came back with the caravan, he had been helping the caravan to resell the glass from the Western Regions, and some time ago one day the caravan steward suddenly came to find the small one, saying that the big man above wanted to let the small one pass...... The little one was so scared that he almost ran away! Later, he was arrested and brought back......" The man said with a somewhat sneering expression: "Later, someone brought the little one here, God, the little one was able to meet a prince!" ”

"Oh!" Wei Ren really knew, the caravan in his heart must be supported by a high-ranking official behind his back, or a caravan controlled by a clan, Li Chun wanted someone, and he happened to know that there was such a person in the caravan, so he gave it up.

Basically, this should be the case, those big caravans that can go to the Western Regions have only two backgrounds, either the family of a high-ranking official, or those clans of the gate lords. Private merchants can only rely on their caravans to get out of the country smoothly, and they also want to be protected on the road.

So he smiled and said to Li Chun: "Prince Chun is really powerful!" Now you're all set! ”

"Hehe, is the glass ready to start?" Li Chun said with a smile.

Wei Renshi nodded and said, "Yes, everything has been prepared, just waiting for the people who know how to blow it to be in place." Now that Prince Chun has found someone who knows how to blow, he can start. ”

After that, he looked at the man who knew how to blow and asked, "What's your name?" ”

The man hurriedly bowed and replied, "The little one's name is Wang Qi." ”

"Very good, Wang Qi, listen-" Wei Renshi said to him with a solemn and solemn look: "You have been running trade all the year round, and you should know that there are many Hu merchants who come to my Tang Dynasty now, and most of them are cannibals and people from the Western Regions. They came to Datang with the glaze, sold it at a very high price, and made countless copper coins from my Datang. The wealth of the Tang Dynasty became their wealth, which is not good. If we want to regain these wealth, we must have our own glass technology, and we must be able to make glass by ourselves! At the moment, I have a way to make glassware at a very low cost, but I lack a person who can blow it. You not only know the words of the Western Regions and the Great Food, but also know how to blow it, and now you want to regain the wealth of our Datang from the hands of Hu Shang, only you are the most worthy of this important task! Therefore, Prince Chun and I are going to let you go to Weinan, and I will assign you men, and you will teach them the craft of blowing. When the time comes, when we also burn the glass, we Datang will be able to sell those glasses back to the big cannibals, and make the wealth they earned from their pockets again, and become the wealth of Datang! Can you do it?! ”

When the man heard this, he immediately assured loudly, "Yes!" The small one can! The small one has been blowing glass in Dashi for almost ten years, as long as you master the essentials, it is not difficult to blow it! ”

"Thank you Prince Chun, without further ado, I'll take him to Weinan." Wei Renshi got up and said to Li Chun: "With him, our glass kiln can start immediately!" ”

"Good!" Li Chun nodded.

Wei Renshi left with the man and went straight to Weinan.

It was already afternoon when he arrived in Weinan, and Wei Renshi went directly to the kiln.

The old kiln head brought by Jiao Haiqing has been prepared for firing the kiln.

When he arrived at the kiln, Wei Renshi saw some burnt pottery on the table.

Following Wei Renshi's eyes, he saw the pile of pottery, and the old kiln head explained: "The person who blows it doesn't know when it will be found, this thing is ready, and the old man took people to burn a few kilns to mature the kiln first, this kiln has no good temperament, but whenever the kiln is opened, it must be burned for a few months worthless things, and the temperament of the kiln is cooked before it can really start." ”

"You always know more about the rules than I do, and you can do it if you look at it." Wei Renshi waved his hand at the old kiln head: "Do you remember what I told you before I left?" I have already taught you the old way to burn the glass before leaving, from now on, you don't want to burn anything else, just burn the river sand and burn it with charcoal! Don't be stingy with charcoal, burn all the pieces of charcoal powder with charcoal, so that the temperature can be heated up, and the river sand can be burned into glass. ”

After that, he pulled Wang Qi to him and said, "No, the blowing man has finally been found, you have to bring someone to learn his blowing skills for me." The first few times, I didn't ask for anything shapeless, and I burned things first. ”

The old kiln head was excited: "It's been found!" Xiaolang, you can take a look! Since you value the old man and teach the old man the method of burning glass, if the old man can't burn a famous hall, where will he have the face to see Xiaolang? You don't need Xiaolang to fall, you can find a tree with a crooked neck and hang yourself! Don't worry! ”

Wei Renshi smiled and said to the old kiln head: "I still have to remind you again." Anneal! Be sure to anneal! I also told you about the annealing process, you must not forget, otherwise the glass made will be broken when it is scalded with boiling water, and it will not be sold! ”

"Hey! Xiaolang can rest assured! The old kiln nodded vigorously.