Half a month later, after the efforts of the red lady, nearly 100 ladies have also found their favorite people.

Yang Wenli helped these loyal subordinates to hold a grand collective marriage ceremony, he invited the old lady to be the officiant in person, and he also personally sent blessings, the scene was both formal and solemn and large-scale, and Yang Wenli's actions gained a large number of people's support.

Only two days after the wedding, Yang Wenli launched a vigorous mobilization order for spring ploughing and production, and he did not care about the training of soldiers, he also ordered the Ordnance Department to stop the production of weapons, vigorously cast steel farm tools, and distributed hundreds of cattle in the cottage to individuals according to their status and merits, and sold the livestock and livestock originally raised collectively in the cottage to individuals, and he started a new system of semi-slavery and semi-capitalism in the special period of the late Ming Dynasty.

Those who have constant production have perseverance, which is easier to discipline, just like some low-wage positions in modern society often have people quitting their jobs, why? It's because the salary is too low to be attractive, and if the leader says a few more words, people will pat their butts and leave.

This is the same in ancient times, for example, if the army of the court goes out to fight, as long as the supervision on the road is not strict, a small half of it will run away on the way, that is, those who have no tile to shade and have no land to live in, as long as there is a risk, they will immediately try their best to escape, the world is so big, they live the same wherever they go.

This is the reason why his soldiers are too poor, and it is also the reason why Qi Shaobao chooses those peasant children who have families. The cost of desertion is too great, and it will be a good soldier and his family, and if it is supplemented by a fair award for meritorious service, then the morale and combat effectiveness of this unit will definitely be unbeatable.

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Everything was arranged, and Yang Wenli himself took a new scholar named Huang Zi'an to the armory workshop to develop glass.

To do scientific experiments to record, he used to keep track of it himself, but now that there are people, of course he can be a little more relaxed. On the other hand, he wanted to use Huang Zi'an as his assistant, and in time, he could train an outstanding scientist.

"Since Ansheng, I will record the weight of the solvent I weigh so that I can check it in the future." Yang Wenli used the simple balance scale to weigh the amount of various solvents, and then instructed Huang Zi'an beside him.

After weighing, Yang Wenli poured it into the crucible in the furnace, and then stirred it quickly, and not long after, a large number of bubbles came out of the glass liquid in the crucible, and the glass liquid was as red as a rock paddle.

Yang Wenli's naked upper body was full of muscles, sprinkled with sweat and stirring hard, the muscles on his body were bulging, hard and solid, like hard stones, implying great strength.

Huang Zi'an couldn't help but look at his thin figure hidden in his Confucian shirt, and couldn't help but envy himself, people are more popular than people, and he may not be half as big as a master.

At this time, Yang Wenli shouted loudly: "Speed up the blast, the firepower is not enough." ”

The two slaves who pulled the bellows were also naked, sweating into beads, and when they heard the call of the big boss, they didn't care about wiping the sweat and hurriedly pulled up the bellows.

Although the two of them are also strong, their figures are overshadowed by those of the big bosses, Huang Zi'an, who was watching from the sidelines, commented in his heart.

The fire increased, and the open flame in the furnace rose a foot high, Yang Wenli gradually felt that the stirring was not too laborious, the liquid glass was no longer so viscous, and the color gradually turned white, and before long, the liquid glass in the crucible no longer bubbled.

Yang Wenli quickly used a spoon to scoop a little molten glass onto a flat steel plate, and when the molten glass solidified slightly, he quickly used the porcelain rod in his hand to roll out a few times like rolling dough. Then, without waiting for the glass to heat up, he hurriedly moved the glass to another stove with a shovel.

Huang Zi'an felt strange for a moment, so he asked in a loud voice: "Big boss, the glass is ready, why did it move to the furnace?" ”

"This is the next procedure: annealing, the glass is fragile, if it cools down too quickly, it will break, so it must be put into the furnace to keep warm, and then slowly cooled, so that it will not break." Yang Wenli gave him a simple explanation.

"Oh! But it's not simple, everything makes sense, and sure enough. Big boss, does it become after glass annealing? Huang Zi'an nodded and replied as if he didn't understand.

"Far from it! I'm just experimenting with the transparency and solidity of glass, which is not how real glass is made, and there are still a few processes to follow. Yang Wenli replied to him casually while working.

When a pot of molten glass was used up, Yang Wenli turned to the annealing furnace, pulled the previous glass from the furnace a little, and then opened a little more after a while, until the glass showed its original color, regardless of the red heat, Yang Wenli wrapped it in a piece of leather and held it up to his eyes for careful observation.

The texture of the glass is very pure, almost no impurities, Yang Wenli is very satisfied, although the glass is not transparent, but that is because the glass surface is uneven, it needs to be polished later, and the material of the glass itself can be seen at a glance, whether it is pure.

Seeing the big boss nodding and smiling, Huang Zixin knew that this experiment might have been completed, so he asked, "Big boss, has the glass succeeded?" ”

"It should be done, Mr. Zi'an, you remember, the glass is cut according to the recipe just now, and it must be stirred until the crucible is no longer bubbling, and the liquid glass is bright white before it can be discharged.

In a few days, when a few things have been made, we will start producing glass. Yang Wenli both replied and ordered.

"Whoa!" Huang Zi'an replied and began to take notes.

What Yang Wenli wants to make is the mold of the glass plate, which is also the key to float glass. What he needs now is window panes, so Yang Wenli has to make several molds, including rectangular, round, and special arcs.

The curved glass is used for bay windows, and the technology is not difficult, which is to press with two curved molds with concave and convex while the glass is still red and soft.

A few days later, when the mold was made and the glass was really made on a large scale, Yang Wenli did not go into battle in person, and he also hid from afar to command.

Although float glass was still an advanced production technology until the nineties of the 20th century, the principle is actually very simple, it is a method of producing glass with a very high flatness by using the characteristics of tin with a low melting point and a larger specific gravity than glass.

The molten tin is poured into various glass molds, and then the molten glass is poured into the mold, and the flat glass is obtained by using the principle of liquid self-leveling.

The melting point of glass is high, when it solidifies, the metal tin is still in a liquid state, take out the glass, and then put in the glass liquid, so that the circulation is always a red-hot liquid, which is a natural plane.

After the glass is annealed, it is not a finished product, and it has to be polished in the later stage. There are three processes of grinding, one is coarse grinding, two is fine grinding, and three is fine grinding.

Coarse grinding and fine grinding are made of two kinds of sand particles with very fine granularity, glued to the cloth with fish glue, and when it dries thoroughly, it is the soil abrasive cloth, and the fine grinding is the use of a rare earth, very delicate, like yellow mud, the ancients used to sharpen the material of the knife, the ancients called oil sludge.

…… To be continued