The red lady was full of hope, she was attracted by her words, she thought that the girls should be brave to fight, but no one replied, as if the collective had mute.

Of course, the girls will not take the liberty to agree, they are all still yellow flower girls, and their faces are very thin, even if they really promise secretly, they will never say it in front of outsiders. The red lady waited for a few minutes, and when she saw that they still didn't speak, she continued to sing Shan Bang and said: "You are embarrassed to say, I understand, I will give you a few days, wait for you to go to the secret meeting by yourself, and then you can hand me a note, or give me a hint."

There are also a hundred soldiers who have just been promoted to the rank of soldier, and if any of you have the secret permission, you can also tell me in private, and they are not courting each other, so sisters can keep an eye on them.

Actually, I'm here today to find a few papers, and among the sisters, if anyone can read and hyphenation, they can sign up.

Sisters, this is not the time for you to be at home, everyone has to work, to feed himself with his own hands, to spin to those who can spin, to weave to weave, to make clothes.

Being a clerk is a relatively easy and noble job, sitting in the study every day, and the salary is relatively high,......"

Before the red lady's words were finished, more than a dozen girls bravely signed up: "Second lady, I can read and write" "Second lady, I am familiar with women's books"......

"Good, good! Don't worry, everyone, I want anyone who can read and count, and you will follow me to do things. The red lady said loudly with a smile.

"Sisters, the task is more urgent now, we have to give the new recruits, each person makes a resume, and we also have to name the newly captured slaves, there are a lot of things, you can go home with me now, go to my study and work first! The salary will be calculated from today, and you will learn to make a book with me, okay? The red lady didn't grind anymore, and directly asked them to go home with her to work.

The things on the Red Lady's side have finally come to pass, and the building of the house is also starting to dig the foundation, and things are finally on the right track.

Yang Wenli, who was temporarily able to get out, wanted to carry out his scientific research work, which was to make glass. In fact, there was glass in ancient China as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but because it was obtained by chance when burning porcelain, it was regarded as a precious gem by the ancients.

Of course, the quality of glass in ancient times was not good, containing a large number of impurities, and there were many small bubbles that could not be removed, all of which did not get a big development.

The most important thing in making glass is to make good materials, even if it is modern, if you use ordinary sand can not make qualified glass, without it, the impurities are too heavy.

The best material for making glass is quartz sand, and it is quartz sand with relatively high purity, which happens to be available here, that is, when Yang Wenli was looking for iron ore, the quartz sand veins found were exposed on the surface and easy to open.

There are two methods of making glass: crucible method and pool dissolution method, and here, Yang Wenli can only use the crucible method.

The solvent for making glass is soda ash, feldspar, limestone, etc., but in fact, glass can be made without solvent, but the temperature must reach more than 1750 degrees, and the quartz sand with high purity should be used, which could not be done in ancient times, but Yang Wenlixing, his soil method reverberatory furnace, the temperature can reach more than 2000 degrees, and steelmaking can be, and there is just a very high purity quartz sand here.

But Yang Wenli also had to find all the solvents, if nothing else, he just wanted to experiment with various formulas to get the best glass. To do scientific experiments, there is no success at once, you must try more to come up with the best formula.

Yang Wenli now has other raw materials, but there is no soda ash, soda ash was called alkali noodles in ancient times, it is natural soda ash, and the origin is Xiangyang in Huguang and Nanyang in Henan. The ancients mainly used it to make steamed buns and pancreas, although the ancients did not know the principles of chemistry, but after thousands of years of various experiments, they naturally knew what to do.

Alkaline noodles are generally sold in grocery stores, so Yang Wenli wanted to send Zhao Laosi to Zhoucheng again. However, Zhao Laosi is busy now, and he is busy dividing the land! Yang Wenli made a random mark on the field book, and the real implementation was still done by Zhao Laosi.

When the afternoon was over, Yang Wenli sent someone to find Zhao Laosi, and said to him kindly: "Uncle Zhao, I have to trouble you to go to Zhoucheng and help me buy some alkaline noodles and come back, I will use it for experiments, and then buy some crucibles by the way, buy as many as you want." ”

Of course, Zhao Laosi knew that Young Master Li just liked to study some weird things, and he had this strange hobby since he was a child, so he didn't think it was strange, and immediately agreed: "Okay!" I'll go tomorrow. ”

Zhao Laosi went to the state city, it took several days, and the road was not very peaceful, and the next morning, Yang Wenli personally arranged for two new soldiers to accompany him to protect his safety along the way.

A few days passed, but the troops who went out to suppress the bandits still did not come back, it turned out that after Yang Renyue and they suppressed a small hill, they saw that there were not many bandits captured, only less than a hundred, and many Tuntian soldiers were not enough for promotion, so he discussed with a few brothers and decided to lay down another mountain. Anyway, the big boss didn't set a time limit, and they planned to fight until all the Tuntian soldiers were promoted to soldiers before returning to the cottage.

Yang Wenli, who was looking forward to their return at home, was not too worried, with the combat effectiveness of the Tuntian soldiers now being able to compete with the elite armor soldiers of Jiannu, and with excellent weapons and equipment, these rabble in Dabie Mountain could not threaten their safety at all, maybe there was some special situation! Yang Wenli thought so.

After a few more days, Zhao Laosi, who went out to buy alkaline noodles, came back, but Yang Renyue and they still didn't come back. Soon to enter the spring ploughing, Yang Wenli couldn't help but worry.

However, it was useless to worry, because he had no idea where they had gone, so he had to devote all his attention to the scientific research activities of developing glass.

The furnace is still the reverberatory furnace, or charcoal is used as fuel, the crucible is still that kind of crucible, Yang Wenli saw that the purity of quartz sand is very high, so the first solvent is not much, only a small amount of each is put a little bit, because there is no standard scale measurement, he deliberately made a simple balance scale, several discus of the same size as a weight, no matter how heavy the weight is, as long as the solvent is weighed proportionally.

Glass-making is not as good as iron-making, it will produce a lot of bubbles, and you must stir more to let the bubbles out, otherwise there will be bubbles in the finished glass.

And the stick used for stirring should also be special, no longer use iron rods, glass is the most taboo iron, copper and other metals, otherwise the glass will have color, so Yang Wenli fired a porcelain rod.

The first firing of glass failed without accident, and there were several mistakes, the first is that the glass is not transparent enough, Yang Wenli judged that the material is not pure enough, and the main reason is that the natural soda ash is not pure enough.

…… To be continued