Chapter 291: Glass
() One meeting lasted two full days, and although it did not finalize the overall framework, it was finalized. The entire military plan will be planned in detail by the High Command, and the relevant material supply, transportation and other aspects of the support will naturally be coordinated by other departments, and along with the supervision and secrecy of the whole process, there will also be the Intelligence Bureau and the Civil Affairs Department to constantly supervise and urge it. The bureaucratic system in Yunzhou as a whole is different from the rest of Dongping, and the entire local governance system is different from other places. Once a detailed plan is in place, the efficiency and effectiveness of its implementation are also different. Everyone has their own position, and because of this, they have their own responsibilities, everyone will try to do what they should do well, and each department has its own responsibilities. The entire bureaucratic system in Yunzhou is like a jīng machine, and this plan to attack the Zhenbei Military Division, at this time, is a bit like the first driving force of the whole machine. The entire plan will evolve from a framework to a detailed set of objectives and programmes, all of which will be put in place over a period of several months. And when the time comes, the accumulated power will suddenly be released......
Yunzhou's governance system dictates that it must be well prepared in order to burst out with great strength, and even in terms of dealing with catastrophes, Yunzhou has also made a lot of preparations. In order to avoid having no ability to respond in the event of an emergency, all localities and departments in Yunzhou have chief officials who will have temporary adjudication power under special circumstances, and what is considered a special situation, Yunzhou now has detailed provisions in the basic law, and the accountability system after the fact is also quite sound. And this kind of quite sound strategy allowed Ye Tao to make a decision. Able to bring your family with you. Temporarily put aside all the local affairs and came to the Yunzhou branch of Ye's workshop.
Dai Yun originally wanted to participate in the detailed strategy formulation of the command, but Ye Tao still took Dai Yun away. The Yunzhou Command was originally an institution with staff officers. But Dai Yun is a general on the battlefield, and formulating detailed strategies is not necessarily what she is good at, and knowing too much about the details will affect her ability to make decisions on the battlefield. On the other hand, Ye Tao felt that he should let the command do something on his own. You can't always let their little family do everything. Tan Weiran, on the contrary, is a person who is good at strategy and planning, and a person who can effectively run the command.
Dai Yun didn't insist much. After all, she and Ye Tao haven't seen each other for a few months. Although there are many practical considerations for marrying Ye Tao, I have to admit that Ye Tao is a gentle and considerate husband, and a person worthy of his trust. The tenderness between the two made Dai Yun really feel like love. In addition, perhaps it is also because Ye's workshop always has all kinds of new gadgets. When Ye Tao left Yunzhou for Chūn South, he arranged a large number of land projects, and after a few months, many of them had already achieved initial results. Yip's Workshop has a wide variety of other fresh ideas popping up all the time. These things, Yip's Workshop will be reported once a month by someone to ask for the trade-offs of each project. Every time Tan Weixin, Dai Yun and Sophie had to study together for a long time before they could decide, but fortunately, Sophie helped Ye Tao make so many drawings. Now I often go back and forth to the construction site of Yip's workshop and Gondor City to follow up the progress of the work, and I still have some understanding of technical things. At least they can read the drawings. In order to make the project of Ye's workshop go smoothly, they also used their brains to ask Qian Shun or other old technicians to explain all kinds of technical details to them, but only Tan Weixin can understand it with modern ideas, but there is no big omission, after all, there is still Qian Shun checking for them, and the more outrageous things have long been vetoed by him. At this time, everyone suddenly discovered that only Ye Tao could say complex techniques in a language that anyone could understand, and only Ye Tao seemed to know the entire evolving technical system of Ye's Workshop, and could accurately grasp all kinds of alien projects, and could select, analyze, and combine them, so as to make Ye's Workshop more and more powerful. What kind of technical insight this is.
Ye Tao had to go to the workshop this time, because Qian Shun's letter a few days ago mentioned one thing: those glass craftsmen from overseas had infighting.
Originally, the craftsmen were not all from one place, some from the Gulf region, where the Samir family had a huge influence, and some from regions such as Florence, which were further afield. The method of making glass is ever-changing in the processing stage of the finished product, but at the raw material stage, everyone's technology is very similar, and these craftsmen have all worked in the glass workshop of the Samir family, and the most familiar is the glass production process of the Samir family, and the slightly different technical characteristics of each country are suppressed. And when I came to Yunzhou, it was a completely different situation in Ye's workshop. These glass craftsmen did not directly receive zì yóu and terminate their personal contracts as the various craftsmen and artists who had come to Yip's workshop before, mainly because the Samir family was worried about the leakage and return of glass technology, but the living arrangements of these craftsmen in other aspects were no worse than those of craftsmen from all walks of life. In the Ye's Workshop Research Institute in Yunzhou, there is a whole unit of residence, production, and research to house these people.
The glass-making system that Yip's Workshop has developed from scratch is certainly amazing to these people, and the relaxed living and research conditions have released all the creativity that everyone has accumulated for a long time. Together with the craftsmen of the original Yip's workshop, these foreign craftsmen mainly had to solve two problems: one was how to make the material of glass more clear and uniform, and the other was the diversification of glass products.
And it is because of such a problem, and the research direction that is different from everyone, that the craftsmen finally quarrel because of the technical school.
"What the hell is going on?" After coming to the workshop, Ye Tao met with Qian Shun first and asked, "Senior brother, can't you decide?" ”
Qian Shun smiled and said, "Now they have made several things, I think they have their own merits, and it is really difficult to distinguish." Our old group of artisans are now involved. Some are improving the current recipe, some are making new recipes, and there are still a group of people. Make those miscellaneous glasses beautiful...... Everyone has a point. So it's better for you to tell, I'm so scared of my headache by them. Also, isn't another workshop about to start? I've got to keep an eye on that side. ”
Ye Tao nodded. asked about the more detailed details, and Qian Shun took out all kinds of glass products of various styles from the safe in his office, a total of more than ten pieces.
Glancing at these things, Ye Tao was secretly surprised that the topics he assigned had suddenly popped up so many branches when he couldn't manage them instantly. Qian Shun only said that those craftsmen tried their best to make the miscellaneous glass beautiful, but what Ye Tao saw was consciously making "glaze".
The glass block, which is made into a small two-inch square cube, is rich and well matched, and it can be seen that the craftsmen have a certain understanding of what kind of metal minerals can lead to what kind of face.
And the glass materials that have caused controversy among the craftsmen are even more surprising. The original glass recipe of Yip's workshop has deliberately tried to remove the iron in the sand, adding mineral sand to make the sè more clear and transparent, rather than presenting it as a light green sè, which is at least quite modern in terms of formula. However, what Ye Tao saw now were three kinds of glass that were almost completely pure and transparent. The three glass shapes are exactly the same as the bottles placed there. It is only under the light that the different characteristics can be seen.
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One of them is to constantly improve the glass process of the original Yip's workshop, and somehow, the craftsmen have improved the method of filtering out impurities in the quartz sand. The green sè that used to be more pronounced has faded to almost invisible, but now the glass looks more crystalline. The recipe for the glass has obviously changed a lot. Ye Tao immediately thought of the craftsmen's trick: lead. Only the lead content is high enough to a certain extent. Ordinary glass can show the texture of this crystal, although a little loss of the mechanical strength of the glass, but this visual effect is indeed very attractive.
The other glass has a similar transparency, but the light that comes out of the folded shè is sharper and straighter. Qian Shun explained: "This kind of glass is a little harder than the original formula. Moreover, the sound of knocking is good. It's really expensive to make, whether it's the calcination of mineral sand or the preparation of auxiliary materials, it's troublesome. ”
Ye Tao frowned and asked, "Is it calcined with charcoal?" And then add plant ash and something like that? ”
Qian Shun was surprised: "How do you know?" I don't think I wrote it in the paperwork, huh? However, because Ye Tao, the little junior brother, has always brought too many surprises to everyone, Qian Shun didn't seem to want to ask at all, and said, "Forget it, it's best if you know." But because the glass is hard, the surface carving method doesn't work, and the bottles and plates are always broken, and now the guys who are working on this kind of thing are working with the lads in the workshop tool department to make new equipment. I did this correctly, because it looks like that kind of thing is used to process the glass of the original formula. ”
Ye Tao said with a smile: "The quality of glass is different and the function is different, at most, it can be done, and it doesn't matter if the two factions are arguing." These things are really surprising, I didn't expect such a good thing to be made in such a little time. Ye Tao naturally knows a little about this kind of xìng glass, isn't this the "forest glass" that has been popular in Europe for many centuries? Also known as "Bohemian crystal glass", this kind of thing is a representative of lead-free glass, which has been popular in Europe for many centuries, and later, some Czech craftsmen have added various metal elements to the glass solution to create the colorful "crystal lin". Although the production of this kind of glass has just been developed, it will inevitably be expensive, but it still has great potential for future development.
Qian Shun raised his eyebrows, it seemed that he had expected Ye Tao to say this, he pointed to the third glass bottle and said, "Then look at this, I asked the guys who made this thing to make a bottle out, and they were not happy, saying that it was a violent thing." ”
"Oh, I'm going to see," Ye Tao took the bottle in his hand, and spun it a little bit at the rì light outside the window, and his god became more serious a little bit. "What is this made of?" Ye Tao asked.
"I don't know what that thing is called, but the gang said they wanted to find more ore or something, so I'll let someone get it. At the beginning, a student worker in the workshop brought some ore, saying that they had it in the back mountain. Then there were four truckloads of ore for the craftsmen to try to make. Seeing Ye Tao's god, Qian Shun said: "Little junior brother, don't worry, I bought the whole mountain." Now this kind of ore, our Ye Workshop is the only one. ”
Ye Tao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Senior brother, it is normal for those craftsmen to be reluctant to make bottles, the light transmission, uniformity, and folding rate of this glass are completely different from the previous two glasses, to say that the optical characteristics are better than some natural crystals, this is very suitable for making lenses, to completely replace the material of the lenses in those telescopes and ballista sights." The craftsmen must have realized this, and they had a big problem with making bottles. ”
Qian Shun smiled disappreciatively and said, "I just let them produce samples, and everyone's same samples can be compared." If you say that and then change the way you treat them, that's another matter. ”
Ye Tao nodded, now Qian Shun has a set of management experience, which is very good for letting craftsmen work in the system of the workshop and for everyone to have the spare time to innovate after work. Although Qian Shun's sentence is simple, it is worth pondering.
"Senior brother, what do you think we should do now?" Ye Tao asked.
"Aren't they infighting? I'll deal with that, of course, but you, as the head of the workshop, should always show up to encourage them. Since you said that the two kinds of glass in front of you have their own merits, it is also simple, the two groups are called glass group A and glass group B, and all kinds of things will be taken out for everyone to see. See to what extent the cost can be controlled, to what extent the process level can be developed, and in addition, it is necessary to see how many people are willing to buy these things. I guess it's not going to be less, I've already taken some things to tempt some people, and the price they are willing to offer makes people drool. However, we naturally won't sell it so expensive, and it can be regarded as a little surprise for everyone. Since you said that this third type of glass is suitable for lenses, it is also simple. Now almost all the grinding of natural crystal lenses is concentrated in Danyang, and we have another set of grinding equipment, which is placed in Yunzhou, specifically to produce various telescopes and sights for this kind of glass lens in Yunzhou. Although the cost of this glass is high, and it takes a lot of money and time to figure out how to grind it, it is still much cheaper than natural crystal lenses. The main thing is that there is no way to guarantee the raw materials of natural crystal lenses, and this kind of thing will do. However, junior brother, once this kind of thing is sold, wouldn't it be good to hang a telescope or something like that in a Bosch tool store and sell it? I guess I'm going to have to get a new business name out again, right? …… But what are you going to do with those colorful things? ”