"Go over there and wait." Looking at Hu Shang's cowering appearance in front of him, Li Chengqian showed a smile as kind as possible and pointed to the open space on the side.

"Son, Childe, may I ask a question?" The merchant asked tentatively in the official language of the Tang Dynasty (also Chang'an dialect), which he was not very proficient in.

"You're the first to come forward, so you can ask a question." Li Chengqian thought about it for a while and felt that he should be given a chance to speak, otherwise the scene would be too serious, and if these Hu people thought that they would be killed if they came out, things would be difficult to handle.

Sure enough, after hearing that he had a chance to speak, the businessman's expression was relaxed, and he continued to say in a not very skilled official dialect: "Does Childe want to burn the glass?" ”

"You're smart and bold, so you've earned yourself a chance." Li Chengqian paced a few steps in place with his hands behind his back, raised his head and took a deep breath, and continued: "From today on, you are the person in charge of the project, huh...... Just call it a project manager. ”

Project manager? Hu Ren, who didn't get an accurate answer, was confused, and he couldn't figure out whether the project manager was a name or an official position, but one thing was certain, at least the young man didn't arrest them, not to kill them.

"Okay, is there anyone else who can burn glass?" Sending the Hu people to the side, Li Chengqian looked at the group of Hu people in front of him and asked again.

"I, I will" was once again squeezed out of the crowd.

Slowly, more than a dozen people came out one after another, standing together in a shrunken manner, like criminals waiting to be sentenced.

Tang people are proud, even beggars don't look at them on weekdays, but this time they were singled out, and in the face of the unknown, if they are not afraid, it is pure self-deception.

But I'm afraid there is no way, in the face of a young man who can mobilize Zuo Wu Houwei, the best way to deal with it is to accept his fate, and nothing else will be discussed.

"Anyone else? One last chance. Looking at the dozen or so people who stood up, and then at the hundreds of people who were huddled together and resigned to their fate, Li Chengqian asked for the third time.

For a long time, no one responded.

can run from the far Western Regions to the Central Plains, everyone is not stupid, and they will not do that kind of indiscriminate thing.

If you don't stand up, you will be imprisoned at most, and if you stand up and be found to be impersonating in the end, the consequences will be difficult to estimate, and it is not impossible to get your head cut off in a serious way.

"Very well, put them all in jail!" Li Chengqian, who asked three times in a row, seemed to have lost interest in the remaining Hu people, and after saying a word to Changsun Chong, he turned around and walked towards the dozen or so Hu people who had been singled out.

"Gong, Gongzi, give me another chance!" Among the Hu people, a sudden voice sounded and stopped Li Chengqian.

"Honorable Tang Gongzi, give it another chance, the villain still has a wife and children in his family, if the villain is locked up, they will definitely starve to death." A Hu man, who was about 30 years old, squeezed out of the crowd, and was stopped by the officers and soldiers of the Zuowu Houwei who were surrounding outside, struggling to stretch out a hand to Li Chengqian, begging desperately.

"What will you do?" Li Chengqian, who had gradually walked away, turned his head and looked at the middle-aged Hu man with a pleading face, with a hint of embarrassment on his face.

"The villain will make a carpet, an authentic Persian carpet!" Li Chengqian's question gave the middle-aged man hope and began to describe his skills in the vague official language of the Tang Dynasty.

"Persia? Are you a Sassanid Persian? Li Chengqian tried hard to recall the historical knowledge he had learned in school, and through the only fragment of recall, it seemed that he was ...... It seems like...... Persia is dying.

"Yes, yes, son, the villain is the Sassanid Persian." A glimmer of hope flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes.

"Okay. You can stay, go over there. Looking at the mess around him, Li Chengqian temporarily gave up the idea of inquiring about the situation in Persia, and waved his hand to signal the officers and soldiers guarding to release the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man's release gave others hope as well, and they began to talk about their skills to show that they could be used.

"That's what you want?" After signaling the surrounding soldiers to suppress the chaotic scene, Changsun Chong dragged Li Chengqian aside and asked quietly.

"Isn't that good? They will be very serious about helping us in the future, because I saved them, otherwise they would have been imprisoned until death. Li Chengqian shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said.

"You took them." The eldest grandson chong looked back at the Hu people who were squatting together with their heads in their hands, and felt aggrieved for them in his heart.

Obviously he was arrested by Li Chengqian, but he still had to be grateful to him, what happened to this world, why did such an incredible thing happen.

"Yes, I know I took them, and they know, what's wrong? Any questions? Li Chengqian had a hateful smile on his face, and raised his eyebrows at the eldest grandson as he spoke.

"Nope." The eldest grandson muttered depressedly, feeling that this kind of argument with Li Chengqian was the biggest mistake he had made.

"It's good if you don't have it, go back and remember to have people register everything they will have, and then let those who don't know anything go." Li Chengqian did not have the slightest sense of being disliked, and after telling Changsun Chong, he patted him on the shoulder, and then turned around and left the Zuowu Houwei Prison with the twenty-seven and others.

The main purpose has been achieved, and it is not interesting to stay any longer, what will those Hu people do Li Chengqian did not want to ask one by one. He is a prince, not a eunuch, he does everything himself, and what do you want those subordinates to do.

Three days later, there was another cave near the cement factory, and Hu Shang Aman led thirteen companions who could fire glass settled here.

In a year, firing transparent glass, or glass, is their main task, and Li Chengqian also provided them with an incomplete recipe for raw materials, including quartz sand, limestone, feldspar and so on.

These things are easy to find, in addition to being used to fire glass, ceramic products are often used in large quantities, so the source of the material is not a problem.

Then the next step is the ingredients, which mix the different ingredients together in proportion and then fire.

This is the biggest difficulty, and it needs to be tested and summarized a little bit.

Even if the light transmittance of the glass that Li Chengqian needs to use is not as high as the current glass, it is not much worse than the glass with high transmittance in later generations.

Therefore, it is necessary to have talents who specialize in firing glass to carry out this work, and to complete this task quickly and efficiently with their experience and technology.

(End of chapter)