Three months later, Huang De, who had finally finished his work with the wooden frames, hired some carriages, loaded hundreds of wooden frames on the carts, and walked towards the glass workshop not far from the county. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The young man had appeared once two months earlier to check if the wood was up to standard, and he hadn't seen it again.

Connected to the glass workshop that became a topic of conversation, it seemed to suddenly disappear from the sight of everyone in Nan'an County, leaving no trace.

Every time Huang De thinks about this, he is afraid that he will not get back two-thirds of his fixed money, and even suspects that it is not another woodware factory that is trying to harm him.

But when I thought that after using the method that the young man said for these thousand sets of strange wooden tools, the cost was actually not much, and even if the deposit given could be lost, it would not be lost, so I felt at ease.

As the days passed, the apprentices worked faster and faster, from 10 sets a day to 20 or even 30 sets.

Looking at the wooden tools piled up together, Huang De's heart was full of joy, especially when he thought that Chen Jian said that all the wooden tools used in the future would be purchased from here and they were all similar to this complete set, and he felt that his own shop might really be able to crush other shops.

Thinking that if he made money this time, if he really had a big business, he could really hire a few more apprentices, or even find someone to build a water-powered sawmill, so that he could really have a family business.

With this thought, he hired a carriage with great interest and walked towards the workshop according to the address left by Chen Jian.

Several apprentices also followed, and when it was completed, the master promised to eat a meal of meat and some subsidies after the money was returned, and he was really happy.

When he was almost there, one of the apprentices pointed to the distance and shouted, "Look! That's it! It's so pretty! ”

Everyone raised their heads and looked in the direction of their fingers, and they couldn't help but admire.

Far away, you can clearly see a large chimney that looks three feet tall is spitting black soot, and the sky is blackened from afar. The black smoke formed various strange shapes in mid-air, which did not disperse for a long time, and it was indescribably shocking and mysterious.

After approaching, I found that there was a wooden fence outside the factory, and next to the wooden fence were planted some nettles that were covered with thorns and would be itchy and unbearable after entering.

Near the gate was a brick wall more than ten steps long, and Huang De's apprentices exclaimed again.

There is nothing to marvel about in the brick walls, except that they are covered with a layer of broken glass that would otherwise look extremely expensive, even extravagant.

In the countryside or county seats, glass is still a rarity for some people's homes, if someone's glass window is broken, children will often rush up to pick up a lot, where will be like this section of the wall, actually use these broken glass as a weapon to prevent people from climbing up.

The apprentices watched with a rambling gaze, and suddenly felt that the glass workshop was full of freshness, and their eyes were always fixed on the wall, but they did not notice the gate.

The door is very wide, and there are two huge wooden signs standing on it, which read "Nan'an County Private Glass Factory" and "Nan'an County Privatized Chemical Factory" in vermilion characters.

A hut was built at the door. The house is not big, and it looks like it can accommodate three or two people, but it is just an ordinary brick and stone house, and even a little short.

This time, even Huang De, who had been reprimanding his disciples not to make a fuss, stopped, looked at the hut and exclaimed, his heart was moved.

This very simple-looking small room was actually equipped with two pieces of astonishingly large glass, the glass was polished with cotton cloth, and the people inside could see clearly, and even because of the light, they could see their own reflections, clearly.

These two pieces of glass are not only big, but they are also big, and the big ones are unexpected.

Huang De has seen glass in the county, but where has he seen such glass? The glass of the richest people in the county is also much smaller than this, and it is not a matter of money, but that it is impossible to buy such a large glass at all.

The glass is green, and there are often a lot of bubbles in it, although it is a hundred times stronger than the window paper, Huang De was also envious before.

It's just that I have to compare and throw away, and then look at the glass, there are almost no bubbles, and the whole glass does not have the kind of green that I didn't find ugly before, but now I don't think it's clear enough.

Huang De swallowed his saliva, and said in his heart that no wonder people want 2,000 sets of wooden frames when they make a move, and those who set the money are also arrogant, with such a glass workshop, then they are worried about not making money?

Then the door of the hut opened, and out of it came a man who didn't look like a good stubble, dressed in a dress that Huang Tak thought was very strange.

Made of white cotton cloth, it looked extremely simple, it was put directly on the head, and the fabric could not be saved, and there were no sleeves from the armpits, revealing the man's scarred arms.

On the back of the clothes, the words "Nan'an Private Factory" are written with red dye, as if they are afraid that others will not know which workshop they are.

I didn't know what to call it, but I turned my head a little and found that there were two signs on the big glass room, "Security Section" and "Guard Room".

Huang De secretly thought, how does this look more interesting than the county government.

The man in the strange clothes looked fierce, but he still spoke extremely politely, and when he asked, Huang De explained his intention.

The man asked Huang Dexian to wait here for a while, shouted inside, and one of them walked towards the door. Through the glass window, Huang De was shocked to find that in the room, called the guard's room, there were two rather beautiful muskets hanging from it, as well as a large pile of wooden sticks.

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In the workshop, Chen Jian didn't know that anyone was visiting.

The huge sintering furnace was steaming as if it made people faint, and although there was a wind in the room, it was still hot, and the apprentices in the workshop did not have any protective measures, and they were all covered in sweat.

Many people's faces have exploded with a layer of dead skin because of long-term exposure to this high-temperature environment and lack of protection, and their eyes are red from the fire.

Contrary to what these apprentices imagined, making glass here is not at all like a handicraft workshop, where each master craftsman takes several apprentices, and the apprentices work while the craftsmen do the more complex work.

Everyone here is responsible for one thing, never crosses, and there is no craftsman who teaches them some craft.

It's just that they don't know what it's like to make glass, and they think that the rest of the glass workshops are like this, not the rest of the workshops they've seen or imagined.

Someone outside is responsible for sieving silica sand, and someone is responsible for adding material to the crucible, and how much to add each time is carried out in accordance with the regulations. There are people in charge of feeding, sintering, bellows, stamping, etc., each with their own things to do.

This is completely different from most of the handicraft workshops outside at this time, there is a little bit of factory flavor, although it is still a little worse, but the shape has appeared.

Chen Jian has the experience of making glass for the rest of his life in his previous life, and he is quite familiar with it, and the management of this apprentice is more than enough with the accumulation of his previous life.

If you want to make glass that is not green, you can add some strong oxidizing agent to change the valence of ferric iron, and potassium nitrate itself will not affect the glass, after all, in addition to conventional sodium glass, it is still potassium glass.

To make glass without bubbles, you need to add some salt and stir it with a clay rod under the crucible lid to make those small bubbles float out of the viscous glass crystals.

As soon as the crucible in the smelting furnace was ready, it was immediately taken out and poured on the cast-iron plate, and it was made out like a pancake, which was much more convenient and much faster than the previous method of blowing it into a cylinder and then cutting it.

After that, it is like a cast iron farm tool, and after annealing, it is taken out for frosting, which is some irritating and abrasive work.

Glass annealing is also the same as those cast iron farm tools, at least seven or eight days, to maintain a certain temperature, which is a very critical part, otherwise the glass is easy to break.

Three months was actually a lot of wasted money, as evidenced by the broken glass stuck in the wall.

Although broken glass can still be recycled, Chen Jian still likes the high chimney and the broken glass on the wall, but unfortunately the creeper and the like have not grown yet, otherwise looking at those broken glass on the wall is enough to evoke long-term memories and drink.

In reality, the apprentices and hired workers who have experienced failure ignore Chen Jian's eccentricity, but after a long time of failure, they are still excited to finally make a large, bubble-felt, high-transparency glass, and feel that they have achieved it, and the future is bright in five years.

As far as glass itself is concerned, it can indeed be said that the future is limitless.

Compared with those large pieces of glass today, the glass here will have a great impact on the glass market in Mincheng, and Chen Jian is not ready to engage in glass crafts such as wine cups and teacups, etc., those ways of life will be left to them, but the window glass will definitely not give an inch.

Both the cost and the quality are much better than those glass workshops, and the fact that a full-time glass-blowing craftsman alone can save a lot of money.

And now these apprentices and hired workers are basically able to keep the workshop running, and the daily output is increasing, the breakage rate is decreasing, and the situation is gratifying.

Chen Jian is still squatting in the workshop, mainly to test the lead glass for making lenses, which is not mass production for the time being, but a small number of experimental processes.

How much lead oxide to add to the ingredients requires constant experimentation until a suitable ratio is found.

Lead glass is used to make optical instruments than ordinary glass, mirror grinding craftsmen Mincheng has, primitive telescopes and primitive microscopes only need an idea to mention, this thing is not a gun, but it may not have the power of guns.

When Zhao Si found Chen Jian and told Jian Chen that someone was looking for him outside, Chen Jian only told those apprentices to continue burning lead glass.

Thinking of the carpenter, and then looking at the apprentices in the workshop who were struggling to push the cast iron slabs, Chen Jian felt that he could try to get some wooden rails, which were excellent for uniting coal mine owners.