Chapter 144: It's embarrassing
Almighty Cultivation Supreme
"I'm serious, I really have the means to make you make a lot of money weaving!"
Su Baiyi emphasized again.
But Mu Yongjiang didn't listen to his ears, his white face gradually faded, and he smiled and said, "Mr. said that he was laughing, let's eat!" ”
This is the consciousness of not having an apprentice.
Su Baiyi knew that he didn't listen to his good words, so he could only shake his head secretly.
If you don't want the money sent to you, it really means that you don't have the wealth.
Rice, don't eat.
He got up and sighed, and arched his hand to Mu Yongjiang and said, "Master Mu is busy, and I am not idle, just eat, if the adult thinks clearly, you can come back to me!" ”
Su Baiyi is gone!
Mu Yongjiang's face was completely blackened.
"Knives, knives!"
shouted twice outside, and Scarface came out of the box next to him and saluted Mu Yongjiang: "Master, what do you say about the surname Su?" ”
Mu Yongjiang's pupils shrank and he shook his head.
"Let me kill him!" Scarface's eyes widened, and his body exuded a fierce murderous intent.
Mu Yongjiang waved his hand: "No, I haven't come that far!" He stood up and paced around the room with his head down, pondering for a while, "I heard that he is buying land in Yuyuan?" ”
"Yes, sir!"
"Is there any land for our family within the Yuyuan area?"
"Nope!" Scarface shook his head, "That area is all saline-alkali land, how could the master buy land there?" ”
"Then go buy it, be quick!" Mu Yongjiang's eyes shrank slightly: "Grab Su Baiyi's head, secretly contact those heads of households, and buy me a large piece of land in the key position of his Yuyuan, according to the price of good land, five taels of silver per mu, if it really doesn't work, ten taels of silver per mu." ”
The most important thing for the Mu family is money.
Five taels of silver per acre to buy a few hundred acres and put them in the middle of your Yuyuan, I think how do you build the college?
When the time comes, I am not afraid that you will not be convinced.
In this way, there is no illegality, whether it is the Hou family or the Zhou family, they have to take care of a little bit of face, and there is no reason to stand up for Su Baiyi. Since the two major families don't come out, hehe, you Su Baiyi is the queen of the autumn who can be manipulated by others.
"Yes, sir, I'll go right away!"
……
Su Baiyi returned to the headquarters and continued to plan the academy.
At noon, I went to the production site to have a look, and found that both groups of people were in full swing.
Fu Lin and his people have already built a firing furnace for the production of glass, and now the No. 1 furnace has been fired, and various raw materials have been purchased according to Professor Su Baiyi's method and started trial firing.
Next to it, Hou Fangyu's soap manufacturing site set up four or five big black pots, constantly boiling soap.
Seeing Su Baiyi coming, Hou Fangyu immediately came over, his face didn't look very good, and he said in a low voice: "I was really told by Mr." ”
"How?" Su Baiyi lowered his head and asked.
"Someone stole the teacher!"
He stretched out his little finger and pointed to the woods opposite: "Since yesterday, several waves of people have come, and they have been lying in the hay in the distance to see us making soap, and I keep sending people to catch it, but they don't stop coming." ”
"Look at this!"
Hou Fangyu took out a small notebook and handed it to Su Baiyi.
Su Baiyi opened it and saw that it not only had handwriting, but also illustrated the production process of soap.
Detailed!
They had already guessed soybean oil and quicklime, after all, these two things were street goods, and everyone knew them.
If he let them know about the addition of flour soda, Su Baiyi had no doubt that it would not take long for these people to make soap perfectly.
"I'll go back and transfer a few more people from Chu Lun to help you clear the grove opposite, and face someone hiding in it to steal the teacher." Su Baiyi sighed: "After finishing this batch again, let's stop for a while." Flour soda can no longer be bought from our guide, we have to go to other places to buy it, otherwise this recipe will not be kept for a month. ”
"And glass!"
Su Baiyi stretched out his hand and beckoned Fu Lin to his side: "You all be vigilant, I will let Guan Jin negotiate the two pieces of land around this as soon as possible, and once you get it, you will immediately build a temporary fence around it, so that the soap recipe can be protected for a few more days."
As for the glass, Fu Lin, go back and do it in shifts, divide it into several steps according to the process, and use assembly line operations. The leakage of the soap recipe has nothing to do with the overall situation, and the recipe of this glass must not be leaked out. ”
"Yes!" Fu Lin nodded a little excitedly, and then said, "Sir, we just started to test the first batch of glass today, why don't you come and give us some guidance." ”
"It's good!"
Su Baiyi only knew the process and secret recipe of firing glass, and as for what kind of scene it was, he hadn't seen it himself, so he was also very interested in watching it.
Glassmaking is an ancient and nascent craft.
Since ancient times, glass firing can be regarded as the predecessor of glass manufacturing, but the Chinese have never thought of removing the pigment and making the glass appear more translucent.
In general, according to the glass firing skill book purchased from the system, the firing of glass is roughly divided into the following steps.
The first is to prepare raw materials, that is, quartz sand, quicklime and soda ash are put into the glass firing furnace in a certain proportion for firing, and several substances are mixed together, and after some unknown chemical reactions occur, the initial vitreous can be formed.
The vitreous contains impurities and a lot of fine blisters, and then there is usually a black impurity head at the bottom.
The second step is to knock out the black impurities, select the relatively pure part and put it into the crucible to fire again, aiming to eliminate the iron cyan and fine blistering in the vitreous matter, and form a stable qualified glass liquid that can cast the glass model.
It seems that the difficulty is very small, but in fact, the key technology is in the second step.
How to remove cyan from glass species?
How do you get rid of a lot of fine foaming?
This is not only a matter of skill, but also to find a suitable reducing agent.
If the vitreous is dark cyan if it is not decolorized after being fired, it is not glass, it is a beer bottle.
Because most vitreous contains iron, it requires a high reducing agent.
The reducing agent is best with manganese dioxide!
Can you find manganese dioxide in ancient times?
It is possible to find a substitute for gunpowder, but this thing is the main material for making gunpowder, and if you buy it in large quantities, you will be escorted to the Imperial Prison by the Jinyi Guard.
Therefore, manganese dioxide can only be purchased from the system.
The disadvantage of this is that you need to buy something from the system at a high price, and it is difficult to explain the origin of this thing to the people below; The upside: others can't counterfeit it.
Even if the process of making glass is stolen and it is stolen, it may not be possible to produce colorless glass in the true sense.
Unlike soap, molds for casting glassware also have high requirements.
It's not something that anyone can make.
"The problem with the crucible solved?"
In addition to the above problems, there is also the problem of crucibles.
Because the purity of the vitreous must be ensured, the second firing must be carried out in a crucible. The crucible must be a high-temperature resistant material, which is unbearable for ordinary pottery and is easy to melt during firing.
But graphite in pottery is different.
"It's made!" Fu Lin said smugly: "I am looking for the most famous potter in Guide Mansion, according to the master, after adding graphite to it, this crucible will not be deformed even if it is burned in the fire for a day and a night." ”
"That's good, let's get started!"
The three stout-looking disciples were responsible for blowing the wind, and the two disciples cleaned the sand fished out of the river, dried it, and put it into the furnace with quicklime and soda ash in the proportion provided by Su Baiyi and began to fire.
The fire was raging, and you could feel the heat even far away from the stove.
The snow around me was melting in large flakes, and when I looked at the stove from a distance, the air was like water waves.
The three disciples kept burning, and after about an hour, Fu Lin opened the door of the first layer of the furnace and glanced in from the outside.
His brow furrowed involuntarily.
"How?"
Su Baiyi also came over to watch, but when he saw the contents of the stove, he wondered, "How can this be?" ”
The sand, quicklime and soda ash are fired together, and at high temperatures they do melt and become fluids.
But the problem is, it's not like that!
"Take it out and take a look!"
Fu Lin took the crucible out of the furnace, the glass of the green black black was still in a molten state, and after encountering the cold air outside, the two breaths condensed into a large glass head.
Fu Lin turned the crucible upside down, knocking out the glass head from it.
This thing was shown to everyone for the first time.
Logically speaking, according to the book. After the glass head is condensed, the upper layer should be a pale cyan transparent substance, which is filled with countless tiny bubbles, and the lower layer should be impurities.
But the impurities below the fired thing are just black and whining, and the vitreous material on the top is not transparent.
Very green, so green that it turns black.
Su Baiyi thought that it was caused by the problem of the bottom being too dark to reflect the sunlight rays, and after someone knocked off the impurity layer below with a hammer, the glass on the top was still black.
Wrong!
Glass is definitely not like that!
"It's still glass!"
Fu Lin looked a little disappointed.
Su Baiyi's brows tightened, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still didn't have a clue.
The stove was built as required, the space and insulation were well done, there would be absolutely no problem.
It is too cold in winter, and it is not coal or charcoal that is used for firing, but dry wood, which may have some effect. But the temperature and location will never change the color of the vitreous like this!
That's the raw material!
Both soda ash and quicklime will not be a problem.
Then, it is very likely that it is a problem with quartz sand.
At the beginning, in Su Baiyi's understanding, river sand should be quartz sand, but now it seems that there should be an essential difference between quartz sand and river sand.
But what does quartz sand really look like?
Su Baiyi hadn't seen this thing in his previous life, so it was not easy to define.
It seems that I can only find this book from the system to learn it.
Hua Fei Tao Li bought a book on mineralogy in the Tao Li store, and after carefully rummaging through it, he found quartz sand.
River sand doesn't have to be quartz sand.
Moreover, there is no production area of quartz sand near Guide Province!
According to the book, the closest source of quartz sand to Guide is in Fengyang, the central capital!
That's embarrassing!