The opening of Chenhe Port is the most shocking event in Exian County for decades, and it naturally caused a sensation in Exian County. As for things like the Luo family's agent, it has been abolished. All merchants can directly purchase goods from Chenhe Port Chenhe factory. Roland didn't care about this little profit, after he was analyzed by Yang Xi, he also looked at the long-term enough.

Yang Huan, director of the investment promotion department of Chenhe Port, and Yang Sai, director of the reception department of key customers, have been very busy recently, in this era when the status of women is extremely low and only as accessories, the two of them can go to the front desk and play an extremely important role in Chenhe Port, which is unprecedented.

The merchants from all walks of life who came to Chenhe Port respected the two of them very much, and they did not dare to treat them as subordinates. After such a long period of communication, the reputation of Chenhe Port has spread in the vicinity, and it is said that there is a principle here called equality for all.

As long as you join it, regardless of the position, gender or gender, you will be treated equally in front of the rules.

The rules mentioned here are naturally the internal rules of the Chenhe factory itself, and have nothing to do with the laws of the Han Dynasty.

As for those who want to make trouble in Chenhe Port, Yang Xi also has arrangements here, and he has already upgraded the 150 people of the guard battalion to five platoons. Mao Luan, Wei Gua, Ergou, and Xu Hu are Liao Wei, the son of Liao Mang, the head of the Zhushan Pavilion, and these five people are platoon commanders, each with six squads.

Yang Xi transferred the first and second rows of Mao Luan and Wei Gua to maintain daily law and order.

So far, Chenhe Port has developed rapidly, and the merchants and squires of Exian County who come to eat hot pot every day have been in an endless stream, and they have also increased a lot of income. The key is that the income of workers in the port is also high, and the lowest monthly income is 900 yuan, and if a few people make money, they can occasionally spend in the Chenhe Hotel, which increases their popularity.

Over the course of a month, 27 small vendors and small restaurants opened next to the Chenhe Hotel. This is another amount of income, and the small shop that is stationed in it has to collect rent.

Due to the fame of the Chenhe factory, the number of fugitive slaves and landless tenant farmers who came to join the factory increased day by day, and now at least a few people joined every day, and sometimes there were as many as twenty or thirty people.

This made Yang Xi also feel extremely stressed, more than 200 workers a month, to feed them, but still have to expand production. There was no way, Yang Xi had to continue to increase the area of the plant, and various industries also expanded rapidly.

By 186, that is, in February of the third year of Zhongping, there were already hundreds of cooperative merchants from all over the country, of course, these were generally small merchants, as for a large family like the Jiangxia Huang family, Yang Xi had not yet contacted one. These merchants spread all over the counties on both sides of the river, such as Qichun, Yicheng, Xiling, Jingling, and Shaxian, and then the merchants of these counties transported their goods to other counties. All counties in Jiangxia County currently have Chenhe brand products.

Yang Xi has not developed new products recently. Due to the increasing number of people in the Chenhe factory, and the earliest batch, it has been more than two years, and the Chenhe dictionary and basic mathematics have been almost mastered, and he began to teach basic physics. Of course, these have to be adapted to suit the thinking of people at this time. The more than 200 people in the original Jute Pavilion and Zhushan Pavilion have thoroughly accepted Yang Xi's thoughts and the concept of the word science. What is the law of leverage, the law of gravitation, the principle of mechanics, after Yang Xi's adaptation, these people can still barely accept it.

At the same time, in February, Zhao Ci, a soldier of Jiangxia County (now Yunmeng, Hubei), raised an army against the Han Dynasty and killed Qin Jie, the Taishou of Nanyang County (now Nanyang, Henan).

Outside Xiangyang City, there is a grass house, and there is a middle-aged man in the grass house, who is silently thinking in his hands at this time, and nodding again and again. A small guy next to him was about thirteen or fourteen years old, with a respectful attitude.

This middle-aged man is the great Confucian Pang Degong in the late Han Dynasty, and Pang Tong, a famous scholar in the late Han Dynasty, is his subordinate. However, the little guy next to him is not Pang Tong at the moment, but Pang Shanmin, the son of Pang Degong. (In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Pang Degong, the word Shanmin, is a clerical error of Luo Guanzhong, and Pang Shanmin is the son of Pang Degong in history).

This Pang Degong has lived in seclusion all his life and has never been born, but his family, the Pang family, is a great family in Jingzhou, and its strength is above the Jiangxia Huang family. Moreover, later Mr. Shuijing, Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu and others all served as half-teachers.

"Mountain people! Who wrote this book? ”

"Back to Father! The person who wrote this book is a native of Jiangxia Exian County, surnamed Yang Mingxi, and the word Chenhe, but he was born as a farmer in a township, and his ancestors have no origin. However, it is rumored that this son had a serious illness, fell asleep for a few days, and when he woke up, he was given three volumes of the Book of Heaven by the Patriarch of Sanfeng, called "The Book of Immortal Language", "The Book of Divine Calculation", and "The Book of Miracle Skills". These two books are both from the three books of heaven, but they are not all of them. The Chenhe wine that the father drank the day before yesterday, and the Chenhe paper used was made by this son. ”

Pang Degong nodded and said: "Looking at these two volumes, if they are spread all over the world, they will have the miraculous effect of stabilizing the country." You don't have to believe any rumors, if there really is a book from heaven in the world, then why do we need to learn the six arts? If this book is really made by this son personally, then he must be an extraordinary person, with the talent of warp and weft, and I can't do it! Mountain people, you bring some money and manpower, in the name of purchasing, go to Jiangxia to contact this son, if you can learn more strange books and thaumaturgy by his side, it will be much better than sitting in a well and watching the sky here. ”

Pang Shanmin hesitated a little and said, "Father! This son is rumored to be only fifteen years old, but he is the same year as the mountain people, how can he be called a talent of warp and weft, and does his father think highly of it? ”

Pang Degong said earnestly: "This son is young, and there are naturally some suspicious things about making these two books, but the fact is that it exists, if it is not for this son to have the talent of warp and weft, he is the person behind him, and he is far better than me!" ”

Pang Shanmin slowly withdrew, but he heard Pang Degong's voice behind him: "If the mountain people go to the other place, remember to send more Chenhe wine back!" ”

Pang Shanmin's mouth should be yes, but he thought in his heart: "This wine is ten taels of silver for one jar, and you have one jar of father, but you can drink three acres of fertile land!" How did he know that when this wine left the factory, it was only two taels of silver, and when it arrived in Xiangyang, it had been fried five times, and the quantity was scarce.

Pang Shanmin got his father's advice, ordered men and horses, brought the family's ships and goods, and went down the river (now Hanjiang River) for several days, and went to Xia'e County. At this time, Pang Tong was only seven years old, and he didn't look smart, but he was still blind, so he naturally didn't set off with the ship.

At the same time, the name of Yang Xi and Yang Chenhe is also a little famous in Jiangxia's families, and the largest family in Jiangxia, Jiangxia Huang's family, has also been replaced with Chenhe paper at this moment, as for Chenhe wine, naturally only some family lineage, or festive days can drink.

Since the opening of Chenhe Port, Yang Xi has promoted agricultural tools, and launched abacus and iron scales in business, which greatly facilitates the business process, but this is only limited to Chenhe Port, if you want to really promote, you also need to really expand the influence of Chenhe Port. After learning the basics of physics and teaching the book, Yang Xi began to think of a new direction of development.

"Nowadays, people are very troublesome to light fires, but to make matches, they need to master the extraction technology of red phosphorus and white phosphorus, which is too difficult at present, and sulfur is ready-made, but this is related to chemistry, and now there is not even a laboratory. Wait, chemistry! You have to make glass first, and glass is simple. ”

Yang Xi immediately looked up the keywords of glass in the science and technology tree.

There are at least hundreds of ways to make glass in the technology tree, but Yang Xi can only choose the simplest according to local conditions.

Quartz stone, Qi Chun on the other side of the river, a lot of quartz stone, Yang Xi as long as Dong Cai went to Qi Chun to trade, released the news, I don't know how many people are willing to mine quartz stone and send it over, this thing is now a stone. As for the use of sand by the river, Yang Xi felt that it could not meet the requirements for use, after all, the quartz content of the sand was not high.

Limestone is even simpler, and the cyan stone that burns lime is limestone.

There is also a raw material, sodium carbonate or potassium carbonate, which has its own characteristics for making glass.

Sodium carbonate, commonly known as soda ash, can't be made yet, but potassium carbonate is not too simple.

Compared with sodium glass, the thermal expansion coefficient of potassium glass is smaller, more difficult to melt, more resistant to chemical erosion, and can be used to make general chemical instruments.

"Good! That's him! ”

"I remember the Phoenicians were just beginning to discover how making glass was, a big deal, hehe!"

Yang Xi made glass but was different from them, there were requirements, the Phoenicians, only occasionally put soda and sand together, heated it and found that glass balls appeared, and they made a lot of money selling glass balls. What if you make a glass into a wine glass?

Thinking of this, Yang Xi began to study the various technological processes of glass.

The production process of glass includes batching, melting, forming, annealing and other processes. The ingredients are simple, according to the recipe on the science and technology tree, the melting is to heat the ingredients with a crucible, to more than 1,300 degrees, the material is melted into liquid glass, which is also simple, Yang Xi now has coal, there is a blast furnace. Molding annealing is also simple, molding can be artificial molding, the high temperature of the molten glass retreats to low temperature, and it will not become a solid, but a liquid, and the molten glass can be blown into the desired shape with a tube. If you want mass production, you can directly ask Niu Han to make a few steel molds.

Early the next morning, Yang Xi called Dong Cai and others to arrange the allocation of raw materials.

Dong Cai and others are inexplicable, but everyone knows that Yang Xi's idea came out, although it was strange, but once it was formed, it was a big event that shocked everyone, so they simply didn't think about it, just did it.

A few days later, Dong Cai and others came back one after another, and everything else in the Chenhe factory was also ready.

The Chenhe glass department is headed by Guanxi's sister, Guantian. At this time, these people who followed Yang Xi first were already much ahead of their time in this era, and being this supervisor was naturally like a fish in water.

After seven or eight days of actual operation, the first glass finally came out, at this time I saw that the glass was crystal clear, if Yang Xi no longer produced, it is estimated that the value is even the city.

Everyone was once again impressed by Yang Xi's whimsy, and Dong Cai was extremely excited, this is another big source of wealth.