"Su Weikang dismissed the Jiahe Order and moved to Haizhou ......"

The news from Jingshi surprised Zhou Quan very much, but Zhou Fu was a little unimpressed: "Who is this Su Weikang, you seem to know him?" ”

Su Shi's eldest son, Su Mai, I don't know if Uncle Zhang will come with him...... By the way, Uncle Zhang is good at water, and we need such heroic help, but I don't know if he is willing. ”

"I told him at the beginning, ask him to come to Beijing to help me, at that time he said that there were still young and old in the family to settle down, at that time we had no foundation, I can't say anything, now otherwise, for him to settle down in Diqiu is!" Zhou Fu is full of confidence.

"Dad, I want to go to Haizhou to have a look, here at home, please pay attention to Dad." Zhou Quan pondered for a while, and suddenly said.

"What are you doing running around again, your mother and teacher are going to come here a few years ago, and you won't be able to see you at that time, plus this matter, you will be punished for two crimes!"

"That's why I want you to take care of it, Dad, I'll go to Haizhou to hide first." Zhou Quan said this, and then said, "Dad, I think that thing is almost there." ”

"Well, what's that?"

Zhou Quan stretched out a hand, and in his palm, an almost transparent piece of glass was dangling.

Zhou Fu hurriedly took it and looked: "This ...... Is that what you call glass? ”

"Exactly!"

Zhou Quan asked Zhou Fu to gather the famous craftsmen and masters in the court to study the kiln together, is it just to burn cement!

Steel, glass, cement, can be said to be the three pillars of industrial development in the future, although the three are fundamentally different, but also have something in common, that is, they all need kilns.

Refractory materials, how to improve fuel efficiency, blast furnace temperature increase and other material process problems have similarities, so in the name of Zhou Quan recruited dozens of workers from the smelting field to make steel, in fact, he is making glass!

When they were in Beijing, they spent more than half a year studying the structure of the blast furnace, and here, they spent more than half a year studying the ingredients of glass, and now they finally see Duanni.

This piece of glass in Zhou Quan's hand is strictly a product of failure, but it has made Zhou Quan see the dawn of victory, and by this time, the correct research direction has come out, and the rest is to continue to go deeper.

However, Zhou Quan did not want to reveal the secret of glass too soon, so he needed a more secluded place, preferably isolated from the world, just as the Venetians kept the secret of glass and kept all the craftsmen on the island of Murano.

The island doesn't have to be too big, but it can't be too close to the mainland, and the nearby port must be connected to Xuzhou by canal to facilitate the supply and transportation of raw materials and materials.

"I don't think it's good." After playing with the glass in his hand for a while, Zhou Fu said casually.

Compared with colored glass, this thing is more transparent, and it may be able to pass off as jade, but Zhou Fu doesn't think that the fake jade can have a big sales market, which is worthy of Zhou Quan's attention, and it is not even inferior to cement.

"Daddy, wait and see, as long as we can control it for five to ten years, it will be enough to accumulate wealth that rivals the wealth of the country!" Zhou Quan said with a smile.

Zhou Fu was convinced of his son's talent in this regard, and he just warned Zhou Quan again and again that he must pay attention to safety and not do such risky things as the surprise attack on La Cottage.

"Since Su Mai has become the governor of Haizhou, I think it is Liang Shicheng who has made a force, and he should promise Cai Jing a lot of benefits, so Cai Jing will lift Su Shi's ban and promote Su Mai's official position. It's a pity that we have no one available, Uncle Kuai wants to keep the Beijing division and watch the velodrome, otherwise, I would have the heart to fight for the newly established position of Haizhou City Ambassador! ”

"You can do it yourself."

"I, I'm going to stay here, this is the foundation, steel is the foundation!" Zhou Quan said.

After the two agreed, Zhou Quan stayed in the Longchuan Courtyard for another ten days, arranged the preparations, and he set off with more than ten people including Wuyang, Wang Qinian, and Li Bao to Haizhou by boat.

Through the canal and the Huai River, from Xuzhou to Haizhou extremely fast, more than 300 miles away, but three days to arrive.

Haizhou is Shangzhou, with more than 50,000 main customers and a population of nearly 200,000. Now the seat of governance is in Qishan County, which is only fifteen miles northeast of the sea. When Zhou Quan arrived here, Su Mai had not yet taken office, and the city was prosperous, and Zhou Quan estimated that there should be more than 10,000 households in Haizhou City, 30,000 or 40,000 people.

If calculated in this way, the population of Haizhou as a whole, like Xuzhou, is much larger than the number of official household registrations registered.

At this time, the whole Great Song Dynasty was like this, the landlords with land, the customers who lost their land, and the hidden households who had not been naturalized, the actual population was much larger than the actual number of registered households.

"Uncle, I don't know if there are bigger islands near Haizhou?" They played all the way, but it was very easy, until they reached the beach, Zhou Quan asked an old fisherman.

The old man raised his eyes and looked at him: "Why do you ask, isn't it in front of you?" ”

When Zhou Quan heard this, he looked to the northeast and saw a mountain across the blue waves.

He originally thought that this was not an island, but an extended peninsula, but listening to the old fisherman's tone, this should be an island?

"This is the island of Yingyou, ten miles from the land, if Xiaolang wants to go to the island to play, Xiao Lao'er can cross Xiaolang over." The old fisherman grinned and pointed in front of him.

It turns out that this warbler tour island is a nearby place of victory, the radius is also more than ten miles, there are mountains, springs and wells on the island, the scenery is quite good, so many literati and ink writers come here, all want to visit the island.

Zhou Quan squinted at Yingyou Island, the rest of this island is good, the only thing that is not suitable is that it is too close to the mainland.

"Are there any inhabitants on the island?"

"There are more than 100 fishermen living in the west of the island."

This is another bad point, more than 100 fishermen, if they really occupy the island, they must be driven away.

But then, Zhou Quan listened to the old fisherman say: "But recently, the fishermen on the island have had a hard time, and the imperial court sailors are very anxious to inspect them, saying that they want to arrest the remnants of the Haizhou thieves." ”

This old man is very talkative, when he said this, Zhou Quan's heart moved, this is an opportunity!

If there is no other island that is more suitable as a glass production base, it is possible to borrow the Haizhou thieves and move the fishermen out of the island, as long as they are properly resettled, so that they do not lose their livelihood, and even let them have a better life.

I asked again, the old fisherman is familiar with the geography and sea conditions, from this Yingyou Island further east, there are indeed some small islands, but these small islands are not only limited in area, too far from the land, and lack of fresh water, not suitable for glass production base.

Speaking of which, this warbler is the most suitable island.

"Old man, you will take us to the island......"

"No!"

"Da Lang, let me go for you."

Zhou Quan thought about going to the island for a visit, and when he saw the situation on the island with his own eyes, he was immediately opposed.

Wu Yang directly said no, this is Zhou Fu's repeated explanation, and Zhou Quan can't be allowed to put himself in danger. And Wang Qinian was more clear about Zhou Quan, so he proposed to replace Zhou Quan on the island.

The two most important people around Zhou Quan were resolutely opposed, so he had no choice but to give up.

"If that's the case, let's wait here, collect information, and wait for Su Weikang to take office." He thought to himself.

It's just that Su Mai went to work, but it was not until the end of the year, and after waiting for more than ten days, Zhou Quan had already walked around Haizhou, and only the investigation report was written with more than 30 pages in small letters, but Su Mai still did not arrive.

This made Zhou Quan a little irritable, his time was precious, how could he waste it all here.

Therefore, he can only take this time to organize his thoughts and prepare teaching materials for the study of the array teenagers.

Up to now, the most common time of the array teenagers like Sun Cheng and Wang Qinian have been learning from him for a year and a half, these boys know that learning is not easy to come by, and they study very hard, plus the scholars are focused on mathematics, so their progress is very fast, Zhou Quan is ready to expose them to simple algebra and geometry, as well as physical mechanics, which can also be appropriately introduced.

It's just that it is not easy to compile a teaching material suitable for them, Zhou Quan has tried his best, and it is only the beginning, so he can only sit in the inn and rack his brains.

"Woo woo woo ......"

When he was irritable, he suddenly heard a cry outside, which made Zhou Quan calm down, so he put down his pen and walked out of the inn.

Wu Yang, Wang Qinian, and Li Bao were in front of the inn, and when they saw Zhou Quan coming out, Wang Qinian immediately understood what he meant: "Da Lang, the family outside is really a little pitiful, so I didn't drive them away." ”

"Pathetic?" Zhou Quan frowned.

They had just gone through the Pengcheng Rebellion, and they had this experience, and their perception of pity was different from before.

When he came out, he saw a woman, with a withered face, kneeling by the wall and weeping, and beside him kneeling three children, all with yellow faces and thin muscles, who seemed to be begging.

"Why is that?" Zhou Quan asked.

"They were salt farmers, and the man of his family accidentally fell into the pot and died while boiling salt, leaving the orphan and widow behind...... Tsk, I still owe a lot of debts, and now people can't cancel the debts, so this woman sells her sons and daughters here, just to raise some money to pay off the debt. The guy at the inn said with a smile.

"Selling sons and daughters...... Why not sell yourself? There was a light and thin road next to it.

"Selling sons and daughters, you can also find a way for your children to live, sell herself, who will serve the old ones left in the family, and who will take the three little ones together?"

When the man said this, the woman's cry could not help but rise louder, and she fell to the ground and wailed.

Zhou Quan glanced at Wang Qinian, Wang Qinian walked up, and said with a smile: "Don't cry, don't cry, you woman, don't cry, it just so happens that my eldest man is temporarily living in Haizhou, and he needs a few servants to listen to it, if you think it's okay, it's better to temporarily ...... A boy and two little girls, stay here in my family for drive, what do you think? ”

The woman looked at Zhou Quan, just from his appearance, it could be seen that he was from an extraordinary background, and then saw Wu Yang, Qi Nian, Li Bao and other entourages, hesitated slightly, and then said: "My three little ones, let the son beat and scold, just ask the son to ......."

Before she finished speaking, there was a "bang" next to her, and one foot stretched out and stepped directly in front of her!