"No problem!"

Chen Wangshu put on protective glasses and thick asbestos gloves, braving the high temperature to come to the kiln. He stretched out a straw, expertly dipped it in glass slurry, and then turned to sit down at the workbench.

There is a fixed pig iron mold on the workbench.

Chen Wangshu took the straw head in his mouth and gently rotated and blow. A small hollow spherical glass body appears at the tail of the blowpipe. With one hand, he put the blowpipe into the pig iron mold, causing the hollow spherical glass to sink to the bottom of the mold. With the other hand, the button snapped the mold shut, and the straw was clamped tightly.

This is a bulb mold made up of two pieces of iron, and the inside of the mold is coated with a layer of charcoal powder mixed with tung oil.

Chen Wangshu continued to blow air into the straw, and at the same time pressed another button, the straw immediately followed the mold and rotated slowly, and the glass bubble quickly filled the entire mold evenly.

After a few moments, cold water lowers the temperature of the glass bubbles. Opening the cast iron mold, a glass bubble in the shape of a light bulb appeared in front of everyone.

"Thin skin, clear and transparent." Qian Shuiting took the glass bubble and spun it twice, "Yes, it's definitely first-class." ”

Chen Wangshu's eldest apprentice reported the latest temperature of the molten glass. "Master, it's 1100 degrees!"

Chen Wangshu immediately ordered, "Open the gates!" ”

The furnace is connected to the tin bath by a flow channel and a launder. At this time, the gate is opened, and the high-quality molten glass enters the tin bath through the cooling zone at the end of the furnace through the flow channel and launder.

The 1100-degree molten glass flows into the molten tin surface, and gradually spreads out under the action of its own gravity, surface tension and pulling attraction, forming a glass band with a thickness of about 6.5 mm with a smooth surface and smooth mirror.

A 6.5 mm thick glass strip slowly flows through the tin bath and the temperature drops slowly. When it reaches the end of the tin bath, the glass strip has cooled to about 600C, and the pull of the roller table leads the glass strip that is about to harden out of the tin bath and enters the annealing kiln from the transition roller table.

The annealing kiln at the Taipei Glass Factory is a 6-meter-wide and 120-meter-long brick structure annealing kiln. It is a tunnel type roller annealing kiln, and the glass belt is supported by the roller table and advances with the rotation of the roller table. Heating and cooling devices are installed in the kiln.

The annealing of glass is a kind of heat treatment, that is, the freshly formed glass is slowly cooled at a certain temperature to relieve its stress, so as to avoid self-cracking in the future storage, transportation and use (commonly known as cold explosion of glass).

Seeing the long glass strip gushing out of the annealing kiln in a steady stream, transported to the cutting area through the roller table, being cut and stacked, and packing, Qian Shuiting breathed a sigh of relief, the problem of flat glass was finally solved, and the installation of glass windows was no longer difficult!

When it was almost four o'clock, all the glass plates of a kiln were packed.

The float glass production line is a glass production line that can be produced continuously. But today is a trial operation, and the workers are very unfamiliar with the production operation, so Chen Wangshu is mainly operating the run-in, and he only put in one furnace of mixture.

"Qian Dong, the flat glass is done!" Chen Wangshu said excitedly.

Except for Chen Wangshu, the technicians of the glass factory are a few apprentices newly accepted by Chen Wangshu, and the other workers are all apprentices. Today is the first trial operation, he started in the furnace kiln and worked his way up to the cutting area, and now he finally breathes a sigh of relief.

"Congratulations, Comrade Chen Wangshu!" Qian Shuiting held Chen Wangshu's hand tightly.

Xiao Bailang said with a smile, "Lao Chen, step up the on-the-job training of the workers!" If you really want to produce continuously, you will be tired and lie down! ”

"I'm going to only make one furnace a day, and the rest of the time is all on-the-job training. Ten days later, I was at full capacity 24 hours a day. ”

"Safety first!" Qian Shuiting nodded.

He looked at Xiao Bailang with a smile, "The flat glass is finally completed, and mass production is just around the corner." Light bulb, when will you solve it for me! ”

Xiao Bailang has a plan for this, "Before the Spring Festival, we can complete the mechanized production of the glass shell of the bulb and the glass body inside, and after the Spring Festival, we can produce the bulb, bamboo charcoal filament bulb." ”

"The sealing and filament of the bulb and other problems are the same as the principle of electronic diodes and electronic transistors." He said with confidence, "By next year, our electronics industry in Taipei will also start." ”

At six o'clock in the evening, Huaxia People's Radio broadcast the news on time, "The flat glass production line of Taipei Glass Factory successfully carried out trial operation today. The successful commissioning of the glass production line marks the ......"

Hearing the news from the loudspeaker, the people resting in Huaxia Square immediately cheered.

"The imperial court is really like a mountain, saying that there is glass right away, and there is really glass!"

"With window panes, our homes will be brighter."

Opposite Huaxia Plaza is the Taipei Grand Theater, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is about to start, and there is an endless stream of fans rushing into the venue to watch the performance.

A singing troupe brought from Zhoushan, Ningbo, was incorporated into the Propaganda Department under the Central ~Xuan~ Department, and was renamed Xiaobaihuayue Opera Troupe. Under the guidance of Shen Yujun, director of the Department of Culture and Propaganda, the Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe rehearsed and performed the new Yue opera "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", which was performed at the Taipei Grand Theater for 15 consecutive days, and the venue was almost full.

The choreography, costumes, and singing of the new "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" are all first-class, and the colorful light bulbs brought by the original time and space are also used on the stage to create a beautiful dream effect. The new Taipei people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang were fascinated by what they heard, and those old Taipei immigrants from Fujian and Guangzhou were also amazed and eye-opening.

In the beautiful and moving melody, the two actors sang and danced on the stage like butterflies, and the curtain slowly closed, and thunderous applause resounded in the theater.

"What a beautiful melody!"

Hawke, who was sitting in the luxurious box of the Taipei Grand Theater, slapped his hands vigorously, "This Chinese "Romeo and Juliet" is so touching! ”

Hawke is an opera fan, he watched it here for three days, and tonight he finally understood the opera with the help of Jiang Jianglin.

The actors took the curtain again and again, and the audience began to leave, but Hawke was still unsatisfied, and sat in his position for a long time and refused to get up.

"Mr. Hawke, the audience is running out!"

Wisney, Hawke's assistant, was not at all interested in the oriental opera, and was genuinely bored by Hokla for three nights in a row.

Walking out of the luxury box, the flow of people leaving the venue has become very thin. As he walked out, Hawke said excitedly, "I didn't expect to hear such a beautiful singing voice in the far east. ”

"Let's go back to the hotel and sleep!" Wisney yawned and looked at his pocket watch, "It's ten o'clock, and tomorrow is another day of work." ”

“no，no，no。” Hawke patted Jiang Lin's shoulder affectionately, "Jiang, you take us to eat seafood." ”

Hawke was in high spirits. In addition to receiving a generous business trip allowance, he can also hear the sound of nature over and over again, he is very excited, and needs to drink to celebrate.

I thought that coming to Taiwan was a chore, but I didn't expect Taipei to be so charming. This is simply a new city, a new empire, completely different from the ignorant and dark old empire that I have heard of.

Straight streets divide the city into neat squares, wide avenues are lined with neat green belts, high street lamp poles hang bright arc lights, citizens leisurely walk on the sidewalks.

The renovated Keelung River has been turned into a recreational area, paved with smooth concrete squares and erected street lampposts. At night, the lights are lit up, and there is a long line of food stalls, and vendors and men shout at passers-by.

"Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang!" Seeing the two foreigners coming, the enthusiasm of the night market vendors suddenly rose.

After the opening of the port in Shanghai, the foreigners who came to Taipei were batch after batch, and everyone had already gone through the stage of surprise and consternation, and they all knew that the foreigners were more generous, and the merchants greeted the business diligently.

"Don't pull and pull, these are the VIPs of the imperial court!"

Two patrol officers in black uniforms, batons in their hands, walked past the river, and a few particularly enthusiastic vendors were slightly restrained.

"Hello! Mr. Hawke, why are you here! After the three foreigners finished eating the seafood barbecue, they were about to leave, when the leader saw Hawke and greeted him warmly.

"Oh, Mr. Charles! You don't know, we just watched a classic play, Romeo and Juliet from China. Hawke gushed about his excitement after watching.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Hawke! It's getting late, and we have to work tomorrow. Charles looked at his pocket watch, politely lifted his hat, and hurried away with the people.

Charles, who is also British, and he and his partner came to help install the 10-ton steam hammer. With a 10-ton steam hammer, the level of mechanical forging in Taipei will be greatly improved.

"It's not early, let's go back too!" Jiang Xilin wanted to persuade Hawke again.

Where was the stubborn Hawke willing to listen, he sat down directly at this seafood barbecue stall, and the boss sent sweet sugar cane wine and strings of seafood.

Sugarcane wine is also rum, although Taipei does not produce sugarcane, there are also many sugarcane fields in the Dajia area of Taichung. The Huafu Foundation has set up a sugar cane factory in Miaoli, where sugar is brewed from molasses from the sugar cane factory and then distilled. Although rum is sweet in the mouth, the alcohol content is also in the 40s.

"Here, cheers for great music!" Hawke raised his glass first.

Jiangxi Lin raised his glass, "In order to complete the installation of the machine tool as soon as possible!" ”

Wisney raised his glass, "To get back to England safely as soon as possible!" ”

Hawke shook his head, feeling like he was hard to find, and he took a bite of delicious seafood barbecue, a sweet rum, and finally returned to the Four Seasons Hotel in a drunken state.

Jiang Xilin sent Hawke and Wisney into the room and hurried home.

At this time, it was already past 11 o'clock, and there were few people on the street, only the patrol officers on night duty were still patrolling back and forth.

With the light of the arc lamp on the street, Jiangxi Lin Teng went upstairs.

The lights are still on in Jiang Lin's home. There were three candles lit on the table in the living room, and Qian Huiling was holding a booklet of "Financial Management A, B and C", and was studying seriously