When Francis walked into the council chamber in the middle of the camp, his heart was full of apprehension.

Unknowingly, it has been more than half a month since he came to this strange place.

For more than half a month, Francis's biggest problem in the Far East -- eating -- had long since become a problem, and every day as soon as the meal arrived, the bell would ring in the canteen of the camp, and as long as he brought his waist card, he could enjoy a delicious meal of oriental food in the canteen.

That's right! Judging by his recipes in Venice – brown bread with salty salt and a little cream at most, a bowl of pea soup or onion soup to fill his stomach with a meal of pasta only on the most special days – he now eats in the cafeteria that God deserves every day!

In the eyes of these Oriental people who are accustomed to eating all kinds of food, the delicious noodles are actually just because the master wants to be lazy to deal with everyone!

Oh God, please punish these Orientals who don't know what to do!

Aside from the meals, Francis's lodging was also very satisfying, and although it was just an ordinary cowhide tent, it was much better than it had been in Macau, where he had to spend his days curled up under the dripping eaves of the church.

And the day before yesterday -- according to the Oriental calendar, it should be the twentieth day of the month -- he was even more overjoyed by the great silver sentence he received, and the young man from the East who had brought him up to the island was indeed an honest man, and had paid the full amount of the 10 taels of silver for the first month.

All in all, Francis is very, very satisfied with his present day, and if there is anything he is not satisfied with, it is only that one thing.

The secret method of transparent glass!

Once on the island, he fired a batch of glass as fast as he could, at the behest of the young man, oh, God bless the benevolent employer. However, he was isolated from the final link, and only saw the final product, which was indeed exactly the same as the finished product on the glass island, or even better.

A further batch was fired, and Francis was still cut off - he understood that. Transparent glass was a commodity as precious as gold in this era, how could he, the Venetian, easily know about it?

Even so, Francis was desperate to learn about the secret, and on more than one occasion he told another young man who knew Latin that he was willing to pay any price to know the secret!

But his request remained unanswered, until today, when he was told to come to this chamber and that something important was to be announced to him.

What will be the important thing?

With apprehension. As he stepped out of the door of the council chamber, he was greeted by three Orientals behind the long table: his employer, the Latin-literate grandson, and the old man with a long beard—many of whom were so old that Francis could not tell the difference.

"Hello, Francis," Sun nodded at him, and said in Latin, "as you said before, you want to learn about the secret of clear glass. Willing to pay any price for this, right? ”

Sun hasn't finished yet. Francis could already feel the blood rushing to his head, making him feel a slight dizziness - oh! Oh my God! Is it your grace that really wants me to be the sixth, oh no, seventh person in the world to know this magic?

Struggling to suppress his ecstasy, Francis nodded violently—he was too excited to speak.

"Alright," Sun nodded. After looking left and right, he handed a few pages to Francis, "You look at the terms on this first." ”

When he picked up the pages, Francis's hands trembled like chicken feet, and it took a long time for him to calm down. Take a hard look at the contract written with a brush, bilingual in Chinese and Latin.

Taking advantage of the moment when he was looking at the contract, Chen Shangren behind the long table asked Chu Fan hesitantly, "Yixian, don't you still change your mind?" Do you really want to use him to be in charge of the glass project? He's a ...... Red hair! They spoke Chinese, of course, without fear of hearing Francis.

"Uncle Shi, don't be suspicious of employing people, don't use suspicious people! This is a principle," Chu Fan smiled faintly and said, "Don't say that he is red-haired, I will use it if he is a green-haired turtle...... He brought the glass formula! No one knows better than him how to improve and invent new products in the future...... Let him take an apprentice? We don't trust him, so why should he trust us and help us teach people with all his heart? …… Besides, isn't there a stipulation in the contract that you can't leave Ushijima without permission for ten years? ”

"Uncle Shi, even if you want him to know the secret method, you don't need to give him ten percent of the shares!" After listening to Chu Fan's words, Sun Hedou came out with another complaint.

"Brother Gongzai's words are wrong," Chu Fan patiently explained, "People's hearts are not bound by a paper contract, and if you want to tie people's hearts, the best way is to bind interests...... Only if he can make money and make a lot of money in the glass project, will he really leave his heart with us...... To put it in a small way, it can prevent extravagance and waste and cutting corners; To put it mildly, in the future, the glass industry will not develop without this 10% stimulation...... Our stall is getting bigger and bigger, and a few of us are afraid that we can't take care of it! ”

As he spoke, Francis had already finished reading the contract, and such generous conditions made his face flush as if he was drunk, and he couldn't wait to grab the quill pen and sign and stamp his handprint, and when he was done, he would rush to the glass workshop to burn glass, and he wanted to know so much what the secret method was!

But Chu Fan asked him to wait, and then called in the craftsmen from all over the world from Macao one by one and signed a contract with them.

Francis noticed that the only person who became the "project leader" like him was the clockmaker from Switzerland, and there was also a gunpowder craftsman who had served in the Spanish army, because he proposed the wet method of granular gunpowder and polished it, which raised the explosive power of the black powder of the Fuliao army to another level, so he was appointed as the "technical director" of the gunpowder project, and was given a 5% stake in the project.

What Francis didn't know, of course, was that long before these European craftsmen signed the contract, all the Chinese craftsmen had already re-signed the contract and also carried out the shareholding transformation.

After everyone signed and stamped their handprints, Francis finally followed Chu Fan and Sun Hedou to the glass workshop, burned the glass in the stove, and when he finally entered the secret room with a steaming pot of steaming paste-like glass puree, he heard Sun Hedou say, "See clearly!" ”。

His eyes widened immediately, but the expected scene of Chu Fan grabbing a handful of medicinal powder and throwing it into the puree did not appear.

I saw Chu Fan pick up an iron rod, insert it into the puree and stir it constantly, gradually, the paste-like puree became clearer and clearer, and finally became as transparent as clear water!

Yes? It's that simple!

Oh my God!

At the moment when Chu Fan stirred the glass puree, Dayuan Island, thousands of miles away, was like a storm!

Off the southwest coast of Dayuan Island, hundreds of boats are fighting and entangled in the torrential rain.

A chase battle is slowly kicking off! (To be continued.) )

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