The small kiln by the garden was very small in scale and very rudimentary, and it took almost no time to build it, and after a week of preparation, the raw materials were found.

Feldspar is easy to find, even in Chinese medicine stores, and it didn't take much effort to buy a lot of them from Laizhou City.

As for the quartz sand, it is found in the mountains near Zhaojia Village.

This small mountainous area in the southern part of Huangxian County has a large amount of quartz sand underground, and it is very easy to mine, but no one has ever paid attention to this stone, and its only use is to use it as a building material.

The gold reserves in this mountainous area are also relatively large, and there are several privately mined gold mines, all of which are made by nearby landlords, and those landlords who occupy the gold mines are even armed several times larger than Zhao Yan's family.

Zhao Yan just thought about it, he didn't have too much ** about the gold mine.

Mining is more troublesome, go directly to earn, go directly to grab how simple, the only effect, maybe is to increase jobs, now Denglai so many land no one plant, he has no one, the gold mine is of little use to him, to touch it will cause a scratch, very not cost-effective.

So Zhao Yan didn't have the idea of fighting those gold mines, after finding all the materials, he immediately put into the work of firing glass, and if he made a glass mirror by himself, it would definitely be many times more profitable than the gold mine, and he didn't need so much labor.

A fire broke out in the small kiln, and Zhao Yan shoveled quartz sand, soda ash, feldspar, and limestone into the kiln for calcination.

The materials melted together, Zhao Yan used a wooden stick to reach into the kiln, rolled out a bright white liquid object, took it to the mold, cut off a part with scissors, and stuffed the rest back into the kiln.

The mold is very simple, it is two iron plates, plus between the iron plates, a square iron frame of the same shape. After cutting off a part of the liquid glass, I pressed the iron plate directly down on it, and lifted it up after a few seconds.

The liquid glass solidified very quickly, and after a few seconds of pressing, it solidified, forming a square glass plate with a length and width of one meter.

Today's Europeans can only make palm-sized flat glass, not to the point where they can make glass plates, and it is estimated that it will take several decades before such technology appears.

This technique is really simple, Zhao Yan used a clamp to clamp the glass plate aside, and put the square iron frame on the stove, so that this thing must maintain a certain temperature.

Zhao Yan picked up the glass plate and looked at it, it was still a little rough to the touch, but it was still relatively transparent and straight, anyway, this quality is already the best in the world, not to mention that this glass plate is the only one in the world, if this thing is made into a glass mirror, it is definitely the most high-end goods, and if you don't sell him a few thousand taels, you are sorry for the technical monopoly, so Zhao Yan is not interested in polishing the glass finely.

The blacksmith Zhou in the village is building a template for Zhao Yanlian, after all, if you want to make a glass mirror, it is impossible to use this kind of square glass mirror with a length and width of one meter, but also small, round, oval, and all kinds of specifications.

Blacksmith Zhou's blacksmithing skills are good, much more superb than the blacksmiths invited on the street in later generations, and creating templates has saved Zhao Yan a lot of heart.

Glass is used for many purposes, and it is not only possible to make glass mirrors, but those things will be said later, and now if they are produced on a large scale, it will be troublesome if they are targeted by anyone, and they are not afraid of thieves stealing, and they are afraid of thieves, and they cannot teach the technology to others before establishing strict confidentiality measures.

Therefore, Zhao Yan is the only one in the small kiln by the back garden, and no one is allowed to be present to watch when he fires the glass.

Zhao Yan pressed dozens of glass plates in two hours in a row, the glass mirror could not be used, it could be used as a window, and the most unaccustomed thing in this era was that there was no electric light, and the room was a little dark during the day.

This is naturally very unaccustomed to Zhao Yan, who is used to living in the bright future generations. The light bulb can't be made yet, so this skylight and glass window can always be made!

Although the glass has been made, the things required for the silver plating method have not yet been prepared, and it is estimated that it will be a few days, Zhao Yan directly extinguished the fire in the small kiln and carried a large stack of glass plates into the house.

Yuan'er looked at the pile of glass plates and asked in surprise, "Childe, what is this?" ”

"It's a very ordinary thing, but putting it on the window and the roof can make the room brighter." Zhao Yan replied half-truthfully, Yuan'er reached out and touched the glass plate, and was very surprised by the glass plate.

But I didn't look at it much, I took a towel and carefully wiped Zhao Yan's sweat, and her soft pretty face was red and pleasing to the eyes, this sixteen-year-old girl had a kind of beautiful temperament, and the atmosphere was soft.

Yuan'er was originally born in a wealthy family, her father was a big official in the court, and she belonged to the ranks of the eunuch party.

Zhao Yan's cheap old man saw that Yuan'er looked good, and she was about the same age as her son, so she bought it home and prepared to keep it for her son as a concubine in the future.

The Zhang family used to take Yuan'er with him, and didn't let her serve her son, for fear that her son would be distracted from studying, and if he missed the gun and tasted the love of the man and woman, it would evolve out of control.

Originally, Zhao Yan had already won a show, but when he came back this time, he forgot about the four books and five classics, and now there is no hope of catching up with the exam, plus a seventeen-year-old person, he can almost start a family, and Zhang's only let Yuan'er serve Zhao Yan's daily life half a month ago.

What do you call a master? Zhao Yan has realized it in the past half a month, he doesn't have to do anything in his daily life, and Yuan'er helps him dress and freshen up when he gets up. Wash his feet and clothes before going to bed.

Although Zhao Yan often muttered in his heart about the 'evil old society', a beautiful girl took care of him gently and considerately, which really made him almost praise this society.

Feudal society is to use the happiness of thousands of people to add to the body of one person, so that one person feels happy.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions were very good, without supervision, the gap between the rich and the poor in society was very serious, and this oppression spread throughout the empire, a society full of slaves.

It is a bit serious to say that slaves, but many people are indeed like slaves, and after signing the deed of sale, they are beaten and killed, and they are not responsible for being killed.

The happiness of the rich people of the Ming Dynasty was simply the first in all dynasties.

Although the vast number of people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty were more oppressed than in the Ming Dynasty, the quality of happiness was significantly reduced, and the country was governed in a mess.

The so-called prosperous Kangqian era was nothing more than the boasting of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was very good at controlling public opinion. Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Deer and Ding" describes the Manchu emperor as even more bizarre, maybe it has something to do with Jin Yong's ancestor being a Manchu official! Naturally, you have to hug your thighs.

In fact, the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was extremely bloody, terrifying and high-pressure, and it was also related to the unity policy of later generations, but it was deliberately packaged as a dark nomad, which was cold.

In order to prevent the Manchu Qing from entering the Central Plains, or at least to protect himself, Zhao Yan did not stop for long, and devoted himself to the struggle to make glass mirrors.

Three days later, Zhao Yan finally succeeded in making the first glass mirror. The length and width are one meter, and the square is square, which clearly reflects the appearance of people.

Zhao Yan saw his appearance very clearly for the first time, this seventeen-year-old body looked pretty good, with a slender body, quiet and quiet, with a taste of a little white face.

If you don't know his details, you still think that he is a weak scholar, but you don't know that he can even draw a three-stone bow......

After the glass mirror was made, Zhao Yan ran to the carpenter in the village and asked him to make two dressing boxes.

The carpenters of this era are very skilled, so that the carpenters of later generations can not be compared with the ability to carve, most of the buildings in the Ming Dynasty are carved with patterns.

The dressing box is made, painted, and then a mirror ten centimeters long and wide is installed, and a beautiful dressing box is created.

After drying for a few days, after the paint on the dresser box dried, Zhao Yan took the dresser box and ran to find Yuan'er.

"Yuan'er ......" Zhao Yan wandered around the house, but he didn't see anyone, and he didn't know if he was at his mother's place. Walking into the small hall where Zhang's Buddha was recited, Zhao Yan walked into the auditorium, and Zhang's was reverently reciting Buddhist scriptures.

"Mother, where did Yuan'er go?" Zhao Yan saw that there was no one in this small hall, and asked Zhang. Zhang opened his eyes and said, "She said to clean up the study for you, it should be in the study!" ”

"Oh." Zhao Yan nodded, ran to Zhang's side, took out a dresser, and said, "Mother, this is made for you by the child." ”

"What is this?" Zhang stretched out his hand to take the dressing box, opened it and saw the mirror, and said in surprise: "You kid, how can you buy such a valuable thing, this diorama is a thousand taels!" ”

"Mother, this is not made by Westerners, this is a mirror made by the child himself, and the cost is less than one or two silver!" Zhao Yan explained.

"Less than one or two~!" Zhang Shi was taken aback, looked up at Zhao Yan, and asked, "Yan'er, you are secretly making this kind of diorama in the back garden?" ”

"If you don't cover it tightly, if someone steals it, it will be difficult to make money from this thing in the future." Zhao Yan said with a smile.

"Huh!" Zhang Shi rarely showed a smile, touched Zhao Yan's head, and said with relief: "If you can think of this, our Zhao family will not decline, and your father can also smile Jiuquan, but this diorama is very profitable, remember not to go out and make a noise, and when your uncle comes back and sum up with him." ”

"The child understands." Zhao Yan nodded and said, "The child will go to Yuan'er first." ”

"Go ahead!" Zhang said with a smile.

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