"Huh? This is? "Zhu Qinfeng's own ship hasn't docked yet, but this guy sent someone to send a small gift to Zhengliang in advance. When Masara returned to Kishigaku Castle and saw such a small gift, he couldn't help but be surprised.

It turned out to be a tiny glass ball.

When he saw this small glass ball, Masato couldn't help but slap himself in the mouth. He'd forgotten about glass all along. That's a great way to make money. Now glass has not been completely popularized in the East, so glass has always been regarded as a luxury, especially in the Ming Kingdom, and glass with a slightly larger area will be purchased by officials, businessmen and wealthy gentry. And Masara can also sell glass to the Japanese country and even North Korea.

The method of making glass is not complicated. Only raw materials such as quartz sand, soda ash, feldspar and limestone are melted at high temperature and then flattened. Recently, in order to speed up the production of fired bricks and prepare for the construction of a ceramic workshop, the Luo family happened to introduce the porcelain kiln technique that was quite developed in the Ming Dynasty, which was enough to reach the corresponding temperature. Among the details. As long as the craftsmen study carefully, it is actually possible to invent it.

There happened to be some masons in the territory who had fired porcelain in the Ming Kingdom before. He is very experienced in mastering the temperature of porcelain kilns. In this porcelain kiln, it is not difficult to reach the temperature of melting glass.

Just do it. Masahiro immediately found relevant craftsmen and explained to them the specific production methods of glass. Because many of these craftsmen had heard of glass for the first time, they had to explain each process, every step, and even the specific use of each piece of utensils. He even needs to be on the spot to give instructions.

The next few days. Masara has been staying with these craftsmen all along. In order to ensure the smooth manufacture of glass. Masahiro also specially organized these craftsmen to practice several times until they were proficient in gestures and cooperated with each other tacitly. Only then did the real manufacturing begin.

Fifteen days later, when all the materials were ready, a makeshift kiln for the production of glass was finally built in the Workshop Canyon.

When Masahiro personally announced the start, a raging fire immediately ignited in the porcelain kiln. The craftsmen put the ingredients into the containers one by one in the order in which Masara had been trained. After continuous sintering and forging, the glass solution of the first furnace was finally baked.

In the open space outside the porcelain kiln. There are iron tables one after another. After the glass solution is out of the kiln. Then there were several big men, shouting trumpets, pouring the hot molten glass in the furnace on the iron table, and then a few craftsmen, dragging thick pig iron round sticks, rolling back and forth on it, and soon after the glass was flattened, it formed the same large block as the tabletop, and a flat glass was formed.

Of course, the flattened glass is large though. The side length is just one zhang, but it is not smooth. It also needs to be grinded. At this time, a few more craftsmen came and placed the large flat glass on the table covered with thick felt, and sprinkled a layer of fine sand. Another glass plate was placed, and by pushing and pulling the top one, the two pieces of glass were smoothed out by fine sand.

However, this work seems simple, but it requires five or six craftsmen to work for more than a day in a row, and this is not enough, there are countless lines left by fine sand on the surface of the glass after such treatment, and it needs to be further polished. The craftsmen rubbed a very fine mineral powder and water back and forth hundreds of thousands of times with small wooden boards covered with wool felt, and then rubbed hundreds of thousands of times with wool felt. Because it is purely handmade, the output cannot be very large.

What's even more depressing is that the first piece of glass that was finally made was so bad that it could be said that from the outside, it was just a strange product, and it had nothing to do with the appearance of glass in consciousness.

For such a result, Masashi had long expected it. Anyway, Masato is not in a hurry, just let these craftsmen study it slowly.

After putting down the glass, Masarashi began to be busy with another matter. That's the problem of making clairvoyance, that is, telescopes.

The idea of creating clairvoyance was sparked when making glass. The application of clairvoyance in land, military and maritime navigation is too important. Besides, clairvoyance is easier to make than glass.

The main ingredient for making clairvoyance is a lens. The lens can be polished with crystal stone, quartz, topaz, amethyst grinding and other things, and ready-made lenses can also be purchased in the West and the Ming Kingdom.

Of course, this is also a prototype of the Roche family. In memory, the first clairvoyance (telescope) in the West was inadvertently invented by Hans Lippershey, the owner of an optical shop in a small Dutch town in the early 17th century. In order to check the quality of the polished lens, he lined up a convex lens and a concave mirror, looked through the lens, and found that the church spire in the distance seemed to be getting bigger and closer, so he accidentally discovered the secret of the telescope. In 1608 he patented a telescope he had made, and in compliance with the authorities' request, built a binocular. It is said that dozens of opticians in the town claim to have invented the telescope, although it is generally believed that Lieberch was the inventor of the telescope.

The Ming Dynasty only recorded clairvoyance (telescopes) during the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse (1605-1627). So the Luo family is really crossing the river by feeling the stones, as the first family to study the production of clairvoyance.

Whether it is glass or clairvoyance, it needs to be slowly studied by these half-baked craftsmen under the command of the Luo family, so Masahiro has also begun to focus on other things in the territory.

The first thing that entered Masara's eyes was the battle report about Yoshitaka Ouchi's army in Izumo. It was already early April. According to the latest information, the Ouchi coalition has finally been defeated.

When Masarashi withdrew from the battlefield to Hishi, it was already November last year, and the Ouchi army finally slowly attacked the outskirts of Tsukiyama Tomita Castle, Ouchi Yoshitaka was first stationed at Santoya Peak, but the Ouchi army, which had lost its sharpness, made extremely slow progress, and it was not until February of this year that Yoshitaka took another step forward and moved his main formation to Mt. Keiraki, which was slightly ahead. In fact, at this moment, the defeat of the Ouchi army has been decided, and Haruhisa not only has the Shingong Party in his hands not moved, but also keeps drawing fresh forces from Boqi and Beizhong, preparing to launch a counterattack. Sure enough, after that, the Ouchi army suffered repeated setbacks: Mori Motosashi and Naito Yoshimori attacked Sugaguchi and were defeated by Ushio Kokiyo, the Nizi army; Hiraga Takamune and Masuda Fuji attacked Dongguang Temple and were defeated by the Niko Kuniku Shingu Party; In April, Maori Yuan took the eldest son of the first battle, Maori Takamoto, to attack Shiotaniguchi, which left a shadow on Longyuan's initial formation, and was defeated by the Shingong Party.

After getting the latest news that the Ouchi coalition army had been frustrated again, it was not long before the defeat of Ouchi Yoshitaka's army, and many things had to be laid out in advance, so Masara hurriedly issued several targeted orders. After issuing the order, Masato thought about it again, and after making sure that there was no omission, Masahiro breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Masato finally saw the news that several people he had invited had also come to Luo's house. As a result, a meeting related to the future development of the Luo family was held in Kishiyue City.

(Xie Lu Xie Shuyou Yang's neck tip.) Thank you for the support of many book friends like you. Because this book has always been attacked in one way or another, and because of physical and work problems, I was about to give up at one point, but it was because of your continued support that I persevered. Don't worry, as long as there is one person watching, I will stick to the end. Let's witness the day when this book reaches two million words. (To be continued......)