A few thousand taels of silver is definitely an astronomical amount in ordinary people's homes, but in the eyes of the wealthy officials, it is only ordinary small money.

Chang Lai's ideal has only taken one step, and he is still a small short leg.

According to Shuqi, there are a lot of quartz stones in Houshan, which are very common, of course, Shuqi does not know that this stone is called quartz stone, Chang Lai moved the piece in his house to show her.

As for limestone and alkali, there are many ways to obtain it, and after spending a few dollars, the raw materials for making a batch of glass have been almost collected.

Shuqi is responsible for breaking and grinding, and Chang Lai built a kiln with large stones, which is divided into two layers, the upper layer is placed with raw materials, and the lower layer is put with fuel.

At the town's blacksmith shop, Chang Lai custom-made two sets of molds for glass molding.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the raw materials to foam, watching the hard work of Shuqi alone, Chang Lai also smashed the stone together.

"Shuqi, Chang Lai, what are you doing here?" The two clanged, but they didn't notice that Lao Xiang had entered the courtyard.

"You're here just in time, let's help do it, these have to be crushed into powder, and when you make money, you will share it." Chang Lai bared his teeth and sweated profusely.

"It's too strenuous, why don't you use a stone grinder?" Lao Xiang stuck his waist and looked at the two of them like fools.

"Stone mill?" Chang Lai seems to have understood.

"Oh, yes, why didn't I think of this, using a stone mill, our old cow hasn't been doing farm work for a long time, just stretching his muscles and bones." Shuqi slapped his thigh and almost fell.

"Then, let's go buy a stone mill now." Chang Lai stood up and patted the dirt all over his body.

"What to buy, bring my family, lead the cow, go!" Lao Xiang took the lead and went out first.

With the stone mill, the progress of this work is swishing, except for the unhappy face of the old cow, the three of them are very energetic.

Chang Lai put a part of the mixture into a stone mortar, carried it to the upper layer of the furnace, sealed it, and lit it below.

One day and one night, the three of them took turns to add firewood and leaves, and the ashes of the grass and trees were piled up into a hill, which was a good thing, and Chang Lai did not let him throw it, saying that he would keep it for other purposes.

Finally came to the moment of opening the furnace, Chang Lai took out two large clamps, wasted the strength of the two tigers, clamped out the stone mortar, the fiery red liquid, poured into the abrasive, and naturally tiled, Chang Lai took a large scraper shaped like a pancake, scraped it quickly on the mold, and soon, the pancake, ah no, the glass was flattened.

After it cooled down completely, Chang Lai removed the fence around the mold, put on the large cotton gloves prepared in advance, and Chang Lai slowly lifted their first work.

There was already the sound of books and chess and the old incense's admiration in my ears.

"Brother Chang, you just said that you want to make glass, what's the use of this thing?" Shuqi touched it lightly with his fingers.

"yes, I'm wondering what this thing is for." Lao Xiang echoed from the side.

"This glass is more useful, as a window, a vegetable greenhouse, cups and dishes, in our big Shenyang country, this glass is everywhere." Chang Lai looked at his first work, still a little dissatisfied.

In general, it is quite successful, but there are a lot of impurities, the surface is not completely flat, and there are traces of flow during molding.

"Lao Xiang, we may have to move out in a few days, do you want to do this glass work, I funded the construction of a glass factory, how about you be the factory director?" Chang Lai put down the glass and took off his gloves.

"Contribution? Director? What does it mean? Lao Xiang scratched the big mole on her face and brushed the black hair on it.

"It's that I spend money to open a glass workshop, recruit a few guys, and you take care of it, how about it?" Chang Lai knocked on the glass in his hand.

"Okay, why not? It's just that who are we going to sell this thing to? "Lao Xiang still can't imagine how this thing can be made into cups and saucers.

As long as the glass can be made, then all kinds of processes are small problems, although the glass blowing Chang Lai will not, but he can Baidu, the most difficult problems have been solved, and the rest of the matter is not called a problem.

The east of Shuanglong Town is Donggu Town, which is the closest town to the county seat in Fuyuan County, from Donggu to the county seat, there are many villages along the river, the nearest one from Donggu is a village called Tanfu, Chang Lai found Tanfu Village after surveying the terrain for a few days, he wants to build a building across the river.

Mura Zheng is not very old, named Tao Chongzhou, is very able to speak, Chang Lai looked at him at first glance and felt that this matter could be done, as expected, after out of forty taels of land purchase money, Mura Zheng went to the county government to apply for a file, recorded, reported a series of operations, of course, Mura is running so diligently, because Chang Lai privately gave him ten taels of silver.

There is a house for sale in Donggu Town near Tanfu Village, two courtyards, the houses have been dilapidated, deserted for many years, if you want to live in people, either push the heavy cover, or spend a lot of effort to repair, it is not a time and a half to complete, buying a yard is easier than buying land, five days later I got the deed, and the riverside land in Tan Yan Village, waited for a few days, the title deed also arrived, before and after only ten days, two pieces of land were done, and in these ten days, Chang Lai was not idle, he burned a large amount of plant ash, mixed with clay, according to Du Niang's method, Made several tons of cement.

The green brick is entrusted to Lao Xiang to do, one of her distant relatives is a brick maker, I heard that Chang Lai wants a large number of bricks, overtime to make it.

It is almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chang Lai made a difficulty, according to his calculations, want to cause him to design the cross-river building, at least half a year of construction, winter is not able to start, the house overtime to hire more workers, the front yard of the house should be able to build, then both sides of the construction at the same time, strive to build the house before the winter, how much can be built across the river, and then continue to do it in the spring.

Chang Lai found Tao Chongzhou in Tanfu Village, it was the autumn harvest, and the workers were not easy to recruit, but Chang Lai raised the workers' wages to 30 Wen a day, which was simply a sky-high price, Tao Chongzhou immediately spread the news, and many farmers in the village came, all of whom were attracted by this sky-high wage and came to apply.

But there were not enough people, so Chang Lai asked them to mobilize relatives and friends to gather more people in nearby villages and towns, and the next morning, more than 60 workers were in place.

More than 60 people were divided into two places, 20 by the river, 20 in the village, and more than a dozen people, who were sent to the back mountains to cut trees.

The workers are very fresh in the way of building houses with green bricks and cement, but they are also fast, the wages are high, and the work is fast and good, Chang Lai chose a foreman in each of the two places, and handed over the drawings to the two foremen, both of them looked at the drawings and were confused, who built a house and used this thing, more than that, but looked at it and frowned, what is the underground concave strip, what is the raised strip, what is the small one that separates it, what is the circle drawn on the top.

Chang Lai explained them one by one, and the two of them seemed to understand whether they understood or not.

Toilet? Integral bathroom? Toilet? Sewer? Septic tank? Wall tiles? Ceiling light pool? What kind of bullshit is this? I've never heard of it.

Bricks and cement were shipped in batches, and the houses and cross-river buildings gradually took on their appearance, and Chang Lai and Shu Qi jumped up and down on the two construction sites like two monkeys every day.

The felled wood was piled up in the yard, and the carpentry master from the town also started work, and the girders, purlins, rafters, doors and windows were all working according to Changlai's idea.

On the last day of autumn, Lao Xiang drove the ox cart and sent the first batch of glass, the size of the glass is made according to the mold, there are three models, the largest square is three feet long and three feet wide, the medium rectangle is three feet long and two feet wide, and the small one is two feet square, the house sits in the north and faces the south, the two sides are fixed large glass windows, tightly fitted, only for lighting, to the middle is two medium glass windows with opposite doors, the middle is the open door, the upper part is made of hollow patterns, installed glass, and the beauty does not affect the lighting.

All the places where the glass is installed are often in accordance with the modern method, making wooden troughs, embedded in the glass, pressed with wooden strips, the four sides of the wooden strips and the main body are fixed with extremely exquisite mortise and tenon structure, all wooden doors and windows are finely filed and polished, coated with a layer of transparent wood oil, the feeling of wood color, simple without losing temperament, simple and elegant without losing beauty.

I can't find a second copy of this whole big light, Chang Lai looked at his work, extremely satisfied, in addition to praising and praising the book and chess, the style and technology of this house are really beyond her cognition.

At the request of Shuqi, her room still has a big kang, and the kang hole is on the side of the house, which is convenient for removing ash and does not affect the overall visual effect.

Chang Lai made his own Simmons, and the blacksmith shop made springs of the same type according to his requirements, which were evenly connected horizontally and vertically on the overall iron frame, and the outer layer was wrapped and sewn into animal skin, and the outermost layer was thick coarse cloth, and cotton was filled between the thick coarse cloth and the animal skin.

The mattress was placed on the bed frame made by Chang Lai's master carpenter, and the mattress and sheets were laid out, and the moment he lay on the bed, Chang Lai thought that he had crossed home again.

The floor is bluestone slabs, the walls are painted lime stucco, avocado green, goose yellow, girly pink, cement gray, and each room is a different color wall.

He asked the masters who built the house to reserve space underground in advance, and the airways were interconnected while supporting the ground, which means a bit like the earth dragon in the northeast, igniting in one place, the hot air will spread throughout the earth dragon, following the principle of hot air rising, so as to play the role of floor heating.

In addition, Changlai also designed a solar water heater, build steps to the roof above the bathroom, easy to lift water and add water, the roof erects a large open wooden basin, covered with glass, the following link through the bamboo tube, the last layer do not open, poke out the hole, form a shower head, make a bracket above the bathroom, put a wooden bucket, fill with cold water, the bottom is connected to the bamboo tube, the same through, connect the main bamboo tube, the bamboo tube and the main bamboo tube are installed inside the water cut-off organ valve, and the shower switch is a principle, which can adjust the cold and heat of the water. The water heater can be used in spring, summer and autumn, and the big bath in winter, after all, not taking a bath or rubbing a bath is not a qualified Shenyang person.

The toilet and water tank are all wooden, and the sewer connecting the bends below is made of ceramic, which solves the problem of toilet odor, and the sewer is directly discharged to the septic tank behind the house.

The wooden keel of the roof, the mold is made of gypsum board, the plaster line, and the lime plaster is scraped flat and painted white, which is simply too modern.

Chang Lai also drew some of the furniture of IKEA from memory, such as bookcases, wine cabinets, bedside tables, cabinets of five drawers, coffee tables, sofas, dining tables, chairs, and so on.

There is a cloakroom next to his and Shuqi's bedroom, a whole wall is a wardrobe, and the carpenter master made a wooden hanger, so that the clothes can be hung in the wardrobe, no longer have to be in the wooden box, in addition to the wardrobe, there is also a one-person high dressing copper mirror, shoe cabinet, extremely convenient.

The house is basically ready for people, but the cross-river building has to be suspended, and the weather is getting colder, so let's wait for the spring of next year to continue.