Wen Zao arrived at Zhoushan Island by boat, hurried to Yaojiaao in the mountains in the north of Changzhou City, and hurried down the mountain, and came to a riverside on the west side of Zhoucheng, which was obviously encircled recently and guarded by soldiers.

It was the eighth day of the eighth month of August.

After the report, I entered the courtyard, which had no houses, only some simple workshops and a few small kilns made of masonry, which looked like the ones used to fire porcelain.

There are not many people in the courtyard, but not only the little lord of the camp is here, but also the lord of the navy.

Wen Zao also saw Qiao Wang, who was supposed to be in Jinling, the father of the maid beside the Yinghai envoy, and the one who was in charge of the accounts of Zhiyongzhai.

The others, except for the personal guards who were guarding nearby, were some craftsmen, and they were all wearing the kind of light overalls designed by the little master of the camp, which looked quite neat.

Surrounded by the crowd, the little master of the camp is standing in front of a small scale placed on the table, holding a wooden spoon in his hand, digging out various powders from different containers or pockets, weighing them, handing them to craftsmen to stir and mix, and then loading them into black barrel-shaped crucibles of different sizes.

Qiao Wan was holding a splint covered with paper and was taking notes with a pen.

The atmosphere in front of him made Wen Zao, who was originally in an excited mood, calm down, and waited patiently for a while, seeing that the little master of Yinghai finally rubbed his wrist and stopped his work, he took a few steps forward, and after hugging his fists to the Governor of the Navy and the little master of Yinghai, he took off the package around his waist and sent it: "My lord, good news from the north, our army has broken through the capital, captured Emperor Zheng and the Yuan court clan." ”

As he spoke, he sent the package and glanced at the Governor of the Navy, before continuing aloud: "When the little one returned, the Lord himself said that the Lord would open up the sea grain route to ensure the supply of the army, and contribute to the strategy of raiding the capital, and there was a hot air balloon to deter the Yuan soldiers to collapse without a fight. ”

After Wen Zao finished speaking, after the people around him were briefly surprised, whether it was a soldier or a craftsman, they congratulated Zhu Yuan one after another.

Among them, some people inevitably looked at Huagao.

Hua Gao didn't have much taste, and patted Zhu Yuan on the shoulder twice happily: "I know...... Oh, I know. ”

Zhu Yuan smiled and waved his hand, opened the package handed by Wen Zao, first found Lao Zhu's letter and quickly browsed it, and then turned to another detailed battle report on the Battle of Dadu, and slightly turned to Hua Gao, who was full of curiosity around him, and after the two read it together, Hua Gao shook his head again: "It's actually ...... Really...... Hanlin, what is the hot air balloon, made so that I can also see the strangeness? ”

"It's nothing unusual, take the time to let Yao Feng and them get one for you to see."

Zhu Yuan said, in fact, it was also unexpected.

Most of them were breached, and it turned out that it was only because of a hot air balloon that accidentally broke off the line and flew away. However, if you think about it again, Zhu Yuan can also understand. The whole thing is in response to the previous sentence about opening up the ocean.

Fear comes from the unknown.

I don't know what it is, so I can be scared.

This kind of trick, at most once or twice, as long as it is widely known, the third time may not be so useful.

Moreover, even if he did not appear by himself, in the past, most of the capitals would have been breached, and when Zhu Yuan heard the news, he did not have the excitement of the people around him.

Or to express it.

After thinking about it, Zhu Yuan said to Hua Gao: "Dadu is a great victory, let's celebrate it too." Today, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival soon, and it will be a three-day holiday during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then prepare some lanterns, operas and other activities to be lively. In addition, all the Navy Governor's Mansion and the Battalion and Sea Division are registered soldiers and soldiers, well, only in Mingzhou, it is too far to manage, and then give a reward for rice grain, this will be sent down as soon as possible, and there are also those who are outside the tolerance, so that the family members can receive it or keep it on the account. ”

Hua Gao took the war briefing, read it carefully, and nodded: "You can do it." ”

Zhu Yuan motioned to his own soldiers who stayed not far away to guard Dinghai: "Tao Pu, you send a message to the land and let Liu Lian and them make a plan." ”

Standing on the periphery of the crowd, a lean man about 30 years old clenched his fists and led his life.

Only then did Zhu Yuan look at Wen Zao again, and while he was busy adjusting the materials in front of him again, he said, "Is there anything interesting on the front line?" ”

Wen Zao glanced at Qiao Wang, nodded, and said with a smile: "The various departments of the navy in the north of the city followed General Chang Da to the city first, among them, the battalion Haiwei Qianhu Qiao An shot Yuan Zhongshu Pingzhang Die'er will be lost, and capture the Yuan clan Huai King Timur does not take a big credit. ”

Zhu Yuan looked at Qiao Wang, who was instantly excited, and asked bluntly, "Is there any news from Huayue?" ”

Wen Zao paused and shook his head awkwardly: "Small...... I have never heard of it, I want to come to Hua Qianhu, and Zhao Baihu, it should be safe and sound. ”

Zhao Baihu, apparently Zhao Xu.

"It's good to be alive," Hua Gao watched Zhu Yuan dig out a powder to weigh, and smiled to help Wen Zao relieve his embarrassment: "Whether this battle formation can be credited depends on the number of lives." No matter how brave you are, if you can't touch the fat fish, what can you do? ”

Zhu Yuan also understands this truth.

The battlefield is like a casino, no matter how dare you fight, you can't stand the word 'luck'.

Thinking of it, Zhu Yuan asked curiously: "Who did Emperor Zhizheng's father and son fall into?" ”

Zhu Yuan suggested that Lao Zhu offer a heavy reward for a certain 'primary strategic goal', and Lao Zhu also agreed, and any one of the fathers and sons of Emperor Zhizheng was a hereditary marquis.

This is the biggest prize of this battle of Dadu.

Wen Zao also understood why Zhu Yuan asked this, thought for a while, and said: "The Yuan Lord took the initiative to surrender, and the Yuan Prince...... wanted to break out of the encirclement, bumped into General Chang Da and killed himself. Seem...... Didn't fall into anyone's hands. ”

Zhu Yuan was a little surprised: "Just ...... No one grabbed it? ”

I remember that after giving Lao Zhu advice, Zhu Yuan also flipped through the "Historical Records" and found Xiang Yu's paragraph. For Liu Bang's 'reward of thousands of gold and 10,000 households', the Han army that snatched Xiang Yu's body was very fratricidal.

There's an interesting thing about that.

Xiang Yu's body was divided into five, and one of the soldiers named Yang Xi grabbed a thigh and was named Marquis of Chiquan. The Chiquan Hou line was not only quite prominent in the two Han Dynasty, but a few hundred years later, there was a descendant named 'Yang Jian' who founded the Great Sui.

Think that's the end of it?

No.

A few hundred years later, that is, in the current Ming Dynasty, a general under Lao Zhu, named Yang Jing, was leading the army to the south to conquer Guangxi at this time, and Yang Jing was also a descendant of the Marquis of Chiquan. Once Hongwu was a meritorious hero for three years, Yang Jing was named the Marquis of Yingyang.

What is it called?

It is precisely Zhu Yuan and Lao Zhu who have mentioned it, a century-old dynasty and a thousand-year-old family.

Speaking of which, there are many similar examples, such as the same old Zhu, and there is another one.

Feng Sheng.

Although Feng Sheng was given death in Lao Zhu's later years, only one person died, and the Feng family is not in decline, and it is quite wonderful for hundreds of years.

This is off-topic.

At that moment, Wen Zao heard Zhu Yuan ask, but he shook his head: "Prince Yuan killed himself, and General Chang was present at that time. The surrender of the Yuan Lord was personally said by General Xu. ”

Zhu Yuan could only shake his head and said with a smile: "It's a waste." ”

The two hereditary reckless marquis are gone.

However, think about it again, even if he is already changing history, the marquis under Lao Zhu is not so easy to be, if he really gets it, who knows if it is a blessing or a curse?

Thinking so, Zhu Yuan chatted with Wen Zao for a few more words, and then sent him to rest.

Then he continued to work.

At the moment, I am planning to try firing glass.

Various preparations have been going on during this time.

The first is the material.

Zhu Yuan specially wrote a letter to Wang Guangyang, a political officer in Shandong, asking him to try to mine and refine coke on the spot in Yizhou, and also burn it on a small scale on his own side.

It was officially released the day before yesterday.

Coke, as a high-temperature fuel, is a prerequisite.

Then there is the alkali.

There is no soda ash sodium carbonate, and Zhu Yuan is not sure whether there is soda ash ore in nature, and even if it exists, how to explore and confirm it must be specially pondered.

However, gray soda is still readily available.

It's potassium carbonate.

At the fish baking workshop, wood is burned in large quantities every day, and there is as much ash as there is to plant and wood.

Take the ashes of plants and trees, soak them, filter them, boil them, and preliminarily obtain the ash alkali, which is melted and saturated and purified...... During this time, thousands of catties have been accumulated. It is...... Considering the large amount of manpower and material resources consumed in the refining process, this cost is really high.

Then there's quartz sand.

The selection of quartz sand is not a problem, the key problem is crushing, which is also a very labor-intensive thing.

As a result, the cost of quartz powder is also very high.

There is also limestone.

Calcium carbonate components, again, are expensive in the crushing process.

These are the three main raw materials that Zhu Yuan remembers.

However, since he started to do it, Zhu Yuan felt that he had to have a spirit of exploration, and various other raw materials in this era could be used to try and burn them, and maybe something would come out.

So I found various other materials.

For example, miscanthus salt.

Although it is also called 'nitrate', it is not a nitric acid compound, and the specific composition is unknown for the time being.

There are other stones.

It's all powdered, mixed with it, and seen what weird things can be burned.

The only thing Zhu Yuan thought of and didn't use was 'lead', remembering that lead glass had many benefits, but he instinctively resisted adding it to the glass.

Secondly, there are the tools.

The first is that the kiln in the yard has only recently been built.

Compared with the porcelain kiln, or a large number of brick and tile kilns on the other side of the Yongjiang River in Dinghaicheng, the furnace here is very small, and it can only put two or three hundred catties of materials at a time, but it is quite expensive to build.

The first is a total of three stoves.

The stove in the middle is used for filling, on both sides, just for hot air.

Moreover, the three furnaces, all of which are considered the most superb craftsmanship of this era, are divided into three layers from the inside to the outside, including a refractory layer, a thermal insulation layer and a reinforcement layer, and the materials of each layer are different. For the hot blast stoves on both sides, not only did Zhu Yuan personally design the pedal blast equipment, but also used the thick bent iron pipes like the later floor heating pipes, which was to heat the air as much as possible when passing through the hot blast stove.

There are also crucibles for materials.

It is still the graphite crucible that Zhu Yuan personally conceived and designed, and he mentioned to Lao Zhu at the beginning that graphite is the best heat-resistant material, including kilns, and in the traditional process, Zhu Yuan also let the craftsman try to add graphite to the insulation layer.

For this reason, Zhu Yuan specially asked people to transport 20,000 catties of graphite from Anqing in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which was the only small graphite mine approved by Lao Zhu for mining.

Finally, there is the manpower.

Although Zhu Yuan doesn't really think much of glass because of the time he came, he also understands that in this era, in addition to planning to make thermometers, other glass products can definitely be sold for a lot of money.

You know, Zhu Yuan happens to remember that Westerners are going back and forth for the sake of glass technology, which is made of all kinds of brains.

In short, it's a source of income.

It just so happened that he was in charge of the Camp Sea Division again, and he made it, and when the time came, he sold it to the maritime merchants at a high price...... Well, it's definitely a sense of accomplishment.

However, then again, looking at what has been done so much before, the cost is so great, and this glass is burned, even if it is completely considered for its own investment, it is actually not cheap at all.

Therefore, it is also impossible to sell cheaply.

In order to protect this financial resource, Zhu Yuan specially called his freehand father Qiao Wang from Jinling, intending to let him be in charge of running this property.

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And artisans.

Whether it is the construction of the glass kiln, or the next responsible glass shaping, or some other important processes, the relevant craftsmen have all signed the deed, just like the pen workshop masters, directly controlled in their own hands.

Compared with other fountain pens that can be copied as long as they want to make it, this glass, if it can be made, Zhu Yuan intends to completely monopolize the process. Of course, it's not monopoly profits.

It is conceivable that even if the relative cost is not low, the profit of this glass will still be very large.

Therefore, it is not suitable to eat completely.

As for how the profits will be distributed, we will talk about it in the future.

Now it's just about burning things out first.

Now.

Twenty crucibles of various sizes, twenty catties of the big one and five catties of the small one, totaling more than 100 catties of raw materials, Zhu Yuan quickly prepared them.

instructed the craftsman to install the furnace, and Zhu Yuan took Qiao Wang's record and looked through it carefully.

Jowan's main record is the recipe.

For example, the same quartz, ash alkali and lime, the proportion of ingredients is as many as ten, and it is contained in crucibles of different specifications, different crucibles are to test how much raw materials can be mixed at a time, if so, larger crucibles can be used in the future, or even directly stacked into the kiln.

Zhu Yuan flipped through the information here, and Qiao Wang personally selected Yan Qi, the general in charge of the matter, to step forward cautiously and arch his hand: "My lord, the materials and coke are all loaded, but do you want to seal the kiln and ignite it?" ”

Zhu Yuan agreed without raising his head: "Order." ”

Thinking about it, he said, "The first time, well, try to burn for six hours." ”

Yan Qi hesitated a little: "My lord, six hours, is there something missing?" ”

Yan Qi was born as a porcelain craftsman, firing porcelain, which was ten days and a half months.

He hadn't heard of any kind of glass, but it must have been a very important thing to see this little lord fighting on top of him, and if so, how could it only burn for a few hours?

Zhu Yuan probably understood what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "It's different, maybe six hours have been long." ”

With the high heat of coke and two hot blast stoves, Zhu Yuan believes that even if the furnace temperature does not reach more than 2000 degrees, there will not be much difference. Such a high temperature is enough for various raw materials to complete the chemical reaction.

Yan Qi saw that what the little adult said was firm, and he didn't dare to refute it, so he obeyed the order and began to seal the kiln and light it.

Just a little worried.

This furnace material is not cheap, in case of messing up, I hope this little adult who is not familiar with his temperament will not be angry with himself.