Chapter 257: Crossing Essentials - Making Glass (1)

[If you plan to travel back in time and want to get a lot of money in that era, there is one item that will definitely allow you to achieve it, and that is glass.

In ancient times, although we could make glass based on the knowledge of middle school, real quartz glass was difficult to make.

To refine pure glass, it was necessary to reach a high temperature of 2,300 degrees, which was a big problem in ancient times.

However, don't underestimate the value of glass. If you take out a glass and present it to the emperor in ancient times, and add a suitable set of words, the emperor will reward you with a large amount of money.

Although glass has now been used on a large scale, in our opinion, it is not of much value

However, at that time, the value of glass was very high, and if anyone had a piece of glass, they would keep it like a treasure.

Moreover, the method of making glaze is recorded in the book "Yanshan Acrobatics" in ancient China.

It is mainly made of quartz stone as the main ingredient, and calcined with copper, iron and other dyeing materials at a high temperature of 1500 degrees.

The method of making glass is simpler, as long as the quartz stone is ground into fine sand, calcined into a liquid state at a high temperature of 2300 degrees, and then cooled.

If the conditions are limited, you can also add soda ash to the quartz stone, so that it can be fired successfully at 1500 degrees. If you still can't find quartz, you can replace it with sand, just remove the impurities in the sand.

Since in ancient times, whether it was glass or glass, it was quite rare, as long as you can make it, there will definitely be many people who will rush to buy it.

So, if you're planning to travel back in time to ancient times, be sure to bring glass-making methods and tools! It can take you to the top of your life. 】

When the people and merchants of various dynasties saw the video on the canopy, their eyes glowed green.

They hadn't heard of the word glass, but they weren't unfamiliar with the word glass.

This is not only because it is more expensive, but also because glass is relatively rare in their time.

And most of the glaze is drifting from overseas, so the already scarce glaze is even more expensive.

Especially those believers in Buddhism, they believe that the glazed pagoda they built to store the relics of the high monks, so they are more sincere.

And now seeing the introduction of the production method of glass on the canopy, they are like being struck by lightning.

This is not to say that the materials used to make glass are more expensive, but the materials needed to make glass can be found everywhere.

They don't have quartz here, but they have sand here.

And according to the video on the canopy, they also made the soda ash.

And for the blast furnace to make iron, they also started coking according to the video on the canopy, which solved the temperature required for the glass.

Now it's like saying that they have all the conditions to make glass, all they need is to act.

The people of the dynasties, who are fed up with poverty, do not lack the ability to act.

In order to change their lives, they all started making glass.

They bought soda ash, bought coke, and built a furnace for making glass according to the prompts on the canopy.

Then they got into action, practicing glass at home.

After failing to practice again and again, and communicating with others again and again, they succeeded in practicing glass.

When they saw the glass they had practiced, they were stunned.

They didn't expect the glass to be so shiny, and if it wasn't for their hand, they couldn't believe that it was artificially refined.

And compared with the legendary glass, not only is it more transparent, but also more beautiful, it is simply a perfect work of art.

And the glass they made was pre-ordered as soon as it was born, and it really changed their lives.

When the officials of the imperial court saw the refined glass, they were even more attracted by the glass.

If the glass is as lovely as a gem, then the glass is not like a human object.

They played with it carefully, and then they were carefully tucked away.

And those believers in Buddhism, after seeing the glass, they joined other believers to buy a large amount of glass, and began to rebuild a new glazed pagoda to enshrine the relics of Buddhist monks.

Qin Dynasty.

Qin Shi Huang played with the glass object in his hand, and he couldn't believe that this thing was actually refined.

Ever since the video of the glass refining method appeared in the sky, he didn't wait for him to give an order, and the Mo family disciples took action automatically.

In the end, after the continuous training of the children of the Mo family, some perfect glass products were refined.

And the one in his hand is even more fine, with a seal like a jade seal underneath, and a five-clawed dragon coiled on it.

If it weren't for the fact that he already had a jade seal, I was afraid that he would use these as jade seals.

Han dynasty.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, looked at the video on the canopy, and still couldn't believe it.

He didn't expect that those precious glasses could be made of quartz or sand.

If he had been placed in the past, even if he knew that this glass was made of quartz stone or sand, he probably wouldn't have been able to reach the required temperature.

But Dahan has already given you the video on the canopy, refining coke, and now you can easily reach the temperature of refining glass.

Now that all the conditions have been met, Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty ordered the craftsmen to start making glass, and he wanted to see the specific difference between the glass and the glass.

Then he was stunned by the refined glass, he didn't expect the refined glass to be so beautiful, and it was different from the glass.

If it weren't for the video on the canopy, someone would really take such a glass as a tribute, I'm afraid he would really reward him.

But even so, Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty still rewarded those craftsmen heavily.

And he also took these glass objects of the calligraphy book and invited those officials to enjoy it together.

Among them, some officials offered a strategy to let the merchants of the Han Dynasty sell these glass products to the grassland first.

This not only can be exchanged for a large amount of money, but also arm the army of the Great Han.

These glass products can also be made into legendary items on the grassland, so that various forces on the grassland can compete for them, greatly weakening their strength.

After Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, heard this strategy, he admired the official who proposed such a locomotive.

Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu have always been a problem for the Han Dynasty.

Although the attack of Huo Qubing and Wei Qing later, the Xiongnu no longer became a problem in his heart, it does not mean that the Han Dynasty can eliminate all the Xiongnu.

What Huo Quzhi and Wei Qing did can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

I believe that it will not be long before the territory of the Xiongnu can develop new forces.

Moreover, the grasslands in the west are extremely vast, and the Han Dynasty cannot take care of them all.

And the method that this official contributed is simply to raze and raze.

Let the Han Dynasty control all the territory of the Xiongnu with very few resources.

Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty rewarded this official and asked him to take the glass products made by the craftsmen and go to the territory of the Xiongnu to lobby.

When the official received the order, he was very surprised.

For him, this is an opportunity to change his fate, how can he give up so easily because of the slightest danger?

After receiving the order, they and some of the guards, with the glass products made by the craftsmen, began to enter the territory of the Xiongnu and the various tribes.

After his efforts, the various tribes in the Xiongnu began to fall into a fight, which made Huo Quzhi and Wei Qing, who did not understand the situation, feel very inexplicable.

After understanding the situation, Huo Quzhi and Wei Qing also cooperated very well to start the implementation of the plan.

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