Chen Ze didn't expect that there would be such a big windfall this time, after knowing that soda ash is an important raw material, the matter of glass manufacturing has become very simple.

Quartz stone is an important raw material for making ceramics, and it is also an important raw material for firing glass, this raw material is not lacking, as long as Chen Ze can get the soda ash, the glass should also be able to be made.

You don't necessarily have to go to Wuzhou, that place is too far away, and it will be at least half a year to go back and forth, so Chen Ze decided to find someone to inquire and see where the nearest salt-alkali lake is.

Anyway, now Chen Ze is in a good mood, so he hurriedly pulled Zuo Shun to continue eating, as for the glass, Chen Ze didn't smile.

He still has a lot of antiques pressed in the Qingzhou warehouse, and he hasn't had time to realize it yet, this glass actually doesn't mean much to Chen Ze, it is better to send gold and silver treasures directly.

Zuo Shun was also a little confused, obviously confiscating the gifts, but Chen Ze's mood seemed to be very good, and he asked the geisha to come back and continue playing.

After thinking about it, Zuo Shun still took this opportunity to express his thoughts.

"Your Highness, although the lower official is the order of the Anzhou government, the situation in Anzhou is complicated, resulting in ......"

Chen Ze raised his hand and interrupted directly: "I'm here to eat, and I don't talk about government affairs at the dinner table." ”

Zuo Shun's face was suddenly full of embarrassment, so he had to nod and respond: "Yes, yes." ”

Anyway, Chen Ze has made up his mind, and he will definitely not get involved in Anzhou City.

I can't say for sure in the future, but I definitely won't interfere to make trouble for myself now.

Therefore, during the meal, Zuo Shun was not given a chance to discuss, of course, Zuo Shun naturally did not have the courage to force anything, and in the end, he could only respectfully send Chen Ze out of the house.

But just halfway through, Chen Ze suddenly heard the voices of women talking and laughing from the courtyard next door, and couldn't help but stop, and subconsciously looked in the direction where the voice came from: "This is?" ”

Zuo Shun hurriedly said: "Your Highness, that is the attic where the little girl lives, it should be lecturing with the maids there, if it disturbs Your Highness, I hope that Your Highness Haihan." ”

Chen Ze was stunned: "Lecture? What classes are taught? ”

"It's to teach the maids to read there." Zuo Shun couldn't cry or laugh: "Speaking of the reason, it's because of His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"Huh? Does this have anything to do with me? ”

"Yes, after His Royal Highness the Prince took charge of Qingzhou, he built the Qingzhou University Hall, and I heard that many of them are also in class, and they don't hide it from the world, the little girl has always been lively in the future, and she almost went to the Qingzhou University Hall to be a female master a few days ago."

Because of this incident, Zuo Shun also quarreled with his daughter, Zuo Shun will definitely not let him go to Qingzhou to be a female master, after all, he is a daughter of an official family, and he has not yet married, if he shows up, it will naturally be difficult to find his in-laws in the future.

"Isn't it nice to be a female master?" Chen Ze said with a smile: "Teaching and educating people is a good thing, and it is respected, shouldn't you, as a father, support it?" ”

"Your Highness, the little girl has not yet left the cabinet, not to mention that she is still young and lacks knowledge, so she is afraid of misleading people's children!"

Chen Ze was dumbfounded, didn't say much, and returned to the place where the guards camped after leaving Zuofu.

I didn't stay in Anzhou too much and left for Hezhou the next day.

After arriving in Hezhou, Qin Boyang, who got the news, came to the place where the guards camped as soon as possible.

After not seeing each other for a long time, the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Chen Ze also learned about Ning Yuxuan's situation.

Soap and perfume are still popular now, but now there are imitation soaps on the market, the price is one-third of Ning Yuxuan, and it is also out of stock, but this situation only lasted for a week, and the other party's workshop was acquired by Qin Boyang.

Chen Ze just thought about directly monopolizing the industry, and whoever wanted to imitate it would directly let the white tiger robe copy it at the door, and not let it be done directly, but Qin Boyang felt that this was a bit thankless, and the soap and perfume practices that Qin Boyang was in charge of now had limited productivity and insufficient supply capacity, so instead of directly knocking out the other party, it was better to directly merge the other party into his own production chain.

Moreover, the technology of the other party is not the same as the technology of the soap workshop, it should be deduced by the reverse deduction method, and even the rapid shaping method researched by the other party directly doubled the production capacity of the soap workshop.

In terms of business, Chen Ze was completely relieved to hand it over to Qin Boyang.

And when he learned that Chen Ze had obtained the Heshan minerals from the palace, Qin Boyang was even more excited.

In these years, there is an iron ore that means that there can be more agricultural tools, and the so-called workers must first sharpen their tools if they want to do a good job, and good tools can double the efficiency of agricultural production activities.

Originally, Chen Ze wanted to ask Qin Boyang to go to the Heshan Mine to have a look, but Qin Boyang really couldn't get out, so there was no way, Chen Ze could only go by himself.

In the afternoon of the same day, I took a group of people and horses to march directly to the direction of the Heshan mine, although the road was repaired, but basically all the mountain roads, and the traffic arteries along the way basically had guards set up cards, and it took almost two hours before and after to arrive at the Heshan mine.

Places like mineral quarries are basically manually mined, and it is self-evident how low the efficiency is, and the safety guarantee basically depends on whether it is hard or not.

Most of these miners are inmates, and when they commit crimes, they are assigned to the mines to mine.

However, in recent years, there have not been many people who have been arrested for committing crimes, and most of them have been tortured.

This is not Chen Ze's own assumption, but has a factual basis, there were only more than 300 cases handled in Qingzhou last year, of which only 30% were caught by the real perpetrators, and some victims confirmed that the rest were basically tortured into tricks and rushed to convict.

Therefore, a considerable number of these people who mine in the Heshan mine should be hard-working people.

The days in the mine are certainly not people's lives, and not having enough to eat is the norm, after all, they may make trouble when they are full, and in this case, most people are thin and weak.

This has led to further inefficiency in mining.

The Heshan Mine is under the management of Sun Yonghan's Dangkou Battalion, and the commander is Yang Zhao, who is at the same level as Cao Xiong.

Up to now, about 210,000 catties of iron ore have been mined in Heshan Mine, of course, these 210,000 catties of iron ore have been transported to various states for sale, of which 100,000 catties of iron ore were taken away by Ma Yongsheng, and there is not much inventory at present.

Chen Zeke doesn't have a businesslike attitude, after all, he will definitely have to deal with Yang Zhao often in the future, so he is naturally playing the emotional card: "Brother Yang, it shouldn't be easy to stay in the Heshan Mine, right?" ”

Compared with Cao Xiong, Yang Zhao's attitude was more enthusiastic: "In the wilderness, life is naturally better than going anywhere, and I can't go anywhere, but I'm okay, but the soldiers under my hands are prone to accidents if they hold back for a long time." ”