Your majesty is awesome

Chapter 359 The tear-filled mother's kindness and son's filial piety (a three-thousand-character chapter is presented)
Most of the things here have not yet entered the folks, mainly because of the improvement of the purity of glass, which has not reached the purity required by Gao Zhang until recently.

Whether it is used to make flat glass or to make artwork, it is enough.

It's just that Gao Zhang doesn't want a large number of glass products to impact the treasure of the Chinese nation: the market share of porcelain.

Nowadays, Gao Zhang mainly wants to use glass to make a fortune, so Gao Zhang decided to continue to hold on to it.

For glass, it is necessary to create high added value and then sell it.

Just like the two treasures just now, each of which is three to five thousand yuan, hehe, I can't sell it.

After all, in the south building of Fanlou, a two-foot-tall transparent light blue glass bottle was sold for [-] guan.

Therefore, Gao Zhang naturally did not need to let glass products hit the market.

The displays here are all large and small glass products with different shapes. If these things are placed in this collection, the total cost of labor and materials will not exceed five hundred yuan.

But in the market, every big piece starts from a thousand pieces.There are more than a hundred pieces in this house alone, Gao Zhang thinks that he can exchange for hundreds of thousands of income.

However, his final gaze fell on the corner of this glass collection hall, where ten glass panels each measuring about one foot in length and width were neatly arranged.

Gao Zhang picked up one of them, walked to the door of the house, and looked at it. Only when this piece of glass was observed carefully under the sun, could he notice a slight hint of green.

It is no less inferior to the material of later generations, but unfortunately, Gao Zhang doesn't know what borosilicate glass is.

But it doesn't matter, what's the shame if I don't understand?Not a professional after all.

Anyway, let the professionals do the professional things, and let Da Xue and his son continue to do research and development later.

I believe that there will always be a type of glass with a better material.

Seeing that Zhuangyuan Gong began to pay attention to those glass plates again, Xue Da couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"These are the glass plates that the villain just fired. I don't know if they meet your requirements, my lord..."

After all, compared to other glass handicrafts, Zhuangyuangong does not seem to have too much requirements for its color.

As long as there are no impurities and bubbles, and the light transmission is excellent, it can meet the standard.

However, for this kind of glass plate, at least dozens of formulas have been devised through repeated trials and improvements.

The result every time is that the number one scholar first praised him greatly, and then told himself to keep working hard...

"This batch is good..." Gao Zhang nodded in satisfaction.

Hearing this, Xue Da's eyes stared straight at Gao Zhang's mouth, for fear that the word "but" would appear again.

But then, after Zhuangyuangong praised himself a few more words, he turned his head and ordered someone to come over and take the ten glass plates away.

Just as a gleam of joy appeared on Xue Da's face, he saw Zhuangyuan Gong turned his head and showed himself a gentle and simple smile.

"However, I still hope that shopkeeper Xue can continue to work hard and see if there is room for modification of the formula..."

Hearing this, Xue Da's eyeballs turned red, Nima, in this life, he has pursued the purity and transparency of glass to the extreme.

In the end, I met this No. [-] Scholar, who was even more perverted than himself. Why, the glass is so transparent that you can already see through the glass the pores on the face of the person opposite the glass plate. You still don’t think it’s clear enough, why don’t you come?

Of course, for such complaints, Xue Da would only dare to slander in his heart.

After all, this No. [-] Scholar is his backstage owner. Thinking about it now, his family's net worth is more than ten times what it used to be just relying on the dividends they get.

And those dividends mainly come from the sales of the coke developed by itself.

The mind of this champion is indeed not ordinary. He developed the coke by himself just to make glass. As a result, the champion directly used it for metal smelting.

And it has achieved excellent results. Now, the output of coke is not only supplied to the Kaifeng metal workshop, but has even begun to be exported.

The dividends earned from selling fuel alone are an enviable figure.

And as far as Xue Da knew, the number one scholar seemed to have a lot of property in private, and it was said that the wealth he could earn was also astronomical.

But I didn't see the gossip that this 11-year-old champion wears gold and silver, sells biscuits, eats one and throws one away, and only wears clothes for a day.

While Xue Da was thinking wildly, Gao Zhang went around the glass workshop again. Except for Xue's family, all the people working here were servants of Gao's family.

None of them were recruited from outside, in order to maintain the utmost confidentiality.

Gao Zhang encouraged everyone again, and then he rushed towards his home contentedly, and of course he did not forget to take the two glass artworks and the ten glass plates.

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Tin amalgam, the earliest glass mirror in the world, uses mercury plus tin.

This thing can be said to be the ancestor of all kinds of modern mirrors, and it is also the roughest and most primitive way of making.

Gao Zhang called his number one confidant, Fu An, and asked him to accurately place the ten glass panels in an empty room, with things underneath of course.

Gao Zhang even used a spirit level, that is, he used a section of hollow glass and filled it with water, leaving a gap of about an air bubble.

Then wrap it with metal on the outside, cut it into a standard rectangle and make it.

Every time a glass plate is placed, Gao Zhang will use this gadget to tinker with it for a long time, and then put something on the bracket under the glass plate until the air bubble in the level is precisely fixed in the center, and then he will stop.

Then cover a large sheet of tinfoil on the glass plate, and then carefully stick the tinfoil to the glass plate.

After the ten glass panels were finished, Gao Zhang finally stood up and told Fu An beside him to go out first.

Fu An agreed, and walked to the door first, and subconsciously wanted to close the door, when he heard the son's yelling from inside the room, telling him to open the door.

Fu An was stunned to see the young master took out a strange piece of cloth, put it on his face, and pulled out a porcelain bottle from his pocket as if by magic.

Then pour it onto those glass plates that have been lined with tinfoil...

After finishing all this, the young master rushed out of the house as fast as he could.

"Close the door, close it quickly, and lock the door, no one can enter."

"My lord, what are you doing in there?"

Fu An asked curiously while locking the door.

"Mirror."

"Mirror?" Fu An looked at the young master in a daze, wondering if there was something wrong with the young master.

"My lord, there is never a shortage of mirrors in our house."

Facing this number one confidant, Gao Zhang restrained himself and continued to explain.

"I know there is no shortage, but I am trying to make a mirror that can be very bright and clear enough to see even the pores."

Hearing Gao Zhang's words, Fu An was immediately happy.

"My lord, what are you doing so clearly? You're not a girl, hey hey...Young master, the villain made a mistake, the villain made a mistake..."

"Get out!" Gao Zhang gave the dumb bastard a vicious look, and ignored this vulgar person.

I don't understand at all that this kind of mirror is specially used for those little sisters, big sisters, aunts, and old aunts who are obsessed with beauty and habitually look at themselves in the mirror.

After all, the bronze mirrors used in this era, to be honest, only have the clarity, and they can indeed see clearly the facial features and eyebrows of people.

But if you want to go a step further, to see clearly the hairs hanging from your cheeks, the little eyeballs in the corners of your eyes, etc., to be honest, it is very difficult.

Even the bronze mirrors in the palace are not much better, which made Gao Zhang who was used to squeezing acne in front of the mirror in his youth in later generations.

I really can't stand the clarity of the bronze mirrors of this era.

The bronze mirrors of this era, if you want to see very clearly, rely on two words, grind it.

Mirror grinding is a very serious profession, not an unscrupulous profession.

Mirror grinders not only need patience, but also need to use a pair of skillful hands. The point is that there is no sandpaper in this era.

It relies on the mixing of mercury and tin, plus some ash from burning animal horniness, and mixing them together for grinding.

Gao Zhang was once dissatisfied with the clarity of the bronze mirror in his room, so he specially appreciated how the mirror grinders of this era worked.

I just saw a mirror grinder in his fifties, and after using those things to mix them together, Gao Zhang directly backed away.

After all, mercury is poisonous, but mirror grinders in this era will habitually use the characteristics of Sigongqi to grind mirrors.

Gao Zhang didn't know what to say other than calling six.

In the next few days, I just waited to see if Xi Gongqi's reaction was finished, to see if I could succeed in the first round of preliminary preparation, and it didn't matter if I failed, just wipe it off and try again.

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In a blink of an eye, the season of spring and flowers finally came. Gao Zhang stood in front of the pillars in the house, looked at the strips of horizontal paper, and finally, he grew taller again.

Gao Zhang finally ushered in his 12 years old. Unfortunately, although he has put on a purple robe, he has not been promoted yet, but he has made a lot of money.

Gao Zhang shook his head. In a few days, it will be the day of the Great Song Spring Military Parade.

These days, although Gao Zhang was not in charge of training soldiers, he would still be taken by his father to the Palace Commander's Mansion from time to time to have cordial exchanges and communication with those military officials of the Great Song Dynasty.

This made the relationship between Gao Zhang and those military officials of the Great Song Dynasty quite beneficial.

Speaking of which, the main methods of training troops are indeed very effective.

In addition, Gao Zhang, the child prodigy champion, is still the favorite of the officials, so a good relationship with Gao Zhang is naturally beneficial and harmless.

Gao Zhang has already boasted to Master before, and he will definitely be able to let Master enjoy an unprecedented military parade when he turns back.

Just as Gao Zhang was still sighing and sighing at a pillar, footsteps came from outside the house.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw that Fu An had already entered the house quickly, holding a small wooden box in his hand.

"My lord, the villain has brought it back..." Fu An raised the small wooden box excitedly.

"It's just in time, let me have a look..." Gao Zhang's eyes lit up immediately, and he signaled Fu An to put the wooden box on the table.

After opening the wooden box, the surface is full of cotton, only after the cotton on the surface is uncovered.

Only then did the silver mirror frame the size of an adult's palm be revealed, and in the center of the mirror frame, of course, it was not a mirror, but a wooden board made by comparing it with a water mirror.

After some tinkering, Gao Zhang picked up the first water mirror that was installed, and walked towards the front hall unsteadily.

Next, it is natural to stage a scene of motherly kindness and filial piety...

PS: I have to go back tomorrow, the road is long, the last two days, please ask for a monthly pass, please please...

(End of this chapter)