Red Mansion Wind

Chapter 48 The first step of Wanli High Platform.

Zhou Xu caught Song Qianyuan and went to Zhoujiazhuangzi.

Brother Chun hurriedly came to greet him, but seeing his face was gray and white, Zhou Xu asked suspiciously: "What is this for? I told you to keep an eye on this side. Are you here to sing a big show?"

"Grandpa, you're here. If you don't come, I'm going to look for you!"

Brother Chun complained to Zhou Xu. It turned out that the glass they made was not as clean and transparent as Western glass. It was either variegated or too brittle with bubbles. In short, it was not as good as Zhou Xu's blueprint. The master has studied it for many days and has no clue.

They are all masters of firing colored glaze among the people. Of course, there is nothing to say about their craftsmanship. It is only good to add some bright colors to firing colored glaze. Now it is difficult for them to make pure colored transparent glass.

"Master, you are here~"

"Master, good~"

After entering the kiln, the hot air blows in the face. The tall furnace seems to be newly built, and it is also a blast furnace built by Zhou Xu. Several old men held various glass shards in their hands. Seeing Zhou Xu coming in, they hurriedly said hello. Song Qianyuan, who was following behind, covered his nose and his eyes were shining. Is this guy really making glass mirrors?

He had seen that glass mirror in his mother's Kunning Palace before. It was as tall as a person's body, and its surface was like water. When a person looked forward, he could see everything clearly. It didn't need to be polished like a bronze mirror. What made his heart move was the price. , that mirror was sent to Beijing by Jinling Zhen’s family at the end of October. It is said that only that mirror cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. .

Unexpectedly, this stupid Zhou Xu was imitating something that many people didn't understand.

"Brother Xu, can this thing really be made?"

Song Chengyuan didn't dislike the mess and smell in this room. If he could have a hand in it, would his second prince's mansion still lack money in the future? With money, he could do many things. I feel very sorry for ridiculing Zhou Xu and being beaten at the court meeting.

This is the real brother, why do you really think about him, unlike his two brothers, who would provoke him for nothing, let alone when something happened.

"My lord, if you want to ask Liuli how much you can make, it's probably difficult to make it as transparent as ice as my uncle said."

A craftsman heard Song Chengyuan's questioning, saw that he was close to Zhou Xu, and thought he was a trustworthy person, so he bluntly spoke about the difficulties.

"We searched for the previous method, and tried various formulas, but it didn't work. We really can't get it out~"

Zhou Xu took a look at the shards of glass, the inside was red, green, blue and purple, which should be the color left after the minerals inside were burned, and suddenly he saw the whiteness of Brother Chun's face through the glass, and he asked, "You guys?" Did you try to add other things to fire together?"

"Uh, yes, my lord, I've been here for a few days and I don't have a clue, so I asked the craftsmen to add something else to try in a moment of anxiety. My face is covered with slaked lime~"

Brother Chun wanted to wipe it off with his hands as he said that, but he thought that Lime had stopped in a hurry, and he would use a handkerchief to remove it later. It would not be fun to rub his eyes. Hearing what Brother Chun said, Zhou Xu closed his eyes and recalled. He read through many popular science guides on Xiaopozhan. He knew in his mind that he had read such materials, but he just couldn't remember them for a while.

"Wow~ Whoo~"

There was a sudden gust of wind outside, and the dust outside the door was swept in. At this moment, Zhou Xu smelled a smell of plant ash, flashes of lightning flashed in his mind, and memories rushed out.

"Pen, bring me the pen and paper!"

The memory flashed by, and Zhou Xu finally thought of the key thing. He used to only remember that sand can be used to burn glass. Unexpectedly, after thinking hard just now, I finally realized how many steps I had forgotten, so I quickly asked Brother Chun to take a pen and paper to write it down.

"Here we come, here we come, I will give it to you~"

Fortunately, there are these in the nearby hut. It was Zhou Xu who asked him to write down the amount of materials used in the experiment. Zhou Xu picked it up and started writing. Song Chengyuan glanced at it and almost died of laughter. Just this handwriting It's also ugly. If you sprinkle rice on the ground in the imperial garden, the bird's claw marks are even more beautiful than his writing.

But Zhou Xu doesn't care about that, as long as he can understand it, it's better if others can't understand it. The production of transparent glass is not just sand. Quicklime is added to make it incompatible with water, and a certain proportion of quartz stone must be added.

And the key to make it translucent is potassium carbonate or sodium carbonate, both of which are chemical materials, how to get them?
Zhou Xu didn't know sodium carbonate, but potassium carbonate was too easy.

Soak a large amount of plant ash in cold water to filter out the solution, and then boil it dry like boiling salt. The white powder obtained is potassium carbonate, and magnesium oxide in the brine can also be operated like plant ash. If there is no water, that’s the case anyway Son, if you don't believe me, you can try it yourself.

Then arrange people to get these on the spot, and I have to stare at the first mirror to come out!
In the first step of making money rolling, Zhou Xu is full of confidence. He has never heard of someone who failed to make an invention in a book during time travel. Although Song Chengyuan opened a mansion, his guards did not dare to tell him to rest outside. He persuaded him to go back, and even told Zhou Xu to notify him as soon as he had any news.

Zhou Xu didn't pay attention to him, he was only thinking about his plan to get rich, as for the second prince?

Sorry, I'm really unfamiliar.

On the way back to the city in Zhoujiazhuang, there is a white lotus temple, in which there is a Taoist woman named Ma Daopo, and what is enshrined in the temple is also strange, it is not the god of heaven, nor the Buddha and Bodhisattva from the west, but a somewhat vicious hair god At that time, someone asked about Ma Daopo and only said that she was the Great Bright King in the west, because she was somewhat efficacious and the incense was not bad.

"Master Zhai, don't worry, I will find an excuse to go to Najia's mansion in a few days, and I will make them make a fortune~"

Ma Daopo at the gate of Bailian Temple was talking to people in a low voice, as if she wanted to fight against the Jia family. The woman who listened to her was Qin Keqing, the grandmother of Ning Guorong. But he replied: "Then I would like to trouble the Taoist priest to be more careful, don't tell Ningguo's offering lamp to go out, and send someone to send it as soon as the money is returned~"

While talking, a group of people galloped out on the main road, seeing that their posture was not like ordinary people, Qin Keqing looked at the man's impressive posture, and asked, "Where did this come from?"

Ma Daopo looked at the direction those people came from, and estimated: "If you go back to grandma, it seems that the road came from Zhoujiazhuang. I think it should be someone from General Xuanwei's mansion. I saw this once a month ago~"

"General Xuanwei's mansion?"

(End of this chapter)