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Chapter 257 Necessary for Time Travel—Making Glass ()

[If you plan to travel back to ancient times and want to get a lot of money in that era, there is one item that can definitely make it happen, and that is glass.

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

To refine pure glass, you need to reach a high temperature of 2300 degrees, which was a big problem in ancient times.

However, don’t underestimate the value of Liuli. In ancient times, if you presented a piece of colored glass to the emperor with a suitable speech, the emperor would reward you with a large amount of money.

Although glass has been used on a large scale now, in our opinion, it has little value

But at that time, the value of glass was very high. If anyone had something made of glass, they would keep it like a treasure.

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

It is mainly made of quartz stone as the main component, and is calcined by adding dyeing materials such as copper and iron at a high temperature of 1500 degrees.

The method of making glass is simpler. Just grind quartz stone into fine sand, calcine it at a high temperature of 2300 degrees into a liquid state, and then cool it.

If 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 stone, you can use sand instead. You just need to remove the impurities in the sand.

Since both glass and colored glaze were quite rare in ancient times, as long as you could make them, many people would rush to buy them.

So, if you plan to travel to ancient times, be sure to bring glass-making methods and tools with you! It can take you to the top of your life. 】

When people and merchants from various dynasties saw the video on the sky screen, their eyes glowed green.

They have never heard of the word glass, but they are not unfamiliar with the word glass.

This is not only because it is more valuable, but also because colored glaze is relatively rare in their era.

Moreover, most of the colored glaze comes from overseas, making the already scarce colored glaze even more expensive.

Especially those Buddhist believers who believe that the glazed pagoda they built to store the relics of eminent monks shows that they are more sincere.

But now when they saw the method of making Liuli being introduced on the marquee, they felt as if they were struck by lightning.

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

Although they don't have quartz stone here, they do have sand.

And they also produced the soda ash based on the video on the marquee.

And in order to make iron in the blast furnace, they also started coking based on the video on the sky screen to determine the temperature required for the glass.

Now it is equivalent to saying that they have all the conditions to make glass, all they need is to take action.

People from all 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 purchased soda ash, purchased coke, and built a furnace for refining glass according to the prompts on the sky screen.

Then they started taking action, practicing glass making at home.

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

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

They did not expect that the glass was so shiny. If it was not made by their hands, they would not believe that it was artificially refined.

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

Moreover, the glass they refined was pre-ordered as soon as it was released, which really changed their lives.

After the officials of the imperial court saw the refined glass, they were even more attracted to it.

If the glass is as admirable as a gem, then this glass is even less like a human object.

They played with it carefully, and then it was carefully stored away. Those believers in Buddhism, after seeing the glass, joined forces with 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 Shihuang played with the glass object in his hand. He couldn't believe that this thing was actually made.

Ever since the video of the glass refining method appeared on the sky, the Mohist disciples took action automatically before he could give the order.

Finally, after continuous practice by the Mohist disciples, some perfect glass products were refined.

And the piece in his hand is even more exquisite. Below it is a seal like a jade seal, with a five-clawed dragon coiled on it.

If he didn't already have jade seals, he would probably use these as jade seals.

Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che looked at the video on the sky screen and couldn't believe it.

He did not expect that those precious colored glazes could be made from quartz stone or sand.

In the past, even if he knew that the liquid glass was made of quartz stone or sand, he probably would not be able to reach the required temperature.

But the big man has already shown you the video on the sky screen, refining the coke, and now it can easily reach the temperature required for refining glass.

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

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

If it weren't for the video on the sky screen, and someone really offered such glass as tribute, I'm afraid he would really reward him generously.

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

And he also took the glass objects of these calligraphy books and invited the officials to appreciate them together.

Among them, some officials came up with a strategy to let Han merchants sell these glass products on the grassland first.

Not only can this be exchanged for a large amount of money, but it can also arm the Han army.

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

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

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the Huns have been a worry for the Han Dynasty.

Although Huo Qubing and Wei Qing's attacks later made the Xiongnu no longer a worry, it did not mean that the Han Dynasty could eliminate all the Xiongnu.

What Huo Qubing and Wei Qing did could only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

I believe that it won’t be long before new forces develop in the Huns’ territory.

Moreover, the grasslands in the west are extremely vast, and the big Han cannot take them all into consideration.

And the method contributed by this official is simply to use the enemy to fight the enemy.

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

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che awarded this official a reward and asked him to take the glass products made by the craftsmen to lobby the Huns' territory.

After the official received the order, he was very pleasantly surprised.

For him, this was an opportunity to change his destiny. How could he give up so easily just because of the slightest danger?

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

After his efforts, various tribes among the Xiongnu began to fall into fights, which made Huo Qubing and Wei Qing, who did not understand the situation, feel very baffled.

After understanding the situation, Huo Qubing and Wei Qing also started to implement the plan in cooperation.

(End of this chapter)