During the famine, my ancient well connected to modern times

Chapter 162
Luo Tingye thought about it and pinched her wrist quietly, "Are you free this afternoon? Do you want to take you out for a walk? You haven't been to the brick factory yet, have you?"

Jiang Miao was very excited, but she had to run out of the city to play on the first day of opening, which was not good.

"Why don't you ask your eldest brother to come with you? My eldest brother has been in a very low mood after Sister Sun's death. Maybe he can feel better if we go out for a walk."

For a while, Jiang Miao was worried that Jiang Qian would die in love. It turned out that she thought too much, but even so, she was worried from time to time, always looking for opportunities to make Jiang Qian happy.

Luo Tingye glanced at Jiang Qian, who was telling Zhong Gu about the importance of reading.

The sadness from the past few days was gone from the corners of his brows and eyes.

"Your eldest brother's leg is not completely healed yet, so he needs to rest peacefully during this period."

Jiang Miao nodded, "Okay, let's go together."

Zhonggu raised his little head and thought seriously for a moment, then shook his head, "I don't think reading is very important. There are so many people in the world who don't know how to read, but they still live well. Some people live very well. ?"

Sister-in-law Zhong was so angry that she wanted to slap him, but Jiang Qian was watching, so she had to retract her hand and said patiently: "Why is it useless to study? If studying is useless, why are all those famous people scholars? So if you want to be famous, you still need to be able to read?"

"But I don't want to be famous."

Mrs. Zhong was so angry.

Jiang Qian smiled and said, "To give you the simplest example, if Amiao had not studied, she would not have been able to think of a solution to such a panic scene like today. Even if she could have thought of it, she would not have been able to do so quickly. It is precisely because she studied After reading the book, you can react faster than others and know how to find solutions at the first time, so such a chaotic scene can quickly become orderly. In the same way, people who have read the book will think of the same problem when they encounter the same problem. There must be more solutions than what people who have not read books can think of."

Zhonggu thought thoughtfully, "Reading can make people smart, right?"

"Yes."

Zhonggu nodded and made up his mind, "Then I want to study."

Sister-in-law Zhong was so happy that she almost cried. This was because the child didn't want to study for some reason. She and the child's father had tried to persuade her several times, but the child didn't listen. Now she was persuaded by a metaphor from her boss.

"Thank you boss."

Jiang Qian shook his head and looked back to see Luo Tingye and Jiang Miao slipping away at some point.

Zhong Yang said: "My boss, Mr. Luo and my little boss said they went out of town to visit the brick factory and won't be back until later. I was afraid that your legs and feet would be inconvenient, so I didn't bother you."

Jiang Qian snorted softly, "You're not afraid of disturbing me, you're clearly afraid that I'll disturb them."

However, Jiang Qian didn't care anymore. He hadn't read for several days, and it was time to pick it up.

He failed to pass the Juren exam that year, so this time he wanted to take the Fuxue exam together with the Juren exam.

There are rows of bricks outside the brick factory. The soil in Huachang County is very sticky. Not only red bricks, but also green bricks are made. Sales of both types of bricks are currently very stable.

Along the way, many people came to order bricks.

"How are the sales of blue bricks and red bricks?"

"There are more people who like blue bricks, but because the price of red bricks is cheaper, there are also many people who buy red bricks."

"Which one is more profitable?"

Luo Tingye said without hesitation: "Glass is more profitable."

Jiang Miao found that this place was like a maze, and others would never have thought that there was a cave inside.

A wave of heat hit, and Jiang Miao's face turned red.Making glass is similar to blacksmithing. You need to put crushed quartz stone and limestone into a furnace to be burned, and then pour it into a mold to shape it.

Some glass products with special shapes require special polishing by workers.

But so far, the products that have been produced the most are cups and tea cups, and the sales are also the best.

Some workers are blowing glass of various shapes. Looking at the scraps next to them, you can tell that they must have failed many times.

Jiang Miao was surprised: "It turns out that glass is blown. I always thought that glass was made."

At this moment, the glassblower let out an exclamation, and everyone gathered around him.

A glass vase that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with a full and rounded bottom and evenly rounded edges. It was originally just an ordinary glass vase, but it came in five colors.

The craftsman was a little excited when he blew such a vase for the first time.

Being watched by so many people, the craftsman's face turned red.

"Old Zhao, how did you blow it out? What's the color on it?"

"I just added some other minerals to the glass water, but I didn't expect it to be such a color."

Luo Tingye encouraged people in the workshop to develop independent research and development. As long as they could develop new types of glassware, everyone would be rewarded with 50 taels of silver. Therefore, many craftsmen secretly tried to research new products. Fortunately, the materials were all readily available, regardless of No matter how many materials the workshop uses, it won't get angry.

Therefore, craftsmen are still very bold.

Jiang Miao has seen all kinds of modern glass bottles. Relatively speaking, she prefers the transparent ones without any impurities, but this colorful glass vase also looks good. "Take it back and give it to my elder brother. He will definitely like it." of."

Luo Tingye: ...Does he still want to keep it for himself?
However, considering his brother-in-law's physical condition, Luo Tingye gave in and said, "Let's pretend."

Luo Tingye asked Zhong Huai to reward the craftsman with 50 taels of silver. Others were also eager to try and get 50 taels. It was said that the most powerful craftsman in the workshop had already received 200 taels of silver.

Jiang Miao watched the craftsmen carefully package the colorful vases and asked softly: "Everyone knew how to make glass products before, why not just tell them the method to save them from trying over and over again?"

"Do you think I don't want to? But I know very little. I have only been there for three years, and I only have a rough impression of many things."

"That is to say, you only know how to make glass, but you don't know the details."

Luo Tingye nodded, but he didn't think there was a problem.

"The things I researched are still convincing. Don't underestimate these craftsmen. If they think about it seriously, the results will be better than what I tell them."

Jiang Miao looked at the eager craftsmen and nodded.

But she was also curious, what did he learn in those three years?
"Art of war, weapons, physics..."

It all sounds related to the war.

"Why don't you learn more about how to make money?"

Luo Tingye did not expect that he would be faced with life problems when he came back. At that time, he thought that there would be a tough battle to fight when he came back, so he was only interested in things related to the war.

After returning, he discovered that the problems he faced were far more difficult than fighting.

(End of this chapter)