Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 53 Want to burn glass again?

Early the next morning, Wang Fu was woken up by someone.

"Wang Fu, why don't you get up quickly? I'm already up, how long are you going to sleep?"

With a bang, the door of the room was kicked open by Zhu Zhen from the outside.

Wang Fu was startled. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Zhu Zhen already dressed and standing in front of the door.

"The sun is up, and you're still sleeping?" Zhu Zhen cursed angrily.

The sun has risen?No, the sun has just risen?
Wang Fu got up in a state of collapse. Wasn't the prince too pig-skinned?
It's actually around five o'clock in the morning, and the city gate has just opened, and some of the busy farmers haven't even gotten up yet.

Now it has begun to enter the busy farming period, but of course this has nothing to do with Zhu Zhen. In his words, I am the king of the vassal, so I will not go to help the farmer uncle harvest the land, right?

What else could Li Shuran say?
He got up early and washed himself briefly, then called Wang Fu and rushed to the backyard.

"Where are my sugar canes?" As soon as Zhu Chu arrived in the backyard, he found that the original sugar canes were gone.

"Your Highness, are you awake? The sugar cane was half a month ago. Even if it wasn't eaten by the soldiers, it would have been no longer edible, right?" Wang Fu yawned listlessly.

Zhu Chu scratched his head, is this so?He had forgotten about it.

"Eh? Do you still keep this jar?" Zhu Chu saw a familiar jar in the corner and walked over.

That was Zhu Chu's dark history. He was once used to experiment with the method of drenching sugar with yellow mud and water. The result only proved that the candy would dissolve in water, but he did not get even a so-called white sugar.

But at this moment, when Zhu Zhen lowered his head and looked into the jar, an accident happened.

"Huh? There is really sugar?"

At this time, things took a turn for the worse. It turned out that Zhu Chu found some white crystals hanging on the yellow mud (soil) inside the jar.

He carefully stretched out his hand and glued one down, and found that the lump was far from the soft white sugar he was familiar with, but it was much whiter than brown sugar.

"It's really white sugar?" Wang Fu was no longer sleepy and came over to look at Zhu Zhen in surprise.

Zhu Xi thought for a while and couldn't help but pat his forehead with his hand.

He was really confused. The sugar would melt when it came into contact with water. That day, he thought that after the yellow mud water washed away, white sugar would be left behind.

It turned out that he was making sugar water and melted the entire candy bar.

Now, after more than half a month of 'fermentation', some mechanism has allowed the sugar water to evaporate and re-condensate into crystals like sugar cubes.

After a certain substance in the yellow mud removed the color from the brown sugar, which is equivalent to successful decolorization, some white sugar crystals were obtained.

Therefore, the yellow mud water drench sugar method may not be unsuccessful, but some steps have not been recorded, such as the need to dry again, or fermentation-like processing in some special environments.

Because Zhu Chu hadn't had it tested and didn't know the specific formation method, he didn't even want to taste it because he no longer needed it.

Effortlessly flicking off the hard-earned white sugar particles, Zhu Zhen said to Wang Fu: "There is no need for this immature white sugar now. I have found the real formula for making glass. Follow me."

Wang Fu sighed, do you still want to do it?
But he could only follow Zhu Ming to see what else he wanted to cause trouble.

The two of them left the gate of the palace one after another, and early in the morning they came to the blacksmith shop that had been bought last time again.

Wang Fu stepped forward and knocked on the door, and soon the door was opened by soldiers who were mobilized to stay on duty.

"See you, your lord, the commander. Ah, the prince is here too. See your highness," the soldier was still a little confused at first, but when he saw Zhu Zhen, he suddenly woke up and almost knelt down.Zhu Ming said impatiently: "No need to be polite, I am anxious to verify something. Is the cart of sand from last time still there?"

The soldier nodded and did not dare to ask any more questions. Did the prince still want to play with burning sand?
Last time I used a lot of coal, charcoal, and that thing called coke.

This is all money. It would be too wasteful to use it to burn sand, right?

With today's smelting technology, although there are ancient blast furnaces and exquisite blast boxes in the blacksmith shop, high-quality fuel is also essential.

For example, the temperature of charcoal can reach up to [-] degrees, and in a closed furnace with the effect of a blower, the temperature can reach up to [-] or even [-] degrees.

The temperature of coal is very high, up to 1000 or two hundred degrees.

Especially this coke, which can even reach a maximum temperature of two thousand degrees.

Not to mention burning sand, iron blocks can be melted into water, and can even meet the conditions for steelmaking.

But the prince used it to burn sand?This is really a kind of extravagant waste.

But the soldiers didn't dare to say that, after being woken up one by one, they started to get busy.

In fact, these soldiers did not have any leisure time, but quickly took over the work of the blacksmith shop.

Because there is not much work on weekdays, otherwise the previous blacksmith would not be in a hurry to sell the shop.

In addition, they all have military positions, so they don't have to worry about business. They have recently repaired the equipment of the brothers in the camps inside and outside the city.

There is also a room in the yard where a lot of raw iron ore is stored. If necessary in the future, a batch of weapons and equipment can be made.

This can be considered a military factory, right?
On Zhu's side, when no one was around, he had taken out the drawings he had bought immediately last night.

It was a 'technical recipe' for glass, which recorded a list of the most common raw materials and ingredients for glass, as well as some process instructions, such as the required temperature, cooling technology, etc.

Zhu Chu's hands began to tremble a little. This was the core of his next important strategic plan. Once the glass was really produced, Zhu Chu could even use it to collect money immediately.

Moreover, after passing through Lijiang and his party, Zhu Ming also discovered that the Mu family, as big chieftains, were very wealthy. This was evident from the fact that more than 3 people had eaten and drank for half a month without being eaten out.

What's more, Yundi is the border. Even though Zhu Chu can't expand the territory now, it doesn't stop him from using glass to earn money outside.

In the future, wouldn't it be wonderful if he could use the money and food to recover all those countries?
"Your Highness, the stove is already burning."

"Your Highness, the sand is here too."

The soldiers prepared everything Zhu Ming needed in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Ming nodded, put away the blueprint and stuffed it into his arms. This piece of paper cost [-] resources. If he lost it, he didn't want to waste another [-] resources to buy a new one, regardless of the confidentiality of the glass technology. .

Then Zhu Chu looked at the cart of sand and said, "Take some sand and smash it with a hammer, trying to crush it to the smallest possible size."

At the same time, Zhu Chu was still holding a bag in his hand. Only he knew that it contained soda, that is, soda ash.

Well, although Zhu Chu melted the sand last time, he did not succeed in getting real glass, but only got an ugly crystal.

The reason is not that sand is not good, but that it lacks the effect of soda ash.

(End of this chapter)