The original Mid-Autumn Festival holiday was moved to the next day because of the festival ceremony. In other words, except for the officials who had to be on duty, no one else had to be on duty. Ye Chunqiu got up early to practice swords. The Shadowless Sword has become more and more impressive now. This Shadowless Sword has physical skills, and it is difficult to practice, but it has been maintained, but it feels like it is completely transformed.

Ye Chunqiu felt the preciousness of the Shadowless Sword and did not dare to neglect it. After practicing the sword, he took a bath in his body and suddenly felt relaxed.

Uncle Sun Qi smiled and came to the small hall, and said to Ye Chunqiu with a relaxed expression: "Chunqiu, the crystal workshop has been built, and they are all made according to your drawings. Do you want to take a look?"

The crystal workshop is naturally a glass workshop, but Ye Chunqiu is thick-skinned. At present, this colorless transparent glass is still a new thing, so he doesn't mind operating this thing as a high-end luxury. Since that's the case, of course he has to take the name of high-end, atmospheric and high-end.

When Ye Chunqiu heard that the construction had been completed, he couldn't help but become interested and said, "Okay, let's go and take a look."

The Ye family already had a horse house, raised a few mules and horses, and hired a coachman and a sedan chairperson. Although Ye Chunqiu didn't like sitting in a sedan chair, his father and uncle still had the needs. His uncle liked to sit in a sedan chair, but after he arrived in the capital, he seemed particularly cautious and only sat in a carriage. Ye Chunqiu didn't like the bumps in the carriage, nor did he like the soft sedan chair, and would rather ride a horse on his own.

From the inner city to the outer city, and then the outer city arrives near the canal. The area here is really good. It is connected to the outer city of the capital by the dock. My uncle invested a lot of land so he bought it. Ye Chunqiu saw the tall chimney of the crystal workshop from afar. This chimney is much more majestic than the ordinary chimney. It is built with blue bricks. In order to rush the work, Sun Qi hired many craftsmen to build it at the same time.

Such a unique building is a scene by the canal.

After entering the workshop, the workshop had not yet opened, so there were only a few people guarding the door. When they saw Sun Qi, they came over to greet him. Sun Qi led Ye Chunqiu in. Ye Chunqiu's idea of ​​the crystal workshop appeared in his mind, which was compared with the workshop in reality, such as gravel that specializes in stacking raw materials, such as a furnace room for production, such as a workshop for inverting molds. Ye Chunqiu went in one by one. The most important thing was this huge furnace. The temperature determines the production of glass. If this high-temperature furnace can reach a predetermined temperature, it means that it can not only be used in glass, but also in other alloy production, but also on a large scale.

If machine tools were the mother of industry in later generations, then in this era, even before electricity and automated production appeared, furnaces were the mother of industry.

Unfortunately, the furnace has not officially started to be lifted. Ye Chunqiu cannot guarantee whether the high-temperature furnace copied from modern times can achieve the predetermined effect. Even if it cannot be achieved, he has to seek a second predetermined plan and add some combustible materials.

Ye Chunqiu excitedly inspected every place. Since it was a high-temperature furnace, the wind bag was necessary. The reason why Ye Chunqiu built the workshop by the river was naturally because he designed a hydraulic wind bag. This was the wind bag in Britain in the 18th century. The energy source continuously brought strong wind power, which was enough to quickly generate the maximum heat of the furnace.

As for the current molds, after the mineral enters the furnace, it will turn into liquid under the action of the catalyst, and then it will flow out of a groove specially designed by Ye Chunqiu in the furnace. The other production process is inverted film. Now Ye Chunqiu has not made many molds for Sun Qi. What he mainly makes is transparent glass and crystal mirrors to replace copper mirrors. The former can replace paper-paste windows, and the latter naturally hopes to become a necessity in the Xiangge.

This workshop has become a prototype of a modern factory. Although the construction has not started yet, Ye Chunqiu found a familiar feeling. He inspected every place and then said, "Uncle, have the craftsmen beg you?"

Sun Qi smiled and said, "They are all craftsmen invited at high prices. Most of them were blacksmiths in the past. The blacksmith barely connects with the manufacturing of crystals. Uh... it is not actually the same, it's just..."

Ye Chunqiu can understand that glass is a new thing. Even if people invite it, most people are essentially new. After the furnace is turned on, they must be slowly adjusted. Now that they have taken the first step and are waiting for construction to start.

Ye Chunqiu said: "Let's turn on the furnace in the past two days. Try it first and find a quick way. If you have any questions, please ask someone to go to Hanlin to bring me a message..."

However, Sun Qi was a little unconfident in the manufacture of this glass and couldn't help but say doubtfully: "Chunqiu, can this... really make money?"

You know, this workshop has been spent a lot of money. Sun Qi is a safe businessman. He can't help but feel heartbroken by smashing tens of thousands of taels of money without blinking.

Ye Chunqiu was silent for a moment before saying, "There should be no problem."

How can such things be said accurately? People in this era may not like things that are ahead of time, but... if you don’t try it, how can you know the result?

When Ye Chunqiu left, he looked back at the huge chimney reluctantly. He seemed to see the huge chimney rolling with thick smoke. Compared with the so-called birds singing and flowers and the tranquility beauty of this era, Ye Chunqiu found that he was more looking forward to the magnificent feeling of countless chimneys standing and countless thick smoke churning up to the sky.

Uh...it's just a public housing, it seems like I'm thinking a little too much.

Ye Chunqiu smiled and rode his horse towards the inner city.

On the day when the crystal workshop was lifted, Ye Chunqiu took his leave. Seeing the fire burning with the blowing of the combustion aid agent and the wind bag, the various minerals purchased turned into liquid in the high-temperature melting furnace, and finally the transparent liquid flowed out through the groove. On the other side, the craftsmen poured the liquid into the mold and cooled it...

All the processes are ready-made, but it is the first time after all, so the craftsmen seem a little busy.

Standing by the stove, Ye Chunqiu felt waves of heat coming. Soon after, he was already sweating. The fire raising, he finally had some confidence, because now, the biggest difficulty is that there is no problem with this high-temperature furnace, which means that the temperature that the high-temperature furnace can generate is above 1,300 degrees.

In this era, this can almost be considered epoch-making, because this temperature is enough to melt a lot of alloys.
Chapter completed!