Lord Harland.

Chapter 121 Fired Glass
Feeling that Sophia might be pregnant, Li Cha immediately felt extremely happy and excited.

In his previous life, Li Cha had a daughter. When he first time traveled, he missed his daughter all the time.

Thinking of never seeing her daughter again, sometimes even thinking of dying.

I hope that after death, I can travel back.

Li Cha gritted his teeth and survived the pain in his heart. Time is the best medicine to heal pain.

After coming to this world for more than ten years, her daughter's appearance seems to have become blurred, and the unspeakable pain back then seems to have become an unforgettable memory.

Life is still going on, Li Cha is already married in Chenxi Continent, has a new family, and is about to usher in a new life.

Recalling the past scenes, Li Cha suddenly remembered the faces of his family members, his nose felt sore, and his eyes filled with tears.

"If you're pregnant, be pregnant, why are you crying?"

"It's nothing, I'm just too excited. Since you feel tired, you should rest for a few days and put aside the things at hand. If you are really pregnant, you must not be too tired. You are still the first child, and you have to pay attention Body."

Since May, Li Cha has been busy with the establishment of the Warcraft Cavalry, from the soldier barracks, cavalry training ground, training equipment, living supplies, and even the establishment of the stables for the Warcraft horses, all need Li Cha to worry about.

So busy, three months passed, and it entered mid-August.

This year's autumn harvest has started again, but this time Li Cha doesn't need to keep an eye on it. The autumn harvest work is handed over to his cousin Tang En. Li Cha just looks at the statistics and checks the granary to know how much grain has been harvested this year.

In three months, Sophia gradually showed obvious signs of pregnancy. Her belly gradually became bigger and her face became rounder with the arrival of pregnancy.

The two have been married for two years, and now they finally have a child of their own.

After confirming her pregnancy, Sophia stopped her magic research and returned to Sophia Castle to raise her baby.

The upper echelon of the territory also attaches great importance to this child.They all swore to Richard Sophia, willing to be loyal to this unborn child.

Although William has not talked about it publicly, he will hand over the territory to Richard to inherit.

But looking at his training of Li Cha, it is obvious that he regards Li Cha as his heir.

Even in order to establish Richard's prestige, William rarely came to the territory.

Even if Richard is not the first heir to William Land, Ron and Hayden are ahead of him in the order of succession.

But the succession of noble titles is not only based on the order of succession, but also depends on who is supported within the territory?

Without prestige in the territory, without enough supporters, it is basically impossible to inherit the territory even if the succession order is higher.

Because there will be pressure inside the territory to ask you to give up your right of inheritance.

If they don't know how to promote, they will even use drastic methods, such as assassinations and attacks, to physically eliminate their opponents and support the people they support to rise to power.

Unless you have a strong force, you can suppress opposing voices.

For example, Ron, if he inherits the territory, members of the Harland family such as Powell and Bernie may not obey him.

When William was promoted to baronet, Richard, Powell, and Bernie all made great efforts.

The military exploits of the three people add up to more than four great achievements, and this barony is not only the territory of William alone.

They have worked hard all their lives to become hereditary nobles, and they all have the right to speak in the choice of heirs.

They don't want the foundation they have worked hard for all their lives to be handed over to a relatively mediocre person.

What's more troublesome is that the military forces in the territory will not easily obey Ron's command.

Even the civil affairs, agriculture, and industry departments with the weakest influence may fool him.

It is absolutely impossible to inherit a complete territory by relying on a title alone.

If Li Cha inherits the territory, there will be no such problems.

His ability has already been affirmed by Bernie and Powell, and he formed the army by himself. No matter in terms of ability or prestige, commanding the army is not a problem.

Besides, Li Cha also has deep feelings with some military officers, and emotionally, they are not willing for Ron to inherit the territory.

The industrial department was created by Li Cha himself, and every key member was promoted by him. Li Cha also has a very high influence on the bureaucrats in charge of industry and agriculture.

Even if Ron is unwilling and has resentment in his heart, he must give up his inheritance rights in this situation.

Hayden has already discussed with Richard that he will give up the right of inheritance and take the initiative to raise this issue during the family meeting this Christmas.

In August, the glass kiln was successfully put into operation, producing the first furnace of glass in the territory.

It's a pity that there are still many bubbles in the glass, and the color is not very pure. After processing by the glassmaker, this batch of glass was made into glass wine bottles and handed over to Mrs. Ola's tavern.

The difficulty of firing glass is not low. It requires six major processes: material selection, melting, mold preparation, pouring, cooling, and polishing.

There are many details in each craft, and some even require the craftsman to have superb skills.

Fortunately, there are already experienced kiln masters in Harland's territory. Even if they have never fired glass, they are already very sensitive to the temperature of the kiln mouth, so they fired the first batch of glass.

Li Cha knows that the glass industry is a precursor to the chemical industry, and without the glass industry, it would be difficult to develop the chemical industry.

The glass craftsmen that Li Cha spent fifty gold coins on were not high-level, and they all relied on their experience.But relying on these people, Harland's territory did not take many detours, and finally burned out the glass.

Sometimes in industrial manufacturing, a small detail can be stuck for many years.Before purchasing these glass craftsmen, the Harland Territory burned glass for several years without success. The glass craftsman came to give pointers, and Li Cha suddenly discovered that it is not difficult to burn glass at all.

Through these people, Li Cha learned how to design the glass kiln, the formula of the glass, how high the temperature needs to be, how to remove air bubbles, how to fire colorless or various colored glass, and how to blow the finished product?
After several failures, the craftsmen of the glass kiln summed up their experience and found that the reason why the glass is impure is that there are too many impurities in the soda used before.

Richard sent people to buy a batch of natural soda from Jonathan's territory, and then mixed the soda with limestone and river sand for calcination.

After the burnt glass slurry is fully stirred to remove some air bubbles, it is blown into containers of various shapes with a blowpipe.

After buying pure soda, the fired glass improved a lot immediately, barely meeting Richard's requirements.

Richard first asked the glassmaker to blow a batch of experimental utensils such as cups, test tubes, and distillation bottles, and handed them over to Wendy and Adrian.

They all require experimentation and use a lot of glassware every year.

Now that glass can be produced in the territory, Richard does not need to buy Viscount Roman's glass products at a high price.

As for the large piece of transparent glass that Li Cha needed, the glass kiln directly cast a batch of copper molds.By using the pouring method, the large piece of transparent glass that Richard needs was successfully produced.

The glass kiln was successfully put into operation, and the industry in the territory has improved a bit.

(End of this chapter)