Iron gun Yang Tiexin

After the grass-roots team's school is set up, the next step is the vigorous recruitment work.

It is better to say that the pre-school class, as long as the students of the three sects who have reached the age of three and under the age of six, regardless of gender, can enroll.Even the unwanted orphans and everything.As a result, just half a month after the news was released, more than 1000 baby babies were recruited.In addition, it is said that there are more baby milk babies on the way!

The enrollment situation of the elementary school is also good, and more than 3000 people have been recruited in one breath!There are also men and women, but most of these little monkeys have no cultural background, and they basically have to learn from the first grade of elementary school, and the teaching task is quite arduous.

The middle school is a bit weaker, currently only less than 1000 people are recruited, and most of them are girls, and they have no cultural foundation, so they have to start teaching from elementary school courses.

The reason why there are so few is because military academies also recruit children of this age group and above, and there is basically no need for any basic cultural courses, as long as the body is strong enough.As a result, the military academy actually recruited 3000 people in half a month. Seeing that it would not be able to afford any more, it had to suspend enrollment.

As for the university, it was even worse. The four departments had only recruited less than [-] people in total!They are all male creatures!No way, there are too few educated young people of the right age!Those who are uneducated are more willing to hang out in the military academy!

However, this is also good, the first batch of students can be trained as teachers!

Because, Yang Tiexin found out that the cultural people the Heavenly King Gang had brought for him were really, really unflattering!

When it comes to agronomy, they can't even distinguish five grains; when it comes to engineering, they can't even use a simple carpenter's ruler; as for business, uh, is pork sold by the catty?Shouldn't it be sold on the head?

After such an exchange.Yang Tiexin completely collapsed, so these servants under him were also thrown into the school and remade!

In the end, it was Yang Tiexin who asked Yang Ying to find a group of experienced farmers, fishermen, carpenters, blacksmiths, businessmen and the like, who fooled everyone bit by bit, half earnestly asked for advice and half mixed with private goods, and slowly compiled the work of workers and peasants. Textbooks for the third subject of business!

no way.In this era, it seems that professional books such as the Complete Book of Agricultural Policy and Tiangong Kaiwu have not yet been published!

Just as Yang Tiexin was busy leading a large group of workers, peasants and businessmen to teach and compile teaching materials, the leader of the Yang Ying came to the door again.

Because, there is no money!

During this period of time, although the Beggars' Gang and Tianwang Gang were constantly mobilized to rob the rich and help the poor in the state capital near Dongting Lake, their income was always limited, and moreover.These three factions spread too many stalls at once, and it is too normal to make ends meet!

"What are our current expenditures? Let's see if we can reduce it. Let's start with the most important ones!"

"The weapon workshop and armor workshop haven't opened yet, and the dock hasn't started construction yet. All the expenses are basically spent on the construction of schools at all levels, as well as the food, clothing, housing and transportation of those little dolls! That's all. It's almost stretched!"

"It's okay to talk about firewood. Some disciples in the gang donate part of the supply, although it is not enough. But it can barely last for a few days. But there is no way for oil, salt, books, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, all of which have to be purchased! There are also those in the military academy. Brats, all of them are foodies! Just those few thousand and a half boys are almost making my old lady poor!"

It's no wonder that Yang Ying's gang leader is crying for poverty. The Tianwang gang is originally a small peasant gang, and they only know how to eat from the ground.Do not focus on accumulating wealth.

Coupled with the fact that the Song court has become more and more corrupt in recent years, and corrupt officials are rampant, the people can be said to be living in dire straits!

Heavenly King helps these gangsters and can maintain his own livelihood, which is considered to be a good life.How can there be any surplus money to support these sudden overpopulation!

"Well, according to what my aunt said, saving money is not an option! If so, then we have to increase income! What kind of property did our Tianwang Gang have in the past?"

"How can there be any industry? It's just farming and fishing for a living!"

"Is there no merchant?"

"There are no merchants, but there are some small businesses, such as opening restaurants and teahouses. It's just that the scale is extremely small, and they are basically family workshops!"

"Oh, what kind of wine do we who unlock the tavern sell?"

"What kind of wine can it be, that is, farm rice wine, the kind with lees! Before drinking, you always use a sieve to sift out the lees! Don't you men often say 'sift a pot of wine' when you go out to drink? It’s that kind of rice wine!”

"Occasionally, there are some high-end ones that sell fruit wine or something! But this kind of wine is rarely sold, and generally only those rich ladies will buy fruit wine to eat."

"With that, let's make wine and sell it!"

"Wine making and selling? How much money can this business make? And it takes a long time! It takes a few months to make wine once, and if you sell it again, maybe when the money comes back, it will already be a waste of money." Half a year later, where is there still time?"

Gang Leader Yang is almost waiting for the rice to go to the pot. Naturally, he can't wait for Yang Tiexin to slowly brew wine to make money.

"My method of brewing wine is just to improve on the basis of the original wine making, to improve the quality of the wine. When the time comes, we will specialize in the high-end route, and a catty of wine will sell at least the price of a jar of other wine! The speed of making money is natural. It will be soon!"

"That won't work! Nowadays, there are many poor people in the Song Dynasty, especially in our Dongting Lake area. Many people are so poor that they can't get out of the pot. How can so many rich people buy good wine! If it is shipped to a distant state capital for sale, it will take a long time. It's far away, and the turnaround time is too long! Second, it's too far away from Dongting Lake. If there is something wrong, it's too late to take care of it! This matter will be discussed later! Little nephew, think about making money quickly way!"

"A way to make money faster? Then go grab it!"

"You think I don't want to rob my old lady? But how many wealthy families are there around Dongting Lake? Besides, our Heavenly King Gang is not a gangster, who robs houses everywhere! Even if we rob, we can only rob those who are rich and unkind! Besides, over the past few decades, the hundreds of miles around Dongting Lake have already been cleaned up by us! How can there be any fat sheep to grab?"

Now Yang Tiexin was at a loss, he had no choice but to use his brain.Seriously thought of the idea of ​​making money.

Brewing, too slow!Fried tea, no tea garden!Cooking salt depends on the sea!

What else can I do?

The money must also come quickly!

Difficult!

Open a bank?It seems that the Heavenly King Gang doesn't have that much influence in business!Can't afford that popularity at all!No one piles flowers, opening a bank is not much different from courting death!and.Manpower is also a problem!

Headache!Headache!

Well..., yes!You can burn glass!

"Burning glass? Uh, you mean colored glaze? I've seen old lady Boshan Liuli, it's really good! But usually they also make some hairpins, buttons, etc., and they are used by rich families, and the amount is very small, and they can make money. How much money?"

"Making hairpins, buttons, etc., of course you can't make a lot of money! If we want to do it, let him do it! Let's find all the craftsmen of our Heavenly King Gang. See if anyone has burned colored glaze! "

Although he half-believed Yang Tiexin's words, Gang Leader Yang was desperately poor after all, so he had no choice but to act as a living horse doctor and recruit various craftsmen according to Yang Tiexin's instructions.

Yang Tiexin was lucky. After some inquiries, he found a craftsman who knew a little bit.

At the moment, Yang Tiexin didn't care about other things, so he started talking with the old man about burning colored glaze.

The old man had been to Boshan in his early years.And fortunately, I have seen the process of burning colored glaze by local people, but most of those Boshan people have left their own hands when burning colored glaze.And it's hidden very deep.Therefore, the old man is only vaguely aware of some superficial basic processes, as for the specific details, he is not very clear!

Fortunately, Yang Tiexin didn't expect the old man to be able to explain in detail, and there is still a big difference between burning colored glaze and burning glass!

After listening to the old man's words, Yang Tiexin ordered the Tianwang Gang to arrange staff.According to the old man's instructions, start to build a kiln, ready to fire glass!

In Yang Tiexin's view, the so-called glass burning is to melt the sand and remove impurities through chemical reactions.The process of recondensing into a specific shape again!

Knowing the basic principles, the rest is the process of trial and error to find the most perfect process.

The first thing is to choose the material. The main material for firing glass is sand and stone. Choose white or yellow as much as possible. As for red sand, it contains too much iron, and it will be a lot of trouble to remove impurities!

Fortunately, there is a lot of high-quality river sand beside Dongting Lake, so it is not difficult to choose materials.

As for auxiliary materials, mainly lime, caustic soda, etc. are used to remove impurities in sand and gravel through chemical reactions.Just how to achieve the best ratio still needs to be tried carefully!

The next step is the real firing in the furnace, which mainly includes several key steps such as preheating, foaming, sintering, and annealing. Each step has corresponding requirements. If there is a mistake, the quality of the glass will be affected. Have a great impact.

Fortunately, Yang Tiexin had already prepared for this, it was an experiment!

Through a large number of experiments, record the success or failure of each experiment in detail, and analyze and select the optimal solution from them!

For this reason, Yang Tiexin sent dozens of craftsmen under his command to the kiln field, each of them took care of a kiln, and recorded in detail the material selection, material ratio, firing process, and the appearance, advantages and disadvantages of each kiln. wait!

There are not many other things in Tianwang Island, but there are enough people!Hundreds of thousands of people were busy under the command of Yang Tiexin. Three days later, the first furnace of glass was already hot!

There is no doubt that the result was a failure!

There are many bubbles, the color is not pure, and there are sand grains in the middle that have not completely melted. In the end, some accidents occurred in the process of pouring the mold and cooling. The glass sheet was not only uneven, but finally cracked into several pieces due to uneven stress. Son!

Yang Tiexin was not surprised at all by this!If you don't know anything, but do it successfully for the first time, that is the real strangeness!

After ordering people to record the experience of this failure in detail, Yang Tiexin ordered people to continue firing the next furnace of glass!

Fortunately, the process of firing glass is not complicated. After the materials are prepared, basically, it takes only two days to complete the firing of a kiln!

Moreover, due to sufficient manpower, Yang Tiexin can experiment with dozens of kilns at the same time!

After working so hard for ten days, through hundreds of comparative tests, and eliminating the failed solutions bit by bit, finally, Yang Tiexin finally found a relatively successful glass firing process! (To be continued..)