Wentang

Chapter 224 Development of Business Department
Burning glass is not difficult, but it is definitely not as simple as everyone thinks.If impurities are not considered, temperature is the biggest problem.

Yue Shan estimated that under the conditions of pure handwork in the Tang Dynasty, it would take at least six hours to burn the material into molten glass.It still needs at least ten hours to cool down, so that the glass liquid can reach the appropriate temperature and viscosity, and then it can be made into various finished products.

If you consider the problem of impurities, if you want to burn pure glass, it will take at least 500 years to achieve this step without the guidance of a traveler like Yueshan.

The first step is to choose the right place to work.There is nothing to say about this, it is naturally Yue Shan's own home, so he can rest assured that there is no place here.At the beginning, it was a five-in-one mansion, and there were a lot of empty rooms.

The second step is to purchase materials.Fortunately, there are no weird materials for burning glass, most of the Tang Dynasty already had them.Yue Shan just ordered someone to take care of it.

In order to keep it secret and prevent people from prying into the secrets from the materials, he had people buy more than [-] kinds of materials, including minerals and plants, just to confuse the public.

The third step requires a high-temperature furnace and a high-temperature-resistant crucible.This is not difficult, any blacksmith can do it.

It's just that blacksmiths in the Tang Dynasty were still a rare technical job, and ordinary people probably never saw them.This is not a problem for Yue Shan. He can borrow all kinds of skills and jobs as the court craftsman and supervisor.

And there is a blacksmith's shop among the few workshops that Li Xiaogong gave away before.The crucible is ready-made, and the high-temperature furnace has no technical content, so just build one casually.

Then Yue Shan asked the blacksmith to make a copper pipe for blowing glass.

It's just that the high-temperature furnace must be dried before it can be used. This process will take at least a week.So even if everything is well prepared,
After all the materials were collected, Yue Shan drove everyone out, and ordered strict guards. Without his order, not a single fly could fly in.

He hid in the room with Bao Dalin and smashed all the useful materials together.Of course, it was Bao Dalin who did the work, and Yue Shan was just in charge.

As for why Bao Dalin was called in...he had already gained Yue Shan's trust.

In fact, Ma Busi, Xu Shanying, and Zhang Dong are people he trusts quite a bit.It's just that Ma Bu's big mouth is not suitable for doing confidential things, otherwise he will either reveal the secret or suffocate himself to death.

Xu Shanying, Zhang Dong, Zhang Sicheng, and Lin Dabao are either good at riding and shooting, or archers, or spearmen, or Mo Daomen, and they are all experienced in battle.

I have learned a lot of modern military knowledge from Yue Shan's side, and it is a bit inferior to being a defense officer all the time. Yue Shan is going to let them go to the military academy as instructors.So it is not suitable to participate in these things.

On the one hand, it is not conducive to confidentiality; on the other hand, what if Li Shimin sees the profit of the glass and wants to lock up all the insiders?
Besides, he was just doing experiments and summed up a set of glass burning methods that are relatively feasible under the existing conditions, and the materials used are not many.It is enough for Bao Dalin to help alone.

The stove will not be ready for use in another six or seven days, so Yue Shan will naturally not wait foolishly, there are still many things waiting for him to deal with in the academy.

First, I went to Erya Building to check the situation of compiling the dictionary, but the progress was not great.Everyone is still collecting all the characters that have appeared in the Tang Dynasty through Jiqunji. According to Pei Ju, this work will last at least a month.

Yue Shan nodded to express his understanding, then turned around and went to the library.Except for Pei Ju, who is more relaxed in logistics, everyone else is busy with work, and no one pays attention to him at all.Naturally, he wouldn't make fun of himself.

Part of it was purchased, and other famous teachers and great scholars donated part of it for Yue Shan's sake. The library is no longer empty, but has a small scale.But there are still a large number of bookshelves empty, which looks very awkward.

The second floor is the place for copying books, and fifty gentlemen are writing hard and fast, which looks like a grand sight.It's just that copying books is a time-consuming and labor-intensive job, and it is impossible to see results in a short time.Yue Shan was not in a hurry either.

Then I went to the teaching area to deal with some leftover work.

Generally speaking, there were no major events. Various rules and regulations were implemented smoothly, and the order of the academy became more orderly.It's not going to be a big problem easily.

The only problem is that the two teachers in the physics group came to him again to complain, so hurry up and recruit teachers, they are almost overwhelmed.

On the one hand, the teaching tasks are heavy, and on the other hand, there are too many students' questions, and countless new questions can be expanded from a single drop of water.How should they answer?

If it was before, Yue Shan could only appease them and look forward to everything.Now I finally have the confidence to assure them that a new teacher has been found and will take up the post soon.

The two teachers went to work happily.

The business department had more problems. Yu Zhiming finally completed the research work and entered the implementation stage.

He bought back all the chickens, ducks and geese in a radius of tens of miles, including the raised ones.There is no way, the ancient times have not yet learned to hatch eggs artificially, and there are not enough seedlings to rely on natural hatching.Buy even the big ones together, and incubate them yourself to speed up the scale expansion.

Yue Shan took a look at the breeding base and pointed out many problems.

The most important thing is safety. After all, it is a semi-free-range breeding in a mountainous area.The fence must be tightened, so as not to run away.There are also more dogs to drive away weasels and other small animals.

Ducks and geese are easier to deal with. Geese are fierce and are not afraid of falcons and weasels. They are more home-loving and generally don't run around and just rush to the pond.

But the nest by the pond must be repaired to ensure that ducks and geese return to the nest at night to rest and lay eggs.

The big problem is that the few workshops that Li Xiaogong sent have been successfully relocated according to Yue Shan's wishes.Fortunately, he built a lot of small yards next to the academy before, and vacated a few to transform into workshops.

The problem is that all these workshops are closed without work.

Now not only Yu Zhiming himself is worried, but even the workers in the workshop are also worried.Will I lose my job if I don't make money?

These workshops, Yueshan, are naturally of great use, otherwise they would not have been specially moved to the side of the academy.

He went to the papermaking workshop first.The scale of this workshop is not very large, with 50 craftsmen and apprentices.Yue Shan took a look at their products and could only say that they were not satisfactory.

So he called everyone together and assigned three tasks.

One is to create a soft, absorbent.Artificially wrinkling these papers is fine as long as it increases softness.As for the toughness... the minimum standard is that two layers cannot be broken by hand, and the highest standard is naturally the more tough the better.

This request simply stunned the people in the paper workshop.

They have been making paper all their lives, and this is the first time they have heard of such a request.Generally, man-made paper is required to be flat and smooth, and the worse the water absorption, the better, and even some require moth-proof.

Yue Shan's request is completely opposite to others.

But they had just changed to a new owner, and they were still nobles like county magistrates, so even though they were full of doubts, they didn't dare to speak out and dare not ask.

The second task is to make a paper that is smooth, white and ink-free.Hearing this request, those people were relieved... The painting style finally became normal.This is what they are good at.

However, the third task made them fall into silence again. Yue Shan asked them to produce a kind of paper that was 'skinned like a membrane, hard and clean like jade, thin and smooth'.

This...they are just a group of ordinary paper workers, and Qing Shuihou thinks highly of them.

Yue Shan naturally knew that Chengxintang paper was not that easy to make, and whether this group of workers could make it was entirely up to luck.So take the initiative to comfort them, just study the latter kind of paper, and don't care when it can be produced, but the sooner the first two kinds of paper are, the better.

He also said that their job is to study these three types of paper, and put everything else aside.As for the salary, there is no need to worry about it. Every time they research a kind of paper, everyone's salary will increase by 20.00%.

As soon as they heard about the salary increase, everyone immediately became motivated.I won't talk about the third one, the first two are not difficult at all.

Moreover, if they only engage in research and do not make paper, the workload of each of them will plummet by dozens of times, okay?With the salary unchanged and the workload reduced, many people couldn't help laughing.

After assigning tasks to the people in the paper-making workshop, Yue Shan went to the book printing workshop again. A change is also needed here.

(End of this chapter)