One Piece of Song Dynasty

Li Xin suddenly remembered whaling. net

Li Xin asked, "Brother Niu, can Brother Xiao Qi lead the fleet to catch Kun today?"

Niu Gao replied, "I went, I should be back soon."

Li Xin said, "That means some soldiers also followed."

Niu Gao nodded and said, "Yes, some soldiers from Yidu followed."

Liu Fa listened to the conversation between Li Xin and Niu Gao and was confused as to what they were talking about.

Li Xin looked at Liu Fa's questioning expression and said, "Does General Liu know something like Kun?"

Liu Fa asked, "But there is a fish in the North Ming Dynasty, and its name is Kun."

Li Xin nodded and said, "Exactly, Kun is a huge fish. We have gone to replenish Kun every few days since we landed on the island. Now every time we replenish Kun, there will be a group of soldiers following us. Today is the day when they go out to replenish Kun." The day should be coming soon. I will take General Liu to visit the dock soon."

Li Xin and Niu Gao pushed Liu Fa to the dock. When they arrived at the dock, a whaling fleet was returning.

Li Xin pushed Liu Fa forward to visit the whale pulled behind the boat.

Li Xin asked "How does General Liu feel?"

Liu Fa was shocked and said, "This Kun is really huge. This is the first time for a certain family to see it. It must be very difficult to hunt such a huge fish. I don't know why my lord sends an infantry to follow him every time." Kun, isn’t this very dangerous?”

Li Xin nodded and said, "It is precisely because catching Kun is dangerous, and the process of catching Kun every time is very thrilling. It is very similar to the atmosphere of the battlefield, so a certain person asked the soldiers to follow them in turns to catch Kun, so that they can experience this kind of experience." Atmosphere, getting used to this atmosphere will be good for future battlefields. "

Liu Fa said, "Well, it seems that the soldiers who came off the ship did have some murderous intent, but this is not enough."

Li Xin thought thoughtfully and said, "I will find a way to do this. General Liu will focus on training his troops first. In a few years, I will give them a chance to fight."

Liu Fa asked, "Oh, I wonder who the lord wants to beat?"

Li Xin said, "It's not the Song Dynasty anyway. A certain person said that he would not raise a flag of rebellion against the Song Dynasty within ten years."

Liu Fa breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Well, okay, a certain family knows."

Li Xin looked at Liu Fa and said, "General Liu knows that the Song Dynasty is short of horses. He has found a good place to raise horses. It is also an island. It is still possible to raise tens of thousands of horses on the island. In a few years, someone will Just plan to annex this island."

Liu Fa said in surprise, "Oh, there is such a place, so we will not be short of cavalry in the future."

Li Xin nodded and said, "Only part of the problem can be solved. If you want to have more cavalry, you have to take back Yanyun. General Liu will focus on training his troops first. In a few years, he will personally lead his troops to capture this island. 35xs ”

Liu Fa clasped his fists and said, "Yes, Lord, I understand."

Li Xin nodded and said, "That's it for today. General Liu has also been tired for a day. Part of the city guard's house of XX has just been built. General Liu will live in XX's city guard's house first. XX will arrange a few maids to take care of Liu." General, a mansion will be built specifically for General Liu in the future."

Liu Fa nodded and said, "Yes, Lord."

Li Xin pushed Liu Fa to the city guard's mansion. After dinner, Liu Fa was arranged. Li Xin also went to bed. She was too tired to push Liu Fa around today.

The next day, Li Xin thought about it and decided to go to the workshop manager Zhao Fei. As more and more people were on the island, the consumption of various materials was rapidly increasing. Li Xin felt that it was time to sacrifice glass, the artifact of time travel. .

Li Xin found Zhao Fei, "Manager Zhao, you first go to Old Man Liu and ask him to build another workshop, and then organize the craftsmen to make a batch of crucibles. This is the drawing of the crucibles. Then prepare a batch of limestone, quartz sand, plant ash, these Come to me when everything is ready, and I will teach you how to bake something." After saying that, Li Xin gave Zhao Fei the blueprint of the crucible. The difference between the crucible for burning glass and molten iron is that it has a seal to prevent the furnace from being heated. The ash falls into the crucible and affects the color of the glass.

Zhao Fei nodded and said, "Yes, Lang Jun, I understand."

Manager Zhao's work efficiency is still very high. Zhao Fei had everything ready in ten days.

After everything was ready, Li Xin led a group of craftsmen into the glass-making workshop. The steps for making glass are actually very simple. First, crush the raw materials thoroughly and then calcine them separately. Then put them in the crucible and cover them with lids. The kiln performs mixing and calcination to generate glass liquid and then decolorizes it. The decolorized glass liquid can be made into various glass products.

The raw materials of glass are quicklime, quartz sand, and soda ash. Quicklime can be obtained from limestone. Quartz sand is found in many places, but soda ash is rare, so Li Xin used plant ash instead of soda ash.

The temperature required to make glass is very high, so Li Xin chose coal as fuel. Li Xin is not short of coal now. Since Tianhu Mountain began to produce coal, Li Xin has stored all the coal produced.

Li Xin asked everyone to burn the stove for two days to dry it and raise the temperature. Two days later, Li Xin put the raw materials into the crucible and sent them to the furnace for calcination. After a long period of calcination, the temperature of the furnace rose to a certain level, and the raw materials in the crucible began to melt and react, and were gradually burned into molten glass, but After taking out the glass liquid, Li Xin tested it and found that the color was too heavy and there were many bubbles. Such glass liquid could not be used even if it was made into glass products.

Therefore, the glass liquid must be decolorized, but in this era there was no decolorizing agent manganese dioxide or sodium nitrate.

The problem of bubbles is easy to solve. Add some salt as a catalyst, and then continuously stir the glass liquid to eliminate the bubbles in the glass liquid. Even if it cannot be completely eliminated, the bubbles can be made very small.

Li Xin thought about it for a long time and finally decided to try using saltpeter as a decolorizing agent. So Li Xin then led the craftsmen to continue the experiment. After more than ten years of hard work, they got a nearly colorless glass liquid. Li Xin was very happy when he looked at the glass liquid. At that moment, several glass balls were blown, and then put into the annealing kiln for annealing, and finally several crystal clear glass balls were obtained.

When everyone saw several irregular transparent glass balls, they were all shocked.

Li Xin smiled and said, "Don't be so surprised. In fact, this is also a type of colored glaze, but it is more transparent." In fact, the earliest written records of colored glaze production were in the Tang Dynasty, so colored glaze was also produced in the Song Dynasty.

Li Xin then said to Zhao Fei, "From now on, this workshop will be under your control. No one except the craftsmen is allowed to enter these workshops."

Zhao Fei cupped his fists and said, "Yes, Lang Jun, I understand."

In the next few days, Li Xin began to try blowing various glass products with the craftsmen, and tried to make glass scenes. However, in the Song Dynasty, the silver mirror reaction was temporarily unavailable, but this did not trouble Li Xin. After the silver mirror reaction was invented There was previously a way to create a glass world.