From Chief to Ball

As the days passed, the apprentices worked faster and faster. Originally, they could complete ten sets a day, but later they could complete twenty or even thirty sets.

Looking at the wooden utensils piled up together, Huang De felt extremely happy, especially when he thought that Chen Jian said that all the wooden utensils used in the future would be purchased from here and they would all be similar to this kind of complete set. It can crush other shops.

Thinking about making money this time, if there is really a big business, then you can really hire a few more apprentices, or even find someone to build a hydraulic sawmill, so that you can really have a family business up.

With this in mind, he hired a carriage enthusiastically and walked towards the workshop according to the address Chen Jian had left behind.

Several apprentices also followed. After the completion, the master promised to eat a meal of meat and give some subsidy money after the money was returned. He was really happy.

Before reaching the place, an apprentice pointed to a very far distance and shouted: "Look! That's it! It's so beautiful!"

Everyone raised their heads, looked in the direction of the fingers, and couldn't help admiring.

From a distance, one can clearly see a large chimney that looks like three feet high, puffing out black soot, and the sky is blackened from a distance.The black smoke formed various weird shapes in the air, and it lingered for a long time. It was indescribably shocking and mysterious.

After getting closer, I found that there was a wooden fence outside the factory building. Beside the wooden fence, there were some nettles that were covered with thorns and would itch unbearably when they entered. They were as tall as a person and extremely strong.

Near the gate was a brick wall more than ten steps long, and Huang De's apprentices exclaimed again.

There is nothing to exclaim about the brick wall, but the brick wall is covered with a layer of broken glass that looks extremely expensive elsewhere, and can even be called a luxury.

In rural areas or county towns, glass is still a rarity for some people. If someone’s glass window is broken, the children will often rush to pick up a lot. How can it be like this section of the fence that treats these broken glass as A weapon that prevents people from climbing.

The apprentices looked at it chatteringly, suddenly felt that this glass workshop was full of freshness, their eyes were always fixed on the wall, but they didn't notice the gate.

The door was very wide, and there were two huge wooden signs on it. "Nan'an County Private Glass Factory" and "Nan'an County Private Chemical Factory" were written in large vermilion characters. The cards were huge, but the names were ugly.

A hut was built at the door.The house is not big, and it seems that it can accommodate three or two people, but it is just an ordinary brick and stone house, even a little short.

This time, even Huang De, who had been admonishing his disciples not to make a fuss, stopped, looked at the hut, and exclaimed, his heart skipped a beat.

This small room, which looks extremely simple, is actually equipped with two surprisingly large pieces of glass. The glass is polished with a cotton cloth, and the people inside can see clearly, and even see their own reflection due to the light. , clearly.

These two pieces of glass are not only big, but also big, which is unexpected.

Huang De had seen glass in the county, but where had he seen glass like this?The glass of the richest family in the county is also much smaller than this. It is not a matter of money, but that such a large glass cannot be bought at all.

No matter how green the glass is, there are often a lot of air bubbles inside, although it is hundreds of times stronger than the window paper, Huang De was also envious before.

It’s just that I have to compare goods and throw them away. Looking at the glass again, there are almost no bubbles, and the whole glass does not have the kind of green that I didn’t think was ugly in the past, but now I don’t think it is clear enough.

Huang De swallowed his saliva, and thought to himself, no wonder they wanted two thousand sets of wooden frames, and the money was given with pride. If there is such a glass workshop, why not make money?

At this time, the door of that hut opened, and a man who didn't look like a good stubble came out, wearing a clothes that Huang De thought was very weird.

Made of white cotton cloth, it looks extremely simple, it is put directly on the head, and the material is also economical. There are no sleeves from the armpits, revealing the scarred arms of the man.

On the back of the clothes, the words "Nan'an Private Factory" were written in red dye, as if afraid that others would not know which workshop they were.

Just as I didn't know how to call it, I turned my head slightly and found that there were two signs of "Security Section" and "Guard Room" hanging on the small glass room.

Huang De thought to himself, this looks more interesting than the county government.

The man in the weird clothes looked fierce, but he still spoke very politely. After asking a question, Huang De explained his purpose.

The man asked Huang De to wait here for a while, and shouted inside, and then a person walked towards the door.Through the glass window, Huang De was shocked to find that there were two beautiful muskets and a lot of wooden sticks hanging in the room called the guard room.

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In the workshop, Chen Jian didn't know anyone was visiting.

The huge sintering furnace was emitting a fainting heat. Although there was a draft in the room, the heat was still overwhelming. The apprentices in the workshop did not have any protective measures, and they were all covered in sweat.

Many people's faces were exposed to such a high temperature environment for a long time and there was no protection, a layer of dead skin exploded, and the eyes of each one were burnt red from the fire.

Completely different from what these apprentices imagined, making glass here is not like a handicraft workshop at all. Each master craftsman brings a few apprentices, and the apprentices will help the craftsmen to complete the more complicated tasks.

Everyone here is only responsible for one thing, never cross, and there are no craftsmen to teach them some crafts.

It's just that they don't know what it is like to make glass, thinking that other glass workshops are like this, not other workshops they have seen or imagined.

Someone outside is responsible for sifting silica sand, and someone is responsible for adding materials to the crucible, and how much is added each time is carried out according to regulations.There are people inside who are responsible for feeding, sintering, bellows, compression molding, etc., and each has its own things to do.

This is completely different from most of the handicraft workshops outside at this time. It has a little bit of a factory taste, although it is still a little worse, but the shape has already appeared.

Chen Jian has the experience of making glass in the last remaining life of his previous life, and he is quite familiar with it, and the management of this apprentice is more than enough with the accumulation of his previous life.

If you want to make glass that is not green, just add some strong oxidant to change the valence state of ferrous iron, and potassium nitrate itself will not affect the glass, after all, besides conventional sodium glass, it is potassium glass.

To get a glass without bubbles, you need to add some salt and stir with a clay stick under the crucible lid to make those small bubbles become large bubbles and float out of the viscous glass crystals.

Once the crucible in the melting furnace is finished, it is immediately taken out and poured on the cast iron plate, like spreading pancakes, which is much more convenient and faster than the previous method of blowing it into a cylinder and then cutting it open.

After that, the annealing process is like a cast iron farm tool. After annealing, it is taken out and frosted. This is all irritating and grinding work.

Glass annealing is the same as those cast iron farm tools. It takes at least seven or eight days to maintain a certain temperature. This is a very critical part, otherwise the glass will easily shatter.

In three months, a lot of money was actually wasted, as evidenced by the broken glass stuck on the wall.

Although shattered glass can be recycled, Chen Jian still likes the atmosphere of tall chimneys and shattered glass on the wall. It's a pity that the creepers and the like haven't grown up, otherwise he would look at the broken glass from that wall. The glass is also enough to evoke long-standing memories for drinking.

Apprentices and hired workers who experienced failures in reality ignored Chen Jian's weird mood, but after a long time of failure, they finally produced a large piece of glass with few bubbles and high transparency. It has been done, and the future is boundless in five years.

As far as glass itself is concerned, it can indeed be said that the future is unlimited.

Compared with those large pieces of glass today, the glass here will have a great impact on the glass market in Mincheng. Chen Jian is not going to make glass handicrafts, wine cups and teacups. Those survival opportunities are left to them, but the window glass must be an inch away. Not allowed.

Both cost and quality are much better than those glass workshops, and a full-time glassblower alone can save a lot of money.

And now these apprentices and employees can basically maintain the normal operation of the workshop. The daily output is increasing and the damage rate is decreasing. The situation is gratifying.

Chen Jian is still squatting in the workshop now, mainly to test the lead glass used for lenses. This is not mass production yet, but a small amount of testing process.

How much lead oxide is added to the ingredients requires constant trial and error until a suitable ratio is found.

Lead glass used to make optical instruments is stronger than ordinary glass. There are mirror grinders in Mincheng. Primitive telescopes and primitive microscopes only need one idea. These things are not guns, but they may not have the power of guns.

When Zhao Si found Chen Jian and told Chen Jian that someone was looking for him outside, Chen Jian only asked those apprentices to continue firing lead glass.

Thinking of carpenters, and looking at the apprentices struggling to push the cast iron plates in the workshop, Chen Jian felt that he could try to get some wooden rails. This thing is excellent for uniting coal mine owners.

Chapter 50 Workshop ([-])

After leaving the glass workshop where outsiders were strictly prohibited from entering, Chen Jian inspected the wooden shelves and they were basically qualified.

This is not something too sophisticated, just a sentence can make do with it.In addition to metal materials and fine processing, which require long-term accumulation of technologies, all other technologies can now try to enter the handicraft revolution as quickly and economically as possible.

After paying the remaining payment, the last stone in Huang De's heart finally fell to the ground.