Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

Shi Anan didn't want to meet the people from Anlin Village, but the locust plague had just ended recently and she was really too busy to attend to them.

In fact, she was also very curious about where Anlin Village was. Although the area covered by the protective shield was not small, there were many deep mountains and forests that she had never been to. If Anlin Village existed, would there be other people there?

It's still a little scary to think about it this way. If it's someone like Anlinzhai who doesn't have any bad intentions, it would be fine. But if there are those who are extremely vicious, they would be unable to defend themselves.

And what she wanted to ask Yan Zhuo was also about this aspect. After all, Anlinzhai had been here for a while, and maybe they might know something.

But compared to meeting them, the development of Guangming Town is obviously more important. After all, these things are just her guesses.

After the locust plague was over, even if they drove them away in time, the crops in the fields would definitely be damaged to a certain extent. It can only be said that they had harvested most of the food, and the loss would not affect their survival.

However, subsequent replanting is also very important, so she handed this matter over to the village chief.

Logically speaking, after Guangming Village was upgraded to a town, the village chief should also be upgraded to the town mayor. However, the old village chief really didn't want to bear more pressure, nor did he want to move up any further, so Shi Anan continued to let him keep an eye on these matters in the fields. He got used to the title of village chief, so he kept calling him that.

The replanting of farmland is proceeding in an orderly manner. The only difficulty is that it has not rained yet. Even if they have an irrigation system, it is much more labor-saving than having to carry water themselves. But if the water supply is tight, even with the irrigation system it will be difficult to operate.

If Guangming Town had not had abundant water resources, it would have been in a drought crisis. But even so, if it didn't rain, not only would the crop yields decrease, but even their daily water use would be affected.

As for whether it would rain or not, Shi Anan had no other choice but to wait. She had thought about artificial rainfall, but it was almost impossible to accomplish.

Even if we want to carry out artificial rainfall in modern times, we have to conduct multi-faceted investigations and meet certain conditions.

The first thing is the cloud conditions. She needs to detect clouds that are suitable for artificial rainfall and that contain enough moisture, but she has nothing to detect it.

Next is the catalyst, which is used to condense the water vapor in the clouds into water droplets or ice crystals. She can buy this in the system mall. It is nothing more than dry ice or something like that.

The most difficult thing is how to spread these catalysts into the clouds. In modern times, with the advancement of technology, there are airplanes, artillery shells and even rockets that can spread these things into the clouds, but she has nothing here.

Someone asked her why she didn't buy it in the system mall, but the prices of these things were so high that she was discouraged at first sight. She couldn't afford it even if she sold it, and there was no rental channel available.

If she wants to get them, she can only wait and see when the system will have a change of heart and give her a chance to draw a lottery, so that she can happen to draw these things.

But even if she drew these, Shi Anan wouldn't be able to operate it, and no one else could be counted on.

So the idea of ​​artificial rainfall only crossed her mind once and then was forgotten.

In addition to replanting, there has been great progress in her research on glass. Because of this, she couldn't even take care of the orchard for the time being.

Anyway, the orchard has been in the backpack for so long, it doesn’t matter if it is delayed for a while. Why not just wait until the road is repaired? Besides, it’s not raining now, and she is worried that it will affect the fruit trees.

There was a breakthrough in the research and development of glass, the biggest reason being that they produced soda ash.

Although they knew the process and principles of making soda ash, it was not an easy task to produce qualified soda ash given the current shortage of raw materials. Shi Anan and Li Changlin and others conducted experiments almost every day.

Now that soda ash had finally been produced, they could start making glass.

While they were making soda ash, the furnace used to burn glass was also built simultaneously. With the experience of making the iron smelting furnace before, the craftsmen made the glass furnace quite smoothly this time.

Shi Anan brought Li Changlin and others to the furnace early in the morning.

Li Changlin was still a little worried and asked, "Can this quartz sand really be melted in this furnace?"

Shi Anan nodded: "Of course, haven't I taught you the principles?"

Li Changlin smiled and scratched his head: "Although I know the principle, I still can't believe it."

"Then let me broaden your horizons today!" Shi Anan said with a smile.

They first mix the raw materials for making glass in a certain proportion and then put them into a high-temperature furnace. Then there is a long wait.

When the temperature in the furnace rises to a certain level, materials such as quartz sand begin to melt slowly.

Li Changlin, Li Yan and others all stared with wide eyes, watching all these changes, and couldn't help but sigh: "It actually melted!"

But Shi Anan frowned when she saw the solution, and she discovered a new problem - the glass liquid was full of impurities and bubbles.

But she still did not stop halfway. Even though there were impurities and bubbles that would result in the final quality of the glass being poor, she still wanted to go through the entire refining process first.

After taking out the molten glass solution, the next step is to shape it.

Usually, processes such as blowing, pressing, casting, drawing and floating are used to shape glass. Because this time is an experimental process, Shi Anan did not pursue too difficult shapes. He simply poured the glass solution into a pre-made mold and waited for it to cool.

I don’t know if it was because there were too many impurities and bubbles before, but although the solution had the texture of glass after cooling, it broke very quickly. Moreover, the glass after cooling was also very turbid and not crystal clear at all.

"Teacher, will these impurities and bubbles affect the quality of the glass?" Li Changlin asked.

Shi Anan nodded: "Yes, we must find a way to get rid of them. But it is normal to fail the first time, so don't be discouraged."

Li Yan continued, "Don't worry, teacher. We failed so many times in making soda ash before but never gave up. We will definitely be able to make suitable glass this time."

"Well, let's continue. Calcite should make the glass purer and more transparent. Let's add a little and try again."

Then they continued to try, and after many days of failure, they finally found a suitable ratio and refined the first piece of transparent glass in this dynasty!