Great Wei.

Imperial Palace, Yeting Palace.

Qin Yu took Xiao Nan and Shen Binglan to the glass workshop they had been looking forward to for a long time.

It’s not really Qin Yu’s exaggeration. Glass is not so easy to forge. If you don’t talk about it, it’s hard to reach the temperature alone.

It would be really difficult to achieve without the support of the Ministry of Works, Ministry of Revenue and other forces of the Wei Dynasty.

Fortunately, behind Qin Yu is the entire Great Wei.

He has the ability to use the power of the whole country.

However, as soon as the glass workshop was built today, Qin Yu sent the Jinyiwei to Hebei to survey the situation and was ready to set out to clear the administration of the government and promote land reform at any time.

Qin Yu and the other two were walking towards the Yeting Palace.

Li Zhanying, deputy general manager of the Yeting Palace, looked at Qin Yu and the other two, and came up from afar, with a smile on his face, "I have seen the prince, the prince consort, and Miss Chen."

He was promoted by Qin Yu, and he kept thinking about Qin Yu's good deeds in his heart.

What's more, with Qin Yu's current status, many people can't even curry favor with him.

Qin Yu waved his hand lightly, "Mr. Li doesn't have to be too polite."

Li Zhanying hurriedly said, "Please invite me here, the glass workshop is here."

Then, under the leadership of Li Zhanying, everyone left to the glass workshop.

moment.

Glass workshop.

Qin Yu and his friends entered it.

Some craftsmen are working inside and out.

The most prominent thing in the glass workshop is the boiler and towering chimney.

The boiler had already ignited, and bursts of smoke rolled out from the chimney.

at the same time.

An old man was brought to Qin Yu by Li Zhanying.

The old man hurriedly bowed and said, "I am not aware of the prince, the prince consort, and the girl Shen."

Li Zhanying hurriedly introduced: "Mr. Prince Concubine, he is the person in charge of the glass workshop."

Qin Yu nodded, "Old Sun, are the materials ready?"

The old man hurriedly said, "Go back to the prince, you are all ready, we can start."

Then, under the command of Qin Yu.

The glass workshop has officially started.

In this era, there was no technology to forge glass, but such things were quite popular among high-ranking officials and nobles.

There is a big difference between glass and glazed glass. The reason why these two things are different is because of the different contents of silica.

Therefore, the glass is transparent, while the glass is shining with a metallic luster.

Under Qin Yu's command.

The craftsmen began to work hard and transported out materials such as quartz sand and limestone. Quartz stone is the main raw material, accounting for 70%.

The main difficulty in firing glass is the temperature, which requires more than 2,000 degrees Celsius.

Not to mention charcoal, even coal cannot reach it, so Qin Yu took out the soda ash and mixed it into the raw materials to reduce the temperature to about 1,600 degrees Celsius.

Even so, the charcoal burned less than 1,600 degrees Celsius, which is why Qin Yu had to dig anthracite first. The coal can easily burn the temperature to above 1,600 degrees Celsius.

Under the leadership of Qin Yu.

The entire glass workshop started to move.

Shen Binglan sat on the roof to breathe in the air and watched quietly.

Xiao Nan rolled up his sleeves and followed the work.

He mainly likes to work and can't stay idle when he sees work.

Under Qin Yu's command, after stirring the raw materials and processing and firing, the burned glass solution was poured into the mold, and the glassware production was coming to an end.

Qin Yu also added different materials to change the color, shape, etc. of the glass.

This process may be simple, but if it is done and invested in the early stage, it is really not easy.

This was done with the help of the Ministry of Works and it took a month to make the glass workshop.

But hard work pays off, everything goes very smoothly.

Qin Yu was very pleased that his efforts were not in vain.

......

Five days later.

Jinling City.

Imperial Palace, Huide Hall.

Qin Yu, Xiao Nan and Shen Binglan stood in front of the table.

Emperor Wei, Xiao Rou, Xiao Yuner, Qin Wenyao and other humerus were standing on the other side.

There was a table between them. There were more than a dozen Pingzhou glazed glassware on the left side of the table, and more than a dozen glassware replicas of Pingzhou glazed glassware on the right side of the table.

Although the materials are different, they are all craftsmen of master-level craftsmen.

But the same style and size, glassware and glassware show completely different levels of exquisiteness.

The glazed glass is shining with a colorful metallic luster.

Glass is crystal clear and spotless, and is even more transparent than crystal.

Looking at the glassware.

Emperor Wei, Xiao Rou, Xiao Yuner, Qin Wenyao and others all widened their eyes and were incredible.

Although they have absolute confidence in Qin Yu.

But the amazingness of the glassware still deeply shocked them.

They had never seen such a crystal clear vessel, which simply subverted their understanding of the vessel.

Although glass also has different solid colors of utensils, there is absolutely nothing more transparent than crystal.

"Your son-in-law...you..."

Emperor Wei looked at the glassware on the table, looked up at Qin Yu again, his eyes full of disbelief.

He really didn't expect that this was glass.

Is glass really better than glass?

Things are vaguely expensive.

After all, no one in this world has ever seen a transparent vessel.

Qin Yu smiled indifferently and pondered: "Your Majesty, how about it? This glassware is not bad, right?"

Emperor Wei nodded and said, "Okay, very good. This texture, this craftsmanship, and this crystal clear texture are not stronger than this glassware?"

As he said that, he asked again: "Is the cost of glass really much lower than that of glass?"

Qin Yufeng said lightly: "Of course, the glassware on our table cannot be as high as one or two of this glassware."

"Pingzhou glassware is made of glass raw stone. Our glassware is made of quartz sand, so the cost is definitely much lower."

This statement is implemented.

All the humerus were shocked.

"This... is so exaggerated? The cost of glassware is a bit too low. Compared with glassware, Pingzhou Glassware has no advantage at all."

"How can quartz sand make such a crystal clear vessel? It's incredible!"

"The prince-consort is really the nemesis of Pingzhou and Dongzhou. They just broke through the price of glassware, but the prince-consort made the glassware with his backhand."

"Lean and transparent, it is even more beautiful than crystal vessels. This time Dongzhou is in trouble."

......

Everyone looked at the glassware and talked a lot, and they were amazed in their words.

They really couldn't think of how quartz sand was polished into transparent glass. This was simply a magical method of turning stones into gold.

Emperor Wei suddenly looked at Qin Yu and asked, "Although the price of our glassware is low, we can't sell it too cheap, right? After all, this is something that only we have, and it is impossible for others to make it."

Emperor Wei was so happy.
Chapter completed!