There is a dilapidated house next to the river in the east of Maowan Village.

This place turned out to be a village hall, also called a village hall, with a stage and several houses.

The role of the community hall is like a village office, which belongs to the authority of villagers' autonomy. The construction of the stage is also to enrich the villagers' entertainment life. However, Maowan Village is too close to Yanggong Town, so there has been almost no program performed on this stage.

Another function of the community is to deal with public security incidents such as theft, robbery, adultery, or neighborhood disputes. When encountering such sensation in the whole village, the village will be hosted by the village officials and several respected elderly people in the village to hold meetings for the whole village, and use village rules and regulations for mediation or sanctions.

However, this kind of thing is rare, sometimes it can't be encountered once every few years, and the community will become abandoned after being idle for a long time.

Since successfully burning glass with crystals in the blacksmith shop, Zhao Qi discussed with Mr. Yang San and temporarily rented the hall and changed it to a glass workshop.

The crystal glass given to Wu Qian, Wu Wenying, Ye Mengding and the glass products sold to the Lu family this time were made here.

There are few people coming to the community on weekdays, and only some little kids will come to play without any trouble. However, since Zhao Qi took over, he has put on a sign of idle people at the door and promoted it in the village, asking the little kids not to play without any trouble. Given Zhao Qi's prestige in Maowan Village, this order has been executed very well. Not only adults can help watch, but the children are also obedient and do not go to the community to play.

Bypassing the stage, behind were several dilapidated houses, one of which was converted into a glass workshop, and several small charcoal furnaces were built, and several other houses were also converted into places for stacking coal, quartz and crystal stone and rest.

When Zhao Qi came in, there were only four people working inside, one was the old glass worker Cui Laoyao, the other was the naive Li San, and the other was Yang Dahu's two apprentices. Mr. Liu would come to visit on weekdays. However, Zhao Qi has not arranged any tasks recently. There are only four people in the glass workshop. The work is quite easy, and they do whatever they want. They also do whatever they want to make glass. The main purpose is to practice proficiency in making glass and prepare for opening a glass factory in the future.

Of course, because of the host of Cui Laoyao, the master glass craftsman, the glass workshop has achieved remarkable achievements in the past few months. In addition to the few crystal works that were rushed to be made for Wu Qian and Wu Wenying and Ye Mengding, the works sold to the Lu family are much stronger in terms of both craftsmanship and fineness.

There is a house in the hall now that there are many exquisite crystal glass products, Buddha statues, treasure trees, vases, gourds, dragon and phoenix shapes, twelve zodiac signs, etc. Most of them are traditional glass shapes. In addition, there are items such as cups, jars, meal plates, dishes, lampshades, and mirrors designed by Zhao Qi.

Anyway, over the past few months, hundreds of large and small crystal glass products have been accumulated. If they are sold at the terrifying price of the charity sale, they are probably worth tens of millions of yuan.

This is also the reason why Zhao Qi thinks he is a liar.

The crystal is a little better, after all, the crystal is small and it is worth a little money.

But the ordinary glass being developed is really worthless. It is just that some children go to the river to dig some quartz stones, clean it, and then pound it into an iron mortar.

Compared with pure crystal materials, high-end glass products can be made, and ordinary quartz materials contain more magazines. Not only is the transparency much worse, but the color is not as rich as crystal materials. Therefore, if you want to make ordinary glass on a large scale in the future, you have to find a way to reduce the melting point of quartz materials, because quartz stone and crystal actually have the same composition and the melting point is similar. It takes at least one hour to boil a pot, which is too time-consuming and labor-intensive and charcoal-intensive. What Zhao Qi needs is not high-standard quartz glass, but only needs to develop ordinary silicate glass with low melting point, which is actually the kind of glass that can be big cannibal.

The ingredients of silicate glass are more complicated, such as calcium silicate, sodium silicate, silicate, and perhaps some indescribable magazines mixed in. It is precisely because so many ingredients with different melting points are mixed together that ordinary glass can soften at seven or eight hundred degrees and melt completely at about one thousand degrees. This can greatly save manpower and material resources and speed up the manufacturing of glass products.

Although Zhao Qi had seen others blowing glass, he actually didn't know the ingredients of ordinary glass. He could only tell Cui Laoyao about the general idea and then slowly explored it themselves, adding some calcium and sodium ingredients such as limestone and caustic soda and quartz materials to melt them together and then observed the effect.

It was precisely with the guidance of Zhao Qi, a half-baked engineer, that the development of ordinary glass has achieved phased results recently, and the ratio of quartz stone, limestone and caustic soda has been explored.

"The shopkeeper is here!" Seeing Zhao Qi coming in, Cui Laoyao, who was busy working in the room in a thick cowhide apron, quickly put down the work in his hand and greeted him.

"Hello, Brother Qi!" The two helpers and the iron naive Li San also said hello respectfully.

"Okay, Mr. Cui, have you made any good things in the past few days?" Zhao Qi nodded and asked with a smile.

"There is no good stuff, but the glass I made in the past two days is much better than the big cannibals. The shopkeeper looked at these samples..."

Cui Laoyao asked a helper to bring in a few glass products and put them on the workbench. They were basically bottles and jars, and they were also in shapes of small animals. However, they were praised by the two helpers at first glance.

"It's good, the transparency is very good, and there are a lot less bubbles. I guess the time for stirring is not enough..."

Looking at these light green glass products, Zhao Qi also expressed his opinions when he praised them.

"Brother Qi, I'm afraid it's not a problem with the stirring time. We have stirred these glasses for a long time, but there are still bubbles. It should be that there are some other impurities you don't know about!" said a helper.

"It's also possible. I don't know how to do this. You can try it slowly. In addition to limestone and caustic soda, you can also add some other things to try. Test it boldly, don't be afraid of failure. Anyway, these glasses are not valuable. If anyone can completely solve the bubbles in the glass or make a glass of different colors, I will be rewarded with fifty jin of money..."

Zhao Qi used all the bonus techniques that were unfavorable, and both assistants were happy to rub their fists and roll up their sleeves, saying that they would definitely be able to complete this task.

After following Zhao Qi for two or three months in the glass workshop, both old man Cui and two assistants were familiar with burning glass, and even talked about various ingredients. Only the naive Li San thought simple, just like a human-shaped blow molding machine, he would only blow glass with his cheeks all day long. After training for a few months, his cheeks were obviously bulging in a big circle, and he could blow a bottle more than one foot long in one breath.

"I'll give you a new task today!" Zhao Qi and two other assistants screamed excitedly, and then took out a few drawings from their handbag.

"What's this thing about the shopkeeper?" Cui Laoyao picked up a few drawings and turned them over and felt a little confused.

"This is a beaker...This is a flask...This is a test tube...This is a decanter...This is a measuring cylinder..."

"The last one is an alcohol lamp!"

Zhao Qi introduced all the things drawn on several drawings one by one, and then explained the various numbers marked on it clearly.

"Old Cui, these things are of great use, so I should be made more refined and try to make them according to the size and size above. Also, these are made of the best crystal materials!" After the explanation, Zhao Qi reminded Cui Laoyao very seriously.

"Don't worry, the shopkeeper, I must do it carefully according to the drawings, but we don't have much crystal material. Do you think you'll get some more?" Cui Laoyao reminded.

"Okay, I will find a way to do this. Let's put down your work first and help me make these utensils as soon as possible!"

"Okay, Akui goes to choose crystal materials, Sanhanzi goes to help, prepare taro for the stove, and prepare for the cooking!" Cui Laoyao did not delay the water and gave a few instructions, and the four of them started to work hard.
Chapter completed!