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On the seventh day of January, Liu Ce and Song Yanran, together with two teams, came to Yuncheng first and began to patrol the industrial progress here...

In Yuncheng, Liu Ce entered the earliest stronghold in Jizhou, less than 100 miles from Yong'an, and was selected by Xu Wenjing and then built with hundreds of thousands of lives of Hu people in southern Hebei.

It is no exaggeration to say that every inch of land here is made of countless white bones. Just because of the wall construction of this city, at least thirty alien tribes in southern Hebei have completely become history, and they can be said to be piled up with white bones.

But it is precisely because of Liu Ce's iron-blooded policy and Xu Wenjing's ruthlessness that in just two or three years, there were nearly two million aliens who had settled in southern Hebei, with less than 800,000 remaining. The remaining ones were mostly annexed and strengthened by the tribes such as the Mu tribe and Wu tribe.

The "Shun Chang and Death" policy formulated back then was perfectly reflected in this land.

However, thanks to Liu Ce, Xu Wenjing's cruel methods have earned enough living space for the people of the Central Plains and avoid being completely enslaved.

Today, Yuncheng has completely become an "industrial" city, with various industrial shops and chimneys emitting black smoke everywhere.

Liu Ce’s first stop when he arrived in Yuncheng was to go to the glass factory first. Now there are many varieties of glass products, and the scale is much larger than last year. If the time is ripe, Liu Ce plans to sell glass products to the entire Far East.

Of course, the price will not be as outrageous as in the previous life. After all, the ancients were not stupid. Once they found out that they were deceived, they would definitely boycott each other, which would be unfavorable to long-term development.

But the price cannot be set too low, so as not to make people feel that these things are not on the table. In short, a reasonable price is the most suitable choice.

When Liu Ce and his group arrived at the gate of the glass factory, they immediately turned over and got off the horse and came to the four-wheeled carriage specially prepared for Song Yanran. They were about to knock on the door and call her, but they saw Song Yanran jumping out of the carriage by herself.

"ha……"

Song Yanran slapped her palm, then tightened her body with the pure white martened edelves that Liu Ce had given her in the past. Her eyes narrowed into a crescent slit. She looked at the plaque on the glass factory and wrote "Yuncheng Glass" and smiled sweetly.

Liu Ce was also in a daze when he looked at Song Yanran's beautiful face. Her smile was particularly innocent, without any conspiracy and artificiality, which made him particularly fascinated.

Suddenly, Song Yanran said, "Brother Liu, I have always wanted to come here to see it. I am very curious about how those beautiful glasses are made, but I don't dare to come without your consent..."

Liu Ce laughed and said, "Okay, I'll say hello to the head of the factory. If you want to come, you will come in the future, no one will stop you..."

"Really?" Song Yanran smiled, "Then I'm not polite, hell..."

Seeing that Song Yanran was still as innocent as when she first met, Liu Ce made up his mind to never let her down in this life.

After calming down, Liu Ce smiled at Song Yanran and said, "Let's go in and take a look. If you have something you like, just take it..."

Upon hearing this, Song Yanran pouted and said to Liu Ce: "If I like it all, would you give me the entire glass factory?"

Liu Ce gently lowered his eyes and said softly: "If you like it, then this factory will give it to you. I will ask the Civil Affairs Department to change this factory to your name, how about it?"

Song Yanran was stunned when she heard this, her beautiful eyes frowned slightly: "Why have you been so kind to me suddenly?"

Liu Ce smiled and said, "I'm not good to you, who else can treat you well? Anyway, I will do my best to satisfy you whatever you want. Please ask me if you have any requirements..."

This is equivalent to Liu Ce giving Song Yanran a hint: As long as I, Liu Ce, are here, no one can hurt you in the future, and Liu Ce is the biggest backer behind Song Yanran.

Song Yanran looked at Liu Ce in a daze, and saw that his expression was not as fake, and she couldn't help feeling a little panic.

Since Liu Ce returned, Song Yanran also discovered Liu Ce's changes. She always looked for opportunities to get along with her again and again, and her words were more gentle and caring than before. She could clearly feel that Liu Ce's feelings for her were stronger than before, which made Song Yanran very happy, as sweet as if she had eaten.

"We'd better go in..."

Song Yanran turned away from Liu Ce's fiery gaze at her, responded with a pretty face red, and stepped into the glass factory gate first. Liu Ce looked at Song Yanran's figure, smiled and shook his head, and then followed closely...

Yuncheng Liuli Factory was planned by Liu Ce and constructed by Ye Bin. After two years of development, the glass products in the interior are now varied and the workmanship is more refined.

After entering the factory, the workshop supervisor took Liu Ce and Song Yanran and others to show them new glass products in the placement room.

The neat and bright tabletop was filled with glass-made crafts: dining plates, wine pots, fish tanks, fruit plates, various wine glasses, vases and other series of glass products. Song Yanran was dazzled and smiled.

But he saw Song Yanran stroke a glass vase and said with a smile: "This vase is so beautiful. It is used to arrange flowers and place it in Sister Xue's room. He will definitely like it..."

Then she came to a piece of glass products and said, "Sister Yue likes to drink wine, this is just right. This fruit plate is for Sister Jiang, and this fish tank is for Sister Xia's room..."

Looking at Song Yanran excitedly distributing the glass products in front of her, Liu Ce called the supervisor to the front and whispered: "As the wife of the military governor said, prepare a few more of these finished products and send them to the military governor's office tomorrow."

The supervisor immediately followed Liu Ce's instructions to follow the instructions of the factory workers. Of course, he obeyed Liu Ce's words unconditionally.

After visiting the finished glass products in the decoration room, Liu Ce took Song Yanran to continue walking towards the workshop where the finished craft products were manufactured.

As soon as I entered the manufacturing workshop, a heat wave rushed towards Liu Ce, Song Yanran and others. The atmosphere here was completely different from the finished room where the display was finished, and it was full of busy figures of workers.

Liu Ce was afraid that Song Yanran would not be able to stand the atmosphere here, so he instinctively wanted to hold her into his arms. He didn't expect that his hand was about to touch her shoulders, but Song Yanran walked straight towards a hydraulic hammer that was constantly working.

I saw a row of forging hammers gently hitting the red "solution" placed below and placed in the mold. The "solution" slowly began to deform. After it turned into a meal plate, the craftsman waiting beside him carefully took it out with a long flat shovel and placed it at a designated location to cool.

After a while, after the solution cools down and solidifies, the craftsman uses pliers to remove the glass products in the mold. Even if a plate is initially completed, the next thing to do is to grind the rough defects on the glass plate with special fine sand and grinding stone before it is completed.

Song Yanran was amazed at this. Seeing the pairs of finished glass products being made so easily and conveniently, she couldn't help but ask Liu Ce curiously: "Brother Liu, how much do you plan to sell a glass plate like you?"

Liu Ce smiled slightly when he heard this: "I haven't thought about it yet, why don't you set a price? How much do you say?"

Song Yanran shook her head with her cheeks and said, "I really don't know this, but I think it's the one that really valuable..."

But Song Yanran pointed her finger at the working hydraulic forging hammer and continued: "If such a crispy thing is made by hand alone, it will definitely not be able to be consistent with hundreds of plates, but with this hammer, it can be done, so I think compared to these glasses, the most valuable thing should be the hammer."

"clever!"

When Liu Ce heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. He secretly praised himself and nodded to Song Yanran and said, "Yanran, you are right. Apart from craftsmen, the most valuable thing in this Liuli Factory is this hydraulic forging. I didn't expect you to be so smart..."

Hearing Liu Ce's praise, Song Yanran smiled sweetly again: "Hehe, General Liu, I'm not blind. I just saw how to make it. Of course I know some tips, but this thing is really amazing. As long as there is a big water truck running behind it, no one will do it himself..."

Liu Ce said: "In fact, it is not all due to these forging hammers. Many of the products here cannot be operated by forging hammers. Let's take you to other markets to see..."

As he said that, he took Song Yanran's hand and walked towards another workshop...

As soon as she entered the workshop, Song Yanran suddenly felt that it was hotter than the workshop just now, but it became much quieter.

The craftsmen in this workshop were all sitting quietly in front of their workbenches with dark black flat light mirrors, poured the red solution into a designated container mold, and then put their mouths on a glass straw. As they slowly blew, the liquid in the container began to slowly squirm, and immediately emitted dazzling light.

Song Yanran was immediately attracted by this magical scene and hurriedly wanted to come over and watch it carefully, but was stopped by Liu Ce.

Liu Ce whispered in Song Yanran's ear: "Yanran, don't bother them. You can't be distracted at this time, otherwise their efforts will be wasted..."

Upon hearing this, Song Yanran stretched out her tongue and whispered to Liu Ce: "I understand..."

Liu Ce smiled and explained to Song Yanran: "In fact, the glass products made by these craftsmen are the most expensive. Every craftsman here is a skilled and patient senior craftsman, and is also the most earned craftsman in this factory..."

After listening to Liu Ce's explanation, Song Yanran learned the difference between this workshop. These craftsmen had to blow them into molds at one time before the solution cooled down under the high temperature, and the blowing force must be kept even. If there was a slight difference, they would declare failure and scrap.

The exquisite vases and utensils outside are blown by craftsmen. In fact, behind each finished product, there is a price for scrapping two or three defective products. This position is really not something that ordinary people can do.

After listening to Liu Ce's explanation, Song Yanran pulled the corner of his clothes and said, "Brother Liu, I don't like it very much, so I'd better take me to another place to see..."

How could Liu Ce not understand Song Yanran’s meaning? She didn’t want these craftsmen to be distracted, so she deliberately found such a bad reason. In fact, she wanted to feel the feeling of blowing glass...

However, Liu Ce couldn't bear to leave Song Yanran staying in such a hot place. Since she said that, she didn't point it out and said with a smile: "Then I'll take you to other places to visit..."

"Um……"

Song Yanran nodded slightly, and then reluctantly left the workshop with Liu Ce.

Afterwards, Liu Ce took Song Yanran and accompanied by the supervisor to visit the other workshops. Various novel craftsmanship made Song Yanran feast their eyes. It was not until noon that he still wanted to leave the factory with Liu Ce.

Each process of glass products has its own assembly line workshop, from material processing to the final finished product. Only Liu Ce and other trusted people know that even if a person is interested, he will not steal the core technology even if he poaches the craftsmen in the factory.
Chapter completed!