Chapter 13 Quick Projects (3)
The morning sun shines on the yard, and the new mud outside the stove finally drys. The flat mud surface looks very comfortable.
Huo Chong stood in the yard facing Chaoyang, and everyone in the workshop immediately stepped back. Huo Chong also had leather shoes with shiny shirts and trousers. The material of this outfit was not uncommon in the 21st century. In early April 1717, a group of people wearing coarse cloth clothes were far superior.
Huo Chong imitated Uncle Ying's appearance in the Taoist movie, pinched his fingering with his left hand, and made simple and bright gestures. He muttered the English spell of 'a, big, strong, gragon; holy, long, life, earth, god...', and cast the magic around the burning stove.
If possible, Huo Chong wanted to shout loudly, "The Great Powerful Heavenly Dragon, the World-Honored Ksitigarbha, the Prajna Buddhas, and Prajna Pa Mama Hun!"
However, the Tianli Buddhism is not a sect that evolved from Buddhism, but is similar to Taoism. However, it is not suitable to recite the "urgent and law" as well. After all, Huo Chong's teacher, Uncle Liu, said that Shandong Taoism has its own heritage, so don't provoke it easily.
Huo Chong used Taoist methods and was heard by Taoist people, and he would not have any conflicts.
The practice was not long because Huo Chong himself had not performed too long for a drill. After reciting a few spells, Huo Chong rotated his palms like a wheel in front of his chest, and lined up one palm on the stove. After a while, Huo Chong withdrew his palm, took a few steps back, and closed his eyes without saying a word.
Seeing that Huo Chong didn't know whether to finish the merit or to prepare for another period, Li Tongshan, who was a little anxious, asked in a low voice: "Brother Huo, how are you?"
Huo Chong shook his head slightly. After a while, he let out a long sigh and returned to his normal posture. He looked up and said to Li Tongshan: "This is almost the same. Brother Li, you can try it on the furnace."
Li Tongshan hurriedly ordered his friend to connect the bellows to several iron pipes that Huo Chong had cast a spell. Huo Chong didn't look at it much and went out to get some air.
Xu Youlin followed him out and whispered beside Huo Chong: "Brother Huo, do you understand magic?"
Huo Chong didn't explain, but just smiled and said, "You have to learn a little, otherwise how to deal with various things. But I just don't have patience and haven't learned it for too long."
Xu Youlin narrowed his already slender eyes and looked like he was asleep. After a while, Xu Youlin asked in a low voice: "Didn't this learn from your master?"
"Hmph!" Huo Chong laughed in a profound way. It would be nice that Xu Youlin had such insights. If Huo Chong said that he learned these things from Uncle Liu, it would give Huo Chong a relatively low feeling.
I thought that even if Xu Youlin didn't bow down, he would at least feel awe. Unexpectedly, Xu Youlin continued to lower his voice and said, "Brother Huo, this is the sixth day. You said it's seven days..."
Huo Chong immediately interrupted Xu Youlin, "I'm talking about ten days to get on."
"I can't wait that long." Xu Youlin was obviously anxious.
Huo Chong was not used to Xu Youlin either. Since they were all grasshoppers on the same rope, it was no longer the turn of Xu Youlin to issue orders, "Then you have to go back first."
Xu Youlin sighed and stopped talking.
At noon, Li Tongshan's expression was already full of excitement. Looking at the green flames in the stove, Li Tongshan gave Huo Chong a thumbs up, "Brother Huo, this Feng Shui has changed, it's really different!"
Huo Chong smiled indifferently, "Brother Li, when burning Liuli, your brothers will need to put in more strength. If the gold wind is uneven and the fire is too strong, the fire overcomes the gold, Liuli will inevitably be damaged."
Li Tongshan nodded repeatedly and replied convincingly: "This is natural!"
At this time, the guys wore cotton jackets, which were covered with water-sprayed linen clothes. They put on gloves and stirred hard in the large furnace of molten glass with iron rods mounted on wooden handles.
Huo Chong was looking forward to it, but the furnace was too hot, so Huo Chong didn't dare to get too close.
At this time, only science and technology can be believed. Huo Chong sighed in his heart. Li Tongshan's furnace was a furnace with a certain technical content in this era. It used coal as fuel and also installed a blast furnace. The blast was used to increase the furnace entering the combustion and increase the furnace temperature.
Huo Chong added an air preheater to the furnace. The iron pipes passed through the bottom of the furnace. When the air flowed through the iron pipe, it was already heated. The air entering the furnace was no longer room temperature air, but hot air that was on Baidu or even hundreds of degrees.
This small technological advancement directly changed modern metallurgical technology, increasing the effective heating temperature of the furnace by thousands of degrees. Even though Li Tongshan's furnace only uses very primitive devices, Huo Chong believed that it could increase by hundreds of degrees no matter how it was.
One of the key points in making glass is to "continuously stir". According to the information, when Western Europeans spent a lot of money to buy bubble-free glass from Italian craftsmen, the money was used up and finally got the word "stirring". From then on, Western European glass manufacturing industry soared and soon caught up with the level of Venetian profiteers.
What is burned here is glass instead of glass, and Huo Chong hopes that these two technologies can also work.
Stayed in Li Tongshan's workshop all day. The next morning, Li Tongshan personally took action. He used an iron spoon to scoop out a spoonful of molten glazed slurry, and Huo Chong dipped an iron tube into a ball of viscous hot glazed slurry. He blew hard and saw a bubble appearing in the glazed slurry.
The huge bubbles slowly sag with gravity, forming a very irregular bubble.
According to the information I have read, Huo Chong soaked the slurry on the iron plate while blowing, and rolled it out gradually. Its appearance inside was very uneven, completely different from modern bottles.
"Good means!" Li Tongshan cheered again.
Huo Chong didn't know what to do next. Seeing that the red glass bottle gradually cooled down, it had solidified to a hardness that could not continue to bend.
After letting go of the iron pipe, Huo Chong sighed: "Brother Li, I really can't win. You have played a lot of glass, so you have to do it next."
Li Tongshan didn't say anything, but picked up an iron pipe, dipped it in glass paste and started blowing the bottle. As the master of the glass workshop, Li Tongshan was much more skilled than Huo Chong. Not long after, a glass bottle was blown out.
Even while the glass was softer, Li Tongshan looked at the action of shattering the glass bottle and made a flat bottom at the bottom of the bottle.
When the bottle solidified and formed, Li Tongshan used a scratching knife to scratch the bottle mouth. He lifted his hand and fell. The bottle did not break, but broke directly from the scratch.
Huo Chong took the bottle and looked left and right. Of course, this thing could not be compared with the bottles processed and refined in the 21st century, but it looked translucent. He went out to fill the water and looked at the sun. He saw the liquid in the bottle shaking in the bottle. Without looking at the sun, the glass bottle was like frosted glass, and he could still clearly see the location of the water line.
He proudly handed the bottle to Xu Youlin, and Huo Chong asked, "Can this be sold?"
Xu Youlin took the bottle and looked left and right, and the gloomy that had been around had disappeared a lot. After a while, Xu Youlin's expression became gloomy again, "Brother Huo, the bottle is good. But this is the quality..."
Huo Chong could understand Xu Youlin's thoughts. The color of this glass wine bottle felt like yellow, and the bottle was not clear and transparent, so it felt really weird.
After thinking about it, Huo Chong had a solution. "Brother Xu, give me some copper coins."
When Xu Youlin heard Huo Chong ask for money, he seemed to be scalded by hot glass pulp, and immediately stepped back and replied: "No!"
"I don't want money." Huo Chong advised.
Xu Youlin looked like 'I'm not fooled', "I don't want money, why do you ask me for money?"
"I want to use something from the money."
On the tenth day, a pile of blue-green glass bottles were placed in front of Xu Youlin. Xu Youlin picked them up and looked around, and he couldn't put them down.
Huo Chong stretched and yawned a big yawn, "Let's go and see how the wine is!"
Xu Youlin said with a gloomy face again: "No, go back first to see what my people are doing. The surname Huo, if your healing method hurts me..."
Chapter completed!