Chapter 1,710 Glazed Beads

Zhao Xiaoyi can't help but look like a colander now. At the Polytechnic Institute, everyone stuck out their buttocks to pick out crickets, patted paper tofu, folded flying kites, burned ants with a magnifying glass, and sprayed water on the sun to see the rainbow...

When was it not your child's trick? Why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf in front of me now?!

He also held up his hands with a playful smile: "Brother, I'm going to ask Shang Ziheng, the port manager of this city."

Colander waved his hand with a look of disdain on his face: "Mr. Liu is my boss and someone I have always admired. Of course I should treat you like a distinguished guest. But you and I are classmates at the Polytechnic. When we were young, we stuck our butts out, picked out crickets, and slapped paper together.

Tofu, folding flying kites, burning ants with a magnifying glass, spraying water at the sun to see a rainbow, how could I have done without you? Why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf in front of me now?!"

Zhao Xiaoyi was stunned, I went to save face for you and didn’t say anything, but you just grabbed me, beat me up, and blocked my mouth!

Civil servants are shameless and shameless. Are you familiar with the colander now?!

He smiled bitterly and said: "That's right. This time we went on a voyage to Golden Urn City, we also brought a scientific expedition team. I heard that the Kunlun people in Daxi Prefecture don't care about anything but colorful beads. Guangzhou only has so many of these things now. Zi Heng

Get some for me, brother."

The colander asked: "Glass or glazed?"

"Glazed ones, I don't like the glass ones."

Colander felt confused: "What's wrong with this?"

Zhao Xiaoyi was helpless: "I don't know, maybe... from the sun?"

Colander was a little worried about his old friend: "Jiedu, why did you get this job?"

Zhao Xiaoyi shook his head: "I used to feel that although I couldn't compare with my thirteenth uncle, Mr. Shao, I was not much different from Brother Bian Guan, my seventeenth uncle. After staying in Songcheng for two years, I realized that I was just a frog in the well. Even Pingzheng

There is a long way to go to prosperous capital."

"On this voyage, I begged the Empress Dowager to go out and see no matter what. I already missed it when I read thousands of books. Traveling thousands of miles is still possible."

Colander said: "Since Jiedu has this ambition, I can't stop my foolish brother, but we have to prepare things properly."

"I have been in Guangzhou for more than two years. I have experienced some navigational accidents and tropical diseases. There are a few things that must be prepared."

Zhao Xiaoyi took out the notebook and said, "Brother, tell me."

The colander said: "Sewing machine, canvas, cable, cinchona, mycotin, iodine, and white medicine."

"By the way, there is something I must bring with me."

"what?"

"Decolorizing powder was originally a by-product of the strong oxidant potassium chlorate, a substance used to increase the power of explosives."

"Later Shen Cunzhong discovered that after absorbing the chlorination tower exhaust gas with slaked lime milk, in addition to decolorizing paper, fabrics, grease, etc., the Royal College of Medicine also discovered that this product also has a very good disinfection and sterilization effect, but the dosage must be controlled well."

Zhao Xiaoyi was overjoyed: "Navigation is most afraid of fresh water being corrupted. This can solve a big problem!"

Colander said: "Other brothers don't need my advice. Guangzhou is also now engaged in ship repair, manufacturing, and material exchange. There are all these. Brother, if you need anything, just tell me and I will prepare it for you."

Zhao Xiaoyi was happy now: "Then I will open my mouth like a lion and take them all!"

At this time, Nurma came out with a large plate of pig cakes. Colander smiled and said: "Then after we have eaten, let's go to the glaze workshop? Ming Gong must try this. If the pig cakes are not freshly smoked,

It’s made from fire-cured meat, but it always tastes a little bit different.”

After a delicious meal of pig cake, Colander invited Zhao Xiaoyi and Liu Zhi to inspect Liulifang.

Liu Zhi lived a simple life and usually had little interest in these things, but now that he had become a local official, he had to pay attention to the industries that made Guangzhou prosperous.

When Liulvifang was first built in Bianjing City, the common people added a word of treasure, called Liulicaofang. This name is still in use today. It was an industry that made the royal family "live for a thousand years".

Liu Zhi came here with the intention of visiting the treasure, but was disappointed at first sight.

The production of glass beads is really simple.

Craftsmen who make glass beads are called "lamp workers" because they have a blowtorch in front of them.

Dip a metal rod into a glass material and rotate it. Use a smooth flat plate to press the glass material into a cylinder wrapped around the metal rod. This is the bottom bead embryo.

Then take another color of glass fiber and operate it with the blowtorch, turn the bottom bead embryo, and wrap the softened glass fiber around the embryo to get the twisted silk embryo.

Sprinkle some small glass beads on the semi-molten embryo, continue to rotate the embryo rod under the blowtorch, and press it into a cylinder again with a metal sheet, and you will get the eye-twisted embryo.

Then use a metal piece with a row of semi-circular teeth to press the rotating embryonic rod, and you will get the glass beads.

Afterwards, the beads are cut off with an iron sheet, and the sharp cracks on both sides of the hole are melted and smoothed using a blowtorch to obtain the finished product.

To put it bluntly, this is the most original and simple glass processing technology. According to the words of the old master of Liulicang in Guangzhou, this thing is still far from being an "apprentice worker". He doesn't even bother to supervise the workers and lets them do whatever they want.

They used their creativity and the beads they made were of course of all kinds, with all kinds of designs and colors.

Liu Zhi felt that he had been hit hard. His wife at home was a Buddhist, and his son once spent fifty guan to buy a string of glazed Buddhist beads from the Daxiangguo Temple to honor his mother. He thought it was too extravagant, so he treated his son according to the family law.

As a result, my old wife ignored me for half a month.

As a conscience, at that time when I first entered the Imperial Academy, my monthly salary was just over 100 yuan, which was three to four times lower than the salary of my son who worked as an errand at Huangsong Bank.

But his son's money is money, and fifty dollars really made him feel heartbroken for a long time.

Now I understand. No wonder Su Mingrun regards money as dirt. When he was appointed minister, he didn't even bother to touch money and left it all to his deputy...

The real Midas touch! Can he be short of money?

Then he looked at the colander that was explaining matters to the old craftsman. I heard that this kid was also a little god of wealth.

For example, the caramel syrup of fried sugar-oiled fruits can be fished out with a slotted spoon, and the shredded tangerine peel and turmeric, which are specialties of Chakeng, are made into tangerine peel caramel and turmeric caramel, creating two popular candies.

.

There is also barbecued pork, which is so delicious that it will be sold out at night. The colander will ask the cook to chop it into pieces, add marinade and gravy, make stuffing, and steam it into cracked buns.

Liu Zhi looked at Colander, who was only eighteen years old. When he and Jiang Zhiqi were away, this kid not only took care of all the government affairs clearly, but also had time to go to the tea pit to rest and kill the New Year pig?!

Although patrolling around is the main job of the Transportation Department, but... isn't this a little too relaxed?

Hmm... Guangnan East Road, what a great place, my last stop for becoming an official, the road is wide...

Damingfu, Feixiang, Wujiazhuang.

A team of fast horses galloped past the entrance of the village, and Wu Conzhi laughed loudly: "God gave Xianqing some face. It snowed for a few days as soon as he arrived, and the wild beasts were about to come down the mountain. We have made plans for this hunt."

harvest!"

Shi Wei was wearing a down hunting suit and a mask. On one side of the horse was a gun, and on the other side was a strong bow with two stones and four buckets. She had three quivers behind her, and she was also galloping. Her buttocks had left the saddle, which showed her excitement.

.

Behind Shi Wei were Cheng Yue, Bian Guan, and Wu Xun who had returned to Xiu Mu, also fully armed.

Behind him was a group of disciples from the Archery Club.

Su You was taking a walk in Zhuangzi, accompanied by Xin Niang and Bi Guan. He watched the children skating, pulling ice sleds and playing tops on the edge of the open dam. Seeing the hunting team whizzing by, he couldn't help but laugh: "My wife has been restrained in recent years.

You must be cruel, let Lao Wu organize a hunt as a reward, don’t blame Xin Niang.”

Xin Niang smiled and said: "It seems that Old Wu was even more excited and went hunting in the mountains hundreds of miles away during New Year's Eve. Isn't this a punishment?!"

Su You smiled and said, "Mother Xin, just like when you embroider something, you must split the finest Su family silk thread into six strands for use. Isn't it also a punishment?"

Xin Niang couldn't help shaking her head and laughing: "This... everyone really has their own obsessions."

Su You said: "So, there is an old saying in Shu, 'If you want justice, turn it upside down.' If you put yourself in the other person's position and think about it, there will be harmony between husband and wife."
Chapter completed!