The most arrogant in history

Chapter 266: Armed fight.

Ye Kun glared and said, "Your daughter and Mr. A are in love with each other. One is willing to marry and the other is willing to marry. Am I the one who sentenced her to remarry? I am respecting their opinions and fulfilling their wish!"

Lao Zhang shut up.

Ms. Zhang and the scoundrel sighed and groaned, unable to cry.

Ye Kun ordered the court to adjourn and asked the relevant personnel to carry out the order immediately. He also instructed Ma Zhao:

"Our relevant laws need to be further refined, and trials and executions must be open. As long as we are open, just and fair, the people will be in awe and convinced."

Ma Zhao smiled and said, "If no one interferes, I can be fair, just and open, but I'm afraid..."

“No one, including me, may interfere with the administration of justice.”

Ye Kun reiterated: "If a governor breaks the law, he will be punished just like the common people. Please respect yourselves."

Without clear laws, it is impossible to restrain people's hearts, officials and gentry.

Ye Kun promoted Ma Zhao because he admired his impartiality.

Of course, Ma Zhao also kept an eye on Ye Kun, making Ye Kun feel uncomfortable sometimes.

News came from Changsha that Shangguan Jifu and Wei Ning were making smooth progress in their attack on Kuai Qu, Wei Kang and others.

But unexpectedly, this bastard Wei Kang actually surrendered to Xiao Dequan of Yangzhou and handed over the two counties of Yichun and Nanxiang to Jiangdong!

Now, the Jiangdong army occupied Yichun and confronted the coalition forces of Shangguan Jifu and Wei Ning.

Ye Kun sent a pigeon to deliver a letter, suggesting that Shangguan Jifu besiege the city and wait until his gunpowder reserves were sufficient before launching a strong attack on Yichun.

The manufacture of gunpowder is labor-intensive and costly.

Saltpeter is produced in the Han River area, but it is difficult to mine near the river, and the output is low and cannot keep up with the supply.

Ye Kun had no choice but to order the military camp to renovate the toilets and install special urinals.

The urinal is elevated, with several layers of split bamboo underneath.

The soldiers urinated on the bamboo, and after about ten days, a layer of white frost would grow on the inner wall of the bamboo, which was saltpeter.

Then pull out the bamboo, scrape off the saltpeter powder with a brush in a special pool, boil it in water, purify it, and it can be used.

This was the traditional method of refining saltpeter used by the older generation of militiamen. Ye Kun had read the book and remembered it clearly.

Organizing an army of 100,000 and using traditional methods to refine saltpeter also resulted in huge output.

It's just that the operators feel uncomfortable and a little disgusting.

If that is still not enough, Ye Kun has many mines and textile factories that can all refine saltpeter in this way.

The person in charge of ceramic production happily reported:

"Master Ye, we have already produced a batch of the colored glaze you mentioned. I brought a few samples for you to see."

"is it?"

Ye Kun was very surprised and came to see the glass samples.

The colored glaze of the Dading Kingdom is glass. The technology was born locally, but it was not taken seriously.

Because in the beginning, ceramics and porcelain were used as tableware and cooking utensils, but glass products easily cracked when exposed to hot water and their performance was not as good as ceramics, so they were abandoned.

After trading with the Western Regions, merchants brought back some colorful glass beads from Rome, which became very popular and were called Daqin Pearls.

Rome at that time was called Daqin.

When the merchants of Dading Kingdom saw it, they thought, "Isn't this our Dading Kingdom's colored glaze? It's not difficult, just burn it yourself."

Therefore, the colored glaze technology was brought up again in the Dading Kingdom, but it was not promoted on a large scale.

Moreover, due to aesthetic issues, the colored glaze technology of the Da Ding Kingdom developed in the direction of imitating jade, pursuing the appearance of beautiful jade, rather than studying transparent glass!

This error in scientific and technological direction restricted the development of optical instruments in China and also seriously affected the progress of physics and astronomy.

Ye Kun doesn't need exquisite colored glaze, but transparent high-quality glass.

The colored glaze produced by the porcelain kiln factory is of good quality and can be made into the shapes of bowls, plates, cups and basins, but it is not transparent.

Some products are semi-transparent.

Ye Kun picked up the translucent glass bowl and told the person in charge of the porcelain kiln factory:

"Immediately set up four colored glaze test factories to test colored glaze production. I need the kind of completely transparent colored glaze. If you can overcome this technology, I will reward you with three hundred taels of gold!"

For every technical challenge, Ye Kun would set up a project and offer rewards to encourage everyone.

The master craftsman in charge of porcelain technology smiled and said, "Master Ye, can you really make transparent colored glaze?"

"It can definitely be done. Just do more experiments." Ye Kun gave some directions and suggestions:

"You can adjust the types and proportions of sand, add a small amount of lime and alkali powder, and slowly experiment. The formula of each experiment must be recorded. The products of each experiment must be marked and preserved. One day, we can make transparent glass."

Making glass is the process of burning sand, mainly quartz sand, and alkaline components and lime need to be added.

However, Ye Kun was not sure about the specific proportions, so he could only let the craftsmen tinker with it themselves.

With a rough formula and a lot of experiments, you can make it one day!

Soda ash powder is not difficult to produce. There is a "Hou's Soda Production Method" in high school chemistry. Ye Kun has already guided alchemists to make soda ash.

As for the opaque glass products produced, they will not be wasted. They can be made into various bottles, jars, cups and plates, which are all in great demand.

Returning to Chunhui Garden in the evening, Ye Kun went to see Xie Baochan.

Xie Baochan lived in Xiyuan, not with Jiang Yourong.

Ye Kun hasn't comforted anyone for more than ten days.

If she is not coaxed, Xie Baochan will probably go home and let her father rebel.

When Xie Baochan saw Ye Kun coming, she was naturally happy and came to greet him with a smile.

Ye Kun smiled and said, "I got some rare things today, and I specially gave them to you."

"Thank you, my husband. I wonder what this strange thing is?"

"Exquisite glass bowls and glass cups."

Ye Kun asked his personal soldiers to take out the glassware they had brought and put it on the table.

There are also two lumps of glass raw materials, one is gourd-shaped and the other is spherical, both weighing seven or eight kilograms.

"Glass bowl?" Xie Baochan picked up a bowl and couldn't let it go. She then asked, "Have you got your mother-in-law and sister Yourong?"

"This is for you. I'll make it for my mother and Yourong later."

"Thank you, husband." Xie Baochan looked at the two pieces of glass on the table and exclaimed, "Such large pieces of colored glass must be expensive."

Although Xie Baochan was literate and well-read, he knew nothing about industrial knowledge.

She thought that this glass, like jade, was naturally generated, mined from mines and then polished.

Ye Kun suppressed his laughter and asked, "Madam, how much do you think these two pieces of colored glaze are worth if they are sold?"

Xie Baochan thought for a moment and said, "It's worth at least a hundred gold coins!"

"Haha, I'm rich."

Ye Kun laughed and said, "This thing is called glass. I made it from sand. Just like porcelain, it is made from white clay."

"Ah, this is made from burned sand?" Xie Baochan couldn't believe it.

"Yes, it is made by burning sand." Ye Kun said with a smile:

"At present, our glass products are still in the research stage. In a month, a batch of mature products will be available. By then, we can sell them for a small amount of money, just in time for the Chinese New Year."

As long as we develop mature technology and processes, the manufacturing cost of glass will be similar to that of porcelain.

Once it is launched on the market, it can make a lot of money.

Xie Baochan asked, "My husband, can I go and see how glass is made from sand?"

Ye Kun nodded: "No problem, I am building a special glass factory. When it is completed, I will take you to see it."

Xie Baochan thanked him, then suddenly pondered and said, "There was a fight outside the north gate this afternoon, and two people were killed. Does my husband know about this?"