Chapter 371: The glass workshop was completed, Yu Qianli was killed
By the way, Wang Gui is indeed in Xiao Ying's hands, and he has sold Xu Xuan out long ago.
Everything that can be said and cannot be said was said all at once.
Xiao Ying did not kill him, but threw him into the Immortal Palace to work.
Wang Gui gets up early and goes to bed late every day, and is exhausted, but he dares not complain.
It is better to live a miserable life than to die.
Early this morning.
Xiao Ying sent Chen Xinghe to the carriage. The two-day rest period was over and Chen Xinghe had to go back to school.
Chen Xinghai also went with them, but he went to the county government office to ask Ning Yuanze about the position of Chaoqinglang.
It turned out that this was just a sinecure, specially used to accommodate officials who were idle at home, and they didn't need to do anything.
Chen Xinghai breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. He could then continue to make pills at home after reporting in.
Xiao Ying was also quite satisfied with this, as she knew that Xinghai's personality was not suitable for being an official.
The emperor probably gave him this sinecure just to elevate his status.
Afternoon.
Qingyu and Dao Mingzhu actually came together, both of them had happy expressions on their faces, and it was obvious that good news was coming.
"You speak first."
"You go first."
"Then I'll say it first."
When they got in front of Xiao Ying, they actually started to give way to each other, and in the end Qingyu spoke first.
He held a box in his hand and presented it respectfully to Xiao Ying, with a hint of nervousness in his excitement.
"Madam, this is the paper that has been improved by the workshop. I brought it here specially for you to review."
Xiao Ying immediately became interested and opened the box and took out a card.
The paper was white and delicate, without a single spot on it.
She asked someone to bring her pen and ink and tried to write a few words, but the words didn't blur out like last time.
All the shortcomings she pointed out last time have been corrected.
This development is really surprising.
“Good paper.”
Xiao Ying praised generously, with approval in his eyes.
"It seems you've been working hard lately to achieve this result so quickly."
Qingyu immediately breathed a sigh of relief. His wife seemed very satisfied with the paper this time.
"This is all thanks to everyone. I was just supervising from the sidelines."
He couldn't help but sigh that Gu Yixian's family was indeed capable.
Xiao Ying smiled and said, "I see all your efforts. Don't worry, I won't let your work be in vain."
"Last time, we said that after the paper is made, each person will be rewarded with three to five taels of silver. Now it seems a bit too little."
"Let's increase the reward to five to ten taels. You can arrange the details."
Qingyu was overjoyed and his whole spirits lifted.
Five to ten taels means at least five taels. For a family like him and Gu Yixian, that’s ten taels!
Madam is so generous.
Even if he was the manager of a paper mill, this silver was equivalent to two months' salary.
"Thank you, Madam. Thank you for the reward!"
"I'll go back and tell everyone this good news. Everyone will definitely be very grateful to Madam when they hear it!"
Xiao Ying said: "No hurry, there is one thing I haven't said yet."
Qingyu couldn't help but calm down a little: "Madam, please speak."
"Now that the paper has been successfully manufactured, it's time to start selling it."
"This time I'm not only going to open shops in Hongye Town and Yun'an County, but also in other county towns and Xizhou Prefecture."
Xiao Ying said this, observing Qingyu's reaction subtly.
As expected, Qingyu suddenly became very thoughtful, and his gaze became serious.
"Please rest assured, Madam. I will make sure everything is arranged and will never let you down."
It would be easy in other counties, but as a lady, she would only be respected by the local county magistrate wherever she went.
But the capital of Xizhou is different, there are many officials and nobles there.
More importantly, all the paper in Xizhou Prefecture comes from the Xia family, a family of immortal cultivators.
The lady opened a shop there, clearly intending to take a piece of the pie from the Xia family, but the Xia family would definitely not allow it.
Seeing that he had no intention of backing down, Xiao Ying nodded in satisfaction.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of anything."
"Yes, ma'am."
Qingyu couldn't help but feel more confident after hearing this.
Since the lady said so, he would just do it.
After Qingyu left, Mingzhu came forward to report.
"Madam, the glass workshop has been completed today. Would you like to go and see it?"
"Of course I have to go and see it."
Xiao Ying nodded. She attached great importance to the glass workshop and would not allow any mistakes to happen.
The glass workshop was built very large, with several raw material warehouses alone.
Over the past ten days, Chunrong and Mingzhu have found several raw materials.
The main material, quartz stone, can be found in the deep mountains. Xiao Ying simply waved his hand and bought the two mountains.
There happened to be limestone in the Immortal Palace, so she directly asked the disciples who were practicing there to mine it, and now there is a lot of it stored.
Pure alkali needs to be purchased, but fortunately it is not expensive and is already on the way.
The most unexpected thing was the feldspar, which was not found in the deep mountains or in the fairy palace.
Finally, she found out that there was a stone mine in Lingzhou next door, which sounded very similar to feldspar, so she sent Xiao Qian to confirm it.
If it is indeed feldspar, then the material is basically sufficient.
The rest, such as some auxiliary materials, require Wang Da Chong and others to experiment themselves.
Guan Peng has already guided people to build two kilns, but he is not sure whether the temperature is high enough, so he can only try step by step.
In addition, it is divided into several districts.
After glass is produced, mirrors, telescopes and other objects will be made based on it.
Everyone was excited and ready to go.
"very nice."
Xiao Ying was very satisfied after seeing it. All he had to do now was wait for all the materials to arrive before he could start working on it.
In order to ensure the safety here, she released a contracted beast at the seventh level of Qi Refining.
This is her most important workshop, so security must naturally be raised to the highest level.
"Master, why not wait until after that incident..."
Ling Yun frowned slightly and wanted to speak to persuade him.
"No problem." Xiao Ying waved his hand: "A contracted beast at the seventh level of Qi Refining can't do anything."
She looked at the contracted beast calmly, hoping that her speculation was wrong.
…
Two days later.
All the potatoes from Yun'an County were finally loaded onto trucks and lined up for miles.
Yu Qianli rode on his own Yuxue BMW and led the way.
Escorting tens of millions of kilograms of food and fodder, they marched northward in a mighty force.
The five thousand soldiers looked solemn. Some of them were responsible for pushing the carts, while the others were guarding on both sides with long swords in hand.
If this batch of food and fodder can be delivered to Beizhou smoothly, the Beizhou army will not have to worry about food in the short term.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I left Yun'an County, an extremely strong pressure suddenly came.
In an instant, two sword lights attacked from the left and right, instantly cutting the grain transport team into three parts.
“Boom!”
"ah……"
There was a loud bang, followed by countless shrill screams.
In an instant, more than ten grain transport vehicles were destroyed and dozens of soldiers nearby were killed.
Yu Qianli's face turned cold, and his figure suddenly rose into the air.
Then he swung his sword and swept it out.
"ah……"
A scream was heard, and the place where there was originally no one was suddenly filled with blood splattering and two bodies rolling down.
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