Qiuyue worked very efficiently. She had cleaned the entire house just before dawn, leaving no corner untouched.
As soon as Xie Ling got up, she saw Qiuyue, sweating profusely from exhaustion, sitting under a tree and gulping down water.
She was a little confused.
"You went jogging so early in the morning?"
Qiuyue shook her head, "No, I'm cleaning."
Xie Ling chuckled, "Why are you cleaning so early in the morning? The house isn't dirty at all."
Qiuyue muttered, "Oh, Aling, just forget about it. Let's go to the county government office. I have to go to school too."
Xie Ling laughed, "Okay, I remember that after this year, you will be seventeen, right?"
Qiuyue nodded, not knowing what she was thinking of. Her eyes widened, she choked on a mouthful of water, and coughed until her face turned red. "Little Miss! Are you going to marry me off?"
I was so anxious that I even said the title "Miss".
Xie Ling held her forehead with her hand, "What are you thinking about? I just want to give you a good birthday. Okay, okay, I won't say any more. I have a meeting today and I'm going to be late."
Qiuyue nodded, then frowned and shouted at Xie Ling's back: "Remember to eat breakfast, you forget to eat so many times!"
Xie Ling waved her hand, "Yeah."
Looking at the blue sky, Xie Ling was in a good mood.
The timid little maid has now grown into a capable young lady.
She can manage the entire household, do the accounting independently, go to school, and argue with her about some things with reason and evidence.
Along the way, she has long regarded Qiuyue as a family member.
Seeing the people around me grow slowly gives me a great sense of accomplishment.
Xie Ling hummed a tune as she walked towards the study, and everyone she met along the way greeted her warmly.
"Hello, Chief Clerk!"
"The chief clerk got up really early!"
Xie Ling nodded in response to them.
Gu Wei got up much earlier than her and went to the study before dawn.
When it comes to diligence, no one can compare to him.
Sinan now has more than a dozen factories, including sugar-making, wine-making, textile and glass-making.
A director employee system is implemented, and the position of director is held by the most capable person, regardless of gender.
The director of the textile factory was a woman who was proficient in embroidery. She attended classes in the school for half a year without missing a single day. She worked harder than most men and managed her subordinates well, making them convinced.
From time to time, Xie Ling would also organize competitions among the major factories. The factory with the highest output would have its production increased by centimeters and receive silver rewards.
Therefore, the workers are very motivated.
Nowadays in Sinan, apart from civil servants and teachers, the most popular job among the people is worker.
That's a stable job, with free food and accommodation, a high salary and a respectable appearance.
However, this job not only requires professional skills and knowledge, but also requires literacy. If you want to enter the factory, you have to pass two exams!
There is a skills test and a knowledge test, both of which must be met, and there is also an interview, which is very strict.
But there are still countless people flocking to it.
No matter adults or children, everyone worked hard to go to school and learn knowledge in order to get into the factory.
Glass had already appeared in this dynasty, but in Xiyao Kingdom, it was called colored glaze and was generally used to make handicrafts, wine glasses, and bowls.
The colored glaze is colorful and radiant in the sunlight, and it looks very beautiful.
It is exquisite and expensive, and only the upper class nobles can afford it. It is an item that can be used to show off wealth.
Colored glaze is also one of the famous specialties exported by Xiyao Kingdom, contributing a lot of fiscal revenue to Xiyao Kingdom.
Xie Ling has always wanted to make glass. Now he finally has the manpower and material resources. In the past few months, he sent people to mine and accumulated a lot of quicklime and calcite needed to make glass.
However, since the temperature did not meet the standard, it was not successful and a lot of raw materials were wasted.
Making glass requires a temperature of over 1,500 degrees, and Xie Ling is now studying how to increase the temperature.
Today she came up with another idea, using coke and a blast furnace, using an internal heating method, adding copper and charcoal into the furnace in layers, and blowing air to burn them, which should be able to increase the temperature a lot.
When we arrived at the glass refining site, it was already noon and the sky was bright.
From a distance, one could feel the burning heat; the air was slightly distorted by the flames.
This is on the outskirts of the city, a large plain, and not many people come here.
Brick kilns and iron smelting kilns are arranged here, and the fires are burning all day long.
The workers were all wearing Ma褂 and were sweating profusely from the heat.
Seeing Xie Ling, a man quickly ran over and said, "Master Chief Clerk, you are here."
Xie Ling nodded.
"How was your day?"
The man shook his head, looking frustrated, "I still failed."
He asked someone to bring out a bucket of liquid that was neither gray nor white, and frowned, "The temperature is still not high enough. Do we have to wait until summer?"
Xie Ling took out a piece of paper and said, "Go to the iron smelting place and borrow some copper. I have already moved the blower here. Try this method."
The man's eyes lit up, and he turned around and went to work, "Okay!"
Xie Ling also visited the brick factory and iron smelter.
The brick factory has been in operation for two months and has produced a lot of red bricks.
Xie Ling planned to start building new houses once a certain amount of red bricks had been refined, thus doubling the size of the entire Sinan building stock.
By then we can install transparent glass windows, making the room bright, spacious, elegant and comfortable.
Sinan is too humid and prone to rain. The houses nowadays are all made of yellow mud or wood. They are damp and dark. Sitting in the house on a rainy day makes you feel stuffy.
There are a lot of insects and ants, and some old houses look shaky, as if they would all collapse in a typhoon.
Once the iron ore is refined, it can also be used to make steel bars.
With the production of steel bars, building more than ten floors is no longer a dream, which can perfectly solve the problem of insufficient housing in Sinan.
Ideals are perfect, but reality is cruel.
The current temperature is not enough to produce even glass, let alone steel bars.
Xie Ling didn't expect that this problem would be solved so quickly.
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