Chapter 213

The tribe is booming now. The stone bear knows that he can't be idle any more.

Stone bear called the four alchemists together. Some work needs the efforts of the four alchemists.

The four alchemists have been in the tribe for nearly two months. Except for David adian, who had been wandering in the wild for a month last month, the other three are all fat and white.

Even Jack Williams, who is busy with Ferguson and has been designing all metal "machine tools", has a ruddy face.

It can be seen that the four of them live happily here, especially Bill Gates, who has a daughter. Not only does he like it here, but his daughter also plays well with the children in the tribe.

The tribe has accepted all four of them.

After all, there is no direct resentment between vasichu and the people. The tribe can even accept the Xiaohe tribe. Why can't they accept these vasichu? Not to mention these vasichu still contribute to the tribe, and the people are very polite at ordinary times, so the four of them are really happy living in the tribe.

Although the days are a little boring, compared with when they were indentured slaves, this is the absolute paradise.

"Chief? Would you like to burn glass After hearing the stone bear's first question, Jean Agust asked in surprise.

At the beginning, the four alchemists always called the stone bear "revered Guardian", but at the repeated request of the stone bear, they changed their name to "Guardian Sir". But even this title, still let four people some not very satisfied.

In the end, I don't know who they started from. They began to call stone bear "boss" just like Ferguson.

Of course, you can understand the boss as the boss or the leader. Anyway, these four people like to call stone bear this way, and stone bear also likes this way.

"Yes, next, I'm going to do some research, but some experimental equipment is not available, especially some glass experimental equipment, so I'm going to burn some glass equipment. Well, which of you can burn glass? " Stone bear asked again.

Bill Gates, Jack Williams and David edian all shook their heads. On the contrary, they were just asking. Jean Agust raised his hand and said, "chief, I know how to burn glass, but the glass I burn always has some other colors. I'm afraid..."

"What are you afraid of? Just burn glass! The color of the glass ribbon is very normal, that is because there is no decolorizing agent added when firing the glass. By the way, Jean, how can you burn glass? "

"Decolorizer?" Agust's eyes immediately lit up, he did not answer the question of the stone bear, but excitedly asked: "chief, what's the ratio of decolorizer? What are the ingredients? Can you tell me? "

This kind of fanaticism makes the stone bear shake his head helplessly. Alchemists at this time are a group of people at two extremes. If they are not involved in research, they are usually gentle people, but once they are involved in research, they will immediately become a group of absolute lunatics.

Stone bear knows that as far as Agust's temperament is concerned, if he doesn't tell him about the decolorizer today, he can pester himself for three days and three nights without rest.

So the stone bear simply waved his hand and said, "let's talk about the decolorizer later. I'll tell you the raw materials and ratio of the decolorizer. But first you have to answer me how you can burn glass, and then how well you can burn glass. Because only when I'm sure you can burn glass, I'll let you burn glass and tell you about decolorizer. If you can't even burn glass, why should I tell you about the decolorizer? "

"Well, chief, I can tell you for sure that I can burn glass, and the level of firing is not low. Isn't glass burning made of quartz sand, limestone, feldspar, soda ash and other raw materials in a crucible? When I was in the old world, I would burn glass, because when I was young, I used to work in a glass factory in my hometown... "

Jean Agust explained how he learned to burn glass and how he did it. Only then did stone bear understand why the alchemist, who was inclined to medicine, could burn glass.

Everything is caused by poverty.

In China, there is an idiom called "the poor think of change", which means that when people are poor and can't live, they should change their way of living, so there is a great possibility to change the current situation of poverty.

In fact, this is the case with Hargreaves, who invented the Jeanine machine, and Crompton, who invented the mule machine. My family was so poor that they invented this epoch-making machine and changed their life.

It's probably the same with Jean Agust. How could he be a glassmaker when he was young? You know, Glassman can be a very hard job.

Although this guy later decided to devote himself to the great alchemy industry, his life was not good. After crossing the sea, he became someone else's indentured slave. It's better to work as a glassmaker at home.

Now this guy is following himself. It's really cool.

Glass was fired a long time ago. Commercial glass appeared in Europe as early as the 12th century, but glass was an absolute luxury at that time.

However, as the method of firing glass and the formula of raw materials were gradually made public, glass, a luxury that was more valuable than gold, became very common in the 18th century. It could not be said that it was a rotten street, but many ordinary people used glass.

And the bottles that hold whisky or brandy are all glass.

Even at the beginning of the 18th century, optical glass appeared in order to develop better telescopes.

"Let's see, besides being able to burn glass, can you do anything else? Like blowing glass? "

Agust nodded firmly. "I know all these things, but I need tools."

"It's simple. Let Jack prepare it for you. If you need any metal tools, just ask Jack

Jack Williams nodded to AGUS's features. "Let me provide you with all the specifications and models as long as it's not too difficult tools."

Williams has not only been following Ferguson, but also studying all metal machine tools. Although he hasn't used blast furnace yet, he has operated steel making with crucible many times, and he is familiar with steel making. So he can make some small tools by himself.

With these alchemists, it's convenient. Originally, the stone bear planned to burn glass by himself, but unexpectedly, one of the four alchemists could burn glass, which saved him a lot of money.

After the glass burning was settled, the stone bear asked, "which of you can burn cement?"

As soon as this question came out, the four alchemists were confused