Traveling through ancient times, the empress insisted on having a child with me

As June approaches, the weather gradually gets hotter, and four franchise stores including Su Bing Chen have already hung up the Yun Fu Ji signboard and started selling Yun Fu Ji dim sum.

The renovation of Yunfu Ji is also in full swing and will be completed in another three or two days.

Ling Chuan also found some free time and prepared to go to Master Liao's glass workshop.

In the past few days, Ling Chuan also learned from the craftsmen that Master Liao is one of the best in the glass making business. He is known as Liao Yishou. He is very busy on weekdays and basically does not accept door-to-door orders. If you want to find him to make glassware, you have to go to a jewelry store called Shenghezhai.

Ling Chuan naturally didn't care about that. After asking for the address, he went straight to the workshop.

The workshop is located in a small courtyard near the south of the city. As soon as you enter the door, you can feel a wave of heat hitting you. The workshop is very lively. There is a kiln in the yard and workers are running back and forth, a busy scene.

Cao Huanchun casually asked a person passing by: "Is Master Liao Yishou here?"

The man turned around and shouted, "Master, someone is looking for you."

Lingchuan looked and saw a man in his forties, shirtless, pulling out a long iron rod from the kiln. There was a lump of red-hot colored glass on the top. The man put the iron rod on the rack and went up with a pair of pliers in his other hand. He quickly shaped the lump of colored glass with the pliers before it cooled down.

Ling Chuan thought that if the glass-making technology had reached this level, his idea should not be difficult to realize.

I have to say that Liao Yishou's craftsmanship is truly amazing. After a while, the piece of colored glaze gradually took shape in his hands, forming a cute tiger.

Ling Chuan stepped forward and praised: "Master Liao has great skills."

Liao Yishou raised his head and glanced at him, without stopping his work: "Sir, if you want to place an order, please go to Shenghezhai. I only care about the goods, not the price."

Oh, a proud craftsman at that. Ling Chuan's smile widened. He liked this kind of pure craftsman, easy to fool... no, easy to deal with.

"Master Liao, I'm not here to place an order. I'm just very interested in the production of colored glaze and I have some small experience. I would like to ask Master Liao for advice."

Liao Yishou made a sound and stuffed the roughly formed little tiger back into the furnace. He looked at Ling Chuan and asked, "Are you here to cause trouble?"

"No, no, Master Liao misunderstood." Ling Chuan waved his hand: "I just have some ideas. I heard that Master Liao's skill in making colored glaze is the best in Beijing, so I want to ask Master Liao if he can realize my idea."

Everyone likes to hear good things. Ling Chuan praised him and asked a question. Liao Yishou could only reply, "Then tell me about it."

As he spoke, he pulled the little tiger out of the furnace, changed his tools and continued to work.

Ling Chuan watched the little tiger in Liao Yishou's hands become more and more vivid, and as the iron rod turned, it even seemed to come alive.

"Master Liao's craftsmanship is indeed the best in Beijing." Ling Chuan praised him and said, "I wonder if Master Liao has ever tried to make colored glaze into a board that can let light through."

Liao paused, then looked up at Ling Chuan: "It is not difficult to make colored glaze into a board, and it is also not a problem to make it light-transmissive, but the problem is that the colored glaze made in this way is of different thicknesses, some parts are thick and some parts are thin and brittle, which is time-consuming, laborious and impractical, and it is meaningless."

As he spoke, he used a pair of large scissors to cut off a piece of colored glaze, and rolled it a few times on the iron felt nearby, and he had a small piece of flat colored glaze.

Ling Chuan smiled: "Master Liao, have you ever heard of the method of blowing and pulling?"

Liao Yishou was stunned: "What do you mean by blowing and flat pulling? I know flat pulling, but how do you blow it?"

As he spoke, he sucked his lips and moved closer to the little tiger and blew a few breaths: "What's the use of this?"

Ling Chuan was amused by his actions: "Of course I'm not exaggerating like that."

"How do you blow it?"

Ling Chuan pointed at the iron rod in his hand and said, "If we replace this iron rod with a hollow iron tube and blow air into it..."

At this point, Ling Chuan shut up and said, "Master Liao, don't blame me for being secretive. After all, I am also a businessman. If Master Liao is interested, why not come to my Yunfuji another day and we can discuss it in detail then."

Liao turned the iron rod in his hand, his eyes full of thought, and it took him a while to understand.

"My workshop is only cooperating with Shenghezhai, not being subordinate to it. Sir, you can speak directly if you have anything to say."

Ling Chuan's eyes suddenly lit up. He is an independent creator, no wonder he is so awesome.

"Hahaha, Master Liao, I am being petty when you say that." Ling Chuan said with a smile, "In that case, I won't hide anything. The method is very simple. Just use an iron pipe to blow air into the molten colored glass. The colored glass will then be stressed evenly, and the thickness of the produced colored glass will not be uneven. In addition, I also know a method to make mirrors with colored glass, which is a hundred times better than bronze mirrors, but..."

Before Ling Chuan could finish his words, Liao threw the fully formed little tiger away with a flick of his hand. The little tiger, which had not yet cooled down, hit the iron felt and its head was flattened.

"This young master is an expert." Liao looked at Ling Chuan with one hand and said, "If the blowing and flat pulling method you mentioned is useful, feel free to ask for conditions."

Ling Chuan felt sorry for the little tiger and was amazed in his heart that Liao Yishou was indeed a pure craftsman. When he heard about the technical issues, he even raised the conditions.

"Master Liao, let me be frank. As long as the method I mentioned works, I will invest my technology in your workshop."

Liao Yishou was a craftsman, and he opened this workshop to make money to support his family. When Ling Chuan asked for shares in the workshop, he couldn't help but be a little wary: "How much shares do you want?"

Ling Chuan thought about it and held up four fingers: "I want 40%."

Liao Yishou was stunned. This workshop was not worth much, but it was his hard work. The man in front of him wanted 40% of the shares right away. It was too much...

When Ling Chuan opened his mouth, he knew that Liao Yishou would have doubts, so he immediately followed up with the second half of the sentence: "In fact, Master Liao, you might want to think about it. If the flat-drawing method I mentioned can produce flat glass, it can be used in a wide range of places. Let's not talk about anything else, just using it to replace the window paper on the windows, do you think the wealthy families in the capital will flock to it?"

As a master in making colored glass, Liao Yishou naturally understood what Ling Chuan was talking about. He even knew that there were crystal windows in the palace.

However, they are all made of polished crystal, which is not only extremely labor-intensive, but also the material is extremely precious. If flat glass can be made to replace crystal, it would be a windfall.

Thinking of this, Liao Yishou's breathing became a little hurried: "Okay, then let's do as you say. By the way, what's your name?"