Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

The first thing Liang Fu said when he saw the protective gear was: "Fang Qi is becoming more generous."

Shen Zheng smiled slightly, put the protective gear on the top of her head, and said, "Yes, he didn't even tell us to report to the General Administration first, and then give it to us after the General Administration approves it."

Liang Fu also put on his protective gear and said with a smile: "If this is really the case, I will have no choice but to go to Liuyang Prefecture and lie down in front of the gate of the Salt and Iron Bureau to make trouble."

Time passed quickly, and the experiments in the past few days were not successful.

Liang Fu was a little impatient, his eyes were bloodshot, and he held the charcoal clamp tightly and asked, "Master Shen, do you think... foreign countries have really made colored glaze?"

This sentence seems to be doubting the Gentiles, but in fact it is doubting oneself.

On the other hand, Shen Zheng's mentality was much better than his. He smiled and said, "I believe that they made colored glaze, but the difference between the colored glaze they made and the colored glaze we want to make is not even a little bit."

Glass that can be made into lenses and glass that can only be blown or pulled into utensils are two different concepts.

Liang Fu was only happy for a moment, and then he was disappointed again: "But they finally made it, and we..."

He looked at the black lumps on the ground and said helplessly, "Including this time, we have failed seven times. Fortunately, the fifth chief clerk sent a lot of raw materials, otherwise they would not be able to withstand our waste."

It was not difficult to hear the loss and dejection in his words. Shen Zheng took a small stool and sat next to him.

"Lord Liang, that cannot be called a failure." She picked up the lukewarm black lump on the ground and threw it to the ground. Immediately, the black lump scattered everywhere, and the ground was covered with debris.

She added: "That can only be called that we have taken another step forward on the road to success. Do you think that after each experiment, we can find the cause of failure? Can we avoid it in the next experiment?"

Liang Fu sighed.

He was originally from the Ministry of Industry, so he naturally understood what Shen Zheng meant, but...

But every time an old problem is avoided, a new problem will always arise, as if... the path they are taking is wrong, and as long as they choose this path, there will be endless problems waiting for them.

Shen Zheng was silent for a moment, then moved the stool closer to Liang Fu, looked him in the eyes and said seriously, "Master Liang, this is not like you."

Liang Fu was stunned for a moment.

He understood the meaning of Shen Zheng's words.

When they are working on something, the thing they fear least is the word "failure".

In the past when I was in the Ministry of Works, I had failed hundreds or even thousands of times, not to mention a few times like now.

And the one who has to face failure is not just Liang Fu, but hundreds of people in the Ministry of Works, even generation after generation, who have devoted their lives to "creation".

They will also be impatient and discouraged, but they will also cheer themselves up and prepare for the next "failure".

Just as Shen Zheng said, the current state of things really wasn't like him.

The two were silent for a long time, with only the crackling sound of the charcoal fire in the stove bringing a touch of warmth to the two in the cold night.

"I am anxious." Liang Fu looked at the debris scattered on the ground, then looked at Shen Zheng.

"His Majesty has ordered you to attend the banquet, which is a good thing. But Lord Shen, you have been too popular in the past year. Not only will there be people in the court who will target you, but even those foreign countries will try every means to attack you, whether with good intentions or bad intentions. You need to... gain a firm foothold once you return to the capital."

Shen Zheng clenched her palms slightly.

There was undisguised worry in Liang Fu's eyes.

It turned out that Liang Fu did not disbelieve that they could make glass, but he regarded the glass as a "backing" for Shen Zheng's return to Beijing this time.

As long as she could bring out the glass at the Queen Mother's birthday, both foreign envoys and court officials would understand that she, Shen Zheng, should not be messed with.

Rice and cotton cloth, which had already been available, could not be considered birthday gifts. Only the newly made glass could completely kill all the overt and covert malice.

Shen Zheng felt a little sour in her nose after figuring it out.

She asked the old man why he was so anxious. It turned out that he was afraid that she would not be able to handle that kind of situation when she returned to Beijing and would be bullied.

Then she won't hide it anymore.

"Sir Liang, the gifts I have prepared this time are not just colored glass. Even if we fail to make the colored glass within two months, there will be something to support me." Shen Zheng said with a smile.

"Oh..." Liang Fu hasn't reacted yet.

After a long while, he stood up, stared at the top of Shen Zheng's head and shouted: "What? There is a new baby?!"

Shen Zheng smiled and looked up, saying nothing.

Liang Fu subconsciously looked at the blast furnace, "Isn't it steel?"

This is possible. Now the Salt and Iron Bureau has gradually mastered the purification method. After the Salt and Iron Bureau supplies enough wrought iron and refined iron to the Ministry of Industry, then steel... is it far away?

"No." Shen Zheng still smiled: "Even if we and the Ministry of Industry really forge steel, we can't let the steel show its face too early, at least... we can't rush to show it in front of countless foreigners."

No country would publicize its progress to the outside world when it has made a small progress - isn't that just waiting for foreign countries to cause trouble for you?

Moreover, the use of steel as armaments can be regarded as a major trump card of the Ministry of War. Only a fool would be eager to show it off before a war.

"what is that?"

Many things went through Liang Fu's mind.

It has to be said that both Tongan Medical Clinic and County School have many desirable features, especially the County School.

Things like numerical arithmetic and mechanics can cause a stir at any one of them, but they are not as good as rice cotton cloth or glass, because they are still in the exploratory stage and are not perfect yet.

Looking at Liang Fu's curious eyes, Shen Zheng smiled mysteriously and asked, "Master Liang, what do you think if we turn the stones into slurry, spread it on the ground, and then wait for it to dry before turning it back into stone?"

"What?"

Liang Fu knew the meaning of every word Shen Zheng said, but when these words formed a sentence, why didn't he understand?

"What kind of stone turns into water and then turns back into stone?"

"Just...don't use blue bricks for the floor." Shen Zheng said, "Blue bricks are either natural stones or clay that needs to be calcined for more than a month, and the cost is too high. We can directly use stone slurry to pave the floor. It is waterproof, sun-proof and resistant to heavy objects. The style can also be customized. If you want to make it thicker, you can make it thicker. If you want to make steps, you can make steps. You can even carve patterns on it. What do you think?"

How does he feel?

Liang Fu was confused.

He doesn't even dare to think about this, how can he feel?

He was silent for a long while before swallowing his saliva and saying, "This...can't be possible, Lord Shen. If a stone can't be melted, how can it be turned into pulp?"

"Just add water." Shen Zheng said as a matter of course, "After the stone is calcined, add water, isn't it slurry? Isn't that how you make Sanhe land?"