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

Liang Fu suddenly had an idea and gradually accepted Shen Zheng's seemingly "outrageous" statement - if the slurry can be dried into mortar, why can't it be dried into stone ground?

"Is this really possible?" he asked again.

"I can keep it for safekeeping." Shen Zheng patted his chest and assured: "I just need some iron slag, or iron ore that has not been calcined cleanly."

"Just a little bit is enough?" Liang Fu asked again.

"Really, a little bit." Shen Zheng gave him a little thumbs up, "The return is greater than the investment."

"That......"

Liang Fu's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he wanted to ask again, but Shen Zheng made a look that said "it can't be said".

"In short, you should put your mind at ease. I won't suffer any loss when I go to the capital. Now we should do what we need to do, step by step."

Just as Liang Fu was about to beg and ask again, the candle in the room flickered, and then something on the ground reflected a faint light, which disappeared in an instant.

The two looked at each other at the same time.

"Did you see it?" Shen Zheng asked first.

"I saw it..." Liang Fu looked at the ground, trying to find the thing he had just seen. He was a little bit unbelieving: "Is that the white sand that was accidentally spilled before? It's shiny."

As the saying goes, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. In the process of experiment, we must keep our expectations to a minimum.

"It can't be." Shen Zheng was also squinting her eyes, searching: "We live with white sand every day, and the light reflected by white sand is not like that."

That light was more like...broken glass.

She just casually smashed the black lump from the failed experiment without even having time to look at it, but who knew that this time it would bring out a surprise?

Liang Fu's breathing quickened a little, and he swallowed his saliva, "Is there... broken glass in the waste this time?"

If there really are successfully fired glass fragments among the waste, even if they are only the size of eye boogers, doesn't it also mean that... they have taken a big step towards success?

After the two looked at each other, Shen Zheng took out two candles, lit them with an oil lamp, and handed one to Liang Fu.

"try to find!"

Next, an old man and a young boy held candles together and leaned on the ground to look for the possibility of success.

"It should be here..."

The blast furnace room is not big to begin with, and the two of them locked onto the same location at the same time, so how could they not find it?

"found it!"

I have to say that young people's eyesight is a little better than that of the elderly. Shen Zheng placed the candle close to the opposite side, pointed at the ground and shouted.

Liang Fu immediately came over and stared at the direction of her finger.

Shen Zheng handed the candle to Liang Fu, spread out one hand, and slowly pinched the thumb and index finger of the other hand, picked up the thing as big as eye booger on the ground, and put it into the palm of her hand.

The two of them stood up together. Shen Zheng spread out her palms, not daring to breathe heavily, for fear of blowing away the "eye booger".

With just one glance, Shen Zheng was sure: "It's Liuli!"

Liang Fu had never seen colored glass in person, but he knew it as soon as the small pieces that kept changing colors with the flickering candlelight appeared.

This is Liuli.

Different from white sand, and even more different from fluorite or feldspar, glass is truly... crystal clear.

Liang Fu could even see the lines on Shen Zheng's palm through the glass!

"It's so magical..." Liang Fu spread out his palm and took the small piece of glass.

The worry, anxiety, and self-doubt that had been lingering in his mind for a long time suddenly disappeared.

They are on the right path. As long as they keep going, success will surely be waiting for them.

No wonder.

How could such a beautiful object made of this colorful glass not be presented to the Queen Mother as a gift?

......

The twelfth day of the first lunar month is here in a flash.

Shen Zheng got up before the cock crowed, put on her official robe, hat and belt, and drew her eyebrows. After everything was ready, she looked at her empty waist.

——Fewer ornaments.

Today was a great day, and she wanted to dress up. After searching in the small storehouse, she chose a tassel jade pendant that had been awarded by the emperor. After nodding with satisfaction, she hung the pendant around her waist.

While walking, the jade pendant and tassels sway gently, which is a nice embellishment.

Outside the door, Yu Nanshu was about to knock on the door to wake Shen Zheng up, but the door opened from the inside.

Looking at Shen Zheng who suddenly appeared in front of her, Yu Nanshu slowly opened her mouth, with undisguised amazement in her eyes.

She circled around Shen Zheng, "Sister Shen, you are wearing an official robe! Oh! And you are wearing a jade pendant!"

Except for occasional formal occasions, Shen Zheng seldom wore his official robes. One reason was that it was inconvenient for him to move around in, and the other was that he was afraid of getting them dirty.

Before, she was either busy in the cloth workshop, or in the printing workshop or the county school, and now she was lighting a fire and playing with stones in the blast furnace room. If she wore an official robe, it would be very inconvenient for herself.

It was a rare opportunity to wear an official robe, and even Shen Zheng himself felt it was a little special.

The reason why official robes are special is that both their fabrics and tailoring are designed to enhance the aura of the person wearing them. The saying “clothes make the man” is not said in vain.

Shen Zheng stood up straight, opened his arms, and asked Yu Nanshu as if to show off: "How is it?"

Yu Nanshu pecking at rice like a chicken: "You can go to the morning court now!"

After saying that, she saluted Shen Zheng in a proper manner, "I am Yu Nanshu, your humble servant, and I greet Prime Minister Shen."

"......" Shen Zheng tapped her forehead, "Stop fooling around, don't let others hear this. Let's go, first to the printing shop, then to the cloth shop."

As both workshops started operations on the twelfth day, and the printing workshop was not allowed to publicize its opening, Yu Shizhang decided to open the printing workshop an hour earlier than the cloth workshop. This way, everyone in the printing workshop could attend the opening ceremony of the cloth workshop.

Yu Shizhang went to the county school ahead of everyone else in the county government office. After Shen Zheng and Yu Nanshu left the yard, Xu Zhubu had already been waiting in the front yard with everyone else.

When Fang Ziyan saw Shen Zheng wearing an official robe, his reaction was exactly the same as Yu Nanshu's. He kept chattering around Shen Zheng all the way.

"Sister Shen, you look so beautiful today!"

“Sister Shen, you seem like a powerful official!”

"Sister Shen, Zhao Qi will look as good as you in this dress from now on!"

Pei Zhaoqi's eyebrows jumped when he heard this, and he quickly pulled Fang Ziyan back.

Shen Zheng has always known that Pei Zhaoqi wanted to pass the imperial examinations, get his name on the list of successful candidates, and become an official.

She had asked Pei Zhaoqi before why he wanted to be an official. At first he said that he wanted his mother to live a good life, not having to get up early, not having to work late, and not having frostbite on her hands in winter.

It’s a decent reason. Only by taking good care of your own family can you take care of the whole community.

But during the Chinese New Year, Shen Zheng asked Pei Zhaoqi again why he wanted to be an official.

He looked at the noisy crowd in the county government office and said that the reason he wanted to be an official... seemed to have changed.

He said - "Not only my mother, Lord Shen, I want the people to live a good life, just like what you have done for the people of Tongan County."