Becoming a stepmother of three children gives me space

Wu Yingda was the emperor's teacher, a great scholar of the time, the idol of scholars, and the ultimate goal of officials. When he scolded the emperor, it was really disrespectful.

Who would have thought that one day I would be accused of currying favor with the powerful? How could I tolerate this?

Wu Yingda stared at Xiao Yunxi fiercely for a long time, then suddenly shook his sleeves and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle.

"I will not argue with a woman like you!"

Officials: That’s it?

Emperor: Where is your courage when you confront me?

Wu Yingda: I also want to quote classics and fight Xiao Yunxi to the death. It is really that the Crown Prince's Concubine is too cunning. What she said is logical and hits the nail on the head.

If we refute it, it means that the saint's words are wrong, wouldn't that overturn the truth he insists on?

If I don't refute it, wouldn't I be feeling guilty?

How good it is now. It's not that I don't refute, but I don't bother to argue with women. As smart as I am,

The old man acted as if he was not going to argue with a woman. He was a typical stubborn person. Xiao Yunxi was too lazy to argue with him.

"Your Majesty... the boiler for firing glass is in the next courtyard. Please follow me."

Colored glaze is not easy to transport, so it is fired in the yard next to the Xiao Mansion. As he walked along, he saw many strange facilities, and an inexplicable emotion flashed in the emperor's eyes.

In the glass workshop,

There are workers adding raw materials to the furnace, which look like sand, limestone, etc.

Some furnaces have just finished firing the finished product, and the red liquid flows out, is blown into various shapes, pressed into thin sheets, and slowly cools into glass.

The emperor widened his eyes in disbelief: Is it so simple to make colored glaze?

What was put into the boiler should be sand, right?

"That's right. The main raw material for making colored glaze is quartz sand, which is extracted from ordinary sand. The refining workshop is right here..."

To extract quartz sand from ordinary sand, we must first use a sieve to screen the quartz sand due to its small particles, and then wash and grade it for sedimentation.

Quartz sand has a higher density and settles faster in water than other impurities in sand, such as clay and organic matter.

The sieved fine sand is placed in water and stirred. When it is allowed to settle, the quartz sand will first settle to the bottom of the tank, and the light impurities will be suspended in the water.

Control the sedimentation time, gradually drain the upper layer of water, and collect the crude quartz sand precipitated at the bottom.

Then use a magnet to absorb iron impurities, soak it in acid such as hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid for a period of time to dissolve the oxides in the crude quartz sand and form soluble salts.

The solution is filtered and the remaining quartz sand is repeatedly washed to remove the residual acid and reaction products, and finally calcined at high temperature.

By removing some organic matter and volatile impurities from quartz sand, you can get quartz sand with higher purity.

The purity of quartz sand determines the transparency of glass. The purity of glass from the Western Regions is poor, largely because it uses unpurified sand.

Xiao Yunxi explained it in great detail, and I could understand every word, but when they were put together, I couldn't understand them at all.

"Grandpa Huang, this involves many reactions, including physics and chemistry. If you want to understand, you need to learn the basics..."

Still don't understand,

Dabao sighed helplessly. If it weren't for his mother teaching him from the period of elements and letting him intuitively experience the mystery of elements through various experiments,

He wouldn't understand so much.

It is harder than climbing to the sky to make Grandpa Huang and others understand the chemical and physical principles of the firing process. I think I should give up.

"Minister Qin, are you sure about the Ministry of Works?"

Wu Yingda leaned close to Qin Yang's ear and asked in a low voice.

The people the emperor brought with him this time were of very special status. They were all great scholars of the time, as well as the top and second place winners of the imperial examinations in recent years. They were good at different fields.

Some were the first in the policy examination, some were the first in the scripture examination, essay examination, and classic examination.

There are also the Grand Secretary of Xiuwen Academy Zu Lan, the Director of Hongwen Academy Ouyang Cai, and the Minister of Works Qin Yang,

They were not here to accompany the emperor to visit the glass workshop, but to compete with Xiao Yunxi. The leader of the team was Wu Yingda.

Wu Yingda has a very high opinion of himself and has old-fashioned and conservative ideas. He is absolutely unwilling to compete with women.

Winning is dishonorable, losing is shameful.

The resentment in his heart turned into an unprecedented solemnity.

He is stubborn, not stupid.

I don’t know how capable Xiao Yunxi is, but she can think of such complicated processes as firing glass and extracting quartz sand. She must be quite capable.

The emperor said that there was no limit to the form of the competition, and he was not afraid of policy essays, classics, or poetry. If it came to a competition of strange skills and tricks, he would have to rely on the Ministry of Works.

Qin Yang smiled, quite confident:

"The Ministry of Works will do its best, but our Ministry of Works only has some inferior skills, so the competition mainly depends on the Grand Tutor."

Wu Yingda stroked his beard, quite proudly:

"That's natural."

"..."

idiot!

There is no benefit in winning, and losing is shameful. The emperor asked you to lead the team, but it is a thankless task, and you can't see the problem and are complacent.

I really don't know how he died.

You usually look down on the Ministry of Industry and look down on me. I'm doing you the best I can by not cheating you. And you still want me to guarantee you a win?

Dream it.

There were many aspects of the technology involved in the second-generation bicycle that he didn't understand.

To put it bluntly,

Xiao Yunxi can build a bicycle, so she knows a lot. The Ministry of Industry is not good enough and will definitely not take the blame at this time.

The emperor was very curious about Xiao Yunxi's workshop. He visited all of it, tasted the fruit wine, and liked it very much. He asked Xiao Yunxi to prepare some and send it to the palace.

The tofu-making process was so magical that the emperor was amazed. He tasted the soy milk, ate the hot tofu just out of the pot with chili sauce, and also tasted the five-spice dried tofu.

He didn't understand the coagulation of large proteins, but he remembered Dabao saying that tofu could cure lameness, but now was not the time to bring that up.

Dabao was well aware of the emperor's purpose in coming here, and wanted to find an opportunity to remind Xiao Yunxi, so he checked the time:

"It's almost dinner time. I want to eat the food my mother made. Grandpa Emperor, how about we eat first?"

The emperor nodded:

"I plan to have a simple meal at home. The Crown Princess will prepare some new dishes and that ice-cold beer for you gentlemen to try."

The dog emperor was really rude. After all, he was the emperor. Xiao Yunxi didn't need to care about such a trivial matter.

While preparing the meal, Zhou Jin came back and told him the good news: Zhao En's wife and children were successfully rescued and are now settled in Xiaojiazhuang.

"Find a time for them to meet. If he wants to arrange for his wife and children to be settled on his own, let him do it himself."

Zhao En is not a good man, but he is a good husband and a good father. This is his weakness.

If you want to better control Zhao En, the best way is to continue to detain his wife and children, so that he dare not betray easily.

however,

This kind of control method is too low-level and may backfire at any time. The best strategy is to attack the enemy's strategy and win their hearts.