At the Count's birthday party, what surprised Liszt the most was the restoration of his indifferent relationship with Ronatha Golden Wheat.
Perhaps this was the aristocratic instinct. After the passion, they would return to their respective lives.
Mutual non-interference.
Apart from feeling a little emotional, he didn't have too many other thoughts. He took a short break in the afternoon and returned to Flower Town. The affairs of the territory were complicated. Without him as the backbone, it always made people feel uneasy. However, after returning to the territory, he found that there was nothing urgent to deal with.
So he went straight to the Black Horse Island's Burial Ground to extract the dragon magic.
He could also ask his knights to help him infuse the fire dragon's bone with magic. However, he could only extract the fire dragon's magic and pour it into the fire dragon jar by himself. After all, only he had the "Magic Eye" dou qi skill. Once he became proficient, the speed of canning the fire dragon magic became faster.
He could extract about four tons of volcanic glass a day, filling nearly eight fire dragon cans.
The volcanic glass that was extracted from the fire dragon magic was immediately sent to the newly built crystal workshop in Port Town and handed over to the crystal craftsman Brad to carve utensils.
Volcanic glass is not as hard as crystal, but it is much harder than glass and has good permeability, suitable for making glassware. Water cups, wine cups, teacups, teapots, wine bottles, glass, test tubes, and small medicine bottles for storing potions – all these utensils are not for sale.
The reason is simple. Volcanic glass has a blocking effect on the magic of the fire dragon, so he guessed that this material can also isolate the magic of other dragons.
In that case, its value was immeasurable.
In his spare time, Liszt also went to the blacksmith shop to find a blacksmith furnace, a blower bag, and charcoal to conduct high-temperature experiments – he remembered that glass could be melted and blown repeatedly.
Therefore, he wants to melt the residue produced when Brad carved volcanic glass and mold it into other shapes for the second time.
The charcoal burned in the blacksmith furnace, and the servant kept stepping on the blower bag, blowing the charcoal in the furnace. The volcanic glass was placed in the furnace in a tin can and burned – he was not sure what the melting point or softening point of glass was. If it was higher than the melting point of iron, then the experiment would definitely fail.
Fortunately, when the tin just turned red, the volcanic glass began to melt.
Soon, it melted into a bright, soft substance.
Liszt ordered the servant to pour out the volcanic glass and place it on another piece of red-hot iron sheet. Then, a retainer Knight inserted an iron pipe into the soft glass and blew hard. The Knight's lung capacity was very large. With a light blow, the soft glass began to expand.
When it expanded into a ball, Liszt asked him to stop and pulled out the iron pipe.
Then, he cleaned the mouth of the bottle slightly, and an ugly glass bottle was fresh out of the oven. Afterwards, a master from the Fire Dragon Brick Factory came to help complete the annealing process. Annealing was discovered by the workers of the Fire Dragon Brick Factory. In order to cool the bricks faster, they had used the water splashing method.
However, bricks that were splashed with water were easy to break.
Thus, under the stimulation of Sir Liege's reward, after a long period of exploration, the workers found a reasonable annealing process that greatly reduced the crushing strength of the fired product. Because of this, ten workers were rewarded with ten silver coins each and became the first batch of masters of the Fire Dragon Brick Factory.
From the original simple workers, they were promoted to qualified craftsmen.
Because the volcanic glass was a new product, the masters didn't know what temperature was suitable for annealing and could only slowly explore. However, after the volcanic glass cooled down, he took the initiative to report to Liszt: "Sir Lord, there is one thing I don't know if you would like to know."
"Speak." Liszt had always encouraged his subjects to discover new things.
The master was not old, about twenty years old. His name was Artest, a serf from the Eagle Kingdom: "You know that the Fire Dragon Brick Factory often looks for new materials to calcine. Once, the serfs of the Thorns Caravan brought a kind of yellow-white rock that was a little transparent when facing light."
Seeing that Liszt was listening attentively.
Artest said nervously and expectantly: "I threw this rock into the kiln to calcine, but it was very strange. It quickly melted into a pool, and when I took it out, it quickly changed its appearance … Just like, just like the volcanic glass you had me anneal, but it was very turbid."
"Huh?"
Liszt raised his eyebrows: "Like volcanic glass?"
"Yes, it was also a soft lump. It quickly solidified and was a little transparent. I gave it to the masters of the brick factory to examine, but no one could figure out its use. Moreover, it quickly broke. We determined that it was not suitable for calcination, so we gave up on this rock. "Artest said.
His words greatly touched Liszt.
If he didn't guess wrong, the material Artest calcined was the long-awaited glass — the original glass made from quartz.
The rock brought by the serfs of the Thorns Caravan was certainly the raw material of glass — quartz.
Liszt had once looked for quartz. He tried to put all the rocks and soil in the Fire Dragon Brick Factory's kiln to calcine, but he failed to produce glass.
He vaguely remembered that the sand on the beach could be used to make glass, but the result was disappointing. The sand on the beach could not produce glass.
The sand on the beach seemed to be the sand debris formed after the weathering of ancient coral reefs.
Liszt didn't expect that the rock brought from outside might be quartz ore. Liszt immediately ordered Gort to be in charge of this matter: "Consultant Gort, what you need to do is to buy a batch of this type of rock that Artest mentioned, and then cooperate with the forging glass experiment. Remember to keep it confidential."
"Sir, can this kind of stone really be calcined into glass, just like the cups you made with volcanic glass?" Gort was very puzzled.
"Whether it is or not, we will have to wait until the experiment is done."
… …
The possible discovery of quartz made Liszt overjoyed. He could already imagine how the glass, as a specialty of the Black Horse Island, would amass wealth in the future.
In the era of expensive crystals, the small nobles would certainly not be able to resist the temptation of glass products.
Of course.
Before confirming that the rock was a quartz mine, Liszt did not get carried away. He continued his volcanic glass experiment – to make sure that the volcanic glass that had been calcined still had the effect of blocking the magic of the fire dragon.
The fire dragon needle absorbed a little fire dragon magic and injected it into the new "fire dragon bottle."
Injecting it into the new "Fire Dragon Bottle", he soon found that the Fire Dragon Magic was still in the form of magic, quietly flowing in the Fire Dragon Bottle, without any leakage. This proved that the effect of volcanic glass to block the dragon magic would not change as it melted and deformed.
"So, the volcanic glass of the Black Horse Island does have high strategic value, and it is likely to help me subdue the dragon and complete the great cause of riding the dragon."
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