Chapter 57 Go to Taiwan in person

Just as various things on the island were flourishing, Yu Xiaotian suddenly made a decision after completing the production of the first glass mirror.

He decided to go to Taiwan Island in person and have a look there. For a period of two months, the island affairs were jointly managed by Liu Laoliu, Wang Hong, Fang An and others. If there is anything, he can send a ship to Taiwan to find him. If it is urgent, it will be decided by Liu Laoliu.

After listening to this, everyone felt that Yu Xiaotian was a little too anxious. Taiwan is there, and no one can steal it. Now everything is normal on Nanri Island, and many things are going well. The government is still busy with the affairs of the red-haired people in Penghu, and there is no time to take care of their affairs on Nanri Island.

What's more, they are now used to many things that are decided by Xiaotian. Suddenly, when Yu Xiaotian wants to go out for so long, these people feel a little uncomfortable.

Liu Laoliu even secretly found Yu Xiaotian and advised Yu Xiaotian not to rush to go to Taiwan first. Liu Laoliu's reason was that they had only integrated at present and the interior was not completely stable. If his big boss did not sit here, he would be afraid that someone would take the opportunity to make some trouble.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian shook his head and smiled, "This father-in-law can rest assured!" I know the character of Wang Hong and Fang An. As long as they are in charge, even if someone wants to make trouble, they can't make trouble!

I treat their shark-helped brothers and our brothers from Treasure Island. They are now more comfortable than before and feel aggressive. Why do they want to oppose me? You are here, and I can rest assured!

And the matter in Taiwan, I don't have time to wait. The sooner you do it, the better. I can tell you some information. It won't be long before someone wants to occupy this Taiwan. Everyone knows the reason why fast-handed hitters are slow in the world. It's better to do it first! We can't wait for others to stand on their feet, and let's fight with them again! This matter can't be put off any longer!"

Liu Laoliu was shocked and asked quickly, "How do you know? Who is so thoughtful? Is it possible that your heart is bigger than yours?"

Yu Xiaotian whispered a few words to Liu Laoliu. Liu Laoliu's eyes suddenly widened and scolded, "Damn, how did this red-haired ghost come up with an idea? How do you know? Is it possible that you can really predict as others say?

Yu Xiaotian smiled and said, "This father-in-law doesn't have to ask more questions!" Anyway, I just know, but I don't have the ability to predict! I can't guess what to eat tonight! Ha ha!"

Liu Laoliu looked disbelieving and looked at Yu Xiaotian for a long time, and then nodded, "Well, you are the boss. You have the final say. I can trust what you said. Since you want to do it, what else can I say as a father-in-law? I'll take care of it for you. Just go! If anyone dares to make trouble while you are not there, even if I, Liu Laoliu is not young, it is no problem to kill him!"

So Yu Xiaotian arranged the things on the island one by one and told the people in charge everywhere that he could not relax when he was not on the island, and everything should be accelerated.

On the other side of the glass field, he also closed it tightly, strictly ordering all the craftsmen in the glass field not to mention anything about glass production to anyone. The killing of violators is light. If he knows, he will skin him alive! This is a matter for his money and career, and there must be no omissions.

In addition, he sent people to surround the three places of glass field, cannon and ironwork, and sent people to guard the door day and night. No idle people are allowed to enter without authorization, or even approach. If he finds someone trying to inquire about the information, he will be punished as a detective!

As for the glass mirror, as long as the glass is produced, it is not a problem at all. Most of the glass mirrors in later generations are produced by silver plating or aluminum plating, which requires some special chemical raw materials. At present, he can't solve it and can only adopt a relatively primitive method.

He first led people to make glass liquid into flat glass. Most of the manufacturers that produced glass mirrors in later generations directly purchased flat glass for production, but now he not only has to burn glass by himself, but also has to find a way to make flat glass by himself.

Yu Xiaotian took people to test a lot of methods in the glass field day and night. First, he used the method of blowing, but the effect was not good. The cut glass could not make a qualified glass plate, so he used the process of lifting. Although a small piece of glass was pulled out, the uniformity was not enough, so he used the method of crushing, and finally It is a relatively flat glass plate.

Although this colorless glass is pressed by crushing flat glass, it does not reach the level of later flat glass, it can at least be used.

Then he used the simplest method, first pasted a layer of tin foil on one side of the glass plate, and then poured ** mercury on it to make mercury react with tin foil to produce tin amalgam, so that tin mercury was firmly attached to the glass, forming a glass mirror.

If the silver mirror can be used, the quality, production cost and time of the glass mirror will be lower and shorter, and the quality will be better. However, this needs to solve the problem of nitric acid, make silver nitrate with nitric acid, and then restore it to glass.

At present, he has no ability to solve the problem of nitric acid, so he can only use the original method used by Venetian glass craftsmen to make glass mirrors.

In this way, it takes nearly a month to make a glass mirror, and the speed is very slow, but it is still finished. The edges of these glass mirrors are cut into various shapes. After polishing, they can be inlaid on the frame elaborately made by mahogany by carpentry, and this kind of glass mirror can be sold.

And the glass mirror produced in Nanri Island is much larger than those imported products currently sold on land, and it looks more classy.

Originally, the Venetians and the French were not unable to produce larger glass mirrors, but this kind of thing had to be transported to the Ming Dynasty. On the way, the ships bumped and it was easy to cause glass to break. Therefore, even if they trafficled glass mirrors this way, they were all small pieces, and basically could not see large pieces of glass. Glass mirror.

Therefore, the glass mirror produced by Nanri Island has completely overwhelmed those imported products from the West in any aspect. Although it has not been listed yet, Yu Xiaotian can guarantee that once it is listed, it will become the trump card product of Maoshengyuan. There is no problem to shock the business community, and he can sit in the future. Waiting to count the silver on Nanri Island!

After busy with these things, Yu Xiaotian had a plan, but because of time, he could not continue to promote the new production plan on Nanri Island, so he could only wait until he came back.

This time, Yu Xiaotian went to Taiwan Island. Instead of taking only two boats and 100 people as last time, he directly took most of the soldiers, leaving only a small team of soldiers for Nanri Island. In addition, he gathered six large ships, each of which also carried a sampan, and towing a small fishing boat behind him. .

On each ship, more than three newly built six-pound Hongyi cannons are installed, so that the fleet he brought this time has quite strong combat effectiveness. As long as they don't encounter the warships or armed merchant ships commonly used by Westerners, ordinary fleets can't get any advantage of them.

This scale made the sea wolves realize that Yu Xiaotian is going to do another big thing this time. This time, I'm afraid that he won't just go to Taiwan Island to explore. He must go to grab the territory and find a place to lay the first sea wolf nail there.

So the troops who set out with the ship rubbed their hands one by one and felt that it was their luck to follow their big master. When the fleet set out, many people made a special trip to the dock to see them off.

Yu Xiaotian stood at the stern of his Sea Wolf and said goodbye to the left-behind men. After going to sea, he ordered Yang Fan to turn and drive east of Nanri Island.

Taking advantage of his idleness on the road, Yu Xiaotian also took the opportunity to conduct an exercise for the fleet brought out. Taking his boat as a handsome ship, he kept ordering the upper bucket in the crane to wave the order flag, conveying his instructions, and checking the accuracy of each ship's interpretation of the flag order and the reaction speed of each ship's personnel.

The six boats kept changing their formations on the sea, making their trip not boring at all, but made the sailors on each ship very nervous.

After testing, Yu Xiaotian feels that the flag language he compiled is still not perfect and applicable, and the carrying information is still a little too little, which needs further improvement. However, generally speaking, the flag language he compiled can basically meet the current needs. The flag language is simple, which also makes it easier for people who read the flag language. Judging the meaning of the flag order, there are relatively few mistakes.

Of course, some people made mistakes when reading the flag language. As a result, they read the wrong flag order on the same day. It is inevitable that they will suffer a little after coming down, because his mistakes make it unlucky for a boat, so it is necessary to punish him.

Just as they were approaching dusk, seeing that the journey had passed halfway, Shangdou suddenly shouted, "A boat was found on the right side of the fleet, which was coming in our direction!"

Yu Xiaotian was happy as soon as he heard it. Today, he was really lucky to come out. He really thought of whatever he thought. If he was lucky, everything he did was smooth! He just organized a drill on the sea with his men, and now there are boats coming to the door, and it's almost dark. Wouldn't it be better to take the opportunity to try the night chase?

(I'm sorry, brothers. I stopped the update for a day yesterday and went to the hospital for several tests, but I didn't find the cause of the low fever. I have to do a few more tests today. I feel very bad. I actually had a fever again last night! Unlucky! I'm in a bad mood! But today, I was very moved to see that Hulu Snoring Brothers gave a huge reward. Thank you for the support of Hulu Snoring Brothers! The update will resume today. As long as you don't die, you will definitely not be able to stop updating this month!)