Chapter 944: Difficulty Chapter 944: Difficulty Editor: Atlas Studios After the new year, the stewards of the glass factories and watch factories ca to report.
Because the watch factory had the blueprints provided by Mu Yangling, after working hard for a few months, they finally successfully made a few.
However, the steward felt that the watch wasn’t at all aesthetically pleasing when worn on one’s wrist.
Never mind the won, even the n wouldn’t roll up their sleeves to see what ti it was.
Because it was unsightly.
Scholars favored clothings with wide sleeves.
As for the martial arts practitioners, wearing this would hinder their movents.
There was no need to ntion the masses, for they could not afford such an expensive thing.
Only then did Mu Yangling slap her forehead and say, “Then make it look like a pocket watch.” “A pocket watch?” “It ans that you can wear it on your body, put it in your pouch or hang it on your body.” Mu Yangling briefly described the chain and said, “In short, it’s just to change the surface.
You can ask the craftsn to think about how to make it such that it’s convenient to wear.” Mu Yangling said, “Now that you’ve successfully made a watch, try making other types of clocks.
Those that can be hung on the wall, placed on the table, those that reported the ti, and those with alarms.
In short, you guys figure it out yourselves.
I can’t teach you one by one.” The steward of the watch factory hurriedly complied.
Mu Yangling looked at the steward of the glass factory.
He quickly stepped forward and reported, “According to your instructions, the factory has already made a relatively transparent mirror that reflects people quite clearly.” The steward of the glass factory got soone to carry over a mirror.
It was a full-length mirror that was much clearer than a bronze mirror since it didn’t have a slightly yellowish and hazy appearance.
This made Mu Yangling, who had gotten used to bronze mirrors, slightly stunned.
However, this mirror was still much inferior to the smooth and translucent mirror in her previous life.
Judging from the slightly hazy surface, it could be seen that this mirror still contained many impurities.
Glass had existed since ancient tis, and formulas could be found in ancient books.
It could be said that the formula for making glass was not difficult to obtain.
The difficult part was refining furnaces and removing the impurities in the glass.
The temperature needed to be very high to lt the glass, and to remove the impurities inside, the formula had to be improved.
Moreover, the cost had to be reduced and the output increased.
It could be said that compared to the watch factory which started with a blueprint, the glass factory had a much harder ti making a breakthrough since it had to start from scratch.
Mu Yangling had always expressed that she had enough funds and asked the craftsn to work together.
As long as soone ca up with a way to improve things, she would give them a big red packet.
She instructed the two stewards to relay the incentive system.
In short, she believed in the power of the people.
At this mont, Little Bear was also standing solemnly on the rock and saying to his group of snot-nosed friends, “Everyone, work together.
I believe everyone will definitely co up with a good solution.” Little Lion took the lead in responding.
“We have to believe in the power of the people!” The group of children below looked at the four of them blankly.
Little Bear slowly took off his pouch and poured out a handful of gold nuggets.
“I’ll reward whoever has a good idea that is proven to be effective.” The originally quiet children beca excited.
One of the older children pushed the others away and raised his hand as he shouted, “I know!
Open the clam shell and stuff the sand in.” “No,” Tiger Head shouted.
“I’ve tried that, but even I can’t open it even though I’m stronger than you.” A tad disappointed, the older child said unwillingly, “Why don’t you let give it a try?” “Alright.” Little Bear nodded.
“If you can make the clam open its mouth and stuff sand in, I’ll give you this gold nugget.” The children anxiously ca up with ideas one after another.
One suggested they should guard the clam and stuff the sand in after it opened its mouth, while the other suggested tickling the clam’s armpit, so that it couldn’t help but open its mouth, and then they would stuff the sand in… Little An curiously asked the child where the clam’s armpit was, making the child blush.
In the end, the group of children went to the area where Little Bear and the others raised sea clams.
After fishing up the clams, they surrounded the clams, fretting over how to proceed next.
They had already failed twice, and this ti, they had encountered a difficult problem.
If they could not resolve it this ti, their efforts for the past year would be in vain.
At first, Little Bear and the others planned to dig a pool in Tao Sheng’s fishing village to raise the sea clams.
However, for so reason, many sea clams died in less than a month after leaving the sea.
Mu Yangling said that it was because of the water quality, water pressure, and so on.
It was just like how so birds would die after leaving their hotown.
Hence, Little Bear and the other children abandoned that pool.
Since the clams could not bear to leave their hotown, they would let them stay on in their hotown.
Wasn’t their hotown the sea?
Little Bear brought the four children into the governnt office with his head held high.
He wanted to rent an area in the sea from the governnt to raise clams.
The official had heard of renting land, but he had never heard of renting the sea.
If it were anyone else, they would have long been chased out by the officials, but none of them could afford to offend these four young masters.
They had no choice but to ask the magistrate.
Surprisingly, the magistrate only asked them for the reason.
After receiving an answer, he left, leaving them with the words “do things according to the rules and act as you deem fit.” The official was in a dilemma.
If they did it according to the rules, they should reject it because there was no precedent of renting out the sea.
However, if they could act as they deed fit, did that an that the magistrate had given his consent?
The official looked at the four young masters awkwardly.
In the end, they gritted their teeth and said that the sea was where the fishern fished.
As such, he couldn’t allow them to rent a big area.
He prayed in his heart that the four young masters weren’t looking to rent the entire sea area outside Guangzhou.
Otherwise, the fishern would definitely rebel.
Before Little Bear and the others ca, they had discussed it with Mu Yangling.
Mu Yangling asked them to select an area where there was a lot of reefs and few fishern went to fish and beachcomb.
As Tao Sheng had brought them to do a recce of the area in advance, Little Bear quickly drew a small circle on the sea map, indicating that they wanted to rent this area.
When the officials saw this, they heaved a sigh of relief.
There were many reefs on the shore, and no one went there to beachcomb.
Due to the many reefs over there, although they weren’t dense, fishern wouldn’t really choose to fish there when they had so many other options in the vast sea.
Therefore, renting out this area wouldn’t affect the governnt at all.
After learning that the four young masters were here to raise pearls, the official was speechless.
He seed to understand why the magistrate turned around and left.
Wasn’t this a child’s ga?
However, the four young masters of the Prince’s estate and Duke’s estate were playing house a little too much.
They were actually renting the sea.
As for the rent, the officials only accepted a small amount symbolically.
Despite the large sea area rented, he only charged them five taels of silver a year.
Little Bear originally wanted to rent it for five years first.
Seeing that it was so cheap, he readily rented it for 20 years.
It would be a loss if they only raised sea clams in this sea area.
Hence, Little Bear would go to the water market from ti to ti to take a look.
When he saw smaller fish, crabs, and lobsters, he would buy them in large quantities and throw them into the sea area.
It didn’t take long for the fishern to know that they were acquiring a large number of fish, crabs, lobsters, and especially sea clams.
They could often catch these things when they went out to sea, but because they were small, they couldn’t be sold even if they carried them back, especially the sea clams.
Hence, when they fished these things up, the fishern would just pry open the bigger ones to see if there were any pearls inside, and the smaller ones would be thrown back into the sea.
However, everyone now had another path.
Although the price was very low, they could still sell it for a few hundred copper coins per net.
With this in mind, everyone was very willing to make a trip.
Seeing that Little Bear and the others rented a sea area to raise seafood, it wasn’t that no one else was tempted to do the sa.
Never mind about raising pearls, but they could indeed consider raising things like fish, lobsters, and crabs.
However, when they calculated the cost, everyone was discouraged.
Putting aside the cost of renting an area in the sea, buying those baby seafood was not sothing they could afford.
Moreover, the sea was rich in resources now.
As long as they went out to the sea and cast the net, one could easily return fruitful.
As long as there were no problems with the ship and they did not encounter storms, experienced fishern would usually be able to return alive.
Therefore, instead of spending effort to raise the seafood, it was better to continue fishing in the sea.
Therefore, up until now, only Little Bear and the others had rented a sea area to grow seafood.
As a result, they couldn’t benefit from others’ experience, so they could only explore on their own.
The second problem they had was what to feed the clams, and they had finally solved this problem.
Now, they had encountered a third problem, which was how to put sand into the clams.
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