Chapter 121: Firing Glass

Feeling that Sofia might be pregnant, Richard suddenly felt extremely happy and excited.

In his previous life, Richard had a daughter. When he first came here, he missed his daughter all the time.

Thinking that he would never see his daughter again, he sometimes even wanted to die.

He hoped that after he died, he could travel back.

Richard gritted his teeth and endured the pain in his heart. Time is the best medicine to heal the pain.

After more than ten years in this world, his daughter's appearance seemed to have become blurred, and the unspeakable pain of the past seemed to have become an unforgettable memory.

Life goes on. Richard has married in the Dawn Continent, has a new family, and is about to usher in a new life.

Recalling the past scenes, Richard suddenly remembered the faces of his family members, and suddenly felt his nose sore and his eyes filled with tears.

"If you're pregnant, then you're pregnant. Why are you crying?"

"Nothing, I'm just too excited. Since you feel tired, you should take a few days off and put aside the things on hand. If you are really pregnant, don't be too tired. This is your first child, so you should take care of yourself."

Since May, Richard has been busy with the formation of the Warcraft Cavalry. From the soldiers' barracks, cavalry training grounds, training equipment, daily necessities, and even the construction of the Warcraft Warhorse stables, Richard needs to worry about them.

In this busy way, three months have passed and it is mid-August.

This year's autumn harvest has begun again, but this time Richard doesn't need to watch it. The autumn harvest work is handed over to his cousin Tang En. Richard just looks at the statistics and checks the granary to know how much grain has been harvested this year.

In three months, Sophia gradually showed obvious signs of pregnancy. Her belly gradually grew bigger and her face became rounder with the arrival of pregnancy.

The two have been married for two years and now finally have their own child.

After confirming the pregnancy, Sophia stopped her magic research and returned to Sophia Castle to take care of the fetus.

The top leaders of the territory also attach great importance to this child. They all swore to Richard Sophia that they were willing to be loyal to this unborn child.

Although William has not publicly talked about handing over the territory to Richard to inherit.

But looking at his training of Richard, it is obvious that he regards Richard as his heir.

Even in order to establish Richard's prestige, William rarely comes to the territory.

Even if Richard is not the first heir to William's territory, Ron and Hayden are ahead of him in the order of succession.

But the inheritance of the noble title is not only based on the order of succession, but also on who supports the territory?

Without prestige in the territory and not enough supporters, it is basically impossible to inherit the territory even if the inheritance order is higher.

Because the territory will put pressure on you and ask you to give up the right of inheritance.

If you don't know how to promote, they will even use drastic means, such as assassination and attack, to physically eliminate opponents and support the people they support to take the position.

Unless you have a strong power to suppress the voice of opposition.

For example, if Ron inherits the territory, Powell, Bernie and other members of the Harland family may not obey him.

When William was promoted to baron, Richard, Powell and Bernie all made great efforts.

The combined military exploits of the three people exceeded four great merits. This barony is not only William's territory.

They have worked hard all their lives to become hereditary nobles, and they all have a say in the selection of heirs.

They don't want the foundation they have worked hard for all their lives to be handed over to a mediocre person.

What's more troublesome is that the military forces of the territory will not easily obey Ron's command.

Even the civil affairs, agriculture and industrial departments with the weakest influence are estimated to fool him.

It is impossible to inherit a complete territory by relying on a title alone.

If Richard inherits the territory, there will be no above problems.

His ability has long been affirmed by Bernie and Powell, and the army was established by him. Whether in terms of ability or prestige, commanding the army is not a problem.

Moreover, Richard has a deep relationship with some officers, and they are not willing to let Ron inherit the territory emotionally.

The industrial sector was created by Richard himself, and every backbone was promoted by him. Richard also has a great influence on the bureaucrats in charge of industry and agriculture.

Even if Ron is reluctant and resentful, he must give up his inheritance rights in this situation.

Hayden has discussed with Richard that he will give up his inheritance rights and take the initiative to clarify this issue at the family meeting on the Goddess' Birthday this year.

In August, the glass kiln was successfully put into production and produced the first batch of glass in the territory.

Unfortunately, there are still many bubbles in the glass, and the color is not very pure. After processing by the glassmaker, this batch of glass was made into glass bottles and handed over to Mrs. Ola's tavern.

It is not easy to burn glass. It requires six major processes: material selection, melting, mold preparation, pouring, cooling, and polishing.

Each process has many details, and some even require craftsmen to have superb skills.

Fortunately, there are already experienced kiln masters in the Harland territory. Even if they have never burned glass, they are very sensitive to the temperature of the kiln mouth, so they burned the first batch of glass.

Richard knew that the glass industry was a precursor to the chemical industry. Without the glass industry, it would be difficult to develop the chemical industry.

The glass craftsmen Richard bought with fifty gold coins were not very skilled and relied on experience. But with these people, Harland Territory did not take many detours and finally produced glass.

Sometimes, a small detail in industrial manufacturing can get stuck for many years. Before purchasing these glass craftsmen, Harland Territory had been burning glass for several years without success. After the glass craftsmen came to give some advice, Richard suddenly found that burning glass was not difficult at all.

Through these people, Richard learned how to design a glass kiln, the formula of glass, how high the temperature required, how to remove bubbles, how to burn colorless or various colors of glass, and how to blow finished products?

After several failures, the craftsmen in the glass kiln summed up their experience and found that the reason why the glass was not pure was because there were too many impurities in the soda used before.

Richard sent people to buy a batch of natural soda from Jonathan Territory, and then mixed the soda with limestone and river sand for calcination.

After the burned glass slurry was fully stirred to remove some bubbles, it was blown into containers of various shapes with a blowpipe.

After purchasing pure soda, the burned glass immediately became much better, and it barely met Richard's requirements.

Richard first asked the glass craftsman to blow a batch of experimental utensils such as cups, test tubes, and distilling bottles, and handed them over to Wendy and Adrian.

They all need to do experiments and use a lot of glassware every year.

Now that glass can be produced in the territory, Richard does not need to buy Viscount Luomen's glass products at a high price.

As for the large pieces of transparent glass that Richard needs, the glass kiln directly casts a batch of copper molds. By using the casting method, the large pieces of transparent glass that Richard needs are successfully produced.

The glass kiln was successfully put into production, and the industry of the territory has improved a little bit.