Chapter 339 Women's Training Camp and Burning Glass
Yang Zhengshan sent Song Dashan away, and then sent someone to invite Wang Yunqiao.

"Disciple greets Master!" Wang Yunqiao was quite curious when he arrived at the yamen. But after seeing Yang Zhengshan, he was not shy at all and bowed with his fists clasped openly.

Yang Zhengshan stroked his beard and looked at her, nodding slightly, "Not bad!"

After getting married, the girl looked much more mature. She tied her hair into a bun, and looked less girlish and more heroic.

Wang Yunqiao smiled gently and stepped forward to help Yang Zhengshan pour tea. "Master, what is it that you want me to do?"

"Well, your master is planning to set up a women's training camp. Are you going to lead this women's training camp?" Yang Zhengshan took the tea and took a sip.

"Women's training camp! I'll lead it? Can I?" Wang Yunqiao was a little surprised and a little delighted.

"What's wrong with that?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Wang Yunqiao thought about it and asked, "Will my father-in-law have any objections?"

"Do you think he dares?" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

If it were someone else, Yang Zhengshan would find it difficult to intervene, after all, this involves someone else's family affairs.

But Song Dashan is different. Song Dashan is not only his subordinate, but also his relative.

Moreover, given Song Dashan's personality, he wouldn't have any dissatisfaction. At most, he would just mutter a few words to himself.

In fact, Yang Zhengshan cares more about the opinion of Song Dashan’s wife, Li, because Li has always been the head of the Song family. However, Li is a smart person, and Yang Zhengshan believes that she will support Wang Yunqiao.

"You can go back and discuss it with your mother-in-law. As long as your mother-in-law has no objection, it's fine!"

"The women's training camp will be set up separately. When the time comes, you can choose some maids from your home to assist you. Well, I will also let Miss Yu Lu and Miss Hong Yun help you."

Yang Zhengshan briefly expressed his thoughts.

Yu Lu is going to get married with Wu Zhan soon, but Yu Lu and Wu Zhan don't have so many concerns. Wu Zhan is a martial artist, his ideas are more open, and he certainly won't mind Yu Lu joining the women's training camp.

As for Hongyun, she doesn't understand military matters, but she can handle some chores. As Yu Qingyi's personal maid, Qingxia and Hongyun are both rare talents.

As for the Yang family, they captured their maids. The Yang family had a rule that everyone had to learn martial arts, and almost all of the Yang family’s maids were warriors.

With Wang Yunqiao as the leader, Yu Lu and Hong Yun as the auxiliary, and a dozen maids as the assistant, it should be no problem to form an army of women.

Wang Yunqiao hesitated for a moment and said, "Master, women will eventually get married. This women's training camp!"

She was worried about what she would do after entering the women's training camp and getting married.

Getting married and having children will restrict women from showing their faces in public.

Yang Zhengshan waved his hand, "The women's training camp will not prohibit marriage. I have thought it through. We will enter the camp for training at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and get married at the age of sixteen. After getting married, if you are willing to stay in the camp, you can continue to stay in the camp. If you are not unwilling, then you can go home to take care of your husband and children!"

This definitely cannot be forced, otherwise it will waste people's lives.

He didn't mean to drag a group of women to the battlefield, he just wanted to give women a chance to stand out.

As long as they receive training, even if these women can only be ordinary women in the future, they will have the foundation of martial arts and may be able to become warriors.

After training, their physical fitness is enhanced, which is also beneficial to their fertility.

It can be said that this is a matter of great benefit with no harm.

"Well, I will issue an order that from now on, women of Tenglong Guard must be sixteen years old before they can get married!" Yang Zhengshan said after thinking for a while.

Getting married at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and having children at the age of fifteen or sixteen, this is so harmful to people.

Yang Zhengshan cannot control other places, but he can still make the decision in Tenglongwei.

"I understand, I will do my best to get this done!" Wang Yunqiao respectfully accepted the task.

"No rush, go back and discuss it with your mother-in-law first!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

"Yeah!" Wang Yunqiao responded.

Just as Yang Zhengshan expected, Song Li did not stop Wang Yunqiao at all. Instead, she supported Wang Yunqiao very much. She personally took Wang Yunqiao to the Yang family to convey her opinions to Yu Qingyi, and she also wanted her little daughter to join the women's training camp.

Song Li is very smart. She has always been the backbone of Song Dashan. It was she who decided when Song Dashan followed Yang Zhengshan from Yinghe Fort to Anyuan City.

As for letting her younger daughter join the women's training camp, it was also a reflection of her intelligence.

She didn't want her little daughter to become a warrior or achieve anything great. She just wanted her little daughter to follow Wang Yunqiao and benefit from the Yang family's fame.

Look at the women of Yang family, from Yu Qingyi to an ordinary little maid, each of them is healthy and energetic; more importantly, the women of Yang family are very fertile.

These were naturally all thanks to the spiritual spring water. She didn't know the existence of the spiritual spring water, so she thought that the Yang family was able to support people, and wanted her little daughter to also benefit from the Yang family.

Her idea was not wrong. Yang Zhengshan would definitely add spiritual spring water to the women's training camp. I couldn't say anything else, but once they entered the women's training camp, there would be absolutely no problem in keeping their bodies healthy.

In this way, the women's training camp began to be organized.

Now a training ground was built outside the city, and Wang Yunqiao took Hongyun and Yulu to various 100 households and garrisons to select people. At the same time, Yang Zhengshan also asked the Weisi Yamen to issue a regulation that women can only get married after they are 16 years old.

This move caused a lot of discussion among the military households. Many people felt that this regulation and the women's training camp were not good, but Yang Zhengshan now had a very high prestige in the Tenglong Guard. Even if some people had objections, they did not dare to stand up and oppose it.

There were only two hundred girls in the first batch who joined the women's training camp. The number was small, so the operation was relatively simple, and Wang Yunqiao quickly sorted it out.

It was not convenient for Yang Zhengshan to go to the women's training camp because men were not allowed to attend the camp, and Yang Zhengshan was no exception.

However, this does not affect Yang Zhengshan's provision of spiritual spring water to the women's training camp. After all, the meals and medicinal materials for the women's training camp are provided by the Wei Si Yamen. Yang Zhengshan cannot directly provide spiritual spring water, so he can provide some medicinal materials produced by the space.

After the women's training camp was finalized, Yang Zhengshan turned his attention to another matter, which was glass making.

Yang Zhengshan had thought about making glass before, but he always felt that it was a bit difficult. But now he really wants to give it an experiment.

The main reason is that he now has enough people under his command and needs glass to make telescopes.

With the manpower and demand, Yang Zhengshan naturally kept the matter of glassmaking in mind.

Yang Zhengshan asked Luo Zhen to find a dozen gold and silversmith apprentices to conduct glass-firing experiments.

Why seek an apprenticeship as a goldsmith?

The reason is simple. When gold and silversmiths make gold and silver jewelry, they are involved in smelting gold and silver, which has some similarities with firing glass.

There is no need to use gold and silversmiths, only apprentices are enough. After all, everyone has made this thing, and everyone is trying from scratch.

In fact, it is not difficult to make glass. Just set up a furnace and throw a handful of sand into it to make glass.

However, it is very difficult to fire it to achieve high transparency and produce the desired shape.

Yang Zhengshan only remembered that magnesium oxide could improve the transparency of glass, but where did magnesium oxide come from?
So Yang Zhengshan only stayed in the glass workshop for three days, letting the apprentices know what glass is and how to make glass. He also taught the apprentices all his superficial knowledge of glass making, and then left him alone.

The apprentices needed to figure out the rest on their own and experiment with various materials they could find. This was a very long and boring process, and Yang Zhengshan was unable to help, so he had to leave it to the apprentices to research on their own.

These apprentices were very confused at first. They didn't understand the experimental methods at all. However, after Yang Zhengshan's instructions several times, they learned to conduct experiments on their own, and Yang Zhengshan completely let go of them.

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Busy times always pass quickly. After the spring plowing was over, the Wei Si Yamen led the entire Tenglong Wei to get up and running, repairing roads, building schools, starting work at the salt fields, training in military camps, etc. Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

In such a lively and busy atmosphere, time quickly came to June.

In June, the route between Tenglongwei and Jiangnan was determined, and a new batch of navy was also put into actual combat training, which meant that Tenglongwei could open a route with the Li Sheng Dynasty.

Early in the morning on the third day of June, Yang Zhengshan rushed to the dock to send Yu Tonghai and Sun Cheng out to sea for the Li Sheng Dynasty.

He did not go in person this time because it was the busiest time for Tenglongwei and he really couldn't spare the time.

The leader of this voyage was Sun Cheng. Sun Cheng was very familiar with the Li Sheng Dynasty and the De Sheng Dynasty. He used to run ships for the Zhang family of Liaoan, and the main routes were the Li Sheng Dynasty and the De Sheng Dynasty.

With him around, there was no problem in trading with these two dynasties.

Moreover, the Li Sheng Dynasty and the De Sheng Dynasty are not far from Liaodong. It is only more than a thousand miles from the Tenglongwei Wharf to the Li Sheng Dynasty. If you travel fast, you can make a round trip in two days.

The Desheng Dynasty is a little farther away, requiring about two thousand miles of sailing, which is similar to Jiangnan.

"Be careful on the road. If you run into any trouble, it's more important to save your life than to lose the goods!"

At the dock, Yang Zhengshan said to Sun Cheng.

Sun Cheng said with gratitude: "Don't worry, sir. I have many friends in the Li Sheng Dynasty, and nothing will go wrong!"

"Ok!"

Yang Zhengshan nodded, and then said to Yu Tonghai: "If you encounter someone who is blind, don't care who he is, just kill him. I will bear the consequences for you!"

This time they were heading to the Li Sheng Dynasty, which was a vassal state of Dayong, and the kings of the Li Sheng Dynasty were all canonized by the emperor.

If they encounter pirates, there is nothing to say, just start fighting. But if they encounter the navy of the Li Sheng Dynasty, Yang Zhengshan is afraid that Yu Tonghai will be timid and dare not take any action.

"I understand!" Yu Tonghai understood what Yang Zhengshan meant, but this matter depended on the actual situation, so he did not make any guarantees.

"Okay, let's go!"

Yang Zhengshan watched them board the ship and watched the warships set sail. Only when the warships disappeared into the vast ocean did Yang Zhengshan return to the Acropolis.

It was just a few days of practice, so Yang Zhengshan was not too worried. However, this time, Yu Tonghai and Sun Cheng took more than half a month to come back from the sea, which made Yang Zhengshan wonder if they had encountered some big trouble.

If it was a minor trouble, it would not have delayed it for so long. Even if they encountered the navy of the Li Sheng Dynasty, the navy of the Tenglong vanguard would not be completely wiped out unless they encountered strong winds and waves.

But Yang Zhengshan had sensed that there shouldn't be any big storms during this period.

In fact, Yu Tonghai and Sun Cheng did encounter trouble, but this trouble was not what Yang Zhengshan thought, but came from the changes in the situation of the Li Sheng Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)