Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

”No hurry, you go back and discuss with your mother-in-law first!” Yang Zhenshan said with a smile.

”Yes!” Wang Yunqiao responded.

As Yang Zhenshan predicted, Mrs. Li from the Song family didn’t obstruct Wang Yunqiao at all, instead, she fully supported her and personally accompanied Wang Yunqiao to the Yang family to convey her support to Qingyi, and also express her desire for her youngest daughter to join the women’s training camp.

Mrs. Li was very astute, always the backbone for Song Dashan. Initially, when Song Dashan followed Yang Zhenshan from Yinghe Castle to An Yuan City, it was her idea.

Her wish for the younger daughter to join the training camp also reflected her shrewdness.

She didn’t necessarily want her daughter to become a Martial Artist or achieve something grand; she simply wanted her daughter to benefit from the Yang family’s influence.

Look at the women of the Yang family, from Qingyi down to the ordinary maids; each one was robust and full of vitality, importantly, the women of the Yang family were highly fertile.

These were naturally all thanks to Spiritual Spring Water. She didn’t know about the existence of the Spiritual Spring Water, hence she felt the Yang family nourished people well, thus wanting her daughter to benefit from the Yang family’s influence too.

Her thoughts were also correct; undoubtedly, Yang Zhenshan would include Spiritual Spring Water in the women’s training camp, not daring to claim anything else, entering the women’s training camp and ensuring one’s health was robust with no issues.

Thus, the women’s training camp began to be organized.

Now a training ground has been set up outside the city, and then Wang Yunqiao took Red Cloud and Yu Lu to various Hundred Households and garrisons to select people.

At the same time, Yang Zhenshan also had the Guardian Department issue a regulation that women could only marry after the age of sixteen.

This action caused quite a bit of discussion among the military households, and many people felt that this regulation and the women’s training camp were somewhat problematic, but Yang Zhenshan now holds a extremely high prestige at Tenglong Guard, even if some people have opinions, they dare not stand up against it.

The first batch of girls joining the women’s training camp only numbered two hundred, which is not many and thus simpler to manage, Wang Yunqiao quickly sorted things out.

Yang Zhenshan found it inappropriate to visit the women’s training camp; the women’s training camp was no place for men, Yang Zhenshan included.

However, this did not affect Yang Zhenshan’s provision of Spiritual Spring Water for the women’s training camp; after all, the food and medicinal materials for the training camp were provided by the Guardian Department. Since Yang Zhenshan couldn’t directly supply the Spiritual Spring Water, he provided some medicinal materials produced in the space instead.

After the women’s training camp was settled, Yang Zhenshan shifted his focus to another matter, namely the manufacturing of glass.

In the past, Yang Zhenshan had thought about making glass but always felt it was a bit challenging, but now he was very eager to experiment with it.

Mainly because he now had enough manpower and needed glass to make telescopes.

Having manpower and a need, Yang Zhenshan naturally kept the task of glass manufacturing in mind.

Yang Zhenshan had Luo Zhen find a dozen apprentice goldsmiths to experiment with glassmaking.

Why find apprentice goldsmiths?

The reason is simple, goldsmiths involve in gold and silver smelting when making jewelry, which has some similarities with glassmaking.

There was no need to use those master goldsmiths; apprentices were enough, as everyone would start from scratch attempting glassmaking.

In fact, making glass is not hard, just set up a furnace and throw in a handful of sand to make glass.

But it is very difficult to make glass with a high degree of transparency and to shape it as desired.

Yang Zhenshan only remembered that magnesium oxide could improve the transparency of glass, but where to get magnesium oxide?

So Yang Zhenshan only stayed in the glass workshop for three days, letting the apprentices know what glass is and how to make it, and imparted his limited understanding of glassmaking to the apprentices, then he left it to them.