Jinyi champion

Chapter 168 Long-term Business
After inspecting her son's workshop, Zhu Niang decided to join in.

Zhu Hao was very satisfied with his mother's attitude. When the mother and son returned home, they told Aunt Li about the matter. Aunt Li asked puzzledly: "Didn't my sister say before that she wouldn't get involved in other business? Why did this only happen for a while?" Come on, did you change your mind?"

Aunt Li's eyes narrowed, as if she was saying, you mother is so unprincipled?Shaken after going out with your son?
Zhu Niang didn't know how to describe it, so she hesitated for a while and then explained: "After seeing it with my own eyes, I think it looks pretty decent, so I simply have nothing to do now."

How "pretty" method, but she did not say.

But Zhu Hao knows in his heart that anyone who has visited the laboratory will be amazed by the scale of the laboratory and the sense of technology beyond this era. Bottles and cans... It's just amazing.

After all, Zhu Niang has some foresight, and she made up her mind to invest after she went to investigate once.

"Mother, this workshop in the city is of an experimental nature. If it is really going to be mass-produced, it will cost about one or two hundred taels of silver to get a workshop by the river outside the city." Zhu Hao made a plan.

You decide to invest, and I will ask you for money immediately.

Zhu Niang frowned: "Need so much?"

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Not much, you have to pay some patent fees, purchase materials in large quantities, pay workers' salaries, etc. The key is to build a factory building by the river...that is, a workshop, and to build some iron containers. And clay pots and so on..."

Zhu Niang gave her son a blank look: "You make a list of how much it costs, and I will control it myself... I can't give you the money, you just tell me how to do it."

Zhu Hao stuck out his tongue: "Mother, this is trying to steal my business, you're going to be the boss right from the start?"

"Haha."

Aunt Li laughed at the side, "Master Hao, you know what your mother thinks? If you follow up with this business, of course your mother has to make the decision... Your mother is the head of the house, and you are just the head of the house."

Zhu Hao pretended to be very reluctant, but in fact he wished that Zhu Niang would come forward to preside over the overall situation, so that as long as he completed the experiment, he could hand over the follow-up work. Anyway, the money Zhu Niang earned was his, so there was nothing to believe Believable question...

The focus of Zhu Hao's career is still on the imperial examination. If he becomes an official one day in the future, he will not be able to take care of business affairs.

If Zhu Niang is in charge...

It is his solid backing!

"Mother, tomorrow is my day off. Let's go out of the city together to choose a site. The workshop has a great demand for water, and we need to build a few waterwheels... Actually, I found someone to look at it before, so you can refer to it when the time comes..."

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After Zhu Niang handed over the matter of drying salt, she was depressed and depressed for a long time.

She has the character of a strong woman, but she is trapped by the times and has no chance to express herself. It was her son who opened the Pandora's box in her heart and made her feel the joy that a woman can also be the master of the house and stand out.

The husband is gone, and the widow has nothing to do with her son, but if she puts all her energy into her career, her life will be much more exciting.

Half a month passed.

The workshop that Zhu Hao and Zhu Niang partnered with started production. The first thing they made was glass containers, including all kinds of transparent bottles and jars.

While flat glass with better quality was blown out during the manufacturing process, Zhu Hao used the method of chemical silver plating to try to make a silver mirror.

Because of the poor quality of the flat glass obtained by the blowing method, Zhu Hao began to experiment with the production of flat glass by calendering, casting and other methods.

Throughout the spring, Zhu Hao was working on these things almost all the time. The laboratory became a technological reserve for Daming's industrial production, and the research on three acids and two alkalis was further deepened.

On the ninth day of April, Su Xigui finally took time out of his busy schedule to come to Anlu. He wanted to talk to Zhu Hao about the improvement of the salt drying process in the salt field, so he was guided by his shopkeeper and saw him at noon when he returned from school at the Wangfu. , meeting Zhu Hao with Zhu Niang.

"Shopkeeper Su, let me show you something good..."

Zhu Hao showed Su Xigui the glass products that had just been made.

Su Xigui looked at it carefully, and when he was in doubt, the shopkeeper who followed him reminded: "Master, it seems to be Liuli..."

Su Xigui asked puzzledly: "Third Madam, Young Master Zhu, you haven't dried salt recently, but modified colored glaze? In the past, I only heard that someone from Lingnan made this thing. How come the craftsmanship has spread to Huguang?"

Zhu Niang was very nervous when she heard this, isn't this her own feeling?
That's not what the son said. He invested at least one hundred taels of silver in it...wouldn't there be no sales at all?Is this the rhythm of losing everything?

"Su Dongzhu, don't you think that our craftsmanship is comparable to those of those small workshops? This kind of material..."

As Zhu Hao said, he suddenly picked up a glass bottle and threw it on the ground, only to hear a "crash", and it fell into pieces, which shocked Su Xigui a lot.

Su Xigui shrank back: "How can you just throw away such a good thing? Why is it worth one or two taels of silver?" As he spoke, he looked at the shopkeeper who followed him with proving eyes, obviously not very knowledgeable, and needed Ask your subordinates if there is a market for this thing.

The shopkeeper was also taken aback.

Glass products are most afraid of external force, just like white jade, I have never seen Zhu Hao waste things like this, just to prove the quality of his products?The sound of falling is crisp?
"Show Dongzhu another good thing." Zhu Hao took out something from his arms.

Zhu Niang had never seen this thing before.

Su Xigui took it, took a look at it in his hand, and almost dropped it on the ground with his hand unsteady, Zhu Hao hurriedly reminded: "Su Dongzhu, be careful, I can't get you a new one if this thing is broken …If you say that the bottle just now is worth one tael of silver, how much do you think this thing is worth?”

Zhu Niang poked her head to see what it was, and even the teahouse waiter who came to serve the tea couldn't help looking.

"What are you looking at? Go down!"

Su Xigui put the things in his arms and kept them from being seen. After reprimanding the assistant, he took out the things again and spread them out in front of Zhu Niang and the shopkeeper. Everyone at the table took a breath.

It is a mirror.

There are only bronze mirrors in this era, and the quality of the polished mirrors is hard to say.

The one in front of him is a standard glass mirror, which can clearly illuminate the face when the light is sufficient.

"Master Zhu, how many of these things do you have? Oh...Third Madam, you didn't make this, did you?" Su Xigui didn't know who to talk to about business right now.

Zhu Niang looked at her son in surprise. She was the one who was working in the workshop recently. She had seen a lot of glass bottles, glass bowls, glass cups and even glazed tiles, but this was the first time she saw this mirror. Lie to yourself about such an important matter.

Zhu Hao sighed: "Su Dongzhu, let's talk about the value of this thing... I am also worried, the cost of this thing is too high, and the cost of a small mirror is several taels of silver. If it is sold at the cost price, it will be expensive." Isn't it easy?"

Su Xigui smiled without saying a word, and the shopkeeper next to him reminded: "If there are good things in this world, it is not afraid that they will not be sold... There are more rich people in the world."

"Then how much is such a small mirror worth?" Zhu Hao asked.

Su Xigui tentatively offered a price: "Ten taels?"

After thinking about it, maybe I felt that I had said too little, so I changed my words: "Fifteen taels can always be sold."

Zhu Hao smiled and took back the mirror in Su Xigui's hand. Su Xigui swallowed, feeling a little bit reluctant. No matter how much it is worth, would you give me a piece first, kid?
"I have some other things here, convex lens and concave lens, what are they used for... It's like this, some scholars' eyesight is broken, and the distance is blurred. If they wear lenses... everything in front of them is clear... There are also people, mainly the elderly, who can’t see close up clearly, but if they use the corresponding lenses, they can see clearly..."

Here, Zhu Hao was eloquent, and Su Xigui was taken aback when he heard it.

Zhu Niang was very surprised.

Aren't we dealing with glassware?
It’s just some bottles and cans. I’m still worried about whether there is a market for them. See if their ceramics are not expensive. Do you want to sell a glassware for more than one tael of silver?
But after hearing the product introduced by Zhu Hao, it seemed that the glass bottle that was broken just now was not worth mentioning at all.

After listening to Zhu Hao's explanation, Su Xigui's eyes straightened: "Young Master Zhu, are you kidding me? Your eyes are broken, it's a disease, and it can't be cured since ancient times... You put a piece of glass in front of your eyes, and there will be this magical effect. effect?"

Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of myopia and hyperopia. The presbyopia of the elderly is also a kind of hyperopia, and almost everyone will get it.

If this thing can really be put on the market, Su Xigui can naturally tell how big the prospect is.

"I know Su Dongzhu doesn't believe it, how about this way, Su Dongzhu went to find a few people and brought the lenses after I finished school in the afternoon, and then let them verify it?" Zhu Hao laughed.

Su Xigui hurriedly ordered to the shopkeeper next to him: "Look who in the entourage is old and dim, and find a young man who has damaged his eyesight from reading, and then find Master Zhu... Hurry up!"

If you encounter such a good thing, can you wait until the afternoon?Are you kidding me, Su, to death?

Zhu Hao said: "Su Dongzhu, why are you in such a hurry because you can't eat hot tofu? It's useless to be anxious. I don't have anything with me. It's better to display all the good things. Let's talk about this silver mirror first... …Let’s call it that, how much is it worth? I can make up to twenty silver mirrors a month, the size… is about this big, what price are you going to charge?”

Su Xigui understood what Zhu Hao meant.

No wonder the kid didn't bring out all the goodies.

First reveal that there are still good things to come, but it depends on sincerity!Don’t think that there was a deal before, I’m going to sell you all the good things, if you don’t give a sincere price now, you can just use your ears to hear the glazed lenses that can “cure your eyes”, don’t even think about it goodbye!

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