Wang finally said that he would like to sow these precious cocoa beans on the Zixia Island near the equator, and Wang said that it is part of the Spice Islands, which should be very suitable for planting cocoa trees, and that in the future, if there is labor, there can be a large-scale cocoa plantation there, of course, the premise is that there is still labor.

As for now, since everyone is in a hurry to get this thing, Lao Wang reluctantly agrees to take out twenty kilograms of seeds and give it a try, in case of failure, the loss is not too big.

Everyone nodded speechlessly when they heard this, it seems that even if there are talents and skills and seeds, in the new world, building a chocolate industry is still not an overnight thing......

On this evening, the two topics discussed on the Red Wharf during the day, chocolate for women and tobacco for men, finally came to a more definite result, and it was firmly believed that these projects, although they would not come to fruition immediately, would in time, perhaps in three or five years, our three major projects of cigarettes, cocoa and allspice, have had a major and subversive impact on the trade pattern of the whole new world.

Seeing that the topic of chocolate and tobacco had finally settled, Sun Lao reminded Gu Jin who was sitting next to him with a smile and asked him what he thought of the glass in his hand.

"You ...... You've made real glasses! Amazing! ”

After the glass in Gu Jin's hand turned around in his hand, he suddenly realized something, and the tone of his voice was also surprised.

Hearing Gu Jin say this, the group of people who returned from the voyage began to notice the glass in their hands, and if they looked closely, it was really different from what they used in the past!

Good quality! Someone couldn't help but shout in surprise.

Yes, there is almost no difference!

Oh, and aside from looking very closely at the comparison, these glasses do get a little cloudy......

But it is precisely like this, if there is no comparison, everyone will not notice that the glass in their hands is homemade in this era.

"Yes, it can be mixed in a supermarket glass to make it look real!"

Many people sighed again.

"Haha, I've always wanted to see when they find out! It seems that our efforts have paid off......"

Zhao Xihe said to the young men in the chemistry group at this time, and there was a sense of pride in his tone.

"It's not just a certain result, it's definitely a great result! You don't see the surprised look on the faces of the two of them when they drink tea in a glass on the Pride, or the look on their faces when we give him a bottle of wine in a glass bottle, a glass bottle of spirits! Ha, I saw him walking with a bottle of wine and trembling all over......"

Xu Zhi looked at the glass in his hand with interest and said to everyone.

At this time, Zhu Beiguo also nodded and said:

"If you want me to see, our glassware should be much stronger than the Venetian things, the glass made by the Venetian in this era is much more turbid, well, the Venetian is at most called a half-frosted glass.

Boss Pei went to Italy when he was a Ph.D., and saw the Venetian glass in the museum, remembering that it was a product produced in a workshop in the early eighteenth century. There is no doubt that once it is put on the market, it will definitely be a crushing situation! ”

After listening to Zhu Beiguo's evaluation, Mr. Zhao smiled and said:

"Our advantage is mainly technical conditions, in fact, the process and formula are not much different from the Venetian, our glass kiln temperature should be the highest in this era, and the quality of chemical raw materials such as soda ash has also been greatly improved.

It must be pointed out that in these aspects, our young professionals Gui Xianning and Qiao Xiaomu have made significant contributions! ”

The crowd immediately applauded the two young men.

"However, the purity of our soda ash is still not enough, otherwise it would not be difficult to make an old-world standard glass......"

Gui Xianning was a little embarrassed for a while, and explained with a smile.

"At present, the soda ash production process is still on the scale of a small-batch laboratory, which is jointly produced with the cement plant, and is a by-product of the calcination of limestone in the cement plant."

Qiao Xiaomu next to him also explained.

"Well, then we went to the beach for several days to fish for seaweed, burned it to ashes, filtered it several times, and finally came up with a substitute similar to soda ash.

We have recently boiled seawater to produce some coarse salt, which is then mixed with soda ash from the cement plant, and it works very well, but we must admit that the specific chemical reaction mechanism is too complex for us to fully understand. ”

Gui Xianning added.

"Oh? In fact, you don't know what the ingredients are? ”

Someone in the crowd asked.

"Yes...... Limited by detection methods, we can only use the way of experience accumulation to explore slowly, so the schedule and cost are a little unsatisfactory......"

"So in order to achieve high transparency, we carried out a second electromelting, and although the cost was much higher, there were indeed fewer impurities than the original, and the transparency was greatly improved."

Gui Xianning picked her scalp, looking a little embarrassed.

"Actually, I don't have to worry about the cost now, as long as I can get it......"

"That's right, the market price of glass products in this era is very high, rest assured, we have room for gross profit......"

"Yes, as long as we continue to dig out technology and improve the process, even if the price of glass products is reduced in the future, there is enough profit margin."

"Based on our experience in trading with Sulu, this quality is fully capable of entering the Imperial Palace!"

"yes, you can definitely make a fortune!"

"Based on the historical rate of popularity of glassware, I can be sure that this market will not be saturated in fifty years!"

After listening to the introduction and speech of the chemical group, everyone was excitedly discussing, and they also invariably comforted and encouraged the members of the chemical group.

In short, everyone was very excited, especially the group of young people who came back from the sea trade, they knew the market situation of these humble glasses in their hands in the new world, if they only knew these values indirectly from books or concepts in the past, now they, through contact with the new world, have gradually begun to feel the true value of these glassware, the most obvious manifestation is that if they see the glassware broken, they may feel pain......

At this point in the meeting, everyone's topics began to diverge, in fact, it is also normal, the topics of the plenary meeting are often off-topic, because when everyone is discussing one thing, another thing related to it will suddenly appear, and this time is no exception.

Xia Xiaoou proposed that since we have already established a preliminary relationship with the Portuguese, it is entirely possible to obtain cocoa beans from the Americas through them, after all, Portugal has a vast colony in South America.

Lao Wang immediately agreed, he said that scientific research is not done in a hurry, to follow the law step by step, Lao Wang also said that he always feels that the time limit given by everyone makes him a little stressed, if he can take the new world cocoa beans buffer now, his research can be more calm.

At this time, Xu Zhi, Zhu Beiguo and others also said that Xia Xiaoou's suggestion is still feasible, and the current Portuguese colonies are also all over the world, with their own maritime trade network, if we can really obtain a large number of cocoa beans - even if the quality is not so good, we can use it to make delicious milk chocolate, then our product does not have to wait for five years later.

Everyone nodded after hearing this, of course, the sooner you can make a fortune, the better.