Chapter 291: Glass is born, and the first thing is love
"Report to my lord, the first batch of goods shipped abroad have successfully arrived at their destination, and the goods produced in Meizhou are still the same as those produced in Danling before, which are widely welcome."
"Well, pay attention to the sales of all kinds of goods at any time, and do a good job in adjusting the production plan of each workshop." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
In this era of extreme scarcity of materials, most of the materials produced by the workshops under the Zhao Yuan system will become sought-after goods in the local market.
Among them, under the Zhao Yuan system, the cement that used to occupy the majority of the market is quietly reducing external orders, because Meizhou's own demand for cement, along with the development of Meizhou, has made the output of various cement workshops unable to keep up with the consumption rate of cement in Meizhou.
All kinds of new grades of cement, especially some special cements, have played a huge role in promoting the construction of other industries after they have been developed.
The development of Meizhou is a very gratifying thing in the eyes of these officials of the official system of the Assassin Mansion, but with the large circulation of goods, a huge problem is placed in front of Zhao Yuan, that is, the extreme inconsistency of currencies in various places.
The troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms have not yet completely ended, and the secession regimes in various places have basically issued their own currency, and even in Shudi, many broken copper coins and rusty iron coins are still in circulation.
In the past, the goods sold outside Danling, many times the coins recovered were all kinds of currencies with local characteristics, such as the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty, the Tiancheng Yuanbao and Qingtai Yuanbao of the Later Tang Dynasty, the Tianfu Yuanbao of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Han Yuan Tongbao of the Later Han Dynasty, the Zhou Yuantongbao of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and other various copper or iron coins issued by the separatist forces, which brought a lot of trouble and a great loss of profits to Zhao Yuan's business plan.
In fact, the best way is to exchange all the coins sold for copper or gold and silver, but in the exchange process, you will also face a series of losses.
The great progress made in the research of new anti-rust alloys in Danling's steel workshop, as well as the latest research and development of papermaking technology at the Laoshan base, made Zhao Yuan think about the possibility of issuing a currency that was beautiful and easily accepted by people.
Especially now that the relationship between Meizhou and the Northern Song Dynasty has stabilized, the strong production capacity of Meizhou, which is stable in the rear, will inevitably need to dump countless goods into various places.
The problem of currency will inevitably lead to huge losses for Meizhou.
In the unexpected place of Meizhou, some broken copper and iron were used as coins by people, and they could buy goods that had been painstakingly produced by various workshops under the Zhao Yuan system.
These coins that are like broken copper and iron received from Zhao Yuan, although they can buy some raw materials from all over the country, but there are still some who want to spend a large part of it.
Therefore, when all kinds of goods in Meizhou occupy a part of the volume that the outside world wants to be, it is when the time is ripe for Zhao Yuan to implement a new currency.
Zhao Yuan's plan is to use the technical advantages formed by the Laoshan base, which can basically not be cracked in the current environment of this era, to develop several metal coins and banknotes that are very low-cost, but beautiful in appearance and not easy to be damaged, and purchase raw materials or currency in various places.
In the future, when the various goods produced by Meizhou were traded in the outside world, except for gold and silver, only new currencies were recognized.
And the results of the unsealing of several technologies in the Laoshan base are what Zhao Yuan is preparing to make a front stop for the unification of the world's currency.
"My lord, the glass workshop has been built, and the high-temperature reactor for producing glass has been installed, so would you like to move over there and hold a ceremony for the first ignition?"
"Okay, no problem, let's go and hold a lighting ceremony first, and then when the glass is finished and ready to be opened, I will take my wife with me, and when the time comes, let them show their craftsmanship and create a pair of the most exquisite glass ornaments, and I will give them to Madame." Zhao Yuan readily agreed.
Glass is an artifact in this era.
In fact, as early as in the process of cement production, Zhao Yuan tried to fire glass, but because of various relationships, the fired glass could only be regarded as glaze because of too many impurities and the temperature conditions could not be reached.
Although the value of these defective glasses, that is, colored glass, is also very high, Zhao Yuan did not put the large-scale production of colored glass on the agenda in consideration of the future glass industry, and only produced some on a small scale and kept it for his own use.
For example, the glazed windows of the Thorn History Mansion and the glazed tiles of the New Zhao Mansion all come from here.
Although the fired glass has become colored glass, the strongest research force under the Zhao Yuan system, the technical researchers of the Laoshan base, have not given up on the research of glass, and finally succeeded in the recent research and development.
Glass, especially colorless glass, is formed by high-temperature glass paste formed by some sand and some special materials after high-temperature firing, and after shaping, it can form exquisite glass products.
"Uncle, is there anything interesting about you taking me and my aunt to this workshop so mysteriously early in the morning?"
"Yes, Lang Jun, you know that I can't leave Ru En for a long time, what if he cries."
"It's okay, it won't take much time, Ruen is taken care of by the nurse in the house, and he won't be hungry, let alone dangerous."
"Then Langjun told them to hurry up, and after reading the surprise you prepared for us early, we will go home early."
"Okay, don't worry, it won't be long before you and Luoluo can see what shocks you." Zhao Yuan said mysteriously.
After having Ru En on her own, Meng Ying poured at least half of her attention into the child, on the one hand, it was a maternal relationship, and because before and after Ru En was born, Zhao Yuan was not able to accompany her for a long time.
And Meng Ying is here, no longer on the side of the gray plain, there are so many relatives who can talk around them.
"Lady, after we move to Xinzhao Mansion, take my father-in-law, mother-in-law and eldest brother's family over to live for a while, they haven't been out yet!" Thinking of this, Zhao Yuan said.
"Okay, I want my father to kiss them too." Meng Ying grabbed Luoluo and said leisurely.
"My lord, you can turn on the furnace, it will be very hot here in a while, why don't you let Madame and Miss go outside and wait for a while." In the time when Zhao Yuan was talking to Meng Ying and Luoluo, the glass stove was finally ready to be opened.
"No, this bit of heat, we Luoluo can bear it." Zhao Yuan looked at Meng Ying, who shook his head lightly and objected.
"Okay, I'll move a screen for you adults to block the heat."
"Go ahead, remember my request, and also, let everyone stay safe."
"Yes, sir."