Not to mention what happened in the Los Angeles bar in Dili City, this morning, two carriages carrying Lao Ba Han Lotian and they left the trestle, and only Lao Wang Wei Hong and Fang Linyou were left on the dock, and Fang Linyou also had a job, and after sending off a few brothers, he immediately took a few soldiers to hurriedly say goodbye to the barracks, and today he is in charge of patrolling the city wall.

And Wei Hong had just returned from a business trip to Okuxi City, because most of the soldiers he brought to the Leizhou Peninsula were left to Su Gaofei, so recently he was recruiting new recruits in the naturalization camp, and in addition to training, he also took some untrained soldiers to maintain order in the city and the dock, obviously these are all daily work, and there is nothing to rush, so at this time, in the end, only Wei Hong stayed on the dock to accompany Master Wang to chat.

The first cargo to be unloaded from the Nicole was 3,500 pieces of 25 centimeters of glass plates, which were extremely flat and transparent, and each of these glass plates with high flatness and transparency actually sold for 20 taels of silver!

However, this is only the price of the upstream value of the product chain - Portuguese merchants in Timor bought the glass panes back, hired carpenters to make the precious teak carved glass windows, and then shipped them to India, Ottoman Turkey and Europe, where they were bought in the palaces and mansions.

It is said that this business is very good and very profitable.

This kind of glass window business began a year ago, when Hou Xianglin had more than a dozen such glass windows left over when he repaired the governor's palace, so he sent these "surplus building materials" to the governor of Pimont and the Duchess of Margaret.

So, since the installation of glass windows in the mansions of these two men, the transparency and flatness of the glass caused a stir in the high society of Dili City, and not long after, under the strong recommendation of Pimont, several batches of such glass windows were tried to be produced in the Red Mansion.

Like cement, this kind of glass window was brought to various parts of the South Seas by the pervasive Portuguese and Dutch merchants, and it is said that the court of the Kingdom of Manchuchka and Ayutthaya was very interested in this kind of glass window, not only because it was cheaper than the Venetians in terms of price, but also because the transparency and flatness of the glass were too good to be believed, and it is said that because the transparency was so good and so invisible, that the head of a certain king was accidentally hit on such a glass window and was broken.

Soon after, such glass windows flowed into the palaces of Indian maharajas, and gradually, such glass windows appeared in the mansions of the nobles of the Eastern Mediterranean, according to the news brought to Sin'an by the trafficker Lefik - he saw them in the luxurious living room of the Ottoman Governor's Palace in Damascus Province on the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, and the suffocating price was the local transaction price - which was converted into 150 taels in silver! Three times more than the Venetian counterpart!

In Xin'an City, these glass plates were purchased by the Portuguese for 20 taels of silver - to be specific, in the hands of the Diao Company, the company only paid three dollars a piece of silver to the senior craftsmen who made the wooden frames!

Therefore, this kind of huge profit made Lefik very envious, he found the governor Xiao Pingguo more than once, asking himself to also obtain the trade privileges of the Diao company, as for the return - Lefik said that he would be more active in trafficking trade labor for Australians, so Xiao Pingguo immediately telegraphed to the Red Mansion, hoping to give Lefik the same trade privileges, after all, most of the trade labor in the naturalization camp was transported by this trafficker, fortunately, the Red Mansion met Xiao Pingguo's requirements, of course, Xiao Pingguo would not give the privilege in vain, He asked Lefiq to join Operation Windwind first and then come back......

Obviously, Hou Xianglin is the main promoter of the glass window business, because this itself is the business of his "Pacific Construction Co., Ltd.", and he has been planning the future of the building materials industry - as early as when he was the "director of the management committee" of Xin'an City, he had various ideas about the development of the construction industry in the new world. The director of the management committee of the new security tax district is only a temporary position, and from a professional point of view, this position should be "professional and incorrect", especially when I see that the group of professional and technical people in my family have the prospect of becoming the world's industry predators in the future, but I am bound by administrative duties, which is really a little anxious.

Hou Xianglin is different from Ren Ke, everyone knows that Ren Ke is a Ming Fan plus a royal man, and his interest in the political field is greater than that in the field of non-ferrous metallurgical technology, otherwise he would not have created a "non-governmental organization" like the Huotang Club.

And Hou Xianglin, although he is very close to the people of the Huotang Club, but in the final analysis, he is an architect in his bones, and his interest is also in the construction of these aspects, in fact, the Red Mansion sent ** to him as an assistant, that is, he agreed to gradually let him get out, and the Red Mansion generally believes that as the only genuine construction industry professional among the traversers, being bound overseas by a so-called governor is definitely not a worthwhile thing for everyone.

Of course, Xin'an City is still inseparable from Hou Xianglin, this is because Hou Xianglin "has prestige and deep network foundation" in Xin'an City - this is the comprehensive evaluation of the "Beishang Fund" Council, so Yu Hewei, the president of the fund, is always very concerned about the requirements and proposals from Xin'an City, which is also one of the reasons why the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station Dam was approved by the "Beishang Fund" Council to start constructionThis in itself is an affirmation of Hou Xianglin himself and the status of Xin'ancheng - the fund board believes that only Xin'ancheng is in a position to implement such a large investment and be able to pay for it quickly.

After discussion, the board of directors of the fund also agreed that the construction of a glass factory in Xin'an City is the best way to expand the supply of glass, improve operating efficiency, reduce costs, and also the only way to solve its energy technology bottleneck - after all, under the existing technical conditions, the power of the coal-fired Stirling generator is not high, and it is simply unable to drive the glass melting crucible furnace, so the electric energy supply of the glass factory melting furnace can only rely on the hydropower station.

The topic returned to the present, the loading and unloading operations of the Blue Wharf were tense and orderly, and soon, these glass plates were transported into the warehouse on the edge of the dock square under the supervision of Wei Hong and the soldiers of the garrison, and tomorrow morning, one-third of the glass plates will be auctioned publicly, and the remaining two-thirds will be handed over to the Diao Company for purchase, and the unit price is still twenty taels of silver.

Immediately afterwards, another large net bag was hoisted from the deck of the Nicole onto the dock, and several porters ran up to untie the net bag and brought out a large clay pot, probably not holding it steady, and the clay pot almost fell over.

So Lao Wang, who was not far away, immediately stopped chatting, ran over with Wei Hong, and said anxiously, you guys be careful! Don't break the clay pot, or you won't be able to afford to sell it!

Hearing this, Wei Hong hurriedly waved his hand behind and called a few soldiers of the garrison to come over to help.

These clay pots contain the core secret of the "old captain", the puree of the epoch-making new liquor.