The establishment of the Textile Machinery Research Institute to study steam-powered spinning machines and looms was only the first task Fang Nan gave to Han Jia, and then Han Jia had to take over most of the glass factories under the name of the People's Army.

Glass mirrors and transparent glass are a very lucrative business in the People's Army-ruled areas, and other businessmen want to participate in it but can't get it, and glass mirrors are almost becoming a must-have daily necessities in people's homes.

For the people at the bottom, the big glass mirror can't afford it, a palm-sized glass mirror can always afford it, especially the people in Guangdong Province, who have owned their own land for several years, and have a certain amount of savings at home, in this case, the people are also willing to spend money to buy some things that they were not willing to buy, glass mirror is one of them.

In the newlyweds' homes, glass mirrors are one of the must-have items.

As glass sales increased in Guangdong Province and four new provinces were added, the People's Army began to build more glass factories to produce clear glass and glass mirrors.

According to Fang Nan's division, all enterprises under the name of the People's Army should be divided into two categories, such as steel mills and arsenals, which are industries that must be controlled by the state, and state-owned enterprises, while glass factories, which are not industries that must be controlled by the state, are divided into Fang's Chamber of Commerce.

The emperor is the supreme ruler of the country, and everything in the state, including people, belongs to the emperor.

According to this statement, Fang's Chamber of Commerce is an alternative state-owned enterprise, but the income of the real state-owned enterprise is allocated by the state, and as the supreme ruler, Fang Nan can also allocate these benefits, but it is mainly used for the country and the people.

The income of the Fang Chamber of Commerce does not need to go through the state, it is directly allocated by Fang Nan, and it can be used for itself, as well as for the country and the people.

In fact, the glass factory is not important to the People's Army, glass mirrors and transparent glass are indeed a very profitable business, but no matter how profitable this business is, it cannot compare with the monopoly of salt and iron, and the common people can not buy glass mirrors, but they cannot do without salt and iron.

Moreover, after the glass factory was assigned to the Fang's Chamber of Commerce, the glass mirrors and transparent glass produced would also be handed over to the People's Chamber of Commerce for sale, and the most important thing was that even state-owned enterprises had to pay taxes.

Most of the glass factories under the People's Army were assigned to the Fang Chamber of Commerce, but one of the two glass factories in Guangzhou's new city was still under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and the other was mainly responsible for making telescopes and microscopes, while the other was only for the production of ordinary clear glass and glass mirrors.

There is no need to say much about the significance of telescopes and microscopes to the KPA, as the production of telescopes and microscopes is still relatively small, and telescopes cannot be distributed to company-level officers.

In addition to manufacturing telescopes and microscopes, this glass factory also has the task of developing new glass, which is basically equivalent to a combination of glass research institutes and processing plants, similar to the cement factory under the name of the People's Army in Guangzhou Xincheng District, and the main task of this cement factory is also to develop new cement.

At present, the patent rights of glass belong to the Fang Chamber of Commerce, and the glass factory of the People's Army does not need to pay royalties for the production of glass, and other businessmen who want to establish a glass factory to produce this kind of glass must obtain patent authorization, unless the businessmen come up with other glass technologies and obtain new patent rights.

Not to mention that the merchants did not have new glass technology, and even if there were, the merchants did not dare to set up a glass factory to produce, in their opinion, this glass business, like salt and iron, belonged to the People's Army, they did not dare to touch it, at most they bought glass and sold it.

I am afraid that it will not be until the regulations are gradually perfected after the establishment of the state, and then the merchants will find out the various rules.

The chamber of commerce under the name of the high-level family of the People's Army is being established, and it is expected that the glass business will be the first project for the Fang family to make money with the chambers of commerce, mainly after the People's Army unifies the land of China, the glass technology will be authorized to the chambers of commerce, and glass factories will be established in various places.

Compared with the development of Fang's Chamber of Commerce, Fangnan is more concerned about the opening of the industrial age, the B steam engine opened the door to the industrial age, and with the birth of various steam-powered machines such as water lifters and steam machine tools, the industry is booming.

But there is one thing that has a great impact on industrial development, and that is "people".

The "people" needed for industrial development can be divided into two categories, one is researchers, who are responsible for studying various steam-powered machines, and the other is workers, skilled workers.

There are workers in glass factories, cement factories, arsenals, and machinery factories, but there are several kinds of workers, and the most ordinary workers can be called "force workers", as long as people with strength can become ordinary workers in the factory, their work is very simple, mainly all kinds of hard work.

On top of ordinary workers, there are also skilled workers, and the Foshan Arsenal is the place with the most skilled workers.

For example, the process of rifling the barrel, there are hydraulic machine tools, ordinary workers can master this technology after a certain period of learning, become a skilled worker, ordinary workers do not go through the study, how can not operate the hydraulic machine tool.

However, skilled workers are also different from skilled workers, there are simple technologies that can be mastered within a few months or even a month, there are more complex technologies that take half a year or even more than a year to master, and there are more complex technologies that take several years to master.

This "mastery" refers to mastery, and the defective rate of products manufactured by skilled workers is low.

Think of blacksmiths and apprentices, apprentices need to study for more than five or even ten years to become a teacher, and a skilled worker in a factory can master a skill, so that the time to learn a skill is shortened.

Skilled workers cannot be trained in large quantities overnight, especially the "advanced" skilled workers who have mastered advanced technology, and it takes more than ten years of study and training.

One of the most complicated processes in the arsenal is the "rolling" of iron sheets into iron pipes, which cannot be completed with the help of machines for the time being, and can only be carried out by skilled blacksmiths by hand, and ordinary workers cannot master this technology after a year of serious study.

Fortunately, with the birth of the Type B steam engine, it will not take a few years to use the machine to make the barrel.

With the advent of the industrial age, there must be enough skilled workers to build more factories into production, and factories such as the production of type B steam engines also require a large number of skilled workers.

In order to train more skilled workers, the previous plan adopted by the People's Army was for old craftsmen to lead apprentices, and in this way, an old craftsman could only bring a few apprentices, which was not efficient.

The industrial age has begun, and the People's Army needs more skilled workers, and Fang Nan is preparing to come to a technician training program.

One of the most important aspects of the technician training program is the establishment of technical schools, where highly skilled and highly skilled workers serve as teachers to teach a large number of students to learn technology, and teachers will also be arranged to teach students mathematics and even literacy.

The training of skilled workers in large quantities in the form of schools is also one of the characteristics of the industrial age.