As a non-essential industrial product, Xu Shiyang didn't even mind selling glass products directly to the Muguls or even the Jurchens.

However, Xu Shiyang now has no market and no distribution channels, so although glazed products in this era are still high-end luxury goods, he still set a relatively low price: almost half of the price of porcelain origin at this stage.

When Li Feihu saw the sample, his eyes lit up as if he had found a gold mine.

Porcelain has always been a traditional export commodity of the Great Zhou, and the price of this thing is comparable to that of precious stones in the West, but in the case of the Great Zhou, it is just ordinary cheap luxury goods and even daily necessities.

But glass is different, in this day and age, this thing is a high-priced luxury item everywhere: although it is inferior to porcelain in the West, the price is not low. In the East, it is more than the middle price of porcelain, and it is only a little lower than that of high-end porcelain.

Moreover, compared to porcelain, this thing is better in the market.

The glaze could not only be exported to the Tu Kings of Nanyang, the Princes of Tianzhu, the wealthy merchants of Pars, or more Western nobles, but it could also be sold locally to the Da Zhou, now the richest in the world.

Li Feihu immediately realized that the demand for glaze in the Great Zhou Dynasty may break the strange circle that precious metals in the Great Zhou trade only enter and cannot be delivered.

In the past, overseas trade, whether it was Chinese maritime merchants or foreign maritime merchants, could only transport precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper from their own countries, and came to the Great Zhou Dynasty in exchange for porcelain, silk, tea and other products to be shipped back to China.

There was no market for foreign goods in the Great Zhou itself: for example, the poor Tianzhu merchant before had worked hard to bring in a large amount of Tianzhu homespun cloth, but he could only pile it up in the warehouse of Shuangyu Port and not sell it at all.

If Xu Shiyang hadn't eaten all of them at a low price, Zhu Haishang would have jumped into the sea that day.

Therefore, Li Feihu dreamed of finding a product that could be accepted by the Dazhou market to break this annoying circle.

Now it seems that the glaze of Qi Province is a very good product.

Li Feihu could completely transport the glaze from Qi Province, buy porcelain, tea and silk after selling it in the Great Zhou Dynasty and sell it to overseas merchants, and then purchase the grain, saltpeter, sulfur, iron ore, homespun cloth and other cheap consumables that Xu Shiyang needed from the overseas merchants, forming a smooth trade network and reducing the speed of precious metals flowing into the bottomless pit of the Great Zhou.

Of course, relying only on glass, it still seems too thin.

Glass is a luxury, the consumption of luxury goods will not be too large, it is good to balance the output value of porcelain, silk, tea, etc., there are many products urgently needed overseas in Dazhou that can be used to absorb precious metals.

"Brother Xu, Liuli is a good thing."

Li Feihu said:

"But this alone is not enough, do you have anything better and more that can be sold in Gangnam? This is very important to me! ”

"There will be later."

Xu Shiyang smiled confidently:

"Now let's find a way to open the market for glass."

Of course, there are some things that Xu Shiyang did not say to him: If he really waits for the so-called one, Jiangnan may no longer be an external market for Xu Shiyang, and at that time Huaxia may still be a bottomless pit for absorbing precious metals overseas.

"Okay, I'll go open the glass market first!"

Now there is a product that can open the Da Zhou market, which is already a surprise for Li Feihu, and he feels that he does not need to be greedy enough to immediately achieve a trade balance with Da Zhou.

"Brother Li can try it, sell at a reduced price in Dazhou, don't position the glass in high-end products, or in other words, you can divide the high, medium and low grades."

"The high-end products are the most delicate and beautiful, and I can even offer an order service here for wealthy merchants, gentry and officials."

"Mid-range goods can be sold to ordinary wealthy households, middle-level landlords, and low-level officials. Of course, in terms of quality and beauty, it is worse than high-end products. ”

"I can also provide some low-grade goods that are barely formed and have a lot of bubbles, and it is just right to sell them to those small citizens or small landlords who have a little money."

The so-called low-grade products are actually waste products in the immature technology of the glass factory, which should have been melted away, but Xu Shiyang is very picky, he wants to sell these things as much as he can, anyway, this thing is originally a waste product.

"Haha, I didn't expect Brother Xu to have some experience in doing business."

Li Feihu smiled:

"But Brother Xu really thinks too much, what I can do is to sell the glazed products to the gentry in Jiangnan, they take a large number of goods from me and then sell them in their own stores, as for how they sell and how much they sell, it's none of my business."

"Ahh Xu Shiyang was a little disappointed, he thought he could take the opportunity to occupy some business channels in Jiangnan.

"Brother Xu, don't be disappointed, this is the old rule, and the interests of the Jiangnan gentry are untouchable." Li Feihu shook his head: "We also have to give them benefits, just like I had to buy high-priced grain from the gentry in Jiangnan." ”

"If I transport the cheap rice from Nanyang to the south of the Yangtze River, and the landlords and gentry there clamoring to give the court a fold of 'cheap grain hurting peasants', the market I have worked so hard to open will be finished."

That's understandable.

In fact, the Nanyang rice that Li Feihu shipped to Xu Shiyang, and even the foreign-aided rice from Jiangnan, were not directly put into the market in Qi Province.

Because the price of these grains is too low, even taking into account the freight problem, the price of grain obtained by Qi Province from its own land is extremely cheap, about one-third to one-half.

In order to avoid dampening the peasants' enthusiasm for production, after arriving in Qi Province, the grain was used for the consumption of soldiers, workers, and laborers, or flowed into the people in the form of affordable loans.

Of course, Jiangnan Haoshen is only using similar reasons to make profits, not to calm the market of necessities in this way, which is a difference in purpose.

Xu Shiyang said with a little disappointment: "Okay, I can accept it, the things are for you, how you sell them has nothing to do with me." ”

Li Feihu looked at Xu Shiyang, of course he could hear the dissatisfaction in Xu Shiyang's tone.

He began to think about how to appease this dissatisfaction.

When Xu Shiyang went down to Jiangnan for the first time three years ago, he was just the son of a powerful family in Qingzhou, Qi Province, and at that time he was almost nothing in the eyes of the Li family, and even an important purpose of going down to Jiangnan was to solicit sponsorship.

But today, three years later, Xu Shiyang has become the overlord of a province, and even has a faint foundation for winning the Central Plains.

Now that he has money, food, soldiers and horses, what will happen in another three years?

Therefore, Li Feihu felt that this dissatisfaction could not be allowed to take root in Xu Shiyang's heart.

At least don't let this discontent be directed against you!

"Brother Xu." Li Feihu hesitated and said, "I heard that the second son was born? ”

"Well, yes, what's wrong?"

Not long ago, Zhao Lin gave birth to a son to Xu Shiyang in Qingzhou, which was his second son.

"I have a daughter, just a full moon, why don't we get married?"

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