After Li Zhi confirmed the power of each lens, he re-made the molder, and made 28 lens molders with different powers in a unit of 25 degrees. The new lenses www.biquge.info are polished by craftsmen to make a set of standard power lenses, and then use these standard lenses as a mold to make a fine molder, reducing the amount of polishing work.

Finally, after the standard molder was completed on February 15, each jade craftsman could grind a pair of lenses per hour, and five people could make 30 pairs of glasses a day.

When the product was made, Li Zhi began to sell it. Li Zhi sold reading glasses at the price of ten taels and one pair in the Li family's shop in the Tian0jin Acropolis.

Li Zhi set the reading glasses at this price, firstly, to prevent others from copying them. After all, the imitation of reading glasses is relatively easy, a pair of reading glasses used in glass glass is only one-twentieth of a set of glass tea sets, the price is too high will be used to grind imitations, imitations are irresistible, so the price is too high; Second, Li Zhi also hopes that more people will buy reading glasses and expand profits. Ten taels is not much, and the heads of wealthy families can afford this price. Selling at this price, there are many people in the Ming Dynasty who can afford glasses, and the sales of reading glasses will go up.

In terms of product confidentiality, Li Zhi controls the confidentiality of the raw materials of the lenses.

The colorless glass on the market is basically produced by the Li family. The glass glasses are relatively small, so it is impossible to grind glass lenses. The bottom of the glass tea set can be ground into glass lenses, which is not conducive to the secrecy of the glasses industry. Fortunately, the sales of tea sets were not very good, and Li Zhi simply stopped producing this kind of glass tea sets, cutting off the possibility of other craftsmen imitating glass lenses from raw materials.

As for the large pieces of colorless glass that Westerners transported across the ocean, it was expensive, and it was obviously not cost-effective to use large Western glassware to grind into a pair of reading glasses. If you don't sell your glasses to a high price of 20 taels or 30 taels, you won't be able to recover the cost.

By controlling the raw materials, Li Zhi blocked the possibility of others copying reading glasses.

The Li family's shop in Tian0jin has already expanded. Now the other two shops on both sides of the store have also been bought by Li Zhi, and they look very decent after luxurious decoration. Li Zhi sells soap in the easternmost shop and reading glasses in the westernmost storefront, which is the most upscale in decoration.

The so-called everything is difficult at the beginning, and the initial customers of new products are always few. Li Zhi hung a large pennant on the top of the store with the words "Bao Zhi Presbyopia", hoping to attract the first batch of customers. What Li Zhi can do now is to wait for this product to slowly ferment and bring profits to himself.

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Ding Youdi's father wanted to have a son, so he gave him such a stupid name. However, he did have a younger brother later, which made him wonder if his name was really useful.

He was originally a farmer in Dingjia Village, 60 miles west of Fanjiazhuang, and in April of the eighth year of Chongzhen, he heard that Fanjiazhuang was recruiting, so he came to recruit workers. He was very fortunate to pass the interview of Li Dao, the uncle of the Lord of Ethics, and entered the Fanjiazhuang glass workshop to work. At first, he did it by lighting firewood, and then he was an adult, and at that time he was still a defensive adult, so he asked him to do procurement, and he went to the store outside Xue Yuan in the west of the city to buy alkaline noodles, and then every time he burned a furnace of glass, he poured alkaline noodles into the crucible, nine catties per pot.

He did the easy job.

After the first glass kiln of the glass workshop was officially put into operation, there were 17 employees, the kiln head Cai Huaishui took three people to be responsible for heating the furnace, three people, including Ding Youdi, respectively purchased goods and added goods to the crucible, one employee was responsible for adding saltpeter to the boiling crucible, two employees were responsible for adding salt to the crucible and stirring the melt, one person was responsible for annealing, and four people were responsible for molding.

According to the rules of ethical adults: each employee is only responsible for his own business, and no one knows what materials others buy and use, nor do they know how much other people's materials are needed. Employees are not allowed to discuss their own processes with other employees, and they are not allowed to leak process details to the outside.

Cai Huaishui, the head of the kiln, is responsible for the implementation of order and suppresses employees who violate discipline.

Cai Huaishui is a simple and responsible kiln head, when he is in charge here, the whole kiln runs very smoothly, most of the employees abide by discipline, and no one talks about other people's processes. Ding Youdi is very grateful to Master Ethics for giving him such a job, two taels of silver a month, three meals with meat, easy and simple.

Ding Youdi rented a villa on Heming Street in the north of the city, and the monthly rent was only 70 yuan. It doesn't cost money to eat and drink in Fanjiazhuang, there are meat dishes at once, and Ding Youdi feels that he has grown a lot stronger and bolder in half a year. And there is such a high monthly money in Fanjiazhuang, he can save one tael or eight cents of silver every month, and he has more than ten taels of savings in half a year.

Ding Youdi's good errand made his worth rise, and from time to time, a matchmaker came to his house to talk about matchmaking, which made him very proud.

But the good days passed quickly. At the end of November, when Lord Ethics built the second glass kiln, the original kiln head Cai Huaishui was transferred to the second kiln, and the first kiln was headed by the original furnace worker Huang Shu. Since this Huang Shu served as the head of the kiln, the atmosphere in the glass kiln has changed.

For the first month, everyone was still able to follow the discipline. But after returning from the New Year, several workers began to inquire about the secrets of other people's formulas.

At the beginning, the three workers who were good with Huang Shu at the head of the kiln kept knocking on the side in the kiln to inquire about the names and dosages of other people's raw materials, and peeked at the operation of other people's processes. For example, when the annealing worker operated the annealing, he was originally operating alone in a compartment, and the Huang Shu people ran in to watch it and quarreled with the worker in charge of annealing several times.

Huang Shu not only did not stop those people from breaking discipline, but also punished employees from time to time who were unwilling to tell the secret of the recipe - Huang Shu, as the head of the kiln, has the power to cancel the meat in the employees' meals. For example, Chen San, who was in charge of adding saltpeter, was supposed to retire the left and right personnel when he was operating, but Huang Shu's people wanted to go to see it. Every time there was a quarrel, Huang Shu canceled Chen San's meat.

Huang Shu's family is very poor, and when he heard that his father was still gambling outside and owed money, he was very short of money, and everyone suspected that Huang Shu was colluding with outsiders to get the glass formula.

But the people who do things in this glass workshop are honest farmers, and there is no evidence, and everyone does not dare to offend Huang Shu to report him!

However, everyone knows that their errand is not easy to come by, and once they leak their recipe to Huang Shu's people, the integrity adults will not let themselves go easily. At the worst, he canceled his errand, and at worst, he sat in prison and beat the board. Thinking of this layer, the workers are stubbornly keeping the secrets of their own processes, and not allowing Huang Shu's people to have the opportunity to gain insight into the details.

Soon, Huang Shu found that he couldn't do it with his limited power, so he began to change his strategy. He began to invite the employees in the kiln to the restaurant for dinner one by one, saying that he wanted to discuss important matters. After Huang Shu invited guests a few times, Ding Youdi found that many employees in the kiln began to mingle with Huang Shu.