Li Xing stood in the Tianjin Municipal Hall, watching the busy carpenters tear off the pasted window paper on the doors and windows, use tools to dig grooves and ditches in the original pasted paper positions, and install the transparent flat glass. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xing stood next to a craftsman and watched the craftsman operate, and asked coldly: "Why are you so skilled?" ”

The craftsman laughed and said: "Back to the second general, Grandpa Guo's Guogong Mansion has all been installed with this kind of glass, and installing glass windows for the Tianjin Municipal Hall is the second time I have done this job, so I am naturally handy." ”

Li Xing saw that the craftsman was smiling happily, and he laughed without smiling. But Li Xing was annoyed that the carpenter looked "very knowledgeable", and before a smiling face could fully bloom, he suddenly retracted his facial muscles and immediately replaced it with a serious black face.

Li Xing's grimace made the carpenter tremble, and he thought that how could these two generals be yin and yang?

However, it is rumored that the second general Li Xing has always been domineering, and he dares to do anything, and it is not common to put on a strange face in front of the craftsman, and the second general may kick himself out if he provokes him. The carpenter didn't dare to say anything more to Li Xing, buried his head, and only hurried to install his glass window.

Li Xing frightened the carpenter who pretended to be an expert, and he was a little proud. He stood up and stretched, sat in front of the counter of the tax office with his legs crossed, and looked at the pieces of glass that were installed in the windows, and muttered.

Li Xing sat for a while, and was about to go back to the governor's yamen to deal with official documents, but saw Jiang Chong, the commander of the trapping division, walking into the city hall with a bag of files.

Li Xing often messed with Jiang Chong, and when he saw Jiang Chong, he was happy and quickly recruited Jiang Chong.

"Jiang Chong, come and see my eldest brother's glass window."

Jiang Chong saw the second general greeting him, hurriedly walked up and saluted Li Xing, and then carefully looked at the glass windows installed by craftsmen.

The carpenter who installed the glass saw that there was another head who had never seen a glass window, raised his head, and looked at Jiang Chong with an expectant face.

Jiang Chong looked at the glass window, touched it with his hand again, shook his head and sighed: "Such a wonderful thing, Jiang Chong is really unheard of." I can't imagine that such a luxury object as glass can be used as a window. ”

"Wouldn't it be possible to have such glass to transmit light and block sand and dust? No matter whether the wind is blowing or the rain is blowing outside, this glass can hide the debris outside the window? Sheltering the wind and rain can still let in the light, so that the house is suddenly bright. Even if there is sand and rocks outside, the house can get sunlight. ”

Jiang Chong took a breath and said, "Exquisite! It's absolutely exquisite! ”

Li Xing listened to Jiang Chong's words and laughed. He knew about this kind of glass window panel before Jiang Chong, which made him feel a great sense of accomplishment. patted Jiang Chong on the shoulder, and Li Xing put on an expression of "don't make a fuss", which was very useful in his heart.

The carpenter was a man who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he actually laughed with Li Xing, as if he was also proud of his carpenter's "well-informed".

Li Xing found that the carpenter was also laughing with him, and it seemed that he was the dignified governor of Tianjin who had the same insight as a carpenter, and suddenly seemed to have eaten a fly. He was so embarrassed that he had to slowly suppress his smile.

Jiang Chong looked at Li Xing and asked curiously, "How much is this glass window?" ”

The carpenter, who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, still wanted to show off his knowledge, and hurriedly replied: "Three coins of silver for one square meter!" ”

Li Xing's face was even darker.

If Li Zhi hadn't repeatedly taught Li Xing to love the people like a son, Li Xing would have blasted this carpenter out a long time ago.

Jiang Chong thought for a moment and asked, "Grandpa Guo sells this glass window so cheaply, won't it impact the sales of the original glass wine vessels?" If you buy this flat glass with ulterior motives and burn it soft to make wine utensils, wouldn't you be able to make very cheap wine utensils? ”

Hearing Jiang Chong's words, the carpenter was dumbfounded. He is barely literate, although he has seen glass windows earlier than Li Xing, but how do you know why Li Zhi gave up the glass wine industry and sold glass so cheaply?

Such a complex issue is not understood by carpenters. He touched his head and looked at Li Xing.

Li Xing smiled, and secretly said that there is finally something that you, a carpenter, don't understand?

"Jiang Chong, let me tell you, this is where the eldest brother is clever."

"Wine glassware sells for thirty taels of silver, and only very wealthy families buy this luxury, and the sales are limited. Even if the eldest brother sells the wine vessel to North Korea and Japan, he will earn hundreds of thousands of taels a year. These incomes are nothing compared to the expenses of the eldest brother in various places. ”

Li Xing shook his official robe, looked at the carpenter, and said:

"But glass windows are different. Nowadays, most of the people in Tianjin and Shandong are rich, who doesn't have dozens of taels of savings? When I went to Shandong some time ago, I saw that the poorest peasants had torn down their adobe houses and started building brick houses. Since these peasants had the money to build brick houses, they could afford to buy the glass windows of their eldest brother. ”

"If a person has a room with two square meters of windows in each room, he will spend six pennies on the windows. The population of Shandong and Tianjin is 13 million, plus the 14 million Liao people in Liaodong, each of whom spends six dollars of silver to buy windows, that's it..."

Li Xing did the math and said, "This is a big deal of 8.4 million taels of silver!" ”

"This is just the business in the eldest brother's territory, if the benefits of glass windows are understood by people from other provinces, and rich families from Beizhili, Shanxi and even Jiangnan come to buy it, it will be a transaction of tens of millions of taels."

"This kind of business is not comparable to glass wine vessels. For such a sale, it is completely possible to give up hundreds of thousands of taels of glass wine vessels. ”

Hearing Li Xing's analysis, Jiang Chong and the surrounding carpenters all had a clear expression, and finally understood why Jin Guogong sold the glass so cheaply.

Jiang Chong bowed his hand very humbly and said: "Listening to the words of the second general is better than reading for ten years!" ”

Li Xing turned his head to look at the carpenter beside him.

The carpenter also knew each other, and he also bowed his hand to Li Xing and said, "The second general is really well-informed!" The small people are really ignorant and ignorant compared to them! ”

Li Xing was happy at this time, and finally found the shelf of the dignified governor. He patted Jiang Chong on the shoulder and laughed.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Xing said goodbye to Jiang Chong and went back to the Yamen.

The carpenters continued to keep busy, and it didn't take long for the glass windows of the town hall to be installed. Glass windows bring sunlight into the hall, brightening the previously dark and gloomy town hall.

Where have the Tianjin people who come in to do business have seen such a bright indoor environment? One by one, they looked at the transparent glass and were dumbfounded. Many people stand next to the glass window and probe their brains, trying to touch the completely transparent glass, but they dare not touch it.

A "guide" specially set up in the city hall wasted no time in walking up and introducing the new product "glass window" of Tsu Guogong to the people.

The point is to let the people know that this glass window is only sold for three dollars of silver, and the price is absolutely cheap.

The need for a large number of glazing immediately appeared. As soon as many people walked out of the city hall, they went straight to the glass window shop in the Tianjin Acropolis.