As soon as he entered the gate of the glass factory, he didn't see anything, Cao Bin was still ignorant, but Sun Yue was secretly taken aback in his heart, but he saw that there were five steps, one pavilion and ten steps in the main gate, rows and rows of redwood trees, accompanied by the afterglow of the sunset, there was a faint bit of poetry, it was clearly a beautiful garden, where was the configuration of the factory?

"The land is not valuable, so I will occupy more, and in the future, I plan to build a family building in the backyard, where some trees and flowers will be planted, and I will feel better when I want to come to work for the workers."

As he spoke, several people walked towards the front, and the first thing they saw was that there were about hundreds of workers sitting outside in an open space with the fragrance of birds and flowers, each of them in front of a large whetstone-like thing, turning a wheel to polish the edge of the glass.

"When the glass was first burned, the burrs were very sharp, and they needed to be polished before they could be used, so I modified such an edge grinding machine according to the grinding machine, and there was a cutting machine behind it, which was roughly the same, but because my glass was too brittle, it was very fragile to grind, and it was good for an ordinary worker to grind ten pieces of glass a day after being familiar with it."

As he spoke, Sun Chunming led the way back, and saw rows of white glass boards hanging on the glass shelves that were about a little larger than a human head, and said: "After grinding and cutting the glass, that's it, you can directly install it in the house to make a small window, paint it with mercury, and you can make a glass mirror, and there will be a special mirror processing factory in the back, and those that are broken will take away the refining glass fiber, and make bottles, cups, etc., as well as all kinds of ornaments, the specific method is similar to pottery, nothing special to say." ”

Cao Bin looked very seriously, and took out a pen and paper from time to time to memorize.

"In other words, of all glass products, this glass plate is the mother of all?"

"It's not all, it's just that glass plates and mirrors are more expensive, so I just want to make as many as I can, but at least in my factory, there's nothing wrong with saying that."

"So, how did this glass pane come about?"

"That's the real secret of this factory, follow me."

Saying that, Sun Chunming led the two of them straight to the center of the factory, and along the way, he also saw a lot of all kinds of utensils he said, as well as many other glass procedures, all of which were using primitive and stupid methods to replace modern equipment with manpower, so the amount of labor was indeed very large.

And after walking through, the two found that there was actually a courtyard within a courtyard in this scene, which was still heavily guarded, and the person at the head was still an acquaintance.

"Uncle Zhuo? Why are you here? ”

It turned out that although the number of guards in this team was small, it was the personal guard team that Murong Yanzhao retired from that year, led by Zhuo Boxin, who had a life-and-death relationship with him back then.

This is also what Sun Yue is strange about, you must know that Sun Chunming has treated them a lot over the years, it is said that they should have divided the industry, and they have a small family asset, why did they go back to the business of standing guard again?

"I can't be idle, I can't do business, and I don't want to return to my hometown to farm, so I will give full play to my spare heat, and when you get married to Miss, it will be comfortable to work for the Sun family."

Sun Yue smiled and didn't say anything, but he admired his father's methods more and more in his heart, you must know that these Murong Yanzhao's personal soldiers retreated, in essence, they were no different from the Murong family's family, but because Murong Yanzhao died of illness, and most of the descendants were poor, this made them pick up a bargain, nominally to exert their residual heat, but in fact, what is the difference between them and their Sun family's family?

Sun Chunming also smiled: "Because the things inside are too valuable, ordinary people really can't rest assured, so I invited General Zhuo, come, follow me in and have a look." ”

As he spoke, Sun Chunming nodded at Zhuo Boxin with a smile, as if these people still had a lot of respect for him.

As a father, he is obviously thinking about chewing up his daughter-in-law's dowry.

Of course, even if Murong Yan knew about it, she shouldn't have any bad emotions, she might still wish that his father's little power would enter the Sun family, the water spilled by the married daughter, the thicker her dowry, the more confident the family will be in the future.

said that the three of them entered the inner courtyard, and after not walking a few steps, Cao Bin was shocked, pointed to the behemoth in the house and said, "This is ...... This is...... What is it? Doesn't it look like steel? ”

"Yes, it is a pure steel sintering furnace, about two meters high, more than three meters wide, because the temperature required for glass firing is very high, ordinary masonry furnaces can not be used at all, so not only pure steel is built, the interior is also hidden, a furnace can fire two hundred pieces of glass, this furnace alone is enough to consume more than 600,000 yuan, the whole factory has a total of twenty-four such furnaces, in addition to my grandson's financial resources, another more than 100 Kaifeng wealthy businessmen jointly funded, Fu Lao General them, Almost all the pensions and life savings rewarded by the official family have been invested, and most of the magnates in Beijing have injected capital, and the total investment of the entire glass factory is nearly 50 million, and I studied this tempering furnace, and the manpower and material resources invested in the conversion are not less than one million, but it also took five or six years, so why did the Southern Tang Dynasty imitate? ”

Cao Bin was stupid, he had expected that the investment in the glass factory was very large, but he never thought that it would be so big, Sun Yue had already made a bumper harvest when he laid down the treasury of the Southern Han Dynasty, but now the stuffed pile warehouse is actually enough to buy a glass factory? Where do you make sense?

How can he take advantage of such a large investment in a glass factory?

Sun Yue thought that the sintering furnaces of later generations were generally more than four meters high, but obviously they could not be made with the technology of the Great Song Dynasty, so it was no wonder that the fired glass plates were so small.

Sun Chunming said with a smile: "However, although the glass has a huge investment in the early stage, but after the furnace is erected, there is almost no cost except for manpower, Luoyang is near the mountains, more quartz, and it is very convenient to take materials, so I said before that the thousand-fold profit is not an exaggeration, and the output will be at least 100 times higher in the future, so don't look at the large investment, it will be able to return to the cost in less than three years, at present, there are only two furnaces in trial operation, and after being proficient, twenty-four will be opened, and it will continue to increase." ”

Cao Bin sighed: "What a big stroke, I'm afraid that except for you Sun Chunming, no one in the world can do such a big thing." ”

Sun Chunming smiled a little proudly: "It's just a coincidence, Kaifeng City has been working for seven years, basically a familiar face, everyone trusts some, so, the glass thing, the secret recipe is not really useful, the sintering furnace is the core, but, even if you get the method, why build it elsewhere?" To build here, at least there are ready-made craftsmen, oh yes, without these craftsmen, 600,000 should not be able to be made. ”

Cao Bin couldn't help but laugh and said, "Could it be that I ran away in vain this time?" ”

"How can it be, the huge profits of glass are actually counted by everyone, I have already discussed with them, the entire glass factory let forty percent of the shares to the Military Commission, free gift, in this way, although the return will be slower, but under the huge profits, everyone can also accept, if the imperial court has another appropriation, directly build a furnace here."

Cao Bin was also beautiful when he heard it, and said with a smile: "Then there must be so much good steel." ”

"Ah, I forgot to tell you, I plan to build another steel mill on the side, the scale and investment will not be smaller than this glass factory, if it goes well, I will not be steel again in the future."

Cao Bin: "............"