After resting in the county seat for the night, Chen Jian went to visit the officials here early the next morning. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Chen Siwen had a two-sided relationship with the county magistrate of Nan'an County, Chen Jian did not go directly to the meeting, he was just starting out now, and some things were not in the eyes of others.

That's not his own father, he can't trust his own nonsense, and he doesn't dare to talk nonsense, so he can only speak when he develops in the future.

If you are not familiar with life, you can only follow the rules. First of all, he had to go to the sheriff and show his various certificates to prove that he was not supposed to be the kind of "lazy", but that he was qualified to build a workshop here, and he was also qualified to hire others.

This is the problem of money, and his father is also an official, so he passed it with a little talk.

To take a formality, first swear that there will be no conspiracy here, and determine whether or not to join a registered and recognized party, it is considered to have passed, and obtained the qualification to live, build workshops, and operate here.

After that, he went to the merchant officer, and in order to prepare the suitability of the workshop, he first wrote an application and submitted it, declaring that he was qualified to hire and build a workshop here, and that he might build a workshop with about two or three hundred hired men and apprentices.

When the application was submitted along with a certificate from the sheriff permitting the residence and business, the commercial officer looked at the application and laughed first.

There was nothing wrong with it on paper, the plan was to build two workshops, but the names of these two workshops were a bit odd.

One is called "Nan'an County Private Glass Factory", and the other is called "Nan'an County Private Chemical Factory".

The commercial officer has seen a lot of various workshops and mines, and today is an eye-opener.

What are other people's names Zhang Ji and Li Ji, or this fang or that hall, it's the first time I've seen the name of the county in front for so long.

As for the second one, after laughing, I felt a little weird.

The commercial officer racked his brains and thought about what this chemical industry was, whether it was a cup, a wheel, an ironware fabric, or something?

I didn't come up with it after thinking about it for a long time, so I couldn't help but shake my head.

When he saw that the first batch of employees was roughly planned to be more than 200 people, the commercial officer's eyes suddenly lit up.

First of all, there was no glass factory in the county. If you open a coal mine or something like that, you will inevitably have to think about it, after all, many people are deeply rooted here, and it is better to have less trouble if the foundation of this kind of river crossing is not hard, and it will also give yourself less trouble.

But since it's a glass factory and an unknown chemical factory, it's much simpler, and the more such workshops, the better.

The more workshops there are, the more taxes the county collects, especially when two or three hundred hired workers and apprentices are hired at once, which is definitely a good thing for the county.

Hiring so many people at once, I think I have to invest at least three or five thousand silver coins, and such a large sum of money can be regarded as throwing it into the county. You need to purchase, eat, build a house, etc., and if you can do it for a long time, it is really a good thing.

In another county, there is suddenly such a large workshop employing two or three hundred workers, which is also his own merit.

When he saw the last signature, the commercial officer felt that the name was somewhat familiar, and it was natural to think of the young man with the same name who had recently been in the limelight in Min County.

It is not too far from Mincheng, and there are land and waterways to connect it, and you often go to Mincheng to have fun during the New Year's Festival, and there are no pirates or rebellions in Mincheng in the past two years, and some things will be impressive.

After meeting, after asking a little question, Chen Jian said that he was the person he thought, which immediately amazed the commercial officer, and praised Chen Jian again and again for how he had seen that scene.

During the greetings, Jian Chen quietly handed over a money order, and the commercial officer felt that there was something more in his hand when he held it, and his heart was even happier. Secretly said that this young man became famous at a young age, and he could still be a man without arrogance, which is indeed rare.

Hand over the money, some things still have to be done officially.

"There are quite a few hired workers and apprentices in the county, all of whom have read enlightenment. It is easy to say the contract of the hired man, and you shall go to the magistrate to deal with the contract of the hired man. According to the rules, I want to take three months' salary from your employer as collateral, and if something goes wrong, it can be handled. ”

"It's nature."

"There is nothing wrong with the minimum wage for glass workers and apprentices, and these mortgages are based on the minimum wage. It's just that you're a chemical plant, what are you? I've been a commercial officer for a long time, and I've read a lot of laws and regulations, but I still haven't seen anything like this. ”

Chen Jian sighed, thinking that although this chemical plant was extremely simple at the beginning, it was really difficult to say what it produced.

To put it mildly, it is the production of grass ash alkali, alum oil and the like; To put it bigger, the scale of formation is not afraid of death, and the problem of transforming into an explosives factory within a month is not a big problem.

"Uh...... You've also heard that I wrote an unformed article, and I actually got the guidance of Mr. Mu in the Capital School Palace, which is actually related to Mr. Mu in the School Palace. ”

Chen Jian simply pulled the banner of the tiger and said half of the truth, and the commercial officer was stunned when he heard it.

He went to school to learn statistics and business laws and the like, and he had never heard of Mr. Mu's name, but he had heard of the name of the Capital City School Palace.

Coupled with some rumors that I heard a few days ago and were deliberately promoted by Jian Chen, I couldn't help but feel that the chemical industry was tall.

Nowadays, the control is very loose, as long as you don't do something like capital enemies or rebellions, as long as you have enough money and the relationship between the military is strong enough, even cannons and muskets can be produced. The commercial officer was very relieved at this point, anyway, Chen Jian's father was also a naval officer, and it was possible to become a disciple of the Academy, this kind of thing was absolutely impossible.

After thinking about it for a while, the commercial officer thought that this thing might be a workshop like seaweed ash, so he calculated the minimum salary according to the regulations of these workshops.

Finally, we come to the most important issue - land.

"As you know, glass is fragile and needs to be smelted with coal, so I wanted to buy a piece of land to build this workshop. This thing is not easy to transport, it is best not too far from the county seat, and not too far from the river, after all, it also needs materials such as coal, silica, seagrass ash or gobi alkali. In the meantime, it is necessary to grind and grind materials, which requires a small river to install a hydraulic mill and the like. ”

The commercial officer, of course, understands that many industries today are inseparable from water, and proximity to water means not only power, but also transportation.

Take the common coal here, for example, the place where the coal mine is located is still twenty or thirty miles away from the Min River, and it is cheaper to dig out the coal, but if it is transported to the Min River by mules and horses for loading, it may be more expensive than the cost of digging out.

Nowadays, the roads are also full of ruts, and in case of rain, except for one main road, the rest of the place is really difficult to walk.

When you think about it this way, some things make sense. He originally thought that Jian Chen was famous in Mincheng, and there was a lot of money in the shops in Mincheng, why did he come here? Now that I think about it, I think that probably the good places near Mincheng have been occupied, and it is really a good idea to retreat to the second.

Although I don't know how much money I received just now, I have to help solve this matter in public and private. The other party is not the kind of small workshop with two or three hundred silver coins in his hand, and he has to hire two or three hundred workers to make a move, and his father is not easy to provoke even if he is a character.

Turning out the sketches near the county, he found a few places and pointed them out to Chen Jian one by one, these places were neither fertile land nor other people's workshops, and they were not far from the county seat.

"You can go to these places tomorrow, and if you like it, you can settle down. I went to the county order for instructions, and they all came according to the rules, and there was no obstruction. ”

"Thank you so much. Another thing is that my workshop will use coal, wrought iron, wood, and build houses, waterwheels, and so on. I'm new to the city, so I'm not familiar with it...... In this way, I will be the east tonight, and I will invite you to have some wine and food at will, and please also talk about the things and people in this county. ”

The commercial officer did not refuse, and this is not something to be seen in the unsightly.

That night, a table was set up in the best wine shop in the county, and the commercial officer was also a frequent guest, so he picked out something to say during the banquet, and let Chen Jian thank him a thousand times.

During the period, who is the best to use masonry, who is the largest coal and iron, etc., Chen Jian remembered them one by one. This is not just a suggestion, but also a kind of advice, whether to use it or not to take it from Jian Chen.

At this time, there were actually a lot of glass-burners, but for Chen Jian, it did not affect his own money.

This kind of light industry comes quickly, can be initially accumulated, and prepares for the cost-consuming sulfate, and there is not much competition here, and there is not much need for too many entanglements of interests, unlike the textile industry, which is easy to be excluded.

Since many people have started to buy glass products, there is already a market for glass to be molded, and some people have started to use expensive glass windows.

But today's glass can't be made into too big pieces, it is a large piece of glass made by skilled craftsmen blowing into a cylinder, the cost is not low, and it can't be made too big.

At this point, Chen Jian can use some experience in his previous life to complete technological innovation, which is not like textiles, which will easily make tens of thousands of people unemployed, and he will not dare to do it before the money and power are not enough to avoid big things.

Once the new type of pressing method makes the big glass appear, it will soon be able to squeeze out the glass workshop made by the blowing method near Mincheng, even if it is a vicious competition compared to throwing money and reducing prices, the other party will not be able to compete with him.

The number of people in the glass workshop is not too large, and it is not a pillar of handicraft at all, even if it makes a fuss and throws money at it, it can be settled.

In addition, glass is also the basis of observation and experimentation, and it is also the basis for the destruction of many people's three views.

Nowadays, there are too many glass bubbles, and even some expensive glasses have some subtle bubbles, which is not a big problem to use, but if it is used for other purposes, it is a little powerless.

Sextant, telescope, primitive microscope, prism, test tube, glass bottle, large glass tube over 760 mm...... If these things are not there, some things cannot be developed.

Disciplines such as astronomy, bacteriology, quantitative chemistry, and optics, together with the telescope behind it, have no basis for existence.

Most importantly, the large glass tube of more than 760 mm intuitively declares the existence of atmospheric pressure, declares that there is a force between the vacuum and normal air, and also announces a line of thought.

Is there any way to artificially create a vacuum and then use the pressure of the atmosphere to press something into motion? And then you can use the pressure of the gas to make something move?

Some things are not born like geniuses in the first stroke of the brain, and that requires countless foundations.