Looking at the three pieces of transparent glass in front of him that were only a few millimeters thick, Yan Xueyi stretched out his hand and touched it a few times, and then knocked it a few times, Mu Bing and Mu Xue The two little girls also stared at the glass behind Yan Xueyi, and the figures of several people were printed in the glass. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Well, that's right, Wenle (Yan Xuecai's words), how much silver is left after refining these three pieces of glass?" Yan Xueyi glanced at Yan Xuecai and asked.

"One thousand taels of silver, a total of 781 taels were spent on making glass and paying for labor, and there were 219 taels left." Yan Xuecai replied without thinking.

"Wenle, you take one hundred taels, and the rest of Cheng Ying, Qian Feng, and Gao Yunfei are divided among the three of you." Yan Xueyi continued, Cheng Ying, Qian Feng, Gao Yunfei, the three guards of the Yan Mansion

"Patriarch Xie's reward." "Thank you for the reward." Yan Xuecai and the four of them were overjoyed and replied respectfully, saying in their hearts that their hardships during this period were not in vain.

Is a hundred taels of silver more? You must know that the annual salary of Qipin Zhixian in the Qing Dynasty is only 45 taels of silver (Zhixian still has 1,000 taels of incorruptible silver a year), and the monthly salary of Yanfu guards like Cheng Ying and them is only five taels of silver, can a hundred taels of silver not be much? The Yan clan can be regarded as a big family if it can have assets of nearly one million taels of silver.

Next, Yan Xueyi asked the people of the Yan Mansion to go separately and invite the six elders of the Yan clan to the Yan Mansion.

A clan elder looked at the glass on the table and asked in disbelief: "Xueyi, the cost of this kind of glass is really only one-tenth of the cost of the glass sold on the market?" ”

"Third grandfather, this is true, I don't believe you asked Wenle, this glass was fired by him." Yan Xueyi reluctantly repeated what he had said several times.

The six clan elders still had unbelievable faces.

The price of glass in this era was not generally expensive, mainly due to two reasons, one is that there are few factories (workshops) for firing glass in the Qing Dynasty, and the other is that the process is complex and the cost is high.

Now that a glass is only one-tenth of the original cost of glass, what a repercussion will be for the Manchu Dynasty, which had a great demand for glass.

There are many functions of glass, not only to make window glass door glass, but also to make cups and some glass ornaments, and the most important thing is that it can be made into mirrors, every household needs mirrors, how many mirrors does the entire Manchu Dynasty need?

As long as you think about it, you can know the windfall profits of the glass industry.

After a long time, the six clan elders finally believed in this matter, two clan elders looked at the glass old man with tears, and one clan elder holding the glass production process couldn't stop trembling, this is the hope of the Yan family's rise.

After retiring from the others, now only Yan Xueyi and the six clan elders are left in the room, and they want to discuss how to develop the glass industry, this is the first time that Yan Xueyi has participated in major events in the clan.

"Grandfathers, I think this glass industry can't be monopolized by our Yan family, it's best to cooperate with other forces, and our Yan family can only use technology to get a part of the profits. Glass is fragile and cannot be transported over long distances, it is best to set up a large glass factory in each provincial capital and sell it nearby, now we Gan's firm is only active in the four southwestern provinces, take this opportunity to expand the scope of our Gan's firm to all parts of the country. Yan Xueyi said his thoughts first.

"Xueyi is right, if we grasp this opportunity, our Gan's firm will be able to expand to all parts of the country and become a real big firm." A clan elder agreed.

"Well, that's possible." The other clan elders also agreed with Yan Xueyi's plan.

Don't think that the older age of the clan elder means that it is decadent and backward, the life experience of the clan elder for so many years is more important, it can be compared to the old age, Yan Xueyi's idea is obviously recognized by the six clan elders.

Next, the seven of them continued to discuss in detail, considering any details.

The next day, the Yan family convened the major stewards of the Yan firm, and the major stewards rushed back to Yanjiabao, and it didn't take long for the major stewards to go to the provincial capitals of various provinces and provinces across the country with a glass sample in their hands, looking for various forces to negotiate the establishment of a large-scale glass factory.

It didn't take long (calculated on a monthly basis) to send back the news from each province that the predetermined goal was completed, and after the contract was signed, the glass production process was quickly sent to the provinces, and the other forces that signed the contract quickly took out the money to build a large glass factory after obtaining the production process.

The forces of all parties are not stupid, they can see that as long as they participate in the establishment of a large-scale glass factory, they can get huge benefits, and the possibility of losing money is very small, almost belonging to the type of giving money for nothing, can you still send money for nothing, at most, you have just started to pay some silver to build a workshop, and you have to open up the relationship network, and you can't let other forces obstruct the glass factory.

Basically, no force wants to monopolize it, after all, no matter how strong a force is, it can't resist the joint efforts of other forces, as for the Yan clan to account for two percent of the shares, it is indeed not much, if it is other forces that come up with the craft, maybe it will account for fifty percent of the shares.

Taking the opportunity of the establishment of large-scale glass factories in various provinces, Gan's firm established branches in the provincial capitals of each province, although Gan's firm in the four southwestern provinces of the province transferred a large number of people to all parts of the country, but the benefits of Gan's education at this moment appeared, a large number of literate Gan children were promoted as newcomers, newcomers just lack a little experience, and will soon adapt to it.

When the next product appears, as long as the benefits are not too big, with the help of the business name of Gan's firm that has expanded to the whole country, you will be able to get more benefits.

The emergence of low-cost glass firing technology has brought the time for the rise of the Gan family, and every Gan child has more energy in their hearts, to make the development of the Yan family stronger and make the Gan firm a famous business house in the world.

Back to Yanjiabao, the small workshop that was successful in experimental firing glass was not dismantled, but the Yan family invested a lot of money to prepare to build a large glass factory, which was requested by Yan Xueyi, and the six clan elders all agreed, anyway, they can make money, and they can establish it, and the glass products produced by the workshop can be sold directly to the surrounding prefectures and counties, and in the face of the huge market, it is enough to digest the output of a large glass factory.

Yan Xueyi's request to build a large-scale glass factory is naturally not to make money, but to improve the glass process and make more advanced glass.

In addition, fired glass can also have a name - glass industry, Yan Xueyi's industrial plan officially started, there are one and two, maybe in the near future an industrial area slowly takes shape.