Hopnave's breakthrough was supposed to be something to celebrate. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's a pity that the glassmaking craftsmen at that time, although they regained their freedom, their status was very low, even lower than the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty at the same time.

Hopnaf, who was rebellious since childhood, did not regard glass making as a lifelong career, but fantasized more about being able to get rich overnight and get ahead from then on.

When he heard that Tavermil, in the far east, had brought back a priceless "Heart of the Sea", and that he had gained an official position and a great deal of wealth, Hopnave's mind came alive...........

He stole his father's savings, boarded an expedition to the Far East, and began his gold rush.

However, the ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel, and it took Hopnaf a year and a half to find the so-called "heart of the sea" in southwestern India.

At this time, a companion usurped the land, saying that farther east, where gold was everywhere, was a paradise for explorers.

So Hopnav's head was hot, and he came to Chinese Taiwan with a Dutch merchant ship.

With his ingenuity, Hopnav quickly learned Chinese, and at the same time knew that this Taiwan was just an island in China, and the real paradise of gold had not yet arrived.

In order to dream of getting rich overnight, for the paradise in his heart, Hopnav once again embarked on the road of adventure, and crossed the sea with the merchant ship to Shanghai County.

When Hopnav arrived in Shanghai, it happened to be 1645, when Li Hongfei was the king of Suzhou, and Shanghai at this time was unprecedentedly prosperous, and merchant ships from all over the world lined up here to wait for Suzhou's goods to come on board.

After some inquiry, Hopnav learned that as long as he could get a shipload of goods back to Europe, he would basically not have to worry about it for a few lifetimes.

Hopnaf was excited, believing that he had found a chance to make a fortune, and that if he worked hard, he would soon be able to return to his hometown and throw a large amount of gold coins at those who had looked down on him.

However, it is impossible to drop pie in the sky, and this shipload of goods is not given for free, and it also requires a lot of real money to exchange.

In order to come to China, Hopnav has spent all his savings, and by working as a sailor or a dock coolie, he is afraid that he will not be able to earn the capital of a shipload of goods in his life.

As for opening a glass factory, Hopnav didn't think about it, but he didn't have the capital, he couldn't pay for the plant, equipment, and labor, and foreigners opened factories in China, and there was no local snake to take care of, so basically don't even think about it, the local gangsters' blackmail for three days and two ends will soon bankrupt you.

Hopnav was not reconciled, he finally came to this paradise of gold, how could he return empty-handed?

Soon, he came up with a solution, and that was the root cause that inspired him to leave his homeland in the first place: Heart of the Ocean.

Anyway, Huaxia is tens of thousands of miles away from France, and no one knows what the "Heart of the Sea" is, as long as you do it well enough to deceive the locals, it's still no problem.

When you save enough money and get a boatload of Chinese specialties to return to China, you will really be developed at that time.

How to dye glass, Hopneuf figured out the principle a long time ago, that is, while refining glass, doping it with metal oxides.

Different metal oxides can show different colors, and if these oxides are added to the glass ingredients, the glass can be colored.

For example, when chromium oxide (Cr2O3) is added, the glass is green, and when manganese dioxide (MnO2) is added, the glass is purple...........

Hopnauff couldn't start a glass factory, but it wasn't too difficult to set up a small workshop and make some small glass.

After many experiments, Hopnaf finally obtained the blue glass after adding cobalt oxide (Co2O3).

With the copycat version of "Heart of the Sea" Hopnaf as soon as possible, he found those jewelry shops in Daming and wanted to sell as soon as possible, but these merchants were all human spirits, and they quickly recognized that this was not a gem, but a more valuable glass.

Originally, Hopnaf directly sold glass handicrafts, although it was not very profitable, but it was not much worse, a piece of jewelry earned twenty or thirty taels of silver, that is proper, and it can slowly develop under the accumulation of a lot.

But his mistake was that he used glass as a gem to sell, and it was nothing to get rich overnight, but none of the Chinese merchants were vegetarians, and the officials and businessmen colluded with that trick to play the trick, and Hopnav was caught at the beginning, how could he beat them.

In the end, the money was not cheated, and even the glass was confiscated as "stolen goods".

Hopnave, who had lost his wife and broken his soldiers, knew that it was impossible to sell it in such a swagger, so he began to go underground, one master and one master to carry out pit abduction, anyway, he was not discovered, he made a lot of money, once it was broken on the spot, he paid the glass to the other party, in order to calm the matter.

In this way, he went from the initial "Heart of the Ocean" selling for seventy or eighty taels of silver, to one or two hundred taels of silver later, the price became more and more expensive, and he naturally earned more and more.

Today, I happened to see Li Hongfei and his entourage in the place where he often commits crimes, and felt that Li Hongfei spoke in a very bold tone, so he gritted his teeth and quoted a sky-high price of 1,000 taels.

As a result, Li Hongfei saw through the other party's scam at a glance.

What's even more tragic is that Li Hongfei didn't look down on the glass jewelry worth dozens of taels at all, but directly fell in love with the person Hopnave...........

Ahem, it's the other party's technology for making glass.

"It seems that you can't go back to France or Italy." After listening to the other party's story, Li Hongfei couldn't help but joke.

The other party previously lied that he was French in order to make up a story, but now it seems that his real identity is an Italian glassmaker.

"I hope your lordship will be gracious!" Hopnav knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Hongfei.

It seems that in the past two years in China, he should have entered the yamen many times, and he is very familiar with the process of the government.

"Okay, okay, I didn't say to let you go to prison, it's not easy for you to come all the way to Daming, I'm in a good mood today, I'll give you a chance to choose, or obediently go to prison for twenty years, maybe one day the emperor will be happy, come to an amnesty to the world, and you will have a chance to return to China." Or just do it with me, I don't have high requirements, give me ten years, and I will naturally let you go. Li Hongfei made a condition.

What kind of choice is this, it is clear that only one way is given to the other party.

"That'........ Excuse me, who are you? Follow you, how much money can you earn in a month. Hopnauff asked cautiously.

This guy really fell into the eyes of money.

"Who am I, you will know later, in short, in Daming, with me to protect you, everything is not a problem. Of course, if I let you die today, you won't survive tomorrow. As for salaries....... Two taels of silver a month is enough for your daily expenses, and if you perform well, I will appropriately increase your salary or reduce the number of years of work. Li Hongfei said.

A craftsman in the most ordinary government-run enterprise, the basic salary is more than two taels of silver per month, Li Hongfei is equivalent to only paying a coolie's wages, but he wants the other party to do what an inventor does.

After all, Li Hongfei poached Hopnaf and didn't let the other party make glass, then he was really sick in the brain.