Yan Xueyi had to sigh that Linyue County is rich in minerals, not only Linyue County, but also the entire Ningyuan Prefecture is extremely rich in mineral resources. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There is a branch of a large iron mine in the area of Linyue County, with reserves of at least several million tons, and a small copper mine with reserves of hundreds of thousands of tons, and there is a large coal mine near Linyue County.

If Yan Xueyi is in an area with scarce minerals, it is basically impossible to develop an industry, and if an industry is established, it is necessary to buy a large amount of minerals from the outside world, then Yan Xueyi's every move will be concerned, no one has no guns, just wait to be swallowed by other forces.

Fortunately, Yan Xueyi is very lucky, there is Linyue County, which is rich in minerals and a good place in his sphere of influence, Yuanhe Industrial Zone is a minority activity area to the west, and only Yanjiabao is connected to the outside world, and then it is the county seat of Linyue County, Yan Xueyi does not need to be frightened every day, just bury his head in the development of industry.

Now Yan Xueyi not only teaches students with peace of mind every day, but also goes to Yuanhe Industrial Zone when he has time, and pays attention to the glass industry of the Yan family.

Years later, a total of 21 Yan's shares or self-built glass factories all carried out trial production, the results are very gratifying, 21 glass factories are all fired out of glass, individual glass factories have some small problems, such as the color of the glass is not right, etc., but also quickly solved by Yan Xueyi, after the trial production, 21 glass factories are fully operational, want to put glass products into the market as soon as possible.

Even if the 21 glass factories are fully operational, I am afraid that they will not be able to fill the market in a short time, after all, at this time, according to the scientific and technological level of the Manchu Dynasty, the glass factories that can be established are also a large number of labor, and there are few production machinery, so the output of each glass factory will not be too high, and at most it can only meet the needs of their respective provincial capitals.

Yan Xueyi wanted to establish a glass factory with higher output, but unfortunately there was a lack of various production machinery, even if the cost of glass production was only one-tenth of the previous one, if a modern industrialized glass factory was established, not only the output would be greatly increased, but the cost would also drop a lot, but before the steel plant was established, these were all empty buildings.

In addition, the investment in building a steel plant is not small, take the modern Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, the construction began in 1890, and the construction cost 5 million taels of silver when the construction was completed. Before his death, there were 3 iron-making furnaces and 6 steel-making furnaces, which produced about 80,000 tons of iron, nearly 40,000 tons of steel, and more than 20,000 tons of rails per year.

In order to build a Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, at least tens of millions of taels of silver were spent, and the steel output was not high, which was not something that the Yan family could afford to play at all, but Yan Xueyi did not want to build a steel plant like the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, and at first it was good to build a steel plant with an annual output of several thousand tons, so that the Yan family did not need too much investment.

Back to the glass factory, the country's 21 glass factories are fully engaged in the production of various glass products, mainly mirrors of various specifications, and then recruit some craftsmen to match the mirror with exquisite frames.

Those peasant tenants don't have to think about it, they work hard every day to fill their stomachs, how can they afford to buy mirrors as a luxury of the modern age.

People living in the provincial capital except for those who are poor, can basically afford to buy mirrors, of course, according to their own financial resources, you can choose to buy mirrors of various specifications, small households can buy a small mirror with a big palm, you business elite family, do not buy a few one-foot square mirrors? In particular, the kind of large mirror that is one person tall can reflect the whole person.

It's not just a mirror that everyone needs, for example, glass glasses, others use porcelain wine glasses, but you use transparent glass glasses, you can clearly see the color of the wine, and you can think about it.

Cups and other things are small objects, ordinary cups can be afforded by households, if you really want to show your wealth, then put glass on the doors and windows of your mansion.

During the Manchu Dynasty, there were not many glass products in the whole country, let alone the installation of glass on doors and windows, which could only be done with window paper.

Who knows how bad the window paper is, not only is the light transmittance very weak, but also easy to break, a finger poke through the past, if these window paper are replaced with glass, then you can sit in the house in the winter to enjoy the warm sunshine, and there is no need to light a candle to illuminate.

The forces that cooperate with the Yan clan know that glass can make a lot of money, and they have invested so much silver before, and they have to make money now, so after a little inventory of various glass products, they are ready to start selling in the city.

There are also many smart people in these forces, they know the whole model, put the doors and windows of a mansion with glass, and put all the glass products that can be used into the mansion, and when everything is cleaned up, the owner of the mansion invites his best friends to his mansion as guests, everyone looks, wow, the whole mansion has changed, looking at the benefits of various doors and windows, and then looking at the "tall" figure of the big mirror in front of him, and then holding a delicate wine glass to drink, all this is really a novelty, I really want to complete the whole house for myself.

So everyone asked the owner of the mansion where to sell these things, so that the sales of glass products were completely opened, and the powerful businessmen bought hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, not bad money at all.

Almost instantly, glass products became popular throughout the Manchu Dynasty, unlike in the past, only the Manchu Dynasty opened its own glass factory with a very low output and a small amount of glass brought by Western merchants by sea, only those at the top of the Manchu Dynasty could use it, and now glass products are in large quantities, as long as they are not poor, they can afford glass products, such as the smallest and cheapest mirror, which can be bought for only 100 yuan.

Glass products are hot, the inventory of each glass factory is swept away, the shareholders of the glass factory are both happy and sad, happy that the glass factory can make a lot of money by itself, the money they just invested is now about to return to the capital, and they will definitely multiply in the future I don't know how much, sad is that the output of the glass factory is not enough, so they can only do it in a hurry.

Many shareholders wanted to continue to invest in the new factory, and the manager of Gan's firm immediately voted against, explaining that scarcity is expensive, and this glass product will not be easily damaged, so can we sell it to them a second time? Now the output is less, the price is high, if we open another factory with high output, we have to reduce the price of sales, this is not worth it.

As soon as the shareholders thought about it, they were right, so they no longer mentioned the construction of a new factory, but they specially prepared some glass products to give gifts, which added a lot of personal relationships.