The return of the third uncle Wang Yushu, the happiest Xiao Qubing and He Ke'er, as soon as the two heard the news, they immediately jumped off the chair, held hands and ran out.

He Jian, Wang Yuanbao and others, who were a little unclear, were so excited to see Xiao Quai, and they all followed. Before Xiao Qubing went to Youzhou, Wang Yushu was sent to Luoyang by Xiao Quai, and even Wang Yuanbao didn't know what he had done.

When everyone came to the front yard, they saw that Xiao Quzhi had already taken Wang Yushu's hand and started to walk inside, and he was still carrying a sheepskin bag in the other hand. Wang Yushu said excitedly as he walked: "Fuchen, you are really a god, we have been looking for three days, and we really found it!" ”

Only then did everyone understand that Wang Yushu was originally sent by Xiao Qu to find something, but they didn't know what treasure Wang Yushu contained in this sheepskin bag, which could make Wang Yushu so happy.

"Go in and say." Xiao Quai's illness asked someone to arrange a banquet for these royal guys, and asked Ma Yong to finish eating quickly, and took dozens of guards to unload the goods on the dozens of camels in the back to the warehouse of the Wang family's workshop.

When he arrived in the room, Wang Yushu took a bowl of warm milk handed by Xiao Quai, drank it all with his neck up, and exhaled comfortably, and then said: "Fuchen, the third uncle really served you, you said yes, and the result is really there, and the quality is so high." ”

Xiao Quzhi opened the sheepskin bag and looked at it, and suddenly smiled, it was pure white and translucent, and it was almost close to crystal: "Third uncle, this time, except for the dozens of guys who went with him, did anyone else know?" ”

Wang Yushu gasped, ate a mouthful of braised mutton and padded his stomach, and said, "Don't worry, Fuchen." No one knows what we're going to do there. And I've paid for both the land and the mountain. ”

Seeing them talk so lively and mysterious. The others were anxious, and Wang Yuanbao said with a smile: "Fuchen, San Lang, what the hell is it, so happy?" ”

Xiao Quzhi put a tray brought by He Ke'er on the table, took out a few pure white and translucent quartz placers the size of a melon from the sheepskin bag and put them on the tray, and said excitedly: "Ah Gong, please take a look." It's this quartz placer. ”

The three ores are pure white, translucent, with a greasy luster, Wang Yuanbao took a piece in his hand and looked at it carefully, and if you look closely, you can see the crystalline particles the size of soybean grains. Thin edges in places that are almost completely transparent.

It is like a hail ball made of countless transparent Xiaoice hailstones, if it were not for the gap between them to affect the light transmission, the transparency of this quartz sand would almost catch up with the natural crystal that makes glass.

"This is the quartz placer you asked Yushu to find in Luoyang?"

Xiao went to the sick jaw and said the first way; "Yes, Ah Gong, with this high-purity quartz sand, you can make a crystal very close. Tight, transparent and colorless glass! ”

Wang Yushu saw that Wang Yuanbao still didn't quite understand, and said excitedly: "Daddy." The quartz placer I found this time is not like glazed stone, the stock is scarce, and it is extremely difficult to mine. It's ......"

Wang Yushu thought for a while and said; "It's almost half a mountain of quartz placers like this. The vein of the purest ore found by the child was seventy paces wide and almost a man thick, and as for the length, the child did not know, and he had to dig up the whole mountain. ”

Wang Yuanbao opened his mouth wide in surprise and forgot to close it, so much quartz sand, how much colorless glass close to crystal can be made!

At this time, He Ke'er brought a set of pale green glasses from the dowry gift sent by Xiao Quai, and smiled; "Look, Master Chen, they have already figured out a way to make the glass free of bubbles. This is the latest glass to be made, and it will not burst when used to hold boiling water. ”

Thanks to the advanced glass annealing process of the Wang family, Chen Dayou and others have been used in glass firing, and each batch of glass products must be put into the holding furnace for annealing for more than one day after it is done.

The bubbles bothered them for a long time, and they only discovered it two days ago, as long as they stirred it a few times before it came out of the oven, this small discovery was immediately ordered by He Keer to keep it strictly secret.

As the richest man in Chang'an, Wang Yuanbao naturally used the glasses brought by Hu merchants from the Western Regions, more than a thousand times, but before buying them, those Hu merchants in the Western Regions would tell them not to use them to hold boiling water.

Now the glass cups fired in his workshop are far better than those in the hands of these Hu merchants in the Western Regions, and they can also be fired in large quantities, and the technical process is only available at home, how much money can be made!

Wang Yuanbao hurriedly took a glass and looked at it carefully, and sure enough, he didn't see a bubble, and asked someone to bring a pot of boiling water, which really wouldn't burst, and then asked someone to bring a cup bought from Hu Shang in the Western Regions.

Things that used to be treasures, but now they are compared with each other, but how they look at it are not pleasing to the eye, not to mention the dense bubbles, and the burning is not round, which is all crooked.

Regardless of whether this cup was bought for 1,200 guan, he lifted the kettle and poured it in, and as soon as the boiling water covered the bottom of the glass, he heard a click, and this 1,200 guan Western Regions glass instantly cracked into several pieces.

Wang Yuanbao put down the kettle and laughed happily: "Okay, what are you going to do?" ”

Xiao Quzhi thought for a while and said: "It's hard to get fat alone, in addition to glass, I also have sugar, cakes and snacks, better and cheaper paper, and there will be tea and other businesses in the future."

Aren't the magnates and family lords who control a lot of resources and most of the businesses in their respective territories angry that I have blocked their way of making private money?

I let them do these businesses with me, and make a fortune with me, and they will naturally turn enemies into friends with me.

In this way, on the one hand, we can use their strength to make these businesses all over Datang; On the other hand, a community of interests has been formed, and in order to continue to make a fortune with me, these powerful people and families will naturally protect me and advance and retreat together with me.

However, this matter must be taken by them to take the initiative to beg us, my plan is, first of all, I have to bother the third uncle and Master Chen to work harder, before the New Year's Day court, use these colorless quartz sand to make a set of glass and teacups, as well as a large dragon-shaped ornament;

At the same time, I am ready to divide and win over a family first, and with an example, other powerful people and families will naturally flock to it......"

Listening to Xiao Quai's explanation of his plan, this time Wang Yuanbao was completely convinced by this grandson-in-law.

First of all, let's talk about this money-making idea one after another, I burn the glass myself, and the glass firing is more than ten times easier than the glass, why didn't I think about burning the glass in the past?

Make a simple iron box with a plug board to bake bread and cakes and sell them for money; With ordinary charcoal, you can turn cheap brown sugar into high-priced white sugar.

In addition, this ability to control and manipulate people's hearts is even more frightening, which makes the means of bringing out interests, winning over a group, dividing a group, and cracking down on a group is simply absolutely amazing.

Xiao Quzhi looked at Wang Yuanbao with an admiring expression, but he was thinking in his heart, it's not that I'm amazing, but that you are too limited, and I'm from the next generation. These techniques and methods of dealing with people's minds are not something that they came up with, but something that others have summed up after they have used it.

This is the accumulation and summary of more than 1,000 years of experience and wisdom, and there are countless successful examples that can be copied by yourself, many places, of course, amazing.

After saying this, the meal was almost finished, and the third uncle Wang Yushu couldn't take a break, so he immediately took people to the Wang family's glaze burning workshop to prepare for Xiao Quai's New Year's Day court meeting to present a congratulatory gift to Li Longji. Time is urgent, it is less than two days, and it will take a day for this glass light to anneal.

At the same time, Xiao Qubing took a few glasses, and when he left He Mansion, he went directly to the mansion of Xiao Hua, the squire of the military department, and Xu Guogong Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua, the contemporary head of the Xiao family in Lanling, his father is Xiao Song, who entered the phase with military merits in the Kaiyuan period. The history books record that he is a person with a rigorous family style, a steady nature, and an upright and upright person.

Xiao Hua's Lanling Xiao family is one of the top gate valves in the Tang Dynasty, although for various reasons, it is not as good as the five surnames Qiwang and the four surnames in Guanzhong, but the family heritage and influence are not bad at all.

If the gate valve of the northern Shi clan is headed by the five surnames Qiwang and the four surnames of Guanzhong, then the Jiangnan Chinese clan is respected by Wang Xie Yuan Xiao, and the four surnames are the most prominent in the Xiao family, which can be said to have won the support of the Xiao family, and almost won the support of the entire Jiangnan Shi clan.

In addition, what makes Xiao Qu's illness most important is that because Nanlanling is close to Haizhou (Lianyungang), the Xiao family of Lanling not only has a family history, but also controls and monopolizes the shipbuilding industry of the Tang Dynasty.

"Oh, Liang Guogong asking to see?" Hearing Xiao Quai's visit, Xiao Hua was a little stunned, due to the family style and tutoring, he was just and upright like his father Xiao Song.

Some time ago, when Xiao Qu's illness was in the limelight, some people suggested that he go to Xiao Qu's illness to recognize his relatives, but he was unwilling to do such a flattering thing.

And Xiao Qu was really busy at that time, but he didn't expect that now Xiao Qu was sick and full of enemies, but he took the initiative to come to the door. Xiao Hua didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly instructed the housekeeper to welcome Xiao Quai's illness into the living room.

"Xiao went to illness in the late life, and I saw the head of the Xiao family." As soon as he came to the living room, Xiao Quzhi bowed directly and saluted, which was the courtesy of the younger generation seeing the elders.

"How dare Liang Guogong be so polite, you and I are both founding fathers, and your military officials are still above me, how dare I accept such a great gift from you."

Xiao Hua wanted to step forward to help, and the doubts in his heart were even worse, this directly gave a junior salute to himself, but he wanted to lead my Lanling Xiao clan to help?

Sure enough, after both parties were seated, Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "I can't write two Xiao characters in one stroke, two hundred years ago, we must have been a family." Xu Guogong is more than twice as old as he went to the disease, so he is naturally an elder. ”

Xiao Hua knew that this was the case, he was an upright person, and he also admired Xiao Quai's behavior, so he went straight to the point and said: "Liang Guogong wants to find an old man to help him because of offending the powerful family of the Manchu Dynasty this time?" ”

Xiao Qu said in his heart, it was a pleasure to talk to such an upright person, and he didn't beat around the bush at the moment, and said frankly: "What Xu Guogong said is not bad, and it is precisely for this reason that he is sick." There are some things that I want to ask Xu Guogong to help, well, it is both help and cooperation. ”

As he spoke, Xiao Quzhi opened the box he brought, and there were three glasses inside. (To be continued.) )