It was hard for the Spaniards to imagine that a glass mirror could be made so large and ...... So cheap!

Six thousand six hundred and sixty-six taels of silver, this glass mirror was sold to Europe, and the royal families of various countries would pay a lot of money to buy it, and it could be sold for at least twice the price at that time.

"We want ten."

The Spaniard gasped and asked worriedly, "Do you have ten faces?" ”

"You will have all twenty."

"That's great, let's have twenty sides! For the rest, buy smaller mirrors. ”

Although this kind of large mirror caused the exclamation of the Spaniards, the Spaniards were quite sensible, and they didn't buy dozens of noodles to go back, and the things were worthless if they were too much!

It's better to buy more small mirrors and go back, the profitability of small mirrors is very good.

Although it is a small mirror, the diameter is at least twenty centimeters, so that such a large mirror will trigger the rush of those nobles, the palm size of the mirror, the price has begun to dive, the French and Italian mirrors have led to this phenomenon.

The European aristocracy, arguably the most vain in the world.

As soon as they got something new, they would show it off, and when other nobles saw it, they would buy it one after another, and often they would buy a more high-end one, in order to surpass each other.

After some bargaining, the Spaniards bought about five million taels of mirrors at what they thought were cheap, and most of them were small mirrors, except for some high-end goods.

The other five million taels were used to buy large quantities of cotton, ceramics, and tea, as well as some fine ironware.

Among them, cotton cloth and ceramics were bought the most, and the Spaniards found that cotton cloth in Shandong was the cheapest, which was thirty percent cheaper than the price bought in Fujian.

The price of ceramics is also cheaper, but the quality will be a little worse. But there are also some porcelain that is the same price and quality as Fujian.

The former is homegrown by Denglai, and the latter is purchased from Jingdezhen. Denglai fired ceramics naturally not as good as Jingdezhen, Denglai's kiln factory porcelain technology has jumped a lot, by digging the corners of those kiln factories in Jingdezhen, and Jingdezhen has not much difference, but the quality of porcelain clay and Jingdezhen has a gap.

Although the quality is a little worse, but you can't see it if you don't look closely, the Europeans don't have a deep study of this aspect, and the price after selling it to Europe is still about the same, and the Spaniards feel that it is a good deal.

As for the price of tea, it is a little higher, but I also bought some at the same time.

Within half a month, the tens of millions of taels of silver brought by the Spaniards were declared to be outflowed after a large-scale purchase in Qingdao, and the Spaniards also filled more than 20 merchant ships.

When the Spaniards left, the Coastal Fleet also sent five warships to escort the escort, all the way to Matsue before returning. The arrival of the Spaniards also brought Zhao Yan a piece of news, that is, the small glass mirror in the West is no longer valuable.

"I heard that the price of such a big glass mirror has dropped to about one hundred and fifty silver." Zhao Quan said depressedly: "It seems that the price of our glass mirror will be reduced next year." ”

"Even if it's one or two pieces of silver, it's a huge profit." Zhao Yan said with a smile, "The price will continue to be reduced next year, and the smallest mirror will be reduced to 1 tael of silver, and it will be fully civilized." ”

The manufacturing method of glass mirrors is almost overwhelmed, and many people in Denglai Institute of Science and Technology and Denglai University have been able to make mirrors by themselves.

It's almost impossible for this thing to cover.

It's better to cut prices like crazy next year, quickly expand the market, and use the quantity to earn the same profit.

"It won't be too low, will it?" Zhao Quan asked hesitantly.

"The smallest is to be low, the price of mirrors in Europe will be lower and lower, and when the time comes, they will sell it to our Daming, which will make silver outflow." Zhao Yan said that the purpose of the price reduction is also to prevent the counterattack by the European glass mirror.

"As for the big mirror, we will launch a bigger one next year, continue to take the route of luxury, although the market for glass mirrors may not be able to keep for long, but we still have a huge advantage in glass products, so that the glass factory focuses on the development of glass products." Zhao Yan explained, Zhao Quan wrote it down, and then explained.

The small mirror is moving towards the common people, and the large one is still a luxury product, and there will be almost no loss, but the market life has been shortened, but with this development trend, the monopoly situation of glass mirrors will not last too long.

It's better to catch as much as you can and maximize your profits.

Glass products are not only a glass mirror, other types of glass products are very varied, since the glass mirror can not be kept for a long time, then focus on the research and development of other glass products, and constantly introduce new products.

Zhao Yan then went to the glass factory to lie down in person, and the glass factory had moved out of Zhaojiabao and was located outside Zhaojiabao.

There is no city wall outside Zhaojiabao, but it has developed very quickly, and streets have been built outside Zhaojiabao, and there are many factories around.

It doesn't matter if there is a city wall or not, Shandong is peaceful, and even a thief is difficult to meet, and the city wall is really useless.

As Zhao Yan's power continued to expand, Zhaojiabao, as his administrative and military center, naturally became more and more prosperous, and the surrounding land prices continued to rise.

If you want to buy a house outside Zhaojiabao, you need at least a hundred taels, and the closer to Zhaojiabao, the higher the price.

Inside Zhaojiabao, there is no market, and the land there is Zhao Yan's, and he basically does not sell the land. The land outside the city is private and can be bought and sold freely.

At present, most of the land in Shandong is private, except for the land occupied by Zhao Yan's textile factories, breeding farms, ordnance bureaus and other institutions and factories.

Zhao Yan's divided land gradually belonged to individuals, as long as he cultivated for three years, the fifty acres of land were private. However, if agricultural land is to be reused, it must be submitted for approval, and only after the approval is passed can it be used for other purposes. In terms of buying and selling, if you want to sell the allocated land, you must report the reason, and if you are immigrating, changing jobs, or something, you can pass it immediately.

The land previously owned by yeoman farmers does not need to be approved.

The real estate around Zhaojiabao has been approved, and the land within a radius of ten miles can be bought and sold freely. Zhao Yan barely charged anything on it, and the high housing prices in later generations made him feel terrified.

The world is so big, it's not that hard to live in a house! Even if it is a population of 1.3 billion.

In the absence of a fee, the price of land will only fluctuate according to the market price. So now the land in Zhaojiabao is rising rapidly, but it is not so outrageous, far less than the land price in the capital.

The architectural style of Zhaojiabao can be said to be unique in the Ming Dynasty.

There have been many buildings using reinforced concrete, built houses are very similar to the houses of later generations, but the appearance does not have the style of Westerners, craftsmen have added many original architectural styles to the outside of the houses, carving dragons and phoenixes is indispensable.

The house where Zhao Yan lived was like this, and as a result, many people imitated it, and these houses were basically no different from the houses of later generations.

Reinforced concrete poured, with white walls and bright glass windows. There is no pattern in the glass used in the construction of Zhaojiabao, after all, in Zhaojiabao, no one else needs to take these glasses to make glass mirrors.

When I came to the glass factory, it was very busy.

The workers inside are firing glass, and the craftsmen are skillfully blowing and pressing the glass solution into glass products, and the glass mirrors are not processed in the glass factory, but in Zhaojiabao.

After four years of development, the scale of the glass factory has grown to a large scale, with more than 5,000 employees, and can produce a large amount of glass every day.

The most profitable is the glass plate, which can be used to make mirrors and can also be used in construction, because the light transmission surname is very good, so it was quickly popularized in the construction industry in Shandong.

The second is handicrafts, as the skills of craftsmen become more sophisticated, a variety of exquisite handicrafts appear, and the sales of these handicrafts have begun to rise significantly.

Although the texture is not as good as glass, jade, porcelain, but due to the low price of glass crafts, the market is still very broad, although it can not be sold at too high a price in the Ming Dynasty, but in the eyes of overseas natives, this thing is more valuable than gold.

After the glass plate and handicrafts, it is used on the packaging of its goods.

The first product to use glass was Denlai's sweet potato sake. But it turns out that sweet potato wine is not easy to sell, this thing is like boiling water with alcohol, and it can only go to the low-end market in Daming.

However, due to the low price and better packaging, the sales volume is still relatively large, but the profit is not much.

The packaging of sweet potato wine soon inspired wine merchants in Shandong, who also came to the glass factory to order glass bottles, and three liquor brands using glass bottles appeared one after another.

Due to the low cost and good appearance of glass bottles, in addition to wine, many food products are packaged in glass bottles.

Shandong's commodity brands are emerging one after another.

Since the appearance of Zhao Yan's "Theory of Industrial and Commercial Regulations", many businessmen have realized the importance of the brand, and there has been a wave of brand wind in Daming.

With the expansion of the sales of some goods, the demand for glass bottles is also increasing, and the glass factory has opened a branch in Jinan to specialize in the production of various styles of glass bottles.

The most high-end product of the glass factory is undoubtedly the optical lens.

Telescopes and scopes are all made in glass factories, and with the expansion plan, the demand for telescopes is relatively large.

The military department again ordered a batch of telescopes from the glass factory.

Zhao Yan inspected the laboratories in the glass factory, and there were many laboratories that studied different projects.

However, the core point is to develop new glass varieties and glass production efficiency.

The potential of glass is far more than this, all kinds of glass in the later generations are dazzling, the role is also different, the main direction of research, or military.

A lot of experiments are being done at every end of the laboratory, and they are trying to use different materials to fire glass, for which more than 30 kinds of new glass have been obtained.

Many of these new glasses are of no practical value, but the results are not bad.

When Zhao Yan came to the glass factory, the first thing he did was to order the expansion of the production capacity of glass plates, and the glass mirror will be popularized next year.

In a few years, when the windfall profits are lost, most of the products of the glass factory can be lost to those merchants to operate, and the laboratory can be left.

(To be continued)