In terms of the sales details of the glass mirror, Zhao Yan and Zhao Quan thought about it for a few days and finally decided on it.

If it is a large mirror used by officials, it should be engraved with words such as 'Rising to the Top' on the frame, and if it is a businessman, it should be engraved with words such as 'Wealth and Prosperity'.

The meaning is auspicious, and it is magnificent, it is what those powerful people who have too much money to spend have nowhere to spend it like, and the meaning can continue to be subdivided, for marriage, for peace, and so on.

The reason why European mirrors have not become a fashion trend in China is mainly due to cultural differences, and Chinese at this time do not agree with the aesthetics of Westerners.

At the same time, it is also related to the fact that the number of mirrors is not enough to form a trend in China, after all, the sea trade is unstable, there is no continuous supply, and people sometimes have nowhere to buy them.

In terms of sales, the small pieces are sold first, and the large ones are not sold for the time being.

After all, now that the mirror with a small face can be sold at a very high price, why sell a large one? And the small-sided mirror is not worried about sales.

Although there is no huge demand for mirrors, as long as there are, someone will buy them.

When the small mirror is at a high price, it can't be sold, and then the larger one is released, and the smaller one is relegated to the next level of the market, so that the maximum profit can be grabbed.

Therefore, there are only two models for the time being, one is a 'glass copper mirror' with a copper frame, and the other is a vanity mirror inside a wooden vanity box. The former can be used by both men and women, and the latter by women.

The next day, Zhao Quan took people out to hire carpenters and coppersmiths, and arranged for people to recruit the homeless. Zhao Yan said very clearly, if you want to keep the mirror monopoly, you must have enough force.

Therefore, it is necessary to gather the displaced people, so that they can train and protect themselves.

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After the coppersmith was found, Zhaojia Village was busy. The tenants were all mobilized and arranged to assist the carpenters and coppersmiths, and the young men were given three measures of wheat in January.

As soon as the news broke, the tenants were very positive. Although the salary is not much, it depends on what kind of world it is. Now the price of rice and wheat in Dengzhou Mansion has soared to the point of one and five cents, which means that if they work in the Zhao family for a month, they will be paid one or two or five cents of silver.

Although three buckets of rice are not much, there are more than 60 catties, save some, and you can also feed a family.

After the manpower arrived, the process of making the mirror was very fast, and in just ten days, the first batch of copper mirrors had come out, and the mold had been made, and it would be much faster to make this kind of copper frame mirror in the future.

The reason why copper is used as a frame is mainly because copper mirrors are currently popular.

Most of the first batch of bronze mirrors engraved with the meaning of 'promotion and wealth' and 'peace and auspiciousness' were encapsulated into a box after being built.

After two days of preparation, Zhao Yan set off with people to Jinan City to sell these mirrors. Brought five boxes of glass copper mirrors, each box contained thirty pieces, the specifications were the size of ordinary copper mirrors, about ten centimeters in diameter. The vanity mirror came in three boxes, each containing twenty vanity boxes.

There were more than 20 family members, plus more than 200 tenant farmers to defend in Zhaojia Village, and the rest of the family members followed him to Jinan City in full armor.

Along the way, the dilapidated territory in Dengzhou was very serious, and after entering Laizhou, the situation improved a lot. Although the situation in Laizhou is better than that of Dengzhou, most of the arable land along the way is still barren.

When you go to the territory of Laizhou, you will encounter a checkpoint.

"Stop, what are you going to do?" Several officers and men led people to the front of the convoy.

Zhao Quan was obviously very familiar with this, and stepped forward to negotiate unhurriedly, "My son-in-law went to Jinan City to visit relatives, why did you stop him?" ”

"Visiting family? Then why do you still carry swords? One of the officers asked.

"My son-in-law is a showman, so he can naturally travel the world with a sword, and now that Denglai is in chaos, bringing some swords is just for self-preservation." Zhao Quan said, and then he took out a few taels of silver and stuffed them into the hands of the official army, "Several military masters have worked hard here to protect the territory and the people, and I hope to accept some tea and wine money." ”

"Come on! Let's get over it! The officers and soldiers checked the silver in their hands, and they didn't search it, but let them go directly.

"These people are so easy to talk to?" Zhao Yan asked strangely.

"Childe doesn't know that some officials are willing to collect taxes on this card, and some officials are unwilling to collect it. Those who dare to set up cards to collect taxes do not dare to go too far, after all, today's businessmen are powerful, and once they collect too much, it is inevitable that their official positions will not be guaranteed. Zhao Quan explained, "For a caravan like ours, even if we don't pay taxes and silver, they don't dare to make things difficult, and it's better to give a few taels of silver in both sides." If it's smaller, it's not so easy to talk about. ”

"In that case, it's still a matter of scale." Zhao Yan smiled.

"Small-scale caravans, can only use the law-abiding, where to go out, first tell the road to lead as a basis, Guanjin does not dare to obstruct, taxes can not be concealed, it is difficult for people to coerce, this is law-abiding." Zhao Quan nodded in response.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were not only a large number of officials in the capital, but also in every province. Therefore, the magistrates did not dare to collect too much commercial tax, and some were afraid of trouble or even did not collect it.

After all, by the late Ming Dynasty, the form of officials being merchants and merchants being officials had been formed, and officials had become spokesmen for merchants.

This situation should have started in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and gradually evolved to the point where the children of merchants were allowed to conduct scientific examinations, which aggravated the situation.

The status of merchants was very high in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Whoever dares to get along with a businessman may not be able to take a copy of the day, and may even let the bigwigs of the DPRK and China directly come forward to kill you. Therefore, when encountering a larger team, the envoys at these checkpoints do not dare to make things difficult, and if those are smaller, then they must 'enforce the law impartially'.

The checkpoints along the way, for a relatively large team like Zhao Yan, are very talkative, and they will be released directly after receiving a few taels of silver, and even as long as they say that they are not merchants, they will be let go directly, and they will not search the goods they carry.

Zhao Yan not only sighed, this businessman of the Ming Dynasty said that he was really good, and he didn't have to pay much tax to do business.

The commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was indeed low and pitiful, it used to be thirty taxes and one, and then it became sixty taxes and one in Wanli, what can this money do? It's almost the same as not paying taxes.

Along the way, Zhao Quan showed a wealth of experience and was cautious in everything.

After more than ten days on the road, I finally arrived in Jinan City.

Zhao Yan saw the scene in the city of the Ming Dynasty for the first time, and he didn't have time to see it in a hurry, so he and Zhao Quan went to the Shandong Hall in Jinan, which was built for the Shandong merchants.

The way to get rich in Shandong merchants can be summed up, that is, long-distance sales and business operation mode of sitting on the ground, Shandong merchants are mainly big bureaucrats, big landlords and big businessmen, although they cannot be compared with the Hui merchants and Jin merchants, but they are also a business gang with strong capital.

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