There are more than 300 glass craftsmen in Zhufu who have been dug up from the Ministry of Industry by Zhu Houwei and recruited from the people, 150 people make the goods sold by Crystal Zhai, 50 people are studying telescopes, sights, magnifying glasses, and more than 100 people are assigned by Zhu Houwei to make glass bottles for canned fruits and then take them to Li Zhen.

Fruits from Huangzhuang Mountain began to be picked one after another, except for a small part that was distributed to local villages and some taken to the imperial palace, and the rest was used to make canned food and store it in the ice cellar. Only processed goods can have higher value and bring higher profits to Zhu Houwei.

Every day, the glass handicrafts produced by Zhu Fu have a lot of surplus in addition to being sold in Crystal Zhai, but Zhu Houwei still maintains a certain number of sales, and does not push them to the society in large quantities, which has his considerations.

Glass products are expensive, and those who can afford them are rich people, if there are too many people who flock to the people, one is that the average price will definitely fall, and the other reason is that these rich people will try their best to make money in order to buy these things, and the landlords will exploit the tenants more seriously, and the officials will also intensify their corruption, which will exacerbate all kinds of contradictions between the various strata of the Ming Dynasty. One month after the mirrors were launched, the number of mirrors of all sizes was limited. However, due to the low cost and high price, Crystal Zhai can still bring more than 20,000 taels of profit every day.

Since Crystal Zhai is now the main input of Zhu Mansion, Zhu Houwei also treats these glass craftsmen very preferentially, as long as they do it for a year, the basic monthly money has risen to more than 10 taels of silver. The first batch of craftsmen to enter the palace each had a few hundred taels of silver saved in their homes, and after having money, these people began to slowly realize their previous wishes.

The Han people are very obsessed with land, and these craftsmen are no exception, and the first thing that comes to mind when they have money is to buy land. If you are not good at farm work, you don't buy a field and buy a house directly. Although the dormitory in Zhu's house is also good, but after all, it is not their own, it is the property of Zhu's house, so more than 10 people took the money to buy a small yard in the outer city, although the area is not large, and the environment is not as good as Zhu's house, but the feeling of living in their own house is different, so there is a saying that "the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own kennel".

Zhu Houwei didn't think about keeping these people in captivity and isolating them from the world, so Zhu Houwei agreed to this small request from the craftsman.

On this day, the two brothers Zhu Houzhao came to Zhu Mansion with a little girl to see the magnifying glass newly researched by Zhu Fu. Zhu Houwei was very happy in his heart, with a magnifying glass, the telescope would not be far away.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Zhu's Mansion, I saw that Liu Jin was already waiting there. Now the Huangzhuang is managed by Gu Dayong, and Liu Jin is not only by Zhu Houzhao's side from time to time, but also to manage the industries of Zhu Fu and the capital. Now Huangzhuang is being rebuilt, everywhere you need to spend silver, Crystal Zhai and the people's newspaper is the source of Zhufu's input, to be precise, it is Crystal Zhai, and the profit of the newspaper is basically the advertising fee once every six months.

Today's Liu Jin had a sad face, and the two Zhu Houwei brothers noticed it. Zhu Houzhao said: "What happened? Liu Jin cautiously glanced around, lowered his voice and said, "Master, something happened to the craftsman in the house." When the Zhu Houzhao brothers heard it, they chuckled in their hearts, and Zhu Houwei said, "Go in first." Several people walked towards Zhu's mansion.

Lao Tan, the head of the glass craftsman in the main hall, was already waiting there with a few magnifying glasses, and the Zhu Houwei brothers all picked up one and looked at it. The magnifying glass is round, with a radius of 5 cm, and is held in place by a wooden frame, with a grip underneath, about 15 cm long.

Today's weather is good, the sky is clear, Zhu Houwei pulled the little girl to the big tree outside the hall, and let the little girl burn in the sun, holding a magnifying glass to a leaf below. Then she went to inquire, and the little girl "hummed" to express her dissatisfaction, but she continued to explain what the second brother explained, she knew that the two brothers had something to say, and she was inconvenient.

Zhu Houwei sat on the seat next to Zhu Houzhao, and when Zhu Houzhao saw him coming, he said to Liu Jin, "Something happened." Liu Jin said with some worry, "There is a family of glassmakers surnamed Ding, who is a group of people who entered the mansion and bought a yard outside, and his wife and daughter are placed in the yard. Yesterday did not come to Zhu's house to work, and did not ask for leave, today the old slave sent someone to find him, and found that the family was gone, and the house was also very chaotic, it seems that it was turned over, and asked the neighbor that it was early yesterday morning, just dawn, and heard a voice in the house, and the neighbor came out to see, saying that it was a distant relative who picked up their family to drink the wedding wine, and then drove away in a carriage, and they did not lock it when they went out, and they were hidden. ”

The Zhu Houzhao brothers all frowned, the room was turned over, obviously not familiar people, and Ding Jianghu didn't seem to take the initiative to leave. Zhu Houzhao asked, "How many people have taken away from the Ding craftsman household, and what do they look like?" Liu Jin thought about it, "There are a total of 5 people I saw, I don't know if there are any in the carriage, they are all strong men, and their looks are very ordinary, but the smell on their bodies is very bad." Zhu Houwei couldn't help asking, "It smells bad?" Liu Jin suddenly thought, "Fishy smell, sheep smell, I smelled it 2 or 3 steps apart, and I almost didn't vomit the neighbor who came forward to ask, and the neighbor emphasized this very much." The Zhu Houzhao brothers thought of something, and couldn't help but glance at each other. Zhu Houzhao said: "Now you hurry up and let the craftsmen who are buying houses outside the house bring all their families to the house, there must be no mistake." Liu Jin Zhengse said: "The old slave will go." ”

After Liu Jin left, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but say hatefully, "These remnants of the Yuan Dynasty are too presumptuous, we must catch them." Zhu Houwei frowned, "This is just one aspect, don't you think there are too many people from the north?" The most important thing is how they came, there is no road guide, and it is difficult to move an inch in Daming. Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but raise his voice: "You mean that someone at the border gate let them in?" Has an official defected to the enemy? Zhu Houwei shook his head, "It's not necessarily possible to join the enemy, but it's just taking money that shouldn't be taken and doing things that shouldn't be done." Zhu Houzhao frowned and nodded, "What should I do now?" Zhu Houwei said, "Although Ding Jianghu is making glass, but he will not know the whole process in detail, the house uses assembly line production, he knows at most one or a few approximate steps, and only 30 people know the entire manufacturing process, these people's families are all in the house, and there are no relatives outside the house." These thieves will definitely take the next step if they catch Craftsman Ding and get no useful information, they know that arresting Craftsman Ding will alarm us sooner or later, so they will definitely take action in a short time. Zhu Houzhao asked, "What is this assembly line?" ”

Zhu Houwei said while thinking about countermeasures, "The assembly line is the whole process of the commodity", and suddenly stopped, and then said angrily, "Is now the time to study this?" Can't you just ask some crucial questions? Zhu Houzhao smiled embarrassedly, and then said, "What should we do?" ”

Zhu Houwei rubbed his brow with his right hand and said, "What they should want is the process of making glass, once they can make glass, it is equivalent to having a big gold mine." Crystal Zhai has been open for a few years, where all the goods come from can not be hidden from the people, if you want to get the technology, then you can only find a craftsman who knows the whole process, of course, you can also find a group of craftsmen, and then let them each hand over a part of the process and then put it together, but there are too many goals, and it may not be possible to assemble a complete process, so the 7 craftsmen who know the whole process are the best starting objects. ”

"These 7 craftsmen are basically in the house, and they don't go out much, so the target can only be the relatives of these 7 people." Zhu Houzhao followed Zhu Houwei's analysis and said the conclusion, and Zhu Houwei also nodded.

"Second brother, the leaves are really burning, I just put the magnifying glass on the point to the ant, but I didn't expect the ant to die not long after." The little girl excitedly ran into the main hall with a magnifying glass, shouting as she ran.

Brother Zhu Houzhao glanced at each other, and shook his head with a wry smile.

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