"Pure?"

Zhuangzi's inner fort has been built, and under the high and thick masonry walls on all sides, the shallow ditch has been drained of water. In addition to a circle of wings built by the high wall, there is only one square, thirty or forty small courtyards, Mengxue Building, and a newly erected three-story small building, and the plaque downstairs reads "Tingtao Building", which is used to welcome guests and hold meetings.

In the secret meeting room on the top floor, Li Xian, whose mind was still immersed in the little girl's kiss, blurted out those three words, and Peng Xianzhong, who was sitting opposite, was confused.

"Oh...... Solid color. ”

Li Xian hurriedly changed his words, this will be he talking to Peng Xianzhong about the glass business, all the previous failed products have been made into handicrafts, let the Peng family underwrite, although he can't make a lot of money, but he has already tested the Peng family's business route and strength. It just so happened that Wu Yaluo and Wu Chong's father and son had a breakthrough, and the transparent optical glass finally came out, and Li Shi struck while the iron was hot, ready to have a big fight with the Peng family.

Of course, he would never say that he made transparent glass by himself, otherwise it is very likely that he would be directly ordered by Kangxi to be tied to the glass workshop of the Yangxin Palace to be a glassmaker for the rest of his life.

"My relatives said that they received the pure color glass of the foreigners, so I don't know if your Peng family is interested in doing this business."

Peng Xianzhong almost jumped up: "Really!?" ”

Li Xian beckoned, Yu Hanyi brought over a wooden box, Peng Xianzhong opened it, and his eyes suddenly dotted.

A set of crystal clear glass plates, transparent and colorless, the bottom and four walls are tapered and intertwined patterns, reflecting the sparkling plates, which is eye-catching.

"This ...... This set, even in Guangzhou Mansion, can be worth hundreds of taels of silver! ”

Peng Xianzhong carefully took out a plate, rubbed his hands together, and shook his head again.

"Two hundred taels! This feel, this thickness, is by no means comparable to Guangzhou goods. ”【1】

He put it back like a treasure, and looked at Li Shi's eyes as hot as fire.

"Fourth brother, your relationship is really unusual, and thanks to your support, our Peng family can withstand this difficulty. You can make a price for this thing, as long as you give us a little bit of money! ”

Li Xian sneered in his heart, the Peng family's trade route was in Hunan, and this thing could be sold for two hundred taels in Guangzhou and five hundred taels in Hunan. If he bids 500 taels, the Peng family can sell it at a price of 1,000 taels! will never make less money, but in the business field, you have to talk like this, this Peng Xianzhong was still a nerd similar to him earlier, but he followed him to do business a few times, but he gradually experienced it.

"This is just a sample, wait for the relatives to calculate the price."

As soon as Li Shi said this, Peng Xianzhong also frowned.

"After the former member of the Anglo-German branch was killed by Yang Chun, the new member has not yet arrived, and if you want to ship it, you have to ship it as soon as possible, otherwise you will have to make an article with them at that time. If the article is not done well, this thing will be exposed, but it will be a little troublesome. ”

The Peng family's trade route was to go from Lianzhou to Hunan and go up the Lianjiang River, so they had to be at the mercy of the Taiping Banknote Pass and the Yingde Customs. Each member of the customs committee has to play a game with the businessmen, whether to follow the previous pattern of interests, or to change, depends on the balance of power between the two sides, so Peng Xianzhong said so.

"That's your Peng family's business......"

Li Xian is not involved, he is a supplier, and it is an agent's business to open up the downstream, and he just took this opportunity to see the Peng family's hole cards, so as not to be affected by them later.

Do business...... It's really a battlefield.

This is Li Shi's new battlefield, which he is more familiar with than the battlefield of blood and fire.

"I'll urge them to send a dozen sets in advance, and you might as well try the price first."

Li Xian said, the two agreed on some more details, and Peng Xianzhong left with the wooden box with an excited face.

"The stamping method can only make glass plates, or wide-necked straight-necked cups, and bottles can't be made, that's the big head. And the smoothness of the mold is not enough, it takes a lot of time to grind the surface, we have to keep it secret now, and we can't use outsiders. If you rely on yourself, you can produce up to one set per day. ”

In the same room, all the senior executives of Qingtian Company held a secret meeting on the company's finances, Wu Yaluo reported on the production of the glass kiln, and Wu Zhong was only the deacon in charge of the production of the glass workshop, and the director was Wu Yaluo.

Now optical glass is made, but to produce glass bottles, you have to blow it, and this requires long-term exploration and accumulation of experience. Although there are also glass-blowing craftsmen in Guangzhou, Li Shi's secret of producing optical frit, which cannot be easily spread, so the current glass products are still manufactured by the stamping method.

Even if it is the mold method, the mold must be rotated so that the frit can be evenly distributed in the mold, and the idle hydraulic drilling machine is changed to a rotary mold base.

"Even if you ship a set of two hundred taels to the Peng family, it will be six thousand taels ......a month."

There was no excitement or excitement on Tian Dayu's face, he was already numb. In addition to the five business departments, Qingtian Company also has a general department, which is responsible for accounts and miscellaneous affairs. Tian Daiyu is now appointed as the head of this department.

"Hey...... That's 70,000 taels a year! Lao Tian, your heart is really not shallow! ”

Guan Fengsheng's mentality has not risen much, now he is the head of the iron mill, and the salary of one hundred taels per month makes him feel very rich, and he can't help but be excited when he hears this number.

"How can there be so many...... If there are too many things, they are not worth much, just like we make guns, rolling things will come out, ten sets can still be sold at a high price, and a hundred sets are not a rare item. ”

He Gui, who has changed from a carpenter to a mechanic, and now is the head of the department, will not leave his profession, but what he said is very reasonable.

"Don't think about it for a year, relying on the things that were sold to the Peng family before, this is how to make up for the money from the previous Zhuangzi repair, as well as the pensions of the dead and injured villagers. The inner fort of Zhuangzi has just been built, and then it needs money to repair it, and the cultivation of the fields has just begun, which is also money, and there is not much silver left in the first two or three months. ”

Lin Dashu's focus is on the Zhuangzi and the fields, and he, the head of the agricultural cooperative, is the busiest.

"Silver is not a problem, there is a big problem now......"

Tian Dayou looked at Li Shi, with a trace of confusion and a trace of worry in his eyes.

"We are Tang monk meat now...... Can Master Li stop it alone? ”

This idea hit Li Shi's heart, the scale of Zhuangzi has developed too fast, just like a hillbilly dangling on the street in gold and silver, which is really eye-catching. Now that Xiao Sheng is gone, the cheap master Duan Hongshi has not come back yet, and he himself is a little worried.

It's not that he's afraid of people coming hard, his subordinates have been guarding for more than 50 years, and more than 100 adult miners have all killed their courage on the battlefield, and he is not afraid of anyone. I'm afraid of the government's side, if there is a guy who doesn't open his eyes to force him with the power of the government, will he rebel or rebel?

If you want to rebel with your current strength, Yang Chun is a lesson from the past. Although it was he Li Shi who defeated Yang Chun, recalling the situation on the battlefield at that time, without him and Xiao Sheng, Shi Shibiao would only have to work hard, and only those two or three hundred horse teams could smash the bandits.

Tens of thousands of displaced people, two or three thousand elite bandits, officers and soldiers dispatched five or six thousand, counting less than 10,000 people, the bandits were put down, and only Shaozhou was affected.

You can't treat the Qing court at this time as a shelf that will fall down, Li Xi learned about the war mobilization system of the Qing court from Xiao Sheng. Although there is no system on the surface, it can be divided into three layers. The first layer is the banditry of Yang Chun's level, which can be quelled by relying on the supervision and promotion of a province and the local town association, plus the assistance of the surrounding prefectures and counties. Yang Chun is an example, as was Taiwan's Liu Ke more than ten years ago, and later Zhu Yigui.

The second layer is the provincial mobilization of green battalions, or take Yang Chun as an example. If Shi Shibiao is defeated, Yang Chun will attack the city of Guangzhou, and he will still have the strength to break through Guangzhou. Then in addition to the green battalions in other towns in Guangdong, the green battalions in Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Fujian and other provinces will be mobilized, and at that time, Yang Chun will face more than 100,000 and 200,000 green battalions in all directions, not to mention the eight banners of the Han army in Guangzhou.

During the Kangxi period, except for the wars in the three feudatories, the northeast and the northwest, there was no rebellion in the interior that allowed the Qing court to enter the second-tier mobilization system, which is the background of the Kangxi period in later generations.

If Yang Chun really rebelled against the sky and defeated this siege, it would also provoke Kangxi, and treat this guy as a real thorn in his side, it would be terrible at this time. A conquest army led by a member of the royal family or a confidant would rush in, just like the conquest of Galdan, and the number of troops to be transferred would depend on the need, and the scope would be the whole country. The military is only one side, and when the time comes, the local governments and counties will also be mobilized, and one county will have a thousand, and a government of three thousand soldiers will also burst out, leaving Yang Chun without a base and making room for it, that is the rehearsal of the White Lotus Sect's uprising.

In this era, the Green Battalion has not yet been corrupted to the point of being unbearable in a war, the soldiers have not yet become addicted to smoking, many generals still have experience in war, and their understanding of firearms is deeper than that of officers a hundred years later. In addition, with Kangxi's "benevolent government", the officialdom can still wipe off the minimum face, and it also knows how to apply both soft and hard to the grass people. Li Shi didn't think that as soon as he put up an anti-flag, the world would respond. Yang Chun's example is there, he can only coerce the refugees who fled from Hunan and Jiangxi, and among the locals, except for the professional bandits who are said to be in peace, not many villagers rebelled with him.

Therefore, this rebellion must come leisurely, he is not here to be a martyr.

Li Xi vaguely saw the direction, and was also groping for that route, Qingtian Company was established, and the details of the articles of association were also perfected, which was an important step for him. But he still has a big problem that has not been solved, and if he does not solve this knot, he is still confused about the prospect of rebellion. He wasn't sure if the path he was going to take was the right one, he could only be sure that the other paths were not right, such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Incidentally, how to develop the relationship between himself and the government, Li Shi did not clarify his thinking, and this thinking, Duan Hongshi should be able to provide reference opinions, but Duan Hongshi is not there.

"If only I could have a pair of eyes that can see everything."

Li Xi sighed, and then his heart moved.

"Is that thing ready?"

He asked Wu Yaluo, who nodded.

"The transparent glass came out and got it done, that thing is too simple, fourth brother, you said it so clearly, Wu Zhong tried to make hundreds of them in one go, and now that the craftsmanship is proficient, the things that come out can't be smoother."

"Good!" , Li Xi slapped his face. Since you can't figure it out first, let's take a look at it first.

(To be continued)