On the high platform of Jintang City in the north of Luoyang City, Yi Feng held a clairvoyant mirror to look into the distance, and through the lens, the pedestrians hundreds of steps away were clearly visible.

"Yes, I didn't expect that I just mentioned a few words, but you have done so well." Yi Feng smiled and said to Gao Mingyue beside him. Gao Mingyue was dressed as a Confucian scholar, but she also looked suave, she stood with her sister, and she didn't care about the emperor's praise, "Your Majesty only mentioned a few words, but it was ordered to be completed by the craftsmen within a time limit, everyone is working hard to study, day and night, you really think it's very easy." ”

"Heavy reward!" Yi Feng waved his hand. "This is a good thing, reconnaissance and detection of the enemy, like clairvoyance, immediately put into production, mass production, the military department will immediately place an order. Well, the products ordered by the military, remember to be sturdy and durable, and they must be simple, easy to use, and there is no need to engage in so bells and whistles, inlaid with gold and jade. In addition, you can also customize a batch of collector's luxury editions and sell them to officers, generals and ministers who are willing to pay out of their own pockets for collection, but they cannot be sold to the Hu people, which is considered an important military material. The production process must be kept secret and cannot be disclosed. ”

The clairvoyant mirror is actually just a by-product, Yi Feng now monopolizes salt tea and wine, and his own industry has lost several money-making inputs at once, and he has to open up new markets. Even the emperor has to have private money, so sometimes when he rewards hundreds of officials, or does some things, he doesn't have to go through the finances of the Ministry of Civil Affairs so much, and he doesn't have to listen to the audit and inquiry of the prime ministers. In fact, there are only a few new projects in Yifeng, which are not available in the market, so that they will not be said by the ministers to compete with the people. In the end, Yi Feng selected glass, matches, soap and other items, plus the original perfume, rock candy, carriage, etc. There are also banking, insurance, and medicine projects, which can still allow Yifeng to maintain its existing input income. Glass is not difficult to say, but it is not easy to say. The Sui Dynasty also had it, but the craftsmanship was inferior, and it couldn't be made transparent, but it was more like green jade. Yi Feng didn't know exactly how to make glass, but he also knew about the craftsmanship here, he found a glass craftsman from the Central Plains, and then a craftsman from the Western Regions, and then told them what he knew about this knowledge, and asked them to go to the real thing. To explore, follow the direction he pointed, and give some clues, anyway, he was willing to invest in cost research, and in the end the glass was made along the way. Not only did they make glass, but they also made a lot of derivative products, based on some of the things that Yi Feng had originally depicted to them, and finally used glass to make a series of goods such as glass mirrors, clairballs, magnifying glasses and even reading glasses.

The craftsmen of this era are never stupid, just give them some hints. Give them financial support, and they can also research countless amazing products.

"I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in research funds before and after, but now the income will be a hundredfold and a thousand times the return. Next, we will increase the number of workshops and expand the scale of production. Recruit artisans, train apprentices, build production workshops, and build a new market. Train a group of salespeople to come out. In short, let it go. This industry will not talk much every year in the future, and tens of millions of sales will definitely be achieved. In the future, there will only be more and more, the high-end market can be done first, then the mid-end market, and finally the low-end market, and at the same time the overseas market, such a good glass, can develop countless unique glass products, the world will become a lively commodity. ”

Glass has always been a good commodity, and in the 16th century BC, glass beads and glass inlays appeared in ancient Egypt. Between 1550 and 1500 BC, glassware appeared in ancient Egypt and in the valley of the two rivers. In the 4th century B.C., Egypt invented the process of glass molding, carving, engraving and gilding. In the 1st century B.C., the Syrians developed the blowing process, which allowed liquid glass to be blown into various forms of vessels at will. Later, the mold blowing method appeared, which was the beginning of mass glassware production. In the 1st century AD, Rome became the center of glassmaking. The glass crafts of the Roman Empire included blowing, blowing, cutting, carving, engraving, filament, gilding, etc.

However, after the 5th century, Roman glass technology gradually declined, and by the 8th century, with the exception of stained glass inlays in churches, glass craftsmanship in Europe was almost extinct.

By the 9th to 14th centuries the centers of glass production in the Middle East, Damascus, Constantinople and Cairo, and after the 12th century, Venice became the center of world glass manufacturing with the development of trade. In order to monopolize glass-making technology, the government concentrated glass artists on the island of Murano, across the sea from Venice. The heyday of Venetian glass production was between the 15th and 16th centuries, and the products almost exclusively dominated the European market. After the 16th century, glassmakers began to flee the islands and disperse across Europe, and glass-making technology gradually spread.

For thousands of years, glass has been a highly secretive and extremely lucrative commodity. Now there is a fault in the glass production process in Europe, and at this time, there is a glass manufacturing center with advanced technology in Dasui, which is open to the trade routes of Guò sea and land, and it is completely possible to sell glass products to Europe and earn high profits. What's more, even in the market of the Central Plains, as well as in these areas around the Great Sui, the glass market will be very large. Glass is completely a cheap commodity on the rotten street in later generations, and ordinary can no longer be ordinary, but in this era, a crystal clear glass product is definitely gem-level. Not to mention that in addition to being a utensil, it can also be made into various handicrafts, in addition to glass mirrors, telescopes, magnifying glasses, reading glasses, etc., which will be an industry with great prospects.

"Tens of millions of sales a year?" When Gao Mingyue saw the glass product, she immediately felt that this kind of product would sell well, but she was still extremely surprised when she heard this huge number from Yi Feng's mouth.

"It's just sales, and there are still costs."

"It's just using some sand, not gold and silver sand, how can there be any capital, it's almost nothing." Gao Mingyue pouted, in her opinion, this industry is really profitable. Glass is made out of sand, and then it has to be sold for the price of jade, and the price of turning stone into gold is nothing more than that.

Yi Feng smiled, "The account can't be calculated like this, the raw materials are really not valuable, but it costs money to build workshops, train craftsmen, and even research costs and the construction of sales networks." In addition, I have decided that the Imperial Court will impose a heavy tax of 20% on the sale of glass. Sales of 10 million a year to pay 2 million in taxes, the imperial court is also a large amount of input. ”

"This glass workshop is your own industry, and you still pay taxes and heavy taxes?" Gao Mingyue was a little surprised.

"Of course, taxation is the obligation of every court, from the emperor to the people, everyone should pay taxes, there can be no exceptions, I should set an example."

"Then you might as well simply take this workshop into the state."

"That's different, good things are handed over to the government, and in the end, maybe a group of corrupt officials will be fattened, but the country will be lost. Such a money-making industry should be under my own name, and I can rest assured that you will help me manage it. In this way, the finances are clear every year, I make a lot of money, I also have a lot of private money, and I pay a lot of taxes to the imperial court. "There is still a big difference between private and state-owned, although the world is actually considered the emperor's private, but there is still a difference after all. It is better to put it in the emperor's private name, such a private is better, anyway, this glass workshop was originally established by his private investment to research the formula and train craftsmen.

"But it is necessary to keep it secret, and the recipe and the skilled craftsmen must not leak it, and I think it is better to build the workshop on the island, so that the traffic is prohibited, and the families of the craftsmen are also taken to the island to take good care of. The most important thing about glass is the formula, and the second is the skilled craftsman, if the formula is leaked and the craftsman flows out, then we will not be able to keep the industry that is going to make money this day. ”

There are some things that can be shared, for example, Yi Feng engaged in the sugar industry, and planned to cooperate with the wealthy businessmen of the Great Sui, Yi Feng mastered the technology of refining white sugar and processing rock sugar, and he handed over the upstream sugarcane planting and sugar extraction and brown sugar to them, especially to encourage these big clans and businessmen to go to Ryukyu Island, to Lingnan and other places to establish sugarcane plantations, which can be regarded as a disguised encouragement for these wealthy families to develop the southeast coastal areas, and encourage them to develop on the big islands such as Ryukyu and Hainan, which are still underdeveloped. Today, they can make money by planting sugarcane, and they go to the south to grow sugarcane, and maybe in the future, they can make money by growing grain in the south, and they will find a way to recruit people to reclaim the land and grow grain.

In this regard, Yi Feng doesn't care about those big clans seizing the opportunity and making a lot of money, as long as it is beneficial to the country and the people, he has no objection to them making money, as long as they make money, don't forget to pay taxes.

"How many telescopes have been produced now? Give it all to me first, and I'll send someone to Li Jing. "Yi Feng Dao.

Gao Qianxue has been standing quietly aside, not talking much, just teasing her son who is just over a year old with happiness on her face.

"There have been several trial productions before and after, there are more than 100 pairs, and I will have them all sent over when I turn around." Gao Mingyue nodded, "Where is General Li Jing fighting now, I heard that the Second Northern Expedition is very smooth, Du Lan has been defeated and killed in an attempt to resist, and the entire Monan has been recovered, and now the army has been moved to Mobei, it is said that he will be able to enter the Western Regions before the year and pacify the head?" ”

Yi Feng said proudly, "Under the banner of the Great Sui, the various feudal domains sent troops to help, but Dulan's resistance was just a way to kill himself, he didn't measure himself, he had already died in the army, and the entire Monan was recovered, and now the officials selected by the imperial court have gone to take office, and it will be the prefecture and county directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Sui in the future." The next thing is to level the desert north and pacify the Western Regions, and the red flag of the Great Sui will be planted in all corners of the world. ”

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