Song Jue's intentional friendship is not only reflected in the shipping reform and letting the Wang family get a piece of the pie, but also in their dealings with each other.

In the next few days, every day Song Jue would invite Wang Dafa to attend the reception banquet held for him by various wealthy families.

After a circle, they became familiar in front of everyone, and the Wang family also began to walk into the sight of the wealthy families, businessmen, and gentry in Liyang County.

Looking at the old man who is full of spirit every day and calls friends, Wang Xu is still not sad or happy as always.

At the end of April, the glass factory was completed, and the silica sand, soda ash, feldspar, dolomite, limestone, and miscanthus needed to make glass also found a seller below.

As for the matter of the embroidery girl, it didn't make waves at all, except for Ning Qing, who would care about a little girl.

Ning Qing was quite angry, and when she learned that the embroidery girl had been sold, she packed up her things and chased after her overnight.

I don't know if I caught up with Wang Xu, I only know that after Ning Qing said goodbye, the Ning family made trouble for a few days, and even the three elders in the town were alarmed, and finally the Ning family's debts were relieved, and this turmoil passed.

In the blink of an eye, May is here.

On this day, Wang Dafa was shouting that he wanted to move the Wang family to the county seat, and a mute monk came outside the door.

The mute monk looked drooping and old, dressed in a hundred robes, and carried a letter written by the presiding monk of Jinshan Temple, the leper monk.

The leper monk said in the letter that he was building a temple in Jinshan Temple, and he had to teach the little monk Fahai that he could not come to Wang's house to sit in town.

He recommended his senior brother, the monk Mofa, to take over his work, and told Wang Xu that the monk Mofa practiced Buddhism and closed his mouth, which was like dead wood and kept silent, which was a real great monk.

For closed-mouth meditation, Wang Xu knows a thing or two.

Buddhism pays attention to meditation, and there are five kinds of Zen, which are divided into foreign Zen, ordinary Zen, Hinayana Zen, Mahayana Zen, and the highest Zen.

Closed-mouth meditation, outside of the five meditations, people who are not great wisdom and perseverance cannot practice.

Wang Xu looked at the monk Mofa, obviously meditated very deeply, and had already touched the threshold of the Arhat Dao Fruit.

Once he pierced this membrane, he would immediately be a fifth-order Buddhist arhat, and the depth of the Dharma was still above that of a leper monk, and the only drawback was that it was not easy to deal with.

Closed-mouth meditation, also known as silent meditation, does not speak, reduces oral karma, eliminates sins and avoids disasters, and reduces one's own sinful karma.

Some people practice closed-mouth meditation, close their mouths and hearts, and use the tapping sound of wooden fish instead of speaking, so that people can understand their own meaning, which is inferior.

A true closed-mouth Zen master does not speak, speaks, thinks, or dirty, and his lifestyle is the same as that of plants and trees.

Wang Xu told Monk Mofa about his request, but Monk Mofa did not respond, like a walking corpse, and did not communicate with him at all.

Wang Xu knew that this was not a dumb monk pretending to be profound, but that he had refined his closed-mouth meditation, and had reached the realm of being one inside and outside, being in the five elements, and his heart outside the Three Realms, like a cold-eyed bystander.

Of course, this is not really a cold observer, and he doesn't really care about anything.

Buddhism talks about the cultivation of entering the world, which is different from Taoism, and there is no one who can hide in the deep mountains and old forests to achieve positive results.

Otherwise, the dumb monk would not have come down the mountain, and for the sake of the 100,000 taels of silver a year, he would have personally sat in the Wang family.

Send someone to drive the carriage to send the mute monk to Fengxi Village, and build a small temple for him on the hill outside Zhuangzi, and the dumb monk will stay.

As a fourth-order monk, the mute monk's divine thoughts can spread all over a radius of hundreds of miles, and the wind and grass in the entire Fengxi Village can't hide from him, with him sitting in the glass factory, there is no need to worry about the threat of evil demons for the time being.

Everything is ready, the east wind is also there, Wang Xu gave an order, and officially began to fire glass.

The method of firing glass is simple and simple, but it is difficult to say that it is difficult, and it is not a big deal to pierce that layer of window paper.

After a week-long training, Wang Xu spared no raw materials and began to let the workers try to make them.

For the first batch of glass products, Wang Xu chose to manufacture the simplest glass beads.

As long as the proportion is good, mix various materials, put them into high temperature to fire and liquefy, and then pour them into the abrasive tool to cool, and a glass bead is considered to be completed.

The first glass beads fired, because the proportions were not very well controlled, did not look as crystal clear as those of later generations, and there were many impurities in the middle.

After the later grinding and polishing, Wang Xu was also not satisfied with this batch of finished products.

The effect he wants is that as soon as the glass beads appear on the market, they can immediately create thousands of airports.

The glass beads with impurities, except for the selling point of the glass itself, have no beauty at all, and are far from what he wants.

In addition, the abrasives do not meet the specifications, this batch of abrasives is too rough, the glass beads made of this abrasive, the surface is not as smooth as jade, and the second polishing will affect the beauty of the glass beads.

The first batch of finished products, Wang Xu ordered all of them to be destroyed and retrained, and none of them remained.

Hearing this order, the workers wept bitterly, and said that this was an unprecedented treasure, and it was no worse than pearls.

Wang Xu shook his head and said nothing, could he tell these people that when glass was first introduced, it was traded as jewelry.

The first group of people who came to North America with glass beads even exchanged three boxes of gems from the Indians with one box of glass beads.

The love of glass beads once led the Indians to war with each other, and was reported by the European countries that prided themselves as civilized people.

One batch, two batches, three batches...

Within a month, the glass manufactory carried out twelve firings.

On this day in early June, after a month of repeated attempts, the first batch of products identified as qualified by Wang Xu finally appeared in his hands.

It was a thousand glass beads the size of a fingernail, similar in appearance to the marbles of my childhood, crystal clear, like crystal.

In ancient times, when I had never seen glass and didn't know what glass was, Wang Xu said that this was a natural crystal and a gemstone, and who dared to say that it was not.

"Just making glass beads, my factory can produce at least 100,000 pieces in a month. It's just that scarcity is expensive, and in order to avoid the big wind of the tree, the outflow of glass beads per month must be controlled at around 10,000, so that people can feel more and more precious, and it will not be too conspicuous. ”

Wang Xu is from modern times, and he knows what hunger marketing is, and he also knows what self-protection is.

On the market, pearls have always been tightly sold, known as the East Pearl is not as good as the West Pearl, and the West Pearl is not as good as the South Pearl.

It is recognized that the pearls of Zhejiang Mansion are the best, and the white jade pearls produced in Zhejiang Mansion are the size of grapes, which can be sold for at least three hundred taels of silver.

Mrs. Lizheng in the town has a string of white jade pearls, composed of 32, and the quality is not too good, but when she started it that year, she also spent 8,000 taels of silver, which has always been Mrs. Lizheng's heart, and she is only willing to wear it when she worships her ancestors.

From the point of view of quality, pearls are not as good as glass beads, modern people do not think that glass beads are beautiful, but glass beads are too common, in fact, when glass beads first appeared, the value of glass beads is equivalent to gemstones.

Such a good thing, Wang Xu felt that the price was one hundred and two, which was too close to the people.

No, no, no, how can it be so cheap, five hundred taels can't be less, no matter how little, it can't show the preciousness of glass beads.

In order to verify the value of glass beads, Wang Xu selected twelve glass beads, strung them into a bracelet, and made a box made of gold wool wood, and decided to go to the county.

Although Liyang County is not large, it borders Jiaozhou, and there are not a few merchants in the past.

From these people, it is not difficult to try out the value of glass beads, if it can be an instant hit here, think of other places in the south of the Yangtze River, glass beads will also make people flock to it.

The cost of glass beads is almost nothing, and the price is 500 taels, almost all of which are earned.

If you release 10,000 taels a month, you will earn 5 million taels of silver, and 50 million taels a year.

This is still because the Wang family's specifications are small, and I am afraid that it will not end well if it becomes bigger, otherwise the glass factory is operating at full capacity, and it can produce 100,000 glass beads a month, and it can make a steady profit of 500 million taels of silver a year without expanding the scale.

After all, there are many people who can afford five hundred taels of glass beads.

The sky and the south are scattered, looking at the world of Kyushu, millions of glass beads a year, I am afraid that they will not even be able to make a wave.

But at the moment, there are 100,000 glass beads a year, and there must be no more.

100,000 glass beads is a big business of 50 million taels of silver, although it will make people blush, with the reputation and backing of the Wang family, they can barely protect it.

No matter how high it is, I am afraid that the benefits contained in it will be moved by Xue Mushan, and it will definitely be able to tear the Wang family apart.

After all, the annual tax of the imperial court is only 60 billion taels of silver, and those who can take out hundreds of millions of taels of silver can be called a big family, and they are also top-notch in the land of a mansion.

Before the power is expanded, the Wang family's business must not be bigger, otherwise it will be a blessing or a curse.