On March 11, the third batch of glass products was produced in the glass kiln of the caustic soda plant, adding oxidants and clarifiers to the raw materials, improving the blowpipe and mold, and adding a stirring process, the transparency of this batch of glassware has almost reached the colorless level, but the problem of tiny bubbles still bothers Xia Lin and the R&D personnel.

The quality of glass products at this level alone is not comparable to the natural crystal ware that was more popular in the Empire, but glass products have advantages that cannot be matched by crystal products.

One is cheap, even if all the raw materials, manpower and research and development costs are counted, the price of a glass is only dozens of copper bis, and even if there are various flaws of the variegated natural crystal cup price is at least five to ten silver mar, a few excellent quality natural crystals can even reach the price of magic crystals.

The second is that it is easy to process, glass pulp can be easily processed into cups, plates, bowls and bottles and other utensils in the hands of gradually skilled employees, while natural crystal requires special carvers to process it, and the size and shape of the finished product are also very related to the quality of natural crystal.

Seeing that his stall was getting bigger and bigger, and the need for funds was also increasing, Xia Lin simply took these products to find Queen Dorothea, and planned to use the queen's relationship to seek cooperation with the Harrison family, and at the same time discuss some matters that are important to the development of the industrial park with Dorothea.

Now that he is a viscount, and at the same time has some leadership power in the new army, he already has a certain strength, and he can no longer use the tiger skin of the alliance to hand over the shares of the new glass factory to the alliance member chambers of commerce, but this relationship with the empress cannot be easily broken, and at the same time, in order to obtain stable sales channels, it is also necessary to maintain a certain amount of cooperation with those large chambers of commerce that have taken root in various industries.

For example, the Harrison family, one of the nine viscount families in the empire, although their strength is ranked last after excluding Xia Lin, and they basically have no voice in the alliance on weekdays, but they are Xia Lin's best partners in the pottery industry.

After all, there is a lot of overlap between the market of glassware and pottery, and if he can connect with them, Xia Lin will not have to spend so much effort to develop the market on his own.

After not coming out of the industrial park for a long time, Xia Lin happened to want to see how the market situation of the imperial capital was recently, and came to the dock in the North District by boat, but Xia Lin unexpectedly found that the number of ships moored in the dock harbor seemed to be much less, and there were many idle figures in the streets and alleys near the dock.

Most of them were dock bearers who wore only a short coat and a cotton jacket in winter, and this rare phenomenon immediately caught Xia Lin's attention, and he beckoned the coachman to slow down and carefully examine the situation of these people.

They all had a sad look on their faces, and from time to time they looked at the pedestrians who looked like merchants in the past, and a small steward of the Chamber of Commerce who was in a hurry, wearing a cheap black vest jacket, came to the mouth of an alley and raised the white paper in his right hand and waved it, and the group of people swarmed up.

Xia Lin wanted to see what was going on, so he asked the coachman to stop the carriage almost five meters away from them on the side of the street, but he heard the little steward of the Chamber of Commerce shouting loudly:

"The William Chamber of Commerce needs to hire twenty contractors, fifteen copper pess per day!"

"I'm coming! Sir, I'm strong enough to move cargo from a shuttle boat in a day! ”

"Hire me! Sir, I can carry two sacks of stuff in one go, and I can walk steadily! ”

"Sir, I only need fourteen copper pess a day!!"

"Thirteen! All I need is thirteen copper bis! ”

"Don't make any noise! In that case, then you, and you, come out first! Whoever has only thirteen copper pesas a day, I have hired them all! ”

The little steward of the Chamber of Commerce was obviously moved by the low price quoted by the slightly thin contractors, if he could hire the required people with thirteen copper pes, he would be able to get an additional forty copper pess from these contractors every day, which was not a small amount of money for an ordinary small steward of the Chamber of Commerce.

"Phew! Thirteen copper bis, now you can't even buy two pounds of potatoes, whoever loves to go! ”

"If only those guys from the old planks were still around, these merchants would know how much we were squeezed!"

The lack of two copper bess means that they may have family members hungry after a busy day, and several relatively strong contractors scolding and squeezing out of the crowd, Xia Lin heard their words, and then realized that it was he who emptied the gray organization of the slums, and no one organized these contractors and those captains to negotiate with the merchants, resulting in the recent wage price of the dock becoming more and more involuted.

It's not a good thing to go on like this, Xia Lin thought about it, got out of the carriage and walked towards the people.

Seeing the mage robe on Xia Lin's body, the five big men with gloomy expressions showed strange expressions, perhaps thinking that Xia Lin knew the little steward of the Chamber of Commerce and made way for him.

"Hello, I would like to ask you what is going on here, can anyone tell me in detail, as a reward, these silver mars are yours!"

Xia Lin stopped in front of them under their surprised gaze, took out a few silver mars from his money bag and shook them in front of them, and the luster of the silver coins immediately attracted the attention of several people.

"Master Mage, are you looking for us?"

One of the five men with fluffy black curls looked around and asked, pointing to his nose in surprise.

"Of course, one silver marr per person, I want to know what's going on at the docks and why you're all doing nothing here."

"Alas, Master Mage, there is nothing we can do. Since yesterday afternoon, there have been rebels blocking the channel on the Seine, and all the ships coming from the lower reaches of the Seine have been intercepted by them, and now the ships docked at the dock are not able to sail downstream, so the cargo volume of the dock is much less than before, and we have no work to do! ”

"And the slums seem to have been given to the Viscount Charin Carr by Her Majesty the newly enthroned Empress recently, and the Viscount didn't like the gray organization on his territory, so he sent an army to encircle and suppress those guys, and now those guys are building roads in the slums!

This is a good thing, but no one on our side can bargain with those merchants, so that now we can only get a dozen copper pesas from the greedy merchants and captains, and if this continues, we will not even be able to feed our families. ”

The other contractor, who was shorter than Xia Lin, but had tight muscles all over his body, seemed to be afraid that if he didn't answer the question, he would lose this unexpected income, so he hurriedly interjected.

"Then why don't you go to the industrial park and hire workers? Hasn't the Xinglan Industrial Park lost a lot of employees recently, and they are all hiring? ”

Xia Lin asked with some surprise, the salary in the industrial park is much better than carrying bags at the dock, and the simplest porter can get thirty or forty copper pebis at the end of the day, so it stands to reason that they can go to work in the new area.

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