What the Spanish could hardly imagine was that glass mirrors could be made so big and... so cheap!

Six thousand six hundred and six hundred and sixty-six taels of silver. This glass mirror is sold to Europe, and royal families from all over the country will pay a lot of money to buy it. At that time, it can be sold at least twice the price.

"We want ten sides."

The Spaniard said gasping and asked worriedly: "Do you guys have any?"

"You have to have twenty sides."

"That's great, then just twenty sides! Just buy smaller mirrors for the others."

Although this big mirror aroused the Spanish, the Spanish were still rational and did not buy dozens of sides to go back. If there were too many things, it would be worthless!

I’d better buy more small mirrors and go back. The profitability of small mirrors is very good.

Although it is a small mirror, the diameter is at least twenty centimeters. Only such a large mirror will trigger the purchase of the nobles. The price of mirrors as big as a palm has begun to dive, and the mirrors of the French and Italians have caused this phenomenon.

European aristocrats can be said to be the most vain in the world.

Once you get something new, you will take it out to show off. When other nobles see it, they will buy it one after another, and often buy more high-end ones in order to surpass the other.

After some bargaining, the Spaniards bought about 5 million taels of mirrors at a price they thought were cheap. Except for some high-end goods, most of them were small mirrors.

Another five million taels are used to buy a large amount of cotton cloth, ceramics and tea, as well as some exquisite ironware.

Among them, cotton cloth and ceramics were bought the most, and the Spaniards found that cotton cloth in Shandong was the cheapest, 30% cheaper than the ones purchased in Fujian.

Ceramics are also cheaper, but the quality will be worse. But there are some porcelains with the same price as Fujian and the same quality.

The former is produced by Denglai, while the latter is purchased from Jingdezhen. The ceramics fired by Denglai are naturally not as good as Jingdezhen. The porcelain firing technology of Denglai's kiln factory has improved a lot. By digging the corners of those kiln factories in Jingdezhen, it is not much different from Jingdezhen, but the quality of porcelain clay is different from that of Jingdezhen.

Although the quality is a little worse, it is still impossible to see if you don’t look carefully. Europeans have not studied this aspect deeply, and the price after being sold to Europe is still the same. The Spanish feel that it is very cost-effective.

As for the price of tea, I bought some.

Within half a month, the tens of millions of taels of silver brought by the Spaniards were announced to be out of stock after purchasing them in Qingdao. The Spaniards also filled more than 20 merchant ships.

When the Spaniards left, the offshore fleet sent five warships to escort them, and sent them all the way to Songjiang before returning. The arrival of the Spaniards also brought Zhao Yan a message that the small glass mirrors in the West were no longer valuable.

"I heard that the price of a glass mirror with such a big slap has dropped to about 150 silver." Zhao Quan said depressedly: "It seems that our glass mirror will also be reduced next year."

"Even if it's one tael of silver, it's huge profits." Zhao Yan smiled, "The price will continue to be reduced next year, and the smallest mirror will be reduced to 1 tael of silver, and the full popularization will be carried out."

The manufacturing method of glass mirrors is almost impossible to cover up. Many people in Denglai Academy of Sciences and Denglai University can already make mirrors on their own.

It is almost impossible to cover this thing.

It is better to cut prices crazy next year, quickly expand the market and use quantity to make the same profit.

"It won't be too low, right?" Zhao Quan asked hesitantly.

"The smallest thing is to be lower. The price of mirrors in Europe will become lower and lower. At that time, they will sell them to our Ming Dynasty, which will cause silver to flow out." Zhao Yan said. The purpose of the price reduction is also to prevent being counterattacked by European glass mirrors.

"As for the big mirrors, we will launch a bigger one next year and continue to take the luxury route. Although the glass mirror market may not last long, we still have huge advantages in glass products, so that the glass factory can focus on developing glass products." Zhao Yan continued to explain, and Zhao Quan recorded it and then explained it.

Small mirrors are becoming popular, and the big ones are still luxury goods, and there will be almost no losses. The market life has been shortened. However, with this development trend, the monopoly situation of glass mirrors will not last for too long.

It’s better to make as much as you can and maximize your profits.

There are not only glass products, but there are many types of other glass products. Since glass mirrors often cannot be kept for long, we will focus on developing other glass products and continuously launching new products.

Zhao Yan then went to the glass factory in person and lay down. The glass factory had moved out of Zhaojiabao and set up outside Zhaojiabao.

There are no city walls outside Zhaojiabao, but they are developing very fast. Streets have been built outside Zhaojiabao, and there are also many factories around.

It doesn’t matter whether there is a city wall or not. Shandong is peaceful and it is hard to even encounter a thief. The city wall is useless.

As Zhao Yan's power continued to expand, Zhaojiabao, as his administrative and military center, naturally became increasingly prosperous, and the surrounding land prices continued to rise.

To buy a house outside Zhaojiabao, it costs at least hundreds of taels. The closer you get to Zhaojiabao, the higher the price.

Inside Zhaojiabao, there is price but no market. The land there belongs to Zhao Yan, so he basically does not sell land. The land outside the city is private and can be bought and sold freely.

Now most of the land in Shandong is private, except for the textile factories, breeding farms, military weapons bureaus and other institutions and factories under Zhao Yan.

The land that Zhao Yan divided gradually belonged to individuals. As long as he had been cultivated for three years, the 50 acres of land would be private. However, if the agricultural land was replaced, it must be submitted for approval, and only after the approval was approved should be approved. In terms of transactions, the reason for selling the assigned land must be reported. If it is an immigration, a transfer, or something, it can be passed immediately.

However, the land originally owned by self-cultivated farmers does not require approval.

The real estate around Zhaojiabao has been approved, and the land within a radius of ten miles can be bought and sold freely. Zhao Yan almost never charges any fees on this, and the high housing prices in later generations made him feel scared.

The world is so big, it’s not that difficult to live in a house! Even if it has a population of 1.3 billion.

When the government does not charge fees, the land price will only fluctuate according to the market price. Therefore, although the land in Zhaojiabao is rising rapidly, it is not so outrageous and is far from comparable to the land price in Beijing.

The architectural style of Zhaojiabao can be said to be unique in the Ming Dynasty.

There are already many buildings that use steel and concrete. The houses built look very similar to houses from later generations, but the appearance does not have the style of Westerners. Craftsmen have added many original architectural styles outside the houses, and carving dragons and phoenixes are indispensable.

This is the house where Zhao Yan lives, but it was followed by many people. These houses are basically no different from those in later generations.

Reinforced concrete is poured with white walls and bright glass windows. The construction of Zhaojiabao has no pattern for glass. After all, in Zhaojiabao, others don’t need to use these glasses as glass mirrors.

When I came to the glass factory, the glass factory was very busy.

The workers inside were burning glass, and the craftsmen skillfully blow the glass solution and pressed it into glass products. The glass mirrors were not processed in the glass factory, but in Zhaojiabao.

After four years of development, the scale of the glass factory has grown very much, with more than 5,000 employees, and a large amount of glass can be produced every day.

The most profitable thing is glass plates. Glass plates can be used as mirrors and can also be used in architecture. Because the translucent surname is very good, it soon became popular in the construction industry in Shandong.

The second is handicrafts. As the craftsmen's skills become more exquisite, various exquisite handicrafts appear, and the sales volume of these handicrafts has begun to rise significantly.

Although the texture is not as good as glass, jade and porcelain, the market is still very broad due to the low price of glass crafts. Although it cannot be sold at a high price in the Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of overseas natives, this thing is more valuable than gold.

After glass plates and handicrafts, they are used on their product packaging.

The first product to use glass was Denglai’s sweet potato wine. But it turns out that sweet potato wine is not easy to sell. Drinking this thing is like boiled water and alcohol. In the Ming Dynasty, it can only go to the low-end market.

However, due to the low price and good packaging, the sales volume is still relatively large, but the profit is not much.

The packaging of sweet potato wine quickly inspired Shandong wine merchants to come to the glass factory to order glass bottles, and three liquor brands that use glass bottles to serve appeared one after another.

Because glass bottles are cheap and have good looks, in addition to wine, there are many food items that are packed in glass bottles.

Shandong's product brands appear one after another.

Since Zhao Yan's "About the Industrial and Commercial Regulations" appeared, many businessmen have realized the important surname of the brand, and a brand trend has been gust of in the Ming Dynasty.

As the sales of some products expand, the demand for glass bottles is also increasing. The glass factory has opened a branch in Jinan, specializing in the production of various types of glass bottles.

The highest-end product of the glass factory is undoubtedly optical lenses.

Telescopes and scopes are all made by glass factories. With the development of the military expansion plan, the demand for telescopes is relatively high.

The military headquarters once again ordered a batch of telescopes from the glass factory.

Zhao Yan inspected the laboratory at the glass factory. There were many laboratories and studied different projects separately.

However, the core point is to develop new glass varieties and glass production efficiency.

The potential of glass is far more than this. Various glasses have been dazzling in later generations and have different functions. The main direction of research is military use.

Every head in the laboratory is doing a lot of experiments and is trying to use different materials to burn glass. For this reason, more than 30 new types of glass have been obtained.

Many of these new glasses have no practical value, but the results are pretty good.

When Zhao Yan came to the glass factory, the first thing he did was to order the production capacity of glass plates to expand, and glass mirrors would become popular next year.

In a few years, after losing huge profits, most of the products of the glass factory can be thrown to those merchants to operate and leave the laboratory.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!