Regarding the sales details of the glass mirror, Zhao Yan and Zhao Quan thought about it for a few days and finally decided.

The mirror should be made on the frame. If it is a large mirror used by an official, the words "Still the sky" should be engraved on the frame. If it is a businessman, the words "Mainland Resources and Prosperity" should be engraved on the frame.

It means auspiciousness and grand enough. It is what the powerful people who have too much money to spend and have no place to spend. It can continue to be subdivided in terms of meaning, for marriage, for peace, etc.

The reason why European mirrors have not become a fashion trend in China is mainly due to cultural differences. At this time, Chinese people did not agree with Western aesthetics.

At the same time, it is also related to the fact that the number of mirrors is insufficient to form a trend in China. After all, marine trade is unstable and there is no continuous supply. Sometimes people have no place to buy it if they want to buy it.

In terms of sales, we sell small pieces first, and large pieces will not be sold for the time being.

After all, small mirrors can be sold at a very high price now, so why do you need to sell large mirrors? And small mirrors don’t have to worry about sales.

Although there is no huge demand for mirrors, as long as there is one, someone will definitely buy it.

When the small mirror is high, it can no longer be sold, and then the larger one and smaller ones will retreat to the next level market. Only by continuing to do so can the greatest profit be obtained.

Therefore, there are only two models that have been launched temporarily. One is the "glass bronze mirror" with copper frames, and the other is the vanity mirror inside a wooden dressing box. The former can be used by both men and women, while the latter can be used by women.

The next day, Zhao Quan took people out to invite carpenters and copper smiths and arranged for people to recruit refugees. Zhao Yan said it very clearly. If you want to keep the mirror monopoly, you must have enough force.

Therefore, it is necessary to gather refugees, so that you can train your own troops and protect yourself.

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After the bronze smith was found, Zhaojia Village was busy. The tenants were all mobilized and arranged to assist the carpenters and bronze smiths. The young and strong man gave three dou of wheat in a month.

As soon as this news came out, the tenants were very active. Although the wages were not much, it depends on what the world was. Now the price of rice and wheat in Dengzhou Prefecture has soared to a level of five cents per bull, which means that they had worked in the Zhao family for a month, and they received a wage of one or five cents of silver.

Although three dou of rice is not much, it is more than 60 kilograms. It saves some and can support the whole family. If you are a bachelor, you will have a surplus in one month.

After the man was fully equipped, the process of making mirrors was very fast. In just ten days, the first batch of bronze mirrors had already come out, and the molds and other things were made. In the future, it would be much faster to create mirrors with such copper frames.

The reason why copper is used as a frame is mainly because the current popular one is copper mirror.

Most of the first batch of bronze mirrors are engraved with meanings such as "promotion and wealth", "peace and good luck". After being created, they are packaged in a box.

After two days of preparation, Zhao Yan set off with his people and went to Jinan City to sell these mirrors. He brought five boxes of glass bronze mirrors, each box containing thirty pieces, and the specifications were the size of ordinary bronze mirrors, with a diameter of about ten centimeters. The dressing mirrors were three boxes, each box containing twenty dressing boxes.

He kept more than 20 servants, plus more than 200 tenant farmers defending in Zhaojia Village, and the rest followed him to Jinan City with full arms.

Along the way, the dilapidation in Dengzhou was very serious, and after entering Laizhou, the situation improved a lot. Although Laizhou was better than Dengzhou, most of the arable land along the way was still barren.

When you arrive in Laizhou, you encounter a checkpoint.

"Stop, what are you doing?" Several officers and soldiers led their men to stand in front of the convoy.

Zhao Quan was obviously very familiar with this and stepped forward to negotiate calmly, "Why did you stop me from visiting relatives in Jinan City?"

"Visiting relatives? Then why do you still carry swords?" asked one of the official soldiers.

"As a scholar, my young master can naturally travel around the world with his sword. Now, the chaos in Denglai is in chaos. Bringing some swords is just to protect himself." Zhao Quan said, and then he took out a few taels of silver and stuffed it into the hands of the official army. "It's been hard work for several soldiers to protect the country and the people here. I hope to accept some money for tea and wine."

"Go over! Go over!" The officials and soldiers weighed the money they had in their hands, and did not search, and directly let them go.

"These people are so easy to talk to?" Zhao Yan asked strangely.

"The young master doesn't know that some officials are willing to collect taxes in this card, while some officials are unwilling to collect taxes. Those who dare to collect taxes in a card do not dare to do too much. After all, when the merchants today are strong, if they are too strong, they will inevitably lose their official position." Zhao Quan explained, "Even if we don't pay taxes, they will not dare to make things difficult for caravans like us. It's better to give a few taels of silver. If it's smaller, it's not so easy to talk to."

"So, it's still a matter of scale." Zhao Yan smiled.

"Small caravans can only abide by the law. Whenever they go out, they should first report the road and lead them. They dare not block them. They should not hide their taxes. It is difficult for everyone to threaten them. This is abide by the law." Zhao Quan nodded and responded.

The censors in the Ming Dynasty were like wolves and tigers. Not only did there be a large number of censors in the capital, but there were also censors in every province. Therefore, local officials did not dare to collect too much commercial tax, and some were afraid of trouble and even refused to collect it.

After all, by the late Ming Dynasty, the form of official being business and business being official was formed, and officials had become spokespersons of merchants.

This situation should have occurred since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and gradually evolved to the point where business children were allowed to conduct scientific research, which further aggravated this situation.

The status of merchants was very high in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

If anyone dares to be unable to get along with the businessman, he may be included in the book, and may even let the big men in the court come forward to kill you. So when encountering a larger team, the officials at these levels dare not make things difficult for them. If those who are smaller in scale, they must "enforce the law impartially."

The levels along the way are very easy to talk about for a team like Zhao Yan, who can just get a few taels of silver and let them go directly. As long as they say they are not from the merchants, they will just let them go and do not search for the goods they carry.

Zhao Yan not only lamented that this Ming Dynasty merchant had a good time, and he didn't even pay much tax when doing business.

The commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty was indeed pitifully low. In the past, it was still thirty tax one, but later it became 60 tax one in Wanli. What can this little money do? It almost means not paying taxes.

Zhao Quandu showed rich experience along the way and was cautious in everything.

After rushing on the road for more than ten days, I finally arrived in Jinan City.

When Zhao Yan first saw the scene in the Ming Dynasty, he didn't have to hurry to see it, so he and Zhao Quan went to the Shandong Association Hall in Jinan, which was built by the Shandong Business Gang.

To summarize the way of getting rich in Shandong merchants, it is a business operation method of long-distance sales and business operations. Among the Shandong merchants, there are mainly large bureaucrats, large landlords and large merchants. Although they cannot be compared with those of Hui merchants and Shanxi merchants, they are also a well-capitalized business gang.

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Chapter completed!