Chapter 7 Concessions

Seeing that Lu Xu had not decided for a long time, Wang Jinghui did not force him to make a decision so quickly. In his eyes, this guy was a bit of a reluctance to make a decision. Forced him to make a decision was definitely the worst, so he just told him not to go out easily these days. After all, he offended Xiao Yuanfeng at the auction, so he had to prevent the other party from doing anything extreme. Mr. Xu and Manager Li also reminded him to pay more attention and asked him to go to the account room to collect 200 taels of silver.

There are only three people left in the study, Wang Jinghui, Mr. Xu and Manager Li. In Wang Jinghui's plan, the flood next year must be saved. After all, it will be tens of thousands of lives, which requires a lot of funds, medicines and food. Originally, these things should be easier for the court to come forward, but now he will not only not receive the support of the court's power, but may also be charged with confusing the public. So Wang Jinghui decided to make preparations by himself and then find an opportunity to notify the court to prepare early.

Everything he does requires money, not to mention that in the face of a flood, the money needed in the Song Dynasty would probably frown even if the Song Dynasty government frowned. Although Wang Jinghui received a lot of funds at this auction, this was far from enough in his plan, so he decided to start his career as a god of god of wealth while preparing to become a god of wealth. Through contact with Mr. Xu during this period, Wang Jinghui believed that he was a safe, reliable businessman who values ​​righteousness and neglects profit, so it would be best to choose such a partner in the early stage of his business.

Wang Jinghui bowed to Mr. Xu and Manager Li and said, "If you were not Mr. Xu and Mr. Li, you would not have raised so much capital to open a clinic. Thank you here! But Mr. Xu also asked Mr. Xu to do a favor. Mr. Xu, you also know that after the Wansheng came, Biandu was not familiar with the place, so you should ask Mr. Xu to find a place to open a clinic for me, preferably in the gathering area of ​​the poor in Kaifeng, so this will save the trouble of these poor people seeking medical treatment."

Mr. Xu was also a cheerful person, and immediately agreed without saying a word. After seeing Mr. Xu agreeing, Wang Jinghui said, "Mr. Xu, it is easy to open a clinic, but these poor people are busy with life. They don't have much money to see a doctor and take medicine at home. My purpose is to treat the disease and save the patient. Most of the clinics are to pay for money when they open. There is no problem with shorter time. I still have the silver gift from Mr. Xiao to support it for a period of time, but after a long time, I may not be able to make ends meet, so I will close the door in the end, so I want to cooperate with Mr. Xu to do some business to support the survival of the clinic! I talked with Mr. Xu some time ago about the ability to produce glass objects in large quantities. Have you forgotten it yet?"

Mr. Xu and Manager Li nodded and said, "If this glassware can be produced in large quantities as the young master said, I think not only will the profit be huge, but I'm afraid it will be sold out every day! Why, the young master is interested in producing these glassware to support the opening of the clinic?!"

Wang Jinghui said: "That's true! I don't have any acquaintances in Kaifeng. The two of you opened a clinic for me not only delayed the business in the store, but also wasted so much energy to raise funds for me. Wang was really sorry for his inability to repay him, so he planned to give this business to Mr. Xu and Manager Li. I wonder if you are willing?"

After hearing Wang Jinghui's words, Mr. Xu and Manager Li couldn't help but feel a cold sweat behind his back: This is a huge opportunity to make money! Although the glass cup just auctioned is worth 100,000 taels of silver, mostly because Xiao Yuan Fengfeng made a fortune himself, the actual price is quite high. If it can be produced and sold in large quantities, although the price will be reduced a lot, I'm afraid it's really the same as what Manager Li said just now. Just counting money will make your hands cramp! Such a big benefit will come to your own body, just like a gold mountain falling from the sky.

Mr. Xu asked in a trembling voice: "Mr. Wang, you can do such a good business yourself. If you use it all to fund the clinic, not to mention a clinic, according to my husband's ideas, I'm afraid that a hundred clinics can be opened! Although I am an inequality businessman, I will not accept such great benefits for no reason!" This was beyond Wang Jinghui's expectations for Mr. Xu, but he was more happy and excited in his heart: Mr. Xu is so cute. He has such moral character and is worthy of cooperation!

Wang Jinghui continued: "Mr. Xu is such a bad thing! I am just a doctor and I just want to see a doctor to save people. If I want to be a wealthy man, this is a breeze for me! For me, the money I earned from this auction of the glass cup is enough to make me spend my whole life rich, but I just want to use my medical skills to do more good things for the people of the Song Dynasty, so that those who cannot afford to see a doctor and cannot afford medicine can have more ways to survive! But how many people can I save by myself? So I want to do with you

Work together to do business and earn more money to help these people! This is a small profit for making glassware, which is a good business for us to earn gold and silver. If Mr. Xu agrees, you only need to hire some loyal and reliable helpers. I will be responsible for teaching them how to burn glassware, and they will burn finished products, and you will sell these finished glass products. In this way, Mr. Xu, you only need to ensure that the formula for burning glass is not leaked. As for profit sharing, we can share the profits for 50% of the time. How about it?!"

Mr. Xu has been running a jewelry business all year round and is of course very clear about the price of glassware shipped by Hu merchants from overseas. A small glassware can be easily sold for hundreds of taels of silver in Bian, which is difficult to buy. If it is really as Wang Jinghui said that the production cost is low, a glassware can be sold for two or three at the same time. Even a fool knows how big the profit is.

Mr. Xu said, "Young Master, I will just give you a sense of saving the world and saving people. If I refuse again, it will be artificial! Although we businessmen do things in pursuit of fame and fortune, we also know what conscience is! I think this profit sharing is unfair to those who do big things like this. The 28-8 share is enough for me. Even with this share, I have taken a great advantage! The young master doesn't need to refuse anymore. I am old and I want so much gold and silver that I don't bring in life or death. I will leave it to you young people for big things!"

In this way, Wang Jinghui and Mr. Xu from Xu's Jewelry Store reached a commercial alliance under the atmosphere of your push and letting me. Wang Jinghui was not very clear about the ethics of businessmen in this era, but judging from his experience of cooperating with Mr. Xu, he had to admit that he had lost his luck. With Mr. Xu's repeated insistence, Wang Jinghui and him went to the yamen to establish documents, which made the cooperation between the two parties even more legally guaranteed. The rest is to see how Wang Jinghui showed his skills in this strange era.

Regarding the location where Manager Li was to establish a clinic for him, Wang Jinghui considered that the flood was about to occur next year and specially asked him to choose a high-level location as the address of the clinic. Most of the people living here were poor families, and the most expensive thing in Kaifeng, Biandu was the land, but the residents here did not have property rights and this place was not a prosperous place, so Manager Li easily obtained the property rights of the land at a very low price. For the original residents here, Wang Jinghui allocated another sum of money to buy land elsewhere to build houses for them, so that they could live here without causing any trouble.

When building the house, Wang Jinghui himself took the initiative and designed the architectural layout of the clinic based on the land area. This is very similar to the typical layout of a 20th century hospital, including an outpatient building, a pharmacy, and an inpatient building. But after seeing Wang Jinghui's design, Manager Li couldn't help but frown: It's easy to say about the house, but this building cannot be built in a short while. In order to increase the use area of ​​the land, Wang Jinghui designed the main building of the clinic into two to four-story buildings. Needless to say, the cost is needed, but there is no hurry to go!

Manager Li found Wang Jinghui and told him his thoughts. Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "Don't worry, brother, your jewelry store is a four-story building. If you build a hospital according to its construction method, it will not only cost money and labor, but also take a long time. I have already figured out a quick way to build a house. Using this method to build a building is very cheap, and it is sturdy and durable. You can take it to the craftsmen responsible for building a clinic and let them try this method."

Manager Li was skeptical about Wang Jinghui's words, but he still took the pages of paper written by Wang Jinghui to find the craftsmen. After reading the craftsmen, they were even more confused: they don't need blue bricks to build a house, but burn bricks with loess? They use 80% of lime mixed with 20% of clay? What is this? I have never heard of it! This is what Wang Jinghui wrote about firing red bricks and cement, and also wrote the method of making reinforced concrete floors and columns. Since the original station of his army was in rural areas, they built the houses at the army station by themselves to burn cement and red bricks. Although Wang Jinghui was not a bricklayer, the specific method was still very clear.

Although the craftsmen suspected that the things written on paper could build a very complex building in their eyes, they still seriously contacted Manager Li to negotiate the matter. After Manager Li's tireless explanation, they finally reached a compromise agreement: first use this method to build a pharmacy to see the effect, because the pharmacy is a two-story building according to the design. Manager Li was also very ups and downs and told Mr. Xu about this matter, hoping that he could persuade Wang Jinghui to give up this whimsical method, but Mr. Xu came in turn and persuaded him.

"Zhenquan, I think he must be very sure of this after revising it. Have you ever seen a glass cup worth 100,000 taels?" Mr. Xu patiently explained to Manager Li. After hearing Mr. Xu's words, he lost all his thoughts: What else can he have? Let's take a look after the house is built!

The craftsmen were very fast. They quickly fired red bricks and cement. They didn't know much about cement, but the red bricks were praised by them: the firing process was simple, fast and very strong. They found thick iron bars according to Wang Jinghui's method, and after mixing the concrete, they made cement columns. In order to cheer up the craftsmen, Wang Jinghui personally came to the construction site and asked the craftsmen to put the concrete columns on two large stones, and asked several strong craftsmen to hold hammers and hit the concrete columns heavily.

Zhu. These craftsmen were sweating profusely, but they did not cause any harm except knocking off some slag for this column. After a long time of hard work, they finally saw the power of cement. Moreover, using cement as a binder is not only strong but also drying for a very short time. After this trouble, these craftsmen were immediately shocked by Wang Jinghui and almost learned skills. Of course, Wang Jinghui could not accept them as his apprentice. He just told them that these houses were specially designed for medical treatment for the poor people around him, and the craftsmen worked harder.

After finally getting through these craftsmen who built the clinic, Wang Jinghui and Manager Li began to devote themselves to the cause of firing glass. This is an extremely important matter. The economic foundation of all activities carried out in the future will be supported by these crystal clear glass objects.

In order to carry out Wang Jinghui's glass manufacturing business, Mr. Xu sent his most capable servants according to his wishes. Wang Jinghui was in charge of a porcelain kiln that Mr. Xu had just bought to guide the craftsmen to make glass throughout the process, and Mr. Li was sent out to buy the raw materials for making glass. What made Mr. Li very depressed was that no matter how Wang Jinghui explained to him, he could not have thought that the crystal clear glass was refined with sand, quicklime and alkaline surfaces, but he still purchased the required materials according to Wang Jinghui's requirements.

At this time, Kaifeng, Biandu, had already used peat, that is, coal, as fuel, but it was obviously not possible to use coal as fuel for burning glass. Wang Jinghui knew very well that the main reason why ancient China did not master the method of making glass was that the temperature was not high enough and could only be made of glass, so coke could only be used as fuel to meet the temperature. Fortunately, Wang Jinghui's original hometown was Huili, Sichuan, which was close to the nationally famous Panzhihua, and the local pillar industry was the local pillar industry, so Wang Jinghui knew the method of refining coke, otherwise he could only sigh at the coal.

The assistant sent by Mr. Xu to be Wang Jinghui was an old man who was almost fifty years old. He grew up in the Xu family and even Manager Li called him "Uncle Hong". Uncle Hong was surprised to see Wang Jinghui refining a lot of peat into coke, and learned that if he wanted to burn glass, the most important thing was to look at the heat generated by the burning of the coke. Although Uncle Hong was dizzy when he heard it, he was absolutely obedient to the young man in front of him. On the one hand, it was because the Xu family was kind to him, and on the other hand, it was that the prince in front of him was a great man with a poor mind (after all, Wang Jinghui had not saved anyone when he came to this era, so now in the eyes of the people around him, he had not yet been upgraded to a miracle doctor).

Wang Jinghui asked Uncle Hong to find a few carpenters and built a waterwheel and an oversized bellows next to the porcelain kiln according to his drawings. Not only that, he also found a group of masons and transformed the porcelain kiln under his command, saying that it was to strengthen the "sealing" of the porcelain kiln. Although Uncle Hong didn't understand what Wang Jinghui was going to do, he found craftsmen to do it carefully according to Wang Jinghui's instructions. Since the cement pillar incident, Manager Li was convinced by Wang Jinghui and completed all the assigned tasks very seriously.

Wang Jinghui was very satisfied with the cooperation attitude of Uncle Hong and Manager Li. The project of renovating the porcelain kiln was much faster than he expected. Now the sealing transformation of the porcelain kiln has been completed, and the super blower has been completed. Everything is done, but it is only a good thing! He washed the sand bought by Manager Li and took 10% quicklime, 10% alkaline surface, and 70% sand. Although there is no potassium carbonate, there is alkali surface instead of sodium carbonate to reduce the melting point of silica. So just use it.

Put the water wheel into the river and use water to drive the huge bellows. The fire is also burning strong. Since there is no thermometer, the old kiln workers can only judge the temperature inside the porcelain kiln by relying on years of experience in firing porcelain to see the color of the fire head. The little chemical knowledge I learned in high school before could only tell Wang Jinghui that the melting point of silica is 2,000 degrees Celsius, and adding sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate can reduce the melting point of silica to about one thousand degrees Celsius. Now I can only find baking soda instead of sodium carbonate. I don’t know if it is OK.

After Wang Jinghui worshipped all the gods from the East and West, the pot of red liquid finally came out, and his heart leaped wildly several times: it is good or bad! The craftsmen took the model that had been prepared long ago and poured the liquid into the model. After cooling, the model opened it: a dark green glass was displayed in front of the craftsmen whose mouth had become O-shaped.

Wang Jinghui picked up the glass and was still a little warm in his hand, but it doesn't matter. The future gold and silver will depend on it! Wang Jinghui used his pitiful chemical knowledge to analyze: the reason why it became dark green is because the melt of the glass contains a large amount of iron ions. He handed the glass to Manager Li, who was already in a dementia next to him. Manager Li held the glass as cautious as if holding a newborn baby.
Chapter completed!