A convoy of glass transporting vehicles of the Liang Chamber of Commerce left the People's Army ruling area and slowly drove into the jurisdiction of General Linwu County, Linwu County, the Ming Dynasty ruling area.

A blue flag was hanging at the front of the convoy. General Lin's men saw the convoy with blue flags and knew that it was transporting glass, so they didn't even stop it and let it go directly.

The convoy kept moving forward and finally stopped in Linwu County. Liang Chamber of Commerce staff, Zhang Chamber of Commerce staff, and General Lin's confidants gathered together. Liang Chamber of Commerce handed the batch of glass costing 5,000 yuan equal coins to the Zhang Chamber of Commerce. After the Zhang Chamber of Commerce counted the glass mirror and transparent glass, it finally handed over 48,000 taels of silver to the Liang Chamber of Commerce.

There are more and more flat cement roads in the People's Army ruling area, but glass cannot be broken during transportation. The Zhang Chamber of Commerce even accepted the broken glass and could also be sold at a slightly lower price after processing.

General Lin's confidant witnessed this transaction. As soon as the transaction ended, the Liang Chamber of Commerce handed over 8,600 taels of silver to General Lin's confidant, which was the 20% profit of the glass business that General Lin gave.

It is precisely these 20% of the profit sharing that ensures the smooth passage of the glass business between the People's Army and the Ming Dynasty ruling area.

I collected 8,600 taels of silver at one time. The glass business has been going on for a year. The Liang Chamber of Commerce only transported a batch of glass every month. The quantity of each batch of glass has been determined, and the cost is 5,000 yuan.

This is a trade route opened by the Liang Chamber of Commerce, but there are other merchants in the People's Army-ruled regions borrowed this trade route. At least five batches of glass will be transported to the Ming Dynasty ruling region through this trade route within a month.

In every glass business, General Lin had to collect 20% of the profits from merchants in the People's Army-ruled region, and earn at least 30,000 taels of silver a month. Merchants in the Ming Dynasty had to share the profits for General Lin after selling glass, and they had to avoid the gifts given by merchants in the People's Army-ruled region.

The income of at least 60,000 taels of silver per month is already a very large amount. When the glass business was improving, other generals in the Ming army were interested in the glass business and wanted to replace General Lin.

In order to maintain his position, General Lin directly took out nine-tenths of his silver income, most of which were used to honor his superiors, and a small part of them were divided with his colleagues, and the remaining 6,000 taels of silver was also a considerable amount.

Some people spy on General Lin, and naturally some people spy on Zhang's Chamber of Commerce. Zhang's Chamber of Commerce also used most of the profits obtained from the glass business to respect bigwigs and share regional partners. Even so, Zhang's Chamber of Commerce has made a lot of money in the past year, with more than twice as much as before.

The glass mirrors and transparent glass transported from the People's Army ruling area were sent to various places in the Ming Dynasty ruling area for sale under the transportation of the Zhang Chamber of Commerce and others.

The price of glass in Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi and Fujian, which is closest to the People's Army ruling region, is slightly cheaper. The farther away from the People's Army ruling region, the price of glass gradually increases, but it is not too high. A palm-sized glass mirror is sold in the capital only for about ten taels of silver.

The price of small pieces of glass is not much higher, but large pieces of glass are more likely to break during transportation. The largest glass mirror is sold to Beijing for more than 5,000 taels of silver.

Even if the price of glass mirrors is so high, once transported to the capital, they will be quickly bought by the powerful, especially the queens and concubines in the palace. Each of them has at least one glass mirror, either bought by themselves or is filial to outsiders.

In Beijing, glass mirrors and transparent glass have become the comparison targets of the powerful. If you have the largest glass mirror, I will press the doors and windows of my home on glass.

The comparison between the powerful and powerful has also affected the "ordinary people". They are reluctant to buy large glass mirrors, and the size of their palms can still be afforded.

During the competition, the glass mirrors transported by merchants to the capital will be bought out soon.

The capital city is the place with the most powerful and wealthy people in the Ming Dynasty ruling region, but the combined purchasing power of the Ming Dynasty ruling region is several times higher than that of the capital city, and glass is almost in short supply in the Ming Dynasty ruling region.

A glass business was connected by the People's Army, merchants, Ming court, and Ming army, but no one stopped him. Instead, they all wanted to gain more benefits from it.

As the commander of nearly one million troops of "suppressing the thieves", Li Chengliang is very familiar with the glass mirror business. As long as Li Chengliang ordered, the glass mirrors produced from the People's Army ruling area would not be transported much to the Ming Dynasty ruling area.

But Li Chengliang did not do this, and the generals were given a share of the profits in the glass business, and at least 40% of them were directly handed to Li Chengliang.

Getting so much money is enough for Li Chengliang for the time being. If he sends someone to take over the glass business, many generals will complain. Li Chengliang will try his best to subdue the Ming generals, so he will naturally not do too much, and even reduce the share ratio to 30%.

Li Chengliang mainly rewarded other generals with the silver obtained from the glass business, "buying" them little by little.

Li Chengliang attaches great importance to the glass business. Through spies entering the People's Army-ruled Region, Li Chengliang knew that the glass was produced in the People's Army-ruled Region. Li Chengliang thought to eliminate the People's Army and obtain the glass technology. Then the glass business was controlled by him, and the benefits were unimaginable.

There are many people in the Ming Dynasty who know that glass is produced in Guangdong, but there are almost no one who knows the production of glass. On the one hand, the glass is fragile and transported in trouble. After finally transporting it to various places, it was quickly snatched away. On the other hand, glass mirrors were very expensive in the past, but now the price of glass mirrors has dropped to one tenth or even lower before. I don’t want to miss this opportunity, so I quickly bought it with the silver.

In fact, there are very few people who feel that the glass business is not right, and they speculate that the price of glass will continue to decline in the future. At most, they spend money to buy a two-sided glass mirror. When the price drops later, they will buy a little more.

This small number of people are right. If the Ming court is destroyed by the People's Army, there will be as much low-priced glass as possible. However, whether they can survive until then is still a question. Wherever the People's Army has passed, there are not many gentry and merchants who can survive.

Glass was sold well in the Ming Dynasty, and sales in the People's Army were gradually increasing. The people in the People's Army ruled by the third bumper year, and their savings were gradually increasing. A palm-sized glass mirror only had a cent of equal coins, and a very low price. Newly married couples must have a glass mirror at home, and many husbands bought glass mirrors for their wives.
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