The production of glass is not complicated. You only need to mix soda ash, limestone and quartz sand together and put them in a blast furnace with sufficient temperature to refine them.
With continuous refining, these things will slowly melt and form glassy things, that is, liquid glass.
Then it is made into various shapes, which can be pressed with molds or blown with iron pipes to make various glass products. Finally, it is annealed to become clear and transparent glass. .
Zhao Feng also wanted to make glass before, but he didn't have time to do this kind of thing before. After all, Chen Rou and Shen Chuchu both had their own business. Zhao Feng had to take care of it and couldn't do business, so he could only put this The idea was shelved.
But now Zhou Tong happens to need some industries that can make a lot of money, so Zhao Feng made this glass here.
However, blowing glass requires certain skills, and cooling glass products from a liquid to a semi-solid state also requires a certain amount of experience.
Before that, Zhao Feng first made some molds out of steel and directly die-cast some glass bottles to sell them for profit.
Soon, the first batch of glass bottles were made. Zhou Tong's eyes shone with surprise when he saw the clear and transparent bottles made by Zhao Feng.
"Mr. Zhao, what is this? Why is it so beautiful?"
Zhao Feng smiled slightly, knocked on the glass bottle, and said.
"This thing is called glass. The bottle made can not only hold some items, but can also be used as a vase."
Hearing this, Zhou Tong suddenly became happy. After all, the glass was transparent in color and very transparent. It looked shiny, just like those gem crystals.
Zhao Feng asked the workers to continue making them here while exploring the skills of glass blowing. He wrote a letter back to the capital and also sent a batch of glass bottles to Chen Rou and Shen Chuchu to help sell them.
It can be seen from Zhou Tong's reaction that these glass bottles must be very popular. After all, there is no such thing in this era, and most people still use porcelain to hold things.
Glass plates, glass bowls and the like can also be made, and these will definitely become the most expensive tableware for dignitaries.
There are so many things that glass can make. It's a pity that they can't make glass plates for the time being. After all, the glass plates need to be made very flat to achieve uniform light transmission.
But that was enough. After those glass products were delivered to the capital, they immediately exploded on the market. No one had ever seen anything like this. Some people even thought they were made of crystal.
In the Zhou Dynasty, there were indeed some crystal products, and those transparent crystals were the most expensive items, but few people made a large piece of crystal into an entire vessel. After all, the cost was too high.
There is only one crystal cup in the palace, which is said to be priceless.
Now, the cups, bottles, bowls, plates, etc. made by Zhao Feng are all transparent in color and even have some patterns on them.
Seeing these transparent and integrated glass products, the dignitaries could not help but marvel.
"Oh my God, this thing looks like crystal!"
"Yeah, I didn't expect that there is such a thing in the world. This is really great!"
"No, I want to buy a set. If guests come to my house, if I use this thing as tableware to entertain the guests, they will definitely be envious!"
"I want a set too. How much does this one cost?"
The clerk in the store smiled and held out five fingers.
"This one costs five taels of silver, the smaller one costs three taels of silver, and the slightly larger one costs eight taels of silver."
Upon hearing this price, all the dignitaries could not help but widen their eyes, with expressions of surprise on their faces.
This price is so cheap!
They don't lack money at all, what they lack is things that can reflect their status, and these glass products just satisfy their vanity.
After all, this glass product has never appeared before. Many people think that this thing is crystal. After all, compared with the transparent crystal, glass products have more benefits, because as long as it is crystal, there will be cracks, and these glasses are No cracks at all!
But the price was much cheaper than crystal, and suddenly many people began to rush to buy it.
There is basically no cost to make these glasses. You only need to pay wages to the workers.
In this era, people did not realize the preciousness of these minerals at all, so these minerals were available for private mining all over the mountains and plains.
The first batch of glass products earned Zhou Tong thousands of taels of silver, which made Zhou Tong look at the account book every day with a silly smile on his face.
"Mr. Zhao, you are so amazing. You made so much money with just a few stones!"
Zhao Feng smiled slightly. Those workers were getting more and more experienced in making glass, and the speed of making glass would be faster and faster in the future.
The worst case scenario is that the glass will be sold at a reduced price. Zhao Feng estimates that if the workers become skilled, Zhou Tong can earn at least tens of thousands of taels of silver a month just by relying on these glass products!
Next to her, Mrs. Liu was so angry that she thought Zhao Feng couldn't make money at first, but she didn't expect that Zhao Feng was so good at making money. He made thousands of taels of silver in just a few days!
Zhao Feng looked at Granny Liu and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
Liu Jia, who he had sent to the capital before, had returned. Not only did he bring back the seeds he needed, but he also brought Zhao Feng the information he needed most.
After seeing this information, Zhao Feng finally added the last link in the chain of interests, and understood why Magistrate Sun would spare no effort to help Granny Liu and Meng Da!
Now Zhao Feng is just slowly collecting evidence. After Zhao Feng collects the evidence this time, none of the three of them will be able to escape!
Who would have thought that although Magistrate Sun was not from the four major families, he was very envious of those in them, so he secretly helped Liu Po and Meng Da embezzle Zhou Tong's property in order to bribe the four major families. What about the officials of the family?
Over the years, all the things that Magistrate Sun had defrauded and stolen from Zhou Tong had been given to the people of the four major families. Those officials may not know the origin of the money, but once this matter is exposed, they will No one can escape!
At this time, Zhao Feng looked at Granny Liu as if looking at a grasshopper after autumn, knowing that she would not be able to jump for a few days!
