Li Wenchong looked at the emperor's nephew Li Song for a long time, feeling that this little old man was quite annoying.
If it weren't for the sake of his grandson Li Qian, Li Wenchong would really want to throw this fool out.
An old man in his seventies or eighty years old has many women in his backyard, and he still hangs out on the street all day long. He wants to go back to the backyard when he looks at anything pretty. How can he bear it with his broken body?
Li Song smiled as he asked, who is the prince, the younger brother of Emperor Mingguang, or the celebrity in front of Emperor Mingguang?
Unlike himself, his grandfather was still the grandson of the emperor, but in his generation, he is already...
Although he has a title, he is actually nothing.
He himself is unlucky, and his sons and grandsons are also unlucky. Only his grandson Li Qian is his treasure.
Because Li Qian likes to read.
Although it’s a little big, it’s also a hope to be able to study well, isn’t it?
Eunuch Jung taught Li Qian how to try out the glasses. After trying them on one by one, No. 6 could see clearly.
Eunuch Jung breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not the most serious case, otherwise...
He has been with Li Wenchong for so long, and he knows something about things like glasses. The bigger the number, the more serious the "disease" in the eyes is.
Good eyes are better than bad eyes.
"Okay, let's do it on the 6th." Li Wenchong said to Li Qian, "Be careful when reading in the future. Don't stay up late reading all the time. It's not good for your eyes. You are already nearsighted now. If you don't take good care of yourself quickly, you will be nearsighted in a few years."
It’s getting worse and worse, and you won’t really be able to see anything in the future, you know?”
"Yes, Grandpa." Li Qian agreed obediently.
"In a few days, I will ask the Imperial Hospital to visit you and give you a prescription to take care of your eyes. You must follow the doctor's instructions carefully."
"Yes, great grandfather."
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Li Wenchong lost his temper when facing Li Qian, who would obediently agree to whatever he said.
He asked Li Qian to go down and rest, and then called the old man's nephew Li Song over to give him a lesson. He told him to be more honest in the future and to take good care of his grandson at such an old age. Don't think about going out and causing trouble all day long.
In the past few years, things have been uneasy in Beijing!
"I understand, Grandpa Huang, don't worry, how could I dare...I have been honest recently. If I hadn't heard that Grandpa Huang has a treasure that can cure eyes, I wouldn't even leave the house."
"It's best this way. Don't drag Li Qian down because you can't do it yourself."
"Yes, yes, I definitely won't. I won't go anywhere. I will just stay in the house. I won't cause trouble or make any trouble. I will be very well-behaved..."
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With the last two pairs of myopia glasses left, Li Wenchong returned to Prince Chong's Mansion.
Gu Qingling was not surprised at all that there were still glasses left. After all, if myopia was really serious enough to require size 12 glasses, then this person would be almost blind.
If there was such a person in Li Wenchong's circle, it would have been known a long time ago.
Seeing that the two types of glasses were indeed useful, the two discussed the specific details of setting up an optical factory and opening an optical store.
Gu Qingling meant that such a big business cannot be financed by Prince Chong's Palace alone. She wanted the Jinling Investment Club to get involved. Not only that, she also wanted to find some partners in the capital.
She is not afraid that it will be difficult to manage if there are too many people participating in the shares. Anyway, she is Princess Chong, and except for those in the Forbidden City, there are not many people who can suppress her.
Li Wenchong had no objection and let her do whatever she wanted. As for the address of the factory, he told her not to worry. He would talk to Emperor Mingguang.
With Gu Qingling's reputation as the "God of Wealth", I guess his brother would also want to get involved, but he just didn't know if there was a market for this glasses business.
From Gu Qingling, Li Wenchong also learned the word "market".
"There is definitely a market, but we need to lower the cost so that ordinary people can afford it..." Gu Qingling explained to Li Wenchong that there are still a small number of rich people, and most of them are ordinary people.
Optical stores in the future must not only meet the needs of the powerful, but also meet the needs of ordinary people, especially the elderly groups among the people.
The Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty for people all over the world, so no group can be ignored, and everyone should be allowed to enjoy the lingering shadow of the Ming Dynasty.
"Is it really not difficult to make these glasses? Is the cost so easy to reduce?" Gu Qingling kept talking about reducing costs, and Li Wenchong was confused.
For ordinary people, something worth ten taels of silver is not cheap, right?
He knew that a piece of glass was cheap, but not all people could afford it. For example, people in Jinling were relatively wealthy and would choose to install glass windows in their homes, but what about other places?
Obviously, glass sales in other places are far inferior to those in Jinling.
Gu Qingling laughed: "It is definitely difficult, but we can tear down the east wall to repair the west wall. Since most of the money is in the hands of the rich, then we will sell high prices to this group, and then sell low prices to ordinary people.
, use the money of the previous group to make up for the deficit of the next group... Glasses are not consumables. If you keep them carefully, you will only have a few pairs in a lifetime. Unlike paper towels and food, they are consumables and must be purchased every once in a while.
We can be a little expensive, but it must be within the tolerance of ordinary people..."
As for how to widen the price gap, that's simple.
Wouldn’t it be enough to just change the eyeglass frames to different materials?
Just like the previous products, products with different materials have different prices. The more powerful people are and the more they like to show their identity, the more expensive they will buy.
For example, Li Wenchong, when he buys things for Yao Jiuye, he often buys "collector's editions".
Many of the powerful people in Beijing have this problem.
Li Wenchong's mouth twitched: "..."
There is no way, he himself is the one who is being slaughtered, and he is the kind of person who is willing to do it.
Fortunately, most of what he bought was from his own store, and the money just moved from his left pocket to his right pocket, so he didn't lose money. But people outside...
Li Wenchong didn't sympathize with them and deserved to be "tricked" by Gu Qingling.
The next day, Li Wenchong went to the palace and talked with Emperor Mingguang about the spectacles factory and sales store.
Emperor Mingguang didn't have much opinion and gave Li Wenchong several locations to choose from. His only request was: "Be quieter. There are so many pairs of eyes staring at the court, so don't cause trouble."
"Brother Imperial, don't worry, I know what's going on."
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Turning around, Li Wenchong forgot Emperor Mingguang's reminder and found the officials who were trying out the glasses and asked them to invest in the glasses production factory.
Taifu Cao and others: "..."
Prince Chong, are you a bit too much of a dog?
There is such a "Qingshui Yamen" in the Hanlin Academy. How many of our bunch of old men do you think are rich?
Li Wenchong didn't care, and Zhidao's investment in the company just meant that the glasses manufacturing factory was engaged in "welfare" and could not make much money at all.
What else can Taifu Cao and the others say?
I can only agree, there are people who pay dozens of taels, tens of taels, or even a few taels of silver.
Li Wenchong didn't mind, so he asked the eunuch Rong Ge to keep the accounts, and left the Hanlin Academy with only two to three hundred taels of silver in his hands.
When Emperor Mingguang heard about it, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"You...if you are short of money, just tell me, why do you have to ask them for it? How much money do these old pedants have in their hands? Even if they have it, they don't dare to show it. Can you ask for it?
How many are you wearing?"
Li Wenchong smiled: "Brother Emperor, don't you understand this? I am here to support the glasses manufacturer."
