Qian Qianyi said: "The opportunity is rare, even if we banish a few more people, we can't let it go, and find someone to attack it!"
Qian Shisheng thought for a while and said word by word: "What you said makes sense, so I'll let He Kai, Xu Yuqing, and Fan Shutai attack him together. How about that?"
Qian Qianyi said: "Not only did he let Shizhong do the work, but he also let the imperial censors Zhang Zuanzeng, Wu Lvzhong, and Zhang Kentang attack him. With such a huge momentum, I wonder how the emperor can protect him?"
Qian Shisheng thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "That's fine! Let's have a big one!"
The two of them finished talking quickly about the business, and then stopped. Qian Shisheng and Qian Qianyi finished discussing the important matter, breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the teacup on the tea table and took a sip of tea.
But when Qian Shisheng raised the teacup, he realized that the teacup was actually a transparent glass cup with a handle. The yellow tea leaves were placed in the round-bottomed transparent teacup, which was crystal clear and very beautiful.
When did the Ming Dynasty have such a teacup? Drinking tea from this teacup makes people feel more upscale.
Qian Shisheng smiled and said: "It's so elegant to drink tea from a glass worth a hundred gold." After a pause, Qian Shisheng said again: "But this transparent tea cup is really beautiful, giving the tea a sense of elegance.
Come on! You must have spent a lot of money to buy this teacup!"
Qian Qianyi shook his head and said: "This is a gift from others. Today, a military attache came to Tianjin and insisted on giving me two sets of glassware, a wine set and a tea set. He said that he made them himself. Each set
The price is only thirty taels of silver."
Qian Shisheng said: "Oh? It's so cheap! And there are wine utensils? I don't know what it feels like to use a glass to hold soju. Please show me the glass wine utensils!"
Qian Qianyi and his family waved, and the family walked to the backyard and took out the glass wine sets and a bottle of shochu given by Li Zhi. The servant poured the shochu into the glass in front of Er Qian, and put the glass into the glass.
It was handed over to two people.
Qian Shisheng held the glass wine cup and praised: "This glass cup is perfect for storing soju. It is as clear as crystal, and the mood immediately rises! This thing is more interesting than a glass tea cup! This military attaché is so capable of producing something like this.
of wine glasses, I’ll also buy a set of them to entertain guests at home!”
Qian Qianyi smiled when he heard this, remembering the purpose of Li Zhi giving him glassware, and secretly thought that he had promoted the product to Li Zhi so quickly.
"This military attache said that he belongs to the Li family in Tianjin. If he wants to buy a wine glass, he can just send someone to find the Li family's shop in Tianjin and buy it!"
Qian Shisheng nodded and said: "I will send my servant to buy it tomorrow. I will go back today, and I will also go to the officials to tell them to take action."
Qian Qianyi nodded, stood up and walked Qian Shisheng to the door.
After staying in the capital for a few days, Li Zhi visited the high officials one by one. Although the officials were very busy and did not meet with Li Zhi, Li Zhi still sent the glassware out. Li Zhi also bribed the doormen to give away the glassware.
It was the information about the production of Tianjin Li family that was sent in. In addition, there were a few big characters written on the back of the brocade box cover. Presumably when these officials opened the brocade box and saw the exquisite glassware, they would remember that it was Tianjin Li family.
Home products.
When these officials get such a treasure, they will definitely show it off in front of others and use it. Then Li Zhi's business will come.
After finishing the product promotion, Li Zhi returned to Tianjin. Of course, Governor He Shishou did not neglect Li Zhi and also gave him a set of glass tea sets and a set of glass wine sets.
Within a few days, people came from the capital to buy Li Zhi’s glassware. Most of them came to buy wine sets. At first, one or two people came to buy it every day, and then three or four people came every day. Finally, the shop could sell ten glasses a day.
Several sets of glass wine glasses. Later, wealthy businessmen also began to buy Li Zhi’s glass wine glasses.
Throughout May, Li Zhi's shop sold 153 sets of glass wine sets and 21 sets of glass tea sets. In June, Li's shop in Tianjinwei sold 210 sets of glass wine sets.
Six sets of glass wine sets and twenty-seven sets of glass tea sets. Calculating this sales volume and excluding the cost of burning the glass, the glass workshop can earn Li Zhi five or six thousand taels of silver a month.
Li Zhi, who was carrying out large-scale construction projects, had been spending money externally in the past six months, and his savings were almost exhausted. However, the income from the glass workshop suddenly made Li Zhi rich again.
Li Zhi made money from the glass industry, and in June he sent another two thousand taels of silver to He Shishou. In one year, He Shishou had already received eleven thousand taels of silver from Li Zhi. Li Zhi's filial piety can be regarded as a tribute to He Shishou.
The income was huge. He Shishou earned money very easily, and Li Zhi became more and more pleasing to the eye.
If He Shishou likes Li Zhi, Li Zhi's various interests in Tianjin will be protected.
However, Li Zhi is not worried about the leakage of the glass formula. In order to prevent the leakage of the glass formula, Li Zhi has already designed the production process step by step: from the beginning, he subdivided the kiln and feeding process of burning glass into six steps.
, each step is handled by different people. Moreover, Li Zhi did not tell the workers who were handling the materials what materials he was working on. He only let him know that the materials arrived and put them into the crucible according to the weight. The raw material purchasing personnel only knew what they bought.
What kind of materials are they? I don’t know how to use these raw materials.
Even Cai Huaishui, who helped Li Zhi build the glass cellar, only knew the structure of the glass cellar and did not know the formulas and proportions of Li Zhi's various materials.
If you want to get Li Zhi's glass formula, you have to bribe all the glass workshop workers and all the raw material purchasers, which is extremely difficult. If the trend of technology from secrecy to diffusion is irreversible, Li Zhi hopes that this diffusion will happen as soon as possible.
Arrive later.
By June, Li Zhi's two thousand villas had all been built.
One thousand of these villas were rented by Li Zhi to the families of employees in various industries, with a room price of 70 cents. The rent level ensured that Li Zhi could recover the price of the villa within fifteen years.
There are also a thousand villas that Li Zhi rented to various foreign business service workers in Fanjiazhuang. There are two thousand high-consumption employee families in Fanjiazhuang, and there is demand from all walks of life, so within a few months, Fanjiazhuang has an influx of people.
Two to three thousand people in the commercial and service industries have been hired. These people also need to live in houses and rent in Li Zhi's villa. The rent Li Zhi rents to these outsiders is more expensive, 105 cents per month.
The rent is so high that Li Zhi can recoup the price of a villa in ten years.
After the house price is recovered, the rent is a net profit.
The rent of two thousand villas can now earn Li Zhi more than 600 taels of silver per month.
Of course, a small number of villas are sold to employees and outsiders. Small villas are sold to workers' families for 50 taels per unit, and each family is limited to purchasing one at this price. Those sold to outsiders are sold for 60 taels per unit. In fact, even if
The house price is sixty taels per unit, which is lower than the house price in Tianjin Aicheng. Fanjiazhuang is in hot demand from all walks of life. It is easy to make money by doing business here, and the house price level is not high.
After the construction of villas stopped, Fanjiazhuang got rid of the status of a large construction site. There are no longer so many accumulated building materials, construction waste has also been reduced, and the whole city looks much tidier. The two thousand villas have also allowed Fanjiazhuang to begin to take shape and stand up.
Looking over the city wall, the continuous villas with white walls and black tiles in the north of the city are very neat and beautiful.
Whether in terms of sanitation conditions or prosperity, Fanjiazhuang is a leader among cities in this era.
