On the high platform of Jintang City, Mangshan, north of Luoyang City, Yi Feng held a thousand-mile mirror and looked at the distance. Through the lens, the five views of pedestrians from hundreds of steps away were clearly visible.

"Yes, I didn't expect that I just mentioned a few words, but you have done so well." Yi Feng said to Gao Mingyue beside him with a smile. Gao Mingyue looked elegant and handsome in the dress of a Confucian scholar. She stood with her sister and didn't care about the emperor's praise. "Your Majesty only mentioned a few words, but he gave orders to the craftsmen to complete it within a deadline. Everyone has made great efforts to study it day and night. Do you really think it's easy."

"Reward!" Yi Feng waved his hand. "This is a good thing. If you have a clairvoyance, you will start production immediately and produce in large quantities. Well, remember to make sure that the products ordered by the military must be strong and durable. In addition, you must be simple and easy to use. You don't have to make it so fancy and inlaid with gold and jade. In addition, you can also customize a batch of collector's luxury versions and sell them to officers, generals and ministers who are willing to pay for their own pockets. However, they cannot be sold to the Hu people. This is considered an important military material. The production process must be kept confidential and cannot be disclosed."

Qianlijing is actually just a by-product. Yi Feng now sells salt, tea and wine. His own industry has lost several profitable inputs at once, and he has to open up new markets. Even the emperor has to have private money. Sometimes when rewarding officials or doing something, he will no longer have to go through the finances of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and no longer have to listen to the review and inquiries of the prime ministers. Yi Feng's new projects are actually just a few, and they do not have to do anything in the market, so that they will not be said to be competing for profit with the people. In the end, Yi Feng chose glass, matches, soap and other projects. With the original perfume, rock candy, carriage, etc., as well as banks, insurance, and medicine, it can still allow Yi Feng to maintain the existing input income. Is it difficult to say that glass is not easy or not

It was simple, and there were also in the Sui Dynasty, but the craftsmanship was relatively inferior. It was not transparent, but it was more like green jade. Yi Feng did not know exactly how to make glass, but he also knew about the craftsman in it. He found the glass craftsmen from the Central Plains, and the craftsmen from the Western Regions, and then told them the knowledge he knew. Let them experiment, explore, follow the direction he pointed, and some clues given. Anyway, he was willing to invest in cost research. In the end, the glass was successfully manufactured. They not only made glass, but also made many derivative products. Based on some things Yi Feng had originally described to them, they finally made glass mirrors, thousands of miles mirrors, magnifying glasses, and even reading glasses.

The craftsmen of this era will never be stupid. As long as they give them some tips and financial support, they can also develop countless amazing products.

"I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on research funds before and after, but the current income will be a hundred times and a thousand times return. Next, I will increase the workshop, expand the production scale, recruit craftsmen, train apprentices, and build production workshops. I also have to establish an emerging market and train a group of sales personnel to come out. In short, let go. If you don't say much about this industry every year, you will definitely achieve sales of tens of millions of yuan in the future, and it will only increase in the future. The high-end market can be done first, and then the mid-end market. Finally, you can start a low-end market and also do overseas markets at the same time. Such good glass can develop countless unique glass products, and the whole world will become a lively commodity."

Glass is always a good commodity. In the 16th century BC, glass beads and glass inlays appeared in ancient Egypt. Between 1550 BC and 1500 BC, glassware appeared in ancient Egypt and the Mesopotamia. In the 4th century BC, Egypt invented the glass molding process, cart, engraving and gilding technology. In the 1st century BC, the Syrians created the blowing process, which could blow glass liquid into various forms of vessels as they pleased. Later, mold blowing method appeared one after another, which was the beginning of mass glassware production. In the 1st century BC, Rome became the center of glass manufacturing. The glass crafts of the Roman Empire included blowing, blowing molding, cutting, engraving, silk wrapping, gilding, etc.

However, after the 5th century, Roman glass crafts gradually declined. By the 8th century, except for the church's stained glass inlay, European glass crafts were almost extinct.

By the 9th and 14th centuries, the glass production centers in the Middle East, Damascus, Constantinople and Cairo, after the 12th century, with the development of trade, Venice became the center of the world's glass manufacturing industry. In order to monopolize glass manufacturing technology, the government at that time concentrated glass artists on the island of Murano across the sea from Venice. The heyday of glass production in Venice was from the 15th to the 16th centuries, and products almost occupied the European market. After the 16th century, glass craftsmen began to flee from the island and scattered across Europe, and glass manufacturing technology gradually spread.

For thousands of years, glass has always been a highly confidential and extremely profitable commodity. Now there is a fault in the glass production process in Europe. At this time, a glass manufacturing center with advanced technology appeared in the Sui Dynasty. Through sea and land trade routes, glass products can be sold to Europe and earn high profits. Moreover, even in the Central Plains market and the areas around the Sui Dynasty, the glass market will be very large. Glass was a bargain commodity in the future, and ordinary ones could not be more ordinary. But in this era, a crystal clear glass product was definitely a gem level. Not to mention that in addition to being a utensil, it can also be made into various handicrafts, and it can also be made into glass mirrors, telescopes, magnifying glasses, reading glasses, etc. This will be an industry with great prospects.

"Sales of tens of millions of yuan a year?" Gao Mingyue immediately felt that this product would sell well when she saw the glass product, but she was still extremely surprised when she heard this huge number from Yi Feng's mouth.

"It's just sales, but there are still costs."

"It's just a little sand, not gold, silver sand, so there's no capital, it's almost no capital." Gao Mingyue curled her lips. In her opinion, this industry is really profitable. She uses sand to make glass and then sells jade. It's just that.

Yi Feng smiled, "The account cannot be calculated like this. Raw materials are indeed not worth it. But there is a need to build workshops, train craftsmen, and even research costs. The construction of sales networks is all about money. In addition, I have decided that the court will impose a heavy tax of 20% on the sales volume of glass. Sales of 10 million yuan are paid in a year, and the court is also a considerable input."

"This glass workshop is your own industry, and you still need to pay taxes or pay heavy taxes?" Gao Mingyue was a little surprised.

"Of course, taxes are the obligations of every court. From the emperor to the people, everyone should pay taxes. There are no exceptions, and I should do my best."

"Then you might as well just take this workshop into state."

"That's different. If you hand over the good things to the government, you might end up losing a group of corrupt officials, but you will lose the country. Such a profitable industry should be attributed to my own name. If you help me manage it, I will be assured. In this way, the finances are clear every year, I have a lot of private money and I also pay a large amount of taxes to the court. Hello, I am good to everyone, why do you have to be so troublesome in the end?" There is still a big difference between private and state-owned enterprises. Although the world is actually considered the emperor's private, there is still a difference after all. I really turned the glass workshop into a state-owned enterprise and sent officials to manage it. Maybe it will eventually become a loss. It's better to put it in the emperor's private name. Such a private enterprise is better. Anyway, this glass workshop was built by him who invested in private, resulting in formula training and craftsmen.

"But you have to do a confidentiality work. The formula and skilled craftsmen must not leak it. I think it is best to build the workshop on which island, so as to prohibit traffic and bring the craftsmen's families to the island for good care. The most important thing about glass is the formula, and the other is the skilled craftsmen. If the formula is leaked and the craftsmen leak out, our daily gold-making industry will not be able to be kept."

Some things can be shared. For example, Yifeng is engaged in the sugar industry and plans to cooperate with wealthy merchants from the Sui Dynasty. Yifeng mastered the technology of refining white sugar and processing rock sugar. He gave them the upstream sugarcane planting and squeezing sugar and brown sugar to them. In particular, he encouraged these big families and merchants to go to Ryukyu Island, Lingnan and other places to build sugarcane gardens. This is also a disguised encouragement of these large families with capital to develop southeast coastal areas, and encouraged them to develop on large islands such as Ryukyu and Hainan, which are still underdeveloped. Today they can make money by growing sugarcane, and they go to the south to grow sugarcane. Maybe in the future, they can make money by growing grain in the south. They have to find a way to recruit people to reclaim wasteland and grow grain. Someone must take the lead, and development always needs to be done step by step.

In this regard, Yi Feng doesn't care about the big clans taking the initiative and making a big profit. As long as they benefit the country and the people, he does not object to their making money. As long as they make money, don't forget to pay taxes.

"How many thousand-mile mirrors have you produced now? I will send you to Li Jing first." Yi Feng said.

Gao Qianxue kept standing quietly aside, not talking much, but just teasing her son who was only one year old with a happy face.

"There are hundreds of mates in the past few times. I will send them all over the place when I look back." Gao Mingyue nodded, "Where has General Li Jing fight now? I heard that the second Northern Expedition was very smooth. Du Lan tried to resist and was defeated and killed. The entire Monan has been recovered. Now the troops have been moved to the north of Monan. It is said that they could march into the Western Regions before the New Year and pacify Datou?"

Yi Feng said proudly, "Under the banner of the Great Sui Dynasty, the various vassals sent troops to help, Du Lan resisted but was seeking death. He overestimated his ability. He had already died in the military and the entire southern Mo was recovered. Now the officials selected by the imperial court have gone to take office, and there will be prefectures and counties directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Sui Dynasty. Next, the red flag of the Great Sui Dynasty will be pacified and the Western Regions will be planted in all corners of the world. All the world is the king's land, the shores of the earth are the king's ministers."
Chapter completed!