Dad, this seems to be the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 290
As soon as he entered the gate of the glass factory, he didn't see anything. Cao Bin was still confused, but Sun Yue was secretly startled in his heart. There are rows and rows of redwood trees, and there is a bit of poetry in the afterglow of the setting sun. It is clearly a beautiful garden. Where is the configuration of the factory?

"The land is not valuable, so I took some more. I plan to build a family building in the backyard in the future. Planting some trees and flowers here will make the workers feel better when they come to work."

With that said, a few people walked forward, and first saw about hundreds of workers sitting outside in an open space surrounded by birds and flowers. In front of each person was a large whetstone-like thing, spinning a wheel to grind the edges of the glass.

"When glass is first fired, the burrs are very sharp and need to be polished before use. Therefore, I modified an edge grinder like this based on the sharpener, and there is a cutting machine at the back. It is roughly the same as this, but because my glass burnt The ones that come out are too brittle, so they are very brittle when ground, and an ordinary worker can grind ten pieces of glass a day after being skilled, which is not bad.”

As he spoke, Sun Chunming led the way back, and saw rows of limited white glass plates hanging on the glass shelves, which were about a little bigger than a human head, and said, "After grinding and cutting the glass, that's it. Install it directly on the house to make a small window, and paint it with mercury to make a glass mirror. There will be a special mirror processing factory behind, and those broken glass fibers will be collected and refined to make bottles and cups. Ah and the like, as well as various decorations, the specific method is similar to that of pottery, there is nothing special to say."

Cao Bin looked at it very seriously, and took out a pen and paper to take notes from time to time.

"In other words, among all glass products, this glass plate is the mother of all?"

"It's not all, it's just that the glass plates and mirrors are more expensive, so I try to make as many as possible, but at least in my factory, there is nothing wrong with saying that."

"So, how did this glass plate come from?"

"This is the real secret in this factory, come with me."

As he spoke, Sun Chunming led the two of them straight to the center of the factory. Along the way, he also saw a lot of the various utensils he mentioned, as well as many other glass procedures, all of which were replaced by human labor in primitive and clumsy ways. Modern equipment, so the amount of labor is indeed very large.

After walking through, the two discovered that there was actually a courtyard within a courtyard, which was still heavily guarded, and the leader was actually an acquaintance.

"Uncle Zhuo? Why are you here?"

It turns out that although this team of guards is small in number, it is the personal guard team that Murong Yanzhao retired back then, and is led by Zhuo Boxin, who had a life-and-death relationship with him back then.

This is also what makes Sun Yue strange. You must know that Sun Chunming has treated them well all these years. It is said that they should have divided the property, and they should have a small family. Why did they go back to the sentry business again?
"I can't be idle, I don't know how to do business, and I don't want to return to my hometown when I'm farming, so I'm here to give full play to my spare energy. When you marry Miss, you will be comfortable working for the Sun family."

Sun Yue smiled and didn't say anything, but she admired her father's methods more and more in her heart. You must know that when Murong Yanzhao's personal soldiers retreated, they were essentially the same as the Murong family's generals. Zhao died of illness, and most of the descendants were helpless, which allowed them to take advantage of it. In name, it was to use the waste energy, but in fact, how is it different from their Sun family's family?

Sun Chunming also said with a smile: "Because the things inside are too precious, ordinary people really can't rest assured, so I invited General Zhuo, come, follow me in and have a look."

As he said that, Sun Chunming smiled and nodded at Zhuo Boxin, as if the group of people still respected him.

As a father, he clearly wanted to chew up his daughter-in-law's dowry.

Of course, even if Murong Yan knew about it, she shouldn't have any bad emotions. She might wish that all his father's influence would enter the Sun's family, and the water thrown out by a married daughter would be thicker with her dowry. In the future, the family will have more confidence in speaking, right?

However, the three of them entered the inner courtyard, and within a few steps, Cao Bin was shocked. He pointed at the behemoth in the room and said in amazement, "This...is...what is this? Doesn't it look like it's made of steel?" "

"Yes, it is a pure steel sintering furnace. It is about a little over two meters high and a little over three meters wide. Because the temperature required for glass firing is very high, ordinary masonry furnaces cannot be used at all, so it is not only made of pure steel, but also There is also something hidden inside. One furnace can bake two hundred pieces of glass. This furnace alone costs more than 60 yuan. There are 24 such furnaces in the entire factory. In addition to the financial resources of my Sun family, a total of 5000 pieces of glass have been found. More than a dozen wealthy businessmen in Kaifeng jointly invested. General Fu and the others invested almost all the pensions and life savings awarded by the officials, and most of the powerful people in Beijing also invested. The total investment in the entire glass factory was nearly [-] million yuan, and I researched The manpower and material resources invested in this tempering furnace amount to no less than one million, but it also took five or six years, so why should Nan Tang imitate it?"

Cao Bin was dumbfounded. He had expected that the investment in the glass factory would be huge, but he never expected it to be so big. Sun Yue's conquest of the Nanhan treasury was considered a bumper harvest, but now the piles are full. Is it enough to get a glass factory?Where should I go to reason?

How can he snatch a glass factory with such a large investment like you?

What Sun Yue thinks is that the sintering furnaces of later generations are generally more than four meters high, but obviously they can't be made with Da Song's technology, no wonder the glass plates fired are so small.

Sun Chunming smiled and said: "However, although the initial investment for this glass is huge, after the furnace is erected, there is almost no cost other than manpower. Luoyang is close to the mountains, and there are many quartz, so it is very convenient to get the material, so I said a thousand times earlier. Profit is not an exaggeration. In the future, the output will be at least a hundred times higher, so regardless of the large investment, it will be able to pay back within three years. Currently, only two furnaces are in trial operation. After they are proficient, 24 furnaces will be turned on. And it will continue to increase.”

Cao Bin sighed, "It's such a big deal. I'm afraid there is no one else in the world who can accomplish such a big thing except you, Sun Chunming."

Sun Chunming smiled quite proudly and said: "It just happened to happen. I have been working in Kaifeng City for seven years, and I have basically become familiar with each other and everyone trusts me a little. Therefore, there is no real secret recipe for glass." Dayong, the manufacturing method of the sintering furnace is the core, but even if you get the manufacturing method, why bother to build it elsewhere? After building it here, at least there are ready-made craftsmen, oh, by the way, without these craftsmen, 60 should be It can’t be made.”

Cao Bin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Could it be that my trip was wasted?"

"How could it be? In fact, everyone knows the huge profits of glass. I have discussed with them a long time ago. The entire glass factory will give [-]% of the shares to the Military Commission for free. In this way, although the return on capital will be slower, but in the huge profits Under the circumstances, everyone can accept it, if the imperial court allocates other funds, just build the furnace here."

Cao Bin was delighted when he heard it, and said with a smile, "Then there must be so much good steel."

"Ah, I forgot to tell you, I plan to build another steel factory nearby. The scale and investment will not be smaller than this glass factory. If it goes well, I won't make any steel after Song Dynasty."

Cao Bin: "..."

(End of this chapter)