Chapter 23 This is simply a huge profit!
Zhu Houzhao also learned from Wei Bin that the person in the Baogaihua car under the stage was the wife of the chief assistant Liu Jian.
Frankly speaking, as the emperor, Zhu Houzhao naturally didn't like Liu Jian, the chief assistant, but this did not affect his business with the chief assistant's wife.
What's more, Zhu Houzhao thought it was quite interesting to ask Liu Jian's wife to exchange her family's 60,000 taels of silver for a crystal lotus Guanyin with a cost price of 2 taels.
When the first assistant's wife saw the emperor, she had to come out to salute. Zhu Houzhao also smiled and said a few words, and then asked Wei Bin to give the crystal lotus Guanyin to the first assistant's wife.
And Zhu Houzhao also got 60,000 taels of money order from the first assistant's wife, all of which were large money orders of tens of thousands taels each. It can be seen that the chief assistant Liu Jian's house is still very wealthy, and even the first assistant's wife is willing to give it. Spending 60,000 taels to buy a luxury glass handicraft is enough to prove this point.
It seems that Gu Dayong's survey said that Liu Jian received no less than 100,000 Bingjingtan every year, which can be said to be true.
Of course, this further strengthened Zhu Houzhao's intention to seize Liu Jian's mansion in the future.
At least now, Zhu Houzhao feels that he doesn't feel much guilt for selling a 2-tael handicraft at a high price of 60,000 taels. Anyway, it is a gift from the people. When it comes to him, he can feed the people back. But in Liu Jian's hands, he can only buy it as a concubine. The house even bought some useless antiques.
However, Zhu Houzhao was also a little surprised that this wife of the first assistant was really not low-key. She dared to give out 60,000 taels in front of his emperor. Aren't he afraid that he, the emperor, would be jealous? It is possible that the ignorant and foolish king and the wife of the first assistant may feel that she does not have such a scheming mind and the city government will not take it into consideration.
In any case, since people are here to buy handicrafts from his Royal Industrial Company, they are customers, and customers are God. Zhu Houzhao didn't do anything about it, and asked Wei Bin to take the first assistant's wife back to the car in person.
The first assistant's wife is indeed what Zhu Houzhao thought. She really likes the crystal Guanyin sitting on the lotus. She thinks that the crystal Guanyin sitting on the lotus will bring more children and good fortune. Because her Liu family has never been crowded, she can't wait to get it. He spent 60,000 taels of silver to buy this royal treasure, and he also knew that the current emperor was just an ignorant and foolish king, so he didn't care. As for other people knowing that the chief minister was rich, it didn't matter. Could it be that he could still bring down his husband?
Despite this, the eunuchs around Zhu Houzhao were still a little jealous. After all, they had worked hard to stay with the prince for so long and only managed to earn tens of thousands of taels, while the wife of the chief assistant could spend 60,000 taels in one breath. So Liu Jin even said sourly: "After all, she is the wife of the first assistant, and this is a generous move!"
"The visitor is a guest, let's continue the auction!" Zhu Houzhao heard Liu Jin's complaints and couldn't help but say something to Liu Jin.
Zhu Houzhao is indeed not angry now, and is in a good mood, because just two pieces of glass handicrafts sold for 90,000 taels of silver, which is simply a huge profit among huge profits! What's more, he also discovered that his chief assistant, Mr. Liu Ge, could become a cash cow for his huge financial resources, so he was naturally even happier.
At this time, the third auction item was carried out, but this third auction item was two glass beds. According to Zhu Houzhao, this kind of glass bed is not only beautiful and clean, but also as strong as a wooden bed, and can also make the skin smell good. Prolonging life and longevity are just bragging and deception anyway. Since ancient times, business has always been about selling melons.
Not only that, Zhu Houzhao also asked Liu Jin to emphasize that this kind of bed would not hurt anyone if it broke, because this kind of glass bed is tempered glass.
Don't think that tempered glass is glass made of steel. In fact, tempered glass is just an effective way to control the temperature of the fired glass during the firing process. To be precise, tempered glass can be formed by cutting the glass into the required size after semi-cooling but before solidifying, then heating it to about 700 degrees, heating for four or five minutes, and then rapidly cooling it.
The so-called tempered glass is to form uniform tensile stress inside the glass, making the bending and impact resistance of the glass several times higher. This can achieve the purpose of making the glass stronger and less brittle. At the same time, even if it is broken, it can survive due to the even distribution of tensile stress. It will be directly broken into garbage and cause no harm to people.
In general, the most important thing in making tempered glass is the accurate control of temperature. Zhu Houzhao used kerosene and glass to make a kerosene thermometer, and then calibrated the thermometer using the theory that the boiling temperature of water is a constant one hundred degrees Celsius under the atmospheric pressure of Beijing, so that it can By accurately controlling the temperature at which glass is fired, tempered glass can be successfully produced.
It is worth mentioning that although kerosene does not exist in large quantities in this world, it is still used by humans in the form of natural kerosene. After all, Baghdad used kerosene lamps in the ninth century. As an emperor, it was not difficult for Zhu Houzhao to find some kerosene. , although you cannot directly use a large amount of kerosene to make chemical products, making a few thermometers is not a problem.
Without further ado, although making tempered glass is relatively more complicated than ordinary glass, the cost of making a tempered glass bed is less than three taels of silver, but Zhu Houzhao directly set the starting price at 20,000 taels!
What's more, Zhu Houzhao also ordered Liu Jin to do a comparative test between one of the two tempered glass beds and an ordinary glass bed in front of all the people at the Royal Exposition, which meant that he had to use a big hammer to hit the tempered glass bed at the same time. Compared with ordinary glass beds, in this way, there is only one tempered glass bed left in the entire Ming Dynasty.
The people at the Royal Exposition watched with some distress as the eunuch hit the tempered glass bed and the ordinary glass bed with a sledgehammer at the same time. However, they saw that after the hammer was hit, the ordinary glass bed directly cracked into several pieces, while the tempered glass bed It only buzzed for a while, and then started tapping again, and cracks began to appear in the tempered glass. After tapping for a long time, the tempered glass shattered into slag.
"Wow! This glass deserves to be called tempered glass. It's just like steel! I want to buy it, I want to buy it. The key is that there is only this one in the world now. It's not a loss at 20,000, it's not a loss at all!"
Gu Dayong shouted and hurriedly shouted: "Twenty-one thousand taels!"
After other people came to their senses, they also started to grab it. Because more and more wealthy businessmen were attracted, and the tempered glass bed indeed showed his extraordinary and there was only one, it was very popular to grab it. For a time, the auction price was directly raised to 50,000 taels.
In the end, this tempered glass bed was bought by a Hu businessman for a high price of 74,000 taels.
But the luxury goods auction is not over yet. Next, glass chairs, glass tables, glass screens, glass bowls, glass chopsticks, etc. are all put up for auction.
In addition, there is also a 100-pound collection of "Comfortable Balm" super large soap! It was also auctioned off.
Zhu Houzhao collected nearly 400,000 taels of silver from the entire luxury goods auction that day!
Sorry, I forgot to update yesterday afternoon. I really didn’t want to be a eunuch, I just forgot. Now I really don’t dare to be a eunuch anymore. Otherwise, I will be sorry to you and the editor, and I will not be able to use this vest to write a book. New book There will definitely be two updates in each issue, and I will be very diligent after it is released, because I have saved manuscripts and outlines! I really forgot about it yesterday, and no one reminded me yesterday. I still found out from the group today, so I reposted yesterday’s one first, and then updated today’s one.
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