Poor family mother and son

After reading the letter, the emperor always felt that Chu Qing had scolded someone, and wanted to pat the table.

However, seeing that Chu Qing said that he wanted to raise a child, and then described the emperor as someone who "has a lot of wives and children waiting to be fed", he seemed to lose his anger again.

After all, the emperor adjusted the salt price, which was [-]% higher than Chu Qing's current price, and differentiated the salt price according to "near salt area" and "far salt area".

With the waters across Daxuan as the boundary, to the south is the near-salt area, and to the north is the far-salt area.

In this way, the prefectures and counties that Chu Qing is currently involved in are still 45 Wen per catty, while in the north it is [-] Wen per catty.

Moreover, Chuqing's salt farm was listed as an official salt farm, that is to say, with the imperial court's salt quotations, one could purchase goods at the Chu Family Salt Farm.

The emperor's trick was pretty bad, Chu Qing was happy again.

There is the Chu family selling salt, and those who "fry Yanyin", even if they fry the salt to a sky-high price, the final sales price will not be higher than the Chu family's price, and whoever loses will know.

The money from the Chu family saltworks was to be distributed to the emperor. This was the profit that the state treasury could get directly, and the middlemen couldn't make the difference.

This is just the first step.

Just when Daxuan's local interest groups made another effort to launch a more intensive "assassination of Linyang Hou" operations, they ushered in a second round of economic blows.

Clear glass appeared.

As the Chinese New Year approaches, almost every household is preparing for the New Year.

No matter how poor people are, they still have to buy a catty of flour, even if they can only make a plate of dumplings, they have to look like they are celebrating the New Year.

A "big family" like Chu Qing, in addition to purchasing new year's goods at home, also prepares a large number of "yearly gifts" to send to related households.

The crystal clear cups, plates, and bowls are embedded in expensive wooden boxes such as red sandalwood, thuja, golden nan, and huanghuali.

The wooden box was cut and carved with whole wood, and painted shiny.

Not only can the utensils be inlaid well, but also the box cover and the box wall are carved with complicated auspicious patterns and painted with gold powder.

Even if you don't look at the glassware, the box alone is worth a lot of money.

As for the "buy a basket and return the pearl", it is impossible to happen.

For who has ever seen a glass clearer than crystal?

These beautifully packaged glass products were sent to the Imperial Palace, Duke Hong's Mansion, Liu Mansion, Hu Mansion, Bai Mansion, and Chu's shops as an annual gift of the Marquis of Linyang.

Among the annual gifts given to each family, there are not only containers, but also glass head and face jewelry, crystal clear bracelets, earrings, and step rockers specially prepared for women of each family.

If there are children at home, there is even a small box of glass marbles with various colors inside, as if the petals are hidden in it.

Compared with Daxuan's translucent glazed jewelry, the Chu family's glass jewelry is more moist and transparent.

Although there are many styles, each family only has one copy.

Only four copies were given in the palace, one each for the emperor, empress, queen mother and Princess Zhaohua.The rest of the concubines, princes and princesses can only watch.

This year's New Year's Eve palace banquet was very lively, and the emperor made an exception and was generous, sharing good wine and vegetables with his officials and family members.

No military expenditures were spent, the battle was fought and won, and a large number of Voss horses were harvested, how could we not celebrate.

The peace talks with Voss are still going on, so don't worry about this matter, just wait for it, whoever wants to be anxious.

The emperor's salute is right at the gate of the palace, and the Ministry of Industry made it very beautifully: the dragon's head was painted with gold powder on the barrel, and the muzzle is the dragon's mouth; there is also a flower made of red silk on the dragon's head, just like a bridegroom. .

Not only that, even the elm board at the bottom of the gun barrel is carved with auspicious cloud patterns, which is extremely exquisite.

The Ministry of Industry led by Zheng Chunqiu can't do anything else, and the whole scene is No. 1.

With such a thing in town, the emperor didn't believe he couldn't get the compensation he wanted.

"Since I ascended the throne, ten and four years ago, I have been loved by the heavens, the world is peaceful, the people are happy, the white ring is presented to the west, and the arrows come from the east..." As soon as the emperor said the opening remarks, the nose of the Voss messenger almost crooked.

Someone in the palace poured wine for the emperor. The crystal-clear glass, with the wine colored like a red pomegranate, reflected a seductive luster under the brilliant candlelight in the hall.

In the glass teacup by the Queen's hand, there is no longer frothy tea soup, but clear tea water. The green tea leaves have distinct roots, which is really pleasing to the eye.

Daxuan has no glassware that can withstand boiling water!

All the ministers began to praise and discuss one after another, while Hong Liang and the others, who received the Chuqing New Year gift, showed great expressions.

Mrs. Hong even chatted with other officials and family members with a smile on her face, nodded and raised her hand. The bright red bracelet on her wrist attracted the attention of all the women.

It is also glass, but compared with Daxuan's existing glass products, the gap is so large that anyone with a discerning eye can see business opportunities.

Zheng Chunqiu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, even had a dark green light in his eyes, like a wolf waiting for an opportunity to pounce on its prey in the dark night.

A few days after the palace banquet, the mistresses of the various prefectures searched all the shops in the capital, but they couldn't find such a tempting good thing.

Only found that in the shop of "Bao Qingxiang", the candlesticks are all made of glass of various colors, refracting the sunlight into brilliant colors, and making the shop much brighter.

The glass of the Chu family can bloom water, Zheng Chunqiu is going to speak to the emperor and ask for the craft recipe.

It was not easy for Chu Qing to have a super sumptuous dinner in the palace, but he didn't have it.

But she doesn't care at all, traveling all over the world, what has she never eaten?

During the few days of Chinese New Year, she had a great time playing in the glass factory.

At one end of the long iron pipe, the glass that melted like soft glue was cut out into a lump the size of a table tennis ball by Chu Qing, and it was stretched into the furnace to be heated.

When the glass becomes like thick yogurt, take it out, and Chu Qing blows on the iron pipe in his hand, turning the iron pipe while blowing, like a balloon, the soft lump turns into a bubble the size of a fist.

The temperature of the glass bubble had dropped a bit at this time, and it was put into the furnace to heat again. Then Chu Qing spun the tube with one hand, and with the other hand, he picked up a dagger to open a hole at the top of the bubble, expanding it, like a small bowl.

At this time, the glass and the iron pipe are like a toilet shovel.

After reheating, Chu Qing began to turn the iron pipe quickly, and under the action of centrifugal force, the glass like a stick was flattened and spread out into a round cake with uniform thickness.

"Girl Qing, if this is made bigger, can it replace the window paper? Is it brighter than the window paper? It's not afraid of wind and rain!" Master Lu's thoughts were opened.

"Of course!" Chu Qing affirmed, "However, we can make steel plates, so why make glass plates?"

"Oh? Hahaha..." Master Lu laughed happily.

Iron plates can be made by letting molten iron flow in a tank covered with flat fine sand, so why not spread liquid glass on the flat iron plates?

Labor is the same, and the egg pancakes are spread out like this!
Different from the hot and lively scene at Chu Qing, in the wet and cold wind in the mountains behind the cement factory, Xiao Bao led a group of disabled craftsmen, nervously and seriously watching Kang Xi holding a big iron lump, preparing to Put it in the barrel.