my magic industry

Chapter 220 Changes at the Wharf

On March [-]th, the third batch of glass products was produced in the glass kiln of the caustic soda plant. The oxidizer and clarifying agent were added to the raw materials, the blowpipe and mold were improved, and a stirring process was added. It has almost reached the colorless level, but the problem of tiny bubbles still plagues Xia Lin and the R&D staff.

The quality of glass products of this level is not as good as the natural crystal vessels that are more popular in the empire, but glass products have advantages that crystal products cannot match.

The first is cheapness. Even if all raw materials, manpower and R&D costs are included, the price of a glass is only a few dozen copper biss, and even the price of a variegated natural crystal glass with various defects is at least Five to ten Silver Marr, a few natural crystals of excellent quality can even reach the price of magic crystals.

The second is convenient processing. Glass paste can be easily processed into utensils such as cups, plates, bowls and bottles in the hands of gradually skilled employees, while natural crystals require special engravers to process them. The size of the finished product The shape and shape are also closely related to the raw ore quality of natural crystals.

Seeing that his stall was getting bigger and bigger, and the demand for funds was also increasing, Xia Lin simply took these products to find Queen Dorothea, and planned to use the Queen's relationship to seek cooperation with the Harrison family. At the same time, discuss with Dorothea some matters that are crucial to the development of the industrial park.

Now he has been named a Viscount and has a certain amount of leadership power in the new army. He can no longer rely on the tiger skin of the alliance and hand over the shares of the glass factory to be built to the chamber of commerce of the alliance members. However, the relationship cannot be broken easily. At the same time, in order to obtain stable sales channels, it is also necessary to maintain certain cooperation with those big chambers of commerce that have taken root in various industries.

For example, the Harrison family, one of the nine viscount families in the empire, ranks at the bottom in strength after Xia Lin is removed, and they basically have no voice in the alliance on weekdays, but they are the best in the pottery industry. Partner.

After all, the markets for glassware and pottery have a lot of overlap. If you can get online with them, Xia Lin doesn't have to spend so much effort to open up the market by yourself.

Having not come out of the industrial park for a long time, Xia Lin just wanted to see how the recent market situation in the imperial capital was. When he took a boat to the pier in the North District, Xia Lin unexpectedly found that the number of boats moored in the pier harbor seemed to be much less. There were many figures sitting idle in the nearby streets and alleys.

Most of them were dock laborers who only wore short coats and rough cotton coats in winter. This rare phenomenon immediately caught Xia Lin's attention. He told the coachman to slow down the speed and carefully looked at these human condition.

They all had a sad look on their faces, and from time to time looked at the passers-by who looked like businessmen with expectant eyes. A small manager of the chamber of commerce who was in a hurry and wearing a cheap black vest came to the entrance of an alley. Raising the white paper in his right hand and waving it, the group of people rushed forward.

Xia Lin wanted to see what happened, so he asked the coachman to stop the carriage about five meters away from them on the side of the street, but he heard the little steward of the chamber of commerce shout loudly:
"William Chamber of Commerce needs to hire [-] bag bearers, [-] copper bis per day!"

"I'll come! Sir, I'm strong enough to unload a shuttle in a day!"

"Hire me! Sir, I can carry two sacks at a stretch, and I can walk steadily!"

"Sir, I only need fourteen copper pes a day!!"

"Thirteen! I only want thirteen Copperbis!"

"Don't make any noise! ​​If this is the case, then you, and you, come out first! Anyone who only needs thirteen copper pes a day, I will hire them all!"

The small butler of the chamber of commerce was obviously moved by the low price quoted by those slightly thinner contractors. If he could use thirteen copper bis to hire the necessary manpower, he would be able to get extra money from these contractors every day. The contractor received forty copper bis as an income, which is not a small amount of money for an ordinary chamber of commerce manager.

"Bah! Thirteen copper pess, and now you can't even buy two pounds of potatoes, whoever wants to go!"

"It would be great if those guys from the old wooden planks were still there. These businessmen know how to squeeze out our wages!"

The lack of two copper biss means that their family members may be hungry after a busy day. Several relatively strong bag bearers squeezed out of the crowd cursing. After hearing their words, Xia Lin knew the truth. After I cleared out the gray organizations in the slums, no one organized these bag bearers and those captains to bargain with the merchants, which caused the recent wages at the docks to become more involuntary.

It's not a good thing to go on like this, Xia Lin thought about it and got out of the carriage and walked towards those people.

Seeing the mage's robe on Xia Lin's body, the five gloomy men showed strange expressions, maybe they thought that Xia Lin knew the little steward of the chamber of commerce and made way for him.

"Hello, I would like to ask you what happened here. Can anyone tell me more about it? As a reward, these silver Mal are yours!"

Under their unexpected gazes, Xia Lin stopped in front of them, and took out a few silver coins from the purse and shook them in front of them. The luster of the silver coins immediately caught the attention of several people.

"Master, are you looking for us?"

One of the five, a man with fluffy black curly hair, looked around and asked, pointing to his nose in surprise.

"Of course, one silver maar each. I want to know what happened at the pier and why you are all doing nothing here."

"Oh, Master Mage, we have no choice. Since yesterday afternoon, rebels have blocked the channel on the Seine River, and all the ships coming from the lower reaches of the Seine River have been intercepted by them, and there is no way for the ships docked at the pier now. Sailing downstream, so the cargo volume at the terminal is much less than before, and we have no work to do!"

"The slums seem to have been bestowed on Viscount Charlene Karl recently by the newly enthroned queen. The viscount didn't like gray organizations on his site, so he sent troops to encircle those guys, and now those guys are all in the slums. Road repairs!

This is a good thing, but no one on our side can bargain with those merchants, so that now everyone can only get a dozen copper pess salary from those greedy merchants and captains. If this continues, we will immediately I can't even feed my family. "

The other contractor, who was shorter than Xia Lin, but with tight muscles, seemed to be afraid that if he didn't answer the question, he would lose his unexpected income, so he quickly interjected.

"Then why don't you go to the industrial park to apply for hired workers? Didn't the Xinglan Industrial Park lose a lot of employees recently, are they all recruiting?"

Xia Lin asked with some surprise, the salary in the industrial park is much more favorable than carrying bags at the pier. The simplest porters can get thirty or forty copper pess in a day. It stands to reason that they can go to the new area Work.

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