Chapter 79: Organizing an Exhibition
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After the glass was made, he first built an exhibition hall for glass tiles and glass windows for the glass factory, in which glass wine glasses and some ornaments were displayed.
There are still some technical difficulties in making thermoses with glass liner, but his students are all geniuses and can overcome many difficulties. He is not worried at all and only wants to sell the products of the existing factories first.
These things must first become popular in Jin State, and then be exported to a nearby country to increase national income.
After their country becomes rich, the next step he will take is to develop medical care and make weapons, so as to minimize the damage to Fu Jiangyu's army, successfully capture Jiang State, and completely crush Lin Xing.
After all, Lin Xing is the male protagonist. He had a broken hand and lost his tongue, but he was still able to escape. As long as he is not the protagonist, Lin Baige will be wary of his protagonist halo.
After the glass exhibition hall was built, he held a trade fair where, in addition to these glassware, there were also liquor, beer and sugar.
Everyone can come in and visit, there is no entrance fee, and both retail and wholesale are possible at the exhibition.
This glass house is attractive enough, and the tableware and small ornaments inside are even more dazzling. The most important thing is that there are free drinks at this exhibition.
But if there is no one around, they can only taste a small bite, and no more. Firstly, it is a cost issue, and secondly, Lin Baige is worried that they will get drunk and cause trouble.
But just this one sip is enough to entice them to buy wine.
Although grain production has increased, using it to make wine is still a bit of a luxury. The output cannot be increased and the price is high.
But glass wine glasses and glass windows are much cheaper, and what he wants is for glass products to become part of people's daily lives.
The price he offered shocked the people who came to the exhibition. They thought it was a sky-high price, the same as the price of jewelry, because the glassware looked like it was carved out of a gem. Such a big gem, made into a wine glass, was actually priced almost the same as a porcelain cup. Did Lin Baige have no concept of money because he had lived in the palace since he was a child?
They were whispering to him when they turned around and saw large pieces of glass. The price was about the same as that of ordinary windows, and this was only the retail price. If it was wholesale, the price would be even lower if you ordered more.
No wonder the glass factory is so large, and recently hired a large number of workers. Did they discover a mine underneath the factory? But the mine will eventually be exhausted, so why not raise the price and make a profit? After all, there are so many rich people, so there is no shortage of buyers.
I heard that His Majesty invested a lot of money in these factories for Lin Baige. At the price he offered, it is estimated that the money will be lost in a few days.
But he has made all the losses, and His Majesty has the guarantee. What is he afraid of? He can just build whatever he wants.
Some people want to buy more and store them before the "mine" is mined out. There is a limited amount of mine, and when it is all mined out, this batch of glass will become a unique piece, and when it is resold, it can be worth hundreds or thousands of times more.
There are also some people who mistakenly think that Lin Baige is squandering Fu Jiangyu's money and are very sad. Although Fu Jiangyu is the emperor, if this money is not squandered by Lin Baige, it can be used for the people. How many poor people can have enough to eat?
Even if Lin Baige sold the glass at a higher price, they would not think so.
Lin Baige wanted to make small profits but quick turnover. He planned to set up glass factories and shops all over the country to carry out large-scale production. As the production increased, the price would naturally be lowered. It was both a daily necessity and a consumable product. People used it, so he made more money.
At first, only princes, nobles, officials, and wealthy businessmen went to see the exhibition. There were no ordinary people. When they saw the glass house, they felt that they would be skinned alive if they went in. Without a few hundred taels of silver on them, they dared not even take a look.
Within three days, they had cleared out the fair.
They were just thinking of stockpiling and making a fortune when Lin Baige opened two more factories, one in a county near the capital, and sent several of his students to be factory directors. Each factory director had an official position, which made them very greedy. They heard that the grade of each factory would be upgraded based on its performance.
The current factory managers are all of the lowest rank, and they can be promoted step by step according to their achievements in the future.
The factory managers sent by Lin Baige were all daughters of officials in the capital. When they were going to other places, their families were very unhappy. A girl went to work in another place alone. There were both male and female workers in the factory. If it got out, it would not be good and would damage her reputation. She would not be able to get married in the future.
But they had been influenced by Lin Baige's thinking and abandoned their original weak mentality: "If you have power, you can have everything. What man would be called immoral and have his reputation damaged if he has three wives and four concubines? If one day I get promoted and have endless power, there will be plenty of men licking me. Then I will find a beautiful and virtuous woman to keep in the backyard to take care of my husband and children. At most, I can give his parents some extra money and help his brothers and sisters."
When the parents heard this, they were terrified. If this word got out, their daughter would never get married. "You talk like someone is selling their son. What man would sell himself to you for a little money?"
She retorted, "You're looking for someone for me, but aren't you taking their money, or looking at their family background, and then weighing the benefits you can get? My marriage is a transaction. Why can't I be a consumer, but a commodity?"
"What consumers, what commodities? What are these words? I don't understand them at all." Dad and Mom thought that these must have been given to them by Lin Baige. If it wasn't illegal to call Lin Baige's concubine a demon, they would definitely curse at him, but now they have no tricks at all.
They couldn't force their daughters to stay at home, as the fate of doing so would be to be exiled to the frontier to serve as officials, so they had no choice but to let them do as they pleased.
Lin Baige naturally took safety issues into consideration and sent people to protect them. He also arranged accommodation for them, and they also brought a lot of servants from home.
The local government attaches great importance to it. Opening a factory can boost their local income and increase the employment rate. Moreover, this is the imperial concubine's factory. If it is not run well, their whole family will lose their heads if there is any mistake.
They had never been in any danger in the past. The factory was built very quickly, and Lin Baige's trade fair had a steady supply of glass products on the shelves.
He also opened shops in various places to sell glass products. He would sell the lowest prices at exhibitions, and the shops would add some markup. Others who bought glass products from him could also set their own prices, but the prices had to be within a certain range. They could be higher than the prices in his shops, even one or two times higher, but not too much higher. If the prices exceeded a certain range, such as ten or eight times higher, it would be against the law, and all income would be confiscated, and the person would be imprisoned and sentenced.
Those who had previously hoarded a lot of glass were dumbfounded. Was this mineral resource inexhaustible? Why was the output so high? They had previously thought that they could hoard it now and, once Lin Baige's mine was exhausted, sell it at a high price, giving it all to the upper class for use in their homes.
But now, in order to encourage more ordinary people to buy glass at his trade fair, Lin Baige even organized an activity where visitors to the trade fair would be given free eggs. Each person would get two eggs a day, and the first one to arrive would be the first to arrive. Now, ordinary people who originally did not dare to go in have all gone, and when everyone came out, they not only had two eggs in their hands, but also a set of cups, or had ordered glass.
This kind of glass cup is used by everyone in ordinary families, so why would the upper class spend a lot of money to buy it from them?
But they don't lose money. They buy at wholesale prices and sell at retail prices, so they can still make a profit.
At first, Lin Baige wanted to let ordinary people come in to visit, but the people did not dare to come in, so he thought of giving away eggs.
This method does work, but the first group of people who came in were still nervous, fearing that they wouldn't have enough money in their pockets to pay for the eggs, so they just wanted to take the eggs and leave.
You get an egg when you enter the door, and another one when you exit through another door. In the past, no one would dare to come in for a government-run event. And how could you expect to get eggs from the government? The vendor was lucky not to get beaten up.
However, in the past two years, the imperial court not only gave money, food, and clothes to the poor people, but also provided farmers with farm tools and rented cattle. Only then did they dare to go in and collect the eggs.
They took two tentatively and wanted to leave quickly, but after entering, they heard the people inside shouting out the prices of the cups. When they heard it, they found the price acceptable, so they tried to buy a set or individual ones to take home.
This cup looks nice and is transparent. I thought it would be very fragile, so I used it carefully after taking it home. However, I found that it is similar to the porcelain cups at home. It will not break unless it is dropped.
Later, when we stopped distributing eggs, people still often came to buy quilts. Some small vendors bought them and set up stalls to sell them, or small vendors from other counties or villages came to buy them and sold them at a higher price, which supported a lot of people.
Fu Jiangyu ordered a new palace to be built in the palace. According to Lin Baige's suggestion, floor-to-ceiling windows were installed and it was built like a villa.
Lin Baige had never thought that he would be able to live in a villa in this life, but he didn't expect to live in one after traveling through time. However, he also didn't think that he would be able to live in a palace. He was tired of living in his previous bedroom. Coming here can change his mood and switch between living here.
He had already regarded the palace as his home, and no longer felt the fear and restraint he had when he first traveled through time.
At night, Lin Baige stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, drinking hot milk. He couldn't help but take out his mobile phone from the space and took a picture of the moon outside the window. As soon as he put the phone away, he was hugged from behind by Fu Jiangyu.
Lin Baige was startled and his hair stood on end. He wondered if Fu Jiangyu had seen his phone.
Fu Jiangyu looked at the reflections of the two people in the window and raised his eyebrows. Lin Baige saw it from the reflection in the window and had a bad premonition. Sure enough, the next second he was pressed against the window by Fu Jiangyu.
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