Chapter 828 Italians come to find Zhang Zhun

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Yangzhou Prefecture, Tianning Temple.

It just happened a heavy rain, sweeping away all the heat from early autumn, and the world became very cool. The air after the rain was even more fresh. Just take a sip and you will feel refreshed.

Zhang Zhun, Liu Rushi, and Chen Lingfei were walking slowly around Tianning Temple. This was a rare leisure time. Zhang Zhun carried his hands on his back, took deep breaths and greedily breathing the fresh air. From time to time, he even opened his hands and performed extended exercises vigorously.

Huai'an Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture both fell into the control of the Hu Ben Army as they wished. What we need to do next is to refine all aspects of work and strive to consolidate all policies and regulations. As long as there are the support of the people, even if there are still some scumbags who want to cause trouble, it doesn't matter. It seems that they have never been forced to fall into the territory controlled by the Hu Ben Army.

Chen Lingfei walked beside Zhang Zhun, walking slowly, touching her belly from time to time, and her face was full of happiness. Liu Rushi next to her was naturally a little envious, her face was a little rosy, and she looked at Zhang Zhun from time to time.

Zhang Zhun and Yang Yinghan were not married for a while, so it was hard for her concubine to live. Alas, when is Zhang Zhun going to get married? Seeing that the sisters around her were all stooling, if she was too late, she might have nothing left.

"Sir, there are two Italians at the door, wanting to see you."

Suddenly, Wang Shide came over and whispered to report.

"Italian?"

Zhang Zhun asked a little strangely.

On the sea of ​​East Asia, the Dutch were very active, the Portuguese were very active, and even the British were quite active, but they were not heard of Italians. In this era, Italy's national strength was never as strong as other Western powers. Italy in East Asia, there was not even a decent naval fleet, and almost no many people felt their existence.

"It should be for the glass."

Chen Lingfei said with a smile.

"Glass?"

Zhang Zhun frowned quietly.

"It should be that the only advantage of Italians coming to East Asia is to own glass. Since the Wanli period, Italians have earned our real money and silver with glass. Now, we have erased all their strengths, and the real money and silver have also fallen into our hands. The Italians have to come to us. They do not have the strong maritime strength as other countries and cannot use force, so they have to take peaceful means."

Chen Lingfei analyzed it casually.

“How is our glass sales?”

Zhang Zhun asked with interest.

"The Italian glass has long been defeated. The Italian glass has no market for us. Whether it is the quality of the glass, the size of the glass, or the type of glass products, our glass is far beyond Italian glass. Because our glass is exquisitely made, some of the glass has even been brought back to their country by some foreigners. It is said that it is very popular there, and every time the goods arrive, there is a shortage of supply."

Chen Lingfei said with a smile.

"This is a good thing."

Zhang Zhun nodded thoughtfully.

It is indeed great to be able to use glass to earn silver from the Western powers. The Spaniards transported a large amount of silver from Mexico every year. This silver often fell into the hands of the Ming people through tea, porcelain, silk, medicinal materials and other goods. Now, behind these goods, another glass has to be added.

"You go and deal with them!"

Chen Lingfei turned her head gently and said to Zhang Zhun.

"good!"

Zhang Zhun nodded.

"Let them come here!"

After returning to the main hall, Zhang Zhun said casually.

Soon, two tall and big foreigners appeared in front of Zhang Zhun. After self-introduction, the two Italians, one named Fachetti and the other named Suarez, were both Italian merchants. One from Milan City and the other from Venice. The two have been in East Asia for quite a long time.

Suarez is quite proficient in Chinese. If anyone who saw him would have thought he was from the Ming Dynasty. He could only hear him say skillfully: "Governor Zhang, we want to learn the manufacturing process of glass, but we don't know what price we need to pay?"

Zhang Zhun nodded thoughtfully. These two Italians really came for the glass craftsmanship. Their ideas are really naive. Why do they think that our Hu Ben Army will be willing to teach you the glass manufacturing craftsmanship?

Glass was originally invented by Italians and has always been the basis for their wealth. For this reason, they kept the secret of glass tightly and refused to reveal a little. Therefore, although glass has been on the market for quite a long time, people outside still don’t know how glass is made.

In the past, Facheti and Suarez relied on glass produced only in Italy to make money everywhere. The only thing Italians could do in East Asia was to sell glass. Now, the quality of the glass produced by Zhang Zhun is better than theirs, and their business will be greatly hit.

Not only did Italian glass have no market in the East, but some of the Ming glasses were even sold back to Italy. Italians called this excellent quality glass Daming glass, which means it was made in the Ming Dynasty. In Europe, Daming glass has won the favor of many powerful people with its outstanding quality and surprising area.

In Ming Dynasty, if you buy a large piece of glass, you only need more than one hundred taels of silver. If you successfully transport it back to the West, you can sell at least three or four hundred taels of silver, and some can even sell it for more than five hundred taels. Such huge profits are indeed jealous. Therefore, more and more merchants are trying every means to sell glass to the West. No matter which country, as long as there are merchant ships traveling to the East and West, they will bring a large amount of glass.

"The process cannot be taught to you. Hasn't the glass manufacturing process of you Italians been disclosed? Since your manufacturing technology needs to be kept confidential, our manufacturing technology also needs to be kept confidential."

Zhang Zhun said lightly.

Teaching glass manufacturing technology is just a joke! This is one of the most stable sources of the Hu Ben Army. How could he cut off his own financial resources? Besides, how could two Italians afford to learn glass technology? Even if the entire Italian country is willing to submit to his rule by Zhang Zhun, Zhang Zhun has to measure it again and again.

"Well, we want to get the exclusive right to sell glass."

Suarez's reaction was also quite fast, and he immediately changed the backup plan.

"Exclusive sale right? No problem! But you have to spend a certain price!"

Zhang Zhun said lightly.

“This is no problem.”

Suarez said hurriedly.

"Don't be happy for now, the right to sell glass is to be auctioned."

Zhang Zhun said meaningfully.

The faces of the two Italians changed immediately.

auction!

It's a damn auction again!

They suddenly realized that they seemed to have done something wrong. Judging from Zhang Zhun's original expression, they did not seem to have thought of the exclusive sales rights for auction. As a result, their suggestions seemed to remind Zhang Zhun! In fact, this is true. Zhang Zhun really never thought about placing exclusive operating rights to sell glass to Western powers to obtain the maximum profit. The result was that two Italians reminded him.

While thinking about glass, Zhang Zhun also thought of bone porcelain. After King De took away the formula of bone porcelain, he found porcelain craftsmen to study it carefully and indeed produced the first batch of bone porcelain. However, due to insufficient experience, the quality of these bone porcelains produced could not satisfy Zhang Zhun. So Zhang Zhu ordered all of these bone porcelains to be broken and then continued to improve. If there was no accident, the currently fired bone porcelain should be basically qualified.

It seems that Western powers should warmly welcome things like glass and bone porcelain. If they can use the gimmick of exclusive management rights to get some funds first and make a name for themselves, it is indeed a good choice. Therefore, the opportunity is not thought about, so Zhang Zhun decided to auction the exclusive sales rights.

However, in this way, the two Italians will be deeply disappointed. Once the auction is open, the Dutch, Spaniards, and French will be in a mess. At that time, where will the Italians be their share? Whether in terms of financial resources or combat effectiveness, Italy is no match for other countries!

"Governor Zhang, don't want to auction it, right?"

Fachetti said unwillingly.

"In addition to glass, we also have a very exquisite porcelain called jade porcelain. It is purer than white marble and more exquisite than thin-body porcelain. I can guarantee that jade porcelain will be the top-notch porcelain variety. Its release will definitely be popular with many powerful celebrities. If anyone is interested, he can also participate in the auction."

Zhang Zhun said meaningfully.

In order to prevent others from inferring the formula of bone porcelain, Zhang Zhun and King De discussed and decided to call bone porcelain jade porcelain. White jade-like porcelain, the name is not only nice, but also very vivid, but also conducive to keeping secrets.

"Jade porcelain?"

Facheti and Suarez looked at each other.

Zhang Zhun actually portrayed this kind of jade porcelain so beautiful. Could it be that jade porcelain is really that beautiful? When it comes to glass, they have to believe Zhang Zhun’s boast. Ming Dynasty was originally a big porcelain country, and the most precious porcelains were all from Ming Dynasty. Perhaps, Zhang Zhun’s boast was indeed true.

If this is the case, they cannot easily miss this opportunity. Even if they can't get the exclusive right to sell glass, they have to make an idea on the jade porcelain. It seems that it is necessary to raise more funds.
Chapter completed!