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Chapter 274 Chess Pieces and Dzi Beads

Liang Shu lowered his head to take a closer look, and then couldn't help reaching out to pick up a black chess piece in the basket. After holding the chess piece in his hand, he immediately fell in love with this feeling.

The chess piece in the hand is heavy and heavy, and it feels slightly pressed in the hand, but it is not too heavy to make it difficult to use. At the same time, the surface of the chess piece is extremely smooth, and the tentacles are slightly cool but not cold. Under the skin, it even has a jade-like warm texture.

Go was a common high-level form of entertainment among the upper-class nobles at this time. Many people in the Tang Dynasty had a hobby of playing chess. Liang Shu naturally liked this kind of brain game. Stone, bone, shell, and even some ceramic, but never had a chess piece made him so comfortable to hold.

Seeing that Liang Shu was fondling the chess piece, Wang Dong smiled and said to Liang Shu, "You take the chess piece under the light and take care of it."

Liang Shu was taken aback when he heard the words, and then nodded. According to Wang Dong, he held the chess piece up to the sun, and the next moment he couldn't help but take a deep breath, only to see that the originally dark chess piece was slightly transparent under the sun. The moment the chess piece showed a heavy green color, Liang Shu loved the chess piece so much that he was almost reluctant to put it down.

After a while, Liang Shu picked up the white chess piece again to examine it carefully, then nodded repeatedly to Wang Dong and said, "This is really the best chess piece in the world. I have several pairs in my family collection, and none of them can compare with these pieces. of."

Then Liang Shu dropped the chess piece, picked up the Tianzhu to examine carefully, then nodded and said: "These Tianzhu are also very well made, I never imagined that Master Li still has such kung fu."

Well, there is no need for Wang Dong to introduce Liang Shu. He can already assume that this thing must be a new technology developed by his idol, Master Li Shanlan. Well, Li Shanlan got a new skill plus one again.

Liang Shu couldn't help but asked Wang Dongdao: "Are these things easy to sell?"

He was born in a noble family, so he naturally understood that such good things must be very popular in the aristocratic circle, but when he saw such good things, he couldn't help but be curious and ask about them.

Wang Dong smiled and didn't speak, but He Luo couldn't help but rush to say: "Of course this thing is easy to sell, such a set of Shanzhou Zi. We put it in the pass and ask for 20 taels of silver, which is the same price."

Liang Shu nodded, the price seemed very reasonable to him.

Then He Luo pointed to that type of dzi again and said: "We sell dzi beads like this to Tubo, and the price is five taels of silver each. A nobleman on the grassland comes to Shanzhou to make goods, so why not ask him ten taels and twenty taels for a dzi bead?"

Liang Shu nodded again. He knew that the Tibetans were crazy about dzi beads, and then he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, then looked down at the two big baskets of chess pieces, and the basket of dzi beads. Counting silently, a box of chess pieces is hundreds of pieces, and this basket is at least a thousand pieces. According to He Luo, this basket of chess pieces is sold for hundreds of taels, and Tianzhu is even more exaggerated. No, a basket of dzi beads is even worth a thousand taels.

Thinking of the precious goods worth a thousand taels in front of him, such an amount, even if it was Liang Shu's background, he couldn't help but feel moved.

Seeing Liang Shu's surprise, Wang Dong was a little proud.

His first batch of white fungus had just been harvested two days ago, and the idea of ​​making canned white fungus hadn’t been put into practice yet, but the glass factory for making canned bottles must be prepared in advance, otherwise it would be impossible to train temporarily. There are so many skilled workers, so long before he started working on trebuchets, Wang Dong had selected a group of slaves who he thought were good enough to be the first batch of veterans of this small glass factory.

After the equipment of the glass factory was purchased, it took the workers more than half a month to install the equipment. During this period, Wang Dong and even Wang Ji did not dare to let him take charge. After all, things like glass were obviously priceless treasures in the Tang Dynasty. Let’s just say that the several baskets of chess pieces and dzi beads produced by this glass factory a day, if sold out, would cost at least a few hundred taels. Dongdu only let himself control it.

After the glass kiln was installed, Wang Dong first asked these workers to trial-produce a batch of transparent glass. Since the Yang family started selling glasses in Shanzhou City, the Wang family has earned more than 300 taels of silver through selling glasses, and those who disassembled and sold The supply of reading glasses produced by modern industry is completely in short supply. Many merchants around Shanzhou have taken a fancy to this lucrative business, and began to really find some jewelry craftsmen to let them try out the glasses.

But Wang Dong found out that the raw material of their trial glasses was not transparent glass, which Datang couldn't buy at all, but actually made of transparent crystal.

The cost of manufacturing the glasses is just over 20 taels, but the power depends on the day and night work of the craftsmen, and they are actually quite accurate.

However, the high cost of the glasses made these merchants think that the 20 taels of glasses sold by the Wang family were really selling for meat. Therefore, although the Wang family actually made a lot of money in the past two months, everyone still paid attention to the Wang family. The management of the Dong family secretly laughed.

Wang Dong himself thought about the way to produce glass glasses, but after inquiring in the market, he found that there are too few craftsmen who can grind glasses in Shanzhou, and even if a craftsman is recruited, it will take time. Ten days and half a month may not be able to grind out a lens of acceptable quality.

Of course there are profits from selling glasses, but the income is too slow. Seeing the existence of this market, Wang Dong thought about it and asked Jia and the others to start the furnace to produce a batch of transparent glass raw materials, and then brought them to the market for production. Crystals for glasses are sold.

After such a sale, the Wang family actually earned more than 100 taels again, and Wang Dong also got a bonus of 50 taels for his senior year. After that, the glasses market in Shanzhou was actually saturated.

The reason why glass is no longer needed is not because people don’t need glasses, but because those craftsmen who can grind glasses are all busy after getting the bottom of the glass mirror. Grinding spectacle lenses, the more than 100 taels of glass lenses produced by Wang Dong are enough for them to grind for a year and a half. In a short period of time, all lens artists in Shanzhou will no longer purchase, and the glass kiln and workers cannot be idle. After much deliberation, Wang Dong finally decided to make dzi beads and chess pieces.

Chess pieces are treasures that Wang Dong only discovered after he obtained Go skill points.

Originally, he didn't play Go at all, but after gaining skill points inexplicably, he also made snacks on these things. Back to modern times, he found out that the most famous domestic Go piece among contemporary Go lovers is Yunzi produced in Yunnan Province.

Yunzi is not made of naturally collected minerals, but a technique passed down to the Ming Dynasty. Various stones are directly crushed into powder, and then put into a high-temperature kiln for sintering according to the formula, and finally made into something similar to colored glaze.

Wang Dong himself bought a box of Yunzi through Chen Chunsheng in modern time and space, and he knew the benefits of this stuff, so when he had a high-temperature kiln in his hands in the Tang Dynasty, he directly asked the craftsmen to start trial production.

But after some experiments, Wang Dong found helplessly that he really couldn't make high-end products like Yunzi by himself. Green, but not Yunzi's deep dark green like black jade, but a bit like the color of a beer bottle. It must be low in later generations, but it doesn't matter. In this era without competitors, he only needs to do It would be nice to produce a product similar to Yunzi.

With an attitude of experimentation, Wang Dong got a box of sintered chess pieces produced in Shanzhou and asked Yang to go to Lanzhou and other places to see if they could be sold. After waiting for a few days, Yang actually told him that the box of chess pieces was It sold for more than 20 taels of silver.

Wang Dong was overjoyed, so he simply asked Jia and the others to collect various stones in the field, bring them back and test them, and finally came up with these two chess piece formulas.

And Tianzhu is even simpler. Tianzhu is a local product of Tubo. It is said that it originated from the ancient Xiangxiong Dynasty, and it was already an ancient relic even in the Tang Dynasty.

Dzi beads are dyed agates that are dyed and then sintered in a high-temperature kiln. In later generations, the trading of dzi beads is a mess, because it is really impossible to distinguish the real from the fake, even if it is a real old dzi bead. It is nothing more than a pile of dyed agates that are not very valuable in craftsmanship. Of course, the old dzi beads are valuable, because the real ancient dzi beads are not even a product of the Tang Dynasty, but are sometimes dug by the Tubo people when they are plowing the land. In the tombs of the Shangshung Dynasty, some dzi beads were dug out from the tombs. The Tubo people thought that these things were treasures handed down from ancient times, and they deified them over time. It is almost impossible to get the real old dzi beads in later generations. up.

However, in modern times, it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that Chinese people gradually mastered the technology of high-temperature sintered agate before starting to make them again. The output was already very huge.It's old to say it's old, but it's really not worth the money.

Wang Dong doesn't care about the religious value of this thing, as long as someone buys it, and the craftsmanship is simple, so in addition to producing chess pieces, he also uses his own high-temperature kiln to let them start firing dzi beads.

Shanzhouzi and Tianzhu are high-priced luxury goods. If Wang Dong has an order here, he can produce dozens of chess pieces a day. The output is very large, but it is impossible to sell them in a short time.Luxury goods are firstly hard to sell, and secondly, if they are sold too much, they are really worthless.

So although the chess pieces he produces every day can theoretically be sold for a few hundred taels, but in fact, after more than a month of production, the total income that Wang Dong sells for the dzi beads and chess pieces is only a little over 200 taels. And the money was used by Wang Dong as investment funds for his follow-up production.

(End of this chapter)