On September 3, 1680, Daxing Prefecture, Minfeng County (now Caboolture City, Australia, 44 kilometers north of Brisbane).

"What cargo is being unloaded on that ship?...Why is there such a rotten smell!" Lu Shaohong, the owner of Luji Liulichang, held a piece of silk in his right hand, covered his mouth and nose, and looked towards the west side of the pier with some disgust.

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"Oh, boss, that ship must be the guano mine brought back from overseas." Wen Jikang, the chief manager of the factory, glanced sideways and replied with a smile: "Two years ago, the Navy's exploration fleet sailed two miles northeast of Weiyuan Island.

More than a thousand kilometers on the sea, I accidentally discovered a building full of bird droppings.

A small island (Nauru). After the agricultural officials and technical experts went to inspect it, they immediately regarded it as a treasure mine and used it as a fertilizer supply source. It is said that many native coolies were hired to dig mines on the island, and then they

Ship after ship is shipped back to the country to improve and enhance the fertility of farmland.”

"This guano boat is not docked at the right place! At least it must be parked downwind. There is a foul smell of guano everywhere." Lu Shaohong shook his head, got on the carriage, and then ordered the driver

, "Hurry up and get out of here. I'm already hungry after the bumpy journey back here, and the smell of it makes me lose my appetite!"

Minfeng, the first batch of immigrants arrived here in 1655. In 1668, the population exceeded 4,000, and a county-level government was immediately established, becoming one of the 12 main counties and towns in Daxing Prefecture. In the north, the Ruxi River (today's Lagong River) and

The Xiaoqing River (Cabulche River) in the south sandwiched the county seat, providing the county with a very sufficient water source, thus opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile farmland, making it the most important agricultural production area in Daxing Prefecture.

However, Minfeng County is less than 50 kilometers away from Daxing. The railway runs through the city, and convenient water transportation makes the county's industry and commerce extremely prosperous. Twelve years after the county was founded, the population has exceeded 36,000, and the county's population has exceeded 36,000.

There are also 8,000 people, and the urban area has expanded six times.

"My boss, are you going back to the house or to the factory?" Wen Jikang asked carefully when he saw his boss sitting in the car and seemed to be thinking about something.

"I've been to Zhonglun Island (today's Bribie Island on the eastern coast of Australia) for the past few days. There haven't been any problems in the factory, right?"

"Everything is normal in the factory, there are no problems. But..." Wen Jikang hesitated for a moment, and finally said bravely: "However, Yu Laosan, who injured his hand in the factory, came to make trouble once and said...,

It’s said that the employer’s compensation was insufficient.”

"Thirty yuan is still too little?" Lu Shaohong couldn't help but sneered when he heard this, "How about I give him a hundred yuan? Or, a thousand yuan?"

Wen Jikang murmured, not daring to answer.

"Tell me, he was careless in his workmanship and maimed his hand. I gave him 30 yuan for soup and medicine. I have done my best. Where can he find such a kind employer like me? Why, he still wants it?

You're blackmailing me for the rest of my life!" Lu Shaohong said bitterly: "If you come to the factory next time you come to the factory like this, you'll be kicked out... This won't affect the normal work of the workers in the factory!"

"...Yes, my boss." Wen Jikang responded softly.

"Well, let's go to the factory." Lu Shaohong ordered: "Go to the factory first. Otherwise, I won't feel at ease."

Luji Liulichang is located on the east side of the county, covering an area of ​​more than 70 acres. It has two huge glass pouring factories, a two-story office, four rows of worker dormitories, and a large area of ​​open space. The entire factory has

With more than 80 workers, it can produce more than 900 tons of glass every year. It is considered a large-scale factory in Minfeng County.

The main customers faced by the factory are the huge domestic window glass and carriage glass. With the increase in the number of wealthy people in the country, the demand for window glass is extremely strong. Of course, the factory also strives for the lucrative foreign trade exports.

This allows the factory to operate at almost full capacity throughout the year.

At present, the glass production method in Qi State generally adopts the flat plate pouring method, which has gradually replaced the previous blowing method. Because the advantage of the pouring method is that it can produce larger flat glass. The largest flat glass that can be produced by the blowing method can be

It can reach a format of 120 cm long and 75 cm, and the pouring method can obtain flat glass with a length of more than 400 cm and a width of more than 200 cm.

This allows the rapidly changing buildings in the country to make full use of various types of glass as decoration, and inlay wider and more transparent glass on window sills, roofs, and even exterior walls. It is said that in Jianye City, a building was built locally

One wall of the eight-story building is entirely decorated with blue glass, which shines brightly under the sunlight and is known as the Crystal Building.

As early as the time of Columbus and Magellan, Europeans often used glass beads and small mirrors to exchange for food and gold from primitive tribes. You know, glass is far less precious than jade, but without glass, clocks and various precision navigation instruments would be useless.

It cannot be used at sea and does not have a thermometer or magnifying glass.

Glass not only gave birth to optical and chemical research in Qi, but also brought super profits to Qi that far exceeded those obtained from ordinary commodities. Countless businessmen regarded it as a luxury product and sold it to Qin, North Korea, Japan, and around the world.

Countries and regions surrounding the Indian Ocean.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains dynasties built large-scale and magnificent astronomical observatories, but they had a fatal flaw, that is, there were no glass lenses. It can be said that ancient China lacked an industrial revolution in terms of glass alone.

material basis.

Thirty years ago, the lead crystal glass invented by Qi Guo's Jianye Engineering Research Institute was more transparent and easier to cut, allowing Qi's glass products to quickly defeat the products from Venice. As of now, Qi's mainland has 130

More than a dozen glass manufacturing factories produce cheap and high-quality glass in large quantities, making Qi the most important glass manufacturing center in the world today.

In the traditional era, technology itself does not necessarily change the logic of history; on the contrary, technological logic is often subordinated to social and historical logic. Chinese civilization created the "four great inventions" that changed the world very early, but

There is no creation of a systematic technological system, such as complete and sustained knowledge, skills, tools, instruments, equipment, facilities, etc.

In Qi State, over the past forty years, under the scientific guidance of "careful people", many craftsmen and scholars have combined the long-standing physical science and precision processing technology to use a complete machine system to rewrite the

The material foundation and cultural form of Eastern civilization.

His Majesty the Emperor once said a philosophical statement, "Science is a profound and systematic knowledge, which is likely to make ordinary people of our generation surpass the geniuses of the previous generation."

If the previous inventions were just accidental achievements by clever hands, then in Qi, they were completely customized. The purpose of technology requires that the adaptability of technology itself should precede its social nature. The progress of various machines is no longer a coincidence.

, accidental, and become systematic and incremental.

In Luji Glazed Factory, the most core department is the batching workshop, where the salaries of technicians and workers are much higher than those in the pouring workshop and other departments.

The warehouse of the workshop is filled with siliceous sand, alkali salt, quicklime, saltpeter and a large amount of broken glass or broken flat glass. Under the supervision of several technicians, the workers weighed the various raw materials one by one according to the proportioning principle.

, then shipped in huge wooden barrels and transported to the furnace on pallets.

A large amount of thick smoke generated in the coal-burning furnace is discharged through the exhaust holes on the roof, emitting bursts of pungent smell. On the right side of the factory building is the pouring platform, with a crane used to turn over containers containing molten glass.

There are exits to the annealing chamber along each side of the glass shop.

Until the fifth year of the Han Dynasty (1675), flat glass and polished glass were refined in wood-burning furnaces, which forced many domestic glass factories to purchase large amounts of wood waste from Weiyuan Island and Xuanhua Island—

-The cabinet government issued a ban strictly prohibiting the wanton deforestation in Hanzhou mainland - used as fuel for furnaces.

In Jianye City, a glass factory accidentally introduced a "covered crucible", well, or a closed crucible, which made coal the main fuel for glass firing. Using this method, soot pollution in the furnace can be avoided

The problem of glass liquid, ensuring the purity of the glass.

Of course, if other glass factories want to use this method, they need to pay corresponding patent fees - you can also evade the fees, but the premise is not to be reported or caught by officials of the Patent Department of the Ministry of Industry, otherwise they will be fined

amount of fine.

The production details of the factory were handled by several hired stewards. Lu Shaohong did not pay too much attention to it. He simply ate something and inspected the factory, then immediately came to the office building and called the accounting office in the factory.

come over.

"Is it possible that the account books of the past few years can withstand government inspection?"

When Fu Shouliang, the accountant of the factory, had just entered the room and sat down, he heard a very straightforward question from his employer.

"Did my boss hear anything?" Fu Shouguang was startled and couldn't help but stand up.

"A few days ago, when I was traveling on Zhonglun Island, I heard several colleagues from the business community mention that the General Taxation Department under the Ministry of Household Affairs might be separated separately and given greater tax collection powers." Lu Shao

Hong said: "If this is the case, there is no guarantee that the General Directorate of Taxation will be allowed to work in Xincheng

On the occasion of our establishment, in order to achieve some political achievements, we will conduct random tax inspections on many domestic factories and trading companies. Therefore, we must ensure that the factory's account books can withstand sudden inspections by others, so as not to be used as a target to establish our authority.

Cut it!"

"..." Fu Shouliang tilted his head and thought for a while, then said with a wry smile: "My boss, to be honest, our accounts cannot withstand the inspection of the tax yamen."

"Then why did I invite you here?" Lu Shaohong's tone couldn't help but become a little colder.

"Boss, am I the one who can decide how to use this account book for so many years?" Fu Shouliang couldn't help but exclaimed: "If so, I have always followed formal standard procedures to record the factory's operating conditions, will you allow it?...

...Every pen and every record in my account is done according to your instructions!"

"Impatient!" Lu Shaohong scolded impatiently: "You have to remember, who provides you with food and clothing? And who allows you to get a high salary of 15 yuan a month? I invited you here just to help me.

Problem-solving.”

"My boss..."

"Okay, no need to say more!" Lu Shaohong paced back and forth in the room, waved his hands roughly, and said: "Let's not forget about the many previous matters for now. Is there any way you can improve your account books so that you can deal with taxes?

Possible inspections by the Yamen?"

"Boss, this account book is made according to the double-entry accounting method established by the government. If you change one rashly, almost all business records will be changed." Fu Shouliang said with some embarrassment.

"Then there's nothing we can do?"

"It's not impossible." Fu Shouliang hesitated for a moment and then said bravely: "When I was studying in Daxing Finance School, I heard the teacher said that this accounting method is not perfect yet, but there are still some flaws.

There are loopholes that can be exploited. However, this requires veterans who are well versed in financial accounting to know how to exploit those loopholes and create a watertight fake account book."

"Oh..." Lu Shaohong heard this, touched his chin, and kept rolling his eyes, "Can you find such an experienced accountant? In addition, how much does it cost?"

"When you get to Daxing, contact your familiar teachers from the same year or past, and I think you should be able to find someone who specializes in accounting. As for the cost, it may be around a few hundred yuan, well, it may be close to a thousand yuan."

"What a fool, you just helped to polish up the account books, and you actually asked for such a high price?" Lu Shaohong cursed in a low voice, then walked to a few cases and sat down, thinking rapidly in his mind.

Fu Shouliang stood silently in front of the window, looking at his stingy employer and complaining endlessly.

Building a luxurious manor for himself cost more than 15,000 yuan without batting an eyelid. In order to show his financial strength, he ordered two luxury carriages from Daxing, each worth more than 3,000 yuan, specifically for use.

Used to pick up and drop off merchants and local officials.

Not to mention, he spent tens of thousands of yuan last year to buy a steam-sailboat with a displacement of 500 tons from the Jianye Shipyard. In addition to transporting some goods from the factory nearby, he often used it as his personal belongings.

On a cruise, a group of officials and businessmen are invited to sail on the sea, visit the coral reefs, and enjoy the beautiful scenery created by nature.

Co-author, it only costs hundreds or thousands of dollars to find a veteran who makes false accounts, but you think the price is too high!?
To be continued...