"This...is this?" Shen Rong took the box with both hands. As soon as he opened a small gap, he was immediately blinded by the crystal clear inside.
I saw a palm-sized Buddha statue lying in this exquisite brocade box lined with soft silk.
If it were just a Buddha statue, it wouldn't matter. The key point is that this Buddha statue is crystal clear, and its entire body is made of glass!
"What an exquisite glazed Buddha statue!" Shen Sen, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but marvel.
Shen Rong tried his best to suppress the trembling in his hands and gently took out the glazed Buddha statue. The wind and rain in the sky had stopped suddenly, and a ray of sunlight broke through the clouds and shone on the Buddha statue in Shen Rong's hand. The Buddha statue was actually full-body. It emits seven colors of light, as if gods and Buddhas have appeared.
"Ah!" Shen Rong's old hand shook and he almost dropped the Buddha statue to the ground. Fortunately, Shen Sen had quick eyesight and quick hands and grabbed the Buddha statue with both hands. The father and son breathed out like the rest of their lives after two calamities.
"Your Highness, is this a treasure that you took out from the palace?" Shen Rong put the Buddha statue back into the box and returned it to Zhu Su respectfully. "Although this object is very exquisite, things in the palace cannot be used for business. "
"The Shen family really doesn't dare to take this risk. We still hope that His Highness the Fifth Prince will..." Shen Rong said.
"Excuse me, Shen, you think this is the treasure I stole from the palace?" Zhu Su sneered. "Does this king look like a prodigal who stole family treasures and sold them? This thing was made by my imperial village. Shen Members, let’s see how much this thing can sell for?”
"You made it yourself?" Shen Rong was surprised. Shen Sen also suddenly thought of something and asked: "It is recorded in the book that the court in the Song Dynasty could make glazed lamps, but they were too variegated to be crystal clear. Could it be that His Highness has mastered a more perfect firing method?"
Shen Rong was about to scold his son for being rude, but Zhu Su had already waved his hand and said with a smile, "It's okay. Mr. Shen's guess is good. I have indeed mastered a more perfect firing method."
If you bought Liu Bei, could you not buy Guan and Zhang? If you buy Guan and Zhang, could it be that Zhao Yun and Ma Chao are weaker than him? Since you have bought so much, you might as well gather them all at once with so many advisers in Shu. How can one bear the separation of king and minister, right?
Sure enough, he is a businessman who has been doing business all his life! He knows very well that rare things are valuable. If this glass Buddha is sold alone, the high price of five hundred taels is more than enough. But if forty or fifty are sold together, one of them can sell for One hundred taels is considered rare.
"Hey, hey, there's no need to worry, Mr. Shen. Everything is under my calculation." Seeing that Mr. Shen has something up his sleeve, Zhu Su also revealed his plan to buy glass. "It doesn't have to be a Buddha statue. That's why." Now that there is a statue of Jia Buddha, there is no need to arrange a statue of Guanyin? Otherwise, how can we know the sincerity of the world's people in paying respect to Guanyin?"
After a long time, Shen Rong bowed his hand to Zhu Su and said, "...I have already appreciated His Highness's great talent."
"If the mold hadn't been a little troublesome, it could have been done faster."
Shen Rong's eyes almost dropped. This kind of rare treasure can actually be mass-produced! Moreover, the cost of each one is only five taels?
There is no Shen Wansan in the world, he has been changed to Zhu Wansan long ago.
"Five...five taels?" The Shen family father and son almost collapsed again. A hundred times the profit! This is not doing business, this is stealing money!
After the Three Kingdoms, we can continue with the Water Margin! After the Water Margin, we can also talk about Yue Quan Zhuan, Tian Long Ba Bu, The Legend of the Condor Heroes...
"Buddhism is over, there is still Taoism. Which one of the Three Pure Taoist Patriarchs and the Infinite Heavenly Lord does not need to be resembled?"
Shen Rong has been doing business all his life, and he has never seen anything that can be a hundred times more profitable!
In later generations, someone bought a pair of identical antique vases and deliberately smashed one for this reason. Because if one is broken, the other one becomes an orphan and is even more valuable.
"Now that we have the Guanyin statue, the Eighteen Arhats will also need it, right? And the Ksitigarbha Buddha and Maitreya Buddha, why don't we just stop looking at them?"
"If you like it, we can make it bigger. If you sit in the hall with such a big glass Buddha, it will shine brilliantly under the sunlight. Who dares to say that this family is not blessed by gods?"
Although it can only be used for one-time use and is far inferior to reusable alloy molds, it is already a great breakthrough.
"If you want to sell this thing, I think it's better not to sell so much at once. If Your Highness is not short of money, you can sell more of this thing, and the profit will be even greater."
"Hmm. Such a crystal-clear jade Buddha, and it can reveal the Buddha's image under the sun. If it were placed in a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, five hundred taels would be more than enough... I wonder how much this thing cost?" Shen Rong asked.
A glass Buddha costs more than four taels, so it’s not too much.
The look in his eyes when he looked at Zhu Su changed. Who was the prince of the Zhu family? He was clearly a philanthropic boy!
But after calming down a little, he still found the problem: "Your Highness, although this thing is cherished, but...if there are too many, I'm afraid it won't be that valuable."
"Huh? Production volume?" Zhu Su thought for a moment. "In one month, we should be able to make forty or fifty statues."
"This thing is not colored glaze, I call it 'glass'. In your opinion, what price does Mr. Shen think this thing should cost?"
Listening carefully to Zhu Su's words, the Shen family's father and son were stunned and couldn't say a word for a long time.
It doesn't matter that all the gods have been carved. Now the half of the Three Kingdoms that I mentioned has been spread in Yingtian Mansion. By then, I can use the east wind of the Three Kingdoms to make glass statues of Liu, Guan, Zhang, Xiahou brothers and other generals of the Three Kingdoms. I can also make a Wei Dynasty. Shu Wu series, Eighteen Route Princes Defeat Dong series. Sell this thing as a collectible figure.
"Forty or fifty statues a month? Can it be faster?"
With so many variations, there is no need to worry about the glass image losing its high value.
"Fifty taels? Well, even if you exclude the freight charges, this item can be seven or eight times more profitable." Shen Rong nodded with satisfaction. In this case, this business can be done.
"I wonder, how much is the output?" Shen Rong asked tremblingly.
This Fifth Highness is so young, how could he have so many sinister and evil businessmen in his belly?
It's so dark! It's much darker than us! If the Fifth Highness had been born a few years earlier, what would have happened to our Shen family?
Glass molds are indeed a troublesome thing. The steel-making side has not yet figured out how to make suitable alloy glass molds. Lao Zhuang, a veteran of glass burning, led several veterans to try again and again, and finally discovered a method. The mold made from river mud can barely shape the glass solution.
"Uh. I mean, five taels." Zhu Su scratched his head. He originally wanted to say five taels. After all, the raw material for making glass is worthless sand. Five taels is too much, but Thinking about the hard work of the disabled veterans working in the glass kiln, their labor wages should be calculated more.
"This number." Zhu Su held out five fingers.
"The glass statue is just one of them." Zhu Su continued without surprising. "I still have many big businesses in my hands. For example, soap is ten times better than today's soap, and the aroma of wine is overflowing. A mellow wine, a perfume that is ten times better than today’s rouge powder, a charcoal stove that can burn charcoal in winter without being bothered by smoke..."
Every time he said something, the wrinkles on Shen Rong's face jumped. He did not doubt the authenticity of Zhu Su's words. How could it be impossible to use five taels of silver to burn colored glaze of that color? Carrying each of these things individually Come out, they are all existences that can make a wealthy businessman!
"Your Highness!" Before Zhu Su could finish speaking, Shen Rong directly interrupted Zhu Su's narration.
"I wonder if Your Highness would allow me to serve as a merchant."
"I, Mr. Shen, would like to join His Highness Ji Wei and serve His Highness the King of Wu as a horse in front and behind the horse!"