They said that this perfume bottle is made of colored glass, which is correct. This bottle is indeed made of colored glass.
However, for Lin Xu, Liuli has a more popular name: glass.
Before this, no one in the Daning Dynasty had mastered the method of making glass, but some people in the Western Regions had mastered a simple glass making process, which they called Liuli.
Although in Lin Xu's opinion, the manufacturing process of Western Regions Glaze is very poor, it is full of bubbles, and it is simply unsightly!
But this is a new thing after all. In addition, the merchant from the Western Regions who first sold colored glaze to Daning was very good at packaging and promoting it, making the colored glaze even more precious than jade.
It was due to his enthusiasm that glass products were labeled as aristocratic. A palm-sized glass bottle could be sold for a thousand taels of silver, and even a glass bead, which was commonly used by children.
The glass balls you play with can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver, and the profit margin is simply explosive!
By selling glass products, this businessman from the Western Regions named Atum accumulated an incredible amount of wealth in just four to five years!
Seeing how profitable glass products are, many people also want to imitate them.
It's just that these people have tried their best, but they still can't find the right path. They can only sigh with excitement, eyes red, and sit back and watch Atum making a lot of money!
In fact, in Lin Xu's opinion, this glass manufacturing process that makes countless people jealous but cannot figure out how to do it couldn't be simpler!
Just mix quartz sand, limestone, feldspar and other raw materials, and then heat the prepared raw materials to high temperature to form molten glass.
Pour the fired glass liquid into the mold, and after the glass liquid cools, it becomes a glass product with a fixed shape.
Of course, this so-called "simple" is only relative to Lin Xu. In fact, it is a relatively complex physical and chemical reaction process, and this process must be carried out in the kiln.
In this process, if there is a problem in any step, you will not get pure glass liquid without bubbles.
For example, during the process of firing glass, if the iron impurities are not completely removed, the final glass liquid will appear green.
Another example is the final process of pouring the glass liquid into the mold for cooling. If it is not handled properly, cold explosion will occur. That is, the glass products are likely to break on their own during storage, transportation and use!
Of course, for Lin Xu, these problems are easy to solve.
Last winter, with the help of two experienced porcelain masters, he successfully made glass products in just over half a month.
However, he did not realize that glass products were so valuable at the time. He deliberately made glass products mainly to make containers for perfume.
For things like perfume, it is obviously not possible to use wooden bottles as containers, and it does not seem to be the same thing to use iron bottles, copper bottles, or porcelain bottles as containers.
Of course, it is possible to use jade screen as a container, but the cost of this material is too high, and it is also very fragile, and it may break accidentally with a bang.
After much deliberation, glass bottles are the most suitable container!
First of all, the raw materials are cheap and available everywhere, they are just some yellow sand and stones!
Secondly, glass containers can be made into any shape you want, and they are durable and easy to transport.
The only difficulty is the process flow.
However, for Lin Xu, it is not difficult at all.
After coming to Suzhou this time, he realized by chance that the price of glass products was so expensive! The price of a glass bottle was much more expensive than his price for perfume!
This can be regarded as an unintentional intervention!
Therefore, after giving soap to the girls in Jinfeng Tower, Lin Xu thought of giving perfume as well. The ultimate goal is to use their hands to build the reputation of perfume!
Of course, he had a high status for this gift box, so he couldn't give away hundreds of dollars at once like soap. Instead, he only gave one to Zhang's mother and Yueyao each. This chapter has been completed!