Zhu Houzhao also learned from Wei Bin that the person in the Baogaihua car below the stage was the wife of the chief assistant Liu Jian.

To be honest, Zhu Houzhao, as the emperor, naturally had no good feelings for the prime minister Liu Jian, but this did not affect his business with the prime minister's wife.

What's more, Zhu Houzhao thought it was quite interesting to ask Liu Jian's wife to exchange her 60,000 taels of silver for her family for a Crystal Lotus Guanyin at a cost of 2 taels.

The wife of the chief apprentice had to come out to salute when she saw the emperor. Zhu Houzhao also smiled and greeted him for a few words, and then asked Wei Bin to give the Crystal Lotus Guanyin to the wife of the chief apprentice.

Zhu Houzhao also got 60,000 taels of exchange bills from the assistant wife, all of which were large bills of exchange worth tens of thousands of taels per piece. It can be seen that the principal Liu Jian’s mansion is still very wealthy, and a prime minister’s wife is willing to take out 60,000 taels to buy a luxury glass craft, which is enough to prove this.

It seems that Gu Dayong's investigation said that Liu Jian's annual charcoal can't be less than 100,000 yuan is a solid evidence.

Of course, this further strengthened Zhu Houzhao's desire to copy Liu Jian's mansion in the future.

At least now, Zhu Houzhao felt that it was not too guilty to make a craft of 2 taels at a high price of 60,000 taels. Anyway, it was all people's money and money, and it could still feed the people to the people when he was in his hands, but in Liu Jian, he could only buy concubines and houses to buy even some useless antiques.

However, Zhu Houzhao was also a little surprised that the assistant wife was really not low-key. She dared to give out 60,000 taels in front of her, the emperor. Aren’t you afraid that the emperor would be jealous? But when you think that she is a completely ignorant and foolish monarch in the eyes of all officials, the wife of the assistant might feel that she did not have this scheming and naturally she would not care about it.

In any case, since they are here to buy the crafts of their Royal Industrial Company, they are customers. The customer is God, and Zhu Houzhao is not doing anything. He even asked Wei Bin to personally send the Chief Supervisor's wife back to the car.

The wife of the Prime Minister was indeed as Zhu Houzhao thought. She really liked the Crystal Lotus Guanyin so much. The one who fought for the Crystal Lotus Guanyin could have many children and blessings. Because the Liu family has always been poor, she couldn't wait to buy 60,000 taels of silver to buy this royal treasure. She also knew that the emperor is just an ignorant and foolish monarch, so she didn't care about anything. As for other people who knew that the Prime Minister was rich, could she still defeat her husband?

Despite this, the inner officials around Zhu Houzhao were still a little jealous. After all, he had worked hard to stay by the prince for so long and had only saved up tens of thousands of taels. The wife of the prime minister could take out 60,000 taels in one breath, so Liu Jin even said sourly: "After all, the wife of the prime minister, this is a plentiful move!"

"The visitor is a guest, let's continue the auction!" Zhu Houzhao heard Liu Jin's complaint and couldn't help but say Liu Jin.

Zhu Houzhao is indeed not angry now, and she is in a good mood, because she sold 90,000 taels of silver for two glass crafts alone, which is simply a huge profit! Moreover, he also discovered that the chief assistant Liu Ge Lao might have become the money tree for his huge financial source, so he naturally felt even happier.

At this time, the third auction item was carried out, but the third auction item was two glass beds. According to Zhu Houzhao, this glass bed is not only beautiful and clean, but also has the firmness of the wooden bed, but also makes the skin fragrant and prolongs life. Anyway, it is just blowing and fooling. From ancient times to the present, Wang Po sold melons in business.

Not only that, Zhu Houzhao also asked Liu Jin to emphasize that if this kind of bed is broken, it will not hurt people, because this kind of glass bed is tempered glass.

Don’t think that tempered glass is made of steel. In fact, tempered glass is just to effectively control the temperature of the firing glass during the firing process.

To be precise, it means cutting the glass into the required size before it is half-cooled before solidification, then heating it to about 700 degrees, heating it for four or five minutes, and then quickly cooling it can form tempered glass.

The so-called tempered glass is to form a uniform tension stress inside the glass, so that the glass has bending resistance and impact resistance strength of several times, so that the glass can be more solid and brittle. At the same time, even if it is broken, it can be directly broken into dregs due to uniform distribution of tension stress, and will not cause harm to people.

In general, the most important thing in manufacturing tempered glass is to accurately control the temperature. Zhu Houzhao used kerosene and glass to create a kerosene thermometer, and then used the water boiling temperature to be a theoretical calibration thermometer with a constant 100 degrees Celsius at the atmospheric pressure in Beijing, so that the temperature of the firing glass can be accurately controlled and tempered glass can be successfully manufactured.

It is worth mentioning that although kerosene does not exist in this world, it is still used by humans in the form of natural kerosene. After all, Baghdad used kerosene lamps in the ninth century. It is not difficult for Zhu Houzhao to find some kerosene as the emperor. Although he cannot directly use a large amount of kerosene to make chemical products, it is not a problem to make several thermometers.

Let’s talk less. Although manufacturing tempered glass is relatively more complicated than ordinary glass, the cost of manufacturing a tempered glass bed is less than three taels of silver, but Zhu Houzhao directly set the starting price of 20,000 taels!

What's more, Zhu Houzhao also asked Liu Jin to use one of the two tempered glass beds and one ordinary glass bed for a comparison and experiment in front of all the people of the Royal Expo, that is, he had to use a large hammer to hit the tempered glass bed and the ordinary glass bed at the same time. In this way, there was only one tempered glass bed left in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The people of the Royal Expo looked at Neihuan with some distress as he knocked the sledgehammer on the tempered glass bed and the ordinary glass bed at the same time. However, after the hammer, the ordinary glass bed cracked and shattered into several pieces. The tempered glass bed only hummed for a moment, and then began to knock again. The tempered glass began to crack. After a long time of tapping, the tempered glass broke into slag.

"Wow! This glass is worthy of being called tempered glass, it's true that it's the same as steel! I want to buy it, I want to buy it. The key is that there is only one in the world now. It's not a loss of 20,000 yuan, it's not a loss!"

Gu Dayong shouted and hurriedly shouted: "Twenty-one thousand taels!"

After the other people came to their senses, they also snatched them, because more and more wealthy merchants were attracted, and the tempered glass bed showed his extraordinaryness and only one, so they snatched them very hotly, and for a moment they directly raised the auction price to 50,000 taels.

In the end, the tempered glass bed was taken down by a Hu merchant for a high price of 74,000 taels.

But the luxury goods auction has not ended yet, and then there are glass chairs, glass tables, glass screens, glass bowls, glass chopsticks, etc. that are all taken out for auction.

In addition, there is also a 100-pound collector's version of "Comfort Paste" super big soap! It was also auctioned out.
Chapter completed!