When Zhang Yi and the others arrived at the factory gates again, everyone from the Astronomy Association was holding a remote control, with a one-meter-aperture astronomical telescope beside each of them.
Clearly, once they discovered that Zhang Yi's mechanical factory could truly produce Large Aperture Telescopes with performance far surpassing its competitors—
They went crazy, especially when Zhang Yi picked up a large iron hammer and smashed the newly made lenses with all his strength, yet the lenses remained completely unharmed.
Even after personally testing them out of disbelief, they completely fell in love with the telescopes produced by Seven Color Stone. Each of them bought a 1000-millimeter Large Aperture Telescope on the spot. To build a good relationship with them, Zhang Yi even gave them a ten percent discount.
Watching the four of them leave, Zhang Yi was also looking forward to them helping promote his astronomical telescopes.
Compared with Aerodynamic Bicycles, astronomical telescopes had much higher profit margins, especially Large Aperture Telescopes. The most important component in making an astronomical telescope was the primary lens.
For other manufacturers, the cost might have been extremely high, but for Zhang Yi, aside from the cost of raw materials, the rest barely cost anything. For example, a high-performance 1000-millimeter astronomical telescope might cost several hundred thousand to manufacture at another astronomical instrument factory.
Yet the total cost at Zhang Yi's factory was only tens of thousands, most of which went toward raw materials. The profit margin was more than tenfold, and the larger the aperture, the greater Zhang Yi's profit.
For instance, Zhang Yi had directly priced the 1.2 Meter Large Aperture Telescope that had just been produced at his factory at 1.5 million, though its actual cost was less than fifty thousand.
Even at such a high price, the people