The next day, Luo Shang brought men to the Glass Workshop and hauled away every Thousand-Mile Mirror in the workshop's warehouse.
There were three thousand Thousand-Mile Mirrors in total, and Luo Shang paid thirty thousand taels of silver up front.
These thirty thousand taels of silver counted as the Glass Workshop's first income.
With this first income, Zhu Dahai was even more motivated in handling matters.
"Marquis, the five hundred newly recruited apprentices have already been arranged. They only need one month before they can be put into glassmaking."
Inside the Glass Workshop, Zhu Dahai led Yang Zhengshan around to inspect the state of glass production.
Yang Zhengshan had established the Glass Workshop in North City of Chongshan Pass. Beside it were the barracks of the troops stationed at Chongshan Pass and the Regional Commander's Mansion. The Glass Workshop had two gates: one led straight to the Regional Commander's Mansion, while opposite the other main gate was the barracks' main gate.
The guards of the Glass Workshop were the same as those at the Regional Commander's Mansion, both manned by officers and soldiers of the Town Garrison Camp.
And now, the Glass Workshop's production techniques were already very advanced. Flat Glass, Embossed Glass, Laminated Glass, and Colored Glaze Glass could all be manufactured.
Glass products in all sorts of shapes could more or less be manufactured as well.
The only thing that was difficult to make, instead, was glass with relatively high transparency. Although the Glass Workshop had been making lenses for Thousand-Mile Mirrors all these years, the finished-product rate for lenses was still under thirty percent.
In contrast, all sorts of brightly colored Colored Glaze Glass were easier to make. After adding various pigments, the flaws in the glass's transparency were instead concealed.
"Where are the glass ornaments you