The glass factory was essentially the old glaze workshop, only now Luo Xueyao had introduced a much more refined formula. It could produce colorful, decorative glaze as well as glass of superior purity and transparency. It also produced mirrors that reflected people with absolute clarity, and even eyeglasses that could improve one’s vision. There were also magnifying glasses, telescopes, kaleidoscopes, glass cups, glass bottles, and a variety of other containers.
The subsidiary products supported by the glass factory were numerous. The corn and potato spirits produced by Luo Qingchuan’s distillery, for instance, were all bottled in glass.
When Luo Qingchuan brought Li Zhixin to the factory, he gave him a twenty percent stake as a silent partner. Li Zhixin, grinning, then used those shops of his—the ones Luo Qingchuan had previously helped him acquire—to trade for another forty percent of the factory’s shares, transforming himself overnight into the largest shareholder. It was no wonder Li Zhongxian had nearly fainted when he heard the news.
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