Beiyang new warlord

The old guy had a complication of heavy metal poisoning, and he froze there endlessly foaming at the mouth.

Anyway, this one is not going to be given money.

Although the old Taoist Xuankong peeped at his secret recipe, it saved Mao Jue a whole morning. Around [-]:[-] in the morning, the two of them returned to Mao Jue's small building again in a bumpy carriage.

One was thrown out yesterday, let alone people entering this time, none of the flies in Mao Jue’s small building came in, but after being bitten by a snake and afraid of well ropes for ten years, Mao Jue still took a few pieces back from the glass workshop The glass was locked in the cabinet, and it took three layers of locks before it was taken out.

"Master, what are you going to do? Do you want to open a furnace to make alchemy?"

For the past few days, she has been acting mysteriously, watching from the sidelines, Su Yi's cute big eyes stared round curiously, but unfortunately, she was so angry that she didn't pay for her life, and she laughed again, Mao Jue continued to fuck him His job was also to put the precious liquid from Xuankong Laodao into the glass bowl brought back from the glass workshop. Immediately, his face was full of pain, and he stretched his hand into Su Yi's arms.

Uh, don't get it wrong, Mao Jue picked up a piece of broken silver from Su Yi's purse, and threw it into the glass bowl with a splash. After a while, a little bit of foam began to rise up.

"It melted! The silver actually melted!"

Covering her chest, Su Yi clapped her little hands in amazement and yelled. As she watched, the bubbles grew more and more, and the piece of broken silver became smaller and smaller. When this girl was so excited, Mao Jue grinned in distress, The landlord's family didn't have any spare silver either. This was his last two or two taels of silver.

In the end, the silver was melted until there was still a wick left, and the solution seemed to be saturated. Mao Jue quickly picked up the silver with chopsticks, and immediately polished a few pieces to be smooth and level, and spread the oval or square glass the size of a notebook in the water basin. In the mirror, use a brush to evenly apply the solution that has been stained with a layer of silver to the back of the mirror.

The most important step came. Under Su Yi's surprised eyes, Mao Jue stole a handful of rice from nowhere, put it in the water to wash rice water, and waited until the silver liquid was almost uniform, and used it again. With water on his hands, he arrived carefully.

"Master, what are you doing?"

A woman's curiosity is comparable to a cat's. She is really curious. Su Yi tugged on Mao Jue's sleeve again, almost causing him to spill the rice washing water. It's really difficult to raise a woman and a villain. If you are close, you will complain, and if you are close, you will not be inferior.Putting down the bowl, Mao Jue was so depressed that he simply assigned her a job.

"You also drip it in, and you have to drip it evenly, and slap it if you miss it! When you're done, you can see for yourself!"

All of a sudden, her face flushed again, but she didn't forget the family rules Mao Jue had given her last night, and she stuck out her little tongue, and the girl quickly followed suit with the rice washing water, dripping little by little.

"Wow!"

Spraying like this for a whole afternoon, I ate lunch next to these chemical-smelling things. By one or two o'clock in the afternoon, the solution gradually dried up, and the residue behind was evenly swept away. Yi Na's eldest brother, who opened his cherry mouth, screamed in disbelief as if he saw a dinosaur.

"Wow, this is really me, so I look like this!"

Now it can't be called glass, it should be called mirror. Picking up one side, Mao Jue also rubbed the sweat on his forehead excitedly. Looking at these things, he seemed to see silver rolling in. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he wanted to To live well, one must have money!

In the evening, it was still the Yuxuan building.

Exactly the same as Su Yi, Qian Zeng's mouth was as big as a goose egg, and he couldn't put it down holding the mirror and looking at it repeatedly.The mirror at this time is different from that in the afternoon. The relatives of the Wen family really have everyone. Wenmeng, a member of the hundred households, happens to have a former carpenter. A little paint, but there is no way to carefully carve some lines in such a hurry, the frame is plain.

Even so, Qian Zeng still wished he could put his head in it.

"Tsk tsk, it's so clear, and it's a hundred times brighter than a bronze mirror. It's definitely the diorama mirror brought by those Xi Fans. It's so beautiful. So I'm so handsome!"

I have seen narcissistic people, but I have never seen such narcissistic ones. Su Yi covered her small mouth and smiled secretly, while Mao Jue helplessly took the chopsticks and took the opportunity to pull vegetables into her mouth.

These days there is no monosodium glutamate and no additives. In fact, the dishes are not as delicious as those of later generations, but they are still fresher. Naturally, the dishes here are almost empty. Only then did Qian Zeng break away from his beauty, and it was again Asked Mao Jue in surprise.

"How did Mr. Mao make such a fuss!"

Speaking of this, Mao Jue couldn't help but feel a sense of rejoicing. It was also that trip. After going to the glass workshop, he became more realistic. He checked online how to make a mirror, and there happened to be two Mingfen and Minghei there. Ming Hei believed that mirrors could not be made in the Ming Dynasty anyway, while Ming Fan listed a lot of rebuttals, the focus of which was the silver mirror reaction.

The so-called silver mirror reaction uses nitric acid to dissolve silver to make silver nitrate, brushes it behind the glass, and then reacts with glucose. After a series of chemical formulas that Mao Jue doesn’t understand, silver ions will be separated from silver nitrate, evenly It is covered with a layer on the surface of the glass to form a mirror reflective layer.

However, there was no nitric acid in ancient China. Fortunately, Ming Fen listed another ancient Western achievement. In the eighth century AD, the great Arab alchemist Jabir Ibn Hayan used the method of dry distillation of potassium nitrate , Nitric acid was extracted, and the ancient potassium nitrate was one of the materials used by Xuankong Laodao to make alchemy, saltpeter.

This is also the reason why the girl who came over to peek and rummage yesterday burned her hand.

Of course, this process is confidential, and it is impossible to tell Qian Zeng. After wiping his mouth, Mao Jue was like a blind fortune-teller upstairs in his house, exuding a mysterious smell, shaking his head very high.

"Brother Qian, do you remember that Ben fell into the water once a few days ago?"

"Oh? Could it be that it was fished out of the sea?"

"No! No!"

Hurry up to stop this guy's urge to jump into the sea to catch the baby, Mao Jue shook his head and started blowing.

"Originally I sank to the bottom of the sea that time, but two big turtles dragged me from the bottom and let me float up again. The mirror, the Westerners took it, and today's descendants are not filial, and the people of Beihai have forgotten the mirror of the Beihai, and I will pass it on to you, don't let this Beiyang mirror picture stir up dust again!"

"On the second day after I came back, I don't know why, but somehow I knew this recipe, but the price I paid, most of the past has been forgotten, so it's not a blessing?"

The truth of the acting, even Mao Jue himself sighed sadly, the Su Yi next to him believed it very much at the first time, with a pair of cute big eyes staring at the little star, as for Qian Zeng, it would be good if he could believe it three points. But he was also feeling on the sidelines.

"Brother Mao is a man of destiny, and he will be rich in the future. I don't care too much about the past."

As he spoke, he returned the mirror in front of Mao Jue in envy and reluctance. This action stunned Mao Jue. He picked up the mirror and asked in astonishment.

"Didn't Brother Qian want a thousand dollars for a mirror? This is"

"Brother Mao is willing to part with you?"

His eyes lit up, but before Mao Jue could nod his head, this fellow shook his head in such an angry way.

"Qian was just talking about it at the beginning, but in fact he couldn't afford it! Tens of thousands of taels, almost equal to more than half of the Qian family's wealth!"

These words almost drove Mao Jue to death, I can't afford you to mutter nonsense there, and I have to toss so long for nothing!

Chapter 12. The first pot of gold

"This treasure mirror is hard to find. Even those Westerners, I heard that it is an extremely precious treasure. Brother Mao, you really want to make a move!"

Qian Zeng’s words come from his heart. These days, let alone the East, the glass mirrors in this place are all treasures, only produced in the Republic of Venice. Venice once gave it to France as a national gift. The queen was moved by it. I don’t know how many people are naturally romantic French women sacrificed their bodies for a small mirror, and emptied the last francs of their lovers' pockets.

It wasn't until the Ming Dynasty fell for decades that French talents smuggled out a few mirror craftsmen from the glass island in Venice. Mirrors gradually became widespread and cheap in the European continent. So, they are also luxury goods, but they are not so valuable. The city is connected.

But when he thought about the four sides of his family, and seeing Qian Zeng, the rich man's solemn appearance, Su Yi's small mouth couldn't help twitching to the side.She can see all the cost of Mao Jue's making mirrors. Even if he is extravagant and rewards Xuankong with 20 taels, the total is only 30 taels. Such a thing made Qian Zeng stunned , Su Yi's admiration for Mao Jue increased to a new level, like a long river with endless waves.

Especially after Mao Jue's bragging, she couldn't help laughing.

It was really a fan of worrying about the country and the people, Mao Jue sighed and shook his head.

"Indeed, this mirror is a precious mirror. It took seven to seventy-nine days to condense such a side after exhausting the coral and purple trees in Maofu, Funing amber, Liaohe East Pearl, and Korean ginseng into the fire. , gold, pearls and jade, not enough clothes for the cold, not enough food for the hungry! You know this Phi Island, it is located at the forefront of the confrontation between Jiannu and North Korea. Every time you see soldiers holding rusted weapons and wearing thin clothes, in the cold wind Trembling, Mao's heart feels like a knife!"

Holding the mirror to the sky, Mao Jue really brought out the spirit of performing dramas in the school club, and sighed sadly.

"Under the overturned nest there are eggs! Once the mountains and rivers are not guarded, no matter how precious the treasure is, it is not a wedding dress for others? It is better to take it out for a few more stones of rations and a few winter clothes, which can also slightly ease the burden of soldiers guarding the border. Bitter, stand firm on this bridgehead for me, Ming! Only then will the value of the mirror be reflected!"

"Brother Mao is righteous! Qian is ashamed of himself!"

After being fooled for a while, Qian Zeng was really moved so much, he turned his head sideways and clenched his fists heavily.

"Talking about the princes in the court, if there is someone as big-hearted as Brother Mao, how could the situation in Liaodong become what it is today?"

Holding back her laughter, Su Yi's little face flushed red, revealing a strange expression.But after complimenting him, Qian Zeng hesitated for more than half a minute with his head lowered, and finally gritted his teeth and hugged Mao Jue heavily.

"Brother Mao, Qian has an unfeeling request. If Brother Mao trusts Qian, this mirror will be handed over to Qian. On the twelfth of this month, Qian will return to Shandong by boat, and then take the canal in Shandong to return to Jiangnan, Yangzhou Jinling, this precious mirror will definitely sell for a high price! In autumn this year, Qian will go back to the north on the autumn grain ship, and give the silver in full!"