Time Travel: I am the idle king Li Shen and Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty

Li Shen was at a loss as to what to do about the birthday gift for Concubine Wei, so he started thinking in circles around the yard like a donkey.

I even thought that if I couldn’t figure it out, I’d just do it the same as in previous years. There were a lot of things in the treasure house anyway.

Lu Dingniang watched her husband circling in the yard and was trying to help him think of a solution.

But with her vision and knowledge, she couldn't even think of what to give.

Li Shen kept thinking about it all night but didn't come up with it, so he had no choice but to think about it tomorrow. After the two of them took a bath that night, they lay in bed and thought about it.

Lu Dingniang was sitting in front of the dressing table arranging her wet hair.

Li Shen accidentally looked over and suddenly had an idea.

Yes, why did you forget this?

In fact, what Li Shen was thinking of was very simple. When he saw Lu Dingniang arranging her hair in front of the bronze mirror, he suddenly thought of the mirror.

Because of the Shenzhu incident, Li Shen did not produce glass on a large scale in order not to be suspected. However, glass workshops are still producing and researching.

For example, making utensils, or researching and producing better and larger glass.

It's been a year, and there should be some results.

He did what he said, and the next day Li Shen got up and took a large group of people, including Lu Dingniang, to his palace.

Firstly, it was to let Lu Dingniang get familiar with Huangzhuang, and secondly, it was also to let the people of Huangzhuang get familiar with his mistress.

This season's food has been harvested, and everyone is idle at home. When they learned that the prince and his wife were coming, the people of Dahuangzhuang came to the entrance of the village to greet them.

"See the princess."

A group of people saluted Lu Dingniang. The little girl was a little cautious. She had never seen so many people paying respects.

Li Shen patted Lu Dingniang's little hand to express comfort, and then said to the village chief: "Zhang Da, is there nothing wrong with Zhuangzi recently?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, everything is fine with Zhuangzi. He just gave birth to three boys in three months."

Zhang Da responded,

"Oh? This is a good thing. How many babies will be added this year?" Li Shen was very happy about the population growth.

"Back to the prince, Dahuangzhuang has added 22 boys this year. Xiaohuangzhuang has fourteen boys, and the other two guards, Zhuangzi, have added more than 40 boys," Zhang Da replied.

"What about the girl?" Li Shen frowned. Li Shen was not a patriarchal thinker of this era. Everyone was a productive force.

"This... there should be more than 100." Zhang Da replied uncertainly

In Li Shen's hands, there were 2000 households in the food towns, as well as the family members of the guards who had not yet been transferred to the food towns. There were more than [-] households in total, divided into four villages.

"Zhang Da, I want population. Both boys and girls are the same. How can we increase the population without girls? What I want is detailed information, how many boys and how many girls.

Forget it this time, next time if this happens, you, the chief clerk, should stop doing it. I can find someone else to do it. "Li Shen said with a gloomy face,

"My lord, please forgive me. I will be more detailed next time." Zhang Da saw Li Shen losing his temper and quickly confessed.

In fact, Zhang Da cannot be blamed for this. The preference for sons over daughters is still quite serious in this era of openness. It will be even more serious in later generations.

"Zhang Da, inform all Zhuangzi that boys and girls are the same. I don't care about etiquette. I just want population.

If you want to sell or throw away the dolls because you can't afford to raise them, let me know and they will be distributed to the northwest. If there are any dolls that you can't afford to raise, you can report them to the palace, and the palace can adopt them. Did you hear me! ! ! "

In fact, Zhenguan rarely sold or threw away their children because the land was crowded and the land was small, but Li Shen still wanted to get vaccinated.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhang Zhan replied tremblingly.

Li Shen took Lu Dingniang around the village, and then went straight to the secret glass factory at the back.

Since glass windows were not mass-produced, there were only three craftsmen. They had been responsible for firing porcelain before and then cement. This time they were assigned to burn glass.

"How is the research going?" Li Shen asked one of the persons in charge with a smile.

"Back to Your Majesty, the three of us are much more skilled now. We have also studied the glass blowing method that Your Majesty mentioned. Your Majesty, come and take a look."

As he spoke, he led Li Shen to the warehouse.

"Wow~~~"

Several maids screamed.

There are various shapes of glass products on the shelves inside, as well as utensils, such as plates, bowls, wine glasses, tea cups, etc. for daily use.

There are also ornaments.

Several women were very fond of seeing the shiny things, and they all came forward to check, touch this, and look at that.

Li Shen also stepped forward and took a closer look.

"These are not good, we have to go back and rebuild them,"

Although these look beautiful, for someone like Li Shen who has seen glass products from later generations, they all have flaws.

For example, the plate is not so round, the walls of the wine glass are uneven, etc.

"Lang Jun, this is already very good." Lu Dingniang said holding a vase.

"It's worse. We want to make high-quality products and make money from rich people." Li Shen said to Lu Dingniang with a smile.

Then he turned around and asked again

"Have you made the flat glass I mentioned?"

"Your Majesty, it's ready. Come with me." The steward said and took Li Shen to another warehouse.

There are a lot of flat glasses here. And they are all separated by animal skins, both large and small.

Li Shen looked around at the largest one, which was 1.5 meters square. Now their craftsmanship and ingredients are not good enough. If the glass is too big, it will deform and break if it is twisted even slightly.

"Have you finished the glass knife I asked you to make?"

Li Shen had previously bought some diamonds from merchants in the Western Regions. At this time, diamonds had not yet been defined as luxury goods.

The diamond Li Shen bought was for making glass knives, and the whole diamond was used.

"Go back to your lord, I made several." After saying that, he brought it over to show Li Shen.

"Okay, cut this big piece into two for me. I can use it." Li Shen said.

Now that glass is available, the rest is much simpler. In this era, the easiest way to make a mirror is to use the reaction between tin and mercury.

These things are very easy to find, even in Taoist temples.

Although it will be poisonous during production, Li Shen plans to build an open factory to allow the poisonous gas to evaporate as much as possible.

And Li Shen is planning to ask the cotton workshop to make some thicker masks. Of course, Li Shen also planned to get back some Tibetan prisoners.

There was insufficient material, so Li Shen also needed to go back to prepare, and he also needed to apply to Li Shimin for some Tibetan prisoners to work.

So Li Shen took the people away.

He needs to go back and have someone prepare things.

Tin was a metal that existed before the Han Dynasty, so it was not difficult to obtain. As for mercury, it was even easier.

The only problem is proportion, how to achieve the best.

For the ancient feudal society, Li Shen felt that the privileged class was really good. Just talk and things would be done for you, and it was very efficient.

The day after Li Shen finished talking to Wang Hongfu, everything Li Shen needed was ready. Li Shen went to the cotton cloth workshop and asked them to make several masks with more than ten layers, and then returned to the glass kiln to start experimental production.

Of course, for Li Shen, who was afraid of death, it was all remote control. For him now, the biggest tragedy in life is that money has not been spent after someone dies.

(When it comes to making the mirror, veterans, please stop trying. At least I have written down the ingredients, so don’t worry about the process. I almost wrote about the mirror reflection method or the transpiration method.

But in fact, this method is the simplest. Spread tin foil on the glass and pour mercury to become a mirror. Of course, ignore the poisonous gas and arrange for the Tibetans to do the job.

Kneel down and thank you. )