Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

Ning Fan also gave full play to modern people's ability to be well-informed and began to design various drawings on paper. In fact, these drawings were all the shapes of glass items, such as goblets, tea cups, and A variety of unique glass styles.

When Ning Fan handed these drawings to Shen Mengxi, he had to marvel at Ning Fan's imagination. When the craftsmen actually made these shapes that only existed on the drawings, even Shen Mengxi was a little surprised. .

"Princess Lolis, there are thousands of glass products here, large and small. Whichever one you like, we will make it privately customized. The main thing is to be able to respond to every request."

In a palace in the imperial palace, Ning Fan opened a glassware exhibition specifically for Princess Lolis and other businessmen from the Dabo Kingdom.

These merchants from Dabo Country are well-informed and have traveled all over the country. What have they not seen before? But when I saw this crystal clear glass that exuded gleaming light, I was still amazed.

Of course, there are also some little thoughts of Ning Fan. Ning Fan deliberately invited these people over at dusk, and also spent a lot of thought on the lighting. Only under the lighting, these glassware will look beautiful.

But having said that, the allure of this kind of glass product is simply a dimensionality reduction blow in this era. When all the princes, nobles and rich people are addicted to all kinds of porcelain, this kind of transparent vessel brings The temptation is simply irresistible.

“Is everything here mass-produced?”

Princess Lolis opened her mouth with a look of shock on her face.

Ning Fan also noticed a detail, that is, Princess Lolis took an extra long time to deal with the goblet in front of the booth. It was obvious that he had a great interest in this strange-shaped wine glass.

"Of course they can all be made, and there won't be much difference in size, specification and appearance. When it comes to mass production later, it's natural to use a unified mold."

Ning Fan is naturally very confident.

Princess Lolis immediately led a large group of merchants to select more than forty styles of glassware and placed an order directly.

The first batch of orders is actually not large, but for today's glass workshops, it is also a very large order. If only 20 craftsmen are required to do it, they may not be able to complete this batch of orders in three years. do it.

So Ning Fan benefited from Shen Mengxi's urgent recruitment of craftsmen to expand production and make the glassware workshop bigger and stronger.

This glass workshop is affiliated to the Ministry of Industry, so it is naturally a royal meal. These craftsmen are also members of the royal class. The price of the glassware they produce has nothing to do with them. The future income will naturally be directly charged to Treasury.

After placing an order, Ning Fan directly received a deposit of more than 48 million taels, which was a huge sum of money for Ning Fan.

At night, Ning Fan was busy writing under the light. At this time, Ergou hurriedly walked in from outside, holding a memorial in his hand.

"Your Majesty, Song Chengzhou, the Governor of Jiangnan, and Chen Yuanqing, the Grand Marshal of the Jiangnan Army, presented the memorial at the same time."

Ergou hurriedly came to Ning Fan and put down two memorials.

Both memorials were sealed with fire paint and could not be opened by ordinary people. However, Ning Fan simply did not have this worry and directly reached out to open the seal of the memorials. After just a cursory glance, his blood surged and he was so angry that he almost fainted. .

After reading the two memorials, Ning Fan's face was extremely ugly. He touched the table with his hand, looking anxious and angry.

"Your Majesty, what big thing happened in Jiangnan again?"

Ergou was startled when he saw Ning Fan's unkind expression. Ning Fan always kept his emotions and anger secretive, and few things could make Ning Fan show such obvious anger.

"A big event happened in the south of the Yangtze River. Pirates and Japanese pirates invaded the people on the border and caused a large number of casualties along the coast. According to the figures in these two memorials, at least 20,000 people along the coast were killed or injured."

Ning Fan punched the table with an angry look on his face.

You must know that the number of more than 20,000 people is just a string of numbers on paper, but it is more than 20,000 living lives. People along the coast make a living by fishing. You can imagine how difficult their lives are.

But even under such poor and difficult conditions, those pirates and Japanese pirates still continued to cause trouble, and even caused a catastrophe this time, which was absolutely unbearable for Ning Fan.

Ning Fan quickly wrote instructions on the memorial, and then gave it to Ergou to rush to Jiangnan for eight hundred miles.

At this time in Kyoto, Ning Fan was anxious, but he didn't know the situation in Jiangnan.

At this time, in April in the south of the Yangtze River, the temperature has reached more than 20 degrees, and the fishing villages on the border are full of stench. Chen Yuanqing, who was dressed in military uniform, looked extremely ugly after walking around several villages.

He turned over to more than a dozen nearby villages and market towns. It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as littering the fields with corpses. All the gold, silver and soft goods were looted, and even the poultry and livestock that could not be taken away were directly slaughtered.

"These beasts should not be entrusted with human life."

Chen Yuanqing looked up at a little girl of seven or eight years old, who was forcibly impaled on a tree trunk and had lost all her blood.

"What are you looking at? Are you blind? Why don't you quickly remove the person?"

Chen Yuanqing was furious and whipped the whip in his hand at several soldiers around him.

Chen Yuanqing led 20,000 soldiers to search this fishing village by the sea for several days, and all he could find were corpses.

In the small fishing villages along the coast, almost no one is left alive.

The dozens of soldiers following Chen Yuanqing have been collecting countless corpses every day. One action they mechanically repeat every day is to collect the corpses together and then set them on fire.

Even the soldiers who were rushing to kill on the battlefield saw these men, women, old and young being slaughtered indiscriminately, and their psychological endurance had reached the limit of collapse.

The most unbearable thing for these soldiers is the children. These children have not seen the sufferings of the world and have not experienced the prosperity of the world, so their lives have been frozen.

On the one hand, the soldiers were on the verge of mental collapse, but as the coach, Chen Yuanqing was particularly irritable. He was like an angry lion, his eyes red, and he was on the verge of rage every day.

After searching hundreds of small fishing villages, it was found that there were less than a hundred people alive. From the confessions and descriptions of hundreds of people, Chen Yuanqing finally put the whole thing together into a picture.