God don't even try to stop me from doing infrastructure!

Menis held a script made of bark paper in his hand, on which were ten short stories that Yunze had already written.He selected the song-and-dance girls and acrobats sent to him by others, and prepared to train them into a small drama troupe, performing some easy-to-understand short stories for children.

Yunze tried to instill some of his ideas into the locals, but he didn't want to cause fear, so he chose this kind of more harmless children's story.Expressed in a performance way, it is more interesting and easier to remember.

Because it is not clear whether these stories have violated local taboos, Yunze deliberately let Meinis read them first.

Most of the stories here are short stories about animals, including Aesop's fables, idiom stories of the flower family, and some classic fairy tales.He picked out the one he thought was more suitable, and after the transformation, Yunze told Menis that this was a bedtime story he was told when he was a child.

If these short stories are successful, he would like to write the story of Avanti in the next book.

They seem to be just stories, just a kind of entertainment, but they are actually a kind of ideological and cultural erosion, which can quietly change the country little by little.

Menis watched silently, his face remained unchanged, and his heart was full of turmoil.

In his opinion, these little stories all contain the wisdom of the universe and the philosophy of society, and they are reflected in a simple story that children can understand, which is really amazing.

The difficulty lies in the simplicity.There are many sages in this world who are unknown to the world because their language is too profound for ordinary people to understand, and it is inevitable that their songs are high-sounding.But these stories are not the same. They obviously contain profound philosophy, but even the woman who fetches water by the roadside can understand it at once.

He seems to see pairs of wise eyes through these seemingly simple stories. Their stories are concise and sharp, and the weight is light, and the simplicity shows that it is not simple.

Even the Wang family didn't have the patience to let the sage condense his wisdom into simple and interesting stories to teach children who don't know anything.

Prince Sham grew up as an heir, and his teachers were many sages, but they never had such little stories that a child could understand.

Menis seems to understand why Yunze is so innocent and transparent now.Yunze doesn't need to go through the world, and countless wisdom enters his brain through this kind of "bedtime story".

The dullest man will become wise by such an education, and he is wise already.

These are priceless treasures, but now Yunze wants to spread them out so that everyone can enjoy the same treatment as him. Menis is in a complicated mood and doesn't know what to say.

Instead of thinking about controlling public opinion and disseminating ideas, he felt that Yunze was too pure and kind, he only thought about Taixi's sake, and was even willing to bring such wisdom crystallization to the people.

However, he did think of these little stories to open up the wisdom of the people, but at the moment there is no clear policy to fool the people, so Menis thinks there is no problem.

"Your Highness, are these the stories that are going to be performed in the small theater you mentioned? No problem." Menis said.

"The king's new clothes are also available?" Yun Ze confirmed again.Wouldn't it be considered political innuendo?For example, mocking the king of the country is stupid.

Menis laughed, being cautious is a good thing, although Yunze was a little too cautious: "You also said that you are the king of a certain island country, what does it have to do with our Taixi king? If you are worried, you can bring it into the palace to let us His Majesty decides for himself."

Between countries, it is not once or twice to slander each other's monarchs, and Menis thinks it is completely fine.

He even suspected that his uncle would change this stupid king into the king of a country he hated the most, and then asked Yunze to make the king even more stupid.

Menis expected it well, the king really made such a suggestion, because he felt that the king above was exactly the same as the king of the Northern Kingdom, and His Majesty the King also enthusiastically provided some stupid things about the King of the Northern Kingdom for Yunze to play freely.

It is said that His Majesty the King of Taixi has won hundreds of battles on land, but the Taixi Navy was not good enough. He suffered a defeat in the North Kingdom. Prepare to take to the afterlife to prove your glory.

His Majesty the King has deep resentment towards the Northern Kingdom, wishing that all the stupid villains had the face of an enemy.

Yunze couldn't laugh or cry, in the end he still didn't say clearly that he was the king of the northern country, but only said that he was the king of a northern country, and then used the appearance and some deeds of the northern king provided by His Majesty the King.

However, after knowing that Yunze wanted to build a theater, His Majesty the King wanted to support it.Yunze made gestures with him about what kind of theater he wanted to build and how many people it could accommodate.His original intention was to build an arc-shaped stepped theater, which can accommodate 100 people.

The king patted his thigh and felt that the scale was a bit small. He said that he should find a new place to build a large open-air stone building that could accommodate tens of thousands of people, just like an arena.

The king these days wants to play big whenever he plays.

Yunze quickly rejected him. If he really built a Roman Colosseum, it would be a waste of time and money.

But in the end, the scale of this small theater expanded from 100 people to 1000 people, and changed from a wooden building to a stone building.Stone can be brought from quarries.The king said that this part can be provided free of charge. Anyway, those stones are still there, and he has not been in the mood to repair the palace recently. (In fact, all the stone materials were used to pave the culvert and open channel. Even if he wanted to repair it, it couldn't be done.)

The small theater has not been repaired yet, the singers and dancers at home and the artists of this era have begun to rehearse the stories written by Yun Ze, and at the same time, the production of those animal costumes has also begun.

On the other side, the flower juice of red and blue flowers and roses have all been filtered.Add a little flower dew to the filtered flower juice, then add polished glutinous rice flour and fine pearl powder that have been filtered and precipitated with water and stirred.The glutinous rice has been soaked for several days, so it is slightly sour, but not unpleasant.

You can also pour a little olive oil into the flower residue, soak for a few days and then filter out the red oil.

Yunze put the powder that he had made before, poured in the red flower oil and the beeswax that had melted away from water, and stirred carefully, and it was the kind of rouge cream that Yunze wanted.

If there is more powder, it will be in the shape of a powder cake, and if there is more oil and wax, it will be in the shape of a cream.

Yunze is divided into three color series according to his own preferences, orange-red series, positive red series, and purple-red series.The heavy color is rouge, the kind with a lot of glutinous rice flour and pearl powder added, and the white with a little red can be used as a powder cake.You can also add a little mica powder for a little sparkle.

In the south of Taixi, there is a place where mica flakes are produced, so the price of mica is not so high.

He also burned pine wood and put a bronze lid on his head to collect the pine smoke.Pine smoke with olive oil and beeswax can be made into eyebrow cream or eyeliner.You can also use pine smoke and animal glue (such as isinglass and hide glue) to make eyebrow pencil, and apply it with a little water.

Yunze even extravagantly used lapis lazuli, malachite and mica to make glittery blue-green eyeliner.

In this way, several basic cosmetics for women's makeup are all available.

Next year, Yunze plans to plant some comfrey to extract purple pigment. I heard that purple is very expensive right now.Another reason why King Taixi had so much resentment towards the king of the Northern Kingdom was that the other party actually decorated the palace with purple gauze, which was too extravagant!

To use an analogy, the other party actually used ice jade to make window panes, so you are not angry?

In fact, Yunze also thought about a kind of paint, Prussian blue.Yunze vaguely remembered that it was fired with ox blood mixed with plant ash, but he had experimented and extracted a yellow crystal stone. He didn't know what key steps were missing, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being. (less ferric salt solution)

The potters made a series of very cute little jars for this cosmetic set.

The carpenter made a carved wooden box.

Each box is equipped with a pure white pearlescent powder, a powder with a little pink, a four-color eye shadow box, red, blue, green, and black, a box of four-color lipstick, orange red, pink, red and purple of crimson.There is also a set of thin rabbit fur brushes and black eyebrow pencil.

He sent several sets of this kind of gift box to the priestess and the first princess, and arranged for a maid who knew how to make up to demonstrate.Then these gift boxes were placed on the shelf of aromatherapy at a limited and luxurious price.Bulk will also be on the shelves, but the blue-green eye shadow and the series with glitter are not available, only gift boxes are available.

Yunze, who has made anti-fraud videos, is well versed in business routines, and he follows modern marketing methods—first celebrity effects, then layered sales and limited editions.

The gift box is a limited edition, the one with pearl powder and mica powder and relatively uniform and plump color is high-end, and the one with a small amount of pearl powder and some impurities is mid-range.

There are no low-end cosmetics. The raw materials for making these cosmetics are more expensive in this era, so there are no low-end cosmetics. However, girls from ordinary families can buy a small box of lip gloss, which is divided into small boxes the size of a thumb.

The nobles of Taixi also wear makeup, but that kind of makeup is not so much for beauty as a symbol of some kind of class status.

The local cosmetics in Taixi are relatively rough. They are made of olive oil mixed with finely ground gemstone powder. Aristocratic men and women use this pigment to paint special patterns on their foreheads and eyes, in order to show that they are favored by gods.

They paint eyes, flowers, feathers, mountains, rivers, sun and moon on their faces, which is more like painting totems than makeup.

So Yunze was unexpectedly asked by His Majesty the King and other male priests: Why do women have it, but we don't?Does it have any special meaning, like praying for conception?

Yunze: ...

I never expected that even makeup in this world is gender-neutral, and it is my old-fashioned descendant.

Yunze gave a box to the male priest and the king and prince.

When the roses are almost finished blooming, the winter wheat harvest season is here.

The king arrived at the wheat field in Yunze with his two proud sons, the prime minister, the agricultural officer, and the priests of the temple.

The wheat harvested in early summer, if such a miraculous thing hadn't happened before their eyes, they would not have believed it anyway.Later, when they weighed the wet wheat grains they produced, it was actually much higher than the spring wheat in the same condition.

After escaping the hot and rainy summer in Taixi, the wheat is plump.

"We can take out a small wheat field and try planting it this autumn." The king was more cautious and wanted to try again.

Other nobles and temples also had the same idea. They had seen the harvest of winter wheat with their own eyes. No matter how incredible it was, if someone succeeded, they could give it a try.No one said that the way of wheat cultivation should be changed immediately. After all, it is about survival, so we should be more careful.

In fact, the king had confidence in Yunze and Dongmai in his heart.Because of this, the palace held a small bonfire party, which they said was to celebrate the winter wheat harvest.

There are many mosquitoes in summer.

In summer bonfire parties, in order to protect themselves from poisonous insects, the nobles would choose makeup (Taixi people believe that makeup on the face can disperse flying insects).

Men toss the upper half of their faces, usually by powdering their foreheads, drawing thick upper and lower eyeliners on their eyes, and painting various totems that symbolize beauty as they like on the forehead, corners of the eyes, and under the eyes.

In addition to the forehead and eyes, women's lips and the sides of the mouth are also places to show their craftsmanship.

This year they all used Shenzi's special cosmetics.

Not to mention, although there must be particularly ugly ones, most of them are not bad, very artistic and exotic, some like a mixture of Egyptian face makeup and Indian god makeup.

Yunze and Meinis, without makeup, stood in the corner, feeling that they were out of place for this party.

This is an open-air party, that is, eating, drinking and having fun. The dancers in little clothes twisted their bodies and softened into a puddle of water.They were dancing around the bonfire, and the others were grilling and drinking, which was more primitive and wild than an indoor party.

Prince Sham is hugging a very strong chick. He has a red eye drawn on his forehead, two red inverted triangles are drawn under the eyes on both sides, and there are three red marks imitating scratches on his cheeks.Thanks to his good looks, otherwise the red makeup of the motherland would be too horrible to look at.

Yunze turned his head to look at Menis's clean face, and at the crowd of demons dancing in the arena. He took out a bright red rouge from his hidden pocket, wiped it with his thumb, and stretched out his hand to wipe it on Menis' forehead, and a small torch appeared .

"Let's just draw a little." Yunze said with a smile.

Menis looked at Yunze, and wiped it with his thumb.Yunze thought that he would also apply it on his forehead, but he didn't expect that the next second, Menis' fingers rubbed against his lips.

Yunze was stunned: This, isn't it a bit too intimate?

Menis smiled: "It suits you very well, very beautiful."