What kind of bad intentions can the little prince have?

With the help of Li Zhi and Empress Wu, Li Qia's actions became more and more smooth. Among other things, the actors he found were more reliable, and new stories were made up, and there was more than one version.

The most common version is that a certain Hu merchant saw this mirror when he was doing business. He felt that it was a rare commodity and bought it back at a high price. Unfortunately, most of it was broken on the way, leaving only a few sides, and he was going to make a lot of money. It’s good to go back to my hometown and become a rich man, and I won’t have to travel between the two places in the future.

The bloody version is that a small prince in the far west lost his country and family. When he fled, he packed the valuables in the palace and wanted to restore the country. However, he encountered horse bandits on the way, the prince was killed, and other followers Those who were killed were killed, those who were caught were caught, and there were a few who saw the opportunity and ran away first. There were a few mirrors hidden in the mezzanine of the cart he drove away. They have nowhere to go now, they just want to sell these The mirror lives in peace.

However, the core of the story is that these mirrors came from the far west, separated by tens of thousands of miles. Let alone mirrors, even if ordinary goods are shipped here, the value will increase exponentially.In fact, Li Yue had no idea that when Venice had a monopoly on mirror manufacturing, book-sized mirrors could sell for [-] pounds.At that time, the purchasing power of the pound was comparable to that of gold.Therefore, in Datang, a mirror of [-] guan is really not expensive.

Everyone has no doubts about these. Many people know that glass and colored glaze are actually similar things. However, there are other problems with the raw materials. The western side uses high-temperature glass, while the Central Plains has always used low-temperature glass. Therefore, the quality of the glass is different. It is also relatively large, and the glassware on the Central Plains side is not heat-resistant, so it can only be used as a display.In addition, because the raw materials are not pure enough, the glass solution will naturally be filled with impurities, and then it will look turbid.For example, only some merchants from the Western Regions brought the relatively transparent glass, but their glass is also colored, usually blue or red, and I have never seen transparent glass.

And the mirror is made of transparent colored glaze, which costs a lot of money when you think about it. If you want to turn colored glaze into a mirror, and make it so big, it is not crushed on the road. This is not a rare treasure, what is a rare treasure?

Don't say that the aristocratic families are all poets and books heirs, they are all greedy in nature, so with such rare treasures, who would not be tempted?Therefore, one by one went to the so-called Hu merchants to discuss the purchase, and the price was raised higher and higher. The Hu merchants were also sneaky. I will give you the last glass mirror!"

He didn't know how many times he said this last side. In the end, all those glazed mirrors were sold out. Li Qia couldn't help the temptation, so he also sold the target mirror in his hand. The palm-sized target mirror sold eight. The high price of 20 guan, the other mirrors, sold more than 400 guan, and bought tens of thousands of guan, and finally, [-] mirrors were sold at a high price of nearly [-] million guan.

At this time, Li Yue had already returned to Ningzhou, and he simply didn't know about the ups and downs in Chang'an.There are also businessmen from Chang'an who talked about those mirrors. Some people said that those mirrors were the dressing mirrors of the Queen Mother of the West. Some scholars even directly called them Yaotai mirrors.Hearing this, the grade immediately went up again!

A bunch of country bumpkins in Ningzhou were dazzled when they heard it. Some of them directly asked about the news of those Hu merchants. Hu people who seem to be a bit down and out have such good things, how can they let them go to Chang'an, they should buy one or two sides in Ningzhou no matter what!Suddenly there was another long sigh.

On Li Yue's side, both Gao Zheng and Mrs. Zhu have heard about this. Gao Zheng is fine, even though the mansion is very rich now, he still maintains his true colors. If he can spend money, he will definitely not spend money Yes, for him, what is the use of mirrors? Bronze mirrors can be fused to make money, and glass mirrors will be broken if the hand is a little heavier. At that time, it will be useless. It is not suitable for eating or wearing. If there is no, there will be no chant!

As for Mrs. Zhu, she felt a little regretful: "Your Highness, you were also in Chang'an before, why don't you want to buy one back, even a smaller one is fine. After a few years, Your Highness, you should discuss marriage. Taking out such a mirror as a betrothal gift, even the ladies of those families would be willing to marry His Highness!"

Li Yue just smiled: "I think what Manager Gao said makes sense. It's not suitable for food or clothing. Also, what's so good about marrying the daughters of those families? Their eyes are higher than the top, and they may not be taken seriously." Let's go to our old Li's house!"

Even though Mrs. Zhu has been in the palace for many years, her knowledge is much better than before, and she knows the reputation of the five surnames and seven families, but what she knows is that to marry a wife, you must marry a woman with five surnames, and the rest is still confused.At this moment, I couldn't help feeling a little bit aggrieved: "Although she is a woman with five surnames, Your Highness is still a prince! Isn't it better to marry Your Highness than marrying those petty officials?"

In fact, if Li Yue said that he wanted to marry a woman with five surnames, those families would offer an olive branch. After all, face is face, and benefits are benefits.It's not that the women of the five surnames have not married into the royal family, so it's okay to marry another one. After all, the interests Li Yue represents, let alone them, even a saint is still alive.What's more, Confucius has not been praised as a saint yet!In a sense, marrying the emperor may not have the same benefits as marrying Li Yue.

For example, when Li Zhi married Queen Wang, the Wang family became a duke, and Queen Wang's uncle was also promoted, but did the Wang family really benefit from it?In fact, no, even, because the queen was not favored, the Wang family had to help the queen to do a lot of things, but the queen was abolished because of witchcraft, which even caused the daughters of the aristocratic family quality has been questioned.It turns out that you women from aristocratic families can also play tricks such as making villains and dancing gods. When it really comes to that time, you will be almost like shrews.If it weren't for the fact that most of the five surnames and seven families were intermarried, just like this, the marriage market for women with five surnames would have dropped a lot.

But Li Yue is different. Li Yue has a good status. As the son of the late emperor, he doesn't need to fight for the throne. No matter who becomes the emperor, he will not have much trouble. Can get a real position.The most important thing is that Li Yue is definitely a talent. The aristocratic family does not have any contempt for craftsmen at this time. In fact, there are actually quite a few scholar-bureaucrats these days who have mastered various craftsmanship skills. Later, it was generally laymen guiding experts!On the whole, the average quality of scholar-bureaucrats in the Sui and Tang Dynasties is definitely far higher than that of later scholar-bureaucrats.An ability like Li Yue, in the Song and Ming Dynasties, would have been despised by orthodox scholars, but at this time, everyone is not blind, Li Yue casually takes out something, it means great wealth, and for the family, wealth means more land, more plots, and greater influence.If Li Yue became their own son-in-law, even if they couldn't give all of them to their own family, they would be content with two or three of them!

It's a pity that they thought well, but Li Yue's marriage was not in their own hands. Neither Li Zhi nor Empress Wu would agree to him marrying a woman with five surnames.Li Yue even suspected that if Empress Wu hadn't gotten along with her natal family, she would have chosen a surname Wu for herself.However, the younger generation of the Wu family didn't seem to have heard of any outstanding women.

Li Yue quickly put this matter behind him. He believed that when he reached the age of marriage, he should still have the autonomy over his own marriage.Li Yue also had a relationship in his previous life. It was when he was in college, but they split up later, mainly because of differences in the future. Li Yue was a man with no ambitions. When she graduated, she got an offer from a big factory. Li Yue's life was uneventful, her salary was not high, and she didn't have too much pressure. But, correspondingly, her future could be seen at a glance. When I was in my 30s, I got a position like an office director, otherwise, it would be like that for the rest of my life.But my girlfriend is more motivated, driven by KPIs to keep moving forward, and her income soon improved a lot.She wanted to get Li Yue to join another department of the company through internal referrals, but Li Yue refused. In the end, the two quarreled and broke up peacefully.After that, Li Yue never talked about it again, and she could calmly listen to the elder sister in the office teasing a few words and telling some colorful jokes. In that era, everyone was actually not very enthusiastic about getting married and starting a family. Life was too stressful. How happy life is. After getting married, I have to bear the pressure of a family. I am still a baby (Scream.jpg)!

Probably because he didn't meet the right person. In fact, he didn't have too much affection for the previous girlfriend. The reason why they were together at the beginning was actually some blunders. In the season of hormonal outbreaks, once acquaintances match up, they are half-pushed and half-hearted. In fact, there is no strong relationship between each other, so they broke up and broke up. Li Yue even felt relieved. After all, in When you want to be a salted fish, another person desperately wants you to turn over, which is also an annoying thing.

Therefore, even if Mrs. Zhu mentioned this matter, Li Yue didn't pay attention to it. Subconsciously, he didn't expect that the times are different now. Not a few years.

However, it is not an imminent matter. Even if he knew, Li Yue would not take it to heart. He is still thinking about when to officially launch glass products, so that he can cheat those aristocratic families again!Li Yue has already thought about it. When the glass products are launched in the future, first control the production and tell everyone that this is a technology learned from the West. It is still very immature, so the yield is very low, and the price is naturally high. If the price is too high, wait until we cut a crop of leeks first, then produce some glass products with relatively poor quality, and lower the price. After a while, it means that the technology has improved and the cost has dropped. Therefore, the overall price of glass products Also dropped.In this way, even those who bought at a high price before have nothing to say, only to admit it.Afterwards, he took out the glass mirror and said that you were all deceived by those Hu merchants before. In fact, the glass mirror is not very difficult to make, and the cost is not too high. Therefore, the glass mirror is on sale and discounted. !

Thinking about the possible reactions of those aristocratic families, Li Yue felt that she could laugh while sleeping, but this is not good. In order to prevent the truth from being exposed, Li Yue stopped thinking about it, and instead gave it to the few who came to Ningzhou. The artisans who fired glass assigned a new task, asking them to find china clay to make porcelain.The quality of kaolin in Jingdezhen is the best, but the output is only so much. Li Yue doesn't plan to go there and consume it now, but it doesn't mean that there are no porcelain clay in other places. Of course, not all kaolin is suitable for firing. As a porcelain maker, Li Yue couldn't figure out what it was. He only remembered that kaolin should be white, so he asked people to look for it.

Fortunately, the people below are much more knowledgeable than Li Yue, and soon someone mentioned a kind of soil, that is, Guanyin soil. The so-called Guanyin soil was only a few years ago. It only appeared during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.During a famine, the grass roots and bark are all eaten up, and everyone really can only eat dirt.This thing has been eaten for thousands of years, but it was in Africa.Li Yue remembered seeing it in the media back then, but she didn't expect that someone in the Central Plains had already eaten this food!Avalokiteshvara is really hungry, because it is not digested at all. Many people eat Avalokiteshvara and eat it to death.Some of the following people have experienced famines, and even several of them have eaten this thing. They still remember where the Guanyin soil can be found. Soon, Li Yue saw the so-called Guanyin soil. Although it is not white, it is also because As for the issue of purity, just wash it out.

Li Yue's generation has never felt the taste of hunger, and the famine they saw through the Internet was not realistic. Now that they heard those people talk about the situation during the famine, they couldn't help being a little silent.There are many high-yielding crops in later generations, but they are not born with so many crops. Whether it is potatoes, corn, or even sweet potatoes, it has been through years of artificial domestication that the subsequent yields can be achieved.After all, when growing in the wild, there is no need for these crops to grow their roots, tubers or fruits much fatter, and only when artificial intervention will deliberately select varieties that mutate in these directions, and continue to cultivate them from generation to generation.The problem is, not to mention that potatoes and corn are originally from the Americas, even sweet potatoes are not the original products of the Central Plains. As for where they are produced, Li Yue has no idea.

Thinking of the ancestors of these crops, Li Yue suddenly felt that it was necessary for him to study how to build a ship. Even if those crops could not be found, the vast sea can provide a large source of protein for human beings, and with enough protein and fat intake, Everyone's demand for food will be much lower, and the quality of the human body will also be improved a lot.

However, even if you study shipbuilding here in Ningzhou, you can only research ships that can sail in rivers, and the environment of the sea is different from that of rivers. Therefore, Li Yue pondered, if he changed his fiefdom, Can you discuss with Li Zhi and change to a fief by the sea, Li Zhi should agree!

The firing of Li Yue's porcelain has entered the regular stage. The first ones to be fired are naturally the kind of celadon that has appeared in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that the original plan was to fire white porcelain, but the light blue color on the porcelain has not been able to If it is completely removed, it can only be fired into that light blue color as much as possible. As for what patterns to add on it, and what other glaze colors, these craftsmen haven't figured it out yet.But most of the time, you just need to get started, and those craftsmen can quickly learn by analogy, use all kinds of things they know to glaze the porcelain, and then burn out various colors.They have all fired glass before, and they already know the furnace temperature and the control of the fire. They even began to try to control the furnace temperature to adjust the change of glaze color.Li Yue didn't ask them to burn any large utensils at the beginning, but let them burn ceramic tiles at the beginning. Even broken pieces of porcelain can be used as mosaics for decoration, so they can do whatever they want, but no matter what is fired What, he asked these craftsmen to record the glaze ratio and the approximate furnace temperature, so as not to have to try their luck to restore it in the future.

Time passed very quickly. After the first batch of tiles were fired, it was winter again. After thinking about it, Li Yue simply brought that batch of tiles to Beijing. A congratulatory gift for Zhi and Empress Wu.

These tiles are also very beautifully made, with various color patterns painted on them with specially adjusted glaze colors. Li Yue has already thought about it. These can just be sent to Lishan to repair the hot spring pool, and can also be used for the Ci Kiln. A big order, the Daming Palace has not really been completed yet, but Li Zhi and Empress Wu have spent most of their political careers in the Daming Palace, otherwise, where would the TV series "Daming Palace Ci" come from!Li Yue couldn't believe it. After seeing this kind of tiles, the couple didn't buy a batch and put them in the Daming Palace.Even if the business doesn't make any money, it's just an advertisement. In the future, there's no need to worry about the sale of this batch of tiles!

In addition, Li Yue brought a lot of toys with her when she came to Beijing this time. Li Hong is now three years old, and the couple's second son, Li Xian, was also born. According to what was said a long time ago, Li Xian can be regarded as a legitimate son, because when he was born, his biological mother was the Queen, and when Li Hong was born, his biological mother was Zhaoyi.Although I don't pay attention to this now, but because of the status of Empress Wu, when Li Xian was born, the salary was actually higher than that of Li Hong.Although Li Yue had already sent a large amount of congratulatory gifts after hearing the news, but this time when he returned to Beijing, he had to bring another gift as an annual gift. Apart from the regular ones, what Li Yue prepared were all kinds of toys up.For example, wooden puzzles, building blocks, architectural models, and educational toys such as Luban locks and Jiulianhuan, etc., are always packed in several boxes.

When these were sent to the Lishan Palace, Li Xianneng, who was only a suckling baby, played with a few brightly colored rattles, but Li Hong was very interested in those puzzles, building blocks and the like.

"Fifteen Lang really has all kinds of fantastic ideas, thanks to him coming up with so many playthings!" Li Zhi pushed the tumbler with great interest, watching the tumbler that turned into a fairy sway comically He looks very interested.

Empress Wu also smiled and said: "No, it was probably something he wanted to play when he was a child, but he couldn't play it himself, so he just sent it to these two children!"

Hearing this, Li Zhi felt some paternal love again. He waved his hand and said, "If it's cold today, let him live here in Lishan, so that he won't have to stop in Chang'an!"

Seeing that Li Yue just returned to Beijing and moved to Lishan with big bags and small bags before staying in the palace for a full day, many people who wanted to take this opportunity to get in touch with Li Yue couldn't help but sigh.It was rumored before that King Ning wanted to build a road from Ningzhou to Chang'an. At the beginning, everyone was watching Li Yue's jokes. These days, can ordinary people afford to build roads? As a result, Li Yue just tried to lay a track about [-] miles long in Ningzhou first, and walked back and forth on the track with the four-wheeled carriage that was just researched. Realizing the benefits of the track, this thing can greatly increase the capacity.In the past, the transportation of bulk goods could only rely on canals. If you go by land, you don’t know how much food you will spend just by eating horse chews along the way. But on this track, two horses can easily pull a huge The carriage is full and the speed is very fast. It is not much slower than running an empty horse. The same distance now takes only one-third of the time before. Not only that, but the things that can be carried are also faster than before. Several times more, as long as you calculate the gap inside, everyone just feels that the eyeballs have turned into a golden color.

However, this track can only use the steel rails produced by Ningzhou Iron and Steel Workshop, and Ningzhou Iron and Steel Workshop is owned by Li Yue, and no one else can touch it at all, so someone wrote a letter saying that this track transportation should be nationalized like an official road , which means, I can't get any benefits, so don't even think about it.However, Li Zhi refuted this matter in court. After all, this track was paid by Li Yue at his own expense. Your empty teeth will be state-owned. What are you doing?In particular, it has not been completed yet, and if you turn against others for this track, and if they don’t build it later, you will be in vain. As for compensation or something, Li Zhi just settled a score in the court. After looking at the value of those tracks, the value of the sleepers under them, and other labor costs, and calculating the compensation figure, the first one from the household department shut up, and they refused to pay the money.Of course, they all regretted it afterwards. If they had known that this track would have such a profit, the Ministry of Household Affairs would have to buy it. Just collect the shipping fee, and it will be recovered in less than a year, and it will be a net profit in the future.

It was not until the court had no objections that Li Yue continued to order the construction of the railway tracks, and the matter was not suspended until it was freezing cold. After all, it was not suitable for laying foundations, laying sleepers, and erecting railway tracks in freezing weather. Don't go back and make something happen again.But everyone doesn't think so. Many people suspect that Li Yue is short of money. After all, almost every section of the railway track is piled up with money. Li Yue has a lot of resources in his hands, but he may not have much cash, so , and many people are tempted and want to get involved.

It's a pity that before I saw anyone, I went to Lishan with all my money.On the other side of Mount Li, Li Yue was staring at a little girl.