The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

It is true that ceramics...especially white porcelain are too expensive nowadays. After all, the Han Dynasty is still in the watershed of being classified as "primitive porcelain" in later generations.Not to mention white porcelain, even celadon is an extremely precious item.

What's more, Xia Anran's "extravagance" had to make useless "stationery" with white porcelain that she had never seen before. The three people were so scared that they rushed over and wanted to teach the king not to be extravagant!

The three of them felt bitter in their hearts.

I just think Zhongshan Wang thought it was pretty good before, he was serious, hardworking and smart, why did he suddenly end up on this road of no return!Can there be a good thing on this road?It has to be corrected, and the little king must be corrected while he is young, otherwise this little Miaomiao will be ruined!

The three auxiliary ministers exchanged a glance and decided to stand in the same rank.

Xia Anran didn't know what the three of them were thinking. Seeing that the more they talked, the more excited they were, they were about to come, "Your father is still working hard before starting a business, Er'an dares to be so depraved", he hurriedly stopped these three who were brainwashing themselves. Courtier.

"Qing and others misunderstood." The little prince smiled wryly, "This item is cheap, only slightly more expensive than Tao."

The three courtiers choked on the words at the same time, but the Tai Tuo who had a quicker reaction grasped the point: "Your Highness, did Zhongshan discover this white mine?"

Now there is no mention of porcelain clay, Tai Tu only thought it was white clay, and couldn't think of a name for a moment, so he used the strange term of white mine, but Xia Anran understood.

He smiled and led the three courtiers into his small studio.As soon as they entered, the three of them saw a lot of scattered ceramic ornaments, but compared with the almost flawless white they got, these were slightly yellowish or greenish, and some of them had uneven glaze color. Or it may be a small trace left by accidental contact with fire ash.

These are obviously for Xia Anran's own use.

His Highness even gave them the more beautiful ones, and he used the ones with variegated spots!

The three courtiers were shocked.

Xia Anran ignored their shock, but asked the attendants to withdraw temporarily. He sorted out a large empty table, and then spread out a map.

The Zhongshan Kingdom sealed by Xia Anran did not have the responsibility of guarding the frontier, it was in a relatively safe hinterland, but any word "relative" meant that there was a possibility, even if Chang'an, which seemed absolutely safe, was in the frontier It was almost attacked by the Huns every year.

There are Xiongnu in the north who are ready to move, and Wuhuan in the northwest who are not to be outdone. If Zhongshan is really so safe, where did the Great Wall of Laiyuan, which is tens of miles to the north, come from?

So before Xia Anran arrived in the fiefdom, he still got a map sent to him by his father. It didn't have much detailed content, it probably just described the location of several states and counties, and gave him information about where his brothers were.This map was later supplemented by the Taifu.

Xia Anran pointed to where she was, and then the young boy moved his finger up slowly, pointing at the Xiongnu: "You three may wish to guess, if I sell these things to the Xiongnu, what can I exchange for them?"

The three of them were startled, and just about to speak out to dissuade them, they heard Xia Anran say: "Do you know Zhongxingyue?"

I know, of course I know.

Who doesn't know this man?

This person was originally an eunuch of the Han court, and Emperor Wen sent him to go to the Xiongnu with the princess at that time to marry him.At that time, this man refused to go, and said to the officials: If you send me, I will become your confidant, and the Han court didn't pay attention at that time, so they sent him there.

In the end he did.

After the eunuch arrived in the Xiongnu, he immediately took refuge in the Shanyu at that time, and advised the Shanyu not to rely on the resource supply of the big man and to become economically independent.

There is a well-known rhetoric in modern times.

If a country can be completely self-sufficient and play with itself instead of others, then it will have no scruples when it wants to make troubles.

Because he is not afraid of trade sanctions imposed on him by others at all, let alone the economy being interfered so that it will be divided and collapsed from within.

In the same way, the more complicated the domestic economy is, the easier it is to be controlled by others.

At the beginning of the development of New China, in order to show its sincerity and peace-loving hope, it deliberately handed over its own economic interests to others, and also deliberately introduced resources from other countries, and avoided developing this resource by itself, making some Weakened on the one hand.

On the one hand, it is powerless, but it also means to hand over the handle.

Therefore, Zhongxingyue's move is to cut off the purpose of the big man's economic suppression and slow assimilation of the Huns.

"Zhong Xingyue used a big man's theory that silk is not as durable as fur to convince the old Chanyu. Could he convince the monarch and his ministers that porcelain is not as durable as pottery?"

Xia Anran picked up two porcelain cups and bumped them lightly, the unique clear sound of porcelain passed through the ears of the two of them, like the sound of a phoenix, piercing their hearts.

"Even if the monarch and his ministers can resist the joy of porcelain, can the people under him?"

"It is the Hun men who can do it, but what about their women?"

The young man fixedly looked at them, his eyes were iron-like, with seriousness and solemnity: "The Xiongnu are nomads, and women occupy a very high position in the family. Women's pursuit of beauty is endless. In order to please the women, the Xiongnu The sons of men will definitely get more porcelain."

"Porcelain is fragile. If we want to grab it, we would rather break it than tile it."

"If you want porcelain, you can only trade."

"And what can the Huns sell us?"

Step by step, he introduced the three of them into the scene he depicted. The boy's almond eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a heaviness different from his age. The three older courtiers seemed to be able to see an unknown future from his eyes. : "It's our Han people who were taken away."

Zhidu opened his mouth, but Xia Anran stopped him with his eyes when he wanted to say something: "Don't say it's meaningless, they are the subjects of our Han Kingdom, and the blood on their bodies is the same as ours."

"Since he is a Han Chinese, and he was taken away because of our army's ineffective guarding, then we have to bring him back, no matter what the cost."

The young man's eyes were like lightning, he glanced at the three of them, and said again: "When the Xiongnu return our Han people, there will be others."

"...Your Highness means..." Cheng Bushi's voice was dry, "A slave from another tribe captured by the Huns?"

"good."

Seeing the little prince nodding, Cheng Bushi frowned, he exchanged glances with Zhi, both of them were a little puzzled, they didn't understand why Xia Anran wanted so many people, Zhongshan had never experienced wars, and there were no natural disasters, The population has never been reduced on a large scale.

Are these people going to be used as corvees?

Before they could ask, Xia Anran's fingers slowly slid from the north to the west, and the long eyelashes like crow feathers covered the eyes of the young man, so that the three ministers could not see clearly the state of mind of their county king: "Here, along the way, there are tribes and countries that were crushed by the Huns."

"As for the local environment, these people know best."

"Coincidentally," he smiled slightly, "these people also hate the Huns the most."

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

It may take a lot of time to achieve such a goal, and it is also likely to lose money. This is a business that no businessman will do.

But he is not a businessman.

He is a citizen of the Han Dynasty, the vassal king of the Han Dynasty, and the elder brother of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

He is also a soul from thousands of years later. Although this place is just a dream, he wants to make him a reality.

Xia Anran's gaze wandered between Taifu and Zhidu, and finally fell on Taifu's face: "Teacher, I will trouble you to write this matter into a memorial book."

"The king is in spring and wants to pay homage to the court."

Zhai Yi took a deep breath, and bowed his promise under the incomprehensible eyes of Zhidu and Cheng Bushi.

When he got up, the middle-aged man's eyes fell on the map.In his eyes, this map with messy lines is connected by a line from the west to the north of the Han Dynasty, and a war will eventually ignite on that line in the future.

"There will eventually be a war between the Han and the Hungarians," Zhi Du said in a deep voice, "but not now."

The little prince turned his face slightly, his face as smooth as jade was dyed with a layer of warm light under the light.The little boy smiled slightly: "Of course."

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After successfully completing the first task, the unique "Long Kiln" of the Han Dynasty was repaired for three days.

The craftsmen inspected the kiln, knocking every turn carefully, looking for bricks that showed signs of cracking after baking and replacing them.But it seems that Xia Anran's previously specially made heat-resistant bricks are of good quality, except for the high-heat sealing bricks at the main entrance, most of them are not damaged.

Therefore, after only a short rest for a few days, new embryos were inserted one after another.

In fact, when the embryo was made for the first time before, the craftsmen consciously made more, because the embryo dries slowly in winter, and the firing needs to be completely dry before it can be put into the kiln, otherwise it will be hot and cold during baking. Are easy to crack.

Because it is necessary to experiment with the firing of blue and white porcelain, especially the adjustment of the glaze ratio, after the finished product comes out, the craftsmen will adjust the raw materials according to the finished product, which is much faster than starting over.

Since he planned to pay homage to the court in the spring, as the little prince who had just entered the feudal clan, it was natural that he would have to prepare gifts for his family.That's right, what King Zhongshan, who was exempted from the contribution fee, brought over was a "gift" rather than a tribute.

That being the case, he can avoid a large amount of expensive goods and focus on "heart".

And what gift can express his heart better than porcelain developed by his hands?

But if everyone sends the same porcelain, it will inevitably lead to comparisons between each other.

It's not mechanical manufacturing, everyone will get something different, and for things like artwork, who looks good and who doesn't look good depends entirely on individual subjectivity.

Xia Anran personally thinks that celadon is more beautiful than today's white porcelain with variegated colors, but the three courtiers around him hold the white porcelain stationery every day and refuse to let go, cherishing it very much.

In order to avoid such unnecessary misunderstandings, Xia Anran planned to directly open the "private customization" mode, which can be said to be full of desire for survival.