Destiny Only Han

Chapter 210

For a moment, Liu Taigong's sparse beard on his chin moved without wind, and his hands on the iron crutches began to tremble even more.

This little bastard is so annoying!

Today, no matter what you say, you have to kick his feet to vent your anger!

As a result, the second Han Palace Obstacle Race broke out again.

Liu Ying, who has grown a lot taller, still maintains the advantage of being one body ahead, and uses the position of the pillars or the corner of the pavilion to avoid the pursuit of the old Liu.

It looks intense, but it's actually teasing me.

After the autumn sowing, the Guanzhong area entered a slack period for farming. Liu Taigong, who liked to be a good teacher in the fields, had no place to use his skills and panicked every day.

In addition, the people in Guanzhong live a relatively boring life under the constraints of the Qin law that only encourages farming and fighting and prohibits many entertainment items.

Therefore, Liu Taigong, who likes to fight cocks and dogs, can't find a like-minded partner after he is free.

Liu Ying took the initiative to tease him today, just because she was worried that he would get sick.

In fact, a family like them is like a garlic.

At this time, Liu Taigong is the Suanzhu, Liu Ying and Liu Bang are the garlic cloves, and all of them form a whole around the Suanzhu.

Once the garlic column falls, everyone will fall apart.

Well, with Liu Bang's character, coupled with his status, he can't be this Suanzhu.

After all, the most ruthless emperor's family...

In a corner of the garden in the distance, Lu Zhi led a group of young maids through with a dignified manner. Out of the corner of his eyes, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the chase on the other side. After being stunned for a moment, he turned around and left.

Behind her, Liu Le, who had been crying and mourning, suddenly burst into laughter.

beat him!

Little Lolita only felt that the anger that had been pent up in her heart for a long time dissipated a lot.

After she was dragged into the water by Liu Ying, Lu Zhi was worried that she would be ashamed in front of Shusun Tong, so these days she went out in person and escorted little Lolita to review the homework that had been left behind.

Four words.

Misery!

If it wasn't for Lu Zhi's presence today, she would definitely run over, take the initiative to block Liu Ying, and let Mrs. Liu beat him up!
In the distance, after discovering that Taigong Liu was really here, Liu Ying could only desperately use her advantages of short stature and flexible steering to support herself.

Teammates, save me... Liu Ying originally wanted to run to Lu Zhi, but after realizing that the other party had left in a hurry, she started to save herself.

"Listen to me, thank you... Bah!"

"Father, things are not as you imagined, the glass is made of sand, it's worthless!"

Liu Ying hid behind the colonnade, stuck her head out and tried to defend herself.

Liu Taigong was taken aback when he heard the words, and stood still.

He didn't suspect that Liu Ying coaxed him, after all, such a thing had never happened in the past few years.

So……

sand?

Glass?

These two things don't look like the same kind no matter how they look!

Seeing him stop, Liu Ying continued, "If Daddy doesn't believe me, let's go back to Hanzhong next time, and I'll take you to see how the glass is burned!"

Making things like glass is actually very simple, all you need is a crucible that can withstand high temperatures.

When the coal and iron trading company in Hanzhong began to use blast furnaces to make iron, the crucible was not a problem.

Then there are the ingredients.

Quartz sand, lime, soda ash.

The first two are easy to find, and they are minerals with large reserves. The difficulty lies in soda ash.

Under the current conditions, the industrial base of three acids and two alkalis definitely does not exist, so they can only be extracted from plant ash in a stupid way.

To put it simply, it is to pour the ashes of the burned plants into water, then filter out the impurities, and evaporate the remaining gray water to obtain the alkali.

Not good quality, but passable.

Thus, the first furnace of glass under human control was fired.

The reason why it is said to be controlled by humans is because things like glass are either purely natural, that is, formed by geological movements such as volcanic eruptions, or they are the product of accidental collisions when smelting other metals.

Since things are rare and expensive, a good glassware is more valuable than jade of the same volume.

Well, at this time, the reserves of jade were large, but the price was very expensive because it was very difficult to fully mine a jade mine under manual excavation.

In many emerald fields in Burma in later generations, an excavator can do a day's work, even if it is placed in the evening, it will take at least a thousand workers to work for three to five years...

The rise of stone gambling is also related to this.

If you don't have enough wool, why compete with regular casinos with sexy croupiers for customers?
When Liuli can be manually controlled, that is, the output of glass, Liu Ying's market price for glass does not seem to be set too high.

After all, no one wants to be thought of as a fool.

In the era of limited market consumption capacity, once the production capacity exploded, the price would naturally drop accordingly.

At that time, what will those who bought glass at a high price think?
If it was just some wealthy businessmen, Liu Ying would naturally ignore them.

But what if a boss like Xiao He, Zhou Bo, and Cao Can find out that his family has been tricked by Liu Ying?

Things are getting bigger!

Well, those decorations that are made by adding other minerals to color when firing glass, and then blown are not counted.

The price of handicrafts is very different from that of industrial products.

Under Liu Taigong's doubts, Liu Ying walked out from behind the pillar: "Although the window of our house is a little bigger, the price of the whole piece of glass is only a hundred dollars, which is very cheap..."

At this time, grain prices in Guanzhong became more and more stable. The prices of millet and rice were almost fixed at 120 yuan per stone, while wheat and beans were slightly cheaper at [-] yuan per stone.

So when Liu Taigong heard Liu Ying say the words 'very cheap', the corners of Liu Taigong's mouth could not help twitching a few times, but in the end it turned into a soft sigh.

Today is different from the past, their family is probably really qualified to say such a thing.

"Father, I'm hungry after running around, let's have afternoon tea, leek box or pork bun, which one do you want?"

"Sauce meat buns, people are old and can't eat too hard things..."

"Why don't you come back and find someone to insert a few big gold teeth for your father?"

"Gold for teeth? You prodigal bastard..."

Under the slightly downward-sloping sunlight, Grandpa Liu let Liu Ying grab his sleeve, and the two walked slowly out of the garden.

…………

Sanchuan County, Pingyin.

This is the later Mengjin, which has always been an important ferry on the Yellow River.

In the evening, just as it was getting dark, a group of soldiers came slowly to the west of the ferry on the north bank.

Surrounded by them was a prison cart pulled by two horses. In the middle of the prison cart sat a dejected Wei Bao, wearing only a single suit.

At this time, the autumn air was crisp, and after the sun set, the temperature dropped rapidly. Wei Bao huddled in a corner of the prison car, hugged his hands, and shivered.

Because he had warmly greeted the female family members of Han Xin's family, the soldiers of the Han army who escorted him naturally wanted to vent their anger on their own prime minister and general.

The two meals a day agreed upon when we set off turned into one meal a day...

However, following Wei Bao's prison cart, among several covered carriages, although Zhao Zi'er, Bo Ji and the others also looked miserable, they were guaranteed the minimum food and drink.

Moreover, they were the women of the King of Wei, and the soldiers of the Han army who escorted them, although salivating at Zhao Zier and others, stared at them with lustful eyes from time to time.

However, no one dared to really bully the other party.

The king's woman, only the king can send it away.

Before Liu Bang made a clear statement, whoever can't control his own little head, don't even want the big head above.

The Shiwu Liansi system in the army ensures that any soldier who wants to violate the military law will be supervised and stopped by other comrades who do not want to die.

Slowly, the team drove to the ferry.

Although it was getting late and the boatmen who wanted to go home and rest were reluctant in every possible way, no one dared to say "come back tomorrow" when facing the swords shining in the hands of the soldiers of the Han army.

When the boatmen were preparing for the ferry, the marching Sima who was in charge of commanding the escort had followed Liu Ying's path and hoped to join the army to gain meritorious service.

If the most desperate sentence is that I am 30 years old, then the more desperate sentence is that I am 40 years old...

Hou Feng's unwilling heart to be mediocre is still beating vigorously in that aging body, driving him not to miss any chance.

An opportunity to make contributions and leave a name in history!
There was no need to wait for the command. The soldiers of the Han army went to the prison cart where Wei Bao was held with great experience, untied the bridle, led away the horses, removed the wheel axles, and then picked up the prison cart and headed for the ferry on the bank. .

On the other side, Hou Feng and several dark-skinned soldiers who seemed to know how to sail a boat were whispering something.

Although the faces of those soldiers changed rapidly, they still nodded heavily in the end.

Hou Fengchang bowed to the ground, cupped his hands and bowed: "If that's the case, please!"

The soldier beat his chest with his hands: "If you go through fire and water, you will die!"

After a while, the ferry began.

Wei Bao, who was huddled in the corner, was only curled up and shivering with cold, and he didn't realize that on this ferry, it was not the previous boatman who was struggling to paddle, but a shirtless man wearing only a pair of short-nosed trousers. Han soldiers.

When the boat reached the center of the water, a few waves hit, and the ferry boat Wei Bao was on gradually distanced itself from the other ferry boats, drifting with the current, and slowly deviated from the channel.

It seemed that in the next second, the ferry suddenly turned sideways and began to circle in place.

The boatman on the other side of the river kept jumping his feet, as if he was shouting something like trying hard to avoid the vortex.

But in the middle of the river, the Han soldiers who were rowing didn't seem to hear it. Under such a sudden and dangerous situation, they seemed to be completely panicked and a little at a loss.

As a result, the river quickly overflowed into the cabin.

"Let me out, I can swim..."

Wei Bao didn't care too much, clapping his hands on the railing of the prison car and yelling loudly.

Hearing these words, the soldiers of the Han army who were driving the boat silently took out the long sword that someone had put up from the side of the boat, and walked slowly towards Wei Bao.

On the other side of the river, Zhao Zi'er, Bo Ji and others hugged each other, weeping as the ferry boat in the distance gradually sank into the water.

Where they couldn't see, the rolling river water diluted the blood, and also pushed the soldiers with gourds on their bodies to swim to the other side of the river at high speed.

(End of this chapter)