The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 640: Derivatives of Liuli [Subscription*Monthly Ticket Request]

Although five hundred per kilogram is not cheap, it depends on the person who comes.

No matter how cheap it is, glass is still a luxury item, and it is targeted at dignitaries and upper-class aristocrats.

Is five hundred coins money enough for a noble?
And what is Bingzhou’s promise?
You can mold the glass into any shape you want.

"After Bingzhou, I mean, how much money would it cost if I build a palace like the Qinglian Glazed Palace first?" a beautiful woman asked.

Shao Siming looked at the beautiful woman in surprise.

"The president of the Bashu Chamber of Commerce, Madam Ba Qing, was one of the merchants supervising the construction of the Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum. She provided a large amount of mercury, cinnabar and timber for the mausoleum!" Nong Yu whispered as she introduced the beautiful woman's origins.

Shao Siming also understood that this was not to build a glazed palace for herself, but to build an underground glazed palace for Ying Zheng.

After all, as long as the word "palace" is involved, any carelessness will be a serious crime for the three Yi clans.

No matter how rich you are, without the corresponding title and power, you can only be a white glove of those in power.

Ba Qing did have some means. She was able to integrate her husband's family as a woman, and even surpassed the past, making the Bashu Chamber of Commerce the leader of the number one chamber of commerce in Bashu. She was even recognized as a "chaste woman" by Ying Zheng himself.

With Ying Zheng personally recognizing her identity as a "chaste woman", Ba Qing was able to become a guest of honor in every household in Xianyang, and was no longer an ordinary merchant or an ordinary woman.

This is a social class transition, and it cannot be achieved just by having money.

Shao Siming looked at Ba Qing, his expression softened a lot, and he signaled to Nanyue with his eyes.

Nanyue nodded, understanding what Shao Siming meant, and then spoke, "The Queen has also heard of your name for a long time. If you are interested in colored glaze, Bingzhou is willing to cooperate with the Bashu Chamber of Commerce. You will represent Bingzhou and be in charge of colored glaze trade in the Bashu area."

Ba Qing also looked at Shao Siming and Nong Yu in surprise. This surprise came too suddenly.

This means that she and her Bashu Chamber of Commerce will become the general distributors of Bingzhou glass in the Bashu area. They only need to pay the ex-factory price of the glass to Bingzhou. As for how to set the price in the Bashu area and how much profit to make, it is her own business.

Five hundred coins per pound, this price was a bargain for those nobles and wealthy families, so there was still a lot of room for profit.

However, as a person born into a merchant family, Ba Qing is also very clear that what Bingzhou values ​​is not her personally, but the influence of the Bashu Chamber of Commerce in the Bashu area, and what Bingzhou wants is the order volume. If she cannot provide Bingzhou with a satisfactory order volume, then Bingzhou can replace someone at any time.

"Qing guarantees that the annual order volume with Bingzhou will be no less than 100,000 kilograms!" Ba Qing thought about it carefully. Based on the demand in the Bashu area, 100,000 kilograms of colored glaze a year should not be a problem.

"Hiss~" Everyone present took a deep breath. The first thing he said was a hundred thousand jin. Converted into currency, that would be fifty million coins, which is equivalent to the annual tax revenue of the Qin Dynasty.

But no one thinks there is something wrong with this number, after all, it is glass.

"The function of colored glaze is not just for viewing!" Nong Yu continued to explain with a smile.

"Oh?" Ying Zheng was also curious.

Colored glaze is too luxurious and has always been considered a treasure, with its value even higher than that of ordinary jade, so no one has ever thought about what other uses it could have.

"While studying colored glaze, the Mohist school also produced some derivative products." Nong Yu explained with a smile, then looked at Ying Zheng and said, "Such as some military weapons!" When Ying Zheng heard that it was military weapons, he immediately understood that this thing was the real purpose of Shao Siming's trip.

However, Ying Zheng was also a little surprised. The derivative product of making colored glaze actually produced military weapons, and it was made by the Mohist school, which was somewhat incongruous.

If Gongshu Jia had come up with some military equipment while tinkering around, he could still understand it. But the Mohist school, which advocated non-aggression, actually took the initiative to mention military equipment. This made Ying Zheng a little suspicious. Was this still the Mohist school he knew?

However, Ying Zheng still suppressed his curiosity. The emergence of a new type of weapon should be kept secret so that it can play its greatest value and not be targeted by the enemy.

Not only Ying Zheng, but also Wang Jian, Guo Wei Liao, Wei Ju and other military generals understood that the other military weapon derivatives pointed out by Mohist school could not be made public now and still had to be kept strictly confidential. The fewer people who knew about it, the better.

Because of the appearance of one or even multiple new types of military weapons, Ying Zheng and others felt that the banquet was boring and were waiting for it to end.

However, no one ignored Xiao Yun'e because of this, after all, the protagonist of the banquet was still the little princess.

After the banquet, Shao Siming did not care about Ying Zheng and others, nor did he stay in the Qin Palace. After all, people's words were scary. So after the banquet, Shao Siming took Xiao Yun'e away from the Qin Palace and lived in the envoy's residence arranged by the Qin State.

"Miss Nanyue, the king invites you!"

Nanyue stayed because she had her mission to discuss the purchase of this batch of colored glaze-derived weapons with Daqin.

"General Zhang, please lead the way!" Nong Yu gracefully gestured to Zhang Han to lead the way.

Looking at the equally beautiful Nongyu, Zhang Han couldn't help but develop a love for beauty, but he also knew that he was not qualified.

Nongyu is no longer the ordinary zither player she used to be. Her father is the military commander of Bingzhou Army, in charge of the logistics, supplies and armaments of the Bingzhou Army. She herself is also the first female official in the Bingzhou Palace and the personal maid of the Queen of Bingzhou.

She knew too many secrets of Bingzhou, which meant that it was impossible for her to leave the Bingzhou Palace and marry someone else.

In the novelist's legend about Bingjun, the heroines change frequently, but Nongyu remains unchanged. No matter how many beauties there are in Bingjun's story, Nongyu will always be one of the beauties around Bingjun.

"Miss Nongyu!" In the Qinian Palace, Ying Zheng, Wang Jian, Guo Wei Liao and other senior generals of the Qin army, including Wei Ju, were among them. When they saw Zhang Han coming with Nongyu, they all stood up to greet them.

The fact that all the important figures of the Qin State stood up to greet her meant that Nanyue was not someone that ordinary people could covet.

"Bingzhou has already mastered the manufacturing process of colored glaze, but there are still many derivative products. Currently, Bingzhou and Mohism are still developing and exploring them!" After bowing in return, Nong Yu ordered someone to bring up two brocade boxes.

The eyes of Ying Zheng and others also fell on the two brocade boxes brought by the attendants, but they were a little disappointed.

The brocade box is too small, what kind of powerful weapon can it contain?

Of course, the bigger the weapon, the more powerful it is. What can be put in such a small box?

Nanyue opened the small square brocade box on her left hand side. Red silk wrapped around a piece of clear and transparent colored glass without any impurities, but the glass was polished into a circle.

"This is the purest form of colored glass that can be forged now!" Nanyue took the colored glass in her hand, but through the round piece of colored glass, everyone noticed that the objects seen through the colored glass were distorted to a certain extent.

(End of this chapter)