I practiced magic in the Three Kingdoms

After discussing the road construction, Sheyuan thought that Guo Jia had put forward all the conditions. After all, people are not dogs and one should not go too far.

But Sheyuan was still too naive, and Guo Jia still put forward a third condition: "In order to ensure the safety of life and property of our personnel, I think it is necessary to send garrison troops to form a new patrol team with you to patrol the trade routes and punish lawless criminals."

"Too deceiving!"

Not to mention Sheyuan, even Huangfu Jianshou, who was not very familiar with the specific affairs, could see that something was wrong.

Guo Jia actually wants to send garrison to Chang'an City?
This request is outrageous!

This is no longer just a matter of taking advantage of others, but rather trampling Huangfu Song's face into the mud, stepping on it tens of thousands of times.

Guo Jia, however, looked unconvinced: "Why are you two so angry? We have no ambition or ill will towards Chang'an City for now. We are sending troops to garrison here just to seek peace of mind."

Guo Jia was able to say such shameless words so calmly without changing his expression, fully displaying the superb demeanor of a top-notch strategist of the time.

Huangfu Jianshou was so angry that he was shaking all over. He almost shouted, "You have already sent out the garrison, and you still say you have no ill intentions? And what do you mean by no ambitions for the time being? Will you have ambitions in the future?"

Facing Huangfu Jianshou's anger, Guo Jia gently picked up the wine glass and drank it all. Then he smacked his lips and replied calmly: "We'll talk about the future later. At least for now, we are still sincere about cooperation."

"You call the garrison sincerity!?"

Huangfu Jianshou's eyes widened and his nostrils were dilated because he was angry with Guo Jia.

I have never seen such a shameless person!
Guo Jia's expression was calm. He opened his folding fan to block the spit that Huangfu Jianshou sprayed when he roared: "You don't need to speak so loudly. I'm not deaf. I can hear you."

Guo Jia then showed a disdainful look and said proudly: "In fact, if we really want to take action, we can just cut off the food supply first, and then send troops to attack Chang'an City. Why do we have to use these petty tricks that are not worthy of being put on the stage?"

The tone was calm, but it contained a hidden threat. These words almost made Huangfu Jianshou and She Yuan unable to suppress their anger.

But now the situation is stronger than the people, and the 40,000 troops in Chang'an City are in urgent need of food supplies, so the two had to endure it. After all, although Guo Jia's words were not very nice, at least the food he took out was real, and the quantity exceeded expectations. So for the sake of interests, the two did not dare to really turn against each other.

After finishing his business, Guo Jia stood up and left: "We have talked about everything that needs to be discussed. I also need to go back to report. Please do as you please. There is no need to see me off."

Damn, who wants to give it to you?
Huangfu Jianshou almost couldn't hold back his emotions again: "Is this person really a genius? He has absolutely no demeanor of a famous scholar!"

She Yuan was helpless. Guo Jia was a cunning man. He could stir up people's emotions and play with their hearts with just a few words. He had seen it today.

In fact, if it weren’t for Huangfu Jianshou, this negotiation wouldn’t have been so difficult.

But after all, he is his lord's biological son, so Sheyuan, as a subordinate and son-in-law, can't say much. After all, even if there is no Huangfu Jianshou, after several test confrontations, Guo Jia will probably figure out his trump cards and bottom line, and then he will be completely passive.

After all, the current situation in Chang'an cannot be delayed, and delaying a little longer will not change the situation, so it is better to get straight to the point.

Huangfu Jianshou didn't think too much about it. On this mission, he was just leading the team, and the real person in charge had always been Sheyuan.

It was rare for him to come back to Luoyang, and this place had become more prosperous and lively than it had been a few years ago, so Huangfu Jianshou couldn't help but ask Sheyuan, "Wenxiong, should we go back right now and tell our father the details of the cooperation?"

Sheyuan shook his head: "It's just a small matter, just send someone to deliver the letter. We should stay here, walk around and see more. This is also one of the reasons why the general sent us here."

Huangfu Song had already made several preparations when he sent his son and son-in-law to Luoyang.

The first option is that if food can be purchased at a low price and the problem can be solved by spending money, that would naturally be the best. However, both Huangfu Song and She Yuan knew that things would not go so smoothly.

As expected, the Luoyang noble families that had once placed high hopes on him were all unreliable. They were all obsessed with money and were obsessed with it, completely disregarding their past friendships.

The second option is that money cannot solve the problem, then he can only bow his head and submit to the Luoyang court. Huangfu Song knows very well that even if he has his own troops, he does not have the capital to dominate the world. Rather than being defeated in the end and his reputation going to waste, it is better to be a loyal minister.

For Huangfu Song, being loyal to the Han Dynasty was the best outcome, so he did not have much resistance to the Luoyang court controlled by Wang Jing.

Before, Huangfu Song was not optimistic about Wang Jing's future, and even accepted the invitation of Zhong Ji and Wang Fu to go to Beijing to support the king.

However, on that occasion, he was stopped by Lu Bu and Gao Shun outside Tongguan. The two sides did not go to war, so they did not harbor any grudges and were able to live in peace.

In Sheyuan's opinion, this may not be the best result.

Huangfu Song had no ambition at all. He just wanted to gain a reputation as a loyal minister after his death, and to have a good beginning and a good end.

But Sheyuan is still young and is not satisfied with the status quo. He is eager to stand out and bring honor to his family.

But he was weak and had no ability to lead an army, so the only question and choice was who to join.

Originally, Sheyuan wanted to join Liu Yan, who had already established a firm foothold in Yizhou. With the help of the geographical advantages of Sichuan and Shu, he could quietly watch the changes in the world situation with the lowest risk factor.

However, this trip to Luoyang made Sheyuan change his mind slightly, because he saw many different things here.

She Yuan and Huangfu Song were sitting and drinking, but Chen Gui came back. Seeing that Guo Jia had been gone for a long time, he dared to appear in Baixianlou again.

"You two, I wonder what Guo Fengxiao talked about with you?"

She Yuan reached out to stop Huangfu Jianshou from speaking, and looked at Chen Gui with a playful look: "How dare you question me? Shopkeeper Chen, I advise you not to ask questions that you shouldn't ask, lest you get into trouble."

Although Chen Gui was not well-known, he considered himself to be the most important person in Luoyang City. The undisguised contempt and disdain in Sheyuan's expression and tone made him unhappy, and he snorted coldly: "Haha, in Luoyang, is there anything I can't know?"

"If you were really that confident, you wouldn't have run away with your tail between your legs just now."

Huangfu Jianshou couldn't stand Chen Gui's arrogance, and was even more upset about the previous price increase, so he took the opportunity to ridicule him.

Unexpectedly, this sentence really stepped on Chen Gui's tail, making him furious.

"you wanna die!"

Chen Gui slammed the table suddenly, and a group of thugs holding hatchets jumped out from behind him. They were all Chen Gui's men, and they often worked part-time as thugs.

They all look ferocious and don't look like good people.

But Huangfu Jianshou and Sheyuan, who came from prominent families, did not take this kind of situation seriously at all.

They are just a bunch of low-class gangsters. Their attitude can scare ordinary people, but how can they scare the real upper class of the imperial dynasty?
"Manager Chen wants to take action? I advise you to think it over carefully and don't seek death."

She Yuan clapped his hands, and the guards who were accompanying him immediately rushed out from the side with swords in hand. They were wearing chain mail, had cold eyes and were full of sharpness. Although they were few in number, they were as solid as a rock, and their aura suppressed the group of gangsters around Chen Gui.

The difference between the regular army and the mob was clearly revealed at this moment.

How could Huangfu Song send his son-in-law and son on diplomatic missions to other places without arranging for them to be accompanied by guards to be on the safe side?

The Huangfu family is from a military family. The family has trained their warriors with military tactics and they are all extremely brave. Add to that Xie Yuan's spiritual cultivation and Huangfu Jianshou's martial arts skills. Even if Chen Gui did it himself, it would be impossible for him to kill the two men.

You have to know that the death squads brought by Sheyuan and Huangfu Jianshou are all the best fighters in the army, and each of them is a veteran of many battles. If a real fight breaks out, even a swordsmanship master like Chen Gui won't get any advantage at all.

More than a dozen people from the other side formed a battle formation. Before they started to fight, a murderous aura was overwhelming them, as sharp as a knife, scratching Chen Dong's cheek so hard that it hurt. He was frightened and hesitated for several times, but finally did not give the order to start fighting.

Moreover, Chen Dong also realized that no matter what Guo Jia and She Yuan had talked about just now, his business might not be done, otherwise She Yuan would never have such an attitude.

"let's go!"

Chen Dong had a gloomy face and led his men away from Baixianlou.

Obviously, the transaction failed, and he now has to take the news back.

"What the hell are they? A bunch of shameless bastards who really think they are important people?" Huangfu Jianshou spat in dissatisfaction, his face full of dissatisfaction.

Sheyuan rolled his eyes at him in annoyance and said, "Jian Shou, please behave yourself. How can you be so rude, you are the son of a chariot and cavalry general?"

Then Sheyuan smiled and said, "I sent someone to get a piece of news. It is said that tomorrow morning, the newly opened Fu Man Lou on Luoyang South Zhuque Street seems to be planning to hold an auction. I know you like to join in the fun, why don't we go and take a look?"

"Fu Man Lou? What is the other party selling?"

"From what I understand, it should be jewelry, but their jewelry has a strange name, called glass."

Luoyang City, South Zhuque Street.

The already busy streets were even more lively today, and among the crowd there were many wealthy people dressed in gorgeous clothes and with huge assets.

The reason they came was because they received an invitation from Fumanlou.

If it were an ordinary jewelry store, even if they handed over visiting cards and invitation letters, these big shots in Luoyang City might not necessarily come in person.

But Fumanlou is different, because Dingba has glass in his hand!
Some time ago, Wang Jing invested 100 million yuan to develop a new gadget. Who in the capital doesn’t know about it now?

At that time, because there were no technical results, everyone thought that Wang Jing had gone too far and had wasted 100 million yuan. Some people were secretly happy about this, but others were worried that Wang Jing would start to impose heavy taxes when he was short of money, making life difficult for everyone.

But after waiting for a long time, many people found that nothing had happened.

As a result, a few days ago, we suddenly received news that the glass had been successfully developed and was ready to be sold to the outside world.

Everyone is very curious about this, so whenever they have time today, they will come here to join in the fun and broaden their horizons.

"Shopkeeper Li."

"Shopkeeper Zhang."

"Long time no see, long time no see."

In addition to celebrities and dignitaries, there were also many shop owners who came to the party on behalf of their respective employers.

Among them, Manager Zhang of Qianzhen Pavilion attracted the most attention.

It is said that Manager Zhang is a distant relative of Zhang Rang. After Zhang Rang's death, he moved into his family. Today, he is still able to hold the position of manager, which shows his ability and skill.

However, Shopkeeper Zhang was a little depressed at the moment, because once Fumanlou opened, it would definitely take away his own business, and conflicts were inevitable.

While Manager Zhang was feeling worried, Huangfu Jianshou and Sheyuan were walking happily among the crowd, in a very good mood.

While walking, I made two new friends.

The brothers Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao were dressed elegantly and had extraordinary conversation skills. When She Yuan saw them, he wanted to make friends with them, so he took the initiative to step forward and say hello: "From your accents, are you from Jizhou?"

"My friend, may I ask who you are?"

Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao also felt that She Yuan and Huangfu Jianshou's image and temperament, although not majestic, were outstanding and very different from ordinary people.

This is not surprising. A person's growing environment and economic conditions will have a comprehensive impact on him from the inside out. That's why there is a saying like "He doesn't look like a prince even if he wears a dragon robe."

A farmer works in the fields every day, eats coarse grains, and does heavy work. Naturally, his teeth become black and yellow, severely worn, his body becomes hunched, his skin becomes rough, and because he does not know how to take care of himself, his temperament and image are very bad. Even if he has a good foundation, he will be ruined by the upbringing and have no temperament or image at all.

On the contrary, the children of the powerful and wealthy are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, live a life of luxury on a daily basis, and are able to read books to cultivate their temperament and learn etiquette. Therefore, both their image and behavior give people a feeling of elegance and composure, which is very difficult to fake.

Therefore, even though it was only their first meeting, both sides smelled the same kind of scent from each other.

Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao brought the Zhen family all the way from Jizhou to Luoyang to settle down. Naturally, they also wanted to make new connections, which would be very beneficial to the development of the Zhen family.

Huangfu Jianshou and Sheyuan did not hide their identities and smiled as they revealed their identities to them. Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao immediately bowed solemnly: "So you are the son of the General of Chariots and Cavalry, and you are also the descendant of a famous general. I have heard of your great name for a long time."

Sheyuan's ancestors were originally named Xie, and were of the same clan as the other Xie tribes in the north.

The ancestor Xie Fu was a general who went to war. The emperor used Xie Fu as his nickname and changed it to She. From then on, his descendants took She as their surname. Up to now, the family has become quite famous in the three prefectures of Chang'an.

Although it was not a secret, the fact that the Zhen family knew about it showed that the family inheritance was extraordinary. Therefore, Sheyuan thought more highly of the two of them.

The four of them each have their own demands, but they can get along well with each other.

Huangfu Jianshou was a straightforward person, and even more so after getting to know each other. He started by asking the two brothers Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao, "Are you here to see the glass, too?"

Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao smiled bitterly: "How can we have the time to join in the fun now?"

Afterwards, the two of them complained bitterly. It turned out that after the Zhen family arrived in Luoyang, although they brought a lot of capital from Jizhou, the local industries in Luoyang were basically owned by others, and in the current situation, no one was willing to give them up.

Therefore, the Zhen family’s situation was very embarrassing.

Even though the Zhen family is a wealthy family, they are spending all their money and even mountains of gold and silver cannot sustain it.

Therefore, after their father passed away, the brothers Zhen Yan and Zhen Yao, as the pillars of the family, had to shoulder the burden of family survival and development.

Sheyuan expressed his understanding and said with a smile: "So, you two, this time you came here, it's not to watch the fun, it's to seek business opportunities."

"That's right, Brother Wenxiong really has a sharp eye and hits the nail on the head."

Zhen Yan gave a thumbs up to Sheyuan.

Zhen Yao, on the other hand, couldn't help but ask out of curiosity: "By the way, what exactly is this glass?"

Sheyuan took out a light blue glass ring and explained to the two of them with a smile: "Do you two know what this is?"

Zhen Yao scratched his head: "It looks like jade but it's not jade, and its color is crystal clear. Could it be colored glaze?"

She Yuan nodded with a smile: "Yes, this thing is Liuli, also known as five-color jade. According to legend, it was the stone that Nuwa refined to repair the sky. It requires the hardest five-color stone, which must be melted with a fierce fire to obtain colorful molten lava. The ancient gods used this thing to repair the hole in the sky and saved a disaster."

Huangfu Jianshou laughed loudly: "You are so good, Wenxiong, you always tell me that a man does not talk about strange things, but now you are bragging."

Huangfu Jianshou then smiled and said to Zhen Yao and Zhen Yan, "Don't listen to his nonsense about Nuwa refining stones to mend the sky. In fact, this story was made up by jewelers in Chang'an in order to promote colored glaze. At the time of Fuxi and Nuwa, there was no colored glaze. This thing actually came from the Western Regions and is very popular in the capital. Don't you have it in Jizhou?"

Zhen Yan held the sky-blue colored glaze ring in his hand, carefully playing with it and observing it, and exclaimed in amazement: "I have never seen such an object in Jizhou."

The so-called five-colored jade, also known as colored glaze, is essentially the same as glass. It is formed by melting stones and then condensing to form a crystal clear artificial creation.

In the history of the development of glass, the first people to master the glass manufacturing technology should be the ancient Egyptians and West Asians.

In ancient China, due to the existence of the Silk Road, mysterious glass products were continuously imported from West Asia. And the native Qigong practitioners in China, such as the Taoist monks of Fangxiandao, liked to use fire to burn things to make elixirs.

In the end, they failed to create the elixir of immortality, but they did combine it with colored glass from the Western Regions and developed their own colored glass preparation technology.

Later generations have analyzed from the perspective of elemental composition that Western glassware is soda-lime glass, while Chinese glassware is lead-barium glass.

The reason for the different ingredients is that the ancient Chinese admired the warmth of jade, so they added barium to the glass to make it translucent and similar in texture to jade.

For example, the glass pendant in Sheyuan's hand has a texture that shows that it is pursuing the warm texture of jade. It is not very transparent, but the texture is very soft, which is very close to jade. (End of this chapter)