Late Tang

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"How much did you pay for this crap?" Li Jing pointed at the contents of the box and raised her voice an octave and exclaimed.

Megan smiled like a flower, and said triumphantly: "I bought it for 100 million yuan. At that time, there were many people vying for it. In the end, the one with the highest price won. I beat everyone with [-] yuan, and finally bought it. How about it, is it rare?" .”

Li Jing sighed, "It's just a piece of colored glaze, but you paid a thousand pennies for such a piece of shit, what a prodigal woman."

Megan heard Li Jing say that the glass mirror is a broken thing, and that she is a prodigal woman, so she quit on the spot.As soon as his face darkened, he reached out and grabbed Li Jing's handle and twisted it, Li Jing was immediately subdued.This woman is too cruel, and most people would just stare at her when they get angry, but she is better off directly.It doesn't count if you fight, the two of them have never had an intimate relationship, but every time she strikes at Li Jing, she goes directly to his life, and every time she seals her throat with a sword, it's too ruthless.Fortunately, he hasn't seen her treat other men like this, otherwise Li Jing would definitely commit murder.

"I don't know what to do, how dare you call me a prodigal?"

Li Jing was restrained, so he could only say in a low voice: "I'm not saying too much, this colored glaze is not unusual. There are many colored glaze shops opened by Hu merchants in Chang'an who specialize in making these things. Although your piece is inlaid with gold The ones inlaid with jade are just a little bigger than usual. Ordinary glazed mirrors are only a few thousand yuan a piece, but yours can cost tens of thousands of yuan at most, and you actually spent a million yuan. You said that you are not being deceived. What is it?"

"You know what a fart!" Megan's face turned black with anger, and she directly cursed.

"I am a pirate, but do you really think I am an ignorant countryman? Chang'an has glazed mirrors, but the glazed mirrors of Chang'an barbarians are only small pieces. Have you ever seen such a large piece of glazed glass? If you can get such a large glass mirror, I will buy as much as you have, and buy them all at a price of 100 million. I can easily make a fortune by reselling them to those caravans. This time, I got this piece Bao Jing, I don’t know how many people want to buy it on the road. The highest price is 200 million yuan. I didn’t sell it. I just want to give it back to you. " Said Megan smashed the glass mirror in his hand to the ground, broke into countless pieces, then turned and left angrily.

Looking at the countless broken glass, Li Jing didn't immediately go after Megan, but looked down at the broken mirror.This mirror is indeed very big. Li Jing carefully recalled the history of the mirror. It seems that the most famous Venetian in history first started making glassware in the [-]th century. By the end of the [-]th century, Venice’s glassware production technology had reached the leading position in the world. The level is well-known in Europe.

And now, at the end of the ninth century, there are three or four hundred years before the Venetians made glassware.At this time, although the European Romans, Arabs and even Persians could make glass, they mostly made some simple glazed vessels.The glass at this time is still somewhat green, and the process of making large pieces of glass has not been invented.There are indeed quite a few Hu people in Chang'an who manufacture and sell glass, but the quality is not very good, and it is even more impossible to make such a large piece of glass.

Judging from the size of the glass and the fact that it was made into a mirror, such a large glass should have been made by accident.

Li Jing was a little shocked that a single piece of glass mirror could sell for thousands of dollars. Glass is made of sand, so it doesn't cost much at all.Even if it is made into a mirror, it is just silver plating, and it is not a difficult technology.Li Jing had seen a lot of glazed products before, and he didn't have much time, so he forgot the huge profit of glass.

Glass is completely a luxury item. Since it is a luxury item, it is specially sold to the rich and powerful.Such a product, how can there be no money to make?

Thinking of the lack of money to buy food right now, Li Jing couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat. It's so funny that he is still begging for a golden rice bowl while guarding a technology with huge profits.

Burning glass is not difficult, but Li Jing has done such an experiment.

"Zhao Jiang, Tie Dan." Thinking of the profit of this glass business, Li Jing couldn't help being extremely excited. This thing is more profitable than perfume and liquor, and it is completely a business without capital.Think about how much money the Venetians have made from this glass for hundreds of years.

Now countless caravans are gathering in Dengzhou. This is an excellent opportunity to make a batch of glass mirrors or glass containers, which will not only bring back the food, but also make a fortune.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel excited, and called out to the two guards.

On the same day, Li Jing mysteriously transferred a thousand light cavalry from the Jinjiasheng Jiejun to go out to sea by boat, landed on the floating island in Yexian County, Laizhou, and then directly removed the people on the entire island, and then closed the whole island. I don't see it all day.

"We've arrived at the shore, and we're all up and working!"

At the estuary of the Ji River, a whaling fleet composed of hundreds of large ships is returning to Hong Kong.The four masters of Zhendonghai who roamed the sea at the beginning have completely quit the town [***] and become the captains of the whaling fleet.Changing from plundering the sea, killing people and stealing goods to whaling and fishing, it was a little uncomfortable at first, but after this year, several people have gotten used to this kind of life.Even their pirate subordinates have mostly become members of the fishing team.There are hundreds of fishing teams under the whole town [***], with thousands of large and small boats.

But only their fishing team is the best, because they are a whaling fleet, and every time they go to sea, they are chasing the big whales presented by the Dragon King of the East China Sea.

The harvest this time was very rich. More than a dozen whales were caught, and they were directly decomposed and processed in the whale processing workshop on the ship. What they brought back were canned whale meat and whale oil.

Megan and Julie rushed to the pier immediately, "I just heard that you are going to marry the handsome man right after I arrived at the pier?" The one-eyed yellow beard asked his daughter with a smile.

The red beard with the broken arm also laughed: "I also heard that Megan was promoted to the deputy commander of the navy, and Julie became the commander of the navy."

Megan turned her head, "Don't talk about that guy, but I really think I'm so rare about him. There are so many men in the world. It's hard to find three-legged toads, but it's hard to find two-legged men."

"What happened again?" White Beard asked with a smile.On the way, he heard that Megan Jolie was going to marry Li Jing, but he was in favor of it.The two women are like his daughters, and he also knows that the two are pirates and bearded women, so it is difficult to marry a good family.Although marrying Li Jing can only be a concubine, but with Li Jing's current status, even being a concubine is not bad.What's more, they also know Li Jing well.Looking at their lives today, one knows that it was right to choose to follow Li Jing.

Julie gave a rare chuckle at the side: "It's not that hot face puts cold butt, Megan bought a glazed mirror in Guangzhou for a thousand dollars and brought it back to Li Jing, but that guy said Megan didn't know anything, Prodigal woman. Megan threw the mirror down in a fit of anger, but Li Jing hasn't come to look for Mei Yin until now."

Whitebeard was stunned when he heard this. When did Megan know how to give gifts, and when did Julie start talking so much. "Where is the commander-in-chief now, let's reason with him."

"On the floating island, the god is mysterious. He brought thousands of guards to surround the island. No one is allowed to approach, and he doesn't know what he wants to do."

Several people were stunned when they heard the words, not knowing what trick Li Jing was playing.

But in the afternoon, Li Jing's personal guards came and invited them to discuss matters in Dengzhou City.

"The commander-in-chief has gone to Dengzhou?"

"Well, the commander-in-chief left Floating Island in the morning to Dengzhou, and now he is inviting generals and officials, as well as the major households in southern Liaoning of Dengzhou, and the leaders of the caravans in Dengzhou, saying that they have important matters to discuss. .” Tong Chuan’s guard knew them well, so he said a few more words.

"This is making a big commotion again." White Beard pondered.Li Jing led the army to leave Dengzhou for more than a year. After returning this time, he had been in Qizhou before, and then he was only in Bochang, Qingzhou. He hadn't even come back to Dengzhou.In the past few days, I suddenly went to Laizhou Floating Island next to Dengzhou and stayed for a few days. After coming out and finally returning to Dengzhou, I immediately summoned the town [***] Heping Lu army generals and officials from Dengzhou and southern Liaoning counties. There must be a big move.

"Could it be that we are going to attack Liaodong?" Huang Huzi thought for a while, and felt that Li Jing was not a person who could live at leisure. Now that the army had been reorganized, maybe he would attack Liaodong.

"Let's take a look first, no matter what the commander-in-chief decides, we will stick to it anyway and follow closely. Just taking advantage of this opportunity, let the commander-in-chief, Megan and Julie, take care of things first. Both girls are over 20, marry early and have children early." White Beard said with a smile.

When a group of people from Zhendonghai returned to Dengzhou by boat, there were generals, officials and wealthy businessmen everywhere in Dengzhou, and they had all been invited by Li Jing.Hundreds of people were led to the Heavenly Wolf Hall of Commander Li Jing's mansion.

The spacious Heavenly Wolf Hall was almost full at once.

Almost all the commanders and commanders of the 21st Army under Li Jing's command arrived, as did the county magistrates from the eight counties in southern Liaoning of Dengzhou and the sixteen counties in Xinde.In addition, the Cui family, Han family, Liu family, Zhao family in Qingzhou, and the Xiao family in Lanling, as well as the Li family in Qingni City, the Guo family in Beisha City, the Li family in Dengzhou, and dozens of families in Duli Town. There are big caravan leaders from Dengzhou, Liaonan, Ziqing, and even Youzhou, and Ganjiao, as well as many caravan leaders who came with the fleet from the southeast and Lingnan this time, and even dozens of caravan leaders are Dashi, Lin Fu and other Fan merchants.

Most of the people were invited to come here, but they still had no idea why they were here.But seeing such a battle, everyone knows that it must be a big event.

After all the invited people arrived, Li Jing entered the Heavenly Wolf Hall from the backyard.

Following behind Li Jing, there were four Shengjie soldiers in golden armor. They carefully held something covered with red silk, which looked like a door in shape.

"Everyone, I invite you to come here today because I have a treasure to share with you." Li Jing said with a smile.

Hearing that it was a treasure, everyone couldn't help but start guessing that something that can be called a treasure by Zhen [***] Li Dashuai must not be an ordinary thing.Looking at that appearance, could it be said that it is a huge precious jade?

Everyone speculated one after another, but they couldn't think of any treasure for a while, which was able to summon so many people together by Marshal Li.

Li Jing was not in a hurry to lift the red silk, but just smiled and said: "A few days ago, when I came back from victory, the first thing I did was to bring three offerings to pay homage to the Dragon King of the East China Sea, thanking him for his protection, let me wait Triumph, also thank him for protecting our southward caravan, allowing us to make this trip safely."

Everyone didn't think anything strange after hearing this, after all, whoever walks in the sea worships the Dragon King.Here in Dengzhou, you worship the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and when you arrive in the South China Sea, you have to worship the Dragon King of the South China Sea.But this time, the one-year sea trip went very smoothly.Although there were storms and waves, nothing happened.

"I have paid homage to the Dragon King. That night, I just fell asleep, but I saw the Dragon King sent an envoy to pick me up, saying that the Dragon King wanted to see me. I followed the envoy to the Dragon King's Crystal Palace. It turned out that the Dragon King said that I am the people of Dengzhou and Liaonan. The temple is full of incense, and the Dragon King is very grateful, so he specially invited me to have a banquet. After the banquet, the Dragon King sent me off. Before I left, I suddenly remembered that General Megan had given me a million-dollar mirror, but in the end It was accidentally broken. I asked the Dragon King if there was a way to repair it, but the Dragon King laughed and said, it’s just a glazed mirror, so what’s the point. Just teach me how to make a glazed mirror.”

After finishing speaking, Li Jing deliberately paused.

Sure enough, there was a sound of surprise in the hall.Not many people doubted Li Jing's dream of entering the Dragon Palace.After all, Li Jing has the title of envoy of the dragon, and he has "seen the Dragon King" many times before.In the past, Li Jing dreamed of the Dragon King, and received rain, fish, and whales from the Dragon King, as well as divine fire and sky fire from the Dragon King. No matter what, these things are extremely amazing.

Now I heard that the Dragon King gave Li Jing the method of making the glazed mirror, and I am even more envious, but no one has ever doubted the authenticity.

Megan sat on one side, also fascinated by listening.They are all people from the sea, and they believe in the Dragon King even more. She has never doubted the dates between Li Jing and the Dragon King.But when Li Jing said that because she broke the precious mirror, she specifically asked the Dragon King about repairing it, she couldn't help feeling excited in her heart.For such a trivial matter, he actually went to ask the Dragon King. Li Jing still valued him very much. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel his heart beat faster.

However, many merchants in the hall have already turned their eyes to the thing wrapped in red silk. Could it be that this thing as huge as a door is actually a glazed mirror?How could this be possible? Hu people's glazed mirrors are generally no more than the size of a book, and there are larger ones, but the bigger the more expensive.They have also seen the glazed mirror that Megan bought from Guangzhou for millions of dollars, but it is only a little bigger than ordinary bronze mirrors.

Thinking of the glazed mirror as big as a door, all the people present couldn't help but take a deep breath, their gazes were burning hot. (To be continued.)