Chapter 158 is in a dilemma

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"Xiaomei, arrange a room for the two of them, Xiaohe will live with Lucia in the future, Lucia's Tang dialect is not good, you teach her more!"

"What about Wang Lun? Let him prepare the carriage and I'll go out in the afternoon", Zhen Qian walked into the study, looked at the neatly stacked documents on the desk and said, "Is there any news in the past few days?" โ€

Xiaomei took out a wooden box from the mezzanine of the bookcase and put it on the desk: "This is the document that has just been sent in the past few days, by the way, five carts of white crystal were just transported back from Donghai County, Haizhou yesterday, are they transported to the wolf's den?" โ€

Donghai County is the Lianyungang of later generations, since the Han Dynasty has been rich in crystal, but before the Ming Dynasty, white crystal has been worthless, only pure color crystal is the best decoration, a large number of white crystal prices are not much more expensive than stones, Zhen Qian naturally will not let go of such a good raw material.

Pure silica is required to make glass, which is easy to say, but in fact, natural and pure silica is difficult to find, and the impurities in it cannot be separated by removal. In addition, other auxiliary raw materials need to be added in the firing process, such as calcium oxide, alumina, etc., which are difficult to find natural raw materials with high purity, and the chemical and physical separation technology can be mastered in one day.

It is not difficult to make glass, the raw materials are quartz sand (silica), limestone, feldspar, soda ash, etc., the glass directly fired with natural quartz sand is colorful (most of them are greenish, and it is also the earliest source of glass, which can usually be found around the crater), and each furnace does not know what color it is before it is baked, which makes it difficult to get the color you want.

In the Tang Dynasty, only the great cannibals and the Great Qin in the west of the Western Regions were initially mastered, and they did not take the glass to cheat the Tang people's money, and in the fifteenth century, the Venetians completely mastered the technology of making glass, and sold the glass mirror to a sky-high price, and kept it secret for several centuries, and it was introduced to China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and a one-person high mirror was sold to more than 1,000 taels.

To make colorless transparent glass, the best raw material is, of course, white crystal, which is much more expensive than quartz sand, but compared with the price of mirrors, this money is nothing.

It has been proven that it is completely feasible to make colorless glass from white crystal, and the glass treasure mirror dedicated to Feng Wannian is made of white crystal, which made Zhen Qian decide to use white crystal to make colorless glass first, ready to make a lot of money.

"The white crystal is temporarily placed on the Zhuangzi, someone will come to pick it up, you ask Wang Lun to prepare, and leave in the afternoon!"

Zhen Qian took out the document from the wooden box, which contained information collected from all over the country, Xiaomei had already classified and translated it, it was no longer a secret language that people could not recognize, Xiaomei had long been familiar with this set of procedures.

"Jiannan Jiedu made Xian Yu Zhongtong defeat Nanzhao, only to be spared, Yang Guozhong described his military exploits and recommended Jingzhao Yin, Nanzhao State Lord Luo Feng collected the corpse, built for the Beijing view, and then the north was subordinate to Tubo."

"In December, Jiashen, Shi Siming, the envoy of the soldiers and horses of Pinglu, and the Taishou of Beiping, served as the military envoy of Lulong."

"In December, Ding You, with Sima Feng Changqing of the Anxi March, was the envoy of the four towns of Anxi."

"Di Wang Yan has two children, competing for favor, one of which makes the witch book charm in Yan's shoes in order to flatter. There is a gap between Yan and the eunuchs in the prison, and the eunuchs know it, and they secretly play Yan to curse it; The superior envoy concealed his performance and obtained it, and the superior was furious. Yan Dun thanked him: "The minister really doesn't know that there is a match." "The envoy is the one who did it. He hesitated and knew it, imprisoned in the Eagle Dog Workshop, and was invited to the court, and he was angry and angry. โ€

Zhen Qian frowned, and his gaze stayed on one of the sentences, "I saw that I sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and I wanted to send a Taoist priest to the country, but I was refused, and I was displeased and ......angry."

I see! A mystery in Zhen Qian's heart was finally solved, every time the Tang envoy was sent to the Tang Dynasty, the court all greeted him with the highest courtesy, but this time there was an obvious difference, there was not even a welcome envoy, and then I thought of Li Huang's lukewarm attitude towards Fujiwara Shuxiong, and the Tang Dynasty actually refused the Taoist priest to the Wa Kingdom, the Li Tang Dynasty regarded Taoism as the state religion, and the monks could go to the Wa Kingdom, but the Taoist priests couldn't go, which made Li Longji's face go there, and it was already polite not to kill the Tang envoy, and he wanted to be courteous...... Dream!

Zhen Qian felt a big head for a while, he promised Fujiwara Shuxiong to go to the Wa Kingdom at this time, wouldn't he hit the muzzle of the gun and sent the Tang envoy to refute Tang Xuanzong's face, at this time Tang Xuanzong was angry! Why are you so unlucky?

I just want to find a place to take refuge, and come back when the wind passes, what can An Lushan do if he doesn't want to let go of himself, the so-called three caves of the cunning rabbit, Sendai Village and Luquan County are simply a disguise, and he will not be stupid and wait to be blocked in the house.

Thinking of this, they didn't worry about Tang Xuanzong and An Lushan at all, they would never have dreamed of their own plans, and followed the Tang envoy to the Wa Kingdom, could Tang Xuanzong still be able to hunt him down across the sea?

People's mentality is like this, once you let go, you are fearless, if there is anyone in the Tang Dynasty who despises the imperial power, you dare not say that the first, the second should be able to be ranked.

"Hmm...... The price of grain in Yangzhou has fallen again! โ€

On the surface, the decline in grain prices is a good thing, but in fact it is not, first of all, the peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain has disappeared, and why would the world come up with a guide to protect grain prices? Second, the fall in grain prices will directly cause the peasants' incomes to fall, and they will have no money to spare, but they can pay not a penny in taxes, and there will be more and more land sales, and land annexation will become more and more intense, and finally the land will be controlled by the powerful, and the grain prices will inevitably rebound, and it will be the peasants who will be hurt in the end, thus triggering a series of vicious reactions.

The corners of Zhen Qian's mouth showed a hint of mockery, the Chinese people's obsession with land was not a Tang Dynasty, the imperial court suppressed commercial activities, which would inevitably lead to a large amount of capital flowing into the land, only the Song Dynasty in history solved this problem very well, and the Song Dynasty was also the only dynasty that did not control the land, the reason is that the commerce of the Song Dynasty was extremely developed, according to the law of capital flow, what industry is the most profitable, what industry can absorb excess funds, and the financial industry in later generations is not the same.

I am afraid that Zhen Qian is the only one who will benefit from the drop in grain prices, even those businessmen who are desperately hoarding grain, and they will also be bankrupt and ruined in the ensuing Anshi Rebellion.

"Lang Jun is back!"

Xiaozhu ran into the study in a hurry, not seeing each other for a day, only ten days later, Xiaozhu was already looking at himself with infatuation, "Don't do this......!" It's all old husbands and wives, come on...... Let me hug! โ€

Xiaomei beside her snorted and laughed, "This girl has been calling your name when she sleeps for the past few days, and I am annoyed by her!" โ€

Xiaozhu jumped up shyly, "Who are you talking about?" Who said that he was going to the county seat to catch the traitor......".

"Stop! The more you talk, the more unpleasant it becomes, if you don't open the house for three days, I think you guys are itching, and you two will clean up in two days! โ€