Chapter 555: Bastard in the Bone
The brocade boxes were opened one by one, and one after another crystal clear glasses were laid out.
There is no toad shape, let alone a dragon shape, a real glass, but it contains all the shapes that Tian Shiyi can think of, as well as what Ping Daoren can burn.
There were only about twenty glasses in total, which was far from an all-glass mansion, but Zhao Ji had already attracted all his attention by the crystal clear cups in front of him.
The quality of this batch of cups is really good, and compared with the previous toad cups, I am afraid that they are not even as good as garbage.
At this time, the glass of the Tianci Alliance has begun to be mass-produced, because there is too much backlog, and Brother Eleven does not allow it to be sold in batches, so he has to produce less.
Rare things are expensive, Tian Shiyi feels that there shouldn't be a lot of glasses, at least before Zhu Mian is killed, the glass must be kept at the value of high-end luxury.
Beckoning the money, Tian Shiyi took the wine from the goblet and shook it gently, and leaned under his nose to sniff it. If there are modern people here, they will see that Tian Shiyi is pretentious, but in the eyes of Zhao Ji, Cai Jing, and Yang Jian, they feel that it is very profound, and even gave birth to the idea that poetry should be like this.
Bianliang wealthy households have always had the habit of cellaring ice castles, but Hangzhou's ice-making method has gradually been passed on. Although the price of saltpeter has risen again and again, compared with the cellar ice city, the copper money spent to buy saltpeter is only a fraction.
Chilled grapes are delicious, but they are still too sour, and Brother Eleven doesn't like them. But several people were looking at him, and Tian Shiyi had no choice but to pretend to have an expression full of enjoyment.
Zhao Ji drooled when he saw it, and hurriedly ordered to ask for money and pour him a cup. Yang Jian originally wanted to let the internal wait test for poison, but Zhao Ji resolutely refused to allow it, and followed Tian Shiyi's example to shake the wine glass, smell the wine, and taste the wine.
Looking at Zhao Ji's style, Tian Shiyi suddenly felt annoyed. Can this thing really decide a lot of things? Zhao Ji pretended to be B for the first time, and he looked much more tasteful and chic than Brother Eleven, which was really discouraging.
After tasting the chilled grape wine, Zhao Ji was full of praise, and asked for money but had already transferred a glass of Bloody Mary.
Hearing Tian Shiyi say that chilled grape brewing is the lowest grade, and this cup of Bloody Mary is the best grade, Zhao Ji can no longer care about the emperor's appearance and demeanor, and almost snatches the wine glass from the hand that asks for money.
After Bloody Mary, it was naturally Long Island Iced Tea, and Zhao Ji was already a little smoky. When it comes to the amount of alcohol, Zhao Ji is really much stronger than Brother Eleven, and he doesn't even roll his tongue.
Hearing that these wines have a common name, called cocktails, Zhao Guanjia asked strangely about the origin of this name.
I had already learned it from Brother Eleventh when I wanted money, and I explained it to Zhao Guan's family with a slightly nervous tone.
In a country called Ireland, a general was killed in battle shortly after he got married. Because the general was deeply loved and respected by the soldiers during his lifetime, and the general's wife's winemaking skills were first-class, the soldiers worked together to help the general's wife open a tavern.
One night, in order to repay the soldiers for taking care of her, the general's wife sneaked into the house of one of the officials who usually hated the soldiers, stole the beautiful rooster that the soldiers loved the most, cooked it, and then she mixed the various mellow wines brewed and feasted the soldiers to share the food and wine.
The soldiers were so happy that after eating the rooster's feast, they inserted the feathers on the rooster's tail into the wine glasses and mixed the wine, and from then on, this mixture was called a "cocktail".
The story of Ireland is too exotic, and Rao is still shaking his head after being changed by Tian Shiyi, but he really loves cocktails.
After hearing that Qian Qian said that more varieties of cocktails could be developed, Zhao Ji was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Qian Qian and the other three to stay in Genyue, and also sealed their official positions.
Tian Shiyi saw that Zhao Ji had no intention of castrating the three of them, and he was relieved in his heart. If Zhao Ji moved the eunuch's mind, Tian Shiyi would have to move out of the bunch of nonsense that had been made up a long time ago. In any case, Tian Shiyi would not agree to be turned into eunuchs by the three people he sent to the palace, this is his conscience, and it is also the bottom line of Brother Eleven's life.
The drunken Zhao Ji was drunk and talked about poetry and painting with Cai Jing and Tian Shiyi.
There is a saying that "bad painters always appreciate each other's works", but Tian Shiyi felt that his few sketches could not be called painters in any case, and Zhao Ji's paintings were real paintings, and Zhao Ji could be called a painter. It's not that Brother Eleven is humble, but that Zhao Ji's artistic level is really high.
Historically, Zhao Ji had the highest artistic achievement among the emperors, and among the artists, Zhao Ji was naturally the one with the highest status and the greatest power.
If you really want to talk about it, Zhao Ji is indeed a very outstanding artist. He showed amazing artistic talent before he became an emperor, and he created his own "thin gold body", which was called "vigorous brushwork and natural meaning" by later generations! At an auction in later generations, Zhao Ji's calligraphy work of "Thousand Character Text" was auctioned for a sky-high price of 140 million.
In terms of painting, Zhao Ji is fond of flowers and birds, and has become a "courtyard" by himself, full of wealth and wealth. The calligraphy and painting academy he set up has cultivated a number of famous poets and calligraphers and masterpieces. The famous "Qingming Riverside Picture" is the work of the Painting and Calligraphy Institute in the Zhao Ji period, and Song Huizong also personally wrote the inscription.
Tian Shiyi despised Zhao Ji's level and character as an emperor, but he sincerely admired the artistic level of Zhao Guanjia, and Zhao Ji also admired Tian Shiyi's poems and sketches.
Although Tian Shiyi's sketches are still very immature, they are unique in the Great Song Dynasty. It's just that for Tian Shiyi's brush words, Zhao Guanjia is very dissatisfied.
There is a saying that "chickens don't pee, each has its own way", Zhao Ji finally made a decision about Tian Shiyi's artistic level, and he is only good at hard. Because Tian Shiyi's writing with a pencil is okay, and the sketch is a must, and the soft pen class is completely unreadable.
After drinking another glass of Bloody Mary, Zhao Ji's words gradually increased, and he gradually couldn't control his mouth.
Tian Shiyi struck while the iron was hot and talked about gunpowder. didn't expect Zhao Ji to get Li Gang directly, but he just wanted to bury a seed, and the rest of the matter naturally had Zhang Shuye and Princess Zhao Mei of Jiaguo to help.
A person who is a bastard at heart will always be a bastard, and being an emperor is no exception.
The gunpowder of the Tianci Alliance is an epoch-making product, and its importance is that a person knows that the court of the Great Song Dynasty has to quarrel over the gunpowder of the Tianci League.
What I never expected was that Zhao Ji, who was a little drunk, didn't care about it at all, but talked about Fengyue.