Forbidden City, Kunning Palace.

"Your Majesty, the crown prince has been locked up by you again recently, why don't you see the concubines come here to say goodbye?"

Empress Zhang put down a sunspot and talked to Emperor Hongzhi about Zhu Houzhao.

"No, this rebel has been quite safe recently, and he hasn't made me angry!"

Emperor Hongzhi was also a little puzzled, he hadn't punished Zhu Houzhao for more than half a month, I have to say, I really felt a little empty when I thought about it, so Emperor Hongzhi looked at Xiao Jing:

"Xiao Jing, what has the prince been doing recently, why don't you come to greet the queen?"

Xiao Jing replied: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been with Li Zhao recently, and the two of them often go to Liulichang, as for what they are doing, the slave maid doesn't know. ”

"Running to Liulichang? What does this rebel want to do? I didn't hand over the glaze factory to him! Also, why is Li Zhaotong still in the capital, and have the displaced people of Tianjin Wei been settled? ”

Emperor Hongji had a lot of questions.

"Why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ran to Liulichang, the slave maid doesn't know, as for Li Zhaotong, the slave doesn't know why he is still in the capital.

However, the news came from the factory that the displaced people of Tianjin Wei were well settled, and the 'Xiao Zhu Xiucai Dog' sea ship belonging to Daming Maritime transported back a huge amount of sea fish every day and supplied to the people at the price of a penny, and Tianjin Wei was full of fish fragrance. ”

"A penny?!"

Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang smacked their tongues, they didn't notice Xiao Jing's special emphasis that "Xiao Zhuxiu is a dog", and their attention was all shocked by the price of this penny a sea fish.

"This Li Zhaotong is really capable." Emperor Hongzhi said with great emotion.

"Your Majesty, the concubine wants to taste what this sea fish tastes like."

Empress Zhang became interested in marine fish.

Daming Sea has been banned for hundreds of years, to be reasonable, the emperor and queen in this palace have never eaten seafood, therefore, Empress Zhang wants to taste what sea fish tastes like, obviously she is a person who can accept new things.

"Xiao Jing, Tianjin Wei's sea fish, can there be an appearance in the capital?"

Emperor Hongzhi was an emperor who advocated frugality, and he didn't want to send someone to Tianjin to take it because the queen wanted to eat sea fish, and he was thinking that if the capital appeared, then send someone to buy some and come back to taste it.

"Yes is ......"

"Don't babble, if there is anything unspeakable, just say it!"

Xiao Jing lowered his head and said ashamedly: "Your Majesty, those people in Guanglu Temple who are still in charge of food and drink can't do it, and the cooks of the inner prison can't do it, only ......."

"Only what?!" 、

"Only the chef of the East Palace can do it, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not allow the chef of the East Palace to teach others, saying that this is a secret skill taught by Li Zhaotong and cannot be passed on."

Xiao Jing replied stubbornly.

In fact, when Tianjin Wei's seafood appeared in the capital, the eunuch who was in charge of purchasing the internal official supervisor bought a batch of seafood and handed it over to the imperial chef of Shang Shan Jian to do.

Later, the cook who handed it over to the internal supervisor was also not delicious.

Therefore, seafood has appeared in the capital for more than half a month, and Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang have not been able to taste the deliciousness of seafood.

As for Zhu Houzhao, he had already eaten in the Li Mansion, and then sent a cook to the Li Mansion to study, so the East Palace was the only place to eat seafood in the entire Forbidden City.

"Today's dinner, go to the East Palace to eat, just to see what the rebel is doing, what do you think, queen?"

"Your Majesty, you have the final say."

……

Liuli factory.

Liulichang is located in the west of the outer city of Jingshi, in the middle of Xuanwumen Outer Street and Zhengyangmen Outer Street, spanning Zhengxifang and Yibeifang.

Li Zhaotong was instructing craftsmen to make glass mirrors here, and Zhu Houzhao, who loved to join in the fun, also followed.

"Father and mother are coming to the East Palace for dinner? Do you want to eat seafood by name? ”

Zhu Hou looked at a guard of the East Palace who came to report the news, with a helpless expression.

The glass mirror will be made soon, he Zhu Houzhao is going to make a lot of money, at this critical moment, the emperor and the empress are actually coming to the East Palace for dinner, and now the guards of the East Palace have come to inform him to go back as soon as possible, isn't this his mentality?

"Why did they come to the East Palace for dinner?"

Zhu Houzhao really didn't want to go back, so he wanted to know who was messing with his mentality.

"It is said that the queen mother said that Your Highness, you haven't been to Kunning Palace for a long time to ask for peace, so I want to come and see you."

The guards of the East Palace, who came to report the news, bowed down and replied.

"I think it's Xiao Jing's complaint! That old dog must have a grudge against the people in the palace who refused to teach him to cook a seafood feast, so he went to his father to slander him! ”

"Your Highness, since Your Majesty and the Empress want to go to the East Palace for dinner, you better go back as soon as possible!"

Li Zhaotong, who was biting his fingers to guide the craftsmen, raised his head and suggested.

"But the gift from the palace to the queen mother is not ready yet!"

Although Zhu Houzhao often scolded the dog emperor and the dog emperor, in fact, this was just a rebellious teenager's behavior, his malice was not big, he was actually a very filial teenager.

When Li Zhaotong proposed to him to do a glass sales business and be able to make a delicate glass mirror, the first thing that came to mind of this dog prince was not how much money he made, but to think about dedicating the glass mirror to his mother first.

Therefore, he didn't go to greet Empress Zhang during this time, in fact, he was thinking about giving Empress Zhang a surprise, so he has been keeping an eye on the production progress of the glass mirror, hoping to be able to dedicate the delicate glass mirror to his mother as soon as possible.

And now, the production of the glass mirror, at the most critical moment, asked him to leave, which is a bit of a failure, so Zhu Houzhao is very unwilling, and he hates Xiao Jing, who he thinks is a villain.

"Your Highness, in fact, the small glass mirror has already been made."

Li Zhaotong smiled slightly, and after speaking, he mysteriously took out a fist-sized delicate box from his pocket and handed it to Zhu Houzhao.

"! Why didn't you say it earlier, you actually hid it from this palace! This palace has long thought about dedicating the first glass mirror in the world to the queen mother! ”

Zhu Houzhao was unhappy, and he was going to make a gesture to pinch Li Zhaotong's neck again.

"Don't! Don't come here, be careful to smash this glass mirror! ”

Li Zhaotong hurriedly stopped Zhu Houzhao,

"Your Highness, you yourself asked to be big! This big glass mirror is not easy to make, but the small one is much easier, so the first small glass mirror has been made, which is in the hands of His Royal Highness, but the big one has not yet been made, and it is the one next to the minister. ”

Li Zhaotong's method of making glass mirrors is not to use silver mirror reactions, because silver nitrate is not so easy to make, and the method he uses is to attach tin amalgam to the glass with mercury, which is not easy to make, so it is very time-consuming.