In fact, smart businessmen may not understand the principle of controlling goods, but sometimes some stupid people will disrupt the market after mastering the productive forces. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But it also satisfies the society's demand for certain commodities in another way, making the society progress to a certain extent. Just like this mirror, the Venetians have always mastered the mirror-making process, and sold the glass mirror for a sky-high price, even if the French later mastered this secret, they did not pull its price down too much. It wasn't until the Germans invented a cheaper and more advanced technology that glass mirrors entered thousands of households. From the point of view of ordinary people, the Germans are doing a great thing, but from the point of view of businessmen, they are simply stupid. Jiang Tian is not thinking about how to popularize glass mirrors now, after all, this is not a necessity of life, the most important thing for the Chinese people is how to fill their stomachs, and those who have leisure and leisure to freshen up and dress up are also people who do not worry about eating and drinking. So even if a mirror earns a thousand percent of the profit, Jiang Tian can earn it with peace of mind. If there are conditions to prepare silver mirror reactions in the future, and flat glass can be manufactured on a large scale, it does not matter if the price of cabbage is sold.

He planned it this way, but it doesn't mean that others will think so, before the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the news that Jiang Tian successfully made a glass mirror has already caused a sensation in the capital. If Jiang Tian's invention of something in the past had little to do with the common people, at most it was a conversation after tea and dinner. But this news is enough to make many people's hearts jump wildly, what is the mirror? It's a priceless treasure in the market, and it's impossible for most people to even glance at it, counting on Xiyi to occasionally ship a piece and auction it for bidding. It is said that because of the war disaster in the capital, the original collection was either destroyed in the war or was taken away, only the palace and the Shunyi Bofu each have a side, or brought from the south of the Yangtze River that year, which is the envy of everyone in the circle of high-class noblewomen.

But there are also some smart people who have discovered that not only the glass mirror has been registered for a patent, but also the owner is still two, just looking at the names of the two people to know that it is impossible to buy the mirror technology, waiting for the other party to ship, and I don't know when to wait. Although some big businessmen want to visit to look for business opportunities, but because their status is too different from others, you may not be able to meet people even if you give a heavy gift. If you think about it, you can only use your own network, find a way to get close to the other party, in case you can be lucky enough to appreciate your face and let yourself see and see, it can be regarded as having an intuitive understanding of the product.

Jiang Tian was a little annoyed this New Year, because the manufacturing technology was secret, so he could only stare at the dissolution reaction by himself, and the logistics department of the Academy of Sciences only knew that the consumption of mercury had increased dramatically in the past two days, but they didn't know what to do, and they didn't dare to inquire blindly, that is, in the past two days, they could often see the prince and vice president Jiang wearing an exaggerated mask, and it was said that there were two layers of fine charcoal in the fifteen layers of cotton. It is said that this can play a role in preventing poison, but whether it really works as it says, no one dares to try it.

"Dexin, how are these glass plates prepared?" Jiang Tian stared at the basin-sized glass that was being polished: "Can you come out before fifteen?" ”

"You can rest assured, this new machine is much easier to use than the old one, and it will definitely be a congratulatory gift on the day of the Lantern Festival."

The congratulatory gift they said was that after the emperor knew that the trial production was successful and got the sample, he generously sent a red envelope to all the people involved in the development as a reward, and privately spread the word that it was best to make two mirrors before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to give to the queen.

"This thing is actually ......" Wu Yuan said the reason for the incident with a little crying and laughing: "Who made the prince careless......"

It turned out that when the prince asked his mother to say goodbye, he inadvertently picked up the glass mirror and played with it, after all, this thing is only one side of the inner courtyard of the palace. Maybe I accidentally fell and smashed it! Although the mother was very distressed, it was not good to punish too much for a mirror, so she punished the prince for writing the Analects a hundred times and forbade going out. Zhang Tao felt a little sorry for his son, and besides, he didn't think that the glass mirror was worth much, so he had to beg his royal sister, Wu Yuan, to give his mirror to the queen, and promised to Chinese develop his own glass mirror as soon as possible to break the monopoly of foreign countries......

"So I was arrested for the New Year!" Jiang Tian was dumbfounded by the truth of the matter, he thought that Zhang Tao wanted to expand export products for grain.

Wu Yuan nodded very sadly, and then said with regret: "If you can get two mirrors before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, maybe the prince can still be released, otherwise you will have to wait for the queen to dissipate." ”

Jiang Tian wanted to say that whether the prince was released or not, what does it have to do with him? But after thinking about it, since Zhang Tao is willing to give himself half of the shares, then don't worry about the money, if he can sell one or two mirrors a year, it will be enough to support his family, so he only needs to devote himself to the manufacture of new mirrors, but he faces this important problem, that is, the preparation of mercury is not easy.

"After making these two mirrors, we will run out of mercury, and it will be impossible to start work again in a short time." Looking at the ground glass, this time Jiang Tianzai carefully checked the flatness of the mirror.

Song Yi couldn't help at all, don't look at him already knew the secret of the mercury mirror, but in addition to keeping his mouth shut, he never understood the truth: "Sir, why do these two things have such a magical effect?" ”

"What about me...... One or two sentences can't be said clearly, in short, mercury is a metal with a very low melting point, he can dissolve tin foil at room temperature, and form a thin film on the surface of the glass plate, and then it is what you see, the specific knowledge will be explained to you in detail after I start school, and help me print fifty copies of this textbook before the start of school, not enough to talk about later. ”

Song Yi took over a dozen books that resembled account books. On the top of the first book are two big words: Chemistry! A cursory look at it, there are not only words but also a variety of illustrations, it is indeed necessary to find a professional printing workshop to print, but if such a complex book is printed step by step for two or three years, it is not too late to wait until the start of school? There is only one place in the capital where you can print these things into books in the fastest time.

Therefore, Song Yi did not say anything, but took all the textbooks and saluted Jiang Tian: "The student will not be dishonored." ”

Jiang Tian didn't say anything, in fact, he also knew the difficulties of printing these textbooks, but the Academy of Sciences itself had a complete set of printing presses developed by him, and he usually confiscated patent fees for printing things, so he directly thought of it as an act of abusing power for personal gain. Anyway, Song Yi is the grandson of the dean, and he is the vice president, even if someone pursues the issue of printing fees, he can also deduct it from his own money, anyway, Lao Tzu is not bad for money now. Song Yi didn't think so, because it was impossible not to gossip about such a large number of things printed with the equipment of the Academy of Sciences, so he didn't sleep all night after getting the textbooks, and after copying a few books overnight, he hurriedly found Wu Yuan, and explained that the time had come for Zhang Huan to repay the teacher's rescue, and your husband is now making mirrors to save you, so you should hurry up and print these textbooks, and you will use them anyway when school starts. Of course, that's not what he said, but the meaning is almost the same, who made your kid owe and broke his mother's baby.

According to tradition, the year after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is over, so the Lantern Festival lantern viewing activity is also a traditional carnival for the Chinese. In Beijing, the lights were put up early to celebrate, and the dirty and unshaven Jiang Tian swayed into the house that morning, so that people thought that he had fled and returned.

While helping him take a bath, Youlan complained: "Master, why is it that people go out on errands in a beautiful manner, but you are the only one who is like this every time?" ”

Jiang Tian lay in the bathtub and shook his head helplessly: "A group of men hide in a courtyard and don't see the light of day, they just deal with a bunch of objects all day long, and it's hell if they can be clean." ”

Youlan grew her mouth in surprise: "You are an official master, what is there to let the subordinates do?" ”

"How do you know that you can't fake others when you experiment with this kind of thing, and if you don't do it yourself, you won't get the desired results."

Of course, Youlan can't understand this kind of thing, but this doesn't hinder her imagination, maybe in her opinion, her master is the kind of person who doesn't like to strategize, and wants to charge into battle with soldiers, so she immediately changed the topic elsewhere: "Master, today is the Lantern Festival, and the sisters want to go out at night to enjoy the lanterns, do you want to go together?" ”

To go or not to go? This is a problem, considering the various disputes caused by his appearance in front of these women, Jiang Tian instinctively feels that this may be very troublesome, but if he does not go, he is afraid that it will cause more trouble. In a dilemma, he didn't think about it: "You let me rest first, and I'll tell you back in the evening." ”

Jiang Tian had no choice but to continue to use the procrastination trick, he also knew that some things could not be dragged around, but as a man, it is the dream of most people to be surrounded by a group of beautiful girls, but once there are more women, all kinds of rights and wrongs will come, and the situation of three wives and four concubines can continue to hug left and right and women do not fight only exists in novels, or in a special religious atmosphere. The normal situation is that women are jealous or hate out of love, which can cause many tragedies that should not happen.

Before the women could reply, Xizi came to Jiang's mansion again with brisk steps, this time the little eunuch did not hold his identity as an angel, but knelt down and kowtowed after seeing Jiang Tian.

"Father-in-law doesn't have to be so polite." Jiang Tian picked him up: "Today's visit must not be so simple as New Year's greetings, right?" ”

Xizi hurriedly smiled: "Look at what you said, you really deserve to be Your Majesty's junior brother, his old man asked me to give you a message, saying that the mirror has been seen, and the queen is very happy to invite you to a family banquet in the evening." ”

Your Majesty, please eat? This is to show yourself credit after pleasing your wife. Jiang Tian set the tone for this matter in an instant: "This rice is not delicious!" ”

Xizi heard this, so he said with a smile: "Look at what you said, it is just that the emperor, the queen, you and the king of Ji have a meal, although Your Majesty is frugal, it is not bad for this thing." ”

Jiang Tian had no choice but to smile, there were some things that he could understand as a eunuch, but this solved another problem: "Okay, please tell Your Majesty that the minister will definitely go to the banquet tonight." ”

"Okay, then I'll go back to my life!" Xizi still smiled and left, he couldn't help but laugh, just to pass a word, and the silver was in hand again. Now the eunuchs know in private that it is a fat difference to pass the decree to Jiang Tian, and even if he receives the money, His Majesty may not really punish him, so they are all holding back and trying to find a chance to squeeze out this stupid boy, but they don't know if he has this consciousness.

As for Jiang Tian, he regretfully announced that you don't have to think about yourself in the evening lantern viewing program, you just have a good time. The girls naturally had their own ideas when they heard this, but Xiyun's girl was a little unhappy: "Brother, shouldn't we be this official?" The emperor won't even let you go for the holidays! ”

"What stupid thing does a silly girl say?" Jiang Tian patted the top of her head: "Your brother and I am not this official for myself, but the world needs a person like me to put the country on the right track, when I can be idle, either the court can no longer save, or the world is too peaceful to do." ”

Xi Yun naturally didn't understand the meaning here, but Xinyue stood aside thoughtfully, the court was hopeless, no one dared to say anything about this kind of rebellion except Jiang Tian, even in the environment of the late Ming Dynasty, he just complained in private. But she couldn't see if the current imperial court would go that far, she just thought that Jiang Tiandang's official looked no different from the position of supervising Edo in the past, and she was indeed sorry for that grade, but could these things put the country on the right track? The sage said that the embodiment of the prosperous era is that the world is peaceful, and the officials can drink tea and read official documents all day long. What does this have to do with what Jiang Tian did?

Jiang Tian glanced around when he was having lunch, and found that except for Linglong, the other girls were really around him, after all, now they saw a kind of hope, as long as they could win the favor of their master, maybe they could live the life they dreamed of. Jiang Tian is not disgusted with their ideas, after all, although it is the dream of the ladies in the boudoir to fall in love, the possibility of realizing it is extremely low, unless you fall in love with one of your cousins, this can be done to spend the month and the moon chatting about hobbies and hobbies and finally privately promising for life. Therefore, most girls' dreams are nothing more than to marry a well-read, young and wealthy, easy-going and handsome son...... How to have a dream with a money worshipper in the 21st century? Or has this wish not changed for thousands of years? Jiang Tian obviously meets this condition, needless to say that he is humble, not only was he a showman but also the emperor's junior brother in Xinxue, handsome and chic but not hateful, although the money is not too much, but there is potential, how many people can be so rich and handsome who are not moved here? Is there such a person? Really!

"Isn't Miss upset?" Xiyun saw that Linglong was just eating with her head bored and didn't talk to anyone, so she asked a little timidly: "Let's enjoy the lanterns together at night?" ”

Linglong didn't raise her head, just ate her own share, calm in everyone's strange eyes, and didn't answer Xiyun's question.

"Everything, it's still so good at this time." One of the girls muttered quietly, but loud enough for others to hear.

Another person next to her chimed in: "Alas...... It's not that people have a good life, they look like flowers and moons, and it's okay to play with their temperament, how can they have a hard life like us......"

Jiang Tian knew that this was all for himself, and at the same time, with the meaning of suppressing Linglong, he felt for the first time that his eating was a bit out of reality with such an approachable meal, as long as there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, and similarly, as long as there are women together, there will be disputes, or that sentence, why should women be embarrassed by women.

At this time, Xinyue stood up and persuaded: "If my sister is unwell, don't go, anyway, there are no new ones every year." ”

In ancient times when entertainment activities were scarce, the Lantern Festival was a rare festival that could be lively, and it was also a day when everyone could go out to play justifiably, and it was impossible to say that it was impossible not to look forward to it, but Linglong didn't know why it became the appearance of the four empty, and I heard that this is the song "Yongmei" improvised by Jiang Tian, and it has always been like this. Jiang Tian just wanted to ask the reason, but now it was difficult to say it in front of so many people, so he had to pat the depressed Xiyun again, and quickly finished eating to end this embarrassing scene. To say that Jiang Tian is the worst at coaxing women, he doesn't know what the girls who are angry and spoiled at him want to do, if he is the kind of animal who thinks with his lower body, the problem is that he is not that kind of person, he has to choose a way not to provoke women as much as possible, that is, not to expand the scope of his harem as much as possible. But according to the standards of this era, it is indeed impossible for Linglong to marry someone else.

Walking on the streets of Beijing in casual clothes, although it is not yet dark, the festive atmosphere is already very strong, and everyone who can hang lanterns is ready to join in the fun. Jiang Tian didn't take the carriage, he just walked slowly to feel the festive atmosphere of more than three hundred years ago, and by the way, he was thinking about how to cope with the dinner party for a while. Xizi said very clearly, there are only four people who eat, but he has absolutely no blood relationship with the other people, and the family banquet was inserted by himself, not to mention, the etiquette at this table is also a big problem. It doesn't matter what happens when you and Zhang Tao eat a working meal, anyway, everyone is a modern person, and there are not so many stinky problems, but in the presence of King Ji and the queen, this monarch and courtesy will be a big test. And what made him wonder was that since the queen could sit at the same table, why was the crown prince excluded? Could it be that even if she received a new mirror, the queen has not yet lifted the punishment of the crown prince? Even if the mirror is priceless in this era, it is a bit of a fuss, right?