Chapter Forty-Seven: The King Called It Glass

On the way from the workshop outside the city to the palace in the city, Han Cheng was always uneasy in his heart, and it was difficult to calm down.

The princess was suddenly summoned, which really surprised Han Cheng.

Although he is also one of the stewards of the Han Palace, he is young, and he is still in charge of the most inconspicuous glass workshop, and he usually has almost no sense of existence like Sun Zhan. So when he suddenly heard that the princess was going to summon him, Han Cheng was naturally surprised and panicked, and he didn't know what was going on.

After entering the palace, he followed the maid's ink painting to a big house, and Han Cheng didn't dare to look carefully at the girl in front of him, so he bowed directly: "Little Han Cheng, see the princess!" ”

"Hehe, get up."

There was no princess shelf, Fang Fengzhu picked up the teacup in his hand and said with a smile. Then when the other party got up, she took a small sip of the tea that had been cold, and her brows couldn't help frowning slightly!

I really don't like the taste.

But even if Fang Fengzhu prefers fruit juice and goat's milk, she still has to force herself to get used to the taste of tea as soon as possible, because Fang Fengzhu knows how much Li Yuanjia likes this thing! Anyway, as long as he sees the king in the study, he always has a cup of tea at hand, and Fang Fengzhu has never seen the other second kind!

In any case, she wants to make herself enjoy this tea......

When Han Cheng stood up, he happened to see the frown of the princess's brows.

With a chuckle in his heart, he panicked a little.

Fortunately, the princess's attitude was still very kind, and she casually asked about the recent situation of the glass workshop - in fact, the last time the king took the princess to Zhuangzi, Han Shan had already seen her, but there were many people at that time, and Han Shan did not dare to take a closer look, and after such a close contact today, he immediately felt the aura of the top celebrity of the Tang Dynasty.

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old woman, and she speaks softly, but Han Chengcheng has a nervous sense of suffocation!

The princess asked, and Han Chengcheng replied, not daring to say more nonsense.

After about half a stick of incense, Fang Fengzhu suddenly put down the teacup in his hand, narrowed his eyes and asked, "Han Cheng, how much money did our glass workshop spend in total last month, do you know?" ”

"Back to the princess, the little one knows."

After swallowing and spitting, Han Cheng's voice was slightly dry and answered Fang Fengzhu's question: "The monthly routine of twelve people is four times, and it costs sixty and four hundred dollars to purchase raw materials, and there is also the expansion of the workshop, and the purchase of some utensils, which cost one hundred and twenty-six!" Combined with the daily expenses of six and forty-six dollars, there is a total of one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty-six dollars! ”

Although the other party's tone was very gentle, and he deliberately used the word "we" to show his attitude, Han Cheng was still beating a drum in his heart at this time.

The beautiful girl in front of her is the hostess of the entire Han Wangfu!

And everyone in the palace knows that although the king of his family is young, he is not very interested in women, and he has never even touched a woman before he got married - this matter is not a secret in the Han Palace, even Chunyan and Liu Mei, the two personal maids who are like flowers and jade, have not touched it!

The favor that Princess Fang Fengzhu received after entering the mansion was seen by everyone.

Of course, if it was just the identity of the other party, Han Cheng would not be so nervous, but when the princess asked about the cost of the glaze workshop for a month, he couldn't afford to deal with it carelessly. After all, from the day it was built to the present, how many hundreds of glass workshops have been spent? However, until now, nothing has been made that can satisfy the king, and Han Cheng himself is also under a lot of pressure in his heart, and now the princess asked......

Han Cheng was nervous here, and Fang Fengzhu, who listened to his answer, was also slightly stunned.

One hundred and ninety-seven and forty-six dollars?

There are zeros and whole numbers, and this number gives people a sense of reality when they hear it.

Fang Fengzhu has been accustomed to hearing more than 100 guan and nearly 100 guan and the like for more than ten years before, how can she hear such an accurate number from Han Cheng's mouth, she is really not used to it. But after a trance, Fang Fengzhu remembered the few math books he was still studying, and also remembered what Li Yuanjia once said that only after learning those books can he be qualified to be in charge of Han Wangfu!

"Whew...... And so it was! ”

After taking a light breath, a sense of urgency suddenly rose in Fang Fengzhu's heart.

As the master, she can't be worse than Han Cheng's stewards! And she heard that the king asked Ma Liang to take a few smaller ones into the school, as if he wanted to teach them himself...... Although Fang Fengzhu didn't understand why her husband wanted to teach mathematics to the children of these subordinates in person, it also gave her a sense of crisis.

If it's worse than those children by then, won't you lose the dead?

So after hearing the numbers Han Cheng answered at this time, Fang Fengzhu was at a loss, but also a little ashamed - she hadn't reacted to that series of numbers, and Han Chengcheng had already come up with the final sum!

Fortunately, Fang Fengzhu was not an ordinary girl, and she quickly settled down, and Fang Fengzhu asked: "Han Cheng, I have lost almost 200 guan in a month, and it is more than 2,000 guan in a year!" This is not a small amount of money, it is enough to buy a big house in Chang'an, but after you spend it, you don't have anything to build? ”

When these words were spoken, Fang Fengzhu's tone and expression were not as good as they were just now.

More than 2,000 guan is indeed not a small amount of money, if it is for ordinary Tang Dynasty people to live, it is enough for them to live comfortably for a lifetime - please note, it is a comfortable life, not a lifetime! Even many Datang officials may not be able to save 2,000 yuan of family wealth in their lifetime!

As a result, when it came to Han Cheng's side, it took a year.

As a qualified palace housewife, how can this Fang Fengzhu endure it? So when she gained a firm foothold and thought that after she had a clear grasp of the situation in the palace, the first person she found was Han Cheng, who planned to work this glass workshop.

"If you go back to the princess, it is mainly expensive to buy all kinds of materials!"

After swallowing another mouthful of saliva, Han Cheng hurriedly explained: "Although the king asked us to use sand to make glass, when firing, we need to add various minerals or something, and many of them need to be purchased from those Taoist priests and warlocks...... You know, those people don't have cheap things, so ......"

In Han Cheng's opinion, he was also quite aggrieved.

In fact, they had already made the same glass as the people of the Western Regions, but the king was never satisfied, and he kept asking Han Cheng and them to continue to improve. And the focus of improvement, in addition to changing different sand, is to add different things when burning. Just as when making paper, you have to try to add extracts from various plants, and when you burn glass, you add various minerals, or the products of Taoist alchemy......

It's really expensive, what can Han Cheng do?

And after listening to Han Cheng's words, Fang Fengzhu frowned: "Glass? Didn't you make glass? ”

"Back to the princess, the king called it a glass ......"