The success of crucible steelmaking means that Li Zhi finally has a new economic pillar, which shows its importance, so he ordered to go down and monitor the craftsmen and their families who participated in the experiment just now, and not to leave the line of sight half a step before the workshop is rebuilt.

The crucibles are burned with boiling molten steel, then cast and shaped by craftsmen, and then forged into weapons and some agricultural tools.

The weapons made are all put into storage, and now is not the time to take them out, and only after Li Zhi completes the rectification of the army in the next step and ensures controllability will he equip the army, otherwise he will finally arm the army but turn around and do himself, he is not stupid, and the farm tools are used for sale, pushed to the market, and obtained rich funds.

Nowadays, both the farmers and civilians under the family are still using farm tools made of pig iron, which are not hard, resulting in a short service life, and the family conditions are worse and stone farm tools are still used, which greatly affects productivity, and the replacement rate is very high, which also leads to an increase in costs.

Li Zhi commanded

After ordering everything, Li Zhi moved from the backyard to the main hall to meet the guests.

As soon as I arrived at the door of the main hall, I saw Steward Zhang standing in front, and two men standing behind him, one was tall but full of braided hair and unkempt hair and dressed in different clothes, and the other was not tall, but his dress was quite normal.

As soon as Li Zhiyi stepped forward, before Steward Zhang could open his mouth, the short man spoke, "His Royal Highness King Xin, next week, next to me is Char, a merchant from the Western Regions, who said that he wants to make a deal with you, I don't know if His Royal Highness King Xin is interested." ”

At this time, the man in different clothes on the side supported the language that Li Zhi did not understand, seeing this, Li Zhi was silent, made a gesture of please and entered the house, Steward Zhang saw this, and led the two into the house to sit down, and he stood beside Li Zhi.

"I wonder what kind of deal the foreign merchants want to do with this king?" Li Zhi sat down and said with interest.

"His Royal Highness King Xin, I don't know about this, can I be interested?" Zhou Man clapped his hands, and suddenly a man in the same uniform was holding an object covered by a red curtain, and after carefully stabilizing it, Zhou Man stepped forward to uncover it.

Li Zhi was a little stunned, there is a mirror in this era, and it seems that he still underestimated the scientific and technological level of this era. The mirror making process is not too difficult, as far as the mirror in front of me is concerned, it is actually not very good, the mirror is a little dull, not very bright, it can be seen from this that it should be the early mercury mirror, but even so, this is the most advanced mirror in the world, and now the Great Xia Dynasty is still generally using copper mirrors.

The glass mirror was a luxury in ancient times, but in fact, the cost was not high, but the low cost of the mirror can be worth a sky-high price.

The world's first glass mirror was born in Venice, when the Venetian mirror caused a sensation throughout Europe and became a very fashionable thing, and European princes and nobles rushed to buy this mirror.

For example, when Queen Marie de Mediscis of France got married, the king of Venice gave her a small glass mirror as a gift. It was a very precious gift at the time, and it was worth 150,000 francs! The process of making mirrors was also legislated in Venice, and anyone who dared to sell the mirror formula was punishable by death, but money could make the devil grind, and the French ambassador used means to smuggle Venetian craftsmen into France, so the secret of the mirror craft was no longer monopolized. But mercury is poisonous, so this kind of mirror was gradually eliminated by the Western aristocracy, modern mirrors were invented by the German chemist Libiger in 1835, and then after continuous improvement into thousands of households.

Seeing Li Zhi in a daze, the man in different clothes thought that this glass mirror frightened Li Zhi, and secretly said in his heart, sure enough, the Oriental people are all barbarians, and they don't know anything. But he chose to forget the embarrassment he had when he first saw this mirror.

"I wonder where this mirror came from?"

Seeing that Li Zhi was not interested in the mirror but asked which country it was made in, Zhou Man didn't know how to answer.

So the translation was relayed to the merchant in different clothes, and after listening to the paraphrase, the merchant was worried that Li Zhi would grab the source of goods with him, so he didn't hold back his breath, and the water that he just drank into his mouth squirted out and dripped on the ground.

But Li Zhi secretly thought about the puddle of water on the ground, and suddenly frowned.

After the merchant calmed down, he was a little nervous, thinking that Li Zhi was not happy, because he had heard that some royal children would cut off their heads if they disagreed, so he was worried that his disrespectful behavior would anger Li Zhi.

Li Zhi came back to his senses and said, "It's okay, you don't have to be nervous, this king will never compete with you for the source of goods, so let's do it, this king is willing to pay ten taels of gold to buy this mirror, but I also hope that you can tell this king which country this mirror is made of!" After saying that, Li Zhi waited for the merchant in different clothes to reply, he believed that he should not refuse, and even if he refused, Li Zhi might only use force to force him to give in, and ask what he wanted to know.

Li Zhi was willing to pay a lot of money to buy this mirror, for nothing else, to know if the world plate of this time and space was the same as another time and space, and whether this mirror was made in Venice.

After a long while, the merchant still told Li Zhi where the mirror came from, because he felt that this mirror could be sold for ten taels of gold was already satisfied, not only could he make a profit, but he also understood the situation he was in front of him, and the little sheep sent to the door were to be slaughtered.

Talking with the merchants in different clothes in the main hall for a long time, of course, all of them were relayed by Zhou Man, which made Zhou Man sweat profusely.

More than an hour later...

Li Zhi probably also knew the basic situation of this world, and also knew that the so-called Western Regions merchant Char was actually just a good deed person in Tibet, whose real name was Tashi Nyima, who liked to explore everything, and organized a convoy to the west all the way to Venice in Europe, saw the novel glass mirror, and took a foreign name after appreciating the civilization of Europe.

Char basically spent all his savings and then returned to Tibet with a large number of mirrors, but unexpectedly the sky-high price of mirrors was not easy to sell, it was nothing more than the king of Tubo felt that it was a novelty to buy one, so Char came to the Northern Gang Kingdom again, but unexpectedly the Northern Gang Kingdom was a group of barbarians, but they were not interested in this kind of thing, so the bitter Char passed through the Northern Gang Kingdom and came to the Great Xia Dynasty to try his luck, the first stop was Suxi Province, but unexpectedly met Li Zhi.

In fact, there is no big difference between this world and another time and space, equivalent to the seventeenth century of that time and space, and now the Great Xia Dynasty is like the Ming Dynasty, and the West is basically the same, the same mirror was also born in Venice, the interesting thing is that the mirror in front of him is the businessman Charles through "today's modern society a major strategy - the Central Asia to West Asia Economic Corridor of the Belt and Road Initiative", which made Li Zhi very surprised, felt that Char was a talent, so he threw an olive branch.

Char, this king is actually not interested in the mirror in your hand, and even thinks it is! Not only that, but all the mirrors you have brought back from Europe with all your savings will be seized by this king, because they are poisonous!