The first month, the beginning of the year, everything is waiting to be enjoyed.

After the sixth day of the first lunar month, Luo Zhaoyun began to go out to Chang'an to inspect several important factories and workshops outside the city.

The first is the glaze factory, that is, the glass of later generations, Luo Zhaoyun once explained some of the recipes for making glass, and sent some craftsmen to the Western Regions to learn the simple glass process, and returned half a year later, starting with Luo Zhaoyun's glass formula.

According to Luo Zhaoyun's memories in college, glass materials are mainly composed of three parts, namely the basic raw materials, fluxes and colorants, as well as decolorizing agents, fining agents and emulsions.

The basic material is silica, which is a constituent material in stone, and it is necessary to dig the stone to extract the components in the stone. However, due to the high melting point of silica, it is very limited to achieve this melting point; In this era, it was difficult to do so, so the ancients tried to add some other substances to make its melting temperature lower.

After more than half a year of testing and manufacturing, a finished product finally appeared, but it has not yet been launched into the market.

Luo Zhaoyun is now stabilizing the economic market, restoring the two cities, restarting the Silk Road, and strengthening trade with the Western Regions, that is, he plans to trade glass with dozens of Western Regions in exchange for more gold coins and materials, etc., to enrich the material reserves of the Central Plains.

Came to the glass factory, after the sixth day of the new year, it has already started, Luo Zhaoyun is His Majesty, and he came here to condole, and all the employees feel extremely honored.

The scene observed the assembly line, looked at the glass handicrafts, there are horses stepping on the swallows, there are 12 zodiac shapes, etc., it is indeed very beautiful, like crystal, whether it is sent to the Western Regions, or to the Central Plains high-door households, it will be welcomed.

Scarce things are expensive, and at the beginning a small amount of outflow can gather a large amount of wealth.

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Out of the glaze factory, Luo Zhaoyun visited the salt factory again, where high-quality fine salt is produced, which is supplied to the palace nobles, officials, and some medium salt, and some wealthy and large households, ordinary salt blocks, which are relatively cheap, can be used by the people in Chang'an City, and even radiate Guanzhong.

Even if it is an ordinary salt block produced here, it is much higher than the salt stone used in the Sui Dynasty, and there will be no many toxic substances, which is also good for the people's physique.

People's livelihood is more important, as long as the people's life is getting better and better, and the quality is getting higher and higher, it will be supported by the people, and the foundation of the court will become more and more stable.

The next day, Luo Zhaoyun went to the winery, textile factory, and ceramic factory to inspect, and when industry and commerce are developed, the economy can be invigorated, and with market operation, it can drive changes in the living system of Chang'an City.

Of course, according to historical development, Luo Zhaoyun first carried out a five-year plan and used the planned economy to promote domestic development, and when the opportunity was ripe, he gradually privatized and privatized from the planned economy and state-owned enterprise model, but that would take a long time.

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In a blink of an eye, on the eve of the Lantern Festival, the palace began to recruit new palace maids.

Dou Hongxiu impersonated, came to sign up, handed over the broken silver in private, got a good ranking, and successfully passed the primary election.

She walked into the palace, followed a group of sixteen or seventeen girls, through the harem garden, rockery waterfalls, winding corridors and lying waves, layers of high walls and buildings, and felt the majesty and bearing of the royal family.

Many girls and children were all chattering, talking to each other, and they were all excited and enthusiastic when they saw this kind of palace style.

Dou Hongxian is the opposite, looking at the direction, layout, and characteristic buildings, she wants to remember the location, so that she can act at night when the time comes.

More than 50 girls were taken by the temple people to a large hall and stood in several rows.

A foreman of the palace in his forties stood up and said: "Girls, you are lucky, you are selected to work in the palace, at least five years, more than ten or twenty years, although your youth will be wasted here, but when you leave the palace, you can get a free body, and you can get some remuneration, when the time comes, find a good family, don't suffer outside!" ”

"Although you were sent in by your family to be a palace maid in exchange for money and temporarily lost your freedom, the current court is a hundred times stronger than the previous court, and it pays attention to humanization. Your Majesty is benevolent, and specially passed down the holy decree, you can't always imprison the palace maids and servants in the palace, and when the time comes, you will arrange for the guards and palace maids to get married, and live in a special lane, all of which eat official food, and you can be regarded as making a lot of money. ”

When the girls heard that there was such a good thing, they all became excited, chattering, and looking excited.

After hearing this, Dou Hongxian was also stunned, this kind of practice, but I had never heard of it before, her father was the emperor, and he didn't think about how to arrange the fate of the palace maids, and the servants recruited were basically sold by their families without eating, or arrested.

"This Luo Zhaoyun is a good emperor, no, even if he is a good emperor, he is also my father's enemy, and this revenge still has to be avenged." Dou Hongxian was conflicted in his heart, but he still felt that he wanted to take revenge.

"You all go to bathe and change clothes, and then put on a unified palace skirt and ornaments, one rouge gouache per person, all dress up carefully, and wait for the president Empress Sun to come in person, and those who are clicked can go with the queen and serve the queen and His Majesty, that is a special honor......" Gong E is trying her best to agitate.

"Wow, the queen is coming...... these girls are all in high spirits, thinking that it is a good opportunity to soar, if they can become the queen's personal maids, the status must be very high, and they may be able to marry some guard commanders in the future.

After hearing this, Dou Hongxian was also a little excited in his heart, and secretly thought: If he can appear next to Empress Changsun, then he will have a great chance of contacting His Majesty, find a safe time, kill with one blow, and the task of his trip will be completed.

"Girls, let's go down to the bathroom and get ready!"

Fifty young show girls followed the palace maid past the bathtub and palace skirts, and after bathing, they had to wait for the queen to pick people, and the rest of them would be assigned to different positions to work and start the life of court servants.