Li Chengzong's big hobby is collecting, up to antique jade, down to glass glassware, as long as there is a collection value, then Li Chengzong must have them in the bag A few days ago, Li Chengzong got ten exquisite and clear gall-shaped glass bottles, felt that it was not exquisite, in order to increase its ornamental value, he handed them over to his guard Li Qiao, and asked him to urge the craftsmen in the palace workshop to find a way to coat the bottle with a layer of gold powder.

When the craftsmen saw this, they were helpless, and said to Li Qiao: "My lord, if you want to plate gold in the bottle, you must iron it with a red-hot iron grate before it can fit properly." However, the mouth of the bottle is small and the abdomen is large, and the iron grate is difficult to enter, and this kind of glass bottle is thin and brittle, even if the iron grate can reach in, it is difficult to operate, and if you have to knock it, the bottle will be broken. Besides, this bottle is His Highness's beloved thing, if one is not careful, then we can't afford it........"

After listening to the words of the craftsmen, Li Qiao had no choice but to temporarily put ten bottles in the box and bring them back to the palace.

After a few days, he went to the shops in the market of Wanghai Avenue, the most prosperous in Qindao, and suddenly saw a tinsmith in an inconspicuous small shop in the shop is deducting pottery, the craftsmanship is very exquisite, seeing this situation, Li Qiao suddenly thought, "His Royal Highness often says that the master is in the people....... since the craftsmen of the palace workshop are not good at handling it......... Then why don't I take a bottle and let this tinsmith try it? ”

Li Qiao was a man who could do whatever he wanted, and after a while, he went back to the palace and took the bottle and said to the tinsmith: "Master, please plate this bottle with gold...... Do you think it's okay? ”

Li Qiao is Li Chengzong's guard, but also Li Chengzong's absolute cronies, he actually respectfully honored a craftsman, this is because in Li Chengzong's Han Kingdom, the status of craftsmen has been greatly improved, you must know that in ancient China, all dynasties are heavy and light. The craftsman is the last business, and the craftsman is the smallest worker.

Shinong industry and commerce constituted the social hierarchy of ancient China. Scholars and officials composed of scholars are the elite of society and occupy the highest position in society. Agriculture is vital to the country and society, and it is a good talk to cultivate and read heirlooms, and caring for agriculture will be morally respected.

Craftsmen are craftsmen who play the roles of both laborers and craftsmen, most of whom are illiterate, live at the bottom, are bullied, and their work is vulgar and dirty. Craftsmen have no right to speak, and are excluded by mainstream society, let alone write books to leave their reputations. As a result, there are only a handful of biographies of craftsmen in the annals, and at most they can be found in the notes of the literati. Such as Hu Kuan, Ding Zhuan, Li Ju of the Han Dynasty, Mao Shun of the Tang Dynasty, and Yu Hao, a carpenter in the Song Dynasty, these people are famous for a while with their skillful skills......

Not to mention this era of bastards whose origin determines everything, everyone is already divided into three, six, nine and so on when they are born.

Many heroes who have achieved fame think that they are good, but in fact, not all of them are, in the face of the times, people are insignificant. There is no current situation where the heroes are competing, the heroes and ministers are old and dead, and there is no place for them, Liu Bang is still the pavilion chief to the end of Surabaya, and Fan Xu is still a butcher who kills dogs.

In the era when the family gate valve controls everything, if there is no identity of a family, it is even more difficult to counterattack the upper position, let alone the industrial and commercial people who rank low in the Shinong industry and commerce. You must know that in ancient China, there was a system specifically for craftsmen, that is, the craftsman registration system, which clearly stipulated that craftsmen would not leave the game, and craftsmen would always be full.

If it weren't for Li Chengzong, a shameless traveler, the status of craftsmen would have to wait four or five hundred years for the status of craftsmen to improve, and it would not be until the social and economic development of the Two Song Dynasty reached a certain height that the status of craftsmen was slightly improved, but in this time and space, Li Chengzong came, and this trend was at least accelerated by him in the territory under his control.........

In the Han Kingdom under the rule of Li Chengzong, the status of the craftsmen has been unprecedentedly improved, the status has improved, and naturally they have been respected accordingly, at least that sentence of the master, that is, there was no shadow at all before, because it is now a troubled time, many craftsmen who were originally controlled were able to escape the shackles of the craftsman, after they heard the news that the Han State valued craftsmen, they dragged their families and came to the Han Kingdom to make a living, such as the exquisite craftsmen such as the tinsmith seen by Li Qiao above is an obvious example.

Li Qiao's master, attracted the attention of the tinsmith, he looked up, it turned out to be a deal, he quickly got up to entertain, the two sides exchanged a few words, and then it got to the point, to Li Qiao's surprise was that the tinsmith didn't look at it, just said to let him come tomorrow to pick it up, Li Qiao had no choice but to leave.

The next day, Li Qiao went to pick up the goods, and the bottle was indeed golden. Li Qiao was overjoyed and said, "Master, you are really powerful." It seems that your craftsmanship is superb, and your level far exceeds that of the craftsmen in the palace. ”

Li Qiao happily took the tinsmith into the palace and told Li Chengzong about it. Li Chengzong saw that a gall-shaped bottle had been gilded as required, and was full of praise to enjoy it, and heard that it was the work of a clever tinsmith outside the palace, Li Chengzong was very surprised, so he came to the workshop in person, and ordered all his craftsmen to come to the court to line up to observe.

When the tinsmith saw that Li Chengzong was there to see it, he did not dare to be careless, so he took out a specially made small hammer and carefully tapped the small gold nugget until it was forged into thin and uniform gold paper like paper, and wrapped it tightly around the outside of the bottle.

Those palace craftsmen who were not convinced in their hearts suddenly laughed and said: "Your Highness, you don't want to be deceived by this person, who wouldn't be able to knock and forge gold paper like this?" ”

To Li Chengzong's surprise, the tinsmith did not answer, gently peeled off the gold paper wrapped in the bottle, carefully clamped it on the silver chopsticks, and then inserted it into the bottle, put some mercury appropriately, covered the mouth of the bottle, and shook the bottle up and down, left and right.

Half an hour later, the tinsmith showed the bottle to the people, and hey, the gold paper was properly attached to the inner wall of the bottle, and there were no gaps at all. He used his little fingernails to press the gold paper on the inner wall of the bottleneck evenly, and he was done. At this time, the craftsmen's eyes widened in astonishment and they were stunned.

Li Chengzong asked in surprise, "Master Mo, how do you know how to gild gold in this way?" ”

The tinsmith replied respectfully, "Your Highness, glassware is very delicate and fragile, how can you let something hard hammer on it?" Only the mercury is soft and heavy, and shaking it into the bottle will not damage the glass, although it will slightly erode the surface of the gold paper, but this damage is absolutely invisible to the naked eye. ”

Li Chengzong then ordered other tinsmiths to follow Master Mo's method to make the remaining eight gall-shaped bottles into gold plating, as for this ink master, Li Chengzong talked with him for a long time, and the two sides talked very happily, Li Chengzong found that the identity of the other party was not simple in the process of talking with Master Mo, well, to be precise, this ink master has a great background.......