Chapter Eighty-Three: Arrogance and Lewdness
When he returned to the supervising craftsman, he called Hu Zhongchun over and called the head of the casting to remove the stones that had been pulled back from Sunjiazhuang. handed Hu Zhongchun two pieces of paper and asked him to prepare the materials quickly, and Lao Tzu wanted to make a lot of money for the overseer.
As soon as Xiao Zheng said this, Hu Zhongchun's eyes lit up, since this master was in charge of the supervising craftsman, all the changes were in Hu Zhongchun's eyes. Now the craftsmen go out with their waists straight, and they are no longer coolies who work like cattle.
Others don't know that the monthly money of the overseer is now the highest among all the yamen, but others don't know. Now that this master is saying that he wants to make a lot of money, it must be a big deal, and it is not a matter at all to put one or two thousand yuan in the hands of this master.
The next day, he rushed to the supervisor early, and saw that the fire was already red, and nodded approvingly to Hu Zhongchun.
"Stir, keep stirring, change people when you are tired," Xiao Zheng said to the two craftsmen next to him who kept stirring with magnetic rods.
Seeing that it was almost over, I first asked the craftsman next to me to pour the molten tin into the sand tank, and then poured the liquid in the crucible into the tin melt, and after cooling it down, I took it out with a clamp to see that it was still a little green.
After thinking about it, he said to the craftsman, "Repeat the process just now, but don't pour the slag at the bottom of the pot."
Busy to the end of the day, a ruler of square smooth transparent glass appeared in front of people, looking at Hu Zhongchun and the craftsmen's excited looks, Xiao Zheng said to everyone in the room: "Ten silver dollars for each award, this method must be kept secret, Master Hu, you are responsible, if you dare to leak it" Xiao Zheng made a head-cutting action.
"Please rest assured," said the people in the room.
Wrapped the glass in a cloth and returned to his room to see Du Ruhui and Liu Yijie writing, after seeing Xiao Zheng come in, Du Ruhui moved his wrist and said: "Let me tell you a news, in the afternoon, the sage transferred your yesterday's incident to Dali Temple and Wei Zheng's Yushitai, and the two families jointly made a judgment on the Yin family, Yin Zhenxing, the son of Yin Arat, was fined 100 gold, and all the land he occupied in Sunjia Village was owned by the villagers of Sunjia Village, which was divided by the government. Yin Arat's godson was not strict and the title was revoked, and the dismounting stone at the door was also dug up."
"Okay, Lao Du, it can be regarded as revenge for you, but the punishment is a bit heavy, I like it, it's not too fast" Xiao Zheng clapped his hands and smiled.
"What do you think, it's not because of your poem, the poem above your court has spread all over Chang'an City, and many literati hold up your poem to the door of Dali Temple to demand severe punishment for the perpetrators, and you have fallen into a good reputation," Du Ruhui said.
"This time the saint is obviously killing a hundred people, and in the afternoon he has already released words from the palace, and in the future, there will be a royal family forcibly occupying the land and taking this as an example, after you make such a fuss, those people should also be restrained."
"Did you hear what about me?" Xiao Zheng asked.
When the two were talking, Ji Chun walked in from outside the door, pushed the door and looked at the two of them in the house, retreated without saying a word, stood in the courtyard and shouted: "Spread the sage Yu: Xiao Zheng insulted the royal family and was fined for one year!" ”。
Ji Chun's voice was also loud, and the whole courtyard could hear it clearly, and as soon as he finished speaking, the inkstone flew out of the house, and Ji Chun laughed loudly, and he had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard.
"You, you are deeply favored," Du Ruhui said as he looked at Xiao Zheng with an angry face.
"Come, Lao Du, you have to try such a saint when you have time, damn it, Lao Tzu has done a job for Li Jiabai, isn't it?"
"This official doesn't have that blessing, and he can't afford to enjoy it," Du Ruhui said with a smile to him.
"Lao Du, Liu Yijie, let you see something, the time has come to witness the miracle" Xiao Zheng finished speaking, opened the cloth wrapped in glass on the table, carefully picked up the glass and shook it to the two of them, the glass reflected the twilight sunlight and gave a dazzling light, illuminating the room and lighting up.
Liu Yijie crawled out from behind the table, staring at Xiao Zheng's glass with good eyes, and stammered, "Big, my lord, where did you find such a baby?" ”
"Give me a price, two," Xiao Zheng said to Du Ruhui.
"There's still a price for this thing?!" Liu Yijie cautiously flicked the glass with his hand and said.
"There will be better ones in the future" .......
A month later, the old guests of the Yingzhou Pavilion on the edge of the Qujiang River suddenly found that the Yingzhou Pavilion had changed, the original common window paper was gone, replaced by something as transparent as crystal pasted on the window frame, and at the same time, two five-dish glass lamps were hung in the roof hall, and dozens of candles were inserted at night to emit colorful light, and the hearts of the people who watched were shaking.
The high rollers in the private room even saw a kind of Western Regions wine in a transparent bottle, which was sold for an astonishing twenty pounds a catty, and waited for the maid to pour the red wine into a goblet like crystal, and some people thought it was worth the price.
Many people want to ask who robbed the Dragon Palace, and it is impossible to make such a big deal, and when they ask where these things come from, the guy smiled and pointed to the folding flower building next to him and said that it was sold over there.
Sent someone over to ask, saying that the glass used to stick the window was out of stock, but there were wine utensils, four goblets with a thousand wine vessels, but there was still a queue. That's also selling! The master waved his hand and said angrily, this thing will have a long face if it is a banquet at home in the future. And a kind of jewelry made of colorful glass suddenly appeared in the Yao Pond next to it, but the price was not ordinarily expensive, but it still couldn't stop the desire of the Chang'an lady to buy.
"Since you changed this glass window in this room, this room has suddenly become much brighter, and it looks comfortable", Li Shimin was lying on the couch squinting and talking to the eldest grandson, the sun shone on him through the window and was comfortable, and the bedroom of the eldest grandson queen was also quietly replaced with a glass window.
"If it's so good, why don't you change your imperial study as well?" The eldest grandson asked.
"This is Xiao Qing's cleverness, if I change it, such a valuable thing makes me fall arrogant, and secondly, let him have a flattering name, this time it will be useless for him to let Jin'er send it to you, and you can't get something between women to talk about things."
"Of course he is smart, otherwise how to make such immortal things, I heard that Yingzhou Pavilion has sold a lot of money, and some people are one or two thousand yuan as soon as they make a move, it seems that Datang is a poor ghost for the two of us."
"Erlang, you can't say these things outside, if it gets out and no one buys it, it will be bad," the eldest grandson said as he stroked Li Shimin's hair.
"Then you have to say, the more they buy, the better, otherwise where will I get the money."
In the backyard of the hall, there is an all-glass house the size of a room, and Jin'er's eyes are a little straight.
"Husband, are you going to be a crystal palace? How much does it cost? Jin'er asked.
"What Crystal Palace, this is my newly renovated operating room, you are going to give birth in a while, first, come here to be clean and hygienic for your preparation for childbirth, and second, I am afraid that if you have a bad birth, my husband wants to help you tide over the crisis and prepare for surgery" Xiao Zheng touched Jin'er's stomach and said.
"No, Daochang Sun and you have both checked the concubine's body, and the fetal position is very positive" Jin'er's figure at this time is much plump.
"Daughter-in-law, just listen to your husband, he spent so much money to build such a precious house for you, and the mother is waiting to report her grandson" Xiao's mother looked at Jin'er's stomach and laughed so much that she couldn't close her mouth.
Gong Yijian looked at the glass house and stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The old man has built a house all his life, and the first time I know that the house can be assembled with an iron frame and this thing, your kid's idea is really convincing, and the old man's gift is also ready, just wait for your daughter-in-law to give birth and send it over."
"The old man said okay, you may not be able to send two broken copper bumps like the last time the younger generation got married, you pick up valuable things and send some over" As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped by Xiao's mother.
"I found out that your kid is really shameless for money, you are a dignified prince, the prince and young master, who is in charge of the treasury of the Tang Dynasty, and shamelessly picks money with an old man and a poor carpenter, you are so shameless Your wife knows, do today's saints know?" Gong Yi didn't leave a little politeness on his lips and said to Xiao Zheng.
"No matter what you say, it's not okay if you have less money, but this house can't be built without your old man, this house is much better than doing an operating room in a small black room, please have a good drink at noon, and there are a few jars of good wine at home."
"You are still like a human saying" As soon as I heard that there was good wine, my husband's eyes narrowed into a slit.
A few people were talking around the glass house, and when they heard a big mess in the medicine hall, they looked up and saw Du Yiti leading a group of people rushing towards Xiao Zheng, and when he saw that Xiao Zheng didn't talk nonsense this time, he hugged Xiao Zheng and said in a blunt Chinese dialect: "Grandpa Guo, help!" ”