Sitting in the carriage with Lan Ling, Li Hong pondered what the cheetah said, as well as the fragments he saw, and it seemed that it was no coincidence that these things appeared in the Temple of Mercy and Grace.

Li Hong had a bold idea, could it be that those imprisoned people would be the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty? And those fragments are the remnants of the craftsmen who made the Linglong Tower?

"What do you think, little one?" Lan Ling looked at Li Hong holding the fragments in his hand and didn't let go, thinking that the little guy was still worried about breaking the Linglong Pagoda in the palace, and asked dotingly stroking Li Hong's head.

"I didn't think about anything, Auntie, how did you and Master Weiying know each other?" Li Hong raised his head and asked, the glass shard in his hand was close to one eye, and he could vaguely see the shadow of Lanling.

"Naughty." Lanling gently patted Li Hong's hand on his eyes, sighed and said: "This is the younger brother of the queen introduced a few years ago, now this Chang'an City, although there are dozens of temples and Taoist temples, but this incense money is ridiculously expensive, and your aunt is not like you who know how to make money since she was a child, although she is a princess, but she still can't go to the big temple every day to pray for incense. ”

"And before that? Only in that monastery? Li Hong continued to ask.

"Before, I had been in the Guangming Temple, and after the construction of this Temple of Mercy and Grace, I heard that it was also the younger brother and uncle of Queen Wang who matched him to come to this Temple of Mercy and Grace. What are you asking all this for? Lan Ling suddenly asked strangely.

"It's nothing, just ask, I don't know which one is more powerful, Master Weiying or Master Xuanzang, and Buddhism is more profound." Li Hong replied casually.

"That's naturally Master Xuanzang is much more powerful, he went to get the Buddhist scriptures in person, and Master Xuanzang only gives lectures to our royal people, even your father has to go to him twice a year, and now he is about to become your father's royal master, so naturally we won't be able to listen to Master Xuanzang's lectures." Lan Ling said with a sigh.

After watching Lanling's carriage slowly leave, Li Hong was still thinking about Lanling's words in his mind, and suddenly remembered something and said: "Mangzhong, stunned, go and follow your aunt's carriage, and you will come back after escorting you home." ”

Li Hong continued to think about the doubts of the Temple of Mercy and Grace as he walked towards the house, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this Temple of Mercy and Grace was not as simple as it seemed.

Queen Wang's younger brother Wang Jing introduced the only response? It was as if he, like his father and his brother, was a civil servant with no real job.

His father, that is, the father of the queen Wang, was named "Tejin", second only to the "Three Princes" at the time of the Great Dynasty. Knighted Duke Wei Guo, the second rank of the Wen Shan official, as for the title of the younger brother of the queen, Li Hong does not know.

But Li Hong also knew that Empress Wang's uncle Liu Shuang, who was a powerful figure, was serving as the governor of Zhongshu Province at this time.

Li Hong shook his head and wanted to drive out these trivial things in his mind, or maybe he thought too much, at this time, in Chang'an City, no matter how big or small, the temple is not only a place for good men and women to worship devoutly, but also a place for people to visit and sightsee, enjoy flowers and admire the moon, which is equivalent to a park in later generations.

Similarly, some monasteries also serve as the government's function of placing the families of some deposed officials, and the most well-known is probably the Ganye Temple where the queen mother stayed back then.

On the morning of the second day, Li Yifu hurried over, followed by six people, looking at their expressions, most of them looked like ordinary people, only promising and cautiously following Li Yifu in the Puwang Mansion.

Li Hong had just finished breakfast under the service of the summer solstice, and yawned to let Li Yifu in.

Li Yifu stood at the door and ordered the six people to wait outside the door, but from the time he found these six people to the present, Li Yifu did not tell these six people why they came here, the purpose of coming here, and who the people they wanted to see were.

After hearing Li Yifu's greeting, the six people hurriedly nodded yes, their eyes just staring at their toes, not daring to look at them casually. They had never entered such a large mansion before, and the mere walk made them feel like they had walked half a mile.

The six of them speculated uneasily in their hearts that the identity of the big man they were going to see in a while, and the one who could live in such a big house in Chang'an City probably had to be an official above the national prince, no matter what, they didn't expect that the person they would see in a while would be the royal prince.

"Yifu sits, how is it, someone has found it?" Li Hong is not polite, he didn't sleep well last night, and his mind is always full of the scene of yesterday's Ci'en Temple.

"The king of the Hui Dynasty has been found, according to your instructions, there are two glaze craftsmen, two blacksmiths, and two craftsmen who fire green bricks, all of whom are honest and duty-bound people, and their ancestral craftsmanship is all skilled craftsmen in Chang'an City." After Li Yifu sat down, Xia Zhi brought a glass of water and put it down.

Li Hong was not used to drinking sencha at this time, so he only drank boiling water until now.

Li Yifu was obviously used to it, and nodded slightly at Xia Zhi to express his gratitude.

"By the way, let me ask you something, do you know the Temple of Mercy and Grace?" Li Hong painfully used his little hand to beat his little head melon seeds, and his black and bright hair was draped over his shoulders and swayed at will.

"The minister knows that the Temple of Mercy and Grace has just been built a few days ago, why did the acting king ask about this, if you want to go, tomorrow the minister can accompany you to have a look." Li Yifu said with a hint of contemplation flashing in his eyes.

"No, I went to Aunt Lanling yesterday, how much do you know about Ci'en Temple?" Li Hong let Xia Zhi tie his hair into a ponytail and drape it on the back of his head, he was too lazy to tie his hair.

Li Yifu groaned and said, "Hmm...... The minister doesn't know much, it is said that this Temple of Mercy and Grace was built by Guizi and my rich businessman family in the Tang Dynasty, and the other ministers are not very clear. ”

Li Hong nodded thoughtfully, and began to make up his mind in his heart, it seems that if he doesn't understand this matter, he doesn't want to sleep well. So I thought about planning to let the stinger and the cheetah go to find out what secrets are hidden in this Temple of Mercy and Grace.

"Okay, let's go, come with me to the backyard and see if these craftsmen can get this glass out." Li Hong stretched out his little hand to the back of his head, touched his ponytail with satisfaction, got up and walked out.

Li Yifu followed closely behind, and as soon as Li Hong went out, he saw six people standing on the side of the door with their bodies bowed, and after a glance, he said, "Yifu, take them over to have a look." ”

"Yes." Li Yifu waved his hand and motioned for the six to follow.

When I came to the last courtyard, it was empty at the moment, except for the pavilions and gardens, and there was a lot of sand piled up in an open space.

Everyone came to a stop not far from the sandpile, Li Hong looked up at the dazzling sun in the sky, and then took the piece of fragment that he brought from the Temple of Mercy and Grace yesterday from Xia Zhi's hand.

Li Hong turned around and looked at the six people behind Li Yifu who were bowing their heads, handed the glass fragments in his hand to the six people and asked, "Look at what this is?" Does anyone know how this is made? ”

The eyes of the six people stayed on the glass in Li Hong's small hand, and they saw one of the craftsmen pondering and saying, "This little brother ......." ”

"Presumptuous!" Li Yifu's scolding suddenly sounded, not only startling the six craftsmen, but even Li Hong.

"What you are looking at is the prince of my Tang Dynasty, what a little brother! Don't kneel down and confess your sins! Li Yifu only realized that he had made a mistake at this time, and he should explain to them who he wanted to see when he came, otherwise such an embarrassing thing would not have happened.

"It's okay, it's okay." Li Hong looked at the six people kneeling timidly in front of him, and said, "Get up, those who don't know are not guilty." By the way, you just said you know this? ”

"This ...... Yes, forgive sins on behalf of the king, Xiaomin seems to have seen it before, and this thing seems to be called ...... Call....... ”

"Just say what it's called, why bother to spit it out, even if it's wrong, it doesn't matter." Li Yifu urged impatiently.

"Yes, my lord, this thing should be called glass, and what you have in your hand should be just a fragment."

"Do you know how to make it?" Li Hong asked.

"The little people don't know." The other five shook their heads.

Li Hong nodded knowingly, turned his head to look at the pile of sand, and then said, "Okay, let's discuss how to refine this glass today." Which of the six of you is the craftsman who fires the bricks? ”

"Xiaomin is." The two men stood up and said.

When Li Yifu heard this, he knew that the acting king was going to teach him how to find glass, so he hurriedly said: "Acting king, the ministers will retire first, and I will come back after you finish teaching." ”

"No, you will have to take care of this matter in the future, just take a look together, I don't know much about it, whether it can be done or not, it depends on the two of them." Li Hong said indifferently.

Li Yifu was relieved and happy in his heart, it seemed that there was no harm in walking around with the acting king, and now he regarded himself as a confidant, and he did not shy away from himself for such an important matter.

Li Hong ignored Xiao Jiujiu in Li Yifu's heart, watching the sun shine on the sand, and with the change of angle, from time to time, he could find a shining bright crystal from the pile of sand.

So he pointed to the pile of sand and said, "When you look at the pile of sand from different angles, can you see that occasionally there are bright and dazzling things reflected off?" ”

Li Yifu and the other six people, including Xia Zhi, shook their long necks and stared at the pile of sand, and said in a voice from time to time: "It's really, there is really light." ”

"Summer solstice, isn't it similar to the light we saw yesterday?"

"Yes, Dai Wang, although it is a little smaller, it is not easy to catch, but it is really the same." Xia Zhi continued to shake his head and looked at the large pile of sand and said.

Li Hong walked to the sand pile, motioned for them to follow, held a handful of sand in his small hand, gradually loosened his fingers, watched the sand fall to the ground like a line on his fingertips, and said: "Actually, this glass is extracted from this sand, so the two of you who want to burn the green bricks, burn the sand in the next few days, burn this pile of sand and see what will happen." ”

"It's ......." The two craftsmen were a little embarrassed, what could be burned from this burning sand?

"Cook it in any way you can think of, you can do it any way, and there is also a place for you here, a room for two, which has been cleaned for you, and someone will usually bring you food on time." After Li Hong finished speaking, he told Xia Zhi to help them take care of it, and then took Li Yifu to the front.

"Acting King, you don't say that the glass is fired out of sand, do you?" Li Yifu's gentle and powerful smile was gone, and his face was full of surprise and incredulity.

"Yes, this sand is an indispensable material for making glass, so you can imagine how cheap this glass is, right? But then again, it's not that easy, and there are a few other things that need to be mixed in. Don't tell anyone about it. ”

"Why?"

"In order to maximize profits, and because we don't have large-scale workshops, let's take a look at the progress in the next few days. What do you think of Liu Shuang? ”

Li Yifu couldn't keep up with Li Hong's jumping thinking, the last sentence was still on the sand, and the next sentence jumped to Zhongshu Ling Liu Shuang.