Chapter 228: The Glass Mirror is Born

Li Zhi, who was distressed by the fact that there were not many Confucian scholars who responded to the call of the imperial court, was overjoyed after reading Li Yu's recital, and said with a smile: "What Si Yan thinks and thinks is very much in my heart. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

The Empress Wu on the side was also smiling, congratulating her husband on finally finding a solution, "Presumably, according to the four songs, after the imperial court announced the news, there must be many people of insight in the world who have learned Confucian scriptures and righteousness in response to the call of the imperial court and go to southern Xinjiang to educate the barbarians." ”

Li Zhi grabbed the shoulders of the martial queen and said with relief: "This is thanks to the concubine who gave birth to a brilliant son for me. ”

"No, it's the fifth son and the little girl Lingyue with a good heart."

"Yes, it's five sons and one daughter, how can my Li Zhi's children be ordinary people?"

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Luoyang City is full of traffic, and the flow of people on several main roads is endless. To Li Yu's delight, half of the carriages he saw along the way were four-wheeled carriages produced by his own family.

"Judging from the account books sent by General Manager Cui, the four-wheeled carriages produced by the palace sold well in Liangjing last year, and the craftsmen who received the orders couldn't finish it."

"The profit alone last year was 100,000 yuan, which caused many businessmen to be jealous, and I heard that many wealthy businessmen in the two capitals are building four-wheeled carriages to compete with our Yan Wangfu."

On the carriage, Xin'er and the four daughters talked about the sales of the four-wheeled carriage made by the palace, and they were very happy for a while. When talking about other merchants recruiting craftsmen to imitate them, Mei'er couldn't help but worry that after other merchants made them, they would form a competitive relationship with the carriages produced by the royal palace and affect sales.

"Mei Ermo is worried, although the four-wheeled carriage is easy to build, but if there is no spring steel produced by our palace, those merchants will make four-wheeled carriages, and they will not be able to compare with the carriages produced by our palace. Even out of the city, there are no smooth roads in the city, and the comfort and durability of those four-wheeled carriages without the effect of spring shock absorption will make buyers understand that not everyone can build a four-wheeled carriage produced in Yanwangfu. Xing'er said confidently.

"Lang Jun?"

Xin'er patted Li Yu who was in a daze, "What does Lang Jun think, so concentrated?" ”

Facing Xin'er's disgusted eyes, Li Yu smiled: "I'm just thinking about whether I want to wave my troops north and take the Heishui and Ussuri River basins after returning to Anton." ”

"Lang Jun, is there going to be a war again?" Ling'er had a trace of sadness on her face.

Every time she hears the news of the war, Ling'er can't help but think of her father who died on the battlefield and didn't even find his bones. Father Nofei died in battle early, and the family was not so depressed that they sold themselves into slavery, and entered the Liquid Court Palace with their mother.

Li Yu knew why Ling'er was worried, stroked Ling'er's waterfall-like hair, and said softly: "Between the races living in this world, there is no permanent peace, only the superior and inferior under the law of the jungle. Today, if you don't take advantage of your strength, you will strike first, and when your own strength weakens in the future, it will be when you will suffer. As the sages said, how can others sleep soundly on the side of the couch? If you don't destroy the tiger in its sleep, when the tiger wakes up, it will become a tiger that cannot sleep. ”

"The slave family also understands what Lang Jun said, but they can't bear to kill and hurt the soldiers, leaving their wives and children alone."

"The soldiers died for the court to stabilize the frontier, as their commander, how can your family Langjun not solve the worries of the soldiers under his command?"

……

The carriage clattered to the front of the Yanwang Mansion, Li Yu and his entourage got down from the carriage, and Li Shu, who was the head of the Yanwang Mansion, saw that his Royal Highness had returned, and hurriedly stepped forward to pay a respect.

"Your Highness, there is a decree from the palace, and I ask Your Highness to enter the palace as soon as possible to receive the decree."

"Huh? The eldest father sent someone to deliver the decree? ”

Li Yu was a little surprised, there was no big deal, the eldest father usually just sent eunuchs to pass on oral or hand orders, but today he actually passed the decree, presumably the court has something to make him do.

Li Yu, who hurriedly entered the mansion, saw Zhang Chao, the regular attendant beside his eldest father, waiting for his arrival with a holy decree in one hand.

Seeing that King Yan had finally returned, Zhang Chao was overjoyed, and stepped forward to greet him warmly: "Look at Your Highness's complexion, this spring outing outside the city will definitely be pleasing to the eye......"

"Hahaha, the spring outside the city is really good, how about inviting my father-in-law to go out with me another day?"

"Your Highness is really tormenting the old slave, without the permission of the saint, how can the old slave dare to go out of the palace and go out with His Highness!"

"Haha, that's exactly what I said. I wonder why Your Majesty sent you to deliver the decree this time? ”

"Of course it's a good thing for Your Highness!" Zhang Chao smiled and said: "Your Highness's four-wheeled carriage is amazing, after Jiang Xianggong, who was guarding Hexi, learned about it, he wrote to the sage, making it clear that the four-wheeled carriage produced in His Highness's mansion is used to transport military food four times that of ordinary carriages, and it is beneficial to reduce the loss of military food during transportation." It is hoped that the imperial court will purchase 3,000 four-wheeled carriages produced in His Royal Highness's mansion for the transportation of military rations from the armies of Hexi and Longyou. After consulting with the ministers of the DPRK and China, the sage decided to allocate 5,000 four-wheeled carriages, which would be used not only for the armies of Hexi and Longyou, but also for the troops and horses of Liang Jishou, the head of the march of Yaozhou Dao, who had conquered Yongchangman, as well as the needs of the DPRK and China. ”

didn't expect a good thing to fall down so quickly, Li Yu couldn't close his mouth with a smile, until Zhang Chao left the Yanwang Mansion after announcing the decree, Li Yu's joy couldn't stop.

Mei'er estimated: "Five thousand, each car is priced at 100 yuan, and the palace can earn 500,000 yuan." ”

Xin'er nodded far away: "Five thousand, I'm afraid it will be difficult to build it in a year, and with the current annual output of the palace, it will take five years at the longest to complete." ”

"Then we'll have to hire someone!" Xing'er spread her hands and said helplessly: "It is estimated that there are a lot of people who need to be recruited." ”

"There is no need to recruit a lot, haven't there been many businessmen in Liangjing recently recruiting craftsmen to copy our four-wheeled carriage? In addition to the spring steel itself, the rest of the carriage parts were produced in cooperation with these merchants. They made the other parts of the carriage to my specifications and transported them to the royal workshops, where they were assembled by the craftsmen. ”

Li Yu came up with an idea that made Xin'er's four daughters shine, and they didn't want to do business and cooperate with other merchants' workshops.

Just when Li Yu sent people to negotiate cooperation with other merchants who had horse-drawn carriage workshops.

Located in Chang'an, where Li Yu's workshops are concentrated, the glass workshop set up for the production of glass can be described as jubilant today.

As the owner of the workshop and the head of technology, He Li was even more excited.

After more than three years of research, their glass workshop finally made a glass mirror that His Highness said, which can reflect people's faces flawlessly.

At this time, the glass mirrors of different sizes placed in the conference hall of the glass workshop are as small as the size of a palm, and the large ones are as high as a person.

The onlookers looked in the mirror and were amazed, and for the first time in their lives, they saw their faces clearly.

After Cui Xuan, who was in Chang'an, got the report, he rushed over as soon as possible, and was dazzled by the glass mirror that reflected the scene in front of him, but his mouth couldn't close with a smile.

The messenger sent by Cui Xuan set out from Chang'an and hurried to Luoyang to report the good news to His Royal Highness.