Naf's story goes like this.

Making glass is actually very simple, that is, those raw materials are added in proportion, and then dissolved in the fire. There is only one color that can be made of glass, green. Once, when he went to buy raw materials, he carelessly bought the wrong ingredient, and when he finished adding it and put it in the furnace to burn, he found out that the raw material was wrong.

The profit of their workshop was already small, and if they destroyed this batch of raw materials, the workshop could not continue to operate. His father was furious and beat him to death with an old punch. Who knows, when the glass came out of the oven, he saw that the glass made was not green but yellow, and his father hugged him and kissed him fiercely, thanking God, their family finally had a bright day.

Later, his father experimented with adding other ingredients to the glass to make purple and white glass. After the big workshop found out, they bought the formula at a high price. Their family was too poor to resist the temptation, so they sold the formula. However, with the money from selling formulas, the family also bought a large house and turned a small workshop into a large workshop, which is considered a medium workshop in Italy.

With this successful experience, he and his father were full of enthusiasm and worked hard to improve the glass, hoping to make another windfall from it. The hard work paid off, and they finally made a large piece of glass.

Speaking of this, Nav also deliberately drew a one-foot square circle, and said proudly: "Have you ever seen such a large piece of glass?" Not at all! ”

Li Feibai smiled dumbly. He thought that a piece of glass was so big, it turned out to be just a one-foot square glass, what is there to be proud of, the big glass he has seen can be topped with dozens or hundreds of one-foot square glass. He laughs and tells Naf that he hasn't seen it, and asks if it's hard to make glass of this size.

Naf went on to speak.

It turns out that glass is a kind of thing, which expands and contracts when it is hot and cold, and it is usually made of glass beads or small cups and other objects, and if you want to make a large glass of one foot square, ninety-nine pieces of a hundred pieces will be exploded into pieces. Therefore, this kind of large glass is sold very expensively, and often a piece of glass can be exchanged for the same weight of gold!

After countless experiments and refinements, Nav and his parents finally reduced the number of explosions to 100 pieces, only 10 pieces, and 8 pieces.

The big workshops sent people to buy the craftsmanship of how to make large glass, but at this time, the Naf family was not short of money, and they also knew that making large glass exclusively was a continuous source of money, so they rejected these large workshops.

In the glass industry, the profit of large glass is the largest, and the large glass made by the Nafu family is the largest, and the price has been reduced by eighty, and other large workshops will not be able to operate. So they pooled their money to hire outlaws, killed Naf's family, and took Naf's craftsmanship for themselves. It just so happened that Nav went out that night to deliver a batch of goods to someone, and escaped. Before I got home the next day, a good friend told me about the tragic situation.

Nav knew that if they killed his whole family, they would cut down the grass and eradicate it, so that he would not take revenge. So, Naf began to flee, from Italy to Portugal, and from Portugal to Spain, and finally drifted on the sea by boat for a year, going to many countries, until he came to Daming, he decided not to wander anymore, intending to settle down.

But settling down is not an easy task, and nothing can be done without money. He originally wanted to open a glass workshop, but first, Daming had no raw materials, and secondly, he had no money to open a workshop, so he had to give up! I could only wander around on land, looking for opportunities, but I didn't expect to swim around and swim to Henan and meet Li Feibai.

At this point, he asked, "If I can make glass, are you really willing to give me ten thousand taels of silver?" ”

Li Feibai smiled: "If you can really make glass, my words will count!" ”

Nav said, "If I have ten thousand taels of silver, I will be able to settle down and never have to wander again!" After speaking, he opened the bag and took out a large yellow and black leaf, tore off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth to chew, and said, "I really want to have a home, just be able to shelter from the wind and rain!" ”

Li Feibai looked at the big leaf, his eyes suddenly lit up, he snatched it from Naf's hand, put it under his nose and took a sharp breath. That's right, it's tobacco leaves! He is also a person with an addiction to smoking, but after he arrived in Daming, he had nowhere to find it if he wanted to smoke, so he gave it up. At this time, I smelled the tobacco leaves, and the addiction was hooked.

Nafu saw that Li Feibai was interested in tobacco leaves, and said: "This is from a country where I forgot the name, saying that it can refresh the mind, I didn't believe it at first, but after chewing for a long time, I will not have the energy if I don't chew for a day, it should be able to refresh the mind!" Childe, would you like to chew a little bit and taste it too? ”

Li Feibai smiled: "This is tobacco leaves, it is smoking, how did you chew it?" ”

Nafu was stunned, spit out the saliva blackened by the tobacco leaves, and said, "Childe must have made a mistake, this is chewing, not sucking!" People in countries where this leaf is abundant chew it, and so do people on ships, and all the people I've seen who use it for refreshment chew it, and I've never seen anyone suck it! ”

Li Feibai was also stunned. He knew that it was smoked from the time he knew about it, but he didn't expect it to have a history of chewing! He tore some of the tobacco leaves off and wanted to smoke them with paper rolls, but there was no place to find paper for a while, so he directly rolled the tobacco leaves, brought them to the fire and lit them, took a puff of them, held them in his chest for a while, and then spit them out.

Seeing Li Feibai's intoxication, Nafu also tore off a little tobacco leaf and rolled it into a tube, leaned it in front of the fire to light it, and took a hard puff. Then, he coughed uncomfortably, until he coughed up his snot and tears, Fang felt better, and said: "How can Childe deceive people, is he being tortured by sucking, or is it comfortable to chew?" ”

Li Feibai didn't care, finished smoking the cigarette, and when he wanted to stand up, he went back with a dizzy head. He knew that he was drunk, so he sat there and waited for a while, and suddenly said, "Naf, do you have the seed of such a thing?" ”

"I've got a bad habit of collecting things, and I really have seeds for them!" So he went to his cart full of sacks, pulled out a small cloth bag, and brought it over.

Li Feibai took the bag and carried it, which weighed about two or three catties. He couldn't help but scratch his scalp, this is two or three catties of tobacco seeds, this is simply a golden goose that can lay golden eggs!

As far as he knew, more than half of the income of the Ming court came from the salt tax. He also knew that the amount of the salt tax in later generations was a drop in the bucket compared to the tobacco tax. What a lot of income it would be if tobacco was grown in large quantities and people all over the world fell in love with smoking. Of course, he also understands that smoking is harmful to health, but if he doesn't do this, there will be people who do this, and anyway, tobacco will become popular in the end, and it is not a big sin for him.

What's more, he also found a high-sounding reason for himself. If tobacco could bring a large amount of tax revenue to the state, wouldn't the burden on the peasants be reduced, and the tragedy of rebellion in order not to starve to death would not occur. He's harming people, he's saving people!

Li Feibai smiled: "How much is your bag of things?" ”

Nav said, "What is this thing worth?" If you like it, I'll give it to you! If you want this bag of seeds, you must want to plant them, and I had the same idea at the beginning, and when the leaves I brought in the future were finished, I planted and chewed them myself. It's a pity that there is no land and there is no way to plant, if Childe grows this kind of leaves, don't forget to give me some. ”

Li Feibai said: "It's easy to say! "You're not going to put the tobacco seeds in your bag.