As soon as Li Hongfei came up, he directly asked about the price, which in later generations belonged to the typical style of local tyrants, and Hopnav secretly rejoiced, this time he should have met a "fat sheep". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

I saw that he quickly suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and said to Li Hongfei respectfully: "This gentleman, I also said just now, I just want to make up enough money to return to China, this heart of the ocean, since I have a fate with this beautiful young lady, I will be cheaper, how about a thousand taels of silver?" ”

Hopneuve quoted a very "low" price, in his opinion: anyway, this place is tens of thousands of miles away from France, and the "fat sheep" in front of him will not know how much the fare will be to go back.

"If you really buy Heart of the Ocean, then this kind of price is indeed very cheap." Li Hongfei's affirmation made Hopnaf's eyes light up, but soon, Li Hongfei said again: "But you asked me to spend a thousand taels of silver to buy a Poli bead, are you really stupid?" ”

Li Hongfei said the mystery.

Glass was also called Poli in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica has a record: Po Li, the name of the country, its crystal is like water, its hard is like jade, so the name is water jade, and the water spirit has the same name.

Tibetan utensils say: glass, the treasure of the Western Kingdom, jade and the like, in the soil, or clouds and thousands of years of ice, is not necessarily.

Shi Zhen said: Out of the south, there is wine color, purple, white, clear and similar to the water spirit, grinding the raindrops of flowers is true, Waidan, the home also uses it, the medicine burner has a gas eye and light.

It can be seen that glass can be synthesized in the Ming Dynasty, and its use is very wide.

Although the price of glass is expensive, a glass the size of a pigeon's egg is not worth a thousand taels of silver at all, and as jewelry, twenty or thirty taels of silver is worth the sky.

The Hopnaf in front of him is clearly slaughtering a fat sheep.

Hopnav was told to his face, his face was ugly, but fortunately he was fair-skinned, so everyone didn't see anything unusual, in order to break this passive situation, he organized his language and began to retort: "This gentleman can't afford it, so please don't talk nonsense, which of you has ever seen blue glass?" ”

For hundreds of years, people have believed that glass is green and cannot be changed.

It was later discovered that the green color came from a small amount of iron in the raw material, and the compound of ferric iron gave the glass its green color.

After the addition of manganese dioxide, the original ferric iron becomes trivalent iron and appears yellow, while the tetravalent manganese is reduced to trivalent manganese and is purple.

Optically, yellow and purple can complement each other to a certain extent, mixing together to become white light, and the glass will not be colored.

However, after a few years, the trivalent manganese will continue to oxidize by the air, and the purple color will gradually increase, so the window panes of those old houses will have a slight purple tinge.

But even so, in this era, no one has ever made dark blue glass, and even the rest of the colors of glass are purely by luck, not just whatever color you want.

So Hopnav insisted that Li Hongfei was because he couldn't afford it, so he slandered himself.

"I'm sorry, I've really seen blue glass, don't think that if you mix a little paint in it, you can fool me, otherwise, let's go to the pawnshop or jewelry store in the city, find a professional to inspect, if it's really a gem, a thousand taels of silver, a child will not be missing you, but if it's glass.......... Don't think about returning to China, wait to live in my Ming prison for the rest of your life! Li Hongfei said lightly.

Although he didn't know why this glass was blue, as a traverser, what color glass had he never seen in later generations?

And the heart of the ocean is a famous diamond in later generations, even if Li Hongfei doesn't understand anything, but glass and diamonds are still easy to distinguish.

Sure enough, when Li Hongfei proposed to go to the jewelry store for identification, Hopnav was empty-hearted.

Since he sells it on the street, he must have eaten deflated in a jewelry store, and the group of people in front of him are either rich or expensive, if it is proved that he has been deceived, in the territory of another country, the government will naturally speak to its own people, let alone make money, and if you can leave the Ming Dynasty alive, it is all God's mercy.

"Doing business pays attention to your love and my willingness, I said that I am the heart of the ocean, but you say that it is glass, and the price reduction can't be so ruthless! Since you didn't buy the gems sincerely, then I don't want to say more, because I didn't come today. Hopnauff said with a look of indignation.

Obviously, he pulled the topic to the price, just to take the opportunity to leave.

Whether it's true or not, I won't sell it to you.

"Wait!"

Li Hongfei shouted, and then motioned to the guards beside him to surround the other party.

"What exactly are you going to do, sir? I can't do this deal! Hopnav said.

The confidence to speak was seriously insufficient, and he felt that he had hit a hard stubble this time.

"If you don't do anything, you just tell me how your glass is made into a dark blue." Li Hongfei is aggressive.

"I said that this is a gem that I picked up by accident, and I don't know if it's glass, if you like it, I'll give it to you." Hopnaf said helplessly.

It seems that he often encounters this kind of thing, and even regards Li Hongfei as the kind of person who takes advantage of it.

"A treasure worth thousands of taels of silver, you can give it away when you say it, I guess I used to do it often! Or do you have more of these things, which you made yourself? Li Hongfei asked.

Because of the panic, the other party leaked a bigger flaw, and if Hopnav continued to stalemate, Li Hongfei could only be suspicious.

But he is compromising like this now, which can only make Li Hongfei understand that this guy will definitely be able to get more glass, and it is even possible that he will make glass himself.

Glass in today's Ming Dynasty, is not a rare treasure, but it also has a high value, Li Hongfei has always wanted to get, but there is never a formula for glass, this time I finally met a Western liar, of course I have to seize this opportunity.

"What do you say? Why can't I understand? Hopnav looked puzzled.

He is now being led by Li Hongfei, and he has been exposed too much, so he has to pretend to be confused at this time, hoping to get through the trick.

"That....... Shopkeeper, this guy, you should know each other, right? Is it a regular customer in your store, tell me how many customers he has deceived? To tell you the truth, we are investigating a jewelry fraud case, and many people have reported that they have been deceived in your store, and if you are found to be suspected of covering up, then not only will the restaurant not be able to open, but you may also face jail time. So, what is the matter, let's think clearly. Li Hongfei suddenly asked the second junior of the Western store on the side.

After all, as soon as Hopnaf entered the door, the performance of the shopkeeper was unnatural, Li Hongfei believed that this guy should know something, so he directly made up a reason and began to intimidate the shopkeeper.

"Thisisnothingtodowithme (Italian: It's none of my business)%@#¥!! ...............”

When Xiao Er heard that their restaurant was also being implicated, he immediately couldn't even speak broken Chinese, and directly crackled a lot of foreign languages.

"Gotta get it, I don't understand this bird language, Xiao Wang, you take my warrant and go to the Siyi Pavilion to find a few Western translators, if you don't figure out this matter today, no one wants to leave!" Li Hongfei instructed his guards as he pointed out.

The second little boy of the Western-style store made Li Hongfei misunderstand that he became an accomplice, thinking that the two were discussing countermeasures in the chatter!

For this kind of trick, Li Hongfei naturally won't be fooled, and directly find a professional translator, and he still can't believe that he can't cure the other party.

Siyi Pavilion is the collective name of the translation department during the Ming Dynasty, and basically all court officials who are proficient in foreign languages will serve here.

As an important port for overseas trade, Li Hongfei opened a branch here at the beginning of his tenure, and there were even many foreigners who were proficient in Chinese to work here, which was also the only department where foreigners could serve as officials in the Ming Dynasty.

"This lord, don't worry about the government, what I have in my hand is indeed glass, and it is made by me, don't be embarrassed for Ike them, in your Huaxia words: one person does things and one person does. They really don't know anything. The last of Hopnaf's inner defenses were also broken.

The group of people in front of him can actually casually invite the officials of the Siyi Pavilion, Hopnav knows that he has kicked the iron plate today, since he is dead both horizontally and vertically, of course he doesn't want to involve this Western restaurant anymore.

Li Hongfei was not interested in this restaurant, since the bearded man spoke, Li Hongfei naturally did not toss, and ordered his guards to be on standby, and then asked again: "This blue glass is really made by you?" ”

In fact, what Li Hongfei is most interested in is not the so-called blue glass, but the other party's glass-making technology, but in order to introduce the topic, Li Hongfei can only be patient and listen to the other party's story..........

It turned out that Hopnav was an Italian and had been a well-known glassmaker for generations.

Around the 4th century AD, the Romans began to apply glass to windows and doors.

By 1291, glass-making technology in Italy was well developed.

"China's glass manufacturing technology must not leak out, and all the craftsmen who make glass will be concentrated together to produce glass!"

In this way, Italian glassmakers were sent to produce glass on an isolated island, and they were not allowed to leave this island for the rest of their lives.

However, a hundred or two hundred years later, the Black Death ravaged Europe, and the isolated islands became the safest refuge, craftsmen were relocated, nobles hid in these isolated islands, and Italian glass-making technology gradually spread.

A hundred or two hundred years ago, Italy's glass-making technology was far ahead, and even after a hundred or two hundred years, its heritage is very strong.

Moreover, as the inheritor of this technology, Hopnaf broke through the original tradition and invented a technology that can color glass independently.