041 City Gate Snow
At this time, China's seafaring industry had not yet started, and even the Ryukyus had not yet been discovered, and the farthest northeast was probably Silla Baekje, and the other direction was to go down to the South Seas, starting from Guangzhou, and then sailing all the way along the islands, Malacca was the farthest limit.
This is because the boaters need to be able to see the land features to determine whether they are heading correctly, so they always keep a relatively close distance from the shore. In short, no shipowner dared to venture out to sea out of sight, for fear of storms, of being robbed by pirates, but in the final analysis, for fear of losing course.
If we could get their nautical charts, or get the astrology, wouldn't the Chinese Age of Navigation have to start 800 years earlier? For a while, it occurred to me that the compass had not yet been invented, and it was time to invent the compass steam engine or something...... Su You thought about it, and almost drooled from his mouth.
"My dear friend, we, I mean, are there any possibilities for you and me to cooperate?" The Romans looked at Su You in a daze, and they didn't know where they had offended Su You for a while.
"Of course, that's a certainty. Maybe our cooperation can start by getting to know each other. In the lower Su tour, the table word horizontal wave, is the seven products of the imperial court. Su You spoke much more casually than before, but he also seemed to have been infected with the vices of the Romans.
"Well, well, my name is Bud, and I'm here for you."
Bud? Such a familiar name, Su You suddenly thought of the greedy adventurer, who was turned into a frog by the witch doctor during his adventure in Zuaman, of course, no princess would go to that kind of place to save him.
"May I inquire about your goods outside of your tribute? Maybe I can give you an order. ”
"Of course. In fact, I brought ambergris, ivory and rhino horn with me. There are also woody incense, Suhe sesame oil, myrrh, tortoiseshell, and dense incense paper. Bud casually reported the shipping order, his face full of pride.
"Well, I'm afraid you bought some things along the way, right? Why is there no glass? "Su You has a certain understanding of the secret incense paper, and now this thing is used in the palace, and the tribute of this dense incense paper can be traced back to the time when Xie An walked up to the court from Dongshan, and it has been more than 200 years since then. As soon as it entered the palace, it quickly replaced the Jane and Silk and quickly became the vehicle for the official documents of the imperial court, although the focus is on the origin of these incense papers, which came from India and Thailand, not Rome.
"You say glass? Glassware was only a cheap commodity in the Roman Empire, just as porcelain was in the Great Sui Dynasty. It is profitable to trade in glass, unless it is completely transparent white glass. However, as you know, the biggest property of glass is that in addition to being precious, it is also fragile. Bud looked a little embarrassed when he heard Su You's question, but he still slyly bypassed the first question, he believed that Su You didn't care too much about the answer to that question, however, I heard that someone had already paid tribute to the dense incense paper, and Bud was already planning other sales channels.
"So, how was the glass work in Rome?"
"About 500 years ago, the Roman province of Syria became the center of glass zuò, where the stained glass zuò was fine, the utensils were intricately patterned and colorful, and the only fly in the ointment was that the problem of bubbles in transparent glass could not be solved."
Bard's explanation made Su You surprised and delighted, the bubble problem Su You had paid attention to before, and he could probably solve it, and from his words, you can know another information, that is, the formula of glass should not be difficult to get, maybe it is recorded in Chinese classics, such as "Hug Puzi" written by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in fact, he has this Chinese strange book hidden in his mobile phone, but there is no electricity; Perhaps, you can let Yang Er think of a way, if it doesn't work, you can only find Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, and there must be books in the imperial court.
"Eun, please tell me your address, I have to discuss it with my employer first."
"Do you mean His Majesty the Emperor? Our credentials have been handed over to the Sifang Pavilion. ”
"Aha, I think you'll get an answer soon, this is my address, and you're welcome to come to Han's house at your convenience." Su You left a famous thorn for Bud, and hurriedly went to Yang Er.
"A strange man." Bud muttered, and then got up and walked out of the wine shop, when the voice of a newsboy sounded on the side of the road: "Sell newspapers and sell newspapers, you can see the latest news from Kyoto for ten yuan, as of the fifteenth day of the lunar month, there have been envoys from twenty-three countries to pay tribute, and His Majesty the Emperor is ready to thank the countries at the Sifang Pavilion on the Shangyuan Festival; The envoy of the Fuso country, Ono Meizi, got up twelve times in one night, and it was rumored that he was attacked by patriots Croton, and now he has submitted his credentials for the second time, strongly condemning my patriots, and Hongluqing replied with silence instead of ......"
Listening to his shouting, Bud counted ten cents and took a newspaper, and by the way gave two more as consumption, and after thanking the newsboy, he continued to beckon passers-by to buy the newspaper.
"Su You? Isn't that the strange person just now? Bud casually browsed through the newspapers, and although it was not the first time he had bought Dongdu News, it was the first time he had noticed the name, and at this time, he looked at the pages of the commercials and had an idea in his heart at the same time.
Su You came directly to the Henan Mansion, at this time, Comrade Yin Yanger had not yet gotten off work, and he was indeed too busy during the period near the Spring Festival, although he did not necessarily need to bow to everything, but it also made him bittersweet. At this time, Yang Er and Changshi Liu Jianzhi were discussing a recent murder case.
Liu Jianzhi is about fifty years old, his appearance is very great, the wind is refreshing, and Yang Su, Li Hun, Dou Rongding and others are famous beautiful men, and he has elegant hope, good at talking, and drinking until the stone is not messy, there are envoys coming, he often receives on behalf of the imperial court, and then on behalf of the imperial court, he has sent Princess Guanghua to the Western Regions, and sent Princess Yicheng to the Turks, which can be said to be deeply valued by Emperor Wen.
After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, Liu Jianzhi happened to return to his hometown to worry about it, and this time he was recaptured and returned to the dynasty, and was ceremoniously arranged by Yang Er's side, which can be said to be deeply valued by Emperor Yang Guang of Sui. In that year, Emperor Wen let Yang Guangli stand in the Western Dynasty Hall, and ordered Gao Gong, Yu Qingze, Yuan Min and others to send the prince to him from the inside; After a lapse of 20 years, Yang Er also stood in the Western Dynasty Hall under the attention of Yang Guang, and was introduced from the palace by Niu Hong, the secretary of the ministry, Yang Yue, the internal history order, and Yu Wenshu, the general of the Left Guard. ——How similar are the stories of the two dynasties? This can probably also see Yang Guang's importance to his son, and of course, it is also the importance of Liu Jianzhi.
"Your Highness, Changshi, Hengbo is polite."
"Yokoba, you came just in time, I was about to ask you for help." Yang Er nodded to Su You, motioned for him to sit down first, and then said to Liu Jian, "Sir, you explain to Hengbo in detail the problems we are facing." As he spoke, he got up and poured a cup of tea for the two, Liu Jianzhi nodded, and began to tell today's strange things:
The vendor who sells breakfast at the east gate of the North City found that the snowman was piled up in the place where the stall usually sets up when he came out of the stall this morning, but he thought that the children in the opposite row had piled it up yesterday evening, so he didn't think it was strange, but with the noon sun, after the snowman slowly melted, someone found that the head of the snowman was very strange, and when he stepped forward to take a closer look, he found that the head of the snowman was actually the head of a real person.
After receiving the report, the government quickly sent officials to cordon off the scene, and after investigation, it was found that the limbs of the snowman were also made of living human limbs, and it was preliminarily determined that this was an extremely murderous and perverted vicious homicide case. The results of the examination showed that the snowman was made from the limbs and heads of at least five of the deceased, and the bad course of this case can be said to be rare in the world. However, there have been no recent cases of disappearances, and so far the case has progressed to the stage of identifying the deceased.
"Well, of course, we must also circle the suspects and find the tools for committing the crime. However, Yokoba really has no experience in solving crimes. When Su You thought of those dismembered corpses, he was one head and two big.
"Perhaps, your drawing skills can help."
"Well, so what are you waiting for? I'm going to North City. Su You never thought of drawing the head of a dead man, but at this moment, there were some faint expectations in his heart, and he forgot the purpose of this trip for a while.
"Well, I'll send a few people to follow you, you've never let me down, haven't you?"
Su You nodded, Yang Er's meaning was obviously not just a portrait.