Chapter 70: The Glass Mirror
"What a big deal! Isn't it just broken? There is no mistake in doing this, who of you has not broken something? Don't be afraid! If it's broken, let's get it and do it, anyway, now we know how this thing was made, it's not a big deal! Come on, come on! Let's clean it up, go back to the furnace to melt these broken glasses, and then get it again! Gao Huaiyuan immediately comforted the craftsman.
With Gao Huaiyuan's attitude, several craftsmen were immediately even more grateful to him, and quickly cleaned up and started trial production from scratch.
The hard work paid off, and after their efforts, they finally made some glass plates with high transparency and similar to colorlessness, and after annealing, they were taken out of the glass kiln.
The next thing is easy to do, isn't it the silver mirror reaction! Simple, tin foil and mercury are enough! Gao Huaiyuan had already prepared these things, considering the confidentiality of the process, Gao Huaiyuan still chose to retire all the people, and then came to do this by himself, specially found a room, got a big mask to put on, and started to work.
After another day, Gao Huaiyuan finally took out a finished glass mirror and displayed it in front of everyone.
When everyone saw their appearance in the mirror was revealed, they couldn't help but be surprised, they were the first time in their lives to see themselves so clearly, they used to look at the bronze mirror and felt good, now after using this glass mirror, only to know that there are pockmarks on their faces, hehe!
Even if you are a fool, after seeing this rare thing, you also know that this thing is definitely worth the money of the old nose, and they all sighed, Gao Huaiyuan is really a genius, and even such a strange thing can be drummed up, this is simply amazing!
As for the packaging, Gao Huaiyuan didn't have to think about it, he sent someone to the county town, and found a master among the carpenters to look at the size of the glass mirror, and made a delicate frame with the most precious golden silk nanmu, and took it back to inlay the glass mirror, which was considered to be completed.
Gao Huaiyuan made more than a dozen pieces of this thing, but he only took out three pieces and sent them to Jubao Zhai, the result was as he expected, these three mirrors, will offset all the money he owes to the shopkeeper, and after the shopkeeper saw this glass mirror, he almost fainted with excitement, this thing in his eyes, is absolutely priceless, if it is sold on the market, it will damage the value of this thing, so after receiving these three mirrors, he immediately offered Gao Huaiyuan a sky-high price, Ask him to make more of this kind of thing and supply it to Jubao Zhai.
Now Gao Huaiyuan has already become a cornucopia in the eyes of Jubao Zhai, a piece of crystal clear glass ware from Gao Huaiyuan's hands to send them Jubao Zhai, so that they Jubao Zhai for a time in many places are in the limelight, and began to faintly pressure the momentum of Duo Bao Zhai, at least with this glass products, they can also compete with many big families in the same industry.
For the sake of this glazed thing, the peers have already made a lot of trouble, constantly asking where so many rare things come from, and want to compete with them for this source, the boss of Jubao Zhai is not a fool, he realized this at the beginning, and bit to death, this thing is made by their Jubao Zhai, and it is impossible to spread it, so that many peers died of this heart.
So according to the original agreement with Gao Huaiyuan, they took the goods from Gao Huaiyuan, all of which were kept secret, and even this kind of thing, in Daye County, was not sold on the market at all, so don't look at the glass This thing is produced in Daye County, but there are very few people who really know about it, only the chief shopkeeper of Jubaozhai and the shopkeeper of Daye County know about this matter, so Gao Huaiyuan avoided a lot of unnecessary trouble.
The profit of glass products is already high and scary, this time Gao Huaiyuan took out the glass mirror, but also doubled the profit again, the price is so high that Gao Huaiyuan listened, there is a bit of a dream, fortunately he is now psychologically good, otherwise, change the heart of the owner, just hearing this price, you can sneak out of the ground on the spot, and you can't die.
This is not surprising, when everything first appeared, it was a strange commodity to live in, and it was normal for the price to be high, and the glass mirror was first invented by Venetian craftsmen hundreds of years later, and at that time, a mirror that was not good could be sold for 150,000 francs in France, and you can know the value of this thing!
Gao Huaiyuan is now looking for money, if he is now an official, just this mirror, as long as it is sent to the right person, then with this mirror, he will definitely be able to find an errand to be an official, but he doesn't have the heart to be a bullshit official of the Song Dynasty, and now his idea is to create a force of his own as soon as possible.
After finishing the glass mirror, Gao Huaiyuan soon used a batch of soap to block the debts of the Wang family, after a period of operation and production of the soap workshop, the quality and process have gradually stabilized, and the output is also rising steadily, as long as these things are mastered, it can be said that as long as there are sufficient raw materials, then he can produce as much as he wants.
In order to meet the production needs of the soap workshop, Gao Huaiyuan specially asked Xue Yan to select several special suppliers in the neighboring states and counties, so that they could specialize in supplying various raw materials from Crouching Tiger Village, and never purchased all the raw materials in a business, so as to ensure that the secrets of his raw material recipes would not be leaked out through this means.
When the weather cooled down, another winter came, and the production of the two major workshops in Crouching Tiger Village was officially on track, and various finished products were continuously sent to the two partners of Jubaozhai and Wang, so that the two of them were overjoyed, and they also made a lot of money by relying on these two products.
Not to mention how glass products are sought after, just say that this soap, as long as it is used by people, there is no bad applaudation, so it soon became popular in the upper class of the Great Song Dynasty, not only the big girls and little daughters-in-law use this thing, even the old men have used it, they all like this thing, although this thing is priced quite high by the Wang family, a piece of soap is about to cost two times, but it can't stop the rich people's enthusiastic pursuit of this kind of thing, you must know that this is a tribute named in the palace, ordinary people can use this, It's not just a question of whether it's easy to use or not, but when you use this thing, you feel like you're having a bright face!
So this kind of thing, since the listing, has become a very marketable thing, in addition to the Wang family to leave enough for the palace stock, the rest are often looted as soon as they show up, and there are many rich people who make money in advance, * soap, and even become a kind of goods for gifts from the upper class, it can be said that there is no place to buy, but there is no place to sell.
Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan only thinks about the problem of expanding production, and does not bother to ask about the problem of sales, anyway, how much to buy, what do you care about that matter!
In order to expand production, Gao Huaiyuan simply lived in Crouching Tiger Village completely, handed over all the affairs of the Gao family's old house to Xue Yan to take care of, and he was busy with the affairs of Crouching Tiger Village with all his might.
After surveying the terrain around Crouching Tiger Village, Gao Huaiyuan decided to expand the scale of Crouching Tiger Village again, and expanded the workshop area in the backyard to the mountains again, so as to prepare for the expansion of the workshop in the future, and in the daily training of the teenagers, a logging work was added, starting from Crouching Tiger Village, gradually cutting out a passage, going deep into the vicinity of the copper mine, making preparations for the future development of copper mines, and in order to hide people's eyes and ears, in the flat land on both sides of the road, burn the wasteland and open up the fields, and add some fields, so as to arrange the families of the miners to be receivedAt least the logistics work is moving forward first.
Gao Huaiyuan didn't tell anyone about this copper mine, just asked everyone to do what he told him, as for why, he didn't say it, the people of Crouching Tiger Village also formed a habit of not asking, anyway, his words are holy decrees in Crouching Tiger Village, and they must be completed without discount.
This kind of life is busy and fulfilling, and everyone who is busy has no time to think about other things, although it is very tiring, but compared to the previous life of wandering, this kind of life can be regarded as heaven!
At this time, the situation in the Jin Kingdom in the north is further erosive, and the most unhappy emperor in the world at this time is probably the current Jin Emperor Jin Xuanzong.
Wanyan Xun is the grandson of Jin Shizong, Jin Zhangzong's brother, since Zhangzong died of illness, King Wei Zhao seized power, became the emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom, he as Jin Zhangzong's brother, he lived in fear all day long, fortunately Hu Shahu rebelled, killed King Wei Zhao, and only in the first year of Zhining (1213) supported him as emperor.
To be honest, when he first became the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, he felt really good, but after really doing this emperor, he found that this errand was definitely not a good errand, not to mention how much power he had in his hands! These bad things at home and abroad alone are enough for him to drink a pot.
Since his accession to the throne, Genghis Khan of Mongolia in the north has continuously sent troops to encroach on the territory of Jin, and the army of Jin has almost lost in every battle in the face of the Mongolian army, and has lost almost the entire northern territory, and this Genghis Khan's greedy ** is still not satisfied, and has repeatedly sent envoys to force him to surrender to Mongolia.
Jin Xuanzong saw that his Dajin Kingdom could not defeat Genghis Khan's Mongolian iron cavalry, so he had no choice but to send envoys in the second year of his accession, that is, the second year of Zhenyou, he had to send envoys to agree to the harsh conditions put forward by Genghis Khan, and dedicated the daughter of King Wei Zhao, Princess Qiguo, plus 500 boys and girls to Genghis Khan, and compensated Mongolia with 3,000 embroidered clothes, 3,000 horses, and countless gold, silver and jewelry.
Seeing that the capital (now Beijing) was too close to Mongolia, Jin Xuanzong did not want to be beaten under the capital of his country by the Mongolian army in three days and live that kind of fearful life, so he adopted the advice of some timid people in the court, and decided to move the capital to Bianliang, the ancient capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, on the edge of the Yellow River, despite the opposition of many courtiers.
However, he moved from the middle capital to Bianliang on the front foot, and the back foot angered Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan's truth is that he sued for peace on one side, but moved the capital to Bianliang on the other side, clearly there was no sincerity to seek peace, so he immediately sent troops to attack Dajin again, and it didn't take long for the capital to fall, cutting off the connection between the Central Plains of Dajin and Liaodong, and the damned Puxian Wannu immediately announced that he was the emperor and self-reliant in Liaodong, and the poor Dajin Kingdom overnight, the territory was reduced by more than half!
But anyway, now that he is staying in Bianliang City, he is finally a little far away from Mongolia, and he can finally be a little relieved at this time, but he doesn't know that his two actions have pushed the Dajin Kingdom to the state of destruction. Completely forget how the Dajin Kingdom destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty and invaded the land north of the Jianghuai River in the Northern Song Dynasty!
Moreover, the abandonment of Zhongdu also completely made Dajin lose its ability to control the northern Liaodong area, which can be said to be the stupidest thing he has done in his life.
When he moved the capital to Bianliang, as soon as he remembered the things that the Xixia State had done in these years when their Dajin Kingdom was repaired by the Mongols, he became angry, and convened the ministers last year to discuss the punishment of the Xixia Kingdom, but it attracted the opposition of the Shaanxi Xuanfu Division, and finally had to give up, but he really couldn't swallow this breath, so finally at the beginning of the year, he adopted the suggestions of some ministers, and once again made a faint move, and decided to launch a war against the Western Xia, with Qingyang Governor Qingshan Nu out of Huai'an Village, Huanzhou stabbed the history of Yan Hulu out of Huanzhou. After raising control, Yan Gou'er arrived at Xiguanbao in Lanzhou and covered the Western Xia soldiers in Amiwan.
Originally, he wanted to use this war against the Western Xia to repair the Xixia Kingdom, a small country that had once surrendered to their Dajin, but after the war, he found that their Dajin Kingdom was no longer the Dajin Kingdom that had just destroyed the Great Liao, and the army of the Dajin Kingdom was no longer what it used to be. It can be said that it is miserable.
Jin Xuanzong is so depressed now! And this is not counting, since the beginning of the Mongol invasion of the south, many times in Hebei, Shandong and other places to burn and loot, and the financial difficulties of the Dajin country, had to increase the exploitation of the people around the country, the result is that the Han people in Shandong and other places have risen up, first Yizhou Yang An'er rebelled, because he was wearing a red jacket, and called himself the Red Jacket Army, and then Li Fu and Li Quan's mother and brother were killed by the rebellious army, the two brothers rebelled, and Liu Erzu also rebelled, forming the three strongest armies of the Red Jacket Army. In addition to their three troops,.
After the Mongols retreated north, although he Jin Xuanzong sent the most elite flower hat soldier in his hand, led by San Anzhen, to Shandong to suppress the Red Jacket Army, and also achieved some results, successively defeated Yang An'er's rebel army, and killed Yang An'er, the big leader, under the betrayal of the traitor.
At the same time, soon after, he also killed Liu Erzu, the leader of the rebel army, and almost even Li Quan was killed by their Jin army, the battle situation seems to be a little better, but it has not been able to extinguish the Han rebels in Shandong, after this year, although Yang An'er is dead, but the soldiers and horses under his command have not all been scattered, his sister Yang Miaozhen continued to lead the troops, and the army of Anzhen was confronted, and Liu Erzu's command Huo Yi and Peng Yibin also continued to lead the remnants of Liu Erzu, and then confronted the Jin army, Li Quan led the troops and Yang Miaozhen's soldiers and horses together, became husband and wife, and retreated to the East China Sea to once again have a big momentum.
After the Mongol army captured Zhongdu (present-day Beijing), in the autumn of the fourth year of Zhenyou, he sent Sanmo Hebatu Lu to lead cavalry to attack Guan and Shaanxi through Western Xia, and made a tentative attack on Bianjing, the new capital of the Jin Dynasty. In August, the Mongol army entered Dun (present-day Fuxian, Shaanxi) and Yan (present-day Yan'an, Shaanxi) and attacked Fangzhou (present-day Huangling, Shaanxi). In October, Tongguan was taken, and Jin Anxi Jiedu made Nipangu Pulu Tiger die in battle. The Mongol army marched eastward into Shaanzhou (present-day Shaanxian County, Henan). Jin Pingyang Province Shangshu Right Cheng Xu Ding with 15,000 troops from Hedongnan Road, Huai, Yu from the river to help, and sent servants to disperse the army to Shaanxi, and resisted, and Jiang (now Shanxi, Xinjiang), Xie (now Shanxi Yuncheng, southwest of the old Jiezhou), Ji (now Shanxi, Ji County), Xi (now Shanxi, Xi County), Yu (now Henan) Prefecture Economic Strategy Division combined forces to attack. The Mongol army plundered from the Songshan Road to Ruzhou (now Linru, Henan), and in November, they went straight to Bianjing, and they were about to be killed under the city of Bianliang.
Jin Xuanzong began to panic again, originally thinking that after moving the capital to Bianliang, he could be more stable, but he didn't expect that he would still not be able to live in peace here, and the Mongols actually grabbed his ass and chased him outside Bianjing.
So in desperation, he had to urgently order the servant San Anzhen, who was suppressing bandits in Shandong, to lead the elite flower hat army to hurry back to help Bianliang, and at the same time ordered the privy deputy envoy Xu Ding to lead the army to Bianjing to rescue.
Fortunately, the speed of the return of the army was very fast, and finally when the Mongolian army of Sanfu Badulu killed the Xinghua camp in the west of Bianjing, he intercepted the Mongolian army and defeated the Mongolian army, and Xu Ding's army also returned to Bianjing, and the three Tulu saw that the Jin army was prepared, so he led the Mongolian army to return to the north, and Fusan Anzhen led the troops to recover Tongguan, and finally saved the life of Dajin again.
Jin Xuanzong, the emperor, is really a wreck! Surrounded by these annoying things all day long, it is difficult to clean up for two days, seeing that the situation in Dajin is like this, Mongolia can't be defeated, and if it goes on like this, sooner or later it will be destroyed by Mongolia, so Jin Xuanzong's brain began to come alive again.
"Your Majesty, Shang Shu Right Cheng Hu Gao Qi asks to see the Holy Lord!" When Jin Xuanzong had a headache, an attendant ran into the palace to report to him.
(This paragraph may be more depressing, but this is also something that has to be explained, after all, readers are not familiar with this history, and if you want to continue to write, you must have some lay-out, so that you can first understand the historical environment of this period of Jin, and understand the causes of the Song-Jin War in the future, so as not to feel incredible or too abrupt when you read it!) So please don't give up because of this, look down, thank you for your support! )