Chapter 221: Preparation

Ming Huairen was obviously stunned by this news, to be honest, after he arrived in the capital, he found that there were too many people who showed favor to him, the four princes of the capital, Peng Jue, Xiao Tuo, the son of Prince Rui, Qian Haiqing, the son of Princess Hejing, and Qin Dezhang, Qin Dezhang's little sister was going to marry his second brother, and this matter was troublesome. Those who deal with him don't say sour things, and if they do, they don't wait for Ming Huairen to speak, and they will be thrown aside a long time ago, and they won't be able to see it at the next party. The people of the Yongchang Marquis Mansion regarded him as a guest and regarded him as his own, he didn't understand it at first, but then he gradually understood, partly because his father was crowned the prince of the country, and partly because his mother's ability was too great.

Although Ming Qian became the Duke of Ming Guo, he just came back to thank him, and he didn't stay at home for long, and he was sent by the emperor to control the water, and the pearl found a lot of information, but fortunately, there are steel and concrete now, and it should not be a big problem to control the water.

This year is the season of pearl harvest, and there is no need to hide, a batch of freshwater pearls and a batch of saltwater pearls have been transported to the capital. All sent to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing.

Saltwater pearls and freshwater pearls have not been harvested for seven years, all this harvest is quite rich, and can be harvested every year in the future, saltwater pearls are large, and the roundness and luster are good, this time, the saltwater pearls received, the largest one has a diameter of 30mm, it is as big as a goose egg, and there are 168 Buddhas, there are Buddha beads, there are Guanyin and Arhats, all have the size of a palm! There are 541 20mm large sea pearls this time. There are 149 pearls from 20mm to 15mm, and 2198 pearls from 15mm to 12mm. There are 3645 pieces of 12mm-10mm, and 947 boxes of less than 10mm.

Freshwater pearls, the largest one is 23mm, not round, but there are no flaws, it is a red pearl, the color is very bright, there are 390 egg-sized ones, and there are 399 boxes of about 12mm excellent beads, each box has about a few thousand. There are 1509 boxes left. Half of it is perfectly round, the remaining half can be made into jewelry, and the rest can be made into pearl powder.

The pearl left the largest pearls, but presented two pearls the size of golden eggs to the emperor. When he gave the princess a dowry, he gave him a pearl the size of a pink egg. Such a good color of pearls. She only has five. I will keep it in the future and not give it to others. The pearl left all the big pearls and put them in the space. Other. Divide the color, the beads of about 20mm, let the people under them wear a bead chain, some need other gems and diamonds, some are bead chains, or use rice grains of pearls to string into a bunch, and then several different colors of several bunches twisted into twist strength, such necklaces and bracelets are a lot, of course, there are also golden pearls, more are colored pearls, they have to do it well, pearls this time at all costs, all with the best things, even their own processing of gemstones, diamonds and alexandrites and so on.

Only one-fifth of them were sold to Qu Wang and Liu's shopkeepers during the Chinese New Year, and the rest were all made into jewelry accepted by Westerners and sold to Tom for foreign exchange. In the past two years, Pearl's jewelry processing workshops and textile factories have been the fastest developing, and Xiao Qing has also helped him collect skilled craftsmen, which makes Pearl feel that he owes him a favor, so he has given him some benefits, such as introducing A, B, C, and Ding to Xiao Qing, and teaching Liu Qing and the Luzon they occupied to Xiao Qing. Analyzed the situation with him and asked him not to rest on his laurels. At the beginning, Xiao Qing didn't care, thinking that the girder could be completely self-sufficient, but when the steam spinning machine appeared, when the steam steamship appeared, he was no longer calm, listened to Pearl's words, and opened an army school, an artillery school, a naval school, as well as a weapons research institute and a medical school. The fourth chose the Army, the fifth went to the Navy, and the sixth went to medical school.

Tom happened to come this year, and the pearls sold him a lot of machine brocades, as well as tea and porcelain, and even jewelry such as diamond crowns, especially pearls. Tom gave the pearl 6,800,000 taels of gold and a boatload of diamonds and precious stones, as well as a large box of black pearls, in exchange for the pearl's medicines and medical equipment.

In recent years, pearls have also received nearly 12 million taels of gold in Luzon. 28.7 million taels of silver, as well as the ammunition money obtained from Zhao Qingyu over the years, the gold of pearls has exceeded 100 million taels, and the silver has also exceeded 200 million taels. Of course, there are countless antique calligraphy and paintings, rosewood, ebonywood, ironwood, and agarwood. Some of these woods are ready, put them in the open space outside the space, and there are two boats of ebony, red sandalwood, iron wood, and golden silk nanmu in the space, and agarwood is rare, and a boat is also gathered. There are more than a variety of gemstones, and the most are all kinds of tonic medicinal materials, Tongkat Ali has more than 200 years of three ships, and there are a lot of medicines that have been made. There is also the small pill developed by the golden snake venom, this medicine is still very effective, two large bottles of venom, in exchange for 220 pills, not to mention that it can bring the dead back to life, but ordinary diseases can be treated. There will be no more medicine, because the snake eggs can't hatch at all, and Pearl has been thinking about whether to break the snake eggs and see if there is any curative effect.

"Mother, mother, are we okay with the photo?" Pearl recently took out the antique camera on the eleventh floor, this kind of camera needs film, Pearl directly found out the camera that made self-focusing, and handed over this technology to his nephew, the second child of the Qi family, let him make a fortune on this, a little achievement, no way, this child is not as good as the eldest brother to read, but interested in those miscellaneous studies, Pearl personally taught him optical imaging technology. But now the one in Wan Wan's hand is a better one, and the photos found are no different from the modern ones.

"But my mother didn't change into beautiful clothes today!" Today's pearl is wearing a peach-colored narrow-sleeved gown embroidered with magnolia flowers, and her hair is simply tied with a hosta.

"Mother is very beautiful like this, mother, do whatever you should do, okay?" Wan Wan held the camera and said with a smile,

"Good!"

Pearl is embroidering, she is helping her seven-year-old daughter embroider the dowry! The dowry is important to have an embroidered screen, an interstitial screen, and now the pearl can be said to be superb, and the outside is hard to find, and the pearl is now embroidered, only three have been sent, and they are all small interstitials, one is Qu Wang's house, and the other is Liu's shopkeeper's house. Qu Wang's three sons are called Pearl Godmother, this godmother, naturally will not treat them badly, every year during the New Year's Festival, will give them gifts, Pearl also handed over the rubber factory to his eldest brother, together with the researchers, let the eldest brother manage well, and revitalize the family business in the future by relying on bangs.

Wan Wan felt that enough photos were taken, so she asked Pearl to dress up well, and the mother and daughter took pictures together, and Pearl agreed. I went to call Yu'er and Zhu'er over, since I reconciled with Mingqian, in the past three years, the two sisters have followed Pearl's side, but Ming Bojun has followed Mingqian.

Yu'er and Zhu'er have learned a lot of things in the past three years with Pearl, Yu'er's double-sided embroidery is already outstanding, and Zhu'er is now starting to learn, and more importantly, she has also learned a lot of very important knowledge with Wanwan's mother, at least Pearl feels that these three children are about to become fine. Especially Wan Wan, she is especially good at pleasing people, and her methods are ruthless enough, and she has a virtue with his father.

Today, the pearl wears a long skirt with wide robes and large sleeves of the main color of the red streamer brocade, a wide belt with jewels sewn on the waist, and now the waist of the pearl is really too slender, this dress was originally made by the pearl idle people, the collar of the dress is turned very large, revealing a black embroidered bandeau, with a set of seven treasures inlaid with diamonds on the neck, with a phoenix spreading its wings on six sides inlaid with jade inlaid with seven treasures Ming phoenix tail gold step shake, with an East Pearl Magnolia earring on the ear, and a very bracelet with imperial green on the wrist, The fingers have golden and green cat's eyes, which make the fingers more slender and white. A very delicate makeup was painted on the face, the corners of the eyes were elongated to make the eyes appear larger, the eyelashes were elongated, the eyebrows were also carefully painted, black and red eyeshadow was used, and the lips were even more red. The fairy concubine is nothing more than that.

Not long after, Yu'er and Zhu'er also came in full costume, and when they saw Pearl, they were even more stunned, how long had they not seen such a dressed aunt, such an aunt said that it was the mother of the palace and some people believed it.

"Ahh Mother is so beautiful. Pearl suddenly thought that in two years, she didn't know what she would become, and she would leave the most beautiful time!

Yu'er is also a big girl, wearing a pink-purple skirt, with hibiscus jade head jewelry, and a mutton fat jade bracelet on her wrist, which was given by pearls. Zhu'er wore a tender yellow skirt today, which is also delicate and cute, and the best looking is of course Wan Wan, a royal blue high-waisted skirt, with a beautiful silk flower on her head, only a sapphire and diamond pendant on her forehead, and a boat of multi-colored pearl necklaces around her neck.

A few people took pictures first in the house, and then in the garden. I changed several sets of clothes, and I changed a lot of hairstyles and headwear. Pearl thought it was exaggerated enough, but she didn't expect that this girl even took a picture of herself wearing a tulle nightgown, and when everyone practiced martial arts, she even took a picture of Pearl's heroic posture, of course, other people also took photos.

Originally, Pearl thought that her own family was exaggerated enough, but she didn't expect the queen mother and the ladies in the palace to take pictures endlessly, Wan Wan stayed in the palace for a month, fortunately, she only brought ten rolls of film, and she had to be honored enough in the palace to be able to take it. Pearl was busy for a morning, and all the photos were washed, of course, because Wanwan's photographic skills were not good, all of them were wasted more than 20 photos, which had already been reported to the palace, and the next day, people sent all the photos to the emperor. Even the emperor took a photo, and the pearl didn't know what to think, leaving one and saying that it was scrapped, which was the final decision, otherwise, it would have been good to wash out one more at the beginning. (To be continued......)