Dream back to Chang'an City 067 Colorful glass beads
In fact, the glass is not hand-fired in Datang.
If Li Caichen had sent this glass bead dragonfly eye two months earlier, they would have been amazed.
Because there is one thing to say, the craftsmanship of this dragonfly eye is very, really good, the concentric circle pattern inside is very beautiful, and the color is also colorful and dazzling.
If it weren't for Li Shimin's a few bottles of wine from Tang Ping, he would really think that this thing was amazing.
But when you compare it to the bottles, it's nothing.
It's just that he didn't want to expose his connection with Tang Ping to the courtiers that day, after all, many people in Chang'an knew about Tang Ping's sale of wine in Wangshulou, so he didn't take it out.
Now Tang Ping's glass beads are a return gift, which is his heart.
I have what you think is a treasure, and it's still a toy for children to play with!
"Ask the craftsmen in the palace to build a gorgeous box, and you can't lose your courtesy!"
"Whoa!"
Soon it was time for the Tang Dynasty officials to invite envoys from various countries to dinner.
This time, the Tang Dynasty began to frequently contact and trade with neighboring countries, except for the Turks in the northwest who fought with the Tang Dynasty, other countries came to envoys.
The envoys of each country offered the gifts they brought when they met, and if you invite you to dinner today, it is the Tang Dynasty that wants to return the gift.
At this time, the content of everyone's trade has basically been negotiated, and after the meal is over, the envoys of various countries should return to their homes and start shipping things to trade.
However, in order to hide people's eyes, Datang traded not only grain, but also many other local specialties.
Soon the envoys all sat in their positions, and Li Caichen was even more complacent.
Now that the news of their Miao barbarian gift of the treasure has spread in Chang'an, he is waiting to see what today's return gift will be.
"It's boring to eat like this!" Li Yuanji sat next to Li Jiancheng and said a little boringly.
If you want to eat, you have to be at Tang Ping's place, where a few people gather around a large round table, and they want to eat whatever they want.
With such a case, there are only so many dishes that you can eat, and there are only so many dishes that you like to eat or not.
Licking his mouth, he turned to Li Jiancheng and said, "Big brother, don't you know, they happened to be eating Malatang when I went that day, and the taste was ...... Tsk, it's more refreshing than eating hot pot! ”
Li Jiancheng glanced at him: "Next time you go to eat alone alone, believe it or not, I will hammer you?" ”
"Hehe, eldest brother, you are not the fourth brother, you can't beat me!" Li Yuanji said with a hippie smile: "Besides, I could have begged the baby to go that day, and I would have done it alone to ask for something from my juniors, where could I drag my eldest brother?" ”
While the two were talking, the waiter had already started to serve the food.
Li Yuanji took two sips and said disdainfully: "The dishes made from this soup and water are still not as refreshing as stir-frying." ”
As long as you learn the principle of stir-frying, the rest is up to everyone's exploration.
The cook in his palace learned the method of stir-frying vegetables from Xiao Luo, and specially found a blacksmith to make a wok, so the dishes he ate at home recently were basically fried.
This cooking method of only boiling in water has made him a little unaccustomed.
Li Jiancheng also felt the same way, and the wine served today was the wine he usually drank, which was not as good as the wine they mixed with Tang Ping.
It's just that they are the hosts, can they still show that this dish is not delicious when they are feasting?
So he gently kicked Li Yuanji a few times on the case, and reminded him to be a little more restrained with his eyes.
However, the chefs of the Tang Palace can basically represent the highest level of cooking skills in this era, except for Tang Ping, an outlier.
Therefore, the envoys of various countries were still very satisfied with the food.
At this time, many envoys began to secretly look at Li Caichen and their Miao Man envoys.
For the things they came to offer were valuable, but they were also things that could be bought with money.
The return gift from the Tang Palace is probably something of higher value, but the Miao barbarians heard that they gave a very great treasure, so they are also curious about what the return gift from the Tang Palace will be.
Sure enough, after the meal, the banquet was removed.
The return gift from the Tang Palace came, but the envoys of various countries got a gift list, and they didn't know what the Tang Palace had returned.
Only they know, and when Ming'er returns to China, they can pull it back by themselves.
When it came to Miao Man's side, it was a little different.
An attendant stood at the front with an ornate box.
These envoys all probed their brains to see what kind of treasure it was.
It's not the first time this kind of thing has happened, in layman's terms, it's just two national treasures.
I'll give you a treasure, and if you can't return the same, then you'll lose face.
"A few days ago, Prince Miao Man presented the glass beads Dragonfly Eyes Your Majesty liked it very much, and today I will give back a colorful glass bead to express my gratitude."
It was Dou Lukuan who spoke, and after he finished speaking, he made a gesture, and the two attendants beside him went down with the box in their hands.
At this moment, countless pairs of eyes in the entire hall followed the box.
Finally, when the two chamberlains walked in front of Li Caichen's Miao Man envoys, one of the chamberlains opened the box.
Many people with bad eyes narrowed their eyes, and only then did Music see a small bead lying in the gorgeous big box, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed.
You must know that in the rumors now, the Miao barbarians have offered a dragonfly eye the size of a baby's fist.
Just when they were feeling disappointed, the mechanism inside the box was touched.
A small tray underneath the glass bead began to rise slowly.
The inside of this hall is full of large candles the thickness of an arm's arm, and the whole hall can be said to be brilliantly lit.
As soon as the bead rose, in the light of the light, the envoys finally saw something extraordinary.
And Li Caichen, who bore the brunt of the attack, was even more stunned.
Since their teacher Franji came to Miaoman with glass firing technology, they also burned a lot of glass ball jewelry, and with this thing, they also went to sea and exchanged for a lot of good things from Nanyang.
He thought he had seen a lot of glass beads, but the one in front of him was definitely the one that shocked him the most.
Just alien, the roundness of the beads is no problem at all to describe as ingenious.
Although he didn't have any instruments to measure it, he could know by visual inspection that this bead, known as the Colorful Glass Bead, was the roundest he had ever seen.
Not to mention the seven-colored iridescent that I don't know how to seal in it.
"This is actually the treasure of our Tang Palace, although it was given to your country, but I think the prince shouldn't mind showing it to the envoys of other countries here, right?"
Dou Lu Kuan's devilish voice sounded in Li Caichen's ears.