Chapter 18: Two Matters [II]

In the summer and June of the first year of Yongkang (168), several days of rain came over, and Luoyang ushered in a good weather, with a clear sky and the sun swaying its light arbitrarily.

Roman Emperor Mark•Aurelius•Antony to Ceris (referring to China)."

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The Great Qin envoy Senega smiled and read out the national letter aloud, while peeking at His Majesty Emperor Seris who was on the top of the steps - this is a very rare figure, and it is estimated that he will not have a chance to meet it. He had to take a good look so that he could boast to others in the future.

Giulia Seneca was born into a rundown aristocratic family in Rome and received a good education. He had splendid blond hair and eyes as green as a lake, and was tall and straight, a handsome boy with a sharp silhouette, who was quite popular with Roman maidens. Seris's trip was a veritable adventure.

Opening the box gently, Seneca couldn't help but take a breath, it was so beautiful, so magnificent at any time.

When the national credentials are delivered, it's time for today's highlight - the gift.

Gift, Emperor Huan (this is a nickname, it was sealed after his death, but I didn't find a suitable name, let's just call it that) has already seen it. Seeing the exquisite five-colored jade bottle, he immediately believed Seneca's identity. Such a treasure must also be rare in Daqin - this cannot be faked.

Emperor Huan looked at it with satisfaction for a while, and reluctantly motioned to the Marquis of Gaoxiang (eunuch, permanent attendant) to show it to everyone. Emperor Huan knew that he was far from "virtue being from the four seas", but the clearer he was, the more he could not tolerate anyone muttering that the Great Qin envoy was fake. He wanted them to see if Seneca was real or not.

The five-color jade bottle is a glass bottle, about one and a half feet high, it is said to be five colors, but it is actually six colors, and the bottle body is crystal clear, which is colorless. Several roses of different colors are skillfully wound around it, blending seamlessly with the bottle. Blooming under the light, it is brilliant and magnificent. The passionate red roses are like blooming flames, the flawless white rose buds are like pure maidens, the delicate yellow roses are as bright as gold, and the shy pink roses are like the first bloom of love, revealing half of their faces shyly, especially the crystal dew drops on a green leaf are quietly dripping, making the five-color jade bottle vivid......

"......, what a skillful work!"

Everyone present is a powerful and well-informed person, and when they see this five-colored jade bottle, they can't take their eyes off it, and they can't help but let out bursts of admiration.

A surprising piece of news spread throughout Luoyang - an envoy from Great Qin had arrived in Luoyang, bringing with him a treasure like no other in the world—a five-colored jade bottle.

Sikong Xuanyu was very excited after watching it, and improvised a fu, describing the scene at that time, he used a lot of pen and ink to describe the magnificence of the five-color jade bottle, and finally patted Emperor Huan's fart - "De was ,...... by the Great Qin of the Four Seas".

While the people of Ruoyang laughed at Xuan Sikong, they also deeply remembered the "unparalleled" five-color jade bottle.

Of course, contrary to Emperor Huan's hopes, while affirming the truth of Seneca, the people of Ruoyang did not forget to laugh at the falsehood of the Great Qin envoys last year. Actually take "ivory, rhino horn, and turtle" to fill up the number, do you think that the Han people don't know where these are produced, it's really a joke.

However, this is really a joke. The previous batch of Great Qin envoys Alik was fake, and this batch of Great Qin envoys Seneca was also fake. The only difference is that the former was plotted by the Great Qin merchants, while the latter was the mastermind of the Han outlaws.

This 'outlaw' is Xiang Rang Gongli.

Money is not everything, but no money is impossible.

After Zhang Zhao obtained the Book of Heaven in the seventh year of Yanxi (164), he succeeded in making alum oil, candles, soap and waterwheels according to the map. After the bumper harvest of wheat planted at the beginning of the year, Zhang Zhao was already convinced of the Book of Heaven.

Zhang Zhao attaches the most importance to the waterwheel in the entire book of heaven, and the waterwheel can be used publicly, and it can bring huge benefits. Wasteland is only a hundred dollars per mu, and watered land is worth thousands of dollars per mu, and the role of waterwheels is so great.

It's an opportunity, but it takes a lot of money to turn it into wealth. Nine times out of ten, the Zhang family's property is real estate, and they can't take out too much money for a while. In order to raise enough funds in the short term, Zhang Zhao thought of Mingyuezhu.

Mingyue Zhu can be compared with He's Bi, how can it be sold for tens of thousands of dollars. However, Mingyue Zhu is so famous and eye-catching, and if you want to sell it properly, you need a secret channel. For the sake of secrecy, this channel can only be established by entrusting a trustworthy person to do it alone.

This means that the Bright Moon Pearl will be in the hands of this person alone. It's hard to pinpoint that candidate. In the face of hundreds of millions of wealth, Zhang Zhao didn't dare to say who was absolutely credible.

In the end, it was Xiang Rang who took the initiative to ask for help to solve this problem. Zhang Zhao trusts Xiang Rang. Xiang Rang was sixty-one at the time, and at this age, family is more important than money.

So, Xiang Rang was alone, changed his appearance, traveled through most of the Han Kingdom, and worked hard for three years, and finally got ready. As a result, Zhang Zhao went wrong, and the "Bright Moon Pearl" failed to be made.

Zhang Han originally named the glass "Mingyue Pearl" because he had his calculations. However, Zhang Han read ten lines of books at a glance in his previous life, and when he saw the information of Ming Yuezhu, he only thought that he was reading the story, where did he think that there would be today. Therefore, he didn't know that the bright moon pearl was the pearl of the night.

Therefore, the glass marbles have been successfully made, the bright moon beads, hehe......

Fortunately, if you lose the east, you will reap the mulberry elm. During the development of the Bright Moon Pearl, a large number of experiments were carried out, and in the process, someone accidentally created a five-color jade bottle. This five-color jade vase is magnificent and unique, and it is also a rare treasure.

Just when Xiang Rang was running around, he heard about the Great Qin envoy Alik. Great Qin was the farthest country known at that time from the Great Han Kingdom. Xiang Rang originally wanted to pretend to be the Great Qin caravan and sell Ming Yuezhu, and he has dealt with Great Qin and Persian merchants in the past two years. He soon determined that the Great Qin Envoy Alik was a merchant fake.

In addition to being funny, Xiang Rang also had a new idea, others can fake it, and so can he. As a result, there was the appearance of the Great Qin envoy Seneca.

After the most difficult hurdle, the operation after that was smooth sailing.

The glass of the Zhang family is crystal clear, and the quality is still above the glass of Daqin, which further confirms Seneca's identity. Everyone said that he was worthy of being the envoy of Daqin, and the glass he brought was all high-quality. As for wine, it is not uncommon for a storm at sea to flood the hold and to be forced to abandon the damaged cargo, and no one has studied it in detail.

In the name of the five-color jade bottle, Xiang Rang sold this batch of glass at a good price. At the time, people said that the people of a city were crazy about glass. In the homes of the rich and noble, anyone who does not have a piece of glass brought by the envoy of the Great Qin will be laughed at.

All in all, Xiang Rang left a batch of silk silk of low value but a large amount to Seneca, but he disappeared without a trace. Of course, along with Xiang Rang, there were also gold, silver, and sulian (a precious variety of silk) worth 270 million.

When 8,800 catties of gold and more than 18,500 catties of silver were placed together, Zhang Zhao, who had been in the world for a long time, couldn't help but feel dizzy, and only remembered Xiang Rang after a long time.

Zhang Han is not clear about all the things here. The king does not lose his country, and the minister does not lose his body. No matter how smart and clever Zhang Han is, he is only a teenager, and Zhang Zhao will not tell him. Except for Xiang Rang, who presided over this matter, only Zhang Zhao knew about it. Zhang Heyin responded in the later period, and knew the last small part - he was forced to resign from the county magistrate who had just been in office for a year, and depressedly went to work as a small farmer outside the city of Luoyang for more than a year, so as to accept the transfer of assets.

As for Zhang Han, he only knew that Xiang Rang taught him for a few months, and then he went out, and he went for three years, and that's it.

PS: Okay, that's all for today, see you tomorrow.