Jiankang City is forty miles from east to west, north and south, the palace wall is threefold, the south embraces Qinhuai, the north leans on the back lake, the west borders the Yangtze River, there are many satellite cities such as Stone City, Xizhou City, Dongfu City, Baixia City, Nanlang Evil County City and so on around and constitute the trend of arch guard.

Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Song, Southern Qi, Southern Liang, Southern Chen six generations of Beijing Division, the Southern Dynasty for more than 300 years for the Jingyuan Shen Gao.

It is also the first city in the world with a population of more than one million, and it is more prosperous than the country of Nanchen and Sui dynasties, and Chang'an at this time is not as prosperous as Jiankang City.

The scholars in the south of the Yangtze River and the descendants of the nobles who were well-dressed in the south all lived in it, and they successively set the capital in many dynasties, and the population composition was relatively complex.

In the majestic and magnificent Jiankang Palace, a small group of eunuchs is holding a vermilion exquisite box and walking quickly towards the harem.

Running and afraid of breaking, walking and afraid of slow, a team of eunuchs walked quickly and sweaty, nervously came to the queen's bedroom.

Queen Liu Jingyan is fifty years old, sitting gracefully, seeing the eunuchs coming in, she was a little excited, but she didn't say anything, and there were Chen Xuandi's concubines sitting below, as well as Yang Lihua, the favorite concubine of the crown prince Chen Shubao, and Shen Wuhua, the crown princess.

A group of women seemed to be waiting for a rare treasure, and all eyes were fixed on the beautiful red wooden box.

The eunuch slowly opened the wooden box, which was covered with cotton and satin, and a palm-sized mirror lay in it.

The back of the mirror is a round copper frame, carved with a Buddha statue holding a bird, surrounded by Sanskrit Buddhism, there is a handle to hold.

Liu Jingyan, the empress of the Chen Dynasty, stretched out her hand, pinched the handle elegantly, and took it out lightly.

All the women watched, and the rumored treasure mirror vaguely saw a lifelike image reflected on the mirror, and saw Liu Jingyan happy with the mirror.

Copper mirrors of this era did not have modern polishing liquids and grinding tools, and even the best craftsmen made copper mirrors were still not good enough.

Looking at herself in the mirror, this is the first time she has seen her clear appearance, different from those yellowed bronze mirrors, the self in this mirror is so real, so detailed, she saw the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, a few faint white hairs, and Liu Jingyan cried for a while.

"The Queen."

"The Queen's Mother......"

Liu Jingyan gently hid his face: "When I was young, I used water as a mirror, and then I used a bronze mirror to make up, and I only know my whole picture today, and I am fortunate to be lucky." ”

"Let's take a look, too."

With the passing of the mirror, the women couldn't help but look at themselves in the mirror in amazement, this mirror was so clear and bright.

When the mirror came to Zhang Lihua's hand, this peerless beauty saw her face clearly for the first time and had a new understanding of her beauty.

"I'm so good-looking, ordinary women are envious and jealous of me, I used to feel wronged, but now I think about it."

"No matter what the concubine does, she will be forgiven, because the concubine is so beautiful!"

Zhang Lihua is often called the peerless queen of Cleopatra, and at this time, she actually gave birth to the arrogance of who in the world can be worthy of herself.

Since ancient times, beauties are only possessed by the strong.

The concubines chattered: "Queen Mother, is this mirror the legendary treasure of the Western Regions?" ”

Liu Jingyan took back the mirror and nodded with satisfaction.

"It is said that this is the treasure of the Western Regions to pay tribute to the Northern Sui, but the Northern Sui spent hundreds of thousands of yuan to trade with them, and it was a birthday gift used by the Sui Emperor to curry favor with the lonely Jialuo."

"Definitely yes, I heard that the tribute of the Western Regions was actually robbed halfway, and Emperor Sui offered a reward of 10,000 taels of gold to find the traces of this batch of treasures, who would have thought that it would flow into our Dachen, such a treasure is still the most worthy of the queen's mother."

"Yes, the queen mother is so beautiful, she is the most worthy of this mirror."

The flattering voices came and went, Liu Jingyan was in a very good mood, and said quite proudly: "This mirror is indeed the one that Emperor Sui was robbed of, from the Western Regions, called [Buddha Heart My Mirror], is the Buddha gazing at the lake, seeing the true self, all those who look in the mirror are clear and clear, and look at the true self of the world." ”

"No wonder when I looked in the mirror just now, I was in a much happier mood, congratulations to the queen for winning the treasure of Buddhism."

"Mother, this mirror has to cost a lot of money."

When a vain woman shows off the price of luxury goods, it is her proudest moment: "Buddhism pays attention to fate, since it is natural to meet fate, money is something outside the body, but it is only five thousand taels of gold." ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but sigh, the queen is really rich, a mirror of five thousand taels of gold.

"This is a rare and unique product, it is the queen's mother's blessing Qitian, and it is Your Majesty's Hongfu Qitian."

Everyone was lively, only Zhang Lihua looked at the mirror in the queen's hand in a daze, she also wanted to have such a mirror.

The women of the palace of the Chen Dynasty were all happy to see such a mirror.

It's just that they don't know that the world's unique product in the hands of Empress Chen Dynasty is being manufactured in large quantities in a workshop in the west of Chang'an City, waiting for an opportunity to be released.

Yang Guang doesn't understand art, but he understands art, why artworks are valuable, because of rarity, because of stories.

An ordinary mirror, its own value is very small, but this technology is very rare now, and now there is only this one piece on the market, so its rarity is valuable.

Yang Guang made up a source for it, which is the treasure of the Western Regions, which the emperor of the Sui Dynasty spent a lot of money in exchange for in order to curry favor with the empress, but was robbed halfway and flowed into the Chen Dynasty.

As the two imperial courts that divided the north and the south, what the other emperor attached so much importance to fell into his own hands, this must not be angry? The other party offers a heavy reward for what he is looking for, and in his own hands, he is happy to think about it, which is an incidental emotional value.

Finally, I made up a source story, this mirror is called [Buddha Heart My Mirror], the Buddha gazes at the lake, sees the true self, and all those who look at the mirror are clear and clear, and look at the true self of the world.

Why make up such a story?

Because the Southern Dynasty believed in Buddhism.

The four hundred and eighty temples of the Southern Dynasties, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain, although the Southern Dynasty has changed dynasties, but Buddhism has infiltrated into various fields such as literature, art, and philosophy in the Southern Dynasties, so it is linked to the Buddha and is a plus.

This made Nan Chen's queen spend a lot of money to buy the mirror.

Yang Guang next door was almost crazy with joy, he didn't expect that engaging in art would make more money than selling real estate.

He made the first batch of five mirrors of this kind, and at the same time sent them to Jiankang, Nanling, Changsha and other places in Nanchen, the same thing, the same story.

The information exchange is slow, and everyone is hiding the treasures, buy them first, and then talk about it, the local profiteers and Lu Ben's caravan are in collusion, bah, mutual benefit and win-win, and sell things to the local scholars.

Yang Guang stipulated that a batch of additional sales would be sold every half a month, all of which would be sold to the Southern Dynasties, and when the price was slowly worthless, all of them would be sold out.

Empress Dugu in the palace of Chang'an City held a mirror and put on makeup on the mirror, thinking that a few months later, Empress Chen Chao knew that the mirror he bought with 5,000 gold would be in the hands of the Great Sui Xungui, what kind of expression would it be, and whether Emperor Chen's terminally ill body would be directly angry.

In the eldest princess's mansion, Yang Lihua took the mirror and looked east and west, and said to Xiao Menglan: "Look at this guy who has no conscience, I told him last time that you like glass, he went to great lengths to make glass for you, and he also made this transparent glass mirror, why don't you want to point to me." ”

Yang Lihua smiled shyly: "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, this is given to you by His Royal Highness the King of Jin, I just have a look." ”

"Where did he give it to me, a guy with no conscience, next time he asks you, you say that you like gold, let him send you more, hairpins, earrings, bracelets, face, hands, until they are full, anyway, he has more."