Spring and Autumn I Am King

ps: There is still a chapter around 12 o’clock, and I will definitely be scolded by many people. I won’t say much, just three words: ask for a monthly pass! !

Ji Ying sat in front of the dressing table, facing the crystal clear mirror, inside was a pretty face, although it was already twenty-five, it was still as perfect as white jade, without a single flaw. Glass" in the pale green mirror.

"Is this me?"

She looked at herself in the mirror, Rouyi stroked her cheek involuntarily, a little incredible. Although she had seen her face countless times in bronze mirrors and by the water, she couldn't figure it out. She looked at herself so clearly and clearly. Face, but it is the first time since birth.

"As the saying goes, swords are given to heroes, and treasures are given to beautiful women. Can this thing still be desired?"

After the groom finally finished entertaining the guests, he pushed the door and entered the room. The maidservants who looked like sculptures withdrew wisely and closed the door lightly outside, leaving only the two siblings in the room.

As soon as Zhao Wuxi came in, he happened to see Ji Ying staring in the mirror in a daze. She is naturally beautiful, and she has been dressed up even more today. She is naturally beautiful and charming from a barbarian girl from the water town of Xu State, and she has many years of manners in charge of Zhao's internal affairs, which makes people excited.

Considering that the Zhao family's business is not ready, there is no special event for this wedding, but it does not mean that Zhao Wuxun does not pay attention to it. In order to buy a wedding gift for Ji Ying, he can be said to have taken great pains.

As early as around 3000 BC, glass appeared in Mesopotamia and Egypt. By the 5th century BC, glass had spread as a luxury along the Mediterranean coast. For example, there were many exquisite glass in ancient Greek city-states. Handicrafts, some of which are indistinguishable from modern glass bottles at first glance.

After Zhao Wuxi returned to the Spring and Autumn Period, he found that there was another kind of glass in the state of Chu in this era. The world-famous "Sui Houzhu" is actually a pile of glass beads. A few days ago, there was a businessman from Ye County of Chu State who claimed to congratulate Zhao Qing on his wedding. Ten carts of bamboo paper, or five large porcelains!

In fact, the so-called "suihou beads", Zhao Wushi asked Zigong to collect them very early, and studied them for Gongshuban and other craftsmen. He remembered that this glass was called "lead-barium glass". The main component was lead and barium. It belongs to two different glass systems from the Western "soda-lime glass". It was independently invented by the Chinese. That's what's inlaid on his saber.

However, this technology has obvious defects. The firing temperature is low. Although it has the advantages of colorful and crystal clear, it is fragile, not resistant to high temperature, and has poor transparency. It is not suitable for sudden cooling and heating, and is only suitable for processing into various decorations. Compared with ceramics, bronzes, and jades, this kind of glassware from Chu State has a limited use, so it has not developed and grown, and few people know it.

Using it to make the glass mirror that Zhao Wuxi wanted was naturally even more unworkable.

At that time, Zhao Wuxi didn't say a word, he clapped his hands directly, and asked his servant to bring up a plate of things that Gongshuban had just brought up. When the gauze covering it was lifted, the merchant from Chu country saw the real glass. bead!

Although there are still some hard-to-remove colors, those round glass beads are clear and translucent, polished after molding, light green and translucent, squeezed in your hand, you can even see the person behind them through it, and immediately put the hands of Chu Shang " The essence is as true" as Suizhu compares...

After half a year of exploration, after replacing countless materials, the public transport team finally combined the quartz sand and the trona obtained from the brine lake and put it into a specific furnace to melt (because large-scale ironmaking has already begun, the furnace temperature is undoubtedly sufficient ) to make a glass sphere.

Zhao's glass marbles, which are different from the glass marbles of Chu State, have finally been successfully developed! The next step is to include the formula in the state secrets. Just as the porcelain artisans were deprived of their freedom of life, glass artisans were also placed in high-walled workshops. They initially made glass vials and decorations, and slowly began to Try blowing glass: take a half-liquid hot melted glass and blow air into it to make a hollow vessel, a later invention.

The final product, the glass mirror, is a new product for nearly a month. It is also manufactured by blowing air. The large container is blown out, and after being flattened, it becomes a piece of glass. The back is silver-plated with mature technology. Just apply another coat of paint. But it can only be as big as a human face, and if it gets bigger, the craftsmen will be powerless.

But that's enough. In today's big wedding, the light green glass mirror was fixed in a hard teak wood frame and placed in the bridal chamber, which surprised Ji Ying. ,

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"This must be very precious." Ji Ying did not dare to reach out, for fear that if he touched the mirror, the mirrors reflecting his appearance would shatter into thousands of pieces, just like today's dreamlike beauty.

She then habitually showed the attitude of the eldest sister, and said to Zhao Wuxi like a lesson: "I heard that you have quit the high platform in order not to break the fortune of ten families, so how much is this mirror worth?"

"It's probably worth the property of two middle-aged families. Don't look at this thing that looks like beautiful jade and crystal, but the actual materials are very common. Quartz sand and plant ash can be seen everywhere. At most, it is trona mined in Daluli, Taiyuan. ...Besides, with this technique, you can make smaller mirrors, or round beads, and let Zigong sell them to Zheng, Chu, Qi, Wu and other places, and you can get a hundred times or a thousand times as much. profit!"

Since the nobles of Chu State can even be regarded as treasures, not to mention the more crystal clear glass beads and the mirrors that make the ladies feel their hearts. Although Zhao Wuxie himself is not considered extravagant, he has been encouraging foreign aristocrats to be extravagant all these years. After the porcelain competition, Zhao's new product, glass marbles, will continue to make money from the pockets of the princes.

Ji Ying breathed a sigh of relief, from frugal to extravagant easy, from extravagant to easy to frugal, there are enough rumors outside, she doesn't want Wu Xie to carry the notoriety of "excessive extravagance" because of herself. Said himself to be a disaster for Bao Si.

"Then, since this item is not expensive, you must remember to prepare one for Lingzi in the palace, Kong Jiao, and Bo Mi's sisters in Lu."

"Weiwei, what you're reminding is... not to mention this, you and I have been in prison for many years, and now, it's time to get together..."

Not to mention it's okay, when Zhao Wuxi mentioned this, Ji Ying's face turned red all of a sudden, and he suddenly remembered that the tall man in front of him was no longer a little brother who needed him to protect him, but he had to look at him. Husband like the sky... His face seemed to be on fire, and his whole body became nervous.

Zhao Wuxi gently hugged Ji Ying and sat on the couch with her.

Looking back, it was really hard to come this far...

Although he had just arrived in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Wuxi vowed to avoid the tragedy of "Mrs. Grinding Hairpin" in history, but at that time he never imagined that he would break his fate by "marrying a sister" curse in.

Zhi Xiao and Dai Jun's coveting of Ji Ying were repelled by Zhao Wuxi's military pawns and iron cavalry; Zhao's internal dissent was silenced by Zhao Wuxi's gaze; the rumors and rumors of external public opinion were also rejected by Shang Qing. The iron fist pressed down.

He almost carried the fingers and spit of the world to do this. Among the Confucian disciples who served the Zhao family, there were not a few who did not quit because of this matter. Fortunately, Ran Qiu, Zi Gong, Zai Yu and other officials One didn't go.

Visible obstruction did not dare to speak openly under his power, but the invisible pressure has always enveloped the two of them. Even after tonight, this sense of oppression of ritual, music and morality will continue forever. The price of choice.

But Zhao Wuxi didn't regret it.

Two incense candles with the thickness of two arms reflected the light in the bridal chamber, and various ritual utensils and auspiciousness were placed on the table. Different from the big red wedding tents of later generations, pre-Qin weddings like black and white, clean and unpretentious. The two won the same prison, and even more intentionally or unintentionally, they used the retro ritual of Yin people. It is said that Wu Ding and Fu Hao got married back then.

Using the broken in half as a wine vessel, Ji Ying's red lips were also wet after drinking the wine in exchange. When their eyes met, she suddenly remembered that when they were young, the two of them did not avoid the defense of men and women. The reflection of his own figure in the eyes of the shirt is brighter than the reflection in the glass mirror...

Ji Ying felt that her heart was beating so fast, she wondered if Wu Xie, who was getting closer and closer, had heard it. Fear, worry, joy, shyness, all kinds of emotions made her grasp Zhao Wuxi's hand around her waist, just like when Adi tried to scratch her waist when she was a child, she was beaten hard by her.

"Adi, you, what are you doing..."

Seeing Zhao Wuxi sitting on the edge of the bed, he was stiff, and Ji Ying, who lost his voice and called his younger brother, felt a little funny.

He immediately said with a straight face and said solemnly: "Of course, it is the ceremony of Duke Zhou."

"The ceremony of Duke Zhou?" Ji Ying's hand was still weakly resisting, there is no such playful saying in this era.

"The Duke of Zhou stipulated the obituary ceremony for Zhou Shi, and there is a sentence: 'The master enters, personally say (take off) the wife's ying'... As a minister of the Jin State, I should follow the etiquette and personally undress for you, sister, and live in harmony. A married couple..."

(To be continued.)