With a clang, Uncle Li's hand holding the tea water trembled slightly, and he accidentally rolled the tea cup, and rolled the tea and water off the edge of the couch, fell under the coal stove, and broke into pieces. Uncle Li looked straight at the glass master that I was holding up high, which was probably smaller than the kettle. He opened his mouth and made a sound, but made an abnormal tone. Zhao Kun's eyes behind him almost glared out of his eyes.

When I put this treasure on the floor and continued to take out glass products of various shapes and exquisiteness from the box, Uncle Li's eyes were already standing.

The large mirror, one and a half meters long and about 80 cm wide, is the most perfect side of the mirror I have made. Now, it has been inlaid with sandalwood frames, and the back is painted with red paint. The whole large mirror reflects Uncle Li's majestic image as it is. Uncle Li stood at least one incense stick in front of the mirror, constantly whispering his eyes, scratching his head, twisting his head and swaying his right. That look is not much different from Li Shu. However, a middle-aged man in his 50s does this really make people feel very, well, not very elegant.

"Damn it, look, my appearance is clearly visible. Even a hair can be so clear. It is a treasure, an absolute treasure of the immortal family!" Uncle Li's head almost pressed against the mirror, and he felt sad and ashamed of the performance of this monarch of the Tang Dynasty, the monarch of the most powerful empire on earth.

The exquisite and gorgeous glassware made Uncle Li’s eyes turn red. Uncle Li ordered four guards to put the mirror on the wall. He looked back from time to time, as if he was afraid that the immortal treasure would fly away with its wings.

"Son-in-law, where did you buy these things? This glass silver mirror alone is probably worth a lot of money, right?" Uncle Li reluctantly withdrew his gaze, and then smiled at me, very kind, nonsense, tens of thousands of dollars at one move, but it would be strange if Uncle Li was not kind.

"I'm ashamed to say that these things are all made by my son-in-law." I said shyly. Uncle Li almost used his head to bump into the coal stove. After looking at me for a while, he seemed a little stuttering: "You mean, these things are made by you, the son-in-law?"

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"Well, the son-in-law just happened to be made and tried, so I came here to offer it to Your Majesty today. If Your Majesty likes it, what's the point of giving more son-in-law?" No matter what, we have to settle the relationship first. It would be great for Uncle Li, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, to promote it.

Of course, I also told him that this was what I, a poor child, used for business. Uncle Li mercifully encouraged me to make more contributions to the taxes of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, Uncle Li gritted his teeth and remitted 50,000 yuan to me. As his investment, he originally wanted to refuse harshly, but when he saw the fierce light of greed and threatening words that appeared in his mouth openly and secretly, I, a young man, could only give in.

I agreed to give Uncle Li 30% of the capital, but I was actually so happy that I almost burst into laughter. This was a surprise. Originally, I had already made up my mind and at least I had to give Uncle Li some benefits. After all, I had to export through his, the Emperor of Tang Dynasty, the industrial and commercial channels, so I wanted to refuse the 50,000 yuan. But who would think that Uncle Li thought I didn't want to join the shares with him and was very stubborn to get money. It was really unreasonable not to say it.

After seeing the promise, Uncle Li was indeed happy: "Hahaha, okay, this is the family." The old hooligan's eyes were indeed poisonous, and he knew that this thing could make a lot of money as soon as he glanced at it.

"But son-in-law, how did you get these things?" Uncle Li had a lot of questions. Since that's the case, I could only confess honestly: "In fact, this is just a son-in-law who thinks that my telescope in the Tang Dynasty is good, but it has never been able to produce it on a large scale. The source is because of the limited raw materials." I looked at Uncle Li and expressed my sincere thoughts on my heart and soul for the country and the people. In order to enable all the military reconnaissance systems of the Tang Dynasty to be equipped with this reconnaissance weapon, I have gone through many practical tests and studied them from multiple parties, and then I happened to have a thing like glass.

"Look at this, this is the telescope made by my son-in-law with this glass. The clarity of this thing is definitely much higher than the crystal lenses I used in the past." I took out a pocket telescope from my sleeve and handed it to Uncle Li. Although it was a pocket-sized one, its multiple was the highest so far.

In the past two years, with the support of Uncle Li, the steamed wine in Fangfu has been sold at home and abroad, and even sold to Yangtong and Western Turks. It turned out that the transaction method of using silk for horses in the Tang Dynasty also turned into wine. For silk for horses, five kilograms of steamed wine can even be exchanged for a good horse. The best steamed wine consumes only five kilograms of grain per kilogram, and ordinary steamed wine consumes only three kilograms of grain.

The Tang Dynasty can be regarded as a valuable item.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the restrictions on the use of horses were relatively strict, but over the years, due to the victory in the war, the losers had been extorted many times; and after the trade dumping of ethnic minorities in recent years, the number of horses in the Tang Dynasty surged, even reaching a terrifying one.2 million, and it was still increasing. The surge in horse numbers was a good thing for the Tang Dynasty in the past, but now there is a vague momentum of becoming a burden.

The cost of raising horses is much higher than that of raising cattle. Uncle Li even wanted to reduce the number of military horses. However, before pacifying Liaodong, I mentioned to Zhong how to use horses to plow dry fields, and boasted to him that the speed of horses plowing dry fields is at least four times that of cattle. I don’t know when this wind was spread to Uncle Li’s ears, so not long after pacifying Liaodong and returning to Chang'an, Uncle Li brought me up for a strict review. I could only tell the whole story like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

At this time, I finally understood. It turned out that Uncle Li was eager to turn the fertile land of Liao land into fertile fields. This goal was very large, but it seemed a bit unrealistic. The most important thing was that Liaodong had few people and there were many lands and few people. In this way, the limit of each person's plowing was very limited. To be wrong, it should be the limit of the plowing of cattle. A cow can only cultivate ten to fifteen acres during the sowing period. It is good to have cattle collections, but Liaodong is a newly developed land, so where can there be so many plowing cows? Cow plowing is not something you want him to plow. A cow must not be taught for two or three years to be considered a so-called cooked cow. It really gave Uncle Li a headache. However, the horse farming I proposed gave Uncle Li a new idea, because there are too many horses that have been domesticated in the Tang Dynasty today.

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In fact, there was a precedent for using horse farming in the Han Dynasty in China, but it could not be spread in China. There are two main reasons. One is the population. The farming situation in China is in a situation where there are too many people and few lands. It is impossible to implement a large-scale plantation economic model. The land that Western farmers own far greater than that of China, while China still has family-style agricultural production. In terms of raising livestock, it is obvious that the cost of horses is higher than that of cattle. The efficiency of horse farming is faster than that of cattle. In such large-scale farming and small-scale farming, the output benefits and required costs are completely different.

Another point is that horses are the leader of the six animals, and their importance is self-evident. In the political society dominated by northern China, it is more due to war and political reasons. Therefore, horses are the weapon of war, which makes it difficult for horses to enter the homes of the vast majority of people. However, due to the surge in the number of horses in our Tang Dynasty, Uncle Li and the court were very unprepared. At this time, Uncle Li had already begun to consider the method of clearing the inferior and selecting the best to ensure the quality and quantity of horses in the country. In addition, there are at least tens of thousands of injured horses in the army that need to be retired. Such a large number has caused Uncle Li a headache for a long time. So after hearing what I said, Uncle Li began to develop the idea of ​​using horse farming in Liaodong instead of ox farming.

Therefore, Uncle Li ordered the Ministry of Works to develop a newer and more reasonable harness, and tried to till it in the imperial village near Chang'an. In order to improve the grip of the horseshoe, I redesigned the horseshoe so that it had several more bulging convex nails than the usual horseshoe. These convex nails cannot be made by ancient methods and must be stamped with stamping equipment, that is, through the hydraulic stamping technology of the Tang Dynasty, the benefits of this convex nail-type horseshoe are obvious, allowing horses to work in the mud.

Similarly, the old craftsmen of the Ministry of Works reorganized the harnesses used by ancient people, and then designed the tillage tools according to the kind of horse-drawn plow I had seen on TV in my memory.
Chapter completed!