In the eighth year of Hongwu, perhaps because he was sad about the current Beiyuan, or because he proved his loyalty to the nation, Zhao Min's elder brother Kuo Temur fell in love with Hulun Lake.

Later, his father, King Ruyang, suffered from the pain of losing his son, and was seriously injured by assassination. He was in poor health and was depressed. Soon after, he followed his son. Zhao Min only saw his father at the death.

Perhaps, Zhao Min can use Longyuan essence to hang his life.

But this is the fate of the royal family that has destroyed the country and people who have lost their status, and they also shoulder the mission while gaining status.

At this time, the Northern Yuan court was already a treacherous minister. As Wang Baobao said, since he could not hold the Yuan family in the wild tide, it would be better to let go of everything and return to the embrace of the Heaven of Longevity.

This may also be a relief for them.

As a woman, Zhao Min naturally poured water from a married woman. Although women's status in ancient times was not as good as men, it seems that there will be gains and gains when put here.

The demise of a dynasty usually starts from the inside. The Northern Yuan royal court, which had originally retreated to the grassland, could have dominated the grassland and waited for its growth before embarking on the Central Plains. In the grassland, it is difficult for any Han people to attack in depth.

But the last general who could compete with Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty regime was no longer there. In addition, there were treacherous officials inside and outside, in September 1387, he sent Yongchang Hou Lanyu to lead his army to attack the Northern Yuan, causing a devastating blow to the Northern Yuan. The Ming army captured more than 120 people including the second prince of the Northern Yuan, Di Baonu, the former prince Bili Bald Concubine and the princess, including 3,000 officials, 70,000 soldiers, 150,000 horses, cows, camels, sheep, and treasure seals, books, gold and silver seals. Only the Khan Tumusi Timuer, the second son, himself and dozens of cavalry, including the Prince Tian Baonu, escaped.

The next year, Yesu Dier killed Tumusi Timuer and the prince usurped the throne, and the northern grasslands returned to separatist state, and the Northern Yuan Dynasty was destroyed. This is a later story.

After seeing Queen Ruyang, Zhao Min finally settled her knot, although the result may not be satisfactory, but it was also inevitable.

Afterwards, Zhao Min pulled Luo Fan and drank wine for a long time.

As for Zhou Zhiruo, who was originally the head of Emei, it is absolutely impossible for Ruo to say that she has no hatred for the Yuan people.

Although Zhao Min had almost cut off relations with the Yuan court, at the beginning, the two did not get along well.

After all, the death of Master Miejue, who had raised Zhou Zhiruo for many years, has a lot to do with his father and brother.

But later, for Luo Fan, she could only bury this relationship in her heart forever and try to get along well with Zhao Min.

It was not until this time that she gradually realized that after so many years of ups and downs, she had already regarded Zhao Min as her relative. Seeing her sad, Zhou Zhiruo felt a little unbearable, and the last hint of grudge that had been buried in her heart also disappeared at this moment.

The dead are gone, what else can you let go of?

After a few days, everything was back on track.

Starting from the simplest and most familiar things, Luo Fan first used the gold in his hand to buy a farm by the West Lake, and once took the route. This time he was naturally familiar with it.

If you say what is the most profitable thing to do in ancient times, Liuli can definitely count it.

In ancient times, the smelting technology of glass was mastered by the nobles, and the people thought it was more precious than jade!

And by the Ming Dynasty, the method of making glass was almost lost. Even the glass given to the top scholar by the emperor was very impermeable and low-level varieties called medicine jade, which shows how rare glass was in the Ming Dynasty.

Glass belong to glass. When many people mention glass, they will think of glass windows, and when they lift glass, they will feel that it is a work of art similar to glass.

There really isn't much difference between the two. In the early ancient times, the two materials were not too separate, but not all glass was called glazed glass.

There were many names for glass in ancient times, such as Biluoli, Poli, Vili, etc. The word corresponds to the Latin vitrum, which is the result of transliteration and translation.

In the book "The Records of the Sigong of Liang" written in the Tang Dynasty, it says: Funan's large ships came from the Western Tianzhu Kingdom to sell Poli mirrors. The face is one foot and five inches wide, weighing forty kilograms, and the inside and outside are bright, and five colors are placed on it. Looking at it, they do not see its quality. Asking about its price, it is worth millions of guan. It can be seen how expensive glass was at that time.

However, according to Volume 68 of the Book of Sui, glass was regarded as a rare treasure until the Tang Dynasty. Because the Chinese (6th century) He Chou was well-educated and skilled, he changed the traditional method of making glass to make glass, and the quality of the glass was also good. From then on, China could make homemade glass.

After Zheng He returned from sailing in the early Ming Dynasty and brought a "Western" worker to burn glass, the glass completely became ordinary.

Because the Chinese people at that time did not know how to use glass (mirrors, magnifying glasses, and glasses were not passed on to China), if they were only used as works of art, their reflection was too strong and they did not conform to the aesthetic view of the doctrine of the mean of the Chinese people. Therefore, the value of glass gradually could not be reflected and was eventually replaced by porcelain.

In other words, in the Ming Dynasty, Luo Fan imagined that it was impossible to make a fortune by burning glass in the Tang Dynasty world. Of course, even if he went to the Tang Dynasty world now, he would not make much money. The process of glass is too simple and easy to imitate. No matter how confidential it is, it is only a matter of time to reveal it. Now when he goes to the Tang Dynasty, the whole world probably knows how to burn glass.

Therefore, the money-making route that Luo Fan planned this time was to start with the production of glass and practical glass objects in the modern sense.

Although the better glass manufacturing methods were lost in the Ming Dynasty, there were more and more workshops for making glass in the folk, and there were no regulations that were exclusive to the nobles and could not be made by civilians.

Modern glass manufacturing method is to use artificial crystal as raw material and use the dewax casting method to make artworks. Because modern times have artificial crystal technology, low-quality crystals used as raw materials for glass manufacturing are naturally not expensive. Since we are going to do business in ancient times, Luo Fan has already brought a lot of storage bags.

It’s just that the cost of coming once is not low, so the business naturally needs to be done for a long time. After Luo Fan left, he still has to make endless money. Therefore, these glass raw materials cannot be sold as raw materials, but will be used as capital for Luo Fan to open up the glass market.

The production process of ancient glass is quite complicated. It takes dozens of processes to complete when coming from fire and going from water. The production of ancient glass is quite time-consuming. Some of the production process takes more than ten or twenty days alone, and it mainly relies on hand-made production. It is quite difficult to grasp the temperature, and the difficulty of grasping the temperature can be said to be half by skills and half by luck.

But Luo Fan, who has modern production methods, is different. He directly uses various molds such as silicone molds, wax molds, gypsum molds and other molds to assist in molding, which is by no means comparable to the speed of hand-crafted by ancient people!

In addition to glass, the fine salt that Luo Fan had tried back then will naturally build up steelmaking. Luo Fan has already done all these things, so he is naturally familiar with it when he does it again.

Since these industries need to be developed, the villa naturally needs to be expanded and renovated, and also needs to recruit management talents. Regarding the choice of management talents, Luo Fan thinks that the group of nuns in Emei are good. The most important thing is that they are honest. Looking at the entire Emei, from Guo Xiang, except for one Ding Minjun, everyone else is considered honest. Although Master Mie Jue is not a little liked, he is also an honest person.

After some decision, the few people went to Emei first.

Mount Emei is located in Emeishan City, Leshan City, Sichuan Province. The scenic area covers an area of ​​154 square kilometers. The highest peak, Ten Thousand Buddhas Pin, is 3,099 meters above sea level. The terrain is steep and the scenery is beautiful, and it is known as "the best place in the world".

Until this time, the Emei Sect still did not accept male disciples, so the few people walked to the foot of Mount Emei and saw several guests and nuns.

This is not the first time Luo Fan has come to Emei. He only saw the mountains stretching and twists, the peaks are as majestic as before, thousands of rocks and valleys, the trees are green and vigorous, and the beautiful and beautiful.

Seeing a few people coming, a visiting nun came forward and said, "I wonder why the donors came to me in Emei? Is it a visit or a tour?"

There are so many people in the Emei Sect, so there are naturally some industries in the Sect. One of them naturally earns money from pilgrims who come up the mountain to pray to gods and Buddhas. Therefore, it is not surprising that some people go up the mountain at this time.

Zhou Zhiruo smiled and said, "I have met several times with the head of the sect. I'm sorry to say that an old friend is coming to visit."

The two guests and nuns looked at each other and then looked Zhou Zhiruo up and down. At this time, the three girls were all wearing veils. After all, if the identities of several people were too exposed, they would be a bit shocking.

But even wearing a veil at this time, Zhou Zhiruo looked quite young. The guest girl was suddenly surprised. How could this young woman be the old friend of the head?

However, since the other party dared to say this, the female nun dared not neglect it. After all, with the power of Emei at this time, few people in the world dared to pretend to be the old friend of the head of Emei.

One of the nuns said: "When I send a message to the head, please wait for a while."

Zhou Zhiruo nodded, and was not in a hurry, so she waited at the foot of the mountain.

Just as a few people were waiting at the foot of the mountain, in a luxuriously decorated hall on Mount Emei, his eyes passed the ink screen in front of the hall, and saw a woman in purple dressed in purple garland half lying on the couch, surrounded by light gauze curtains. Several young women with beautiful faces were serving each other carefully, either holding fruit dots or waving small fans, just like the female emperor in the palace.

The woman had a handsome face, a long figure, and a pretty figure. However, her cheekbones were slightly high and her eyes were gloomy, but she gave people a cold and cruel feeling. Her age was hard to see from her face, but the two silver threads flowing on her forehead could not hide the traces of time, and she seemed to be no longer young.

The woman in purple clothes looked lazy, her eyes narrowed slightly, as if she was enjoying her, and she seemed to be closing her eyes to rest. After a long time, she saw a woman in green clothes stepping into it and said respectfully: "Report to the head, someone at the foot of the mountain asked for a meeting, saying that she was your old acquaintance."

PS: The update is a bit late, everyone is sorry for the children's shoes...

Suddenly I found that glass was no longer valuable in the Ming Dynasty, and there were some mistakes, so I made up for the history for an afternoon...
Chapter completed!