please make me king

Chapter 425 Ugly Girl
Crystal was called "Shuiyu" in ancient times, or "Shuijing" and "Yingying".The famous poet Qu Yuan wrote in another poem: Climb to Kunlun and eat Yuying, live the same life as the heaven and earth, and have the same light as the sun and the moon.This "Yuying" refers to crystal.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, China still favored jade, and gemstones of various colors were not very popular.After the Yuan Dynasty, merchants from the Western Regions imported a large number of colored gemstones along the Nanyang and Western Oceans, which were very popular among the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty at that time.

After Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty.Ming Chengyuan style, the style of chasing gems is even better.

After Zhu Di's "Jing Nan", he sent Zheng He, Eunuch Zheng, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, on seven voyages to the West, and even bought a large number of gems.

In particular, all kinds of red sapphires are produced in Southeast Asia. Near the Persian Gulf in the West, there are all kinds of treasures here, including red and yellow Yagu stones, red sapphires, zubabi, grandmother sapphires, cat eyes, diamonds, and large pearls. It is as big as a longan, and weighs one penny, two or three cents, coral tree beads, and branches, golden amber, emerald beads, divine beads, wax amber, black amber, and their names are all worthless."

It was just that after Liu Daxia burned "Zheng He's Envoy's Water Journey", the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to organize fleets to go to Nanyang and Western Oceans, so the matter was dropped.

However, the east is not bright and the west is bright. After the Ming Dynasty, a gemstone mine was discovered in Baojing, Yunnan, which was rich in red and sapphire.Among them, the top ruby ​​is the most famous, and the top "pigeon blood red" is produced here, and this place gradually became the main source of gemstones needed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

However, with the growing oppression of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the influence of chieftain rebellions such as the "Bozhou Rebellion" and "She'an Rebellion", the frontier shrank day by day, and Baojing, a land rich in gems, was lost.

This so-called "Yunnan Baojing" is not only the later Burmese Mogok, but also famous for producing gemstones and jade.

There is a saying that "what is good at the top, what is good at the bottom" is like this in the royal family and the royal family, and the extravagant style of the Ming Dynasty is even more prevalent, and they compete to be proud of wearing gems.

In the tenth year of Wanli, when King Lu of Lu'an Mansion was preparing for his wedding, he used "[-] blue rubies and more than [-] pearls" for just jewelry.

Even according to the "Ming Shenzong Veritable Records", a total of nine jewelry purchases were made within three years, with a total cost of [-] million taels of silver.It is almost equivalent to the two to three million taels of silver spent by the imperial court in the "Bozhou Rebellion", which shows its extravagance.

Although not as rare as gemstones, crystals are also precious.In the Ming Dynasty, where crystals were abundant, there was Tongshan in Zhangpu, Fujian Province in the south, and Huangjian Mountain in Xuanfu in the north.It is also produced in Xinyang, Henan and Xingguo, Hubei.There is even a saying that "the southern crystal is white, the northern crystal is black, and the Shinshu crystal is turbid".

When Zhang Shun saw this "treasure", he suddenly thought about it.Regardless of Tao Taigong's old age and frailty, he hurriedly asked: "Where did this treasure come from? Is there a place to produce it?"

Tao Taigong was one step behind Sanchuan Lu Sanye before, and he was not as favored as Lu Sanye in front of Zhang Shun.

Even though Taojiawan and Sanchuanji were not far apart, with the support of Zhang Shun, Lu Sanye gave priority to selling food and other products, and gave priority to purchasing fur and medicinal materials, etc., even at the time of the opening of the market. Prioritize the selection of dates on the Internet, and the Taojiawan market is declining day by day.

This Tao Taigong is also very courageous, he simply brought his granddaughter and treasures here, and he planned to "invest" in Zhang Shun.

Seeing Zhang Shun's inquiry, he hurriedly narrated tremblingly: "This thing is produced in Taojiawan. We are all mountain people, and we used to be slovenly. When mining, it will inevitably be damaged. If King Shun has the heart, the Tao family would rather Dedicate the local water jade veins to King Shun!"

When Tao Taigong said, "Dedicated to King Shun together", he subconsciously glanced at the girl.Zhang Shun knew it in his heart, he didn't comment for a while, he just smiled and said: "I know what the old man is thinking, but this matter needs to be discussed in a long-term way, and it won't be too late to talk about it later."

Afterwards, the two had an enthusiastic conversation, and then Taigong Tao returned home exhausted.

When Liu Rushi came out to clean up the tea, he saw that Zhang Shun was still staring at the girl's back, so he pouted and said, "Master, there are newcomers and forget the old ones!"

Zhang Shun looked back, smiled and reached out to scratch the bridge of her nose, then picked her up and put her on his lap.

Liu Rushi is a typical Jiangnan beauty, with a petite figure, and she is not very heavy when she sits on Zhang Shun's lap.Zhang Shun put his arms around her waist, sniffed her cheek lightly with his nose, and said with a smile: "What kind of vinegar is she eating? I just wonder if there is something wrong with her legs and feet, why does she walk like a limp? of?"

Liu Rushi was stunned for a while when he heard the words, but he didn't care about being coquettish, instead he burst out laughing with a "puchi".

She giggled and said, "Everyone says I'm ignorant, but I didn't wrong you. Her name is 'Three Inch Golden Lotus', and when she walks, she's called 'Weak Willows Fufeng', and she's like a girl who walks like a frightened bird, graceful like a swimmer." The dragon is like the moon covered by light clouds, and the snow flutters like the flowing wind."

After she finished speaking, she pricked up her ears and listened secretly to the movement in the room, then she lay on Zhang Shun's ear, and whispered: "Although my young lady has a crescent head, red lips and bright teeth, and a vicious charm, as long as she is under the skirt A lotus boat full of feet is a big spoiler, and most likely it will be called a 'half beauty'."

ah?Zhang Shun was taken aback, he heard that Liu Rushi's words were better than her songs, but in fact, this woman "bound her feet"!
He married several wives, none of whom had feet bound.He thought that the foot-binding style was the Hu Yi style brought by the Qing Dynasty. Is the aesthetics of this era so deformed?

Zhang Shun hurriedly asked, but unexpectedly, Liu Rushi breathed like blue, and said softly and softly in his ear: "You know, how do people arrange you outside? They all say, 'King Shun is lustful, and the world hears about it. The ugly girl from the third house works diligently'. That's why the Luanchuan Wang family specially sent an ugly girl weighing [-] jin over last time, but I just can't tell what your taste is!"

Zhang Shun almost died of joy when he heard that, no wonder he picked so many beauties, no one is envious or jealous, everyone has different tastes in feelings!

Seeing Zhang Shun laughing out loud, Liu Rushi was afraid that Li Xiang might hear it in the room, so she quickly reached out to cover his mouth.

Zhang Shun managed to hold back his laughter, and then opened her little hands and said, "If that's the case, why don't you guys have your feet bound?"

Liu Rushi became excited after hearing this, and quickly whispered excitedly: "Mrs. Hong is like a man riding a horse and shooting arrows. How can she consider the matter of foot binding? The third lady is a commoner who needs to work hard every day. How can she bind her feet and be trapped in the boudoir?" ? As for my young lady, she was spoiled and spoiled by Master Li, and he refused to let her suffer, so she never married!"

After her ghostly words, she secretly arranged the three ladies.Zhang Shun heard it funny, so he asked, "What about you?"

"Nunu's family is born with small feet, if they are entangled, they will lose their feet!" Liu Rushi secretly laughed.

(End of this chapter)