Pirate Song

"What a big deal! Isn't it just broken? There is no mistake in doing this. Who hasn't broken something? It's a trivial matter, don't be afraid! If it's broken, let's fix it, anyway, now we know How did this thing get done? It’s not a big deal! Come, come! Let’s clean it up, melt the broken glass, and then do it again!” Gao Huaiyuan immediately comforted the craftsman.

With Gao Huaiyuan's attitude, several craftsmen immediately became even more grateful to him, quickly tidied it up, and started trial production from scratch.

The hard work paid off, and after a lot of hard work, they finally produced some glass plates with relatively high transparency and almost colorless. After annealing, they were taken out of the glass kiln.

The next thing will be easy to handle, isn't it just the silver mirror reaction!Simple, tinfoil and mercury are all you need!Gao Huaiyuan had already prepared these things. Considering the confidentiality of the craft, Gao Huaiyuan chose to screen out all the people and then do it by himself. He found a room, got a big mask to wear, and started busy.

After another day, Gao Huaiyuan finally took out a finished glass mirror with satisfaction, and displayed it in front of everyone.

When everyone saw their own appearance in the mirror, they couldn't help being surprised. It was the first time in their lives that they could see themselves so clearly. Before, they thought it was good to look at themselves in the bronze mirror, but now they use this After the glass mirror, I realized that there were still pockmarks on my face, ha ha!

Even a fool, after seeing this rare thing, knows that it is definitely worth the old nose's money, and they all sigh, Gao Huaiyuan is really a genius, it is amazing that he can even make such a rare thing !

As for the packaging, Gao Huaiyuan didn't need to think too much. He sent someone to the county town to find a master carpenter to make an exquisite frame with the most precious golden nanmu according to the size of the glass mirror. It's finished.

Gao Huaiyuan made more than a dozen yuan for this thing at once, but he only took out three pieces and sent them to Jubaozhai. As he expected, these three pieces of mirrors paid off the money he owed to the horse shopkeeper. The money was all offset, and after the shopkeeper saw the glass mirror, he almost fainted with excitement. In his eyes, this thing is definitely a priceless treasure. If it is sold on the market, it will damage the value of this kind of thing, so After receiving these three mirrors, he immediately offered Gao Huaiyuan a sky-high price, begging him to make more of these mirrors and supply them to Jubaozhai.

Now Gao Huaiyuan has already become the cornucopia in the eyes of Jubaozhai. A steady stream of crystal clear glassware was sent from Gao Huaiyuan to Jubaozhai, making Jubaozhai popular in many places for a while, and they began to faint With the momentum to overwhelm Duobaozhai, at least with this glass product, they can also fight against many big families in the same industry.

For this matter of glazed wares, there has been a lot of trouble among colleagues in the same industry. They kept asking where Jubaozhai got so many rare gadgets. If they want to compete with Jubaozhai for this source of goods, the boss of Jubaozhai is not a fool. After realizing this, he killed it with one bite. This thing was made by Jubaozhai, and it was absolutely impossible to spread it to the outside world, which made many colleagues give up their hearts.

So according to the original agreement with Gao Huaiyuan, they kept the goods from Gao Huaiyuan a secret, and even this kind of thing, in Daye County, was not sold on the market at all, so don’t look at the production of glass. Since Daye County, there are really very few people who really know about this matter. Only the head shopkeeper of Jubaozhai and the horse shopkeeper in Daye County know about this matter, so Gao Huaiyuan avoided many unnecessary troubles.

The profit of glass products is already frighteningly high. After Gao Huaiyuan took out the glass mirror this time, he doubled the profit again. The price was so high that Gao Huaiyuan felt a little dreamy after listening to it. The quality is good, otherwise, if you change your mind, just hearing the price, you will be able to sneak out on the ground on the spot and die.

This is not surprising. When everything first appeared, it was a rare commodity, and it was normal to have a high price. In history, glass mirrors were first invented by Venetian craftsmen hundreds of years later. If it can be sold for 15 francs, you can know the value of this thing!

What Gao Huaiyuan is looking for now is money. If he is now looking for an official, this mirror alone, as long as it is delivered to the right person, then he will definitely be able to find a job as an official with this mirror, but he can He didn't have the mind to be a shitty official of the Song Dynasty. Now his only thought is to build a force of his own as soon as possible.

After finishing the glass mirror, Gao Huaiyuan quickly used another batch of soap to cover the debt of the Wang family. After a period of operation and production in the soap workshop, the quality and craftsmanship have gradually stabilized, and the output has also grown steadily. Ascending, as long as he masters these things, it can be said that as long as there are sufficient raw materials, he can produce as much as he wants.

In order to meet the production needs of the soap workshop, Gao Huaiyuan specially asked Xue Yan to choose several special suppliers in the neighboring counties, and asked them to supply various raw materials of Crouching Tiger Village, and they were never in a company. , to purchase all the raw materials, and through this method, to ensure that the secret of his raw material formula will not be leaked.

When the weather turns cold, another winter will come, and the production of the two major workshops in Crouching Tiger Manor is officially on track, and various finished products are continuously delivered to Jubaozhai and the Wang family. From their partners, the two of them were overjoyed, and made a lot of money relying on these two products.

Not to mention how glass products are sought after, but this soap, as long as it is used by people, there is no disapproval, so it quickly became popular in the upper class of the Song Dynasty, not only girls and daughter-in-laws use this thing , even the gentlemen fell in love with this thing after using it. Although this thing was priced quite high by the Wang family, and a bar of soap was almost two pennies, it couldn't stop the rich people's enthusiastic pursuit of this kind of thing. Knowing that this is a tribute that is called for in the palace, if ordinary people can use this, it is not just a question of whether it is easy to use or not, but because of using this thing, I feel that I will lose face!

Therefore, this kind of thing has become a very popular thing since it was launched on the market. Except for the Wang family who reserved enough for the palace to stock up, the rest are often sold out as soon as they show up. There are also many rich people. Put down the money in advance, and buy soap, which has even become a kind of gift from the upper class.

So Gao Huaiyuan only considered the issue of expanding production, and never asked about the issue of sales. Anyway, he bought as much as he had, so why bother with that matter!

In order to expand production, Gao Huaiyuan simply lived in Crouching Tiger Manor completely, handed over all the affairs of Gao's old house to Xue Yan, and devoted himself to the affairs of Crouching Tiger Manor with all his strength.

After surveying the terrain around Crouching Tiger Manor, Gao Huaiyuan decided to expand the scale of Crouching Tiger Manor again, expanding the workshop area in the backyard towards the mountains again for future expansion of the workshop. , added a piece of logging work, starting from Crouching Tiger Village, gradually cutting out a passage, going deep into the vicinity of the copper mine, making preparations for the future opening of the copper mine, and in order to hide the eyes and ears, burn wasteland on the flat land on both sides of the road Fields, add some fields to prepare for the arrangement of miners' families to cultivate, at least the logistics work will move forward first.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't tell anyone about the copper mine, he just asked everyone to follow his instructions. As for why, he didn't say anything, and the people in Crouching Tiger Village also formed a habit of not asking. It is the imperial decree, and it must be completed without any discount.

This kind of life is busy and fulfilling, and everyone who is busy has no time to think about other things. Although it is very tiring, compared with the previous life of wandering and wandering, this kind of life can be regarded as heaven!

But at this time, the situation in the Jin Kingdom in the north was further deteriorating. The emperor who had the worst life in the world at the moment was probably the current Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Jin Xuanzong Wanyan Xun.

Wan Yanxun is the grandson of Jin Shizong and the elder brother of Jin Zhangzong. Since Zhang Zong died of illness, King Wei Zhao seized power and became the emperor of Jin Kingdom. As Jin Zhangzong's elder brother, he lived in fear all day long. Fortunately, Hu Shahu rebelled and killed him. After losing King Wei Zhao, he was embraced as emperor in the first year of Zhining (1213).

To be honest, when he first became the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, he felt really good, but after he really became the emperor, he realized that this job is definitely not a good job, let alone the power in his hands. how big!Just these bad things at home and abroad are enough for him to drink a pot.

Since he ascended the throne, Genghis Khan of Mongolia in the north has been sending troops to encroach on the territory of the Kingdom of Jin, and when the army of the Kingdom of Jin faced the Mongolian army, it was almost certain to lose every battle, losing almost the entire northern territory, and this Genghis Khan was greedy. His desire was still unsatisfied, so he sent envoys to force him to surrender to Mongol. At the beginning, Mongol was a territory of the Kingdom of Jin. How long has it been since now? It has become so powerful that it almost makes the man of Jin feel like he is in a dream. !

Jin Xuanzong saw that his Dajin Kingdom could not beat Genghis Khan's Mongolian iron cavalry, so he had no choice but to send envoys to agree to Genghis Khan's harsh conditions in the second year of his accession to the throne, that is, the second year of Zhenyou. The princess Qiguo, the daughter of King Wei Zhao, plus [-] boys and girls were dedicated to Genghis Khan, and three thousand pieces of embroidered clothes, three thousand horses, and countless gold, silver and jewels were compensated to Mongolia. Bing withdrew from Juyongguan, which finally allowed him to breathe a sigh of relief.

Seeing that Zhongdu (now Beijing) is too close to Mongolia, Jin Xuanzong didn't want to be beaten to the bottom of his capital by the Mongolian army twice in three days, and live a life of fear, so he adopted some timid and fearful people from the court. On the suggestion of the dead, regardless of the opposition of many courtiers, he decided to move the capital to Bianliang, the ancient capital of the Northern Song Dynasty by the Yellow River.

But he only moved from Zhongdu to Bianliang on the front foot, and then angered Genghis Khan on the back foot. The reason for Genghis Khan was that he asked for peace on the one hand, but moved the capital to Bianliang on the other. The Great Jin Kingdom captured the central capital not long after, cutting off the connection between the Central Plains of the Great Jin Kingdom and Liaodong, and the damned Puxian Wannu immediately declared himself emperor in Liaodong. Poor Dajin Kingdom, the territory shrunk overnight Almost half of it!

But in any case, now that he is staying in Bianliang City, he is finally a little far away from Mongolia. Now he can finally feel a little relieved, but he doesn't know that these two actions of his pushed the Kingdom of Jin In the situation of extinction, you must know that once the central capital is lost, the Hebei plain is flat, and the cavalry of the Mongolian army can come and go freely in Hebei and other places in the Dajin Kingdom. The country was re-placed in the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty a hundred years ago, completely forgetting how the Dajin Kingdom destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty and occupied the land north of Jianghuai in the Northern Song Dynasty!

Moreover, the abandonment of Zhongdu completely made the Dajin Kingdom lose its ability to control the Liaodong area in the north. This matter can be said to be the most stupid thing he has ever done in his life.

After he moved the capital to Bianliang, he was angry when he thought of the things Xixia had done when they were repaired by the Mongols in the Dajin Kingdom. Last year, he called the ministers to discuss punishing Xixia. , but it caused opposition from the Xuanfu Department of Shaanxi, and he finally had to give up, but he couldn't swallow this breath, so finally at the beginning of the year, he adopted the suggestions of some ministers, made another stupid move, and decided to launch a war against Xixia. Qingshan Nu, the general manager of Qingyang, left Huai'an Village, and Wanyan Hulu, the governor of Huanzhou, left Huanzhou.Charged Wanyan Gou'er with arriving at Xiguan Fort in Lanzhou to cover up Xixia soldiers in Ami Bay.

Originally, he wanted to use this war against Xixia to repair the Xixia Kingdom, a small country that once surrendered to their Dajin, but after the war, he discovered that their Dajin Kingdom is no longer the same martial arts as when they just wiped out Daliao. The Great Jin Kingdom is now in the world, and the army of the Great Jin Kingdom is no longer what it used to be. To deal with a small Xixia Kingdom, they have been fighting since July until now, and they have not been able to take down many Xixia Kingdoms. The land, on the contrary, lost troops and lost generals. After the battle report was sent to Bianliang, it can be said to be terrible.

Jin Xuanzong is so depressed now!And this is not counted. Since the Mongols invaded the south, they have burned, killed and looted many times in Hebei, Shandong and other places. However, the financial difficulties of the Dajin Kingdom had to increase the exploitation of the people in various places. As a result, the Han people in Shandong and other places One after another, Yang An'er in Yizhou rebelled. Because he was wearing a red coat, he called himself the Red Coat Army. Then Li Fu and Li Quan rebelled because their mother and brother were killed by the rebel army. They rebelled and formed the three most powerful armies of the Red Coat Army, except for their three soldiers and horses.

After the Mongols withdrew north, although Jin Xuanzong sent San Anzhen, the most elite servant of the flower hat army in his hand, to Shandong to suppress the Red Coat Army, and also achieved some results, defeating Yang An'er's rebel army consecutively, and Betrayed by the traitor, the big leader Yang An'er was killed.

At the same time, not long after, Liu Erzu, the leader of the rebel army, was also killed, and even Li Quan was almost killed by their Jin army. The battle situation seemed to be improving, but it was not able to extinguish the Han rebel army in Shandong. After this year, although Yang An'er was dead , but not all the soldiers and horses under his command were dispersed. His younger sister Yang Miaozhen continued to lead the army and fought against the army of Pu San Anzhen. When the army confronted, Li Quan led the army and joined forces with Yang Miaozhen, became a husband and wife, and retreated to the East China Sea, once again gaining momentum.

After the Mongolian army captured Zhongdu (now Beijing), in the autumn of the fourth year of Zhenyou, Sanmohe Batulu led the cavalry to attack Guan and Shaanxi via Xixia, and made a tentative attack on Bianjing, the new capital of the Jin Dynasty.In August, the Mongolian army entered Fu (now Fu County, Shaanxi), Yan (now Yan'an, Shaanxi), and attacked Fangzhou (now Huangling, Shaanxi).In October, Tongguan was taken, and Jin Anxi Jiedu envoy Nipangu Puluhu died in battle.The Mongolian army entered Shanzhou (now Shanxian County, Henan Province) in the east.Xu Ding, Shangshu Youcheng of Jinpingyang Province, sent [-] troops from the southeast of the river, Huai, and Yu to help from the river, and sent his servants to scatter Yuwu to lead the army to Shaanxi, and resisted it vigorously, and called Jiang (now Xinjiang, Shanxi) ), Jie (now the old Jiezhou in the southwest of Yuncheng, Shanxi), Ji (now Jixian, Shanxi), Xi (now Xixian, Shanxi), and Yu (now Yuxian, Henan) state economic strategy divisions joined forces to attack.The Mongolian army plundered from Songshan Road to Ruzhou (now Linru, Henan). In November, they went straight to Bianjing, and they were about to kill Bianliang City.

Jin Xuanzong began to panic again. He originally thought that after moving the capital to Bianliang, he could be more stable, but he didn't expect that he still couldn't live in peace here. The Mongols chased his ass and chased him outside the city of Bianjing.

So in desperation, he had to urgently order the servant Anzhen who was suppressing the bandits in Shandong to lead the elite Huamao army to return to Bianliang as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Pu San Anzhen returned quickly, and finally intercepted and defeated the Mongolian army when Sanmohe Batulu's Mongolian army reached Xinghuaying in the west of Bianjing City, while Xu Ding's The army also returned to Bianjing City, and Batulu saw that the Jin army was well-prepared, so he led the Mongolian army back to the north, and his servant San Anzhen led the troops to recover Tongguan, and finally saved the life of the Dajin Kingdom.

The emperor Jin Xuanzong is really useless!Surrounded by these annoying things all day, it is difficult to be clean for two days. Seeing the situation in Dajin Kingdom, Mongolia cannot defeat it. If this continues, it will be destroyed by Mongolia sooner or later. It started to come alive.

"Your Majesty Qizuo, Shangshu Youcheng Shuhu Gaoqi is begging to see the Holy Majesty!" Just as Jin Xuanzong was having a headache, a servant ran into the palace to report to him.

(This paragraph may be depressing to read, but this is something that has to be explained. After all, readers are not very familiar with this period of history. If you want to continue writing, you must have some preparations, so that everyone can understand this first. A piece of historical environment of the Kingdom of Jin. If you have a better understanding of the causes of the Song and Jin wars in the future, you won’t find it incredible or too abrupt when you read it! So please don’t give up and read on because of this. Thank you for the cold wind Supported!)