In fact, glass was not hand-fired in the Tang Dynasty.
If Li Caichen had sent these glass bead dragonfly eyes two months earlier, they would have been amazed.
Because I have to say that the craftsmanship of this dragonfly eye is really good, the concentric circle pattern inside is very beautiful, and the colors are colorful and dazzling.
If Li Shimin hadn't had a few bottles of wine sent by Tang Ping, he would have thought this thing was quite amazing.
But compared to those wine bottles, this thing is nothing.
It's just that he didn't want to expose his connection with Tang Ping to the court officials that day. After all, many people in Chang'an knew about Tang Ping selling wine at Wangshu Tower, so they didn't reveal it.
Now Tang Ping takes this glass bead as a return gift, which is exactly what he wants.
I have the things you regard as treasures, and they are just toys for children to play with!
"Asking the craftsmen in the palace to build a gorgeous box cannot be disrespectful of etiquette!"
"Here!"
Soon it was time for the Tang Dynasty officials to invite envoys from various countries to dinner.
This time, the Tang Dynasty began to have frequent trade contacts with neighboring countries. Except for the Turks, who had just fought with the Tang Dynasty in the northwest, envoys from other countries came.
The envoys from each country presented the gifts they brought when they met, and today's dinner treat was a return gift from the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, everyone's trade content has basically been negotiated. After the meal is finished, it is time for the envoys from various countries to return home and start transporting things for trading.
However, in order to deceive others, Datang traded not only grain, but also many other local specialties.
Soon everyone in the envoy was sitting in their seats, and Li Caichen was even more satisfied.
Now that the news of the treasure sent by the Miao people has spread in Chang'an, he is waiting to see what the return gift will be today.
"It's so boring to eat like this!" Li Yuanji said boredly, sitting next to Li Jiancheng.
When it comes to eating, it has to be at Tang Ping's place where several people gather around a big round table and enjoy eating whatever they want.
In this way, each case is separated into several cases, and you can only eat whatever dishes are served, whether you like them or not.
Licking his mouth, he turned to Li Jiancheng and said, "Brother, you don't know, they happened to be eating spicy hotpot that day when I went there. The taste... tsk tsk, it's better than eating hot pot!"
Li Jiancheng rolled his eyes at him: "Next time you go out to eat alone, believe it or not, I will hit you?"
"Hehe, brother, you are not the fourth brother, you can't beat me!" Li Yuanji said with a playful smile: "Besides, I can beg my dear that day. I can do the shameful thing of begging for things from my juniors by myself. Where can I drag my eldest brother with me?"
As the two of them were talking, a waiter had already started serving the dishes.
Li Yuanji took a few sips and said disdainfully: "The dishes made with this soup are still not as refreshing as stir-fried vegetables."
As long as you learn the principles of cooking, the rest is up to everyone's exploration.
The cook in his palace learned how to stir-fry from Xiaoluo, and also hired a blacksmith to make a wok, so most of the dishes he eats at home these days are stir-fried.
He was not used to this cooking method of boiling only water.
Li Jiancheng felt the same way, and the wine served today was the wine he usually drank, and it was not as good as the wine they got from Tang Ping's place.
It's just that they are the hosts, how can they show that the dish is not delicious during the banquet?
So he lightly kicked Li Yuanji a few times and used his eyes to remind him to restrain himself.
However, the chefs in the Tang Palace can basically represent the highest level of cooking skills in this era, except for Tang Ping, an outlier.
Therefore, the envoys from various countries were very satisfied with the food.
At this time, many envoys had begun to secretly look at Li Caichen and his Miao Man envoys.
Because although the things they came to donate were expensive, they could only be bought with money.
The return gift from the Tang Palace was probably something of higher value. However, the Miao people heard that a very great treasure was given as a gift, so they were also curious about what the return gift from the Tang Palace would be.
Sure enough, after the meal, the banquet was removed.
The return gift from the Tang Palace came, but the envoys from each country all got a gift list, and they didn't know what the Tang Palace had returned.
Only they themselves know, and they can just pull them back when they return to China tomorrow.
When we got to the Miaoman side, things were a little different.
A waiter stood at the front holding a gorgeous box.
These envoys all poked their heads to see what kind of treasure it was.
This is not the first time something like this has happened. To put it in layman’s terms, this is just a fight for treasure between two countries.
I will give you a treasure. If you cannot return a similar one, you will lose face.
"His Majesty Dragonfly Eyes liked the glass beads presented by Prince Miao Man a few days ago very much. Today he gave me a colorful glass bead as a token of his gratitude."
The one who spoke was Doulu Kuan. After he said this, he gave a signal, and the two servants beside him went down with the box in their hands.
At this time, countless pairs of eyes in the entire hall were following the movement of the box.
Finally, when the two chamberlains walked up to Li Caichen's Miao Man envoy, one of the chamberlains opened the box.
Many people with bad eyesight squinted their eyes. When Cai Yue saw a small bead lying in the big ornate box, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
You must know that in current rumors, the Miao people donated a dragonfly eye the size of a baby's fist.
Just when they felt disappointed, the mechanism inside the box was triggered.
A small tray began to rise slowly under the glass bead.
At this time, all the large candles as thick as a child's arm were burning in the main hall, and the entire main hall could be said to be brilliantly lit.
As soon as the bead rose, under the illumination of the light, these envoys finally saw that it was extraordinary.
Li Caichen, who was the first to bear the brunt, was stunned and stunned.
Since their teacher Franji came to Miaoman with glass-making technology, they have also burned a lot of glass ball ornaments, and they even went to sea with these things, and bought a lot of good things from Nanyang.
He thought he had seen a lot of glass beads, but this one in front of him was definitely the one that shocked him the most.
Just for being alien, the roundness of the beads can be described as ingenious.
Although he didn't have any instruments to measure it, he could tell by visual inspection alone that this bead, known as the colorful glass bead, was the roundest bead he had ever seen.
Not to mention the seven-color rainbow that I don’t know how to seal inside.
"This is actually the most precious treasure of our Tang Palace. Although it was given to your country, I think the prince wouldn't mind showing it to the envoys from other countries here, right?"
Doulu Kuan's devilish voice sounded in Li Caichen's ears.
