"Oh my god, this thing couldn't really be made by humans, right?"
"I don't think so. Look at this seven-color iridescence in this glass bead, it's completely natural. How can it be within the reach of human beings?"
"The Miao Man also wanted to see Tang's jokes, but they didn't expect the joke to be themselves, hahaha!"
"Sure enough, we can't underestimate Tang Palace's heritage!"
"Hmph, the Tang State occupied Chang'an in the Sui Dynasty, and I don't know how many good treasures it got from the past treasury!"
The chamberlain held the box and walked around the hall, which attracted a series of secret whispers from the envoys from various countries.
Some are shocked, some are joking, and some are sour.
Li Caichen turned to look at his teacher Franji, still looking in disbelief.
"Perhaps this was not made by manpower!" Franji was confident that the glass-making technology he now mastered was the most advanced in the world.
At this time in the Tang Dynasty, no craftsmen had ever been heard of mastering the art of glass firing, let alone firing such ingenious glass.
And he believed that if they brought this glass bead back, if it was really made by man, they would be able to imitate it.
Only Li Yuanji looked at the envoys from various countries in the hall and snickered secretly, a bunch of country bumpkins, these are just toys for my nephew's apprentice.
In fact, Tang Ping had thought about it when he took out this thing. He was not afraid of the Miao barbarians studying this glass bead at all.
Not to mention whether the technology they currently have can be developed, but how much manpower, material and financial resources will be consumed in the research process?
Even if they really research it, what's the use? Sell it as jewelry?
He wants to bring hundreds or even thousands of these things to this era. It's really just like playing, but it's much easier than pulling potatoes.
If the other party really wants to sell this kind of thing as a treasure, he can make a fortune, or he can lower the price of this thing to his family members.
After walking around the hall for a week, the bead was finally delivered to Li Caichen again.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Caichen knelt on one knee and respectfully took the box with both hands.
This face is gone, but fortunately I can get such a treasure, at least I still have some face.
On the surface, this meal seemed to be a great time for the guests and the host.
The next day, these envoys began to return home one after another, and then they would bring the things they had discussed with Datang to trade with Datang.
This time, the Tang Dynasty basically took out all the money. The grain in these transactions can at least ensure that after the locust plague comes, the people of the Tang Dynasty will not starve to death even if there is no harvest.
Tang Ping from Shanghe Village is not idle either. The chickens, ducks and piglets bought for him by shopkeeper Liu from Bazhenlou have already arrived.
Now, people in Shanghe Village who are capable of raising these poultry and livestock have set up sheds.
One by one, they are lining up to pick up the cubs.
They only need to put their fingerprints on the column of their names and the cubs they are receiving in Luyi's book, and they can take away the cubs assigned to them.
If there are many people in the family, they usually get one or two pigs.
Those with few people, like Lao Zhoutou, who only had him and one grandson at home, adopted a few chickens and ducks.
When the chickens and ducks were young, Lao Zhoutou's grandson could dig in the soil and dig out earthworms or catch locust larvae to feed them when he wasn't in class.
When they grow older, you can put them outside and let them find food on their own.
The period for chickens and ducks is half a year, and the period for pigs is one year.
When the time comes, however much they receive, half will be handed over to Tang Ping, and the other half will belong to them.
As for whether to sell them for money, kill them for meat, or keep them for laying eggs, that is their own business.
Usually the eggs laid by chickens and ducks belong to themselves.
Such a good thing has never been heard of, let alone seen.
Therefore, the villagers in Shanghe Village are very active.
"Wang Tieniu, can you bring two pigs, ten chickens and ten ducks to feed them?"
"Don't worry, Mrs. Luyi. I can do all the work in the fields by myself. My wife and her three children will be able to harvest pig grass and feed the chickens and ducks. There will be no problem."
Lu Yi just reminded me casually, originally because she was afraid that some people would blindly receive more and then not be able to take care of them.
However, Wang Tieniu has always been the best worker in the village, and their family has a large population, and their three sons can also help with the work, so she agreed when Wang Tieniu said he was capable.
Wang Tieniu pressed his fingerprints and received pigs from Lao Cui and chickens and ducks from Lao Du. He held a piglet in one hand and the other, while his two sons happily walked home holding a basket of chickens and ducks.
On the way, I met other villagers from Shanghe Village who came to adopt cubs, and they didn’t forget to show off that they were the ones who had adopted the most cubs.
When he got home, he threw the piglets into the pigpen and settled down the chickens and ducks. Wang Tieniu felt full of confidence in his future life.
Think about it a few months ago, the whole family still had nothing to eat, so they relied on selling their own efforts to make some money to maintain the family's life.
At that time, I even considered sending my eldest son to be an apprentice to earn a living.
As a result, after the proprietor came, not only did the family have enough to eat in a short period of time, but they also raised chickens, ducks and pigs.
Not to mention that the two little kids can still read and write at the proprietor's place.
"Baby, you guys must not forget the kindness of the proprietor, you know?" Turning his head, Wang Tieniu looked at his sons with a serious face.
If you help the proprietor raise pigs and chickens, you can get half of it. To them, this is simply a supreme kindness.
You want to know what they think they need from raising pigs, chickens and ducks? It's nothing more than putting some effort into killing pigweed and digging up worms to feed.
And strength is their least valuable thing, but it can be exchanged for meat in half a year or a year.
"Don't worry, Aye, we're awake!"
"Yes!" If it were normal times, Wang Tieniu might be worried, but two of the three children here are studying with Tang Ping, and the older one will follow the two younger ones every night to learn what they learned during the day. .
He didn't know what Tang Ping had taught him, but what he could feel was that the children were becoming more and more sensible.
He touched his youngest son's head and said, "Go ahead and feed the locusts caught yesterday to the chickens and ducks. The more they eat, the more food we will harvest."
In other places, the Locust God may still be feared, and many people may even resist hunting and killing locusts, thinking that offending the Locust God will only lead to greater disasters.
But in Shanghe Village, Tang Ping said that if they want to eliminate this thing, then they must all die. This is not negotiable!
Now the children in the village are going crazy catching bugs. The chickens and ducks can't be eaten all, so they kill them, dry them in the sun, and mix them with pigweed to feed the pigs.
