She was worried.
Worry about seeing the things you least want to see.
She was even more worried that she could neither influence Mr. Ning's thoughts nor successfully protect Mr. Ning. She...
"Well, actually what the princess said makes sense. If you think about it carefully, the conditions I proposed are indeed a bit ill-considered."
ah?
Zhou Jingxian did not wait for Ning Wushuang to blame her. Instead, she heard him reflecting and said urgently: "Mr. Ning, you are not wrong. What is wrong is..."
"What's wrong is that I was too reckless. It's difficult for Princess Xian to be caught in the middle. Since His Majesty plans to give another reward, then just like Ping'an Wine, I will give you the recipe for making colored glaze. The Ning family can also How about firing your own colored glaze and using it for other purposes, but not participating in the sale?"
ah?
Zhou Jingxian nodded confusedly: That's good, but in this case, wouldn't the Ning family be giving away their annual income of tens of millions to the royal family?
"Mr. Ning, why don't I go to Grandpa Huang to discuss it so that the Ning family can sell some colored glaze every year?"
If the Ning family is given 10% of the production quantity, I believe Grandpa Huang will not be stingy.
Don't!
Ning Wuyang was afraid that Zhou Jingxian would storm into the palace and overturn his plans, so he stood in front of Zhou Jingxian with a quick step.
"Princess, wait a minute. Your Majesty has already made a decision on this matter. If you go again, you will only annoy him. Just do as I say. The Ning family does not sell colored glaze but only uses colored glaze."
Just use it or not sell it?
Zhou Jingxian glanced at Ning Wuyu, who was always holding the Green Dragon Sword.
Look at Xiao Yunfei holding the sword again.
It is hard to imagine how many glazed ornaments the Ning family, with its prosperous martial arts, could consume.
But she also knew that Mr. Ning didn't want to embarrass her, and her eyes couldn't help but blush: "Mr. Ning, I have wronged you this time."
"It's not a matter of grievance. I'm still waiting for your Majesty's reward."
Ning Wuyan's submissive behavior made Zhou Jingxian feel even more aggrieved for him.
I decided that the next time I went to see Grandpa Huang, I would have to fight for some more benefits for the Ning family.
But now.
The most important thing is to forge the ironware for firing the colored glaze first.
With Ning Wuhuang's previous announcement that he wanted to forge weapons and kitchen utensils as an excuse, he could justly transport the forged utensils into the princess' mansion.
Zhou Jingxian took advantage of the unoccupied Prime Minister's Mansion next door and mixed 500 kilograms of refined iron into the wood when transporting wood to the wing to build the "kitchen".
Wait until evening.
The simple "kitchen" has been set up.
Zhou Qian also specially sent a trustworthy inspector from the Ministry of Industry to learn how to make colored glaze.
Faced with this behavior of waiting to pick peaches, Zhou Jingxian felt angry and simply handed over all the dirty work to them.
Just let Ning Wuyan be the hands-off shopkeeper and forcefully order them to do things.
"Mr. Ning is injured and should not exercise strenuously."
"Mr. Ning made the drawings. Just follow the drawings. If there are any mistakes, please correct them. Mr. Ning does not need to watch them in front of the boiler."
"Mr. Ning, the doctor is here. They can forge ironware themselves. Let's check for injuries first."
Officials from the Ministry of Industry had also worked with Zhou Jingxian for a few days, and this was the first time they felt Princess Xian's bad temper.
Ning Wuyan didn't stop Zhou Jingxian from losing his temper.
After all, he couldn't tell Zhou Jingxian that in fact, he only raised the conditions to bargain.
We can only let these officials from the Ministry of Industry, who will receive benefits in the future, help to receive the benefits.
The brightly lit burning room in Princess Xian's mansion was not hidden.
soon.
Rumors spread in the capital that Princess Xian had demolished the garden in order to prevent Ning Wu from being acclimatized and eating hometown dishes every day. She also occupied a piece of land in the Prime Minister's Mansion next door to build a new kitchen for Ning Wu and started extensive construction work. .
Not only was the entire princess's palace busy working on this matter, but they also deliberately used public and private interests to call in the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry to help design and build it.
For a while.
Many memorials about Princess Shenxian's abuse of power for personal gain flew like snowflakes onto the low table in Shangyu's study room.
Zhou Qian casually opened a few books and saw a few officials who were not from the Jin Dynasty. After approving "read", he opened the drawer of the short table.
Two yellow leather-bound books were placed in the drawer. On the pen cover, one had "ten" written on it and the other had "fourteen" written on it.
Zhou Qian picked up the thread-bound book with "ten" written on it and added the new name according to the memorial he just saw. After that, a stern look flashed in his cloudy eyes.
"Prince Jin, Prince Jin, your hands are getting longer and longer. I thought that Prince Kang had gained the upper hand, but now you are evenly matched, but I underestimated you."
Even the ministers of the Ministry of Personnel have become the servants of the Jin Dynasty. No wonder the officials in various prefectures who are dependent on the Jin Dynasty have become more popular after experiencing the great purge in Jiangnan Province.
However, this minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs came from a noble family, and his ancestors had never taken sides when the power was settled. Why did he prefer the Jin Palace?
Thinking of this, Zhou Qian drew a red line on the name of the Minister of Civil Affairs and made a note of "inspection".
"Maybe I'm just anxious for justice and worried that girl Jingxian will go astray."
Having said that.
Zhou Qian flipped through the memorial again, but did not see the name of Xie Changan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
"Xie Aiqing is quite calm. Could it be that he guessed something?"
The Xie family is loyal and good, so they are not afraid even if they guess it.
But the more this happens, the more officials who have nothing to do with the matter are shown to be too eager to suppress Jingxian, which is why they come out to make so many mistakes.
Zhou Qian didn't even look at it. He continued to mark these memorials as "read" and then piled them in the corner.
…
At night.
After finishing a bowl of cold-repelling soup, Ning Wuyan sat on the soft cushion, looking at the busy silhouettes on the window, and still thinking about which style of colored glaze to make first when the iron tools for firing were forged.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, so you should start with something simple.
But considering Hua Shi's health, he planned to challenge it.
Make glasses and observation glasses first.
Judging from the glass lamps on the market, the craftsmanship was not up to his needs, so he had to go back to old school and create his own glass-blowing process.
Like a sugar blower.
In fact, the technique is not bad, the most important thing is the raw materials used to make colored glaze.
There is a mineral deposit rich in quartzite on the Guannai Road. These ores were originally developed not for making colored glaze, but to add quartzite to the edges of the earthen pots and tea cups to form iron tires, and then build the teacups out of the kiln. Sometimes, it can be inlaid with gold and silver edges.
This edge-buttoning process can not only turn porcelain and other objects that are exquisitely made but have become discarded due to edge errors into new handicrafts after being edged, but can also double the value of earthen pots and tea cups, but it is mainly expensive. In terms of craftsmanship and subsequent addition of grains, due to its large output and small dosage, the quartzite is less circulated than the saltpeter from Kangwang's Lingnan fiefdom, and the price is also very cheap.
"This mine is a private mine bought by the Royal Qiao family from others. The output of development is not much every year. Recently, I lost my position as an imperial merchant. The business with Jiangnan Porcelain Manufacturing Co., Ltd. should also be discontinued. Spend five If you pay ten thousand taels for such a semi-abandoned mine, you should be able to buy it.”
Mineral deposits are generally not allowed to be developed by private individuals, but the Qiao family is an imperial businessman.
And as long as it is not gold, silver, iron ore and other mineral deposits that are related to the lifeblood of Daxing, the royal family will also give some benefits to the people below.
Although the Ning family was not an imperial merchant, they had the support of the old emperor. He bought the quartz mine and would produce colored glaze at a cheaper cost in the future.
The old emperor did not know how to eat alone, and even after eating fat meat, he was not even given a mouthful of broth.
"It doesn't seem right to knock on doors in the middle of the night to buy mines. If I go there in person, people will kill me. I'd better let Dynasty and Ma Yang do it for me."
