Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

"Your Highness, what is the important matter that has called us together today?" Li Shanhuai stood up and asked with a bow.

Li Chengqian saw Su Chen squinting his eyes, as if he was dozing off, and smiled: "Master Li, these colored glass are small gifts from me and the Marquis to you. You can pick whatever you like, no need to be polite."

Such precious colored glass is given away as soon as you say it? And you can choose it at will?

"Your Highness, we don't want to receive gifts without merit. How dare we accept such precious things from Your Highness and the Marquis? This is absolutely not allowed!"

What Li Shanhuai said was exactly the same as Wang Kaishan's. They all thought that this glass was very expensive.

Others in the hall also nodded. Although their family was rich, they still dared not accept colored glass worth ten thousand taels of gold.

"Everyone, to be honest, this colored glaze... the Marquis calls it glass, and it was made by the Marquis and my fourth brother, the King of Wei.

And the production cost is extremely low, how can it be worth a million gold? Not to mention precious things.

And the raw material is sand." Li Chengqian told the truth.

Everyone opened their mouths wide when they heard it. Their family had bought this valuable colored glaze.

For a moment, everyone felt that they were cheated. The colored glaze they bought for thousands or tens of thousands of taels of gold was not as good as this glass in appearance. It was actually made of sand?

"Your Highness, may I ask if what you just said is true?" Lu Changfeng asked excitedly.

Li Chengqian did not blame Lu Changfeng for his doubts, and answered seriously:

"What I said is absolutely true!"

"Your Highness, the profiteers in the Western Regions actually sold such inferior colored glass to our Tang Dynasty for 120,000 taels of gold. Why don't we use their own methods to sell it to them at a high price?"

Lu Changfeng felt that he had been cheated by those profiteers before, and now he wanted to cheat them back.

After listening, Li Chengqian thought that what Lu Changfeng said was a good idea at first, but when he thought about it, most of the colored glass came from the small country of Persia in the Western Regions. Would they buy this glass?

"Master Lu is wrong. Even in Persia, the colored glass is expensive. Compared with the price sold in the Tang Dynasty, it is only a few dozen taels of gold."

Master Zheng Guang of the Zheng family said thoughtfully.

"Master Zheng, is the news reliable?" Lu Changfeng was refuted, but he was not angry but more excited.

Zheng Guang nodded and said slowly:

"In the first year of Zhenguan, our clan sent a caravan of 50 people to Persia, hoping to buy glass at a low price and sell it in the Tang Dynasty.

But we never thought that although the glass was popular in Persia, it was also very expensive. In addition, the long journey was very risky, so we gave up."

Lu Changfeng smiled and said, "Brother Zheng, if what you said is true, then this matter will have great potential!"

At this point, Su Chen, who was squinting at the side, understood.

"Brother Lu means..." Zheng Guang and other family heads also thought of the key.

"Family head, family head... His Majesty is here!"

Suddenly, the servants shouted anxiously outside the door!

"Huh? Why is my father here?" Li Chengqian said to himself in surprise, and Su Chen also opened his eyes and smiled:

"Prince, let's go and greet His Majesty!"

Li Shimin and others came to the Wang family mansion, but did not go directly into the mansion, of course, they did not wait for someone to report.

Instead, he waited for the Wang family to go out to greet him. This was etiquette.

Sometimes when Li Shimin went to the homes of his trusted ministers, he would go directly into the mansion without waiting for someone to inform him to greet him.

A group of people in the hall followed the crown prince Li Chengqian and Su Chen and walked out of the mansion.

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Li Shimin was in the carriage. This time, Li Junxian led a team of 500 black armor soldiers.

However, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were in casual clothes.

This was also the first time that Li Shimin visited the aristocratic family mansion after he ascended the throne. If Su Chen and Li Chengqian had not been there, he would not have come to the aristocratic family mansion.

Li Chengqian and Su Chen rushed to Li Shimin's carriage.

"Your son respectfully welcomes the emperor!"

Su Chen didn't know how to welcome the emperor to get off the car, nor did he know what to say. He just bowed and saluted like Li Chengqian.

Li Shimin slowly leaned out of the carriage and saw that Su Chen actually bowed and saluted like Li Chengqian, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Well, no need to bow!"

It's not easy. This is the first time that Su Chen bowed to Li Shimin.

Li Chengqian and Su Chen stepped forward to help Li Shimin get off the carriage.

"We welcome the emperor!" All the people in the Wang family came out and bowed in unison with the other family heads.

"No need to bow!" Li Shimin raised his left hand and signaled everyone to stand up.

"I didn't know that your majesty was coming. I didn't welcome you from afar. Please forgive me, your majesty!" Wang Kaishan, the head of the Wang family, apologized. This is a necessary etiquette.

"It's okay. I came here suddenly on a whim. Please enter the mansion!" Li Shimin saw that there were too many people outside and it was not a good influence.

"Thank you, your majesty! Your majesty, please!" After Wang Kaishan thanked him, everyone took the initiative to make way.Li Shimin strode towards the Wang family mansion, followed closely by Li Chengqian and the other two.

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"Everyone, continue your discussion, I will still listen."

Li Shimin sat alone in the main seat, and Wang Defa stood beside him.

Except for Empress Changsun and the emperor, no one can sit on an equal footing with the emperor, this is the rule!

Eating at a round table is another matter!

Everyone bowed to Li Shimin, and Zheng Guang continued the words that were interrupted by the servants before, and continued: "Brother Lu wants us to form a caravan and sell this glass at a high price to the Western Regions?"

"That's right, what do you think?" Lu Changfeng asked with a smile.

The heads of the families thought about the feasibility of this matter, and then nodded, agreeing to participate in the formation of the caravan.

Li Shimin only heard the result of this matter, and didn't know what they had talked about before.

He raised his hand and waved to Su Chen, indicating that Su Chen should sit in the main seat next to him and tell him about the previous discussion.

Su Chen shook his head, indicating that he would not go up, and Li Shimin glared at him angrily.

Then, Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian and pointed to the main seat next to him.

Li Chengqian did not dare to shake his head and refused, so he went up obediently.

He whispered to Li Shimin about the whole matter about the colored glaze.

Mainly, although colored glaze was popular in the place where it was produced, it was expensive, only a few dozen taels of gold cheaper than the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin was very surprised to hear this. He always thought that the reason why colored glaze was expensive was because it was rare, but he did not expect that it was so expensive in Persia.

"Everyone, according to what the people in my family's caravan said before, the utensils used by the nobles of the small countries in the Western Regions are mostly colored glaze, and they are not good at porcelain.

If this glass is made into daily utensils and sold to them for a hundred taels of gold, the profit can be imagined."

Zheng Guang remembered that his clansmen had described that in those countries in the Western Regions, even the screens were made of colored glaze, and they did not circulate copper coins in their country, and they traded in gold and silver.

Those Hu merchants who do business in the Tang Dynasty will eventually exchange copper coins for gold and silver, and it is also convenient to carry.

At this time, an elder of the Wang family stood up and said:

"A hundred taels of gold? Everyone, wait for me to take out the colored glaze that the Wang family has treasured for two years and show it to you. It cost 5,800 taels of gold to buy it."

Not long after, the elder of the Wang family really took out a glass product in his hand, gray and white like a beast like a lion.

It is indeed better than the small vase worth a hundred taels of gold in Li Shimin's imperial study.

"Oh? It's this glass lion. Wang Zhen, the former head of the Wang family, bought it for 5,800 taels of gold. I still remember it."

Li Shanhuai of the Li family remembered it at a glance. He also wanted to buy it at that time.

The old man of the Wang family handed the glass lion to Wang Kaishan and said with a smile: "I couldn't tell the quality of this glass before. I thought it was natural. I didn't expect it to be fired."

"Look at this glass now. There are many spots on it.

It must be sand!"

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