It must be said that the Western Turks at this time were indeed very powerful, they dominated the Western Regions, north to Jinshan (the Altai Mountains of later generations), west to the West Sea (the Caspian Sea of later generations), all the countries west of Yumen Pass were attached to the Western Turks, the army of the Western Turks was also very powerful, the Western Turks were famous for wrought iron since ancient times, and once sold iron to the East Rome to show off, and the armor and weapons were well-made.Unlike the image of nomads who come and go like the wind in the general impression, and the nomadic people with light clothes and horns and bows, most of the Turks have excellent armor and defense, and there are even a large number of armored and horse-armored images in the cultural relics.The Western Turkic cavalry not only had excellent physical protection, but they also used good iron to make a variety of weapons, such as spears, swords and bows and arrows, in battle, they could not only play the nomadic cavalry's cavalry tradition, harass and shoot with sharp bows, but also adopt high-power assault tactics such as spear charge, and in close combat, they can also use swords that sharpen iron like clay, which can be described as all-powerful, there have been Turkic warriors who "shot one person with arrows" and "stabbed six people with spears" in several battles, and slashed and killed the seventh person with swords in hand-to-hand combat. ”of the record.But no matter how powerful the empire is, if there is chaos inside, it will only be a matter of a moment if it collapses, since Mo Helu is willing to mess up the Western Turks, then Li Lu must help the field, right?
It is true that Mo Helu is a careerist and sinner of the Western Turks, but isn't the enemy of the enemy a friend?
Well, it seems that he must add fuel to Mo Helu's ambitions, oh, by the way, the Turks, especially the people of their royal family, the Ashina tribe, think that they are the descendants of the golden wolf, why don't you be a golden wolf and find a way to give it to Mo Helu?
It's no wonder that Li Lu thinks so, it's really that this Ashina and the wolf have a lot of origins, in their legends, the wolf is their old grandmother, when Ashina was wiped out by other countries, only a ten-year-old child survived.A she-wolf took him in, raised him, and matched him with another she-wolf.At this time, Ashina's enemy country learned of the existence of this boy, and sent people to kill him again, and planned to kill his she-wolf wife together, so the pregnant she-wolf fled to Jinshan, north of Gaochang Kingdom, where ten boys were born, and the offspring were bred and gradually prospered.It is for this reason that the Turkic people worship the wolf.In the legend of their great hero, the Khan of Ukos Town, it was the blue wolf who led them, and the wolf marched and the wolf stopped, and finally won the victory.Even the history books of the Han people in China have records, and the "General Dictionary" volume 197 "Turkic Shang" says: "The guards are said to be attached, and Xia Yan is also a wolf." ”"Book of Sui" and "Northern History" record Ashina as the ruler, and both have the saying that "the tooth gate builds the wolf's head, showing that it does not forget its roots".The wolf is undoubtedly the sacred totem of the Turkic people, so among the Turkic tribes, the wolf is worshipped, and every time the golden wolf head is painted on the flag, the Turkic khans also mostly like to give the wolf head to their courtiers..........
Li Lu couldn't help but have a headache when he thought of this, send a golden wolf, the Nima Turks will cast it themselves, the gold in the Western Regions is very famous, send a jade wolf?
No, jade only works in the Central Plains, and the Turkic barbarians think that jade is stone, and they don't know the goods.Li Lu has always been invincible after crossing, and for the first time, he was stumped because of gift-giving......
However, this guy has a system to do the backstage, plus thousands of years of civilization knowledge to accumulate, and soon he has an idea, since Mo Hedu, the Turkic old man, has an idea, then he might as well send a Turkic barbarian unheard of wolf to this old thing, let him think that he is the person chosen by the Tengger God, so as to speed up the pace of the old guy's assassination of Tong Yehu, oh, by the way, since it is loose, then come to a big party to send it, the wolf is everywhere, but the sweat is all over the ground, and it is good to start if you mess up yourself, Li Luke, the big fat meat of the Western Regions, has been staring at it for a long time, If you don't grasp this place, how can you safely launch the Western Expedition?
Besides, this Silk Road flowing with wealth is not coveted?
The wolf that Li Lu wants to send is not simple, this wolf, he plans to make it with glass, yes, it is a glass wolf, although the glass has a history of more than 2,000 years in the early seventh century where Li Lu lived, but because of the complicated production process, and in the hands of a very small number of Romans, the price is similar to silk, and it is also comparable to the master of gold.Whether it is the Turks or the Han people of the Tang Dynasty, they are very obsessed with glass, it is not unreasonable for so many gods to come up and make glass, this thing is just a compound after quartz sand and natural soda smelting, it is not uncommon for those who travel, of course, it is even simpler for Li Lu to hang up.One more thing to say here, many books open that there is no glass in China, in fact, this is completely a manifestation of no cultural knowledge, although the Phoenicians invented soda-lime glass around 2500 A.D. and sold it for huge profits, but our Chinese ancestors did not eat dry rice, they also made glass in the pre-Qin era, and unlike the soda-lime glass of the Western barbarians, the ancestors made lead barium glass, the advantage of lead barium glass is that the color is gorgeous, but the disadvantage is that it is fragile, Unlike soda-lime glass, it can withstand high temperatures, and lead-barium glass contains heavy metals, which is harmful to the human body, and is not suitable for tableware and tea sets, and can only be made into decorations.During the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian's "hollow journey" connected the Eastern and Western civilizations, and soda-lime glassware was introduced to China through the Silk Road.The cost of this method is very high, and the product is not refined.This is the method of processing bronze, when casting bronze, its impurities will be sintered to form glass beads, because of this, human beings have discovered glass, which shows that the glass manufacturing process of the Han Dynasty basically stayed at a more primitive level, and at the same time, Western glassmakers have generally adopted the blowing method, the cost is low, the shape of the vessel is beautiful, and the output has been greatly improved, and Alexandria, Egypt has become the center of glass exports in the world.During the Eastern Han Dynasty, China may have produced fully transparent flat glass, and Wang Chong recorded a kind of "yang sui" in the "Treatise on Balance", which can gather sunlight to make fire, which should be a kind of convex lens, but it has not yet been found in archaeology.It was not until the Northern and Southern Dynasties that soda-lime glass poured into the Central Plains in large quantities.According to the Book of Wei?
The Biography of the Great Moon Clan records: "(Northern Wei Dynasty) Taiwu (424-451 AD), the people of his country (Da Yue's) traders in the Jingshi, since Yunneng cast stone for the five-color Nao glass, so the mining in the mountains, that is, the Jingshi cast, the success, the luster is beautiful in the West.It is the edict for the palace, accommodate more than 100 people, the light and color are reflected through, the viewer sees it, is not shocked, thinks that the gods are made, since then, the Chinese distilled glass (that is, the glaze) is cheap, and people do not cherish it. ”Judging from this passage, soda-lime glass overwhelms traditional Chinese lead-barium glass in terms of beauty and inexpensiveness.However, lead barium glass was not replaced, and it soon became mainstream again, which continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty.In the traditional society, there was no group of inventors, and technical talents could only rely on the royal family and aristocracy to serve their interests.By the time of the Sui Dynasty, the royal collection of glassware was replaced with the traditional lead barium glass, just to adopt the blowing technology imported by the craftsmen of Central Asia, the craftsman He Chou because he was good at this, he actually became a "member of the outside of the cavalry squire", he blew the lead barium glass containing green, exclusively for the inner house, known as the "secret color".In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the shape of glassware was more beautiful, but the shortcomings of lead barium glass that were not temperature resistant and toxic still remained, and it was mostly used to make Buddhist utensils and ornaments.During the Northern Song Dynasty, craftsmen developed a barium-free glass formula, that is, high-lead glass, but they never broke through the limitations of tradition.They can't break through doesn't mean that the gods can't solve it, especially like Li Lu, it's easier to solve, when he counted the rescued Han slaves, he selected a lot of craftsmen who could fire glass (also the lead barium glass mentioned above) and porcelain, they were placed by Li Lu Haosheng, and went to study the noble bone china in porcelain for him.When he first explained to them, Li Lu gave them a general recipe for a bus, which he remembered very vaguely, only knowing that bone china was based on animal bone char, clay, feldspar and quartz.The most commonly used are the bones of animals such as cows, sheep, and pigs.Li Lu remembered that the stubborn John Bull in his previous life believed that 2-4-year-old calf bones were the best for bone china, and the plasticity of sheep bones was better, and they were easy to form but not as white as cow bones, and beef bones were the best raw materials, followed by sheep bones, and pig bones were the worst.He told the craftsmen everything he knew, and asked the craftsmen to ponder and experiment for themselves, and he became the big shopkeeper himself.Just as Li Lu was thinking about whether to send back those craftsmen who could burn the glass to help him burn the glass, his personal soldiers stationed in the bone china research center ran in excitedly, "Ah Re, Master Tao asked me to invite you to open the furnace, they said that this time it should be about the same!!
”Nani?
I really want to sleep, someone handed me a pillow, and something good is coming!
Li Lu became happy all of a sudden, if the bone china can be successful, while sending the glass wolf, he will send a bone china wolf to the big and small Ashina, hahahaha, think about the Ashina in order to earn a name, and hide on the side as a fisherman, this heart is happy.