Wooden crates were brought into the Zui Xian Lou.
At first, the diners paid little attention.
But when the crates were opened and their contents were placed on the raised platform,
Someone casually glanced, and then was stunned.
Such beautiful glaze!
Look! Doesn't the glaze resemble a fierce tiger?
Next to the fierce tiger, there's also an Arhat!
As discussions like these arose, the entire Zui Xian Lou erupted as if it had exploded, and instantly the diners were all agitated.
Glaze had been seen before.
But never had anyone seen such large, such transparent pieces!
The glaze that had appeared in the past was like mist.
What appeared before people now was like water!
Treasures dazzled the eyes, and immediately a wealthy patron asked the price.
"Proprietor! How much are these glazed items?"
"These few glazed pieces will be auctioned on the twenty-fifth of the twelfth lunar month! To the highest bidder!"
Uncle Zhang stepped onto the platform and explained to the diners below.
Outside, some passersby, seeing the liveliness in Zui Xian Lou, also flocked in to find out what was happening.
Then, for the next two days, the entire Chang'an was abuzz!
Zui Xian Lou would be selling rare glazed artifacts on the twenty-fifth of the twelfth lunar month!
There were still ten days until the auction.
During these ten days, Zui Xian Lou's business was as if it had a cheat code.
Just like on its opening day.
Almost no seats were ever empty.
As soon as one table finished eating, people would rush to snatch the vacated spots.
Some wanted to get a glimpse beforehand, to prepare their funds.
More were those who had never seen glaze before, and knowing they couldn't afford it, came to admire it.
It was like in later generations, when a top-tier sports car, wherever it went, would surely attract countless onlookers.
Even if they couldn't afford it, having experienced it up close was still capital for bragging later.
The Five Great Clans and Seven Noble Houses, no, it had now become the Four Great Clans and Six Noble Houses.
The branches of the Zheng clan of Xingyang, though they had been trying to cause trouble for Fang Er, to avenge the previous clan head and thus secure their own position as the new head,
Had never found a suitable opportunity.
Just as they were about to make a move, thousands of disaster victims poured into Fang Family Village.
For this reason, Li Er had even dispatched Yuchi Baolin and Cheng Chumo to maintain order.
After Fang Er and they left, other imperial guards were stationed in Fang Family Village.
Finally, when Fang Er returned from Yan'an, they hadn't even figured out how to make their move.
This fellow had gone to Goguryeo again.
Unable to take revenge on Fang Er.
However, other prominent aristocratic families gave the Zheng clan no chance to breathe.
Even Zheng Tianhe, the supervisor of the Ministry of Works, had to tread carefully.
The days for other branches of the family were even worse.
The Four Great Clans and Six Noble Houses, aside from Li Er, all found Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde.
To inquire about the glazed items.
But these two had no idea what was going on.
Confused, they went to Fang Family Village to find Fang Er.
Fang Er was working on something at the lathe.
He heard from the attendant outside the workshop that Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde had arrived.
"Why have the two elder brothers come?"
Fang Er invited them into the workshop.
It was Yuchi Jingde's first time visiting.
Seeing the lathe in the workshop, he was full of curiosity.
"Isn't it because of that glazed auction you arranged? Damn it, the Cui clan, the Li clan, the Wang clan, the Lu clan have all sent people to ask if they could buy them privately. But damn it, you're doing this, and neither Big Black nor I know about it, so we had to come ask you."
Cheng Yaojin found a chair, sat down, and complained to Fang Er.
"Hahaha, so that's what it is. Just tell them directly, whoever pays more for those items gets them."
Fang Er said with a laugh.
With a hum, the tool on the lathe suddenly began to spin.
It startled Yuchi Jingde.
"Brother, what's happening?"
He quickly pointed at the lathe and asked Fang Er.
It turned out that out of curiosity, the fellow had pressed the lathe's switch.
Fang Er was startled and quickly went to turn it off.
"It's nothing, nothing."
"No, why did this thing suddenly start moving?"
Yuchi Jingde's eyes widened as he pointed at the tool that had just stopped.
"This thing is electric. Elder brother pressed the switch just now, so of course it moved."
Fang Er shrugged.
Finally, in his helplessness, he explained what electricity was to him.
As a result, his explanation left Yuchi Jingde bewildered.
What are stators, rotors, electromagnetism, and the like.
Damn it! He didn't understand a single word.
So, he stopped asking.
The three of them came out of the workshop.
The Conqueror Army, not having received orders from Li Shimin,
Was still here, conducting training.
Cheng Yaojin had always coveted their Dragon Tooth sniper rifles.
Back in Beiping, because the two armies were constantly engaged in battle, he hadn't found an opportunity.
This time, he could finally get his hands on one.
He asked Fang Er for a Dragon Tooth.
Fang Er wasn't paying attention for a moment, and this fellow directly stood there and fired a shot.
Hearing the gunshot, Fang Er turned his head and looked.
Damn it!
Is this not human?
The massive recoil!
This fellow seemed completely unaffected.
"Brother Cheng, doesn't your shoulder hurt?"
Fang Er asked, pointing at his shoulder with his finger.
"Heh heh, with this little bit of force, how could it possibly hurt me!"
An idea formed in Fang Er's mind.
"You two elder brothers play around first, I'm going to make something, and I'll be right back."
After saying that, he plunged back into the workshop.
An hour later.
Fang Er emerged, carrying a different kind of gun.
The barrel was only fifty centimeters long.
But it was much thicker than the Dragon Tooth's barrel.
A bore of a full two centimeters!
This thing could already be considered a cannon!
Fang Er had spent more than half of this hour working on the barrel.
It was milled from a solid steel ingot using a drill bit on the lathe.
It adopted the same firing and loading mechanism as the Dragon Tooth.
But the bullets were completely different!
The bullets used in this gun, Fang Er made them into shot!
A brass tube five centimeters long served as the cartridge case.
The gunpowder was carefully compressed by Fang Er until it was very dense.
At one end of the cartridge case was a paper tube, three centimeters long.
It was filled entirely with steel shot!
More than twenty pellets!
The bullet was loaded into the gun's chamber.
Since the cartridge case had no base, it could be directly fired.
And the ductility of copper was excellent.
When the gunpowder was ignited and expanded, it clung tightly to the barrel and wouldn't be blown out.
After firing, the breech was opened, and a small hook attached to the gun body
Was used to extract the empty cartridge case. After reloading, it could be fired a second time.
In terms of power, this thing could be considered a hand cannon!
He handed the hand cannon to Cheng Yaojin.
After Fang Er briefly introduced its usage, Cheng Yaojin became interested.
He took the hand cannon, which weighed over twenty pounds.
He opened the breech, loaded an eight-centimeter-long bullet, and closed the breech.
He raised it and fired a shot at the target in the distance.
Boom!
Cheng Yaojin wasn't paying attention for a moment and staggered back two steps.
More than twenty steel pellets spewed out from the muzzle, then quickly dispersed!
The target dozens of paces away was directly riddled with holes!
"Hahahaha! This is exciting! I like it!"