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"Homing pigeon?" After listening to Liu Cong's words, several pigeon farmers looked at each other with doubts in their eyes.
"Your Majesty, what is a homing pigeon?" asked Mr. Feng, who has been raising pigeons for the longest time and has the most experience among them.
¡°Homing pigeons are pigeons specially used to carry messages, not to eat meat!¡±
"Sending a message?" Several people were even more confused this time.
¡°My lord, I really don¡¯t understand, this pigeon can still be used to send messages?¡±
"Yes, Your Majesty, the villain is stupid, please ask Your Majesty to clarify my doubts!"
"Please, Your Majesty, clear up our doubts!"
Several people asked.
"Pigeons are born with one skill, and that is to recognize their nests. Don't you know that?" Liu Cong asked rhetorically.
"This is just as the prince said, and we have also discovered it!" Mr. Feng thought for a while, "At the earliest, a Persian businessman told the villain, so the villain started to raise one on a trial basis. After about a month, he raised one The pigeon was carried hundreds of miles away. After it was released, the villain ran back quickly, only to find that the pigeon had already returned to the nest!"
"It is precisely because Mr. Feng told us this that I raised pigeons, otherwise I would be really worried that they would never come back after they fly out!" Another pigeon raiser, Mr. Chen, also said.
¡°And the Persian businessman also said that even if he takes the pigeons farther away than a hundred miles away, he can still recognize the pigeons and come back.¡± Mr. Feng added.
"Since pigeons can recognize their nests and fly back no matter how far away they are, then if you take it far away and tie the letter to the pigeon's leg, wouldn't you be able to bring it back?" Liu Cong said with a smile.
"That'sright!" Mr. Feng suddenly realized, "Your Majesty is really a man of legends, I can't wait to see you sooner!"
"This principle seems simple, but only the prince can think of it!"
These people have been doing business all year round, so they have very flexible minds. After Liu Cong's guidance, they immediately understood the reason and admired Liu Cong.
They just thought that if the pigeons could fly back, they could raise them, but they never thought that they could use the pigeons' ability to recognize the nest to send messages!
If pigeons were used to pass the ball, the speed would be many times faster! How could the prince be so smart and wise?
"Mr. Feng, if you raise carrier pigeons for my great man, if you succeed, I will not only give you a heavy reward, but I will also give you an official position in the future, so that you can be your wife and son, and honor your ancestors!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Several people all knelt down and thanked Liu Cong profusely. They never dreamed that raising pigeons would change their identities. At the same time, they secretly made up their minds to do a good job in this matter and satisfy the King of Han.
"But you should also remember that this matter of carrier pigeons is my big man's secret. It must not be spread to anyone else, otherwise you will know the consequences!" Liu Cong's voice suddenly became very stern, which made Mr. Feng and other people feel a little nervous all over their bodies. Trembling.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will guarantee with my life and fortune that I will never reveal a word!" Mr. Feng immediately swore.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, we will never leak it!"
Although they did not expect that this carrier pigeon would be used in the military to transmit information, from a business perspective, any new thing should be a secret, so they completely understood what Liu Cong said.
"Get up!" Liu Cong waved his hand.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Mr. Feng and several others stood up.
"You go down, the Minister of Justice Ma Zhong will arrange everything for you!"
"No!"
When Liu Cong came to the backyard of Prince Han's Mansion, most of the pigeons had been taken away, leaving only a few. They were selected by the three princesses. They were not only beautiful and cute, but also well-behaved.
"Husband, look, this is so beautiful, so beautiful"
"Husband, look at this mirror. It is lighter than our bronze mirror and is clearer."
"Husband, look, there is still this wine glass"
The three princesses¡¯ attention at this time has shifted from the carrier pigeon to other items. These items were all gifts given by Ma Jing when he led many businessmen to pay homage to the King of Han Liu Cong that day. They didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but now they were shocked by the things sent by Western merchants such as Persia and Daqin.
"Glass?" Liu Cong saw that the various items that the ladies were praising were actually made of glass? This surprised him.
?? Could it be said that there are still time travelers in this era?
"Husband, what is glass?" Wu Ran asked.
"Let me see" Liu Cong picked up the wine glass, looked at it carefully, and then shook his head.
It turns out that it is not real glass, it is heavier than glass, and the transparency is much worse. But in Han Dynasty, it is already very rare, because the wine glasses used by people are either fired or poured from bronze.
"Husband, look at this mirror!" Wang Jue handed a mirror to Liu Cong.
Liu Cong turned over and looked carefully. The material of the mirror was somewhat similar to that of a wine glass. Compared with the bronze mirror used by the big man, it was indeed much clearer.
Liu Cong compared it again and again. Although these things are not what we will call glass in the future, they can be regarded as the prototype of glass.
Liu Cong knew that glass first appeared in ancient Egypt and later spread to the Roman Empire. The prototype glass products he saw now should have come from the Roman Empire, because there were no Egyptian merchants in the Han Dynasty at this time.
It should be normal for it to come from the west, and it is not the work of those who traveled through time.
In fact, the production of glass is very simple, and it can be produced in today's handicraft workshops. In the original history, it was not until the Song Dynasty that there were finished products that were close to modern times. The reason is that glass is a luxury product and no one really studies it.
Liu Cong felt excited now. Since he was busy fighting the war, he devoted all his energy to the transformation of weapons, and these civilian supplies are the key to getting rich!
"Every time-traveling clan has to make glass, soap, soap, and even toothpaste, etc. How could I have forgotten these?" It seems that after returning to Luoyang, we must ask the Ministry of Industry to get it out as soon as possible.
"Husband, how are you?" Wu Ran asked.
"Husband, is this mirror magical?" Wang Jue also asked.
"Not so good?" Liu Cong shook his head.
"This" The two ladies seemed to have been poured cold water on them, and their high interest suddenly disappeared.
The two of them liked the mirror and the wine glass, but they wanted to make their husband Liu Cong like them more, or to please him. However, they didn't expect that his husband didn't like them at all, so they were very disappointed.
"Ha" Liu Cong burst into laughter, "Don't be disappointed, after arriving in Luoyang, my husband will make something better than this for you!"
"Really?" After hearing Liu Cong's words, the two of them were pleasantly surprised, and even Ma Yunlu opened his eyes wide.
"Why, you don't believe me, husband?" Liu Cong asked.
"Of course we believe it!"
The ladies all laughed very happily. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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