I turned the cold palace into a paradise

Chapter 192 Creating Glass

Chengnan Mansion was lively for a few days because of Yunyue's incident, but gradually returned to peace. After all, other people's stories are other people's, only your own life is your own.

Soon, the royal feud was replaced by other things in the city.

After being closed for more than half a month, Chunxianglou finally reopened. But now it is no longer called Chunxianglou, but Ode to Joy.

Yunyue did not hide it, so everyone in Chengnan Prefecture knew that this Ode to Joy Spring House was now Yunyue's property. Many businessmen and wealthy people came to support the opening day.

What a joke! Now that Master Yue has established a firm foothold in Chengnan Prefecture and has the support of Prince Rong behind him, why doesn't he try to curry favor with him? He completely forgot how shocking it was that Yun Yue, a woman, actually opened a spring building.

Because in their hearts they never regarded Yunyue as an ordinary woman, or in other words, they never regarded her as a woman.

Yunyue was sitting on the second floor watching the performance on the stage.

"When will the bright moon appear? I raise my cup to ask the sky.

I don't know what year it is in the palace of heaven

I want to ride the wind back home..."

The woman's singing voice is like a delicate paintbrush, outlining beautiful notes and making people feel the endless charm of music.

With the accompaniment of different musical instruments, the people in the audience were mesmerized.

After the song, everyone applauded.

Yi Mei bowed and was about to leave the stage when a voice rang out from the audience.

"Wait a minute, young lady."

Yi Mei stopped walking. She recognized the person who was speaking. He was Sheng Hongtu, the teacher of Baihe Academy in Chengnan Prefecture.

"Master Sheng." Yi Mei bowed.

"This song...the girl sings really beautifully."

"Thank you Master Sheng for the compliment."

"I just want to ask the girl, who wrote this song and lyrics?" Sheng Hongtu asked impatiently with his eyes shining.

Yi Mei smiled proudly, looking at the second floor, and said, "The songs performed today are all composed by... Young Master Yue."

Yun Yue upstairs couldn't help but hold her forehead. This girl, I told her not to tell anyone about herself. How could she have the nerve to say that she was someone who plagiarized works of later generations? If she met a real scholar one day, wouldn't she be exposed?

"Young Master Yue?!" Sheng Hongtu had heard many stories about their female prefect these days, but he didn't expect that she was so talented.

"As expected of a wonderful lady named Yue Gongzi!! What a talent!!"

Yunyue upstairs couldn't stand it anymore and didn't watch the rest of the show. She quickly took Song Luo and escaped through the back door.

Song Luo smiled secretly: "Master, why do you want to leave? I think the teacher is right to praise you! Master is a great talent and a wonderful woman!"

"Xiao Luoluo, don't you know what I am like? You are just repeating what others say! You are so guilty~"

"Anyway, in my heart, the master is the most powerful woman in the world."

Yunyue pinched her little face and said, "Blind worship is not good."

The two were laughing and joking when they saw a carriage stop beside them. A woman jumped out of the carriage. It was someone close to Aunt Wang.

"Mr. Yue!! Great news! Manager Wang asked me to pick you up!"

"Oh? What's the good news?"

"Glass!! Glass is made!" The woman's cheeks flushed with excitement.

"What?" Yun Yue asked in surprise.

"Go, go, go! Let's go to the village!"

Yunyue had given the glass recipe to the craftsmen for several months, but there had been no progress. Yunyue asked about it once, and they said that the temperature of the furnace was always not high enough. She wanted to help them solve it at first, but then she thought better of it. If she intervened in everything, it would not be a good thing for them.

The carriage rushed along and soon arrived at Nirvana Village. The village was now full of traps and patrolling soldiers.

This was arranged by Aunt Wang and Li Wanhua. Aunt Wang said that the craftsmen in the village had so many recipes given to them by Yunyue. They were all good things for the future and must not be leaked out! They must not be threatened either. So they sent heavy troops to guard it.

Several people went straight to the craftsman.

Before I even entered, I heard the laughter of Aunt Wang and Liu Lu.

"Auntie Wang, Sister Liu."

"The moon is here, come and see this! It's made! It's made!" Aunt Wang was holding a glass vase, and she was rarely so excited.

Yunyue took it. The crystal clear glass bottle looked no different from those in later generations.

"Great! That's great! Aunt Wang! Increase the salary! Increase everyone's salary!"

Liu Lu took over the conversation: "Yes! Sister Wang also said that she would reward them with 500 taels each."

"Okay, okay!" Yunyue looked at the craftsmen who were equally excited.

"You guys are awesome! You are the great heroes of our village!!!"

“Mr. Yue, this is what we should do. What’s more, the most important thing is that you gave us this house. The greatest credit should be yours. We won’t accept the bonus…” said the leading craftsman modestly.

"Alas! You can't say that. Even if you have the recipe, it doesn't mean you can make it. It still depends on your hard work. The bonus is what you deserve!"

"Then we will shamelessly accept it. Thank you, Master Yue!!"

"Thank you, Master Yue!"

The craftsmen felt that the most important decision they had made in their lives was to stay in the village. Their wives were employed in the textile department, and their children were studying in the village. Now they had the opportunity to make colored glaze, no, glass. They also received so much reward money, which was something they had never dared to think of in their lives! !

The most important thing is that they were originally the lowest class of people, but now they are respected. This life is worth it! !

Yunyue has always rewarded those who have made contributions, not to mention that the glass they produce now can bring them more funds.

To her, these craftsmen are equivalent to scientists of later generations. High benefits and high salaries are what they deserve.

Another point is that these people have mastered the method of making glass, and there will be other methods later. There will definitely be many people watching them and wanting to poach them, so Yunyue must hold on to them firmly for both public and private reasons.

After giving the reward, Yunyue talked about some of her own ideas, such as mirrors and windows.

The eyes of the craftsmen who heard this lit up again and again! Master Yue is indeed Master Yue, he knows so much! !

Yunyue took away all the glassware she had made and hurried back to the government office.

"Someone, go and call Jiang Yao." Yun Yue sent someone to call Jiang Yao immediately after returning to the mansion.

Jiang Yao has been very busy recently, even Jiang Man has gone to help her brother. Song Luo has now taken over some of Song Li's work. Although she has a somewhat eccentric personality, she does things very much like Song Li, calm and smart.

As for Song Li, Yun Yue felt that it was a waste of his talent to run errands for her and handle minor chores, so she asked him to learn how to handle affairs from Huang Shide.

Huang Shide said two days ago that Song Li had the potential to become a prime minister!

Originally, Lingyao was asked to go with her to learn, but Lingyao was unwilling, saying that Yunyue needed her more. Yunyue couldn't persuade her, so she had to agree. These days, she was following Ouyang Shu to do other things.

Half an hour later, Jiang Yao hurried back: "Master, you are looking for me."

"Jiang Yao, sit down and take a rest."

Jiang Yao sat down obediently, and Song Luo brought him a cup of tea. Jiang Yao drank it in one breath and looked at Song Luo embarrassedly.

Song Luo poured him another glass.

"Master, all merchants are willing to sign labor contracts with slaves, but they are unwilling to increase business taxes."

Jiang Yao was talking about two things. The first was to popularize labor contracts and replace indentures with labor contracts.

Yunyue cannot make everyone equal now, even in the future, it cannot be said that everyone is equal. But she wants to change the issue of selling body indentures little by little. And the businessmen have the most slaves.

The second thing was to increase taxes on merchants. Yun Yue didn't know what the court was thinking, but agricultural taxes were actually higher than commercial taxes. The people who worked hard in the fields actually paid more taxes than the merchants who made a lot of money.

This is unreasonable, very unreasonable!

So Yunyue wants to reform commercial taxes, but how could this group of businessmen agree?

They had originally disagreed with the labor contract, but when they heard about the business tax, they immediately agreed to the former. They still knew which was more important.

If neither of them agreed, they were afraid Yunyue would be angry, so they agreed to one of them to appease Yunyue.

"It's okay, that's how businessmen are. Jiang Yao, come and take a look at this first." Yun Yue pointed to the glass on the table next to her.

"This... is this colored glass?!" Jiang Yao was extremely shocked. Even though his family was once the richest merchant in Qingzhou, they only occasionally spent a lot of money to get such a colored glass bottle. You can imagine how expensive this thing is. Now there are several pieces in front of him, and they are more crystal clear than any he has ever seen.

"No, this is glass. The craftsmen in the village just made it."

"What? Ours?!!!"