Two days later, Pan Luozhi arrived as scheduled. Liu An went out of the city to greet him thirty miles away, and the Ministry of Rites set up a ritual stick ten miles away to greet him.
At this moment, Pan Luozhi went to the palace to present a letter of the country, acknowledging Liugu as a vassal state of the Song Dynasty, and was willing to call Emperor Song the emperor.
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty awarded the title of King of Wuwei County on the spot.
Next, the palace banquet.
As the head of Lingzhou, Liu An was naturally qualified to attend this banquet.
At the banquet, Pan Luozhi presented a gift.
Give the Emperor-level war horses of the Song Dynasty, each with the blood of a sweat-blooded BMW, and thousands of pure white mink fur.
The three majors and the six ministers each have their own gifts.
However, the gift to Liu An was only a huge piece of pure white salt, and that was all.
After three rounds of drinking at the banquet, Pan Luozhi began to greet important officials of the Song Dynasty.
The emperor turned his head and asked Liu Chenggui: "Do you think Pan Luozhi has another gift to Liu An?"
"Official family, no."
"A piece of salt, that piece of salt can be eaten in Liu'an's mansion for two years. Pan Luozhi is too stingy. Why did he and Liu An fight together and only gave him one piece of salt, which is a little more beautiful salt. In addition to being able to eat..., what is the current price of salt?"
Liu Chenggui replied: "The official family has a high-quality fine salt price of 55 cents per catty. That big salt block is 1,000 pounds, and it is so beautiful. The old slave is probably worth 100 cents."
"Bai Guan, it's okay, this is a pity." The emperor still felt unhappy. He thought Pan Luozhi was a little stingy.
Liu Chenggui didn't think so.
But he didn't say it.
If Pan Luozhi gave Liu An a very heavy gift alone, it would inevitably make the emperor think too much and would also make the censors in the court say something.
Therefore, the mind is not precious, and the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water.
The emperor asked again: "Are tomorrow's welcome celebration ready?"
"Master Liu arranged it, and he only said that everything was ready."
"Yeah." The emperor nodded, stood up and raised his glass and walked onto the round of wine, and then made the ministers happy on the excuse that he was a little tired.
In the hall, Pan Luozhi saw Liu An and nodded with a smile: "Sir Liu, have another cup."
In the eyes of others, Pan Luozhi's attitude towards Liu An was not much different from that of civil officials of the Song Dynasty.
Liu An smiled and raised his glass to drink.
Pan Luozhi nodded again, and Liu An also nodded.
In the evening, Liu An returned home.
The extremely huge, transparent piece of salt is placed in the main hall of Liu An’s house.
Pan Ziling had been wandering around the salt for a hundred times, and she didn't understand why Pan Luozhi sent a piece of salt over.
When Liu An came back, Pan Ziling was still studying this piece of salt.
"Official!" Pan Ziling greeted Liu An.
Liu An nodded and picked up a letter sent with the salt.
The letter is very simple. The earth dragon surging decades ago. In the cracks of hundreds of meters deep, someone discovered this piece of salt. Its beauty is like crystal and given to me.
Liu An reached out to caress her and smiled.
Pan Ziling couldn't help asking, "Just one piece of salt?"
"My wife, you don't understand. This is not ordinary salt. This piece was formed 300 million years ago and was buried about a thousand meters underground for billions of years. Those with impurities will be light gray, yellow, and red. Those who are truly pure and free of impurities are colorless and transparent, like crystals. Arrange the top craftsmen to cut it into thin slices and make it into lampshades."
"What's the use of an official?"
Liu An turned his head and smiled: "It can make you live twenty years more and ten years younger."
Pan Ziling pointed at the huge crystal salt and was stunned.
Is this still salt?
If you can live for twenty years, this is a magical thing!!!
Is this a divine thing?
The answer is no.
However, improving breathing makes people calm and relaxed, making them easier to fall asleep, and improving people's sense of happiness. These psychological things will be healthier in the long run than those who are depressed.
Living twenty years longer is just a casual remark from Liu An.
However, such natural high-purity crystal salt is very rare and true.
Pan Ziling was surprised and asked, "Official, how much is this piece worth?"
"In the eyes of people who don't understand, it's worthless, it's just a pile of salt, priceless in my eyes."
What Liu An said is priceless is Pan Luozhi's intention and this rare natural crystal salt.
Making crystal salt lampshades is not difficult for the craftsmen in Liu'an's mansion. If they can polish jade, there is no problem in polishing crystal salt slices.
There is a ready-made lampshade, just take off the glass sheet and replace it with crystal salt sheets.
The next day, the Taipei University Campus in Bianliang City.
There is a celebration here, organized by Liu An.
Pan Luozhi arrived, Liu An waved his hand gently, and came to Pan Luozhi with a knife in both hands.
A Tang Heng knife.
Liu An asked the craftsmen to try to build three layers of iron and steel of different materials, and use the Tang-style soil covering carburizing method, plus the pre-Qin chrome plating method, and the final hand-made small hammer setting of the first-class sword caster.
With beautiful corrugated blade, silk-woven anti-slip handle, shark leather scabbard.
After Pan Luozhi took the knife, Tietou pulled out a Song army-style hand knife from the guard and stood up with a knife.
Pan Luozhi held the knife in both hands and waved it, and the iron-headed knife broke like a piece of wood.
"Thank you." Pan Luozhi's tone was calm, and then he let the blade pass through his arm and stuck a drop of blood. After watching the blood drip along the blade to the ground, he then put the knife into the sheath.
The two nodded to each other again and walked up the platform together.
Liu An didn't know whether the craftsmanship of this knife has surpassed the craftsmanship of Xiazhou Sword. But Liu An still wants to get back the craftsmanship of Xiazhou Sword, whether it is comparison or supplement.
For Liu An, the biggest regret is that the knife was not mass-produced by Pan Luo.
It's too much to test the craftsmanship and materials.
After walking to the high platform and reaching Pan Luozhi's seat, Liu An suddenly clasped his fists and bowed: "Thank you, Brother Pan, that piece of crystal salt is a priceless treasure."
Pan Luozhi only thought that crystal salt was a magical thing and never thought about its value.
He listened to Liu An, and was more about friendship.
Holding the knife that Liu An gave him in both hands: "This knife is priceless in the eyes of the old brother."
The two looked at each other and smiled, and Liu An retreated.
The Three Priests and Six Shangshu also had gifts for Pan Luozhi, including the best silk, books, etc.
Speaking of value, it's not interesting at this time.
In the schoolyard, lines have been drawn with lime. In the North Camp of Bianliang and Shenwu Camp of Bianliang have sent soldiers to line up, each holding a bat in his hand.
Liu An's version, the Song Dynasty's First World Baseball Tournament is about to begin.
One of the favorite words of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was: and.
He doesn't like games with too much physical contact. He doesn't like games with physical confrontation like football, so Liu An used baseball.
Of course, this is not the real reason.
Liu An accompanied the emperor and whispered the rules of the game.
In the Song Dynasty, the nobles had already had primitive golf competitions, and this era was called gate balls.
To the emperor, Liu An is an upgraded version of the goal ball.
"Uncle, it's not good to play and kill, it's good to play and play basketball."
Chapter completed!