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Chapter 55 Mirror Mirror Tell Me

 Jiankang City is forty miles east, west, south and north, with three palace walls, Qinhuai in the south, Houhu in the north, and Yangtze River in the west. It is surrounded by many satellite cities such as Shitou City, Xizhou City, Dongfu City, Baixia City, and Nanlangya County City.

The capital of the Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Liu Song, Southern Qi, Southern Liang, and Southern Chen were the capital of the sixth dynasty. The Southern Dynasties were the capital of Shengao for more than 300 years.

It is also the first city in the world with a population of more than one million. It is just compared to the Southern Chen and Sui dynasties. At this time, Chang'an Sheng was not as good as Jiankang City.

The descendants of the aristocrats in Jiangnan and the nobles who were dressed in the south all lived in it. Many of them established their capitals one after another, and their population composition was relatively complex.

In the majestic and magnificent Jiankang Palace, a small group of eunuchs were walking towards the harem with a delicate vermilion box.

I was afraid of breaking my head when I ran away, and I was afraid of slowing my way. A group of eunuchs walked quickly, sweating all over and came to the queen's bedroom nervously.

Empress Liu Jingyan was fifty years old and sat upright in grace. When she saw the eunuchs coming in, she felt a little excited, but she didn't say anything. Below were Emperor Xuan's concubines, as well as Prince Chen Shubao's favorite concubine Yang Lihua and Princess Chen Wuhua.

A group of women seemed to be waiting for rare treasures, and everyone's eyes were concentrated on the exquisite red wooden box.

The eunuch slowly opened the wooden box, covered with cotton and satin, and a palm-sized mirror lying in it.

The back of the mirror is a round copper frame, a Buddha statue is carved and held by a phoenix. It is surrounded by Sanskrit Buddhist language, and it has a handle to hold it.

Queen Liu Jingyan of Chen Dynasty stretched out his hand, pinched the handle gracefully, and took it out lightly.

All the girls were watching, and the rumored treasure mirror vaguely saw a lifelike image reflected on the mirror, and Liu Jingyan was delighted in the mirror.

The bronze mirrors of this era do not have modern polishing liquid and polishing tools, and even the bronze mirrors created by the best craftsmen are still not good enough.

Looking at herself in the mirror, this was the first time she had seen her clear appearance. Unlike those yellowed bronze mirrors, she was so real and so detailed that she saw the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and a few faint white hairs. For a moment, Liu Jingyan started to cry.

"Empress."

"The Empress..."

Liu Jingyan gently covered her face: "When I was young, I used water as a mirror, and then used a bronze mirror to dress up. I only realized my whole picture today, and I am lucky."

"You guys can take a look, too."

As the mirror was passed, the women couldn't help but look at themselves in the mirror in surprise. The mirror was so clear and so bright.

When the mirror came to Zhang Lihua's hand, this peerless beauty clearly saw her face for the first time and gained a new understanding of her beauty.

"I am so beautiful. I am usually envious and jealous of me. I used to feel wronged, but now I think it's like this."

"No matter what I do, I will be forgiven, because I am so beautiful!"

Zhang Lihua is a peerless queen who is often called Daji. At this time, she actually felt a sense of arrogance in the world.

Since ancient times, beauties have only been possessed by strong people.

The concubines started to talk: "Empress, is this mirror the legendary treasure of the Western Regions?"

Liu Jingyan took back the mirror and nodded in satisfaction.

"It is said that this is the treasure tribute to the Northern Sui Dynasty by the Western Regions. It took hundreds of thousands of yuan to trade with them. It was the birthday gift used by the Emperor of Sui to please the Lonely Gala."

"It must be. I heard that the tributes from the Western Regions were actually robbed by someone on the way. The Emperor of Sui offered a reward of 10,000 taels of gold to find traces of this batch of treasures. Who would have thought that they would flow into our Dachen. Such treasures are the most worthy of possession of the Empress."

"Yes, the Queen is so beautiful that she is the most suitable for this mirror."

The sounds of flattery come one after another, Liu Jingyan was in a very good mood and said proudly: "This mirror is indeed the one that the Emperor of Sui was robbed. It was called [Buddha Heart My Mirror]. It was made by Buddha gazing at the lake and seeing the true self. Anyone who looks at the mirror is Qingming and observes the true self in the world."

"No wonder I was so happy when I looked in the mirror just now. Congratulations to the Queen for receiving the Buddhist treasure."

"The mirror of the Empress has to spend a lot of money."

When a vain woman shows off the price of luxury goods, she is the most proud moment: "Buddhism emphasizes fate. Since you meet it, it is fate. Money is something outside of your body, but only 5,000 taels of gold."

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but sigh that the queen is really rich, with a mirror of five thousand taels of gold.

"This is a rare and lonely product. It is the Queen's great blessings and the Emperor's great blessings and the Emperor's great blessings and the Emperor's great blessings and the Emperor's great blessings and the Emperor's great blessings and the Emperor."

Everyone was lively, only Zhang Lihua stared at the mirror in the Queen's hand in a daze. She also wanted to have such a mirror.

The women in the Chen Dynasty Palace were all delighted to see such a mirror.

But they didn't know that the world-renowned product in Queen Chen Chao was being manufactured in a large number of workshops in the west of Chang'an City, waiting for an opportunity to be released.

Yang Guang doesn’t understand art, but he knows artworks. Why are artworks valuable? They are rare and stories.

An ordinary mirror is of little value, but this technology is very rare now. Now there is only one on the market, so its rarity is valuable.

Yang Guang compiled a source for it, which was the treasure of the Western Regions. The Emperor of the Sui Dynasty spent a lot of money to please the queen, but was stolen and flowed into the Chen Dynasty.

As two courts that govern the north and south, what the other emperor valued so much was lost to his own hands, so he would be furious? The other party offered a reward of what he wanted to find in his own hands, and he would be happy to think about it. This is the attached emotional value.

Finally, another source story was compiled. This mirror is called [Buddha's Heart Mirror]. The Buddha stared at the lake and saw the true self. Anyone who looks at the mirror is clear and clear, and he observes the true self in the world.

Why make up such a story?

Because of the Southern Dynasties, I believed in Buddhism.

There were 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, and there were so many towers and rain. Although the dynasties changed, Buddhism practiced Buddhism and infiltrated various fields such as Southern Dynasties, so it was a bonus to be linked to Buddhism.

This made the queen of Nanchen spend a lot of money to buy mirrors.

Yang Guang, who was next door, was almost so happy that he didn't expect that he would make more money than selling a building.

He made five of these mirrors in the first batch and sent them to Jiankang, Nanling, Changsha and other places in Nanchen at the same time, with the same things and the same stories.

The information interaction was slow, and everyone hid the treasures. Let’s buy them first. The local profiteer and Lu Ben’s caravan were in a slew together, and they sold the things to local gentry families.

Yang Guang stipulated that one batch of sales will be increased every half month, and all of them will be sold to the Southern Dynasty. When the price gradually becomes less valuable, all of them will be sold.

Queen Dugu in Chang'an City held a mirror and prepared makeup in front of the mirror. She thought a few months later, Queen Chen Chao knew what kind of expression would be like if the mirror he bought for 500 yuan and one of the great nobles of the Sui Dynasty? Will Emperor Chen Chao's terminally ill body go over there?

In the eldest princess's mansion, Yang Lihua looked around with a mirror and said to Xiao Menglan: "Look at this unscrupulous guy. Last time I told him that you like Liuli. He tried his best to make Liuli for you and made this transparent glass mirror. Why don't you think about clicking me?"

Yang Lihua smiled shyly and said, "Your Highness, Princess, this is what Your Highness King Jin gave you, I'm just looking at it."

"He didn't give it to me, a heartless guy. If he asks you next time, you will say that you like gold and ask him to give you more hairpins, earrings, bracelets, faces, hands, and hang them all. Anyway, he has more."
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