Chapter Forty-six: The Glass Mirror

  Tomorrow is the auction, Huang Yueying personally checked all matters to see if there was anything missing.

  After Wu Jun's new Sima Wang Quan took office, he immediately put the matter of inviting Yueyue Mountain Villa at the top of his work. He was a clever person and knew that although the owner of Inviting Moon Mountain Villa was a businessman, the forces behind him were too great. Their attitude determined their own future.

  He dispatched a large number of troops to escort the glass products from Shangfang Mountain to the warehouse in Yuemonth Villa, and also sent soldiers to strengthen patrols around Yuemonth Villa to ensure safety.

  Li Si is in charge of the venue setup and is doing a final check according to Huang Yueying's requirements.

  Liu Bin, Jiang Jun and Wang Sheng are trainees of a business training class. Because of their eloquence and good image, they were trained as auctioneers. Under the training of Zhuge Jun, after repeated practice, they have mastered the auction procedures and skills.

  Erniang's mind is meticulous and she is in charge of arranging the reception work for distinguished guests. After being reminded by Zhuge Jun, she trained dozens of reception staff and was also conducting the final rehearsal.

  The trainees of the Upper Mountain Business Training Class have all participated in the preparation work for the auction, and they have already graduated. They have already had internships at factories and other places, and this is their last internship. Just waiting for the auction to end and arrange work.

  By noon, all preparations were ready. Huang Yueying let out a sigh of relief. It's just waiting for the official start tomorrow.

  All the businessmen who participated in the auction received a list of products. To further determine the number of participants, Huang Yueying sent out students from the Business Training Class to each business, asking them to finalize the number of people they would bring and gave each household a glass mirror as a gift, shocking everyone.

  The glass mirror is Zhuge Jun's confidential product, which has not been made public. Originally, he wanted to push it out later and hold an auction in the future. After the incident at Shangfang Mountain, Huang Yueying thought that this auction was too troublesome, so just this once would be enough. He thought about it and agreed to push it to the market this time as well.

  Due to the shortage of manpower, he asked someone to invite Wang Quan. Sun Shangxiang gave him a list and asked him to send it to various important figures in Eastern Wu under the name of Yueliang Mountain Villa. Of course, she also handed one over to him.

  Wang Quan Neng had the opportunity to serve the princess directly, and was overjoyed. He hastily ordered his soldiers to carefully take over these expensive glass mirrors.

  The effect of modern glass mirrors was in stark contrast to that of Han Dynasty copper mirrors, causing a huge stir.

  Sun Quan gazed at his clear face in the mirror, majestic and elegant, and smiled with satisfaction.

  Wu Guo Tai looked at her own face, which still had a lingering charm, but the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes could no longer be concealed. She sighed that time was like a knife, and reminisced about her beautiful appearance in her youth.

  Qiao's two daughters gazed at their reflections in the mirror, marveling at their own beauty, too shy to look directly.

  A huge mirror was given to Cao Jing, and it was naturally delivered by Zhuge Jun himself.

  Standing in front of the tall dressing mirror, Cao Jing's slender figure appeared with a flower-like face, curved eyebrows, a straight nose, big eyes, fair skin, and a smiling gaze at herself, what a delicate and beautiful face.

  She stared blankly at herself, motionless. At this time, a handsome and elegant face appeared beside her, smiling directly at her. She blinked, made a mischievous face, and her shy little face showed a happy smile. Slowly, she leaned her delicate body against his tall figure.

  Staring at his own refined and mature face, he thought to himself: "Zhuge Liang is also too formidable, the value of such a product is also too astonishing. Liu Xuan's entrustment has not been completed yet, I must go find Huang Yueying again."

  He found Huang Yueying and said, "Madam, I was entrusted by the Emperor's uncle and the Military Advisor to come to Jiangdong to open up new financial resources for Jingzhou. You also promised me to think of a way, what's the result?"

  Huang Yueying and Zhuge Jun had discussed it many times, feeling that they couldn't not give them an explanation, after all Zhuge Liang was still working under Liu Bei. But what to give them, really made them rack their brains.

  The mineral resources of Guiyang County under Liu Bei's rule were very rich, and it was known as the "Land of Eight Treasures" and the "Hometown of Colored Metals". As early as the Han Dynasty, a gold official was set up here. During the Tang Dynasty, it was an important town for minting coins for the imperial court, with 28 copper mines under its jurisdiction to mint coins, with the character "" on the back. In the early Song Dynasty, it reached its peak, and "the country's smelting and casting were in Hunan, and Guiyang accounted for three-tenths". There are more than 20 varieties of non-ferrous metals that have been proven to exist within the current administrative area, including lead, zinc, manganese, gold, silver, copper, tin, etc., among which the reserves of lead, zinc, copper, and tin rank among the top in the country. Non-metallic minerals include coal, with a large reserve as well.

  When helping his father sell products, Zhuge Jun had lived in Guiyang for a period of time and knew a thing or two about the situation. He thought he would give Liu Bei some advice on these aspects and take the opportunity to plant some of his own people.

  Huang Yueying brought Mi Zhu to Zhuge Jun's room. He said to Mi Zhu, "Mr. Mi, the emperor is benevolent and righteous, my brother is serving under his command, helping the emperor is naturally my bounden duty."

  He took out some materials, pointed to the three places on his own drawing of Guiyang's outline map and said: "There is a gold mine here, there is a copper mine here, and there is a coal mine here. You are guarding the treasure, what are you worried about?"

  Mao Zedong was overjoyed, but then immediately worried and said: "Even if we have these minerals, we won't develop them, because we don't have the right people for this."

  "He smiled and said: 'Don't worry about this, I'll send people to help you with mining and smelting.'"

  "Great, this solves a big problem! But what is coal?"

  At that time, people had not yet used coal because the gas was too toxic and they called coal "poisonous stone".

  Zhuge said: "Coal is a poisonous stone. As long as the usage method is correct, it's a good thing. You can mine it, and I'll teach you how to use it when the time comes."

  He left with a heart full of joy and satisfaction.

  Huang Yueying asked him in surprise, "Xiao Jun, when did you go to Guiyang? How do you know about the mineral deposits there and how to use that poisonous stone? You didn't learn it from that Taoist priest again, did you?"

  He smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, I got a heavenly book in my dream, all-knowing."

  Huang Yueying knew he was talking nonsense and had already developed immunity to his mysteriousness, so she didn't ask any more questions.

  Meng Zong returned to his own room, feeling very puzzled, looking at the information in his hand, falling into deep thought.

  Everyone, if you think my book is still worth reading, thank you very much.