Ding Wei, Xu Ping felt helpless when he mentioned this name. When he met him in Daozhou, he had no special impression. He was just an unsuccessful old man, but he was just right in his words and actions. It was not until he returned to the capital and entered the Sansi that Xu Ping knew how huge the shadow left by the old man was.

There is no way. Ding Wei was almost the most successful Sansi envoy since the Song Dynasty. He could do what others could not do. Even Emperor Zhenzong was trying hard to envoy the east and west to ensure that the national treasury was not short of. Ascending to the high position of the throne, Ding Wei relied on outstanding political achievements in the Sansi, and most of the "Five Ghosts" who were all cast in the Sansi were born in the Sansi.

Since Ding Wei's fall, the Sansi yamen was slandered. Everyone blamed you if you can't do it. If you can do it, someone will guard against you. Is it the next Ding Wei?

But after thinking about it, Xu Ping was the only one who was suitable for him. It would be better to stay in the Third Division than to be a censor or a yamen such as the Criminal Court. Forget it, let those people say whatever they like to say, and when will they be annoyed to say themselves? At worst, they can just throw their sleeves and stop doing it. Come back and be your idle county marquis.

As for making friends with Shilin, it is easy to say this, but Xu Ping really doesn't have the intention. He has his own life, and if he wants to make friends with scholars and doctors, he will basically spend all his spare time. He will come to make friends when he has nothing to do, or go out for a banquet and recite poems, and be an official in the capital. Only those lyricists in the museum have so much leisure time, so others have to spend all their private lives.

At this time, the example of the scholar-official officials, Fan Zhongyan, the right-sergeant, had the creed of making friends "only virtue is based on it, and it is friendly because of the heart", and the principle of doing things "no resentment or evil in one person in his life." Xu Ping admired it very much, but he really didn't want to learn it, and he couldn't learn it.

Everyone has their own life, just do their job well. Why not care about other people's personal affairs or even their hearts? Some officials are just idle.

The servant brought the wine and food over. Wang Gongchen really didn't eat breakfast. Soon a pot of wine came to the bottom and a pot of mutton was eaten up.

After eating and drinking, I removed the wine and food. After a while, others came one after another.

Han Qi, Wu Yu, Zhao Jiao and Wang Yaochen came together, while Zhao Xu joined his colleagues from the Sansi. Without much effort, the small back garden became lively.

Everyone was amazed at the peonies in the corridor, surrounded them and praised them, and wrote a few poems immediately.

Xu Ping asked someone to write it one by one. It would be a grand event after a few days to put together a collection and print it out.

Wang Su and Han Zong, who had just been transferred back to the capital, came to the end. He made a fortune. In addition to the ingots of gold and silver, the gifts he gave were also asked his servants to pick dozens of pots of high-quality flower and wood bonsai for Xu Ping to decorate the garden.

It’s different for wealthy families. These flowers and trees are not easily bought in the market. Xu Ping hurriedly asked Xu Chang to direct the servant to arrange them one by one in the garden. With these flowers and trees decorate them, the small back garden immediately gained a lot of vitality.

After greeting everyone, Wang Su walked slowly in the veranda, turned around and said to Xu Ping: "Although Yunxing is a little simpler, it is really rare to have such a warm place in the cold winter. I have recently returned to Beijing and I have to clean up the garden at home. Your skilled craftsman in your family will lend me some days to build a winter study place in the garden."

Xu Ping smiled and said, "It was built by people from my house. If you borrow it or not, I will let him go back and build a few furnace tunnels."

Wang Su nodded and pointed to the peony over there and said, "Do you have any peony to open in your house?"

Xu Ping said: "Yes, but not many, there are only less than twenty pots left."

Wang Su smiled: "A pot is enough for such a precious thing. How can you show your preciousness if you have too many? There are still a few strange plum blossoms in my garden, which I cherish very much. I will send it to you in two days. It will be enough for you to change to a peony tree!"

Xu Ping said a few politely and settled down.

Although Wang Su's official position is not high now, he is the son of the prime minister of the previous dynasty. His father Wang Dan has been frugal all his life and has a wealthy family. He is not comparable to ordinary small officials. When dealing with Wang Su, you don't need to care about the amount of money. Etiquette is enough.

As everyone looked at the peony for a while, Wang Su turned around to the edge of the corridor, looked outside, gently touched the glass on it with her hands, and asked Xu Ping: "Is this - overseas glass?"

After hearing this, Xu Ping really admired Wang Su. He was indeed in wealth. It was obvious that the group of colleagues of the same year came much earlier than him, and no one paid attention to it.

There are naturally glass in this era, but most of them are colored glass. With the habits of the times, most of them imitate jade. However, some luxury goods from overseas, such as rose water, are mostly contained in glass bottles, and are colorless glass bottles. In this era, wealthy families pay attention to incense, while women like to use rose water. Rich families are not unfamiliar with transparent glass, but are still surprised by such large pieces of flat glass.

When Xu Ping used glass lampshades in Yongzhou, he was regarded as overseas glass like rose water bottles when sold to other places. People always tend to explain things they have never seen before. The more ordinary people are, the more they are not surprised by new things. Only those who think they know everything will be amazed by new things.

After receiving Xu Ping's affirmative answer, Wang Su looked at it again and again: "Good things, good things!"

It’s too cold to open the window in winter, and it’s dark and dirty inside the house. With this thing installed on the window, life will be different. In the cold winter, you can read books comfortably by the window. What a wonderful day.

Wang Su looked at it for a long time, finally got up, looked at Xu Ping, and finally held back and didn't say anything, just sighed and walked aside.

Good things are good things, but I don’t know if Xu Ping is willing to bear the pain of giving up. This thing looks very valuable. Even the person who Wang Su has always been used to being big-handed and big-footed did not directly ask for the price.

Xu Ping Village was hosted by Sun Qilang, and it was made into glass in a cellar. However, after making a few batches, two greenhouses, and several windows of the house, Xu Ping was tired of it and wanted to present this technology to the court, but he had not yet thought about the way.

For individuals, even if Xu Ping's home business is not small, it is still extremely troublesome to make glass by yourself. From the procurement of raw materials to the construction of cellar furnaces and the maintenance of daily production, nothing is cost-effective. If you want to open a store, not to mention the reputation of the officials and the public, even if the business bank pays taxes, it is also extremely troublesome. If you are recruited by the palace to provide for the department, there will be countless troubles.

Opening a cellar to do business by yourself will not make money when the scale is small, and there will be countless chores when the scale is large. It is better to hand over the process of opening a cellar to the official office, find ways to get raw materials yourself, and make more money when doing something with high added value.
Chapter completed!