Chapter 675: Zhi Before the Wedding

The day before the wedding, the Ministry of Works delivered the completed sedan chair to Baifeng's home; it was a sedan chair that could be considered extremely luxurious in this era, and after lasting nearly two months, it was finally crafted.

This was also the first time the sedan chair, as a means of transport, appeared in this era; Baifeng had previously been afraid that the sedan chair would waste too much manpower, so he did not let it appear, only allowing rickshaws to operate in this era.

However, now that the number of Slaves had increased again, the birth of the sedan chair was only a matter of time; at the beginning of the crafting, Baifeng only wanted it to become a tool exclusive to the Royal Family. When these Slaves arrived in Huaxia, the sedan chair was already in the process of being made, so Baifeng felt that the sedan chair did not necessarily have to be exclusive to the Royal Family; other households could also use it, but they could follow historical rules, making regulations on what status of person uses how many bearers for the sedan chair, including horse-drawn carriages and ox-drawn carts, and how many horses or oxen they could be drawn by could also be regulated, and the hierarchical system could be a bit stricter.

The sedan chair made this time was an eight-bearer one, with two people per bearer, so it required sixteen people to lift it, but in reality, this sedan chair was not large; even four people could easily lift it. It was mainly a problem of manufacturing technology; they could not make such exquisite carvings, could not make any complex craftsmanship, and at most could only carve out some good-looking patterns that were relatively large.

Because Yulong was currently only a Prince, he naturally could not use the top-tier one; the top-tier one was nine bearers. Whether it was like this in history, Baifeng did not know, but there was the saying of the Emperor having nine horses, so nine bearers should also be no problem.

This also echoed the lie Baifeng had fabricated at the beginning, which was that he said he was the son of Heaven; he had never thought about such a long-term matter as founding a country back then, just to be able to trick the tribesmen into trusting him, but now he had become the king of a country, and the title of Son of Heaven seemed to fit him very well again.

Looking back at history, those Emperors, in order to stabilize their ruling position and the correctness of the source of their power, also fabricated that they were the Sons of Heaven. Were they really the sons of Heaven? No, who they were born to could not be clearer, and Heaven would not let its own son slaughter its previous sons, right? It was all just to highlight the concept of the divine right of kings, just to fool ordinary people. Baifeng was now just fooling savages, and he was now more like a Son of Heaven than those monarchs in history; at least his arrival was too strange.

The current sedan chair also had a more difficult aspect, which was the decomposition of force; it was much simpler for two or four people to carry a sedan chair, but for sixteen people to carry it, they had to use ropes to decompose the force. For the Ministry of Works, this was another difficult problem that needed to be solved. After various attempts and drawing diagrams, the problem was finally solved. But at the same time, it also brought along a broader line of thinking for the people of the Ministry of Works: weight could be decomposed through different methods, and it was no longer necessary to bear it very rigidly as before. Although they had not yet encountered other places that needed this technology at the moment, with this thought and technology, when they encountered problems in the future, there would be one more solution.

Zhi had already dressed up, and she had bathed I don't know how many times; she looked again and again, and touched again and again, at an extremely gorgeous and beautiful wedding dress that Baifeng had brought her, but she just couldn't bear to try it on, because she was afraid that if she wore it now and accidentally got it dirty or damaged, what should she do? She should wear it tomorrow to ensure no mistakes would be made.

She also did not feel any reluctance toward her own home, nor did she feel sad; she only thought that she would soon be able to live in Baifeng's luxurious home, and she would soon be able to become a member of the Royal Family.

Everyone who lived with Baifeng day and night, whether they were guards or Slaves, was incredibly clever; Yu, who was raised by Baifeng, was recognized by all of Huaxia as one of the smartest people, and even the Slaves in Baifeng's home, they did not dare to underestimate, always feeling that they were all very smart and capable. So if she could meet and chat with Baifeng every day, after a long time, would she also become smarter?

She was also trying her best to make herself look good; Baifeng had left her two maids specifically to dress her up and teach her the etiquette and details to pay attention to tomorrow. Her hair had been washed clean, but if she were to coil it up now, it would be crushed after sleeping, so her hair was still hanging loose.

Among the gifts Baifeng gave her were many hairpins of various materials; tomorrow, she would insert all these hairpins into her hair to show her wealth.

The craftsmanship of a crown was too complex because there were too few Artisans, and Baifeng was unwilling to waste too much of their energy on these things, so he chose to let them make simpler hairpins.

Of course, pure gold hairpins or Iron hairpins, even if inlaid with gemstones, could not be gorgeous enough; after all, the craftsmanship was limited, and the weight was too great, making it inconvenient to wear, so Baifeng taught the technique of kingfisher feather inlay, which had no restrictions in this era.

The production of kingfisher feather inlay was not difficult; first, it required a Blacksmith to forge a base, and in Huaxia, the base was gold or copper, or an alloy of the two. The gold-copper alloy still maintained the beautiful luster of gold, but it was harder than pure gold, and as jewelry, it was even better than pure gold.

In fact, there were many Bronze wares in this era that were gold-copper alloys, because copper was too precious, but gold was something that had no great use and could be mixed into copper to deceive others; after all, no one could distinguish whether there was gold mixed into your copper. Copper was now more precious than gold because copper had more uses than gold.

Baifeng did not have the technology for alchemy, and other tribes did not either; Baifeng could not even manage the step of refining mercury, and regarding chemistry, the difference between him and an illiterate person was not great.

Fortunately, the properties of gold were extremely stable, and there was a lot of elemental gold in Nature; as long as you found a gold grain in one place, you could find more gold in the same place; river channels or ancient riverbeds were all good places for gold panning.

Huaxia took it as it came; if they encountered it, they would take it, and if they didn't, they wouldn't spend the effort to specifically look for it. If other tribes had it, they would trade for some. The value of gold was very low and it couldn't do anything; in Huaxia, it was just used as raw material for various jewelry or to make some gold tableware to decorate other things.