Chapter 506: White Moonlight

A wisp of black smoke.

Rose once again.

The students of Wangbei Academy were all dumbfounded, one by one.

That's the seventh one!

This is already the seventh one!

"Dean, Dean, please don't be angry, don't, don't, don't! Don't vomit blood!"

"Quick, quick, quick, stop the Dean!"

Wang Chao was already holding a blade in his hand.

Dean!

Don't be like this!

Anyway, Prefect Liu will reimburse the costs!

"I, I, I, I..."

Wang Chao was furious.

Ever since Prefect Liu visited the Academy, the Academy had changed!

This was no longer the Academy he was familiar with!

"I know, I know, hahahaha, I know!"

Mo Chen.

Once again, he sprang up from the rubble.

Acting like a madman, dancing and gesturing wildly.

A group of people couldn't help but swallow their saliva and look over at the sound.

Yes.

They all began to admire the tenacity of this Third Senior Brother's vitality...

"Xiao Tao..."

Xie Chan woke up from a nightmare again, her face covered in tears.

Feng Sanniang reacted extremely quickly, coming over to cover her mouth: "Oh my, my Princess, my ancestor, you cannot scream this time! Yesterday you were shouting and yelling, and that Grand Eunuch Zhou outside kept asking what was going on. You can't say it's the cat in the backyard in heat again..."

Xie Chan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she sighed slightly in her heart.

Xiao Tao...

The departed are gone; her sister Xiao Tao had already passed away. She could only live on well herself, couldn't she?

In her heart, loneliness grew once more.

Alone in a foreign land, fortunately, the Feng Sanniang before her was a thoughtful person.

She gently wiped away her tears and broke into a smile through them: "Madam, rest assured, the great cause is what matters. After all, Chan'er is still a Great General of the Western Regions; how could she be so fragile?"

Feng Sanniang was overjoyed: "That's good, that's good. Otherwise, why would they say that a daughter from a wealthy family is so magnanimous!"

Xie Chan again didn't know whether to laugh or cry, stood up from the bed, and stretched.

A wealthy family...

According to these people's words, she was the daughter of the current Emperor of the Longyan Dynasty, the Longyang Princess; this was indeed the wealthiest of families.

Feng Sanniang feigned anger on the side: "That bastard Zheng, I don't know why he doesn't come over to keep my Chan'er company more. Let me see how I deal with him when he comes again! It really is..." As she said this, she kept watching Xie Chan's reaction.

Xie Chan chuckled: "Madam, why be like this? Prefect Liu is the busiest person in Liangzhou; who in the world doesn't know that? There are many affairs in Liangzhou, and Chan'er is not a child, so why would she need him to keep her company..."

Although she said this.

A flash of desolation still crossed Xie Chan's face.

"No, no, I must deal with him, I must!"

Feng Sanniang said angrily.

The bastard boy!

I've already paved the way for you, and you don't seize the opportunity!

You deserve to be single!

"Chan'er, Chan'er, I'll keep you company, I'll keep you company..."

Xie Chan gave a self-deprecating smile and let Feng Sanniang affectionately hold her hand.

Since ancient times, beauties have often had tragic fates; what does it matter if one is in the royal family?

Women, in this era, are always just accessories to men... How could she have ever thought she could truly be cherished, protected, and hidden away by Prefect Liu as if she were a rare treasure?

"When the golden wind and jade dew meet, they surpass countless encounters in the human world..."

She gave a beautiful, sorrowful smile, shook her head, and sat down. What, after all, was love?

Two people stood beside Liu Zheng.

They saw Liu Zheng take a piece of glass, and then he pasted a piece of tin foil flatly and neatly onto the back of the glass. Then, he heated it to about two hundred degrees; the melting point of tin foil is very low, and it can be reached by heating.

Then, Liu Zheng took the mercury that Jiang Xuan had prepared and poured it evenly onto the tin foil.

"This..."

"Ah!"

Visible to the naked eye, the tin foil and the mercury began to produce a chemical reaction in front of the three of them. At this moment, the two substances fused into a silvery-white liquid! This was tin amalgam!

Tin amalgam had already existed in China during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. For a long time, there has been fierce discussion in academic circles both at home and abroad regarding the surface treatment technology of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors. Some believe that ancient mirrors were generally plated with "tin amalgam," while others believe that plating tin amalgam on bronze mirrors was not a universal craft for ancient mirrors. In fact, high-tin bronze mirrors from before the Tang Dynasty did not need to be plated with tin amalgam at all; if they were plated with tin amalgam, the bronze mirrors that could have been used normally would have become useless waste mirrors!

Among the ancient mirrors unearthed in later generations, there are bronze mirrors that are pitch black and shiny, as well as bronze mirrors that are covered in rust, and at the same time, there are some silver-white, bright, and mirror-like bronze mirrors.

And this kind of silvery-white, shining bronze mirror is known as "Mercury-Infused"!

Mercury-Infused is already the highest level of craftsmanship in ancient bronze mirror making, and in later generations, it is also the most collectible type of bronze mirror.

But the mirror Liu Zheng is making today can actually surpass Mercury-Infused.

Because tin amalgam and high-tin bronze cannot be plated on.

However, tin amalgam can adhere tightly to glass under high-temperature conditions and does not easily fall off.

"Young Master, you are making a mirror!"

Only then did Jiang Xuan realize it, and he roared out in excitement.

Liu Zheng and Wei Tiezhu both rolled their eyes at the same time.

Even a fool could see he was making a mirror, alright.

It was just that Wei Tiezhu had been staring fixedly at that unfinished mirror.

Yes.

As the current Industrial Department Counselor of Liangzhou, he knew what it would mean if this kind of mirror truly succeeded. Now, it all depended on whether this silvery-white liquid could successfully adhere to the glass.

If it succeeded...

He could not help but take a deep breath.

This would mean that Liangzhou would soon add a major project that could make money!

Waiting and waiting.

The three of them just waited for this white liquid to slowly solidify.

Only then did Liu Zheng smile and pick up the mirror.

The heads of the three people appeared on the mirror at the same time.

"Ah!"

"This..."

"Young Master, why have I become less handsome than you recently?"

"Get lost!"

The three of them joked around for a while.

Wei Tiezhu still could not recover from his shock: "This, this, this, Young Master, is this mirror really..."

One must know.

In ancient times, bronze mirrors were already luxury items. Because even for bronze mirrors, it required very high-level craftsmanship and polishing before they could be used as mirrors; which ordinary family could afford to use one?

And the mirror before his eyes was simply stunning, a work of supernatural craftsmanship!

If this could be mass-produced, wouldn't Liangzhou Prefecture be getting rich again?

Liu Zheng had long since seen Wei Tiezhu's eagerness, and he chuckled: "You saw the process just now; the cost is right there. Later, you can contact Yintan City. As for the profits, half for the Ministry of Works, and half for Yintan City."

Wei Tiezhu was immediately overjoyed: "Thank you, Young Master!"

"How about it, if you give this to your wife, will she like it?"

Liu Zheng laughed heartily.

Wei Tiezhu was even more filled with gratitude.

This was the first one in the Longyan Dynasty...

Hmm, what should it be called?

Wei Tiezhu scratched his head.

Liu Zheng smiled: "Since it is one of a kind, let's call it White Moonlight."

"Good!"

"White Moonlight, beautiful!"

Liu Zheng smiled softly: "Wait until I make another one to give to our Princess."

He began to make this one with great care, first cutting the glass into a perfect shape, then mounting the glass with sandalwood, and coating the back with a layer of black lacquer to protect the tin amalgam.

Another few hours passed.

The sky was already turning dark.

An incredibly exquisite mirror finally appeared in Liu Zheng's hands, causing the two people beside him to exclaim in admiration repeatedly.

Only then did Liu Zheng prepare to head home.

He looked at the moonlight that had already risen from the east and smiled slightly.

He was not a person good at expressing his feelings.

But this White Moonlight, do you like it?