"Old Master, Master Suner is back, carrying a strange thing and saying he wants to see you." Butler Zhang Youfu bowed and said.
"Humph, this evil obstacle is not angry with me enough, so he comes back to trouble me again." Zhang Weixian said angrily.
However, on a very cold day, he was reluctant to let his eldest grandson catch the cold outside.
Although I was still angry, I put down the hookah in my hand. I took out a golden pocket watch, looked at the time, and said, "Let him come in."
At this time, tobacco was introduced to the Ming Dynasty less than a hundred years ago, and it was far from popular.
However, although Zhang Weixian is over sixty, he can still keep up with the trend. The hookah in his hand was a tribute from the Lumi Kingdom. It was given to him by the temple more than ten years ago.
Ever since he was young, he has been a trendy person among the nobles of the Ming Dynasty. Whenever there is something new and novel, he will get it to play with. He has never put it down for new things.
There were very few people in the Ming Dynasty who owned pocket watches. The British Duke Zhang Weixian had an exquisite pocket watch with a pure gold shell.
This is a rare thing. At this time, the European pocket watch had not been invented for a long time, and the technology was still very rough.
In 1462, Italian watchmakers proposed the concept of "pocket clocks." In 1510, German Nuremberg watchmaker Peter Henlein produced the first pocket watch. It was called the "Nuremberg Egg."
It was not until this time that "watches" were officially separated from "clocks" as a separate category.
The year is 1628. It has only been less than 120 years since pocket watches appeared, but British princes are already wearing them.
Of course, his pocket watch was far from the modern pocket watch that Yang Fan paid tribute to the emperor.
What Yang Fan paid tribute to the empress was a pair of specially customized seagull tourbillon couple pocket watches. The pure gold shell and gold chain were hollowed out and engraved with dragon and phoenix patterns. They were very exquisite, luxurious and grand.
Sapphire mirror, three-dimensional rotating tourbillon, excellent viewing pleasure. The dial is densely inlaid with diamonds. It is also self-winding. It is very luxurious and luxurious.
Zhang Shize walked in with a mean smile on his face, bent down and said: "Grandpa, my grandson has given you a good thing in exchange for your old Tao. You are a good master."
As he spoke, he picked up a kerosene lantern and placed it on the table.
This horse lantern was originally a carbide lamp that burned carbide. It is a modern product that imitates the shape of the horse lantern.
Modern antique lamps with this shape are called outdoor lamps. They are used for camping. Some burn gasoline, some burn kerosene, and some burn calcium carbide and water.
This kind of lamp has an antique and nostalgic appearance.
In order to demonstrate the good lighting properties of kerosene, Yang Fan simply modified it.
In fact, the modification is simple, just fill the bottom tank with water and calcium carbide with kerosene, and then pull a piece of cotton from the air outlet pipe and twist it into a wick.
Zhang Weixian glared at his grandson, saying that this villain was looking for trouble for himself.
When I was young, I was quite capable. But compared to this bastard, I was just a good boy. I was far from being a bad boy. I was far better than him in never doing anything serious.
"What is this?" Zhang Weixian was successfully aroused and looked at it with interest and asked.
This thing is made of stainless steel plate and looks shiny. The shape is also very beautiful, like two gourds buckled together upside down. There is a glass cover in the middle.
Zhang Weixian held it in his hand and looked at it carefully over and over.
Although this thing is beautifully made, Zhang Weixian doesn't take it too seriously.
After all, he is the head of the Ming Dynasty, and he has never seen anything interesting. But this glass cover is a rare thing.
Glaze in this era was very expensive.
All kinds of turbid glass beads that are not round or flat can be used to make jewelry.
This glass cover, with such high purity and good light transmittance, is not cheap. It costs more than fifty taels of silver anyway.
This lamp has to be worth a hundred and eighty taels. Otherwise, it will be sold cheaply, but the original price will not come out. The steel, the workmanship, and the glass cover are all good things.
Zhang Weixian immediately gave the price in his mind.
Zhang Weixian held the lantern in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, clicking his tongue and exclaiming: "This thing looks like it is made of steel. It is not easy to make it so light. It is the work of a skilled craftsman, especially for such a big piece.
The glass cover is so transparent, but it’s not cheap.”
Seeing that the old man liked it, Zhang Shize said nonchalantly: "How about it? Are you satisfied with it? This treasure is something that my grandson finally got for you, Lao Tao."
Zhang Weixian glanced at him and cursed: "How can you have such filial piety? Tell me, what happened again? You need me to wipe your ass."
Zhang Shize said aggrievedly: "Grandpa, look at who you think your grandson is. I can't go out of my way to buy it for you."
"Huh, you evil deed. As soon as you stick your butt out, I know what you're going to do. Tell me, what's going on?" Zhang Weixian puffed his beard and glared, with an expression that said I'd be surprised if I believed you.
"Grandpa, do you know what this is and what it is used for?" Zhang Shize said showily.
"If you have something to say, say it quickly, and if you have something to say, let it go." Zhang Weixian said angrily.
This evil obstacle, knowing that he does not know what it is, is still showing off in front of him.
"Okay. Grandpa, this is a lantern. It's called a horse lantern. It's also called a wind lantern, a lantern, and a boat lantern. It can be carried in your hand when walking at night, just like a lantern. Or it can be hung on a saddle for lighting. It can also be used for boating.
It was hung on the bow of the ship." Zhang Shize said.
"Well, this thing looks like it's for lighting. How to light a fire? Show me to grandpa when it's lit." The old man Zhang Weixian was quite doting on his grandson. At this time, his anger subsided and he said pleasantly.
All his life, the old man likes to play with rare things that others don't have. Because only in this way can he stand out. In fact, this is a common problem among government officials. Zhang Shize naturally knows it very well.
Zhang Shize took out a zippo he got from Yang Fan and lit it on fire with a ding sound. Zhang Weixian was stunned for a moment, wondering what kind of novelty this was.
Zhang Shize pushed back the shade of the kerosene lamp.
The glass cover is supported by the connecting mechanism and tilted backward 90° to expose the wick.
Zhang Shize lit the wick. Suddenly a bright flame burned and a burst of warm light emitted.
Zhang Weixian pushed the glass lampshade back to cover the wick to prevent it from being blown out by the wind.
At this time, it was already getting late, and it started to get dark in Zhang Weixian's study. The lights seemed particularly bright at this time.
Diesel oil has many benefits. First of all, the light is very bright. Although it is not as bright as a carbide lamp, it is many times brighter than a candle. Clean kerosene is about the same color as water, and there is no smell when burning.
, and no black smoke.
The whole study suddenly lit up.
Zhang Weixian found that this kerosene lamp had much better lighting effect than the candle lantern, and it did not have the smell of carbide lamps.
The slightly orange light casts a golden phantom on the items in the room, making the room feel very warm all of a sudden.
"What a good thing, a good grandson. You know how much you feel sorry for grandpa, unlike those two bastards like your father and your second uncle. Grandpa's eyes are dazzled, the candlelight is dancing, and he can't see clearly when he reads at night. It's better this time
, I won’t be afraid of hurting my eyes when I read in the future.”
"Grandpa, my grandson just thinks you have bad eyesight, so he did this for you."
Zhang Weixian was so relieved that he stretched out his dry hand to touch the top of Zhang Shize's head.
Zhang Shize quickly bent down so that the old man could reach the top of his head. Zhang Shize was about 1.8 meters tall. The old man couldn't reach him while sitting.
"Grandson, what was that thing you used to light a fire just now? It just so happens that grandpa's hookah smoking hook is old and no longer useful. You can show that to grandpa again."
"Ah!" Zhang Shize was dumbfounded.
I just wanted to get the old man to take the bait, so I used the zippo that I had finally obtained from Yang Fan through hard work in front of the old man.
Now that it's over, the old man's temper will definitely come back.
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Please remember the domain name of this book: .Novel about Strange People of the Republic of China
