Chapter 564 Competition (Part 1)
These days, Ren Baqian spent all his time in that yard except for returning to the palace at night... he was in a daze...
It's just daze, because from beginning to end, what he does is to guide others to do a not-so-complex distiller, and most of the time he's daze.
After those few months of busy life in Tianjing Land, he enjoyed the time he could be idle.
Due to his special status, Ren Baqian rarely deals with other officials, so he didn't know that more than one discussion about him happened outside the yard these days.
The main reason is about the guard Duwei Mansion created in Tianjing Land and the current Zhang family.
Although the guard Duwei Mansion is still outside the organization, with the empress nodding, it will soon become a formal department of Da Yao.
This time, no matter whether it is a loss or a win or a win, the Zhang family may also play for Da Yao in the future. If the Zhang family wins Ren Baqian, they may take this opportunity to get an official position.
Ren Baqian has been used to multi-ethnic countries on earth and is used to being able to do anything. But this seems normal in Ren Baqian, but it is not a trivial matter in the minds of many people.
Because in the past few decades, there has never been a precedent for people from other tribes to enter the court to become officials.
He himself can be regarded as because of his special identity.
With all the things he did, everyone after experiencing the early observations, and began to accept him as the empress's future husband.
But now there is another Duwei Mansion, which is entirely composed of the survivors of the Hao Kingdom, and there is another Zhang family, which has made many people in the court have objections.
But the empress had nodded in both of these things. With the empress's temperament, everyone could no longer stop these two things.
But the discussion was unstoppable, but it just didn't reach Ren Baqian's ears.
Even the empress heard about it, but she just smiled and put the matter aside and ignored it. She saw many things more than others. Judging from the final results of the Land of Heaven and Scenery, she also gave her more confidence in Ren Baqian's approach. The rest was only waiting for time to check to see if the development of everything would be as Ren Baqian thought.
Five days passed like this.
Five days later, when the east courtyard door was opened, Zhang Jun, who was dressed in an neatly dressed, looked up and saw the already opened west courtyard door. Ren Baqian was sitting in a rocking chair in front of the door, dozing off.
"I've been waiting for a long time for a long time," Zhang Junzheng smiled, and was wondering in his heart whether Ren Baqian had done it or gave up after failure.
Judging from experience, the latter may be bigger. However, he was still worried at this time and became even more nervous than before. After all, everything is related to the future of half of the Zhang family. It can be said that the relationship is extremely important, and even he cannot avoid the vulgarity.
Although they were dressed neatly and looked energetic, the blood in their eyes still explained everything.
"You're over?" Ren Baqian looked up at Zhang Junzheng and his uncle and nephew, as well as several tightly wrapped carriages behind the door.
"I'll ask someone to inform His Holiness to testify." Ren Baqianxiao said, turned around and shouted, and soon a guard left.
"I'm working hard." Zhang Junzheng bowed his hand, then sat down and closed his eyes to rest.
After an hour, everyone heard the sound of mounts coming from outside the yard, and many people came.
Ren Baqian finally got up and went out to welcome the empress.
When I went out, I saw a vast team. In addition to the guards and the empress's carriage, there were many more ministers behind them, such as Shi Qing, Tong Zhenye, Tu Wan and others, all of them, wearing sunglasses and like blind bears walking upright.
The ancient tribe's man was majestic and the woman was charming. Tu Wan and several graceful female officials were also very conspicuous among them.
"I have seen Your Majesty." Ren Baqian first paid homage to the empress, then glanced at the ministers with a smile, but found that Li Qianqiu, Xiyue Cliff, and Hongwu were all among them. I think he was coming back to celebrate the empress's birthday.
Li Qianqiu and Xi Wanya greeted Ren Baqian with a light forehead.
Hongwu's nose is not the nose, eyes are not the eyes. When Ren Baqian and the Empress left, they kissed the city gate. He had been holding back this resentment for half a year, and now he finally saw Ren Baqian.
If his eyes could kill people, Ren Baqian would have to cut him into pieces.
"It happened to be in the court meeting, so I asked you to come and take a look with me." The empress said lightly.
Ren Baqian didn't think anything. He had seen these people many times, but Zhang Junzheng was excited. The bigger the scene, the better.
Moreover, the Empress brought so many senior officials in the court, which made him feel that this matter was highly valued by the Empress.
"Please prepare, let's start." The empress got off the imperial carriage and walked forward in red clothes, and said lightly.
Everyone stood in the yard, and Ren Baqianxiao asked, "What's the first competition?"
"Let's compare dyeing." Zhang Jun said righteously. He knew that he might lose the wine-making competition. If he lost the last time in the first game, he would be looked down upon. It would be better to compare dyeing directly.
"That's it." Ren Baqian smiled and told someone to go to the yard to take out all the dyed fabrics.
The Zhang family's fabric was taken out first, with seven rolls of silk, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, all of which were solid colors. Because they were in a hurry, the colors were a little light, and others felt that the colors were not right at a glance.
Zhang Junzheng quickly explained: "This cloth takes a very long time to dye it. This time it only takes five days, so the time is not enough, so the dyeing is a bit insufficient. Therefore, the competition between Caomin and Ren this time is the durability of color."
"Oh, this is the first time I heard of it. Where is yours?" The empress said lightly, then looked at Ren Baqian and asked.
"It's coming soon." Ren Baqian chuckled as he listened to the footsteps in the yard.
Then I saw three guards holding rolls of cloth that looked a lot smaller. Each guard held seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. However, the color of cloth held by each guard was different.
It turned out that there were three types of dyes per color.
Moreover, the colors are bright and bright, and the colors are more plump than the fabrics sold on the street. As long as you are not blind, you can see the gap at a glance.
Photographed and several female officials' eyes lit up as soon as they saw these cloths.
The other ministers were not very interested in this competition, but when they saw Zhang Junzheng's seven pieces of silk, they looked at Ren Baqian's twenty-one rolls of cotton cloth, and they all chuckled.
It would be fine if Zhang Junzheng had not said what he had said before, but after he had just finished saying that, the fabric dyed between the two sides was compared, and Zhang Junzheng's words made people laugh no matter how they thought.
Didn’t you say that five days are not enough? Not only did President Ren’s mansion dye it better than on the market, but each color is divided into three different colors. What else do you say?
As for Zhang Junzheng's eyes straightened after seeing the fabric that Ren Baqian was holding out, his face was filled with incredible expressions. How did the other party do it in five days? And why was the other party's color so bright? How many times did they dye it in five days?
What dye do they use?
Then he discovered the problem. He had never seen the fabric he used before.
"Sir Ren, can I touch this fabric?" Zhang Junzheng bowed.
"certainly."
Zhang Jun was taking a few steps forward and rubbed the fabric with his fingers. It was indeed a fabric that he had never seen before.
It seems that the problem lies in this fabric. Could it be that this fabric is easy to dye?
"Thank you, Lord Ren. If you compare the color of the fabric, you will lose this time. But this time we compare the durability of the color washing." Zhang Jun said righteously. Although the Zhang family lost in color comparison, he regretted why he didn't ask both parties to use the same fabric at that time.
But the most important thing is to see the degree of fading after washing, which is the content of the competition.
"nature."
When two pieces of fabric of the same size cut were placed in hot water, one of the basins immediately began to turn red.
However, the other basin of water only had a slight change.
Zhang Junzheng's face also became extremely ugly. The fabric of the Zhang family was in the pot of red water.
Without taking out the two pieces of cloth to compare, he knew that the Zhang family lost in the first round of competition.
The Zhang family, who has always mastered the best cloth shop, actually lost to the person in front of them, both in terms of color and durability.
This hit him even bigger than losing the first game.
You should know that with the expected brewing, the Zhang family lost two games, which means that the Zhang family was not as good as the other party in both events. Moreover, both of them were chosen by themselves and were contested without the other party knowing it in advance.
The other party's chance of cheating can be said to be slim. Even if you search for Dayao, you can't beat the Zhang family in these two items, let alone in such a short time.
Chapter completed!