After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

In October and early winter, there is a cool breeze.

Linhai County, Taizhou is a prefecture and county with almost no winter, and the coldest twelfth lunar month every year can't wear thick fur.

The sea breeze brought the fishy smell of the tide straight to people's faces, making it difficult to open their eyes.

On the pontoon bridge connecting the sea and the land, the porters come and go constantly. After years of hard work, all of them have dark skin and black faces, and their upper bodies are strong.

When the goods on a ship are unloaded, the owner will stand next to the pile of goods and beat the gong, shouting loudly to the waiting crowd: "Siamese white ivory, Siamese white ivory, top white ivory!"

"Topaz, topaz, Javan topaz, mining topaz!"

"Funan Agarwood! The last ship of Agarwood! This year will not go into the water!"

The merchants who heard the call swarmed up, carrying money bags in their hands and scrambling for these hard-won commodities.

The water transport officers who had been stationed nearby also quickly surrounded them to maintain order, so as to avoid such vicious incidents as trampling, wounding, and fighting.

The huge sailboats approached the shore one by one, and sailed away one after another.

This crowded and lively place is the largest wharf in Linhai County, Taizhou - Ping'andu.

Here, every grain of sand is tainted with the taste of money.

Xiaotuanzi Gu Yucheng rode on the neck of Junfu Guxiu, jumping excitedly.

This was the first time he saw the sea, and also the first time he saw such a big cargo ship. There were so many things that he couldn't name, so he could only ask questions with his little feet.

"Father! What's that?"

"Daddy! What's that?"

The categories of goods here are too miscellaneous, and many of them are only sold in the Southland area.Born in the northern wilderness and raised in the court, more than half of Gu Xiu, the king, could not recognize his name. Facing Xiaotuanzi's question, he could only choose to turn a blind eye.

Being as erudite as Han Mochu is like a dragon entering the sea, like a fish in water, who can tell the truth about any weird things.

Those who really don't know will pat Xiaotuanzi on the back and tell him seriously: "Daddy, go and ask you what it is?"

Waking up this morning, a hundred members of the Dashan people took the father and son to see a private pier that he had chartered, holding a purple sand teapot and telling them where each boat has been and what it has sold. .

Non-stop, non-stop.

The speed of speech is extremely fast, and there is no point in the whole process.

The quarrel was so loud that people's ears were numb, but they had to listen to it verbatim just to find out the way of sea transportation.

Two hours later, a servant finally came to spread the word, saying that it was extremely important that two well-known merchants came to Baiyuanwaifu's residence.

Taking advantage of the situation, Han Mochu proposed to let him go back to the house to discuss business, which freed the three of them.

After the liberation, the father and son walked along the flow of people and came to this pier named Ping'an Ferry.

On Ping An Ferry, apart from the big merchants who own merchant ships, there are also some small traders who can't afford bulky goods and are unable to sell them to other places beside the pier.With their unique vision, they grabbed some high-quality goods and then sold them on the spot. After going back and forth, a sales market about five or six miles long was formed beside Ping'an Ferry.

In this market, you can find many commodities that sell at sky-high prices in Bianjing City, and the price is almost only a few tenths, or even one percent, of that in Bianjing City.

For example, Xiaotuanzi's favorite food is rhubarb and banana.

That year was also winter and October, and the concubine Jin bought it from the south at a high price and shipped it to the capital. According to calculations, a single banana cost almost 30 taels of silver, even the two nobles, the emperor and his ministers, were not willing to part with it. Taste one.

There are also piles of bananas for sale in this market. When Han Mochu went to the stall with money and said he wanted to buy one for Xiaotuanzi, the banana vendor glanced up and down at him and handed one to him. He said: "If you ask for too little, it doesn't count as money."

The three of them, father and son, suddenly realized that this kind of fresh fruit, which almost no one had seen in the capital, was so cheap in the local area.

Fresh fruits like bananas are not popular here because of limited storage conditions. Only ten or twenty large fruit merchants specializing in fresh fruits will send special personnel to select them.The remaining defective ship owners who are not in good condition will distribute them to various hawkers at extremely low prices.

In addition, there are ambergris, agarwood, ivory, jade of various colors, gold, silver and bronze wares, glass ornaments, uninlaid gemstones, and even ancient books and paintings floating on the sea. Sell.

Han Mochu picked out a few best-selling products in Beijing and asked about their prices, and then asked a few peddlers who were as enthusiastic as the Bai Da Shan Men about the most popular products that are currently sold from the territory of Dazhou to overseas, secretly calculating in his mind After a while, he said to Gu Xiu who was beside him: "According to what these traders said, the mulberry silk, porcelain, silk, medicinal herbs, tea, animal skins, animal bones, and even paper, wood, and bamboo ware produced by my Great Zhou They are all very popular. There are quite a few places where these things are produced in Dazhou, especially the prices of wood and bamboo wares have always been tepid in Dazhou. Deficit. Sure enough, the roads and post stations are blocked, and the people are not rich."

"It's not difficult for you and me to build a road station after our return trip." In order to talk to Han Mo Chu Haosheng, Gu Xiu lifted the troublesome Xiaotuanzi from his shoulders and hugged him instead: "What I'm worried about right now is those who don't give birth. Crops are also difficult to produce in poor counties.”

"I have thought about what Yunchi said. After the return trip in the future, we can make the local officials of the two places form a pair according to the local financial reports reported by the household department, and combine the poor counties with the rich counties. Officials jointly govern, even if the land is barren, they must try their best to cultivate crops, or the government will come forward to let the local people learn fortifications. As long as there is output, they can have income. If it is not possible, the people will be moved out of this place, and that place will be changed to a training place for troops."

"Master is a master, and he can always think deeper than I do." Gu Xiu sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"Tsk tsk, is Chi'er complimenting you as a teacher?" Han Mochu opened his lips and chuckled, and called Gu Xiu's nickname that no one had called for a long time: "It's very useful to me as a teacher."

"Well, father and father, you look at that stall so strange!" Xiaotuanzi, who was held in the crook of his arm by Gu Xiu, suddenly spoke, drawing the attention of the monarch and his ministers to a stall.

That stall sells fans, round fans, folding fans, lupine fans, palace fans, everything you expect to find, and some fan pendants of different styles, tassels and so on.

It's the middle of winter right now, although Linhai County is not cold, there is no need to fan it to cool it down.

Selling fans on the street in such weather, I don't know if the seller is stupid or the buyer is stupid. No wonder Xiaotuanzi said bluntly that he is a weird person.

The two monarchs and ministers looked at each other, and walked over with the curious little dumpling. Han Mochu politely greeted the amiable old stall owner behind the stall: "Mr. Trouble, my dog ​​thinks that your stall looks It's novel, so the two of us carried him over to have a look."

"It's okay, it's okay. No wonder the young master thinks it's a novelty. It's almost midwinter, and I really don't sell much of this thing." The old man looked at the chubby little dumpling in Gu Xiu's arms lovingly: "But these fans of mine are not for Fans are used for cooling, but for the daily decoration and evaluation of elegant people. They are usually sold to the Fusang area of ​​Ryukyu, and now the remaining styles are not liked by the barbarians there, so there is no rush to sell them here. Selling it is just for fun.”

"I see. Can the old man allow me to choose one or two?"

"Naturally, this old man has been making and selling fans for many years, and it's the first time I've seen a gentleman with your character. Just choose slowly, and I'll give you a fair price for the one you like."

Han Mochu, who always liked elegant things, quickly lingered over the stalls, and picked out an extremely inconspicuous fan among all kinds of folding fans.

The grey-brown fan bones look like jade and wood, and the ivory-white fan surface is engraved with patterns of swan geese flying high. The sound of fan opening is as smooth as cracking silk, and the sound of fan closing is as quick as lightning.

This folding fan is the best in terms of appearance and texture.

"Sir, you really have a good eye!" The old stall owner beat his fists and talked eloquently: "This is a rhinoceros horn fan. The fan bones are made of thin slices of rhino horns, and they are carved by famous hands. The fan surface is the best Huzhou fan." Fu Rong Xuan made it, and now that the master who can make rhino horns has passed away, I dare say that there is only one in Dazhou. If you really like it, you can only give me 500 taels of silver."

500 taels, for such an orphan folding fan, it is really an extremely reasonable price.

But in this year and month, the only people who can take 500 taels of silver with them to the streets, looking at the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, are probably the only ones who live in the capital, the mother and son of Concubine Li.

Han Mochu and Gu Xiu kept everything simple during this trip, and they didn't bring much money, all of which were under the unified jurisdiction of Han Mochu, food, clothing, housing and transportation were earmarked for their own use, and there was never any waste.

Obviously, none of these silver items is 500 taels for buying a folding fan.

"If Zi Ran likes it, then buy it." Gu Xiu, the king who has never been in charge of money, said with great generosity, shaking the little dumpling in his arms, "Isn't there still silver in the box?"

Han Mochu didn't want to cry poorly in the street, he took a folding fan and glanced at Gu Xiu to signal him not to say anything, lowered his eyes to think for a while, then raised his eyes and asked: "Mr., which is the cheapest bamboo fan here?"

"Bamboo fan?" The old man randomly picked out a fan from the pile of folding fans: "Hey, this handle is made of water hyacinth bamboo and the pattern is not good, but the surface of the fan is not bad. If you want five taels of silver, you can take it."

Han Mochu took the bamboo fan and paid the money heartily, then took the bamboo fan in his hand and opened and closed it repeatedly until the surface of the fan was pressed to the state, and then asked: "Old man, can I use the pen and ink?" ?”

The old man nodded, and took out a tube of blown-out Lake brushes and a half-dried ink from the booth: "Young master, don't mind. I don't buy and sell pens and ink very often here."

"It's nothing." After Han Mochu said warmly, he raised his pen with his wrist hanging and brushed the words "a cup of tea for wine" on the wall.

Those four characters are written in a flowing manner, really like dragons and snakes flying, luan fluttering and phoenix mooring.After writing the four characters, Han Mochu took out a small jade seal from his purse and pressed it on the place where the signature was written.

"The ancients used to say that those who are good at calligraphy choose their brushes. I saw it today and it is true!" The old stall owner stared, as if he wanted to see through the words written by Han Mochu: "Young master, this book is really worthy. Than Mr. Yi'an! No, no, Mr. Yi'an may not have such writing power."

"The old man has won the prize. May I ask if you have a pawn shop here?" Han Mochu put the written folding fan in his hand and fanned it back and forth, hoping that the ink on the fan would dry quickly.

"There is a family in Xie Street, not far from here." The old man glanced at the folding fan in Han Mochu's hand, and asked in confusion, "Your Highness, do you want to treat it as a thing?"

"Old man, wait for me for a moment, I'll come as soon as I go." Han Mochu reclosed the folding fan that was drying in his hand, and walked towards the direction of the old man's finger.

However, after two sticks of incense, Han Mochu came back with a bag of silver ingots: "The old man has been waiting for a long time, here is 500 taels of Wenyin."

"Yes, sir." The old stall owner took the silver bag, and respectfully offered the rhino horn folding fan with both hands: "You take it."

"Zi Ran only wrote four characters, and sold it for 500 taels?" Gu Xiu put down the little dumpling that had been in his arms all the way, and said in disbelief.

"Yunchi doesn't believe it, you can write a picture yourself." Han Mochu raised the corner of his mouth, and there was an imperceptible smirk under his eyes.

"Try it." Gu Xiu also rolled up his sleeves and bought a bamboo folding fan worth seven taels of silver from the old stall owner. He wrote on it confidently: "Diligent and cautious" four words Character.

Gu Xiu's handwriting isn't bad either, but it's more neat than aesthetic.

After drying the ink, he imitated Han Mochu and handed it to the counter of the pawn shop.

"My lord, you can't afford a price for this fan." The guy watching the counter said bluntly.

"Why?" Gu Xiu looked at his folding fan again and again: "Why did you pawn the fan just now for 500 taels?"

"My lord, where did you hear the letter saying that we have closed the fans here?" The young man propped his hands up, pouted his mouth and said, "I'll tell you clearly, just now I received the authentic works of Mr. Yi'an, Yi'an There are no less than 3000 taels of fan wall handed down by the young master in the market. There are only a few in total. We don’t want everything casually. Besides, look at what is written on your fan, be diligent and cautious. They are all hung on the wall by the official, how could anyone write on the fan? If you insist on taking it, you can tear down the fan, and I will break you fifty cents for the bone?"

***

On the way back, Gu Xiu hugged Xiaotuanzi with a dark face and walked ahead without saying a word.

"Yunchi? Why are you blushing?" Han Mochu took the newly bought rhino horn folding fan and gently fanned Gu Xiu's earlobe: "I'll fan Yunchi to reduce the fire."

"If I knew that Taifu Han's writing was so valuable, why should you and I come out?" Gu Xiu hugged his shoulders and walked forward without looking sideways: "Just let Master Taifu write a few words, this Isn’t that all the military expenses?”

"Okay, okay, Yunchi don't be angry. I just want to tease you." Han Mochu suppressed a smile: "Otherwise I'll go ahead and buy candy for Yunchi."

"I will not eat."

"Don't even eat sugar cakes?" Han Mochu pretended to be surprised: "Yun Chi is really so angry? What should we do?"

"If you don't eat, you can do whatever you want."

"Good apprentice, don't be angry." Han Mochu put his arms around Gu Xiu's shoulders, and said softly, "It's because the apprentice governs the country well, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. The name of being a teacher is valuable, isn't it?"

"Is Taifu Han complimenting me?" Gu Xiu squinted his eyes sideways.

"I always only tell the truth." Han Mochu said quite sincerely.

"Cheng'er, what else do you want to eat besides sugar cakes?" Gu Xiu shook the little one in his arms, "Whatever you want, your daddy can buy you anything today."

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Sorry for the late update today.

Since the manuscript has been burned, it is currently in a naked update state.

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