Pomegranate listened to their words and ignored them, but stared at the autumn fragrance painting painted by Tang Bohu in the autumn fragrance room, this painting is really good, very Dunhuang mural "Flying Sky" momentum, the expression of the characters is even more lifelike. Pen ΔΩ Fun Pavilion Ω. If you don't draw a fine picture, it's almost impossible to win Tang Bohu.

At that time, Weng Yanling and Sun Guangshao were stunned to turn the winning game into a draw, and they also said that they would take into account commercial benefits. Moreover, he planned to buy and sell calligraphy and paintings in Nanjing, and it was out of indignation at the unfair judgment of these two people that he opened an auction house not to make money, but to make trouble for these two people and disgust them.

If you want to open an auction house, you naturally have to have an auction of goods, whether it is your own or someone else's consignment. In the beginning, of course, no one would ask him to send the auction, especially since the auction house was a new thing at that time, and most people didn't know what it was, and it needed to rely on a few good products to get off to a good start.

Besides, she had already discussed with Qiu Xiang that the portrait that Tang Bohu gave her would be auctioned first, and then her own people would auction it back at a high price. This is also in line with the rules of the auction industry, sometimes customers come to the door to ask for auction items, even if the auction house takes a fancy to it, they can only sit below and raise a sign to bid, but cannot force the purchase.

The goods must not only be good, but also rich, but also have the trump card of strange goods, the works of these three people naturally belong to the ace level, and the acquisition of a large number of their works must only make money and not lose money. Before, he blackmailed Tang Bohu regardless of his face, and he was also prepared for this.

"That's right. Wen Zhengming said that he now has to guard against the famous flickering**.

"Don't worry, I'll give you the money tomorrow. Besides, he laughed.

Some of his gold and silver have been moved to his own mansion in the Marquis's Palace, and those silver tickets and jewels are naturally among them, and no one runs around with tens of thousands of taels of silver tickets every day, and he doesn't want to carry any million pounds.

How much silver is a million pounds worth?

According to the 1821 AD, the Bank of England officially adopted the gold standard currency system, and 1 pound containing 7.32238 grams of gold. The gold content of a million pounds is two taels of gold, and according to the exchange rate of gold and silver, it is worth 1,460,000 taels of silver. At the beginning of the world, Britain, the richest country in the world, had only three bankers with a million pounds. During the Jiajing period, there were definitely not only three people with more than one million taels of silver, but more than 30 people, and more than 100 people.

Among the millionaires of the Ming Dynasty were imperial merchants such as the Zhou family, foreign trade smuggling merchant families along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian, salt merchants in Yangzhou, and so on. Cao Xueqin's grandfather, Cao Yin, was a weaver in Jiangnan, and the deficit in the treasury of silver amounted to more than 6 million taels or 5 million pounds.

Because there is no silver mine in China, it has always been cheap and expensive, gold has never officially entered the circulation field, the exchange ratio of gold and silver is generally one to eight, or even one to seven, and the silver in the hands of the rich men of the Ming Dynasty has a higher gold content.

Britain's global colonization and global plunder, of course, is because of its pirate nature in its bones, but also because Britain was very poor at the beginning, and even the king had to partner with pirates to plunder and share the spoils, so they looted and plundered everywhere they went.

Zheng He went to the West and had "invited" all the kings and chieftains of most of Asia to Beijing at that time, and established the entire vassal system, but he never plundered the outside world, because the Ming Empire was too rich to disdain plunder.

It's like the U.S. Navy blasting open the gates of Japan with artillery and walking around, and I'm really embarrassed to make money.

After the British Empire opened the door to China, it was revealed that the world's largest treasure house was China, so China experienced nearly a hundred years of humiliation of plundering, being invaded, and semi-colonial.

It wasn't until later that the great man came out of the air and kicked the great powers back to their hometowns one by one in Korea, that these powers began to learn to be honest.

Moreover, they agreed with Tang Bohu and the other three to pay them the silver ticket the next day, and the three of them were a little skeptical, but considering that they had always been flickering and flickering, and the credibility was still completely guaranteed, they put their minds at ease.

After visiting Tang Bohu's new house, everyone was divided into two groups, one group went to live in the inn opened by Wen Bin's family in Nanjing, and one group lived in the outer house of Tang Bohu's new house.

Pomegranate wanted to go to Sisi and Qiuxiang, but she didn't want to go out just when she saw a pair of guards escorting several sedan chairs waiting for her.

It turned out that the little prince sent someone to pick up the pomegranate, and in the sedan chair were the female officials and female guards of the Zhongshan Palace.

This 40-year-old female official Shi Guo knew that when she lived in Zhongshan Wangfu when she was a child, it was this female official who was in charge of her daily life, and she rarely saw her after returning to Suzhou.

The female officer hugged the pomegranate in tears, choked up and couldn't make a sound, with an expression like a mother finding her long-lost daughter, and the people around her were so moved. The female officer couldn't help but say, pulled the pomegranate and got into the sedan chair, and then the whole team turned around, and no one among the people looked at him at all, let alone came up to ask for his opinion.

"It's a cold world. Besides, he clapped his hands and smiled bitterly.

When the sedan curtain was opened, he saw that several female guards sitting inside were all known to him, and they used to talk and laugh a lot, but now they don't even get off the sedan chair, obviously feeling a little embarrassed.

"Boy, your wife has been snatched away. Zhou Dingcheng patted him on the shoulder and teased.

No one expected that Zhou Dingcheng's joke turned out to be a prophecy. More than ten days later, Zhou Dingcheng recalled the scene at that time, and he couldn't wait to chew his tongue and swallow it.

"Whoever wants to grab it, he can grab it. "And I don't think so.

The pomegranate is more independent than him, so there is no question of who grabs the pomegranate, but who the pomegranate approves.

Besides, of course, I didn't expect that there were really people in this world who robbed him of his daughter-in-law, and they robbed it so boldly that he lost his temper.

Here, besides, he and Xiao Nier both returned to the Marquis's Mansion.

The mansion was waiting for him, and the dinner was extraordinarily rich, and the Marquis of Wucheng, who had always returned late, also came to Mrs. Tai's room before the dinner.

In front of a black lacquered nanmu dining table, Mrs. Tai sat at one end, on the left was Guo and Xiao Nier, and on the right were the Marquis of Wucheng and the Marquise.

In ancient times, the original martial arts, so the right, to the right for respect, the sage Wang Xizhi for the first time to the court to seek officials, what he wanted was the right general rather than the left general, so later generations called him the king of the right army, if that fashion left, later generations will have to call him the king of the left army.

Could it be that whatever official he wants, the court will give him what official?

Indeed, Wang Xiemen's disciples were so good in the two Jin Dynasty, and they didn't have any water at all.

There are two factions of maid rings standing behind everyone, and behind Mrs. Tai stands the maid ring who usually waits by her side, and these maid rings go out of this door, even the marquis and his wife have to give three points of face. In the words of the Marquise, even if there is a cat or a dog in the old lady's room, we have to give enough respect, let alone people.

Mrs. Tai is now as black as lacquer, her face has no wrinkles, smooth as porcelain, and her body is full of vitality. The marquise, who was sitting on the right, already had a few faint wisps of white, the corners of her eyes were full of crow's feet, and the flesh on her face was a little loose. If Mrs. Tai did not habitually wear the clothes of the old people in the past, no one would doubt that she was a daughter-in-law in her early thirties.

"Mother, your old man is getting more and more beautiful. Besides, he laughed.

"Little bastard, the old lady dares to be flamboyant. Mrs. Tai reprimanded, but the corners of her eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles.

"Really, I don't believe you ask the eldest brother to see if I'm telling the truth. "Besides, it's the right color.

Wucheng Hou nodded again and again, he didn't dare to say anything, but he was still a little worried in his heart, if one day the old lady really became a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, it would be bad. This is a big deal about the majesty of the Marquis's Palace. He still felt that the old lady who was as silver as snow and wrinkled could better represent the façade of the Marquis's Mansion.

"What about my daughter-in-law who hasn't passed through the door, why hasn't she come to see me yet?" asked Mrs. Tai, drinking tea.

Besides, he had to say that he was cut off by the Zhongshan Palace, and he was also very unhappy about this matter, and it was originally planned that Pomegranate would go to Qiuxiang and spend the last single night with his girlfriend, but the female official of the palace coaxed Pomegranate away with a cheap tear.

Mrs. Tai was furious, put the teacup on the table, and said, "Why did the Duke of Wei invite my daughter-in-law there? Come on, take my post to the Guogong Mansion and bring my daughter-in-law back. ”

A maid at the door answered, and was about to go out to give orders.

Besides, he hurriedly said: "Old lady, Pomegranate also wants to revisit the old place and see the old people in the Guogong Mansion when she was a child." If she doesn't want to go, who can take her away, and the Guogong Mansion will not easily offend my teacher. Besides, doesn't it mean that unmarried women are taboo to enter the man's house before marriage?"

"That's all bad folk customs, we don't pay attention to this in the Marquis's Mansion, and I set the rules at home. Mrs. Tai snorted.

It is naturally not a secret that the little prince was rejected by the pomegranate, and the children of these heroes have long been spread throughout the family, and Mrs. Tai said that their thief heart is not dead.

"By the way, I heard that my daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door is very powerful, often punishes you for kneeling on the washboard, and beats you with a mallet for washing clothes, but is there such a thing?"

Besides, he hurriedly said: "No, how can there be such a thing." ”

"I've heard it all, it can be seen that it has been spread all over the outside, and it is said that you said it yourself, whether there is such a thing, if there is, I have to find your teacher to talk about it. ”

"Not really. "Besides, I can't cry or laugh, this is lifting a stone and hitting myself in the foot.

"Mother, Miss Pomegranate is virtuous, those are all made up by himself, and Miss Pomegranate is crazy because of this. Xiao Nier said.

"Well, since Niel said so, my mother believes you. Why are you arranging your fiancée, because you are afraid of being snatched away?" Mrs. Tai was also puzzled, thinking that she was afraid of someone robbing her, so she arranged her fiancée to disguise herself as the first in history.

Besides, he cried and said: "My son can't help it, too many people in Suzhou want to send their daughters to me with beautiful women, don't use her as a shield, my son doesn't say three thousand in the harem now, three hundred must be there, where can I afford it." Besides, I don't have the energy of my big brother. ”

Wu Chenghou's face changed: "Second brother, what kind of stupid talk is this, why are you putting me in it?"