Well...... It's not a good sign that the weather is so good today, but a few big stars are flickering and dimming. Ling Hao looked at the few flickering stars in the sky, and always felt a little bad premonition.

"By the way, you go and inform Xuanqing in a few days, and say that I want to find her to try my luck in the Taozhu Pavilion to see if there are any antiquities that can be used. ”

The so-called Tao Zhu Pavilion actually refers to Fan Li, the master of Yue Guotianfeng.

Fan Li (536 B.C.-448 B.C.), the word Shaobo, Huaxia nationality, Chu State Wandi Sanhu (now Taohe Township, Xichuan County, Nanyang). Politician, military strategist, economist and Taoist scholar in the late Spring and Autumn Period. He once offered advice to help King Goujian of Yue to restore the country, and then disappeared. He is the author of two articles of "Fan Li", which are not available today.

Fan Li was an early Chinese business theorist and one of the pioneers of Chuxue. It is revered by later generations as "Shang Sheng" and "one of the five saints of Nanyang".

Although he was born poor, he was erudite and talented, and he knew Chu Wanling and had a deep friendship. Because he was dissatisfied with the political darkness of Chu at that time and the fact that non-nobles were not allowed to enter the country, he defected to the Yue State together and assisted the Yue State Goujian. Legend has it that he helped Gou Jian to rejuvenate the Yue Kingdom and destroy the Wu Kingdom, and he would be ashamed of it.

After becoming famous, he retreated bravely, and his pseudonym was Yizipi, wandering between the seventy-two peaks.

During this period, he became rich three times in business and scattered his family wealth three times. Later, he settled in Taoqiu of the Song Kingdom (now south of Dingtao District, Heze City, Shandong Province), and called himself "Tao Zhugong".

The world is well-known: "Loyalty to the country, wisdom to protect oneself, business to get rich, and become famous all over the world." Many businessmen in later generations worshipped his statue and revered him as the god of wealth. Fan Li is the great-great-grandson of Fan Wuzi, the ancestor of the Fan surname, and is regarded as the ancestor of the Shunyang Fan family.

Not only that, Fan Li himself is also known for his long life, and he lived to the age of 88 and died.

Legend has it that after Fan Li helped Goujian, the king of Yue, successfully restore the country, he immediately left the Yue country. He wrote a letter to Wen Chong from the State of Qi, saying: "The bird is exhausted, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackey cooks." The king of Yue is a long-necked bird beak, and he can share hardships and hardships, but not joys. Why don't you go?" to the effect that when the bird is finished, the good bow and arrow will be put away. When the cunning rabbits are caught, the hounds are boiled. King Yue is insidious and scheming.

You can share in his suffering, but you can't enjoy it together. Why don't you leave quickly? After receiving the letter, Wen Chong said that he was ill and could not go to court, but in the end he did not escape the fate of death.

But Fan Li expected this early, I have to say, this is his most prescient place, and the bird bow hiding has since become an idiom, metaphor after the fact, kick away or eliminate the people who have made a difference. Many famous ministers in later generations took this as a warning.

In the twenty-fourth year of King Jing of Zhou (496 B.C.), the battle of Li (now Jiaxing, Zhejiang) occurred between Wu and Yue, resulting in the death of King Wu Lu, and since then the two countries have been grudges and have been in war for many years. In the twenty-sixth year of King Jing of Zhou (494 B.C.), the son of Lu Lu sent a decisive battle with Yue in Fujiao (now Mashan, Taihu Lake, Wuxi) to avenge his father, and the king of Yue Goujian was defeated, leaving only 5,000 soldiers to flee into Huiji Mountain.

Fan Li then defected to Yue at the end of Gou Jian's road, and he told Gou Jian the assertion that "Yue will prosper, Wu will be defeated", and admonished: "Stoop down to the king of Wu, Xu Tu turns." After being worshiped as a doctor, he accompanied Gou Jian and his wife as slaves in Wu for three years, "endure to hold on to the will, so to be strong, the queen should not be sad, and the ministers will be encouraged!"

When he returned to China three years later, he and Wen Chong planned to revive the Yue and destroy Wu Jiushu, and was the planner and organizer of the "Ten Years of Life and Gathering, Ten Years of Lessons" in the Yue Kingdom.

In order to implement the strategy of exterminating Wu, which is also one of the nine "beauty schemes", Fan Li personally trekked through mountains and rivers, and finally visited Xi Shi, a strange woman with both virtue and beauty, in the Huansha River of Ramie Mountain, and wrote a legendary chapter in history in which Xi Shi was deeply aware of the righteousness and dedication to the king of Wu, and the inner and outer should be together to destroy Wu. Fan Lishi Yue Wang Goujian for more than 20 years, hard work, died in the destruction of Wu, achieved the hegemony of Yue Wang, and was respected as a general.

Gou Jian destroyed the state of Wu, and on the night of the celebration wine, Fan Li, who had a great merit, quietly took Xi Shi, secretly went out of Qimen, got on the small wooden boat of Uncle Ade who had been waiting there for a long time, crossed the moat, turned around, and went straight to Taihu Lake. When they arrived at Wuli Lake on the north side of Taihu Lake, they saw that the scenery here was beautiful, the mountains and rivers were beautiful, so they built a few grass houses and lived incognito. During this period, Wen Chong was killed, and Fan Li moved to other places three times in order to save his life, but because Xi Shi loved the scenery of the five lakes very much, the two finally settled in West Lake.

Fan Li came to Qi State, changed his name to Yizi Skin, and settled on the seaside. He worked hard and engaged in side jobs (fishing, salting), and soon accumulated tens of millions of properties.

Fan Li squandered wealth with righteousness, and was good at Xiangzi, his wisdom and ability were appreciated by the Qi people, and the king of Qi invited him into Linzi, the capital of the country, and worshiped the Xiangguo who presided over government affairs. He sighed: "The official is to the prime minister, and the family can be a daughter, and for a self-made cloth, it has reached the extreme."

Being honored for a long time is probably not an auspicious sign. So, only three years later, he retreated again, returned the Xiangyin to the King of Qi, and scattered all his wealth to his friends and fellow villagers. Dressed in cloth, Fan Li migrated to the Song Dynasty for the third time (now in the south of Heze Dingtao District), in this "in the middle of the world" in the Song Kingdom's best place to do business, the art of planning to govern the property, not out of a few years, business accumulation and become a huge wealth, so he called himself "Tao Zhu Gong"......

The legend is quite similar to the records of later generations, the only difference is that Fan Li since he found that he had no hope of breaking through the grandmaster, the second half of his life was completely focused on business and longevity, it is said that Fan Li's original intention to establish the "Tao Zhu Pavilion" was to refine the first longevity pill in ancient times - Changchun Dan.

As the name suggests, this is an elixir that can keep people young for a long time, and according to the records of the ancient book "Shang Dan Jing" in this world, only a few people have successfully refined this elixir.

The Yellow Emperor Ji Xuanyuan gained a long lifespan of 400 years because of taking Changchun Pill, so he had the opportunity to become the legendary supreme master, and thus gained a lifespan of 3,000 years, and finally flew out of the sky to prove the immortal path......

Emperor Yao gained the right to rule because of the Changchun Pill, and everyone was convinced, just because Emperor Yao was the most famous alchemy master in this world, although it has become a legend, but it is still infinitely sought after and worshiped by other alchemists in this world.

But Fan Li obviously didn't have this luck, and in the end he still didn't refine this kind of elixir that had become a legend, and finally had to die with such regrets.

Despite this, he inadvertently pointed out another clear path for the descendants of this world: in addition to those life-prolonging pills that only exist in legends, looking for the antiquities in the tombs of the ancient great masters can indeed use the spiritual qi contained in some of the artifacts and antiquities to nourish themselves, so Fan Li was able to live to be nearly ninety years old.

Therefore, in the evolution of hundreds of years, the Taozhu Pavilion has gradually changed from an occasion for gathering alchemists to study longevity elixirs together, to an organization that collects antiquities all over the world and refines antiquities for their own use.

In other words, it has changed from a public institution to a niche institution.

Originally, the Taozhu Pavilion was open to everyone, as long as they were alchemists, no matter what country they came from, no matter whether they were men or women, no matter their rank, no matter what status they were, they could come here and study with their colleagues how to refine more efficient and healthier longevity pills.

Now, hundreds of years later, it has become a niche occasion that is only open to ancient secrets and tomb artifacts, and unless you meet someone more powerful than the owner of the building, you will not let people enter casually.

However, the children of the nobility can pay the entrance fee and enter the venue to observe, and take out some antiquities that you can't see on weekdays, although most of the exhibits are fakes, but there are also genuine products mixed in, but there are few noble children who can pick the real ones at a glance.

Moreover, the Taozhu Pavilion is not open every day, it is usually open once every seven days, in addition to exhibiting antiquities, it can even privately trade antiquities collected by the children of the nobles on both sides, but in this case, an auction will be held.

And there is more than one such Taozhu Pavilion, and it is found in the Seven Kingdoms, and even among the large and small countries.

The most famous Taozhu Pavilion is located in the Luoyi School Palace, which is also the only Taozhu Pavilion in the world that is open to the public all day.

The reason for this situation is actually like the difference between the headquarters and branches of the auction in later generations.

As the headquarters, the force here is naturally higher, it is said that the guide car used by the Yellow Emperor was auctioned here, although it is not sure whether it is true or false, but it is such a thing, but it was auctioned for a price of 400,000 gold.

Although it is not real gold, it is only synthetic Sidkin, but 400,000 gold is indeed not a small amount, and it is conceivable that such a large amount of Sidgold can be taken out at once, you can imagine what a huge horror family such a family must be.

Regarding the Tao Zhu Pavilion, there was only so much information that Ling Hao had collected and heard about so far.

And the most important thing that made Ling Hao notice it was that there were often some quaint swords from the Xia and Shang dynasties and even the Yellow Emperor period, as well as antiquities such as copper furnaces, which might be useful in the future.

"Tao Zhu Mansion, Childe, with our financial resources, I'm afraid we won't be able to get back a single antiquity, right?"

"Of course I understand this, so I wanted to take the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to acquire some quaint swords and accessories that no one else noticed, and maybe I could use them later. ”

"If it's just a simple sword, there are a lot of them in the Taozhu Pavilion, but most of the ones on display are fakes, and the real ones are mixed in, and many people are deceived because of this, so it's better to buy some jewelry......," Yao Rong said.

"Okay, anyway, you have to pass this news on for me, so that we can have a chance to pick the real thing......"

"Yes. ”