294 Books are expensive
The first two times, the Jiang family was quite polite, but when they got to the back, they directly chased him with a stick, where was driving people, it was clearly like beating a dog.
Yu Wenyan is a cheeky person, and afterwards it was like nothing happened.
The Tenth Prince looked stunned: "Eleven times, he didn't sleep all night?" ”
The shadow shook his head.
The Tenth Prince asked, "Who else has been?" ”
"Jingnan Hou Shizi, he goes almost once every three or two days, and every time he goes, he doesn't move, but no matter how he goes, he will be arrested. Even when the county lord of Anxi was away, he also entered the right minister's mansion, grabbed it and came out. Later, the Jiang family scolded so badly that they lost face and didn't dare to go again. ”
The Black Shadow is funny when I think about it.
Xu Chengxi was teased by Anxi, and he held his breath and refused to admit defeat there, so he only went to make trouble once in three or two days. What else? ”
"There are also a few gentlemen in the imperial city, who think it's funny, and they also try to climb over the wall to get in, but they are also caught, and a few of them are sent to the government as thieves, and they feel very faceless, and they don't dare to go again." The black shadow paused for a moment, "These are all made when the county lord of Anxi is not there, only to beat Anxi back to the imperial city, the Jiang family has become more and more rigorous, if they catch someone, they will be punished very fiercely." His Royal Highness entered by mistake today and sent you out, which is very polite. ”
On weekdays, when people are caught, they either use sticks to catch them or send them to the government, but they don't save half of their face. When the elders of each family learned about this, they inevitably called their sons to reprimand them.
The Ten Princes walked in front quietly, "I just want to meet people, why are you so difficult?" ”
"His Royal Highness likes the county lord of Anxi, so it is better to ask the virtuous concubine to be the master and let her intercede in front of the emperor."
"No, no. Anxi's marriage is decided by herself, haven't you heard someone say that the emperor has the right to decide her own marriage. The Ten Princes scratched their heads, "What does Yu Wenyan think?" Caught eleven times in one night. I've only been five times in this time, and he's eleven times in one night. ”
Yu Wenyan was sullen in his heart, the Ten Princes, who had always been honest and cowardly, and soft, actually dared to fight Su Yan's idea. He spared him, dared to disturb Su Yan's rest, and had to teach him a good lesson.
The person who stopped him from getting engaged to Su Yan was not the Ten Princes?
Maybe it's Seo Sung-hee?
Yu Wenyan returned to the palace on his left shoulder and slept until dawn.
In a daze, I heard Xiao Anzi push the door into the house, and said in a low voice: "Shizi, aren't you going to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion to attend the birthday banquet?" It's time for the hour. It's not early! ”
Yu Wenyan ignored it, hugged the brocade quilt, and slept soundly. I wanted to throw something and smash Xiao Anzi.
Xiao Anzi said with a smile: "Shizi, can you see the county lord of Anxi at the birthday banquet today?" ”
Anthy? As soon as these two words entered his ears, he opened his eyes in vain.
"Everyone in the Imperial City says that the county lord of Anxi is a beauty, and now the son of the world will also take the slave to open his eyes, right?"
Yu Wenyan grabbed the pillow and flew over. slammed on Xiao Anzi, "Damn! She's also something you can watch? I still want to go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, no way! ”
Xiao Anzi didn't want to go, but just wanted to wake up Yuwenyan. said: "In a while, the prince will go out." ”
He has to go, if he doesn't. What if So-yeon gets angry? Even if she knew that he was a wife, she didn't say anything else, and still chose to be with him. That's what he had to do.
Turning over and sitting up, Xiao Anzi took a handful of palms, and the maid rushed in, preparing warm water and handing the handkerchief. and help him arrange his robe, and arrange the wings of the geese. After Yu Wenyan washed his face, he had one handkerchief after another, and when he rinsed his mouth, he also took one cup after another, only one sip of each cup, put it in his mouth, and spit it out.
The maid opened the wardrobe, the profane clothes were stacked neatly, the middle clothes were hung in the kitchen, the profane pants were placed in layers, the side against the wall was full of his clothes, and she took the silver-gray middle coat, and opened the kitchen cabinet door for the storage of outer robes, and just took out a white python robe, Yu Wenyan said: "Don't be white, take the blue-black python robe." ”
The maid hesitated, Yu Wenyan has preferred plain white robes since she was a child, and she actually wants blue and black at this time.
"You didn't hear me, take the blue-black one."
The maid came back to her senses and took the blue-black python robe, Yu Wenyan glanced at it, the blue-black brocade face, embroidered with a white python, I liked it when I saw it, changed my clothes, took Eguanbo, hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of porridge, and when I arrived at the main hall where the prince lived, the mother and daughter of the princess on the left shoulder sat on the side and talked.
Qingxia was wrapping around the king on her left shoulder: "Father, you take me too, I heard that this birthday banquet is different from the past, and Anxi brought many famous works back home." Even the emperor gave 20,000 taels of silver to buy three books from her? ”
The princess on the left shoulder looked at Qingxia in astonishment, "Where did you hear this?" ”
In the Imperial City, whenever something new happens, it will be spread by people as interesting and outrageous, and it will change its appearance when it is spread too much.
Qingxia likes to listen to the interesting things that happened in their imperial city, and the maids always tell her the rumors and interesting things they heard in order to please her.
The maid said: "Back to the princess, yesterday afternoon, the slave went out to buy and heard from someone." ”
Qingxia took over, "Students have recently rushed to buy "Xie Wenjie's Poetry Collection", which is the first poetry collection printed by the Royal Book Company this year. I heard the girl say that it was only three taels of silver in the morning, and it rose to five taels of silver in the afternoon. When I wanted to buy it, it was already sold out. ”
I don't know what kind of "Poetry Collection" is so popular.
Students are even more proud to have a collection of books like this.
The princess on the left shoulder said: "A book will be sold for three taels of silver, what if it is to rob money?" ”
Three taels of silver can get a lot of money, since a book twenty or thirty lines of money is a common thing, some of the best can buy up to two hundred lines of silver, unless it is a single book, a rare book, or a rare book and then denominated in silver taels.
In the years of natural and man-made disasters, three taels of silver could buy a fifteen or sixteen-year-old daughter of a poor family. Now that the imperial city is peaceful, three taels of silver and a book are really unheard of, and there are still people vying to buy it.
The owner of the shop said that there were only 100 copies of this book in the entire imperial city. Limited sale, the writing is excellent, it is said that the emperor is in accordance with Jiang Shupeng's handwriting. It can be used as a collection of poems and calligraphy, which is why it is sold so expensive. ”
No wonder the emperor was so generous and paid for books, and he actually used it here. The king of the left shoulder smiled: "Who saw the emperor doing a loss-making business?" Well, he bought three books for 20,000 taels of silver, and he didn't know how many 20,000 taels of silver he would earn this time. ”
The Imperial City only got a hundred copies, and the students of the Imperial City Academy and Luming Academy alone added up to more than 5,000 people, as far as he could see, at least half of the people bought this book, and there were a lot of literati who loved books all over the Imperial City, and there should be 5,000 copies in the Imperial City alone, and the store deliberately raised the price in order to make money, only saying 100 copies. In just half a day, it has risen by two taels of silver, which is really jaw-dropping.
Scarcity is expensive, and although the price of books is expensive, students and scholars who love books compete to buy them. Because the court let it go, anyone with some identities and some family businesses should not be proud of having such a book.
The king of the left shoulder was quite puzzled, "How did the emperor start this business?" "I thought that the emperor was fighting with Zhu Wu, but now it seems that the emperor has made up his mind early on.
The prince of a dignified country actually started a book business, and the princess laughed secretly. "Is the treasury short of money now?" It must be a poor amount of silver, otherwise why would the emperor make such a small amount of money.
The king of the left shoulder said: "The emperor wants to build the imperial mausoleum, which requires a lot of money." The Northwest was rebuilt after the war, and taxes were exempted for three years. ”
The treasury really had no money, so the king on the left shoulder listened to the emperor a few times. At the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne, there was a lot of silver in the treasury left by the first emperor, but for so many years, the Yellow River flooded, the Henan locust plague, and the northwest drought ...... The war in the northwest, big and small, which one doesn't need silver, and it's not easy to save some. One amount is allocated here, another one is distributed there, and the treasury is long empty. There was some silver, but it was too little.
"Didn't Xiqi pay 120 million taels of silver?"
"It will be paid in twenty years, and it will only be six million taels a year. Northern Qi is so big, there are many places that need silver, and it is a drop in the bucket. ”
Qingxia was very displeased when she saw her parents getting farther and farther away, "I don't care, my father has to take me today." The people on the street said that everything Anxi brought back this time was a treasure, and I wanted to go and see it. "It's a long way to know.
The princess on the left shoulder felt that she should also go to see the freshness and liveliness, and the family of four dressed up and went out together.
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The Jiang family is particularly lively today. In front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, pedestrians are weaving, cars are like tides, bustling like a street market, a young man in brocade clothes, a man in bright clothes, and a delicate and lovely grandmother...... There is an endless stream, like a rush to the market, from the gate.
Jiang Shukun and his son stood in front of the gate and greeted the guests who entered with a smile.
The emperor spent a lot of money to buy books; The famous Confucian Zhu Wu was obsessed with calligraphy and painting, and refused to leave the Prime Minister's Mansion during the New Year; These undoubtedly gave the things that So-yeon brought back a mysterious look. But all the courtiers who have a little reputation or some status in the imperial city also came, and if they have friendship, they will make friends and then deepen their friendships, and those who have no friendship will find a relationship and climb some friendships, and they will take the opportunity to see the excitement.
On the wall of the living room, more than a dozen framed calligraphy and paintings are hung. All the people went into the room and stood on the wall to savor it.
"Bai Feng's handwriting is really good, it is comparable to a book saint, it is amazing, although it is a word, it looks more like a painting."
""Taoyuan Tu" is even more powerful, so many talented people in the world paint together and leave words, look at them separately, each has its own style, converges in one painting, blends together, and makes people have endless aftertaste......"
The living room, which used to be spacious, is now a little crowded, with people standing in front of each painting.
A "notice board" is posted on the wall to explain that this batch of calligraphy and painting Danqing will be auctioned on the 15th day of the first month in the exclusive auction house, and the silver two will be used to open the "Yiji Medical Center".
Lord Han of the military department was looking at it, and a voice was as low as a mosquito's chirping, "The emperor likes this "Peach Source Map". Between the words, there is a sense of ambition and obtain. When he looked back, he didn't know who came up with such a sentence. But seeing the heads of the people around him, he looked at the officials around him suspiciously, and he was looking at the calligraphy of Bai Feng with all his attention, "Such words make people nostalgic and forgetful." ”