"The Marquis of Qinghe really believed his word, Meng Yun thought that the Marquis of the sky would not come because of the heavy snow!"

Meng Yun seemed to have been waiting at the gate, his fair and delicate face was red from the cold, and when he saw Chen Xu's carriage coming, he hurriedly came up and saluted.

"Meng Gongzi is good, let Meng Gongzi wait for a long time!" After Chen Xu got out of the car, he instructed the servants who came with the car to take down a box of Qinghe wine, a box of fruit vinegar, ten tubes of Ziyunxian tea, and a set of porcelain teacups and dishes, and took Yu Wuya into the Meng Mansion with Meng Yun.

This mansion covers an area is not small, there are dozens of acres, more than 10 houses are made of bluestone bricks, all of them are high eaves and thick tiles, although there is no exquisite style of carving beams and painting buildings in the later Tang Dynasty, but the unified blue and black appear to be incomparably thick and heavy.

"Qinghe Marquis, please!" As Meng Yun walked through a bluestone corridor, through a courtyard, and then saw Meng Yi waiting under the eaves in a courtyard with two pine trees.

"Haha, I heard that the Marquis of Qinghe is coming to visit today, and the old man is already looking forward to it!" Meng Yi strode up in a beautiful coat.

Old man, are you very old? Chen Xu couldn't help but slander, he dared to call himself an old man in his forties.

However, slander is slander, but Chen Xu bowed with an incomparably gentle smile on his face: "Chen Xu has seen Doctor Yushi!" ”

"Eh, the old man of Qinghe Hou can't stand it! The weather is cold, so go into the house and drink tea on the ondol! Meng Yi walked into the room with Chen Xu's arm on his face full of smiles, and he didn't have the unsmiling serious expression on weekdays.

The big kang in the room was very warm, and after a group of servants put down the gifts they brought, they were led to rest, and Yu Wuya was invited by Meng Yun to drink tea in the wing.

"Qinghe Hou sent such a big gift, I am reluctant to refuse! I've heard of this porcelain for a long time, and it's indecently beautiful! Meng Yi looked at gifts such as Qinghe wine and porcelain tea, and held a porcelain bowl in his hand to watch it over and over.

"It's just better, it's not very useful, it's not as good as tea tree oil!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"The Marquis of Qinghe said this, and the imperial physician Xu Fu played the music, saying that the food and wine vessels cast by gold and copper are all poisoned by metal, and persuaded His Majesty to use pottery, wood, jade, and other utensils, and now all the princes and princes and businessmen are buying porcelain, but it is too expensive, and the old man can't afford it!"

Meng Yi picked up more than a dozen pieces of porcelain one by one and looked at them carefully, and from time to time there were fingers gently tapped, listening to the crisp sound with a face full of comfort and satisfaction, obviously very fond of the gift given by Chen Xu.

"Firing porcelain requires special porcelain clay, and now only find a porcelain clay mine, and the output is not large, plus the glaze processing and firing when the heat control is difficult, the output is not high, so the price is more expensive, this is also a helpless thing, as long as you can find a large number of porcelain clay origin, recruit potters to build a large kiln to fire, once the scale expands the output will inevitably soar, and the price will naturally be cheaper, an ordinary porcelain only needs tens of hundreds of dollars, and then ordinary small rich families are also used!" Chen Xu explained.

"Qinghe Hou is not telling the old man, I heard that when the porcelain first came out in the cold winter of last year, ordinary dishes were sold for tens of thousands of dollars in the Qinghe store in Wancheng, although it was a lot cheaper this year, but in the Qinghe store in Luoyang, the cheapest porcelain bowl also costs three thousand yuan, and a set of nine tea sets costs as much as 20,000 yuan, even if the output increases, how can the price be cheap to tens of hundreds of dollars?" Meng Yi put down the porcelain in his hand and looked at Chen Xu with a puzzled face.

"The imperial historian thought about it, Xu only said that ordinary porcelain can be cheap, but exquisite porcelain will only be more expensive, the porcelain that was made at the beginning is blue and white porcelain, the workmanship is simple and the texture is rough and the color is not good-looking, but the so-called rare is expensive, and the natural price is expensive, but now after the continuous improvement of the potter, not only the style of porcelain has more and more complex patterns, the color of the appearance is also more colorful, you see this one......"

Chen Xu picked up a porcelain plate with a diameter of about one foot, pointed to a very abstract color pattern and a small poem in the middle of the plate and said: "Yo Yo Lu Ming, Apple of the Wild Food, I have a guest, drumming and blowing the sheng." A simple poem and a simple painting, just let this porcelain plate add a lot of color, although it seems simple, but it contains six colors of glaze, these glazes are not easy to collect, the production is also quite laborious, and to draw this pattern on the pottery, a skilled painting craftsman takes a few days, and it is inevitable that there will be damage when firing in the kiln, a finished product can be placed in front of you at this time, during which countless manpower and material resources are consumed, the price is expensive and naturally reasonable, and ordinary porcelain is too simple, It can be done by an ordinary helper, and it can be fired in large quantities very cheaply! ”

After hearing this, Meng Yi nodded with his beard and said, "The Marquis of Qinghe is reasonable!" ”

"Hehe, the way of porcelain, after all, is a small way, even if it can be replaced with stoneware tableware, so these porcelains are not a heavy gift, but this Qinghe tea oil has a lot of benefits for the body, and long-term food can strengthen the body and prolong life......"

"Longevity?" Meng Yi's eyes widened suddenly.

"Yes, the mild fragrance of tea oil has the effect of warming the viscera and dredging the blood, and it is more suitable for cooking dishes than the fishy family and beef and mutton fat, but the tea tree fruit is difficult to collect, and the production is also time-consuming, ordinary people are paying attention to exquisite things and ignoring the edible value, tea and tea oil are the top ......."

Chen Xu briefly talked about the health concept of later generations, and finally said: "Xu came to visit Master Meng today, just to thank him for helping to persuade His Majesty to withdraw the reward in the court that day, so that I would not be roasted on the fire!" ”

"The old man just gave a little help for the original offense of the dog, just a word, and he should not be thanked by Qinghe Hou in person!"

"No, I've heard that adults rarely speak easily in the court!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"This matter is not for you alone, the dog was also bewitched by people last time to go to Qinghe Town, and finally caused disaster, but my Montessori is not a soft persimmon that can be manipulated, now the matter has passed, don't talk about it, yesterday the dog went to Houfu to visit Hou Ye, came back and said that Hou Ye is magnanimous, a certain is very grateful, today at home a little wine banquet Hou Ye, a few cups of drink for a while, it is considered that the old man instead of the dog to Qinghe Hou to make amends!"

"My lord's words are serious, Xu is better than obeying his fate!" Chen Xu saluted respectfully, the two sat on the kang and looked at each other and smiled, and the mood in the room was extremely relaxed.

After an hour of eating a wine banquet, Chen Xu was already slightly drunk when he came out of the Mongolian Mansion.

Although the taste of sake in this era is bland and difficult to swallow, it is still possible to get drunk if you drink too much.

Escorted by guards and servants, Chen Xu got into the carriage and said goodbye to Meng Yi's father and son who were sent to the gate, and returned home with a full burp.

Watching Chen Xu's convoy go away in the ice and snow, Meng Yi and his son retracted their eyes.

"Father, the Marquis of Qinghe really returned the IOU of 500,000 yuan to you!" Meng Yun's face turned red with excitement.

"Hmph, you still have the face to ask about this!" Meng Yi snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and turned back to the house.

"Father, I didn't know that someone was secretly tricking me!" Meng Yun followed behind and said nervously.

"Although the Marquis of Qinghe is young, he is by no means an ordinary person, and he will be close to him in the future, you will personally go to the CRRC Mansion and send me a greeting to invite Lord Jiang to have a banquet tomorrow, and say that there is something important to discuss!" Back in the room, Meng Yi personally wrote a letter.

"Yes!" Meng Yun didn't dare to ask more, so he took the letter and drove to the house of Jiang Heng, the commander of the CRRC Mansion.

"Engong, if you return Meng Yun's IOU and confession to Meng Yi, won't you be able to get his handle in the future?" Back at the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, Yu Wuya finally couldn't help but ask.

"This handle is actually a chicken rib, now it's useless, pinching it in your hand will only cause trouble, my identity is different from the past, and if I give Meng Yi back, I will gain a good impression, the so-called peach reciprocation, many things will be able to get his help in the future, the water of Xianyang is too deep, it is easy to stir, but it has to be stirred, and once it is stirred, the entire Daqin pattern will undergo earth-shaking changes, and I can't afford this change alone, first of all, I can't withstand the pressure of Li Si and Feng Quji, The identity of Dr. Yu Shi is stable enough, and with him on top, my pressure is much less! Chen Xu took off his shoes and climbed onto the kang, drinking hot tea and slowly sobering up, and the two little maids sat next to him, one to help him beat his back, and the other to help him beat his legs.

"I don't even have a handle, how can he help you share the pressure of changing the court!" Yu Wuya also climbed to the kang and sat down, and instructed the maid to bring the chess pieces over, open the chessboard, and start placing the chess pieces.

"You guys go down!" Chen Xu waved his hand.

"Yes~Hou Ye~" The four little maids hurriedly got off the kang, and after saluting, they withdrew from the room and closed the door.

Chen Xu said with a slightly serious face: "As long as there are enough interests, all transactions can be reached, although the Mengshi is deeply trusted by the first emperor, but the so-called favor will always be light and heavy, the emperor now trusts the most is the left minister Li Si, if there is no Li Si, there will be no Daqin today's weather, and although Meng Yi is very powerful, but he does not have much power to speak in the court, after all, the imperial historian only has the right to supervise, in fact, he is quite excluded in the court, it can be seen through Mengyun's matter, Meng Yi is very lonely in the court, because no one wants to stand with him, so someone tricked Meng Yun to go to Qinghe Town to snatch papermaking, trying to make me his enemy, and even wanted to borrow his hand to kill me, but unfortunately Meng Yi is not stupid, and when he came back, he dedicated the papermaking technique to the first emperor to eliminate this scourge and become invisible, since he didn't get any benefit from papermaking, why should I use this matter to blackmail him again, I not only returned the IOU and confession to him today, but also gave him a big gift, this gift is enough to impress anyone! ”

"What kind of gift did Engong give him, Meng Yi is Shangqing, what else in the world can move him?" Yu Wuya asked curiously after setting up the chessboard.

"Money!" Chen Xu pouted and said.

"Meng Yi is short of money, it's impossible, right?" Yu Wuya opened his mouth wide.

"Who said that he is not short of money, Meng Yi is the secretary of the Qing Dynasty, but the official rank is only 2,000 stone of grain a year, plus there may be some rewards on weekdays, it is about 100,000 yuan when converted, plus Meng Yun's income is tens of thousands of yuan, but the Meng family has hundreds of people, plus hundreds of guards and domestic servants, dozens of horses, where is it enough for this person to eat horses and chew more than 100,000 yuan, he must not dare to be corrupt and bribe as a doctor of imperial history, so the family seems to be generous, but in fact he is a little miserable, today I observed a little in his house, There is not even a decent set of tea sets, and now almost all the necessary porcelain in the prince's house is the same, and the tea is also ordinary coarse tea, I gave him a few kinds of porcelain on the treasure, now the wine of Fan's Winery has already been listed in large quantities, and the price is only one or two hundred yuan a bottle, but at today's banquet he invited me to drink the most ordinary turbid wine, this turbid wine is afraid that no one has drunk it in Xianyang, and there is the clothes worn by the servants in his house, although they are not tattered, but almost all of them are old clothes, and, The food at the banquet seemed to be sumptuous, but it was all dried fish and bacon, and there was not much fresh ......."

"I also feel the same way when Engong says this, the family of the Imperial Doctor is indeed very poor, too pitiful, and the annual income is only more than 100,000 yuan......" Yu Wuya said with emotion.

He has followed Chen Xu for two years, so he naturally knows what Chen Xu's family was like when he was poor? I also know how terrifying Chen Xu's speed of making money is, the Qinghe store in Wancheng earned millions of dollars on the day it opened, so a Shangqing only has more than 100,000 yuan a year, and he has to feed such a big family, in his opinion, it can only be described as poor and pitiful.

"Hehe, you know now, the so-called power and wealth are not necessarily proportional, but if power and wealth are not proportional, then there will be many problems, after the Great Qin pacified the Six Kingdoms, it is becoming more and more stable, and the elite class is slowly forming, and to be a real magnate, you must have money and food, so that more people can take refuge and help, the Meng family also has food and some commercial properties, not to mention the food yi, hundreds of households will be thousands of stone grain a year, and the value is only tens of thousands of dollars, Therefore, it is still commercial property to feed such a large family, but Daqin's traditional business today is nothing more than salt, iron, grain and cloth, and basically does not make much money, and as a doctor of the imperial history, he naturally has to do business reasonably, and there are few in his hands all year round, and the income of the Meng family is stretched, and the guests are so humble to eat, I gave him a gift with an annual income of millions, do you say he is tempted? ”

"With an annual income of millions, Mo Fei Engong plans to give him the Qinghe store?" Yu Wuya is not calm.

"Qinghe Hotel gave him he didn't dare to ask, this is my name in front of the first emperor, I am ready to partner with him to fire porcelain, there is a huge porcelain clay production area in Jiangxi, once it is developed, it can be made in large quantities, I only participate in this matter and arrange craftsmen to teach skills, the Meng family is responsible for production and sales, as for how he operates, I don't care, but I remind him that this is a super big business, no one can eat the entire porcelain market in Daqin in one bite, it is best to find more people to cooperate!"

"Engong is not afraid that he will find Zhao Gao to cooperate?" Yu Wuya asked worriedly.

Chen Xu shook his head: "No!" Last time Meng Yun went to Qinghe Town to snatch papermaking, the biggest secret promoter was Zhao Gao, I think he would definitely detect some clues behind the scenes, and Zhao Gao is flattering, according to Meng Yi's character, he will never cooperate with him, and he is also Shangqing, he will not look for Li Si and Feng Quji, but no matter who he cooperates with, it will eventually change some of the patterns above the court, which is also good for me! ”

"It seems that I'm worried too much, it turns out that Engong has already thought about this matter, since this is the case, Engong shouldn't just drink tea, come and kill a few dishes with me!" Yu Wuya pointed to the chess that had been set up and said.

Chen Xu's cheeks twitched a few times, jumped off the kang and put on his shoes: "You better find someone else to accompany you, I'll go to the kitchen to make some bean sprouts, and I'm about to vomit when I eat dried vegetables and pickles every day!" ”

"What are sprouts?" Yu Wuya became interested when he heard this, jumped off the kang and hurriedly put on his shoes and followed Chen Xu to the kitchen.