In the past few days, Tian Yumao has been reading and writing in the house, but in his heart he is three points nervous and seven points eager. 【Latest chapter reading. On the contrary, Ma Xicao's days in Beijing can be said to be the most comfortable time in his life, others are "proud of the spring breeze", he is "a fire in winter", and the whole capital is a boom.

Except for a few people in the whole Beijing, everyone saw Ma Xicao either nodding and greeting each other with a smile, or calling him a brother and a brother, hooking his shoulders and back, and opening his mouth to "greet the prince". Moreover, he doesn't have to care about what other people think in their hearts, and he doesn't have to calculate whether there are any traps in it. No matter whose mansion he went to, he was a VIP without accident, and he tasted the taste of this prince for the first time in his life.

This rare respect certainly made him full of face, but the mountains of gold and silver in front of him also shone in his eyes.

What's going on? In what Ma Xicao said to the thorn in private, the reason can be partially explained: there is no lack of money in life, what is lacking is the vision to discover money.

Under the recommendation of the thorns, Ma Xicao had a zero-distance intimate contact with the flowers and young people of the Khitan nobles. There is a saying that communication is the basis for greater understanding. I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it. After going back and forth with the Khitan nobles for entertainment and partying a few times, Ma Xicao despised these Khitan nobles from the bottom of his heart.

Why? Because, in Ma Xicao's view, these aristocratic young masters of the Khitan are simply rural rich people who have never seen the world, Gan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine and other northern and southern dishes; None of these people have eaten it, bamboo leaf green, rice flower fragrance and other famous wines in the world, these people have not drunk it; Silk silk, lake silk and Hunan brocade, these people rarely wear them; jade agate, jade pearl, these people have no knowledge; Even when I went to the kiln to drink flower wine, there was no sound of silk and bamboo, and there was no Jiangnan female voice that was still in the air.

To paraphrase a phrase in the 21st century, the biggest problem facing the Khitan nobles and young masters is that the development of the Khitan productive forces is far from being able to meet the actual needs of the Khitan layer. These young masters can't lead dogs and eagles when they go out, and they don't have flower-like maids and servants to serve them when they enter the mansion, and they are too backward to hunt and roast whole sheep all day long.

The performance of the Khitan nobles made Ma Xixu, the prince of Great Chu, who came from thousands of miles away, suddenly discover the problem: these nobles are not without money, but they don't know how to spend it. It has been forty or fifty years since the founding of the Khitan, and the aristocratic tycoons have robbed countless gold and silver treasures from the Central Plains and the Bohai State in the past, but he just did not develop a correct concept of consumption, and one by one they would rather put these gold and silver treasures in the treasury to mold than take them out to stimulate domestic demand.

To put it bluntly, the Khitans are a matter of mindset. For many years, I have eaten beef and mutton, worn sheepskin coats, and grazing for a living when the wind and rain are good. In the minds of the Khitan people, they are full of ideas that they are not hungry when they are full, they are not cold when they are warm, and they are going to grab them without food or clothing. In terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation, they have not yet formed a good concept of consumption, and they rarely pick whether the clothes look good or not, and how many kinds of food they taste.

And Ma Xicao was born in the south, and after arriving in the Khitan, he was still regarded as a "master", so there was a contrast in his mind immediately, he felt uncomfortable, looking at the clothes worn by the nobles of the Khitan were not as awkward as the clothes worn by the people of Wangcheng County. It's true that I am a prince, but you are also the royal relatives of the Khitan, high-ranking officials and nobles, you don't pick and choose to eat or wear, Ma Xixu felt awkward from the bottom of his heart. Coincidentally, I don't know what kind of considerations Ma Yun has, from cooks, doctors, tailors, dancers, servants, etc., he equipped Ma Xicao with a complete set of servants. So that Ma Xicao can take the Khitan nobles to fully appreciate the Jiangnan style. This Khitan playboy is like Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden, bizarre and immersed in it all of a sudden. Set off a fashion trend in Khitan. In the streets and alleys, I often hear people talking: "Dude, did you wrench your fingers today?" "Of course you have a wrench, did you buy a folding fan?"

In this, it's better to stab this guy's brain. He saw that everyone was fascinated by the things in Jiangnan, and immediately discovered the business opportunities in it, and he immediately asked Ma Xicao to discuss. The two hit it off, and compared with the high-priced carriages, the southern silk, jade carvings, tea, ceramics, small ornaments, etc., were larger in the Khitan market. The two boats of gifts that Ma Yun gave to Ma Xicao were exchanged for real money by Ma Xicao in an instant. It stands to reason that the things rewarded by the emperor can never be taken out and sold for money, which is a taboo thing, but I don't know if it is Ma Yun's negligence, neither the edict issued a reward, nor did he send someone to pass on the royal gift, that is, when the uncle and nephew chatted, they said that they would send it.

In other words, the gadgets of the two boats are not in Ma Yun's eyes, he probably considered that Ma Xicao would have to sit on the boat for a long time, and in order to prevent Ma Xicao from being too bored, he rewarded these things to relieve his boredom. Although there are a lot of these things, they are really not worth much money in Jiangnan, and if they are rewarded with a big fanfare, Emperor Ma Yun may feel a little embarrassed, so he is rarely confused. But no one thought that the Khitan nobles would fall so quickly, and no one expected that those two boats of gadgets would be sold for an unexpected large price. Ma Xixu was able to wake up happily even from sleeping.

Of course, as a veteran playboy, Ma Xicao still has a strong work ethic. Although he led a group of people to fall, the more he fell, the happier he became. No, just after noon, Ma Xicao dragged two novel things into his arms, and went out in a carriage, ready to continue to find the thorns and others to study and study, happy.

Although, the Khitan people have also had a trend of sinicization in the past two years, and there are also eight people in the house who carry a sedan chair. But Ma Xixu just likes to make carriages. There are a lot of Khitan sedan chairs, but such a big and dazzling carriage, the whole capital can't find a few, from the comfort point of view, it is more comfortable than the Khitan Emperor Yelu Jing's dragon chariot.

He went out of the mansion gate, bypassed the mouth of the alley, and headed towards Xicheng. As soon as he was halfway there, he heard someone shouting: "This is the carriage of the Chu thief, and if you kill the Chu thief, you will be rewarded." Immediately after, there was a "ping-pong" fight, and Ma Xicao was startled in the carriage, how could there be an assassin!