The sales office is a small two-story wooden building, which was completed in a few days, and both the exterior and the interior decoration look relatively rough.

At this time, Xu Qilin and Ma Daji were drinking tea and chatting on the second floor.

Although he admired Xu Qilin's whimsical idea of pre-selling houses, Secretary Ma still had some doubts. After all, this is a new thing, just an empty place where the foundation has not yet been made, and with a few leaflets, someone will come to buy it?

Therefore, there was nothing important after the dispersal of the dynasty today, so Ma Dabi rode out of the city on horseback and came to visit first.

Today, too, is the pre-sale showcase. On the first floor, there are a lot of people who come to see, those who really want to buy a house, and those who inquire about the price and delivery date.

When Ma Daji saw the miniature model of the building on the first floor, all his original doubts were dispelled.

The large and small buildings are carved out of wood and are lined up from east to west, with the south ones numbered according to the south one and south two, and the north ones north one and north two.

According to the number, on the other wall is the specific content of the building, what area, floor, price, etc.

In this way, it is not full of empty eyes, and you can only guess what the future floor will look like from your imagination, which can be said to be clear at a glance.

Moreover, there are more than 100 buildings on both sides of the road, but only half of them are pre-sold, and they are all large and small. The remaining buildings are also clearly stated, after completion, they will only be rented and not sold, and they will be auctioned openly, and the rental contract will be signed every two years.

Savvy people immediately understand the meaning: one is a one-time investment, a lifelong benefit; The other is to go with the market, and the rent rises and falls.

Not to mention lifelong benefits, even if you have been doing business for more than ten years, or even in a shorter period of time, the money to buy a house can almost offset the rent. Wouldn't continuing to operate in the future be equivalent to saving a lot of room fees?

There is another point that makes people who come to visit have to admire the calculation of this operator.

According to the regulations for buying a house, the day after tomorrow will be opened for pre-sale, if there is only one person to buy a house, it will naturally be sold at the marked price; If there are more than one person competing for a house, then I'm sorry, let's bid, the one with the highest price wins.

This is somewhat similar to the hunger marketing of later generations, artificially reducing the quantity of goods and creating the illusion that "supply exceeds demand".

But it's not an illusion, I'm afraid it's only in the market, in terms of the number of houses purchased.

Secretary Ma was accompanied by Xu Qilin on the first floor and looked around, and most of his original worries were eliminated. In this way, even he felt that it was not easy to buy a shop. Not only are there not many listings, but there is also a high probability of competing with others.

Ma Dabi may not be able to speak modern terms, but what he buys is what he earns, and it seems to be a similar mentality.

Now relieved, Secretary Ma was invited upstairs by Xu Qilin again, served tea, and chatted.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the fashion of tea drinking was limited to the southeast and southwest, and there were very few tea drinkers in the north, mostly concentrated in temple monks.

However, the tea-making technology has been improved compared with the Western Han Dynasty, and cake tea has been developed, which is made by steaming and pressing it, which retains the aroma and contents of the tea well.

Xu Qilin bought cake tea from the temple, but did not use the sencha method at that time, that is, boiling tea, but used the tea brewing method, which was also called tea in the Song Dynasty.

Ma Daji watched Xu Qilin grind the cake and tea into minced form, put it into the tea bowl, inject a small amount of boiling water to make a paste, and then pour boiling water, and stir it with a tea whisk, and the tea powder gradually floated up to form porridge noodles.

Actually, it's already a lot like matcha. Anyway, Xu Qilin is too lazy to study, it tastes good to drink like this, then he is an expert, a grandmaster, who let the tea saint Lu Yu not be born yet, who let the tea that originated in the Song Dynasty not appear!

Ma Dami took the tea soup that Xu Qilin held in both hands, sipped it gently, tasted it carefully, and said with a smile: "Qi Lin's method of blending tea is indeed novel, this taste is okay." ”

Xu Qilin smiled and said: "Drinking tea is good for your health, a lazy person doesn't take the cumbersome of boiling tea, so he uses this brewing method, which also has a different taste." ”

Ma Dami smiled and said, "Qi Lin can always be ingenious, but it is rare to use it in practice. ”

Xu Qilin said: "I also entrusted the merchants in the city and asked them to help purchase tea from all over the south. When it arrives, it will be given to Brother Ma for daily drinking. ”

Ma Da Mi bowed his hand to express his gratitude, and said with some uncertainty: "Don't hide it from Qi Lin, if you have a thirst-quenching disease, whether it is suitable for drinking tea, you have to ask a doctor for consultation." ”

Thirst-quenching?!

Xu Qilin blinked his eyes and thought about it, it seems to be what later generations called diabetes, right?

Even more than a thousand years later, diabetes is still an incurable disease, and the best way to maintain the current level of medical care can only be to delay and maintain it!

Seeing Xu Qilin frowning and thinking, Ma Zhou said disapprerovingly: "Qi Lin doesn't have to think about it, this disease is not a big deal." ”

Xu Qilin did not immediately summon the soul to prescribe a prescription for Ma Da's secret pulse. Anything, that's not a monster?

"This-" Xu Qilin hesitated and said, "I heard that people with this disease should eat less sweets, less rice grains, and less alcohol. As for drinking tea, it seems to be no hindrance. ”

Ma Dami smiled and nodded, he didn't want to discuss the treatment with Xu Qilin, he didn't understand, and he thought that Xu Qilin wouldn't understand.

"Your Majesty gave Qi Lin several volumes of "Pipe" yesterday, can Qi Lin know what it means?" Ma Zhou drank tea and diverted the topic.

Xu Qilin speculated and said: "Your Majesty may have heard about a pre-sale house and built it with fundraising, and appreciated that a certain person is good at management, so you can learn from the sages and make more progress!" ”

Ma Zhou gently put down the tea bowl and said, "Qi Lin thinks so, it's not wrong. But do you know that Your Majesty may still have hopes? ”

"I want to hear about it." Xu Qilin asked for advice.

During this time, he was busy with real estate, and Xu Qilin really didn't know much about the affairs in the court.

This is not good, the major domestic and international affairs are not clear, His Majesty Li Er's psychology and intentions are not analyzed and judged, and the supreme instructions are not carefully figured out and understood, so can it still be mixed?

Xu Qilin made self-criticism, reviewed his mistake of not caring about social development and national affairs, and listened carefully to Secretary Ma Da's account of several major events that have happened recently.

Tubo sent an envoy to ask for relatives, this matter involves the country's policy guidelines, and it is not something that Xu Qilin can influence.

Just imagine, even the emperor and ministers don't think that this marriage is humiliating, and you impassioned go on the platform and say "no tribute, no compensation, no harmony", isn't that deliberately distorting the difference between marriage and harmony, and looking for your own draw?

Of course, it is possible to operate in the matter of giving marriage to Tibet. At the very least, we can't send so many skilled craftsmen to Tibet and give such useful good books.

Probably, probably, perhaps, China's silk craftsmanship, which has been monopolized by secrecy for thousands of years, was leaked to Central Asia because of the marriage to Tibet.