After returning to the City Lord's Mansion, the two soldiers who followed, that is, the soldiers of the Elder's Mansion, put down the two boxes of things and left.

Mo Yu also thanked him gently, and then ordered Jiang Liang to open the two boxes of things, this time he was finally able to take a good look, to be honest, Mo Yu still had a little itch in his heart.

More or less I still want to see the specific things in it, although I don't want to covet the property, but I still want to watch some celebrity calligraphy and paintings.

Then Jiang Liang opened the two boxes of things with a knife again.

The silk on it is not something that Mo Yu cares about, because Mo Yu does not have much attachment to this kind of outward clothing, and directly gets the innermost and largest painting.

Mo Yu suddenly thought that the clothes on it could only be used to cover this painting, and then shook his head and smiled, the gap between people is really huge.

Then I opened this calligraphy painting with Jiang Liang, the width of this painting is not particularly wide, but the length is indeed very long, and it is almost to cover the length of half of the room.

It is a huge landscape painting, which accurately describes the length of a river, and when looking at this landscape painting, Mo Yu can't be very precise to determine whether it is true or false.

But one thing is certain, whether the painting is real or fake, the value is quite high, after all, copying is not an easy thing.

As for the value gap between the real and the fake, it is very large.

Mo Yu doesn't know much about this either, after all, the academy is not omnipotent, and sometimes it needs his own experience.

So Mo Yu smiled and asked this Jiang Liang: "In your opinion, do you see whether this painting is real or fake?"

Jiang Liang didn't ask why these two boxes of things came back unsealed, but just helped Mo Yu unfold this painting, and then Jiang Liang said softly after reading these words: "Although Zai Xia is not a connoisseur, but because he has worked in the Elder's Mansion for a long time, he can be regarded as knowing some calligraphy and painting and other things, this calligraphy and painting, the original painting was painted by Zhang Dongyang of the Northern Dynasty."

The reason why Mo Yu asked Jiang Liang was that he definitely knew Jiang Liang's strength, Mo Yu knew that although Jiang Liang's martial arts were not high, his knowledge was actually far wider than his own, although there were not many people who made friends, but he still heard a little about some upper-level friends, so Mo Yu asked Jiang Liang.

Mo Yu's appreciation of this painting is particularly high, and he also knows that it was written by people from the Northern Dynasty, and he still wants to know whether it is true or false.

Jiang Liang continued to express his opinion: "In terms of the degree of the old and the new, the time is roughly the same, the white part of the paper is yellowed, and the degree of yellowing I touched with my hand just now, and it is not caused by other substances."

Mo Yu also understands this, when someone makes fake calligraphy and paintings, there will always be some materials to replace this era, but it is difficult to imitate 100% of the things washed by time, so there is still a big gap in front of people who know how to do it.

This knowledgeable person is like Jiang Liang.

Jiang Liang continued: "The degree of new and old is about the same, but although Zhang Dongyang was not particularly famous in the Northern Dynasty at that time, there were not a few people who copied this painting later, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is true and chronological."

Mo Yu also nodded, when this painting was painted, I was poor, so some people would not copy this thing, after all, it didn't make money.

But once it became famous, this kind of calligraphy and painting was basically at a sky-high price, so naturally some people would choose to copy it at that time.

The age gap is not particularly far, for the gap between my calligraphy and painting and modern times, as well as the gap between fake paintings and modern times, the gap between the two is not much of a gap.

Therefore, judging from the chronology should not be a particularly correct thing, or it can only be dealt with as a small factor.

Mo Yu continued to listen to Jiang Liang's analysis: "Otherwise, I'm afraid that when you don't want to be true or fake, I will look at some discriminators when they identify and don't look at the shape, the meaning is right, then this painting is real, in my opinion, the meaning is really so similar, this is specifically not daring to make a judgment, after all, there are many geniuses in the world, no one dares to conclude that no one can completely imitate the intention of the painting, but one thing is completely certain, that is, even if this painting is a fake, the degree of value is far from what I imagined. The main thing about this painting was copied from that era. ”

In fact, although this call is nonsense, and it seems to be well organized in the front, the final conclusion is that I am not sure, maybe it is true.

But this passage is certainly not nonsense, it has already explained the age of the painting, and also explained the degree to which the painting says a value, but it seems that this value range is a bit large.

Then Mo Yu and Jiang Liang gently put the painting down, and then continued to look at the next thing.

However, Mo Yu asked Jiang Liang softly: "If it is true, what is the value of this painting?"

Jiang Liang obviously has more say in this kind of thing: "If you divide it, 100,000 Yu, even if it is high, if it is handled properly, it is not a problem to go up to twenty, after all, this thing is a masterpiece, and some people will never sell it no matter how much money others pay."

Mo Yu was still a little stunned by this price, because the Lin family, a small city lord, dared to buy it at such a price, it seems that the Lin family's power and its financial resources are by no means as simple as they seem.

Then Jiang Liang said again: "Even if it is a fake, take it out and sell it directly, if you say that this painting is a fake, the value should be about 30,000 yuan."

It's not low, and that's what the money of ordinary merchants looks like.

The rent of a merchant in the center of the city is about the size of the city lord's mansion, and the rent for a year is 30,000 yu.

Then Mo Yu opened another word, the value of this word must be far small, Mo Yu can be sure that this word is genuine, the age is a little shorter, and there is a little meaning between the lines.

It is about a few thousand, and I believe that the Lin family should be quite generous to give this thing, because the value of this thing should not be particularly high for the Lin family.

And according to the scope of Mo Yu's identification, it should be within the range of strength.

Then Mo Yu took out all the two big boxes of things, looked at them lightly, and browsed them slightly, most of them were calligraphy and paintings, as for the silk things, there was more space.

According to Jiang Liang's estimate just now, the value of these things can be at least about fifteen or sixteen Yu Yuan, and the cost is already quite high.

Merchants are not so afraid of housekeepers, at least from a policy point of view, they don't need to be afraid.

Once the rent is higher than the rent set by the official, they only need to report it to the outside world, and it is not impossible to petition at the next level.

Even if there is malicious competition, it can be reported, and this kind of thing is allowed to be sued, and there is no place for calmness.

Unless the person in charge of the city can shut up all the merchants, such a means is unlikely to be achieved in the short term.

Therefore, the degree of fear of the official family in the results of the merchants, at least from the policy point of view, there should be no need to be afraid, plus the rent is quite reasonable in every city, most people are willing to accept it, and they can also lower some standards through the threshold of rent.

Therefore, the city is still in a dynamic and stable state.

Therefore, the degree of hospitality of merchants to the official family should have reached a low point in the transition of all those in power.

This manifestation is manifested in the fact that I respect but am not afraid, I can defeat but it is not necessary, and there is no need to do unnecessary things.

Another thing that the top level of the polar country has done very well is to eliminate or make this behavior very rare from the source.

That is the problem of rent, and it can be seen from the degree of rent that they have a clear understanding of the extent of the affordability of each city merchant.

There will not be a situation where the competition for each merchant is very fierce, this lot is beyond your tolerance, so you don't need to compete, then consider the next level of competition, but when you get to the next level, you will find that there are not many competitors at all, and you can also be within your own acceptance range.

Some of the top-level merchants, that is, those who can accept such a high rent, so naturally there is no malicious competition.

Since there is no such thing as malicious competition, it means that there is no need to make a communication with the elders, because if I don't rent, there will be no one to rent, and you will reduce the tax situation in some cases.

So in some cases, it is even said that the official family has to take care of the psychology of the business.

Of course, this is the case on the surface, at least in terms of policy.

As for what kind of fermentation situation will be produced, it still depends on the time of adaptation of this policy, after all, it is only one or two hundred years.

Two generations or so is still not very visible.

But as it stands, it seems that something has really been eliminated.

Elder Duan's behavior cannot be said to be a challenge to the policy, but according to Elder Duan's statement, it can be seen that the above is a bit disgusted with the high status of merchants.

That is, it is time to slaughter the sheep.

That's why Mo Yu dared to accept these bribes so boldly.

Then he divided these things into two boxes, and prepared some things of higher value or things that he liked more for himself.

There are some things that Jiang Liang can't bear either, so Mo Yu still knows this, and Mo Yu also believes that Jiang Liang also knows this situation, which means that Mo Yu believes that Jiang Liang will not have that kind of hatred in his heart.

Then Mo Yu said to Jiang Liang: "Take these things with you when you go back today, this box of things is for you, you've been with me for so long, and there is nothing that can be given away, today is finally a chance."

Jiang Liang hurriedly said: "It's really hard to accept, Jiang Liang didn't make too many contributions, and he didn't dare to accept such a major gift, so I hope that the city lord will collect it himself."

Mo Yu laughed: "Originally, I sent these things to the Elder's Mansion, but I took them back intact, which means that I dare to take them, and you don't have any guilt, since I can deliver them to you, it means that I have no purpose of harming you, and I think you can rest assured that you have been with me for a year or two, and I do feel more guilty, so you have been dealing with it for so long but there is no oil and water to fish, sometimes it is human nature, these things are of relatively low value, so you can take them, If you say you are willing to collect, then collect, if you are willing to sell, then sell, rest assured that no one will track you. ”

Since everything has been said about this, and some things that should be said are said and things that should not be said, Jiang Liang is also a reasonable person, and he probably heard the clues in this, so he had to accept it and thank him loudly.

Mo Yu didn't have any thoughts about sorting out his official duties all of a sudden, and now he put all his mind on the study of these calligraphy and paintings, so he planned to go to the library in the city to find some identification methods for these calligraphy and paintings, which could be regarded as elegant.

Just now, the official organization was almost the same, and some were relatively lazy and wanted to hand it over to Jiang Liang to deal with, so they said that they would go to the library leisurely.

After arriving at the library pavilion, he paid some deposits, got some notes, and brought his favorite books back to the city lord's mansion.

Then I looked at it with relish in the city lord's mansion, and naturally saw some history of these calligraphy and paintings, and some descriptions of the authenticity of calligraphy and paintings.

Although the knowledge in the book is all based on imagination, and the specific operation still depends on practice, practice comes from theory, and it is still necessary to understand it more or less, otherwise it will not make people laugh when they practice.

After Jiang Liang read the book Mo Yu was reading, he also smiled and provided some opinions: "If the city lord wants to go to the bottom of the private investigation, I suggest that the city lord go to the largest pawnshop in the thirty-nine cities to have a look, the discriminators in it are all human spirits, if they are willing to collect, it will also prove the authenticity of the calligraphy and painting, and even discuss some details, which can also make the city lord have a hint of eye-opening."

After Mo Yu heard this suggestion, he also thought it was a good suggestion, but he didn't sell calligraphy and paintings to others, but discussed the details with others, which had a kind of meaning of playing tricks on others, and Mo Yu was not too embarrassed.

Therefore, Mo Yu asked Jiang Liang: "I wonder if Brother Liang has time in the afternoon?"

Jiang Liang immediately heard what Mo Yu wanted to do, Jiang Liang also knew that some young people were thin-skinned, and they were more considerate of sincerity in their interactions with others, and they were really embarrassed to discuss the details with others if they didn't make a buying and selling transaction.

Therefore, Jiang Liang quickly answered this question: "Where did the city lord say, Jiang Liang has a lot of time, if the city lord is interested, he is willing to lead the city lord to go there to see, and it just so happens that Jiang Liang also estimates the value of the calligraphy and painting that the city lord sent to Yu Zaixia."

This is what Mo Yu likes about Jiang Liang, what doesn't need to be said too clearly, Jiang Liang can fully understand the meaning, he is very comfortable when he does things, and he is also very relieved when he hands over Jiang Liang's official duties.

It was even said that if Mo Yu especially wanted to take Jiang Liang with him when he left here, it would not be a great blessing to have such a person by his side to assist Mo.

It's just that Jiang Liang's background is quite shallow, and his martial arts are not considered to be at the top level, which more or less still makes Jiang Liang's ascent peak, but for the position of assistant, Jiang Liang is the best candidate.

So Mo Yu hurriedly finished the work at hand, and then went to take a look with Jiang Liang in the evening, originally Mo Yu's kung fu at night was to practice swords and minds, and take a little time to keep his martial arts and mind from regressing.

If you don't advance, you will retreat.

Mo Yu also understands this truth, so Mo Yu must also take a little free time.

However, going to the pawnshop today to solve his curiosity can be regarded as improving his own literacy, and Mo Yu can be regarded as completing the task he needs to improve, improving himself or just on martial arts, but also on his own knowledge.

After completing all the work in advance, Mo Yu was also tired and a little pantothenic, and after buying one or two baked cakes on the street and eating them with Jiang Liang, he came to one of the largest pawnshops in the legendary city.

This pawnshop is not a good location in the city, and it is even a little remote, but the pawnshop does not need a good location, and the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys.

However, the scope of this pawnshop is really large, and if you want to build a city, it is indeed a large expense.

The two were dressed in normal clothes, and under the leadership of Jiang Liang, Mo Yu also followed.

The people inside spoke softly, for fear that others would hear some details that they didn't want to know.

After entering, someone greeted softly, which is different from the way the restaurant greets, the way the restaurant greets is high, which makes people feel more face-saving and can straighten their waist and walk in.

But the receptionist here greets people in a completely different way, using facial expressions to give people a kind image, and then gently and briefly saying two words: "Hello." The way of greeting with the local dialect seems so kind here.

Then it was pulled to a table, and there was still some blocking between the table and the side, this is where ordinary property needs to be bought and sold, and if the things taken out are very powerful, they naturally need to be upgraded.

Then the receptionist whispered, "What kind of tea do you need?"

Mo Yu smiled, but didn't speak, just sighed that the service was quite good.