Chapter 430: The Seventh Thief of the Great Song Dynasty
Regarding Wu Zhi's art exhibition, Zhou Shou agreed very much after listening to Wu Zhi's explanation of the term "art exhibition", which helped the new painting method of sketching to spread in the Great Song Dynasty.
Wu Zhi smiled and didn't speak, and since Zhou Shou characterized Wu Zhi as a mediocre person with no ambitions, he was also lukewarm to Wu Zhi, and he didn't speculate for more than half a sentence, and after sending Zhou Shou a painting back to study, Wu Zhi personally sorted out a secluded courtyard for him to live in the academy.
Wu Zhi made Zhou Shou the chief vice president of Qingzhou College, his family has a long history, and he is an academic master, and now he has received the official position of Taishi, and the college is naturally very convinced that he is the vice president. Moreover, it is precisely because of the addition of Zhou Shou that Qingzhou College has become a little heavier in the academic world.
Therefore, Zhou Shou only felt that Wu Zhi's various courtesies should be taken for granted, and he did not have too much politeness.
He looked at Wu Zhi's eyes with a trace of disappointment and contempt.
In this regard, Wu Zhi only didn't know anything, Zhou Shou just "hated iron and steel" for him, not really hated it, as long as Zhou Shou taught and learned at Qingzhou College, and continued to shout for the Hundred Schools of Rejuvenation Movement, even if he looked down on Wu Zhi again, Wu Zhi didn't care.
After coming out of Zhou Shou's small courtyard, Wu Zhi looked at the blue sky and sighed softly.
Zhou Shou was so far-sighted, but he didn't see the real purpose of Wu Zhi's art exhibition in front of him.
Unexpectedly, Old Master Zhou also committed the old problem that literati can't get rid of - so ambitious!
Wu Zhi held an exhibition and started the fame of sketch painting and later oil painting, in order to take this opportunity to start involving the Great Song Dynasty.
To put it bluntly, these paintings are Wu Zhi's springboard, as long as these paintings cause more sensation in the Great Song Dynasty, then Wu Zhi will have the opportunity to use these paintings to soar.
As for why he was able to break into the court with these paintings, in fact, Wu Zhi also had lessons from the past.
Before talking about these lessons from the past, I have to mention a talented, amorous, and most handsome emperor in history - Ling'er's father, Wu Zhi's future father-in-law, the official family of the dynasty, Song Huizong in history, Zhao Ji.
This emperor is full of artistic cells, poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, ink and danqing, all-encompassing love and all-enfinedness, and is dissolute by nature, longing for freedom, of course, all these character characteristics are put on an emperor, it is not a good thing, but on any ordinary person, it is countless dazzling talents and talents.
The reason why the six thieves of the dynasty can be so favored and so prosperous is almost because they have found out these characters of the emperor.
Cai Jing relied on calligraphy that even the emperor worshipped, coupled with almost the same fashion taste as the emperor, so that the emperor admired him very much; Tong Guan relied on his unique vision and strong means to collect famous paintings for the emperor, and also made the emperor like him very much; The Zhu family also developed by collecting strange stones for the emperor; Needless to say, Wang Hao is the emperor's iron buddy, except for him, who dares to kick the emperor's ass? The reason why Liang Shicheng, the hidden minister in the palace, holds great power is because the emperor is immersed in the ocean of art, and the government and politics are handed over to him to deal with, so he has great power with a little effort.
ββThese are all lessons from Wu Zhi's past.
Damn! Wu Zhi has already seen through it! If you want to get ahead in the Great Song Dynasty where the faint monarch is in power, you can only drink the northwest wind by relying on your ability, and only by voting to the emperor's favor can you quickly grasp the power.
Countless people in the Great Song Dynasty understood this truth, but when the emperor of the dynasty tasted too high, and he had everything, what could ordinary people come up with to please him?
However, Wu Zhi has this advantage, the emperor loves painting more than Qi Shi, and the eagle he paints is unsurpassed in the history of Chinese painting.
Imagine how Emperor Huizong would react when he saw such a realistic sketch or oil painting.
Although Wu Zhi was far away in Qingzhou, he had a way to let the emperor see those paintings.
The wooden box for Master Li contained these paintings, and although Wu Zhi didn't have any requirements, he knew that Master Li would definitely recommend these paintings to the emperor, the paintings were all kinds of sketches drawn by Xiao Xie Qing himself, and there were a few oil paintings!
Oil painting is not currently taught in Qingzhou College, because Wu Zhi will not ...... At most, he learned some sketches with the students, and Wu Zhi, the concept of oil painting, just told Xiao Xie Qing that after a few months of fumbling and practicing, he had already painted a good look, which surprised Wu Zhi.
With those sketches, Wu Zhi is already sure that he will catch the emperor's favor, and now with more colorful oil paintings, this Great Song Dynasty Bureau Wu Zhi is settled!
To deal with traitorous ministers, it is necessary to be more traitorous than traitors, Wu Zhi already has the potential of traitors, he wants to use paintings to become the seventh thief of the Great Song Dynasty!
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has agreed with Ling'er to move his family to Bianjing next year, originally Wu Zhi could move to Bianjing quietly, wait until the center of power, and then use the bank newspapers and other forces in his hand, when the time comes, he can also influence and even enter the Great Song Dynasty.
But this is too abrupt, and Wu Zhi and the Zhu family have already made a bad relationship, if they interfere in the court situation at that time, it will be difficult to ensure that they will not be slandered in front of the emperor, Wu Zhi is a businessman who is not in the stream, and once he causes any trouble, it will be difficult to deal with it.
And if he attracts the emperor with his paintings, the emperor will at least summon Wu Zhi, or if he is lucky, he can mix up some honorary titles, and then he can stay in Bianjing justifiably, and he can also be in the emperor's heart and exchange painting skills...... Wu Zhi just needs to try his best to please the emperor.
Sycophants or something...... Wu Zhi is indeed very researched and is a professional.
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There was no class in the afternoon, Wu Zhi returned home, accompanied the ladies, and called someone to find Xiao Rang, and discussed the art exhibition in the study.
"Brother Xiao, have you found a house to hold an art exhibition?"
"I've found it, and I'm going to tell you about it tomorrow during the morning meeting." Xiao Rang took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "It's the original Fang Ji Teahouse, Lao Fang was always squeezed by Lao Wang in Qingzhou, and now he has avoided Lao Wang to develop in the south, and I heard that several tea shops and teahouses with good business have been opened in Xuzhou." β
Wu Zhi shook his head and chuckled after hearing this, Lao Wang is naturally Wang Gang, the vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, originally his family was the largest tea merchant in Qingzhou, and later borrowed from the bank to expand the scale, almost completely monopolized the tea industry in Qingzhou City, he also listened to Wu Zhi's suggestion, and combined with his daughter-in-law Lao Deng's family to develop pearl milk tea to sell, the pearls in it are all made of the best Bohai sea cucumber gel, and now the milk tea can only be drunk by the rich.
β¦β¦ Wu Zhi's family, Xiao Taoyue, loves to drink bubble tea.
Therefore, the same tea merchant Lao Fang could not compete with Lao Wang in Qingzhou, so he simply avoided him to do business, and with the support of bank loans, it is said that he is also prosperous in Xuzhou.
"Well, that teahouse is good, tall and spacious, and it's still a three-story duplex structure." Wu Zhi nodded, "Buy it, and ask Lao Fang to give it a discount." β
"Okay, Lao Fang is still very righteous, don't worry."
After speaking, Xiao Rang was slightly entangled, and asked Wu Zhi: "Daguan, in fact, if it is just an art exhibition, we don't have to buy the teahouse, as long as we lease it, after all, we have enough real estate in Qingzhou, and after buying it, it is not vacant, but also leased, and the lease can't rent a few dollars, which adds to the trouble of managing accounts." β
With the expansion of the martial arts industry, Jiang Jing now has hundreds of people in charge of the accounts, Xiao Rang is in charge of personnel and administration, and his subordinates are in charge of nearly 10,000 people, and some things he must minimize to improve the efficiency of various departments of the group.
After hearing this, Wu Zhi laughed and said: "You must buy it, not only to buy the teahouse, but also to decorate and protect it according to the specifications of the bank, this teahouse will not only be used for art exhibitions in the future, I want to make it a museum in Qingzhou." β
"Museums?"
Xiao Ran stared at him in bewilderment.
"Well, the museum, collect some famous paintings and cultural relics or something, so that the people can visit and gain knowledge in the future, and you can also organize students to visit!"
Xiao Rang was already accustomed to Wu Zhi's whimsical ideas, and after a slight pause, he didn't say anything more and took the order to retreat.