In order to put forward 600,000 taels of silver and hand it over to Tan Weixin's account room to invest in the construction of the Yizhan Building, Ye Tao spent an hour dealing with Zuo Heping, the head of the Zuo family, chattering about the table clock and music box. In the process of visiting Lord Situ's mansion at the direct invitation of Huang Wan, Lord Situ was certainly more obsessed with why Ye Tao, a young man, could have the mind and insight to carve out ten miles of smoke, but that did not mean that Huang Wan and his two elder brothers were not curious. After learning from the pain, Ye Tao simply gave a table clock to Tan Weixin, and the other was placed in the lobby of Qingluo Xingshe.

Suddenly, Qingluo Xingshe, which was at best a second-tier house in Danyang, became famous. The original conditions and service quality of Qingluo Xingshe were good, but because of this opportunity, it attracted a lot of business. Several local tycoons have opened rooms in Qingluo Xingsha, and seem to be satisfied with the punctual time of each hour. And in full view, the accuracy of the bell has also been fully verified.

Ye Tao was waiting for such an opportunity, and almost at a luncheon that was not a big scene, he completed the goal of building momentum as Qi Zhentao said. Although there was some luck, I have to say that in the capital, at that luncheon, the energy of these young people was very great. And this may be one of the reasons why they can become Tan Weixin's guests.

However, in Danyang City, Ye Tao, who suddenly set off such a big storm, was a little at a loss. Those who came to Qingluo Xingshe to watch the table clock and asked him for a price one after another, almost none of them were offended by him now. Moreover, just as Qi Zhentao was worried about at the beginning, many of them did come with the idea of *. It wasn't until Tan Weixin actually asked Lu Dan and the others to be responsible for protecting Ye Tao's safety in Danyang, and also as his guide when he was running around in Danyang, that those guys with * thoughts stopped stupidly, after all, it was the most favored princess in Dongping Kingdom, and it was not they who could afford to offend.

Ye Tao knew that the water here in the capital was still too deep for him now. The auction he originally conceived was not capable of being managed by himself, even with the addition of the Du family. If the Du family could eat well, they would not have just set up a Qingluo house in the capital and a few hotels in the capital. In the end, Ye Tao reciprocated and entrusted the matter of presiding over the auction to the Zuo family, and agreed with the Zuo family that the Zuo family could take half of the auction proceeds as organizational expenses. If it weren't for Qi Zhentao's occupation of a large part of the table clock's business, the Zuo family, who was a businessman, might not be so polite.

Ye Tao was a little frustrated, the business circle in the capital was really not so easy to break into. He is like a peddler who carries a burden from other places to sell goods, and can only watch the people in the high-rise buildings sell his goods, and he is not even qualified to be a spectator.

"What do those people do? Danyang's business circle is indeed not so easy to enter, even if it was me, when I couldn't reveal my identity and could only rely on a few of my subordinates to act as agents, how much effort did it take me to enter this circle? It's easy to make money, but it's really troublesome to get into such a circle. When the joint venture between you and me is up, are you still afraid that they will reject you? I'm afraid it's too late for you. Tan Weixin said.

Ye Tao knew that what Tan Weixin said was the truth. The accumulation of wealth and status is by no means achieved overnight, it is a process of quantitative change to qualitative change. Ye Tao, who has already experienced such a process in Yicheng, will not retreat for the sake of being hindered for a while, but ...... I just felt a little aggrieved.

"Yi Zhan Lou is up, no matter whether the business is good or bad, after all, it sells playthings. In this way, my image of a courtier who pleases Her Royal Highness the princess in every possible way is deeply ingrained, right? Ye Tao teased himself. But the tone has been much lighter.

Tan Weixin's eyes lit up and said, "So what? ”

"Not good." Seeing that Tan Weixin seemed to have some intention of raising the bar, Ye Tao hurriedly said: "Let's get a courtier, go back and make some catapults and ballistas, it should be able to reverse the image, it doesn't matter." That's probably the benefit of being a craftsman. ”

Tan Weixin said curiously: "The catapult and ballista you built are better than those used by the Dongping army?" ”

Ye Tao made a look of being insulted and said, "You...... How can you say that......" Ye Tao's deliberately aggrieved look was extremely amused, which made Tan Weixin chuckle. "The level of craftsmanship in Dongping is indeed very high, but the research in physics, mathematics, geometry and so on is not enough. The traditional method of apprenticeship is used to teach the arts, unless the master is particularly good at expression or the student is relatively gifted, and the general tendency is to decline the overall level of skill. I know that the teaching in the workshops of the military department is more rigorous and rigorous, but craftsmen are craftsmen in the final analysis, and there is no foundation, how do you let craftsmen understand mathematics and physics? Without these basic tools, how do you enable craftsmen to build magnificent buildings? How can parallel construction be carried out on a wider ground? ”

Tan Weixin thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "What are you going to build?" ”

Ye Tao smiled proudly, but fell silent.

"If you don't say it, you won't say it, I'll just go and see it when you make it." Tan Weixin is not angry, this is not because her self-control ability is really so strong, but because, she believes, I am afraid there will be new surprises. The surprise wasn't a fried bun, not a music box, or a table clock that played a Radetzky march. Perhaps, given enough time for Ye Tao, he would be able to rebuild the city they were familiar with, if necessary.

While Tan Weixin and Ye Tao were chatting about some things, the auction had already given him a huge amount of money in absentia, which was 150,000 taels of silver. I have to say that the rich people in Danyang City are indeed outrageously rich. As early as before the auction, Ye Tao, who is very professional, did not put any unique or similar name on the grandfather clock for the auction, but simply said honestly that this is the first batch of trial grandfather clocks, about a few months later, the capital Danyang will definitely be able to have goods, although it is absolutely impossible to open the supply at that time due to the limited output, but everyone should still be rational in the auction, But when the Tan family in Beicheng and Tan Weixin's favorite Ningcheng Yunyao porcelain global exclusive design, production and sales consortium Han family didn't know why they were angry, the price of this bell rose sharply. And when it was finally collected at 150,000 taels, it was not that the Han family didn't want to continue to shout prices, but because they were not local merchants after all, and it was troublesome to mobilize silver, and they still had to do business after all, and after leaving enough capital to do business, they really couldn't make up more spare money.

"150,000 taels...... Ye Tao thought silently, "It's open." "That expression was like that of some bandit leader who had just robbed a batch of red goods...... Strategists around you.

"How much more will be deducted from the Zuo family?" Tan Weixin asked with a smile.

"After deducting one and a half, how much do you say there is?" Ye Tao asked rhetorically.

"Hmm...... Take out the odds and buy a gift again, my sister wants. Tan Weixin said, "You gave me the clock, my restless little sister is envious to death, she really has nothing to do." ”

"Play?" Ye Taole said hehehe: "Such a little girl, do you want a plush toy?" ”

Tan Weixin pursed her lips and said, "That little fiancée of yours is younger than my sister." Besides, plush toys? Do you make it? ”

Ye Tao didn't say anything, he was thinking about what it meant to make a plush toy, and after thinking about it for a long time, he shook his head in surrender and said, "Forget it, it's too troublesome." The outer layer of things, just change the weave slightly, it's not difficult. Although there are no machines, it is not impossible to make a simple semi-automatic machine and let people operate and weave such things. And the problem is in the color. ”

Tan Weixin sighed dejectedly and said, "Yes, color." It's really hard to get some dyes and some beautiful paint now. Even your Ye's workshop is the best lacquer worker in the world, so there are only a few kinds of tricks. I miss those beautiful colors. ”

If you are a bystander, you may prefer to wander in the colors of nature, and in this time and space, there are sufficient conditions for nature to be extremely well preserved. However, Tan Weixin can't do it, she has a flower garden that she spends money on, but there are only a few flower seasons a year, and she has to run around to see those bright colors, and Tan Weixin is probably tossed to death. He hasn't figured out a metal that can be used as a shock absorber, and Ye Tao doesn't want to make a half-toned four-wheeled carriage to slightly improve Tan Weixin's travel conditions, even if a four-wheeled carriage is built, there is still a very long way to play on the highway system that is still very far from being developed in this era. In order for Tan Weixin to appreciate those beautiful colors, does she have to learn from Rome to create a road system that can still leave traces across thousands of years, and can be called almost immortal? That's a bit of a cost. However, making something bright and bright may not be a big deal for him. It's just that......

"You misunderstood, I mean...... Belch...... Actually, I can get even fluorescent colors, but now there is no reliable mordant, and the color will fade when washed. If you want to keep the color long-lasting and bright, you need to develop mysteries, tides, blue waves and so on. I can't make that stuff. Ye Tao said sneeringly. It's really troublesome, it's almost a preliminary chemical industry chain.

"You're kidding me?" Tan Weixin squinted at Ye Tao, and her tone was already a little hard.

"How dare I...... I have always been a loyal dog of Her Royal Highness. Knowing that Tan Weixin wouldn't really be angry, Ye Tao joked.

"Loyal dog! …… Hum! Tan Weixin turned her head away, and said arrogantly: "Call two to listen?" ”

This stumped Ye Tao, if it is a slightly exaggerated expression to say that he is a loyal dog, just to say that he has no malicious intentions, then it is really a bit of a ...... to really learn to bark twice Weak. Although Ye Tao knew that Tan Weixin was just a little coquettish and casually said, he was also a little embarrassed.

"I'm sorry." Realizing that she was a little abrupt, Tan Weixin hurriedly apologized.

"It's nothing, nothing," Ye Tao hurriedly revealed the matter. "How are those garden craftsmen in Chunnan doing lately?"

"Spending my money, looking for my trouble? What else? Tan Weixin looked a little distressed, "I've been to see it several times, and I've also seen the drawings of the craftsmen of Chunnanguo, but I don't understand their drawings, looking at the whole garden, I always feel uncomfortable, I just can't say it." ”