Chapter 53: Is Luminous Stone Worth Anything?

It was on this royal street, less than two kilometers in total, and they walked for almost an hour!

But finally I arrived at the Treasure Street, which is still a place of great noise. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The common people of the Great Song Dynasty really liked to go shopping.

They first observed outside for a while, and took a fancy to one of the largest treasure shops: the Liu family treasure shop. They need a strong receiver, or at least a store that can have better things to exchange.

From the outside, among the people who come and go in the shop, there are sometimes people dressed in fancy costumes, and at first glance they are not people from the Great Song Dynasty, and the men of the Great Song Dynasty arrange flowers on their heads but do not insert bird feathers, and the main customers there are people wearing flowers and satin.

They all look like people are stupid and have a lot of money.

That's the best, if they treat such obviously different characters indifferently and accept them all, then it means that it doesn't hurt for a few of us to go in.

So they followed the example of those people and walked in.

In this treasure shop, there are a number of wooden lattices on the walls, on which are placed a number of ornaments, mostly gold, silver, copper, and tin, and some ivory carvings.

There is also a table in the middle of the shop, on which some pearls and jade pieces are placed.

There are special guys waiting next to this table, obviously these things are more valuable in their eyes, and it is true, even Song Ziqiang, who does not appreciate jade too much, obviously feels that the goods are better than those in Lin'an County.

The four corners of the shop are lined with green plants and fragrant flowers in full bloom.

They knew that at this time, flower and vegetable farmers had learned to use horse manure or quicklime as a heating kiln-------

They also watched with their hands behind their backs, as they did in the shop.

Their two students are also fascinated, all of them are treasures in the world!

Of course, they haven't let their students see what they're bringing with them. It's too cumbersome to explain, and students have a lot of problems------

To everyone's delight, they also saw a lot of rhinoceros horn handicrafts, okay, these are all wanted, enough for more than a dozen catties!

To be honest, none of them had seen real rhinoceros horn handicrafts, but they also made up some knowledge, for fear of being deceived by the Song people.

Since I have not seen the real sample, it can only be simple common sense, such as the bottom section of the horn, there is a loop-shaped keratin layer, while the rhino horn does not have such a loop-shaped keraton layer, etc.

What made them even happier was that they even saw bronze products!

Wu Dapeng knew at a glance that this was a fake.

As mentioned above, the Song and Song dynasties can be called the heyday of forgery.

The reason is very simple: after the first Song Emperor, many bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties were unearthed. The excavation of a large number of authentic artifacts has provided samples for imitation and forgery. Second, the Song Dynasty was an era of "lush and literate", and the atmosphere of academic research was rich.

The life of the scholars and doctors is basically very comfortable, and they have money and leisure.

This Song Dynasty counterfeit bronze is not only large in quantity, but also of high quality. Both from the source of bronze raw materials screening, copper smelting and casting technology, the Song Dynasty surpassed the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

But also because of the blind antique, there is no innovation, and it always gives people the impression of being dull and lacking in vitality.

These are not important, the important thing is that this is from the Song Dynasty, and that's fine.

This time, Wan Shida and Wu Dapeng want to talk, if they spend money to buy it, they won't do it if they kill them, they will definitely not be able to take it.

They want to exchange, they have confidence in the goods in their hands.

However, the last time the pledge was pledged to the treasury first, it turned out to be stupid......

Wanshida called the men and claimed to negotiate a good deal with their big treasurer.

The guy saw that this person was dressed ordinarily, but he had an extraordinary temperament, and he seemed to have a Mintian accent in his accent.

So I went up to the second floor and asked for instructions.

Most of the shops on both sides of the royal street are two-story structures, and some are three-storey, which can be seen that the land here is very expensive.

After a while, the fellow came down and asked them to go up.

Wan Shida and Wu Dapeng went upstairs with their burdens.

There is indeed a large room upstairs, and at first glance it is for entertaining VIP people.

The two of them sat down in their seats, waiting for the big shopkeeper to come, and the large room exuded the scent of orchids.

Wan Shida glanced at Wu Dapeng and said, and then whispered: "It's better for them to have private goods in their hands......

Wu Dapeng nodded, and also whispered: "There must be, calm down......"

According to the plan, they were going to test the water with luminous stone first, and this thing, because of its lightness, they brought a little more.

The big shopkeeper of the Liu family's treasure store is Liu Qianxing, and he is still worried about the Dongshan crystal mirror.

Although Prime Minister Najia has returned to his hometown now, Hong Fuzun did not urge too tightly for a while, but when he heard that the official family and the Queen Mother personally urged him to come back, he was also urged to come back, because the Jinghu system on the front line made Lu Wende report that the Tatars are now forced to go down again, so of course the official family and the Queen Mother are in a hurry......

Therefore, it is certain that Prime Minister Jia Cheng will return to the imperial court, but it depends on the timing, so the problem of his Dongshan crystal mirror still needs to be solved.

These things, Liu Qian, the head of the line, saw it from the news.

This Song Dynasty did have newspapers, and most of the official newspapers were hand-copied, which were called "Di Bao", also known as Di Bao, Chao Bao, Complaint Newspaper, and Eye-Clearing; Private or private newspapers, in addition to hand-copied, also have printed editions, called "tabloids", and occasionally "news".

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, each state had to set up a concert institute, and the office was located in the capital Kaifeng, which is equivalent to today's Beijing office.

There are more than 250 states in the country, and there are as many as 200 concert halls set up in Kaifeng.

In the sixth year of Taizong's Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, the central government began to set up the Metropolitan Concert Academy, which was directly under the Menxia Province, and carried out special management of the Progressive Concert Houses and Concert Officials in each state. One of the responsibilities of the Jinjuyuan is to classify and prepare the news of the imperial court's "political affairs, orders, rewards and punishments, edicts and tables, resignations and thanks, and special notes", and distribute them in a unified manner, so as to "broadcast the Quartet", which is the origin and purpose of the Di Bao.

The Metropolitan Concert Institute was responsible for the collection, editing, and distribution of newspapers, and became the earliest news management and newspaper distribution organization in history.

The purpose of compiling and distributing the official newspaper is, first, to quickly convey the central policies, regulations, and documents so that officials in various localities can personally implement them, and second, it is hoped that the living news of promotions and demotion in the newspaper will be used to standardize, restrain and encourage officials in various localities.

The issuance cycle of the official newspaper is relatively stable, with 5 daily reports, 10 daily reports, and monthly reports.

Generally, the Metropolitan Academy will summarize and select all kinds of information from the central and local governments, and submit it to the Privy Council for review, and it can only be issued after it has been approved.

However, important news about military aircraft, border situations, disasters, mutinies, and other important news is usually not allowed to be published in newspapers.

Newspapers are not publicly distributed, and their readership is relatively narrow, and only officials of a certain level have the right to read them.

By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the government's control over the press had weakened, and non-governmental tabloids began to be published, and by the Southern Song Dynasty, they were everywhere.

At this time, the tabloids of the Southern Song Dynasty could be regarded as the ancestor of the British "Sun", and in order to attract the attention of readers, fake news, fake decrees, and fake proclamations appeared from time to time.

Sometimes, before the official newspaper came out, those booksellers in the market often had to take the lead and publish the news of government affairs and lace news that had not yet been released by the imperial court or were not suitable for publication, including "the leakage of foreign exchange from the province and the court, the plagiarism of the market, and the creation of opinions."

Most of the tabloid journalists work part-time, collectively known as "newspaper explorers".

These paparazzi took advantage of their positions, geographical relations, and kinship to use abnormal means to tirelessly listen to internal information at all levels, and those who were responsible for palace news were called internal agents, those who were responsible for central organs were called provincial agents, and those who were responsible for the yamen in various localities were called government agents.

The crux of the matter is that the Great Song Dynasty was indifferent to this and allowed rumors to fly all over the newspapers!

Of course, Song Ziqiang had seen it when he was in the shop, and he said angrily: "The Great Song Dynasty government is really, this public rumor is not easy to manage!" ”

Wu Dapeng said: "What do people care? Because everyone knows that it's fake, it's just to have fun and make a little money. ”

Of course, this newspaper has to pay a fee, and it costs ten cents a piece, but sometimes it is lower, sometimes it is higher, and it has to do with whether the content is stimulating or not, and there are even pirated ...... It's really speechless.

This newspaper, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty don't believe it, of course they won't buy it, in fact, the common people don't believe it, and ordinary people don't buy it when they feel sorry for money, and they don't buy it for a steamed cake.

There are two dollars and there are idle people to buy it, and it is fun.

However, there are also true things, such as the above said that after Prime Minister Jia finished taking care of Song Lizong's funeral, because of excessive grief, he resigned and returned to his hometown to recuperate.

But at this time, the Tatar army forced down again.

The current official family and the Queen Mother urgently ordered Prime Minister Jia Cheng to come back, and now everyone is guessing when he will come back.

When he heard that there were people outside who did not look like local merchants to discuss big business, he came out of his lounge.

He bowed slightly to Wan Shida and Wu Dapeng, and said, "Offended, the small shop has made the merchants wait for a long time......

When Wan Shida and Wu Dapeng saw each other, they felt that they were the owners of goods, calm and had a temperament that had seen the world.

At least the dark satin on this body should be worth a lot of money, especially the jade pendant hanging from his waist.

It's definitely good material, Wu Dapeng has a few, 10 million is good to shoot, 20 million and other customers.

Wanshida explained their intentions, claiming to exchange goods for goods.

Liu Qian, the head of the treasure shop, stroked his long beard, smiled indifferently, and said, "You can know a certain rhino jade bronze thing." How much is it worth? ”

What he means is that his things are more valuable, and looking at these two people's clothes, they are too unremarkable.

Businessmen have always used clothes and hats to pick people, regardless of space, Wan Shida and Wu Dapeng's clothes are indeed a little ordinary.

Wanshida untied his baggage and said, "I have luminous stones...... In the dark, you can shine a few steps away, and the darker you go, the brighter this thing will be! ”

Wu Dapeng saw that the eyebrows of the Song people's shopkeeper moved, as if he was interested.

He chimed in: "You can demo it!" ”

Wanshida took out a luminous stone, covered a black hole-like hand with both hands, and showed a little gap.

Wu Dapeng saw that the middle-aged uncle's eyebrows jumped twice, and he knew that this was working.

He smiled and said, "Why don't you go to the back room and try it yourself?" ”

Ancient Chinese buildings, no matter what they looked like, were poor in light transmission, and if it was a lounge, then it would definitely be possible to find a darker place.

The big shopkeeper carefully picked up the small artificial luminous stone pendant that was wholesaled by the world for three eight cents, which was a beautiful little dolphin shape.

It's not stony! Liu Qian, the head of the line, said in his heart, but he didn't want the other party to see that he didn't know him.

He went back to his lounge and found a corner to see that it was really blue and radiating a magical light, almost to the point of being able to read!