Chapter 125: Dragon String and Ambergris (Second Watch)
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Cao Tong really wants to tear Wang Ningan into eight pieces, and study carefully, does this kid have special skills, how can anything become a mountain of gold and silver in his hands!
Bianjing just came with the news, saying that whale meat was fried to the sky, by the way, it is no longer called whale meat, it is dragon meat, dragon meat!
"I don't believe that dragon meat can be so unpalatable!" Cao Yan snorted angrily.
Wang Ningan was also shocked when he read the letter from the Cao family.
"Obediently, Your Majesty is generous enough, the people want to eat his meat, how can they care!"
Cao Tong glanced at Wang Ningan, "You think my brother-in-law is so ruthless!" He was the most merciful of emperors. I remember ten years ago, there was a scholar in Shudi, he suggested that the magistrate burn the Sword Pavilion and become the emperor of the soil himself, and the magistrate sent the scholar to the capital, and he should be dealt with according to the crime of rebellion, but my brother-in-law said that he complained for a while, and gave the scholar a Sihu to join the army! How's that, my sister and wife are good, right? Cao Tong said proudly, praising his brother-in-law as a flower.
Of course, Wang Ningan knows the name of Zhao Zhen's benevolence, but as an emperor, is benevolence enough? can't take out the courage to revive the decline and disadvantages, and even the people around him can't control it, just knowing how to stuff carrots, but not having a big stick to follow behind, it is not good to be an emperor......
Sighing a little in his heart, Wang Ningan focused on business again.
Whale meat can be sold for a price, and this move of disaster relief will be lived.
"Uncle Guo, it's going to be hard again, 30,000 catties of whales, uh no, it's dragon meat, send it to Beijing! We'll split half of the money we earned, but half of mine will be exchanged for food, and within a month, it will be sent to me. ”
Cao Tong hesitated, "I said Erlang, is 30,000 catties too much?" Scarcity is expensive, I heard that some people make thousands of dollars, just to taste a bite of dragon meat, you are not quite good at business, why don't you get a handful of fat? ”
"Phew!"
Wang Ningan took a sip unceremoniously, "I am in a long-term business, not a one-shot deal." In the future, I will go whaling, this trick is ruthless, it hurts people's hearts, how to sell whale meat in the future? Besides, you don't keep complimenting your brother-in-law, what's wrong? For a little money, people eat your brother-in-law's meat, and you don't care anymore? ”
"Then, isn't that my brother-in-law's willingness?" Cao Tong argued.
"Yes, that's your brother-in-law's business! As courtiers, we should always maintain the reputation of the Son of Heaven, and we can't even understand this truth, you also have a good sister! Otherwise, he will be killed by others! ”
Uncle Cao Guo was scolded, but he couldn't get angry at all.
Don't say it, Wang Ningan, this kid has such a bright head at all times, and he is not confused at all! Cao Tong seemed to remember that the scholar was not good, but the instigated official was transferred to Hainan within half a year and died in the land of smoke and miasma......
Cao Tong shuddered, and hurriedly mobilized the carriage and loaded it with pickled whale meat. There are also three boxes, filled with fresh meat, and they are held with ice cubes, fortunately, there are many families along the way, and almost every household has an ice cellar, so you don't have to worry about smelling.
After sending Cao Tong away, Wang Ningan thought about it again. Before he did business, he was honest and earned hard-earned money. Although it doesn't seem to be much, every copper is down-to-earth, and it also drives employment and gathers a lot of forces.
Now that it has developed, you don't have to be so real, and it's not bad to play a little icing on the cake.
A whale meat can be doubled in value if it is misrepresented as dragon meat, so why not continue to dig deep and see how much profit can be squeezed out of a whale!
Wang Ningan ran out, bumped into Su Shi head-on, and was not polite, and directly grabbed Su Shi and went to the dock.
"Mr. Wang, I still have to take equestrian lessons, and if you take me away, I will deduct credits."
"I'll make up for you how much you deduct." Wang Ningan said angrily: "As long as you can help, I will give you double credits, if you can't help, I will give you a failure." ”
In the face of the threat, Da Su didn't care, but squinted his eyes, very proud.
It seems that Mr. Wang knows that he is extraordinary, so let Mr. see my ability!
Wang Ningan ran to the dock in one go, the whale had been disposed of, and only the huge skeleton was left before it could be processed, and the pungent stench could be smelled from a distance.
Originally, Wang Ningan wanted to crush the bones and throw them in the field as fertilizer, but after hearing that someone was treating whale meat as dragon meat, Wang Ningan changed his mind.
"Test you, what can bones do?"
"Soup!" Da Su didn't want to answer, what he got was a terrifying gaze!
"If you have this wisdom, don't even think about graduating from the academy!"
Wang Ningan was furious, Su Shi was finally honest, he lowered his head and thought about it.
"Bones can be made into bracelets, prayer beads, such a big bone, can also be carved, but I can't, I need to hire a professional master. By the way, you can also make a scabbard, a scabbard, in fact, you can make a big bone and put it at home, which is also quite majestic. ”
Su Shi smiled and puffed out his chest proudly, "How is it, my head is quite smart, right?" ”
"Generally, it doesn't look like something that can be sold for a lot of money."
Wang Ning'an shook his head, put his hands behind his back, and walked a few steps forward, just in time to see Sanbo, who was directing people to dry the fin whale's baleen board, which was to make a bowstring!
Bowstring...... Wang Ningan's eyes suddenly lit up, who knew that someone behind him exclaimed first.
"Piano, strings!"
Su Shi rushed to the front of the whisker board, grabbed it and carefully measured the length, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wang, this is just the one that can make strings and whale baleen, how about giving me one?" ”
"Not good!" Wang Ningan snatched it over, "Tell you, this is not whale baleen, it's a dragon string, what we want to do is a dragon string piano!" ”
In the next few days, Wang Ningan ran back and forth between the dock and the academy, brought Yan Shu and Ouyang Xiu together, invited several craftsmen, and spent ten days of hard work to build a piano.
That's right, it's Yaoqin!
Wang Ningan finally remembered that in his previous life, he had seen the introduction, almost all the expensive cellos and violins, the bow hair was whale baleen, and the timbre was pure, which was by no means comparable to other materials.
Since it can be used on the violin, there should be no problem with the yaoqin.
After intense work, according to the head of the golden boy, the waist of the jade girl, and the back of the fairy, a delicate Yaoqin was made.
Yan Shu is proficient in music, the piano is done, he bathes in incense, kneels beside the desk, calms down, gently strokes, penetrates the nine skies, the sound penetrates the mountains, the beauty of timbre, the beauty of the music, even Wang Ning'an, an idiot with incomplete tones, is fascinated, not to mention Ouyang Xiu, who is drunk and obsessed.
After listening to it for a long time, Wang Ningan sighed and smiled: "I finally learned to go around the beam for three days, and the aftermath is endless!" Yan Shu nodded, "The strings are really extraordinary, I want this piano, say it, you can use as much as you want." ”
Yan Xianggong has this confidence, he has been an official for decades, and his family is rich, even if it is a piano made of gold, he can afford it.
To tell the truth, Wang Ningan was almost tempted, he was able to kill Yan Shu very much, he couldn't miss the opportunity and never come again, and he would definitely regret it for life if he missed it.
It's just that Wang Ningan has bigger plans, I'm sorry, Yan Xianggong, this piano is not for you.
Wang Ning'an asked the craftsman to make a box out of rosewood, containing a dragon string piano, and a small porcelain bottle with a turquoise box, and on top of the box, there was a golden phoenix with fluttering wings and flying, which was lifelike.
The two things were packed and sent to Bianjing.
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"This Wang Erlang, don't think about serious things and send things to me, could it be that he wants to bribe me?"
When Zhao Zhen said this, he laughed, Wang Jiali has made enough contributions, but his rewards are too small, and his promotion is too slow, so he is really ashamed of his heroes.
Zhao Zhen thought about it, opened the box, and a Yaoqin appeared in front of him. Zhao Zhen is good at calligraphy, but the rhythm is not very good, and he doesn't see the special features of this piano at all, so he plans to let people put it away and throw it in the warehouse.
"Father." A crisp and pleasant voice came, and the eldest princess wafted in a fragrant breeze.
Zhao Zhen has a lot of children, but almost all of them died young, but the eldest princess Zhao Hui lived to adulthood, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, who is the same age as a flower.
She was the only one who dared to run to her father's bedroom unscrupulously, and the eldest princess saw Yaoqin at a glance.
I couldn't help but come up and flick it casually.
With the sound of gold and stone, it suddenly sounded, and Zhao Zhen couldn't help but feel shocked.
The eldest princess Zhao Hui was even more overjoyed, "Father, it's really a good piano, give it to your daughter!" ”
After speaking, regardless of Zhao Zhentong's disagreement, the eldest princess hugged Yaoqin and ran away with joy.
Soon, news spread in the capital that His Majesty the Emperor had obtained two treasures, one was a yaoqin made of keel and tendons, and the other was a perfume made of ambergris.
The eldest princess plays the dragon string piano every day, the sound is beautiful, even the birds in the palace linger, around the princess's courtyard, dancing with the music, dancing like a fairyland, for a long time.
As for ambergris, it fell into the hands of Queen Cao, as long as you point some on the wrist, the fragrance lasts for a long time, can make people youthful and radiant, it is said that after getting ambergris, Zhao Zhen went to the queen's bedroom almost every day, and the husband and wife were as close as when they first got married.
There were never secrets in the palace, and immediately countless people became interested in the dragon string qin and ambergris.
This is not the Cao family still sells dragon meat, they must know the news, many people went to inquire, the Cao family was also very generous, telling them that there are still things, but they have to go to Cangzhou to buy, and Cangzhou said that they will buy it with money, and they will not give a million yuan, if they exchange food, they don't need more, 30,000 stone grain for a piano, 1,000 stone grain for a bottle of ambergris.
Whoever has an idea, hurry up and take the grain and exchange it!
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"You kid is getting more and more excessive, and you dare to do business with His Majesty's holy reputation?" Ouyang Xiu said angrily.
"Forget about Your Majesty, even the eldest princess and the queen will not let go, you are really crazy and hopeless!" This is Yu Jing's evaluation.
As for Yan Shu and Mei Yaochen, they just shook their heads and sighed, heartbroken.
Wang Ningan didn't bother to take care of these old guys at all, what kind of loyal ministers did you pretend to be, when you were making the piano, you all came up with ideas, why didn't you say it at that time?
Wang Ningan smiled faintly: "A few seniors, the kid just sold two pianos, twenty bottles of ambergris, plus the whale meat that the Cao family helped sell, the grain in exchange is not much, only 100,000 stones, what a shame!" ”
He said it, but his face was triumphant.
Ouyang Xiu didn't care about complaining, slapped his thigh excitedly, and exclaimed: "200,000 people, alive!" ”