570. Chapter 570: The Silk Contest

Tang Zhou didn't know where Mo Kufa went in the end, if he knew, he would definitely be ruthless to keep him, or even kill him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, Tang Zhou can't be blamed for the final result of Mo Kufa.

If it weren't for the fact that there were many people in Datang who wanted to catch Mo Kufa for their own purposes, Mo Kufa would not have escaped from the sea, let alone been rescued by the fishermen in Dongying, and naturally there would be no sword.

However, Mo Kufa helped them build a Japanese knife in Dongying in order to survive, but he was still more conscientious and did not take out all the techniques for building Tang knives, so that although Dongying's Japanese knives were very powerful, they could not be compared with the real Tang knives of the Tang Dynasty.

The reason why later generations said that the sword was powerful was mainly because the skills of the Tang knife were lost, and it was no longer possible to create a knife of the same quality as the Tang knife.

Tang Zhou didn't know this, so he naturally didn't have any guilt, and after the Mo Dao was built, he suddenly relaxed from his nervous state, and at this time, it was the end of summer.

The most lively event in Chang'an at the end of summer is the Silk Competition.

Since the Tang Dynasty destroyed Gaochang, the Silk Road has gone more smoothly, and many merchants of the Tang Dynasty will bring goods to the Western Regions to do business, and these people will bring all kinds of goods from the Tang Dynasty to the Western Regions to sell, but the most things are still silk, porcelain and tea of the Tang Dynasty.

And when they came back from the Western Regions, the most things they brought back were wine and some things that only the Western Regions countries had.

This can make them a lot of money.

And many of the silk brought to the Western Regions by these merchants who took the Silk Road were purchased from the major silk shops in Chang'an City, and they bought the goods in the Tang Dynasty and then sold them to the Western Regions to earn the difference.

Because there are many merchants who take the Silk Road, and there are many goods, so every year these merchants in Chang'an City will take out the best silk in their respective stores to compete, if the silk is good, get the first prize, not only can get the reward issued by the imperial court, but also become the first choice of silk for merchants on the Silk Road, which can bring them a lot of business.

It's just that if the silk competition is just taken out for evaluation, it will inevitably lose some fun, so every year the silk competition will find some ways to change the items or rules of the competition.

The rules of this year's Silk Contest are very interesting, with a total of three competitions.

The first and most important item is the quality of silk, if the quality of silk is not good, everything is not to be discussed; The second item is to compare embroidery, the quality of silk to select the best ten, and then these ten families each choose an embroidery girl to embroider on silk, the embroidered images are the same, and finally see who shows the best.

The last item has little to do with silk, purely because Chang'an City has gathered a lot of students waiting for the exam, for fun, and to give those students a chance to get ahead, and of course, it is also specially set for the promotion of various silk shops.

The rule is that after the embroidery of each embroiderer, the students, scholars or Confucians found in each shop need to write a poem for these embroiderers.

Because silk is related to the people's livelihood, and the imperial court will reward the winning merchants, so the people of the imperial court will send officials to be judges, in addition, the remaining judges are some older textile experts in Chang'an City, or some people with good knowledge.

There are a total of 15 judges, 5 officials, 5 textile and embroidery experts, and 5 knowledgeable Confucians.

The Silk Contest is a very lively event in Chang'an City, but this matter has nothing to do with Tang Zhou, Tang Zhou has no interest in silk, how to compare, who wins and who loses, he doesn't care at all.

But just after the rules of this competition were issued, many guests suddenly appeared in Tanghou Mansion, and these guests asked Tang Zhou to help them compose poems.

Tang Zhou is famous, if he is willing to compose poetry, then their shop will definitely win.

It's just that what is Tang Zhou's identity, how can he compose poems for these shops?

Tang Zhou didn't see any of these people, this was simply belittling his identity, he was a dignified prince, and his family had a lot of money, would he go to these shops to compose poems?

What Tang Zhou didn't expect was that the owners of these shops had just been blown away, and then another group of people came, and this group of people was something that Tang Zhou couldn't and didn't dare to bomb.

Because they are all Tang Zhou's elders, such as the eldest grandson Wuji, such as Cheng Yanjin, such as Li Jing and so on.

This made Tang Zhou feel very strange, the owners of those silk shops could talk to themselves, but why did these people come to find them?

Some ministers and magnates in the court went to the Tanghou Mansion, and these people glanced at each other, and they all felt a little embarrassed, but then there was a bit of-for-tat.

"Yo, Lord Eldest Sun, why are you here, Ling Lang's talent is good, he should be able to support this competition."

"Lu Guogong laughed, the dog's talent is only higher than Ling Lang's, but he still can't be on the stage."

As soon as the eldest grandson Wuji said this, Cheng Biting Jin was angry, and the eldest grandson Wuji said that his son's talent was not as good as Tang Zhou, so he said directly, why did he pull his son in, his son Cheng Chu didn't provoke him, right?

"Eldest grandson Wuji, if you want to say that, don't blame Lao Cheng for turning my face and being ruthless, the Tang family kid has the best relationship with me......"

As soon as a group of people entered the hall, they quarreled, but Tang Zhou was a little confused by the second monk, and asked while persuading: "A few princes, adults, uncle, why are you here and why are you arguing?" ”

Tang Zhou persuaded like this, and everyone turned their eyes to Tang Zhou, and then stretched out their fingers to Tang Zhou: "It's all for you." ”

Tang Zhou was even more speechless, these people were arguing for themselves, why did they sound like they were a bane?

"Uncles, please be more detailed, what the hell is going on?"

The eldest grandson Wuji pouted, and was about to explain, when Cheng Yanjin suddenly stepped forward and hugged Tang Zhou's shoulders and pretended to be affectionate, and said: "Tang family boy, that's the case, isn't this going to be a silk contest in the capital, my Cheng family's good silk shop is also going to participate, this first and second items are not a problem for my Cheng family, only this third item is a little worse than poetry, so I want to ask you to help, then you can just write a poem casually, Uncle Cheng will not treat you badly, give you a thousand yuan, how about it?" ”

It costs a thousand yuan to write a poem, Cheng Biting Jin has never been so generous, Tang Zhou couldn't believe his ears, but he already understood at this time that if anyone wins, the benefits will definitely be much more than a thousand yuan, otherwise how could a person like Cheng Yanjin who is an iron rooster pay a thousand yuan at once?

After Cheng bit King Kong, the eldest grandson Wuji and others immediately surrounded him.

"Don't listen to him, boy, I'll give you two thousand, as long as you are willing to compose a poem when the time comes."

"I will not only give you two thousand pieces, but also ten horses of good silk......

"Write me a poem, and I'll give you two thousand pieces, ten horses of silk, and a beautiful woman......"