Since returning from Shuibo Liangshan, Ximenqing has almost stayed at home, has been staying in the backyard, playing cards with his wife and concubines today, and frolicking with the maids tomorrow, and even made a set of so-called drawing boards in the past two days, and drew sketches for several wives and concubines at home with his own handmade charcoal.

Speaking of which, Ximenqing in his previous life studied advertising in college, and he has been in contact with sketching since high school.

The reason why he painted several wives and concubines was that Ximenqing occasionally recalled Tang Yin's "Ten Beauties" in the Ming Dynasty, thinking that several wives and concubines in this family had their own characteristics, and they were all stunning characters.

In the beginning, no one in the backyard believed that their master could draw. I think that Emperor Huizong's calligraphy and painting are unique, and since the beginning of the Taizu Dynasty, there have been government-run painting institutes in Tokyo, and today, it has reached its peak. In all dynasties, only the Song Dynasty Painting Academy had a complete examination and promotion system, so that it formed a peak in the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy during the political propaganda period of Huizong. There are even outstanding people in the academy who are even called "Shiliu", and their social status is extremely high.

In the eyes of the world at this time, the skill of painting can be regarded as "spring and white snow", if it is said that Ximen Qing and other flowers are studying this way, I am afraid that I will become a laughing stock when I say it.

The wives and concubines did not agree, for fear of making the painting ugly, but fortunately, there was still the pair of sister flowers, which were bribed by Ximenqing with a large bucket of popcorn. Speaking of which, the Song people have mastered the preparation of popcorn, but it is still limited to the Jiangnan region, mostly using rice as raw materials, and the northern people rarely see such leisure snacks due to the small planting area of rice.

When a lifelike sketch of the two sisters was presented in front of the wives and concubines, everyone was shocked by this realistic painting style that was very different from the current Chinese painting. It is Cheng Suqing, and he also has certain painting skills, such a novel and unique painting method, which has never been heard of before, can be said to be a new way, if he can sort out a set of mature theoretical brushwork, it is enough to start a school in today's art world.

Needless to say, in the next few days, Ximenqing painted the three wives and concubines in the family all day long, and even Pang Chunmei got a pair. On the same day, these days, Ximen Qing has never really been completely in the back house, the first batch of Yandi white salt transported from Cangzhou, did not arrive in Yanggu at all, in the territory of Jinan Mansion on Jingxi Road, it took the ship of Liangshan, and sent it straight to the three prefectures and counties of Xiqing Mansion and Ji and Xu, in these three military prefectures have the property of the Ximen family, and have certain contacts with the local government, and have their own ways to deal with the private salt from this batch of Yandi.

Because of taking Liangshan Water Road, the payment of tax cards at all corners of the road has been saved at least **, and the profits have more than doubled. Originally, this private salt trade was a heavy profit, but this doubled, and the profit during this period was even more amazing.

Seeing that the first batch of private salt was sold smoothly, there was no surprise, and Ximenqing was relieved about this deal. The rest of the matter is just that the treasurers of all the places took the name of the Ximen Mansion and went to visit the people in the various official mansions and spread the spread. With the current officialdom atmosphere, it is naturally invincible to open the way with that money, and I believe that it will not be long before the Ximen family's name industry can be expanded to more than a dozen states and counties in the entire Shandong Province with this huge salt profit.

The business matters are properly arranged, Ximenqing wants to be obsessed with his gentle township for a few more days, but when he thinks of the catastrophe a few years later, for the sake of the future, he can only say goodbye to the wives and concubines in the family, and lead more than a dozen elite soldiers and Ma brothers seconded by his father-in-law's family to carry a gold brick worth 100,000 yuan on the road, aiming directly at Bianliang, Tokyo.

This year is really not as convenient as in later generations, a card for hundreds of millions of family wealth is enough, such a huge amount of wealth, this road needs to be cautious, so Ximenqing deliberately released Shi Qian to do that kind of "scout", along the road to listen to the news, for fear of encountering the bold thief or accidentally entering the black shop opened by the Jianghu man.

The more than ten elite soldiers are all registered in the forbidden army, and their families are in the hands of their fathers-in-law, but they are not afraid of leaking the news, as for the Ma brothers, one of the purposes of this trip to Tokyo is to eliminate the lawsuit on the two of them, and they will not back.

It can also be regarded as Ximen Qing before and after thoughtful, this way is a thoroughfare, and on the way through Huaishui, into the Cai River, upriver to Tokyo, during which on the land is only five or six days away, but also in Shandong boundary.

Recently, due to the large-scale expansion of Liangshan Chaogai and his gang, some of the original thieves on Jingxi Road, who were a little larger, all went to take refuge, but the remaining young men and thieves did not have the courage to dare to go to the official road to rob money. Therefore, along the way, Ximenqing and others did not encounter any accidents.

Tokyo Bianliang, not only the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, but also the center of the country's Cao Yun, there are four rivers around the city, Bian, Guangji, Huimin and Jinshui, collectively known as the four canals of Bianjing, all of which were opened by the imperial court with great strength and countless money and grain. These four canals are connected to Jishui, Yellow River and Weihe River in the north, and Huaiyang, Yangtze River and Qiantang water systems in the south. It is precisely with such a canal system that connects the north and the south and connects the east and the west that the prosperous commerce and trade of the Northern Song Dynasty and the past dynasties have created the prosperity and luxury of Bianliang, the largest city in the world.

People of later generations can only get a glimpse of the prosperous atmosphere of the business and travel of Bianliang Wanbang in Tokyo at that time, and the lights of the Goulan were sleepless from Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Riverside Picture", but for Ximenqing, who was really in the city, he could feel a very familiar breath coming to his face.

In addition to the differences in architectural styles and clothing, the city is almost no different from those ancient city scenic spots in later generations, the hurried business travelers, the leisurely citizens, the frolicking of the street corner boys, the conversation and bargaining of the street vendors and customers, and even a few officials who ran in front of Ximenqing and chased the children in front of them, all made Ximenqing feel the vitality of the citizens' life.

Indeed, in this era, there are heavy taxes in the south of the Yangtze River, the burden of a hundred years of fierce war in the northwest, and the great Liao in the north, which has pressed the Central Plains Dynasty for more than 150 years and occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, but as long as you take a look at the city with your own eyes and feel the style of the times when the Han civilization has developed to the peak, you have to be shaken by it.

It is a pity that if we follow the old trajectory of history, in just ten years, this city and the nation that created this miracle will usher in a destruction, thus playing a tragic song of barbaric conquest of civilization, and also making this nation and civilization gradually depressed, until the Yashan War, the Central Plains civilization has been cut off for thousands of years, and there is a historical lament of "there is no China after Yashan".

I came to this era, is it really to protect the wealth of the family?

Being in this great city, Ximenqing felt a little uncertain about his plan for the first time.

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