Thanks to Huang Wan's careful arrangement, Liu Cun visited Yang Biao and He Jin in two days, and held a banquet at Huang Wan's mansion to thank him.

Due to the fact that Huang Wan, the emperor's great housekeeper, had a lot of affairs, Liu Cun did not need him to accompany him, but asked the guards to call Sun Ji, the thirty-year-old supervisor of the Luoyang General Account of the Langya Chamber of Commerce, to change into ordinary clothes and tie a hairband at will with the brothers.

Sun Ji, the head of the Luoyang General Account of the Langya Chamber of Commerce, is a local, a shrewd businessman who looks elegant and talented, he saw his big proprietor Liu Cun for the first time, but he can grasp Liu Cun's preferences very well, and Liu Cun is approachable and unpretentious, so he gradually abandons his restraints and introduces the scenery along the way to Liu Cun and others in concise but vivid language.

When passing through the bustling Middle East Gate Inner Street, Liu Cun, Tai Shici and others were very interested in the magnificent heavy eaves of the Middle East Gate.

Sun Ji said, the Middle East Gate is the main gate of the three city gates in the east of Luoyang, the upper dysprosium tower has been continuously repaired and expanded by three dynasties to have today's scale, and by the way, even the meaning of the imperial capital Luoyang "Sixty-Nine City" is also said: the city facing Luoshui is six miles wide from east to west, nine miles long from north to south, there are twelve city gates, there are four gates on the south city wall, there are two gates on the north city wall, and the east and west city walls are three gates each, and the name and legend of each city gate are narrated, so that Liu Cun and others can listen to it with relish.

Along the east side of the street of Nangong to the whole area of Zhengyangmen in Nancheng. With four spacious residential areas and hundreds of mansions of different styles and imposing mansions, these are the residences of dignitaries and nobles. Therefore, the streets along the road are wide, and the shops and liquor shops are lined up one after another. Horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians come and go, and all kinds of flags and signboards have their own characteristics, exquisite and elegant, revealing the profound heritage of the thousand-year-old imperial capital and the wealth and prosperity at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

Tai Shi Ci and others were amazed by the majestic and majestic doors in the palace wall, such as the Chongde Palace, the Zhongde Palace, the Qianqiu Hall and the Pingshuo Palace, which were neatly arranged along the central axis, but Liu Cun was interested in various shops on both sides of the street, although Liu Cun had no desire to shop, but in order to bring back a heart to the two wives and stepmothers, he still took the opportunity to buy a lot of exquisite jewelry and handicrafts from the Western Regions, as well as a variety of comfortable and gorgeous Shu brocade of different thicknesses.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened the trade routes of the Western Regions, the connection between the Han Dynasty and the countries of the Western Regions and even the Great Qin Empire has become increasingly close. Although the war was over, the commercial trade between the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions was uninterrupted for more than 200 years, and a large number of caravans composed of Hu merchants frequently traveled between the East and the West, and thousands of Hu merchants gradually opened their businesses or settled in Luoyang.

To Liu Cun's great surprise and surprise, he found precious cobalt blue and malachite refined powders that were used as paint paints in a jewelry store opened by a Hu merchant, cobalt blue is the blue and white porcelain pigment that Liu Cun has been looking for all the time to regret, and malachite is the most scarce ceramic green pigment in Langya and even the whole Qingzhou.

Today, Tang Sancai, which is being trial-produced by Zhushan Ceramics Workshop, is due to the lack of natural green pigments with stable color and luster. It had to be replaced by copper oxide pigments that were carefully made through multiple processes, and secondly, due to the lack of high-quality kaolin that can withstand high temperatures of more than 1,300 degrees, the porcelain currently produced by Zhushan Ceramic Workshop belongs to low-temperature porcelain. These two points have always been something that Liu Cun regrets.

Now there is a solution to the kaolin, and after the Taishan County is completely taken, the high-quality kaolin in the Boshan area in the upper reaches of Zishui can be mined. It is used to make real high-quality high-temperature porcelain, and these precious natural pigments encountered in Luoyang. To a large extent, it solves the problem of insufficient high-quality natural pigments in Zhushan Ceramic Workshop, as long as the energy is continuously purchased. It will certainly play a huge role in promoting the production of ceramics in Zhushan.

As a result, under the stunned gaze of everyone, Liu Cun bought all the five kinds of natural mineral pigments such as cobalt blue and malachite in all the stocks in Hu's store, and solemnly spread the news:

"If these five natural pigments can be sent to Qingzhou, the Langya Chamber of Commerce is willing to pay more than three times the price to buy them all."

Sun Ji once again showed his extraordinary ability, he knew almost all the directors of the big shops, and the heads of the major shops were shocked by the demeanor and demeanor of Liu Cun and others who accompanied Sun Ji, and repeatedly asked who the nobles were? Sun Ji is always skillfully perfunctory, and when Liu Cun and others browsed and purchased, he quickly reached an agreement with the shopkeeper to purchase various goods, and in order to seize the time, he directly set the delivery location at the royal special dock in the southeast of the city.

It wasn't until Sun Ji and Liu Cun and others that the shopkeepers and directors of the shops woke up from the delivery location, and hurriedly ran out of the store to meet Liu Yuanjun, who was famous for his benevolence and virtue, and found that Liu Cun and others had gone away, and the shopkeepers were so regretful that they stomped their feet, knowing that Liu Yuanjun had met the emperor in Luoyang City for the past two days to attend the court meeting, and now he finally ran into it, but he lost the opportunity to pay tribute to the envoy of Ze by all the people in person.

Sun Ji deliberately took Liu Cun and others out of the city from Kaiyang Gate to visit the most charming and prosperous area from outside the city gate to the shore of Luoshui.

This place is distributed with famous landscapes such as Taixue and Mingtang, as well as the most lively South Market in Luoyang, as well as the Qinglou Huatai located on the bank of the Luoshui River, which is the prosperity of the imperial capital.

Sun Ji spent most of the day to let Liu Cun and Tai Shici and others really feel Luoyang, understand all aspects and all kinds of the imperial capital, in order to express his gratitude to Sun Ji, Liu Cun on the way back, invited Sun Ji to enter the wine shop in the Middle East Gate for a drink.

At the time of separation, Liu Cun said to Sun Ji: "If you are willing, you will move your family to Linzi City, Qingzhou after the beginning of spring next year, bring your family and relatives and friends, and when you arrive in Qingzhou, you can continue to be the head of the Qingzhou head of Langya Trading Company, or you can go to Jizhou to be the head of the head of the head of the account, you can choose." ”

Sun Ji hurriedly asked, "Lord, why is this?" ”

Liu Cun did not tell him about his worries, but turned a corner to let him realize for himself: "In the spring of next year, the Langya Chamber of Commerce will comprehensively shrink the business of the Central Plains, cancel all the headquarters and branches in Luoyang and Gyeonggi, and focus on the operation of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou, Jingzhou, Jiaozhou and Jiangdong, and will also cross the sea to open the Sanhan General Account and the Liaodong General Account." You just have to keep this in your heart, and you can't reveal it to the outside world. ”

At dusk, Liu Cun and Huang Wan arrived at Yang Biao's mansion on time to visit.

Yang Biao's family saw that Liu Cun's personal guards kept sending boxes of gifts, and they liked and sighed, and finally Yang Biao pulled Liu Cun with one hand and Huang Wan with the other, and instructed his son to greet Guan Ning, Guoyuan, Wang Lie, Tai Shici and others, and directly entered the middle hall where a sumptuous banquet had been placed.

The Yang Biao family from Hongnong Huayin (now Huayin County, Shaanxi) is flourishing, and each generation of the head of the family is very remarkable, and more than ten generations have created the famous "Hongnong Yang Family" of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and it is firmly among the five major valves of the Han Dynasty.

Yang Xi, the ancestor of Hongnong Yang, was the cavalry captain of Han Gaozu, and finally accumulated merit and became a marquis; Ancestor Yang Chang was the Marquis of Anping of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, and he was the prime minister; Gaozu Yang Bao is a generation of Confucian, great-grandfather Yang Zhenguan to Taiwei, grandfather Yang Bing is not only the same official to Taiwei, but also a generation of famous ministers, Yang Biao's father is the great Sikong of this dynasty who passed away last year, and was posthumously awarded the hussar general after his death, and there is a famous nickname "Wenlie" that the ministers of civil and military affairs of all dynasties dreamed of but could not reach.

Half-drunk, a fourteen-year-old handsome young man stepped forward to toast Liu Cun, he is Yang Biao's eldest son, Yang Xiu, a prodigy who is famous in the Han Dynasty, and the other more than 20 Yang descendants are all civil and military officials at all levels of the Han court.

Everyone in the hall couldn't help but look at each other and were deeply surprised when they saw Liu Cun treating the fourteen-year-old Yang Xiu like an adult of equal status.

The young Yang Xiu accepted it generously, and finally touched a glass of wine with Liu Cun very boldly, which made the whole house even more stunned.

Yang Biao was both happy and worried, and ordered his son to go back and sit down, and asked Liu Cun with a solemn face: "Why is Zijian so tolerant of dogs?" Aren't you afraid of spoiling him? ”

Liu Cungong replied with a smile: "The young man who can make the contemporary Confucian Zheng Shi and Bing Shi praise him as a 'genius and scheming', there is only one Yang Xiu today, so he is worthy of my Liu Cunping's peers." ”

The hall was full of exclamations, and after Yang Biao was shocked, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "Understood!" In the spring of next year, I will send the dog to Langya, worship under Master Zheng and Master Bing, even if it is for the two great Confucians to serve water and grind ink, it is also the blessing of the dog, if you continue to stay at home, I am afraid it will harm him for a lifetime! ”

Except for Liu Cun and Guan Ning, who could understand the true meaning of Yang Biao's words, everyone else was in the dark and praised Yang Xiu vigorously.

Seeing this, Yang Biao shook his head slightly, picked up the wine glass and respectfully sent it to Liu Cun: "Zijian, thank you!" ”

Liu Cun hurriedly stood up, picked up the wine glass and moved it to the forty-six-year-old Yang Biao to sit down: "Gong Wen, it's good to let the eldest prince stay with Master Zheng and Master Bing for a few years, Langya Academy is full of heroes, and the style of study is gradually changing. ”

"At the beginning of the year, Master Bing said: 'Langya Academy should break down barriers, get rid of the view of the door, absorb the essence of various theories, and devote itself to cultivating talents who know what it is and why it is true, otherwise it is not enough to bear the future of the country and the nation'!"

"Today, Langya Academy has gathered hundreds of scholars from all over the Han Dynasty, with more than 2,000 students from all over the Han Dynasty, and there are many talents with great potential, so it may be helpful for the eldest prince to get in touch with those young students."

Yang Biao still didn't understand Liu Cun's kindness, nodded heavily and raised a glass with Liu Cun. (To be continued......)

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