The Ying family's Bao Yue Xuan is located in the beautiful scenery of Huaiqing Bridgehead, through the wide stone bridge to the north, is the central street Dazhong Street where the fang district is connected to the yamen, to the south is the largest tribute courtyard in the whole Ming Dynasty and the famous Confucius Temple, both sides are time-honored wine inns and high-end shops, all kinds of signboard flags are densely packed and continuous, from morning to night visitors are bustling and extremely lively.

When Zhu Daolin entered Bao Yue Xuan for the third time, he still sighed for Bao Yue Xuan's unique golden port location, the three-storey Bao Yue Xuan cornices and arches covering an area of two acres are simple and heavy, the carved beams and paintings are extraordinary, the interior is spacious and bright, the display is scattered, and there are as many as nine people who know the book and the courtesy, this is not counting the three proficient antique calligraphy and painting in the industry The famous courtiers and their respective apprentices, the guests come and go everywhere with prosperity, how can there be so unbearable what the big shopkeeper said?

The first floor of Bao Yue Xuan is full of gold and silver jewelry, all kinds of jewelry, cleverly divided into three areas by using Bogu shelves and exquisite bonsai, and has a spacious private room for the ladies of wealthy families to rest, chat and try on various jewelry.

The second floor is hung and displayed all antique calligraphy and paintings, among which calligraphy and paintings are the majority, there is also a semi-open rest area, the high chairs and interval coffee tables neatly placed in the shape of "concave" are actually made of rare golden silk nan wood, Zhu Daolin every time he sits here and drinks tea and farts with the big shopkeeper, he has a strong urge to rob.

"Knock on what? Are you here to pick up calligraphy and paintings, or to explore carpentry? ”

The shopkeeper Ying held two carefully selected scrolls in his hand, sat down and put them on the golden silk nanmu coffee table in front of him, and despised Zhu Daolin's behavior of tapping the armrest of the chair with his hand every time he came.

Zhu Daolin smiled: "I remember the day before yesterday when you watched the demolition of the house with me in Zizhuyuan, it seemed that you said that in your old man's backyard warehouse, there are still a lot of golden silk nanmu that have not yet been sawn?" ”

Ying Changpei shook his sleeves and signaled to the diligent servant to leave: "Isn't there a few fine nanmu beams in the side hall behind the Sanqing Hall you demolished?" Why did you hit my old man again? ”

"How can the two beams that have been removed compare to your set of furniture? Forget it, let's talk about calligraphy and painting, and emphasize again, I don't want the Yuan Dynasty and this dynasty, as long as the Tang and Song dynasties or beyond. Zhu Daolin, who doesn't know anything about calligraphy and painting, can only make this decision.

Ying Changpei shook his head again: "I've never seen someone like you, can you tell me what's going on with that overseas Tianshu Pavilion?" Why so picky? ”

Zhu Daolin replied solemnly: "Where do I dare to ask?" Tianshu Pavilion is a group of masters in their seventies and eighties, where do I dare to talk nonsense? I can get the approval of those old guys, it's already smoke from the ancestral grave. ”

Ying Changpei could only sigh in disappointment like the previous times: "Then don't talk about it, I'll open these two calligraphy and paintings for you to take a good look at...... The upper right corner of this Tang Dynasty Yu Shinan's "Zhongnan Tablet" is a little damaged, and the condition is not very good when it is recovered, although I invited the best craftsmen in the industry to re-mount it, but in the end it still cannot completely make up for the original flaws, and it is not as good as this "Empty Mountain Tired Bird Picture" by Fan Kuan of the Northern Song Dynasty. ”

Zhu Daolin just glanced at it a few times and then made a decision: "Just these two, find a better box to help me put it up." ”

Ying Changpei immediately rolled his eyes, and had no choice but to summon the middle-aged courtier who was standing not far away, asked him to roll up the two paintings and put them up, and sighed again with the hot tea that Zhu Daolin poured for him:

"Choosing calligraphy and painting with you is not only not an elegant thing, but a kind of torture, next time I will simply accompany you to various antique shops to find a few pieces of porcelain and bronzes, anyway, you don't know anything about calligraphy and painting, and I don't know how that Tianshu Pavilion likes you."

"You have too few antiques, too many calligraphy and paintings, but I don't know calligraphy and painting, there are a lot of ancient jade at the two counters downstairs, but which piece is worth which piece comes from the palace of the past dynasties, I won't look at it, if you don't recommend the double phoenix Hanyu the day before yesterday, I thought it was a white marble stone, so ah, I can only choose the bronze and porcelain that I am more familiar with, don't be surprised, who asked you to make me a friend who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to learn?" Zhu Daolin explained without blushing.

Ying Changpei couldn't help but smile: "Don't try to lie to me, if you don't learn and don't know how to do it, why are you interested in my 'Mo Lin Zhai'?" He also asked me why I didn't embroider the script, I really don't know how to answer you, can the Tianshu Pavilion, which is far overseas, really print the kind of book you said? ”

Zhu Daolin put down the cup, pondered for a moment and did not answer directly, but put forward a new idea: "You help me get an idea, if I get back two hand-cranked printing machines using lead and tin movable type typesetting from Tianshu Pavilion, can I open a book printing workshop?" ”

Ying Changpei was very interested when he heard this: "Is there really a movable type hand-cranked printing press?" ”

"Yes, although it takes a little effort, but you can definitely get it, the printed text and images are a little worse than those produced by Tianshu Pavilion, but at least ten times stronger than the stereotyped printed books sold in Mo Lin Zhai, what I'm worried about is, can the local ink paper be used? And I'm not sure about the sales volume. Zhu Daolin had already thought about this matter repeatedly.

Ying Changpei is different, he saw a huge market prospect from Zhu Daolin's words: "Ink and paper are not estimated to be a problem, it's a big deal to ask a few experts in this area to try repeatedly, and you can always find a solution, as for sales, you don't have to worry at all, just take the "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" book of this Chaohu Haisanren (Luo Guanzhong) for example, in the past two years, my Mo Lin Zhai has sold 13,000 copies, which is still the result of more than a dozen shops in the city competing to engrave and sell them, If I can get back the kind of embroidered picture book you mentioned, I'll sell 100,000 copies a year. ”

"I'm worried that the price is a bit too expensive to sell." Zhu Daolin hesitated.

Ying Changpei laughed: "As long as this is the only one, others don't have it, even if it is several times more expensive, don't worry about selling, don't forget that this is the Jiangnan where the literary style is at its peak, to put it mildly, the peddlers and pawns on the street can recognize a few words, aside from Suzhou and Hangzhou, Jianghuai and Jiangxi and other places, one city and eight counties within the scope of Ying Tianfu is enough for you to sell, if you can buy the hand-cranked printing press you said back and print it yourself, hum, you just wait to count the silver!" ”

Zhu Daolin nodded: "Since that's the case, let's do it." ”

"Don't worry! I haven't said anything about shares. ”

Ying Changpei changed his Confucian businessman demeanor in the past, and ran for interests like Zhu Daolin: "You can tell me how much money I should invest, and I will at least account for forty percent of the shares!" ”

Zhu Daolin weighed it slightly: "Let's follow the old way, and then put 20% of the dry shares under your sister's name, and I will give 10% to Brother Mengshan, Brother Mengshan is good at architectural design and construction, and has a deep study of various institutions, and is definitely a rare talent in a century!" ”

"I'm a little puzzled, why is such a big talent not famous? Why not use it for the imperial court? Why can't this Ming officialdom tolerate such talents? ”

Ying Changpei's heart was suddenly moved, and he said from the bottom of his heart for the first time: "Is this kind of thing still rare?" It's not that I don't have talents, but no one attaches importance to talents, especially the Donglin Party, which has become more and more powerful after overthrowing Wei Zhongxian, has now occupied most of the prominent positions in the DPRK and the Central Committee, and the party members are all over the government and the opposition, unscrupulously attacking dissidents and crowding out talents. Alas! Don't talk about it, make a taboo, tell me about you, when will you leave? ”

"Just these two days, today is the eighth day of October, and I will come back at the end of the month at the latest."

Zhu Daolin did not hide that during this time, he almost used up the 10,000 taels of silver in his hand, and successively bought back seven pieces of porcelain from the Yongle Dynasty and the Song and Yuan dynasties, two three-color porcelain in the shape of galloping horses in the Tang Dynasty, two three-foot-high gold and bronze Buddha statues of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, five pieces of ancient jade and four calligraphy and paintings of celebrities in the Tang and Song dynasties, including the two scrolls at present, should go back and make a fortune.

Ying Changpei saw Zhu Daolin standing up to leave, and hurriedly motioned to Chao Feng to take the two calligraphy and paintings in the long wooden box, and walked down the wide and sturdy solid wood staircase side by side with Zhu Daolin:

"During this time, you have been running back and forth, always renting a carriage and walking is not a long-term solution, I will give you a carriage...... If you like horseback riding, I'll go to my brother-in-law's house in two days and get you two good horses, so you don't have to spend all your time on the road. ”

Zhu Daolin's eyes lit up, and he stopped at the bend of the stairs: "I don't want the carriage, maybe I'll give you a comfortable and luxurious carriage after a while, I like horses, especially the war horses on the Wei Mansion, there is no place to buy them if you have money, give me a few more horses to come back, don't ask for a thousand miles of horses, it's just a horse, you can count how much silver, I can't ask for nothing if it's not yours." ”

"Just a few horses, as for your money?"

Ying Changpei sent Zhu Daolin to the door, and Chaofeng had already handed over two wooden boxes containing calligraphy and paintings to Yuhu, who was waiting below. Before parting, Ying Changpei asked Zhu Daolin again if he needed him to help find a clipper? Zhu Daolin waved his hand and left in a dashing manner.

Back to the main house of the East Cross Courtyard of Zizhuyuan in his temporary residence, Zhu Daolin immediately sharpened his ink, picked up the brush and wrote a letter to his master Xuanqing Daochang, Zhu Daolin practiced calligraphy for several years under the high pressure of his mother when he was a child, so the line font written is not ugly, and there are no mistakes that are easy to occur in the conversion of traditional and simplified fonts.

Yuhu was a little reluctant to learn that Zhu Daolin would not take him away, but the clever Yuhu did not say it directly, but found a grandiose excuse:

"In seven days, it will be the Xia Yuan Festival, and all the Daomen in the world will hold a grand fasting ceremony, and it is estimated that the deacons sent by the ancestral court will also arrive on this day, and the senior brother will leave at this time, how can I explain to my uncle and the elders of the ancestral court?"

Zhu Daolin immediately seized the opportunity to attack Yuhu's religious view: "The grand ceremony of bullshit, isn't the sect of the world taking this opportunity to collect money?" It is estimated that the Chaotian Palace next door will be operated in a big way, but the messy foundation of our Ziyang Temple has not been laid at the moment, what is the next Yuan Festival? Do you want to gather more than 3,000 bitter craftsmen and people on the construction site to set up altars? ”

Yuhu could only shake his head: "I don't think so, we rarely hold Dharma ceremonies in the medical department, and several uncles and uncles and my master are very good to the poor people, and they treat diseases even if they don't have money." ”

"Isn't that the end of it? Do you know why I invested heavily in the renovation and expansion of Zizhu Garden, isn't it just to strengthen my medical profession and establish a good reputation? Come on! Hurry back, or you won't be able to get out of the city by closing the gates. Zhu Daolin urged again.

"Uncle Shi must ask, what should I say?" Yuhu was very worried.

Zhu Daolin put his arm around his shoulders and walked out: "You can say whatever you want, whatever you want!" Wait patiently for me to come back, if it's okay, you come back and follow Lord Zhao to learn how to build a house, and at the end of the month at the latest, I will bring back the Qin Wang Sword you like. ”