Chapter 170: Turning Stone into Gold
The rising mid-autumn sun, through the gap between the osmanthus leaves outside the window, spreads the mottled shadows on the curtains. Whenever the breeze shakes the laurel tree, the thin shadows flow back and forth like a stream. However, the curtains can block the autumn wind, but they can't stop the fragrance of the golden osmanthus flowers on the osmanthus tree.
The floor of the room is covered with a thick wool carpet against the dark red carved latticework and rosewood cases, giving the room a warm feeling. A gorgeous lacquered flower screen reflects the red charcoal fire in the large copper brazier, which adds to the comfort of the bedroom. The unique paintings on the wall are self-painted by the owner of the bedroom, and the portraits painted on them are all lifelike, from left to right, they are hanging portraits of Yi Feng, Rose, Qianxue, Ji Yao, Mulan, and Qinglian. Yi Feng is quite complacent about these surreal realistic paintings, and each portrait is like a camera, but unfortunately after Gao Bo, Wei Zheng and others saw it, they commented that the craftsmanship was too heavy and lacked spirituality. This hit Yi Feng very hard, so he moved all the paintings that were originally hung in his study to the bedroom, and enjoyed himself every day.
Below the painting, there is also a peculiar style of the piano, this is Yi Feng's own guitar, originally there was a simple and elegant guqin, but unfortunately Yi Feng will not talk, but Qinglian's girl plays very well, Yi Feng felt very frustrated with self-esteem, so he simply gave the piano to Qinglian, made a guitar himself, when he was excited to hold the made guitar, in front of Qinglian to play the classic guitar song love romance, finally let Qinglian listen to it as if fascinated. "Although Saburo's instrument is strange and the tune is a little peculiar, it's really good!" since. When Yi Feng is fine, he often has two Qinglian, a guqin and a guitar, and he mings, which is also very interesting. Behind the piano stand, there are two bookshelves of golden silk nanmu, on which are two shelves full of thread-bound books, these are the books printed by Huaihuang Bookstore today, using the new paper of Huaihuang Paper Workshop. The movable type printing technology of the printing workshop, as well as the thread binding method invented by Yi Feng, the books of Huaihuang Bookstore are now also a specialty of Huaihuang. Extremely welcome. Next to the bookshelf, a copper stove decorated with the shape of a crane is curling out the wisps of ambergris smoke, faint. A faint fragrance floats and sinks in the room.
This bedroom. Everywhere there is silk and satin, and the gold and jade utensils are arranged, which looks luxurious and opulent, showing an elegant atmosphere.
But in fact, except for the six paintings and the guitar and the books, the rest of these things came from the gifts given by merchants from all over the world when they came to visit Yi Feng.
The crescent door cover shelf bed of the tassel brocade tent is self-produced, and this kind of shelf bed includes chairs, eight immortal tables and many other furniture that makes people look like Hu people. Its styles are all designed by Yi Feng himself. Although it is full of Hu style, Huaihuang is a place where Hu and Han are mixed. Everyone is interested in the practicality of these furniture, and now these new furniture are selling extremely hot. On the contrary, the original traditional furniture such as couches, tables, and tables are not so popular.
Qinglian, who was lying on the shelf bed, had already woken up, leaning on the red satin soft pillow, slanting at the broken shadow, she closed her eyes, and then opened them again. Turning his head, Yi Feng was still asleep. Qinglian slowly stretched out a snow-white arm from under the big red cloud satin quilt, and then stretched out another one and stretched her body leisurely.
Hearing the sound, Mulan also woke up, she lifted the quilt, revealing her messy hair, a pair of big eyes that were still confused, and when she saw Qinglian planning to get up, she reached out to shake Yi Feng, "Ah, it's dawn." ”
Qinglian looked at her heartless appearance, and couldn't help but feel helpless, she looked down at the big bed, Yi Feng was lying in the middle, still asleep. She sleeps on Yi Feng's left, while Mulan sleeps on Yi Feng's right. For a while, the memories of last night flooded back. Last night, Yi Feng attended the celebration banquet in the army, and was toasted a lot by the officers, and it was very late when he came back, she and Mulan were going to serve Yi Feng to sleep, but Yi Feng wanted to enjoy the moon and osmanthus flowers, and pulled the two of them to talk nonsense in the small courtyard, and also pulled them to drink. At first, she was still holding it, but it didn't take long for Mulan to take her to drink wine together, she said that she only drank a little, who would have thought that the wine was so strong, Yi Feng said that it was his newly brewed daughter Hong. Anyway, she was also drunk later, and Mulan was also drunk, so I can't remember how she got laid.
It seems that the three of them got into a bed in such a daze, and then slept together.
Qinglian rubbed her head, which was still a little painful, and looked at the half-white Mulan, the girl was a little dodgy when she looked at her, her heart moved, and she suddenly understood. This girl, I didn't expect to have this cleverness. actually took advantage of the opportunity of Yi Feng to get drunk yesterday, and finally succeeded in recommending himself to the pillow. Thinking of the three of them sleeping together last night and doing the shameless things, Qinglian's face couldn't help but burn. Dead girl, if you want to go to San Lang's bed, I won't stop you, but you can't take the calculation I gave me and pull me to mess around.
Qinglian didn't care much about Mulan's thoughts, and Mulan had been good sisters for many years, and they were both Qianxue's maids, and they also worshipped Yi Feng together. Now that the young lady is not by Saburo's side, they can have the opportunity to serve Saburo, and they are very satisfied.
Mulan saw that Qinglian was going to get up, so she hurriedly climbed out of bed first, fetched Qinglian first, fetched Qinglian's clothes, and draped Qinglian on her body, and then walked to a table of eight immortals on the inside of the door, took a celadon cup from Yuejiao, made a cup of dragon tongue tea, and sent it to Qinglian, and said with a smile: "Sister drink tea!" ”
Qinglian didn't answer, she glanced back at Yi Feng, who was still asleep on the bed, Yi Feng had a dragon and two phoenixes last night, and even the second daughter, and he was sleeping sweetly at this time. He absentmindedly brought the teacup to the table, "This tea is still an overnight herbal tea!" He sighed again, "We are all sisters, although you were a little nonsense yesterday, you don't need to please me like this, in fact, Lang Jun has always liked you, and sooner or later he will accept you, you are just too anxious." ”
"I'm going to make tea for my sister!"
"No need." Qinglian grabbed Mulan, "You broke the melon last night, so you should go back to bed and lie down." I'm going to make tea. She remembered the first time she had, that morning, when Mulan found out and made a face at her. I can't help but feel funny.
At this time, Yi Feng was finally woken up by the voices of two women, he opened his eyes and saw that the two women were wearing small clothes, he was stunned at first, and then saw Mulan's shy and bold eyes looking at him, and finally the memory of last night came out little by little.
"Hahaha!" Yi Feng first chuckled. Breaking the somewhat awkward atmosphere, he then said to Mulan, "Hey." I also think that I am also brave and extraordinary, but I didn't expect to be pushed down by Mulan last night, and my reputation was ruined! ”
"Huh!" Qinglian chuckled along.
Magnolia blushed like a ripe peach. I was so ashamed that I almost had to go under the bed.
"Qinglian, you take good care of Mulan today. In addition, she will ask the kitchen to make up for her stewed ginseng chicken soup for a while. After speaking, Yi Feng got up and dressed and left, today is the day of the filming meeting, and things are busy.
A new day has begun, and with the excitement of the last auction, the more preparations are made for this auction, and therefore the whole Huaihuang City will become more and more lively.
In front of the Grand Theater of the Exchange. Many people had come to watch, both merchants and ordinary people. There are even sergeants on leave. However, when they wanted to go in and take a seat, they found that they needed tickets to participate in the auction this time.
"Twenty cents per person for admission tickets!"
Twenty cents can buy two catties of meat to eat, which makes many people retreat in disappointment.
Ling Yun entered the exchange from the side door, Xu Gai had already come in with a glass of milk, and said as he walked, "San Lang, I heard that this milk powder is also the idea you came up with, it's really amazing, you can actually think of making milk goat milk into dry milk powder, so that if you want to drink milk, you don't have to raise milk goats, just buy a pack of milk powder, and just flush it with hot water." By the way, that meat floss is also delicious, and the milk soaked meat floss is really delicious. ”
Yi Feng raised his head and smiled, "This is a result of the research on military rations, after drying fresh milk into powder, it can be stored for a longer time and is more convenient to carry." In the future, this milk powder and meat floss will be included in the dry food of the cavalry, if you march for a long time and have no time to cook, you can put the milk powder into the pot when you are marching, add some water, and you can also put the meat floss in it, and then hang it on the horse, let him shake it when the horse gallops, and then you can eat it at any time, which is convenient and fast, and can also maintain a sufficient body. ”
"How can you eat like this? Well, yes, this bag of dry milk powder, plus a pack of dried meat floss, it is estimated that you can eat it for a long time, good thing. Xu Gai immediately understood the advantages of this kind of dry food, it is light in weight, does not take up space, and can be mixed with water to make food, but it is difficult to replenish the body.
"In fact, cow and goat milk can also be made into a lot of easy-to-preserve foods, milk tofu, milk skins and so on." Meat is made into meat floss, and milk is made into milk powder, which can greatly enhance the role of animal husbandry.
Xu Gai lowered his head and drank a few sips of milk, and then said, "Do you still have an invitation to the auction there?" A lot of people came to me and said they wanted to participate in the auction. ”
The auction was well publicized, and the auction also printed a special auction manual, which not only had a list of auction items, detailed information about the auction items, but also detailed information about the auction process, rules, etc. Many businessmen are very interested in the auction of the Huaihuang Exchange and want to participate. However, Yi Feng knew that what Xu Gai was talking about was actually the location of the box that those merchants wanted.
The auction will have a total of more than 5,000 seats, 180 boxes, and 3,000 standing seats if required. The auction has been advertised for a long time, and there will be a singing and dancing performance before the auction, and there will be juggling and other performances in the middle of the auction, so it is very attractive. Therefore, this auction needs to buy tickets to enter, seat tickets are 20 yuan, and standing tickets are 10 yuan, but box tickets are not sold, only invitations are issued.
Each box can accommodate six to eight people, with a maximum of ten people, and these boxes are undoubtedly very popular with those merchants. However, there were only one hundred and eighty boxes, and this time Yi Feng had divided these more than 100 boxes early, and they were all given to those big caravans.
"The box is gone, but there are still some seats in the front row, which can be arranged for your friends."
"How many people will participate in the auction this time?"
"A lot." Yi Feng was very happy when he mentioned this, and the merchants who participated in the auction exceeded Yi Feng's expectations. For the auction, there is a relatively strict process, and it does not mean that you can participate in the auction by buying a ticket to enter the auction. Everyone who wants to participate in the auction must first register, and then get the bank, use the money or goods as collateral, write a check for 100 yuan, and then hand over the 1,000 yuan check to the exchange as a bidding deposit. The exchange issues a number plate to the bidder, and the auction will raise the number to bid. After the auction ends, if the bid is not paid, the deposit will be charged as a penalty and will not be refunded. As long as there is no deliberate default, the auction deposit will be refunded. This is also to avoid people bidding and making trouble. After all, a hundred dollars is not a lot.
However, even with this margin condition, there are still a lot of merchants who want to participate in the auction in the end, and now the number plate has been opened from No. 1 to more than 800, including caravans, commercial houses, shops, and even individuals.
"There are a lot of clan Hu merchants!" Many people are both auction consignors and bidders.
"Who told you to put a lot of sought-after materials only at the auction auction, dam salt, dam sugar, dam wine and even fried tea are all put up for auction at the auction, you don't know, now those few goods can be said to be priceless. There are many people who want to buy, but you only put it at the auction, so people can only come to this auction. Xu Gai is very appreciative of Yi Feng's trick, now the salt, sugar, and even brewed wine produced in Huaihuang are all extremely popular commodities, plus the roasted tea shipped from Jiangnan, it is now also an extremely sought-after commodity, but Yi Feng is only auctioned at auction.
"The business of this salt sugar tea is good, and it is simply profitable. The business of this wine is also very hot, our wine is very strong, and those grassland Hu merchants like it the most, but this wine is the most food-consuming, otherwise the imperial court would not have banned private wine. The better this wine sells, the more food we will consume. Xu Gai raised a concern, Huai Famine's grain is all dependent on foreign transportation, and winemaking is extremely food-consuming, otherwise the dynasties would not often have decrees prohibiting alcohol.
"Don't worry, you don't necessarily have to ask for food to make wine." Yi Feng said with a smug smile, there was no distilled liquor in this era, and naturally there was no distilled fruit liquor. The Great Sui Dynasty had already banned alcohol, although there were government-run wineries, but the output was greatly reduced after all, and the market was in short supply for a long time, not to mention that this kind of high-quality liquor was once again wine, and it could also be sold extremely hot, just like Zhang Jin said that the pear brew they sold was like this. And this place in the north, especially outside the Saiwai, is naturally a perfect match for soju in the cold winter. Now Yifeng's winery has become a specialty of Xiwan City under Huaihuang, and Xiwan City has planned to fully develop the winemaking industry and make winemaking a pillar industry in Xiwan City.
"You don't need grain to make wine?" Xu Gai was stunned for a moment, and then immediately jumped up happily, and lowered his voice to Yi Fengdao, "Then aren't we going to make it?" ”
"The cost is still needed, but the lack of food makes the brewing no longer so restrictive."
Xu Gai's happy lips trembled, wine has always been a very profitable business, and the demand is huge, and there is no need to worry about market saturation. Not to mention the big market in the Central Plains, just think about those Hu people in the north, they are the real biggest demanders for wine, how much such spirits there are, how many Hu people are willing to buy, and wine is a consumable, it is really a long-term big deal.
Yi Feng just smiled, for Xu Gai, whether it was dam salt, dam sugar or even dam wine, everything was so magical, everything could make people a rich man, but for Yi Feng, it was just a little help he got by using the knowledge of later generations. Making money, in the end, is to strengthen one's own army, and use this money to feed the army and the people. Because he knew very well that the place of Huaihuang, if it was not engaged in trade, would not develop at all. And to create a few unique and in-demand goods is to add a few fires to his trade border market plan! (To be continued......)