"Are you sure anyone is willing to pay for those paintings?" Zhao Yan asked in disbelief, he never thought that his casual pen practice could be sold at such a high price, if he knew this, what kind of soap workshop was built at the beginning, just sell paintings directly, but after thinking about it, he was a dignified county king to make a living by selling paintings, and it was really a bit of a loss, it was better to do business, at least the nobles of the Song Dynasty did not reject industry and commerce.

"It's absolutely true, and even a few guys with great powers have touched me, and asked me directly about the origin of these paintings, and even offered me the price of a thousand times, but I was not short of money before, and I didn't know your permission, so no one knew that those paintings flowed from your house!" Cao Song patted his chest and said, it seems that it is a very great thing to help Zhao Yan keep a secret.

Zhao Yan looked at Cao Song at this time, and then shook his head firmly and said: "Brother Jiu'er, it's not that I don't help you, but I can't help at all, as the so-called scarcity is expensive, those paintings can be sold for more than a thousand times before, in addition to the value of the paintings themselves, the most important thing is that they are scarce, but now if fifty paintings appear at once, do you think someone will pay thousands of dollars to buy them?" ”

For the value of artworks, Zhao Yan, who learns painting, knows best, and the value of artworks is often fried, such as a painting, in fact, it is just a painting, but if it is used by some well-intentioned people, find a few so-called critics to interpret the painting, and after the fame is stirred, and then arrange someone to resell it at a high price at the auction a few times, the painting will immediately be a hundred times more identical, and it is even likely to form a so-called genre painting style or something, and then these paintings will be more valuable.

Although Zhao Yan's paintings have not been used by people with intentions, the application of light and shadow in his sketches is far away from this era, so when those who know how to paint see it, they are naturally shocked by it, and their fame has been inadvertently stirred up, coupled with the unintentional promotion of Ouyang Xiu and other celebrities, as well as the scarcity of paintings that have been circulated, this is why it is being bought by thousands of people, but if the number is large, I am afraid that the price will fall immediately.

"Then I have no choice but to go back and beg my dad to let my dad beat me up again and get angry!" Cao Song is not stupid, he also lamented when he heard Zhao Yan's words, he originally regarded Zhao Yan as his last life-saving straw, but now it seems that even if Zhao Yan really gave him fifty paintings, I am afraid that he would not be able to sell them for a high price of 50,000 yuan, let alone use them to repay debts.

Hearing Cao Song say such a pitiful thing, coupled with the fact that his face was now bruised and swollen, Zhao Yan also had some sympathy, and immediately spoke: "Brother Jiu'er, don't be afraid, it's a big deal that I will help you plead with your father, this time you also fell into the trap of the Gao family's brothers, plus 50,000 yuan is not impossible for your Cao family, I will help you find this field back in the future!" ”

However, Cao Song heard Zhao Yan's words and said with a sad face: "The third brother doesn't know, if it was put in the past, although 50,000 yuan is too much, my father is still willing to take it out, but some time ago, our Cao family suffered a little loss in business, and the benefits were accounted for by the Gao family, and our family's income was reduced by half, and now the family is thrifty, and even I heard that I married the fourth sister to you in order to use your royal power to snatch back some business." ”

Cao Song really regarded Zhao Yan as a brother, so some secrets in the family that could not be spread were also told without scruples, but Zhao Yan was quite interested when he heard this: "Brother Jiu'er, what kind of business is your Cao family doing, how could you be robbed of most of the benefits by the Gao family?" ”

When it comes to the family's business, Cao Song sighed and said: "What kind of business can it be, the whole Tokyo city knows that our Cao family and the Gao family monopolize the coal supply in and around Tokyo City, and the large and small coal shops in the city are either our Cao family or the Gao familyAs a result, most of our family's business has been robbed by them, and we can only rely on the old bottom to support it, so my father will beat me like this for 50,000 yuan! ”

The coal business doesn't sound like a profiteering industry, but the entire Tokyo city has a population of more than one million, and every household can't leave coal every day, and such a business is also monopolized by Cao Gao's two families.

However, Zhao Yan asked with some confusion when he heard this: "Brother Jiu'er, if I remember correctly, there don't seem to be many coal mines around Kaifeng, such as Jingxi Road and Jingbei North Road, I remember that there is a big coal mine, and the coal there alone is enough to supply the capital, no matter how strong the Gao family's financial resources are, it is impossible to monopolize all the coal supply, right?" ”

The so-called Jingxi Road and Jingbei Road, in fact, is the Jiaozuo area of Henan Province in later generations, where it is one of the largest and oldest coal mines in the Central Plains, and the coal quality is good, all are single anthracite, once supplied a large number of industrial coal for the liberation of New China, but unfortunately in Zhao Yan's generation, Jiaozuo's coal has been hollowed out, it is said that the underground is all mines, Zhao Yan has an aunt who lives there, so he is no stranger to Jiaozuo's coal mines.

Regarding Zhao Yan's doubts, Cao Song shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Third brother, you don't know, although there are a lot of coal mines around Kaifeng City, there are two kinds of coal mined, namely lump coal and crushed coal, we usually burn lump coal, as for crushed coal, because it is too small, and there is a lot of coal ash in it, not only dirty and not easy to burn, but even if you are not careful, it may even cause a fire, so the coal shop generally only collects lump coal, but the output of lump coal is limited, and now it has been robbed by the Gao family. Therefore, our Gao family naturally has no coal to sell. ”

"Wait a minute, you said that all the coal burned in Tokyo is now, and no one wants crushed coal at all?" Zhao Yan was very surprised when he heard this, he also used coal at home when he was a child, and naturally knew the difference between lump coal and crushed coal, although lump coal is more expensive, but crushed coal is not undesirable, and some people even like to use crushed coal to process into honeycomb coal to burn.

"It's not that no one wants crushed coal, some industries don't pay much attention to fuel, so they will also use some cheap crushed coal, but most of the crushed coal is still piled up around various coal mines and can't be sold. Cao Song's family is in the coal business, although he is not in a serious business, but under the influence of his ears and eyes, he still knows a lot of things in this industry.

"Hahahaha~, Brother Jiu, you can go back boldly and boldly, didn't the Gao brothers cheat you for 50,000 yuan, and then I will let them spit it out for you with interest!" Zhao Yan laughed and said, originally he thought that the Song Dynasty might not have honeycomb coal, but now it seems that the Northern Song Dynasty, which had just used coal on a large scale, did not even appear more primitive solid briquettes, which also led to those broken coals that no one was willing to want, but this was an excellent financial road for him, but it was a pity that he had no capital now, and he was not familiar with the coal industry, so he could only choose to cooperate with the Cao family.

Seeing Zhao Yan laughing excitedly, Cao Song was a little inexplicable, and only after a while did he ask: "Third brother, what do you mean, what do you mean by letting them spit out with interest?" ”

"Hehe, you don't have to worry about this, today I will discuss one thing with your father and my father-in-law, I can guarantee that your father will never beat you again!" Zhao Yan said with a sinister smile.

With the help of the Cao family, the purchase of those broken coal that no one wants, and even monopolize the purchase of broken coal, and then make honeycomb coal for sale, although it increases some labor costs, but the cost of crushed coal is nothing, so that the price of honeycomb coal is definitely lower than that of lump coal, and then it will definitely be able to beat the Gao family. Although Queen Gao is Zhao Yan's mother, Zhao Yan has no feelings for this eccentric mother, and she has no closeness to the Gao family, but the Cao family wants to maintain the family business with the help of Zhao Yan's identity, so the Cao family is his most suitable ally.

Cao Song was unwilling to ask again, but unfortunately Zhao Yan just didn't tell him, after all, Cao Song didn't have a door to open his mouth, in case he got drunk one day and publicized this matter, then Zhao Yan and the Cao family would lose miserably.

Seeing that Zhao Yan really planned to keep it a secret from himself, Cao Song had no choice but to stop asking, but then he thought of one more thing, and smiled at Zhao Yan at the moment: "Third brother, I heard that yesterday you and your second uncle got drunk, and then you had a cigarette in your mouth, and you can swallow clouds and spit out fog, which frightened everyone in the family, you don't have that cigarette in your hand now, let the little brother taste it?" ”

Hearing Cao Song mention yesterday's drunkenness, Zhao Yan felt a headache after a hangover again, and he only remembered that he drank a lot of wine yesterday, but he had no impression of what happened in the later life, and he didn't remember that he and Cao Lu smoked, so he asked at the moment: "Brother Jiu'er, I didn't do anything out of the ordinary after I got drunk yesterday, right?" ”

"Out of line?" Cao Song wanted to laugh on the spot when he heard this, although he was not at the scene at the time, but just listening to the people in the house talk about the scene when his second uncle and Zhao Yan were drunk, it could no longer be described as out of line.

"You give me the cigarettes first, and I'll tell you about yesterday!" Cao Song took advantage of the situation to blackmail, he was afraid that Zhao Yan would be hit after hearing this, and if he committed suicide in shame or something, he would not be able to taste the smell of cigarettes.

Zhao Yan was helpless, so he had to take out the cigarette case from his arms, but when he opened it, it was gone, and there were not a few cigarettes left in this half pack, it is estimated that he was drunk yesterday and all of them were sucked up, but it doesn't matter, he brought two packs of cigarettes with him before he came, after all, how could his son-in-law bring a few more packs of cigarettes when he returned to the door?

Tear open the package of the cigarette, take out one and hand it to Cao Song, then pick one up himself, light it with a lighter, and then ask: "Okay, now you can tell me what happened when I got drunk yesterday!" ”

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