Black Swan Castle, located in the suburbs of Paris, covers an area of more than a dozen acres, is a huge castle, can accommodate hundreds, even thousands of people live in it at the same time, and is equipped with nearly 1,000 acres of arable land around, plus the private ownership of three lakes, and the Black Swan Castle is only half an hour away from the city of Paris, the environment is beautiful, if you want to go shopping in Paris, or participate in some balls or something, it is also extremely convenient, living in the Black Swan Castle, you can enjoy a quiet life, Not too far away from the city, the Château de la Swan is one of the best places to live in Paris in terms of geographical location alone, attracting countless aristocrats who want to take this Château de Swan for themselves.

However, the current owner of the Black Swan Castle is a descendant of a French Grand Duke, for such a prominent person, money is just a number for them, and living in the Black Swan Castle is also a status symbol, as long as it is not said that someone is offering too outrageous prices, the descendants of the French Grand Duke will never sell the Black Swan Castle, absolutely not.

But today, the Black Swan Castle changed hands, Chu Ming threw out the super price that the original owner of the Black Swan Castle could not refuse, and became the new owner of the Black Swan Castle, all the transaction procedures were completed within half a day, the original owner of the Black Swan Castle almost didn't take anything with him when he left, just drove the carriage given by Chu Ming and left, the carriage was full of gold, and even the attendants and maids in the Black Swan Castle were all left to Chu Ming, and Chu Ming could move in with his bags, At the beginning, the attendants and maids of the Black Swan Castle were still worried that Chu Ming, the new master, would not be able to serve him, or that he had some other torturous quirks, but when Chu Ming announced that everyone's salaries would increase by three percent on the original basis, Chu Ming became the owner of the long-awaited Black Swan Castle.

Leonardo da Vinci looked at his huge studio of thousands of square meters, as well as the countless painting materials placed next to him, and couldn't help but sigh that life is really unpredictable, no one will know what will happen in the next second, yesterday, Da Vinci was still in his cramped old little house, drinking honey water that was only willing to add two drops of honey, but now Da Vinci has become one of the few painters in the world who can squander expensive paints, anyway, Da Vinci realized a truth, That's to follow a rich boss, well, that's good.

"Mr. Leonardo, I want to turn the Black Swan Castle into a mecca of world art in the truest sense of the word! I want to make this the residence of all the greatest artists, and make this a place that people all over the world who study art will aspire to in thousands of years, so please help me, money, what I have is, what I want is results" Chu Ming said to Leonardo da Vinci who greedily smeared caviar on his bread when he was eating dinner, this is the caviar of the black fish, and it is the highest grade, with almost the same value as the same weight of gold, eating such caviar is swallowing gold! Leonardo da Vinci has been poor for decades, how can he not eat more of such high-end ingredients? Leonardo da Vinci was a genius, but not a god, and who wants to eat inferior food when they can eat well?

"Of course, of course, Chu, please believe me, I am the best painter in the world, I can paint the walls of the Black Swan Castle with murals in two years, and then I will invite some old guys who are similar to me to visit here, I believe that it will not be long before this place will become a sacred place in the minds of artists, after all, not everyone can let us poor painters eat black fish caviar," Leonardo da Vinci said as he stuffed fresh bread smeared with caviar into his mouth.

"Ten years, I will give you ten years at most, I will meet all the material needs you need, and give you 100% protection, after ten years, I will get a city of art! And, all your artwork, all the results of your research, are mine, understand? Chu Ming pointed to himself, and said to Leonardo da Vinci, who was attacking foie gras at this time, "Understand, understand, we all work for you, this is very understandable, you can rest assured, Chu, as long as your price is right, we can work for you, you must know that most of us are poor and can't even eat black bread, we paint, we sculpt, we write, in order to survive, in order to make money, isn't it?" As long as we get the thoughts we want and realize the obsession in our hearts, as for the paintings or something, these are secondary, you can take them all, really" Da Vinci said to Chu Ming, and Chu Ming nodded after listening.

After that, a news that made all the poor artists in the world excited came out of the Black Swan Castle, that is, as long as you understand art, as long as you think you can, then you can bring your own brush to the Black Swan Castle for an interview, whether it is your paintings, or your statues, or the poetry collections you wrote, or something, if you get the approval of the owner of the Black Swan Castle, then you can get a commission that you can't think of, and get the protection of the Lord of the Black Swan Castle. Is there anything more exciting for artists in the world than to study their own art, discuss with other artists, and exchange their ideas in the Black Swan Castle?

Seven years have passed, the originally empty Black Swan Castle has become a little crowded, in the garden and vestibule of the Black Swan Castle piled up a lot of statues, some of these statues are carved based on ancient mythological figures, and some are carved based on the appearance of human beings, some statues pursue realism, carving is lifelike, and some statues are pursuing the pursuit of artistic conception, rough lines, explosive muscles, fierce monsters, giving people a sense of grandeur, At this moment, there were still a few gray-haired old fellows with small hammers and knives pounding at the huge marble pieces.

As for the interior of the Black Swan Castle, it has been hung with all kinds of paintings, the giant murals with mythological stories and legendary epics as the background make the Black Swan Castle look much more magnificent than the Royal Palace, and the other paintings on the walls are mostly based on human figures, supplemented by landscape paintings, at the beginning, only Leonardo da Vinci's paintings were hung in the Black Swan Castle, and after the arrival, other artists could also hang them after completing the paintings, and then later, because there were too many paintings by artists, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, Raphael and others set up an evaluation committee, and only after the committee's evaluation, paintings that were considered good could be hung on the walls of the Black Swan Castle, and more paintings were kept by Chu Ming in the basement of the Black Swan Castle.

In seven years, the Black Swan Castle has become a real art mecca, countless artists crying and shouting to enter the Black Swan Castle, they also want to eat caviar, they also want to sleep in the velvet bed, and they have to create their own art in an environment where no one is restrained, but the problem now is that the artists in the Black Swan Castle are overcrowded, and the review of newcomers is becoming more and more harsh.

"Hua Niang, you said that if I move the Black Swan Castle to the real world, how much can I sell for the things in it?" Now Chu Ming is almost twenty years old, he looks tall, very handsome, belongs to the kind of clothes that are thin and undressed, the key is that the temperament is particularly good, in the past seven years, Chu Ming has lived with Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and other guys all day long, it is strange that his temperament is not good, now Chu Ming's appearance is very different from when he just came to Fengyun and Chaos, but people who are familiar with Chu Ming can also recognize Chu Ming, Chu Ming gives people the biggest feeling, that is, the great change in temperament, has become a little immortal, a little tall, and a little dragon arrogant, and he is no longer the ordinary rural person he was before.

"Husband, how much do you think the Louvre means?" After hearing Chu Ming's words, Hua Niang smiled and asked Chu Ming, Chu Ming thought for a while, and then shook his head, not to mention the Louvre, just the real copy of "Mona Lisa's Smile" inside, Chu Ming firmly believes that those big oil diggers in the Middle East are absolutely willing to pay five billion dollars to buy it, and that thing is no longer useful. It is a part of human history, it is the crystallization of human civilization, this thing is priceless, without it, then human history will be incomplete, human civilization, human history how to measure it in money?

"Priceless, huh? After all, what we have is only Renaissance art, as for other periods of art, we don't have it, which is the gap between us and the Louvre, but in terms of the number of Renaissance artworks, the ten Louvres add up to our Black Swan Castle! Hua Niang said with great pride, Hua Niang is also a young woman of literature and art, and she can have an art capital, which makes Hua Niang feel that she is about to become an immortal.

"Yes, priceless, hurry up, squeeze and squeeze Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and their artistic cells, let's leave in a few years, it's time" Chu Ming said to Hua Niang, Hua Niang nodded, as for Chu Ming to do so many works of art? What else can he do besides trading with the old silver exchange point? Chu Ming carved Michelangelo out of the year. The giant statue of the Olympian gods was traded to Lao Yin, and Lao Yin gave Chu Ming a price that made Chu Ming so excited that he would pee, which caused Chu Ming to look at Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo They were like looking at treasures, and Da Vinci's anatomical draft, Lao Yin even gave a five-digit exchange point, because that thing was the beginning of the branch fork of a tree of civilization, and now what Chu Ming has to do is to squeeze out more artistic masterpieces on Leonardo da Vinci and them as much as possible before he leaves, anyway, Chu Ming and Da Vinci said that all the works of art, Chu Ming bought them out, and the ownership was all Chu Ming's。

"But Leonardo da Vinci is old, two years ago, after he completed the image of the little Jasmine as the prototype of "The Girl in the Morning Light", he no longer painted, but took advantage of the convenience you provided, concentrated on the study of aerodynamics, as well as anatomy, theology, philosophy, mathematics, I think the drafts he studied are more valuable than paintings or statues" Hua Niang said to Chu Ming.

"I know, he can study whatever he wants, give him everything he needs, I want what he writes, that thing is so valuable!" Chu Ming said, Hua Niang nodded, Hua Niang's original purpose in saying this sentence was to prevent Chu Ming from forcing Da Vinci to paint, and let Da Vinci concentrate on his own research, but he didn't expect Chu Ming to see more thoroughly than Hua Niang, so Hua Niang naturally had nothing to worry about.

Under Chu Ming's protection, these artists can paint as much as they want, they don't have to draw circles on the back of God's head, they can also put forward casually, exchange their new ideas, new hypotheses, and some of them even began to doubt the existence of God, and put forward a preliminary materialist philosophy, which Chu Ming is happy to see, however, the church also because Chu Ming sheltered these artists they thought were heretical, and found Chu Ming many times, Chu Ming and the people of the church had nothing to say, first used their own badge to coerce, If the badge doesn't work, then Chu Ming will take out boxes of gold coins and kick them open, the result is that in the sound of all the church personnel inhaling cold air, Chu Ming pays a large amount of protection money to the church every year, and the church not only does not come to Chu Ming's trouble, but also constantly collects various artists for Chu Ming to send to the Black Swan Castle, after all, the more artists Chu Ming shelters, the more protection money he needs to pay.

Three years later, in the midst of a violent cough, the old Da Vinci closed his eyes forever on the bed, an elixir of life is nothing to Chu Ming, but it will make Da Vinci, who believed in materialism before he died, start to believe in God again, and to be honest, Da Vinci has no much value to Chu Ming, just let everything go with the wind.

"What a great soul, what a genius way of thinking, don't you think it's a pity to die like this?" Chu Ming stood in front of Leonardo da Vinci and put a small bottle into his pocket of clothes.

After a period of time, Chu Ming buried Leonardo da Vinci and gave Michelangelo and others a large amount of settling-in money each, then dismissed everyone in the Black Swan Castle, and closed the Black Swan Castle forever, because the Black Swan Castle is a private territory and is protected by the Church, and for a hundred years, no one can enter the Black Swan Castle, but the reputation of the art capital and the art temple is too great, and after hundreds of years, after the expectations of people all over the world, The current Pope has finally personally opened the doors of the Black Swan Castle, which had been closed for hundreds of years.

(End of chapter)