Chapter 4 Blow
The so-called emperor flow pulp, in fact, is every few decades, in the late summer and early autumn, the moon falls from the sky like a rain.
It is not easy to form the emperor slurry, and the huge aura contained in it is even more precious, but it is a pity that it is only beneficial to demons, and ordinary people eat it like drinking arsenic.
Hearing this, the old servant's eyes became more worried, and before he could say anything more, Anduin lay down on the ground, threw the bamboo cane aside defenselessly, and fell asleep.
What is this called, the old servant smiled bitterly and waved his hand, beckoned the groom to go and barely support the gate that had been broken just now, and explained two more words to Li Shuangyu, and took turns keeping vigil with the groom.
The moonlight was cold, and the weeds outside the temple occasionally heard the sound of mosquitoes, and the old servant estimated that the insects were probably eating the flesh and blood of the demons.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, when the sun was rising, several people packed their luggage and left the broken temple.
The demon's head had been reduced to white bones after being eaten, and with Anduin's permission, the old servant asked the groom to pick up the skull, clean it, wrap it in a coarse cloth, and put it in the luggage pile.
After all, it is a demon skull, and it feels a pity to throw it away like this, but there are many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Chang'an City who like to put one or two demon skeletons in a conspicuous place in the hall of the house to show their extraordinary taste.
To put it bluntly, just like the Victorian aristocracy liked to put pineapples in the living room, people in any era have a need to pretend to be forced.
Because of the invitation of the old servant, Anduin, who was originally lighter than a horse with a bamboo cane and a mango shoe, was also fortunate enough to sit in the carriage, wearing that simple gown, yawning profusely, leaning on the edge of the window, looking like he had not slept enough.
Li Shuangyu sat across from him, looking at the corner of his eyes from the book, occasionally glancing at Anduin twice, he really couldn't understand why this mediocre man in front of him could kill a legendary demon beast alone.
After all, Anduin's image really doesn't match the free and handsome chivalrous man in the script, how can any chivalrous man be so unkempt, and he doesn't even have a high-grade jade pendant on his waist?
Not only him, but the old servant was also looking at Anduin.
Obviously claiming to be a merchant, but he traveled alone without goods and manpower, and he was not like other businessmen who were in awe and flattery of the eunuchs. can be said to be a chivalrous man who walks the rivers and lakes, and his age and style of acting and dressing are not very similar.
The old servant made up his mind, shook his sleeves, and asked kindly, "Is Boss An going north on this trip?"
"Go to Chang'an. Anduin squinted his eyes and replied with a lack of interest, "It is the so-called buying party horses in the north and capturing Tibetan parrots in the west." Yanzhou cloth fire raccoon, Shu brocade weaving. The more fat and smooth, the more Xi Wei's eyebrows and eyes are bright. The cost of food and clothing is calculated, regardless of the distance and distance. After traveling all over the world, he arrived in Chang'an City. ”
"Good poetry!" The old servant still had a little ink in his belly, and he could naturally distinguish between good and bad poems, and immediately praised: "Is there a following?"
"I don't remember who wrote it," Anduin waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "That's it, don't look at the businessman Jia Fu Jia in the world, flowers and brocade cooking oil, but in fact it is a first-class hard work, running around to earn a few hard-earned money, and occasionally encountering some storms and natural disasters, green forest heroes, and losing money." In the end, at most, it is just the white gloves of the powerful, like piglets in the pen, and they are easy to slaughter when they are fattened at the end of the year. ”
"Cough cough cough ....." The old servant coughed a few times awkwardly, which of the magnates in Chang'an City did not secretly buy shops in the market.
Although everyone despises the lowly merchants who are immersed in the smell of copper, this does not prevent everyone from making money.
The little-known fat powder shop may have a certain Guogong's wife standing behind it, the rice grain shop may be the property of Guogong's youngest son, and even the righteous partner Wei Zhengwei has to buy an estate for his youngest son with intellectual disabilities.
Not to mention those Hu merchants in the Western Regions who are so fat that they have a lot of money and make a lot of money, most of them also have backers behind them after careful investigation.
Thinking of this, the old servant wittily opened the topic and asked, "What kind of business does Boss An do?" raw silk, rice grain, or tea?"
"What's the profit on that?" Anduin shrugged, "It's just a little money with three melons and two dates." ”
Hearing this, Li Shuangyu couldn't help but interject: "Raw silk is also a small amount of money?"
When he was a child, he went to Yuzhou and saw with his own eyes the magnificent scene of a cargo ship full of Bashu silk weaving sailing into the Yangtze River and a thousand sails racing together.
"Ha, silk is a matter of raw materials, production technology, and sales channels. Anduin held up three fingers and said with a smile: "If I can expand the mulberry sowing area, make the machine a hundred times more efficient than the weaver, and have a ubiquitous transportation network." Don't talk about linen, even Shu brocade can be several times cheaper, and the well-off family can be replaced in a different way. ”
"Idiot said..."Li Shuangyu hurriedly held back the last word, not to mention the three conditions, any one of them is as difficult as ascending to the sky, if you really want to be able to complete it all, unless it is a true immortal.
"Why, don't you believe it?" Anduin said with a smile, "As the saying goes, man will conquer heaven." During the Yin Shang period, the people of the world all used bronze, but now they can afford to use iron tools; Du Shi invented the water racket, Cai Lun made paper, and technological progress was going on all the time; who could have guessed that 100 years later, the pace of the Tang Dynasty would not be able to set foot on the other side of the ocean, and it would not be impossible to go up to the moon for nine days and catch turtles in the abyss? In the face of this level of progress, the silk silk is just a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning. ”
Li Shuangyu was already stunned when he heard it, he casually put the "Book of Shang" aside, and listened to Anduin's eyebrows fluttering with great interest.
As the two asked, I went to Chang'an not to seek prosperity or prosperity, but to bring about a far-reaching and lasting innovation. ”
Anduinping stretched out his palm and clenched his fist suddenly, as if to encompass the entire world in the palm of his hand.
Li Shuangyu swallowed his saliva and asked timidly, "What innovation?"
"Technological innovation, innovation in productivity, and even innovation in the social system, no one, including me, can correctly see the direction in which this revolution is heading. What demons and monsters, what beautiful women painted skins, what fairy couples, what poetic feelings, in front of the steel machinery that started with a bang, they were either caught up in this whirlpool or crushed into powder. ”
Anduin looked at the dumbfounded expressions on the faces of Li Shuangyu and the old servant with great enjoyment, smiled and put his arms behind his head, and said, "Wait, you two, wait for the day when the sun and the moon will be new." ”
The old servant was speechless, his arm raised and lowered again, glaring at Anduin who didn't know what to say.
Li Shuangyu, on the other hand, had an unclear expression, his eyes turned into mosquito coils, obviously dazzled by Anduin's arrogant remarks.