readx;? The afternoon was not scorching, and the wind and sun were warm in Gusu City, so the ladies sat around in the pavilion next to the strange stone, and then put some melons and fruits on the stone table, and then began to chat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

These are the families of those merchants, but because they live in a big garden with people, they are not too big to do business, these ladies are also relatively easy to think with, and they also know a lot of things when they follow the businessmen, so they can hear some different news when they get together and talk about it, Shen Yuan quickly joined and integrated into them after learning about this.

"The strange rocks in this garden are not bad, but they are not interesting. Mrs. Li pointed to a few places and signaled to a few ladies, which one lacked some aura, and which one was not meaningful enough, but pointed out the strange mountains and strange rocks in the garden.

"Oh, Mrs. Li still seems to know a lot, so it's better to say that the big guy is also more knowledgeable. A lady on the side coaxed.

"Yes, Mrs. Li said to tell us, my lord said that he wanted to go to Lingyan Mountain to see the strange stones, now I listen to you, it's good to have a bottom of it. Shen Yuan echoed.

"Oh, Mrs. Lei, it seems that you are coming to Gusu City for the first time, and you have never even been to Lingyan Mountain. Shen Yuan and Lu Nancheng both used pseudonyms outside, and at that time they said that they could use the names of their relatives of the Lei Yun family, and the two of them grew up together since childhood, so they can be regarded as knowing the roots, and they will not be prone to any mistakes when they are used fraudulently.

"Mrs. Li guessed right, isn't it the first time I've come, so you have to say more, and I know a lot about it. ”

"Yo, then I'll show off. Mrs. Li smiled, and several ladies next to her also joked and asked her to hurry up and say, stop hanging everyone's appetite.

"This strange stone, especially the Lingbi stone is famous, its shape, material, color, texture, as well as sound, rhyme, the great beauty of the gods, and this appreciation, to slowly appreciate the beauty, a strange stone, we have to see if it is naturally generated, and then look at its strangeness. ”

"Strange stones, strange stones, don't you just look strange. Mrs. Huang on the side interrupted, met everyone's eyes, and hurriedly urged Mrs. Li to continue.

"This strange stone, to look at its strange, wonderful, wonderful, strange, strange and even ugly, appreciate the beauty of it, but the artistic conception of this reward is different, this different people appreciate different strange, different people can see different beauty. Mrs. Li continued to talk.

That is to say, there are so many different kinds of strange stones, and different people will have different feelings when they look at a stone. Shen Yuan felt it, I thought it was to talk about some interesting stories, but I didn't expect to sit here today and talk about stones, it's not bad, it's always good to learn more.

"Mrs. Lei is right, this strange stone, that's probably it, as for those deeper ladies who are interested, they can come to me and talk more. When they heard this, they said yes again and again.

"What about this Lingyan Mountain? Mrs. Li also asks you to continue to tell my sister about it. Shen Yuan was a little interested in this strange stone at this time, and then thought that he might go there with Emperor Zhaohua to have a look, so he was even more interested.

"That Lingyan Mountain, the most famous is the Lingzhi stone, that is, because of this Lingzhi stone, it is called Lingyan Mountain, but this Lingyan Mountain is indeed a strange rock, a bit of a strange Tiantai meaning, sister, if you go, you have to take a good look at the famous 'Twelve Strange Stones'. Seeing that Shen Yuan was interested, Mrs. Li chatted with the two of her with great interest, and later found that the two were also compatible, even if they were friends.

Soon, they had been living in Gusu City for some time, and in order to continue to go to other places in order to catch up with the plan, several people were ready to leave here again.

It's just that those ladies, seeing that Shen Yuan left so early, asked them strangely if they didn't participate in the bidding meeting of the weaving house?

It turns out that this Xuanchi country has some trade contacts with several other large and small countries, except for some private caravan routes, the two roads from the imperial court are a land route from the northern Xinjiang side, through the desert by camel long journey to reach, the other is from the dock on this side of the Gusu side, across the river and the sea to finally arrive.

And the bidding meeting mentioned by these ladies is related to the route from Gusu, and the goods transported on this route are provided by the Jiangnan Weaving House they mentioned, which mainly produces silk, porcelain, jade, and tea to be sold to other countries.

What the imperial court did for this purpose was to sell the transportation rights of a certain batch of goods to the merchants through auction bidding, and then hand over the goods with the transportation rights obtained from the auction to the merchants' organizations to sell in other countries, and take out six cents of the silver obtained from the sale and hand it over to the imperial court, and keep four cents as the merchant's own profit.

If there is an accident on the way, the merchant only pays the money for the bidding, which can be regarded as reducing the risk, so that the court can easily earn silver to fill the treasury, and the merchant can also benefit from it, and win in one fell swoop.

He was already preparing to go to Huzhou, but when he heard Shen Yuan mention the bidding of the weaving house, Emperor Zhaohua was interested again, after all, these were just the rules and regulations stipulated in the law that he sat on the dragon chair, and then read the folds submitted by the household department to record the fullness of the treasury.

Now, he didn't come to this Gusu City, and he was about to start the auction of transportation rights this quarter, they were disguised as merchants, and the rented inn would get the admission certificate and send it to them, wouldn't this be able to experience the bidding scene in person, thinking about it, it was a little eager to try.

In the end, Emperor Zhaohua decided to stay in Gusu City and experience what kind of operation the Jiangnan Weaving Institute is.

On the side of the parade army, because the real Emperor Zhaohua had to drag on for a long time, so that he could make an unannounced visit in advance, so everyone not only slowed down the marching team, but also often stayed at a certain post station for a day or two.

This made Empress Yang a little confused, because she already felt that the emperor was not the real Emperor Zhaohua, so where is the real Emperor Zhaohua, will there be any danger, but it is really the dragon body is not safe, she has no way of knowing, so she has a lot of doubts in her heart, but she did not bring it up casually, if it is unfortunate, there will be chaos in the court, and it will shake the foundation of the country.

It's just that the officials in Jiangnan who are anxiously waiting for the arrival of Emperor Zhaohua are even more worried, and they are panicked all day long, and in the end they continue to bother the county guard, and this Zhou Fucheng is also very helpless, what to say to appease, these people can't listen to it, so they have to let them do some tricks to win the favor of the saint.

Soon, the Jiangnan Weaving Institute sent out the admission certificate, those who often see the bidding naturally have a way to get the admission certificate, and like Lu Nancheng, they participate for the first time, they have to greet the innkeeper to get this admission certificate.

It's just that the number of admission certificates that can be obtained in these different inns is also limited, so it is inevitable that there will be one or two points to this, and several people have no objection to this, after all, this inn is also a small business, and this kind of occasional income is considered a rich account book.

Waiting for the guards to go to the owner of the inn, this is considered to have grabbed an admission certificate, only to see this folded paper, the front is covered with the official seal of the local Suzhou County Order and the seal of the Jiangnan Weaving Institute, on the book: Jiangnan Weaving Institute, bidding meeting. Followed by a line of small print, indicating that the bidding will last for three days.

It first roughly states the transportation routes and items that will be tendered in the past three days, the time of daily admission, and the method of bidding. Finally, on the back, there is a place for merchants to write down their business name or name, and another number will be lined up before entering the venue to facilitate the payment of silver tickets after winning the bid.

There was still a lot of information prepared on this small piece of paper, and several people began to prepare according to the requirements above.

This Xuanchi Kingdom is a rich country because the Xu family of the four major families is a rich country, and the status of merchants has been greatly improved, although this merchant is still ranked at the bottom of the Shinong industry and commerce, but there is no longer a rule recorded in the history books that merchants are not allowed to wear clothes made of fine silk and fine arrowroot with patterns and patterns.

Nowadays, at least the merchants are allowed to dress like ordinary people, and there are no restrictions on clothing, but the clothing and color still cannot exceed the clothes of officials and nobles.

So, on the first day of the bidding meeting, Lu Nan dressed up like an ordinary businessman, and asked the hidden guard to slightly retouch his face, and then wore a tooth-white robe with ingots and dark patterns, and a pure gold hair ring, which still looked like a businessman.

Shen Yuan learned from those ladies who would follow their master to participate in the bidding meeting, wearing gold and silver, tacky, and making herself look like a full merchant woman, and the blue clothes and guards were also low-key and wore poor servant decorations, which was considered to be completed.

Because it is the first day of the bidding meeting, it is necessary to rush to register the number in the morning, and the presiding party of the conference will also send someone to read some rules of the venue and the way of handover, etc., and then, everyone disperses to have lunch, and the official bidding will not start until the afternoon.

Although Lu Nancheng was not ready to bid, he sent the guards to queue up to register before the hour, because the regulations stipulate that if the registration is not done before noon on the first day, it means that there is no number, and the bidding meeting that starts in the afternoon will not be able to participate.

And he and Shen Yuan only arrived slowly at the end of the Chen hour, and at this time, the imperial guard who was pretending to be a servant had already done the registration and arranged the serial number.

I saw that on the paper handed over this time, the back was written with the pseudonym Lei Yang of Lu Nancheng and the seal of the Jiangnan Weaving Institute was stamped again, and there was a new serial number next to it, they were ranked thirty-sixth, and then there was a more formal new piece of paper, on which their serial number and name were written in regular block letters, which was a copy of the admission certificate, and the two were combined into one side to enter the bidding meeting.

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