As soon as Zheng Haizhu stepped into the Qing Garden, he saw Lu Xiangsheng standing there holding a piano.

With a smirk on his face, he forced back his signature handsome and resolute spirit, and he seemed quite out of his fans.

Zheng Haizhu, who had just received a few matchmakers in Wenzheyuan and married a daughter-in-law to the Shandong families, had a dry mouth, and drank all the tea handed by Cui Yuer before turning his head to greet Lu Xiangsheng.

"Why, Miss Wang's piano, can be sold for money so soon out of the shade room?"

Lu Xiangsheng paced over and said in a tone like offering a treasure: "It can be exchanged for money, but you take a closer look at this qin first." ”

Zheng Haizhu glanced over and realized that something was wrong.

No matter how layman she is to the guqin, she can also see the traces of time on the panel.

It's certainly not a new piano.

Lu Xiangsheng caught the change in Zheng Haizhu's eyes, and turned the piano over with a chic gesture: "Look again." ”

"Turquoise ......"

Zheng Haizhu quickly saw a column of words that made people's hearts beat faster next to these four powerful books:

Shaosheng two years of Dongpo layman.

She raised her head and asked Lu Xiangsheng with a look of disbelief: "Is it the second year of Shaosheng in the Song Dynasty?" Is it Su Shi, that Su Dongpo? ”

Lu Xiang was happy: "Which Dongpo monk can it be?" Look at the payment of these people next to you, Tang Yin, Shen Zhou, (wish) Yunming...... You know them all, right? ”

Zheng Haizhu only felt that Lu Xiangsheng's voice at the moment was very good.

The charming magnetism is doubled, which makes people listen to the fairy music for a while.

No, to be precise, it is not the sound quality of the jade-faced god of war that is fascinating, but the taste of money.

This is Song Qin!

At the auction of later generations, a Guqin of the Song Dynasty was sold for more than 100 million yuan, which was proper.

And now in this era of one page of Song books and one or two golds, this era when the qin is the highest place in Yale, a Song qin, if it has been collected by Su Dongpo and endorsed by Tang Bohu and others, it is not an exaggeration to say that the treasure of the world is not exaggerated.

Zheng Haizhu carefully touched the simple guqin with a "100 million" face, and said word by word: "I don't read much, don't lie to me, where did you get this?" Can it really be sold? ”

"I can sell it." Wang Yuesheng came out of the house and replied in the affirmative.

"Miss Wang arrived in Songjiang by boat this morning." Lu Xiangsheng said to Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu instantly realized something, and looked at Wang Yuesheng: "You went to Hangzhou, are you going to get this piano?" ”

Wang Yuesheng took the piano, laid it flat on the stone table, and said quietly: "Miss Zheng, I don't want to say more about the reason why my family is in the middle of the road, because I can't look back." The Wang family is now, although they are either craftsmen or prostitutes, but this piano, when Jiajing was in the house, was surnamed Wang, and it is mine. ”

Wang Yuesheng said, and his jade fingers had already touched the cold silk strings.

If you hear the pine wind, you can see the autumn clouds.

Lu Xiangsheng's sigh sounded at the same time: "Those who know the sound are Xi, who can cherish it, can do its best to play the elegant qin, but only to the people." ”

Zheng Haizhu can't memorize Ji Kang's "Qin Fu", in her heart, there are only these four words: good value.

There is no need to ask "will this be a fake", the sound quality of the piano says it all.

Even her, a layman, can hear that this qin can crush the thousands of taels of silver that Dong Qichang, Han Zhongwen, and Gu Shouqian have collected.

The years can't be faked.

And Wang Yuesheng's sincerity is even more true.

She played a song and said to Zheng Haizhu: "Such a good piano and such a origin, how can it not be worth tens of thousands of silver?" Girl and son, go and dispose of it. ”

Zheng Haizhu calmed down at the moment.

She has such an expensive piano, but she didn't exchange money as soon as possible to redeem herself, which shows how much she cherishes this piano.

Zheng Haizhu then said with a straight face: "Miss Wang, if you want to thank me for taking care of me, the good pianos you cut are really enough to repay the affection." This turquoise is your family heirloom after all......"

Wang Yuesheng smiled lightly and interrupted: "It used to be Su Dongpo's, but now?" Is it still the Su family? Miss Zheng, I may be the last generation, no one can pass it on, why put it in the dust of friends in Hangzhou? A few days ago, I was grateful to Miss Zheng for protecting my dignity, so I went to get this piano. Now, if Miss Zheng feels that I am not stingy, let me make suggestions for firearms matters together, okay? ”

Zheng Haizhu finally believed that he was not dreaming today, and said happily: "That's nature, I never think that women can't control the craftsmen of the firearms workshop." ”

Wang Yuesheng hurriedly shook his hand and said, "No, no, how can I take on this important task." I just listened to you discuss the matter of Lu Gongzi's township examination next year, and saw that Miss Zheng was busy with everything, so I remembered that when I was still in the Qinhuai River last year, I heard from those officials that a well-educated man in Hangzhou, Li Zhizao Li Gong. ”

Li Zhizao......

Zheng Haizhu suddenly brightened.

That's right, since I thought of Sun Yuanhua, why did I forget about Li Zhizao!

Both of them were Xu Guangqi's disciples, and both liked to study Western studies, especially firearms.

Sun Yuanhua later built Ningyuan City and used cannons to help Yuan Chonghuan achieve a great victory against the Later Jin Army, and a few years earlier, Li Zhizao bought cannons from the Portuguese in Macao out of his own pocket and transported them to Beijing, in order to realize the military ideas of Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua and others of "using artillery to restrain Jiannu".

Therefore, based on this, it can be inferred that the relationship between Sun Yuanhua and Li Zhizao should be good.

Unexpectedly, Wang Yuesheng had explosive combat effectiveness, not only donating the piano, but also going to find Li Zhizao.

I only heard Wang Yuesheng say gracefully: "Those mediocre people in Nanjing officialdom said that Li Gong did not know the current affairs, and he actually defended the Taixi missionaries in various places, which led to the impeachment of the imperial history, and lost the official position of the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, and could only be idle in his hometown in Hangzhou, presumably depressed. However, when I met rashly, Li Gong was clearly in good spirits, and he was taking a few of his children to learn from the West. I told Gong Li and Mrs. Li about the firearms workshop of Miss Zheng and Gongzi Lu, and the two elders boasted that they were terrible. I can hear it, Li Gongji wants to come and see it. ”

"Great!" Zheng Haizhu said, "Then what is there to hesitate, I will ask my uncle and young lady today to prepare a courtyard in Wenzhe Garden." Xiangsheng, in a few days we will leave and invite Li Gong to come to Songjiang. ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded, and reminded Zheng Haizhu again: "Sister, Miss Wang discussed with me, this piano can't be shouted by us, so it's better to ask Dong Gong to help, and announce it in the circle of scholars, but the deal is in the hands of businessmen." ”

Zheng Haizhu certainly agrees with his line of thought.

Of course, the literati must have understood the instrument, but the merchant could pay a higher price.

Several merchant gangs in the south of the Yangtze River, Huaiyang merchants and Suzhou merchants were conceited and elegant, and liked to build gardens, while Hui merchants and Zhejiang merchants liked to collect antiques to show that they were educated.

Let's ask, on the battlefield where the rich compete for taste, what else can stand proudly at the top of the local tyrant than to collect a piano used by Su Dongpo?

But Zheng Haizhu slightly corrected Lu Xiangsheng: "Let's ask Master Huang to bring the piano and appear at the Donglin Academy Literary Conference first." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was surprised: "Huh? Why? Isn't Dong Gong a collector? ”

Zheng Haizhu looked at Wang Yuesheng: "Yuesheng understands, why don't I ask Dong Gong?" ”

Wang Yuesheng said: "Even the owner of the piano like me, who is determined to give the piano, is still reluctant to give up after touching the piano. Miss Zheng went to invite Dong Gong Xuanzhi, she must first come to the door to meet Dong Gong, so there is no occasion for outsiders, Dong Gong is already obsessed with collecting calligraphy, painting, piano and ink, after watching this piano, she will give a fair price to Miss Zheng, such as fifty or sixty thousand silver, Miss Zheng agrees, or does she not agree? ”

Lu Xiangsheng was a little clear: "I know, we can sell 100,000 silver, why do we have to sell 50,000 or 60,000 silver." ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "Yes, Master Huang is on our side and supports us to set up a platform in Songjiang to build firearms, at least to ensure the coastal defense after the switch." Therefore, he can understand that this piano is not to find a bosom friend, but to sell it at a high price. ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled abruptly: "Miss Wang is thoughtful and skilled. ”

This sentence was repeated by Zheng Haizhu and Lu Xiangsheng on the boat to Hangzhou a few days later.

She dragged Lu Xiangsheng to Hangzhou together, on the one hand, to show the etiquette of the younger generations of Confucianism to Li Zhizao, and on the other hand, to talk to him on the way.

Zheng Haizhu saw Lu Xiangsheng's loneliness.

The reason is very understandable, Lu Xiangsheng understands that he will have to leave Songjiang in three or four months for the sake of the township test, and Li Gong and Miss Wang, and maybe Sun Yuanhua, will take over the firearms workshop.

"Xiangsheng, the first combination gun in the blacksmith shop in Fuyuan was made by you and the masters of the Ge family, I know you are reluctant to go to that place. Don't worry, with a smart and tenacious steward like Miss Wang like you, and Li Gong and them leading the way, large and small artillery will definitely be able to be made. ”

At the window tea table on the second floor of the passenger ship, Lu Xiangsheng listened to Zheng Haizhu's heartfelt words, looked at the white water, his eyes were complicated, and he muttered softly at the end: "Don't hide it from my sister, I didn't expect that when I saw Yuesheng in the past few days, my previous admiration for her turned out to be a little jealous, and I even thought that she had already escaped from the cage, but I seemed to be going to the cage." ”

Zheng Haizhu shook his head and said, "You're not right. In fact, we are all in a cage, but we can also try to hold the key to open the cage and try to hold it in our own hands. Having coaxed those who are self-righteous, we may not be comfortable getting in and out of the cage. You can even open someone else's cage. ”

Lu Xiangsheng withdrew his gaze from the smoke and rain and the landscape.

Zheng Haizhu stared at him: "But first, you have to get the key." To do business is to take the key, to make firearms is to take the key, General Qin and General Ma are the commander of the soldiers, to take the key, my fellow brother Yan is to take the key to the Taiwan toast, and if you go to be an official, you take the key. ”

Lu Xiangsheng was silent, but his brows stretched a little.

"Xiangsheng, in fact, even if the firearms workshop grows and becomes a cannon factory with more people than the imperial court's military bureau, I will not guard the gate of the factory, like a hen guarding a nest of eggs. I have more to do. After welcoming Li Gong to Songjiang this time, I have to go to Zhenjiang to see the situation of the insurance trading company, and perhaps, I will take my own goods and go to the north. ”