It is still Xuefu Street on the north bank of the Qinhuai River, only a few stores away from Zhiyongzhai, and another more spacious five-bay two-storey shop officially opened today.

Shangshanju.

Obviously, the name is taken from the Tao Te Ching, 'the good is like water, and the water is good for all things without dispute'.

At first glance, it is difficult for ordinary people to imagine what this store sells, but after entering the door, when you look at the dazzling crystal clear, you will immediately understand.

The key to this name is not 'goodness', but 'Ruoshui'.

Whether it's glass or natural crystal, it's not like water. So, look at the name of the store again, what a meaning, the one who can come up with this name is definitely not an ordinary showman.

Who is this unusual showman?

If you know a little bit about the background of this store, you can guess.

In less than a year, he became the little prince's 'five hundred years of national ancestry'.

The weather is still fluttering with fine snow, but the inside and outside of the store are lively, and ordinary people can't afford to buy expensive things that are equivalent to gold, so it is satisfying to stand outside the door and take a look at it from a distance.

It's really ingenious.

The topic inevitably turned to yesterday, Mingzhou's Yinghai Division presented the king of fish, which was more than three zhang long, and there were many one or two zhang long, carefully placed, tied with red silk all the way from the Longjiang wharf ashore, deliberately passed through Jinling City, and then entered from the south gate of the palace.

Later, the emperor saw the great joy of the camp, and the camp sea division contributed the ribbon fish to the Taimiao, rewarded the hundred officials, and ordered tomorrow's heavy snow solar term to hold a 'ribbon fish feast' in the palace on the day of the heavy snow festival, wishing a good year.

There are also rumors that this winter's sea fishing, Mingzhou's Yinghai Division can harvest 500,000 quintals of hairtail fish.

500,000 quintals, that's 50 million catties.

It's still 'less talked'.

Think about it again, there are also all kinds of inexpensive sea fish from Mingzhou in Jinling West Market, so the little prince ...... It's just that this contribution to the sea is worthy of his reputation of 'sending a five-hundred-year national honor'.

No wonder His Majesty the Emperor was so pampered that two shops in a row had inscriptions.

As everyone talked, they couldn't help but be greedy, and some people had decided to go to the West Market to see if there was any fish for sale, and also to try it.

It's a pity, I heard that the camp Haisi also specializes in shark fin and other things, taken from the giant shark in the sea, but unfortunately, it is either offered to the imperial city, or it is sold in some specific restaurants and shops in the city.

That's good stuff!

The news from the Tai Hospital that this shark fin is eaten by men to nourish their bodies, women to eat it to nourish their faces, and even children can eat it, and they can become more intelligent.

Although some doctors criticize this as nonsense, is it possible that you are more capable than the hospital?

Anyway, shark fin, which was originally only a few hundred wen a catty, has risen to 3 taels of silver a catty at the moment, and those who are in good condition are even more priceless. In some restaurants in the city, it is rumored that it is the concoction method that flows out of the mansion of the little prince on the back lake, one cup, 10 taels of silver.

That's it...... It's not like you can eat it if you want to, you have to make a reservation.

Tut!

This is not something that ordinary people can think.

I have to say that this is also a shortcoming of the little prince, he likes to do business things too much, and it is not decent.

His Majesty the Emperor is even indulgent and doesn't care.

In Shangshan's residence, Qiao Wang, who personally served as the shopkeeper, greeted the send-off, and looked at the flow of more than 1,000 taels of gold in the account room in less than half an hour, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

This glass and crystal business, my own adults have repeatedly taken the initiative to compress, and now, they have actually pressed their own family to the extent that only one percent of the shares remain.

Although the adults have repeatedly said to them several times that this business is too profitable, and it is not a good thing for their own families to occupy too much, but millions of assets are flowing away every year, even if he understands the truth, Qiao Wang still can't do the free and easy of his own adults.

Perhaps, this is why I can only be a steward.

Secretly self-construction in his heart, he continued to stay in the store until the end of his own time, personally entertained some guests who came to hang red congratulations as usual, and before noon, Qiao Wang left early and returned to Xuanwu Lake.

There is also a banquet at noon in the Lord's Mansion.

The main thing is to pick up the wind for Li Gui, who arrived yesterday, and to entertain some other guests by the way.

Returning to Xuanwu Lake, arriving at an outer courtyard of Liangzhou's mansion, it seems to be very lively here, He Xuan, the inner attendant next to the adult, and Zhao Xu, the chief of the guard, are in charge of entertaining together, Qiao Wang arrived, and also joined the ranks of greeting and sending, after all, he is not only the father of the girl next to the adult, but also has a son who has been promoted to the deputy envoy of the commander of the fourth grade.

Li Gui was not there, saying that he was called by an adult to speak.

At present, there are many people on this side of the yard.

In addition to several officials of the Yinghai Division who rushed back from Mingzhou together, there are also some guests who have been posting and want to visit in recent days, such as Gu Zhongren and his party from Fujian, Qiao Wang has had contact with him privately, a total of three, namely the Gu family, the Cui family and the Chai family, all of which are local clans. was reminded by his own family before, and took the initiative to choose the children of the family to participate in the imperial examination.

In addition, there is also the Yao family behind the house where their adults stayed on Zhoushan Island in the summer before.

Yao Mian, the head of the Yao family, also personally brought his children to Jinling to participate in the scientific expedition this time.

Then there are many wealthy landlords in the southeast, and even some foreign businessmen, such as the Hurumus merchant Yin Bu Thornawuluo, who bought thousands of catties of glass from the workshop, it is already winter, and it is suitable for the season to go south, but the other party has not left, and has been following Jinling from Mingzhou.

However, in Qiao Wang's opinion, although all of them are wealthy, but, in general, these people ...... In fact, they don't really get on the table.

Just like this luncheon, it is already a courtesy to let most of the people present come in for a meal, and their own adults obviously have no intention of entertaining them in person. Moreover, it was supposed to show his face, but, because the adult has been in poor health recently, it is even more natural that he will not come out to meet people this time.

It was lively here, and in the main hall of the second courtyard in the middle of the mansion, Zhu Yuan was talking to Li Gui.

Or about the ongoing winter fishing in Mingzhou.

“…… Fang Yishi, as well as many colleagues, have always kept in mind the teachings of adults, and they must not fish with exhaustion, so they are quite careful this time. Hairtail fish has the characteristics of dying when out of the water, if the young are fished out, it is difficult to live if they are released back, and they are quite cautious after fishing. Otherwise, in order to detect the abundance of fish, 20,000 or 30,000 quintals a day can be reached, but then there will be a large number of bycatches......"

Zhu Yuan held a cup of warm tea, listened to Li Gui's narration, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Death when you get out of the water, this is because the hairtail fish belongs to the deep-water fish species, and the water pressure in the deep water is very large. During the flood season, the hairtail fish swims to a relatively shallow position, because it is still in the water, it can still maintain the pressure balance inside and outside the body, once out of the water, the air pressure is much weaker than the water pressure, and the rapid and strong pressure change will cause the rupture of blood vessels and organs...... Well, that's probably it. ”

Li Gui nodded lightly, looking very serious.

Zhu Yuan took a sip of tea, but in his heart he slandered his small belly, wood, he wouldn't hold it.

Li Gui didn't get his own adult's psychological activity at all, and when Zhu Yuan put down the tea bowl, he said: "This sea fishing, after several servants discussed, they are also quite cautious, because it is the first time to go to the sea, only more than 1,300 sea boats have been dispatched for the time being. ”

Zhu Yuan also knew about this matter, and Fang Li had mentioned it before the sea fishing.

According to surveying and mapping, for example, the starting area of the ribbon fish fishing flood off the Shengsi Islands is relatively close to the Shengsi Islands, but it has left Dinghai for more than 300 miles.

If it weren't for the official organization, in previous years, even on a relatively calm winter day, the open sea so far away was also a forbidden fishing area in this era, and few fishermen were willing to run that far unless they had to.

In addition, the entire fishing flood is basically on the periphery of the Zhoushan Islands.

Perhaps the distance of thirty or fifty miles is nothing, and the journey of a motorized steamer is about an hour, and at the moment, when the wind is not favorable, it may be a day.

In general, this winter fishing, Ying Haisi is quite conservative.

Otherwise, in two or three months, with all its might, it will not be a problem to break through the million quintals of fish caught during the entire winter flood.

This conservative strategy was actually approved by Zhu Yuan.

The first winter fishing is mainly to accumulate experience and be safe, after all, the times are different, and if something big happens, you will regret it.

After talking for a while, feeling a little tired, Zhu Yuan stopped at the right time: "That's the case, so be it, I won't come forward for the luncheon later, you will also help entertain the hospitality, and also, after eating, you can talk to your sister." ”

Li Gui agreed, got up and waved again: "Wen Heng retires, adults still have to take care of their health." ”

You'll be gracious.

The corners of his mouth hooked, and Zhu Yuan nodded: "Go ahead." ”

Waiting for Li Gui to leave, waiting for the blank space in the side hall to come out, helping his own petty officials to get on the shoulders waiting behind, all the way to the inner house.

The meal has been set up here, and a few people are waiting for their own petty officials to eat, and then they say that a few blue and white porcelain that they ordered to be taken before have been delivered to the inner library.

Zhu Yuan was interested, and immediately asked people to move over.

Eat like this while appreciating.

Yuan Qinghua.

Zhu Yuan knew that the hype of Yuan Qinghua in later generations was very large, and even, in order to hype, the industry also concocted a lot of fake news, such as a famous Xiao He Yuexia chasing Han Xinmei bottle and selling 800 million of this, which is completely ridiculous, and the treasure of the Nanjing Museum will be auctioned for you?

Who would dare to sell?

Who would dare to buy it?

However, Yuan Qinghua is valuable, and that is true, even if a few of them break 100 million yuan, but some high-quality products, auction prices of tens of millions of dollars, are also very common.

Before breaking through the capital, in addition to the Yuan court royal family, the assets of the royal family and the nobles were also regarded as being served by Lao Zhu.

When I first came back, the mighty fleet was full of good things.

Speaking of this, it is true that Lao Zhu is thrifty, but it is also true that he is conservative with money. Once about this paragraph, in fact, there was Ma's chatter, there are so many treasures in the Yuan Court, Your Majesty should not indulge in them.

Because of the 'leakage' of clocks, Zhu Yuan asked for a list, and he has been browsing it recently.

Here I have to talk about Emperor Zhizheng.

Regarding the 'carpenter emperor', when mentioning this word, many people will immediately think of Zhu Youxiao, however, to a certain extent, Emperor Zhizheng is also a 'carpenter emperor', of course, it is not accurate, it is more appropriate to say that it is 'craftsman emperor', because this also likes to make all kinds of exquisite utensils.

For example, the Crystal Palace engraved leak that was previously equivalent to a clock.

In addition to that, there are a lot of KitKat treasures.

However, compared with the Crystal Palace, the others are mainly associated with Zhu Yuan as the craftsman behind it.

It has to be said that on the one hand, the Yuan court suppressed the social status of the craftsmen, and on the other hand, through oppression, it also stimulated the creativity of the craftsmen.

Let's just say that over there in the capital, a large number of elite craftsmen gathered all over the country have a variety of manufacturing lists, and many of them, in the words of later generations, are really luxury goods that ordinary people can't afford to use.

Zhu Yuan has already written to Lao Zhu, and the 30,000 people he brought back before are not enough, and all the craftsmen in Dadu must be sent to Jinling.

When the time comes......

That's a whole bunch of new companies!

In addition, the five or six blue and white porcelains that were carefully moved in by the attendants one after another, one of them happened to be Xiao Heyue, who was later buried by Mu Ying and became the treasure of the Nanjing Museum, chasing Han Xin's blue and white plum vase.

Frankly speaking, compared with some porcelain made by mechanization and precision in later generations, the paintings in front of me, at first glance, are even a little rough. However, Zhu Yuan knows that in this era, this is the highest craftsmanship of blue and white porcelain, and even whether it is the Song Dynasty before or the Ming Dynasty after, although there is blue and white porcelain, it cannot be surpassed.

Zhu Yuan asked people to move these blue and white porcelain, of course, not to take it for himself.

At the moment, although it is also a treasure, it can't be sold for too much money.

It's not as good as your own glassware.

If it is to be passed on to future generations, not to mention how many generations it can be passed on, if it is too deliberate, there will be too many in the future, and it is difficult to say whether it will be worth much.

When Zhu Yuan saw this, the main thing he thought of was one point, culture.

Culture, in fact, is money!

Isn't it a bit vulgar to say this?

No!

If I have a leather bag, just because it is produced in a country and a brand, it can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and make a lot of profits to support my people, is this vulgar?

Not only is it good, but it's also very real.

Very realistic.

Of course, the premise is that a country and a nation must hold their culture high.

Probably ...... Come, get on the ground and look up at me!

Just like some later, I am just a piece of kimchi, and I am also a national cultural boutique.

That's actually quite true.

Moreover, more typically, Western clothes, shoes, and bags are also constantly praised and praised, and finally have a later status.

I'm worth hundreds of thousands.

If you don't buy it, it's because you're not in style, you're inferior, you're poor, you can't even afford a bag, you can't enter the 'superior society' circle.

That's probably how it came about.

However, it is a pity that there is such an outlier after that.

Other countries, other nations, are desperately trying to elevate their own culture, but there is such one, because of some historical reasons, inexplicably, is very fond of belittling their own culture. Well, of course, it's not inexplicable, to be precise, it should be called inside and outside.

After all, it is more suitable to degrade a country, a nation, to be constantly squeezed.

For the same bag, I sell it for a million, and you sell it for a hundred.

That's it.

From the perspective of economics, what is it called?

It's called exploitation!

The reason is simple, depreciating low enough is more suitable for exploitation. Even, after being degraded for a long time, the exploited feel that they should be exploited as a matter of course, and they can't pull it up.