Chapter 52: Business on the Qinhuai River
Ten miles of Qinhuai, rich people gather, green buildings stand in a forest, painting boat Lingbo, it is the most prosperous place in the whole capital, the whole Nanzhili, and the whole Ming Dynasty. This was originally the place where the Jiangdong clan gathered in ancient times, and Wang Xie's house can be seen, and then gradually fell into disobedience.
However, after the founding of this dynasty, Emperor Taizu deeply felt that the country was lacking, so he waved his pen and circled both sides of the Qinhuai River, built a courtyard, and personally inscribed the couplet: There are beautiful mountains and rivers here, good wind and good moon, and there are also beautiful people and good things, adding a thousand autumn stories; there are many crazy men and women in the world, infatuated with dreams, and many infatuated and infatuated, and they are several generations of infatuated people.
Zhao Ran was very skeptical that this inscription was made by Taizu, but after thinking about it, as long as it was the first one written by him, and dared to sign it and no one claimed it, then it should be counted, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign.
Yesterday's Mid-Autumn Festival, today's sixteenth, the so-called fifteenth moon sixteen round, tonight's Qinhuai River festival atmosphere is not reduced at all, the streets are full of lanterns, the crowd is bustling, helping the old and the young, dozens of green buildings, hundreds of painting boats in the sound of silk and bamboo fluttering, a good scene of prosperity.
Well, it seems a little strange to help the old and the young, but this is what Zhao Ran saw with his own eyes, and he didn't come out of his mouth.
When coming to this kind of place, it is definitely inappropriate to wear Taoist robes again, Zhao Ran and Pei Zhongze changed into civilian clothes, squeezed into the crowd, walked to the mouth of Wuyi Alley, and waited for the boat under the Golden Bird Bridge.
The captain operated the boat, carefully avoiding the river lanterns floating around on the water, and accidentally knocked over a few lotus lanterns, which immediately attracted laughter and scolding on the bridge.
This is a painting boat more than two zhang long, not the largest on the Qinhuai River, but it is not very small, and it is not eye-catching to be hidden in the boat flow. Li Dayin invited Zhao Ran and Pei Zhongze into the cabin, which was very luxurious, and a thick sheep blanket embroidered with Western style was spread on the cabin, which was soft and comfortable to step on. The large cabin windows on both sides are curtained with silk and satin, and more than ten octagonal palace lamps are hung on the beams, and the inside is actually the night pearl of the East China Sea as the light.
The boatgirl's name is Ah Jiang, she looks less than thirty, she is full of charm between talking and laughing, flirting with Li Dayin, and her words are very obscure, but she is full of humor. Pei Zhongze was still a little unaccustomed to it at first, but after being teased by this Ah Jiang, he gradually relaxed.
Ah Jiang beckoned his two daughters in, and the three of them played the piano, talked about the pipa, and played the bamboo flute, and their skills were quite clever.
Li Dayin said with a smile: "Ah Jiang was also a popular Oiran in Qinhuai River ten years ago, and I paid to help her redeem her body and let her buy a painting boat here to make a living." Don't look at it as just a small family, but it is very famous in Beijing, and it is not allowed to enter the curtain unless it is a high-ranking official or celebrity. ”
Zhao Ran was curious: "Why didn't Li Viceyin accept him as a concubine?"
Li Dayin waved his hand and said: "I ransomed her so that she would not be angry and have a free body, if she was enclosed in the house, then Ah Jiang would not be the Ah Jiang of the past, what is the taste of life?
Zhao Ran praised: "Li Vice-Yin is really a loving person, this is not the love of men and women, but the love of interest." ”
Li Dayin raised his glass, the three of them drank together, while watching the lanterns on the shore like day, tourists like weaving, while tasting all kinds of snacks in the capital.
Li Dayin followed the topic of Zhao Ran just now and said: "Abbot Zhao said well, I am indeed a person who pays attention to taste, but it is not easy to live a life with interest, silver is like flowing water, and it will flow away unconsciously, without silver, where will there be interest? ”
Zhao Ran nodded and asked, "Is that the cultivation ball that Li Vice Yin said?"
Li Dayin patted the case and said: "This is exactly what happened! I want to follow the example of the senior brother of your sect the year before last to try the sword of the three provinces and four cultivators, hold a cultivation ball competition in the capital, set up a ring, and invite monks from all over the world to participate. I don't know what to say......
"Speak. ”
"Abbot Zhao, I didn't say you, you obviously have so many good ideas, but you don't need to be on the right path, after you take them out easily, you throw them aside, it's just a ruinous thing!
Zhao Ran smiled and asked, "Li Viceyin plans to open a gambling plate with a cultivation ball?"
Li Dayin said: "Exactly! As soon as the cultivation ball tournament opens, the gambling plate is set, and the silver rolling behind it will be 100,000 or million, as long as this tournament continues to be held, it can really be described as a rolling amount of money! ”
Even Pei Zhongze couldn't help but nod secretly, indeed, as Li Dayin said, even if the gambling plate does not make money, the hundreds of thousands or millions of silver accumulated over the hands are a huge wealth in itself. Pei Zhongze is already the designated successor of Qingyun Pavilion, and he began to take care of the affairs of Qingyun Mountain, even if he has never learned the knowledge in the silver money, but he has more contact, and he also understands the truth - as long as he can use it, who do you care who the silver belongs to?
The ownership of wealth is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to control the right to use it.
Zhao Ran asked: "Li Viceyin has thought about it, why are you still looking for me?"
Li Dayin was very single, did not detour around the corner, and said frankly: "I want to use "Junshan Notes", without the publicity of "Junshan Notes", this business will be hundreds of thousands, one million. ”
Zhao Ran was a little surprised by Li Dayin's directness, but he also relieved a lot of his heart because of the other party's directness, and said: "How to use "Junshan Notes", does Li Deputy have a charter?"
"I need "Junshan Notes" to correct the name of the cultivation ball tournament we organized together, so that all the monks in the world can understand that the cultivation ball tournament we hold is the most authentic cultivation ball competition. Otherwise, I will run one today, and you will do one tomorrow, and everyone will mess around together, and this business will collapse in two days. ”
"Makes sense, please continue. ”
"Second, I need "Junshan Notes" to open a practice ball column, and the number of periods of our practice ball competition will be synchronized with the number of issues held by "Junshan Notes", which will lead to the trend of practice balls. ”
"Anything else?"
"Thirdly, I have calculated that there is too much investment in holding the cultivation ball competition, and I don't want to pay this money, I need "Junshan Notes" to recruit people to pay for me like every advertised column. ”
Zhao Ran was really surprised at this moment, and said in his heart that this one really had an idea, Pei Zhongze couldn't help but say on the side: "Li Viceyin, you don't even want to pay for it, so why do you hold this competition?
Li Dayin smiled and said: "I'm in charge of the operation!" If Abbot Zhao and Abbot Pei want to hold this cultivation ball tournament in Sichuan, we will not talk about it today, but if you want to hold this tournament in the capital, in Zhili, in the southeast, and in the richest place in Daming, you can't do without me Li Dayin, I can guarantee you!"
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