Chapter 219 Who is more treacherous than who is more treacherous

Several people walked on the streets for a while, but still couldn't figure out a solution. Because of the auction stall fees, the auction targets were all small vendors. In the past, they were free to do business when they entered Peony. Therefore, they regarded Peony as a virtue policy for the government. Now they wanted to collect money from them, which may make the people of Yangzhou even more annoyed.

At noon, everyone broke up in a depressed manner. Shuai Fan was unwilling to accept it and planned to continue wandering around the city. Zhao Xing had to go home alone.

As soon as he entered the yard, Zhao Xing hurriedly asked Liao Xiaoxiao: "Does my servant have reached the service period?"

Liao Xiaoxiao was shocked and asked carefully: "The housekeeper has always been all about Sister Azhu and Sister Yiyi. I don't know why. If the official asked about the slave's workshop, he would have answered a question... But why did the official think of asking this?

Zhao Xing asked: "I remember there are some 'yards' in my home. It is estimated that the three-year service period has arrived. I am going to give them a way of wealth, which is not disappointing them to serve."

Liao Xiaoxiao clapped and praised: "Okay, the wages my family gave are originally generous. The officials will arrange a way for them to make money. If the remaining people have expectations, they will definitely do their best. I will ask them here, but I will ask myself in detail and find all the contracts."

The first person I was asked by Fu San, a chef in the mansion. Zhao Xing first asked about the new apprentices’ learning situation, and then said with a kind look: “Fu San, your skills are good, but working in my mansion is not a solution. Now I want you to have a way of wealth. One is that I will come forward and tell the shopkeeper of Yunyanglou that you can go to his place to help the chef for half a day and earn another salary. Another way is, I will give you some money. You open a restaurant in Yangzhou, and you and I will each hold half of the shares. How about it?”

Fu San twisted and replied: "Dalang, I left the mansion, are you still Dalang's family?"

Zhao Xing replied: "It's up to you."

Fu Sancro bowed his hands and said, "Dalang, although it is a way to go out to open a restaurant, I, Fu Sanyi, can't settle accounts, and secondly, I don't have the ability to manage it. Thirdly, if I leave the mansion, the government's taxes will be easy to deal with, but those servants who are not familiar with the land may be difficult to deal with. It is better to live in Dalang's mansion. Speaking of which, Dalang gives enough wages and there is no big deal in the mansion. I will guide my apprentice every day and live a very comfortable life. Please don't drive me away."

Zhao Xing sighed. Sometimes, he really couldn't understand the thinking of the ancients...

It was the ordinary servant lady's turn, and Zhao Xing had changed his technique. He said: "I met a duck farmer by the river today, which reminded me of Yangzhou's rivers and the income from farming is abundant, but we outsiders cannot gain a foothold. It is better to switch to some small business."

I know some duck livelihood methods, such as salted duck eggs produced in Gaoyou, but the salted eggs here are shipped out in jars. I know that after boiling the duck eggs, they can be put in cartons, reducing transportation costs and selling them at a good price.

In addition, I also know several methods of processing ducks, such as duck tongues, duck webbing, and roast duck techniques. In addition, the use of duck down...

Yangzhou is the hub of the world. Ducks are worth a lot of money. I have been with me for three years. I will give you a way of wealth and give you how to make a fuss on ducks. Anyone who has a contract that is full and is willing to go out to do business will give him some money and allow him to purchase land in Yangzhou. The person who goes out is still my family. I only own 10% of the shares and can't settle accounts. If you don't want to entrust Xunfeng Beast Truck to manage the accounts. If you want, you can go to Liao Zhipo's place to register, and then I will arrange for someone to teach you the skills."

Liao Xiaoxiao was busy for a day and reported to Zhao Xing in the evening: "This time we brought thirty servants, all of whom happened to be old servants. Seventeen were willing to go out, and six were already married and established businesses. They hope that their families could continue to work with us. Maybe I."

After Liao Xiaoxiao finished reporting, she saw Zhao Xing’s expressionless face, and she asked carefully: “My husband, we first came to Yangzhou, and it was the time to use people. How did you let them go out?”

Zhao Xing casually drew an Yangtze River, pointed at both ends of the figures he drew, and explained: "This is Huangzhou, this is Hangzhou. The Cheng tribe in Huangzhou has won seven juren in the past few years. They have entered the Hangzhou government office to control local government affairs.

As for Hangzhou, let alone. Our dock, Qiuzhan hired thousands of people. This time, using the teacher's efforts to renovate the Hangzhou roads, we have re-examined the various townships in Hangzhou to let the forces go deep into the various townships.

Hangzhou Huangzhou is separated from both ends of the river, and Yangzhou is the center of this belt. With its existence, this is a string of beads, communicating with the beads of Bianliang. Therefore, I have to take root in this piece of Yangzhou and let you buy production in Hangzhou, which is also the purpose. With this industry, plus the loach stack at the wharf, we can communicate with the entire Yangtze River, and then go deep into the capital through Yangzhou. This Yangzhou is the fixed star of our industry, and it cannot be lost no matter what."

Now Liao Xiaoxiao understood: "My husband wants to take the opportunity to scatter his servants and let these people take a walk among the people and safeguard our industry, right?"

Zhao Xing nodded: "There are too few seventeen people. You can send a message to Azhu and ask her to send all the servants in her family to Yangzhou. I will help them become naturalized in Yangzhou, and then let them take a walk in various industries in Yangzhou."

On the first day of March, the Yangzhou Flower Fair that had been raised for a long time finally began. The garden was filled with bright peonies. In addition, frangipani, rosemary and azaleas outside the basilica also bloomed all over the yard, giving Wanhua Garden a strong fragrance.

"The peony in the puffs fills thousands of ridges, and the lotus is fragrant for more than 30 miles." Zhao Xing recited this famous Yangzhou peony poem in depressedly, and Cai Jing next to him smiled proudly: "People say that Zhao Li people have a pair of stone-like hands, but it turns out that there are times when a good wife can't cook without rice."

Indeed, holding this flower party is a bit embarrassing that it is difficult for a skillful woman to cook without rice. Zhao Xing thought of all kinds of methods, but found that the Yangzhou flower party was originally a welfare policy of the government. Any effort he made in it would be regarded as a sin and ruined his reputation forever.

In desperation, he had to join forces with several merchants to collect sponsorship funds for the flower club. Now, people's gardens are still free; doing business in the garden is as usual, not only free, but also tax-free; flower farmers' exhibition flowers are also allowed to be bought and sold freely, and the government does not charge them. Zhao Xing also has to pay each flower farmers a fee, which is considered as rent for rent.

The only difference from previous peony is that there are many banner advertisements in Wanhua Garden. Among them, "Fengfeng Beast" Loach Store has taken over most advertising positions because of its investment of half of the sponsorship fee. While several other hotels, hotels, and warehouses are mostly affiliated companies of Zhao Xing. For this reason, Zhao Xing carefully designed advertising slogans and used all the money-inciting methods in modern marketing.

For example, this one: "Are you tired of traveling? Come to a certain hotel, where you have the best wine and dishes, the most beautiful girl, and soft beds, hot bath water. If you leave Wanhua Garden, you can find your home on the journey at three intersections."

Advertising slogans like plain language have won high traffic for advertisers, making them not regret their sponsorship... However, Zhao Xing spent this money so painful. Because the advertising expenses in the Song Dynasty could not be spread to marketing costs, he spent the money, his turnover increased, and his tax revenue also increased.

After all, the Yangzhou government took advantage of this 1000 flower fair, and the flower farmers participated in the exhibition took advantage of a little. Zhao Xing was the only one who suffered losses in the whole of Yangzhou because he wanted to set an example for his sponsors, and he paid a little more money.

Cai Jing's teasing did not arouse Zhao Xing's response. He glanced at Zhao Xing curiously and asked, "Li Ren, how much will this Wanhua cost?"

Zhao Xing smiled bitterly and stretched out his fingers, and compared them to a six-point position. Cai Jing took a breath: "There are so many people, don't you understand the price of spending? The money given to the flower farmers is a little more, six thousand guan, enough to renovate half of the Yellow River - it must be half."

Zhao Xing shrugged: "I also know that the money I gave to the flower farmers was a little more. The money was enough to buy their flowers. But there was no way. I originally planned to make the money more, so that the flower farmers would actively participate in the meeting... Unexpectedly, there were too many people in Yangzhou who raised flowers, and the number of flowers was too large, and the village men heard that I paid and sent 600,000 pots of flowers at once. I couldn't keep my word, so I had to invest more and invest more, and in the end I spent 6,000 guan."

After hearing this, Cai Jing smiled with satisfaction: "It's not bad. I remember that in previous years, there were 100,000 pots of peony in the Peony Club. It was already good. There were 600,000 pots of peony this year. No wonder I think the scale is much larger than in previous years, sure enough."

Hearing Cai Jing's words, Liu Yu and Liu Yuanshan immediately became closer: "Not bad. I saw that the flower party today was so large, and I thought it was a very good way. I didn't expect that it would reach 600,000 pots here, once in a hundred years. It was such a wonderful scene. You should recite poems carefully and think it would be a souvenir."

Zhao Xing first jumped out: "I said, I'll come first: Weiyang has a flower, and there is no similarity in the world; every year, the earth temple is the only one that is Qiong Yao."

Everyone was so happy that they couldn't straighten their waists. Cai Jing pointed at Zhao Xing, his lips trembled for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: "You guy, did you do this poem? It was obviously "Ode to the Qionghua of Houtu Temple" by Mr. Han Qi and Han."

Zhao Xing smiled very honestly and asked foolishly: "Qionghua, I remember that Emperor Yang of Sui went to Yangzhou to see Qionghua, and the country was destroyed. Why didn't Yangzhou Qionghua not see Qionghua?"

Several officials stopped laughing, and the Xiansi Zhu Jing and Zhu Ranzhi turned around to a scented flower, smelled the fragrance of flowers with a fascination, and murmured in his mouth: "What a fragrant flower!"

The magistrate Liu Yu and Liu Yuanshan turned around and studied an advertisement, with his fingers wizarding in the void, as if he was studying the calligraphy on the advertisement. Seeing that everyone was unwilling to answer, Cai Jing put away his smile and replied dryly: "During the Renzong period, Qionghua moved to the palace, cherishing the environment and being unable to adapt to it, and died of death."

Zhao Xing said oh, and before he could answer, Cai Jing also began to change the topic and asked: "These flower seeds - the wild honey you mentioned, are all planted by your family?"

While nodding, Zhao Xing looked at the fragrant flowers he brought with regret, and replied unsteadily: "What a pity... these pots of flowers were moved from my garden. For this reason, my garden was dug up in a bumpy pit, and my wife wrote to blame her several times."

Cai Jing nodded and finally said, "Thank you for your hard work in Li Ren. I heard that Li Ren is rich and rich, but I don't see it in my eyes. It's just that these flowers are trying hard, and I don't know how much they will lose."

Cai Jing misunderstood. It was not a pity that Zhao Xing sent the flowers he had sent, but he was a pity that the Qionghua in Yangzhou.

Regarding Yangzhou Qionghua, the last time it appeared in political history was the experience of Emperor Renzong's transplantation. After that, the fate of Yangzhou Qionghua was very vague. Some people say that it was moved back to Yangzhou again, but after Emperor Gaozong moved south, it was then moved to Hangzhou. In the end, Qionghua was not adapted to the environment in Hangzhou and completely died, resulting in the complete extinction of Yangzhou Qionghua.

There are also Yangzhou Qionghua in modern times, but most people believe that this Qionghua is not the other Qionghua, but it is just that later generations miss Qionghua, and similar varieties found according to the description.

Cai Jing's thoughts were obviously not on viewing the flowers today. He paused for a moment and asked Zhao Xing again: "Li Ren, I heard that your servants have come to Yangzhou recently. They are all wearing strange outfits, right?"

Zhao Xing glanced at Wanhua Garden. At this moment, the crowds of hundreds of acres of Wanhua Garden are gradually gathering. Some sell candy, some sell popcorn, and some sell oil cakes. Behind him, some officials have begun to chase their beards and close their eyes to ponder the poem. Zhao Xing's eyes flashed and said, "Mr. Cai, there are crowds of people here. Why not find a place to find a quiet place."

Zhao Xing and his friends are attic in Wanhua Garden. The attic is divided into three floors. The lower floor is ordinary scholars, the second floor is juren, and the third floor is officials. Generally speaking, literati and scholars have to look at the beautiful scenery of flowers and write one or two beautiful poems. Now Zhao Xing suddenly said hesitation, and Cai Jing hesitated and replied: "This banquet has not yet started... Forget it, I'll go with you."

After walking out of Wanhua Garden, he boarded a nearby pleasure boat. The officials gathered together to find fun. Zhao Xing and Cai Jing were only in the same group. There was no one on the boat except his two subordinates.

The singing and dancing came, the wine was placed, and Jing Niang boarded the boat with her. She first thanked Zhao Xing for giving the carriage, and then snuggled beside Cai Jing, whispering intimately. The boat walked for a moment and paused for a moment. Several Zhao Xing's servants carried up a few boxes and then quietly retreated. Cai Jing noticed the actions of the servants. He pretended not to care and continued to talk to Jing Niang.

Zhao Xing took advantage of the wine to open the box. The first box was filled with a row of snow-white uncarved seal teeth. The second row was carved leopard ivory carvings, and the third row was some leopard bone knives. "Sir Cai, look at this." Zhao Xing took out a ivory carving Lingqing Pagoda from the box. The pagoda was covered with various gems. The gems were polished very brightly. When they rotated slightly, the treasure light was lustrous, which made people love it.

"Inspired by Cai Jing people, I asked the craftsmen to carve this object. The things are rough and sparse. Please correct me by Lord Cai."

Cai Jing held it in his hand, showing a drooling expression. He repeatedly turned and looked at it, marveling as he looked: "This thing is probably not cheap, how many gems have you inlaid... Your craftsman is skillful, I just mentioned it casually, and he actually carved this thing."

Zhao Xing gently took the pagoda from Cai Jing's hand and turned it. Cai Jing was a little reluctant at first, but when he saw Zhao Xing's rotation technique, he was stunned. The bottom of the pagoda was hung down by Zhao Xing - there was a small pagoda inside.

Zhao Xing rotated layer by layer, and a total of seven towers were hung on the outermost pagoda. The outermost pagoda was an ivory pagoda, followed by some gold and silver wires embedded in the two layers. The last four pagodas were iron, copper, tin, and sandalwood in turn.

"Seventh-level pagoda, is this the legendary seventh-level pagoda tower?" Cai Jing asked in surprise. Jingniang was shocked by the luxury of the pagoda and couldn't speak. She opened her eyes wide and her hands were hanging in the air, wanting to touch her but she didn't dare.

Cai Jing's aide held his breath and watched the pagoda with his eyes fixed on it. Zhao Xing brought three followers, and Shan E and others also looked at it well.

"The outer layer of this pagoda is inlaid with 108 gems, and the inner layer is not inlaid with gems, but gold and silver are embedded... There are more than 70 inlay techniques in total," Zhao Xing said slowly: "This pagoda is the most expensive in this box. There are some small items, such as spices, bracelets, accessories, etc. I want to ask Lord Cai to appreciate it. I heard that Lord Cai is a national master today. I hope that Lord Cai will think of something and draw the map so that I can improve the craftsmanship."

A spark suddenly popped up in Cai Jing's eyes. He stared at the seven pagodas, with the objects in the box at the corner of his eyes. When Zhao Xing took out the ancient dagger from the box and gave it to the people present, Cai Jing felt ache in his heart.

Jingniang also got three ancient daggers. She jumped up happily and thanked Zhao Xing repeatedly. Amid Jingniang's thanks, Cai Jing touched the gems on the outer pagoda and said slowly: "My mother worships Buddha, I just took this seventh-level pagoda home and asked her mother to see..."

Zhao Xing took out a post from the box and handed it to Cai Jing: "Mr. Cai, here are the items in the box, those ivory without carvings. Lord Cai can find a few craftsmen to carve them. I hope Lord Cai will give some advice on the remaining carved objects."

Cai Jing's face darkened. He opened the post and smiled the more he looked at it. Although there were many objects listed on the post, this seventh-level pagoda was not listed.

Cai Jing closed the post with a bang, and he was no longer interested in continuing to visit the flower boat. He hurriedly urged: "Come, please move the box back to my mansion quickly... I am a little impatient. Leave me. I will go back to my mansion now, study it carefully, and say goodbye."

Cai Jing was about to leave, but his subordinates couldn't sit still, and even Jingniang had to say goodbye. Fortunately, everyone had gained something, so they were in a hurry to go home and hide their things. After Cai Jing's people got off the boat, Zhao Xing's people took over the boat, and the boat continued to sail in the river bank. However, compared with the boat that was singing constantly in the past, the boat seemed a little quiet.

When the surroundings calmed down, Shan E frowned and said, "Master, Cai Yuanchang is a traitor and evil person. This box of things is of great value. If you give it to him, how can he return it?"

Zhao Xing smiled faintly: "Just about not returning it. Who is Cai Jing? He has a very good painting style and is naturally sensitive to these luxurious things. If he doesn't come back, he has to fill the box with a box of design drafts.

Not to mention Cai Jing's paintings, just the things he designed themselves are worth this box of treasures, so I'm not losing."

Shan E's face showed a look of disgust. Wan Qi Yong was the master. He participated in the plan to give gifts to Cai Jing throughout the process. Even the gift list in the box was written by him. Seeing that Shan E's face was wrong, he explained: "Cai Jing likes these things. Instead of letting him think about how to harm others, it's better to let him focus on fiddling with these things.

Dongweng meant that he was planning to patrol the entire Yangzhou recently. If Cai Yuanchang did not interfere, Dongweng planned to dredge several rivers so that the canal section could only diversion nearby, and also encircle and suppress the lake bandits. This is inseparable from Cai Yuanchang's support."

Shan E's face slowed down, and Shuai Fan finally found a chance to interrupt. He quickly added: "Cai Jing, Lord Cai, likes to enjoy and play with these things. Dongweng takes this opportunity to establish a good relationship with him. He may use his strength in the future..."

Shuai Fan wanted to continue, but Zhao Xing's eyes blocked the rest of the words. When he stopped, Zhao Xing pointed at Shuai Fan: "I heard that you like to imitate the ancient Rangers the most. Someone once wrote a poem to praise you: 'I know that there are many strange soldiers in Wu, and Mr. Xu's legitimate son will go. In the future, I will chase Li Du, how dare you look up to Banyang.' In my Jasmine Garden, you once boasted that you are good at training troops. After Cai Jing was stable, I plan to draw a commanding naval army from Yangzhou, and a commanding horse army will be trained by you. I will give you a year. You must train it by the end of this year."

Shuai Fan shook his head: "One command of the navy is far from enough. It requires at least two to three commands. The horse army has too few commands, and at least two commands are needed. I inquired. There are only more than three hundred commands here. Yangzhou has a crisscrossing waterways. The navy needs at least three commands, and the horse army also needs two commands."

Zhao Xing shook his head: "A commander, with an intermediate warship, nine fast boats, as a battle group. Our Zhuang Ding has fifty people. These Zhuang Dings are well-trained and can join the battle at any time. They can fight, whether they are naval or horse army. In addition, Mao Pang is about to go to the Gaoyou Army to take office. The lack of troops on the land can be reorganized in the Gaoyou Army, and there are still 20,000 troops there, and it should not be difficult to pick out 500 people."

Shuai Fan continued to shake his head: "I have seen Yangzhou Xiangjun. It is difficult to pick one or two qualified ones from a hundred people. I am afraid we will not be able to pick a commanding soldier. Besides, although Yangzhou is rich, you can't let the soldiers match their own horses and armor. Where can I pay this money? Do you plan to pay it out of your own pocket?"

Wan Qiyong pinched the goatee and interrupted, "Originally Dongweng was worried about this matter, but the court recently helped Dongweng solve it. On the 22nd of last month, the court ordered the sale and release of the farms in various places. More than a hundred farms were released in Yangzhou. Dongweng meant to pick these farms and buy all the useful ones."

"Selling and Putting Farms" is to be the current saying, that is, auctioning state-owned enterprises. The Song Dynasty built many official shops in various places, but due to unclear property rights, "rewards are not as good as expenses" - profits are not as good as opening costs. Therefore, the court decided to abolish official shops in various places on a large scale, "to win them in Changping, to use their salaries and help to accumulate scatters, both public and private."

The Song Dynasty also set a minimum sales volume for these shops: 120,000 yuan. It just so happened that Zhao Xing also wanted to place a group of servants in Yangzhou. This incident was like sleepy and encountered a pillow.

"The key to selling and selling the market depends on Cai Jing. If he increases his investment in it, this matter cannot be done. If he lets go, Dongweng can plan to convert the money to raise horses, and make a bonus from the market to the horse army. In this way, people will be brave enough to take the lead."

The establishment of official-run workshops in the Song Dynasty was actually for the benefit of officials from all over the country. "From our company to follow the appropriate paintings and provide annual funds." The income of the workshop is equal to the small treasury of officials and local governments, so it is natural that this kind of workshop is not enough to make ends meet. However, the workshop has the most skilled craftsmen of this era and the most advanced machines, so it should not be unprofitable. The sales and distribution of the workshops are also aimed at officials, and most officials will squeeze out some money from their own pockets and buy them as family funds.

Therefore, if Zhao Xing was in the name of raising horses for the horse army, he could use the right reasons to occupy as many excellent resources as possible. As long as Cai Jing nodded, all this would not be a problem.
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