Empress Dowager Xiang stared at the "Wang Cai Nu" on the picture for a while, but did not express her opinion, just asked: "This picture is also good, who did it?"

"It's Wu Hao's ancient times." Xiang Zongliang said, "In two days, there will be other noble generals such as the Cao family, Shi family, Mi family, Yang family, Han family, Li family, and Liu family who will send paintings into the palace. They are all Wu Hao's ancient times."

"It's all his drawings?" Empress Dowager Xiang raised her eyebrows and smiled, "Then he's so busy. When will it be the Ai family's turn?"

"Sister, how can you wait?" Xiang Zong smiled, "Would he come to you obediently for your dispatch?"

He waved his hand to the Empress Dowager and pointed to the "Photo of the Princess", "It is the main thing to choose a concubine for the kings. An old woman in the Ai family, what's there to be anxious about? Just wait."

"You are not old," Xiang Zongliang said, "You are only fifty years old, how can you say you are old? There are many old ladies in Kaifeng Prefecture's market now. I think you are very tough and can live to be 90 years old."

"Ninety years old? Then you're an old fairy?"

Whatever Queen Mother Xiang said was quite happy. Her body has always been "hard" and there is nothing wrong with it - Hanlin medical officials said so, and they unanimously agreed that Queen Mother Xiang could live to at least 80 years old...

The imperial physicians say this, and it is definitely not wrong!

Empress Dowager Xiang smiled and asked again: "By the way, what interesting things are there on the Kaifeng Prefecture market these days?"

The old lady was the queen mother and was extremely honorable, but she could not enjoy the freedom of ordinary people. In the Northern Song Dynasty, even women from noble and bureaucrats could go out to play frequently. However, the concubines in the palace could only be enclosed in a cage of wealth and honor all day long and could not go anywhere. She could only hear eunuchs and their relatives telling some fun things outside the palace.

"Sister, there are two most interesting things in Kaifeng Prefecture's market during this period," Xiang Zong replied, "One is Wanglou, Panlou, Fenglelou, Yuxianlou, Qingfenglou, Baxianlou and Xiefanglou are organizing a courtesan competition. We have to select the seven courtesans and one courtesans, and the way to choose the head of the courtesans is to choose the painting."

"Drawing selection? How to choose?"

"It is to draw the appearances of the seven ceremonies on paper and put them together, so that the scholars and common people in Kaifeng Prefecture will throw away the copper plates. Whoever gets the most copper plates will be the head of the ceremonies."

"Drop the copper plate?" Queen Mother Xiang laughed, "This is really interesting... but aren't you afraid that someone will cheat, so some people will throw the copper plate?"

Xiang Zongliang interrupted, "Just choose a courtesan and have fun, why bother to be so serious?"

"What about another fun thing?" Queen Mother Xiang asked again.

"The other fun thing is..." Xiang Zong replied halfway, and suddenly saw his brother winking at him. Then he remembered that the second thing was related to King Duan, so he stopped talking.

"What's wrong?" asked the Queen Mother Xiang, "Why don't you continue?"

"Sister, this second thing is..."

"Speak quickly, speak quickly."

"It's King Duan and Na Wu Hao Gu Bi's painting skills."

"What?" Empress Dowager Xiang was stunned, "King Duan? He fought with Wu Haogubi?" The old lady frowned, "Is this a bit too frivolous?"

Xiang Zongliang immediately added: "Sister, King Duan did not reveal his name, but competed with Wu Haogu in the name of Zhao Xiaoyi. Most of the time, Wu Haogu didn't know that Zhao Xiaoyi was King Duan."

"This is almost the same." Empress Dowager Xiang loosened her eyebrows slightly, and then frowned again, "But Wu Hao's ancient painting skills are so good. How can Ji'er be his opponent? What should I do if I lose?"

The old lady just said that Zhao Ji was frivolous, and she was worried that Zhao Ji would be unhappy if she lost in the play... Obviously, she treated Zhao Ji as her biological son!

And she didn't think there was anything wrong with being frivolous. Zhao Xu, the official now, is not frivolous at all, and is very serious!

"I can't lose." Xiang Zong replied, "Sister, do you know what method they want to use to determine the outcome?"

The Queen Mother asked: "Tell me quickly, what is the method?"

"It is also a loss of copper coins to determine the outcome, and the competition is carried out together with the courtesans." Xiang Zongliang said, "The fourteen courtesans paintings drawn by the two were divided into seven groups. A basket was placed under the painting. Whoever thought they were good at drawing them would throw a copper plate into them. If there were no more, they would throw one.

In the end, you just need to count the number of copper plates to separate the upper and lower parts of the two paintings. The winning side will take away all the copper plates. When the seven groups of paintings are better, you will know who will lose and who will win."

Xiang Hunter smiled: "There is still such a way? Then you can't let Ji'er lose."

Xiang Zongliang said again: "I heard that after the competition, I will take out these paintings and sell them... I think King Duan will make a lot of money this time."

...

The method of selling the singing and selling after the battle was thought out by Sulida Su Dalang, the manager of Christie's joint-stock trading company. Compared with Wu Haogu, he is the real profiteer, and his head is about how to cheat money out of the customer's essay bag.

So as soon as Zhao Xiaoyi saw that he hung "Li Shishi's Photos" to Fengle Building, he immediately had the idea of ​​hitting the iron while it was hot and singing and selling.

Singing and selling is the main business of Christie's in the Wuhaogu Project!

It is not easy to start this main business in one go. Because the trading methods of calligraphy and painting have long been formed, and basically nothing has happened.

If there is no eye-catching enough singing and selling to Christie's popularity and fame, it is impossible for singing and selling to become one of the main ways to trade calligraphy, painting and cultural relics in the short term.

The battle between Wu Haogu and Zhao Xiaoyi seems to be a farce on the surface, but the Kaifeng richest men who know the inside story will definitely support them.

Moreover, "Photographs of Li Shishi" and "Dance Pictures of Mo Niangzi" can be regarded as the best products involved.

Needless to say, "The Dance Picture of the Mo Niangzi" is far inferior to the Dance Picture of the Mo Niangzi", but the object of the painting is Li Shishi, the former courtesan lady who was famous in Kaifeng Prefecture!

This name does not have much appeal to Kaifengzi, who is at the age of Su Dalang, but for Kaifengzi, who is over 30 years old, everyone wants to see his style.

"This opportunity cannot be missed, you must seize it."

At the shareholders' meeting of Christie's, Su Dalang, who had just been officially elected as the boss, was talking about his plans with a gaze.

"The news has been released, but this singing and selling cannot be carried out immediately, it must be done well..."

"Promote, we need to promote it."

When Fatty Su was thinking about what word to use, Wu Haogu mentioned the word "propaganda".

"Promotional praises... are well used!" Ji Yi also attended the shareholders' meeting in the teahouse where Su Dalang used to be the head office of Christie's. He smiled and said, "Chongdao, how do you want to promote it?"

"Printing tricks." Wu Haogu said, "Brother Yizhi, Yuanhui, do you know which book engraving is better in Kaifeng Prefecture?"

The so-called tricks are not tricks, but advertising papers or advertising leaflets. The Song Dynasty's society was very commercialized, so advertising naturally appeared and became popular.

However, most of the "tricks" were not printed at this time, but were drawn. Anyway, there were third-rate painters in Kaifeng Mansion, and it would not cost much to ask them to draw dozens of paper, which was much more convenient than stereotypes.

However, Wu Haogu wanted a lot of "tricks" this time, and it was still more cost-effective.

"Carry books?" Mi Youren smiled, "Of course it is the Imperial College. The official engraving books are of course the best. The second is the engraving books of the private school. All aristocratic families must have private schools, and all private schools must have engravings, which is also a good thing that can spare no effort. The uneven quality is the engravings of the Fang engravings, the Dongrong Liulang Bookstore and Jixiantang Bookstore in Daxiangguo Temple are both pretty good."

Ji Yize said: "It is better to engrave books from Liangzhe and Fujian... In fact, there is a carving shop in my house, which is opened in Mingzhou and is called Ji Family Writing Store."

Wu Haogu nodded. The engraving or printing industry must be the industry that Wu Haogu is preparing to enter - this is the basis of the news and publishing industry, and the importance of these two industries is beyond doubt.

But the food has to be eaten at a glance, and the business has to be done one after another.

"Are people from the Imperial College willing to take private jobs?"

"Ah," Mi Youren smiled, "Even the imperial guards are doing private work these days, let alone the craftsmen of the Imperial College?"

Yet, the houses in Kaifeng Prefecture are so expensive that they don’t take on some private work. Just a few dead wages opened by the Imperial College, the craftsmen who carved the letters must be absolutely forged.

"I'll ask the people from the Imperial College to do that," Wu Haogu paused, "I'll do the drawing on the flyer, and the words are... Yuanhui, you can write it."

Wu Haogu also put his heart into this "trick" - this is an advertising business! The merchants in Kaifeng Prefecture, the Northern Song Dynasty, could advertise, and there were advertisements printed on paper. However, the quality of the advertisement was very poor, there was no careful production, and there was no professional advertising company.

Therefore, the advertising agency is also a blue blue ocean!

In addition, paintings printed on tricks can also be regarded as the origin of comics or comics, which is the original work of Wu Hao’s ancient past lives.

So he was going to take action personally, paint the "comic image" of Mo Niangzi and Li Shishi on tricks, and then ask everyone to take action on calligraphy like Mi Youren (Mi Youren's calligraphy is not about starting a school, but about imitating the brushwork of famous masters to the real world), and accompanying a piece of poetry.

It is no exaggeration to say that if this trick is printed well, it will be a collection of collection value.

"Okay, students will handle this matter." Mi Youren took on the task without hesitation.

He is the student of the Imperial College and the son of Mi Fu. He is too familiar with the Imperial College. Moreover, they also ask the Imperial College for help in engraving books by the Mi Family School, so they are familiar with this.

"When the tricks are printed," Wu Haogu said to Sulida, "Pick out some of the exquisite ones and send them to the famous doors of various families. Those with poor printing go to the Imperial College, Taixue, Kaifeng Prefecture School, Panlou Street, Jieshen Lane, Daxiangguo Temple and tiles everywhere."

"Many people have to do this," Sulida frowned, "We don't have many people."

Now Christie's shareholders' meeting has just been established, and Su Lida has been appointed as the shopkeeper and Zhang Xizai is the big accountant. In addition, there are more than a dozen men from the Su family teahouse who are running errands. If they ask them to deliver flyers to wealthy families in Kaifeng Prefecture, they will probably be exhausted and they will have to go to the street to distribute flyers, which is simply too busy.

"Look for Liu Ergou's people." Wu Haogu thought for a while and said to Liu Wuji in Taoist costume, "Don't he want to be the boss on Panlou Street? Then help me do things."

The so-called "boss" are actually the boss of the gangster. This position was formerly owned by Zhao Tieniu, but now Tieniu has forced him to go to Liangshan, so the gangsters on Panlou Street have no power.

As the head of calligraphy and painting and calligraphy, Wu Haogu has control over calligraphy, painting, cultural and entertainment business and rogues on Panlou Street. Unlike the situation in later martial arts novels, most of the characters in the Song Dynasty in reality want to be hawks and dogs in the court but cannot be obtained. Being driven by "major officials" like Wu Haogu can be considered as a backstage.

Liu Wuji smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go and say it now and ask him to come and see you tomorrow."

"No need to be so anxious," Mi Youren interrupted, "The teacher has a lot of things recently, so wait for a while."
Chapter completed!