"The Marquis of Qinghe is indeed convinced. Meng Yun thought that the Marquis of heavy snow fell from the sky and would not come!"

Meng Yun seemed to have been waiting at the gate, his fair and delicate face was red in the cold. When he saw Chen Xu's carriage coming, he quickly came up and bowed.

"Hello, Mr. Meng, please wait for Mr. Meng for a long time!" After Chen Xu got off the car, he ordered the servants who came with him to take down a box of Qinghe wine, a box of fruit vinegar, ten cylinders of Ziyunxian tea and a set of porcelain teacups and dishes, and took Yu Wuya to walk into the Meng Mansion with Meng Yun.

This mansion covers a large area, with dozens of acres. More than ten buildings are made of bluestone bricks, and are all covered with high eaves and thick tiles. Although they do not have the exquisite style of carved beams and painted buildings in the prosperous Tang Dynasty in later generations, the unified blue-black looks extremely thick and grand.

"Mr. Qinghe!" As Mengyun walked through a corridor made of bluestone, through a courtyard, and then saw Meng Yi waiting under the eaves in a yard with two pine trees.

"Haha, I heard that Qinghe Hou is coming to visit today. I am already looking forward to it!" Meng Yi strode towards him in an exquisite fur suit.

I, you are the youngest? Chen Xu couldn't help but complain, he dared to be called me when he was in his forties.

However, even though he was slandering, Chen Xu bowed and bowed with an extremely gentle smile on his face: "Chen Xu has met the Censor!"

"Hey, I can't stand the etiquette of the Hou Qinghe! The weather is cold, so hurry up and go to the warm kang to have tea!" Meng Yi walked into the room with a smile on his face, holding Chen Xu's arm, not even the serious and serious expression he usually had in the court.

The big kang in the room was very warm. A group of servants put down the gifts they brought and were taken to rest. Yu Wuya was invited by Meng Yun to the wing room for tea.

"I can't bear to refuse such a big gift from the Queen Qinghe! I have heard of this porcelain for a long time, and it is indeed extremely exquisite!" Meng Yi looked at Qinghe wine and porcelain tea and other gifts, holding a porcelain bowl in his hand and watching it over and over again.

"It's just a little better, it's useless, it's not as good as tea tree fruit oil!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Why did the Queen of Qinghe say this? Last year, the Imperial Doctor Xu Fu submitted a memorial that all the food and wine utensils cast by gold and copper have metal poisons. He persuaded His Majesty to use pottery wood and jade and other utensils to buy porcelain. Why is it too expensive and I can't afford it!"

Meng Yi picked up more than ten pieces of porcelain one by one and watched carefully and admired them. From time to time, he gently tapped his fingers. He listened to the crisp sound and felt comfortable and satisfied. He obviously liked the gifts Chen Xu gave very much.

"The fire of porcelain requires special porcelain clay. At present, only one porcelain clay ore is found, and the output is not large. In addition, the temperature control is difficult to control when processing and firing glaze and the output is not high, so the price is more expensive. This is also a helpless thing. As long as you can find a large amount of porcelain clay production and collect potters to build large kilns for firing, once the scale is expanded, the output will inevitably increase sharply. The price will naturally become cheaper. An ordinary porcelain only costs dozens or hundreds of dollars, and then ordinary Xiaofu family can also use it!" Chen Xu explained.

"Chou of Qinghe is lying to me. I heard that when porcelain was just released last year, ordinary dishes were sold at the Qinghe store in Wancheng for tens of thousands of yuan. Although it was much cheaper this year, in the Qinghe store in Luoyang, the cheapest porcelain bowl also costs 3,000 yuan, and a nine-piece tea set cost as high as 20,000 yuan. Even if the output increases, how can the price be cheaper to dozens or hundreds of yuan?" Meng Yi put down the porcelain in his hand and looked at Chen Xu with confusion.

"The Censor's thought a little bit, and Xu only said that ordinary porcelain can be cheaper, but exquisite porcelain will only be more expensive. The porcelain made at the beginning was blue and white porcelain. It was simple to make the workmanship, rough texture, and the color was not good-looking. But the so-called rare things are expensive, so it is naturally expensive. However, after continuous improvement by potters, not only the style of the porcelain has more and more complex patterns, but the appearance color is also more colorful. Look at this one..."

Chen Xu picked up a porcelain plate with a diameter of about one foot, pointed to a very abstract colored pattern in the middle of the plate and said: "Youyou Deer is singing, eating wild apples, I have guests, drumming the zither and playing the sheng. A simple poem and a simple painting add a lot of color to the porcelain plate. Although it seems simple, it contains six colors of glaze. These glazes are not easy to collect and make them take a lot of effort. To draw this pattern on the pottery, a craftsman who is proficient in painting will take several days, and it is inevitable to be damaged when fired in the kiln. A finished product can be placed in front of you at this time, and it consumes countless manpower and material resources during the period. It is naturally reasonable to sell it for a high price. Ordinary porcelain is much simpler. It can be completed by an ordinary assistant, and a large amount of fire can be very cheap!"

After hearing this, Meng Yi nodded while holding his beard and said, "Marquis Qinghe is right!"

"Haha, the way of porcelain is ultimately a small way. Even if you use stone pottery tableware, these porcelains are not a tribute. However, this Qinghe tea oil is of great benefit to the body. Eating it for a long time can strengthen the body and prolong life..."

"Longevity?" Meng Yi's eyes suddenly widened.

"Yes, tea oil is gentle and fragrant, and it has the effect of warming the internal organs and unblocking blood vessels. It is more suitable for cooking dishes than fishy homesteads and beef and sheep fat. However, this tea tree fruit is difficult to collect and consume time. Ordinary people are paying attention to exquisite things and ignore the edible value. Tea and tea oil are the best..."

Chen Xu briefly explained the health concept of later generations, and finally bowed and said, "Xu came to visit Master Meng today to thank him for helping him in the court that day to persuade His Majesty to take back the reward, so that I was not allowed to be roasted on the fire!"

"I just helped the dog's offense at the beginning. I just said one word, so I can't thank the Lord Qinghe in person!"

"No, I heard that lords hardly speak easily in the court!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"This matter is not for you alone. The dog son was bewitched last time and went to Qinghe Town, which caused disaster in the end. However, I, the Meng family, are not a soft persimmon that can be controlled by others. Now the matter is over, so it's better not to talk about it. Yesterday, the dog son went to the Hou Mansion to visit the Hou Lord. When he came back, he said that the Hou Lord was magnanimous. He was very grateful. Today, he prepared a small banquet at home and had a few drinks later. It was my husband who apologized to the Hou Lord on behalf of the Hou Lord!"

"Sir, I'm so serious. Xu is worse than obedient!" Chen Xu saluted respectfully. The two sat on the kang and looked at each other and smiled. The mood in the room suddenly became extremely relaxed.

After an hour of a banquet, Chen Xu was already a little drunk when he came out of the Mongolian Mansion.

Although the wine tastes light and hard to swallow in this era, I still get drunk if I drink too much.

Under the escort of the guards and servants, Chen Xu took a carriage to say goodbye to Meng Yi and his son who were sent to the gate, and returned home with a burp.

Seeing Chen Xu's convoy moving away in the snow and ice, Meng Yi and his son took back their eyes.

"Father, the Queen of Qinghe really returned the IOU of 500,000 yuan!" Meng Yun's face turned red with excitement.

"Hmph, you still have the face to ask about this!" Meng Yi snorted coldly and turned back home.

"Father, I didn't know that someone was secretly bewitching me!" Meng Yun followed behind and said nervously.

"Although the Marquis of Qinghe is young, he is definitely not an ordinary person. In the future, you can get close to him. You can personally go to the CRRC Mansion and send me a message to invite Lord Jiang to have a banquet tomorrow, and you will say that there is something important to discuss!" When you returned to your room, Meng Yi wrote a letter himself.

"Yes!" Meng Yun didn't dare to ask any more, and took the letter to the CRRC Mansion's mansion, Jiang Heng's mansion.

"My benefactor, if you return Meng Yun's IOU and confession to Meng Yi, won't you get the handle for him in the future?" After returning to the Qinghe Marquis' Mansion, Yu Wuya finally couldn't help asking.

"This handle is actually a useless thing. Now it's useless. There will only be trouble when I hold it in my hand. My identity is different now. If I give Meng Yi a favor, I will gain a favor. As the saying goes, many things will be helped by him in the future. The water in Xianyang is too deep and cannot be stirred easily, but it has to be stirred. Once it is stirred, the entire Qin Dynasty pattern will undergo earth-shaking changes. I can't bear this change alone. First of all, I can't stand the pressure of Li Si and Feng Quji. The identity of the censor is stable enough. With him, my pressure will be much smaller!" Chen Xu took off his shoes and climbed onto the kang, drank hot tea and sobered up slowly. Two little maids sat next to him to massage his back and the other helped him to beat his legs.

"I don't even have a handle, how can he help you share the pressure of changing the court!" Yu Wuya also climbed onto the kang and sat down, instructing the maid to take the chess over and open the chessboard to start placing the chess pieces.

"You guys go down!" Chen Xu waved his hand.

"Yes~Mr. Marquis~" The four little maids quickly got off the kang, gave a salute, and then left the room, closing the door.

Chen Xu then said slightly serious: "As long as there is enough profit, all transactions can be achieved. Although the Montessori is deeply trusted by the First Emperor, the so-called favor will always be light and heavy. The emperor trusts the most now is the Left Prime Minister Li Si. If it were not for Li Si, there would not be the atmosphere of the Qin Dynasty today. Although Meng Yi is very powerful, he does not have much say in the court. After all, the censor only has the power to supervise. In fact, he is quite excluded in the court. It can be seen through Meng Yun's affairs that Meng Yi

It was very lonely in the court. Because no one was willing to stand with him, someone bewitched Meng Yun to Qinghe Town to snatch papermaking, trying to make me an enemy with him, and even wanted to use his hand to kill me. Unfortunately, Meng Yi was not stupid, so he came back and presented papermaking to the First Emperor to eliminate the disaster and invisible. Since he did not get any benefits in papermaking, why should I use this matter to threaten him? Today, I not only return the IOU and confession to him, but also give him a big gift. This big gift is enough to impress anyone!"

"What kind of gift did my benefactor give him? Meng Yi is the prime minister. What else can impress him in the world?" Yu Wuya asked curiously after setting up the chessboard.

"Money!" Chen Xu said with a lip silence.

"Meng Yi is short of money, isn't it possible?" Yu Wuya opened his mouth wide.

"Who said he is not short of money? Meng Yi is the prime minister. But the annual official rank is only 2,000 stones of grain. In addition, some rewards may be made on weekdays, it is only about 100,000 yuan. Meng Yun's income is tens of thousands of yuan. However, there are hundreds of people in the Meng family, hundreds of guards, servants and servants, and dozens of horses. How can this person eat more than 100,000 yuan? As a censor, he must not dare to embezzle and accept bribes. Therefore, his family seems generous, but in fact he lives a little miserable life. Today, I observe in his mansion, and there is not even a decent set of tea sets. Now, almost the kings and princes are kings and princes.

There are no porcelains that you must have in your family. The tea you drink is also ordinary coarse tea. I would be very precious to you. Now the wines at Fan’s Winery have already been on the market in large quantities, and the price is only one or two hundred yuan per bottle. But at the banquet today, he invited me to drink the most ordinary turbid wine. I’m afraid no one has ever drunk this turbid wine. There are also the clothes worn by the servants in his house, although they are not ragged, but they are almost all old clothes. The foods and foods eaten at the banquet seem rich, but they are all dried fish and bacon, with few fresh ones..."

"I have the same feeling when my benefactor said this. The family of the Censor is indeed very poor and pitiful. He only earns more than 100,000 yuan a year..." Yu Wuya said with emotion.

He followed Chen Xu for two years and naturally knew what Chen Xu's family was poor at the beginning. He also knew how terrifying Chen Xu's speed of making money was. He earned millions of dollars on the day the Qinghe store in Wancheng opened. Therefore, a Shangqing only had more than 100,000 yuan a year and had to support such a large family. In his opinion, he could only describe it as poor and pitiful.

"Hehe, you know now. The so-called power and wealth are not necessarily proportional. But if power and wealth cannot be proportional, then many problems will arise. After the Qin Dynasty pacified the six countries, the powerful class is gradually forming. To be a real powerful, one must have money and food so that more people can join and help. The Meng family also has fiefs and some commercial properties. I won't talk about fiefs. Hundreds of households only have thousands of stones of grain in a year, which is only worth tens of thousands of yuan. Therefore, it is still commercial properties that support such a large family. However, the traditional business in the Qin Dynasty today is nothing more than salt, iron and grain cloths, and basically does not make much money. Moreover, as a censor, he naturally has to do business reasonably. There are not many people in his hands all year round. The Meng family's income is so poor that it is so ugly to treat guests to dinner. I will give him a gift of millions of dollars a year. Do you think he is moved?"

"The annual income is millions. Could it be that my husband plans to give him the Qinghe store?" Yu Wuya was uneasy.

"He didn't dare to ask for it when he gave it to Qinghe Hotel. I was named in front of the First Emperor. I was going to work with him to fire porcelain. There is a huge clay porcelain production area in Jiangxi. Once it is developed, it can make a large amount of porcelain. I only participate in shares and arrange for craftsmen to teach skills in this matter. The Meng family is responsible for production and sales. As for how he operates, I don't care. However, I reminded him that this is a super big business. No one can eat the entire Daqin porcelain market in one bite. It's better to find more people to cooperate!"

"Are you not afraid of him asking Zhao Gao for cooperation?" Yu Wuya asked worriedly.

Chen Xu shook his head: "No! The last time Meng Yun went to Qinghe Town to snatch papermaking, the biggest secret pusher was Zhao Gao. I think he would definitely notice some clues behind the scenes. Moreover, Zhao Gao is a flattering person. According to Meng Yi's personality, he would never ask him to cooperate with him. As the Shangqing, he would not ask Li Si and Feng Quji. But no matter who he wants to cooperate with, it will eventually change some of the pattern in the court, which is also good for me!"

"It seems that I'm too worried. It turns out that my benefactor has already thought about this matter carefully. Since that's the case, my benefactor should not just drink tea. Come and kill a few games with me!" Yu Wuya said, pointing to the chess set up.

Chen Xu thrust a few times and jumped off the kang to put on his shoes: "You'd better find someone else to accompany you. I'll go to the kitchen to prairie some bean sprouts. I'm almost spitting when I eat dried vegetables and pickled vegetables every day!"
Chapter completed!