Chapter 1105 Yu Si
After dinner, Chen Yi watched Li Wensheng decoct the medicine. When he was feeding the old woman to drink, he also used repair surgery for treatment.
With the level of repair techniques he used, the old woman's illness could be completely recovered after almost four or five times.
Looking at his mother, after taking the medicine, her complexion obviously improved a little. Li Wensheng also showed a strong smile on his face. He walked out of the room and thanked Chen Yi very much.
Chen Yi smiled and told Li Wensheng to take it three times a day after meals. He would come to see it every day, and then left the place, while Li Wensheng kept sending him to the street.
Walking to the street and looking at the carriage parked by the street, Chen Yi touched his wallet. After such a big struggle, he finally got the money for the carriage.
Now it's time to go to Lu Zigang's workshop to take a look. He walked towards the carriage, discussed the price with the coachman, and then sat in.
The inside of the carriage was quite clean and there were mats. Chen Yi lay on the carriage board and stretched comfortably.
According to the coachman's estimate, it takes about forty minutes to get from here to Lu Zigang's workshop.
Of course, if he didn't care about it, the speed would be faster and he would probably be able to get to the place in a few minutes. However, in this ancient city, carriages might not be able to run, let alone cars.
In this dungeon world, Chen Yi’s biggest reliance is not the things in the storage space. Although the things in the dungeon world cannot be taken out through the storage space, the things in the storage space can be used in the dungeon world.
His biggest reliance is the system's materialization function. Through the materialization function, he can physically implement some things in the identification information, such as cars, guns and even explosives.
If Lu Zigang was in danger of his life during this period, then Chen Yi felt that it would be impossible to rush out of the palace in an off-road vehicle.
The roads in Shuntian Mansion were still flat. Chen Yi was lying in the carriage and did not encounter too much fluctuation.
Although it was only a morning since he came to this dungeon world, he had encountered many things.
When I first arrived, I randomly arrived at a girl's boudoir where she was taking a bath. When I remembered that scene, Chen Yi felt a little embarrassed, and he felt that this was the system doing this on purpose.
When I was buying clothes, I met a black-hearted shopkeeper. Although I didn’t cheat him out of money, I always cheated him out of the appraisal point. I had inquired about the place of the silver building before and was fooled by a drunkard.
Only when he was a pawn shop, he was a little smoother. Before he knew it, he had already integrated into this world quickly, besides the power of the identification system and the knowledge it brought.
More about it is his understanding of the ancient times, which makes him enter this world without being confused.
An ancient person might feel very free if he went to the modern world. But a modern person would feel this way when he came to the ancient world. Especially a celebrity like Chen Yi, no one would pay attention to him here. Similarly, nothing he did would not be widely spread.
Even if he suddenly disappears or saves a dying person in a row, many people will be regarded as a god by the gods, and no one will have doubts like in modern times.
After resting in the carriage for a while, Chen Yi heard the shouting of the coachman outside, "Young Master, Yu Si is here."
Chen Yi slowly walked out of the carriage and looked around. Sure enough, he could see many signs about jade hanging around him. He smiled, took out a few taels of silver, and threw it directly to the coachman. With the coachman's thanks, he headed towards Yusi.
Jade wares in the Ming Dynasty can be said to occupy an important position among all the jade wares in China. The prosperity of jade carvings exceeded that of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and there have been great progress in both shape and craftsmanship.
Especially in the Ming Dynasty, the commerce was very developed, and the people became rich. In the Ming Dynasty, royal jade was produced by the imperial supervisor, and the trend of viewing and appreciating jade was prevalent among the people. In major cities with developed economic and cultural backgrounds, there were jade stores, that is, places where jade was made, appreciated, and bought and sold jade.
At the foot of Shuntian Prefecture, the existence of Yusi is naturally indispensable. In the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou, Shuntian Prefecture and Yangzhou were the three largest jade-carved centers in the country. Of course, Suzhou is the most prominent.
In ancient China, many famous craftsmen created countless exquisite jade artifacts, but the names and deeds of these people were rarely recorded in official history and other works. Lu Zigang is the most special one. Not only are the notes of literati and unofficial history recorded, but he is also an extraordinary figure who can "fight against literati and officials". In later generations, Lu Zigang also became the founder of the jade carving industry in Suzhou.
Lu Zigang can be said to be a very personal person. Ordinary people obey the emperor's orders and dare not disobey the slightest. However, he disobeyed twice, once, leaving his name in the jade pot, and was spared by the emperor, and escaped by chance.
The second time he did not repent, he engraved his name on the dragon head. In the end, the emperor was furious and executed him.
The emperor may be able to tolerate temporary deception, but he cannot tolerate others riding on his own head.
In the eyes of others, he is very personal, but in Chen Yi's opinion, this guy is so fed up with life and wants to die. He wants to pretend to be b in front of the emperor. He succeeded once, but failed the second time.
Throughout history, many talented people and great figures have never dared to pretend too much in front of the emperor. However, Lu Zigang dared to make trouble on the emperor's head. Who would die if he didn't die?
Chen Yi slowly walked into this jade store. Looking around, there were many jade shops around, some for sale, and some could be customized. It can be said that it was a one-stop collection of recycling, appreciation, sales and production.
Chen Yi smiled. This can be said to be a jade market. Similarly, it can be regarded as a half-antique city, but most of the ones sold are jade.
The jadeware in the Ming Dynasty developed very prosperously in the middle and late periods, that is, from the Jiajing to Chongzhen period, the urban economy flourished and the jade output increased. The Suzhou jade industry represented the trend of national jade technology development.
Song Yingxing, a famous scientist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, once recorded in "The Book of Things in Heaven": "Although good jade gathers in the capital, the skillful jade is recommended to Su County." From this record, it can be seen that good jade is concentrated in Shuntian Prefecture, while the one with the highest craftsmanship is in Suzhou.
Chen Yi is most proficient in antiques, but the ones he is most proficient in are undoubtedly porcelain and jade, as well as calligraphy and painting, because this is the largest number of existence in the entire category of antiques and cultural relics.
Chen Yi walked casually on Yusi Street, approaching a shop from time to time, and looked at the jadeware inside, including many shops selling ancient jade.
However, when he saw some of the ancient jades, he showed a strong smile. He could be said to be very familiar with the characteristics and culture of various generations of jade. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, ancient jade had become antiques and was a special commodity with high prices.
In order to obtain high profits, some merchants have made a large number of fake antiques with cheap jade materials such as inferior jade and colored jade, and some have even been passed down to this day.
Among all antique categories, there are not only imitations, but also fakes, which is really hard to guard against.
In the jade shop where he is now, some ancient jade was made by fakes. With the various modern experts and collections all over the ground, some people could not distinguish the difference between real and fake jade, not to mention that in ancient times, there were only some high-quality people who often came into contact with jade, and could distinguish a small part.
Looking at the prosperous Yusi Street, Chen Yi sighed lightly. It was really not easy to find Lu Zigang.
Before, he only knew from the psychological activities of the owner of Yinlou that Lu Zigang opened a workshop in this jade store, but the specific location of the workshop was not reflected in the psychological activities.
Fortunately, Lu Zigang is famous, so he can ask it out with just a question. If it were someone else, some of his methods would probably be useless. It was like the method he often used in the real world to find people, using animal taming techniques, taming some birds, and asking them to help find them, but that was when there were photos.
There is no sufficient information about Lu Zigang in history, let alone the portraits left behind. Chen Yi doesn't know how old this guy is now.
After thinking about it, Chen Yi came to a nearby jade shop, "Hey, this young master, the shop has all kinds of jade and ancient jade, what do you need."
"Shopkeeper, I want to ask you about someone, is Master Lu Zigang, a famous Suzhou, on this Yusi Street?" Chen Yi asked with a smile, and observed some of the jade artifacts in the store.
The shopkeeper was a middle-aged fat man wearing fat clothes. When he heard Chen Yi's words, he showed a mysterious smile on his face, "Hehe, Lu Zigang, a famous jade carving master in Suzhou, of course I know him. If I buy me a piece of jade, I will tell you, otherwise, it would be very difficult to find it in this vast jade street."
Chen Yi smiled slightly, nodded, and then took a piece of jade from one of the cabinets and put it on the counter. "Shopkeeper, this jade pendant is the price of my inquiry."
"Hehe, this young man has such a look. This is an ancient jade pendant. If someone else loses twenty taels, you can't take it away. Just take fifteen taels of silver." The shopkeeper saw Chen Yi picking a jade pendant so simply, and immediately said with a smile, secretly praising the young man for being really upright.
Hearing what the shopkeeper said, Chen Yi nodded seriously, "This is indeed a piece of ancient jade."
"Haha, the young master is really a master in the jade. This is a good thing from the Chenghua Dynasty." The smile on the shopkeeper's face became even stronger and he thought to himself that this time he had met a fat sheep.
Chapter completed!