Xiao Furong pressed Liu Zhang's hand on the stall and yelled at the old man: "How do you calculate his fate?"
The old man looked at Liu Zhang's palm prints, pondered for a while, stroked his beard and said: "Well, according to my calculations, this man must be a noble prince. He is extremely valuable."
"It's so accurate." Xiao Furong was surprised, and Liu Zhang looked at her with disdain. He brought so many followers, how can it be expensive? But he didn't want to disturb Xiao Furong's interest, and he didn't want to expose it.
Xiao Furong stretched out her hand and put it in front of the old man. The old man took a look, and a look of disbelief slowly appeared on his face. Suddenly his eyes widened and he exclaimed: "Oh my God, you girl is a Quaker."
Xiao Furong was startled by the old man's actions and asked: "What kind of noble method?"
The old man looked at Xiao Furong's face carefully again, with a look of surprise on his face: "The girl's palm print is a rare phoenix pattern in the world, her forehead is shining, and the two stars of the red bird are guarding her. This is the symbol of the mother's ceremony in the world. This girl is the queen's destiny.
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"Emperor, Empress? Really?" Xiao Furong looked at the old man steadily, joy rising on her brows.
"This old liar is really good at bragging." Liu Zhang cursed the old man in his heart. He was afraid that he would not be able to keep at least five taels of silver.
Finally, the old man asked Liu Zhang for eight taels of silver, said a lot of beautiful words, and coaxed Xiao Furong to the point where she forgot her last name, and left happily.
Xiao Furong proudly said to Liu Zhang: "If you offend me, when I become your empress of the Han Dynasty, I will punish you as a little Huangmen."
"Yes, Queen Jin An, we can go back now." Liu Zhang had never seen such an easy-to-deceive person.
"Why are you so anxious to call me back?"
"sleep."
"Well?" Xiao Furong looked at Liu Zhang with wide eyes.
Liu Zhang: "..." He knocked Xiao Furong's head hard and said, "What are you thinking about? I didn't sleep all night last night and I'm very sleepy now." Liu Zhang looked at Xiao Furong's energetic look and really doubted that his son was talking about her.
Is it true if I haven't slept all night?
After Liu Zhang and Xiao Furong left, the owner of a sewing stall next to "Tianji Shensuan" smiled at the old man and said, "You made a lot of money today."
The old man smiled proudly: "Young man pleases a beautiful girl, one is a big bully and the other is brainless. If you don't lie, you will not lie. Anyone who sees it has a share. Let's go to the tavern to have a drink later. It's mine."
Dongcheng Yin Mansion, Yin Bai returned to the mansion, and saw his father Yin Yuan and Mr. Yan in the lobby. Yin Yuan glanced at his son who was walking briskly and smiling, and asked with a straight face: "I told you about this useless thing.
How many times have you been unable to express your emotions or anger? What makes you so happy?"
Yin Bai greeted Mr. Yan, walked up to his father and said, "Dad, you don't know, I saw a lot of novelty stuff last night, including mahjong, poker, chess, checkers, and backgammon. It was so fun, you can't even imagine it."
Well, there are more than a dozen ways to play poker..."
Before Yin Bai finished speaking, Yin Yuan became furious: "You bastard, are you just going to see these things? How can you inherit the family business in the future if you are so frivolous? I'm so angry, so angry." Yin Yuan held on.
Desktop was breathing heavily, and Mr. Yan hurriedly offered words of comfort.
Yin Bai said unconvinced: "Dad, I haven't finished speaking yet. I'm not looking at these things for fun. These things are so novel. We can definitely get them and sell them in our shop. And what kind of chairs are there?
Pens, tables and benches will definitely make a lot of money, and even the porcelain and cloth are twice as cheap as the market price."
"Is that true?" Yin Yuan said thoughtfully, "In that case, you can give it a try."
"I'll just tell you." Yin Yuan said with a smile: "I found that we all misjudged Zhou Mu before. In fact, Zhou Mu is not that vicious and is very approachable. The reason why the Jiangzhou family suffered disaster is entirely because they were too unruly.
Take Zhou Mu seriously, Dad, Master Zhou Mu has promised that apart from the land order and price limit order, he will not do anything excessive to our family. We should also support Zhou Mu..."
Before Yin Bai finished speaking, Yin Yuan slammed the table, pointed at Yin Bai and said angrily: "Are you going to make me angry to death? Can you believe the words of officials? Especially Liu Zhang, Fucheng killed Yu An, Jiangzhou
Was there any sign before the massacre of the seven tribes? When Wang Fu executed the Anman Gate, we didn’t even know what had happened.
Liu Zhang was accustomed to hiding his sword behind his smile, killing people with jokes, how could you be so stupid as to believe his words to appease us? As long as we compromise with him today, tomorrow he will be able to force us back a step further, and finally push us into a desperate situation.
The land order has almost cut off the space for our family to expand. Do you think you can make up for it by selling a few novelties? Remember, no matter how much money you make, it is not as important as the land. You can’t spend all the money you make.
If the Tianmu government increases taxes, raises mintage, or issues new coins like Wang Mang, your money will be worthless.
Land is the foundation of the family. Without land, you are nothing. There are still four imperial examinations, and most of the opportunities for the family to become officials are squeezed out. If things go on like this, we can only decline. Liu Zhang is digging for our foundation, and you still speak for him. You are stupid.
Are you dead?"
Yin Bai looked at Yin Yuan's extremely angry look and felt unconvinced, but he couldn't say it anymore. He smiled and said, "Dad, joy and anger cannot be expressed in color, and joy and anger cannot be expressed in color."
"you……"
"Old friend, calm down, calm down." Mr. Yan comforted Yin Yuan and sighed: "I don't think there's any rush on the land order. As my old friend said, Liu Zhang hid a knife in his smile, a rare cruelty.
Resisting forcefully will lead to disaster, so it is better to let these descendants cater to Liu Zhang's policies and open up commerce, which will do no harm to us and also make the Mufu government feel at ease with us.
I have lived for such a long time, and I have never seen any official who can disobey the family for a long time. Liu Zhang is going against the grain, and one day Xichuan will be in chaos. We just have to wait and see."
Mr. Yan thought of Liu Zhang's words again: "Now is not the time to harvest rice..." It's a pity that Pang Xi is too immature.
Yin Yuan nodded in thought, that was all he could do now.
More than a month has passed. In addition to government-run shops, almost all the shops of various aristocratic families in Chengdu have imported goods from Elm Street. Ordinary people soon followed suit. In less than a month, chairs and tables were being sold in the streets and alleys of Chengdu, and there was a steady stream of people buying them.
As time went on, Sanzi Workshop expanded four times and the supply exceeded demand.
With the pen, officials and unconventional scholars have put aside their brushes. An article that usually takes an hour to write can now be completed with a stick of incense. This has greatly improved the efficiency of officials and the number of articles they can produce. There are more mahjong in casinos.
, poker business suddenly surged.
What makes the people most happy is that although the quality of daily items such as cloth and soap locust is slightly inferior, the price is more than twice as low as before, and the cost of living has been greatly reduced.
Faced with such attractive prices, even though foreign businessmen were resistant to Yizhou, they couldn't help but come to purchase goods. The steady flow of orders caused the government-run workshops to expand rapidly, and the number of categories increased from ten to more than thirty.
It covers almost all aspects of people's daily life. At the same time, assembly line workshops set up by wealthy families have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
With low prices and high wages compared to farming, the people at the bottom, led by Elm Street, began to escape poverty, Chengdu became more prosperous, and the seeds of capitalism began to emerge.
There are only a few days left for the official examinations for the four civil servants in Chengdu, and candidates (warriors, craftsmen, doctors and scholars, just call them that) are pouring into Chengdu.
Gan Ning had passed all the way and beheaded the generals. Then he arrived in Chengdu dressed in fine clothes and looking extremely arrogant.
Aguda silently prayed at the city gate that Chengdu would be like Jiangzhou and that he should never be tested on how to write Chinese characters.
Zhang Zhongjing and Zhou Buyi were the only ones who looked down and out. Zhou Buyi glanced at Zhang Zhongjing from time to time, angering him for not arguing and lamenting his misfortune.
He never thought that Zhang Zhongjing, who was already extremely stupid, treated a peasant woman who fainted in the field in Fucheng, and finally gave the patient money, spending all the travel expenses from Jiangzhou, and he was not allowed to deceive others.
The two of them almost went to Chengdu to make money.