Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

"Sir, I have done everything you asked me to do."

Cheng Yaojin left the palace, and immediately came to Ma Zhou's residence, because Li Yi'an was staying here again, and quickly said, "What shall we do next?"

"Then we have to wait for the auction to start, and I will arrange everything later."

Li Yi'an said: "I'll write another article and have it sent to be printed into a newspaper. I'll hype it up for another day tomorrow. The auction will basically be stable, and then wait to collect the money."

Hearing the word "receive money", Cheng Yaojin's eyes sparkled, but he asked again: "Should we continue firing those Tianmu lamps?"

"Of course, if you don't burn it, what do we sell?"

Li Yi'an said: "On the second day after the auction ends, General Cheng, you will take out those Tianmu lamps and sell them. The price should be a little cheaper than the auctioned ones. If they can't buy them at the auction, they will definitely come again. I bought it from you."

Cheng Yaojin smiled and said: "Sir, you are really a profiteer, oh... no, you are a great businessman."

Li Yi'an thought it was funny to describe himself as a profiteer, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I have another thing to play, which can also make money, so send someone to Changnan Town immediately, and first get a thousand catties of porcelain stone and When the kaolin comes back, we will try our best to buy the mountains where these ores are located, including the place we dug in Jizhou."

Changnan Town is the later Jingdezhen, which is the porcelain capital of the world. This time Li Yi'an is going to toss blue and white porcelain.

Thinking of this, Li Yi'an took paper and a pen, and wrote down the specific firing process of blue and white porcelain, and then drew sketches one by one, which were very detailed.

"Take these back and hand them over to our kiln craftsmen. After the kaolin is brought back, you will immediately fire it according to this method. If you can't make it out, or if you don't understand anything, come to me right away." Li Yi'an instructed Said.

"I'll take care of things, sir, don't worry."

Without thinking about it, Cheng Yaojin picked up the papers and left.

Soon, it was evening.

Cheng Chumo suddenly asked someone to bring a large box of meat over, and said with a smile: "Sir, our Cheng family has a cow, which crashed into the wall and died for some reason. Aye asked me to bring you some beef."

beef?

Of course Li Yi'an knew that farming cattle in ancient times could not be slaughtered, and anyone who dared to do so would be imprisoned.

It was still Cheng Yaojin's Lu Ziye. For some reason, the cattle hit the wall and died. It was said that Cheng Yaojin's cattle often died inexplicably. It turned out that this was true.

"Sir, don't worry, this cow has been reported to the police, and there is a record in the government. Eat whatever you want. If something happens, there will be Fatty Cheng carrying it. Who dares to trouble him?"

Cheng Chumo has become a habit, and he must have done this a lot. No cow can get out of Cheng's house, and he whispered: "Sir, let me tell you, Fatty Cheng saw that he made money today, so he killed a cow to celebrate." .”

Cheng Yaojin may not have imagined that his son turned around and sold him.

"Okay, I get it."

Li Yi'an sent him away, looked at the baskets of beef, and said loudly: "Wan Shun, tonight we're making sauced beef, and by the way, hand-made beef balls..."

Wanshun jumped out and asked curiously, "What are beef balls?"

“A delicious little meatball!”

"My God, it's beef! There's so much beef, sir, I want to eat it too!"

"General Cheng sent so much beef, this is a farm cattle, how can they be killed."

After hearing this, Yu Wenyan and Li Changge ran out quickly.

After Ma Zhou came back, when he saw so much beef, he couldn't help running to impeach Cheng Yaojin.

Li Yi'an managed to pull him down.

After eating two mouthfuls of beef, Ma Zhou couldn't help sighing: "It's delicious!"

He can eat two more bowls.

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Early the next morning, there was new content on the Chang'an Daily.

It turns out that the admission ticket for the auction also has a VIP ticket, which can only be owned by people with high status.

These VIP tickets were not for sale, but were distributed by His Majesty to more than [-] officials of the fifth rank and above in the court.

Then someone spread the news that Yuchi Jingde was selling tickets.

At the beginning, Yuchi Jingde only wanted to sell the admission tickets that he had always obtained with money, but someone from a certain family saw the newspaper and only wanted to buy his VIP tickets.

It was a status symbol, and Yuchi Jingde was unwilling to kill him, but he bought it in the end.

There was no way, the other party offered too much, Yuchi Jingde could only agree with tears, anyway, it was the same wherever he sat.

With the case of Yuchi Jingde, people from other aristocratic families started thinking about buying this kind of VIP tickets everywhere, and the price was quickly raised by them, and the auction became more and more popular.

"Mr. is indeed Mr.!"

Cheng Yaojin got the latest news from outside, and sighed: "I can't learn this kind of method in my life."

"Cheng Yaojin!"

At this moment, Yuchi Jingde rushed in from the outside angrily, and said angrily: "Okay, you fat man, why did you tell others about selling VIP tickets? I only sold them five times in the morning." Go, now it's the twelve guan ones!"

He lost so much money, he couldn't get angry, and came to Cheng Yaojin to settle the score.

Cheng Yaojin pretended to be angry and said: "Yuchi Heizi, my old Cheng swears to God, I only told you."

"Then why are people outside selling VIP tickets?"

"You ask me, who should I ask? Is it because you are talking nonsense yourself, and now that you have lost money, you come to find me bad luck? Let me tell you, don't treat me like an old Cheng's axe."

"I... I also told Changsun Wuji and Zhang Gongjin!"

Yuchi Jingde immediately lost his temper.

"You made a fuss on your own, it's none of my business? Get lost!"

Cheng Yaojin drove them away directly.

"Fatty Cheng, you still dare to chase me away? Just wait, I'll go find Mr.!"

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Time passed quickly, and it was the day when the auction started in the blink of an eye.

Everyone entered the venue one after another with the admission tickets, but only one person can enter with an admission ticket.

As the person behind the scenes, Li Yi'an was different from the others. He walked through the back door to the room on the fourth floor of the restaurant with ease, and looked down condescendingly through the window.

Wang's restaurant is indeed the largest restaurant in Chang'an. It is not only large in scale, but also occupies a large area.

In the middle of the first floor, a simple stage is arranged, and the periphery can surround the stage. According to the layout of the concert seats of later generations, hundreds of chairs are placed, and then the third floor is vacated, and the thousand seats are combined. together.

Although this is very compact, the location is right here. If you don’t want to sit, you can roll away. Anyway, these people are not the focus of the auction. The reason for issuing so many tickets is to exaggerate the atmosphere and arrange a few to enter.

The VIP area is not on the third floor but on the second floor, because it is closer to the stage, visually better and more realistic.

In the VIP area, there are chairs, tables, and even things to eat and drink. The VIPs sit comfortably here for the auction. They are the key people tonight. Basically, they are members of the top families in Chang’an, and they are also the most willing to spend money. people.

On the fourth floor, Wang Rujing followed Li Yi'an, looked down with interest, and suddenly she saw two familiar figures flashing past her eyes.

"Wang Chengzhi!"

I saw Wang Chengzhi and Li Liangping chatting and laughing next to the gate on the first floor below, and then left the restaurant.

The woman's sixth sense told her that they must have done nothing good, and she was hesitant to find Wang Chengzhi, but the auction officially started, so she had to stop this thought.