Back to Kaifeng, it has been a month in a blink of an eye.

Time flies, winter is coming, and the wind and snow are getting worse. Inadvertently, Kaifeng City has been covered with a layer of silver.

Wu Haogu has had a lot of things recently and is very busy.

First of all, he was busy completing the painting activities that Wu Chengzhi had joined. Almost every other day, he would enter a wealthy family as deep as a sea of ​​smoke to draw a beautiful girl in his teenage years. Of course, they were all fine-brush photos, not oil paintings like "Pan Su'er's Smile", otherwise it would not be so easy to complete - not only the creation of oil painting itself is slow, but also because only Wu Haogu in the world has mastered the oil painting techniques, he had to complete all the painting work independently, and no one could write for him.

And fine brushwork is much easier. Wu Haogu only needs to outline the lines, and the color setting work can be thrown to Mi Youren and Wu Chengzhi to complete.

So after a month of busy work, most of the orders Wu Chengzhi received had been completed. Wu Haogu also had tens of thousands of extra "running gold" on his hands.

With this money, not only did Wu Haogu invest all the investment in Christie's, but he could also cope with the expenses of buying a property in the west wing of Kaifeng Fucheng.

Wu Chengzhi took a fancy to a large mansion located on the banks of the Jinshui River, near the northwest Shuimen. There is also a small back garden with five in and five out. It is incomparable to the Wang Family Xiyuan and the Pan Family Pan Family, but it is also a decent mansion.

The original owner of the house was a high-ranking official from the old party. After being demoted again and again, he was about to go to Yalong Bay to see the sea. The family wanted to marry his daughter and needed to pay a large amount of dowry, so he had to sell the house in Kaifeng Prefecture.

The price of this house is 100,000 yuan!

It's really not cheap, but the housing prices in Kaifeng Prefecture are so outrageous! In the end, Hua Manshan tried to persuade him and only lost 5,000 yuan and sold for 95,000 yuan.

In order to take out the money, the Wu family also exchanged the house in Tianshui Lane and the old shop on Panlou Street to 70,000 yuan. So Wu Haogu actually posted 25,000 yuan in it, which was to find a comfortable nest for my father to spend his old age. In fact, his father was not old at all, and it was not time to enjoy his old age!

However, the money is still worth spending. Wu Haogu, who was originally crowded in the same yard with his father, brother and mother, now has his own entry into the yard, which is a large yard with a main hall, a wing room and a corridor.

It's enough to serve as a new house for Wu Haogu and marry Pan Qiaolian, who is the general of the Pan family.

In addition to his own "marriage room", Wu Haogu also allocated a yard for Zhang Xizai, Hua Manshan and Lin Wancheng, which allowed them to bring their families from Yucheng and Haizhou to Kaifeng Prefecture to live.

In addition, Wu Haogu's brother Wu Haowen also got into the bright yard.

While busy buying and selling houses and completing painting orders, Wu Haogu was also busy dealing with the Hanlin Academy of Painting and calligraphy and painting business.

All industries in the Song Dynasty had their own industry rules and industry rules. By formulating industry rules and selecting industry rules, a certain level of industry self-discipline can be achieved. In some industries, industry leaders are also responsible for dealing with the government, dealing with various and buying and levying. Therefore, those who can hold this position usually have some background and some skills.

In calligraphy and painting, according to convention, the direct-length position of the waiting class is the natural head. Because there are two categories of calligraphy and painting, the first head of the calligraphy and painting industry has always been two people, one is the direct-length position of the Hanlin Calligraphy Bureau, and the other is the direct-length position of the Hanlin Painting Academy.

However, calligraphy and painting are always mainly based on painting, not because calligraphy works are sold in small numbers, but because there are very few professional calligraphers... Calligraphy is the basic skill of scholars, so most of the calligraphy works are provided by scholars and officials. However, painting is not the case. If you can’t write well by an official, you will be looked down upon. It doesn’t matter whether you can draw or not. Therefore, there are too fewer scholar-official painters than scholar-official calligraphers, so there is more space left for professional painters.

Now the person who represents the Calligraphy and Art Bureau as the head of the calligraphy and painting business is an old man named Xia Guocheng. He looks amiable and an old fox who does not offend others. He can imitate the calligraphy of many famous masters and has a good eye. He is famous for his discovery of a genuine copybook of Wang Xianzhi made by Mi Fu.

The father and son of the Wu family met Old Man Xia. After all, we are all engaged in calligraphy and painting activities, so after finishing a lot of things at hand, Wu Chengzhi and Wu Haogu prepared a gift to visit Old Man Xia.

Although Old Man Xia’s calligraphy is not very famous, he is a hereditary calligraphy bureau—the fourth Hanlin Bureau has hereditary phenomenon. Wu Haogu, who became a direct leader of the Attendant, now has the power to recruit his descendants into the Painting Bureau. After many generations of business, his family’s property is still quite rich. Like the Wu family, they all live in the Xichengxiang, where mansions are lined up, and it is also a large mansion of 100,000 yuan.

Old Man Xia also knew how powerful Wu Haogu was now, so he was very polite to him, a young man in his twenties, and went out to greet him personally and even served in the inner hall to entertain the visiting Wu family father and son. With a hint of alcohol, the old man seemed to open his heart to Wu Haogu and said a lot of thoughtful words.

"Xiang Dalang, have anyone told you about Zhao Xiaoyi's identity these days?

I tell you, he is probably the eleventh brother of the official family, Duan Wang! Many old guys with psychic eyes and ears in the calligraphy and painting industry know... They respect you very much on the surface, but in fact they are all waiting to see your jokes."

"ah?"

Wu Haogu immediately pretended to be shocked when he received this news.

"Zhao... Zhao Xiaoyi is King Duan!?"

Wu Chengzhi was really scared and looked nervously at his son who was very capable but was even more capable than his ability.

Last time, he was almost scared to death. Why did he get involved with King Duan this time?

This Duan Wang... is likely to be the emperor in the future!

Old Man Xia continued, "Dalang, you can't really play with Duan Wang. The princes of the Zhao family are all great people, and they may even value you because of this. But the peers are enemies... and you are so young that you can't convince others. Therefore, this waiter and calligraphy and painting are so cold to you."

Wu Haogu frowned and looked very anxious, "What should I do?"

Old Man Xia shook his head and said, "You shouldn't have received the imperial edict... You should have given up and just be a calligraphy art or just waiter."

Will it be good? Wu Haogu thought: The bigger the better, the better!

The Attorney-in-Law is still young. If Zhao Xu directly gave him a ninth-rank sesame official, at least no one in the calligraphy and painting business of Kaifeng Prefecture dared not accept him.

Thinking about it in my heart, I still looked like I was about to die of anxiety. "Now, I have done everything at the throne, and if I want to resign..."

"Of course I can't quit now," Old Man Xia stroked his white beard and looked like he caring for his younger generation. "The officials say that you are the number one person in the painting. If you don't do this, who dares to do it? Who wants to do it for you? Isn't the officials making a mistake?"

The official family will never be wrong...at least for the people in the Hanlin Picture Bureau.

"But..." The old man narrowed his eyes and looked at Wu Haogu, "But he doesn't have to do it as a master of calligraphy and painting."

The direct leader of the calligraphy and painting is of course the first step!

However, the first of calligraphy and painting is not an official position, but a recommendation from the industry. If Wu Haogu refuses by himself, then everyone will naturally name a respected veteran in the painting world.

Wu Haogu already understood this a little.

He nodded repeatedly, "That's right, it's just that this calligraphy and painting industry is the most suitable one?"

Old Man Xia said: "Who else? Of course, it is Du Zhizhao from the Hanlin Academy of Painting."

It turned out that Du Yongde wanted to be the head of calligraphy and painting! He could not be the waiter, and it was better to be the head of calligraphy and painting and painting.

Xia Guocheng said: "He wrote a letter to Emperor Shenzong as an art student, and he was highly respected in calligraphy and painting!

The fact that Du Yongde wrote to Shenzong was true, in order to change the custom of painting academy's seniority and not paying attention to painting skills... His writing must be effective, otherwise he would definitely be the one who is waiting for the imperial examination now!

After so many years, it is time to get through the experience.

As a result, because of his own letter, the current assistant chief in the painting academy must be the best in the painting academy (in the painting academy). Of course, this person is Wu Haogu... It's really a pity for Old Man Du.

Wu Haogu looked at Xia Guocheng and asked, "What if I don't want to give up my trip? Wouldn't anyone recommend me?"

Although the direct leader of the waiting emperor must be the first to be the first, the prosecution process is still necessary.

However, there is no one behind Wu Haogu. Mi Fu and Wang Shi will stand by him. Although these two people are not formal members of the calligraphy and painting business, they speak more effectively than Guanzhao.

Therefore, it is impossible for anyone to recommend Wu Haogu.

At most, Du Yongde also received support from some people. However, that was useless, because Wu Haogu could also propose a skill to fight and determine the winner and lose.

Du Yongde's painting skills are no match for Wu Haogu in any case. Even Wu Haogu's student Mi Youren can easily defeat him.

"This..." Old Man Xia also looked at Wu Haogu and frowned slightly, "In this case, you have to beat Zhao Xiaoyi.

Otherwise, someone would recommend Zhao Xiaoyi as the first calligraphy and painting show!"

Isn't this a disruption?

Zhao Ji wants to be the emperor, how can he be the leader?

Wu Haogu asked: "Just win?"

Old man Xia smiled and said, “Just win.”

But Zhao Xiaoyi’s true identity... I’m afraid he can’t win, right?”

Wu Haogu won over Duan, so Du Yongde naturally dared not cause trouble again. If Duan holds a grudge, then Wu Haogu will suffer from Wu Haogu in the future. If Duan admires Wu Haogu because of this, then Du Yongde is considered old? Why should he compete with Wu Haogu?

But... how could Xia Guocheng know Du Yongde's plan clearly?

What Du Yongde told him in person?

What's the relationship between them?

This matter seems a bit strange. No, I must ask Mi Youren for a good question when I look back.
Chapter completed!