Chapter 101
"It's indeed too much, but we are all outsiders, so we can only help these!"
Zhao Qi felt that he was very upset when he continued to talk about this, so he changed the topic: "The two brothers have been out for so long, have they ever written a letter to go home? Are the parents, wives and children at home okay?"
"My parents and I are still alive at home, and the great-grandmother is still in good health, but we have never married each other. How can we get a wife and children?" Chen Ji shook his head and explained.
Zhao Qi was surprised and looked up and down at Chen Ji and said with a smile: "The two brothers are both handsome men, and they are also juren. They are not young anymore, how could they have not married or had children?"
"Brother Yao and I had made an appointment to study hard and pass the Jinshi exam before marrying a wife and getting married. Unfortunately, this time I failed the exam in Beijing and felt extremely depressed. If I hadn't met Brother Zhao's enthusiastic help, I would have been left in Qingyuan Mansion and become a beggar, so how could I have the face to get married?" Chen Ji shook his head with a depressed expression.
"Haha, why did Brother Chen say that? Men are married when they are married when they are old, and the marriage is not in conflict with the title of the Golden List. How can one say it in succession!"
"When the former champion Hou swore at a young age, why did the Huns become a family? Brother Yao and I also wanted to follow the examples and encourage ourselves. Unfortunately, the court is corrupt now. We may come to the exam twice and three times, but we still cannot pass the list. For nothing, let's not talk about this, but listen to Brother Zhao's business. Maybe next time we come, we will follow Brother Zhao to be a merchant and make a lot of money and be free and easy!" Chen Ji put his eyes on the drawings in his early morning hands.
"Then I'm asking for it. In fact, studying and becoming an official is to make money. You can make money by doing business. If Brother Chen can come to help me, we will definitely be able to make countless money in the future. Then there is no need to look at the faces of these bastard bureaucrats. Please see, this is the rendering of my development of the Bay Village Bay..."
Zhao Qi smiled so hard that he couldn't stop and took out the drawing that seduced Yang Anping and Manager Liu for Chen Ji to see. At the same time, he also explained the process of using the process of borrowing chickens to lay eggs to develop the harbor.
"Brother Chen, this drawing is simple, but if you want to sell the house on these drawings, you may have to write some tempting publicity copy. You and Brother Yao are very talented and will definitely be able to help me. As long as you can raise more than 100,000 yuan of deposit first, this huge development plan will almost be successful!"
After some explanation, Zhao Qi said that his mouth was dry and his tongue was dry.
Chen Ji was even more dry and his mouth was dry, and he felt his head buzzing so hard that he couldn't stop, and the blood on his body was rushing.
Zhao Qi's creativity is simply whimsical.
Chen Ji has read a lot of books, has come into contact with many officials and wealthy people, and has also traveled to many places. He has never heard of this way of making money.
To be honest, the so-called borrowing chickens to lay eggs is actually a scam in Chen Ji's opinion.
Because from beginning to end, Zhao Qi only paid more than a thousand guan to buy a piece of wasteland where birds could not shit, and the rest of the money was poorly spent.
If you want to repair the dock, warehouse, repair the shops, restaurants and inns that are advertised on the drawings, you have no money. You have to sell the filthy house before you can repair it.
If you just donate and run away after receiving a deposit, you will be a real liar.
The only thing that made him feel relieved was that Zhao Qi really planned to build a house, but the premise was that some of these houses would be sold and raised enough money to start the construction.
"Brother Zhao, this... wouldn't it be a bit shameless..." Chen Ji slowly calmed down and stammered at Zhao Qi.
"It's indeed a bit shameless..." Zhao Qi pinched his chin and laughed dryly, but at the same time he felt a little disagreeable. This method is more shameless than this for later real estate developers. He can get the money by mortgageing the land to the bank. At present, there is no way to get a loan, so he can only sell the property first.
"Young master, the water is boiling. Do you want to make tea?" Xiaozhu's dirty charcoal ash came over to ask for instructions.
"Soak it, Brother Chen is tired and thirsty when he comes back for dozens of miles..." Zhao Qi nodded quickly, and Xiao Zhu washed the two newly bought tea cups, but did not use a tea mill bamboo basket. He still grind a small piece of tea leaves into powder in a pottery bowl. His movements were awkward but still quite.
"Hey, I haven't seen each other for a few days, Xiaozhu has learned to make tea!" Chen Ji was surprised.
"The grandmother taught me, and she would hit me if she didn't light camellia in a month!" Xiao Zhu's mouth was about to cry.
"One month?" Chen Ji opened his mouth wide for a long time, then came back to his senses and smiled bitterly, "One month is too short. I have been studying for many years but can't be ordered. Well, don't cry. I will teach you some methods to get started with tea art. With the teachings of Grandma, a tea ceremony master, you may really learn it in a month!"
Chen Ji went to wash his hands and asked Xiaozhu to find a clean cotton cloth to clean the tea and grind the tea. Then he rolled up his sleeves to teach Xiaozhu how to grind and sifted tea. Then he personally demonstrated to order a cup of tea. Although he still did not point out the beautiful patterns, the whole process was meticulous, which made Zhao Qi look at it. At the same time, he also had a new understanding of the literati and scholars of the Song Dynasty who drank tea, which was cumbersome and luxury.
Perhaps, this is also the reason why the tea art of the Song Dynasty was not passed down.
Too much trouble.
It is completely unsuitable for large-scale promotion.
Moreover, this set of tea sets alone is very valuable. When Zhao Qi brought it in just now, he asked, and it cost 20 taels of silver, which is enough for an ordinary family of five to spend a year on food and drink.
The elegant life of the Song Dynasty literati, which later generations praised, was also based on high income. However, after two thousand years of feudal history, this leisure and leisure may only be supported by the Song Dynasty, which had developed business and sufficient salary.
The high income of the literati and scholars of the Song Dynasty was also the key to the redundant officials and expenses in the Song Dynasty.
The large amount of wealth plundered by the court from the people was eventually consumed to feed these officials and scholars and officials who were full of leisure.
The profession is diligent and wasteful, and the success of actions is caused by thoughts and destruction.
The elegance accumulated over the past three hundred years of the Song Dynasty is actually a product of excessive fun.
However, from the perspective of human nature, pursuing a luxurious, rich, elegant and leisurely life is indeed a nature and necessity of human beings, and it is also the ultimate goal of social development.
However, on Earth today, the Song family has gone too fast and made too much progress, which has caused some trouble.
Capitalism rose after the Middle Ages in Europe. In fact, the lives of slave owners and nobles were more extravagant than those of the literati class of the Song Dynasty. They could only satisfy their craziness. Under the cruel exploitation, slave uprisings and peasant uprisings in Europe also emerged one after another. The whole Europe was as chaotic as a pot of porridge. It was not until the war that the situation in Europe gradually stabilized.
Just like the Jin emperor Wanyan Liang wanted to conquer the Song Dynasty, because he envied the wealth of the Song Dynasty and the life of the scholar-official class, especially after reading Liu Yong's poem "Three Autumn Osmanthus and Ten Miles of Lotus" and "Santhemum of Jiangnan" described by Liu Yong, he was drooling all over the place, so he decided to conquer the Song Dynasty.
However, although the Song Dynasty seemed to be very frustrated, the family of Wuxia He was not far from a good family. Wanyan Liang led hundreds of thousands of troops to the edge of the Yangtze River and met a scholar who was sent by the Song Dynasty to reward the army, named Yu Yunwen. The two sides fought in Caishiji and the Jin army was defeated. Wanyan Liang looked at the prosperous Song Dynasty on the other side and jumped anxiously, forcing the soldiers to cross the river within three days, otherwise they would all die.
The soldiers of the Jin army felt despair. The surging Yangtze River was not the small ditches of the Huai River, and most of them were not familiar with boats and water battles. If the Song Dynasty was not in chaos, not to mention three days, even three months would not be able to break through the Yangtze River spindle of the Song Dynasty. So between their own death and others' death, the soldiers of the Jin army collectively cheated and tried a multiple-choice question. They rebelled in the middle of the night and killed Wanyan Liang, and then happily carried Wanyan Liang's coffin home for the New Year.
Chapter completed!