Kou Ji sighed: "My noble little Mr. Kou actually makes a living by selling fake calligraphy. I really shouldn't."

The smile on Zhao Run's face froze, and he kept muttering in his heart.

Sir! That's not what you said when you were talking about me.

Kou Ji saw Zhao Run's expression was wrong and raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is your expression?"

Zhao Runqian laughed and said: "Sir, before the heat is over, you can write a few more pieces so that we can sell them for money. When the heat is over, I'm afraid they won't be able to sell at a high price."

Kou Ji glanced at Zhao Run, changed a piece of paper, picked up the pen and started writing again.

Kou Ji no longer cares about money.

But when money was delivered to his door, Kou Ji had no reason not to accept it.

Since Kou Zhun left his name at Wenchang Academy and left Bianjing City, the value of Kou Zhun's name has skyrocketed.

There are endless counterfeit goods among the people.

Some imitation calligraphy actually sold for a very high price.

The fake ones can be sold at high prices.

Then the real price will naturally be higher.

But Kou Zhun had already left Beijing, and most of his paintings and calligraphy were either collected by the palace or by the Wenchang Academy, and the rest were taken away by him.

Naturally, it is impossible to sell the collections in the palace and Wenchang Academy.

Therefore, Kou Zhun's authentic work instantly became a rare commodity.

After Zhao Run learned about this, he decisively found Kou Ji and asked Kou Ji for Kou Zhun's authentic work.

Kou Ji does have Kou Zhun's original works, but they are all in his collection and cannot be sold.

So I casually wrote one for Zhao Run.

Although Zhao Run is young, his skills in appraising calligraphy and painting are still very good.

After all, the old Zhao family has paid close attention to the education issues of the royal family since Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi.

Therefore, the Lao Zhao family's humanistic attainments are not low.

As the eldest prince, Zhao Run had high hopes from many people, and his literary attainments were naturally not low.

After Zhao Run appraised Kou Ji's handwriting, he felt that Kou Ji's handwriting was enough to be fake, so he boldly took it out for sale.

Then he sold it for a full 20,000 yuan.

He took three thousand as commission for himself and gave the rest to Kou Ji.

After Kou Ji saw the money, he never refused Zhao Run's request for a word again.

Anyway, idle time is idle time.

It is better to be deceived by him than to let those who have been taken advantage of be deceived by others.

He has more conscience than other liars.

Although he did not give the wrong words to those who were wronged, he did give him his own words.

Although the calligraphy of Xiao Kou Gong is not as valuable as the calligraphy of Kou Gong.

But he is also a famous person, and his words are still worth a few dollars.

It can be considered worthy of the huge sums of money given by those who were taken advantage of.

Kou Ji lowered his head and was writing, while Zhao Run was thinking about something at the side.

Zhao Run thought for a long time and whispered: "Sir, the student has a question in his mind. I wonder if you can help the student clear it up?"

Kou Ji said a word without raising his head, "Say..."

Zhao Run hurriedly said: "Sir, if you face the current predicament of Jiangning Mansion, how will you solve it?"

Kou Ji said calmly while writing: "Simple... Since those wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion are unwilling to make money, then let them stop making money completely.

They liked to go on strike, so the court simply closed the market.

Then the imperial court sent people over to occupy the market and make money they were unwilling to make."

Zhao Run was stunned and said in astonishment: "Is this still possible? But if you do this, there will definitely be pedantic people in the court who say something about not competing with the people."

Kou Ji said disdainfully: "It's because the imperial court doesn't compete with the people for profit, so it takes advantage of those wealthy families."

Zhao Run pondered: "But if the imperial court competes with the people for profit, where will the people's profits come from?"

Kou Ji raised his head in surprise, stared at Zhao Run and said, "You can actually think of this?"

Zhao Run said dumbfounded: "It's not like students don't understand everything..."

Kou Ji put down his pen and said with a smile: "Since you asked here, let me explain it to you. In the eyes of officials, the court does not compete with the people for profit, which refers to all the people in the world.

But in the eyes of hundreds of officials, the court does not compete with the people for profit, which refers to those wealthy families.

Because most of the people doing business in the world are wealthy and powerful.

Even if you are a small family doing business, you will not be able to do big business.

At most, you can set up a stall, or carry a burden and hawk around.

Even if the court competes with them for profit, it can't win much money.

The truly profitable businesses are all in the hands of wealthy individuals.

In the court, 90% of the officials are from wealthy families.

Less than 10% of officials come from poor families.

Therefore, there is a big difference between the views of officials and officials on not competing with the people for profit.

The reason why officials insist not to compete with the people for profit is to protect the interests of the wealthy families behind them."

Zhao Run stared at Kou Ji blankly and said: "The so-called not competing with the people for profit is something the officials did to protect their own interests."

Kou Ji laughed and said: "Otherwise? Why do officials who usually want to knock the people's bones and suck their marrow out on them, try their best to protect the people in this matter?"

If they really care about the people, why do they still want to break their bones and suck out their marrow?"

Zhao Run was a little confused because he had never considered the officials' efforts to protect themselves from competing with the people from this perspective.

"Are my officials in the Song Dynasty... so miserable?"

Zhao Run asked confusedly.

Kou Ji smiled and said: "It's much better now. After officials came to the throne, they killed a lot of people and sent people to keep an eye on them, so there are fewer corrupt officials."

Zhao Run looked at Kou Ji and said, "So...when my imperial grandfather was in power, there were many corrupt officials?"

Kou Ji laughed, "You said this, I didn't."

Zhao Run smiled bitterly.

Kou Ji smiled and continued: "So the nonsense of not competing with the people for benefit does not work here. Some pedantic people want to make trouble with this, so let them make trouble."

Zhao Run smiled bitterly and said: "But it's not good to cause trouble... I heard from my father that when similar things happen, there will be no end every time."

Kou Ji smiled and said: "So the imperial court can secretly take charge of this matter, but it does not need to be done in a big way in the name of the imperial court.

When each family left the Song Dynasty, they left behind many experts in the business field.

It's just right to let them come forward."

Zhao Run naturally knew which households Kou Ji was talking about.

Zhao Run pondered and said: "What if the local people don't let them do business."

Kou Ji hesitated for a moment and said: "There are two ways to solve it..."

"Those two ways?"

Zhao Run asked.

Kou Ji said frankly: "Let the people who went to Jiangning Mansion to recruit soldiers withdraw from Jiangning Mansion, and then find someone to write a letter to report that there is a big profiteer in Jiangning Mansion. Then the court will send people to investigate, every day.

If you are happy, let them continue doing business; if they are unhappy, close the door and check the accounts.

They can encourage the people to resist recruiting soldiers, but they cannot encourage the people to resist the imperial court's investigation of profiteers."

The Song Dynasty was a very bad era, but it was also a very beautiful era.

The way people did business in the Song Dynasty was different from that of later generations.

Song people believe in honesty when doing business.

Once your signboard is erected, you have to strive for word-of-mouth.

If you do bad things secretly and no one catches you, nothing will happen.

But once someone catches him, he is exposed.

Then he will be abandoned by all the guests immediately.

The common people do not have much culture, so they can only protect themselves from being deceived by accepting death.
To be continued...