Chapter 109: The Merchant of Venice

"I had a dream last night."

Zuo Liangyu yawned and rolled over from the bed and sat up.

The concubine brought water to wipe his face, and when he heard what he said strangely, he answered: "What did the general dream about?" ”

Zuo Liangyu raised his head, let the concubine comb his beard, looked at the roof and said, "I dreamed that I put a hand in the mouth of a tiger......"

"Ah, it's a nightmare." The concubine exclaimed.

Zuo Liangyu smiled bitterly and said, "The tiger took my hand and spit it out after turning it around in its mouth...... I knew it was a dream, but I could even feel the back of the tiger's rough tongue rubbing against the back of my hand as it circled around my mouth, and I could even smell the blood coming out of the tiger's mouth.

So, you can say it's a dream, or you can say it's real. ”

The concubine pityingly hugged Zuo Liangyu's head to her chest and whispered: "The general is a hero in the world, and the calamity will soon pass." ”

Zuo Liangyu said in a low voice: "It's not that easy, we used to underestimate Yun Zhao too much, and we always thought that he was just a petty official, and he was a talented official."

When I first heard that he was called a pig, I thought we could really slaughter it...... One misstep becomes a thousand years of hatred.

Now, we are trapped in Tongguan by the Yun clan, and it is difficult to say who is the pig and who is the butcher. ”

"The general is a heroic man who has seen the world, and these difficulties will be overcome."

After Zuo Liangyu rinsed his mouth, he said to the soldiers guarding the door: "Pass the order, the soldiers in the battalion, you can't go out of the camp without an order." ”

Seeing that the soldiers left, Zuo Liangyu shook his head at the armor hanging on the shelf and said, "A once-in-a-century chaos is coming.

It's not necessarily a bad thing for us to hide in Tongguan......"

Zhao Guoqiao looked at Han Lingshan, who was dressed in brocade clothes and playing with a huge night pearl in his hand, and said: "The people of Tongguan are safe and safe, and I also organized the people in the city to form an escort team to patrol Tongguan all day long.

It also opened the merchant passage from Guanzhong to Henan, and allowed Henan refugees to enter Guanzhong through Tongguan, but the prosperity you said did not come as scheduled. ”

Han Lingshan said with a smile: "The people are suspicious and timid, you have to give them time to try, and it will be fine slowly." ”

Zhao Guoqiao said: "Okay, the people's affairs are reasonable, then, Zuo Liangyu has already issued a grounding order for his army, and they are hiding in the barracks and can't come out, how should we do anything to these soldiers?" ”

Han Lingshan glanced at Zhao Guoqiao and said, "If Zuo Liangyu's military order works, his subordinates will not be called "bandits" by the people of Henan.

Your top priority is to make Tongguan an ordinary city, so that the people can forget the previous evil deeds of this group of people under protected conditions.

You've done some hacking things before, and I don't think the soldiers who ran out of the barracks would dare to go too far. ”

"I did everything, what did you do?"

Han Lingshan threw the night pearl in his hand and said: "I got some entanglement, I want to go to Jingshi to have a look, if possible, I also want to go to Liaodong to have a look." ”

Zhao Guoqiao frowned and said, "What about things here?" ”

Han Lingshan patted Zhao Guoqiao's shoulder and said, "You are the chief of Tongguan, I am just a Qingke and a passerby." ”

He was a man who sat up and walked, and after drinking the tea on the table in one gulp, he took his baggage and prepared to leave.

"You're so well dressed." Zhao Guoqiao sighed.

"This time, I want to enter Henan as a rich person, after all, there are many people who look down on people."

"I mean, Henan is full of bandits, they like rich people, I don't want to go to Henan in the future and accidentally eat buns wrapped with your meat."

"I'm a lot smarter than you think."

A string of carriages stopped at the edge of the teahouse, Han Lingshan jumped into the carriage and sat on a grain cart in the middle, and said goodbye to Zhao Guoqiao and the others.

"Take it!"

Zhao Guoqiao hooked a long knife with a sheath leaning against the root of the wall with his foot, waved his hand and threw it to Han Lingshan and said loudly: "We can die in battle, but not in humiliation!" ”

Han Lingshan steadily caught the long knife and laughed: "The world is so big, I, Han Lingshan, can come and go freely, tell the academy, keep my dormitory, and after I step on every inch of Daming's land, I will come back to tell the junior brothers and sisters behind me what I have seen."

Let's go! ”

The wheels of the carriage slowly turned, and Han Lingshan sat on the sack in a brocade robe, staring ahead, as if he was full of longing for the new journey that was coming.

A whole kiln of Yaozhou porcelain was moved out of the kiln by the kiln workers one by one, some were put on the shelves, and the flawed and broken ones were discarded and smashed by the kiln workers.

Yun Zhao fiddled with a celadon backflow pot in his hand, this porcelain was flawless, although the cyan enamel on the surface was not full, from the body to the spout, to the bottom of the pot The color gradually changed from turquoise to light milky white.

The big peony pattern that Guanzhong people like the most common thing above means wealth and nobility, and it is a rare treasure no matter how you look at it.

The most amazing thing about this pot is that when you fill the pot with water, you need to fill it from the bottom of the pot, and then turn the pot upside down after filling it with water.

In Yun Zhao's eyes, this is an extremely stupid and frivolous idea...... However, for this idea, a pot has to go through three processes, not to mention the tedious process, and it also requires the most skilled craftsmen to make it.

Yun Zhao felt that in the hands of the Ming literati, this pot should be loved, but in the eyes of Europeans, they might not appreciate such a pot.

Therefore, he put down the pot and picked up the celadon that John Tang, Luo Yagu and others fired according to the colors that Europeans liked.

Well, it's very good, not to mention the stupid big and rough benzene, the complicated patterns on it make people look dizzy, and when Yun Zhao saw a goblet, he had great doubts about the aesthetic vision of Tang Ruowang and others.

Because the pillar connecting the bottom of the cup to the middle of the top cup is a Roman column!

Looking at Luo Ya Valley's self-satisfied appearance, Yun Zhao felt that these guys were doing it on purpose.

At least, the glassware they make doesn't have that much to laugh about.

"Ah, my powerful Lord of Lantian County, look at these delicate patterns, each of them is full of vitality, if you use it to hold a drink, I think it will make people rejuvenate, just like drinking the Fountain of Youth."

"Do you think this thing can be sold for a good price in your hometown?"

"Price, my God, how can you talk about money at this time? It's art, it's priceless treasures. ”

"Since you think it's priceless, do you think you can sell it for a thousand "livres"? (French currency before 1700 AD, one livre was a pound of silver)

"Oh, this may not work, a thousand livres in France, I'm afraid only counts, dukes can come out.

And those pesky vampires are not going to spend such a large sum of money on an art treasure, believe me, they are all vampires. ”

"A hundred livres?"

Roya Valley shook his head.

"Fifty?"

Roya Valley continued to shake his head.

"Ten?"

Luo Yagu said with some embarrassment: "They are vampires, real vampires, if you give them away, they will definitely be amazed, if you want to buy ......"

Yun Zhao nodded, casually threw away the Roman Pillar Cup in his hand and said, "In other words, he is worthless to me. ”

Luo Yagu picked up the broken cup from the scrap pile in horror and yelled at Yun Zhao: "All the nobles in this world are the same, you are all vampires, you are all damned misers, and sooner or later your disrespect for art will be laughed at by your children and grandchildren." ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "You are right, I now love cannons more than all works of art, of course, including the one you made."

You should put all your attention on the research of cannon drugs, not on these things that can't be sold for money.

Since you say you respect the contract, hurry up and finish it, so that I can send you back to your damp, dark, dirty, ugly, war-ridden, and flower-ridden Europe! ”

Luo Yagu said angrily: "We are not slaves! ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "Before I made you slaves, I think you should work hard to study, you have spent me more than 10,000 livres over the years, and none of the things you have made for me can make me feel refreshed."

My patience has become very poor. ”

Luo Yagu and Tang Ruowang whispered, and looked at Yun Zhao in unison, as if they were looking at a demon.

They seemed to have lost the courage to talk to Yun Zhao, and rode back to Yushan on horseback.

Yun Yang found himself a huge water cup from the pile of porcelain, held it in his arms, and looked at Tang Ruowang and the others who were far away: "You really plan to sell these porcelains to Europe?" ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said, "This is an attempt, Duoduo has found us a Venetian merchant, who is willing to use his wife, daughter, and son as a pledge to undertake our porcelain business."

In addition, this guy is willing to buy and sell for the first time without any fees, and only hopes that we can send him a group of strong Eastern warriors. ”

Yun Yang licked his lips and said, "What is he going to do?" ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "It's nothing more than the story of "The Count of Monte Cristo" that I told you before.

However, Duoduo said that the Italian named Mario seems to be an aristocrat who is full of hatred for Europe for some reason, and his credibility is very high! ”