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"Prepare a horse for me, and some more gifts."

The housekeeper stepped forward and asked, "Where is Da Lang going to visit?" ”

"I'll go to Lujiang Palace."

"Da Lang, if you go to the Lujiang Palace, how about preparing some silk and wine, and a set of carved books from Zhang Ji Bookstore?" The butler asked.

"I heard that a new perfume has recently been released in Chang'an, which is sought after by noble ladies and celebrities, I am going to see the county lord, you prepare two bottles for me."

The housekeeper bowed his head and frowned, "Dalang, the old slave has also heard of the name of perfume, but perfume is now priceless. Outside there are tens of thousands of dollars for a bottle, and even people bid 100,000 yuan to buy a bottle, but there is nowhere to buy it. I heard that in Chang'an City now, there are only the wives of the crown princess and Cui Zheng's family, which is very rare. ”

"How rare is this perfume? Could it be that which state paid tribute? ”

"The old slave inquired, this perfume seems to be owned by the Zhang family, it is newly developed, and the effect is said to be better than the rose flower dew paid by Fanbang."

"Zhang family, which Zhang family?" Wang Yongan is very sensitive when he hears the words Zhang family now.

"It's the Zhang family, that is, the name of the recent Chang'an City...."Speaking of this, the housekeeper couldn't go on, because his own eldest man was looking at him with a murderous look, and he immediately remembered that his eldest man had a grudge against that Zhang San. It's just that Da Lang has already resolved his grudge with Zhang San? Today, he also prepared a lot of gifts, and then personally visited Zhang San with gifts.

"Ba Shang Zhang's family, Zhang San, liquor, perfume..."

Wang Yongan sneered, "Go down and prepare gifts, forget about the perfume." ”

.......

Zhang Chao found that Wei Zheng actually became his neighbor.

Just opposite Zhang Chao's house, that house became Wei Zheng's home. The house was not as big as the house that Zhang Chao bought, and it was even smaller than Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui's.

Wei Zheng came to Zhang's house with a set of chess.

"I heard that Zhang Sanlang is now not only teaching and educating people in Zhangjiakai Academy, but also set up a printing workshop, made engraving and printing books, and opened a wine workshop. In addition to reading and writing, my biggest hobby is to drink two sips. Now that I've moved here and become a neighbor with the owner of the largest winery in Chang'an, it seems that I will be very happy in the future. ”

Zhang Chao welcomed Wei Zheng to the flower hall and sat down, "I also heard that Wei Xima has a good ability to make wine." ”

"I'm just trying to solve my addiction to alcohol, and I'm brewing whatever I want. Alcohol isn't cheap, where can I buy it? Wei Zheng didn't recognize life at all, "Come, play two games of chess." I heard that the elephant opera cannon is still your invention, so I'm going to come to the door today to challenge it. ”

Although Zhang Chao has not been a colleague with Wei Zheng for a few days, he likes Wei Zheng's personality quite a lot. This man is very direct, very direct, very self-acquainted, not pretentious, what to say. And this person is also very smart, he can see many things at a glance, and he is very easy to talk to, not tired.

Zhang Chao asked Yahuan to serve tea.

"Tea is free, bring some good wine from your family, let's play chess while drinking."

Zhang Chao smiled and nodded, and asked Yahuan to bring the wine directly, and let him take some cooked vegetables and cooked vegetables, including dried fragrant vegetables, sausages, broad beans, spiced beef jerky, etc.

The wine is bottled with porcelain, and the use of Hebei Xing porcelain, Xing Bai is green. The white porcelain of Xingzhou, Hebei Province is the whitest porcelain in the Tang Dynasty today, and the Yue porcelain is the porcelain of the south of the Yangtze River, which is still famous for celadon at this time.

The white porcelain bottle is not large, one liter per bottle. One liter in the Tang Dynasty was only about 0.6 liters in later generations, so only Tang Liang was about 14 taels or more, less than one pound in Tang Dynasty.

It is filled with authentic two-pot heads.

Zhang Chao took one or two cups and poured a cup for himself and Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng was not polite, and drank it as soon as he picked it up.

"Good wine, this is the second pot head? It's much better than my home-brewed rice wine. ”

While setting up chess pieces, drinking wine and eating cooked food, the two of them seem to have known each other for many years.

"Is that the kind of wine you brew in that brewery?"

"This is not all, our winery will have six kinds of Ba Shang Burning Spring, Zhangjiagou Erguotou, Bailu Laojiao, Bailu Tequ, Bailu Daqu and Bailu Erqu, and there may be more in the future."

Of course, you have to make a brand to sell wine, and you have to score a grade.

"The best cellar?"

Zhang Chao smiled and nodded, sure enough, he was a drinker.

The winery is already building a special wine cellar, and after each batch of wine is brewed, a part of the wine will be reserved for long-term cellaring. At that time, some will be sold every year, and then there will be five, ten, fifteen, twenty or Chinese New Year's Eve years of good wine, and even some of them can be stored for hundreds of years, a real old cellar.

As for Tequ and Daqu, they are named according to the length of fermentation and storage time, such as Tequ is stored for three years, Touqu is stored for one year, Erqu is stored for half a year, and the old cellar is longer.

As for the burning spring and the second pot head, they belong to the wine that was brewed in the year and did not need to be stored.

Of course, the second pot head is the second pot of wine, and as for the burning spring, it is the pot head blending, and the quality is inferior. The wine tips of the winery, this one is sold to the winery of the East Palace to refine the alcohol.

"I can't imagine that you still have so much attention to this liquor, and this second pot is only the second wine?"

Zhang Chao shook his head with a smile, "You can't say that, the second pot head and the spring wine don't need to be stored." The other kinds of wine are small wines, which are also cellar wines, and need to be cellared. Different wines have different flavors. ”

"How much do you sell for this wine?"

"A bottle of burning spring is thirty, and a bottle of two pots is three hundred."

"It's not cheap." Wei Zheng laughed.

"But it's not too expensive." There are a lot of wines in the Tang Dynasty, but they are all very expensive, such as the four famous wines in Chang'an City, Xishi Dialect, Shrimp Toadling, Langguanqing and Apoqing, which are not cheap, in addition, there are Xinfeng wine in the suburbs of Beijing, and there are Sanle pulp and wine trafficked by the Hu people, which is not cheap. Ordinary wine also costs 300 yuan for wine, and good wine is 1,000 yuan.

Zhang Chaoding's Ba Shang Burning Spring, a bottle of thirty, which is equivalent to a low-grade liquor of 300 yuan for fighting wine. However, because this wine is blended with pot wine, this price is still profitable.

Erguotou is considered a better wine, and Zhang Chao's price is 3,000 for fighting wine, which is ten times that of burning spring. In the future, these Daqu Tequ will definitely be sold more expensive, and if it is an old cellar, it is not impossible to sell a bucket of wine for 10,000.

Anyway, the better the wine, the lower the sales, and at that level, even if the price is cheaper, the average person can't afford to drink it, so it's better to take the high-end route.

"Three hundred dollars a bottle of two pot heads, hehe, I really can't afford to drink it."

"How is it possible, Brother Xuancheng laughed, I know, you have a good handwriting, many rich and noble families ask you to write an epitaph, this pen fee is a lot. Last time, the Wang family asked you to write a tombstone, and afterwards gave you a horse, and a saddle, title and a white jade belt as a reward. Last time, when you wrote an inscription to a nobleman, you vigorously praised his meritorious contributions, and his family gave Brother Xuancheng a thousand silks. ”

Wei Zheng originally returned to Tang with Li Mi, but later went to Shandong to pacify the place but was captured by Dou Jiande, and served as an official under him for a period of time, until Dou Jiande was defeated, he returned to Chang'an and became the prince to wash horses.

The prince only washes the horse for five grades, and the price is not high, only one hundred and eighty stones a year. The rent collected by the field and the Yongye field is not much a year, and the civil officials are not like military attachés, and they are often rewarded very heavily for their meritorious service to the enemy. He doesn't even have a knighthood so far, and his income in Chang'an City is just a normal life.

However, Wei Zheng is not a poor person.

Military attachés have a way for military attachés to make money, and civilian officials also have them.

Wei Zheng's writing is good, and he is famous, and his articles are good, so many people will ask him to write inscriptions, and the cost of writing the inscriptions he writes is extremely high, and he can earn dozens or even more by writing once, otherwise, he would not be able to buy the house opposite Zhang Chao.

Zhang Chao's house cost 3,000 guan, and Wei Zheng's house was far inferior to Zhang Chao's, but it also cost hundreds of guan.

There are also some literati who write books, and they will also ask Wei Zheng to write a preface, and they also charge a high fee for polishing their pens. Anyway, if you are famous, you don't have to worry about running out of money.

The Tang Dynasty also paid attention to the celebrity effect, and famous civil officials wrote epitaphs to make extra money, which did not violate the system of the imperial court, and was very chic.

"I ask Brother Xuancheng to write the name of my wine, and I will write it for this Erguotou, and in the future, the wine brands of my Erguotou will use your words, and I will not give you a pen fee, and I will send you two buckets of Erguotou every month in the future, how about it?"

People who like wine can't stand this temptation, and Wei Zheng laughed at the moment. This deal, he thinks it is very cost-effective, a few words, you can exchange it for a lifetime of two pots to drink for free. Two buckets in one month is two stones and four stones in a year, and twenty-four stones in ten years. The market price of one bucket and two pots is 3,000, one stone is 30, a year's wine is worth 72 yuan, and ten years is worth 720 yuan, which is worth the transaction value.

Zhang Chao smiled, he wouldn't lose anyway, let Wei Zheng write a wine name, sign and seal, and engrave it at the moment, print it in large quantities, and paste this wine license on each bottle of wine, which is equivalent to Wei Zheng's permanent endorsement of Zhangjiagou Erguotou. As for the wine given, the market price is the market price, and a bottle of two pots does not cost 3,000 yuan.

After a few glasses of wine, Wei Zheng smiled even more happily.

"Why don't you go to the East Palace lately?"

"I just got dismissed, I caused so much trouble for the prince last time, and now I go to the East Palace, which will affect the prince." Zhang Chao replied casually.

"I don't think you're telling the truth." Wei Zheng took a sip of the second pot head, and put a piece of spiced beef jerky into his mouth, chewing it deliciously while saying with a smile.

"After squatting in the cell for half a month, I reflected for a long time and felt that I was a little inflated before, so I planned to keep a low profile at home. Under the auspices of Bailu Academy, he compiled and compiled the general knowledge of capital governance, and when he had time, he could print a few books and buy a few fields, which was also very good. ”

"Low-key?" Wei Zheng was stunned for a moment, he felt that the word low-key did not match Zhang Chao. He had never seen Zhang Chao's more high-profile person, and he said that he was low-key.

If you really want to keep a low profile, don't do so many things, open a academy to repair history books, and build a printing workshop and a brewery, all of which are targeted by many people.

"Let me tell you something, at the end of last year, King Qin built a bachelor's hall in Tiance Mansion and got an eighteen bachelor's hall. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince intends to build a Chongwen Museum in the East Palace, and also recruits famous people from all over the world to enter. ”

Chongwen Pavilion, which has been found in other dynasties. It is generally set up in the East Palace, where the crown prince studied.

Zhang Chao pretended not to hear it and lowered his head to pick up the vegetables.

"His Royal Highness intends to invite His Majesty to set up a Chongwen Pavilion in the East Palace, place a bachelor in Chongwen Pavilion, and recruit students, with the royal family of the family and above, the queen mother, the queen of great merit and above, the prime minister and the scattered officials of the first grade, the body and the real seal, the Beijing official ministry from the three products of the book Huangmen Shilang son for it."

Zhang Chao frowned, Li Shimin got a Tiance Mansion Bachelor's Pavilion, and Li Jiancheng followed to get the Chongwen Pavilion, what is there to do in this matter of picking up people's teeth.

However, I heard that this Chongwen Pavilion will not only set up a bachelor's degree, but also make it a royal and aristocratic primary school, Zhang Chao thinks it is a little interesting. The children of the royal family and the children of their descendants, as well as the prime minister and the scattered officials, the meritorious heroes and the actual knights, and the officials from the children of the Beijing officials above the third rank to study.

That's a lot of thought.

The royal family, the descendants, the prime minister, the first-class scattered officials, the actual sealers, and the children of the Beijing officials above the third grade, are all recruited, and this is not a net catch.

"Over six years old and under fourteen years old." Wei Zheng added, over the age of fourteen, he will go to Guozi to study.

If you only set up Chongwen Hall and Chongwen Hall Bachelor, it is really too profitable. But adding a school, Zhang Chao felt that it was completely different, and he held the children and grandchildren of all the important ministers in Beijing in his hands, not to mention that he was a hostage, at least he had more opportunities to interact with those ministers and nobles.

However, what does this have to do with himself, why did Wei Zheng tell himself?

"Your Highness intends to make you a fellow of the Chongwen Pavilion as well, and let you be in charge of the teaching of the students of the Chongwen Pavilion."

"Me? Bachelor Chongwenkan, and let me be in charge of these students? Zhang Chao was really surprised, this joke was a bit too much.

"I don't know how many Chongwen Pavilion bachelors you plan to teach, Your Highness?"

Wei Zheng picked up a piece of dried incense and threw it into his mouth, and replied unhurriedly, "Thirty-six." ”

Zhang Chao couldn't help but laugh again, Li Shimin has eighteen bachelors, and Li Jiancheng is ready to have thirty-six bachelors, is this preparing to win by quantity? It is not difficult to collect 36 scholars and scholars in the world, but the key is Li Shimin's eighteen scholars, not only some scholars, but also Li Shimin's subordinates of the shogunate in various positions.

Li Shimin gathered the best subordinates of these shogunates and got them into this bachelor's mansion, Zhang Chao felt that it was just Li Shimin's convenience to let these outstanding staff members give him advice together, after all, they originally belonged to different shogunates, and now they have the name of this bachelor's mansion, and they can all get together.

And even if you Li Jiancheng get a group of Confucian scholars, you are just a group of scholars, which will not help you much.

As for Li Jiancheng to let him take care of those royal and aristocratic children, Zhang Chao felt that his head was very big. This should be the most difficult group of students in the world to bring, and this teacher is probably the most difficult to be.

"What can I do?" Zhang Chao shook his head and smiled.

"The prince doesn't see it that way."

"I just came out of prison after being dismissed from office by His Majesty and squatting for half a month, so it's too inappropriate for me to teach the royal family and ministers."

"You can go and tell the prince this in person!" Wei Zheng smiled and poured himself another glass of wine, very polite. (To be continued.) )