The rain, falling with the southeast wind, became denser and denser, enveloping the entire Kaifeng Mansion.

The cool southeast wind, coupled with the soft drizzle, is very comfortable when it falls on people, and it can't stop people coming and going on the streets of Kaifeng Mansion at all. It's just that Wu Haogu has another opportunity to stay in Pan's homeland and get along with Pan Qiaolian.

Pan Qiaolian was also very understanding, and as soon as she saw Wu Dalang, she opened her mouth to keep him, and invited him to finish painting the "Keju Picture" in Panjiayuan before leaving.

Now the "Keju Picture" is almost completed, and the picture draws a "Gao Taiwei" with a shirtless Keju. Although Gao Yu is in his thirties, his figure is actually maintained quite well, the muscle lines of his upper body are very beautiful, his stomach is not protruding, and he can see a few abdominal muscles.

Compared with him, Wu Haogu is simply the body of a waste wood otaku in this life, no wonder he will be scared and lose his soul in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion.

Fortunately, Wu Haogu is not very old, he is only twenty, and now he should be able to strengthen his body and strengthen his body, so that he can grow old with Pan Qiaolian in this Great Song Dynasty, which lacks medical treatment and medicine......

Wu Haogu, who put down the brush, couldn't help but glance at Pan Qiaolian again, Pan Qiaolian was sitting behind a bookcase with an abacus and account book, and was seriously doing accounts with her head down.

She is doing accounts for Wu Haogu, Wu Haogu actually asked Monk Fu to take care of the accounts, but Monk Fu is a monk who cooks, not a monk who "opens a bank", and the level of managing money and making accounts is far inferior to Pan Qiaolian, who has a gold, silver and silk silk shop at home, so he asked Pan Qiaolian for a favor.

In addition, after selling "Drunken Arhat" and winning yesterday's gambling fight, Wu Haogu and his three brothers have greatly increased their fortune. is in Kaifeng Mansion, a place full of rich people, and it can be regarded as a small net worth.

If you go outside Kaifeng Mansion, you will be a rich man, so you naturally have to take care of it.

This financial management matter also has to be discussed with Pan Qiaolian.

There are about four ways for the wealthy lords of the Northern Song Dynasty to manage their finances: one is cellaring; the second is to buy land; the third is money lending; Fourth, management.

The first way, Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian will not consider it, how can there be a businessman in the world who buries his money in the ground?

The remaining three ways have their own pros and cons.

Buying land and collecting rent seems to be the most stable, but the rate of return is very low, and the taxes attached to the land are also quite large.

Money-lending is not what Wu Haogu can do at the moment, at most he keeps the money in Pan Daguan and eats a small amount of interest.

And business is to do business, Wu Haogu is now a calligraphy and painting merchant, and the business of calligraphy and painting is what he is most familiar with. At present, although Wu Haogu has issued two votes, after repaying the arrears (the account owed to the Pan family for gold and silver silk and silk to the shop) and refunds, the remaining capital is not much, and there is obviously no condition for cross-bank operation.

At this time, Pan Qiaolian had already settled the accounts, raised her head and found that Wu Haogu was looking at herself, so she smiled and said, "Brother Wu, the accounts have been settled...... Last time, you got 29,000 taels for selling "Drunken Arhat Picture", and another 30,000 taels were pawned out of my family's gold and silver shop, and after returning 18,000 taels to the palace, there were 41,000 taels left, and if you returned the "Chaoyuan Immortal Battle Map", there would only be 1,000 taels left. But yesterday you won Chen Youwen and that Ji Daguan and their 70,000 yuan, of which 28,000 yuan are yours, so you have a net worth of 29,000 yuan.

However, you are still burdened with a debt of 30,000 yuan, and the military officials also owe more than 6,000 yuan...... I can help you get around, but you still have to take advantage of it. ”

After working for so long, it's still negative equity?

Listening to Pan Qiaolian finish settling the accounts, Wu Haogu smiled bitterly and said: "The shop will not be redeemed, Chen Youwen will give it to him if he wants, as for those calligraphy and paintings, my father will take care of them himself." Anyway, he still has an official tooth body card that can be pawned. ”

"In this case, you still have 29,000 yuan, and in addition, you have 1,000 yuan." Pan Qiaolian said, "I don't know how much your brothers plan to vote?" If they don't vote, you will only have 30,000 yuan. In fact, there are a lot, but I don't know what Brother Dawu wants to do? ”

"Naturally, it's calligraphy and painting, so if you're not familiar with it, you can't do it." Wu Hao Ancient Dao, "No matter how big a deal you want to do in the future, you must have a fundamental, which is calligraphy and painting." ”

Wu Haogu didn't dare to blindly expand with two dollars in his pocket, and he didn't know what else he could do besides calligraphy and painting?

Glass, cement, steelmaking, distilled spirits, etc., these legendary golden fingers used by travelers to make a lot of money, he didn't know much about the painters who came out of the Academy of Fine Arts. Even if you know a general direction, you have to spend a lot of money to smash a mature product.

Printing and publishing are a little bit the same, but they all have to be "burned and invested". If you want to make a comic strip, you must set up a printing workshop, engraving, ink, paper, binding, distribution, and all links have to spend money, and the capital of 30,000 yuan is enough, but it will take a lot of time to really make it.

And Wu Haogu's comic strip will definitely have to fight piracy at that time!

Today's Great Song Dynasty doesn't seem to have a "Copyright Law", right?

As for the distribution of newspapers, in addition to the printing process, you also have to invest in content, at least there must be reporters and editors, right? Wu Haogu can't handle it alone.

In addition, if a newspaper wants to sell advertisements, it must have a large circulation. And the issuance must also be burned by burning money...... Newspapers have to be cheap enough to sell well. Only by cultivating the habit of reading newspapers with low prices and wonderful content can newspapers be profitable through advertising.

Therefore, Wu Haogu must first take a root that can provide him with a steady stream of "cash flow" before he can start the battlefield in other industries.

And the industry that Wu Haogu can win in the next few years is undoubtedly the calligraphy, painting and literature of Kaifeng Mansion - as long as there is the support of Song Huizong, it is not difficult for Wu Haogu to replace Liu Youfang to control the Kaifeng calligraphy and painting industry.

"Calligraphy and painting?" Pan Qiaolian asked, "Brother Dawu, what should I do with calligraphy and painting?" ”

Wu Hao Gu said: "Kaifeng Mansion buys goods and goes to Haizhou to sell." ”

"Haizhou's calligraphy and painting are more expensive than Kaifeng's?"

"It depends on whose paintings and calligraphy it is," Wu Haogu explained, "If it is an ancient painting or a famous painting or calligraphy and painting that is old, it will be expensive in Kaifeng Mansion."

But if it is the calligraphy and painting of ordinary calligraphers and painters who are alive, it is cheap in Kaifeng and expensive in Haizhou. ”

The economic, political and cultural center of the Northern Song Dynasty was in Kaifeng Mansion, and if the painter wanted to become famous in the world, he could only come to Kaifeng Mansion to drift.

Therefore, there are many high-level unknown painters in Kaifeng Mansion, and the price is naturally cheaper when the number is large.

In addition, the "Huang Family Fugui" (of course, not the true works of Huang Zhen and Huang Juhuan father and son) with good sales is also very much in Kaifeng Mansion (because there are many painters in Kaifeng Mansion who want to enter the painting academy), and the price is not expensive. But in places like Haizhou and Yangzhou, because of supply and demand (which many wealthy businessmen like), the price went up.

Therefore, the merchants of the calligraphy and painting shop are all in Kaifeng Mansion to buy the works of ordinary calligraphers and painters, and at the same time sell ancient paintings and ancient posts.

"That's the purchase in Kaifeng Mansion......" Pan Qiaolian frowned, "If you want to buy 30,000 calligraphy and paintings, I'm afraid you can't hide Liu Youfang and Chen Youwen's eyes and ears, right?" ”

"Of course, I can't hide it," Wu Haogu shook his head and said with a smile, "There are not too many ordinary calligraphy and paintings on the market in Kaifeng Mansion that can be called a good character, and fifteen thousand may not be able to collect them all." I'm afraid I'll have to book around, and I'll have to delay it for a while. ”

Hearing that Wu Haogu was going to stay in Kaifeng Mansion for a while, Pan Qiaolian's eyebrows tightened a little, "I still have to leave as soon as possible...... If you want to collect more calligraphy and paintings, there is actually a way, you can take some from the various quality warehouses in Kaifeng Mansion. The slave can be a tooth man for Brother Dawu, and he can get a bargain by keeping it. ”

"Then there is Sister Lao."