Duan Lun and the others were reluctant to talk about business, so Zhang Chao didn't bother to mention it again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Several princesses and horses are very young, Princess Changsha, Princess Xiangyang, Princess Gaomi, Princess Changguang is pulling Cui Yingying to talk about perfume and silk, Princess Pingyang is sitting on the side, but she seems to be a little impatient.

Duan Lun and the other four concubines talked about some important news of the imperial court.

In the living room, Zhang Chao and Princess Pingyang have become a little outlier.

Princess Pingyang smiled at Zhang Chao, got up, and came over with a pair of chess. "It seems that both of us are a little special, so let's play a game of chess."

Zhang Chao looked at the game of Go and said helplessly, "I don't know how to play Go." ”

"You are a famous bachelor in Chang'an, how can you not play Go? If you can't play Go, you can't be called a celebrity. Princess Pingyang gave Zhang Chao a very peculiar feeling, as if she was a sister who grew up with a neighbor's family, quite familiar, without half a sense of strangeness.

When the two met for the first time, she left her sisters behind, ignored her husband, and instead pulled him to play chess together.

"Why don't we play backgammon, I really can't play Go."

Zhang Chao simply said the rules of playing backgammon, and then Zhang Zhaochao held black, and Pingyang held white.

Today, Princess Pingyang wore a lake-green corset dress, with wide skirts tied under her arms, a shawl between her arms, and a high bun. He has a long neck, but his face is not powdered or fat, and his face is very clean.

Her eyebrows are a little thick, two thick eyebrows like a man, but the eyebrows are quite long, which adds to her heroic air without ruining her beauty.

However, Pingyang, like other princesses, also wore a placket robe, and there was no chest to be seen.

Princess Pingyang is very beautiful, and her outfit is similar to that of other princesses, and she looks like a young woman in her twenties. It's hard to imagine the scene when she puts on her battle armor and leads the women's army in battle.

The princess's chess is also good, although she played backgammon for the first time, she did not let Zhang Chao take advantage, and she won the first battle, which made Zhang Chao a little frustrated.

"I took it, the princess turned out to be not only a good player on the battlefield, but also extraordinary on the chess field. I've lost, so send a poem to the princess! ”

Usually the princess is so tidy, leaning back slightly.

"It is a great honor for Pingyang to be able to write poems from Mr. Zhang."

"The sassy and heroic seven-foot gun, the dawn of the first light on the exercise ground. The sons and daughters of the Tang Dynasty have many strange ambitions, and they don't love red clothes and love arms. ”

Princess Pingyang liked this poem as soon as she heard it, and her eyes sparkled.

"People are all about Xiao Zhang's name in Chang'an, and he is only eight buckets high, and when I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation." Pingyang looked at Zhang Chao, "I asked the two of us Zhewei and Ling Wu to worship your disciples as disciples, but I don't know if San Lang is willing to accept it." ”

Chai Zhewei, Chai Lingwu.

Zhang Chao suddenly came to his senses, hey, Pingyang is actually the mother of two children. Chai Zhewei and Chai Lingwu are two brothers, the eldest is five years old and the younger is more than three years old, both studying in Chongmenguan Primary School, and he also drank the tea of the two of them. But obviously, what Princess Pingyang said about apprenticeship is a different meaning.

That's the real apprentice, not just the gentleman in school. This division is very important, the Heavenly Emperor's personal teacher, ranked fifth.

Master can even be equivalent to half a father.

Zhang Chao has already accepted several protégés, the brothers who came to Henglaiji, Pei Xingjian, and Li Chengzong, all of whom are disciples who have officially worshiped him and performed the teacher ceremony.

"Sichang, I want Da Lang Erlang to worship Wen Yuan as a teacher, what do you think?"

Chai Shao was talking to Duan Lun and a few of his brothers-in-law about the Tuyuhun people in the west, when he heard his wife calling, he turned his head.

"Didn't Zhewei and Lingwu study under Wenyuan in Chongwen Pavilion?" Chai Shao tilted his head, this colt was twenty years ago, and he was also a famous handsome son in Chang'an City, and he was also a member of the rangers in Chang'an City, and he liked to call friends the most.

Later, he entered the East Palace and became the East Palace Qianniu of the crown prince Yang Yong. made friends with a group of noble children such as Jiancheng, and was a well-known gentleman in Chang'an City. Speaking of which, he is actually a person like Wang Yongan.

"It's not an apprentice in elementary school, it's an official worship under Wenyuan's sect and a disciple of Wenyuan." Pingyang heard the reluctance in her husband's words, but Princess Pingyang is a very assertive woman, and many things, she asked her husband, in fact, it was more of a notice than a real request for his opinion.

"It's fine." Chai Shao turned his body a little more, opened his mouth, and finally said the word "yes", and did not insist on his thoughts anymore. He was also familiar with his wife, and he could read her thoughts with a single eye collision. He shifted his gaze to Zhang San, "Wait for a day, find a good day, I will take Dalang Erlang to Zhang's Mansion and come to the door to apprentice." ”

Zhang Chao suddenly felt that Princess Pingyang, who had always behaved like the sister next door, was very strong, very strong. Chai Shao seems to be a very capable person, but in front of the princess, he doesn't seem to have any ideas of his own.

Why don't you two listen to my plans?

That's it, since you want to send it over, then send it over, anyway, he has accepted four disciples, and it is nothing to accept the two brothers of the Chai family, they are just a group of children.

"Keep playing chess."

Princess Pingyang called Zhang Chao casually, and the two continued to play backgammon slowly. Zhang Chao felt that the relationship between Princess Pingyang and her husband seemed to be a little wrong, on the surface it seemed to be normal, but they always felt that they were not close.

This is not the case between Zhang Chao and Cui Yingying, although the couple sometimes have a little temper, such as Cui Yingying being jealous or something. But Princess Pingyang and her husband have a feeling of being strangers.

I heard that Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan that year, and Chai Shao and his wife were in Chang'an at that time.

At that time, Li Yuan sent someone to secretly rush to Chang'an to deliver a letter, so that they and their wife could go to Taiyuan. But after receiving the letter at that time, Binh Duong thought that it was really inconvenient for the husband and wife to go on the road together. Pingyang finally decided to stay, take refuge in other places, and let her husband go to Taiyuan to raise troops with his father.

Chai Shao really left the three ladies, and then ran from Chang'an to Taiyuan by himself.

Zhang Chao couldn't figure out what Chai Shao was thinking at that time, even if this was really what the third lady insisted on, it was too unreasonable to abandon his wife and children.

And I heard that Chai Shao seems to be quite romantic, this person used to be a gentleman, and after marriage, he also loved beautiful concubines and Kabuki. Later, Chai Shao entered Guanzhong with Li Yuan and entered Chang'an. Chai Shao followed his wife to join forces to conquer the surroundings of Chang'an, but because the three ladies had many soldiers, he was the commander, and Chai Shao brought few soldiers, and he was only a deputy general.

This incident made Chai Shao very faceless, and now, anyway, it is a mess of harmony on the surface, but in fact, the relationship between husband and wife is quite tense.

Originally, between husband and wife, if the three ladies could lower their posture, maybe they wouldn't be so screwed. But the third lady is not only a princess, but also a commander in the army, Chai Shao just feels suppressed by his wife everywhere, unhappy outside, and unhappy at home, so he slowly became what he is now.

After playing two more chess, Zhang Chao still lost.

Princess Pingyang will not give up chess at all, she will use as much ability as she has, Zhang Chao lost ugly. I couldn't help but get angry in my heart, no wonder Chai Shao didn't have a good time with Pingyang, and the princess didn't know how to give in at all, which made the man very faceless.

Fortunately, Princess Changguang and the others asked Pingyang to go to the backyard to try perfume and clothes.

The big horse took the initiative to come over and continue to play chess with Zhang Chao.

Young Master Feng was an official in the Qin Palace, and he had a good relationship with Li Shimin, and even a confidant. But this person doesn't have any big skills, but his previous family background is okay.

"San Lang, I heard that your printing shop is doing very well?" Young Master Feng said with a smile.

"It's okay." Zhang Chao got off the chessboard.

"My family has an ink-making workshop, and recently I often receive requests from Zhangjiayin Bookstore to buy coarse cigarettes."

Zhang Chao smiled, "I didn't know that Feng Yuma's family still had an ink-making workshop. ”

"It's all inherited from the family, and it can't be compared with your family's printing shop. Saburo, what do you think of our partnership? ”

Zhang Chao didn't reply immediately, but looked at Young Master Feng and waited for his next step.

"You have a printing workshop, my family has an ink-making workshop, and the Duan family has a paper mill, and there are many slave craftsmen in the Chai family, the Dou family, and the Qin family. You said that if the six of us are a team, wouldn't it be necessary to have people, craftsmen and craftsmen, crafts and crafts, and relationships? ”

"We partnered, and at that time, we were all from papermaking to ink making to printing books to selling books, but it was all covered from beginning to end."

Zhang Chao was a little hesitant, he would also make paper, printing ink was his exclusive skill, and he was not short of people, why should he cooperate with them?

"San Lang, in fact, this printing technique has been discussed by many people recently. There are even many people who are trying to make books in secret, and there is no difficulty in printing books. As soon as the book came out in your bookstore, everyone took the printed book and pondered it carefully, and they all understood seven or eight points. There are those who specialize in this business, and they understand it immediately. ”

"Printing books, that is, writing manuscripts and engraving and then printing, is very simple. It's not difficult to imitate, why hasn't anyone imitated it yet? It's just that we're still looking at which the wind is blowing, but sooner or later there will definitely be a new printing shop. It's not good to say, when the imperial court itself will build a printing bookstore, at that time, this business will definitely not be so easy to do. ”

Young Master Feng smiled and said, "Don't say anything else, there are more printing houses, and when the time comes, they will compete with each other, and the price will definitely fall, and the profit will be reduced." Not to mention, there are more peers, and there is less business. On the other hand, so many people do printing, then the demand for paper and ink is even higher, at that time, even if you have a business, but if you can't buy paper and ink, this business can't go on, right? ”

Zhang Chao felt that although his analysis was reasonable, it was a bit exaggerated?

"San Lang, in fact, don't think that we want to grab food or anything, it also depends on the fact that you are Shubao's righteous son, and we are also a family. It's not about sharing your food, it's about us partnering, it's a strong alliance. To really stabilize this business, you said that if the six of us are in partnership, even if we really follow the printing shop with a red eye, may it shake us? (To be continued.) )