In the summer night, the city of Kaifeng Mansion is particularly lively. Riding a horse on the wide Jinshui Street, you can only walk slowly, and from time to time you will be blocked by the long line of car doors in front of you.

Wu Haogu originally thought that he would be able to take Guo Yaoshi to Zhangdun's Mansion to meet him during the day today, but he didn't expect that just after noon, a Zhangfu scribe with a Fujian accent came, and asked Wu Haogu to go again after dark.

So he had no choice but to go to Christie's first, presided over a Christie's management meeting, and listened to Su Dalang and Zhang Xizai report on Christie's operation and financial situation respectively.

Christie's business is generally not bad, and there are no competitors in the two major businesses of singing and albums, so it is basically lying down to make money. Of course, the problem is not without problems, the first is that there are some fights between several "houses" of Christie's. It is mainly to compete for investment and bonuses - now Christie's shopkeeper room has a bookkeeping room, a personnel room, a singing and selling room, a business hall room, a picture book room, a trick room, a guard room and a miscellaneous room.

Among them, the singing and selling room and the album room are the departments that make a lot of money, and the merchant hall room and the trick room are the departments that spend a lot of money but have no profit at present, and the main contradiction arises between these four "houses".

First of all, Mi Youren kept stuffing people into the theater, and most of them were used to edit the "university textbooks", and when the compilation of the "university textbooks" was almost completed, he was ready to find someone to engrave and print. Moreover, Mi Youren is a big young master, he has no feeling for spending money, and the salary for his subordinates is high, and the requirements for engraving and printing are also very high. So spending money is like running water!

At the beginning, Su Dalang looked at Wu Haogu's face, and Mi Youren gave as much as he wanted, anyway, it was easy for Christie's to get money. But later, other "houses", especially the singing and selling houses and album rooms that make a lot of money, are not happy, and they also ask for salary increases and benefits...... As a last resort, Su Dalang had no choice but to start reducing Mi Youren's expenses, but Mi Youren picked on his son again, and he hadn't been to Christie's for many days.

The situation of the merchant house is also similar to that of the trick room, Hua Manshan and Huang Zhisheng want to build their own engineering team, so they also poach people everywhere with high salaries. And the construction of the three-story apartment building also cost too much money - it's not that Huang Zhisheng is lavish, but that the house uses a lot of "new technology", which is not very mature and needs to be experimented. In addition, the engineering team put together by Huang Zhisheng is actually not very easy to use, and it is still in the run-in period, so there are many problems in the process of building the house.

Therefore, Su Dalang and Zhang Xizai also began to card the neck of the merchant pavilion, which caused a lot of disputes.

Finally, the issue of "related party transactions" between the album room and the singing house also began to fight. It turned out that the singing house wanted to advertise in the "Oiran" album, and the album room wanted the singing room to help the "dark singing" advertising space.

But after working together once, the two houses both thought that they had "suffered". Because the album room "in vain" took out the advertising space of the "Oiran" album to be advertised in real estate, and the singing house organized the singing and selling of advertising space "in vain......

In short, all departments have small abacus, and they all want to take advantage of a lot of bonuses, which is a normal thing.

In Wu Haogu's view, the main problem lies in the relatively extensive management of Christie's, different businesses are mixed together to eat big pot rice, and there is no budget for spending money, and there is also a "university textbook" editing that will definitely lose money.

It seems that Christie's management model needs to be adjusted for some time, and it is time to separate the various business units into sub-firms.

In addition, whether the two major sectors of maritime trade and free trade market should be placed under Christie's also needs to be seriously considered - Christie's does not have to become a "Christie's Republic", right?

Guo Yaoshi and Luo Han maid, as well as the four five big and three thick Bohai and female straight strong men all rode horses and followed behind Wu Haogu.

Well, of course Pharmacist Guo didn't follow Wu Haogu south alone, otherwise he would have been killed by Zhong Ge'er and Lin Chong......

Probably in order to show the bravery of the Bohai people and the female straight people, Guangmingjun deliberately selected four short and stocky Bohai and female straight men to follow Guo Yaoshi to the Song Dynasty. Two of the female straighteners are also yellow-headed female straight, yellow-haired and blue-eyed barbarians in Gesu Pavilion, with two pigtails in the style of money rat tails, and their bodies are as thick as brute bulls.

With these four guys, especially the two yellow-headed women who directly protected Guo Yaoshi, Wu Haogu didn't dare to make a mistake, so he had to obediently bring him to Kaifeng Mansion.

If you want to kill people after you arrive at Kaifeng Mansion, especially if you kill foreign envoys, don't think about it, Wu Haogu is not interested in dying with Guo Yaoshi.

"Brother Guo." When the group was about to arrive at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Wu Haogu suddenly beckoned to Guo Yaoshi behind him, called him to his side, and the two walked side by side.

"When I see Xianggong later, I must let him know how fierce the female straight person is, and let him know that the female straight face department is about to unify the female straight department. In addition, after all, your Bohai Sea is not a country, and it is impossible for our dynasty to openly give gold, silver, and silk, so it can only be funded in the name of commerce. Did the Bright Lord tell you about this? ”

Guo Yaoshi said respectfully and politely: "Although you can rest assured, Guangmingjun has already explained before I leave Yanjing, and I also brought a letter from the Sword King with me, which can be presented to Zhang Xianggong in person." ”

There is even a letter from the King of Swords!

Wu Haogu didn't know about this before...... It seems that the Bohai people didn't treat Wuhao Gutai as a dish. But this is also a good thing, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

"Well, it would be nice to have a letter from the Sword King." Wu Haogu smiled and nodded, and without saying anything more, he led Guo Yaoshi and the others to the door of Zhang Dan's Prime Minister's Mansion.

The guards at the door of Zhang's Prime Minister's Mansion were the soldiers of Kaifeng Mansion, but they were not as high-spirited as they were common in later TV dramas, but squatted listlessly under the eaves and dozed off.

Wu Haogu got off the horse, first tied the reins to the horse post, and then stepped forward and said: "This official is the right class hall Zhiwu Haogu, and he made an appointment with the Zhang steward. ”

"Wait."

The Xiang army standing guard in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion is also well-informed, and a small right pandian is not in their eyes at all. A veteran of the Xiang Army took the post handed by Wu Haogu, slowly turned around and walked into a small door next to the closed gate of the Xiangfu.

Wu Haogu and Guo Yaoshi waited under the eaves of the Xiangfu for a long time, only to see an elderly little old man, looked at a few people outside the door, and asked in a Fujian accent: "I don't know which one is Mr. Murong?" ”

Wu Haogu stepped forward and saluted, and said with a smile: "Old man, the next official is the right class hall Zhiwu Haogu." ”

"Oh, Wu Dianzhi." The old housekeeper of the Zhang family returned the salute with a smile, and asked again, "Is Mr. Murong here?" ”

"Didn't come." Wu Haogu smiled bitterly, "People are great Confucians of the Liao Kingdom, and they always have to put up a shelf." But the messengers of the Bohai people arrived, and they brought letters from their kings......"

"Don't say it, don't say it." The old housekeeper didn't mean to make things difficult at all, and said with a smile, "Then come with me, don't ask Xianggong to wait." ”

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"Oh? Mr. Murong went to paint the immortal temple? Does he want the old man to come to the door to meet? ”

Zhang Dian tapped lightly on the table, looking a little unhappy. He is not the kind of "virtuous minister" who is a polite corporal, but a traitor who thinks highly of himself and no one looks down on him. Although Murong Wangwu is also a Jinshi of the Liao State, how can the Jinshi of the Liao State be compared with the Jinshi of the Great Song Dynasty? Moreover, Zhang Dian has also been a jinshi twice, and he is really learned!

Facing Zhang Xuan's question, Wu Haogu said: "Mr. Murong is well-known in the Liao Kingdom, and the Xiangshan Academy he opened is recognized as the best academy in the Liao Kingdom, and many children of the Yanyun clan are studying in it, so they think very highly of themselves. ”

"Xiangshan Academy? What are the things that are taught? ”

"Teaching the Six Arts," Wu Hao Ancient Dao, "is the Five Rites, Six Music, Five Shots, Five Emperors, Six Books, Nine Numbers and the like, but the 'Yu' is not driving a car and riding a horse and fighting, and the focus of the Five Rites is also a military salute." ”

In fact, the "etiquette" in the six arts does not mean civility and politeness, nor does it mean etiquette, but a hodgepodge including systems and laws. The military salute is a synthesis of military law and the art of war.

"Oh, you've seen his students?" Zhang Yuan is not a nerd who reads to death, his nephew Zhang Yuan is a good archer, and he can come a few times himself.

"Yes," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "and brought back a Zhao family member who had been an official in the Liao State's guard army, who was his student, and his ability was quite good." ”

"The Zhao family?"

"It is the descendant of Zhao Weigong in the Liao Kingdom."

"Zhao Zan's descendants?"

"Yes." Wu Hao Gu said, "The Zhao family of Zhenzhou ranks second among the four Yan families, and most of their children serve in the guards and pro-army. ”

"Then this Zhao family disciple was sent by the Zhao family in Zhenzhou?" Zhang Dian became somewhat interested.

Wu Haogu shook his head and said, "No, he is...... was born to a son, because his father died, he didn't let his surname Zhao, so he went to Yanshan and became a thief. ”

"What happened to the son of sin?" Zhang Dian frowned, he was also born in sin, isn't he still a very human minister?

Wu Haogu smiled, "The Liao State has a world election system, and the son of the concubine cannot be compared with the son-in-law...... Therefore, there are many undesirable sons, and some of them are very capable. This son of the Zhao family has a good skill, and it is not very difficult for a martial artist in my court. ”

"Really?" Zhang Duan raised an eyebrow. He knows what kind of virtue the children of the Zhao family generals here in Kaifeng are, and what the Zhao family is like on the Liao side is still worth exploring.

"Yes," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "He has no ambition in the Liao Kingdom, so he wants to join our dynasty, and he also wants to enter the family tree of Zhao Weigong, and he will be a martial artist in the future." According to Mr. Murong, there are a lot of such capable people in the Liao Kingdom, if they are all allowed to come to the Great Song Dynasty, there will be more help and less obstacles for the Northern Expedition of the Wang Division in the future. ”