The Prodigal Son of the Empire

"Last year, the famous prostitute Zhao Liangyin from Chunmanlou won the crown. It is said that she was favored by a prince from a noble family in Kyoto and redeemed her body..."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Li Qingman glanced at Chunhua and said: "The competition for the top oiran is not only about talent and skill, but also requires money, and more importantly, it requires a man of letters to write poems to create momentum..."

It turned out that this was the case, and Wang Kang understood something after hearing the conversation between the two. He vaguely remembered Miss Xie from Manxiang Pavilion, who participated in the oiran election last year, but she was a bit unlucky and won the second place.

But even so, it made Xie Wanying famous and highly sought after, and even the Manxiang Pavilion where she was located became the most popular brothel.

Thinking about it, Wang Kang was also motivated. Li Qingman's own conditions are excellent, both in appearance and figure.

If it is promoted as an oiran, it will be of great benefit to the heaven and earth that is about to open. With an oiran sitting in the battle, do you still worry about bad business?

Moreover, his original idea was to make Li Qingman a star of this era, and the current oiran election is the best opportunity.

Wang Kang thought about it and asked again: "I don't know how the oiran is elected, what are the rules?"

"Before the election, the oiran will appear in the parade on the Luohe River, competing for each other's beauty. The parade will last for three days, and there will be two lists during this period," Chunhua explained.

"One of them is the gold list. This list is determined by the amount of money. This is the reason for throwing a lot of money for a beautiful woman to accompany you,"

"The second is the name list. This name refers to popularity. Of course, the oiran needs extremely high popularity. This requires those literati to write poems and prose to create momentum..."

"The one with the highest comprehensive ranking in the final two lists will be the oiran!" Chunhua finally concluded.

After listening to it, Wang Kang nodded secretly. It is really difficult to compete for the oiran.

Thinking of this, his eyes fell on Li Qingman and asked: "Miss Li, do you want to be the oiran? This young master praises you!"

"Ah!" Li Qingman was slightly taken aback, "Young Master Kang was joking, the oiran is running for office, and the number of courtesans and beauties is unknown. Qingman knows that it is difficult to compare."

"Besides, the oiran's election needs someone to support him. Money, talent and fame can't be bad..."

"Don't worry about this, you have never been afraid of anyone other than Hua Qianben?" Wang Kang interrupted Li Qingman, and said proudly.

"But……"

"Nothing is wrong, you just need to tell me whether you want to or not,"

Wang Kang looked at Li Qingman, "You don't have to worry about it. Although you are in my heaven and earth, I will never force you to do what you don't want to do. You are just an artist with me. If you meet a literati who is right for you, I will let you go without stopping..."

Wang Kang's eyes were sincere, and Li Qingman's heart trembled for no reason. She could tell that what Wang Kang said was the truth.

Since you treated me like this and taught me the song of red beans, thinking of this, Li Qingman looked at Wang Kang and said softly: "Thanks to Young Master Kang's attention, the little girl is very grateful, and it's all at the command of Young Master Kang."

"Haha!" Hearing this, Wang Kang laughed and said, "If that's the case, just wait to be the oiran!"

[Author's Digression]: Asking for a bank note

Chapter 56 Playing with each other

Now that it has been decided, he must make a perfect plan and do his best. He must make Li Qingman the oiran.

In order to be sure, Wang Kang taught Li Qingman a few ditties and dances. Although Li Qingman's own talent is very good, it is Wang Kang's teaching that is more eye-catching after all.

This will also give her a little more confidence in the election for the oiran.

While Wang Kang was teaching Li Qingman, on the other side, Liu Shan encountered a problem.

He An came here yesterday with a precious formula for dyeing purple, and he started dyeing cloth early this morning.

But Liushan didn't buy many original silk fabrics before. Now that he has the formula, he has to stock up on purple silk, but the raw materials are not enough.

Today, he went to the Jinyu Chamber of Commerce to borrow a sum of money. When he was about to buy a large amount of raw silk, he found that there were not many retail merchants.

Some of them didn't sell directly, so what should be done, Liu Shan looked sad, and finally had such a good opportunity to suppress Fuyang Cloth Village, and even make a fortune, such an opportunity should not be missed.

"You searched for everything you could buy?" Liu Shan looked at Liu Cheng and asked in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Liu Cheng replied: "We have already asked all those who have business dealings with us. They are all individual customers. Most of the silk fabrics were bought by us before."

"As for the rest of the vendors, when I went to inquire, they all said they were out of stock."

"Treasurer He is progressing very quickly. A batch of finished products have been dyed this morning. The color brightness of the purple silk is really amazing... If we can't supply the raw materials, it will be embarrassing!" Liu Cheng said again .

"After all, we have just started a cloth shop, and we don't have our own silk weaving workshop, so we can only buy it from outside!" Liu Shan sighed.

"But there are no more vendors in the market to buy, and we have a large demand." Liu Cheng also said with a look of embarrassment.

"There is another one that you can definitely buy." Liu Shan said in a deep voice.

"Which one?" Liu Cheng looked at his father suspiciously.

Liu Shan said: "Fuyang cloth village!"

"Fuyang cloth shop?" Liu Cheng was surprised when he heard the words, "Fuyang cloth shop is Wang Dingchang's core industry. It has developed for many years and has a large number of textile workshops. Naturally, we can buy the original silk, but that is our deadly enemy. How can they Will you sell it to us?"

"But we can find someone else to buy it!" Liu Cheng's eyes lit up, "As long as the person who comes out is not from our Liu family."

"I'm afraid this matter will not work." Liu Shan waved his hand and said, "We need such a large amount, even if we find another person, it will make people suspicious. How can we escape the earl's eyeliner in Yangzhou City?"

"Then what should we do?" Liu Cheng sighed lowly, now that He An has not been exposed, they must seize the time to dye more purple silk, time is money.

If they waited for Fuyang Cloth to find out, they would have missed the opportunity. After all, they couldn't guarantee whether Wang Kang would tell the second person the formula.

"There is another way to buy it." Liu Shan said in a deep voice, "Since timidity and timidity arouse suspicion, we may as well be aboveboard!"

"Wang Kang, that prodigal son, bought a brothel before and boasted to spend a huge amount of money to renovate it, but as far as I know, he doesn't have enough money now."

"I know about this. I had been there at the time, and that prodigal son even used gold powder to paint the walls. Of course, it would cost a lot of money."

Liu Cheng hurriedly said.

"Wang Dingchang is from Xinfeng County. I don't believe that other people in the mansion will squander so much money on him. Now that prodigal son must be short of money, so we will go to him to buy it." Liu Shan said in a deep voice.

"But we had many conflicts with Wang Kang before, will he sell it to me?" Liu Cheng asked suspiciously.

"It's a big deal to spend more money. Now we are in urgent need of a large amount of silk. There is no other way. Besides, how can he think so much as a prodigal son?"

Liu Shan ordered: "Go and find out where Wang Kang is. That prodigal son is high-profile, so he will be easily found. I will talk to him personally."

"Yes." Liu Cheng nodded in response.

…………

bump!bump!

There was a knock on the door, followed by Zhou Qing's voice from outside the door.

"Master, Liu Shan is looking for you on the first floor."