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A few days after the bamboo carving competition meeting, people came to buy Song Yuyan's bamboo carvings one after another.Although the number of people was not as large as before when Liu Chuo was in office, every person who came was either a well-known literati in Mingzhou, or a particularly wealthy wealthy household, or an official household with a deep background.

The literati want to discuss art with Song Yuyan more, while the wealthy households are willing to pay five thousand yuan for a pen holder or incense holder. Naturally, those official households want to buy her bamboo carvings to decorate the facade, or give them to her. The family members who are officials in the court are given to their Shangfeng.

Because Song Yuyan's carving techniques completely convinced those bamboo carvers from Yuezhou, they brought Song Yuyan's name to Yuezhou, and Hangzhou, which is close to Yuezhou, also heard of her reputation.

In addition, Du Yan used to be an official in Yangzhou, so he often introduced Song Yuyan's poems to his friends. Therefore, when the officials and scholars in Yangzhou heard the name "Song Lufang", they immediately corresponded to it.

In just over a month, the name of Song Lufang's bamboo carvings spread throughout Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Song Zhu came looking for Song Yuyan with his second brother's letter, and said, "Even your second brother knows about your bamboo carvings, and even wrote back to ask me what's going on."

Song Yuyan looked at her Uncle Thirteen innocently: "I don't know what's going on either."

Song Zhu stuffed a few books and a letter to her: "The book and letter from the second brother."

Song Yuyan was a little surprised. After all, she had nothing to do with the clan uncle who left home to become an official before she could remember anything. The last time she communicated with Song Fu was because of the Champa rice incident, and the letter was through Song Zhu forwarded it, but this time he actually wrote a letter to himself?

She put the book away and read the letter first. The main idea of ​​the letter is that Song Fu also heard in Bianjing that she seemed to be tinkering with a lot of things recently. On the other hand, he secretly asked what kind of new thing cotton is.

Song Fu had already caught the emperor's eyes after trying to plant and recommending Champa rice, so he was transferred back to the court early to become a Shangshu Zuosi Langzhong and also served as an assistant to Shizhi and miscellaneous affairs.

Although he was the magistrate before, this was a dispatched position, and his original official rank was only sixth rank.Now he has been promoted to the fifth grade Shangshu Zuosi Langzhong, and his actual position is to be a deputy at Yushitai, which can be regarded as a promotion.

Although Song Fu has the demeanor of an elder and looks serious, Song Yuyan can still see that he seems to be looking forward to cotton, and he also hopes to improve his political performance by relying on some practical things.

Song Yuyan would not think that what he did was very utilitarian. On the contrary, if he didn't have any ambitions and calculations, how could he be the backing of the Song family's development and growth?

She must promote cotton planting, but it is difficult for her and Lou Gao to promote it alone. If she cooperates with her clan uncle, it will be a win-win situation. She has no reason not to give priority to clan uncle.

In addition, Song Fu also mentioned that his friend recommended Du Yan, and I believe he will be able to move his seat again next year.As for Feng Yuan, he was promoted to judge affairs in Dali Temple.

Judging affairs in Dali Temple is generally the starting point of the number one scholar. Feng Yuan has been tossing for so long to reach the starting point of the number one scholar. It seems that he has not been promoted to any position.However, his ranking in the palace examination was not at the forefront, so if he hadn't mentioned Champa Rice, it would probably take several years to rise to this position.

For this reason, he also thought very openly, happily shared the matter with Du Yan, and asked people from his hometown to bring some Lingnan specialties to Song Yuyan, which can be regarded as repaying her for being willing to connect with his uncle. .

The Feng family already had a solid background in Panyu, and Feng Yuan was an official in the court anyway, which can be regarded as a glory of the Feng family. People in the Feng family naturally attached importance to his words. It happened that someone from the Feng family wanted to go north to Bianjing, so they let The man got some spices and followed the ship northward along the coast to Mingzhou and gave them to Song Yuyan.

Song Yuyan was startled when he saw this large box of seven or eight kinds of spices, and dared not accept it.Spices are foreign products, and the imperial court stipulates that foreign businessmen can only sell them to the government. One of the responsibilities of the Shibo Department is to keep an eye on this matter.After the government got the spices, they shipped them to Bianjing and other places, and then sold them at a high price... which was equal to the cost price of two yuan, and it felt like being sold for 200 yuan.

Officials who went to Guangnan often bought a large amount of spices privately, and then took these spices away when they were transferred, and resold them to other places.Someone from the Feng family is an official in Guangnan, so it is not surprising that they can get so many spices.

The Feng family insisted on thanking Song Yuyan, and even mentioned Song Fu.

After thinking about it, Song Yuyan understood that although someone in the Feng family was an official in Guangnan, it seemed that they would not be promoted, and they couldn't just watch the Feng family decline like this, so the hope could only be pinned on Feng Yuan. .

Now that Song Fu has been promoted, his future is uncertain, but at this time he will definitely be able to bring Feng Yuan along, and they also hope to take this opportunity to build a relationship with Song Fu.

Song Yuyan didn't dare to make a claim, so he went to the patriarch.I don't know what the people of the Feng family said to the patriarch, but the patriarch finally accepted the box of spices and shared half of it with Song Yuyan.

Song Yuyan was embarrassed to accept others' benefits for nothing, so he gave the Feng family a pen holder, hoping that he could pass it on to Feng Yuan.

The members of the Feng family didn't like her worthless pen holder at first, but they didn't show it because of their affection.After they arrived in Bianjing and learned the value of the pen holder from Feng Yuan, how shocked and complicated their feelings were, these were things Song Yuyan didn't know.

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It was not only Song Yuyan who became famous, but even the bamboo carving with Tang leaves was mentioned on a small scale.Song Yuyan asked her to choose a character, otherwise her real name would be used on her bamboo carvings in the future.

Tang Ye also didn't want people to call her by her name directly when they mentioned her in the future, but she racked her brains for a long time, but she couldn't think of a more suitable word.

She hoped that Song Yuyan could help her get it. As for why it wasn't Tang Haogen, because Tang Haogen said: "Although Song Dalang didn't formally accept you as an apprentice, he taught you such skills after all. It's not too much for you to call him master. In the future, your calligraphy It is to be left on the bamboo carving, and it is very suitable for him to help you get the words on the watch."

So after thinking about it for a while, Song Yuyan decided on "Qinggui" as her nickname.This is taken from Du Fu's poem "Red into the peach blossom tender, green into the willow leaves new".Most people choose characters to supplement the name, or to complement the name, so Tang Ye and Tang Haogen are very satisfied with this word.

Song Yuyan also asked Tang Zhi: "My lady doesn't seem to have any characters, do you want to take one too?"

Tang Zhi said: "I'll forget it. I don't write poems, lyrics, sculptures, or paintings. What do I do with words?"

Song Yuyan didn't intend to give up on this, and continued to persuade: "What if it will be useful someday?"

Tang Zhi was too entangled by her, so he had to say: "Then ask Ah Yao to take a sign for me."

Song Yuyan had already thought about it. The reason why she thought about it for so long when she was picking characters for Tang Ye was because she took the opportunity to think about which characters would be better for Tang Zhi.

"How about Su Zi?"

Tang Zhi chewed on the word for a while before asking: "Why did you choose this as the word?"

Song Yuyan wanted to test her: "Young lady, you want to know? You might as well figure it out yourself."

Tang Zhi glared at her: "Does this mean that I don't read enough?! Hmph, I don't need it anyway, so I don't want to know!"

Even so, she secretly bought some collections of Tang poems and went back to read them. Considering that there are thousands or even tens of thousands of Tang poems, she can only browse them in her spare time.

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Du Xinglao made a lot of money in the exchange conference. He made both money and fame.The fame of the bamboo carving industry has spread, and more and more people have realized the artistic value of bamboo carving, so even the bamboo carving craftsmen who lead the carving firm have received more business.

It's a pity that these are a minority, and what more people want is Song Lufang's bamboo carvings.For this reason, Du Xinglao specially brought generous gifts to Song's house, and wanted to invite Song Yuyan to join the bamboo carving business.

Is it just that Song Yuyan is so easy to fool?She does not rely on bamboo carving for her livelihood, and she is not afraid of the suppression of her by the bamboo carving industry at all. For a person like her with superb craftsmanship, ingenious ideas, and creativity, even if she does not rely on the bamboo carving industry, there will be a lot of people coming to buy her bamboo carvings .

Du Xinglao also thought about it, but he didn't believe in evil. The first time he went there, Song Yuyan returned to Jinchuan Township; Participated in the gathering.He didn't see anyone three times in a row, so he could only return home without a feather.

It's not surprising that Miss Du guessed that he would get nothing.He asked his daughter for help with a bitter face: "Zhi'er, then Song Lufang must be too busy, he is not at home every time I go there..." Suddenly he came to his senses, "Did he avoid me on purpose, otherwise Why are you not at home by chance every time?"

Miss Du nodded: "It seems that Dad guessed it. Then Song Lufang may indeed be avoiding you, and he has told you through the reasons for going out these few times that he is not short of money and status, and the small bamboo carving business is still in business. I can't see his eyes!"

Du Xinglao said angrily: "Then he thinks too much of himself!"

After finishing speaking, he admitted with a bitter face, "He really has the right to see himself that way. Then what can I do? Although the reputation of the Bamboo Carving Company has been established, and some people have begun to imitate him, they still can't get the essence of it. And everyone came here for his bamboo carvings, if it was our family, ahem, our bamboo carving shop doesn’t have a town, but it will be the same as before.”

Miss Du has always been calm, with a look of strategizing, Du Xinglao saw hope in her expression, and has long since discarded his old face as a father, saying: "Zhi'er, quickly think of a way for dad, After all, the Du family still depends on you in the future!"

Miss Du raised her eyes and said with a bit of cunning, "Father, is it true?"

Old Du Xing slandered, his daughter is really a businessman by nature!It's all on Lao Tzu's head.

However, his scolding also scolded himself as a businessman.He wasn't really angry with his daughter, after all, he relied on her every day.

"Then there will be holidays? In the future, my father will not marry you off, so I will find you a son-in-law..." Du Xinglao was rambling on about his plans.

After listening to his nagging, Miss Du said unhurriedly: "It doesn't matter whether he joins the bamboo carving business or not. The important thing is that it is enough to cooperate with him."

Du Xing said: "But how can we cooperate with it?"

Miss Du showed him a book, and he flipped through a few pages, feeling that the things on it were quite familiar.Thinking about it again, isn't this the scene of the discussion meeting that day?Did she have someone record it in detail?But what's the use of recording it?

"Didn't dad find out that the conference held by our bamboo carving company has allowed more people to know the fame of bamboo carving? And this 'more people' also includes the new Zhizhou?"

Du Xinglao didn't realize it for a while: "Zhizhou also noticed our seminar? But what does this have to do with Song Lufang's cooperation with us? What does it have to do with this book?"

Miss Du paused for a moment, then continued: "Father, do you know what tributes are handed over in Mingzhou every year?"

"Salt, Jinbo Wine, Pisces Wine, Luo, Daughter Bu..."

These are all specialties of Mingzhou, that is, local officials will send these specialties to the palace during the festivals.It's not that people are not allowed to use or buy it as a tribute.

Du Xiaoniang said: "If the name of Mingzhou's bamboo carvings is spread all over the world, will the officials want to take a look at the sophistication of the famous bamboo carvings?"

Du Xinglao was pointed out by her, and he immediately figured it out: "Zhi'er means that if Zhizhou thinks that our bamboo carvings are worthy of being handed over to the officials as tributes, then he will definitely come forward to talk to Song Lufang? But I heard that Fan Zhizhou is upright by nature, but he doesn't seem like someone who would touch such thoughts."

Miss Du nodded: "That's why I prepared this thing and planned to figure out a strategy to make him nod. But before that, we have to show respect first and then fight. We have to inform Song Lufang, otherwise my only remaining conscience will feel bad. Woolen cloth!"