The place where my heart goes to farming

At the same time, there was a dinner at Fuxilou.

Wines, delicacies, treasures, ceremonies and music, all kinds of flowers, colorful and lively.

In addition to Su Zhifu and a group of Suzhou officials, there were also a group of Suzhou merchants including Song Yunxiu and Qin Ming who attended the reception banquet.

Accompanied by the singing and dancing of the dancers and singers, the room is full of flattery and hypocrisy.

Holding his wine glass, Gao Ming glanced at the audience, especially paying attention to the three merchants surnamed Zhang, Li and Zhao. Remembering the information about them, he half-closed his eyes unknowingly. A trace of coldness.

When the wine was half drunk, a fat merchant offered Gao Ming a golden Buddha statue half as tall as a child by virtue of his drunkenness.

If there is one, there are two. Since this merchant, someone has sent a precious red coral.

Afterwards, almost everyone offered gifts, rare antiques, gold and silver treasures, silk and satin, everything was priceless.

Most of them have heard that many imperial merchants in other places have different titles, so they are prepared and want to fight for it.

Qin Ming and Song Yunxiu were the only exceptions present, they did not present any rare antiques, nor did they present any gold or silver treasures.

Qin Ming would come to the banquet purely as a passer-by, so he only prepared two top-quality Duanyan inkstones.

Song Yunxiu gave an authentic ancient painting and two calligraphy works of Zhou Bin.

Unlike those merchants who met Gao Ming for the first time, Song Yunxiu had a few encounters with Gao Ming because of his uncle and uncle.

And when the Song family was selected as the imperial merchant, the selector was Gao Ming, and he was familiar with Gao Ming.

As a servant, Gao Ming also likes gold, silver and treasures, and he never refuses the money sent to his door, but few people know that he actually has another hobby - he likes to collect calligraphy and paintings.

Because he grew up with the current Holy Majesty since he was a child, now Gao Ming is deeply favored by the Holy Majesty, and he is a celebrity around the Holy Majesty. With such an identity, he is destined to have no shortage of rare antiques, gold and silver treasures, and these financial resources have long been out of reach. Make him tempted.

Only calligraphy and painting are different.

Sure enough, seeing the ancient painting and two calligraphy, Gao Ming finally nodded, a smile appeared on his expressionless face.

After recognizing Song Yunxiu, Gao Ming's smile became more real.

Since being elected as an imperial merchant, the Song family has never had the slightest problem, and the Song family also knows how to keep a low profile and never show off. Even His Majesty once praised the Song family, which makes him a good judge. Therefore, Gao Ming is satisfied with Song Yunxiu.

Gao Ming finally said a word, "Everyone sit down."

When everyone heard the words, they all sat down, but when they looked at each other, they still had their own little thoughts.

Raising his hand to signal the suspension of singing and dancing, Gao Ming said: "I understand the intentions of all merchants, but this time I came to Suzhou in the name of His Majesty, and I still need to follow the regulations. If your shops are of high quality, I will choose them. There is no need to worry about anything else.”

"Today's incident, I will pretend that it never happened, and you can claim all the rare treasures that were sent just now."

With this sentence, Gao Ming's tone was already cold.

After saying these words, he restarted the singing and dancing, and continued to drink and eat food, as if what happened just now didn't happen.

In fact, Gao Ming is not indifferent to these treasures, but he came out this time with a mission. Everyone's background needs to be carefully reviewed, and His Majesty has personally instructed him, so how dare he accept bribes privately? He can tell which is more important.

The merchants who gave gifts looked at each other, they didn't understand very well, but they didn't dare to go against Gao Ming's intention, and took back the things they gave away one after another.

In the end, Gao Ming only left three things behind, ancient paintings, Zhou Bin's calligraphy, and two Duan inkstones.

The atmosphere froze for a while, but after a while, it became active again.

Not long after the first watch drum sounded outside, the banquet broke up.

When the officials and merchants were almost gone, Gao Ming got up and walked towards Song Yunxiu, and asked him in a low voice, "Is the Seventh Prince at the residence?"

Song Yunxiu replied, "Yes."

Gao Ming nodded, then signaled Song Yunxiu to lead the way, and walked towards Song Mansion.

On this trip, he also brought an imperial decree to hand over to Yan Zhixing.

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The next day, Gao Ming began to review. There were only two imperial merchants in Suzhou, one was the Jing family and the other was the Song family.

Since the Jing family has been defeated now, and the title of Emperor Merchant has been withdrawn long ago, it is easy to leave only the Song family.

It only took half a day to complete the review.

In the afternoon, Gao Ming began to inquire about which company's rouge powder is good and which company's wood quality is good.

The Jing family originally contracted all the designs of the royal family and the royal courtyard, but now this title has fallen to a merchant in Hangzhou, but the Jing family also supplies all the timber needed by the palace, so the timber merchant who replaced it still has no can find.

As for the rouge and gouache, it was necessary to search again because the merchant who originally supplied it had too much private contacts with the ten princes.

It was not difficult to inquire about the news, so not long after, the detailed information of every rouge shop in Suzhou City was sent to Gao Ming.

Gao Ming flipped through it casually, and when he saw "Zhumeng Pavilion", he remembered Gu Fangyou's advice from yesterday, so he stopped and carefully looked through its information.

After reading the content, Gao Ming raised his eyebrows and thought it was quite good, especially interested in perfumes and essential oils that he had never heard of.

He was going to come and see for himself.

Gao Ming brought only two people with him, all in casual clothes, and went directly to "Zhumeng Pavilion" without telling anyone.

When he came outside the store, Gao Ming looked at the people queuing up outside. Even though he knew it in advance, he was still surprised at this moment.

He wanted to go in directly, but when he reached the door, Zichen stopped him and asked him to line up at the back.

The two standing behind Gao Ming looked at it, frowned, and were about to speak, but were stopped by Gao Ming.

"Eunuch, you..."

Gao Ming was amiable, "If it's true as the investigation says, it's okay to wait."

It was getting late now, so the queue was not long, so they didn't wait too long and entered the store soon.

Stepping into the store door, Gao Ming looked at the decoration in the store and was also interested in the spiral staircase. After a few more glances, he slowly went upstairs.

When he reached the second floor, Gao Ming gave the two young father-in-laws he had brought with him a look and motioned them to look around.

The two little father-in-laws looked at it, and separated clearly, went to open all the rouge and gouache sold in the shop one by one, looked at it, and tried it again.

And Gao Ming walked towards the counters of perfume and essential oils, listening with great interest to Qingzhu explaining its effects and usage to the guests.

In fact, Cen Le also heard that the review team came down, but he is just a small businessman with only one small shop, so he is not qualified to participate in the reception banquet.

But Cen Le didn't care, if he really participated, he didn't know what gift to prepare.

Although he made a lot of money, when he thought about the future plan, he felt that it was not enough, so he was very frugal about the use of money.

Seeing Gao Ming for the first time, Cen Le didn't recognize them, but treated them as ordinary guests.

Gao Ming didn't mind, and asked Cen Le a lot of questions as an ordinary merchant.

Although Cen Le couldn't speak, he answered Gao Ming's questions fluently and patiently.

Gao Ming looked Cen Le up and down for a while, and was quite satisfied with him, so he couldn't help but nodded.

After that, he ordered several bottles of essential oils and perfume.

He still has to stay in Suzhou for five or six days. After he gets the perfume and essential oils, he will try it out. If the effect is good, he can make a decision directly.

When Gao Ming was about to leave to go to the next store after checking, he happened to run into Gu Fangyou who came to the store to look for Cen Le.

Seeing Gu Fangyou, Gao Ming subconsciously wanted to salute.

Gu Fangyou hurriedly stopped him, and lowered his voice to remind: "Remember, my identity is just an ordinary citizen, and I am a doctor."

Gao Ming thought it was inappropriate, but as a slave, he couldn't say much about his master, so he nodded and agreed.

On the side, Cen Le couldn't help feeling puzzled when he saw this scene. He looked carefully at Gao Ming and the two subordinates he brought, observing their every move. Gradually, he finally noticed something strange.

Raising his head, Gu Fangyou smiled at Cen Le, "I'll come back later."

After saying that, he took Gao Ming outside.

After this trip, he didn't come back until the store was about to close.

Back in the shop, as soon as Gu Fangyou saw Cen Le, he said directly, "I've brought you some good news."

The author has something to say: Well, Mu Chen will be back in the next chapter~

Then good night and see you tomorrow!

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