Prince in the same boat

"Well... I bought some new goods at the Liulichang shop in the capital city. I don't know if you are interested in accompanying me to see them." Xia Yongfan saw Feng Sheng's distraught look, and looked in the direction of his eyes strangely. With a glance, the corner of his mouth curled up in a strange arc, and he touched his chin suddenly and said.

The things Zhang Shun inquired about in two months should not be false. He worked hard to buy the shop next to that person's favorite shop, hoping to be able to recognize his father for success and even win the name for Xia Yuhe. If the plan is to be implemented successfully, this is the first step!

"Liulichang..." Duolong curled his lips, his face was a little weird, as if he had thought of something, but seeing Yongfan's strange look, he said sullenly; "Okay, let's go."

Xia Yongfan was a little puzzled, but when he saw Feng Shenger's uncontrollable smile, he secretly muttered in his heart.

Beijing's Liulichang was a well-known cultural street in modern times, dealing in all kinds of pens, inks, papers and inkstones, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. It had already formed a scale as early as the early Qing Dynasty.

During the Shunzhi period in the early Qing Dynasty, "Manchu and Han lived in separate cities" was implemented in the capital.And Liulichang is just in the west of the outer city. At that time, most of the Han officials lived nearby. Later, guild halls all over the country were built nearby. Officials and exam candidates often gathered here to visit the book market, which made the Ming Dynasty prosperous Qianmen, Dengshikou and Chenghuangmiao Book Fair in Xicheng were gradually transferred to Liulichang.Booksellers from all over the world have also set up stalls, built rooms, and sold a large number of books here.The bustling market and convenient conditions have formed the "Place for Elegant Tours in Kyoto", making Liulichang gradually develop into the largest book market in Beijing, forming a cultural market full of talents, culturally related pens, inks, papers and inkstones, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc. It also developed accordingly.

All the way to Liulichang, Xia Yongfan dragged Duolong and Fengsheng into a shop.

"Yong...Yong Fan, your shop sells western goods?" Duo Long pointed to Yong Fan's shop with some curiosity, his eyes full of wonder.

"Yeah, what's the matter?" If it wasn't for this shop just opposite to that person's shop, he really wouldn't have paid a lot of money to buy this shop, how expensive is the land in this area!

Bai Huahua's silver was slaughtered by someone, at that time, Xia Yongfan's heart was bleeding!

Is it easy for you to make money for me?

"Not bad..." Seeing Ziwei enter the inner hall with a smile, Feng Sheng was a little disappointed, and quickly turned his head away to look at the goods in the shop.

This dazzling display is full of rare pocket watches, large glass mirrors, tapestries, and telescopes from the Qing Dynasty. It turned out to be a shop specializing in Western goods.

Yong Fan has been in the capital for some time, so it is naturally impossible to do nothing, so he opened more shops in the capital, which are places that sell western goods.As early as when he was in charge of the financial power of the Xia family, Yong Fan began to send people to contact some Western and Southeast Asian businessmen in the coastal areas, and began to sign agreements with them on the sale of goods, specializing in the agency of their products.

At that time, merchants in the Qing Dynasty were quite taboo about things outside the region. Except for the semi-official Guangzhou Thirteen Banks, there were not many private merchants who were willing to sell Western goods.

One is because of the language barrier, it is difficult to make a relationship;

The second is the ambiguous attitude of the imperial court. It neither encourages nor punishes merchants dealing in Western goods.

Merchants value profit and life the most, so they are naturally unwilling to get involved in this industry in large quantities when the imperial court has an ambiguous attitude towards foreign business exchanges, so there are not many merchants engaged in import business.

Xia Yongfan graduated with a master's degree and was a special agent specially trained by the state. He has stayed abroad and been abroad. Although he was only 21 when he died, he had lived in a foreign country for two years. Words are no problem at all.As for the government, it would be enough to smash a road of prosperity with silver.

Originally, there were few shops selling western goods in the capital, and in addition, Yongfan's shop had a wide variety of western goods and a wide range of goods, so the business was booming.

In fact, although Yong Fan worked secretly as a secret agent in his previous life, he was a military doctor on the surface. He majored in nutrition and health preservation. To put it bluntly, he was a job similar to a food doctor and a health care teacher. Specializes in serving the elderly heroes of the country in the army hospital. Although he has also studied Chinese medicine, it is far easier to gain status and wealth as a businessman than as a doctor in this era. Even if Yongfan is not for himself For the enjoyment of life, I also choose to be a businessman because I can stand upright and live in this time and space.

Simply because his brain is flexible, although most of the list is hidden behind the scenes, it is because of his flexible mind that this shop is also prosperous, especially in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian. Set up branches and direct business abroad.

When he first came to the capital, Yong Fan was planning to open a pharmacy, but after he went there for two days to refresh his addiction to being a doctor, he never went there again.No one else, it's still caused by this face. Since he became a part-time doctor, the business of the pharmacy has been very good, and there are waves of people who see the doctor, but when those who use the excuse of seeing a doctor look at his handsome face After more and more big girls and daughter-in-laws, Yong Fan already felt something was wrong, and finally there were a few men who took advantage of the maneuvers while feeling the pulse, and after being taught by Yong Fan, he closed the door directly.

The aesthetics of Western goods are different from those of the Qing Dynasty. Duolong and Fengsheng only think that although the Western tapestries are chic, they are not exquisite enough, but some other things are not bad, such as chime bells with different shapes, and people’s silhouettes that are illuminated. The large glass mirrors that were found were all new arrivals, and they were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths from ear to ear.

"Is that person... really the owner of that shop?" Taking advantage of Duolong and Feng Sheng'er not paying attention, he asked Zhang Shun, the shopkeeper, in a low voice.

"Yes, young master..." Zhang Shun lowered his voice, but the young master said that the two gentlemen just now had kung fu, and their ears were much more sensitive than ordinary people.

"That shop is indeed the property of the person you want me to inquire about, but the shopkeeper is not easy to strike up a conversation with..." Zhang Shun paused and said in a low voice: "I don't dare to say more to avoid suspicion, so now I have a conversation with that shopkeeper." The shopkeeper didn't have any friendship either."

Zhang Shun is the son of the Xia family, although he doesn't know the whole story of Xia Yuhe, but he knows what the young master must be planning.

Xia Yongfan frowned slightly, and glanced at Duolong who was winking at the big glass mirror and Fengsheng who was playing with the binoculars, a calculating light flashed in his eyes.

Just as he was about to nod his head and go out, Zhang Shun stopped him: "Master, the owner of the shop seems to be a son of a noble relative. I heard that he is a Manchurian. You... you have to be careful, but you must be careful." Don't offend him?" Zhang Shun reminded in a low voice while looking at Yong Fan who had a strange expression.

"It's okay..." Yong Fan waved his hand, he already knew the identity of the other party, and he was going towards him again, how could he not be prepared.

After talking to Duolong and others, Xia Yongfan inadvertently mentioned that Xin came here, and he hadn't gone to the nearby shop to take a good look, and then dragged Duolong and Fengsheng into the opposite shop.

Feng Sheng was fine, but Duolong wasn't very interested in poetry and books, so Xia Yongfan dragged him into the store, and when he looked up, he saw "Huan Ji" written on the horizontal plaque at the door.

Kui Huan is the place where the Emperor of Heaven collects books. This collection of Mu Huan is full of precious brushes, inks, paper, and inkstones. It turned out to be a stationery store.

In this way, even Fengsheng became interested, and together with Xia Yongfan, he discussed some fine products.

Duolong didn't like to read since he was a child, so he didn't know that the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are also very particular. Some high-quality inkstones, emblem inkstones, etc. are worth as much as gold.It's just that looking around at this time, the purple gold inkstones displayed in the store, the writing brushes of suet jade pillars, and the rice paper dyed with gold thread...all of them are exquisite, and I can't help being very curious, and I also have a rare feeling. Interested, touch east, look west, look at the lively and strange.

Duolong looked all the way, and found a brush holder carved from Hetian Nuanyu with sharp eyes. He saw that the wall of the holder was flawless and smooth, and a picture of water moon and lotus was embossed on it, which looked elegant and extraordinary.Turning around and seeing Yong Fan holding a tube of red sandalwood brush and Feng Sheng forehead watching Bibi's painting, he couldn't help but feel a little inexplicably sour, as if he was excluded from a certain circle.Then I thought about going back to buy this brush holder with silver and giving it to Xia Yongfan.

Only such a beautiful person can be worthy of this warm jade brush holder.Duolong nodded in satisfaction, and couldn't help but wanted to reach out to pick up the warm jade brush holder to have a look, but as soon as he reached out, he heard someone shout: "Stop!"

Duolong was taken aback, quickly withdrew his hand, followed the sound, and saw an old shopkeeper with gray hair staring at him.

The shopkeeper looked Duolong up and down for a while, and saw that he was not at all refined, and he was not a material for reading ink at all. The old man directly regarded him as a dude with no ink in his stomach, and said coldly: "My lord, some of the stationery in this store are extremely valuable items, and you are not allowed to touch them before paying the purchase price."

"You old bastard, how dare you look down on others like this, oh bah, I don't even like you bastard treasures!" Duolong blushed and was about to explode on the spot.

"Duolong, don't cause trouble." Feng Sheng frowned. Although the shopkeeper's attitude was very bad, he dared to treat Duolong who was either rich or expensive at first sight like this, which showed that he had nothing to fear.

Xia Yongfan just wanted to make things big, and seeing Feng's promotion to calm things down, he couldn't help cursing secretly.

Immediately pretending to be aggrieved, he stepped forward, raised his sword eyebrows, and said with a sneer: "I heard that there are many treasures in the collection of Mu Huan, so it turns out that this is nothing more than that, such fake and inferior things dare to be called treasures in a high-sounding manner, it is really ridiculous .”

The old shopkeeper frowned, and said coldly: "Our stationery is only sold to educated people who know the goods. Since this master thinks it is a fake, please go out."

With a wave of his hand, two young servants came out immediately, and gestured to Yong Fan and the other three to chase away guests.

"You old bastard..." Duo Long was about to get angry when Yong Fan pulled his sleeves, and he heard him whispering in his ear: "Leave it to me, let me vent your anger on you." Then he became angry Shut up in disapproval,

Yong Fan looked at the two hulking backs indifferently, they were obviously the clerks of Lianjiazi, pointed to the Nuanyu brush holder and said: "This Nuanyu brush holder is made of Hetian Nuanyu, it is five inches six inches long. The stamens of the four water lotus reliefs on the wall are carved into hollows, and there are jade balls inside. As long as they are shaken slightly, there will be a sound of broken jade colliding. tube'?"

A look of surprise flashed in the old shopkeeper's eyes, he thought they were two ignorant dudes, but he didn't expect to have such insight, a look of admiration flashed on his face and said: "So this master is also a learned man. "

learned? !I asked Zhang Shunlai to read it several times in person, and I read the book for nearly a month. Can I not be 'knowledgeable' about the things in your shop?Xia Yongfan secretly slandered.

Although Duolong is not really ignorant, but he is also a character who has a headache when he mentions a pen. How do you know what the "Qingyan Water Lotus Tube" used by Emperor Renzong of the Ming Dynasty is, let alone the thing that washes the pen? With such a big background, after hearing Xia Yongfan's faint words, he calmed down this arrogant old guy, and admired Yongfan even more in his heart.

On the other hand, Feng raised his forehead, frowned slightly, and looked at Xia Yongfan, his eyes darkened involuntarily.

Xia Yongfan smiled, looked straight at the old shopkeeper and said, "Since the shopkeeper knows about the 'Qingyan Water Lotus Tube' used by Emperor Renzong of the Ming Dynasty, he must also know its most important and secret feature?"

The old shopkeeper was slightly taken aback, frowned and thought for a long time, and couldn't help but said: "Apart from the jade ball in the water lotus relief, are there any other features?"