Chapter 7 Getting Rich
During the trip to Lingyun Mountain, Zhao Lei and Su Xun met too late, had a simple and profound conversation, and had a harmonious relationship.
Through conversation with Su Xun, Zhao Lei learned that the young woman around Su Xun was actually his wife Cheng, and Su Xun even lived in Lingyun Mountain. The famous Lingyun Dongpo Tower in later generations was Su Xun's residence.
At Su Xun's warm invitation, Zhao Lei went to Su Xun's home and left a painting of ink. After seeing that it was almost dusk, he sat on the mountain and returned to the Taoist temple immediately.
In the carriage, the young couple who had already made their lifelong life snuggled together like paint and glue, saying the love words between them.
"Senior brother! You are too frivolous today. How could you ask Mr. Su if he has any children? This made Mrs. Su cry after returning home!" Tian Lan, who was nestled in Zhao Lei's arms, complained to her lover.
"What's wrong with having children?" Zhao Lei asked in confusion.
"Do you know why Mr. Su and Mrs. Su are traveling to Lingyun Mountain today?" Tian Lan said softly.
"Why?" Zhao Lei asked strangely.
"Because Mr. Su and Mrs. Su's eldest daughter died some time ago, Mrs. Su was depressed. In order to relieve the depression in her heart, she visited Lingyun Mountain. However, the senior brother's frivolous words today aroused Mrs. Su's heart again. If I hadn't taken the pulse for Mrs. Su and prescribed a prescription, it would have left the root of the disease and would be difficult to cure it." Tian Lan said with some complaints.
Zhao Lei was slightly stunned and said blamingly: "It's my senior brother's fault. But one sentence almost caused trouble to Brother Mingyun. I must change this problem in the future." After saying that, I also began to blame myself. It seems that in the future, I have to consider the consequences of plagiarizing other people's things.
When the carriage returned to the Taoist temple, Zhao Lei began to adapt to the life of the Northern Song Dynasty again. There was no Internet, no movies, TV, music, no entertainment books, and no minimum exercise. Zhao Lei's life was extremely boring. The only gain was to capture the hearts of Tian Lan's beautiful woman and successfully propose marriage to Tian Yan. Tian Yan was still very satisfied with the marriage to Zhao Lei. However, that boy Tian Er was a little depressed and drank for a few days. Tian Da's wife told him a wife, and she was still very happy.
Zhao Lei’s main task in the past few days is to count various medicines in the warehouse and to ponder the use of various parts on the truck.
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The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and more and more wealthy families are coming to Mount Emei to escape the heat. Tianyan, which has a vast friendship, has also received more and more friends.
A heavy rain at night drove away the heat of early summer. Under the cool breeze in the early morning, Zhao Lei was chatting with a middle-aged man who was like a fat ball on the stone chair outside the Taoist temple.
"Sir Gu, look at this mirror. This is the treasure left by Lu Ban's ancestor. There are only two sides of the entire Central Plains. The manufacturing process has long been lost. Looking at the images, the clear hair can be seen. It is a rare treasure!" Zhao Lei, like a salesman, promoted the truck reflector in his hand to the fat Gu Qiu.
Gu Qiu is the most wealthy man in Meishan. His family has thousands of hectares of fertile land and a large area of mountain land, including copper and iron mines. He also operates a salt well. Even the entire Chengdu Prefecture is also considered a wealthy family.
Gu Qiu was in his forties, but his figure was as round as a ball. His figure might be about 1.7 meters, but his weight of 130 kilograms made him very distressed. The wealth disease that fat people are prone to is easily seen in him, such as fatty liver, heart disease, asthma, and high blood pressure, which made Gu Qiu basically a medicine basket, and he would never leave the medicine when he walked there.
Tian Yan is the attending doctor of Gu Qiu. He has no way to deal with Gu Qiu's illness. The diseases that Gu Qiu have were difficult to eradicate even after a thousand years, and can only be controlled. Therefore, Tian Yan could only make Gu Qiu feel uncomfortable and come to the Taoist temple to seek medical treatment. Gu Qiu always spends three or five months every year in the Taoist temple. As soon as the sky is hot, he will come to the Taoist temple. While avoiding the heat, he asked Tian Yan to treat him!
Since Zhao Lei learned about Gu Qiu's identity and wealth, he had a big plan to make money, and today he officially began to recommend some things he didn't need to find.
Seeing Gu Qiu looking at the reflector in his hand, he looked greedy but confused and hesitant, Zhao Lei knew that Gu Qiu was already moved, but he couldn't get the value of the reflector, so hesitated about what price to start.
"Mr. Gu is now the nine-rank county magistrate. If you want to do something else, you may have to pay a great price. I heard that the current prime minister of the court, Mr. Zhang Shixun, loves his concubine very much. This mirror is irresistible to women who love beauty. If Lord. Gu presents this mirror to Lord. It is not impossible to become a senior county magistrate when he wants to be promoted to another level at that time!" Zhao Lei continued to fool Gu Qiu with sweet words.
When Gu Qiu heard Zhao Lei's words, his round face showed a longing smile, and his small eyes narrowed into a slit. It seemed that Zhao Lei's words had touched his buying hope.
"How much is this treasure, Mr. Zhao, going to sell it?" Gu Qiu is a businessman. Although he was already moved, he started negotiations smartly, intending to push the price to a limit that he was satisfied with.
"This thing is a priceless treasure. It is an insult to offer it. Lord Gu will give it!" Zhao Lei certainly understood Gu Qiu's intention, but Zhao Lei was not a good master. He blocked Gu Qiu's words in one sentence and held the initiative in his hand.
Gu Qiu knew that he had met an expert, and if he said more, it would undoubtedly be an insult to the treasure, so he felt a sharp pain in his finger.
Zhao Lei saw one of Gu Qiu's fingers and asked inexplicably: "How much is this?"
"One hundred coins!" Gu Qiu said with gritted teeth as if he was heartbroken.
When Zhao Lei heard Gu Qiu's words, he stood up and wanted to leave.
"Don't leave! I have something to say. Can we talk if I'm not satisfied?" Gu Qiu quickly grabbed Zhao Lei and said anxiously.
"A official position in the eighth rank is worth only 100 cents. What else can I do? I heard that another rich man from Meishan, Tie family is worried about finding ways to curry favor with Zhang Shixun! If you sell this mirror to him, it might be able to sell it for 110 cents!" Zhao Lei said sarcastically.
Hearing Zhao Lei's sarcastic figure of 110 constellations, Gu Qiu's face turned red with embarrassment and hurriedly said, "What price do Mr. Zhao thinks should be sold?"
"I heard that Lord Gu is also a juren. A literati who passed the provincial examination can be the highest position as a county magistrate with this hat. It is not difficult to curry favor with Lord Zhang and know the land of a county. Is it not difficult to be a seventh-rank county magistrate so valuable?" Zhao Lei looked at Gu Qiu and said calmly.
"Ten thousand coins!" Gu Qiu gritted his teeth and said a number he hoped for.
Zhao Lei looked at Gu Qiu and sneered, but said nothing.
"Fifty thousand cents! This is the highest price, it can't be any higher." Gu Qiu said anxiously.
"It's the Song Dynasty now, but it's not the Empress of the Tang Dynasty, the County Magistrate, or the County Magistrate, even if you have money, you can't buy it!" Zhao Lei said calmly.
"Eighty thousand coins!" Gu Qiu said with pain again.
"It's 100,000 yuan! I don't want much because of the relationship between Taoist Principal Tian Yan. Lord Gu shouldn't be stingy with this little 100,000 yuan!" Zhao Lei said to Gu Qiu with a smile.
"Trade!" Hearing the final price, it had not reached the bottom line of 200,000, Gu Qiu agreed happily.
After Gu Qiu agreed, he immediately called the servants and brought out a thick stack of paper money from the low seat of the carriage that he accompanied him, and then counted out tens of thousands of them and handed them to Zhao Lei.
What is this? Zhao Lei was slightly stunned, took the banknotes and looked at the first one.
These paper money are vertically long, about 167 cm long and nine centimeters wide. The top is ten copper coin seals, and there are seals of official offices and shops on it. Under the copper coin seals, there are twenty-nine words "Except Sichuan, the public and private officials in the prefectures and counties are inscribed with 7,700 money flowing and exercising together." The lower half is engraved with houses, figures and bags of packaging, and three people carrying goods on the open space outside the house.
Could this be the legendary Northern Song Dynasty Jiaozi? Zhao Lei held Jiaozi's hand and trembled excitedly.
Jiaozi, Chengdu Prefecture in the Northern Song Dynasty, was the earliest currency in the world. It was out of print after a thousand years. If this stack was collected after a thousand years, it would be worth the old money.
Zhao Lei carefully touched Jiaozi, felt the patterns on it, the convex and concave colors of red, blue, and black, as well as the "cucurbita" Sichuan paper, and was extremely excited.
The seven thousand and seven hundred Mos on the Jiaozi in Zhao Lei's hand was the face value. The Yiguan coins of the Northern Song Dynasty were equal to 770 Mos, and one Mo was a copper coin, while the seven thousand and seven hundred Mos was equal to ten thousand and ten coins. The value of Jiaozi during the Renzong period was still very stable. Jiaozi did not depreciate until the fifth year of Xining in the Song Dynasty (1072 AD). Therefore, Jiaozi is indeed a currency that is convenient than copper coins.
Zhao Lei looked at the thick Jiaozi in his hand and suddenly began to doubt that Jiaozi issued by the Northern Song Dynasty had only two years of use, and the total amount was only 1.2 million guan. Gu Qiu had 100,000 guan at one time, which was not fake!
Looking at Zhao Lei's suspicious gaze, Gu Qiu smiled and said, "Jiazi has only been released for less than ten years. The people of the Song Dynasty do not trust it at all, so they only circulate in Chengdu Prefecture. There are only a few people who can produce a large amount of Jiaozi in Chengdu Prefecture, and one of them is me, Gu, so Mr. Zhao doesn't have to doubt it. If you don't believe it, you can go to Wuyang County Government to ask if Gu is such a living person, can you still deceive you?"
Gu Qiu's explanation was passed in Zhao Lei's heart, so he immediately became happy and happy.
"I've made money, I've made money, but I don't know how to spend it. I hold gold ingots in my left hand and silver cakes in my right hand!" Zhao Lei hummed a small song and prepared to return to the Taoist temple.
Chapter completed!