Natural Born Winner: 68. Princess Wanan

Zhao Xin only thought of Lin Yun as an incident. After the rumors that bothered her in the capital disappeared, she didn't take him seriously, but she didn't want to hear about Lin Yun again half a month later. the name.

She played with the strangely familiar vial in her hand, which shone differently in the sunlight because of the liquid flowing inside it.

The steward of the Princess Mansion said respectfully, "I heard that this is the latest perfume in the capital, and it's in a glass bottle."

9526: "..." Zeng Yun, the senior of the system, the traverser loves to toss, if he doesn't deceive him.

Zhao Xin appreciates the craftsmanship that glass can produce in this era. Well, it is not as pure as the colored glaze that enters the palace from a small country in the Western Regions, and the impurities are relatively high, but the colored glaze from the Western Regions is rare. This kind of glass appears on the streets of the capital. , is still very attractive, and it is not expensive to sell for dozens of gold.

But Zhao Xin won't buy it. It's not someone from the Princess Mansion who bought it, but someone bought it as a gift. Zhao Xin, the princess of Luohe, also has some weight. Some people want to be the princess of Luohe. Luzi, it's a pity that Zhao Xin keeps a low profile, doesn't like to go out on weekdays, and rarely interacts with noble clans.

"It is rumored that the person who made this perfume and the glass is Mr. Lin Yun." It's not appropriate to be a good scholar, and the imperial examination is not on the right track, but to delve into these things, how can it not make people laugh.

If Zhao Xin is asked to answer, then of course he will lose his reputation and seek profit.

It's a pity that Zhao Xin didn't want to kill him, he did it himself, after casually handing the glass perfume bottle to a maid who liked it, Zhao Xin sighed silently.

Zhao Xin's guess is right, Lin Yun's reputation is even worse than the namelessness he just came to the capital,

Doing business in person is undoubtedly the way out of the imperial examination, although after being demoted as an imperial poet, it is almost impossible for him to be reused by the emperor Zhao Jin. Disdain to be with such self-willed and depraved people.

Lin Yun didn't care, he came from modern times, he had no prejudice against business, he even thought that when he became the richest man in the world, he would still be able to make great achievements, the most important thing is to be rich, his reputation and so on are all high-spirited The rotten Confucians took it out to fool people.

He was still thinking about redeeming the lives of the beauties he met before. Alas, those old bustards are really greedy for money. A place like that is just trying to make ends meet.

Jin Shanhai thought about dissuading him, but he himself still wanted to send his children and grandchildren to study and rely on the imperial examination to get rid of his business background. I lent some money to Lin Yun to start a business.

Perfume and glass are very popular in Beijing, Jin Shanhai is both happy and worried.

Happy about the money coming in, but also worried about not being able to keep the business and committing a crime, Lin Yun didn't care. He is a world-renowned poet and former imperial poet, who would dare to trouble him.

At the foot of the Son of Heaven, in the most important place in the capital, no one dares to take other people's property openly, but there are also hidden ones, not to mention that Lin Yun offended the children of many honorable and high-ranking officials, if he is smart and leaves the capital as soon as possible. He, Lin Yun, dared to stay here, there were many people queuing up to deal with him.

Soon someone approached Lin Yun to cooperate with him. Lin Yun was reluctant at first. He knew the huge profits in the perfume glass best. He could share Jin Shanhai with some soup. Love, but not willing to let others take advantage of.

The other party is also cunning, and designed a few traps to cause trouble for Lin Yun's business, and then came forward to be a favor. They also studied Lin Yun's temper. The adoptive daughter of his master ran into him by chance.

In this way, Lin Yun is almost married, not to mention grateful.

Have a few banquets and take Miss Dong's family as concubine. Lin Yun also thinks that Dong's family has the foresight to see that his future is not limited to this.

Jin Shanhai faintly felt that it was too much a coincidence, but he was just a small businessman with a lot of ways, so he couldn't tell whether the Dong family was good or bad. What's more, the relationship between the Dong family and Lin Yun is now closer than him.

After becoming in-laws, Lin Yun was quite generous, but he just gave a few shops to his own women. Besides, he had a lot of business ideas in his mind.

In less than two months, the perfume glass industry changed its surname to Dong, and then, Lin Yun was dismissed by the Dong family and kicked out of the management.

Miss Dong didn't come back after returning to her mother's house. Someone brought a letter and a letter of departure. Lin Yun almost fainted out of breath when he saw it.

The things he worked so hard to produce turned out to be wedding dresses for others.

The attached Lin Yun has become a joke in the capital. Lin Yun was charged with false accusation and spent several days in prison, but it was Jin Shanhai who spent money to get him out safely.

The honorable nobles of various families used this to teach their own daughters who were still thinking about Lin Caizi before. She is talented but has no ability and heart. What is the difference between it and an embroidered pillow.

Being hit twice in a row, Lin Yun had no choice but to leave the capital with Jin Shanhai frustrated.

Jin Shanhai soon separated from him. He was a businessman and had to travel around, and he didn't have the energy to deal with Lin Yun. It was okay to make friends, but let's avoid the rest. He is also very emotional about the ups and downs in the capital.

However, who is to blame for falling into this situation.

Zhao Xin knew this because the glass and perfume business had changed hands several times, and was now in the hands of an imperial merchant. The new owner was smart and not only presented the glass manufacturing technology to the imperial court, but even the perfume shop, as well as the capital branch. 30% of the profit goes to the princess' mansion, 30% belongs to the queen's natal family, and 20% goes to other honorable families.

This new owner was originally an imperial merchant from his ancestors, and he was the best at this. He only kept 20%, which was enough to earn inexhaustible money. Let the eldest son of his family enter the Guozijian, one of the two daughters in the family married to the Chengjun Prince's Mansion as a concubine, and the other married the youngest son of the Hubu Shangshu family.

It can be said that it is not shrewd.

It's not surprising that Lin Yun stumbled hard. In fact, it is the same fierce routine as modern commercial competition, different methods, but the same core, and by the way, it is covered with a layer of beauty tricks.

Maybe Lin Yun didn't know yet, but the Dong family lady he took in was originally a dancer raised by the Dong family.

Otherwise, the biological daughter of the Dong family will be given to a down-and-out talent as a concubine?

The imperial merchant dared to pay filial piety to the princess's mansion, and he did not dare to hide anything about this enviable business.

Zhao Xin originally wanted to push back the 30% profit. Her fiefdom received a lot of tax and salt, and she was not short of money, but the queen persuaded her, saying that she spent a lot of money building a medicine hall in the south of the Yangtze River, and His Majesty knew about it. She just keeps it.

The development of the Jiangnan medicine hall is just right, and this is due to Zhao Jin's acquiescence. The flood in the south of the Yangtze River just a few years after he took the throne reminded him that natural disasters are easy to rescue, and people's hearts are unpredictable. The disaster situation, the delay in disaster relief, and the embezzlement of relief funds, Zhao Jin was so busy that he didn't have time to get angry, but he was so tired that he was dizzy.

Beheading a few people is a temporary solution but not the root cause. Zhao Jin really does not want such incidents to happen again.

Later, I noticed that Luohe supported the Jiangnan Medicine Hall built by Wei Shaosi, and he had some thoughts. Of course, Zhao Jin didn't have any hope for the Jiangnan Medicine Hall at first, and Wei Shaosi and the students he recruited had nothing but medical skills Zhao Jin didn't even think about the weak doctor who didn't know anything else about curing diseases and saving people, let alone intrigue and calculation, monitoring Jiangnan officials, collecting evidence and so on.

He only hopes that once a disaster occurs, the price of rice and medicine in Jiangnan can be stabilized, and even if there is a problem, the news can be sent back to the capital as soon as possible.

The Jiangnan Pharmacy mainly supplies the common people, and there is no expensive medicine. With the support of Princess Luohe and the court, it can continue to open.

In the past three years, although Zhao Jin did not see the effect he expected, he saw the people's praise for Jiangnan Medicine Hall. The main talker of the medicine hall is Wei Shaosi, and even Princess Luohe is hidden behind the scenes, and outsiders only know that the reason for supporting the sponsorship is because the two have a very good personal relationship.

Zhao Jin didn't point out the imperial court's brand name, just to avoid those who want to use the excuse of the imperial court to compete with the people to frame the imperial court.

He only talked to Zhao Xin about this matter, and he didn't get involved in the Jiangnan Medicine Hall. From the beginning to the end, it was Luohe and Wei Shaosi who worked hard to build the medicine hall. He just saw the benefits of the medicine hall to the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

It is enough for Luohe to get involved in this matter, and others will not say anything about Luohe, competing for profits with the people? But the medicine hall has been in the south of the Yangtze River for three years, and Luohe has been practicing in the Taoist temple, and everything is done.

The happiest thing among them is Wei Shaosi, and he is unwilling to delve into the thoughts of the higher-ups. He is already satisfied with being his doctor, curing diseases and saving lives, and he has nothing to do with being a high-ranking official, rich salary or family reputation.

***

It has only been three months since Chunwei, because of Lin Yun before, Zhao Xin paid attention to the imperial examination.

She once thought that after Lin Yun failed to hook her up, he would go to the imperial examination honestly.

Probably because Lin Yun struggled too much and it was short-lived. Not to mention talented scholars from all over the world, three of the four masters of the capital alone participated in this year's imperial examinations. Three years have passed, and Zhou Ge's grandson Zhou Mingjia was released two months ago. His son, Song Anshi, was still in the Hanlin Academy, while Tan Yuze, the grandson of the dean of Yunshan Academy, married the county magistrate of Jin'an and worked in the Ministry of Rites.

When Zhao Xin came to visit the queen in the palace one time, Zhao Jin chatted with her about the imperial examination. Speaking of the last exam, some candidates lived in a ruined temple outside the city because of their downfall. It was cold at night, not only failed to take the imperial examination, but also lost his life.

After Zhao Jin heard about it that time, he also felt sad. The imperial examination was supposed to take the talents of the world for the country to use, but he didn't want anyone to die because of it.

It is reasonable to say that when one gets a job, the prefecture and county where they live will have granaries, so they will not be so poor that they can’t even afford to live in an inn. Sudden illness and loss of money or encounter with unkind people.

Zhao Jin was also troubled by this.

Zhao Xin casually said that some ordinary resorts could be built. During the spring period, they are specially for poor families to live in, which is the emperor Long En.

Zhao Jin thinks it is advisable. There is still enough time now, even if there is a place to accommodate bricks and tiles, it is better than missing the opportunity of scientific research because of these foreign objects, and it is difficult to serve the country.

Zhao Xin also suggested a few words, but didn't ask the emperor what he did afterwards.

She has been focusing on the training of the princess guards recently. She has 500 guards, of which 80 are selected by the imperial brother Zhao Jin from his Yulin army to present to Zhao Xin. As for the others , martial arts slightly inferior.

When they were at Qingyuanguan, Zhao Xin specially trained them and let them learn some boxing and martial arts. Recently, they invited a general Huwei to guide them in the camp in the suburbs of Beijing.

Of course, Zhao Xin doesn't need anyone to protect him. Instead of wasting these guards, he might as well train them well.

The general who came was surnamed Gu, because he had a little friendship with Zhao Xin because of the Baiyao developed by the Jiangnan Medicine Hall. Seeing her is not as cold as seeing other dignitaries, and even thanked Zhao Xin for that.

If you were a courtier and prince, you might have to tremble with fear if you met someone in the army, but Zhao Xin is just a princess, and no one would be afraid of anything.

After observing the process of training soldiers in the barracks, Zhao Xin suddenly remembered that there were still some things left in her alchemy furnace of Qing Yuan Guan, and she didn't know whether she should take them out.

As Zhao Xin said, Zhao Jin ordered people to build a few guesthouses. Although they are not comparable to inns, they are clean and tidy, with basic necessities of life, food, housing and transportation, and they are specially for the children of poor families to live in.

If it is built by others, it is suspected that there is a possibility of wooing candidates, or the scholars are lofty and arrogant, and do not want to be eaten by others.

But if it was built by the Son of Heaven, it would be completely different. They went to Beijing to rush for the exam in order to become disciples of the Son of Heaven. Naturally, they would like to live in these hotels.

Some really embarrassed Hanzi felt dissatisfied, accusing those people of taking up the lodging opportunities that the emperor had pity them for.

Someone immediately suppressed the signs of bad behavior, and there was a story about a kid from a rich family giving up a room in the inn to give a room to a poor family.

Things are going well.

Scholarly Lin also praised Zhao Jin a lot. The Holy Lord, Long En, protects the poor in the world.

Zhao Jin smiled slightly in the court hall and said that this matter was suggested by Princess Luohe.

Zhao Xin was a little surprised to be rewarded unexpectedly, because no matter whether it was to implement this suggestion or to let people guide a healthy development from it, it was the imperial brother Zhao Jin, and she really didn't do much.

But since this is all done, Zhao Xin doesn't mind proposing to build libraries everywhere. As for money, didn't it just happen that the imperial court took over glass as a technology, and the Ministry of Industry improved its purity. After it was mass-produced, it was sold to the barbarians in the north.

The construction of some library buildings is not only conducive to win over the hearts of scholars, but also really beneficial to the people.

As for Lin Yun, who did not take the imperial examination and did not succeed in making a fortune, after returning to his hometown of Jiangzhou, he had experience in the capital, so he did not dare to come up with any novel ideas to do business rashly. Or something else, by relying on poetry to win the heart of a local wealthy daughter, the family didn't know Lin Yun's reputation in Beijing, and saw that their daughter seemed to be drugged with ecstasy, so they had to compromise if they wanted to marry Lin Yun.

However, before the marriage, he had made enough preparations to deal with Lin Yun, a small juror. As for the flower that he took in, he had given medicine early to prevent her from giving birth. .

It wasn't long before his new wife became pregnant.

Lin Yun came up with an idea, although he could not be a winner in life, his son could.

He decided to work hard to raise his son, and by the way, he also dispelled the idea of ​​having three wives and four concubines. There are some clues about him, but she won't tell them about her husband and wife. Apart from being slightly indifferent to him, there was nothing wrong with it.

***

After the imperial examination, it was the emperor's 30th birthday, and a banquet was held in Qianyiyuan, including the officials and their families, as well as the concubines in the palace.

On the queen's birthday a month ago, Zhao Xin made a portrait of the pregnant queen. It was like a Guanyin in a temple.

So I also want Zhao Xin to draw him a picture, although it is a very reserved hint.

Zhao Xin is also straightforward, "Since the emperor likes it, then Luohe will draw a picture."

"However, it will take me a long time to paint this painting, Brother Huang, you can wait for a while." Zhao Xin smiled slightly,

Zhao Jin said with a smile, "Okay." He asked someone to fetch the pen and ink the princess needed,

Hearing that Princess Luohe painted the painting for the Holy Majesty on the spot, many courtiers and concubines came to see it. Although the Queen's Avalokitesvara statue has been heard, not many people have seen it, and they don't think the painting is so good. It's just what the queen wants.

I'm afraid this time it's just to please His Majesty, the brothers and sisters love each other.

When the painting is finished, there will be no blind people to criticize and spoil the scenery, everyone thinks self-righteously.

The queen knows that Zhao Xin's painting skills are extraordinary, even if Zhao Xin wasn't the one who painted the Guanyin statue, she would have kept it privately. It's a pity that she is heavy and can't move around, so she can't see Zhao Xin painting with her own eyes.

I had no choice but to smile at Zhao Jin, "Your Majesty, if the painting is ready, you are not allowed to keep it privately, and you have to let the concubine look at it for a few days."

Before I wanted to see the Queen's Avalokitesvara, I bumped into Zhao Jin who was ashamed: "..."

It's hard to raise girls and villains.

Soon the palace people put out a long case, requiring more than 80 kinds of paints, pens and inks, which are obviously not ordinary paintings. The drawing paper alone is tens of feet long, which is surprising.

Zhao Xin didn't care about other things, and immediately painted.

However, it seems that it will take a long time to paint, and there are many fewer people watching, and most of the people standing beside them are people from the Hanlin Academy or the Painting Workshop of the Imperial Palace.

When Zhao Xin first started painting, they could still smile calmly and appreciate and encourage them with the eyes of the younger generation. After all, they are royal princesses and young people, so it is not easy to be willing to spend time on painting.

But when the outline gradually appeared, the faces of the people in the Imperial Academy and Sihuafang began to look cautious. After being cautious, some people frowned slightly, while others were stunned.

The frown is because this painting technique has never been seen before, and it is different from the several popular painting techniques at that time. It is because even if the painting technique is different, it is by no means ordinary. All are top-notch.

Whether it is concentrating or laying down a pen to sketch, it is extremely amazing, and changing the pen and ink is even more smooth, even a painter who has studied the art for decades can't compare. And Princess Luohe's painting seems to be isolated from the surrounding silk and bamboo string music, with interlacing cups of wine, noisy singing and dancing, and a peaceful and detached world of her own.

The onlookers were all at least fifty-year-old old men, but they didn't feel tired and numb from standing. Instead, they were full of energy, staring at the painting that was being completed without blinking.

After three glasses of wine, seeing that there was still no movement over there, Zhao Jin asked Chen Neishi beside him, "How long have you been painting Princess Luohe?"

Chen Neishi replied respectfully, "It's been two hours."

Zhao Jin frowned slightly, and the first thing he thought of was not the painting, but, "Will Luohe be tired after so long?"

Although he envied Zhao Xin's painting of the Avalokitesvara for the Queen, but this painting is not important to anyone, so what if it takes too long. Zhao Jin wouldn't really regard his royal sister as a painter, Luohe is a royal princess, painting or something is enough as a leisure hobby, it's really laborious, and he feels distressed as a royal brother.

Zhao Jinzheng is very worried, and is going to find an excuse to make Luohe stop painting, and when he draws again in the future,

Zhao Xin put down the pen, "It's done."

However, none of the people standing by the desk spoke. They were so quiet that it was unusual. Those who saw it felt strange.

Here Chen Neishi heard a message from a young eunuch, turned around and smiled at Zhao Jin, "Your Majesty, the painting of Princess Luohe is ready."

Zhao Jin stretched his expression and smiled, "Okay, order people to unfold."

"I will watch the painting of Princess Luohe together with you."

Hearing His Majesty's words, everyone at the banquet looked over, and the laughter continued, and they sighed in their hearts that His Majesty loved Princess Luohe so much that he even made a painting so solemnly.

Zhao Xin's warm and smiling voice sounded like pearls, "This is Luohe's birthday gift to the emperor, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains."

The attendants unfolded the scroll and presented it in front of everyone, only to see the undulating mountains and rivers in the painting, the vast rivers and mist, the majestic and majestic, familiar and shocking.

There was silence on the field, and the words of praise that all the officials had prepared suddenly became speechless, and all the original thoughts in their minds disappeared without a trace.

Zhao Jin was the one who was most shocked. What others saw was how beautiful the painting was and how amazing his painting skills were, but what Zhao Jin saw was Daxi's thousands of miles of land and mountains, and the world he ruled for.

And he got up and left his seat and walked down to the painting, which did not surprise anyone.

Yin Cheng, the head of the Imperial Academy, said the first sentence after a long silence, "A good painting, a peerless painting."

It is both amazing and sighing.

The master of Sihuafang, who watched the painting of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", also sighed with a smile, "We are lucky to see a famous painting handed down from generation to generation."

Because of these words, everyone seemed to wake up from the shock of the painting. They did not expect that Princess Luohe, who usually does not show her mountains and dews, has such amazing painting skills.

Before seeing the paintings, everyone thought that Princess Luohe's paintings were just ordinary flowers, birds, fish and insects, green landscapes, but they didn't expect it to be Daxi Jiangshan. Let me ask, who dares to draw a picture of Jiangshan easily.

Not only did Princess Luohe draw it, but she also painted it unparalleled.

Such broad-minded vision, talent and determination, no one would expect to see it in a princess.

But now I have seen it, and I am shocked and admired by it.

No one will begrudge praise after seeing this painting, Zhao Jin said solemnly, "This "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is the best gift for me, Luohe, what reward do you want?"

Zhao Xin's eyes are light, "Although the mountains and rivers are beautiful, it's a pity that the Luohe River has never been visited, and one can see my Daxi's thousands of miles of mountains and rivers."

Zhao Jin smiled and said in a hearty tone, "What's so difficult about this."

After seeing this painting, how could he bear to restrain Luohe in this little imperial city.