Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 705 Luxury
Xiao Ling'er smiled sweetly: "Since the day I returned to Chang'an, there have been a lot of people who have inquired about these things intentionally or unintentionally. Husband thought who could ask me about it. They are all poets and painters at home, and they don't even bother to travel. Aristocratic daughters who walk a few steps. They must know what new clothing materials are on the market, and they definitely don’t know what a pier is.”

"What else do you want to ask?"

"Among all the plans, my husband has no finalized docks, warehouses, or workshop areas."

After Xiao Ling'er finished speaking, Xie Xing'er added another sentence: "It seems that the sage has asked the corresponding officials. The four major ports, the nine small ports, and the addition of several canals mentioned by the husband, etc., the elders of the Xie family are already satisfied. Know."

"Well, except for me, no one knows the truth about these harbors, and the saint only knows a small part. It seems that I'm going to get drunk several times in the past few days."

Speaking of drunkenness, Dugu Lanruo is completely sober by now.

Dugu Lanruo said to Liu Mu with a smile: "It's the first time I let go of drinking today, and only then did I realize that your husband can't drink."

"No, how much did you drink?"

After Liu Mu asked, Baoqin hurried over to interrupt: "Mr. Lang, the princess should go to bed early. Tomorrow is the first day of the new year. There must be a family banquet at home. This is the first formal family banquet after moving here. The princess will be very happy tomorrow." tired."

Dugu Lanruo also smiled, and motioned for Xie Xing'er to accompany Liu Mu back to the house.

Liu Mu wanted to ask Dugu Lanruo how much she drank, but Xie Xing'er forced her to leave.

In the past, Xie Xing'er would not have dared to think about pulling Liumu like this, but now it feels more like a family, and there is nothing to worry about when there are no outsiders.

Inside the room, Dugu Lanruo covered her mouth and smiled.

Xiao Ling'er stood up and saluted: "The concubine has also gone to rest."

"Go." Dugu Lanruo waved her hand.

Baoqin then said: "Your lord will get drunk after drinking half a catty. If you want to let him know that princess, you drank a full catty and a half catty tonight, what will you think?"

"That's true." Dugu Lan Ruoxin said if Liu Mu felt that his drinking capacity was not as good as that of his wife, would he feel uncomfortable.It seems that it is right to hold the piano in the way. When I talk about it tomorrow, I will say that I drank seven taels.

One catty in Datang is 16 taels, so half a catty is eight taels, and seven taels is less than half a catty.

Baoqin took out another not-so-thin booklet and handed it to Dugu Lanruo: "Princess, this is written by Xiao Erling. It is a detailed record of New Year's rewards. There are 97 people who need to be rewarded by you personally, of which 11 People, a great reward."

Dugu Lanruo took the booklet and opened it to read.

The handwriting is elegant and the format is clear. It is obvious that Xiao Ling'er made a draft and re-transcribed it after detailed classification and calculation.

"Princess, Xiao Ling'er, the chief stewards of the three weaving workshops, suggested that the rewards should be generous."

"Well, her suggestion is good. The spinning workshop here in Chang'an will combine the three workshops into one, and then two of them will take the main weaver girl to go south to Cixi in the next year. Then tell them to go down, and there will be another reward for those who are willing to go south, Cixi All the food, clothing, housing and transportation over there will be arranged in the first year."

Baoqin nodded and took a notebook to write down.

On the other side, after Liu Mu returned to the room, he hesitated and asked a very stupid question.

"Then, wouldn't it be a pity to spend a lot of money to make a piece of clothing and only wear it a few times before throwing it away?"

That's right, this sentence is the mentality of a dick. As a code farmer in his previous life, if he threw away a piece of clothing worth tens of thousands of yuan after only wearing it a few times, Liu Mu would probably go crazy.

"Yes!" Xie Xing'er gave Liu Mu an affirmative answer and explained: "Take me for example, there are five types of clothes, one is casual clothes, the other is house clothes, the other is casual clothes, the other is formal clothes, One is banquet clothes."

"Room clothes are the most commonly worn at ordinary times. They are worn for at least [-] days a year. House clothes are important things at home. If there is a chance to go out to play, then change to a different line of clothes. If it is a night banquet in the Tai Chi Hall, it must be a special order for a long time in advance."

Willow nodded in understanding.

Xie Xing'er said again: "This kind of extremely precious and unwashable items are divided into extremely precious banquet clothes, banquet clothes, dress clothes, and line clothes from top to bottom. As far as I am in Xie's family, only the level of banquet clothes is extremely rare. Precious. The gowns will be washed and carefully stored, and then taken out when needed.”

"I see."

Liu Mu did understand that a rich family like the Wang family in Taiyuan didn't have special banquet clothes, but wore old ones for the Taiji Palace Night Banquet. This kind of thing is quite embarrassing for the top nobles.

"Husband, there are still two occupations in Chang'an City. Since Chang'an has become more and more prosperous, these two occupations have also increased."

"What is it?"

"Both are called clothes collectors. But there are differences and similarities. The same thing is that they both have superb skills in cleaning, repairing, and color correction. The difference is that one is to clean and store high-quality clothes for big households, and the other It is to buy old clothes, and then use them to repair, clean and sell them to poorer nobles."

Liu Mu didn't expect Datang to have such a profession.

Liu Mu asked, "Then what about the price?"

"Wear only once, and if there is no obvious stain, the price is [-]% to [-]%. Because it does not need to be cleaned, the buyer can use it directly. But almost no one sells it easily, so if it has been worn three times, the minimum price is [-]%. The maximum charge is [-]%. The actual selling price plus [-]% is used for cleaning and other expenses."

After hearing Xie Xing'er's speech, Liu Mu smiled and said, "Big nobles, middle nobles, and minor nobles."

"That's the reason." Xie Xing'er told Liu Mu another thing related to Liu Mu, but Liu Mu didn't know about it. "Husband, the long dress that the princess wore back then was only worn once. A wealthy merchant in Chang'an doubled the price to buy it. Later, the princess rewarded Princess Jindeman of Silla, but Jindeman sold the long skirt for five years. Baiguan."

Liu Mu was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Where's the skirt now?"

"In the home of a silk merchant in the south of the Yangtze River, I heard a rumor that the merchant's wife and her sister were almost disfigured. The merchant didn't give it to anyone. He thought that the dress would be worth a thousand in a few years, because it was Datang's first cashmere dress."

"Hmph!" Liu Mu sneered twice: "I'm afraid it's because few people can wear it. The four lines of the skirt are completely customized according to the size of the princess. Kinderman is just thinner. If her figure is fully grown, it will be fine. It’s impossible to wear it. If you want to change a skirt, ordinary weavers don’t have that skill.”

Xie Xing'er didn't answer: "Husband, don't ask about tomorrow's affairs."

"Tomorrow, what will happen?"

Liu Mu really didn't understand, tomorrow is the first day of the new year, after waking up, set up a few tables, prepare some good dishes, and then eat dumplings.

what can happen?

(End of this chapter)