The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 847

"Sketch is a painting method that is easy to learn but difficult to master. Compared with the Danqing painting method that focuses on artistic conception and charm, sketch focuses on realism. It uses realistic means to express the shape, structure, dynamics and space of all things in the world vividly. "

At the end of the morning court that day, Yang Tong in regular clothes explained sketching techniques to his eldest daughter Yang Xifang in the Colored Silk Hall. Of course, this was just incidental. , corn, tomato, spinach, cocoa, onion, Jerusalem artichoke, lettuce, carrot, papaya, cabbage, strawberry, sweet potato, sunflower, peanut, pineapple, fig, apple, etc. The branches and leaves looked like they grew in the ground, and their mature styles were attached, and they were painted with good colors, and then "copied" for the eldest grandson Wugou, Lu Qinghua, and Xiao Yuexian who are good at painting and proficient in sketching.

These color sketches are the materials prepared for Zhou Shaozu, who asked for orders to sail. Yang Tong has already agreed to Zhou Shaozu’s adventurous sailing request, and asked the fleet to prepare for the voyage. At the same time, Zhou Shaozu and the main generals came to Daxing for training, Accept the task.

Yang Tong agreed to their request, but if he couldn't go, he would go back, and he had to bring back some crop seeds from the American continent.

Although Yang Tong doesn't know whether the fruits and vegetables he painted are all native to the American continent, it's always good to be prepared.Not to mention finding all of them, but as long as they find three kinds of high-yield grains: corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, the population of the Sui Dynasty will not starve to death due to natural disasters, and a super outbreak will be ushered in. Development, step by step to conquer, develop, and control this continent.

"Father!" At this time, Yang Xifang asked again: "What is realism, what is shape, structure, dynamics, and space?"

"Realism is to write the real object, without adding any artistic elements; as for the shape, structure, dynamics, and space, it can be called three-dimensional. Look at the corn cobs drawn by the father, which is obviously a piece of paper. But after drawing the shadow part, it looks like the real corn is placed on it. If you don't draw the shadow part, then the painting is still a painting, not like a real object. Any object that can be drawn on paper is the same, as long as the layers are clearly drawn With the three-dimensional sense, this object can be painted alive.”

Pointing to the censer with sandalwood curling from the side, Yang Tong said in detail: "Like this censer, all you can see is its front, and what you can't see is the dark side. Its front is easy to draw, but sketching The key is to draw its dark side in other ways, and the combination of light and shade will have a sense of layering and three-dimensionality."

Yang Tong didn't know whether it was right or not reasonable to say so, so he could only speak according to his own understanding, besides, his daughter was still young, so he didn't expect her to understand.

As for Changsun Wugou, Lu Qinghua, and Xiao Yuexian, Yang Tong didn’t teach much, but they had a high level of painting skills. They saw Yang Tong draw a few more times, and gradually learned it. As for why, they didn’t say anything. So yes.

Of course Yang Xifang didn't understand, she wanted to ask again, but seeing her father started drawing, she didn't have time to pay attention to herself, so she picked up a snail and painted the leaves of a plum tree in the 'sketch book'.

Luodai was very soft, making Yang Xifang's hands dirty.

"Fang'er, don't draw leaves..." Yang Xifang played like this, and Lu Qinghua's heart ached.

Yang Tong said: "The child likes to draw, so let her do it. Why do you care about her?"

"Of course I don't care if she draws anything else; the problem is that she plays with snails." Lu Qinghua said.

"so what?"

"Husband, Luo Dai is too expensive!"

"Fang'er don't worry about her, your father is not short of money. When the painting is finished, let's go buy it." Yang Tong comforted his almost tearful daughter.

Lu Qinghua gave Yang Tong an angry look, and directly quoted, "A snail the size of a longan is worth fifteen gold coins."

"I die every day, so expensive?" Yang Tong looked at the strip-shaped conch wrapped in a layer of paper in his hand in disbelief.

Lu Qinghua nodded: "It's that expensive."

"If you have money, you may not be able to buy it." Xiao Yuexian said leisurely.

Yang Tong was even more shocked. These days, whenever he was free, he painted the crops and colored the leaves of the crops. At least he used fifty or sixty snails. More than 1000 taels, the person who made this Luo Dai is simply stealing money, no, faster than stealing money.

He asked, "Whose property is this?"

Lu Qinghua said: "The snail is a thrush thing passed down from Persia, and it is very popular among rich and noble women."

Yang Tong was even more upset. He knew that the women of later generations would contribute billions to the cosmetics industry in Bangzi Country every year. Unexpectedly, it would be even more exaggerated in his Great Sui Dynasty. The goods are not enough to exchange a few things from others.

At this moment, Wei Fengwu came in wearing a dark green cotton coat, Yang Tong's eyes lit up immediately, and asked, "Xiao Wu, where did you get this dress?"

Wei Fengwu glanced at him, "How can a man stare at what kind of clothes his wife has?"

"I just think the color of your clothes is exactly the same as the color drawn by Luo Dai!"

"So what?" Everyone looked at Yang Tong strangely.

Yang Tong pondered for a while, then said: "Since we have dyed the fabric with the color of snails, we can theoretically make snails. If the domestic snails are all over the world, Hu merchants can't exchange us with snails less than a catty. There are dozens of carts of goods. If we want to get so many goods in the future, we must either bring the same amount of goods, or buy them with enough gold. Otherwise, we will lose a lot.”

"Why did you suddenly get into trouble with Hu Shang?" Wei Fengwu didn't know.

"Sister, it's like this..." Lu Qinghua was angry and funny, and told Wei Fengwu the reason.

"You don't understand!" Yang Tong shook his head and said solemnly: "The price of luodai in Persia may only be fifteen Wen, but in the Sui Dynasty it was sold for fifteen taels of gold. The huge price difference is not only the profit of the Hu merchants, but also There are silks, satins and porcelain made by the people of the Sui Dynasty. If they have enough transportation capacity, only tens of thousands of catties of snails can be bought in the Sui Dynasty. This is enough for their entire country to enjoy for several years, waiting for them to enjoy it It’s over, and I used tens of thousands of catties of snails to empty out the goods of the Sui Dynasty, and so on one after another, then not only the wealth of the Sui Dynasty was emptied, but the people were still their poor slaves.”

Wei Fengwu and the others also heard that Hu merchants would simply come here every time, taking dozens of cars away. If Yang Tong's algorithm was followed, and the problem of long distances aside, Da Sui was indeed fooled by Luo Dai. The danger of becoming pauper.

"Husband, what should we do then?" Wei Fengwu's sense of crisis was heightened.

"If Hu people's special products were all over the world in the Sui Dynasty, they would not be able to sell them for much money. Even if they made a little money, they would be lost on the long way. Then we will make money from them because they don't have the special products of the Central Plains. Wealth, let them be our slaves. Tell me, where did you get your clothes?"

"The Shaofu supervisor is in charge of all kinds of craftsmanship, and the royal dyes in the palace are of course developed by the Shaofu supervisor!" Wei Fengwu said.

Yang Tong came to a sudden: "No wonder I ordered endless tailors from the Shaofu Supervisor... It turns out that the Shaofu Supervisor even cares about trivial matters..."

Wei Fengwu retorted: "The court uniform represents the face of the Tian family and the face of the Sui Dynasty. This is not a trivial matter."

"You continue to draw..." Yang Tong picked up the scissors, cut a piece of cloth from the hem of Wei Fengwu's clothes, took a box of snails, and hurried to the Shaofu Prison under the queen's angry gaze.

Yang Tong is now a frequent visitor to the Shaofu Prison, and He Chou, who sits here, is not surprised. When he heard that Yang Tong was looking for dark green paint, he took Yang Tong to the warehouse where Chen put the dye. I found an area with more than a dozen large vats of dye powder, and said, "My lord, the dye you are looking for is here."

"What is this made of?"

"This is a pigment made from woad indigo, wood indigo, and indigo. The method is very simple. It is to collect the stems and leaves of these three plants in autumn and soak them in water until the leaves are rotten. When the leaves fall off and peel off, remove the stems and leaves. , add an appropriate amount of lime and stir well until the stems and leaves turn from black green to dark red, take out the liquid surface foam, dry it and grind it into powder. At this time, the woad is called Qingdai. , Fermentation, indigo making, refinement, water flying and other steps to make indigo. This is an ancient craft that has long been passed down among the people.”

"Is it spread among the people?" Yang Tong's face turned black. He used so many indigo daisies for painting, and he also knew that the reason for the softness of indigo daisies is the oil. The size of an eye, so enough to buy countless Daxingcheng Luo Dai was born.

However, the Qingdai powder, which is already available among the people, has not been further developed. It has allowed Hu merchants to earn gold for so many years. I really don’t know why the ancients’ brains are so rigid.

"Correct!"

"Give me ten catties of Qingdai, ten catties of the flower oil with the strongest fragrance! By the way, here is the altar of alcohol."

"Here." He Chou hurriedly asked people to prepare.

Copycat products from other countries are not original creations of later generations. As early as the period of Emperor Wen, the Sui Dynasty was engaged in research on reverse technology, and the most representative figure was He Chou.

At the beginning, Persia offered gold cotton brocade robes, carpets and other special textiles, which were very gorgeously woven. The imitation woven items were more exquisite and cheaper than the original ones according to the order; and the craftsmanship of making colored glaze has long been lost in the Central Plains. Carrying out reverse technology research on foreign things, man-made products are no different from natural colored glaze, so He Chou was appointed by Yang Jian as the servant of the outer cavalry.

Now he has even researched various kinds of low-cost glass, glass art poured out of molds, allowing Da Sui to earn a lot of money from Hu merchants.

After the craftsmen of the Sui Dynasty copied the village all the year round, and Yang Yu was behind the scenes to fuel the flames, there are actually very few products that Hu merchants can make money in the Sui Dynasty, and this Luodai is obviously one of them.

Yang Tong decided to earn Luo Dai's money.

Once a large number of counterfeit luodais hit the market, let's see what those Hu merchants use to earn Da Sui's gold.

When the things were ready, Yang Tong hurried back to the Caisi Hall with Shurawei who was carrying the things, and then drove away the outsiders. The snails, because he added a proper amount of alcohol, when he rubbed out a strip of snails, they quickly hardened and formed.

"Try it."

Yang Tong washed his hands calmly.

Wei Fengwu took a small amount of water and drew it on the paper with chopsticks. The resulting color was exactly the same as that of Persia snails. She was surprised: "It's exactly the same, with a touch of sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance."

The eldest grandson Wugou, Lu Qinghua, and Xiao Yuexian looked at Yang Tong, their red lips parted slightly, feeling unbelievable.

It took less than two minutes to go out, and when he came back, he 'changed' a large pot of priceless snails.

Amazing!

"Fang'er, Qingdai is not worth much anymore, you can only paint leaves from now on, your mother won't scold you anymore."

"Thank you, father!" Yang Xifang, who was cleaned up by her mother, smiled sweetly.

"..."

The girls looked at each other in blank dismay!

It seems that the impassioned rhetoric before was just incidental, so that the daughter will not be scolded for painting leaves, is the intention?
"What kind of powder is this?" Wei Fengwu was curious.

"The indigo powder extracted from the branches and leaves of woad, and the dark green cloth is dyed from it. I mixed it with sweet-scented osmanthus oil and made this pot."

"that's it?"

"Could it be?"

"Then we can make a lot of money again?" Wei Fengwu looked excited, like a young girl bouncing around, how could she look like a mother of the world and a mother of people?

The years are very gentle to her, even though several years have passed, there is still no trace of age on her body, just like the young girl back then, her complexion is fair and tender, as if dripping water.

Of course, she is actually not very old. In future generations, she will be a youthful college student at most.

"Are you short of money..."

"It's not bad, but it's interesting to divide the money!" The gold and silver sent continuously from the country of Wa have already piled up Yang Tong's personal treasure house, the Xuanwu City of Ziwei Palace, into a sea of ​​gold and silver. The wife is very generous, and the sisters are naturally not short of money, they just enjoy the joy of dividends.

Yang Tong asked with a smile, "How many 'You Feng Lai Yi' jewelry stores have you jointly opened?"

"Luoyang, Daxing, Yecheng, Zhuojun, and Taiyuan each have one."

"The women in the store are all beautiful and elegant, and they are more like ladies than ladies. Where did they get them?"

"It's a court lady who was dismissed at the age!"

"No wonder." Yang Tong nodded. It's good for the royal family to have their own property, lest they be like Ming Shenzong who was so poor that they couldn't even afford the 10 taels of silver for holding the year-end state banquet, so they had to humbly ask the Ministry of Households in charge of the country's finances. Borrowing money, it is said that it is not difficult for the emperor to ask the Ministry of Households to borrow money, not to mention that the amount is not large, and it is for entertaining courtiers and envoys from various countries.However, Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, refused.

Also being an emperor, Yang Tong felt the same way Ming Shenzong felt at that time. He pointed to the pot of indigo daisy and said, "I'll take it to your partner store and sell it later."

"Thank you, husband." Wei Fengwu, Changsun Wugou, Lu Qinghua, and Xiao Yuexian thanked happily.

"You make them the same size, and then sell one silver coin to seize the local market with the advantage of high quality and low price. If you still have Persian rotek after half a year, you must lower the price. You must use the advantage of high quality and low price to let Persian rotund It can’t stand in our Da Sui market, forcing those Hu merchants to spend money to buy our items, instead of exchanging luxury items for our daily products.”

"Here."

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