Siheyuan: Stab at Louzi at the beginning

Chapter 930 Calligraphy and Painting
Good teeth mean no freeloaders.

"Then shall I recommend a place for you?"

Lin Haojie suddenly offered to introduce a job, and Xu Damao was a little confused.

Logically speaking, the Li family is a military family, and the Lin family is a larger military family than the Li family.

"You don't want to send me to the border, do you? I admire people with ideals and ambitions who are willing to go, but I can't do that. I don't like to endure hardships."

"It's a waste of your talent to use a gun to risk your life. This is the inspection office of the hospital office. It's not unfair to you, right?"

Which hospital is this?
Li Xuewu said, "Inspection Office, how high is this official? Why does it sound like he is not even as high as the captain of the guard beside my father?"

Xu Damao:......

"If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."

"Forget it, forget it. That's not a place I can go. I used to be a small character in charge of raising chickens. No one would believe me if I were asked to inspect. I think I am the least qualified among the few of us."

"You are underestimating yourself. You are very popular now. Many people are optimistic about you. Not to mention an inspector's office, it is not impossible for you to be a deputy in the General Office..."

Xu Damao:......

"Goodbye, goodbye, that kind of place is not where I should go."

After Xu Damao clearly expressed his refusal, Lin Haojie did not try to persuade him any further.

If he had stayed in the guard corps for three years, he would have been able to get into the office, but unfortunately a small accident happened.

Now that you've gone out of the border and come back, don't even think about starting from the inside. You can only start from the outside.

These are two different ways.

"Then is there any place you want to go? Now that you and Tianjiao are officially married, our relationship has taken a step further. Your business is my business, and we should make progress together."

In terms of agriculture, there was a good harvest this year and no one died of starvation.

No matter how difficult the place is, we can guarantee two meals a day.

Industry... that's it for now. Without the help of the Russians, stagnation is certain. Two batches of urban workers have been optimized in the past two years, and it is estimated that there will be a third batch next year.

The reason for this is industrial stagnation.

And Xu Damao couldn't help much in this regard.

"I don't know what I can do now. I just graduated from Capital University with a degree in economics. I have learned so much economics-related knowledge, and I can't let it go to waste."

Lin Haojie glanced at Xu Damao, but could not see any expression on Xu Damao's face.

He gets a headache whenever he hears words like "economy", "finance", "currency", "finance" and "offshore".

"What's so good about those virtual things? And those 'stocks' and 'futures', aren't they just scams? What's the use?"

Xu Damao really had no way to explain this kind of question to Lin Haojie.

If you don’t understand, you don’t understand. If you don’t believe, you don’t believe.

Don't think that there are no "futures" and "stock speculation" now. Chiang Kai-shek made money by speculating in stocks in Pudong. Later, he lost all his money and even his underwear as a banker. If he had not gone bankrupt, perhaps the world would have developed differently.

"You can understand this as a means to control the money in everyone's hands and to make everyone more stable. In short, for us, this is a good thing. If we contribute one part, we can enjoy ten parts of the benefits."

"What you said is quite mysterious, but I still believe that down-to-earth real industry is the hard truth. No matter how much you spend, it sounds like castles in the air to me, like bubbles."

Xu Damao really wanted to give Lin Haojie two books so that he could learn more about this subject.

Ye Fan took the initiative to speak: "What Damao said makes sense. There is one more point. The essence of stocks is to buy low and sell high, just like when you are gambling and being a banker. If you can control the price, you can play however you want, but it doesn't work here."

You can cut as much money as you want.

Lin Haojie was too lazy to listen to this: "Think about it carefully, I won't keep you any longer, I'm leaving."

Lin Haojie stood up and left, and the people who came with him also left. Xu Damao and Li Tianjiao saw them off.

The final thank-you banquet lasted until midnight.

When I married Lou Xiao'e, there was not much gift money.

But today is different. The two of them were looking at the account books in the room, which was considered to have broadened their horizons.

The gift money is only ten or eight yuan, but the gifts that come with it are all very valuable.

Ming Dynasty furniture.

Official kiln porcelain.

Famous calligraphy and paintings.

There is nothing wrong with saying these are baby.

No one gave gold, silver or jewelry.

What is there to say?

Good things are valuable at all times.

Official kiln porcelain is not valuable just because of its hundreds of years of history; it would have been equally valuable hundreds of years ago.

Things that ordinary people simply cannot access.

Just like the bowls you use for eating at home, they are also made of porcelain. Even if you keep them for a thousand years, they are still bowls for eating and are still not valuable.

Although some official kiln porcelains in second-hand and antique shops are sold for 50 yuan each, which sounds cheap, you have to consider the current workers' wages.

Taking the steel rolling mill as an example, the average monthly salary for each person is 30 yuan, so a piece of porcelain is equivalent to two months' salary. If you do the math, the price increase is actually not that big.

Antiques are in prosperous times, gold is in troubled times. Now that the troubled times have just ended, it is normal for the prices of antiques to have increased a little.

Most people today are just trying to fill their stomachs. If you have enough money to buy a few pieces of porcelain in a second-hand and antique shop, you can still buy them as you like in the future, as long as your family has not fallen on hard times.

Just keep the gifts that Xu Damao received today intact, and he will be considered a rich man in the future.

"Whose two paintings are these?"

One is "Cold Plum Blossoms Blooming in the Snow" and the other is "Three Friends of Winter".

The signature is Zhang Rongqing.

"Zhang Rongqing?"

“Is there such a great historical figure?”

"Don't you see the time above? It's this year, and today. It's like this painting was made especially for our wedding as a gift."

Xu Damao suddenly realized.

"So this 'Zhang Rongqing' is Zhang Wang. He also has a courtesy name. He is a cultured person."

As mentioned before, the courtesy names should be relevant. "望" can be understood as "to see", and "容卿" means the look of seeing, which can be understood as wishing that everything you ask for will come true.

"Then what does it mean that he specially made a painting as a gift?"

In the past, when intellectuals visited friends, they would bring elegant gifts, such as the common four treasures of the study: brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones, as well as musical instruments, chess, calligraphy, and paintings. It was even more common to give each other paintings, calligraphy, and folding fans.

In short, in a place where 'there are great scholars talking and laughing, and no unlearned people coming and going', you won't just bring two pounds of pork head to the door.

"Who knows? To show off that he can draw?"

"To be honest, the artistic conception of these two paintings is actually very good. They have a solid foundation, at least they have been immersed in this art for many years."

(End of this chapter)