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- Zhao Ran will officially launch a special sale of calligraphy and painting works at the 15th summer auction of Jinbo Auction House three days later.
He didn¡¯t have enough time to plan this painting and calligraphy exhibition. If compared to later generations, the quality was obviously much worse. But in this world, this innovative way of selling paintings and calligraphy is enough to attract countless art lovers.
The second half of Jinbo Auction House¡¯s auction is dedicated to calligraphy and painting works, which brings together sixteen works from the Ming Dynasty, Xia Kingdom, Tubo and some small countries in the Western Regions.
At Zhao Ran¡¯s insistence, Princess Rou¡¯an shyly took out two paintings to participate in the photo shoot. Her identity is there - the niece who is very popular with the Empress Dowager Liang, and her painting skills are indeed exquisite, so the transaction price is actually equivalent to the two famous Xixia masters at the same auction, which were sold for 230 taels and 311 respectively. At the age of twelve, he became one of the famous painters of Xia State.
In the entire auction, the most eye-catching thing is an authentic work by "Mountain Guest", a calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty who has emerged in recent years. The work is a banner, five feet long and two feet wide. It is written in regular script "Poetry of the Peach Blossom Immortal". It is said that it was written by a drunken mountain guest.
¡°In Peach Blossom Temple in Taohuawu, there is a Peach Blossom Fairy under the Peach Blossom Temple. The Peach Blossom Fairy grows peach trees and picks peach blossoms to sell for wine money¡¡±
The poems are straightforward and simple, and even use a lot of spoken language, but the words are smooth and the artistic conception is fresh. The meaning of the wild and scattered meaning hidden in it is really a bit of the true meaning of a drunken immortal.
Therefore, as soon as the book was released, the bidding price reached new highs. The bidding started from two hundred taels, and the rich and powerful from all walks of life competed to buy it. It soared to one thousand, eight hundred taels, and was finally won by Princess Rou'an.
In good conscience, Zhao Ran really did not arrange for the gunman to pay the price this time, so Liang Xingxia was very surprised and said that he did not understand or understand Cheng Dong's business experience.
In fact, the reason is very simple. Zhao Ran has self-esteem and wants to be ashamed. He really wants to see what price his calligraphy works can be sold for, so he can't do the kind of thing that later generations did by finding many people to raise the price of his works. Shameful thing.
What makes Zhao Ran happy is that the transaction price was not deliberately high by Princess Rou'an, but was achieved through fierce bidding - after shouting over a thousand taels, there were still five bidders raising placards as evidenced by this.
The culture and education of the Xia Kingdom was far weaker than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the number and wealth of pursuers and lovers of art were also far less than that of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, after the market price of this auction is reported to the Ming Dynasty, there should be an increase, and it is estimated to reach two thousand More than five hundred taels.
Such a price has actually pushed Zhao Ran to the top level of calligraphy and painting art, equivalent to the master of the national master.
After the auction, Princess Rou'an held an exhibition of Shanjianke's calligraphy works at the Jinbo Club, once again pushing Zhao Ran's calligraphy reputation to a new peak.
With Princess Rou'an coming forward to invite, and Gao Dayanei personally running the errands, the host lineup made it impossible for most of the invitees to refuse. Therefore, at the exhibition, hundreds of the most powerful and wealthy people at the top of Xingqing Mansion, literati, and famous calligraphers and painters participated in the grand event.
What caught Zhao Ran a little off guard was that two eminent monks from Gaotai Temple and Jietan Temple who had entered the Arhat realm came to watch the exhibition. These two were known as "elegant monks" who loved calligraphy and painting. He is well-known in the circle and has many contacts with Princess Rou'an.
After Zhao Ran found out, he quickly found an excuse and stayed away. He really didn't dare to show his face. The "Cheng'an" mask he was wearing on his face would be revealed immediately if he had a monk level or above and used his magic power to watch.
At the exhibition, a wealthy businessman from Yinzhou wanted to buy these nine calligraphy works in a package, investing 10,000 taels, but Princess Rou'an firmly refused. According to Princess Rou'an, the wealthy businessman had "bad intentions" and obviously wanted to sell it to the Ming Dynasty to earn a quick sum of money.
This offer was so astonishing that Zhao Ran couldn't hold it in doubt. He almost wanted to bring this wealthy businessman over to discuss it in private: Brother, for 10,000 silver, let alone nine pieces of calligraphy, I'll give you eighteen pieces. Do you think it's okay?
Of course, this is just a distortion. In fact, Zhao Ran does not dare to sell like this. Things are rare and valuable. If he is so careless and sells eighteen works in one breath, the selling price will immediately plummet, and the gain will not be worth the loss. .
The night after Shanjianke¡¯s personal calligraphy exhibition was held, Zhao Ran slipped back quietly from the suburbs, but as soon as he entered the club, he was blocked by Liang Xingxia.
"Chengdongjia, I will wait for you here all day."
"Hey, Brother Liang, is there something urgent?"
Liang Xingxia rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "This matter shouldn't bother the Chengdong family, but I really have no choice. The Chengdong family still remembers that last month, when we were discussing something together, a practicing monk came to me. ?¡±
Zhao Ran thought for a while and said: "Remember, what? He made things difficult for you? Brother Liang, don't worry, even if he is a spiritual practitioner, we are not afraid. Now, not everyone can do what Jinbo Society does.??Blackmailed. "
Liang Xingxia said: "This monk is not blackmailing at all. He is here to ask for advice. When the Snow Lotus was hyped, this monk used the temple's famine relief money to speculate on Snow Lotus"
When Zhao Ran heard this, he couldn't help but became happy: "This monk doesn't eat well and practice chanting, but he insists on speculating. He deserves to be punished. This is the kind of person who is being treated! Why do you still want to come to our Jinbo Club and go back?" We can't be found either. Don't worry about him!"
Liang Xingxia said with a bitter face: "This monk is not here to ask for money. He is here to ask me for ideas. He said that he must let me come up with an idea to help their temple survive this year's famine. Otherwise, the entire temple will be closed." They will all starve to death."
Zhao Ran sneered: "Isn't this different? Brother Liang, just leave it alone. I still don't believe it. How can you really starve to death while practicing in a Buddhist temple?"
Liang Xingxia said: "This monk said that if there is no other way, he will hang himself on the city gate tower."
What bothers Zhao Ran the most is the various "trouble" that threatens his own life and death, but he also knows that this kind of trouble is also the most powerful. In the final analysis, even if the Jinbo Group is not the initiator of this wave of snow lotus hype, it is definitely one of the masterminds behind it, and it plays the ruthless role of the terminator. You will never get clean under your hands.
Once this matter gets serious, for example, if this monk really fights to the death and dies on the city gate tower, it will be really disturbing. What happened that forced a monk who had reached the threshold of spiritual practice to hang himself? What role did Jinbo Club play in this matter? Do other monks practicing in temples have any ideas? Will Tenryuin come forward?
He frowned and said to Liang Xingxia: "Which temple does this monk belong to? Let them come to the temple to take people away. Tell them that if they don't take this monk away, we will go to Tianlongyuan to judge!"
Liang Xingxia sighed: "Chengdong family, I have been keeping an eye out these days and asked people to inquire around. This monk came from Tianmatai Temple at the southern foot of Helan Mountain. This Tianmatai Temple is indeed poor, and Not even a little bit poor"
At the moment, he explained the situation of Tianmatai Temple to Zhao Ran in detail.
Zhao Ranqi said: "Is the world really so big and full of wonders? How can you be so poor? You just said that their abbot is an eminent monk in the Arhat realm. How did he get away with it? If he just sells some elixirs, he won't be so miserable. .¡±
Liang Xingxia said: "It's so miserable. The money they used to hype up the Snow Lotus this time was the money they got from selling the elixirs, refining those elixirs, and pocketing the last bit of their temple's foundation."
Zhao Ran was angry and funny at the same time, and just found it incredible.
I just heard Liang Xingxia say: "I have been thinking about this for a few days. I really want to push a temple with spiritual practice into a panic. It's really hard to deal with the mess behind it. Mr. Cheng, why don't we give up some money and come out?" Is it just one thousand taels? Let¡¯s accumulate virtue and do good deeds.¡±
Zhao Ran shook his head: "This is not how to do good things. The so-called promotion of rice and hatred of rice, giving him money directly seems simple and easy, but there are endless troubles. When the time comes, our club will be relied on as a big customer, and the whole There are more than 200 people in Tianmatai Temple, how do you support them?"
These words were so insightful that Liang Xingxia couldn't help but feel dissatisfied. He sighed secretly, thinking that based on these words, if someone becomes the boss, he should be the boss, and he should be the shopkeeper.
Liang Xingxia followed Zhao Ran around three times, and suddenly heard Zhao Ran say: "Brother Liang, go and find that monk. I'll ask you a few questions."
"Hey." Liang Xingxia hurriedly went out, while Zhao Ran returned to the study, pinching his temples and thinking.
This year is the first year that the small country changed its name to Zhenguan. In order to show the "prosperity" of Daxia and the "prosperity and peace" of Xingqing Mansion, the edict specifically announced that there would be no curfew in Xingqing Mansion in the first year of Zhenguan, so Liang Xingxia did not After a while, the monk was brought to Zhao Ran.
Aslan received the gift respectfully, sat on half of his buttocks at an angle, and then straightened the other half of his buttocks under Zhao Ran's pleasant look.
As soon as he saw the other party's sitting posture, Zhao Ran roughly understood the other party's situation. It was indeed very bad. How many setbacks and blows does it take for a dignified practitioner, a monk who has entered the realm of a monk, to show such an inferiority complex in front of a businessman?
"This master"
¡°Young monk should not be called your boss like this.¡±
"What are you talking about? I heard that the master has entered spiritual practice. It is completely worthy to call him master. Have you eaten, master?"
Aslan shook his head and nodded quickly: "I've used it, I've used it."
Zhao Ran pointed to the waiter next to Aslan: "Then let me, master, try the homemade pastries from our Jinbo Club." He saw the monk's eyes staring at the dessert plates after he came in early in the morning.
Aslan said "Hey", carefully picked up a piece of shortbread and stuffed it into his mouth, then anotherand anotherand quickly finished all the pastries on the plate.
Liang Xingxia asked someone to serve another plate, and Aslan continued to eat
Zhao Ran waited until Aslan had almost finished eating before he said: "I invited Master here today because I want to understand the situation of Tianmatai Temple. I have never been able to think clearly about why your temple has eminent monks and great virtues, but is in such a miserable state. What¡¯s the situation? Don¡¯t other temples help? Doesn¡¯t Tenryuin care? Why build a temple in the Gobi desert in the first place?¡±
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Aslan said "Hey", carefully picked up a piece of shortbread and stuffed it into his mouth, then anotherand anotherand quickly finished all the pastries on the plate.
Liang Xingxia asked someone to serve another plate, and Aslan continued to eat
Zhao Ran waited until Aslan had almost finished eating before he said: "I invited Master here today because I want to understand the situation of Tianmatai Temple. I have never been able to think clearly about why your temple has eminent monks and great virtues, but is in such a miserable state. What¡¯s the situation? Don¡¯t other temples help? Doesn¡¯t Tenryuin care? Why build a temple in the Gobi desert in the first place?¡±
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