Gao...其? He, he is actually the Grand Marshal Gao Qiu?

Wu Haogu was shocked when he heard this name: He is the golden thigh given to him by God?

Or maybe it was just a coincidence?

Wu Haogu thought about it carefully again, and Gao Qiu just said that he was a minor official under the governor of the governor of Wang. The "governor of Wang" he mentioned should be the prince-in-law who left his name in history, but had a bad luck in the officialdom for his whole life, and the governor of Dengzhou, Wang Shu.

Wang Shen himself was not lucky. What kind of golden thighs are his servants? At best, it is a seedling of golden thighs.

As for what happened to happen, Wu Haogu didn't believe it. The population in Kaifeng Prefecture City of the Northern Song Dynasty was over one million. What a fate it would be to meet "Taiwei Gao" among millions of people?

Therefore, the appearance of Gao Qiu is probably not a good thing for Wu Haogu today. It is probably because of the treasure of Luo Shizi!

Of course, it is definitely not Gao Qiu himself who wants treasures... the treasures of things are rich and precious, so those with virtue live in it!

Gao Qiu is far from being a "virtuous person", and his unlucky master Wang Shen is a famous fan of calligraphy and painting... No matter how unlucky Wang Shen is, he is also the prince-in-law who is a nobleman from the general. He is a person who cannot afford to be punished by businessmen like Wu Haogu.

Now there is no baby, and there are more people who want it. This trouble is getting bigger and bigger!

"Xiao Diwu is so old and works in the Panlou Market."

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu respectfully bowed to the future "Taiwei Gao" and reported his name.

Gao Qiu nodded with a smile, as if he wanted to continue talking to Wu Haogu.

Just then, someone suddenly shouted: "Wu Dalang, why are you still here?"

When someone called him "Wu Dalang", Wu Haogu could only smile bitterly in his heart. Looking back, he saw a Taoist priest dressed up with a green lotus on his temples. He was shorter than Wu Haogu and walked quickly along the Maxing Street. He shouted at Wu Haogu from afar, looking very anxious.

The person who came was named Liu Wuji, who was a candidate Taoist who was "no certificate". He had "cultivated immortals" in a small Taoist temple outside Kaifeng City. He entered Kaifeng City three years ago and also hang out in Panlou Street and Maxing Street. Fortune telling, catching ghosts, drawing talismans, watching Feng Shui, selling medicine, and calligraphy and painting private teeth are all his activities.

Because he has a very good joke, and he is a little familiar with Wu Haogu, and he is also familiar with calligraphy, painting, and literature. He is very familiar with Wu Haogu before his soul was replaced. With Wu Haogu's care, he often does some errands and inquire about the Wu Family Painting Zhai, and exchanges some hard-earned money for living, and sometimes he can get some small businesses and earn some commissions.

At this time of weekdays, Liu Wuji should find a place to spend supper in Panlou Street Market.

Panlou is located east of the palace and west of the Sang Family Wazi. It is the closest to the palace in the middle of the 72 main stores in Kaifeng Prefecture (a hotel that can be brewed and sold). Therefore, it has become a place where high-ranking officials and nobles often come and go, and high-ranking officials and nobles are the main buyers of literary, calligraphy and painting.

Therefore, Panlou Street east of Panlou has become a gathering place for antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and beads, silk and fragrant medicine shops. There are also many eagle shops in the south of the street, specializing in selling eagles, falcons and birds. However, these shops selling cultural, calligraphy, paintings and birds do not open from morning to night, but open every morning and night.

During the day, many food stalls will be set up in front of these "good" shops, selling food such as sheep heads, belly lungs, red and white waists, milk houses, crispy honey food, sand dumplings, gum fruits, honey-fried paintings, etc. Because they are setting up stalls along the street, customers are also ordinary people who are seeking life or traveling in Panlou Street, Maxing Street, and Sangjia Wazi, which are naturally cheap and good.

Liu Wuji, who had no family in Kaifeng Prefecture, mostly had dinners resolved at snack stalls on Panlou Street. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the habit of eating three meals a day had begun to become popular in metropolis, but the meal time was different from later generations. Usually, one meal at noon, one meal in the evening, and one midnight snack after night.

After dinner, Liu Wuji would do some small things such as inquiries or running errands on Panlou Street. Today, Liu Wuji came to Maxing Street without even having to eat dinner, which was obviously an urgent matter.

Wu Haogu hurriedly sang to Gao Qiu, then left the teahouse and quickly walked forward.

"Brother Yi, what's wrong?"

"Xiao Yi Ge" is a market name, just like Wu Haogu's "Wu Dalang". During the Northern Song Dynasty, whenever a family travels with big families, it would be called "big" or "one". Because "一" and "一" are homophonic, "小一" would be called "Xiao Yi".

Like Wu Haogu, Liu Wuji was both the eldest son in the family, so one was called Liu Xiaoyi and the other was called Wu Dalang.

Liu Wuji said anxiously: "Dalang, something happened to your Huazhai again. I was looking for food on Panlou Street just now, and I saw Zhao Sanheizi taking someone to the Wu Huazhai, saying that he wanted to seek justice for a friend who accidentally bought your things. Why don't you go back quickly?"

Wu Haogu heard about it and immediately gritted his teeth.

"Thank you, Xiao Yi, I'll go back now."

After saying that, he pulled his feet and left.

Liu Wuji looked at Wu Haogu's back, shook his head gently, and sighed softly. He was about to follow him, but someone said behind him: "This little Taoist priest, please walk slowly."

Liu Wuji stopped and turned around and saw Gao Qiu standing next to Wu Haogu's strange easel, waving to him. So he hurriedly walked up and bowed and asked, "Is there anything that the great official?"

Gao Qiu said, "I forgot Brother Wu's easel, so why not send it back to him."

"Thank you for the reminder of the great official."

Liu Wuji responded, went forward and put away the easel. Gao Qiu carefully took the charcoal strip painting stuck to the wooden board, and followed Liu Wuji towards Panlou Street.

On the way, Gao Qiu asked, "I'm down, Gao Qiu, don't you know the name of Gao Jun?"

Liu Wuji said: "The tall official, Liu Wuji is the small one."

Gao Qiu asked, "Brother Liu, what is the secret of this Wu Family Painting Zhai?"

"Sold a fake."

"Fake it?" Gao Qiu burst out laughing, "I'm very careful."

Although merchants in the Song Dynasty were generally honest and counterfeit goods were relatively rare in most industries, the antique, calligraphy and painting market was an exception. Just like the mixed counterfeits in the art market in later generations, there were also very serious fraud in calligraphy, painting and antique transactions in Kaifeng, the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Northern Song Dynasty calligraphy and painting market was flooded with fakes, with the number exceeding the authentic ones a hundred times. According to Mi Fu, one of the four Song sects, in "History of Painting", "Li Cheng's original works were seen in two copies, and three hundred copies were fakes", "Wu Daozi's original works were seen in one or two copies, but three hundred copies were fakes were seen in three hundred copies."

Mi Fu himself, who wrote many incidents and methods of fraud in "History of Painting", is actually a master of fraud. He often borrows calligraphy and paintings from friends, copy them, returns them to copy them, and keeps his original works, thus leaving behind a bad reputation. There are countless scholars and doctors in the Northern Song Dynasty who commit fraud and fraud like Mi Fu.

The participation of these literati and doctors also caused the government to basically ignore the fraudulent calligraphy, painting, and art. Most of the fake calligraphy and paintings were scholars, and some of them also had official positions (Mi Fu was an official, and he was a great artist from a general school), while most of the deceived businessmen were wealthy, so there was nothing to investigate.

Gao Qiu's master Wang Shi was also a master of fraud. Mi Fu "exposed" in "History of Calligraphy". He once saw with his own eyes that "Wang Shi dyed the "Eequ Tie" he copied Wang Xianzhi to make old, and then pretended to cut the postscripts from his book and followed him." He also said that Wang Shi "was copied Yu Shinan's posts and pretended to make postscripts from ministers."

As a minor official of Wang Shi and a former official in Su Shi's mansion, Gao Qiu naturally would not regard for forging calligraphy and painting by famous masters as any crime.

"The fake one is nothing," Liu Wuji also said, "but Wu Dalang's father was originally a calligraphy and painting official."

Guanya is a certifier (economician, middleman) who is licensed by the government. He is responsible for "buying" for the government (actually it means forced to buy) items. He also manages market order and is the leader in the corporal industry.

The Northern Song Dynasty had a developed business, and private teeth (unlicensed) were rampant, but there were not many official teeth. The calligraphy and painting official teeth in Kaifeng Prefecture were even more amazing. Not only did they have to "buy" calligraphy and painting for the palace, the royal palace and the government office, but they were also responsible for participating in the appraisal of calligraphy and paintings collected in the palace, with a very heavy responsibility.

Moreover, calligraphy and painting officials cannot be done with a way. It is a job that relies on your ability to make a living. Therefore, those who can become calligraphy and painting officials are all the people in Kaifeng's calligraphy and painting business. I don't know how many wealthy "good dealers" spend a lot of money to invite them, but there will inevitably be things that are wrong.

"This is not very clear," Gao Qiu said with a smile. "It is not easy to fake, but it is even more difficult to recognize fakes. Even big experts will inevitably misunderstand it and just handle it according to industry rules."

In the Song Dynasty, all industries had their own rules, and calligraphy and painting business was no exception. There were rules to follow when the counterfeit was discovered and when the pseudo-track was wrong. Moreover, these rules were very beneficial to calligraphy, painting and calligraphy businessmen... These rules were originally set by them!

"But the matter involved the palace..." Liu Wuji shook his head repeatedly, "If you want to withdraw, the Wu family can't afford such a lot of money for the time being."

"How could it be?" Gao Qiu asked with interest, "The calligraphy and paintings bought in the palace are not very expensive, at most thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. If it is a fake, the purchase price is at most thousands of dollars. Will a calligraphy and painting official not afford to lose?"

A shredded coin is a string of money that is connected into strings. Each string should theoretically have 1,000 copper coins. However, the Northern Song Dynasty caused a "money shortage", so a shredded coin was only 770 copper coins. At this time, the rice price in Kaifeng Prefecture was about 60-90 copper coins. If calculated based on the intermediate digits, a shredded coin was about ten shredded coin.

A few hundred pieces of money are certainly a huge sum of money for Xiaomin, but it is not a big sum of money for the martial artist who opens a painting stairs in the market in Panlou Street.

In addition, the officials of the Song Dynasty were not particularly rich. Most of the time, civil servants kept their pockets fixedly and did not dare to spend money randomly. Therefore, the money that can be used to collect is not much, and they cannot afford to buy too expensive treasures. Thousands of thousands of shredded goods are already sky-high for the palace.

Liu Wuji shook his head and said, "The great officials don't know that this time, seven paper calligraphy and paintings will be withdrawn from the palace at the same time, with a total of more than 50,000 pieces. He also arrested the Wu Da officials and Wu Dalang into the Kaifeng Prefecture prison. This Dalang came out more than ten days ago..."

"This..." Gao Qiu's face changed, "So someone is going to frame the Wu family!"

Liu Wuji nodded and said nothing.

The Wu family was indeed harmed by others, and it was also very harmful!
Chapter completed!