My life skills in Daming Liver

Su Ze copied the last copybook in the editorial department, and finally got a reminder from the system.

[The skill 'calligraphy' breaks through Lv5, please choose a passive skill! 】

[Skill 'Calligraphy' breaks through Lv5, gains a little free points, remaining free points: 2]

One gold and two green lights flashed before Su Ze's eyes.

Withdraw again?

[Golden Passive—Robblestone Street Style: Use bamboo to enter Taoism, and learn Zheng Banqiao's six-and-a-half minutes calligraphy. When using this font, calligraphy skill +5, charm +5]

[Green Passive - Proficient in Calligraphy: When copying copybooks, calligraphy skills +1, learning speed increased by 5%]

[Green Passive - Stele Learning Mastery: Calligraphy skill +1 when copying a stele, learning speed increased by 5%]

Su Ze looked at these three passive skills, and the golden one naturally chose gold!

But the calligraphy skill is actually related to the charm attribute?

The latter two green skills are actually the two development directions of Ming and Qing calligraphy.

Posts and monuments.

Calligraphers in the early and mid-Ming Dynasty liked to copy copybooks. The script style was the characters written on paper, mainly running script and cursive script. At the same time, "Song style characters" which were convenient for printing and Guange style for imperial examinations were also born.

But after the mid-Ming Dynasty, the predecessors had thoroughly studied all the famous copybooks.

To put it bluntly, it is to the point where there is no way to roll anymore.

From the end of Ming Dynasty, the Jinshi School began to appear in various fields of literature and art, that is, the Jinshi School of Textual Research.

Through the study of inscriptions, this school re-studied the fonts before Tang Dynasty, mainly Weibei and Lishu, and began to integrate these fonts into calligraphy, thus creating the stele style.

Therefore, the masters of calligraphy in the Qing Dynasty, such as Zhao Zhiqian of the Shanghai School, were often masters of calligraphy and engraving.

But under the trend of these two factions, many strange people also appeared.

For example, Bada Shanren, or Zheng Banqiao.

And this time, Su Ze's golden passive skill is Zheng Banqiao's life-long practice of calligraphy, and he created his own style of paving the streets with stones.

Su Ze picked up the brush and wrote four large characters on the declaration—it was rare to be confused.

I only saw these four characters crooked and crooked, and the strokes were scattered, but the whole looked like a painting, especially the strokes also incorporated the skills of drawing bamboo, each of which was very round and elegant.

Su Ze put down the brush. He had also seen the four characters Zheng Banqiao on many fans. His calligraphy skill was only Lv5, and if he counted passive +5, that would be Lv10. He could only be regarded as the level of a folk master.

As long as your calligraphy skills reach Lv10, you can reach the level of everyone in the world when you write this picture again.

Just when Su Ze was about to put away his words, Fang Ruolan just opened the door and came in.

When she saw Su Ze holding a brush, she knew that he was practicing calligraphy. Fang Ruolan knew Su Ze's hard work in practicing calligraphy these days, but why did he write big characters?

Walking over to take a look, Fang Ruolan let out a gasp when she saw only four crooked words that were rare and confused.

At first glance, these four words can be said to be extremely ugly, even similar to children's graffiti.

But if you look closely, you can see that there are strange rocks and ups and downs in the font.

These four characters are strange but seem to hide the strength of character, the more you look carefully, the more powerful the characters are.

Fang Ruolan seemed to see straight bamboos growing out of the strange rocks. This was not only a word, but also a painting with exquisite composition.

Looking at the writing brush in Su Ze's hand, and at the characters with wet ink, Fang Ruolan asked:

"Which master's work are you copying?"

Which Grandmaster? The Grand Master has not yet been born.

Su Ze put down the brush and said, "This is the inspiration I got when I was painting bamboo, and I incorporated it into calligraphy."

"It's rare to be confused, it's rare to be confused."

Fang Ruolan is also a calligraphy lover, and she has never seen such a font.

He read the four words "rare and confused" again, and felt that these simple four words contained the great principles of life.

She couldn't help but said, "Can you give me this painting?"

"If Mr. Fang likes it, just take it back."

The more I look at it, the more I feel that there are still deficiencies in it. The calligraphy skills of Lv5+5 are really not up to the master level, and this calligraphy has only learned the superficiality of Zheng Banqiao.

But for Fang Ruolan, this is already quite a shocking good word.

Su Ze picked up the copybook on the desk again, handed it to Fang Ruolan and said, "Master Fang, I have finished copying this copybook, thank you."

Fang Ruolan took the copybook and asked, "Have you finished studying?"

Su Ze nodded confidently and said: "Although the subtleties still need to be figured out, I have generally learned it."

Seeing Fang Ruolan's suspicious expression, Su Ze picked up another piece of paper and wanted to write a poem in Guange style.

When he picked up his pen, Su Ze's literary skills had reached Lv5, and the famous poems in those textbooks were all in his mind.

But after traveling to this era, Wen Chaogong has nothing to copy.

Otherwise, those scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty would not give up writing poetry and go to writing Zaju.

It's just that the predecessors were too amazing to be stunning, and any poems they wrote would be blocked by the light of Tang and Song Dynasties.

Su Ze thought about it, and it seemed that only this poem could be copied.

He grabbed his sleeves, picked up a pen and wrote:

If life is only as it was first seen, why is the autumn wind sadly drawing a fan.

Waiting for leisure to change the old heart, but the old heart is easy to change.

The Lishan language is half past midnight, and the tears, rain, and bells will never complain.

How about Bo Xing Jin Yilang, who will wish for that day.

After finishing writing, Su Ze looked at his handwriting quite proudly.

Lv5's handwriting is indeed much better than Lv4's, which is considered good among the scholars who participated in the county examination and township examination, and it will not be dismissed because of poor handwriting if it is used to participate in the tribute examination.

In the final analysis, the imperial examination is still a test of the Four Books and Five Classics, not a calligraphy competition.

Ming Shuke was something that was only available in the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty. Jinshi's calligraphy is fine as long as it is not ugly.

Of course, if the handwriting is not good, it will also be laughed at by the same year and the superiors.

For example, Fang Zhifu practiced calligraphy hard because his handwriting was really bad, and his daughter despised him at home.

Fang Ruolan looked at Su Ze's pavilion style, but it was about the same level as her father's.

Why is this guy improving so fast?

Thinking of Su Ze's rare confusion, is this guy really a calligraphy genius?

Fang Ruolan's handwriting is good, but she is not a genius, but the result of hard training since childhood.

Her uncle is a calligraphy genius, and before he passed the exam, someone came to ask for calligraphy.

Fang Ruolan's eyesight is naturally not bad, is it true that people should treat each other with admiration for three days?

Fang Ruolan's attention quickly shifted from words to poems.

The artistic conception of this poem is so high!

Fang Ruolan once organized a poetry club, and her poetry skills are quite good.

After reading the first sentence, Fang Ruolan felt his heart flutter. Nalan Rongruo's poem is quite terrifying for the lethality of literary and artistic young women.

Fang Ruolan read it twice, and felt that this poem was extremely wonderful.

Bi Yi Lian Zhi is an allusion of Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei, but the sadness and sadness in this poem, could it be that Su Ze was abandoned by others?

Fang Ruolan glanced at Su Ze lightly. She had heard from her father that Hai Jiao said that Su Ze's father was a great Confucian who died early before he could get a degree.

Fang Ruolan imagined a whole story about Su Ze being engaged since childhood, and after the death of his father, the other party's snobbish eyes regretted the marriage.

After brainstorming for a long time, Fang Ruolan had tears in the corners of her eyes.

Su Ze looked at Fang Ruolan suspiciously, he coughed and asked, "Master Fang, what about my handwriting?"

Oh, yes, yes, it's reading words.

Fang Ruolan quickly praised: "Young master Su has really entered the country very quickly, and it is no problem for you to take the provincial examination."

After saying this, Fang Ruolan sneaked a gossipy glance at Su Ze again, trying to see the sentimental expression on his face.

Su Ze looked at Fang Ruolan inexplicably. He thought that Fang Ruolan asked for writing again, so he said, "If Mr. Fang likes it, you can take this writing as well."

Fang Ruolan was startled, send me?

Wait, this is a love poem.

Fang Ruolan was a little confused. Could it be that Su Ze saw that she was disguised as a man?

"Don't forget it."

"I want I want!"

Fang Ruolan quickly grabbed the wet paper, her ears were blushing, said goodbye to Su Ze in a hurry, and rushed back to the back house of the government office.

Su Ze was puzzled. Isn't it just two words? As for running so fast? Could it be that if I promised her, would I still ask for it?

Although Fang Ruolan was influenced by her uncle since she was a child, she was a bit deviant in doing things, but this time her boldness still exceeded her bottom line.

After returning to the boudoir, Fang Ruolan read Su Ze's poem again, and felt a little numb all over.

Thinking of the plot of Peony Pavilion again, does Su Ze have such a "predecessor" from a family of officials?

Fang Ruolan suddenly felt a little sour.

She hid the poem, and looked at the rare and confused words again.

Yes, it's rare to be confused!

Whether he has or not, Su Ze is not engaged now anyway!

Fang Ruolan called for the personal maid.

"Miss."

"Help me find the best papermaker in the city to frame this picture."

Fang Ruolan said again: "Quick!"

The maid went out with the words in her arms, and called the boy at home, telling him to hurry up and send them to be framed.

Just when Fang Ruolan was out of her mind and forgot to prepare dinner for Fang Zhifu, Su Ze picked up the ledger and took stock of the newly purchased store ledger.

Naturally, all the old members of the Cai family have been dismissed, and of course Su Ze is not going to continue to open the dyeing workshop.

After the emergence of various strong chemical dyes, dyeing workshops gradually withdrew from the daily life of residents.

Su Ze plans to repurpose these shops for other purposes.

These shops are "two rooms in the front and four floors in the bottom", which is Wu Dalang's kind of house with two rows of front and back yards. Daming's shops basically have this layout.

The upper and lower floors of the store in front are pavements, and the house in the back is a residence. The Cai family used to be the shopkeeper and lived in the back house with his buddies.

The back house is also divided into upper and lower floors. It was on the second floor that Pan Jinlian opened the window and formed a relationship with Ximen Qing.

Such a house for both commercial and residential use is only discounted by one hundred taels of silver. Although the seven shops are not in the best business district, their locations are not bad. Compared with later generations, the house prices in Daming are really affordable.

However, shops of this type rarely circulate in the market, and shops in good locations are heirlooms.

Su Ze has also been shopping on the street these days, but he couldn't think of what kind of shop to open.

The seven shops are not all dyeing workshops, one of them is Cai's bookstore, which is the bookstore that helped Huang Shihang sell the pirated version of "Surprise".

Su Ze took a look. This bookstore was similar to Yujia Bookstore, but the business was taken away by Yujia Bookstore.

It's no wonder that Huang Shixing took the risk to print a pirated version before. Without the drainage of "Surprise", the Cai family's bookstore would not be able to operate.

Su Ze plans to keep this bookstore. Lin Deqing has been working at home for a while, and has a good understanding of the bookstore's business.

However, Lin Deqing and Yu Zongyuan signed a two-year contract, and it is inconvenient to call him back now. Let the book be spread out first, which can be regarded as an extra sales channel for Pai An Jing.

Su Ze was a little uncertain about what the remaining six shops sold.

The population of Nanping County is only so large, and the retail industry is basically saturated.

Just like the four shops of Yu's family, except for the book shop which became popular because of "Surprise", and the cloth shop which was popular because of the newly dyed cloth, the remaining pickle shop and rouge shop were half dead.

Without epoch-making blockbuster products, there is no way to grab new customers from stable customer relationships.

Take the Rouge shop as an example. Yu’s shop also has a few old customers who maintain a good relationship. As long as new products are available, the staff will send small samples to these old customers’ homes. If the customers are satisfied, the goods will be delivered directly to their door.

Su Ze didn't dare to underestimate the business skills of the people of the Ming Dynasty. The old shops that can run for a long time in the county these days are all shops that have been in business for a long time, and they have already had a set of business experience rolled out.

It's not just downstream customers. Daming doesn't have 1688, let alone a small commodity distribution center. If you want to buy something, you must first have a source of goods.

Is it possible to sell salt and sugar?

If this thing is sold in a shop in the city, it will naturally be taxed, so it is better to smuggle it to make money.

Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

Su Ze was still worrying about happiness, and Chen Chaoyu came to him again.

"Can the tea garden be transferred?"

Chen Chaoyu nodded and said: "The Cai family was in a hurry to make a move, so they ordered the county government office, and they can sign the contract right away."

"So fast?"

Chen Chaoyu said in a low voice: "The Cai family died of illness too quickly, without making a will, and the two sons are fighting for property?"

"Is it so difficult to divide the property of the Cai family?"

"The two sons of the Cai family are both legitimate sons. Cai Yuanwai's wife has passed away for many years and has not been remarried. Naturally, the family property must be divided after the death of both parents."

No wonder, when Chen Chaoyu was a lawyer, the most lawsuits he fought were property disputes.

However, most of the lawsuits do not need to go to court, as long as they can be mediated at Shenming Pavilion.

It's not a big family. After the death of the parents, the property is basically divided. Even if it is a big family, if the son who has no inheritance rights is divided out, the parents will usually give a sum of money to share part of the property, just like Yu Zongyuan.

Cai Jiaxianda was only one generation old, and the clan had not yet been established. When Cai Yuanwai died, concubine Ji ran away with the family property, and then the two sons began to fight for property.

"Will it affect our transfer of ownership of the tea garden?"

"No, no, the tea garden's money has already been divided, and the two sons each have half, but Su Xianggong should go to the tea garden to have a look first."

"It's better to register clearly with the county government, so don't cause disputes in the future."

Su Ze nodded and said, "I'll go to the tea garden tomorrow and invite Brother Chen to go with me."