Since Tu Wu has been in the capital for two years, he has been wandering around without any trouble. He is more familiar with him than me. He usually does several business, and selling umbrellas is just one of them. Logically speaking, after two years of small business, the boy should have made a lot of money. But after asking, I was quite disappointed. It turned out that the boy made money and took it to Xiaojing City Guards, and wanted to do an errand first in the City Guards. However, he was sucked by the guild for two years, but he still didn't help him get things done.

That idiot, if he saved all his money for the past two years, he would give me his name Xiaojing once. Maybe I would immediately promote him to the general.

In desperation, the two had to discuss making money again. It was impossible to sell umbrellas for the time being. Now, I can only think of other ways. I don’t want to play in the antique market anymore. Those guys are all human beings. If you are not careful, you will suck them all.

"Master, why don't we go and sell private salt?" Tu Wu lowered his voice: "Although the profit of this private salt is not as good as in previous years, it is still quite considerable. With your martial arts, it will definitely be no problem."

"You idiot, sell private salt." I couldn't help but say angrily: "If you spend fifty taels of silver to resell private salt, you can come up with this bad idea."

Tu Wu couldn't help laughing awkwardly, and then another flash of inspiration in his mind: "Master, I heard that Mochouzhuang is collecting a large amount of high-quality cashmere, and the price is still good. My hometown is not far from the capital, and my family has been breeding cattle and sheep for many years. As long as we collect cashmere at a low price and resell it to Mochouzhuang, it should have good benefits.

My heart moved. Although this game cannot make a lot of money, it can also make profits and make profits. I know Mochouzhuang. The cashmere and cotton consumed in a year are simply a bottomless pit. Of course, in order to support the ordinary farmers around, Mochouzhuang did not create a man to do this on its own, but adopted the acquisition method, which would help revitalize the economic chain of Dawu.

He did it as soon as he said, and gave a letter to Tao Mansion. He hurried to Tuwu's hometown Xi County. When he arrived in his small town, he saw that the breeding industry was indeed developed. However, this was also the credit of Mochouzhuang. The production of clothing and the popularity of hot pot chain stores have driven the breeding industry in the surrounding areas, and the lives of the nearby people have become better and better.

However, although there are cattle and sheep everywhere, no one is willing to sell cashmere to us, including the relatives of Tu Wu, who refused. It turned out that there were special merchants who came here three times a month and collected the cashmere and mutton here cleanly. Because the merchant was still trustworthy and never owed silver. In this village, most people relied on the big merchant to surplus. They dared not sell cashmere to others rashly, for fear that the merchant would be angry and the cattle and sheep everywhere would not be sold.

Tu Wu and I were disappointed. I didn’t expect that the business is so difficult to do now. Tu Wu was still a little energetic and suggested that I go and take a look elsewhere. But since this is the case, there must be specialized businessmen occupying the other places. Isn’t that the same reason?

Since the cashmere business was not completed, I was about to go back home. My mother, I spent four days in vain. But Tu Wu said he was thirsty and went to his third aunt's house nearby to ask for water. The third aunt was also enthusiastic and brought us a bowl of cold boiled water. After drinking it in one sip, he really looked refreshed.

Suddenly, I noticed the bowl in my hand. This bowl can be said to be an old bowl, but the patterns on it are still bright in color. I couldn't help but turn it over and carefully identify the bottom of the bowl. I saw the vague words of the 83rd Kiln in Jingde in Wuwei Nian. Wuwei Nian said it was close, because he was the second emperor of this dynasty. But the second emperor has been around for 150 or 60 years. The 83rd Kiln is not a kiln, but it is also an official kiln after all.

It can be said that although this bowl is not as valuable as those famous kiln antiques that are truly worth a lot, it is also of some value. The most conservative estimate is that twenty or thirty taels can always be sold.

His third aunt took out this bowl to entertain people and drank cold water, obviously not knowing the true value of this bowl. My heart moved and said, "Aunt San, I think your bowl looks very good. Why, what's the bowl you use at home?"

"Where is this bowl? The last time I cleaned up the house and turned it out of the corner. I just saw that it was not broken yet, so I used it. I asked the guest to laugh." Aunt No. 3 replied.

It would be nice to get some travel expenses. It would save you from running away for nothing. Then he smiled and said, "I think I like this bowl very much. Aunt San might as well resell it to me."

"Oh, look at what you said, isn't it just an old bowl?" Aunt San said generously: "Forget it for you."

I counted fifty cents and forced them to her. It was not that I was unwilling to give more, but I was afraid that she would be suspicious if she gave more.

After leaving the village, Tu Wu asked me strangely: "Master, why did you spend fifty cents to buy this bowl? Is this bowl an antique?" Tu Wu stayed in the capital for two years and did not understand these things like the country people.

As soon as I thought, the country people were not as cunning as those of the capital. Many ordinary people always had all kinds of strange things, either passed down from ancestors or picked up by accident. They did not know the true value of these things.

"Tu Wu, go and go to the nearby villages to go for a walk." I smiled.

"Master, didn't you say you wouldn't go and see it?" Tu Wu immediately followed me.

In this way, I wandered all the way from all rural areas to the capital. I usually went to shout and saw who had an old bowl of old calligraphy and painting. I was responsible for identifying them one by one. This is a job of scrambling gold in the sand. It is really not easy to find a slightly valuable piece of fun from the thousands of garbage goods.

So, it took me two days to come, but when I went back, I actually took me six days to go back. However, there were bags of messy things in the luggage on Tu Wu’s back, such as ancient chess, ancient vases, ancient bowls, etc. And I spent all my money on fifty taels of silver. But I was not lucky or something. After buying it all the way, most of them were ordinary goods, and the most expensive one was Aunt San’s bowl. I never found any valuable things.

But after thinking about it, I felt relieved. If those valuable goods can be found out at any time, then are those games still valuable?

I was too lazy to set up a stall to sell it at the antique market, so I went directly to the pawn shop last time and took everything as a slaughter. Although I could sell it in the antique market, I could sell it for more money and slaughter fat sheep. But it took too much time. It has been nearly ten days since I came out, so it's time to go back and take a look.

When the pawnshop Chaofeng saw that I was coming, he came up and called the shopkeeper out.

I was surprised that last time I came to the pawnshop as a good thing, it was understandable that the shopkeeper came out in person. But now, what I brought was just a bag of garbage, why should the shopkeeper come out in person?

"Master, we're meeting again." The shopkeeper bowed.

I suspiciously threw the goods I received from the bag to him and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, look at how much this bag is worth."

The shopkeeper did not refuse, so he looked at each item carefully. Every time he looked at it, he asked Chaofeng to record it. Seeing that the price he estimated was higher or lower than what I estimated, I couldn't help but ask. The shopkeeper also had questions and answers. The shopkeeper talked about the difference between each item in detail. A small crack and gap would cause the price of the entire collection to drop by more than half.

Although some collections are not very finely made, they are old and well preserved, so the price will be slightly higher.

The dozens of items were identified one by one, and my appraisal level rose a lot in a while. There were thirty-six small pieces of fun, and the total price was estimated to be 430 taels.

I was very happy. The trip was quite a lot. But thinking about the number of times, I had to identify hundreds or even thousands of garbage items every time. The master and apprentice ran between the villages. Thinking about this, the hundreds of taels of silver notes that were originally floating on my hands became heavy for a moment.

After I got the money, the shopkeeper expressed his wish to me. It turned out that he told his boss about my last incident and praised my outstanding understanding. I wanted me to join the pawnshop, but after studying for a few months, I transferred to the Hangzhou branch store to be a shopkeeper. The money I earned was one of the tenths by myself. The reward was great. For ordinary people, it was a rare opportunity. But for someone like me who had a very special status, I could only smile.

More than 400 taels of silver. It is more than enough to open an ordinary small shop. However, it is probably impossible for that small shop to generate a profit of 180 taels per month, so I had to give up.

The antique industry is indeed a huge profit industry. But the huge profits in it really make the industry very risky. Not to mention 400 taels of silver, even 400,000 taels of silver will be wasted. Moreover, we have searched all the rural areas near the capital, and then we want to make some of them. It is very difficult.

In the following numbers, I also learned the appraisal technique at Jixiang Pawnshop. There is a big difference between folk appraisal and court. The palace generally focuses on high-end collections. However, folk need more appraisal of medium- and low-end collections, which greatly enriches my knowledge.

On this afternoon, Tu Wu quickly found me and came to my ear in surprise and said, "Master, I have found a good way to make money."

I said impatiently: "What the hell is it?"

Tu Wu mysteriously put in my ear and said a few words.

“什么?”我双眼一瞪:“这也行?”
Chapter completed!