"The first brocade showman, Jinan Luo Yulu feather brocade"

With the loud chant of the newspaper attendants, Xiaoxiao sat upright without realizing it.

The ending sound of the brocade sound was long, and it kept resounding from the South Hall through the North Hall, and every word was clearly pronounced into everyone's ears.

The sound of the piano and zither has never stopped, which not only sets off the atmosphere, but does not disturb people's mood. Xiaoxiao stretches his head to look south. Seeing that there is no movement, he can't help but ask his father in a low voice: "The princess and the prince consort are in the north hall, and the participating merchants are in the hall corridor. Who are the people in the south hall? Could it be that they are all noble guests of the princess and the prince consort?"

According to the I-character writing method, the South Hall is much larger horizontally than the North Hall. The order of brocade exhibition is also the participants from south to north prepare in the side hall next to the South Hall. Then they go directly to the South Hall for exhibition, and then pass the long hall corridor all the way, and finally enter the North Hall to display the princess and the prince-consort.

Qifan whispered: "At this moment, the southern hall is full of Jinguan."

"Jin Guan?" Xiaoxiao heard this title for the first time, "Why didn't we see them just now?"

"They are the judges of this competition, so they are naturally not allowed to meet with merchants."

Oh~ It turns out that these Jinguans are judges.

"These brocade officials specialize in the weaving and embroidery of the palace, but are not responsible for compradors, so they are different from the Weaving Agency."

I understand, these Jinguans belong to the technical flow, and those compradors belong to the business flow.

"When the Qin Dynasty destroyed Shu, Jinguan was set up in Yili Bridge in Shu to manage brocade weaving, so Chengdu Prefecture was also called Jinguan City." Qifan's voice gradually lowered, and then he silently said two words: "Here you come."

When Xiaoxiao heard this, she turned her head and looked south. From a distance, she saw a red brocade slowly showing a red background color, woven in black and white gold to form a small ball of flowers. Because she was far away, she could not see the specific patterns clearly.

"The first piece of brocade weaving feathers and brocades to show off the brocade and magpies to the plum blossoms." As the newspapermen read, this large brocade was pushed by people and slowly heading north.

The whole brocade is tightened on the large exhibition frame in the form of a screen, and small wheels are installed under the exhibition frame. The waiters just need to push the exhibition frame like a cart and move forward slowly.

The exhibition format of this championship ceremony was uniformly arranged by the Prince Consort's Mansion, and the purpose was to turn people's attention on brocades, rather than flashy exhibition formats. Therefore, the thirty brocades in the audience will be exhibited in this intuitive screen manner.

Finally, this magpies climbing plum brocade came to Xiaoxiao’s father and daughter: the matte red background looks deeper, and the small patterns spread all over the picture make the whole picture more vivid. The pink and white golden plum blossoms occupy half of the circle of the small flowers, and two vivid magpies occupy the other half of the circle.

Some people in the audience also talked quietly, and Xiaoxiao also said to his father: "This magpie looks beautiful, just like it is real!"

"The so-called feather weaving is made of real bird feathers. The magpies you see are made of real magpies feathers, which are naturally like real." Qifan said.

Xiaoxiao was a little surprised when she heard this. How long does it take to weave a brocade like this? It will take several months.

It seems that the feathered clothes worn by the sisters at home must be very different from today's exhibits. The feathered people seen in daily life are often made of mixed feathers and silk threads. Even so, the price is often above 100 gold.

"The Luo family has better ones." Qifandao.

"Their family has more than one painting?" After Xiaoxiao said this, he suddenly remembered Chu Dianqiu's Qinyu. This time the Chu family might be exhibiting nine brocades.

"Each store has no clear requirements for the number of exhibitions, but generally it will not exceed twelve paintings."

Twelve paintings? Xiaoxiao looked at the magpies climbing plum brocade gradually being pushed to the north hall. If the twelve paintings of such pure feathers came to the twelve paintings, wouldn’t it take several years to weave them?

Xiaoxiao secretly observed the merchants around him. Although everyone was satisfied with their responsibilities, they showed a look of surprise, but this expression seemed to be supported by a kind of peace, as if no matter how exquisite or beautiful these brocades were, they had nothing to do with their own home.

For example, the little girl from the Qiao family in Hangzhou has taken down the top orange from the top of the Fuju Tower and peeled it off for his father to taste...

"The second piece of feathers and brocades are displayed, jade flute is used to attract cranes"

Hearing this revelation, Xiaoxiao waited for the arrival of the second brocade with interest.

Perhaps because of my mood, the speed of the brocade behind was not as slow as the first brocade. The "magpies climb the plum blossom" just now really felt like it was just now.

Judging from Xiaoxiao's eyes, this "Jade Flute Attracts Crane" is more charming than the first one. The ink blue base is covered with water patterns. The design of the large ball of flowers makes the overall composition more elegant and clear. It consists of dark green, snow gray, and red gold to form pine branches, mountain stones and cave flutes. Two cranes in the sky come to hear the flute. One wants to collect the feathers and fall the other dances with the sound. The snow feathers are like deep mountains and clear clouds, and the ink feathers are like dreams in the dark night. The vermilion red pine top on the forehead and the vermilion spikes on the flute are complemented by the fun.

Xiaoxiao was stunned: "Such brocade can be framed as a painting for worship." For a moment, I felt like I was looking forward to it, "How can the brocade of others surpass the Luo family? This has clearly reached its peak."

Qifan asked with a smile: "Since it is so extreme, how about Xiaoxiao doing such a business?"

Xiaoxiao thought carefully: "How much is the price of such a thing? Who can I sell it to? From collecting raw materials, designing patterns, and completing fabrics, it is difficult to count the manpower, material resources and hard work."

In modern times, this is a super limited edition luxury item. The difference is that these luxury items in front of you can be considered real goods, all of which are woven by real feather gold. It took the weaver hundreds of days and nights to weave one piece.

Unlike modern times, even luxury goods are full of bubbles. A certain brand-name metal jewelry with an ugly design dares to sell more expensive than gold. What the rich people are competing for is not aesthetics, but rich.

The ancients were much more elegant.

In Xiaoxiao's opinion, such a feather work is not much sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver.

"The Luo family's brocade is only for emperors and monks." Qifan smiled faintly, "The Luo family is not a businessman, but can only be regarded as a master craftsman."

No wonder these merchants don’t take it seriously, because they are really not comparable to the Luo family, but the Luo family will also occupy a quota. Therefore, everyone’s emotions are very complicated. They want to see more exquisite and wonderful works of Fengyu weaving, but they are afraid that they will be too exciting and will take the lead.

When it comes to taking the lead, every business has a faint sense of confidence. Originally, who can explain the aesthetics clearly? Just like the works exhibited just now, some people like magpies, while others like cranes, but they have different opinions.

Just and equally convinced are for the princess to listen to. There is no distinction between black and white and twists in aesthetics. Whoever can get the eyes of the Jinguans is that who has the good luck.

"It's really difficult to judge this competition. Will the princess and princess also participate in the judgment?"

Qifan nodded: "We also participated. For the sake of justice, all judges are not named."

In this way, this championship conference has tried its best to be fair.

As he was talking, he heard people exclaiming and looking at them with a smile. It turned out that it was the third feather woven exhibit that was launched and the hundred birds paid homage to the phoenix.

Because it is the composition of the whole side, this brocade looks more like a large painting, with the background of the giant Danyang tree, and birds are flying around the phoenix on the tree, with piety of worship.

Qifan whispered: "Such brocade can only be dedicated to the queen or the queen mother, and no one dares to use it."

Xiaoxiao nodded repeatedly, and for a moment he felt that the brocade was too lively and was simply dazzling.

At the same time, it was also expected that this ultimate work should be the last one exhibited by the Luo family.

Sure enough, I heard the newspaperman dragging a long voice in the distance and saying, "The second-ranked brocade is Suzhou Cheng Jinghe's brocade painting brocade."

In Xiaoxiao's concept, kesi is the most delicate silk fabric, and the colors are also the richest. Just one green can be divided into dozens of types. I remember that Aunt Ruan had a green kesi robe with the pattern of the pond spring grass, the stone green dark green lake green green buds green white green... It woves a particularly harmonious landscape picture deep and shallow.

With the sound of "The first picture of the brocade painting of brocade and prunes" sounded, a picture with a fresh style was slowly pushed out.

The color actually chose a light ivory white, with a fine picture of pomegranate. In order to pursue perfection, the picture adopts some surreal techniques, making the pomegranate flowers and the mature pomegranate appear at the same time. The pomegranate that is ripe to the extreme cracks its mouth, revealing crystal clear pomegranate seeds inside.

It's simply an art photography work.

"Is this painted?" When the brocade was pushed past Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao stared at her eyes and looked carefully for a long time, and she reluctantly retracted her gaze until the picture was pushed away.

"It's woven." The sailing trail.

"How can this be weaved?" Xiaoxiao has seen such exquisite silk fabrics before, but they were embroidered with Su embroidery techniques, which is different from weaving with a loom.

"You can weave it through the weft and weft through the weft." The sailing path.

Xiaoxiao looked up at everyone and saw the girl from Qiao family sitting not far away expressing her surprise. It seems that such kesi works are indeed rare. In modern times, they can be given gifts to other countries as gifts, which are at the national gift level.

"The late emperor once gave a picture of a kesi Buddha statue to the king of India to show friendship." Qifan introduced.

It seems that such works are also at the level of national rituals in this dynasty. Xiaoxiao asked again: "Will the monarch visit other countries in person?"

"Of course not," Qifan was not surprised that his daughter asked so naively. After all, the children of merchants rarely talked about politics. "Most of the gifts given to other countries are transported back to China by envoys from other countries."

"Are there many Chinese envoys in foreign countries?" Xiaoxiao asked in a low voice.

"Our business travel is spread all over the country, but it is rare for people to be envoys," Qifan popularized these seemingly distant knowledge for his daughter. "After all, the Yuanlong Dynasty is vast and boundless, and its prosperity is comparable to the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the past, so naturally all countries came to the court."

No wonder we can see so many foreigners in Kyoto.

Xiaoxiao whispered: "If only foreigners could participate in today's Championship Conference, that would be a truly eclectic selection."

Qifan smiled and said, "The idea is very good, but it's a pity that foreigners cannot supply goods to the palace. This is the rule."

Xiaoxiao remembered the Yao family who was framed by the Chu family. It was because it was suspected of supplying goods to the palaces of other countries and was sentenced to beheading the whole family.

It seems that you must be proficient in politics and law when doing business, or you may just be blindfolded and bumped into things.

The Cheng family later exhibited "Harmony Pictures" and "Baby Play Pictures", which once again demonstrated the exquisite technology of kesi. Whether it is the smiling Hehe Immortals or the lively and cute babies, they are all as amazing as realistic paintings.

"Dad, which one do you think the Cheng family's kesi has a greater chance of winning compared to the Luo family's Hayao?" Xiao smiled and took a sip of tea.

"Everything is strong enough, it's hard to tell the difference." Qi Fan looked at Xiaoxiao with his eyes, "What do you think Xiaoxiao?"

Xiaoxiao's voice was so small that it could not be as small as it was: "Everyone is strong enough, but not enough to be friendly to the people."

He raised his sail and listened attentively: "How can it be considered as friendly to the people?"

"If you want to be close to the people, you must first make the price affordable." Xiaoxiao shrugged, it was obvious that both companies just now could not do it.

As the two were talking, they heard again: "The third one who showed off the brocade, Feng Huaide, Lu'an brocade, Changzhi."

Xiaoxiao looked at the grandparents and grandchildren sitting opposite him: "Is the Lu'an Jin mentioned just now the Lu silk from Shanxi?"

"This is the brocade that Xiaoxiao is friendly to the people." Qifan took an orange and slowly peeled it.

The price of Lu silk is indeed affordable and ordinary people can afford it.

"Lu silk is made of twill jacquard, so it is very strong and durable, and the weaving technique is not complicated, so all scholars and ordinary people can wear it." The description of the sail made Lu silk even more friendly. "The Book of Sui says: Nansong River, Northern Luzhou, and the whole world."

Xiaoxiao was a little excited when he heard this. He had no chance to see the real Lu silk in modern times, but today he could get his long-cherished wish.

Today's first Lu'an brocade shows the "Three Friends of the Year in the Cold". The colors are progressively blue, royal blue, sand blue, and moon white. The color matching is very comfortable and does not have a very jumpy color. Even the plum blossoms among the three friends are given an alternative true purple color. When paired with the blue bamboo and green pine, it looks elegant and lonely.

Although it is brocade, its luster does not flash or jump, and it is always a faint eggshell light. The more you look at it, the more you feel comfortable.

"The common Lu silk is simpler and more beautiful than today's Lu'an brocade, so the yield is higher."

Xiaoxiao looked at the Feng family's grandparents and grandchildren sitting opposite him. Their expressions were as light and peaceful as Lu'an brocade, and they could not see any tension or joy.

"It can be seen that Mr. Feng is doing big business." Xiaoxiao analyzed seriously.

Qifan was amused by his daughter's words: "How can I see it?"
To be continued...