In the restaurant, these big landlords watched Wu Youcai leave. Because they didn't take care of it in the first place, Wu Youcai left, but no one could really say anything.

It's just that when these people stared at the big white bowl in front of them and recalled what Wu Youcai had said before, for some reason, they faintly felt that the air was becoming more and more 'sweet'.

"Lao Zhao, Your Majesty first looked for you, and you also gathered our group of people, what do you say about this?" asked a person.

"Lao Qian, what you said, I mentioned it to you at the time, didn't you also respond enthusiastically at that time?" Lao Zhao said.

"Didn't you come with Lao Sun at that time? How good it was, but now that King Yannan doesn't want it, can His Majesty's Weaving Bureau eat so much cotton?" said Lao Qian.

"Don't add me, Lao Zhao and Lao Li came to find me at that time!" Lao Sun said.

"I was also found by Lao Zhao!" Lao Li pouted.

"Eh, why did you find me? Xiao Zhou, Xiao Wu, Xiao Zheng, Xiao Wang, weren't you also very enthusiastic before? Why don't you talk now?" Lao Zhao was a little anxious.

"It's all up to Brother Zhao to ......decide," the four young people opposite said in unison.

"I'm in charge, okay, I'm in charge, I'm in charge! You cowards, you're afraid of a ball? Since Your Majesty has started, and Lord Gao doesn't want it, then you can sell it to Your Majesty!" Lao Zhao said.

"Your Majesty, will you accept it?" Lao Qian asked in a low voice, "After all, this matter itself is actually a fight between Your Majesty and Gao Li, Your Majesty is raising prices, and we are actually selling favors to Your Majesty." If Your Majesty insists on not accepting it, we don't dare to trouble Your Majesty. ”

"Definitely. Lao Zhao's voice was lowered, "Your Majesty has made up his mind to fight with King Yannan to the end, since this is the case, he can't lose the hearts of the people." If he doesn't accept it this time, who will dare to help him if he wants to do something similar next time?"

"Let's go to His Majesty's envoy!"

"Can you not mention the word 'make'......?"

Everyone looked at the blank bowl in front of them, and immediately rushed out.

When the door was opened, the shopkeeper was full of smiles and said, "How many shopkeepers have eaten?"

"Eat, eat fart!" yelled a landlord.

"You really ate it?" the little two looked surprised.

"Grass! I didn't eat it!" the man yelled.

"Then please ask a few shopkeepers to settle the account. The little two smiled all over his face.

"No need to look for it!" Lao Zhao threw a piece of broken silver into the wooden plate in front of Xiao Er.

"This lord, it's not enough. Xiao Er said with a smile.

"Not enough, we didn't eat anything......" Lao Zhao didn't want to mention the word "eat".

"It's such a few masters, don't worry, I'll calculate it for you slowly. You don't need money for this house, you all have ten bowls, these ten bowls are white jade bowls, which are products of Li Zhuang. ”

"What?" a man immediately rushed back and picked up a bowl, and sure enough, there was a very standard 'Li' character engraved under the bottom of the bowl. Looking at the bowl again, it is extremely round, not at all like that kind of thick bowl.

This white jade bowl is a machined product of Lizhuang, which is a product made by Li Zhuang when doing mechanical processing, and a piece of low-quality jade is turned into the shape of a bowl with a lathe. In fact, it is not as good as the porcelain bowl in essence, but it is better than the accuracy brought by the material and machining of the white jade, this kind of white jade bowl is very tight in the world, and the price is also very high. Some restaurants that have a row of noodles will order a batch for high-level customers. Because there is no enamel on the surface of this bowl, the pigment can easily penetrate into it, so it can basically only be used for drinking.

"Shopkeeper Wu ate a lot of soybeans and a lot of green onions before...... Then he looked at each bowl and ...... Therefore, these white jade bowls must not be used. So, this account. You've got to finish. ”

After Xiao Er finished speaking, these landlords also understood that Wu Youcai was really seriously pheating them.

"Bastard, I think you're in partnership to trap us!" one shouted.

The little second immediately said with a smile on his face: "Where are you, uncle, all the guests who come are here, our gang is just running errands, if you are not happy, you go back and ask the shopkeeper Wu for accounts, don't come to embarrass our gang of people." ”

"You!"

"Okay! One for each person! Give money!" Lao Zhao could see clearly, this is Pingyang City, and people here are already xenophobic. Now that there is a prince in Pingyang City, the entire county is stained. And Li Zhuang has brought huge wealth opportunities to Pingyang City, who doesn't like Gao Li? Now they are a gang of people who have partnered to raise prices and walk on the streets without being beaten, and it is already very necessary to sing the praises of peace and prosperity.

"How much silver?" asked Lao Zhao.

"We are a small shop, and we don't cheat you, we will charge you as much as we take from Lizhuang, silver, fifty taels. Xiao Er said.

"Altogether?" asked Lao Qian, five taels a one, but it was not expensive.

"This uncle, you are joking with me, do you have such a cheap thing in Lizhuang? Of course it's one." Xiao Er said with a smile.

"Fifty taels for a broken bowl?" you little deflated san dare to play tricks on me?" the old man yelled.

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "I'm a little deflated, of course I don't dare to play with you." Uncle, if you don't believe it, the flagship store of Lizhuang is on the other side of the two streets, so you can take one and ask. ”

Question: How dare he go? When he went to the flagship store, he saw that the good guys, the people who were raising prices came to the door?

Lao Qian glanced at Lao Zhao, and Lao Zhao said in a deep voice: "Give!"

For these big landowners, fifty taels of silver for a person is actually not much, and they don't feel it at all. What they really hate is this kind of extortion. For example, if you buy buns in the morning, you buy them for one dollar, but today he has to give you two yuan in price. No one lacks this dollar, but who can bear it?

As a result, these big landlords who came here because of the temporary price increase had to face the price increase of the shopkeeper.

He gave money, and a bowl in the hand of one man. How to put it, this bowl is really good. Although it is just a corner of Li Zhuang, it is produced by Li Zhuang after all, and the quality is not said. After the car is polished, it is very bright, and the natural stone texture is also very beautiful.

Just looking at this bowl, how awkward it looks.

Lao Qian raised his hand angrily and was about to fall, but Lao Zhao stopped him and said, "Don't fall, take it back, it's fifty taels or two." ”

Lao Qian said: "Can this still be kept? That bastard Wu Youcai is ...... What the hell!"

Lao Zhao smiled and said, "They are here to answer us, how is it possible!"

As he was talking, a landlord picked up the bowl, secretly lowered his head and sniffed it, and when the old money looked at it, he raised his hand and threw it away.

On the same day, the news of Li Zhuang's cessation of cotton purchases was reported back to Shangjing and discussed in a cabinet designed to specifically target Gao Li.

The members of this cabinet include Liu Bo, the right minister, the eight princes, several big imperial merchants, and the bachelors of the Gewu Academy. When this group of people heard the news, their first reaction was disbelief. Because at this time, the cotton cloth of Lizhuang is almost monopolized, although because Lizhuang put the inferior loom into the market before, the quality of the cotton cloth of the folk cloth village has also improved rapidly. But the really high-end and mid-range cotton cloth is still firmly in the hands of Li Zhuang. Once Lizhuang stops producing cotton cloth, the loss is definitely not a little bit, and it may even be eaten up by ordinary cloth villages.

"I don't believe it. "The one who spoke was the imperial merchant Chu Zhongyuan, who was in his fifties, and the royal business was thriving in his hands, this person had always been steady, not radical, "I haven't studied Gao Li for a day or two, Gao Li is extremely obsessed with gold and silver, and it is absolutely impossible for him to bear such a loss and ignore it." ”

"Not necessarily. "It was the right minister Liu Bo who spoke," Gao Li is not stupid, this time it is an entanglement between him and the landlord on the surface, but it is essentially a struggle between him and His Majesty. Gao Li is extremely smart, he spent his own money to stabilize the north, and now the bear demon grows sugar beet on a very large scale, and the sugar beet is in short supply in the Central Plains, and the bear demon has not violated the grassland for three years. And Li Zhuang has begun to make a profit because of its exclusive sugar beet. If you can continue to make a stable profit, you will definitely be able to recover your investment as soon as possible, and you can reach a partnership with the bear demon. To be able to make such a long-term layout, if it is painful for a while, I think he can do it. ”

Chu Zhongyuan said: "This person's layout is naturally powerful, this time he stopped buying all cotton, and he didn't leave room in Yanan." Could it be that he really wants to auction cotton cloth? If the price of cotton cloth soars, the people may be angry. ”

"The people's grievances can only be blamed on His Majesty's head. The Eighth Prince sighed.

“......”

“......”

None of the people present were stupid, and they all understood that Gao Li's move was quite ruthless. Even if there is no cotton production next year, I will definitely not accept softness. And this year, Gao Li can send a large amount of cottonseed to Yanan, which is a large agricultural country with a vast land and sparse population. If Gaoli's farming equipment enters the field......

"What should I do? There's another trouble ahead, we promised a double buy. If Gao Li stops purchasing, we will have to eat the rest of the cotton, and His Majesty will give a lot of silver, but can we use up all this cotton?"

"I asked the people in the weaving bureau, our spinning machines and looms can be used, but the most troublesome part is actually the part before that, which is the sorting of cotton. Chu Zhongyuan sighed and said, "What Li Zhuang has been buying all along, is the cotton wool they have sorted at the production area, and there are no cotton seeds and outer skins in it. They have specialized cotton gins, as well as specialized balers. And how exactly these machines work, no one knows at all. Because of this, cotton farmers have not hired workers to tear cotton by hand for a long time, and if we eat so much seed cotton, we can just tear cotton peaches......"

Everyone present looked at each other, and everyone knew that this matter was not so easy, but everyone also knew that there was almost no room for maneuver in this matter.

However, no one dared to say that word.

"Collect!" the emperor came from behind, "how much, how much you receive!"