The sales of exotic fabrics in Yulong Cloth Village have been optimistic, the most critical and prominent selling point is the wide format, the people of the capital of the Qing Dynasty are very poor, there is a wide width, the price is cheaper than that of the Qing Dynasty, who still wants to buy the kind of one foot eight inches? Therefore, whether it is Yulong Cloth Village or the newly opened "Dong Ji Cloth Village", there is an endless stream of people who come to buy lasagna.

Because of the plaque hanging above the door of the store, those who want to extort money and smash the store still have to think about it. Although the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army have withdrawn to the Forbidden City, the royal family's own soldiers have been guarding Ruiqian's shop near Buzhuang.

There is still no shortage of people who are paying attention to Yulong Buzhuang. No, a half-old man in his fifties came to see the cloth. Rui Qian's attention was also attracted by this old man who looked like a gentleman, and took the initiative to step forward to greet him: "Which fabric is this gentleman optimistic about?" ”

"The old man will take a closer look." This one, the hands have been groping on the cloth without leaving, and several pieces of cloth of different materials have been touched and touched by him, and in the end, he may not have found a name, so he had to open his mouth to "ask": "The old man knows that you are the shopkeeper Chen here, and he has admired him for a long time." "Let's clasp your fists and salute.

Chen Ruiqian returned the salute very politely: "I don't dare to look up for a long time, but I can see that Mr. is very expert in fabrics." ”

The old gentleman had a "naturally so" expression, and he was still modest: "Insiders don't dare, but they only know a little bit about it." The old man felt that the shopkeeper Chen was worthy of being an imperial merchant with a plaque on the door, and the fabrics sold in the store were very different from other shops. ”

"It's really different, some of the cloth in the store below is not produced in the Qing Dynasty, but is entrusted by relatives to sell it on behalf of the next generation."

"This old man knows that he sold it for Lord Rui, right?"

"Exactly." The emperor has already told Rui Qian, and if someone asks, he will directly tell him who is the owner of this shop.

The gentleman-looking old man had a "long known" expression: "If you said that when you started selling cloth, you said that you were selling it for others, you can still believe that you have been selling so many pieces of cloth for Prince Rui for so long, I'm afraid it is not a consignment, right?" ”

"So you mean you're spinning yourself?"

"Exactly."

"Do we have such a wide loom in the Qing Dynasty?"

"Lord Rui is rich and wealthy, won't he buy a few in that exotic land? Why bother to bring back heavy cloth from all walks of life? ”

Chen Ruiqian was a little angry, what do you mean? Ask the loom what "what?" But he didn't have an angry expression, but smiled: "Is this gentleman here to buy cloth or to inquire about any news?" ”

"The old man wants to do business with the partnership of the shopkeeper Chen."

"Then I'm sorry, I'm doing business for the emperor, and I don't partner with anyone."

"The old man is also doing business for the emperor, so he is not inferior to you."

"Is it possible to refuse it?"

"It's okay to refuse, but you can't refuse, because the old man is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"Oh? Can the Ministry of Internal Affairs force someone to partner with you? ”

"Is there a condition for the shopkeeper Chen?"

"I'm sorry for this gentleman, let's do our own thing, and the well water doesn't interfere with the river water."

"Then what if the old man makes a condition?"

"I'm sorry, but I'm not partnering with anyone."

"What if the old man says that the terms of the partnership are equally divided?"

"You might as well get a roadblock. Drop-off! Ruiqian didn't say which guy to send the guest, in other words, he just picked up someone.

This matter must be reported to the cousin or directly to the prince. So Ruiqian took care of his buddies and hired a covered carriage in the back street to go to Ruiwang's mansion. The prince has already taken care of the eunuchs and servants on duty in the porter, and the shopkeeper Chen of Yulong Buzhuang came to the house to release him directly, and there was no need to pass it on. So Ruiqian went directly to Yiran Building under the guidance of Gonggong Xu, but fortunately, the prince came back to drink tea. Don't talk about things without greetings. The prince said to Ruiqian: "According to this king's guess, this person may indeed be from the Internal Affairs Bureau, to test whether you are greedy, but his appetite is too big, and he is evenly divided, and he doesn't even want to talk with a face." You really have to tell the emperor about this, maybe this person will come to trouble you. Maybe he is not from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he knows your situation better, or maybe he is a commercial spy who comes to inquire about the situation with you. Our underworld in the Qing Dynasty is also rampant? ”

"What is the underworld?"

"The underworld is more powerful than the gangsters who extort businessmen, he is not trying to extort a few small money, he wants to annex you and harm you. But Young Master Chen doesn't have to be afraid, you don't have to worry about him for now, this king came forward to talk to the emperor. ”

"Then there is Lord Lao."

"Say that there is work, your hard work is all for this king."

"Then I'll go back next."

In the south study, the emperor listened to what the prince said, and he understood in his heart that his wife had sent someone from the Internal Affairs Office to test the shopkeeper Chen. Very angry, really angry! He scratched his head very much, why did his wife always follow and mix, but he couldn't say that the imperial brother came to sue, so the old lady was likely to retaliate against the imperial brother. The old lady's methods are not something that people like the emperor can deal with, and she is strategic! So he said: "You don't have to be polite to such a person, tell the shopkeeper Chen, and let the relatives in the house clean him up." ”

"Your Majesty, isn't this okay? If this person is really from the Internal Affairs Office, how can Young Master Chen afford to provoke him? ”

"Then let him have no return."

The prince smiled: "The minister is a Buddhist layman, and he doesn't kill people." ”

"Then find him a quiet place to eat and lock him up for ten days and half a month."

"You can try this."

Three days later, the gentleman came again, arched his hand at Chen Ruiqian, and said unashamedly: "You can give an answer to the old man today, right?" ”

"Who are you? What does the reply to you? Would you like to eat? I don't have time to do it. ”

"The old man is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, can you suffer a loss if we work together?"

"You said you were from the Ministry of Internal Affairs? In the next but a cloth cloth. ”

"Does the shopkeeper Chen think that it is impossible to hang a plaque on the door frame?"

"Is there an unbeatable performance in the next? The imperial plaque is given by the emperor, so you still don't challenge the emperor. Besides, it doesn't seem like the Ministry of Internal Affairs is as arrogant as you, right? It can only be said that you are a person who is pretending to be the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Don't argue with Mr. in the next, let's go to the emperor and make it clear. The next is to send silver to the treasury, and you want to divide half of it, is it a crime of defrauding the king? Drop-off! ”

"Hey, I thought this was a coward, and his mouth is quite stubble." This person from the Ministry of Internal Affairs didn't dare to be too arrogant, and if they didn't leave after everyone sent off the guests, it might make people see him as a street gangster.

Walking home out of the Yulong Cloth Village, his head was suddenly covered in the alley not far from the house, and then his body was tied, and then he was put into a sack, thrown on a big car, and walked a long way, and finally seemed to be locked in a dungeon, and the shackles on his body were removed and it was pitch black in front of him.

Now I can be frightened, if no one cares about myself, I will be locked up here, and I will starve to death in seven or eight days in ten days. The gentlemanly demeanor is gone, the arrogance is gone, and only the howling and crying are left: "The old man of the shopkeeper Chen is willing to confess!" Spare your life, you won't dare to die in the future! ”

All that answered him was the silence of the pitch black.

It took two days before someone carried a lantern and threw two hard steamed buns through a small hole in the door. The gentleman groped for it, and whether there was ash or not, he grabbed it and gnawed it, and he tasted hunger for the first time. Not only did my stomach hurt, but I was also weak and thirsty. He didn't know how many days it was, and he was about to collapse with hunger and fear. originally wanted to hit the wall to seek death, but also wanted to have an eighty-year-old mother and an eighteen-year-old concubine at home, and he was afraid of death.

On the fourth day, someone came in, put a sack on him, and threw him in the car. This time he felt that he had come to an end: where was this sent to give a few knives!

As a result, when he came to a ruined temple or something like that in a big mountain, several masked people pulled him out of the sack, and begged for mercy without waiting for questioning: "Shopkeeper Chen, the old man will never dare to trouble you anymore!" You can spare your old life. ”

"You damn old man, nervous? What is the shopkeeper of Chen and the shopkeeper of Wang? We want to borrow some money from you to spend flowers, and to borrow your eighteen-year-old concubine who came out of the opera garden. ”

"You're not from Shopkeeper Chen? Really, not? Is it the Yulong Buzhuang Chen shopkeeper in the northern section of Qianmen Street? ”

"Are you sick? We are not short of clothes to wear, what cloth is paved, inexplicable. We are the king of the mountain of the Xishan Jade Gang, it is our duty to rob the house, don't talk nonsense with us, if you want to live, give us 10,000 taels of silver plus a concubine. ”

"The concubine is ready-made, and you like to give it away naturally. But the silver was not ten thousand taels, but more than three thousand taels. ”

"Isn't it? The place where you live is so wide, and it is a rockery and a living water, then you will sell the house, make up enough 10,000 taels, and we will send a letter to your family. ”

These people are really bandits of the Xishan Jade Gang, and they have nothing to do with Rui Qian. After the gentleman went bankrupt, he went to the Queen Mother to cry, but the Queen Mother did not believe his words, thinking that this person was asking for benefits for herself. Because this person is a typical goose plucking, whoever asks him to do something, no matter how big or small, will give him some benefits. The bribe has been demanded to the head of the palace! If it weren't for the fact that he was still working hard before, the big board would have been on his ass a long time ago. It is to let him test whether the shopkeeper Chen of Yulong Cloth Village is greedy for money, if so, let him increase the price of cloth a little, but fortunately, there is not even a response, the queen mother herself was reprimanded by the emperor's son, and this person went to the emperor to complain for a long time. I heard that this person who only has six officials in the internal affairs office has many ways to ask for bribes from people. Then teach him a lesson: dismissal.

Yun'er found some variegated cloth and flowers from the pile of small Li cloth heads in the hall downstairs, which were not suitable for patchwork, clothing, beggars, refugees, and suggested that the prince send his own soldiers or guards to drive the cart to the suburbs and counties to sell them.

The cloth heads that Yun'er found belonged to chemical fiber silk, but they were not as smooth as real silk, and they were all bought at a very cheap price, and the quantity was very large. Yun'er was very worried that these fabrics would become old after a long time, so she adopted Ling Juan's suggestion to sell them in pieces. I told him when the prince came to her room to rest.

"Selling in the suburbs? Good idea. The life of the people in the countryside is more miserable than the poor people in the city, so you can choose some and set a price according to the size of the block, so that your brother and a few of them can experience and experience. ”

"Yes, Yun'er will start to choose, it is best to use the big cart like you to pull stones, surround a counter that is not easy to be robbed, sell goods in the car, and go to a few more people."

"Okay, just go to the countryside to sell cloth according to the method that the horse monkey spirit said."

"Lord Wang! Is Yun'er much like a horse monkey? Giggle...... "Yun'er thought it was very ridiculous.

"I mean, you're very similar to the temper of a horse monkey, impatient, and idle."

Yun'er admitted, a bit like.

Taking the cloth head from the pile of small cloth heads, Tian Liang is naturally the most suitable. The three-claw hook exerted its maximum effect, pulling down one hundred and ten cloth head pockets from the top of the cloth head pile, and unpacking it to see that not every cloth head pocket was needed by Yun'er. But if you take it down, you can't put it back in its original place, so you send it to the empty room downstairs in the west annex building of the patio building downstairs.

In addition to chemical fiber silk, there are also chemical fiber cloth, pick out the chemical fiber silk plus chemical fiber cloth is a total of sixteen boxes, after spraying water, flattening, cutting, it becomes twelve boxes, stacked on the cart two rows of two layers. Each piece of fabric has a label with the size and price written on it, and the tack is nailed to the piece of cloth being sold. You don't need to measure the size, you don't need to calculate the price, it's just this cloth, whether you like to buy it at this price.

The first preparation of goods is not very many, just these twelve.