Since selling cloth to the house, Ruiqian's profits are much greater than before. The novel щwwlā used to maintain food and clothing, because of the good service attitude, the child is not bullied, and there are many repeat customers. Now it is somewhat well-known in this small territory and small environment. At least some people know that he is dealing in cloth that the Qing Dynasty does not have, so it is a bit jealous. Several cloth and silk villages around them have very opinions about Ruiqian, thinking that Ruiqian has affected their business and reduced their income. Someone else sent a guy to see the situation. Generally speaking, Yulong Cloth Village is busy in the morning, and when all the exotic fabrics are sold, the number of customers decreases suddenly.

On Qianmen Street, there are many merchants dealing in cloth and silk, and their news is very fast, and many shopkeepers already know that Yulong Cloth Village is operating lasakin. Some people even sent their men to buy one or two pieces back, looking at the cloth and wondering where it came from. There are also several shopkeepers of cloth villages who got together to study the fabric of Yulong Cloth Village and discuss how to deal with Chen Ruiqian. If these people hadn't been afraid of the royal gold plaque on Ruiqian's door, they would have partnered to "clean up" him. "Peers are enemies" is well known to everyone.

In the back room of a "He Ji Buzhuang", several shopkeepers were discussing countermeasures to deal with Ruiqian.

A middle-aged fat shopkeeper said: "Colleagues, I think that the cloth of Yulong Cloth Village seems to have never been seen before, have you seen it in other stores?" ”

"I've never seen it. Needless to say, its size is not something that can be woven by the looms of the Qing Dynasty, and the width of four feet five or four feet eight is how big a loom is? Moreover, the cloth is all very fine fine cloth. ”

"I heard that the Western big-nosed loom is better than our Daqing one, is the goods purchased by the Chen shopkeeper in the hands of foreigners? No one else ever leaves the store, and if you buy goods from a foreigner, then this person is a person with hands and eyes. ”

"Ahem, why are you so closed? On the day of the plaque, the backstage of the shopkeeper Chen was unveiled, and he was the famous Rui Wangye, who was famous in the government and the opposition, so don't move his big hands and feet, how to find a way to raise his price, if it is higher than ours, someone will come to buy us, after all, our things are local. ”

"It doesn't matter if you buy cloth from your own country or from another country, whoever buys it at a low price will buy it. Let's send a few shrewd fellows to find out where his cloth came from, what foreign country, maybe he bought the wide-faced loom and spun it himself, or how to bring it to the counter in a steady stream? ”

"This method is good, let's keep an eye on his loom."

How many businessmen are not profit-seeking? If it is about their own interests, then they will have to fight for it even if they sharpen their heads. These people were still somewhat afraid of the imperial gold plaque, but none of them expected that there were two people who hated Ruiqian to the core, that is, the two shopkeepers of the Silk Village on the opposite side of the road, Sang and Qiu. Ruiqian sold chemical fiber silk once in the store, which was specially used to make skirts for women, and it made these two shopkeepers hate it. The two of them didn't want to fight a price war at all, but thought about how to be humble. It's just that those skirt materials are so beautiful, they are very jealous!

They are people who do what they say, and they don't think that they are selling cotton cloth, and no one thinks about them at all. In the middle of the night, a lot of sticks were posted on the doors of the shops in this vicinity, which read: Yulong Cloth Village is carrying a golden plaque from the Imperial Gift, doing the business of stealing the day, and the fabrics sold are shoddy fakes and inferior goods.

This move really worked, and the sales volume of Yulong Cloth Village dropped a lot at once. Those shopkeepers who discussed the price war naturally celebrated each other.

Rui Qian was analyzing where he had made a mistake, and a soldier showed Rui Qian a black strip that had been removed from the door of a certain store. Rui Qian was angry, what kind of person is this, playing yin. Who knew that there were a lot of black bars in the middle of the night, and the next morning I heard that the two shopkeepers of the silk village opposite had been arrested and sent into the criminal department, as well as the two guys they sent out to paste the black bars.

Ruiqian also thought that the plainclothes soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army had already withdrawn, but the result was that the emperor had always let the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army patrol in shifts and did not come during the day, because there were personal soldiers in the palace during the day. I didn't come at night to grab black stripes, but because I was afraid that someone would come and steal their cloth, but I was surprised to find two young men sneakily pasting things on the doors of various shops on the street. When I took it off, I saw that it was slandering the cloth sold by Chen's shopkeeper as fake and shoddy. followed the two guys until they finished pasting and returned to their shop, so they simply arrested the shopkeeper and sent them to the criminal department for interrogation.

The two shopkeepers were gloating because Ruiqian was arrested, and he was unhappy when he was not injured, but now that he has gone in, he really has a pot to drink. In the Qing Dynasty, there was indeed a punishment method for making rumors, and the sentence was three to five years in prison, depending on the severity of the circumstances. These two put black strips on the imperial merchants with royal plaques and broke ground on the prince's head, needless to say, they were unlucky.

A good fight is inevitable, and the guy didn't escape it. You don't have to fight hard, you confess with more than a dozen whips, and you are jealous of the shopkeeper Chen opposite. The person in charge of the interrogation was an official of the Criminal Department, who was not of high rank, but he was known for his ruthlessness.

"Are you well fed? Knowing that the shopkeeper of Yulong Buzhuang is the brother-in-law of Lord Rui, even if he is not an imperial businessman, you are also Tai Sui's head. Besides, if you put black stripes on people, even if you do it to the common people, it also violates the laws of the Qing Dynasty, so why do you say how to end it? ”

The four of them kowtowed like pounding garlic, they knew that the backstage of the shopkeeper Chen was Lord Rui, but they didn't know that the shopkeeper Chen was the brother-in-law of Lord Rui. Who would have thought that the Han man of Shopkeeper Chen would have a brother-in-law of the Manchu royal family like the prince! Fortunately, the four of them had an excellent attitude of confession, and they didn't even dare to say a word of prevarication. They thought that they would be over with a black stripe and a shopkeeper in Hanqi Chen, but how did they know that there was such a clause in the Qing Dynasty law, and their intestines were repentant, and they kept begging for mercy.

This official of the Criminal Department is not much better than the thoughts of Qiu and Sang. This kind of thing can be big or small, and it is found in silver. So he hinted: "You have caused a lot of losses to the shopkeeper Chen, and other people's cloth can't be sold." What do you say? ”

"We pay the money! Adults say a number. ”

"Then five thousand taels per person."

Qiu and Sang fainted when they heard this. The façade of both of them is not big, there are more than a dozen silk villages on Qianmen Street, although Ruifuxiang has not yet appeared, there are still a few large silk villages. If you have a few thousand taels of silver, you won't do anything like sticking other people's black stripes. When he woke up, he began to cry, hugging the official's thigh and begging for mercy. This one also felt that the price had opened up, and it could not be less if it was reduced to 1,000 taels. The two of them hurriedly asked the guy who put it back first to tell the family to prepare the silver. The two men brought the news and quit their errands and went home. Is the prison a place for people? Such a shopkeeper has good fruit to eat with them?

The family was scared to death, and it was not easy to make up a thousand taels for each of them before they were brought back from prison, and after a few days of hard work, they saw that both of them were out of shape. In fact, they were really not beaten badly, but they were whipped a dozen times. The shopkeeper of the silk village, who has never suffered from skin and flesh, is a great suffering. The one in the criminal department came with their money, and if it were anything else, it would be easy to kill and maim them.

The Criminal Department came forward to post a lot of notices on Qianmen Street to clarify the rumors for Yulong Buzhuang. All of a sudden, the number of people who came to buy cloth increased. Qiu and Sang Er's shopkeepers came to the door to ask Ruiqian for the guilt. They know that they have offended people who cannot be offended, and they must come to the door to apologize for their future livelihood. He also took out another 500 taels of silver to compensate Ruiqian for his losses.

"Why do you two? I haven't offended you, and I haven't bullied people to do anything to you, you are really enough to say, you are all eating on the same street, and you don't see anyone looking up. Okay, okay, you know it's wrong, I don't want you to come to compensate. I heard that you also paid a fine of silver, which is enough to fight the famine, and I can't make it worse. If you change it in the future, go back, go back. ”

The two of them kowtowed: "There are a large number of adults in the shopkeeper Chen, and we are not as knowledgeable as us, and we are grateful!" But the lord of the criminal department said that he would give you money to compensate for the loss, don't you know? ”

"My loss is not worth a thousand taels, how can the neighbors take advantage of the fire to rob? It is he himself who asks you for money, and it has nothing to do with me. ”

These two people really lost their wives and soldiers, they were beaten and punished, they lost face, their character was gone, and they didn't have the ability to leave here. can only change the evil and return to the right, and no longer make cheapness.

The experience of Qiu and Sang frightened the colleagues who discussed how to "clean up Shopkeeper Chen" and immediately stopped, and they all knew that Shopkeeper Chen was the brother-in-law of Lord Rui, and they didn't dare to "do evil" with their ten guts. It's impossible to crush the shopkeeper Chen, so it's better to keep to their own cloth and manage their own cloth. The cloth produced in the Qing Dynasty is not unbought, and many conservative Qing people are still accustomed to using the cloth of the Qing Dynasty.

But people's gossip and bad nature are always unwilling to be lonely, and these people's attention is focused on finding out Rui Qian's family background, how did he become Rui Wangye's brother-in-law? He is a Han or a businessman, the daughters of Prince Rui are all assigned by the Queen Mother, how did his sister enter the palace without power and power? How many people worked together for several days to get this result:

Chen Ruiqian is the concubine of the late General Chen Fang, the pioneer of the Han Army's Blue Banner Sanpin, and his cousin was married by the Queen Mother because she helped Rui Wangye solve the treasure case. Some people also found out that the shopkeeper Tian of Yulong's hot and cold drinks was the cousin of the shopkeeper Chen, and he was the brother of the side Fujin, who was lost for many years before he got it back.

The plainclothes soldiers who helped Rui Qian maintain order and protect Rui Qian and other Yulong cloth village personnel also knew that someone was investigating the life story of the shopkeeper Chen in the street discussion, so they told him the situation. Ruiqian said: "People can't hold their mouths, let them say it, I haven't broken the law, don't pay attention to it." ”

Tian Liang designed a kind of exotic tire carriage for mobile vending, which was specially used to sell cloth bought from exotic lands in various counties on the outskirts of Beijing. The body is very high, and it is not easy for people who buy cloth to get on the car, and it is not easy to rob. Tian Liang doesn't remember the specific number of the cloth head, but he knows a lot. There are those that are bought with money, and there are also those that are given away by manufacturers, and the amount is considerable. Among them, there are many very good quality cotton and satin, some are genuine gifts given according to the proportion of one-tenth of the original cloth, there are also cloth heads bought at low prices, and a small number of products from last year and the year before last. There are also ultra-low-priced products that manufacturers sell hard, and there are not many very small ones; There are a lot of bad colors, and they are all intended to be used as refugee clothes and beggar clothes. In addition to refugees and beggars, there are also quite a lot of other types of cloth. Tian Liang still remembers that there were a lot of very good quality cloth heads given by the manufacturer in the cloth of the three trains. Such can be sold in pieces, because they are all very new new cloth, and the two or three feet are sold as cloth heads, which is slightly lower than the price of new cloth.

The prince agreed with Tian Liang's suggestion, and asked him to pick up some cloth heads with Yun'er, Nalan, and Yu'er Shui'er and try them in Changping. This time, we will not sell chemical fiber silk, but will sell pure cotton cloth heads, which is more suitable for rural farmers. This time, the prince also had to follow to see the situation, and I heard Tian Liang say that the mother of Kochi County, Changping, still wants to keep the cloth for herself, and if it is an ordinary thief or bandit, it is understandable, and there are not many officials and family members who are so blatantly and skillfully robbed.

Choose some cloth heads in the hall that look relatively new, and measure the size, and nail the size and price to the corners of the cloth with tacks, so as to save the time of measuring the cloth. The income of the peasants cannot be compared with that of the people in the city, so they choose some sturdy and durable ones that men wear for work, as well as small flower cloth heads, denim cloth heads, and polyester cloth cloth heads that are liked by big girls and little daughters-in-law, and the size is enough to make clothes materials. For example, two feet of fabric to the waist and hips is enough for women, two and a half feet is enough for men, three feet is enough for women in a gown to the knees, four feet is enough for a cheongsam to the ankles, and four and a half feet is enough for a man's robe. There are still six or seven meters long in the cloth, but they are generally between three and five feet. Just right for making clothes.

When choosing the cloth, the prince was also present, and he remembered how many genuine cloths and how many cloth heads. In the later period, the fabric of the train made by multiple manufacturers pulled the number of forty-six carriages.

The prince said: "The countryside is closed, and most of the people in the village are poor, so it is also good to buy some cheap rulers to make clothes." How to be optimistic about the market, you can rent one or buy a shop, and sell cloth and cloth art products in the county. ”

After the prince's instructions were issued, Tian Liang began to design a carriage suitable for selling cloth heads. The method is very simple, just use the kind of threaded steel bar of the rabbit cage to make a two-meter-high frame, fix the frame on the flat carriage with screws, the ceiling, front, back, and right side of the frame are closed with plywood, and the left side is set aside as a counter, that is, the side facing the customer puts the fabric on the steel bar shelf in the appropriate position behind the salesman, stacks it into a half-foot wide strip, presses one piece at a time, and staggers it to facilitate the customer's selection. There are labels on the cloth with a clear real price, and you can take whichever piece you want. The guy who buys the cloth doesn't have to settle the accounts, don't measure the cloth, and sell it in pieces, which saves a lot of trouble and time. Tian Liang learned how to screw steel bars for construction workers in a foreign land, and soon the mobile cloth vending truck was installed.