There are still a lot of funds available in the second room, so much income every year, limited expenditures, and a large 5,000 taels of silver can be saved a year, even if there is a disaster this year, the income is small, and the expenses are more, and one or two hundred thousand silver can still be taken out.

You can ask for the opinion of the little granddaughter for the new property you buy, but when it really costs money, the Zhang family will not ask Zhao Xiu again, but discuss with Lu's mother and the servant to make a decision. Zhao Xiu had no opinion on this, but she still heard from the beginning to the end, if she encountered something that didn't sound very reliable, or if she heard that her grandmother and Lu's mother had a way to deal with something that she couldn't understand, she immediately asked questions, and she really learned a lot, and also prevented two small mistakes.

In the end, the Zhang family decided to allocate 2,000 taels of silver first, and handed it over to Wang Siping's eldest son Wang Fulai, so that he could go to Nanhui to choose a suitable house, buy a few first, clean it up simply, and then find a reliable Chinese, and wait for the spring of next year to rent it out.

Another 3,000 taels of silver were allocated for the purchase of a weaving workshop, and the cost included a house for the workshop, the hiring of weavers, the purchase of looms, cotton thread, and so on. Because the workshop is run in Songjiang, many things can be entrusted to Zhang Chaoyi, the second uncle of the Zhang family, he is a person, and he has a lot of face in the local area, and there is no township test this year and next year, so he just has time to help. The cotton used for weaving is produced in the fields under the name of the second house, but this year's share has been sold to the outer six houses. After thinking about it, the Zhang family decided to invite the head of the outer six rooms to come over and discuss. The cotton trading house in the six houses outside the horizontal and vertical also has to sell the cotton to other factories for spinning and weaving, and it is not the same to whom it is sold?

The owner of the outer sixth room had actually noticed the movement of the second room for a long time. Zhao Qixuan was ordered by the Zhang family. When I went out to look for the craftsmen who knew how to make tea and the descendants of the jade workers of the former dynasty, I went out early and returned late every day, as if I had returned to the days when I was not doing my job. But his wife had always hated him for being idle. This time, he didn't complain at all, but let the younger generations of his mother's family follow suit. The clansmen in the outer sixth room who know Zhao Qixuan's glorious deeds in the past, which one is not curious? Privately asked the mother-in-law or the maid's mother-in-law to inquire, and learned that it was the Duchess of Erfang County who told him to run errands, as if he was looking for something new to make a living, and the heart of the businessman in the outer sixth room was already itching.

Zhang straightforwardly mentioned the matter of the weaving workshop to the owner of the outer six rooms, and the owner of the family was still a little incredulous. Could it be that Zhao Qixuan went outside every day to find someone, just to find a weaver? He asked tentatively, but Zhang smiled: "It's not. The workshop is in Songjiang, and if I want to find a weaver, I just need to ask my brother to help, where can I use labor Qixuan? I have other things to ask him to help inquire. It has nothing to do with the workshop. ”

The head of the outer sixth room thought about it. Said: "Uncle and grandmother are aware that it is not a nephew or grandchild, and almost all of the cotton harvested this year has buyers." As you know, this year's cotton harvest is six or seven percent less than in previous years, and the price will naturally rise. The nephew and grandson were afraid that something would happen, so they took advantage of the high price. Sold all the cotton he had. And the rest of it is all. Uncle and grandmother dare to ask for it, and nephews and grandchildren dare not sell it. If the uncle and grandmother do not dislike it, the nephew and grandson can help to go to other places to collect some cotton, and the price may be cheaper, but the woven cloth may not be the same as that of local cotton. ”

Zhang's doesn't care, Songjiang cloth is famous all over the world, is it because the cotton it relies on is different from other places? As long as it is good cotton, it is the same everywhere. She would ask the head of the outer six houses, but she just thought that the fertilizer water would not flow into the fields of outsiders. She first ordered a batch of cotton from the nephew, and asked him to help sell the cotton cloth woven in the weaving yard in the future.

Songjiang cloth is famous all over the world, as long as the cloth is well woven, there is never worry about not being able to sell, and the owner of the outer six rooms is naturally a mouthful. However, he still reminded Zhang: "It is easy to run a weaving factory in Songjiang, but not every family can make a profit." In the second year of Chengqing, the cotton grain was not harvested, the flowers were expensive and the cloth was cheap, and the cotton sellers made a lot of money, but the cotton cloth sellers suffered a big loss. My nephew and grandson knew a few friends who lived in Songjiang Fucheng, who originally ran a weaving factory, and since that year, they have all turned into a flower market. If your grandmother really wants to set up a weaving factory, please be careful when running it. ”

Zhang nodded his head in agreement. She still remembers the situation in the second year of Chengqing, when she sold the cotton grown in her field at a good price, and made a profit of 20% more than in previous years. But she also knew in her heart that the Songjiang cloth whose prices had plummeted was mostly a common type, but the dozen or so kinds of muslin cloth with the best quality were still the favorite clothes of the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital and big towns, and the price was not greatly affected at all. If she has the heart to open a weaving field, she will naturally weave good cloth, and if the weaving is the same as that woven by the women of the small family, then it is better to do not do it.

Seeing that she had made up her mind, the head of the six-room family did not persuade her much, and before leaving, he also mentioned a Jianyi: "In recent years, beans and wheat have been sold very well, and many merchants have transported beans and wheat from the north to sell, and the nephew's brother opened a grain store, and this year also shipped beans and wheat, and it has been sold out in less than a month." My grandmother also had Zhuangzi in Shandong in the past, and she also planted beans and wheat, so I don't know if there is a way? If there is a large grange that is willing to supply beans and wheat, we can eat all the grain stores in the outer six rooms. Auntie Auntie only has to make matchmaking, and she doesn't have to worry about anything else. ”

Zhang smiled and let him leave without saying anything. The granddaughter wanted to add a few properties to the family, and she thought it was feasible and agreed, but she was still the duchess of the county, and she didn't even want to open a business, and the cotton grain produced in the family had to be entrusted to the clansmen, so how could she help the businessmen match?

Zhang can't pull down this face, but the minds of others are much more flexible. Lu's mother was waiting beside at the time, and when she saw that Zhang's didn't mean that, she felt that this method could add some income to the master's family, so she went to find Zhao Xiu privately. Zhao Xiu's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he asked with a smile: "Did the cousin in the outer sixth room say how many thank-you gifts he would give?" ”

Mother Lu covered her mouth and smiled: "The girl said that she laughed, could it be that you still rare that little thank-you gift?" It's just that the family now needs a few masters in the outer six rooms, but the cotton cloth in the weaving field, the outer six rooms don't seem to be very interested, and they all agreed to help sell it in the face of the old lady. If there are side benefits for them, they can also be much more attentive when they do things for the second room. The old lady doesn't look down on this kind of thing, and we are the next people. It's time to share her worries. ”

Zhao Xiu also sternly sipped when he heard this: "You are right. Grandmother just doesn't look down on businessmen, but if our family wants to increase their income, they can't do without contacting businessmen. I thought I was sharing my grandmother's worries. ”

She went to find the pearl sister-in-law, Tu Sanyang and his wife followed the clansmen who wanted to ask Xiao Changfang to return the family property to Beijing, and by the way went to retrieve the dowry of the pearl sister-in-law, who is not in Fengxian at present, but the pearl sister-in-law has lived near Zhuangzi in Gaotang, Shandong for a few years, and should also know a few people. It would be nice if I could help find a few farms in Shandong that produce beans and wheat, and introduce them to the outer six houses. I just don't know about the drought in Shandong this year. Whether these Zhuangzi were affected.

Sister-in-law Pearl said: "On the way south, I heard that the drought in the south of Liaocheng is slightly better, and it was only after June that the drought was severe. The wheat was harvested before that. There is also Zhangqiu, because there is a Baiyun Lake, the drought is lighter than elsewhere. As for soybeans, they are harvested around the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival. I don't remember exactly. When I was on a boat on the river, I also seemed to have seen people harvesting beans on the shore. However, soybeans are not only found in Shandong, but also in Liangguang and Fujian, and there is no drought in those places this year, so they must produce more. If the girl is really interested, my uncle and his brother's father-in-law have a sister who married to Fujian, and the couple also runs a big grange. Thousands of acres of beans were planted, and their owner was a big family over there. In this dynasty, there was a scholar and two prefects, and they were also very dignified people, and when it came to it, it seemed that they were still old relatives in the family of the eldest aunt and wife. My aunt is also an official in Shandong now, is it in Yanzhou? It's good to just trust them together. ”

Zhao Xiu hesitated: "Nurse, it's not that I can't trust my aunt and uncle, but I have always had too little contact, I only know that this time my grandmother and brother went north and visited them. I've never met her, and I don't know what her temperament is, what if she's just a face-to-face and doesn't want to help? "Yuan's only daughter, will she really have a good impression of her stepmother who entered the house after she got married?

Sister-in-law Pearl said: "The girl has never seen Mrs. Auntie, so she is worried." Although the aunt has a cold temperament, she still respects the old lady. This time, when I went south to Fengxian and stopped in Jining on the way, my aunt and wife also brought my children and grandchildren to visit the old lady and let my brother meet my cousins and nephews. Although I stayed in the place where my subordinates lived, I also heard people talk about the harmony between relatives. The girl doesn't believe it, why don't you ask her brother? Besides, this is not a big deal, and the girl doesn't have to come forward, let alone alarm the aunt's wife, just ask my brother to write a letter to the young master cousin, and ask the old men in the outer sixth room to bring it over, and what to do when the time comes, the old men in the outer sixth room will tell the young master. ”

Zhao Xiu suddenly realized, thanked her with a smile, and when Zhao Wei came back from the school in the evening, she told her brother in private.

Zhao Wei agreed: "What's the big deal?" Even if there is no letter from me, the people in the outer sixth room will come to the door, will my aunt still refuse? ”

Zhao Xiu whispered: "I don't usually have much contact with my relatives, and my relatives and clansmen are different, so I think a little more." ”

Zhao Wei's movements in his hands paused, and the expression on his face was not very good: "That's right, we usually come and go a lot, it's still the clansmen, and the relatives are the uncle's family and the aunt's family, and it seems that there is no more." Even our maternal uncle's family has not heard from us for many years, and I don't know if I dislike our family for losing the title and returning to our hometown, which is not as good as before. ”

Zhao Xiu didn't dare to say anything. Zhao Wei is a few years older than her, and she is more familiar with her mother Mi's maiden relatives, because she has never seen anyone, so she never thinks that there is anything, Zhao Wei will think more.

To tell the truth, Mi has been dead for many years, except for a member of the Mi family who came to worship at the time of the funeral, no one has come to see their brothers and sisters, no wonder they are cold. Zhao Xiu only knew that his mother Mi was born to his maternal grandfather and Yuan Match, his own grandmother died a long time ago, and his maternal grandfather remarried a wife and gave birth to a son, who was the second uncle of their brother and sister. The Zhang family has an old friendship with the grandmother's maiden family, and the grandmother Zhang knew her grandmother when she was young and unmarried, and she was a good friend, so the grandmother did not care that her mother Mi was the eldest daughter of a widow, so she set this daughter-in-law for her son, and after the husband and wife got married, the relationship has been very good. But although the Zhao family and the Mi family are in-laws, they are not close, and the step-grandmother of the Mi family and the son born to her are certainly intentionally attached, but the Zhang family has a bad impression of them, so they naturally don't like to invite them to the door. Later, Second Uncle Mi was released as an official, and there were even fewer contacts. But no matter how little there is, they are also in-laws, and they don't care at all about the pair of children left by their sister, and Uncle Mi doesn't care at all, this relative really doesn't recognize it.

Zhao Xiu saw that Zhao Wei was in a bad mood, and hurriedly opened the topic: "Brother, sister-in-law Pearl told me, you also met your aunt's son and grandson on the way south, I only knew that you had met before, but I didn't know the situation of my cousin and his children, can you tell me in detail?" Is my cousin's nephew really older than my brother? (To be continued......)