The middle-aged man is called Zhou Gui, the master of the Zhou family's cloth workshop, and Zhou Ziqiong's father.

Zhou nobles, as their name suggests, are rich and noble.

Not only is he rich, but he is also the richest man in Ruzhou City - to be precise, he should be the richest businessman in Anguo, and the people of Ruzhou City say that the Zhou family is rich and rivals the country, although it is a bit exaggerated, but it is enough to see how rich the Zhou family is!

In the entire Ruzhou City, all the cloth workshops and cloth villages are the industries of the Zhou family, not only that, but the eldest lady of the Zhou family, Zhou Ziqiong, has no one to match her talent in business, not only can help Zhou Gui do business and manage the cloth workshop, but also develop some novel fabrics.

The Huanhua jade brocade is from her hand.

At that time, most of the fabrics sold in the Anguo market were mainly light-pigmented clothes, occasionally with bright colors, and most of them were bleached and dyed with flower dyes, although they looked bright at the beginning, but they would slowly fade after wearing, especially after washing, the color of the clothes would fade to the east and west, which was very ugly.

Therefore, this kind of dyed clothes is particularly chicken, and no one cares about it anymore, but the market still has a thirst for this kind of clothing, but it has not met the best quality.

At this time, Zhou Ziqiong's Huanhua Jade Brocade came out.

Unlike the previous inferior dye cloths, the Huanhua Jade Brocade is not only more colorful and bright, but most importantly, it will not fade by hand washing!

Therefore, after the first batch of Huanhua jade brocade came out, it made Zhou Ziqiong and Zhoujia Cloth Workshop famous!

Before the advent of Huanhua Jade Brocade, Zhoujia Cloth Workshop was just a relatively large cloth shop in Ruzhou City, but with the popularity and short supply of Huanhua Jade Brocade, Zhoujia Cloth Workshop took advantage of this to expand its scale and became the largest merchant in Ruzhou City!

At that time, Zhou Gui took advantage of the situation to let Zhou Ziqiong take over the business of Zhou's cloth workshop, just when everyone thought that Zhou Ziqiong would guard Ruzhou to stabilize the cloth workshop business, Zhou Ziqiong chose to open the branches of Zhou's cloth workshop to all parts of Anguo, and relied on the advantages of Huanhua Yujin to quickly open up the situation.

So far, Zhoujia Cloth Workshop has become a giant among merchants.

The Zhou family has been running a cloth workshop for many years and has made many kinds of fabrics, but there is only one that has not been done, that is, cotton clothes made of cotton.

It's not that the Zhou family doesn't want to, but cotton can only be planted by the Western Xinjiang Barbarians, and the Western Xinjiang Barbarians regard cotton as a treasure, and will not easily pass on the planting technology and cotton seeds to Anguo, and the climate of Anguo does not seem to be suitable for planting cotton.

Therefore, the cotton clothes or bedding sold by Zhoujia Cloth Workshop, like other cloth factories in Anguo, are filled with reed flowers, which are not only uncomfortable to wear, but the most important thing is not to keep warm.

It can be said that the Angolan people have been suffering for a long time.

Last year, I got cotton seeds out of nowhere, and someone in Jinxi suddenly tried to plant cotton on a large scale, and the most important thing is that it was successful!

Everyone knows that behind this is actually King Jin.

It's a pity that because the asking price is too high, no one cares.

So Zhou Gui settled all the cotton planted by King Jin through relationships, but because it was already winter when he bought cotton, the cotton was pressed in the warehouse.

This year's new cotton came down again, and Zhou Gui still bought all the new cotton of King Jin at a high price, and Zhou Ziqiong went to pull cotton before.

"Ziqiong, in business, my father is not as good as you, and my father is also inferior to you in terms of vision, but in this matter, my father has to be the master again, because my father can imagine how popular cotton clothes will be in the future!"

Zhou Ziqiong nodded, but at the same time said: "Dad, my daughter also knows the benefits of cotton clothes and quilts, but after all, this cotton has only been planted in Anguo for two years, and the price is not low, whether the people of Anguo can accept it is still unknown, our cotton last year was not used, and it has become old cotton after a year, and now it is asking for so much at once, okay?" ”

Zhou Gui smiled and waved his hand and said: "When you made Huanhua jade brocade, the price was much higher than cotton, do you remember when your father told you so?" But as a result, even though the price is high, Huanhua jade brocade is still in short supply! ”

"Daddy... It's different..."

Zhou Ziqiong thought for a while and said: "Scarcity is expensive, and the production of Huanhua jade brocade is particularly troublesome, and this dye formula is also unique to our Zhou family, so we dare to set a high price." But this cotton, it turned out that no one planted it because the war between Anguo and Western Xinjiang was tight, and they couldn't get cotton seeds when they went to Western Xinjiang, and then everyone heard that someone had planted it in Jiangling, but the weather and land in Anguo were not suitable for cotton. ”

"And now, since King Jin has planted it, there will definitely be many people who will follow suit in the later stage, and the price of cotton will also drop, let's buy so much at a high price now, I'm afraid we will lose money in the future!"

But Zhou Gui disagreed.

glanced at Zhou Ziqiong, and said seriously: "Ziqiong, my father knows about your grievances with the Jin Palace, but let's open the door to do business, we can't just let it go because of a little grudge, right?" ”

Seeing that Zhou Ziqiong was about to speak, he immediately stretched out his hand to stop him: "And buying cotton to make quilts is not only for business, but also for the consideration of the people of Ruzhou City and even the entire Anguo!" Let them have cotton clothes and quilts for the winter in the future! So, not only did I buy it last year, I bought it this year, and my dad will buy it next year! ”

"It doesn't hurt to press the cotton, it's better than letting other people buy it, and Dad believes that as long as our first batch of cotton clothes and cotton is out, the cotton in the warehouse will not be enough! Everyone knows that this cotton was planted by the King of Jin, so do you think there are other people who dare to plant it? So as long as we buy all the cotton of King Jin, we are the only one in this cotton business! ”

"Daddy—"

"Okay, Ziqiong don't say it anymore! This time, my father will be the master, and our family has a big business, even if this cotton clothing business really suffers a loss, it will be regarded as yellow, that is, it will be bloodletting, and it will not get in the way! ”

After Zhou Gui finished speaking, he entered the mansion with a smile.

Zhou Ziqiong sighed, helpless.

went home and entered the house, and the little girl who had slammed Jing Zhe before poured a cup of tea for Zhou Ziqiong, and said softly: "Miss, are you unhappy to be told by the master?" ”

Zhou Ziqiong shook her head and said with a smile: "Dad is also right, maybe it's just because of the grudge with King Jin that I was a little too careful, right?" This cotton clothing business may really be the same as what my father said, as long as it starts, it will explode! Even if you're scammed, it's not a bad thing. ”

"Oh? So much cotton, a lot of silver, isn't it bad? ”

"With a loss of a few thousand taels of silver, the Zhou family is still the Zhou family, but it is a good thing to let my father see the true face of King Jin and stop doing business with him in the future."

Zhou Ziqiong said quietly.

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