"If it's raw silk or something like that, forget it, the Xie family has traded with a big gang of officials in recent years, and I'm afraid that there won't be more goods to trade with Dayuan."

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After Xie Chushui said this, Xiong Dao's eyebrows couldn't help but go up, and the next moment he immediately piled up a smile on his face: "It's okay to do it, right now Dayuan Island is barren, it's a hemp rope, a bundle of porcelain bowls can be transported, it's also good, don't pick, don't pick, haha." Speaking of this, Master Xiong raised his head and laughed loudly.

And Xie Fuqing also echoed the awkward laughter at this time, and glanced at his nephew sternly by the way. After a few more polite words between the two sides, Master Xiong got up to say goodbye, and Xie hurriedly got up to see him off. A group of people came to the door of the hall happily, and Master Xiong said goodbye to the experienced Xie Fuqing and Xie Chushui, who was inexplicably a little hostile to him, and returned to the sedan chair.

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"Out of the water, you haven't been in Hangzhou for a long time, and the territory hasn't been figured out yet, how can you say that kind of nonsense in front of this person?!" After sending off the guests, just returned to the private room, Xie Fuqing had a gloomy face, glared at Xie Chushui and asked.

Xie Chushui listened to Uncle Clan's question, and a sarcastic smile appeared on his black face: "Fourth Uncle, there is some news that you still don't know, this group of people is selling raw silk to the Japanese on Dayuan Island, which is not in line with Zheng Yiguan's taboo, I am afraid that time is running out, and the fourth uncle does not need to care." ”

After Xie Fuqing blinked his eyes and reminisced, he first sat down on the back of the chair, then he stared at Xie Chushui's eyes, and asked slowly, "Why didn't Zheng Yiguan suppress this generation early?" ”

"Fourth uncle, you know, the Zheng family has recently been camping in Tongshan, and they are returning to the official army, and they can't spare their hands."

"Well, when the Zheng family had time earlier, why didn't they go to the red-haired man's nest?"

"Oh... This, about... The red-haired man is sharp, and the cannon is sharp......"

"How did the red-haired man go to Dayuan Island, don't know, you went to Penghu with two boats to help the fist, how can you not know?"

Xie Fuqing paused when he said this, then frowned and continued: "How many people did the official army and the Zheng family have that day?" How many people are there in the red hair? If the Zheng family has a way, can he send the red hair to the big man? ”

"Whose ecstasy soup did you probably listen to, do you really think that Xiong Dao and his gang are successful in sneak attack? Red-haired corpses are all over the field, and the city walls are bursting, how can this be a sneak attack? Xie Fuqing said this, with a helpless expression: "That group of people is a big worm!" ...... The Zheng family couldn't be clearer, if Yiguan really had that ability, he would have been leveled a long time ago, and he still had to stay in Tongshan to drink the wind?! ”

The more Xie Fuqing talked at this time, the more angry he became, and the more he talked, the more scared he became. With the experience of a forty-year-old maritime merchant, he was keenly aware of a trace of risk, and this will be analyzed again, Xie Fu is completely clear about one thing: his own reckless nephew regarded the people on Dayuan Island as local chickens and dogs, and he stood in line for the Xie family in a word......

There seemed to be an inexplicable smell of burnt paste wafting through the tip of his nose, and Xie Fuqing walked around the room irritably at this time—for some reason, he always had a bad premonition: "I don't know some news?" Darn! The second shopkeeper of Tangzhuang is the sworn brother of the leader of the Hangzhou beggar gang, with 8,000 brothers under him, how many do you know such news? ”。

Looking back at the nephew with his mouth wide open, Xie Fuqing was no longer verbose, and asked directly: "Are all the goods ready?" ”

"It's ready." Xie Chushui nodded.

"I'll write a letter to the head of the family, you get the letter and go to Zhapu, and the day after tomorrow you will go back to Zhangzhou with the old thirteen's boat."

"Old Thirteen?" Xie Chushui was surprised: "The old thirteen's ship has not yet been prepared? ”

Xie Fuqing didn't want to say anything to this brain-disabled nephew anymore, so he pulled the pen and ink on the desk on the side and began to write a letter on the spot. After writing, the envelope was sealed with fire paint, and then Xie Fuqing handed the letter to his nephew: "Whether you are old or faint, I still have the final say on the affairs of Jiangnan." You will leave, at the latest the day after tomorrow, you will return with the old thirteen boats, the reasons are all in the letter, and the head of the family has his own statement after reading it. ”

Just when Xie Chushui picked up the letter and opened the door of the private room, Xie Fuqing turned his back to him and added coldly: "Chushui, you must remember that your surname is Xie, not Zheng, don't hear the wrong thing and make the wrong force!" ”

...... Seeing Xie Chushui walking out of the door with a heavy heart, Xie Fuqing's bronzed face was still covered with frost, he got up and returned to the small courtyard rented by the head of the hall, and after thinking about it for a long time, he returned to the hall to write a letter.

The content of this letter is very detailed, after Xie Fuqing finished writing, while sealing his mouth, he called the chief entourage outside the door to enter the house: "Stone, you take this letter, I will give you another 20 taels of silver." You will go to Zhapu early tomorrow morning, don't take your own boat, just take another family's boat, go home as soon as possible, and hand over the letter to the lord. ”

"The stone knows."

After sending the messenger, Xie Fuqing called another long-term follower, ordering him to take his name to Tangzhuang to post, and after a certain time, he wanted to visit Master Xiong.

Lao Xie's operation in the guild hall was unknown to Master Xiong Dao, who had already gone far. To tell the truth, after Master Xiong left the door of the hall, he had already forgotten about the Xie family's uncle and nephew......

What do you do in detail about things that don't fall within the scope of your work?

From the moment Xie Chushui revealed that the Xie family was the Zheng family's raw silk supplier, the nature of this matter had risen from the internal contradiction of the people to the level of contradiction between the enemy and me. And the contradiction between the enemy and me is not under the control of Xiong Dao, but by Lu Cheng.

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In the Ming Dynasty, the silk weaving industry in Fujian was developed, especially in Zhang, Quan, and other places where trade was prosperous, and the silk fabrics produced by folk handicraftsmen were quite famous, and Zhang's yarn and spring brocade sold well at home and abroad.

However, the silk weaving industry and the mulberry cocoon industry are two different things...... In fact, Fujian does not produce silk.

Due to geographical and climatic reasons, Fujian's mulberry cocoon industry is very underdeveloped. "Ba Min Tongzhi" said: "The sericulture here is thin, there are many producers, and the people need to weave yarn and silk, all of which are owned by Wu Hang." ”

The same record can also be found in the "Xinghua Mansion Chronicles": "The local silkworm leaves are thin, the silk is decadent, and the yarn and silk woven by the people are all owned in Wuzhong." ”

In other words, Fujian is actually a two-pronged trade model: on the one hand, it imports large quantities of Jiangnan raw silk from Wu County, Suzhou, and on the other hand, it exports finished silk and raw silk through the local processing industry.

Silk, with Huzhou head silk for the top, followed by silkworms, there are plain weaving, flower weaving, cloud weaving, gold thread weaving......

Yarn, also use lake silk, the good ones are plain yarn, flower yarn, gold yarn......

Silk cloth, with lake silk, there are few weavers today......

Above.

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Including the raw silk that Zheng Zhilong trafficked to Japan every year, including the raw silk that the Dutch bought from Lao Zheng, 9% of these goods came from the same place: Wuxian County, Suzhou...... The world's largest wholesale silk market in the 17th century.

Cutting off the enemy's financial resources and striking at the enemy's transportation lines is the most basic operation between the hostile forces. Zheng Zhilong Zheng Da handsome man, who has long been listed as the number one rival of the crossing regime in 1628, I am afraid that this will not know that as early as the beginning of the establishment of Hangzhou Station, it is already one of the key tasks in the planning to attack his raw silk transportation channel from the root.

Well, this is called stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to go: in the face of a vast number of large and small maritime merchants, Hangzhou Station originally couldn't spare the energy to investigate who was the Zheng family's supplier, but I didn't expect to jump out of it today......

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Later that day, an electric wave sent from Tangzhuang to Moyunguan.

Soon after, the Moyun Temple also sent out two radio waves, one of which was destined for Dayuan, and the other pierced into the depths of the void, not knowing where to go.

In the afternoon of the next day, the private port outside Zhapu Town.

Zhapu is located on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, surrounded by mountains and seas, with a superior geographical location, and is the only place to enter Hangzhou Bay.

The pointed bottom Fu ship from Fujian generally does not go deep into Hangzhou Bay - the hydrological situation is complicated, and there is a danger of running aground. Therefore, Zhapu, Jinshan and other places located at the mouth of Hangzhou Bay have become the anchorage of some Fujian and Guangdong merchant ships.

The two lucky ships belonging to the Xie family are currently moored in a private port called Niutou Port outside Zhapu Town.

After setting off from Hangzhou yesterday, Xie Chushui took a small paddle and kept hurrying, and he had already arrived in Zhapu Town, more than 50 miles away, in half a day. After the captain of the same clan, Xie 13, was notified at that time, he did not dare to slack off, and this morning he indiscriminately entered some groceries from Zhapu Town to fill the remaining cabins, and the two ships of the Xie family were ready to depart at this moment, just waiting for tomorrow morning, they would be on the road.

Just as the sailors on the ship were bored basking in the sun, two servants walked in from outside the private harbor, followed by a man who looked like a domestic servant.

The three benevolent brothers inquired and walked along the various large and small ships in the harbor all the way, and soon came to the Xie family's ship.

"Can the head of the program be? Come out and talk back! After climbing onto the boat from the gangplank, the official opened his mouth to shout in a local dialect.

Xie Chushui and Xie Shisan, who were talking in the stern cabin, heard the sound and went out of the cabin, and when they saw that they were two errand officers from Zhapu County, they hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Isn't it just the ship's outline, dare to ask the two poor masters what they are doing?" ”

Generally speaking, these Fujian and Guangdong shippers in the private port, and the Zhapu County Ya belong to the well water and do not violate the river water, and the filial piety of the shippers on weekdays is paid in a timely manner, and the county government also turns a blind eye to this place.

When the errand officer saw the main master coming out, he let go of his body, raised his thumb and pointed to the back of his shoulder: "The errand with the family letter." ”

A young man with a round face, a green coat and a soft hat, and a small man's appearance, walked out from behind the errand at this time.

"I belong to Master Lu's family in Donghu Town, and I have a letter to bring to Zhangzhou Mansion at home, so I just found out that your ship is going to Fujian, so ......" The young man said this, and stopped smiling.

When Xie Chushui heard this, he knew the reason, and immediately laughed: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, it's a common thing to carry a letter from the family, a trivial matter, and a few of them will come with me." ”

...... Although I don't know where this Laoshizi Donghu Lu master is, Xie Chushui knows that if he can work Zhapu County's errand to ask and send letters, this old man must be a big local family, and this can't be wrong.

Xie someone, who is in a very good mood, has decided not to charge courier fees at this time, maybe he can have a relationship in the future, right?

When the young man arrived at the stern, he opened the bag that had been carrying his back all along, revealing a thick black lacquered wooden box, several letters, and two pairs of new shoes with satin muslin soles.