Huangji Buzhuang is a cloth shop in Pingzhou that is neither large nor small.

The level of Pingzhou's textile industry is also among the best in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Hou family, the Liu family, and the Zheng family, who do cloth business, are the three major cloth merchants in Pingzhou.

Huang Ji is a notch lower than these three masters.

However, most of the raw materials of cloth are cotton, hemp, silk, etc., and more will be distinguished by different processing methods.

Relatively speaking, there are still quite few people who make cloth processed from animal hides.

Therefore, the shopkeeper of Huang Ji Cloth Village felt that this was a very good idea after getting to know this big Chongfu runner who went south to sell animal skins, so he wanted to expand his shop and open a new workshop for processing animal skins and fabrics.

Around the time of Shen, Zhang Xiang took the big housekeeper Qian Ziang to Huangji Buzhuang.

Some of the guards who had followed in the shadows soon dispersed and hid in the shadows.

After knowing that a gangster had come to Pingzhou to assassinate Zhang Xiang, whenever Zhang Xiang went out, Zhao Hanyan would send a team of guards to quietly accompany him to protect him.

This is what Zhang Xiang doesn't know, and Zhao Hanyan doesn't want Zhang Xiang to know his worries, so that's the only way.

Huang Liang, the shopkeeper of Huang Ji Cloth Village, learned that the horse had come in person, and hurriedly gave him a warm reception, and then led Zhang Xiang to visit his cloth village.

This Huangji cloth village is indeed not bad, after all, it has its own workshop, which can produce and be self-sufficient.

Producers with production capacity are bound to live relatively long.

And Huang Ji Buzhuang not only has production capacity, but also distribution capacity, now think of animal skin processing, as well as the ability to innovate, as long as they do not die, should not go bankrupt.

After a visit, Zhang Xiang also roughly understood the strength of this Huangji cloth village.

He turned around and smiled and said to the shopkeeper Huang Liang behind him: "If I have time another day, can I visit the workshop of the shopkeeper Huang?" ”

"Of course there's no problem with this, we'll be a family in the future, and you can go at any time if you want to." The yellow shopkeeper with a fat face hurriedly smiled and nodded.

Zhang Xiang said again: "Then can the shopkeeper Huang also borrow the account books of the last two years?" ”

"This..."

Huang Liang was so shrewd, he knew Zhang Xiang's intentions in an instant.

The workshop can be seen, it is to show his sincerity, but the account book is a businessman's secret and family background, if he gives Zhang Xiang truthfully, that is, there is no secret in front of Zhang Xiang.

The above records are the transactions and transactions between the entire cloth village and all cooperative merchants and customers, as well as the amount and so on.

After all, he hasn't started cooperation yet, and of course he doesn't want to hand over such an important secret now.

Zhang Xiang raised his eyebrows: "I know the difficulties of the Huang shopkeeper, but the Huang shopkeeper also has to understand our difficulties, the bookkeeper of the Huang Horse Mansion has calculated, the conditions mentioned by the Huang shopkeeper, the Huang Palm Mansion will invest a total of about two thousand taels, such a large sum of silver, almost all of them have been hollowed out of the Huang Horse Mansion, if I don't understand the Huang shopkeeper's business ability, how can I rest assured that the money will be handed over to the Huang shopkeeper?" ”

"Huang shopkeeper, as a businessman, pay attention to integrity, I know, I know that such a request is a bit abrupt, so let's have an idea, it is better to wait until I find a suitable place to set up a new workshop, let Huang shopkeeper look at it, if Huang shopkeeper is satisfied, it is not too late to show me the account book." Zhang Xiang said with a smile.

Huang Liang hurriedly said: "What does the horse say, if the horse wants to see it now, I will immediately ask someone to get it." ”

Zhang Xiang knew that he was just putting on a show, and even if he agreed, what he would see might not necessarily be the real ledger.

So he smiled and waved his hand: "No need, I believe in Shopkeeper Huang, just wait for me to find the location of the new workshop, and it will not be too late to look at it." ”

"Thank you for your understanding." Huang Liang hurriedly surrendered his hand.

Zhang Xiang said: "It's not too early at that time, I'll go back to find a new workshop location first, I hope that the Huang shopkeeper will also prepare the account book for me in advance, the Huang shopkeeper, to be a businessman, integrity is the most important, right!" ”

"What the horse said is very true, Huang must keep it in mind." Huang Liang nodded hurriedly.

After Zhang Xiang took Qian Ziang out of the cloth village, Huang Liang gently wiped the sweat on his forehead.

This colt is not ordinary!

In just a few words, he understood all his thoughts.

Walking out of Huangji Buzhuang, Zhang Xiang walked slowly downstream along the Qinhuai River.

Qian Ziang on the side asked, "Where else does the colt want to go?" ”

Zhang Xiang said: "It's still early, let's go for a casual stroll and see where there are suitable places to open a new workshop!" ”

Qian Ziang spoke up while following him: "Actually, these days, the princess has let us look everywhere and inquire everywhere, there is basically no such place along the Qinhuai River, only the downstream place, there is such a place in the Laolong River that diverts from the Qinhuai River out of the city, but it has basically been bought by some big clans and officials in Pingzhou early." ”

"Let's check it out! It's okay to be idle anyway. Zhang Xiang smiled.

Then the two of them made their way downstream.

Speaking of which, this is the first time Zhang Xiang has appreciated the scenery on the banks of the Qinhuai River after coming to Nanchu Pingzhou.

On both sides of the Qinhuai River, these ten miles have flourished since ancient times, and it is a place where famous families gather, and it is also a place where businessmen and literati live.

Zhang Xiang remembered the world he was in in the previous life, and the Tang Dynasty looked at Chang'an.

Now from the grand scene on both sides of the Qinhuai River, we can also see the prosperity of Southern Chu.

Although he didn't know what the scene of the capital Bianjing was, Zhao Hanyan said that Pingzhou was not much different from Bianjing.

At this time, the hours have passed, and the lights that have been lit on both sides of the strait can be seen, and the singing of courtesans can also be heard in the green building.

Zhang Xiang stood on the riverside, he remembered a poem, and couldn't help but chant slightly: "The smoke cage is cold and the moon is long, and the night is close to the restaurant in Qinhuai." The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the backyard flowers across the river. ”

Qian Ziang, the chief butler standing behind him, bowed in admiration and said: "Horse talent, a good sentence, the merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country." ”

Zhang Xiang smiled and said casually: "I didn't write it." ”

"May I ask if it's Zhang Mingheng and Zhang Gongzi?"

At this time, suddenly a small man walked up to Zhang Xiang and bowed down and asked.

Zhang Xiang nodded: "I am." ”

"My son-in-law is invited." The little guy gave up again.

"Your son-in-law?" Zhang Xiang was stunned for a moment.

Then the little guy pointed to the river not far away.

Zhang Xiang looked over, there was a painting boat on the river, and at the front of the painting boat, a figure was nodding towards him.

Yang Li?

The person standing on the painting boat was none other than Yang Li and Yang Zhongkang.

Zhang Xiang also smiled back at Yang Li from afar.

Then the painting boat headed towards Zhang Xiang.

Yang Li on the painting boat was still so free and easy, and laughed at him: "Brother Zhang, what a coincidence." ”

"Brother Yang." Zhang Xiang also gave up to him.

"Brother Zhang has a good sentence 'The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the flower in the backyard across the river', I heard such a strange poem in the boat, I thought it was a genius, but I didn't expect it to be Brother Zhang, then it's not strange."

Yang Li finished speaking with a smile, and then made an inviting gesture: "Brother Zhang, can you get on the boat for a while?" ”

Zhang Xiang walked up, but said strangely: "From such a distance, Brother Yang can hear it?" ”

"Yang has also worshipped Jianghu artists since he was a child, learned some martial arts, and knows how to use some true qi, just now he was drinking in the boat, he drank a little too much, and he wanted to use his true qi to force out some, but he didn't want to hear Brother Zhang's strange poems." Yang Li explained with a smile.

Zhang Xiang said: "Brother Yang is comfortable, sitting alone in such a big painting boat and drinking. ”

Yang Li shook his finger and said mysteriously: "This painting boat is not Yang's, Yang was also invited, and the girl in the boat is the owner of the painting boat." ”

"Oh? Who is it? Zhang Xiang asked curiously.

Yang Li said: "Brother Zhang will know when he goes in and sees." ”

As he spoke, Yang Li lifted the curtain of the painting boat.

In the middle of the boat, it is very delicately decorated, in the center, a small table, a few plates of side dishes on the table, and two empty wine glasses.

A woman in black stood up from her seat and saluted Zhang Xiang Yingying: "Slave Qin Elegy, I've seen a horse." ”