Out of the boundary of Kaifeng Mansion, passing through Jingzhao Mansion and Fengxiang Mansion, it took 15 days.

Kou Ji and his entourage entered the boundary of Xining Prefecture at the junction of Qingtang and Da Song, and it was already the end of November.

Xining Prefecture is far colder than Bianjing City.

It's not just the cold weather.

The wind is colder.

The cold wind howled like a knife on a person's body.

It's snowing heavily.

The cold wind mixed with snowflakes drilled into people's necks one by one.

The frozen person shivered.

Some thinly dressed people have frostbite one after another.

Kou Ji distributed the antifreeze plasters and frozen oil he had prepared to the people.

Let them be used for freeze protection.

Even so.

Still because of frostbite, there was a small attrition.

Dozens of people froze to death on the road.

There were also some people who were left behind in the post stations along the way because of severe frostbite.

Kou Ji exhaled a breath of white air, tightened the cotton coat at the neckline, wrapped the bearskin jacket on his body tightly, and shouted to the people who were shivering with cold behind him: "All work hard...... When you arrive in Xining City, you don't have to be cold.

I have already instructed people to cook hot mutton soup and warm hot kang in Xining City......"

When the people who escorted the grain and grass heard this, they seemed to have an extra arm on their bodies, and they braved the wind and snow to push the grain cart to Xining City.

Liu Heng leaned on horseback, approached Kou Ji, and said in a low voice: "Fourth brother, don't promise indiscriminately, when you arrive in Xining City, if there is no hot soup and warm kang, the people will make trouble." ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said indifferently: "Why do you say that I am making promises?" ”

Liu Heng rolled his eyes, "From the time we set off to the present, you have sent out seven or eight horses, do you expect them to provide you with mutton soup and warm kang?" ”

Kou Ji squinted his eyes and said: "I am the emperor's order, and I ordered the defenders of Xining City to prepare hot soup and hot kang, and they dare not obey." ”

Liu Heng shook his head and said, "Fourth brother, you have never set foot in the Western Regions, and you have no idea how proud the border army of the Western Regions is. They didn't see your Heavenly Sword, and they wouldn't follow your orders at all.

Even if you report this matter to the imperial court, it will be difficult to break it down. ”

Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "I really want to know how arrogant they are......"

Liu Heng sighed and said, "Why don't I send someone to take the first step, go to Xining City, prepare a few pots of mutton soup, and deal with it first." ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said, "How long has it been since you talked to your men?" Or how long has it been since you've heard from someone under your tukou? ”

Liu Heng was stunned for a moment, and said with a dry smile: "I've been tinkering with the things you gave me for the past few days, Fourth Brother, and I haven't asked them." ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "Then you should ask them properly to see if I can fulfill what I promised." ”

Liu Heng said suspiciously: "Shall I ask?" ”

Kou Ji pulled out his hand from his sleeve, handed it to Liu Heng, and said indifferently: "Give me the things first, and I'll help you keep them, so that you don't lose your mind." ”

Liu Heng was a little reluctant to pull out a warm and hot short-barreled musket from his cuff and handed it to Kou Ji.

Kou Ji casually stuffed it into his arms.

Liu Heng smiled dryly: "You save it for me first, and you have to give it to me later." ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "Get out of ......"

Liu Heng smiled and went to his subordinates to understand the situation.

After a long time.

Liu Heng returned to Kou Ji's side with a shocked face, "Four...... Fourth Brother ......"

Kou Ji hummed lightly.

Liu Hengqiang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said in a trembling voice: "How did you do it?" ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and did not speak.

Liu Heng asked, "When did you arrange the people in Xining City?" When did you turn nearly half of Xining City into a guy from Kou Mansion? ”

Kou Ji glared at Liu Heng, "You can't talk nonsense, they are not my guys from Kou Mansion." Just help me work, I give them money. ”

Liu Hengqiang endured the shock in his heart and said, "They help you work, aren't they your buddies?" ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng up and down, and said lightly: "This year, your dividend in the textile workshop will be reduced by 50,000 yuan." ”

When Liu Heng heard this, he was anxious, "Why?" ”

Kou Ji said dissatisfiedly: "As one of the owners of the textile workshop, you don't even know the situation of the industry under your name. What face do you have to take so many bonuses? ”

Liu Heng exclaimed, "You mean...... How many major textile workshops in Xining City are ours? ”

Kou Ji said lightly: "It's not a few big ...... It's all! ”

Liu Heng's pupils shrank, and his heart was even more shocked.

His voice trembled slightly, "When?" ”

Kou Ji was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "From the time when your dividend in the textile workshop exceeded 300,000 yuan. ”

"That's not ......"

Liu Heng hurriedly spoke.

Halfway through his words, he was forcefully interrupted by Kou Ji.

"Do you really think that the textile workshop outside Bianjing City can help us make millions of profits?"

Liu Heng already had the answer in his heart, but he still couldn't help asking, "Isn't it?" ”

Kou Ji pouted, "Of course not...... The fabrics woven by the textile workshops outside Bianjing City are only for the people of our Great Song Dynasty, and there is not much profit.

What really helped us make money were the textile workshops in Xining City, Baozhou City, and Leizhou City.

The fabrics spun by the textile workshops in Xining City were sold to the Western Regions.

The fabrics spun by the textile workshops in Baozhou were sold to Liao.

The fabrics spun by the textile workshops in Leizhou City were sold overseas along with the silk in Shuzhong.

The fabrics spun by our textile workshop are too competitive in the Great Song Dynasty, and they can only make small profits and sell them at a high price.

However, in the Western Regions, Liao, and overseas, the fabrics spun by our textile workshops can be sold for a large price. ”

Liu Heng grunted, swallowed another mouthful of saliva, and said in a deep voice: "I thought those dividends were all money earned by the textile workshop in Bianjing. ”

Kou Ji said angrily: "The fabric is not gold, just the dozen or so textile houses in Bianjing City, can you make so much money?" ”

Liu Heng smiled awkwardly.

As one of the owners of the textile workshop, it is indeed his fault that he does not know the movements of the textile workshop.

Kou Ji reprimanded him, and that was also as it should be.

He couldn't argue with it.

Vientiane Building, Vientiane Pawn Shop, he occasionally goes to see.

But the textile workshop, he rarely set foot in, let alone understand, has always been a state of hands-off shopkeeper.

So I don't know anything about the business of a textile workshop.

Liu Heng opened his mouth to ask again.

But I heard Kou Ji say lightly: "Don't ask me why I want to place the textile workshop in four places. If you dare to speak, I will dare to deduct all your dividends. ”

Liu Heng smiled awkwardly, "Of course I didn't ask this...... I'm not stupid enough to ......."

Naturally, he would not ask such a stupid question.

Although he didn't know the business in the textile workshop, he knew that the guys in the textile workshop would go to all parts of the Western Regions and Liao to collect wool every year at the end of spring.

Kou Ji placed the textile workshop in Xining City and Baozhou City nearby, also to save costs.

Wool from the Western Regions, Liao and other places to Bianjing will cost a lot of money.

If it is woven into cloth and then transported to the Western Regions and Liao, it will cost a lot of money.

The cost of transportation comes and goes, and it costs a lot of money.

If it is placed in Xining City and Baozhou City, it will save this large amount of money.

Of course.

Liu Heng didn't know.

The textile workshop is placed in Xining City, Baozhou City, and Leizhou City, which not only saves transportation costs, but also reduces labor costs.

The people of the border land are no more delicate than the people around Bianjing.

Their labor costs are extremely low.

Take Xining City, for example.

When Qian Le led people to set up a textile workshop in Xining City, he almost died of laughter on the spot when he inquired about the wages.

The people of Xining City are very simple.

It's so simple that you don't have to pay for it.

Just take care of the food, just take care of the full.

I don't pick and choose to eat.

As long as you can eat enough, you can eat anything.

If it weren't for Kou Ji's strong demand for Mu Chong, he would have to pay the people.

It is estimated that Qian Le, an unscrupulous profiteer, will decisively deduct the people's wages.

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng, and Liu Heng said with a smile: "I just want to know, why does the fourth brother set up many textile workshops in Xining City?" Isn't it better to manage it when it comes together? ”

Kou Ji said quietly: "The people of Xining City are simple, but they are also strong. Many of them were family members of the Xining garrison. When we use them, we have to avoid accidents.

Dividing a large workshop into countless smaller workshops is the purpose.

We can't instill all the workshops ourselves, we can only recruit stewards and let them manage them for us.

But among those in charge, the good and the bad are mixed.

There are those who are not greedy, and there are those who are greedy.

If it is because of their greed that they oppress the people too much, causing dissatisfaction among the people and causing riots, then it will not be easy to deal with.

If there is a problem with the steward of the big workshop, then our entire workshop will be overturned by the people, and the textile business will not be able to continue at all.

But if there is a problem with the steward of the small workshop.

We just need to take care of this little housekeeping.

But it won't affect our textile business. ”

Liu Heng suddenly realized, "I didn't expect there to be so many doorways here......"

Kou Ji said indifferently: "In the future, you will know if you send people to pay more attention to your own business." ”

Liu Heng nodded seriously.

Kou Ji reminded, "Don't use the people of the Imperial City Division. The people of the Imperial City Division are the people of the official family, not our personal belongings. ”

Kou Ji didn't say it thoroughly, but Liu Heng had already understood Kou Ji's thoughts.

Public and private use, or not.

Especially the special yamen like the Imperial City Division, it is even more unacceptable.

Every point of personal use will erode a point of trust in you.

After the trust of the official family in you is damaged, you will inevitably be dismissed from office by the official family.

Just when the business of Liu Heng's textile workshop was amazed.

Li Zhaoliang rode his horse from the back of the team to the front of the team, and when he saw Kou Ji, he opened his mouth and shouted, "Hurry up...... Give me your padded coat ......"

When Kou Ji heard this, he was happy, "Don't you want it?" It is said that the cotton clothes are too bloated and affect your fighting, and it is not as warm as the leather jacket. ”

Li Zhaoliang was annoyed and angry, and shouted: "Too bloated clothes, of course, are not conducive to combat, didn't you see that I didn't even bring a velvet jacket when I came out?" If it weren't for the cold, you thought I'd scarce your padded clothes? ”

Kou Ji smiled mockingly, instructed the people around him, and took a cotton coat to Li Zhaoliang.

After Li Zhaoliang got the cotton clothes, he quickly took off the big coat and leather jacket, followed the appearance of Kou Ji, wore the cotton clothes close to his body, and then put on the leather jacket and leather jacket.

Feeling the warmth brought by the cotton clothes, Li Zhaoliang let out a long breath and said, "I didn't expect it...... It's so warm to wear......"

Kou Ji rolled his eyes.

Just put it on in the wind and snow, and it was immediately warm?

It's obviously your delusion, okay?

After Li Zhaoliang tightened his grip, he stared at Kou Ji and asked, "Why is there no such good thing for sale in Bianjing City?" ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he was stunned and sighed, "Yes...... It's just not good to sell......"

Although Kou Ji instructed Qian Le, he introduced cotton to the Central Plains.

But when it came time to promote planting, it didn't go so well.

The common people have a certain hostility towards this new species.

After knowing that it could not be eaten or drunk, no one chose to grow it.

In the hearts of the people, the existing land is not enough to grow food, so how can it be used to grow cotton.

Even if Qian Le sent people to tell the people about the benefits of cotton, no one was willing to plant it.

In the hearts of the people, food comes first.

The only fate of the land is to grow food.

In the eyes of wealthy families, grain also comes first, and they will not waste fertile land to grow such strange things as cotton.

So.

So far.

Cotton is only planted in a large area in Baozhou, Huazhou, Shuzhong, Leizhou and other places.

Other than that, there are no other races.

If the production is small, there will be less to sell.

Knowing it's good, fewer people are willing to buy it.

Kou Ji also thought about using his influence to promote cotton.

But after thinking about the consequences, I gave up.

He really dared to use his influence to promote cotton.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty dared to engrave the word traitor and hang it on his head.

The people of the people dared to spread his act of 'bringing disaster to the country and the people' all over the world.

In the entire Great Song Dynasty, in addition to Kou Ji, there were also merchants.

In the hearts of all the rest of the people, the land to grow grain will always come first.

No one can disobey this rule.

But anyone who disobeys this rule of heaven will end up very miserable.

Li Zhaoliang felt the warmth brought by the cotton clothes, and laughed: "Is this thing expensive?" If it's not expensive, give me a thousand pieces first, there are many people in my house. ”

Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "It's a little more expensive than a leather jacket, but it's cheaper than a fluff-filled warm jacket." ”

Scarcity is expensive.

Nowadays, cotton is not cultivated on a large scale.

There is no way to make small profits and sell quickly.

Li Zhaoliang nodded slowly, "That's not expensive, you will ask someone to send two thousand pieces to my house when I go back." ”

Li Zhaoliang heard that the cotton clothes were cheaper than the fluff-filled warm jackets, and immediately generously added a thousand pieces.

Liu Heng remained silent on the side, and when Li Zhaoliang and Kou Ji finished speaking, he had the heart to share his shock with Li Zhaoliang.

"General Li, aren't you curious about whether the promise my fourth brother made to the people just now can be fulfilled?"

Li Zhaoliang glanced at Liu Heng, clasped his hands in his arms, felt the warmth brought by the cotton clothes, and said lightly: "Half of the people in Xining City live on the wages issued by Kou Fu, Kou Ji asked them to do something else, can they refuse?" ”

Liu Heng was stunned, "How do you know?" ”

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