Lu Yuan and Zheng Sen signed the deed of Shanwushang to purchase spring breeze cloth from the Lu family weaving workshop.

Although Zheng Sen intended to help Lu Yuan, he would not let his Zheng family take risks in vain, so he also followed Lin Qing's advice.

Therefore, when it was just the beginning, the five merchants of the Zheng family did not purchase a large number of spring breeze cloth from the Lu family's weaving workshop, but only purchased 50,000 horses as a test.

If this spring breeze cloth can be sold well overseas even if the price is high, the Zheng family will naturally place additional orders.

But if the Chunfeng cloth does not sell well, either Lu Yuan will reduce the wholesale price or the Zheng family will stop purchasing.

50,000 horses is not a big order for the wealthy Zheng Sea Trade Group, you must know that just the cloth sold to Nagasaki, Japan, the number of trade of his Zheng family is hundreds of thousands of horses.

But the order of 50,000 horses is a huge fortune for Lu Yuan now.

One horse is six pieces of silver, ten thousand horses are six thousand taels of silver, and fifty thousand horses are thirty thousand taels of silver!

This is already an astronomical amount of money in Daming!

If the worth of five hundred taels of silver is already considered a rich man, then the current Lu Yuan is already a top rich.

Lu Yuan was naturally very happy in his heart, having such a large amount of income undoubtedly made him more confident in building his army in the future.

However, Lu Yuan was not satisfied with this, 30,000 taels of silver was a huge wealth for a family, but it was still just a small amount of money for raising an army.

The Ming court spent millions of taels of silver every year to raise the Guanning waste iron cavalry that did not dare to fight with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and had to levy additional salaries for this, not to mention that Lu Yuan would raise a strong army that dared to fight with the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the future.

The Zheng family directly gave Lu Yuan 25,000 taels of money and 5,000 taels of cash, without the slightest worry that Lu Yuan would not deliver the goods.

After all, with Lu Yuan's current strength, the Zheng family, which is strong enough to disobey the imperial court, is as easy as pinching Lu Yuan to death if he wants to move Lu Yuan, so the Zheng family naturally won't worry about Lu Yuan swallowing the Zheng family's silver privately.

Moreover, the money ticket is a bill issued by the Zheng family's own money bank, which is different from the silver ticket that appeared in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, and Lu Yuan can only go to the Zheng family to exchange it if he wants to exchange it for silver.

Lu Yuan naturally will not fail to deliver, the spring breeze cloth smashed in his hands is meaningless to him, and only in the domestic sales will also impact the family textile industry, which occupies the main market of the domestic textile industry, will cause great social problems, according to Lu Yuan's ideas, his advanced textile technology is best to smash the jobs of foreign textile workers.

Lu Yuan is also not worried that his spring breeze cloth will not sell well abroad.

He knows that the world has entered the great geographical discovery more than 100 years later, and the global economy has long been active.

Western colonizers such as Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the British have been plundering all over the world, especially in the Americas and Africa, and countless silver and gold have flowed into the hands of these Western colonists, and they have money to buy high-priced cloth in their hands.

Otherwise, the historically expensive Chinese silk would not have been sold for a total value of millions of taels per year.

Even if you don't mention these Western colonizers, as far as Lu Yuan knows, the current Japan has ended the chaotic Warring States period and began to enter the era of unified shogunate rule, Japan's economic level will undoubtedly improve, and Japan's silver reserves have always been a lot in this era.

Moreover, the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan now pursued a policy of seclusion for the sake of its own rule, allowing only China and the Netherlands to trade with Japan.

However, the Netherlands is now crushed by the Zheng Group in East Asia, that is to say, the Chinese maritime trade represented by the Zheng Group almost monopolizes the Japanese market.

In this international environment, if the epoch-making spring breeze cloth does not sell well, there can only be one possibility, that is, overseas countries use the ruling power to carry out administrative intervention and forcibly prohibit the sale of spring breeze cloth in their country.

In short, Lu Yuan is still full of confidence in the future of Chunfeng Cloth.

Suddenly increasing the order of 50,000 pieces of spring breeze cloth, the weaving workshop that needs to expand the scale of production naturally has to continue to recruit workers, and Lu Yuan still handed over this task to Uncle Fei.

The procurement of cotton yarn is also in charge of Uncle Fei.

Therefore, Lu Yuan gave Uncle Fei the title of "chief manager" and was awarded the treatment of a first-level administrator.

The so-called first-level management treatment was invented by Lu Yuan, in order to form a hierarchy within his own business team, which was easy to manage, and at the same time, to prepare to distinguish himself from the imperial court in the future.

Lu Yuan never thought of working for the Zhu family dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, of course, he would still wear the skin of the Zhu family to engage in obscene development before his fledgling.

In addition to the leaders of the weaving workshop working groups, the chief manager Uncle Fei, the weaving workshop supervisor Yin, and the treasurer of the Lujia cloth shop, Yuan Zhonggui, are Lu Yuan's three current senior administrators.

The weaving workshop is managed by old people like Uncle Fei and Yin, Lu Yuan is naturally relieved, but whether Yuan Zhonggui can manage the cloth shop well, Lu Yuan is a little worried.

"Childe, this is the account of cloth sales these days, please look at it."

Lu Yuan took the account book from Yuan Zhonggui's hand, and looked at it carefully, he had taught Uncle Fei to use double-entry bookkeeping, and Uncle Fei taught this method to Yuan Zhonggui, so the account book that Yuan Zhonggui handed to Lu Yuan now is also using the more scientific double-entry bookkeeping method in later generations, Lu Yuan also saved the difficulty of checking the accounts, and it didn't take long to find that there was nothing wrong with the account book, so he said: "There is no mistake, the number of fabrics sold has increased significantly, you have done a good job, if you can maintain this growth rate by the end of the year, I will reward you." ”

"That little one is Xie Gongzi!"

Yuan Zhonggui originally looked a little cold, after all, the double-entry accounting method is more complicated than the single-entry accounting method, and he, the shopkeeper, can't make a profit from it, so it's not easy to make gray income, so he is not interested in the quality of cloth sales.

But hearing Lu Yuan say that if this growth rate can be maintained, there will be rewards at the end of the year, Yuan Zhonggui immediately felt happy, after all, the more the New Year, the easier the cloth will sell, and it is undoubtedly easy to ensure this growth rate, so at the end of the year, he will definitely be rewarded.

Lu Yuan just smiled, he didn't debunk Yuan Zhonggui's thoughts, and at this moment, he saw the two of them coming.

One of them was wearing a half-new mandarin duck jacket, holding a goose feather knife, and wearing a brave helmet, and at first glance he was a military man of this era.

The other person was wearing a short brown coat, with a half-open placket, a pockmarked face, and he was still picking his teeth while walking in a figure-eight way, and he looked at Lu Yuan with thief eyebrows, and he looked at Lu Yuan with a thief's eyebrows, and he looked like a green-skinned scoundrel.

Lu Yuan knew both of them, after all, they were both people in the same workshop, the soldier's name was Tu Dazhu, and he was a soldier under the deputy general army of Linqing, and the green skin was called Xiao Chunlai, who specialized in cheating.

"Brother Lu, this matter has nothing to do with you, I'm looking for Yuan Zhonggui, hehe."

This Xiao Chun came to Yuan Zhonggui as he spoke: "The surname Yuan, I invited Brother Tu here today, just to ask you, you took my sister's body, and said that you would pay thirty taels of silver, when will you give this money, you don't want to rely on it all the time, you have now become the shopkeeper of the Lu family, and with the income of the silver money, you don't want to rely on it all the time." ”

Yuan Zhonggui hurriedly made a gesture: "Can the two brothers give a few more days, when my boss sends out the silver, I will definitely make up thirty taels of silver!" ”

"We've been giving you grace for so long, if you don't come up with the money now, I'll break your legs for Chunlai's sister!"

This Tu Dazhu said viciously and grabbed Yuan Zhonggui's collar, and then really kicked Yuan Zhonggui's knee.

Yuan Zhonggui screamed and fell to his knees.

Tu Dazhu then kicked Yuan Zhonggui to the ground again, and shouted, "Bring the silver!" Give Chunlai his sister an explanation! Otherwise, grandpa will really break your legs, and don't blame me for ignoring the feelings of the neighbors! ”

"Brother Tu spares his life! I don't have any money right now! ”

Yuan Zhonggui pleaded bitterly.

Xiao Chunlai also helped on the side and said: "Yuan Zhonggui, you hurt my sister-in-law, I only want you to give thirty taels of silver, don't force me to be anxious, you forced me to be anxious, I will not only let Brother Tu break your legs, but also break your life!" ”

Lu Yuan stood aside and watched, with a smile on his face, he didn't mean to stand up.

After a while, Tu Dazhu really held the back of the knife and slashed at Yuan Zhonggui.

"Ahh

Yuan Zhonggui hugged the knee that was hit and screamed.

Lu Yuan still just smiled.

Tu Dazhu didn't even use a knife at this time, but punched Yuan Zhonggui in the back with his fist.

"Ahh

Another scream came from Yuan Zhonggui's mouth.

Lu Yuan couldn't bear it anymore, after all, his store still had to open for business, and if these three people made trouble here, he wouldn't be able to do his business.

Therefore, Lu Yuan walked over and asked Xiao Chunlai: "Xiao Chunlai, did he really hurt your sister?" ”

"Brother Lu, how dare I hide this from you, if he hadn't harmed my sister, Brother Tu wouldn't have come to administer justice, right," Xiao Chunlai smiled and said.

"In this case, I am also your neighbor, since I have seen this matter, I can't help but ask, my future brother-in-law Tang Wenyun knows someone from the county government, and I asked him to find someone from the county government to administer justice for your sister! When the time comes, whether Yuan Zhonggui is exiled or beheaded, he will be to blame. ”

Lu Yuan said and reminded: "But don't make false accusations, if you make false accusations, you will be punished for your sister's crimes!" ”

Lu Yuan then walked to Yuan Zhonggui again: "The original shopkeeper, since you have such a bad character, I can't hire you anymore, let's settle the salary, and there are liquidated damages for dismissing you." ”

As soon as Lu Yuan finished speaking.

Tu Dazhu and Xiao Chunlai both knelt down towards Lu Yuan with a thud.

"Brother Lu, Master Lu, we were wrong, we shouldn't lie to you, please don't go to the government! My sister was originally a girl from Honghualou, and my sister also gave money when Yuan Zhonggui slept with her."

Xiao Chunlai hurriedly explained.

Tu Dazhu also said busily: "Brother Lu, everyone is a neighbor, don't do this, we shouldn't do this, but there is no way, you can beat me as much as you want, please don't go to the government, I still have an old lady who needs to be treated!" ”

At this time, Yuan Zhonggui also gritted his teeth and crawled over, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Childe, I was wrong, I was really wrong, please don't fire me!" ”

Lu Yuan didn't expect that he really guessed correctly, and these three people really joined forces to act and deceive themselves, so he smiled and said:

"You guys, you really treat me Lu Yuan as a three-year-old child, I really thought that when I saw Yuan Zhonggui being beaten, I would take out thirty taels of silver to save him! Of course, if Yuan Zhonggui is really in trouble, I will help, but you want to use my sympathy to deceive me, but it's that simple, everyone is a neighborhood, I didn't believe that he Yuan Zhonggui hurt a woman and dared to harm the girl in his neighborhood, and Xiao Chunlai will not cheat and deceive the neighborhood if he is a scoundrel, no, I, Lu Yuan, am an exception! ”

Xiao Chunlai hurriedly stood up and hurriedly slapped himself: "It's all mine, Brother Lu, if you want to blame me, don't blame the two of them, this idea is mine, however, we don't really want to cheat you, we just want to borrow some silver from you, one is that Tu Dazhu and his mother are sick and want to see the doctor to catch medicine, and the other is that my little sister and Yuan Zhonggui need silver to get married, I heard that Yuan Zhonggui is the shopkeeper here in you, and the monthly silver during the probation period is three taels, it can be seen that you are rich, and even Yuan Zhonggui has followed you to ask for a good errand, So we thought about borrowing some silver from you, and it was not good to take the initiative to find you, I was afraid that you would not agree, and it was not thirty taels of silver, so I thought of such an idea, it is not a lie, but I just want to borrow some silver. ”

"That's it, that's it, it's our fault for this, Brother Lu, I'll Tu Dazhu apologize to you, if you beat me, I will never fight back!"

Tu Dazhu also nodded hurriedly and said.

Yuan Zhonggui bowed his head even more embarrassedly and said, "Childe, Xiao Chun said the same. ”

Lu Yuan laughed, and hurriedly helped Tu Dazhu and Yuan Zhonggui up, and then said to Xiao Chun: "Xiao Chun, you are very sharp-toothed, I think it is you who really need money." ”

"I can't escape your eyes for everything, I recently lost some money, I was borrowed, and I was anxious to repay the debt, so I came up with such an idea."

Xiao Chunlai replied with a smile.

Lu Yuan smiled and said: "Everyone is a neighborhood, and if you need help in the future, let's just say it, why bother doing this, there is no estrangement!" ”

Saying that, Lu Yuan wrote it down in the account book, then took out fifty taels of silver and handed it to Yuan Zhonggui: "This is a total of fifty taels, of which thirty taels are paid to you in advance to marry your daughter-in-law, and it will be deducted from your monthly silver at that time, of which twenty taels are lent to Tu Dazhu and Xiao Chunlai, you two brothers, ten taels per person, but it is not borrowed in vain, I need you to help me do something." ”

"Since Brother Lu, you have said so, you can say anything!"

Tu Dazhu patted his chest and laughed, with ten taels of silver in his hand, he naturally didn't have to worry about his mother's illness and couldn't afford to take medicine and hire a doctor.

Xiao Chunlai also said: "What Brother Dazhu said is that Brother Lu'er, your business is our business, and we will do our best to do it for you." ”

Lu Yuan pulled the two aside and said in a low voice: "I want you to secretly inquire and move around many places these days, to find out if there is anyone in this Linqing City who is secretly attacking my weaving workshop, especially if there is anyone secretly looking for my weaving workshop weaver or the neighbors of Xinhufang to inquire, as long as my Lu family weaving workshop is fine within three months, you don't have to pay back this silver!" ”

Hearing Lu Yuan say this, Xiao Chunlai and Tu Dazhu's eyes lit up, and Xiao Chunlai patted his chest directly and said: "Brother Lu, don't worry, I have many friends, if anyone dares to hit your idea of weaving workshop, I will know it!" ”

"Me too, I know all the people in Xinhufang, as long as a stranger comes, I will definitely ask him what he is doing here, if there is anything suspicious, I will definitely tell you!"

Tu Dazhu also said busily.

"Thank you so much, as long as the Lu family weaving workshop is still there, I will make a fortune in the future, and the benefits of the neighbors will be indispensable!"

Lu Yuan arched his hand.