So Ji Qingwen glanced at Li Yan and Li Yuanyin, and then got up and walked outside the firewood room.

Li Yan immediately got up and followed, and asked, "Brother Ji, what's the matter?" Do you believe the nonsense of these White Lotus Sect disciples? ”

Ji Qingwen replied: "A few of them are incoherent, but they don't say anything before and after, it doesn't seem like they deliberately colluded to deceive me, I can't help but I don't believe it......"

Li Yuanyin also came out and said, "Lord Ji, I think whether this matter is true or false, it has nothing to do with you, my lord." The adult is the weaving admiral of Suzhou, and the security of Suzhou or Nanzhili may still have some responsibilities, but Zhejiang and Fujian are far away from here, and they can't fight with the adults. Why should Lord Ji worry about such a thing? ”

Li Yuanyin has been mixed in the officialdom for so many years, and he also has some experience in the routines in the Ming court, and his reminders are also quite kind.

But Ji Qingwen didn't appreciate it, and said: "Commander Li, I don't like to hear what you say, what does it mean that you can't beat the eight poles?" You know the capabilities of those armies in the imperial court. If Xu Hongru really pulled up such an army of 50,000 and suddenly started an incident, how could the defenders of the imperial court in Zhejiang and Fujian be able to resist it? Zhejiang and Fujian are very close to us here in Suzhou, and Xu Hongru is a person who wants to rule the river with the imperial court, so he will definitely take advantage of the victory to attack in the north. ”

Li Yan also chimed in: "That's the way it is. And I calculated that Xu Hongru got Wei Zhongxian's inheritance in Beijing about 300,000 taels of silver, and he looted some outside Nanjing, adding up to only 500,000 taels of silver. These 500,000 taels of silver will support an army of 50,000, and it will not last, and once the silver is almost spent, it will be the time for him to start an incident. Therefore, I guess that in half a year or a month at the latest, Xu Hongru will make a big attack! ”

The relationship between Li Yuanyin and Li Yan has always been lukewarm, but now listening to his analysis of the first few sentences, he is also convinced.

But after listening to Li Yan's words, he changed his mind and said: "However, Commander Li's words are not all without merit. Brother Ji, you are the weaving admiral of Suzhou, even if you know Xu Hongru's exact location, can you still personally lead the soldiers of the 'Ming Wu Army', gather the armies of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian, and go into the mountains to encircle and suppress? The word 'system' in Commander Li's mouth was said lightly, but it was actually heavier than Mount Tai! ”

These two sentences were obviously said in accordance with Li Yuanyin's opinion.

This made Li Yuanyin moved, and couldn't help frowning: "Listening to what Lord Ji and Mr. Li said, the last general is really open." But Xu Hongru can't take it lightly, how should he deal with it, is it the complete strategy? ”

"Please ask the emperor, and the emperor will decide, this is the perfect strategy!" Li Yan said categorically, "Brother Ji has the right to play secretly, don't use it now, when will you wait?" ”

Ji Qingwen listened to Li Yan's words, and couldn't help but scold himself for being "stupid" - in feudal society, the emperor is the biggest, as long as the emperor speaks, who dares to disobey - such a simple truth, he actually wants Li Yan to teach himself.

Although Ji Qingwen found that this truth was not completely correct in his later experience.

However, he didn't think so deeply now, slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, Brother Li is reasonable." Then trouble Brother Li to write, and this will write a chapter for the emperor. In addition, our army must also prepare first, and from tomorrow onwards, it must step up training and prepare for combat. ”

Li Yan said: "I can naturally write it for Brother Ji, but it's not time to train the army yet." Brother Ji, don't forget, you still have an extremely important thing to do. ”

"Are you talking about the acquisition of the weaving mill?" Ji Qingwen asked.

"Yes, that's right." Li Yan replied with great certainty, "Suzhou is Brother Ji's base camp, and the business of the weaving workshop is Brother Ji's cash cow." After the price war in the past few months, Brother Ji has beaten the bosses of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce half to death, and now is the time to 'beat the water dogs', Brother Ji can't give up halfway! ”

Ji Qingwen already understood what Li Yan meant, and said: "That's natural, my money has already been wasted, but I can't even hear a sound." Naturally, I will start and finish well in the acquisition of the weaving mill. ”

After saying that, Ji Qingwen strode towards the main hall of the weaving yamen, and greeted loudly: "Where is Ge Sheng?" Where is Ge Sheng? It's just tens of thousands of taels of silver, haven't you finished it yet? ”

In the next few days, Ji Qingwen's weaving yamen began to be in full swing.

On the one hand, the old weaver Ge Sheng took the lead, and the weavers who had signed up and were ready to work under their own names were sorted out first. Ge Sheng knows a lot about the textile industry in Suzhou, only glanced at the list, and then eliminated the obvious rough craftsmanship of the registered weavers, those who like to make trouble, and those who are loose and unreliable. On this basis, the remaining weavers were divided into upper, middle and lower according to the weaving level in their impressions, and the list was made and sent to Ji Qingwen.

On the one hand, Song Yingxing led several bookkeepers in the weaving yamen to visit the weaving mills ready for sale one by one, carefully inspect the weaving workshop and looms, and register them in detail to evaluate the price.

On the other hand, Ji Qingwen had already spent a lot of money in order to fight a price war to bring down the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, and if he wanted to acquire the weaving workshop under the name of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, he needed to raise additional funds. And the inheritance of Wei Zhongxian in his hands are all jewelry and other items, the market price fluctuates greatly, because a batch of jewelry has been sold before, resulting in a sharp drop in the price of jewelry in the Jiangnan market, and at this time, a large number of them are sold, obviously not sold at a good price. So, Ji Qingwen first borrowed 100,000 taels of silver from the branch of the Shaanxi Chamber of Commerce in Suzhou; borrowed a sum of silver from Zheng Zhilong and other maritime merchants; The sum of these two sums of silver is only two or three hundred thousand taels, which is only enough for temporary turnover.

As for the big head, it was Ji Qingwen who put all the tribute brocades stored in the weaving yamen on the market. Although this will lead to a decline in the price of colored brocade in a long period of time, and then destroy the price system of the entire silk and cotton market, it will be a big damage to Ji Qingwen's plan to unify the textile industry in Suzhou.

But Ji Qingwen is now eager to raise funds to complete the merger and acquisition plan, so he can only do this kind of thing that is almost "drinking to quench his thirst".

Although it turned out afterwards that as long as the monopoly position of an industry was occupied, the collapse of the price system for a while did not take much time and capital to be re-established, but at that time, Ji Qingwen was still a little worried.

In this way, Ji Qingwen, with the assistance of Li Yan and others, still spent two full months to complete the major event of merging and controlling the Suzhou weaving mill, and began to mass-produce all kinds of silk and cotton cloth covering high, medium and low grades - naturally, the best silk fabrics are still the colored brocades produced by the weaving mills under the weaving yamen, but now the price of these tribute silks has fallen by three percent due to the previous large number of sales, and Ji Qingwen is unwilling to sell them in the market.

On the side of Songjiang Dianshan Port, since he was beaten by Ji Qingwen once, Shen Liangzuo took the initiative to withdraw from the "office building" built in the middle of the wharf, but left the wharf and went to live in the camp of the officers and soldiers of the Beijing Division Battalion outside the cofferdam.

Ji Qingwen is an understanding person, so he naturally knows what Shen Liangzuo's intentions are, so he also re-settled in the dock and took over the affairs of the dock. It's just that now Li Yan still has to help Ji Qingwen deal with the two major matters of merging and dealing with the Weaving Workshop and dealing with the White Lotus Sect, so the dock affairs will be handed over to the missionary John Tang for the time being.

After opening up the trade routes for domestic sales and exports, and there were a large number of silk and cotton cloth for sale, and only the weaving workshops under the names of a few people such as Shen Shenbi in the world carried out insignificant competition with him, Ji Qingwen completely grasped the pricing power of Nanzhili's weaving products, and conservatively estimated that he could make a net profit of 500,000 taels of silver every month - this does not include the income from the temporarily suspended colored brocade.

The so-called large amount of money and large investment will attract big profits and big income, and Ji Qingwen spent nearly two million taels of silver before and after, and finally got a return that was enough to satisfy him.