This made Ji Qingwen have a lot of curiosity about this little girl with a deep background, and stared at Shen Shenbi with two eyes stunned, and a smile rose at the corner of her mouth.

Shen Shenbi was a young woman in the end, and her face was flushed when she was looked at by Ji Qingwen, and said, "The surname Ji, what are you looking at?" Answer me! Tell everyone in the room, what ulterior motives do you have behind you? ”

Ji Qingwen smiled and said, "Is there a purpose for losing money to do business?" Aren't these weaving workshops of your Suzhou Chamber of Commerce also losing money? Could it be that there is some ulterior motive behind it? ”

This is a bit unreasonable.

provoked Shen Shenbi's slightly childish face with an angry look, and said: "The surname is Ji, you are clearly reversing black and white!" Why did we lose money in so many weaving mills? Why can't it be operated? You know it very well! ”

Ji Qingwen was also the hand-picked five-product weaving admiral, but he was cursed by a little girl Shen Shenbi.

If anyone present had been replaced, Kou Shen, the prefect of Suzhou, would have taught a lesson a long time ago.

However, Shen Shenbi is the eldest lady of the Shen family in Suzhou, and the granddaughter of Shen Shixing, the first assistant in the Wanli period. And this Lord Shen Shoufu is a great figure, Zhang Jiangling (Zhang Juzheng), who was in power and the opposition, was a bad person, and it was Shen Shixing who was responsible for cleaning up the mess. As a half protégé of Zhang Juzheng, while dealing with Emperor Wanli, he also minimized the impact of liquidating Zhang Juzheng as much as possible.

His micro-manipulation in this process can be described as the limit of the flash and movement in the Ming officialdom.

Therefore, most of the ministers in charge of the court now, whether they are eunuchs or Donglin parties, are the disciples and grandchildren of this Shen Shoufu, and everyone wants to leave three points of thin noodles for their Shen family.

With such a reason, Kou Shen, who presided over the meeting, could only let Shen Shenbi make a lot of nonsense here.

Ji Qingwen really had other plans, so he was not very angry when he heard Shen Shenbi's words, and said patiently: "You are losing money, I know it in my heart." To be honest, I, Ji Qingwen, don't look at you right, and I'm happy that everyone loses money. In the same way, I lost money, and everyone was just as happy to see it. It's just that I, Ji Qingwen, have a lot of money and can afford to lose, but you may not be. ”

Ji Qingwen said this sincerely, and the businessmen and bosses present couldn't help but nod their heads convincingly.

So Ji Qingwen continued: "Everyone, now I have an idea, not only can you not continue to owe money, but also make more money. I wonder if you'd like to hear it? ”

The dozens of businessmen who were not present expressed their attitudes, but Shen Shenbi couldn't hold his breath at first, and then said loudly: "The surname Ji, you don't talk cleverly here, you still have such a good heart?" We don't believe it, and you don't have to say it again! ”

The bigwigs of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, who have been silent until now, finally can't help but express their opinions.

I saw a businessman with a round belly that looked like a huge leather ball, and he struggled to get up from his seat and said, "Miss Shen, please calm down for a while, and listen to what good ideas Master Ji Qingwen has." ”

After all, no one will have trouble with money, and everyone wants to hear that Ji Qingwen has a way to turn his losses into profits.

Shen Shenbi listened to the words of this fat pig-like businessman, and immediately became furious, and said: "Boss Jin, you don't listen to Ji Qingwen's nonsense, this person can't spit out ivory in his mouth, what good idea can he have?" ”

The fat man surnamed Jin scratched his fat face and said, "Miss Shen, it's not my old Jin who takes the big one." Counting my Lao Jin and Ling Zun are friends of the same generation, and Miss Shen is also my niece, then I have to persuade my niece. We pay attention to harmony and wealth in business, you offer ten taels, I offer five taels, and finally seven taels of deals, this is the way to do business. If you scold and don't give people a chance to speak at the beginning, will this business still be successful? ”

So many senior businessmen sat here and didn't speak, but Shen Shenbi, a little girl, said unknowingly until now, if it weren't for the fact that these businessmen were all looking at the face of the Shen family and casually changing to any other person, I am afraid they would have been bombarded long ago.

Therefore, as soon as Boss Jin said this, he immediately resonated with other businessmen, and he coaxed in agreement.

Even the host of the meeting, Kou Shen, the prefect of Suzhou, took the opportunity to say: "Miss Shen, you've been talking for a long time, I'm afraid you're already dry-mouthed, right?" Why don't you go down and have a cup of tea first and listen to others talk too, how about it? ”

When Shen Shenbi heard this, he retreated quite unwillingly.

Boss Jin saw that Shen Shenbi had nothing to say, so he smiled and said to Ji Qingwen: "Lord Ji, you just said that there is a way for us not to lose money...... This one...... I wonder if you're making fun of us? ”

Ji Qingwen shook his head and said, "Speaking of which, I still like to joke, but I never joke about things related to silver." What I just said is naturally serious, and I won't joke with you. ”

This made Boss Jin quite happy, and said, "In that case, what is Lord Ji's idea?" How about speaking up so that I can see it too? ”

The corners of Ji Qingwen's mouth lifted and said, "My idea is very simple. That is, the weaving mill under your name should not continue to operate. I, Ji Qingwen, will pay for all the weaving workshops in your hands. In this way, you don't have to lose money to reluctantly support the weaving mill, and you can have a sum of silver income, and after I reorganize your weaving workshop and start work, those weavers will also have money again, and naturally they will no longer be bewitched by the White Lotus Cult, and they will no longer come out to stir up trouble with the flag. Isn't that a good thing that kills three birds with one stone? ”

After that, Ji Qingwen raised his head and looked around the middle hall of the yamen of the Suzhou prefect twice, and saw that the expression on the face of a businessman was cloudy, so he asked again: "Everyone, what is my suggestion?" Do I need to give you some time to discuss it? ”

When the merchants heard this, they were all in an uproar.

It turned out that Ji Qingwen's idea was to buy all the weaving mills in their hands, and if they agreed now, it would mean that they would withdraw from the Suzhou textile industry and lose the ability to gain a foothold in Suzhou City.

I only heard the fat boss surnamed Jin say: "My lord, this is inevitably a bit difficult for strong people, right?" There is still a lot of money to be made running a weaving workshop, and if we want to sell the weaving workshop to adults, how can I make money and make a living in the future? ”

Ji Qingwen said: "Boss Jin, you might as well think about this issue in a different way." What if you don't sell the mill to you now? Do you want to continue to fight this price war with me? Do you want to continue to compete with me at a loss? How much silver do you have in your hands to spend against me? ”

If you want to talk about money, the businessmen of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce can be said to be one of the richest groups in the Ming Dynasty.

If they really made up their minds to compete with Ji Qingwen, the funds they could raise would far exceed the one million taels of Wei Zhongxian's inheritance in Ji Qingwen's hands.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even in Suzhou, where the commodity economy was the most developed, these merchants made a lot of money by operating weaving mills. However, they are actually ignorant of the power of capital and the power of large-scale industrial production.

Their first choice after making money is not to hire workers, build machines, build factories, and continue to expand production. Instead, he used all the money to buy arable land, rent it to your tenants to cultivate, and then collect the tenants' rent. If the price of land is high, then they would rather hide the silver and wait for the day when the price of the land is cheaper, and they will still use it to buy the land.

This led to the fact that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, although the so-called "capitalist germ" had been produced in later generations, a large amount of capital could not flow into industry and commerce, and real capitalism could not be formed, and social development was always confined to the shackles of feudalism.

And Ji Qingwen traveled back to the end of the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century from the modern age of the 21st century, although he did not bring any pistols, computers, cheats and other plug-ins, but the modern consciousness in his mind and the overall grasp of historical development are more important and useful weapons than those above things, which can not only allow him to survive in the late Ming Dynasty with ease, but also change the course of historical development to a large extent.