Zhao Xing suddenly remembered that the word "potato juice" - remembered, it was a traitor shirt. In the movie "Red Detachment of Women", the kind of cardigan buttoned silk shirt worn by Nan Batian and others with a black exterior and brown inside, with a slight glittering effect, is dyed with potato juice, which is also called "Xiangyun yarn" or "potato yarn".

This kind of fragrant cloud yarn was very popular in the early years of the Republic of China, because it was expensive, and the people who could wear it were rich, so it was often the standard dress of traitors or landlords in movies. Because the traitors loved this kind of clothes, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, this kind of clothes was almost top secret under the strong blow of the government.

Zhao Xing on a business trip by chance, a colleague asked him to buy a few such clothes, I heard that there are a lot of counterfeits, in order to prevent being deceived, Zhao Xing specially searched for the knowledge of Xiangyun yarn at night, and learned that under the severe crackdown of the government, there is currently only a market in Guangzhou that sells this kind of clothes. At the same time, he also knew that this traditional fabric was born in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty, there were already records of people using potato juice as dyes, and the recorder was Shen Kuo.

Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings" recorded: "The ochre (i.e., potatoes) discussed in the "Materia Medica" has not been examined in detail. There are a lot of ochre in the south today, with black skin and red skin, like He Shou Wu. Cut, in which the red white is like betel nut. There is juice red as ochre, and the southerners make boots with dyed leather."

Yikes! The person in front of him was a Great Song Dynasty agricultural expert who surpassed Shen Kuo. Shen Kuo is not as good as him in agriculture, is there anything he doesn't know? Zhao Xing looked at Deng Yufu, his eyes seemed to have found a bucket of gold—no, now a bucket of gold could no longer arouse his greedy gaze.

"I've heard that it is dyed with dioscorea juice. The process is very troublesome, and the temperature requirements are very strict when dyeing and weaving, and only a few months a year are suitable for dyeing. In addition, I also heard that after dyeing the ground things, it will take a long time to cellar, does Brother Deng know its process? ”

Sure enough, Deng Yufu replied very easily: "My book of agriculture records its process, and as Liren said, this thing will be cellared for a period of time after dyeing." so that the juice can penetrate into the skin. How did the departed brother know? ”

Zhao Xing patted his thigh: "Jinzhou, we come in countless animal skins from Jinzhou every year, and the hairy ones can be made into furs, those hairless horses, cowhides, pig skins, and deer skins." …… Does Brother Deng have any ideas? ”

There is no shortage of business sense, however, most Song people are linear thinking. Deng Yufu knew everything he needed to know. But what he lacks is the vertical thinking that ties those events together. Zhao Xing reminded him, and Deng Yufu's eyes lit up: "Yes, animal skins are very cheap, and we buy 100,000 animal skins every year, and these animal skins are ......."

Zhao Xing hurriedly added: "100,000 sheets, you underestimate the purchasing power of the Great Song people." At least 600,000 of these hides should be sought. Precious fur can be made into a treasure fur. The skins of the bare boards are bare-blank and can be dyed with potato juice. The value has increased tenfold.

How many people are there in my Great Song, 100 million! How many officers are there? 86,000! How many people read - not count! Among these people, one out of 10,000 people buys you a pair of boots, and the whole Song Dynasty is 10,000 pairs of boots, 10,000 pairs a year, isn't this a big deal? What's the big deal?

Also, since diosca juice can dye the skin, it should also be able to dye cloth and silk - it doesn't matter whether the cloth is dyed or not, what about the silk? If it is dyed on the satin, then make such a dress in summer, cool and pleasant, easy to wash and dry quickly, deep and dirt-resistant, not sticky to the skin, light and not easy to wrinkle, soft and rich in bones...... It's a money grab. ”

Deng Yufu's eyes became brighter and brighter, he looked at the boots on his feet with a shocked face, and then looked at Zhao Xing with admiration, and exclaimed: "People say that Zhao Zhiju is a personal disciple of the God of Wealth, and he is rich wherever he goes, sure enough!" You see, I wear these kinds of boots every day, and I know how it is made, but I didn't expect this big fortune to make sense, it makes sense. ”

Zhao Xing touched his smooth chin and looked at Deng Yufu smugly: "The personal disciple of the God of Wealth, who said it, you say a few more words and I'll listen." ”

Deng Yufu only heard the first half of Zhao Xingdi's sentence, and forgot to praise Zhao Xing a few more words by the way, his mind was already all on the planning of the leather field, and he replied to Zhao Xing dryly: "What the group practitioners said, well, well, there are some people in Mizhou...... However, with such a large amount of skins, I am afraid that there is not enough potatoes, so where can I purchase so many potatoes. ”

Zhao Xing took care of everything: "No problem, I will let the Mizhou Tuanlian practice not grow grain next year, and I will plant potatoes for you...... Do you have enough money, hundreds of thousands of skins, I'm afraid your bag of money is not enough, do you have the money to open a big market, or I'll help you out. ”

Deng Yufu replied absentmindedly: "No, no, I got 6,000 guan on this trip to sea, and I took out 1,000 guan, which is enough to open a big field." ”

After saying this, Deng Yufu suddenly woke up: "I want to participate in the shares, you are a rich man, and I am as good as possible." ”

Zhang Yong came out dressed in wind and snow, and when he saw Zhao Xing and Deng Yufu just talking, he asked with a big grin: "Why don't you two go in, look at this snow." ”

Zhao Xing beckoned: "Zhang Guanjun, we are talking about Deng Tuiguan's boots, come and see, there is a way to make money for you, how about it?" ”

Deng Yufu shrunk his feet, originally wanted to hide this matter and enjoy it for himself, but after thinking about it for a while, he thought that seven or eight hundred thousand animal skins, and he couldn't eat them anyway, so he stretched out his feet and let Zhang Yong observe.

Zhao Xing pointed to Deng Yufu's boots and said: "Jinzhou Linhai has nothing good, their existing production, we must find a way to carry out deep processing, in order to make this trade bigger, otherwise, it will be in vain after all."

Deng Tuiguan knows the dyeing method of this kind of boots, there are millions of animal skins waiting for us to buy in the navy, no matter how big a factory is, can not swallow such a huge amount of animal skins, I pondered, just use Deng Tuiguan's technology as a share of gold, anyone who wants to open a leather processing factory can be, Deng Tuiguan is responsible for teaching others technology, dry to take two percent of the shares, and the other site funds are responsible for the person who opened the factory.

It's a good industry. The imperial court forbade officials to engage in maritime trade, but the processing of animal skins was domestic trade, and the relatives of Tuan Lian came forward to organize such a field, which was specifically responsible for swallowing the animal skins of Mizhou Tuanlian, and did not break the law, and could make a lot of money, why not. ”

gave Zhao Xing this summary, and Deng Yufu realized his greatness: "Yes." This is a way to live. But the long-term financial road, no matter how wind and rain it blows, will not affect us to make money. ”

Zhao Xing continued: "Dioscorea is limited by planting, we don't need to dye all the hides into rain boots, we can pick up some of the best dyes. When you eat all the skins, you can dye a tenth of them, and you can make a lot of money. ”

"More than that!" Deng Yufu retorted: "I dyed 1% of them." You can earn back all the money you made to open the factory. From now on, it will be a matter of sitting and living. ”

At this moment, Shi Yan came out, and he saw Zhang Yong go out to summon Zhao Xing, but he never returned, so he ran out to urge...... As a result, he also fell into it. After knowing the truth, he also shouted to participate: "The sprinkler family can't do the work of animal skins." Dye the cloth. We have enough weavers there, so I'll buy some fine silk. Try dyeing and weaving silk...... There is no way, there are many mothers-in-law in the family, and they are idle, so let them handle this work. ”

Deng Yufu saw that more and more people joined the land, and he was even happier, because every time he opened a new factory, he could get two layers of shares for nothing, thinking of the high profit of these boots, he very much agreed with Zhao Xing's evaluation - this is faster than grabbing money.

The banquet at Zhao Xing's mansion ended at noon, and in the afternoon, Zhang Yong led Zhao Xing and others to the regimental training barracks, and distributed holiday money to the officers in accordance with the rules. In addition, the Mizhou regimental training has become rich this year, and in addition to constantly waiting for new projects to start construction, officers at all levels need to gather a large number of people, so they give their subordinates a lot of rewards. In this way, the Mizhou group training, even those leftovers, lived the richest year in their lives.

Immediately afterwards, Deng Yufu stayed in the barracks and signed one technology transfer agreement after another with those officers - Zhao Xing didn't know if the Great Song Dynasty had this name, in his opinion, this should be the first technology shareholding agreement in the Great Song Dynasty. And Deng Yufu's hand was soft when he signed and signed, and he was very happy with a smile on his face.

Leaving Deng Yufu in charge of the barracks, Zhao Xing took Zhang Yong to take an emergency boat to the sea, and rushed to Miaodao that night.

On Temple Island, several officers in Dengzhou are there, Dengzhou is a forbidden army, and Zhang Yong is naturally a little arrogant, and the commander Huang Tao saw Zhao Xing, quite a little arrogant: "Are you in charge of Dengzhou now, I saw Zhang Tuanlian last time, and he said that he couldn't be the master of many things, and finally someone who could manage things came to talk to me, what did you do, let Xuanqi run away." ”

Zhao Xingyin retorted with a gloomy face: "Xuanqi is not under my control, so I am not responsible for his actions - I heard that Xuanqi went to Dengzhou with the money from the two transactions of the Jinzhou Linhai Navy, but now he has nothing." This is too dark, two transactions, there should be about 110,000 yuan, this is the money of the navy, we still want to trade in the future. ”

Huang Tao was very arrogant: "Last time, I told Zhang Tuanlian that Mizhou had crossed the line, and he went to my Dengzhou territory to do things, why don't you report to me Dengzhou, Jinzhou affairs, you Mizhou don't have to worry about it, and I will take over Dengzhou in the future!" ”

Zhao Xing smiled coldly and replied in a long voice: "There are seven pirate ships that break the Yingzhou land, and the Privy Council also thinks so, and the Liao State also thinks so. The Jinzhou trade route was fully operated by the seven pirate ships, and we did not shy away from the Dengzhou naval army. But if the Dengzhou Navy wants to make trouble, I'm afraid that the imperial court won't allow it, and the Liao State won't allow it. ”

Huang Tao stood up, his eyes widened angrily, Zhao Xing's face was calm and smoothed the knife in his hand, at this time, a person had already stood up in the Dengzhou Navy, stepped forward to hold Huang Tao, whispered a few words, Huang Tao sat down slowly.

Zhang Yong stood aside, looking like he didn't care about himself, he didn't even have words of persuasion, his attitude was not indifferent to this matter, but he believed that Zhao Xing could handle it.

Zhao Xing stared at the official who had just come out and asked, "Who is this person?" ”

"Inspect Chen Heng", the man bowed and gestured to retreat.

Zhao Xing was just reminding Huang Tao that Yingzhou was broken because of pirate harassment, and both the imperial court and the Liao State determined that so, so Huang Tao had nothing to threaten Zhao Xing. And when this matter was revealed, Huang Tao could only end up in an embattled situation.

On the contrary, Zhao Xing can also threaten the Dengzhou Naval Army, his seven ships can completely annihilate the Jinzhou Naval Army, and can break Yingzhou. It will definitely make the Dengzhou Navy unable to go to sea.

The most important thing is that the original Dengzhou Navy faced the Liao State, and it would not do anything else except tremble. And after Zhao Xing opened this trade route, they wanted to jump out and monopolize it, which was impossible, swallowing the money of Xuanqi was equivalent to offending the Jinzhou Navy and the Mizhou Navy at the same time, as long as Zhao Xing turned his face, the Dengzhou Navy was nothing.

Huang Tao just wants to eat alone. But I didn't expect Zhao Xing to be so tough. He also knew the official tricks, so he pretended to be angry and just wanted Zhao Xing to give in, but at this moment, Zhao Xing was aggressive, but he couldn't get off the stage.

After a pause, I saw that the Dengzhou Navy had nothing to say. Zhao Xing softened his tone and said: "In any case, the Dengzhou Navy has helped a lot this time, and I am grateful to Mizhou and Jinzhou." You can leave two layers of prayer money. I, Mizhou, can also compensate you for two layers, so that you will get forty yuan for nothing, and you will not lose. How about it, each of them takes a step back, it is convenient for others, and it is convenient for themselves. ”

Huang Tao had a gloomy face. After being silent for a long time, he replied: "The money has been sent......"

"Then put it back on." Zhao Xing said in a non-negotiable tone: "My Mizhou has never planned to monopolize this route, this is the route sharing plan that my Mizhou Navy discussed some time ago. I haven't had time to inform Dengzhou yet. Now look at ......."

Zhao Xing handed the charter of Michigan officials to participate in the shares and conspire with the sea route to the Dengzhou Navy Army, and continued: "This route will be a long-term entry in the future, and it is shared by Mizhou and Dengzhou, but my Mizhou will naturally occupy the majority of this route when it is created." In the future, whoever destroys this route will not be able to get along with my Mizhou and the officials and people of Dengzhou, so the money must be spit out. This is non-negotiable. ”

Zhao Xing threw out the pie big enough not to worry about Dengzhou not giving in, that Huang Tao was still holding the shelf, but the junior officer under him was already willing.

There are not many petty officers, and Shandong is a province with a large population and a small number of people. The officers lived a very hard life on their own. Now Zhao Xing pointed out to them a way to make money, if they agree, everyone will join forces to make a fortune, and if they don't agree, they will suffer from the blockade of the two families. And when the matter got bigger, the court not only did not support it, but also tried its best to cover it up, so they could only give in.

When the Dengzhou officials discussed it and decided to accept Zhao Xing's agreement, the two sides divided the respective market shares of the two states, and the Dengzhou Navy was satisfied with the farewell, but when he left, Zhao Xing did not accept Huang Tao's farewell.

Huang Tao hated and left, and Zhao Xing left behind several Dengzhou officers, including the one named Chen Hengdi, who said with a meaningful smile: "I remember that the Dengzhou Navy should be in charge of this Lord Huang...... Someone must be responsible for the embezzlement of the money for the prayer. Lord Huang is so arrogant, such a local person is not suitable to take the helm for Dengzhou at all, if he goes to sea and drowns, it will be good. ”

After Zhao Xing's words were finished, some of the Dengzhou officers were furious, some were thoughtful, and some were indignant on the surface, but their eyes were fluttering. After Zhao Xing finished speaking, he didn't care about the reaction of the Dengzhou people, he directly pulled Zhang Yong into his own boat and sailed away.

On the way, Zhang Yong complained dissatisfiedly: "Leaving people, Huang Tao is very righteous, he is a man who dares to act boldly, and this matter is all up to him, what you said in the end is too much, and I am not afraid that the people of Dengzhou will tell him......"

Zhao Xing looked calm and replied: "On this sea of the Bohai Sea, there can only be one person who is in charge, although Huang Tao is righteous, he should not covet our route, I want the Dengzhou officers to know that we are in charge of this sea." What to do, we speak, they do. So Huang Tao must die. And he must die.

Do you know how much transaction volume there will be each year on this route? I guess it's 8 million, and the tax alone can draw 1 million, which is a big entry, and the Dengzhou officials understand, can they tolerate Huang Tao Terrier in front of us?

Huang Tao must die, our line is a smuggling route, such a huge transaction volume, if you want to hide from the courts of both sides, the management must be strict, with Huang Tao here, our prohibited smuggling projects, and it may not be able to restrain Dengzhou, only by killing Huang Tao, Dengzhou officials will accept our constraints, so, even if Huang Tao is very respectful today, I must instigate Dengzhou officials to kill him.

The same is true for Jinzhou, they have prayed this time, and they will definitely be vigilant in the future, and I will first set an example for them, so that they know how to restrain their subordinates, as long as this way, they can operate this route for a long time. ”

When Zhang Yong heard this, he muttered: "You always have a point." I can't say anything about you, no matter, I'll go to sleep, and you will talk about Jinzhou. ”

Jinzhou lost Xuanqi and was a little angry, but when he heard that Dengzhou helped kill Xuanqi and recover the eight-layer property, he was only grateful.

"It's really lucky to do business with Leader Zhao...... When the news came, we were in a mess. Some officials are already scared and want to kill themselves. I didn't expect that we hadn't delivered the news to you yet, and you had already killed Xuanqi...... Without saying anything, in the future, the price of your goods will be reduced by three layers. ”

Zhao Xing waved his hand to stop the other party: "There is no need to reduce the three achievements, we will trade fairly." The price is what it should be, but after this time, you should also strengthen supervision. How could the liaison sent get him offshore. He shouldn't have been given a chance to board at all. ”

The official sent by Jinzhou even claimed that it was, and promised to strengthen supervision in the future. Zhao Xing continued: "There is still a bit of a problem with the Dengzhou side to solve the money, you need to slowly transport the money out, I will advance your money for you first, in addition, I compensated the Dengzhou side for a sum of money, you should also contribute some share of this matter." But consider that you already have losses. I won't ask you for it this time.

In the future, you can only contact the Hu people I sent in terms of transactions. They will distribute the transaction quota uniformly, and you must also have a quota internally, so I don't care about the specifics. If you want to do this work for a long time, you must be organized and disciplined, and this incident is a wake-up call for both you and me, so you go back and find a way to do it quickly. ”

The liaison sent by Jinzhou took the huge amount of money and said goodbye with satisfaction, after this time, this smuggling route was firmly controlled by Zhao Xing, and all the land transactions had to be completed through the Yici Leye people sent by Zhao Xing, and Jinzhou only trusted Zhao Xing, which made the people who coveted this route unable to intervene.

When Zhao Xing rushed back to Mizhou, he finished integrating the group training non-stop, and he was already busy in Layue. Early this morning, he got up to discuss New Year's gifts with Cheng Azhu and Chen Yiyi. In the capital, although Zhao Xing didn't make many friends, he calculated a lot, and distributed all the gifts, Zhao Xing suddenly remembered something, and ordered: "Add one more copy to the horse Wang Xu, this guy has also helped us get through a small difficulty, give him one, it can be regarded as a kind of affection." ”

Liao Xiaoxiao interjected on the side: "Xiao Wang's horse likes strange things, strange flowers, strange trees, strange grasses, and pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, he still likes the high-quality paper of the Japanese country, and Xianggong can work hard in this regard - isn't there a Mizhou stone inkstone?" There are also stone paintings, send him a copy, Xiao Wang and the horse must like it. ”

I like strange flowers, strange trees and strange grasses, and I love painting, and I appreciate myself with romance, isn't this the habit of Song Hui Zongdi, Zhao Xing was just about to comment a few words, and was suddenly taken aback by his thoughts.

Song Huizong's preferences? Sure enough, it was Song Huizong's preference.

Thinking of Gao Yu's history, which was given to Song Huizong by Xiao Wang's horse, Zhao Xing suddenly felt that maybe his guess was very reasonable. Maybe when Song Huizong was young, he regarded this self-admiring uncle as a youth idol, and when he grew up, he imitated his uncle everywhere, and as a result, he became Song Huizong.

Zhao Xing thoughtfully stopped Chen Yiyi's movements, weighing what he had just discovered in his mind.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Xing instructed Chen Yiyi: "What are the strange things at home, such as strange flowers and strange stones...... By the way, choose the most meaningful pair of stone walls inlaid with Mizhou stone and send them out......"

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Xing added: "The matter in Yingzhou is over, and you can notify the Xiao brothers to come back." ”

Not long after Zhao Xing's New Year's gift was sent, the New Year's gift in the capital was gradually delivered to Zhao Xing's mansion. Other people don't care, a book of atlases sent by Li Gonglin made Zhao Xing furious, after he read it, he threw it on the ground with resentment, and scolded: "Li Gonglin's head is in the water, and he actually tinkered with this thing, I think life is too rich, and he is panicking." ”

Liao Xiaoxiao picked up the album from the ground, and replied while rummaging through it: "I heard that Xianggong has recently researched the lead movable type plate, and the concubine has money to spare, and she is thinking about how to make a living and open a printing workshop, which can be regarded as having face and status...... Li Gong sent the album, did he want Xiang Gong to print it? Ah, I heard that Li Gonglin is good at iron line painting, this painting is really good, why is Xianggong not satisfied? ”

Zhao Xing snorted: "It exudes a smell of stinky ditches." ”