"My lord, after the grass people came to Jiangnan, I heard that you arrested Gong Dajun, the largest brick and stone merchant in Jiangnan, and put him in prison?"

"That's what happened, trying to kill people for money, stealing my secret recipe, he can go in any of these two sins, but you can be said that I am a bully."

"The grass people have no such intentions, but the grass people have lived in Chang'an for a long time, and the news is relatively well-informed, as far as I know, although Gong Dajun is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, he is very good at drilling camps, and he will do whatever it takes for the sake of profit. He has some roots in Chang'an, and it is easy to deal with him, but I am worried that if you don't handle this person properly, you will not get along well with the people in the court", Zou Fengchi glanced at Xiao Zheng and said cautiously.

"I really don't know about this, let's hear it."

"You also know his backstage, eldest grandson Shunde, you must know," Zou Fengchi said in a low voice.

"Oh, it turned out to be this guy, what I said, this guy was still so arrogant when I arrested Gong Dajun, and he really had a backstage" Xiao Zheng said with a smile.

The eldest grandson Shunde is the uncle of the eldest grandson queen, in the early years when Li Yuan raised the army, he commanded the army to pacify Shaanxi County, and made some military exploits, and after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he was named the general of Zuo Xiaowei, Xue Guogong. After the Xuanwumen Change, he pursued Li Jiancheng's Yu Party, and at that time, Li Shimin ascended the throne and gave the eldest grandson Shunde 1,200 households. In general, Li Shimin has more trust in the eldest grandson Shunde, but this guy's shortcomings are also obvious, that is, he is too greedy for money, relying on him to be Li Shimin's uncle, he dares to ask for money from anyone.

After listening to Zou Fengchi's words, Xiao Zheng smiled: "This is really a fish looking for fish and shrimp looking for shrimp, but how did the two of them run together?" ”。

Zou Fengchi said: "The villain also heard from others that the eldest grandson Shunde and the eldest grandson Wuji met when they pacified the Huainan Fugong Qi in the Danyang rebellion, and I don't know how they met the villain. After the current saint ascended the throne, Gong Dajun has risen in value with his eldest grandson Shunde, and he has also lost a lot."

"I know, thank you Mr. Zou for reminding me, this matter is over, but you Mr. Zou didn't just come here for this matter," Xiao Zheng said with a smile.

"Of course not, the villain came here this time mainly to talk to the adults about cooperation. Can adults let villains participate in silk weaving cooperation" Zou Fengchi knew Xiao Zheng's character, and his speech was also very direct.

"Then I wonder how big Mr. Zou is going to invest?"

"The grass people have seen the number of looms in Mr. Pei's three silk weaving mills, a total of 1,700 pieces, if the adults agree, the villain is willing to invest in the shares to triple the scale, and at the same time I will pay the adults the patent fee for your looms plus another 50,000 yuan" This family is really rich, and the words spoken are full of atmosphere.

"I don't want your patent fee, but how about increasing it to 10,000?"

"My lord, it is not a problem to increase to 10,000 pieces of money, but I have given us all the silk produced in Jiangnan, and we can't use 10,000 looms, we also have to consider the silk weaving industry of other small families, after all, they also have to live," Zou Fengchi hesitated for a moment and said.

"Yes, you can think about others, at this point, you haven't been covered by copper coins," Xiao Zheng said approvingly to Zou Fengchi.

Asked someone to take a map, Xiao Zheng pointed to the map and said to Zou Fengchi: "The land of Hangzhou goes to the north of Songjiang, how is this place?" ”

"My lord, I have been to this place, although there is a silk weaving industry, but it is far from the silk weaving industry in Yangzhou and Hangzhou, I don't know if you mention this place, my lord......" Zou Fengchi couldn't figure it out for a while.

"There's another industry besides silk weaving, have you forgotten?" Xiao Zheng said with a smile.

"Adult, the villain knows that my Tang Dynasty has silk, silk and brocade, the cotton you mean?!" Zou Fengchi reacted instantly and asked Xiao Zheng in surprise.

"That's right! My current cottonseed has long been shipped, but there is no suitable area to plant it, cotton is a temperature-loving and light-loving crop, and it needs to maintain sufficient moisture during the growing period with large water absorption, and it must be dry when picking. The soil layer of Songjiang is deep and fertile, the sunshine here is abundant and there is no shortage of water, it is a good area for my Datang to grow cotton, if it is reclaimed here, the fertile land can be counted in tens of millions of acres, I don't know if you are interested? ”。

"What a great opportunity!" As a giant businessman in Chang'an, Zou Fengchi has of course been to the textile factory in Yushan, although he can't enter the textile factory, but he can still guess a few points of the profit in the cotton cloth, and now Xiao Zheng gave him this opportunity, how not to make him excited.

"My lord, the grass people still have something to ask, the people in Songjiang are poor, if there is no money to open up the wasteland, it may be very difficult for the people to accept this foreign cotton" Zou Fengchi said very directly.

"This is easy to do, have you forgotten the Royal Bank of Datang?" Xiao Zheng said with a smile.

"My lord, do you mean to give these people a loan first, so that they can grow cotton? Then ......" Zou Fengchi reacted really fast.

"Of course, this loan is still low-interest, for those honest and poor families we can use interest-free, two years as a limit, then you can use cotton to offset the loan or repay the money, in order to give you peace of mind, Datang Bank can let you buy shares, I don't know what Mr. Zou wants?"

"! This time if I don't do it, I will be stupid, last time the villain has missed an opportunity, this time to miss the villain again will be stupid, the villain first out of 500,000 shares in the Tang Royal Bank, and then Songjiang to open up the wasteland to plant cotton money I can do alone."

In the face of such a big piece of cake sent by Xiao Zheng, it was no wonder that Zou Fengchi was not excited, he had already looked at the Royal Bank with red eyes.

Before sending Zou Fengchi out of the door, Xiao Zheng patted him on the shoulder and said: "In a few days, I will let Wu Shi Tong and you start Songjiang Mansion together, you just need to open up the wasteland according to the pattern of Yangzhou, plant cotton in the Ming Dynasty, and you will have no problem joining the silk weaving industry, but you also have to set aside a share for others in cotton spinning, here is not only you and me and his industry, do you understand?" ”。

After Xiao Zheng finished speaking, he pointed to the sky with his finger.

"Adult, villain understands" Zou Fengchi immediately understood.

When he went out, Zou Fengchi asked Pei Mingli: "Mr. Pei, when Chang'an was hit by the disaster last year, was it Xiao Gonggong's idea for Datang Royal Bank to provide loans to the victims?" ”。

"And what do you say?" Pei Mingli replied with a smile.

"It's fine! I got out of the way."

"Why?" Pei Mingli asked curiously.

"After the disaster in Chang'an last year, Zhang Ying, a big businessman in Chang'an, came to me and wanted to take the opportunity to collect more land in Guanzhong with me to take advantage of the loan shark, but I hesitated. Thinking that the annexation of land violates the sage's "Juntian System", and besides, this thing is a thing that hurts nature and reason, so I didn't do it. I didn't expect that within a few days of this guy's loan shark, the small loans of Datang Royal Bank went directly to the counties, and the interest rate was outrageously low. Some people who had borrowed usury wanted to repay Zhang Ying did not agree, and somehow it reached the ears of the sage, who was extremely annoyed by the land annexation, and when he heard that there were still people taking advantage of the fire to rob and make trouble, he suddenly fell into a thunderous rage, and directly said that the government would support him, and those who had borrowed usury did not have to pay back, and there were those who privately released usury without forgiveness. At this moment, Zhang Ying's blood was lost, and his vitality was greatly damaged, but fortunately, the saint did not continue to trouble him, fortunately, I did not buy shares, otherwise it would be ......."

After listening to this, Pei Mingli smiled and said: "Count your Mr. Zou lucky, in terms of money, the two of us are not as good as this father, which is why I have been following him since I met him."

"In this regard, I, Zou Fengchi, are not as good as you Mr. Pei, and I hope that Pei Gong will give me more guidance in the future."

The two of them walked slowly out as they spoke.