The large number of textiles of the Sun family was worth 50,000 taels of silver. In this way, 50,000 taels of silver were lost all of a sudden, and the Sun family immediately fell into a crisis. You must know that the raw materials for weaving those textiles are all owed by the Sun family from merchants everywhere, and now the Sun family has also borrowed a lot of money from other people's houses for development.

When the merchants and those creditors learned about the situation of the Sun family, they immediately came to the Sun family to collect debts. Fortunately, after so many years of development, the Sun family has also accumulated some silver, and soon repaid more than 30,000 taels, and the remaining deficit of more than 10,000 taels can only be repaid by selling property.

Sun Gong's father, Sun Lian, sold the family's things at a low price and got another seven or eight thousand taels of silver, so that there was a deficit of almost four thousand taels.

In the past, four thousand taels of silver was really nothing to the Sun family. But now that the family has fallen overnight, four thousand taels of silver is undoubtedly an astronomical amount.

All that is left of the family is the ancestral house and the sixty looms in the workshop. If the ancestral house is sold, the Sun family will be left on the streets and homeless. Besides, even if the ancestral house is sold, it is only a few hundred taels of silver, and it will not solve the problem at all.

The value of the loom is about 5,000 taels of silver, but these looms are all high-end looms purchased from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At this time, the Sun family was defeated, and where could the other weavers who fell into the well get five thousand taels of silver, and the maximum they could give was only two thousand taels.

Something worth five thousand taels can only be sold for two thousand taels, how can Sun Lian bear it. Besides, even if it was sold for two thousand taels, it still couldn't make up for the shortfall, and the Sun family still couldn't survive.

Fortunately, Sun Gong's father, Sun Lian, is in good health, and his ability to be hit is not low, and he can still hold on to it when he is in such a crisis, and he is running around at this time, seeking to buy these sixty looms at once, and can make a high-priced buyer.

But Sun Gong couldn't do it, seeing that the very prosperous family suddenly fell into such a field, and every day there were creditors who came to the door to persecute him, and those former friends now had to hide from him, as if he had seen the plague, he tasted the warmth and coldness of human affection, and his spirit was greatly hit, and he couldn't afford to fall ill.

Sun Gong's illness made matters worse for the Sun family, making his father Sun Lian and his mother, Mrs. Sun, almost tear their faces all day long.

Two months have passed, and Sun Lian still has not found a buyer, but he finally figured out the problem with the textiles sent to Zhejiang this time.

Things did not happen to the Zhang family in Zhejiang. What the Zhang family said was true, all their goods were withheld by the imperial court, and they did not get a penny of silver. The current Zhang family, like the Sun family, is also in a dire predicament.

The father-in-law Li Guang in the imperial court, his relationship with the Zhang family is indeed not bad, and Li Guang has also earned a lot of silver and benefits from the Zhang family through cooperation over the years. But this time Li Guang suddenly turned his face, the reason was that Emperor Hongzhi ordered the establishment of three weaving bureaus in Jiangnan at once, namely Jiangning Weaving Bureau, Suzhou Weaving Bureau and Hangzhou Weaving Bureau. These three weaving bureaus were supervised by the emperor himself, appointed by the admiral eunuchs.

At that time, Emperor Hongzhi's order to several eunuchs was to either produce good and low-cost fabrics, or drive them all out of the palace and go to Fengyang to guard the tomb.

The eunuchs in charge of the three manufacturing bureaus naturally tried their best and tried their best, and they quickly produced highly skilled fabrics, among which the makeup yarn, makeup flower luo, makeup brocade, makeup satin, etc. with various patterns and patterns were very distinctive, and the cost was much lower.

Emperor Hongzhi suddenly made such a will, and it was also a last resort, which also started with the foreign trade policy of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, since the Tang Dynasty, foreign trade has been an important component of the country's economy. Especially in the Song Dynasty, the imperial court learned to use foreign trade to make a fortune, and established a series of overseas tariffs and monopoly systems to maximize the benefits of the imperial court. Therefore, in the Song and Yuan dynasties, there was a saying that "merchant ships docked, and gold was ten thousand taels".

But in the Ming Dynasty, it has to be said that the foreign trade of the Dynasty was stupid to the extreme. The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor peasant and worked as a monk, and he knew nothing about economics, finance, and commerce. However, the foreign trade system established in his hands was solidified in the blood of the entire Ming Dynasty. So there are a lot of ironic phenomena.

The later emperors of the Ming Dynasty actually wanted to inherit the foreign trade policy of the Song and Yuan dynasties, but due to ignorance and stupidity, the imperial court not only could not make money through foreign trade, but also did a companion once, making a big loss and making special compensation, which became a huge financial burden.

The Ming court imposed a sea ban, and the emperor and many officials thought that the trade between overseas countries and the Ming Dynasty was not a mutually beneficial act, but a gift from the emperor to overseas countries. The emperor and officials stupidly thought that the people from overseas countries had crossed the ocean to come to the Ming Dynasty, and the only reason was to admire the virtue of the great Ming Dynasty, and they came to pay tribute. The imperial court treated all kinds of overseas merchant groups as diplomatic missions, not as merchants who bought and sold.

Therefore, people from overseas countries came to the Ming Dynasty to do business, and they had to disguise them as diplomatic envoys in order to get the approval of the Ming court to import their goods into the Ming Dynasty. After entering the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not allow them to buy and sell freely, so they could only be handed over to the Ming Dynasty and counted as tribute.

The Ming Emperor was very generous in rewarding these diplomatic envoys with a large amount of money and goods, including all kinds of silk fabrics of the Ming Dynasty.

The Emperor's reward for them was not only worth the value of the goods brought by the overseas envoys, but also more than what they could earn through free trade.

Hehe! Under such circumstances, foreign envoys who came to Daming naturally blossomed everywhere, abounding, and one after another.

This foreign trade policy of the Ming Dynasty not only failed to make the imperial court profitable, but became a huge financial burden. In the Hongzhi period, the treasury alone was rewarded with no less than 10 million taels of silver per year for foreign envoys, and where could the treasury sustain it.

There was no way, so Emperor Hongzhi thought of reducing costs, and first started with silk fabrics. In his mind, the value of silk fabrics had fallen, and he had rewarded foreign envoys in the same amount as before, but he had saved money, which was definitely a good idea.

Li Guang was a person close to the emperor, so he naturally knew the emperor's thoughts, and he knew that the emperor was not coming for him. But he has been in the palace for a long time, and he is good at judging the situation, and in order to please the emperor, Li Guang simply made a black hand on the Zhang family, confiscated all the fabrics, and dedicated them to the court free of charge.

Anyway, with these three manufacturing bureaus in Jiangnan, the imperial court can no longer use the Zhangjia in Zhejiang. The cooperation between Li Guang and the Zhang family in Zhejiang came to an abrupt end.