The person Zhang Chu wanted to see was Zhou Jialin, who had returned from the south. After a month of tossing and turning, the eldest young master of Zhou Jialin finally came back from the south, and along with his caravan, he also transported back a large number of materials that Zhang Chu urgently needed. Returning to Yanchang County, he contacted Zhang Chu through Zhang Chu's friends who stayed in the city, and the two sides agreed to meet in Zhoujiabao. Hearing that the meeting place was in Zhoujiabao, he hesitated for a moment, but gritted his teeth and agreed thinking about the thousands of taels of silver he earned for the first time.

Zhou Jialin's convoy arrived at Zhoujiabao early in the morning, and he heard about Zhoujiabao being attacked by thieves when he returned to the county seat, but his strong desire to succeed made him decide to take this risk.

Zhang Chuying came out, looking at the carts of supplies and excited, and circled around the cart several times. Zhang Chu couldn't close his mouth and greeted Zhou Jialin while smiling. After Zhou Jialin answered, he beckoned over a group of men, women and children, and said to Zhang Chu: "This is Li Deliang's family, Li Deliang and his three sons are all good at making spinning machines and looms, and daughters-in-law can spin and weave cloth. I don't know if it's appropriate or not? "When Zhang Chu asked Zhou Jialin to purchase in Jiangnan, he couldn't live the life of this family, and at that time, he put forward generous conditions to take them all to Yanchang County, he was afraid that Zhang Chu would not accept it, so he came up to mention this matter first.

Zhang Chu was still wondering how to find such a large family for him, but when he heard that it was the talent he needed, Zhang Chu hurriedly said: "Okay, good!" Brother Zhou really solved the problem for me. He said hello to the family.

Li Deliang hurriedly came over and saluted Zhang Chu: "If we have seen Gongzi, we will definitely do our best to do our work well, and we will rely on Gongzi to take care of him more in the future." Li Deliang's family originally made a living by making looms for people in Jiangnan, but recently the price of cotton has risen sharply, and there has been a famine in the north. Their days of working looms were even more sad, and at this time, Zhou Jialin happened to be looking for craftsmen in Jiangnan, and they were moved by Zhou Jialin's double wages and the silver of the An family. made up their minds, and the whole family came to Yanchang County with Zhou Jialin. Seeing Zhang Chu, he knew that this was the owner of the money, so he carefully said good things with a smiling face.

Zhang Chu ordered Li Deliang's family to be settled, and then accompanied Zhou Jialin to the house to sit down.

"When I returned to Yanchang County, I heard that something happened in Zhoujiapu." Zhou Jialin asked tentatively, he became more and more suspicious of Zhang Chu's identity.

"A few days ago, Zhou Lianming, the patriarch of Zhoujiabao, transferred the property here to me, and he went to the mountains to dig coal by himself." Zhang Chu said without concealment.

Zhou Jialin was shocked in one sentence, although he had doubts before, but Zhang Chu didn't look like a bandit in his opinion, so he had the courage to come here to see Zhang Chu, hoping that his suspicions were wrong. And now that Zhang Chu is saying this, it should be Zhang Chu who robbed Zhou Lianming's industry. Zhou Jialin sat there for a while, not knowing what to do.

Zhang Chu smiled when he saw Zhou Jialin's nervous appearance and said, "Brother Zhou, don't be nervous. Let me tell you clearly, we are the Ming Security Army, and I am their leader, but we are not bandits, and we will not get along with the rich, we are just a group of people who have no food to eat and can't survive to get together to survive. The good or bad of people is not divided by rich and poor, as long as they rely on their own efforts, they have a lot of money, and they are our friends. You see, isn't it very good for us to cooperate this time, this time we just have less capital, if we can come up with more of my capital and organize a larger caravan to transport back more materials, your income will be more. ”

Zhou Jialin could only smile awkwardly after hearing this, he really couldn't understand how he got in touch with these people and made money from them. But it seems that the money is very dangerous. It's better to continue to be the idle young master.

"Let's talk about your trip to Jiangnan." Zhang Chu decided to ease the atmosphere.

"I haven't been out before, I really don't know that the world outside is very different, Shaanxi has been hit by disasters year after year, while the rich people in Jiangnan are singing and dancing everywhere." Zhou Jialin saw Zhang Chu looking at him and smiled, and then said: "Don't underestimate me, I am determined to do a good job in business this time, I have not been to those places for pleasure, I just did my best to purchase all the materials you want and hurried back." I haven't had time to tell you that it may be a little difficult for your plan to be realized, but now the price of cotton in Jiangnan has risen sharply, from more than two taels of silver to five taels of silver, and the number of people who buy cloth in Shaanxi will certainly decrease. If you want to spin and weave cloth and sell it, I'm afraid it won't make a lot of money, so this time I only purchased a small amount of cotton, and purchased a lot of other materials you wanted. ”

"I know this, but whether I can make money weaving or not depends mainly on you." Zhang Chu said to Zhou Jialin.

"What can I do?" Zhou Jialin asked suspiciously.

"Cotton cloth in Shaanxi is not easy to sell, but a large number of soldiers stationed in the Jiubian area need clothes and armor, this amount is very large, we don't need to make too much, as long as each piece of cloth does not lose money, can feed the weavers. In addition, there is a profitable market, but this requires Brother Zhou to open up a transportation route, that is, to sell the cloth overseas, then each piece of cloth will have a double profit. Zhang Chu explained.

"Is that really the case? There is no problem in selling cloth to the nine sides, but it is much more difficult to sell cloth overseas. Hearing that the profits had doubled, Zhou Jialin became interested again.

"This has been done all along, and now if cloth is shipped from Matsue Prefecture to Nagasaki, Japan, the price will more than double. It's just that we don't have a way now, and this road can be put to a later date. Let's do a good job of selling cloth to the nine sides, the income from this business is also considerable, don't forget that I have a way to weave cloth that is better than others, the price is cheaper than others, let's work together again, this time I will give you cloth, how about you go to the nine sides to sell. ”

"I still have to discuss this matter with my father before making a decision." This time, Zhou Jialin didn't dare to agree, one is Zhang Chu's identity, and the other is that going to Jiubian is not as good as Jiangnan, and it's a big deal to go to Jiangnan to play and come back, and he has to risk his life when he goes to Jiubian.

"In that case, you can go back and tell your father about us, and let him see it in detail, and we will be glad if he is willing to cooperate with us." Zhang Chu deeply felt that it was difficult to do something, and he was in Shaanxi, where poverty and disasters were frequent, how good it would be if he was in Jiangnan. I hope that Zhou Jialin's father, Zhou Tai, will dare to cooperate with the security army when he sees the interests involved, and the people will die for the sake of money, and the birds will die for the food, and the businessmen can't help but be tempted in the face of huge interests.