"Brother, are you Ren Gongzi?" Seeing Ren Siqi looking over, this short and fat gentry-looking middle-aged man walked over and talked to Ren Siqi. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Exactly, Your Excellency?" Ren Siqi was stunned for a moment and replied.

There are tens of thousands of people in Yinxian County, and although Ren Siqi has lived in Yinxian County for more than ten years, it is impossible for everyone to know him. He didn't recognize the Humpty Dumpty man in front of him.

"The contemptible Hu Deji is also from Yinxian County, and you are still a fellow villager with your son. The day before yesterday, I was fortunate enough to see you arrest the bandits and enter the city, so I knew Gongzi. Hu Deji said with a smile on his face.

Hu Deji is a rich man in the countryside of Yinxian County, with 100 acres of mulberry fields at home, a silk reeling workshop, and hundreds of quintals of raw silk produced every year. He was just a rural landlord with no outlets, and the raw silk he produced could only be sold to large households in Yin County at a lower price. Seeing that a lot of profits were earned by others after a hard year, Hu Deji was very unwilling, and this time he went to Hangzhou to see if he could contact the channel for purchasing raw silk, so as to sell the raw silk at a good price.

As a businessman, he pays attention to making good connections, and since he knows Ren Siqi, he also knows the details of Ren Siqi. Although Ren Siqi is no longer a showman, seeing Ren Siqi's dress and the two fierce entourages (mainly referring to Xiong Er), he still didn't dare to underestimate it, so he stepped forward to talk.

The journey was lonely, Ren Siqi was naturally happy to chat, and the two of them quickly chatted together, which was very speculative.

"It's not hot or cold, but you have to pick the freshest mulberry leaves, and one acre of mulberry leaves is only enough for a silkworm to eat. It takes a month to go from a small silkworm egg to a cocoon, and then you have to reel the silk, which is very troublesome, but do you know what the price of their silk collection is? A load of raw silk is only given sixty taels of silver! Hu Deji spitted saliva and told the hard work of raising silkworms, according to him, silkworm raising is very hard.

But even though it's hard work, it's also very profitable. If you grow grain, the world in the south of the Yangtze River can produce three seasons of rice a year, and you can beat more than ten loads of grain, and sell it for twenty taels of silver at most. But as for silkworms, one acre of mulberry trees can feed three silkworms a year, can produce a load of raw silk, and can be sold for sixty taels of silver. It can be seen that the income of silkworm raising is several times that of growing grain, and of course, the manpower required for raising silkworms is more difficult than growing grain.

"The price of raw silk they collect is a bit low, as far as I know, the price of raw silk in Hangzhou should be 80 taels per quintal." Ren Siqi nodded and said, the raw silk collected by the big businessmen from the silkworm farmers is sixty taels per load, and it can be sold for eighty taels when it is transported to Hangzhou, and it will earn twenty taels when it changes hands.

"Brother Ren, do you have a way?" Hu Deji grabbed Ren Siqi's hand, and as they became familiar, the two began to call each other brothers.

"If you can help your brother, your benefits are indispensable." Hu Deji looked at Ren Siqi with an eager expression.

Ren Siqi was secretly happy in his heart, he was really sleepy and sent a pillow, he was worried about the source of goods that were not purchased, and this Hu Deji was sent to the door.

"This, there are some ways, but some are not easy to do." Ren Siqi is so difficult.

"Don't worry, brother, I mean what I say, as long as you can help me sell the raw silk to eighty taels, I can give you the benefit of two taels of silver for a load of raw silk." Hu Deji said generously.

"That's like this, Brother Hu, I know a maritime merchant, I can help you sell him raw silk, eighty taels and one load must be fine, but no, he is not very generous, I'm afraid he can't pay you all the silver at once, you can only pay the deposit first, and then pay you the rest of the silver after selling the raw silk." Ren Siqi said, of course he is talking about the sea, of course, he is himself, now all the silver of Ren Siqi adds up to less than six thousand taels, if you pay in cash, you can only purchase dozens of loads of raw silk, such a small amount of goods is not worth going to sea once. So he hit the idea of paying in installments, but others are not stupid and may not agree to his plan.

Sure enough, hearing that he couldn't pay all the silver at once, and that he had to wait until the ship sold raw silk and came back to get the money, Hu Deji hesitated, he was not stupid, what if the ship sank in the waves? What if a pirate is robbed? What if you get scammed? Whom did he go to ask for money?

"I'm afraid this is not appropriate." Hu Deji snorted and shifted the subject to the side.

At this moment, the door to the other cabin opened, and a middle-aged man walked out.

I saw him wearing a blue silk robe, a jade belt wrapped around his waist, a scarf on his head, and a folding fan in one hand and walking out in all directions.

"Master Liu!" Hu Deji's eyes lit up immediately when he saw this person, and he threw away Ren Siqi and greeted him, his face full of wrinkles and smiling like a blooming chrysanthemum.

"Hello Master Liu, I didn't expect to see you here." Hu Deji greeted with a smile on his face.

Ren Siqi looked at it intently, and immediately recognized it, the person who just came out was named Liu Defu, a famous gentry in Yin County.

Liu Defu is a big family in Yin County, with a reputation for showing talent, and Ren Siqi is still a classmate of the county school, but he is old, and he has long since given up the heart of the imperial examination, and he is a single-minded business operator.

Their Liu family has also studied for generations, and Liu Defu's deceased grandfather was born in the top three jinshi and once served as a prefect, so the Liu family has accumulated a good family business over the years. As far as the family property is concerned, it is not under the Zhang family. However, since Liu Defu's father's generation, the Liu family has no scholars who are promising, so the reputation in Yin County is not very high, but it is not comparable to a rich man like Hu Deji.

"It turned out to be Hu Yuanwai." Liu Defu smiled self-consciously and said hello.

He is a showman, and he is reluctant to deal with a white man like Hu Deji.

Hu Deji didn't care about his attitude, and spoke cheekily, which finally made Liu Defu's face much easier.

"Huh!" Liu Defu recognized Ren Siqi who was standing on the side looking at the scenery, his face changed a few times, and he still came to Ren Siqi.

"Ren Xiaoyou is also here!" Liu Defu took the initiative to greet Ren Siqi. Originally, Ren Siqi lost his fame, and he was not as good as Liu Defu in terms of identity, but Liu Defu knew that Ren Siqi could recover his innocence from a murderer and escapee, which was not simple, and there must be a strong strength behind it.

"It turned out to be Senior Liu!" Ren Siqi smiled, "My predecessor also went to Hangzhou on business? ”

"What business? There are some small things in business that need to be taken care of. Liu Defu smiled and said: "I don't know if Ren Xiaoyou will go to Hangzhou? ”

"Oh, I'm going to Hangzhou to find Brother Cangshui." Ren Siqi said indifferently, the Cangshui brother he said was naturally Zhang Huangyan, and thinking of the need to pull Zhang Huangyan's name as a banner, Ren Siqi felt quite uncomfortable.