After talking about the Jiangnan Silk Industry Cooperative, Hu Chuyuancai talked to Mei Qizhao and Huo Hongji about what they had seen and heard in Yueben, which made them both sigh.

Later, they secretly discussed the matter of salt politics.

That night, Hu Chuyuan didn't go back, and of course, they weren't in the mood to really drink.

Early the next morning, Hu Chuyuan returned to the Hu family compound, and as soon as he entered the door, the family members hurried to tell the old lady and several ladies, and everyone gathered in Baishi Tower one after another.

After he greeted the old lady and the eldest lady, Mrs. Luo, Mrs. Luo, Mrs. Seven, Aunt Nine, two younger brothers, and the younger sister also came over.

The family waited so long for him to come back, of course, they had a lot to say, and waited until after lunch, when the eldest lady and the eldest lady went to play mahjong with Letang, and Hu Chuyuan continued to stay in the big study room of Baishi Building.

Yan Shizhang greeted in advance, Liu Chengxiang quickly brought Lu Sanyuan over, and not long after, Wang Yirong also came.

Hu Chuyuan let Lu Sanyuan in first, and after a general look, he saw that it was a sturdy young man with dark skin, twenty-six years old, with very keen eyes, plain clothes, but very clean.

Taking a look, Hu Chuyuan felt that this might indeed be a very careful person.

Letting Lu Sanyuan sit down, Hu Chuyuan roughly asked him what books he liked to read, and then asked him: "Sanyuan, if I give you 10,000 acres of mulberry fields now and let you take care of the first-class raw silk, then what are you going to do?" ”

Lu Sanyuan didn't think about it and said, "This thing is easy to do, but it's not easy to do. ”

Hu Chuyuan sighed and said, "Then you can try to talk about it!" ”

"Yes!" Lu Sanyuan nodded yes and said: "First of all, it depends on where the 10,000 acres of mulberry fields are, the water source is abundant, and the water quality is suitable for planting mulberry trees, then everything is easy to do." Secondly, I will take out hundreds of acres of the best fields from it to raise mulberry seedlings. Zhejiang people are mulberry are pressed branch method, simple and fast, but the yield of mulberry is not high, Nanxun mulberry is used by grafting method, and it is oblique bandaging and grafting, two years before the mulberry leaves, the mulberry leaves that can be produced are of high quality and sufficient yield. The third is to select silkworm seeds, and the fourth is to ...... silkworms! ”

He said dozens of points of attention in one breath, and he was obviously proficient in raising mulberry and silkworms to the extreme, and he was particular about choosing nurseries, water sources, mulberries, and silkworms.

However, the most unique place of Nanxun people is to tao silkworms, they will pick out the silkworms that are too thin and too large to throw away, only choose the best silkworms, although the yield will decline, but can ensure the quality of the entire Nanxun silk.

Therefore, Huzhou is a silk in the world, and Nanxun is a silk in Huzhou.

Liu Chengxiang is also an expert in the mulberry silk industry, and after listening to Lu Sanyuan's words, he couldn't help but nod and praise: "Sure enough, it is worthy of mulberry silk essence." ”

Hu Chuyuan also nodded silently and said: "Okay, I'll give you a chance, I want to set up a Jiangnan silk industry cooperative now, this cooperative itself is not profitable, and it is mainly responsible for teaching technology to silk farmers all over Zhejiang and improving the quality of raw silk in Zhejiang." I want you to be in charge, the shopkeeper Liu is just a name, and when you can really be the shopkeeper, I will hand over the entire cooperative to you to take care of! ”

Lu Sanyuan was overjoyed and said, "Thank you to the owner, the small one must live up to the love of the owner!" ”

Hu Chuyuan laughed and said, "Then you go get busy first, I have other things to say with Shopkeeper Liu!" ”

"Yes, then the owner and the shopkeepers are busy first!" After Lu Sanyuan said this, he was about to turn around and leave, but he suddenly stopped halfway through, turned around and said to Hu Chuyuan again: "Boss, Sanyuan still has a very strange thing to say, but I don't know if it's good to say it, whether it should be said or not!" ”

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment and said, "You say! ”

Lu Sanyuan was not in a hurry to say.

Seeing that he was jealous, Hu Chuyuan motioned for everyone else to leave first, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Lu Sanyuan said: "This matter is really strange to say, the owner may not know, our surname Lu is also a relatively common surname in Nanxun, and there are more than ten generations of people rooted in Nanxun." Lu Xiyuan and I are distant relatives in Nanxun Four Elephants and Eight Cows, and my cousin is also a maid in his house, a few days ago, he invited me to talk about things, and wanted me to do things for him, halfway through the conversation, Zhang Songxian, the second of the four elephants in this town, came to him and deliberately took me away. At that time, I kept an eye on my cousin to grow ears when she went in to deliver tea, and my cousin later told me that she didn't hear anything, only listened to them talk about the price of salt! ”

"Oh?" Hu Chuyuan's heart moved, and he deliberately asked, "What's so strange about this?" ”

Lu Sanyuan thought for a while and said: "Zhang Songxian used to be the largest salt merchant in Nanxun, and he used to talk about the price of salt, which was normal, but now he doesn't do the salt market at all, but he came to Lu Xiyuan, a person who has never run a salt business, to negotiate the price of salt, and talked for nearly half an hour. ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently and said, "Yes, it's very strange, have you thought about what kind of possibility?" ”

Lu Sanyuan said: "Ladong has always been the peak of salt use, I think, it should be to fry the salt price of Nanxun, or the whole Huzhou." If the two of them join forces, it is still possible to speculate on the price of salt in Huzhou. Just in case, the owner had better stock up on a little more sea salt in Huzhou. ”

Hu Chuyuan was secretly happy in his heart, thinking to himself, Lu Sanyuan is really a careful person, and it is worth using.

However, the heart of guarding against people is indispensable, and he can't be sure that Lu Sanyuan is not a fine annihilator, at least not in front of him.

He said: "What about this matter, I will let people continue to pay attention to it, the current top priority is the matter of Jiangnan Silk Industry Cooperative, you will do this well for me, money is not a problem, you first choose a good nursery in the counties of Hangzhou Prefecture, and cultivate some good hands who are good at seedling grafting on the spot!" ”

Lu Sanyuan said: "Don't worry, Dongjia, I'll go back to Nanxun to recruit people." In Nanxun Town, there are good hands who are good at seedling grafting everywhere, and I can recruit hundreds, as long as the price is acceptable. ”

Hu Chuyuan thought for a while, and said to him: "The account is in the shopkeeper Liu, I will give you 100,000 taels of money to prepare for the New Year, and after the New Year, you can show me the account, at that time, I naturally know how capable you are!" ”

Lu Sanyuan was overjoyed, Hu Chuyuan said this is to give him the financial power, let him cover the sky with one hand, how much ability he has, it depends on whether his achievements are beautiful.

It was certainly a great opportunity he had always dreamed of.