Li You and Qin Yuan went out to the yamen, but when they saw Zhang San, they asked him, "Why are you not here in the Inspection Division?" ”

Zhang San replied: "Hong Patrol came to see the lord again, and said that if he couldn't see him, he wouldn't leave, and everyone in the department couldn't be the master, so how did the lord show it." ”

Li You thought for a while and said: "I have business in the county these two times, and he can wait if he is willing to wait, and he will eat and drink well." You quickly go back and watch the movements of the inspection department, and report back if there is anything wrong. ”

Zhang Sanying went down.

Li You got into the sedan chair and followed Qin Yuanwai's sedan chair towards Fuxin Lane.

After getting off the sedan chair outside the Qin family, Li You did not rush in, but stood there and stared at the opposite door. I saw that the door of the house was not wide, but it was painted with vermilion on behalf of the eunuch's family, which was different from the left and right, and it was very eye-catching, and there were car gatehouses and other configurations. Li You secretly said in his heart, I am afraid that this house is the dowry of the old father-in-law, and it seems that it is almost rectified.

Qin Yuanwai was very puzzled, and after inviting Li You twice, he didn't move, and after waiting for a while, he asked out loud: "What do you mean, my lord?" ”

Li You smiled and entered the Qin family.

The hall is furnished with some bluegrass, and the four walls are hung with calligraphy and paintings, which is very elegant. After Li You sat down, he said casually: "Recently, I want to open a weaving workshop at home, what do you think?" Hope to advise one or two. ”

Qin Yuanwai thought that Li You was looking for him to ask about the bookstore, which was also a half-cultural topic, but he didn't expect to ask about the silk weaving workshop directly. still replied: "My Qin family's main business is a bookstore, and there are only ten flower machines in the silk weaving field, although I don't care much about it, but I also know that the business has been difficult recently, and I have been relying on the subsidies from the bookstore. ”

Li You asked: "I also heard that there is a shortage of raw silk, and I thought that if I didn't start work, I would not get any income at most, how could I lose money?" ”

Qin Yuanwai smiled bitterly and said, "Are you also interested in this business as an adult?" As the saying goes, even if you don't start work, you must pay every salary to keep the familiar worker, otherwise he will lose more after switching to others. What's more, there are some buyers who order in advance, and they have to compensate if they can't complete it. For example, when the old man heard that he was going to do business at sea, he took out a lot of money to order a total of 10,000 horses of various colors of silk from dozens of machine households in the county. My family also received 200 horses last month, about to be delivered in August, this is no problem, who knows that the recent raw silk is broken, seeing that the deadline has not been completed, I can't say that I have to pay back the money. ”

Master Yan? Strict people? For this enemy of the big business, although Li You is difficult to deal with head-on for the time being, he has carefully investigated, his family is a big landlord in Tianlian Qianmo, a very traditional rich family, and he has an income of several thousand taels every year to collect rent, and now he has changed his mind to take a huge amount of money to trade? Even the deposit paid in advance is three or five thousand taels.

Li You pretended to come up with an idea and said: "I heard that there is a shortage of raw silk everywhere, and there are people from Fucheng who dominate the market in Xishui Town to buy raw silk, why don't you take action?" Or you can ask the government for help. ”

"According to the usual practice, there will be several large accounts of the bank to jointly come forward to administer justice, and we and other small customers have no money and no power to do anything, and wait for the results with peace of mind. My family still has a bookstore to subsidize the silk weaving factory, and I must be able to barely maintain it and wait for the market to improve. If other small households can't complete the order, they will pay more than a dozen taels if each machine does not start work for a month, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive. Those big families have strong financial resources, and they can hold on for a while and a half. ”

From Qin Yuanwai's words, Li You noticed that this large household and small household are not necessarily the same thing, and he always regarded the silk weaving industry as a whole in the past, but he fell into a misunderstanding, in fact, the silk weaving industry is not monolithic.

The poor little machine owners are scattered, and they are still looking forward to the powerful peers to come forward to uphold justice, but they don't know that Yao Miaozhu of the Huang Po Temple secretly sent 5,000 taels of silver to the government, and wants to completely cut off their way of life!

Five thousand taels of silver, such financial resources can only be taken out by large machine households, and perhaps Master Yan's family must be added. Otherwise, how could it be a coincidence that the Yan family suddenly took the wind to engage in overseas trade, so it seems that placing large-scale orders for various machine owners last month was also fishing.

Li You silently analyzed this in his heart, and the whole thing was about to come out -- there are several large machine households in this county, united with the Yan family, a big landlord, and they are desperate to lose money and collapse the small machine households. Then it is very simple, take the opportunity to acquire scarce skilled workers and looms of small machine owners at a low price, and expand their own industry.

Yao Miaozhu dared to send 5,000 taels to Chen Zhixian, and sure enough, the benefits in this were far more than 5,000. According to Li Youdang, when the little official was bored and looked through the county register, he still had a little impression of some data in the county. The scattered small machine households in this county add up to a rough estimate, and there are nearly 1,000 looms and about 1,500 skilled workers. In the case of sufficient raw silk, the annual profit of 30,000 or 40,000 taels is not a problem.

I'm afraid that those ill-informed small machine owners will think that the bullies of the prefecture city are rushing to buy raw silk until they die, and the local government's inaction leads to bankruptcy. This can actually be called a conspiracy without publicity, the big fish rely on their strong financial resources to fight to lose tens of thousands of taels of silver, and play the game of eating small fish, even if the small fish is aware, how can they resist?

After thinking through the cause and effect, Li You was a little excited, and inadvertently found that there was such a big cake in front of him, although it was made by someone else, wouldn't it be a pity not to take a bite?

This incident is different from the last Haitang Stone Incident. That time was the embezzlement of a huge amount of public property, and it involved I don't know how many high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and it was vaguely impossible to see through the depths of the water, and if he was implicated, the risk was so great that he might steal his family and kill his head, where could he afford it.

This time it's just a business game promoted by a few rich people in the county, and they still have to find their own place. Even if the speculation fails, there will be no disastrous consequences, the risk is low and the return is high, it can be said that success is happy, and failure is meaningless. His own identity is also different, Li You is sure that he will bear at most one punishment for negligence after framing others, but he doesn't believe that a few businessmen also have the courage to kill officials and rebel, and Chen Zhixian, the biggest county in the county, is still his own backer.

After consulting the situation of the silk weaving industry and analyzing the truth, Inspector Li was impatient to stay in the Qin family for a long time, and he was afraid that he would accidentally leak something, so he got up and left.

What's more, seeing such a big cake, you really need to think carefully about how to eat it sweeter, especially when it comes to the hateful Yan family, you have to think about it carefully. In addition, out of prudence, it is necessary to inquire carefully to see what the background of the county's big machine households is.

At this time, Qin Yuanwai begged: "I have admired Master Li's talent for a long time, and now it is rare to come, please leave the ink treasure and collect it in my Qin family." ”

Calligraphy... Li Mingshi said modestly: "How can this official have a few ugly words, how can they appear in front of people, or there is no need." ”

Qin Yuanwai didn't dare to ask for it, so he had to send it to the gate of the courtyard with grievances, and sighed in his heart that this Lord Li also knows the truth that scarcity is precious, and the friendship between them for the first time is obviously not enough.

Out of Qin's house, Li You didn't rush to get into the sedan chair, and glanced at the eye-catching vermilion door opposite. Looking to the left more than ten zhang, it is the door of another family in the neighborhood, if you guess correctly, this is the new residence of Sister Li Mei.

Now that you're here, why don't you go in and have a look? Li You found that he now has a lot of flirting with her, and teasing a beauty who secretly likes her in her heart but doesn't show it (these two words are very important) must also be a great pleasure in life.

Qin Yuanwai stood in the doorway, originally preparing to see Master Li away. As a result, I saw that Li You stood for a long time without moving, only staring at the mansion in front of him. So he approached Li You very knowingly and said: "I heard that that house is Sister Li Mei's new residence, but now it is really closed to outsiders, even if it is an adult, it is difficult for a person like you to enter." ”

Li You snorted coldly and said, "Do you dare to bet with me?" ”

Qin Yuanwai took the opportunity to say: "I am willing to bet on a word of the adult, and the calligraphy and painting in the next family can be a bet, and you can choose if you lose." "He's calculating, and he doesn't suffer in any way. If you win, you get Mobao, and if you lose, you send calligraphy and paintings, and you also make friends with Li You, and I will have a topic with my friends in the future - I made a bet with Li Tanhua. Of course, he kept all the valuable calligraphy and paintings secret, so he wouldn't really lead Li You to choose.

"It's a deal." Li You raised his leg and walked to Sister Li Mei's house.

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