Sister and brother, you look at me, I look at you, just like Zhang Yuan when Zhang Yuan was a child, Zhang Ruoxi and him competed with each other to see who couldn't hold their breath first - the weather was hot in the afternoon, Zhang Yuan saw a few fine beads of sweat on his sister's lips, and couldn't help but smile "hey", unfolded the folding fan in his hand to fan his sister cold, and said with a smile: "Look at my sister's sweat, I'll tell my sister this trick first." ”

Zhang Ruoxi couldn't help but smile: "I'm not in a hurry for this, there are too many things to hurry up about now, and it's not time to be in a hurry to ask for money." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Everything is pre-planned, and if you don't prepare, you will be wasted, this thing must also be done slowly, the affairs of the Huating Dong family don't want the sister to worry about it, the younger brother and the eldest brother, and the third brother will deal with it." ”

Zhang Ruoxi sighed: "If the Lu family doesn't have the help of the Zhang family this time, they will definitely not be able to fight the Dong family, the Lu family's business is difficult to protect, your brother-in-law is an excellent person, but he is indecisive in everything, and he has no effective manpower." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "So my sister wants to help my brother-in-law more, my sister is a heroine among women." ”

Zhang Ruoxi pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes were beautiful, and she said, "Okay, you don't praise me, let's say, what do you want my sister to do?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "In fact, it is very simple, that is, let the small profit get the big profit, my sister in Qingpu and Suzhou cloth shops, silk shops, first send the best hand servants to visit those skilled sewing workers, as long as the Lu cloth shop, silk shop to buy clothing to sew clothes, the sewing workers can go to the Lu shop to receive two cents of silver for each sewing piece, ten pieces is two dollars, don't be afraid of the sewing workers lie and overreport, the sewing workers are greedy for small profits, as long as they get the silver of the Lu cloth shop, they will naturally praise the beauty of Lu's cloth to customers, of course, Lu's cotton cloth, Silk is indeed beautiful, and it can't be lost to other companies in terms of texture, so expand the market in Songjiang and Suzhou first, and then open a business in Hangzhou and Nanjing, well, Shanyin also opens a one-"

Zhang Ruoxi's eyes lit up when she heard this, this is indeed a very simple thing, but why didn't anyone think of it!

Zhang Yuan said again: "This requires Lu's cloth shop and silk shop to have a unified trade name, to print the trade name logo on the cloth machine head, and to closely monitor whether there are people counterfeiting Lu's cloth and silk in the bazaar, and to crack down on counterfeit and shoddy goods, which requires a good relationship with the local government, so this strategy seems simple, but it is not easy to implement and continue, my sister and brother-in-law have to work hard, the government, the younger brother can help, if everything goes well, Qingpu Lu's ten years to enrich the Jiasongjiang is not a difficult thing, Lu's cloth is selling well, can gradually expand the mulberry forest and cotton fields, recruit skilled weavers, improve the loom, improve the textile technology, so that the Lu firm has become the first cloth and silk business in the south of the Yangtze River, the first in the south of the Yangtze River is the first in the Ming Dynasty. ”

In fact, Zhang Yuan wants to control all this by himself, but he Shanyin Dongzhang has no foundation in this regard, it is not impossible to start from scratch, but he can't afford to wait for twenty or thirty years, Qingpu Lu's sericulture textile is already very strong, and it will flourish with a little guidance, and now Qingpu Lu's is basically a brother-in-law, brother-in-law is in charge, and it is also his own family, which is worth supporting - Zhang Ruoxi stood stunned for a long time, his chest rose and fell, obviously very excited, and suddenly glared at Zhang Yuan and said: "Xiao Yuan, how did you come up with this!" ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Read, read more, open the book is beneficial, and be studious and thoughtful." ”

Zhang Ruoxi shook her head and said: "Not only are you good at Bagu Wen now, but you are also proficient in business, which really makes my sister unable to see through." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "My younger brother learned that my ancient Yue sage Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li 'loyalty to serve the country, wisdom to protect oneself, business to get rich, and become famous in the world', but now this 'business to get rich' is given to my sister." ”

Zhang Ruoxi liked her younger brother Zhang Yuan's high-spirited, calm and confident appearance, stretched out her finger and tapped Zhang Yuan's forehead, and said, "Then do you still want to find a stunning beauty like Xi Shi to accompany you?" ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Closing the moon and shyly flowers, sinking fish and geese, where to find it." ”

"Wow." Zhang Ruoxi pretended to be angry: "You really have this heart, isn't that Shang girl beautiful enough?" ”

Zhang Yuan clasped his hands together and begged for mercy: "Just kidding, just kidding." ”

Zhang Ruoxi glanced at the maidservant girl beside her, and said softly: "Xiao Yuan, don't look for any Xi Shi, it's your ability to marry your Wang family sister back, I think that Wang sister is very affectionate to you, and she has helped you read so many books, and you yourself said that you also like her last time, right?" ”

Zhang Yuan frowned slightly, and said: "Senior Sister Yingzi is the same age as me, and it is time to talk about marriage, how can I delay her." ”

Zhang Ruoxi sighed softly, didn't say more, and led a few servants and maids to comfort Xiaoping and Ah Xia, who were frightened before, and saw that Mu Zhenzhen was talking to Ah Xia, Zhang Ruoxi learned that it was Mu Zhenzhen who saved Ah Xia and Xiao Ping from the hands of La, and said happily: "Xiao Yuan doesn't know who Zhen really saved, wait a minute, let Xiao Yuan reward you, and I will reward you too." As he spoke, he took off the gold folding silk bracelet on his right wrist, pulled Mu Zhenzhen's right hand, and put it on Mu Zhenzhen-Mu Zhenzhen had never worn gold and silver jewelry when he was so old, he looked down at the golden bracelet on his right wrist, and said coyly: "Miss, how can the maid afford it-"

Zhang Ruoxi took the hand of this fallen girl and said, "What can't you afford this, with you waiting by Xiao Yuan's side, my mother and I are very relieved." ”

…… The silkworm households, cotton farmers, and weavers in the manor were all excited, and they felt that the bullying of the Dong family had passed, and they could still live a life of male ploughing and female weaving -- Zhang Dai went to the Lu's tea garden in Sheshan in the afternoon to have a look, and he didn't think the tea was good, the Lu family did not do tea business, and these acres of tea plantations were for their own use.

At dusk, Zhang Ruoxi, Zhang Dai, and Zhang Yuan returned to the Lu family's mansion in Qingpu City, Lu Tao and Zhang Cao had just returned from the county government, and the eight beating lamas were beaten with forty rods in the hall and had been imprisoned. ”

Lu Tao said: "I asked Lu Dayou to send two people to keep an eye on-"

Zhang Cao said angrily: "If this mediocre official dares to shield the Dong family, he will not be able to be this official." ”

After dinner, Zhang Ruoxi invited his younger brother Zhang Yuan and her husband Lu Tao to the study to talk about the establishment of Lu's cloth and silk business, Lu Tao listened to Zhang Yuan's idea, and said with great joy: "This is not difficult to implement, if you can rescue the second brother and keep the Sheshan mulberry forest this time, Ruoxi and I will follow what Jie Zi said in the next step." He also said: "Jie Zi is equivalent to saving my Qingpu Lu clan this time, and my family will not thank me, but in the future, I will obey all orders." ”

Lu Tao and Zhang Ruoxi agreed that in the future, Lu's cloth shop and silk shop would be called "Shengmei".

…… This said Liu Jingting did not go to Sheshan Lu's manor with Zhang Yuan, he took a servant, accompanied by two Lu family servants, and told the story in the teahouse opened by Hong Daotai, the name of the book is "Black and White Biography", not directly referring to the name of Huating Dong, only saying that a certain eunuch in Songjiang, but those Qingpu people who heard the story in the teahouse knew that it was Dong Qichang's father and son and his family slaves, and the dispute between Dong and Lu had already spread all over Qingpu, and yesterday there was a big incident, who doesn't know?

After all, Qingpu and Huating are adjacent to each other, but it has nothing to do with themselves, they are all arrogant, but at this time, when they hear Liu Jingting say it, the feeling is very different, and hearing that the Dong family bullies the good, it is like bullying the relatives and friends of these listeners, making them worry and make them angry, Liu Jingting's storytelling has this kind of appeal-...... From Qingpu County to Huating County waterway nearly forty miles, the boat boat down the big Huangpu does not take an hour to arrive, in the south of Qingpu City Wharf was beaten by Zhang Cao out of the Dong family guest Bu Shicheng and other Dong family servants and the Qing hand back to Huating by boat when it was already dark, twelve people were seriously injured, struggling to the nearest hospital to heal, while asking someone to go to the Dong Mansion to report the news, after half an hour, Dong Zuyuan and Dong Zuchang came with a few house slaves, saw Bu Shicheng and others with a blue nose and swollen face, almost unrecognizable, What happened?

Bu Shicheng said with a sad face: "The eldest son, the second son, that Zhang Yuan arrived in Qingpu, beat us like this, and tied them to the Qingpu County Ya, and the Wang County Order didn't look at the face of the Dong family, and beat us and the others with forty rods, and almost lost our lives." ”

It's Zhang Yuan again, Dong Zuchang jumped like thunder, shouting to gather slaves to fight to Qingpu - Dong Zuyuan is nearly forty years old, not as irritable as the second brother Dong Zuchang, signaling the second brother not to be impatient, and ordering Bu Shicheng to talk about the matter in detail, Bu Shicheng started from blocking the gate of the Lu family, and when he encountered the arrival of the Zhang Yuan brothers and his party, he didn't say a word, he stepped forward to fight, the Zhang brothers' men were strong in martial arts, and they were not opponents...... Dong Zuyuan endured the anger in his heart, and saw that Bu Shicheng was also applying wound medicine with his bare buttocks, so he frowned and asked: "Mr. Bu has a reputation as a student, so Wang Shanji dares to execute you?" ”

Bu Shicheng said ashamedly: "Wang County's order did not execute me, it was the thief named Zhang Cao who chased me to the dock with a house slave, bribed the servants, and beat me again, and said that as long as it was a member of the Dong family, he would beat me if he saw it." ”

Not to mention that Dong Zu was often so angry that he was going crazy, Dong Zuyuan almost exploded his lungs, and said: "This matter must be explained to my father immediately, my father spared Zhang Yuan last year and did not pursue it, this Zhang Yuan thought that my Dong family could be bullied, and now he said that he beat and humiliated my Dong family like this, people are weak." ”

Dong Zuchang said viciously: "This time, Zhang Yuan will die in my hands, kill him, just find someone to blame, let Wu Long find someone." ”

Bu Shicheng said: "The eldest son, there are three Huating Xiucai with Zhang Yuan, I know them, named Jin Langzhi, Weng Yuansheng, and one is surnamed Jiang, these three people are Zhang Yuan's gang. ”

Dong Zuyuan nodded and said, "Weng Yuansheng, I have written it down, and I will not let them go." He said to Dong Zuchang: "Second brother, you go with me to see your father and see what your father means." ”

(To be continued)