When the shopkeeper saw this person, his face was solemn, and he immediately stood up from behind the counter, greeted him, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhang is really good at telling jokes, and if you burn my silk village, won't you be able to get your money?" With that, he laughed heartily.

It turned out that the shopkeeper's surname was Su, and his name was Su Mu; The man who came in later was surnamed Zhang, named Zhang Shiliang, and both of them were cloth merchants.

This Zhang Shiliang said: "Who is joking with you, Brother Su, if you don't give me the money today, I will really burn your silk village." ”

Su Mu walked out from behind the counter, with a smile on his face, and said: "It's not that I don't give the money to you, brother, when we buy the goods, we said that it is good, your goods have to be sold before I can give you the payment, and now that you have not sold the goods, how can I give you the payment?" ”

Zhang Shiliang sneered: "Where are my goods? ”

Su Mu walked to the edge of a batch of cotton cloth, lifted the cloth on it to the side, revealing the box below, opened it, pointed to it and said, "Look, aren't all your goods here?" ”

Zhang Shiliang said angrily: "You put all my goods in the box, how can you sell them!" ”

Su Mu said helplessly: "Brother Zhang, I didn't mean to press your goods at the bottom of the box, you can find a few old consultants to ask, did I put your goods on the top at the beginning, but there is no way, your goods are not as good as foreigners, and the price is higher than that of foreigners, how can there be customers to buy your goods!" ”

Zhang Shiliang shook his hand and said, "Then I don't care, you have to pay me today!" ”

Su Mao saw that Zhang Shiliang was starting to play tricks, so he also lowered his face and said, "There is no money, you can take your goods!" ”

Zhang Shiliang threw the folding fan in his hand to the ground, "clicked" and the fan bone fell into several sections, and he reached out and took out the flint and fire sickle from his sleeve, making a gesture, this silk village is full of cotton and silk, and it will be all over if there is a little spark, Zhang Shiliang said: "If you don't give me money today, ask me if the flint fire sickle in my hand will agree!" ”

Wan'er whispered to Lin Yuan on the side: "You take care of this person, he is too unreasonable." ”

Unexpectedly, Wan'er's words were actually heard by Zhang Shiliang, he turned his head and saw that it was a little girl who spoke, and sneered: "You little doll, you know what the truth is, this batch of goods is a rope, silkworm farmers who raise silkworms, women who reel silk, embroiderers who weave cloth, porters who carry burdens, this group of people are grasshoppers on this rope, and the payment is the knife that cuts the rope, if there is no payment, hundreds of lives on this rope will starve to death!" ”

Zhang Shiliang's tone changed, and he said viciously: "These people are my fellow countrymen, waiting for me to get the money back every day, if I don't return the money, I won't have the face to stay at home!" As he spoke, he slapped his face with his hand and said with a strange smile: "See, I don't even have a face, what kind of reason do I have to say!" ”

Guan'er was so angry with a stranger that she cried out with a frightened "wow", Zhang Shiliang saw that she was scared to cry, her face was full of shame, Lin Yuan gently hugged Guan'er in his arms, comforted him for a while, and then stood up and smiled at Zhang Shiliang: "You put down the fire first, how much silver is your goods worth?" ”

Su Mao replied: "It's worth five thousand taels of silver." ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Okay, I'll give you this money, and if you give me the goods, I bought it." ”

Zhang Shiliang saw that Lin Yuan was dressed ordinarily, and couldn't help asking: "Looking at your dress, I'm afraid that the silver in your waist bag is not as much as mine?" ”

Lin Yuan looked at Guan'er and asked, "Is the silver you brought enough for five thousand taels?" ”

Ten taels is a catty, and five thousand taels is five hundred catties, this weight is impossible for even a strong man to move, Wan'er "fluttered" and said: "It's too heavy, I can't hold it." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said to Zhang Shiliang: "Come on, go to my house to get it." ”

Zhang Shiliang looked at Lin Yuan's confident appearance, not like he was lying to him, so he put away the flint and fire sickle and said, "I believe you." ”

Lin Yuan took Guan'er home, Zhang Shiliang followed behind, did not speak, and came to the door of the mansion in a blink of an eye, in order to keep it secret, Lin Yuan did not let people write the word "Lin Mansion" on the plaque on the door, so Zhang Shiliang did not know that this was Lin Yuan's mansion.

Lin Yuan stepped forward and slapped the knocker, Zhang Shiliang thought: "This big mansion is extraordinary, it must be a prince who lives, can this person open the door?" ”

Liu San had already gone to sleep at this time, and after seeing Lin Yuan, Bing Jingyin's matter was also put down, and he could be regarded as able to sleep peacefully, and it was a small guy who opened the door, seeing Lin Yuan kneeling down busily, kowtowing, and saying, "Greetings to Lord Lin!" Zhang Shiliang was stunned, could this person be Lin Yuan?

Lin Yuan called Zhang Shiliang into the living room, and Zhang Shiliang asked in surprise, "Are you really Lord Lin?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Can there still be a fake?" ”

Zhang Shiliang asked, "Then why did you buy the villain's silk?" ”

Lin Yuan didn't answer, and asked, "Do you know that your silk can't be sold to foreigners?" ”

Zhang Shiliang lifted his shirt and knelt down, and said, "Please make it clear!" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Your silkworm seeds are not as good as foreigners, so the quality is not as good as foreigners; The process of silk reeling is not as good as that of foreigners, so your cost is not as low as that of foreigners. ”

Zhang Shiliang was speechless for a while, and Lin Yuan continued: "Listen to you, do you open a silk factory, you collect silkworms from silkworm farmers, and then hire female workers to reel silk, and then find someone to weave silk into cloth." ”

Zhang Shiliang exclaimed: "Exactly! Adults are like gods! ”

Lin Yuan waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's nothing, my money is considered to be your shares, and I don't want your profits, I will help you improve the process and let you drive away all the foreigners' fabrics." ”

When Zhang Shiliang heard this, he knelt down from his seat, kowtowed to the ground, and said, "It would be great if it could be like this!" Little grateful! ”

It turned out that Lin Yuanzhi said that in this era, China's backwardness is all-round backwardness, not only heavy industry, but also light industry and even agriculture are backward a lot, and the silk industry is an important part of the textile industry, to change the face of China, the textile industry must be improved.

Lin Yuan looked at his watch and said with a smile: "You take the silver and go back, and come back to me at night." After saying that, Lin Yuan turned around, changed his clothes, and rushed to the Imperial Palace in the Forbidden City.

During the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, the Huangji Hall had held several Qiansu banquets, that is, to invite the old birthday stars in the main hall, and the banquet could be held here, which is enough to show that the highest level attaches great importance to Lin Yuan.

When Lin Yuan arrived, the banquet had not yet started, all the ministers were waiting in the side hall, Lin Yuan looked at many people chatting in groups, and he didn't know a few people, so he had to stand aside, and there happened to be a little eunuch standing on the side, Lin Yuan pointed to the group of ministers and asked, "Do you know all these people?" ”

The little eunuch replied cautiously: "Go back to your lordship, don't you recognize everything." ”

Lin Yuan remembered the people Li Jingfang had told him, so he asked one by one, those people were all in high positions, of course the little eunuch knew them, so he answered them to Lin Yuan one by one, Lin Yuan remembered them all, and at this moment, Lin Yuan saw that everyone in the hall was rushing to the door like a tide.

Lin Yuan thought about the door and looked, only to see an old man with a white beard, walking in while bowing his hand to everyone, Lin Yuan recognized this person, he was Weng Tongyi.

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Li Jingfang said that he was very dissatisfied with me, so it is better to take advantage of this time to probe the situation." So Lin Yuan stepped forward and was about to give a salute, but he didn't expect Weng Tongyi to snort coldly, flick his sleeves, and throw Lin Yuan on the spot.