After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yan Yan suddenly received a bad news, her merchant ship in the Yellow Sea suddenly encountered a strong sea storm, two ships sank, and the goods on board also sank to the bottom of the sea, fortunately, most of the people on board were rescued by other merchant ships, a small part jumped into the sea with wooden planks, and there are still sixteen people missing.

Since most of these crew members were selected from Yan Yan's several villages, after learning the news, Yan Yan ordered Dajiang and Qingyu to visit their families according to the list of missing persons and give them some financial compensation.

Who knew that after Qingyu came back, he told Yan Yan one thing, saying that two of the crew members had no family members, and they were farmers who defected from the north three years ago, saying that their hometown had suffered a disaster and could not survive.

When Qingyu heard this, he took Dajiang to the residence of the two to check it out, and found a small notebook in the kang cave.

"Master, you see, the records above are our cotton and yams."

Yan Yan took the book and flipped it over, it was all recorded in Chinese characters, so she couldn't tell where the owner of this book came from, but the other party's purpose was obvious, unfortunately, he was selected by the steward to be a sailor.

"Let your man check it out and see how many such people there are." Yan Yan didn't expect that there were still fish that slipped through the net around him.

Because of the small earthquake in the capital before, Lu You led people to screen the people in Zhuangzi and the factory, and indeed found a few fine crops, including those from the Japanese country and those from Goryeo, Ben is the planting and textile technology of cotton.

After Qingyu left, when Yan Yan was taking the book and looking at it carefully, Qingye reported outside the door that Wang Jie was coming.

Yan Yan put down the book and greeted him in person, Wang Jie didn't bring the child this time, only brought a personal maid, saying that she heard from others that Yan Yan lost two ships of goods and lost a lot of people, she came to ask Yan Yan if he needed to borrow, whether it was people or money.

"Thank you, ma'am, for bothering me, I'll come back to you when I need to." Yan Yan said that he was really a little puzzled in his heart.

With the relationship between them, there is no need for Wang Jie to be so enthusiastic, and besides, Yan Yan has never told outsiders about this matter, where did the other party get the news?

"Da Lang's daughter-in-law, you also know that I have no ability, but I can't help but think about my son, don't look at me sitting in this position now, maybe one day Lu Ming will marry this family and hand it over to others, so I just thought about coming to you, I want to borrow some light from you, and do some business with you." Wang Jie told the truth.

"The problem is that there are times when doing business is at a loss, no, you know, both ships of cargo have sunk to the bottom of the sea, and I have lost at least 200,000 yuan this trip, in addition, I also promised to help those shipwrights who had accidents to support the elderly and raise children, and this cost is not small." Yan Yan also told the truth.

She didn't want to be involved with the people of the Lu family, let alone join forces with her to deal with Lu Ming.

It's not that she let go of her hatred for Lu Ming, but she doesn't want to be a pawn in the hands of others, she hates this kind of calculation.

"But this kind of thing doesn't happen often, it's been two years, isn't this the first time for you? Also, I heard that this overseas trade means that the more merchant ships there are, the safer they are, and everyone can still take care of each other when they get to sea, so I said that if this accident happened, if you didn't have a few other ships, I was afraid that the people on these two ships would have to suffer with them. Wang Jie didn't give up, and wanted to persuade Yan Yan.

"Having said that, wouldn't it be better if Mrs. didn't pool the money with your mother's brothers and sisters to set up a caravan of her own, and save yourself from being controlled by others? Besides, my wife also knows that my shares here have already been distributed, and in addition to me, there are also the four highnesses. Yan Yan had no choice but to bring out Li Ji and the others.

Sure enough, when Wang Jie heard that several highnesses involved in the palace, she was embarrassed to speak again, and then asked about cotton weaving, because Zhou Wan was taking care of the cotton cloth before, and then Yan Yan noticed that Zhou Wan had changed, and took the business back without waiting for Zhou Wan to enter the cell.

But after all, the Lu family has been doing it for a while, whether it is a weaver or a loom, it is ready-made, and it has its own Zhuangzi, and there is a lot of cotton planting every year, so this business has not given up, but the scale is much smaller than before.

So this time, Wang Jie hopes to merge this business into Yan Yan's textile factory, because she can't buy much cotton on her own, this is one, and second, Yan Yan's factory has new technologies, and most of those towels, socks and other rare items are sold directly to the Waiyi people, and the profit is definitely better than her guarding a little old technology to weave some coarse cloth for those poor people.

But the problem is that Yan Yan had already rejected her before, Wang Jie couldn't get Yan Yan's thoughts, and didn't dare to speak rashly, so she went from textile to cotton planting, to those fine works from outside, and from fine work to those assassins that Yan Yan encountered on March 3.

"By the way, I've heard that I didn't catch those assassins later, but I found a lot of small works, and many of them came to you. Da Lang's daughter-in-law, I also heard one thing, some people say that those assassins were sent by the Jurchens, saying that the Wu family won the battle on the front line and let the wind go, saying that it was copied from Da Lang's previous tactics against the Liao State, and what did he say that when Da Lang passed the filial piety period, he would go to the front line to replace his father and son, and also said that Da Lang learned many of his tactics from you, and for this reason, the Jurchens thought of coming to arrest you. Wang Jie said in a low voice.

"Madam, is there any source for these words?" Yan Yan asked.

She didn't believe that the father and son of the Wu family would do such a thing, and it would reach the ears of the emperor, and it was a trivial matter to reprimand him, and it was very likely that the Wu family's title would be reduced by one level, or the hereditary title would be replaced.

"This, this, this I also heard from others outside, and if I want to ask the source, I naturally don't know." Wang Jie saw that Yan Yan's face had changed, and she was a little scared in her heart.

"Mrs. will remember in the future, just forget if you have heard this kind of unfounded words, don't follow it to spread it, maybe one day you will provoke trouble. Fortunately, you are telling me today, and I don't want to embarrass you for my father's sake. Otherwise, if I take those words to the emperor and learn them, the emperor will inevitably ask you for clarification, and I am afraid that this consequence will not be something you can bear. Yan Yan looked at the old lady's sake, and mentioned a few words to the other party, and it was up to her to hear it or not.

Who knew that it was a coincidence, as soon as Yan Yan's voice fell, Lu Jin opened the curtain and came in, "Mother, what do you want to learn from the emperor?" Why don't you tell Brother Li Xi? ”

"What does Aunt Yan want to tell me?" Li Xi's head popped up behind Lu Jin.

Wang Jie was really scared now.

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