The Li family's house is far away from the Thanh Hoa Palace, and the location alone is enough to show the style of the Li family.

Just like the Li Li, who is also a wealthy family, raised the flag and rebelled against the Ming army, and attacked the Ming army with the rebels of the Ming Dynasty, this Li Li is actually a distant branch of the Li family, but when the accounts were settled after the autumn, the Ming army did not move the Li family at all.

With hundreds of years of operation, such a huge family has penetrated into all aspects of Annan, and with such strength, unless he sets off stormy waves and pulls up the anti-flag, no one will easily be hostile to such a family, because the price is too great.

Today's head of the Li family, Li Chang, is over fifty years old, and in this era he has reached the age of knowing the destiny of heaven. Li Chang's spirit is not good, he controls such a big family, and in recent years, the current situation in Annan has been turbulent, which has broken his heart.

Every morning, he had to eat a cup of ginseng tea before he began to eat, and now that he had divided the affairs of the family among his sons, he was no longer in charge of things.

It's just that today, the three sons arrived here by accident.

This is a study, the study is hung with many famous calligraphy and paintings of the Han people, these calligraphy and paintings, is the pride of Li Chang, because in Annam, to collect these calligraphy and paintings, money alone is not enough, the effort is not enough.

On the desk, there are four books and five classics as usual, as well as some famous works of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties. The paper is the rice paper of Jing County, the pen is the lake pen of Hu Ying, and the inkstone is the Yan of Huizhou.

Li Chang wore a scarf and a loose clothes. The only difference from the Central Plains is that he wears rattan shoes under his feet, which are very popular in hot and humid Annan. From the princes to the common people, they all wear such shoes.

Li Chang looked at his three sons, looked very indifferent, and slowly opened his mouth: "What happened, why are you so panicked, the gentleman Taishan collapsed and his color remained unchanged." What, the sky is falling? ”

The eldest son, Li Fu, glanced at the other two brothers and put his hand on his lap. Then he said: "Father, there is a letter from Langshan. ”

Lang Son ......

Recently, the word Lang Son has appeared very frequently in Thanh Hoa. Although Li Chang has already made a hands-off shopkeeper. But whether it was catching up with old friends, or walking around with relatives, or even cooking in the family's industry, he had heard of Lang Son many times.

Li Chang didn't show surprise or surprise, but just said indifferently: "Oh? Is it? What's the news on this Lang Son? ”

Li Fu said cautiously: "Does my father remember Wu Shun?" ”

Hearing the word Wu Shun, Li Chang's face suddenly fell, and he reprimanded: "This businessman has always been tricky. We are a pure white family, why are we dealing with him? Hum. What does the old man usually say, don't get too close to these people, they are from a lowly background after all, and the Li family is innocent......"

After scolding, the three sons did not dare to come out.

Li Fu waited for his father's anger to subside, and then said: "Father, he has a lot of doors, and the surplus grain in our field, he helped to resell it, and the price is higher than that of his own peddling, and his father's "Heshan Autumn Picture" was also found by him, although we are white families, but it is precisely because of innocence that such a person is needed, and some inconvenient things to do, let him do it." ”

After a pause: "In the past, that Li Yi was even more treacherous, and he took advantage of us, so his son was the master, and since then he has not dealt with the surname Li, but this is this, although it is also a profit, but after all, he still knows how to make profits, although the words are vulgar, we only trade with him, but it is nothing." ”

Seeing that his father was not angry, Li Fu continued: "Now he has sent a letter, saying that Langshan is going to harvest cotton on a large scale, and in the past, the cotton in our field was only sold for a total of seventy or eighty yuan, but now, it can be doubled, and it is also said that there is as much as you want, and Langshan is now producing cloth, so the demand for cotton is huge. Therefore, the three of us sons came to consult our father and let him call the shots. ”

"Doubled?" Li Chang was frightened, Annan's cotton is not valuable, he knows this very well, unless it is painstakingly transported to the south of the Ming Dynasty, but the problem is that the mountains and rivers are far away, and the freight is higher. But Langshan is different, how many miles of land is Langshan? As long as there is a lot of transport, it is almost negligible.

"Can this be taken seriously?" Li Chang's eyes flickered, he seemed to be a little tempted, he ran a big family, the population of the clan is large, the clansmen who are officials need the support of their families' financial resources, and those who manage the grange also need to support their wives and children, and those who are young and studying, or in the future, they will find a way to find an official and a half-job, and even the cost of interacting with the wealthy family, these are all astronomical amounts, and they don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, Li Chang of course knows that although the Li family is rich, it is far from the point of peace of mind.

"Really, the reputation of Langshan, my son let Wu Shun test it a few times, and there is really nothing wrong, and their workshop is also in urgent need of cotton, almost no matter the good or the bad, how much is needed, and even the high-priced cotton of Daming, they are also harvesting."

Li Chang frowned: "Then what do you think?" ”

Li Fu raised his head and said: "My son thinks that growing grain at the moment is really not interesting, our family's grain is not finished, and we have to sell it every year, but even if the price of grain is high, the income is also thin, the same acre of cotton, the income is three to four times that of an acre of land, if we continue to grow grain, this ten thousand hectares of fertile land, wouldn't it be a pity?" So...... The son plans to buy cotton seeds immediately, so that the vast majority of the granges under his name will immediately change to cotton, as for the grain, there is a hundred acres is actually enough, we have a mountain of grain in the city, we can't eat it all, a lot of old grain can't be sold, can only let them rot, rather than so, it is better to exchange real money for silver. ”

The land of Annam is fertile, especially in several plain areas, due to the abundant rain, coupled with good sunshine, so in many places, the grain is harvested twice a year, they are different from the Central Plains Dynasty, there is hardly any food shortage here, so for the people of Annam, grain rice is almost useless.

Li Chang sighed and said: "That's the way it is, but the ancients had a cloud, the country can't be without grain, if we all grow cotton, where does this grain come from?" King Taizong has repeatedly urged farming......"

Li Fu was bold at this time: "That's what I said, but father, no matter how good the ancients said, what does it have to do with my family?" We don't grow cotton, other families will also plant, when the time comes, we have a bunch of useless food in our hands, but people are making money, isn't it cheap for nothing, now the world is so bad, who knows what Lu Dao will look like in the future, the father is planning for his children, and he should also try his best to prepare more money for his children. In the past few years, our Li family has been superficial, but people must have near-term worries without long-term concerns......"

Li Chang interrupted him: "Let's go, you don't have to say it anymore, the old man knows what you three brothers mean, this matter, you can handle it yourself, in fact, what you said makes sense, it's right to take precautions, how can you put a mountain of gold and silver, but still trap yourself?" But...... Be cautious in this matter, the surname Wu may not be credible, you have to pick up a few trustworthy people, go to Langshan immediately, see is believing, if it is really as the rumors say, then do your best, hey...... Things are getting more and more incomprehensible......"

He sighed, and the three sons went away happily as if they had received the king's edict.

Families like the Li family are not one or two, these wealthy families in Annam themselves own countless lands, and most of the land is fertile, but when they grow grain, they always can't eat it, and they can't sell it for a price, so many people are tempted.

There are also people who can resist this temptation, but they can resist for a while, but they can't resist a lifetime, the children of the clan heard that everyone else began to raise money to plant cotton, but their own family is still waiting for rice to grow grain, and they can't help but feel a pity, who doesn't like silver, the bigger the family, the more they have a special desire for silver, because only they know the way, this silver can be exchanged for how delicious delicacies of the mountains and seas, can be exchanged for high-ranking officials, if it is a poor family, in their eyes, it is just their own day to eat a cake, The emperor ate a hundred loaves of bread a day.

As a result, there seems to be an undercurrent hidden in the entire Annan private, and all kinds of news are circulating.

Moreover, Lang Son also gradually entered their field of vision, and many people suddenly found that Lang Son not only collected cotton, but also bought a large number of rhino horn, ivory, spices, and fragrant wood, and many merchants in Annam made a lot of money by peddling this.

Small businessmen are small businessmen, in the eyes of the big families, they are cheap business, from the heart of them look down on them, and now seeing that they have made huge profits, it is naturally impossible to continue to let them take advantage, so many people like Wu Shun have changed their faces, and they have won the support of the clans behind their backs, and they have also begun to transport a large number of specialties to Langshan.

There are also a lot of land is not much, but in Annam, there are quite some strength of the gate valve, seeing that people are going to plant cotton, all of them are about to get fat and big, and they can't help but be anxious, but soon, more financial roads have also opened up, some people rely on their own rights, open up countless relationships, let them go to Champa, Ailao, Niu Roar, Siam, Zhu Ma Xi, Japu, Zhenla and other places to harvest cotton, anyway, the cotton there is cheaper, and how much Langshan wants, although the road is far away, but remove the cost of transportation, but there is still a profit.

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The first chapter is delivered, to deal with the car, go to Nanchang today, go home the day after tomorrow, all things, even if all the cooking, these 2 or 3 days are still two chapters, but in the future, I will feel at ease with the code word. (To be continued......)