waited until the wheat was harvested in various places, and Cao Fengji had not made a big move, and he did not even have direct contact with Tian Guifei and the prince and princess.

Moreover, he really started a business, selling woolen textiles brought from the north.

Authentic Northwest goods are quite popular in Jiangnan.

Shaanxi and Gansu are the centers of the wool textile industry, and now they are all part of Li Zicheng's territory, and it seems that Li Zicheng is also encouraging commercial development, otherwise Shaanxi and Gansu goods would not be easily transported to Nanjing.

There are four main types of Shaanxi-Gansu-wool textiles: silk, brown, felt, and attack.

The three tight-lipped are woolen ropes.

As for Mao Brown and Mao Raid, they both belong to sweaters. The former is rough in workmanship, and only the people at the bottom wear it; The latter can be understood as a wool coat, which is slightly more upscale.

In addition, Shanxi belongs to the northern silk weaving center: South Songjiang, North Lu'an, and Yitianxia.

The "Lu'an" in this sentence refers specifically to the Changzhi area of Shanxi, and the raw materials for textile silk come from Langzhong, Sichuan.

Li Zicheng has had a very hard time this year, and he can't rob it anymore if he wants to rule normally. The displaced people in some prefectures and counties were only resettled and reclaimed last winter, and it would be good to have enough food to eat, but if they wanted to pay the salaries of officials, they had to rely on commercial taxes.

Woolen textiles from Shaanxi and Gansu, silk weaving cloth from Lu'an, and salt taxes from the salt ponds of Shanxi Province were relied upon by Li Zicheng to maintain his rule.

Zhao Han had a bad taste, and actually summoned Cao Fengji for questioning.

Cao Fengji was frightened when he saw the official, and felt that nothing was exposed, so he was taken away. Unexpectedly, he was taken to see the emperor, and he immediately became excited, not only to facilitate espionage activities, but also to facilitate business in Nanjing in the future.

In Cao Fengji's vision, it is best to destroy the Manchu Qing within three or five years, and it is naturally best for his family to be safe, and it is helpless to die in the chaos.

However, he can no longer be controlled, marry a wife and have children in Nanjing, do business, and live a prosperous life in peace.

"The grass people knock to your majesty!"

Cao Fengji peeked at the emperor and knelt down and kowtowed respectfully.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "Get up, give a seat." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Cao Fengji kowtowed again to thank him.

Zhao Han asked the female official to bring woolen textiles: "These are your goods?" ”

Cao Fengji was apprehensive again, and replied carefully: "Exactly." Wool cloth in the northwest, cotton cloth in the south of the Yangtze River. The grass people sold woolen cloth to the south and cotton cloth to the northwest, making some small profits from it. ”

Zhao Han pointed at Mao Brown and said: "This sweater is too rough to be next to the neck, and it will be ground out of red marks in a quarter of an hour." ”

Cao Fengji said: "Back to Your Majesty, the hair worn by the poor is rough and uncomfortable, and it is very heavy, but it is very warm in winter. ”

Zhao Han pointed at Mao Xi again and said, "This kind of sweater is acceptable." ”

Cao Fengji took the opportunity to say: "If Your Majesty likes it, the grass people will let people select wool materials and make gorgeous and warm wool to present to Your Majesty." ”

"I don't take advantage of the merchants," Zhao Han said, "You sell more of this woolen cloth, and I plan to design a trench coat myself and reward it to the civil and military generals as a thing to protect against the cold." ”

What kind of clothes is a trench coat?

Although Cao Fengji couldn't understand, he still said excitedly: "The grass people must live up to the trust!" ”

Zhao Han played with this hair and said, "Can the hair rope be spun thinner?" Use selected wool and spin it into wool, the finer the better. ”

Cao Fengji still didn't understand, nodded and replied: "It can be fine, it must be fine." ”

Zhao Han instructed: "It's so thin that it's only two or three points of this wool rope, if you can spin that fine wool, how much you can transport, I will let the government buy as much as you want." ”

"The minister immediately sent his men back to the north!" Cao Fengji was overjoyed, he felt that he was going to get rich.

Zhao Han doesn't care about this, a fine work, in addition to engaging in counter-plots, in addition to catching other fine works, he can also use this person to develop the northern wool textile industry. Let him send people to deliver the news to stimulate the development of wool textiles in advance, so that the unification of the north in the future will be able to pick fruits, and Mongolian herdsmen can also be enveloped through wool textiles.

The wool textile industry in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty developed greatly, but due to the quality of wool, it was basically difficult to reach the elegant hall, and cashmere could still be accepted by the rich.

However, cashmere production is too low, and there are few goats in the northwest and grasslands!

Zhao Han decided to vigorously guide the promotion, the most advanced into felt, the slightly better into carpets, the best into brown cloth, and better into windbreakers and wool.

Although Zhao Han can't make sweaters, but the wool is made, what is the difficulty of knitting sweaters?

This is not a trivial matter, and it has a lot to do with politics.

As long as the wool textile industry can flourish, it can develop the economy of the northwest, make the northwest more stable, and bind many grassland herdsmen.

Zhao Han must take action personally, otherwise the trench coat will be difficult to promote.

And if the emperor wears a trench coat and appears in public several times, it is guaranteed that dignitaries and nobles will follow suit! The queen wore knitted sweaters, met with the wives of officials several times, and personally taught the wives of those officials to knit sweaters, which could be popular in Nanjing in a year or two at most.

Then, it gradually spread throughout the country.

Zhu Yuanzhang has done many such things, and he has led by example, single-handedly changing China's centuries-old tea drinking habits. The Royal Tea Garden was set up, the tribute of group tea was prohibited, the tribute of cheap loose tea was changed, and the boiled tea was changed to brewed tea. As a result, China's tea industry flourished, and tea went from the rich to the commoners.

Cao Fengji said goodbye to the emperor and came back to the street, feeling like a dream.

He was a Manchu Qing Dynasty meticulous work, and he was appreciated by the emperor, and he personally placed an order for him, saying that he could eat as many goods as he shipped.

O Imperial Merchant!

Cao Fengji suddenly had an impulse to go back and turn himself in, and from then on he became a real imperial businessman. But he was afraid that the emperor would be angry and click off his head, and he was afraid that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would be ghostly and quietly kill himself in the middle of the night.

Damn those Tartars, delaying their future!

Seeing a great opportunity but unable to seize it, Cao Fengji hated the Manchu Qing in his heart. As for the family who stayed in Liaodong, he deliberately ignored it, anyway, he was still very young, and he would definitely be able to have another son and a half daughter.

Cao Fengji went home in a sedan chair, thinking about it all the way.

He wanted to find out all the details hidden in Nanjing, and then turn himself in and ask the emperor to arrest him. In this way, he can not only make himself safer, but also make great contributions to the Nanjing court.

It was not easy to operate, although he himself was a fine worker, but he only knew the other two. One is his man, and the other is a Jin merchant in Yangzhou, who usually asks his buddy to go to Yangzhou to spread the news.

Alas, take your time, you can't rush it.

This is not a spy during World War II, it is so far away from Liaodong, and even the transmission of important news is measured in months, not to mention more complicated operations.

Back at his residence, Cao Fengji recorded that the content was nothing more than that Emperor Datong wanted to buy those materials.

This information will definitely be sent, including the price of grain in Nanjing, as well as various large-scale material transfers. In addition, public opinion should also be transmitted, from what academic popularity is in Nanjing to the trivial family affairs of important ministers in Nanjing-you can learn from the mouths of scholars through the literary meeting.

Very crude espionage technology, only know how to keep accounts, do not know how to refine after summarizing, and the intelligence system is also very rudimentary.

To tell the truth, as long as Cao Fengji's upline is arrested, a large number of tortures can be unraveled.

Xu Ying is also investigating Cao Fengji's upline, and she already has eyebrows, just stare at the guy who delivered the news.

There is no gripping spy war plot, because ancient spies have not yet developed to that extent. It's nothing more than to make friends with key people through various means, or to buy them, or to rebel, and then simply inquire about the news.

In ancient times, officials had a very poor sense of secrecy, and they often drank and chatted, and they could get out information while chatting.

Of course, there are still ciphertext techniques, otherwise it is easy to expose identities.

Cao Fengji wrote all the information into encrypted letters, and handed it to the guy with the information of the first half of the month: "Take it to Yangzhou and go on the road with other guys." ”

It was normal to send men north this time, and the emperor placed an order, and Cao Fengji wanted people to prepare woolen textiles.

Yang Yiqin is the meticulous guy, he set off with other normal guys, and he was targeted before he left Nanjing.

The goods got off the ship in Yangzhou, came to a mansion with intelligence, and after handing over Cao Fengji's post, it was put in very smoothly.

A middle-aged man followed him here, watched Yang Yiqin enter the house, and stayed nearby to wait. In the evening, Yang Yiqin had not come out, and the middle-aged man left silently.

The middle-aged man came to the inn, called the three shopkeepers into the room, and told him the specific location of the house: "Focus on this house, see who they are in contact with, and it is best to send someone to infiltrate their business." ”

The third shopkeeper was surprised: "The boss sent someone to strictly investigate the business, but I didn't expect it to be a salt merchant." ”

The middle-aged man said: "We must continue to investigate when participating in business." ”

The three major merchant gangs in Yangzhou are: Shanxi Gang, Jiangxi Gang and Huizhou Gang.

Due to the success of Zhao Han's rebellion, both the Jiangxi and Huizhou gangs benefited from this, and squeezed out the Shanxi merchants to the twilight. Especially the Shanxi salt merchants, the monopoly share is very small, whether it is out of profit or out of hatred for Zhao Han, it is normal for the Shanxi salt merchants to be spies for the Tartars.

The Shanxi salt merchant who was targeted at this time also had some relationship with the famous ministers Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei, and could be regarded as the collateral descendants of Wang and Zhang.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, Zhang Siwei succeeded him as the first assistant, and he didn't know what he did.

Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu are the two nephews, one is the first assistant of the cabinet, and the other is a feudal official, and all of them are from salt merchant families. At that time, Gao Yongchun, the imperial historian, said after inspecting the salt business: "The salt law is bad, and it is rampant by the situation, and the big business patents. "I almost didn't report the ID numbers of Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu.

Even so, Gao Yongchun was forced to resign by Zhang Siwei.

After the reform of the salt law of the Hongzhi Emperor, the salt merchants in Shanxi had already begun to decline. It was Zhang Siwei, the ministers of Shanxi, who reshuffled the cards in the Wanli period under the banner of reforming the salt law, so that the salt merchants of Shanxi became arrogant again.

For the Shanxi salt merchants who have settled in Yangzhou for a long time, Zhao Han cut off their financial route, and there is an enmity between them!

A month later, Xu Ying handed over the progress of the investigation: "The Jin merchants Wang, Zhang, and Fan in Yangzhou, as well as the Li family, a merchant in Shaanxi, all have problems. Either send a message to Tartar, or send a message to Li Zicheng. Here in Nanjing, there is a businessman surnamed Ai who is very suspicious, but he has not caught any tricks for the time being. Your Majesty, are you going to be arrested and interrogated? ”

Zhao Han also wanted to watch a gripping spy war blockbuster, but the investigation went unexpectedly.

Ancient spies, professional skills are too rough!

There is nothing to be gained by luring the snake out of the hole, it is nothing more than a bunch of literati drinking and complaining, really letting them take refuge in the Tartars, I am afraid that one by one can be scared half to death.

It's boring.

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