Shen Shuren made a package ticket to his parents, and he must marry a wife who is absolutely right this year.

Shen Tingyang and Xu will no longer be entangled, allowing him to ruin his reputation for male and female private morality outside, and will no longer pursue Li Xiangjun's "fox charm".

The political strategy of his son is already above him, and since it is a show for political purposes, what else does he have to interfere with.

As for forcing Shen Shuren to go to Zhou Yanru to worship the dock immediately, Shen Tingyang didn't rush it, and let his son control the rhythm himself.

In the next few days, Shen Shuren was able to temporarily relax, collect intelligence every day, find out the current situation, and plan before acting.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is addicted to women, and he messes with Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan, and Li Xiangjun every day.

Among the women, Li Xiangjun was the most moved, in order to prevent her from being implicated, the son promised the old lady that he would marry a wife this year, what a sacrifice. So in the past few days, she has tried her best to meet her wishes and change her ways to serve her son well.

Shen Shuren was also very open-minded and asked her not to take it to heart, and every time he said indifferently:

This is what you deserve, you cooperate with my overall situation, how can I let you be wronged? Although I, Shen, am lustful, I will never let my women suffer.

Li Xiangjun became more and more moved when he heard this, but he still had a faint sense of guilt in his heart for being tired of being with his son every day recently:

"Childe, Sister Xiaowan hasn't seen you for a year, shouldn't you accompany her this time? You are good enough for the slave family, in fact, as long as you can rub your son's shoulders and pound your legs every day, the slave family will be satisfied,"

Shen Shuren was not polite to her, and explained calmly while going up and down his hands:

"Don't worry, I just accompany Xiaowan's mother and daughter more during the day every day, she is only four months after giving birth, it is better to recuperate more, but not to have fun on the pillow. This time, I will take her back to Wuchang, and she will stay together in the future. ”

Li Xiangjun didn't know what was going on, so she didn't say much, she didn't want to push her son out, but she was just a little uneasy.

Shen Shuren knows a little about modern medicine, he knows that ancient women's postpartum care is not as scientific as modern times, or be conservative, it is better to not have sex for half a year after giving birth, so that Xiao Wan will rest for another two months, anyway, he is not short of women.

Moreover, Dong Xiaowan is different from Chen Yuanyuan and Li Xiangjun after all.

Chen and Li were sold as thin horses and trained as thin horses. Dong Xiaowan was born in a well-off family, and her parents died when she was a teenager, and her family went bankrupt, so she didn't learn the skills of pleasing men.

Chen Yuanyuan and her are sisters in distress, and after coming back this time, they are very concerned about her recovery, and quietly help her have an in-depth physical examination.

After understanding clearly, Chen Yuanyuan secretly taught Dong Xiaowan to practice the urn method to help her re-tighten her body and alleviate postpartum sequelae - that is the secret method that Yangzhou thin horses will be trained hard in the Ming Dynasty.

After Shen Shuren found out, he didn't mind, he was the soul of a modern person, and he was very open-minded about these problems and could accept them.

Seeing that Chen Yuanyuan taught hard every day and was not very scientific, Shen Shuren occasionally used a clever hand, spent a day or two pondering a sketch, and asked the maid in the house to help create a gadget.

It looks similar to the "pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation trainer" sold on Douyin in later generations, which is an elastic device that allows women to clamp on the inside of the root of the thigh and exercise the strength of muscle clamping-

Don't wonder why Shen Shuren did this, before he crossed over, of course he was also a womanizer. So he will also brush up on Douyin to find those videos of yoga girls rubbing the edges, and will leave a message like most womanizers, "Brothers, I'm here to learn yoga again today (dog head)"

It is not surprising that such a well-informed person would invent such a little gadget. It is nothing more than the lack of high-elasticity materials in ancient times, so replace it with cow tendon bamboo chips, and complete the urn of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years.

After the thing was made, several women of Shen Shuren immediately practiced secretly.

Shen Shuren accompanied Li Xiangjun at night and Dong Xiaowan and her daughter during the day.

Li Xiangjun is idle and bored during the day, and occasionally goes out to Bian Yujing's residence to get together with her, which is also to let her sister feel relieved and don't worry about her situation in the Shen family.

Bian Yujing was also quite happy for her sister when she learned that Shen Gongzi was so protective of her sister, withstood the pressure of her parents, and would never let her woman suffer.

Shen Shuren teased his daughter every day, and chatted with Dong Xiaowan about her improved "Xiaowan spinning machine", learned about the recent business situation of the spinning machine, and put forward some detailed optimization suggestions.

Dong Xiaowan was born in a wealthy businessman's family in the textile industry, and he also has a bit of talent in this area, and after two years in the Shen family, he has broadened his horizons more and more, and has also learned the basic skills of doing business, and now he has given birth to a concubine for Shen Shu, and has a higher status in the family.

The father and son of the Shen family are all officials, and the business was handed over to the side branch and the housekeeper, but now, all the weaving mills, embroidery and spinning workshops in the family, and all the business of the textile industry are handed over to Dong Xiaowan to keep an eye on.

The specific things outside are handled by the shopkeepers, and the daily account summary and the general direction of the industry trend are all reported by the maid to the "young lady" for the record.

Shen Shuren learned a little about the accounts, and learned that the Shen family's net profit from the textile industry alone this year exceeded one million taels, which was already higher than the family's original sea trade profits-

Of course, in the two and a half years since Shen Shuren crossed over, the scale of the family's maritime trade has also skyrocketed by at least several percent every year, especially after officially undertaking the imperial court's transportation to change to sea, the size of the Shen family's sea fleet can increase by more than 100 ships per year. This has not been overtaken by the income of the textile industry.

Some accounts don't know if you don't look at them, and you are shocked when you see them. This year, the Shen family's net profit from self-spinning has reached 200,000 taels, and the profit from self-operated silk and cotton weaving is 900,000 taels, which accounts for almost half of the profits of the textile industry in Suzhou Prefecture.

The net profit of the takeaway Xiaowan spinning machine is 600,000 taels, and the net profit of the takeaway shuttle loom is 450,000 taels - it can be clearly seen from this data that the sales of looms have begun to slow down, and the new spinning machines that have just appeared this year are extremely popular, so the price of the machine is extremely high, and the sales are excellent, and the profit of a single machine is several times that of the loom.

In the Shen family's self-operated textile workshop, the income of spinning is low, obviously because it is still in the early stage of investment, and now the growth curve is still in the stage of expanding production capacity, so the output of cotton yarn and silk reeling is not high.

When Shen Shuren saw this number, he couldn't help but ask a few questions curiously: "After you built this new spinning machine, other big families also obediently asked us to buy a new machine at a high price?" No one thought about buying a few units and then going back to slowly dismantle and imitate them?

Are we still the same as the cooperation with Songjiang Xu Ge's hometown two years ago, relying on the local wealthy families to share profits and help us crack down on small imitators? ”

Shen Shuren can't help but be curious, because the accounts show that the Shen family's new loom for takeaway will cost more than 100 taels of silver, and the cost is nothing more than some wood, labor, and auxiliary materials, and it will not take more than ten or twenty taels, which is too profitable, and the net profit is at least more than 80 taels per unit.

To be able to sell in this way, there must be a unique monopoly method, otherwise it would be unthinkable in ancient times when there was no patent law.

Two years ago, when he was engaged in the flying shuttle loom, Shen Shuren relied on cooperating with the Xu Guangqi family, using the Xu family's power in Songjiang Mansion to share the spoils, and suppressing those who did not dare to imitate the machine. And the Shen family's power in Suzhou Mansion is hand-eyed, so they can barely suppress it.

Dong Xiaowan also knew that her husband didn't figure it out, and she decrypted it very proudly: "The slave family's method this time is similar to the promotion method of the flying shuttle loom two years ago. On the side of Songjiang Mansion, it is still cooperating with the old Xu Ge family.

However, we have adjusted the specific measures to 'keep the existence of the new machine secret from the outside world, and ensure that each government in Suzhou, Songjiang and other prefectures will only privately notify one of the most powerful wealthy families'.

That is, we only let them know that we have built this new machine, and then use 'only sell it to them exclusively in this province' in exchange for their promise not to imitate it, buy our machine at a high price, and follow us, and each family will eat a single food in one house.

Although our machines are expensive, but one can save four or five female spinning workers than the original, Su Song labor is expensive, and the price is also expensive, a worker can not spend nearly two taels of silver per month? At least fifteen to twenty taels a year.

Even if we earn eighty taels for one machine, it is only more than a year's wages for the female workers they have saved. And the machine can be used for at least many years when sold, and we will also pay the warranty, and only take the wages they saved in the previous year and a half as compensation, and those gentry can also see it. ”

After hearing this, Shen Shuren's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he glanced at Dong Xiaowan's business skills again.

Indeed, in the era when there was no patent law, this was the only way to best ensure monopoly interests.

Although the other party can imitate it, as long as the Shen family finds that there are imitations and finds that there are more new looms in that house, the Shen family will open up the dumping of new machines there.

At that time, the prices of cotton yarn and silk reeling in that house will definitely fall by several percent, and the profit margins of the "exclusive dealers" who buy high-priced machines will also be smashed. Therefore, it is better to maintain confidentiality with the outside world and eat monopoly dividends for a few years first.

In the final analysis, this operation can only be played when there are few customers, because the few people involved are easy to control, and only one of the most powerful monopoly capitalists is allowed to participate in each prefecture, and the "tragedy of the commons" is avoided.

Of course, this control certainly won't last long. After all, there are so many female spinners in every family that they will use this new machine, and as long as there is a profit margin, the female spinners will find a way to memorize the structure of the machine and then secretly go back to imitate it.

Even if all the female spinning workers were replaced by the monopoly family's own domestic slaves, it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no runaway slaves.

Therefore, no matter how powerful the monopoly capitalist authorized by the Shen family is in the local area and how slow the flow of information is in ancient times, it will not be able to hold back for two or three years.

Everyone will eat the information gap dividend for a few years first, and after a few years, the technology will eventually spread, but this is enough, so let's give back to the society.

Two years ago, when he joined forces with the Xu family to build a shuttle loom, the Shen family couldn't play this trick, because the original accumulation of the Shen family and the Xu family was not enough at that time, and the family ate the market of the next house alone, and they didn't have so much financial resources.

But now the situation is different. After the big waves of the market, the allies who have strictly followed the Shen family in the past two years have also risen sharply, and they have each saved at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in cash.

So this time, the Shen family asked them to spit out all the savings they had earned in the previous two years at one time and purchase the Shen family's new machines, so that they could turn around.

To put it bluntly, to engage in industry is to reinvest all large sums of surplus value profits in expanding reproduction.

In the past two years, other families seemed to have made a lot of money, but they were actually still working for the Shen family.

And those who were disobedient in the first two years have been kicked out of this game by the Shen family, and they have no chance to participate at all this time.

In this way, as long as the Shen family maintains sufficient R&D capabilities, the partners will believe that "the Shen family is extremely intelligent in terms of tricks and tricks, and can always come up with a little earth-shattering trick every two years".

Then when they are faced with immediate interests, they will weigh and think about the fate of betraying the Shen family and eating alone. As a result, a virtuous circle of not daring to go alone is formed.

Of course, this virtuous circle also relies more or less on the Shen family's power in officialdom - especially in the second half of this year, Shen Tingyang has returned to Nanjing to become a Nanjing household servant, and the old Shangshu Qiu Weizhen is no longer very in charge.

To put it bluntly, if you want to do business in the territory of Nanzhili, who is not afraid of the government looking for trouble, checking taxes, and daring to steal the business of the household servant's family, it is looking for death under the nose of the tiger.

Shen Shuren finally calculated that his family's net profit in the textile industry this year was more than one million taels, and the net profit from selling machines was about the same. Maritime trade and contracting transportation for the imperial court and collecting protection fees at sea add up to more than two million taels.

The Shen family's annual net profit has reached an astonishing four or five million taels! In the year before Shen Shuren's crossing, this number was only hovering around six or seven hundred thousand.

It took Shen Shuren less than three years to make his earning power swell by six or seven times!

has risen from one-twentieth of the Zheng family to one-third of the Zheng family! It is the second richest man in the world.

Such a large amount of financial resources naturally added more security and motivation for Shen Shuren's follow-up layout, so that he could let go of his hands and feet to attract more resources.

Even, after reading the accounts, he found that the Shen family's new spinning machine business is currently due to insufficient production capacity, and only expands the local market in Suzhou Prefecture, plus Songjiang Mansion and Huzhou Prefecture.

The Shen family of Suzhou Mansion did it themselves, and Songjiang Mansion and Huzhou Mansion found reliable allies. According to Dong Xiaowan's original plan this year, the newly produced machines in the first half of the year will first meet the needs of Changzhou and Jiaxing.

After the layout of these mansions was completed, the neighbors who basically circled around Suzhou Mansion were popularized by new spinning machines. In the second half of the year, there is still room for production capacity, so we can continue to expand in the distance, such as considering Hangzhou and Ningbo.

Therefore, now the "exclusive partner" of Changzhou Mansion has not yet been decided, and Dong Xiaowan originally asked the shopkeepers at home to choose another one that has been cooperating for a long time.

Now, Shen Shuren can consider cooperating with Zhou Yanru, after all, he is the first assistant of the dynasty who is about to take office.

Thinking of this, Shen Shuren became more and more grateful and pampered to Dong Xiaowan, not only accompanying her during the day every day, but also personally writing some short articles to celebrate this grand event.

turned back to Gu Yanwu, the pen that was handed over to him, and asked Gu Yanwu to polish it into gorgeous prose, praising Dong Xiaowan's deeds of inventing the "Xiaowan spinning machine".

In the future, I will have to be more famous than Zhang Dai's prose, at least I must choose it into Chinese textbooks.

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Shen Shuren has been at home for four days, and in these four days, a lot of major events have happened in the outside world, and there have been important news of the military state that has spread to Nanzhili and Nanjing, which really makes people's hearts float a few times.

In fact, it is not those things that affect the overall situation of the country's military and politics that all happen during the Chinese New Year. It's the place of Nanzhili, which is too idle in peacetime, and everyone doesn't pay much attention to the war situation in the north, and they are all "selectively deaf" during the Chinese New Year.

Now that it has passed the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the atmosphere of the New Year has faded, everyone has just started to get busy with business, and these news have gradually spread.

On Anqing's side, Fang Yizhi really didn't disappoint Shen Shuren, he finally completed the forced landing of Lin Chengcheng on the tenth day of the first lunar month.

And let Pegasus Clipper come to report, from Anqing to Nanjing 400 miles, it was done in one day, and in the middle of the night on the eleventh day of the first month, the news was sent to Shen Shuren.

Shen Shuren was very satisfied with this, and commended Fang Yizhi's messenger, saying that Fang Yizhi and Shi Kefa would rest assured that they would definitely use this credit well and benefit everyone.

Subsequently, Shen Shuren read the letter carefully and asked about some supplementary information. Knowing that Fang Yizhi's persuasion process was in danger, Fang Yizhi also personally led dozens of horsemen to his entourage, so he went deep into the Dabie Mountain Bandit's lair and persuaded him to surrender in person.

Lin Yangcheng was also forced by the shortage of materials and the cut off of reinforcements, and finally promised to accept the reorganization, and immediately took the soldiers and horses down the mountain to surrender to Zhang Huangyan's troops. Only a small number of men and horses who were trapped in the enclave and surrounded by Huang Degong on the Anqing side chose to surrender to Huang Degong on the spot.

On the one hand, it is because I heard that Shen Shuren treats his subordinates more favorably, and it is better to treat him well. On the other hand, it was also because Huang Degong was more violent and murderous, and after thinking about it, Lin felt that surrendering a civilian official could save his life more than surrendering a general soldier.

As for the more specific persuasion process, Shen Shuren didn't see it in person, so he really couldn't make it up.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that Fang Yizhi is also quite good at recording his "heroic appearance", he personally ventured into Dabie Mountain, and it was not in vain.

Although there were no photos and no oil painters to take selfies for him in this era, Fang Yizhi was also one of the great writers of Jiangzuo's four sons, and he wrote three poems along the way to praise the majestic and steep scenery along the Dabie Mountain, and also wrote a long poem preface, specifically explaining the causes and consequences of this trip.

In the end, he also wrote an essay that was not below Zhang Dai and Gu Yanwu, detailing his deeds of "donating his life to the country and seeing death as if he were going home", and people who didn't know thought that he was Lu Zijing going to the meeting alone.

Of course, Fang Yizhi also copied a copy of these essays and poems, and sent them to Shen Shuren along with the secret letter.

Shen Shuren knew how to use these things, and when he bargained with Zhou Yanru for an official, this was all evidence.

In addition, in addition to Fang Yizhi's successful persuasion of Lin to cultivate, in the past few days, there are several important military situations in the north.

First of all, after a winter of attrition, Li Zicheng finally gave up the first siege of Kaifeng City in the middle of the month, and the Kaifeng Siege Campaign, which lasted for more than three months, officially ended in a great victory for the official army.

It is said that the casualties and losses of Li Zicheng's descendants are not too miserable, but Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying, the two thief chiefs who were newly attached to Li Zicheng in the second half of last year, suffered even worse losses, so that some cracks appeared within the thieves.

This incident actually happened a month ago, but the main officials in the Henan officialdom were afraid that Li Zicheng was cheating, pretending to retreat and then killing him, so they didn't dare to report it as soon as possible.

It was not until Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year had passed and it was confirmed that the thieves had indeed fled far away, and the Henan government happily reported the good news.

Because the urgent report was mainly sent to Beijing, and the news could only spread naturally in other directions, Nanjing also received the news nearly ten days after the Henan report.

Another piece of news is a piece of bad news, which is also related to Li Zicheng's follow-up actions after the defeat and retreat from Kaifeng: since the middle of the month of Lafeng, Li Zicheng only took a short rest and recuperated, and unexpectedly took advantage of the cold winter to turn around and attack westward.

As a result, Fu Zonglong, the newly appointed governor of Shaanxi after the fall of Luoyang last year, was going out of Tongguan and Cuihan Road from Shaanxi to Henan to intimidate Luoyang and try to regain the lost territory.

Fu Zonglong actually didn't have many soldiers and horses, and it was very aggressive to do so, because Shaanxi had been broken for more than ten years, and it was the weakest province in the imperial court during the Chongzhen period.

He just felt that Li Zicheng had left Luoyang and wanted to go east to Kaifeng with all his might, so he dared to dig into Li Zicheng's rear.

Who knew that Li Zicheng's army was defeated and turned around, and directly bumped into Fu Zonglong's department outside the Guhan Valley Pass, and the two armies fought, directly surrounded Fu Zonglong, fought bloodily for more than ten days, and finally killed him in the chaos.

Finally, the Ming Shaanxi Army, which had just been put together for half a year, was all sent away in vain, and the rest surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Only one of them, led by the Shaanxi general He Renlong, he originally did not approve of Fu Zonglong's rash attack and deep into Henan, this time after Fu Zonglong was surrounded, he also saw death and did not save him, and saved his vitality.

And the reason for He Renlong's failure to save the public was that "at that time, Fu Zonglong had been surrounded by Li Zicheng's group, and it was impossible for a letter of request for help to break through and send it, so the letter for help must have been sent by Li Zicheng's people in a fake manner, and the purpose was to lure my troops out of Guhan Valley Pass and annihilate them."

This reason sounds tenable for the time being, and the imperial court can only admit it, which means that He Renlong has actually become a warlord who raises soldiers and respects himself, just like Zuo Liangyu.

The governors of Shaanxi and Gansu died, and the imperial court had no choice but to let Wang Qiaonian, the governor of Shaanxi, temporarily take over the work of the deceased, continue to control the Longbu of Heren, hold Shaanxi, and block Li Zicheng's way back to his hometown.

This series of bad news of defeat occurred in the first half of the first month, but because the bad news often spreads faster, it is almost sent to various places with the good news that dragged on the battlefield in Henan.

Here in Nanjing, I also learned the news on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and people were panicked for a while.

Shen Shuren felt that the heat was almost over, and finally on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, he asked his father to invite Zhou Yanru through Qiu Shangshu and wine, and by the way, he chatted with Zhou Yanru about national affairs and his views on the northern battlefield, and by the way, invited credit for Fang Yizhi and others.

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PS: The above is already 6,000 words.

A few days ago, someone sprayed me with spoilers, and I admitted it. But at the end of the writing, I was also a little uncomfortable, so I could only do this. Mainly the atmosphere of the late Ming Dynasty often likes to spray and argue who is the bad guy, basically in history, Donglin, the eunuch party, any faction in the late Ming Dynasty, there are countless people who spray them as garbage, traitors.

So much so that the person who wrote the book, once he wanted to attack and deal with the people of a certain faction and treat them as villains, he had to clarify: I am not saying that Ma Shiying is a bad person, it means that he is heinous, let alone that his enemies are good people......

If these words are not stable enough, a bunch of people will immediately come out to do something.

Of course, if it is for the sake of traffic, in fact, it is nothing to properly lead the war to engage in controversy, and it is also conducive to the book out of the circle. In these years, for the sake of fire, you can't be afraid of scolding.

But I'm a more face-saving person, and sometimes I'd rather not be out of the circle than lead a war. Especially since this book has poor grades, I am even more embarrassed.

I can only spoil a little bit before the villain comes out - not even a spoiler, just write about what bad things this person has done in history, and take stock of it in advance. Then it is stated that "if the protagonist wants to deal with him, it does not mean that the protagonist is in the same faction as his political enemies, and it does not mean that the protagonist thinks that his political enemies are good people".

You love to think that anyone is a bad person, and you can think that everyone is a bad person in the late Ming Dynasty.

The first time I came into contact with the end of the Ming Dynasty, this was also the first time I was deeply touched by this issue. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost any faction was sprayed with a stench, and there were few people who were good people in the hearts of most readers.