After all, Zheng Haizhu is from the perspective of later generations, and when he hears it, he understands that acting as an internal agency for the court is very different from supplying Emperor Wanli to sell to foreigners.

The former is a supplier of royal supplies, and the latter is like an agreement factory under the state-run foreign trade.

The former not only has to let the weavers be incorporated into the craftsmen of the weaving bureau, and hand over textiles, porcelain, tea, etc., but also the intrigue of various factions in the palace, the opportunity of the favorite concubines to find fault, and the exploitation of eunuchs of all sizes for profit, will bring endless troubles, but if any of the links are not done well, the tribute items will be returned, and there is no merit but hard work, and if you don't do it, you will be punished and imprisoned.

For example, the fabrics on the Jiangnan side were mostly transported to Yuegang, Fujian, and the eunuchs in charge cooperated with the local government-run tooth shop to sell them to the merchants and transported them directly by sea ships, without going through the Jingshi, and then the silver obtained from the sale could be delivered to the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven.

In short, the Liu Shimin and Liu Gonggong in front of him can lead the overall situation to do these orders, so even if you want to dot up, that is, dot Grandpa Liu and his team, it's not so troublesome.

Thinking of this, a distinct joy rose in Zheng Haizhu's chest.

When she came to the Han family, she really didn't eat and drink, and in the past few months, she has not only been concerned about wanting to open a school, but has really made new products with the masters of the Han family's weaving workshop.

Cotton cloth soft, sweat-absorbing, not delicate, with the advantages of satin does not have, the velvet and cotton cloth for the fusion of three seven open, taking into account the practicality and beauty, so that Songjiang cotton cloth and Zhangzhou velvet shine together.

Although this kind of innovation is not so grandiose, whether it is the cleansing towel purchased by the Songjiang Mansion Post House for the reception of high-ranking officials, or the recognition by the dignified Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving admirals and eunuchs today, it shows that the small product of the Han family is a success.

Of course, there is one person to thank: Yan Siqi.

If it weren't for the fact that Yan Siqi took out the velvet shawl of the sunrise over the sea like an oil painting, Zheng Haizhu might not have had concrete inspiration.

After Zheng Haizhu sincerely thanked her ex-boyfriend Yan Siqi from God's reward, she hurriedly squatted down to Liu Shimin and said with a look of joy and gratitude: "My father-in-law can take a fancy to this handkerchief, my lord, and these weavers, I don't know how happy I should be." Little woman, little woman ...... stupid"

She was overjoyed, but she didn't forget that she had just heard the word "lime" in the dye.

was patting the sycophants while thinking about how to turn the topic back, but heard Liu Shimin say: "However, I won't hide it from your family, whether I can contribute to this matter is not certain." Our family will have to rush back to Jingshi in two days and ask the saint for his guilt, alas, it is also the trouble caused by your Songjiang Mansion. ”

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, powerful people, most of them are very tight, if they sigh in front of a small grass person like themselves, maybe because this matter could have been taken out and talked about publicly, if he didn't pick up the stubble, it would seem cold.

Then he replied with concern: "Huh? In our Songjiang Mansion, is there anyone who doesn't know the severity of the offense to Gonggong Liu? ”

Liu Shimin did not answer immediately, but stepped out of the computer room.

Then he said to Zheng Haizhu, who came out with him: "Our family has a son of an old man, surnamed Yu, who lives in Qingpu. He bought a painting of Wen Zhengming from a broker this year, not wanting to find out later that it was a forgery. After a while, the broker became even more bold, and went to a literary meeting to continue to shout at the fake Wumen paintings, and Yu Gongzi was also there, and stepped forward to expose it, and the two had a dispute. Among the literati in that class, a few of them were playing with a sword, and Yu Gongzi actually stabbed the broker to death with a knife. Our family feels that the broker has repeatedly committed adultery and crime, and he is a vicious and bad billet, and Yu Gongzi has a little bit of meaning to eliminate harm for the people, so our family will discuss with the prefect of Suzhou whether it can be judged to be manslaughter. Alas, as a result, the imperial historians of Nanjing somehow knew about it, and immediately played it to impeach our family for bending the law for personal gain and manipulating the lawsuit. ”

Zheng Haizhu lowered his head and listened carefully.

It is not without precedent for weaving eunuchs to intervene in local lawsuits.

Now, the officials and men of the two capitals are thinking about how to close several weaving bureaus in Jiangnan and dismiss the admiral eunuchs every day. This time, they are just looking for this handle, and they want to give Eunuch Liu a little color, right?

Zheng Haizhu then said tentatively: "Father-in-law Liu is in charge of this big deal for Long Live Lord, and it is impossible to completely ignore the criminal lawsuits on the ground." Moreover, although the little woman is stupid, she listens to it, that Yu Gongzi is indeed a manslaughter. In fact, there is only a one-word difference between homicide and manslaughter. ”

Liu Shimin's expression moved: "What's the difference between one word?" ”

"Therefore, killing is 'using' a knife. Manslaughter is a 'throwing' knife. ”

Liu Shimin tasted it carefully, his eyebrows widened, the color of appreciation in his eyes suddenly thickened, and he sighed: "What a knife to kill!" We know how to talk to the saints. Miss Zheng is really as the prefect of Zhuang and General Pony said, she came out of a scholar's family, hehe, hehe......"

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, today's God-given opportunity, I have to seize it for Brother Zhang Dai and Sister He.

So he said humbly but not humbly: "My father-in-law praises me, but in fact, the small people are just borrowing the wisdom of their predecessors." For example, this method of weaving false weft velvet loops into cotton cloth would not have been possible without the transformation of the loom by Huang Daopo, a native of Songjiang. And the difference between the word between the knife and the throwing knife, the little woman also heard the story, there was a county lord who wanted to exonerate the knight who eliminated harm for the people, and the master asked him to write a confession like this and submit it to the state capital yamen, and the knight was indeed convicted of manslaughter and was able to live. ”

Liu Shimin said with a smile: "Then you have to be able to learn and apply it." ”

The atmosphere was so harmonious that Zheng Haizhu felt that the heat was almost over, and suddenly knelt on her knees.

"Father-in-law Liu, the women of the people have the courage to ask the father-in-law to solve a mystery for the women."

"Huh?" Liu Shimin raised his hand to her, "What do you want to ask our family, get up and talk slowly, don't panic." ”

Zheng Haizhu then got up and calmed down, starting from the fact that he was running for the nun to kill the nun and finding that the insects and ants around the bloody soil were extinct, and when he heard Liu Gonggong teach him the key points of adding lime to red dye, such as Daigo empowerment, he became more and more sure that the murder scene was carefully designed.

Liu Shimin listened, and the Maitreya smile that had always been on his face disappeared, and he changed his dark color.

"Miss Zheng, our family asked you bluntly, how many people avoid the murderous eucalyptus, you rushed to help the Zhang family, did you save the idea of making friends with celebrities and earning a good way out for yourself?"

Zheng Haizhu replied calmly: "Father-in-law Liu, if it is said that the little woman has the intention of being close to Zhu Zhechi, it is also true. The white head is as new, the cover is the same, Zhang Gongzi is quite careful of the little woman's friend Pingshui meeting, and he has no intention of repaying the kindness, and he is so concerned about the safety of his old servant, it can be seen that the temperament is as clear as a spring, the little woman really appreciates such a man, and wants to help, but it is as small as an ant. After hearing her father-in-law talk about the matter of Yu Gongzi in the neighboring county, the little woman was suddenly surprised, thinking that her father-in-law had the merit of supervising prison officials, and he was so clear about right and wrong, and not wronged and virtuous, so she asked her father-in-law for advice regardless of whether she was measured or not. ”

Liu Shimin stared at Zheng Haizhu's eyes.

It's rare to have a flat-headed person who talks to him but doesn't hide his gaze.

This woman not only has good eyes, but also a mouth that is quite good at talking, and the last sentence, where is there no measure, it is obviously just right.

It's a wake-up call for myself.

If the nun in Shanghai County was really wronged, with the participation of his father-in-law Liu, the real murderer was punished, then in front of the Wanli Emperor, the two eucalyptus took it out and said together, focusing on the eucalyptus that had been wronged, and the eucalyptus of Qingpu as an auxiliary, the saint should feel that in these small counties in the south of the Yangtze River, the prison is not clear, and there are internal officials who are sent by the Heavenly Family to interrogate, which is a good deed of correction.

Thinking of this, Liu Shimin said in a deep voice: "Today, you take that Zhang brother to the post station where I stayed. ”

……

It was another sunny morning, and the sun was shining comfortably on the houses and bluestone streets of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, but the chill in the air was noticeably stronger.

A sturdy local man drove a mule cart and stopped in front of the Hu Kee Dyeing Workshop.

The door was wide open, and a young man heard the sound of the mule's bell and came out of the courtyard.

"Ah Jun, the murderous nun of the Nine Lotus Nunnery, has the county lord been convicted?"

The strong man unloaded the bamboo basket full of Huzhou raw silk from the mule cart, and asked with a look of curiosity.

The young man named Ah Jun shook his head and said, "Not yet." ”

The strong man smiled evilly: "She looks so good-looking, maybe, the county lord is reluctant, so he will be sentenced indiscriminately, exiled outside, make up a reason for her death halfway, and then secretly get her back and enter the cave room with himself." Ah, yes, the county lord is in his fifties and the bark is old, and he can sleep with a pretty nun in his youth, tsk, this tastes ......"

Ah Jun's eyes widened: "You leper head Ah Er, don't say that about Xiao Shitai." ”

"Ouch, Ah Di fifteen has a good waist, find a lady to fall in bed, Ah Jun, you think of spring, and your heart hurts the beautiful nun."

The strong man was about to continue talking, and a fat woman came in front of him, with a face bigger than the bamboo plaque in the silkworm household's house, and scolded the strong man with a smile: "Thinking about your eldest lady, how to cut down?" Don't be foolish, hurry up and get in, get the first batch of dyed silk, count the refreshing. You are a craftsman registered in the imperial court, and you are delayed, so you are not afraid that the imperial court will beat you. ”

The strong man salivated and said, "Don't be afraid, after the fight, there is a sister, you will hurt me." ”

When the two of them flirted like this and entered the spacious courtyard, Ah Jun and the other dyers had already dragged out one or twenty baskets of dyed lake silk, red, orange, yellow, blue and green, shining in the sun with the delicate luster unique to silk, which was very beautiful.

At this time, the strong man was no longer oily and slippery, but untied the burden on his back, took out the flower book with the color thread wrapped around it, squatted down, scooped up the color silk, and carefully compared.

In the three counties of Songjiang Prefecture, each has a brocade workshop to hand over tribute brocade to the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, this strong man is the weaving craftsman household of the brocade workshop in Shanghai County, and his companions are responsible for nearly 100 kinds of raw silk requirements, and distribute them to five or six high-quality dyeing workshops in the county.

The brocade patterns supplied to the palace are set by the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, and the color can not be wrong, if the color inspection in the dyeing workshop is sloppy, the flower master or the weaver head will be punished and deducted wages.

After checking it carefully for more than half an hour, the strong man stood up, rubbed his eyes, pounded his twin strands, and said to the fat woman with a flattering face: "Sister Hu, your dyeing skills are reliable, and you have to do it, even if the eunuch of the Suzhou Weaving Bureau is standing here at the moment, he can't make a mistake." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a commotion outside the door to drive away passers-by.

"Hu Guihua, Weaving Admiral Liu Gonggong is here, and take your guys to kneel to greet you!"

The white-bearded armor chief trotted into the courtyard and scolded.

After everyone in the dyeing workshop was frightened for a moment, they quickly threw away the work in their hands and knelt down in hulala.

The strong man who came to collect the silk hung his head and stared at the ground, and spat himself in his heart: If you say eunuchs, you will come to the eunuchs, why have you never seen you come to the silver when you are nagging about money!

Admiral Eunuch Liu Shimin, still wearing a simple Songjiang cloth robe, walked into the courtyard.

This time, instead of wearing his usual kind smile, he walked to the silk basket with a blank face and looked at it with his hands behind his back.

Hu Guihua, the hostess of Hu Ji Dyeing Workshop, heard a cold voice above her head: "These baskets are dyed with sleeve leaves, Huang Jinhua and big-leaf banyans?" ”

Hu Guihua moved her knees and moved over, and said resignedly: "If you go back to your father-in-law, it is these dyes that are dyed." ”

"Is it the color you want in the palace?" Liu Shimin asked again.

Hu Guihua pointed to the strong man lying on the side: "Father-in-law, that elder brother is a craftsman in our county's brocade workshop, and he is in charge of color silk." ”

Liu Shimin let out an "oh", turned to the strong man and asked, "Is the color right?" ”

The strong man trembled and held up the color silk sample: "If you go back to your father-in-law, there are eight kinds of autumn fragrance, tooth yellow, and honey dyed on the sleeve leaves, four kinds of amber, garo, brown black, and coal black dyed by Huang Jinhua, and three kinds of ochre, ox blood red, and sandalwood red dyed by big-leaf ficus. ”

Liu Shimin took the book, flipped through it, nodded and said: "The dyeing is good, especially the ox blood red of this big-leaved banyan, the blood color is very positive, and the amount of lime added, the dyers are interested." ”

Hu Guihua listened to the meaning of appreciating her own craftsmanship, and was a little relieved, and thanked her again and again.

Liu Shimin ignored her, and still asked the strong man: "The brocade workshop in Shanghai County is all according to the rules set by the bureau, right?" One color can only be sent to one dyehouse for making. ”

The strong man nodded repeatedly.

Liu Shimin said again: "The big leaf banyan is red in ox blood, only this Hu Ji dye? ”

The strong man didn't understand why the powerful father-in-law asked this question repeatedly, glanced at Hu Guihua, and saw that her face seemed to change slightly.

Could it be that this old lady doesn't know what to do, so she secretly took the special color set by the official to dye silk and cloth for other families?

At this time, of course, the strong man had to clear up his own relationship first, showing that he was a craftsman who was familiar with the discipline, so he replied with certainty: "Father-in-law, long live the best colors used by the nobles in the palace, don't say that we ordinary people, even the old men and the old men outside the staff, do not dare to use them." For example, on the flower books in the bureau, the colors of Ai Lan, Autumn Fragrance, Coal Black, and Brown Black can also be worn by the people, and the smaller dyeing workshops in the county also have similar colors, and they are dyed for the silk merchants and cloth merchants, but the craftsmanship is poor. But the colors of oxblood red and carmine on the flower book are dyed by one family, and other dyes cannot even be saved, otherwise if they are sued, they will have to eat a big lawsuit! ”