The palace fell into silence, the air was mixed with a strong smell of blood, and everyone present all looked at Du Chalan, looking at Du Chalan's resolute eyes, Li Yang thought to himself whether she should let me get rid of any enemy again, as long as it is not unattainable and harsh conditions, I can agree, if the conditions are too much, then I will never get used to you

Du Chalan glanced carefully at Niu Yongnian's head: The eldest brother waited for me to marry into the Li family, I want to do business with the second brother, and I can also help with the business of the Alan Chamber of Commerce and the Manjiang Autonomous Region

Hearing Du Chalan call herself "big brother" Li Yang didn't mention how excited he was, and a stone hanging in his heart finally landed: Sister, this is no problem, when you get married, you can do whatever you want, my second child should have someone to help him share it

Seeing this, Ah Cha laughed out loud, "Haha, the head of the Li family, then we will be in-laws."

Li Yang: That's right, in the future, the Alan Chamber of Commerce and the Manjiang people will be a family

Ah Cha Lan: That's a good thing - your master, you can change your clothes and rest for a while, and when I get ready for the banquet, we will discuss the wedding date

Li Yang glanced down at the clothes covered with blood, it was indeed a little inappropriate, so he quickly took off his coat: Then I'll go change my clothes first

A few of us left the palace a few steps away, and then a few priests carried Niu Yongnian's body and head to the square, the priests tied the body to a pointed stake, and the head was inserted into the wooden tip, this scene attracted tens of thousands of onlookers of the barbarian Jiang people, people were talking while walking in a daze, talking and laughing and eating melons properly

Looking at the expression of the barbarian ginger people, they don't seem to be unfamiliar with this kind of scene, but they are a little accustomed to the feeling that I learned that the original barbarian ginger people have the custom of sacrifice to the sky since ancient times, and they think that using people as sacrifices is the highest respect for the gods, so that the gods will not send disasters, and the barbarian ginger people are taking the body of Niu Yongnian as a sacrifice

At night, the king of Achalan prepared a sumptuous dinner for a few of us, after some deliberation, the day of the marriage was set on the 26th of this month, Elder Hunaji said that it was a good day and an auspicious day to marry a wife, today is the 2nd, there are 24 days from the 26th, more than 20 days is enough for me to rush back to Alan County, Li Pingping married a wife, how can I be a brother to say that I have to prepare a wedding gift for him before going back

After three rounds of drinking, Li Yang instructed Ah Chalan: King Achalan, I will come to the Manjiang Capital this time, you have to keep it secret for me, even if the second child of our family comes, don't tell him, because I have never been here

Acha: Why is that?

Li Yang: It's a long story, anyway, you can keep it a secret for me

Ah Cha knew what I was worried about: In-laws, you just put your heart in your stomach, except for our barbarian ginger people who have business dealings with the Alan Chamber of Commerce, we have never interacted with outsiders, so you don't have to worry about things getting out

Only then did Li Yang settle down: According to the customs of the barbarian Jiang people, did the father-in-law say anything about marrying a wife?

Acha Lan: I don't have anything to say, we just send a few chickens to our mother's side when we marry a wife, and sometimes a cow if we are richer, and my sister will come according to your customs when she gets married

Li Yang: Then I have a plan in my heart

Ah Cha Lan: To be honest, in the past, I always wanted to marry Du Chalan, but this is really married, my heart is suddenly empty, my sister's temper is stubborn, if there is something right, the Li family has to bear more

Li Yang: Father-in-law, don't worry, when Du Chalan gets married, our Li family will never let her suffer the slightest grievance, and our father-in-law is now a family, so you can call me Hongting in the future

Ah Cha Lan picked up the wine glass: Okay-Hongting will come and let's have a drink

Li Yang raised his glass: In the future, the Alan Chamber of Commerce and your ministry will share blessings - difficulties and difficulties - the sky will be a mirror

Acha: That's a good point - then let's make a decision

The next day, a few of us under the leadership of the guide, first to the post station to meet Tie Gui'er, and then to the north of the Manjiang Autonomous Region to the shallows, the things to be done did not return directly to Alan County, but to take a double sail fish boat to cross the sea to Jiaxing Mansion, standing at the bow of the boat Li Yang looked at the direction of Alan County, an inexplicable sadness instantly surged into the heart, tears also welled up in the eyes

After two days of drifting in the offshore sea, the group finally landed in the area of Zhapu County at the southern end of Jiaxing Prefecture, the first thing Li Yang did after going ashore was to quickly find an inn for everyone to have a good rest, and the horses should be relieved for several days, Li Yang asked the guy Zhang Le to greet the brothers with a table of good wine and food, and he also asked the guy to add more fine materials to the horses, and take care of the reward money is not bad for you

The next day the sun just rose on the mountain, a group of people to the north all the way to the horse galloping, from Fengjing Pass to the south - Songjiang Mansion, after several tosses and turns, a group of people from Yuling Pass back to Hangzhou Mansion in Zhejiang, has long heard that the world cloth Hangzhou Mansion occupies its 4, and Hangzhou City, the political center of Hangzhou Mansion, is a gathering of merchants and goods from all over the world

Cloth is an indispensable item in people's daily life, and cloth itself is also a profiteering industry, 7 percent of Hangzhou's taxes are from the textile industry, planting cotton and planting mulberry and silkworms are the two important pillars of local agriculture, in Hangzhou 10 households have to have 6 families, engaged in work related to the textile industry

If you want to say what shops are the most in Hangzhou, it must be the cloth number, all kinds of brocade - silk - silk - satin - Luo - silk - cotton - linen in this is readily available, this time to Hangzhou is to buy some wedding cloth for the third child, the second is to find a partner who can provide sufficient supply for the Alan Chamber of Commerce, the Alan Chamber of Commerce can not only earn some profits from it, but also ensure the supply of cloth-clothing-quilt in the market

I visited several shops in a row, and the price of cloth was basically the same, 350 yuan a horse for coarse linen - 500 yuan for fine linen - 800 yuan for cotton cloth - and high-quality cotton cloth could be sold for between 1 tael of silver and 1500 yuan

Silk - silk fabric with obvious diagonal lines on the fabric - the texture is light and soft, and a horse can be sold for 5-10 taels of silver

Luo - the surface with a gauze hollow eye, put in front of the eyes can clearly see the things in front of you, Luo texture is light and thin - ventilated and cool, used to make summer clothing - gauze curtains, Luo a horse can be sold for 10 taels of silver

Silk - a large category of silk fabrics, the surface looks shiny and feels particularly silky, the overall fabric is medium-thick and the texture is tight, ordinary silk can be sold for 5 taels of silver, and high-quality silk can be sold for 5 to 15 taels

Satin-satin silk fabric, the fabric is bright and supple and gorgeous, generally speaking, the bright and smooth cloth with hook silk is satin, satin 5 taels of silver - the best satin can be sold for 12 taels of silver

Silk - refers to the surface of the plain silk fabric, the fabric at first glance crisp and flat, suitable for women's and children's clothing, silk also has a disadvantage of wearing a long time easy to fluff, the price of silk is about 8 taels of silver

Brocade - is the cloth with color silk thread weaving a variety of patterns and patterns, the production process of brocade is complex and difficult to weave, it is the most expensive textile, the general brocade can be sold for 10-20 taels of silver, if it is replaced by silver thread or gold thread weaving, it will be sold to hundreds of taels or even thousands of taels of silver, people who can wear brocade are really not rich or expensive

The sales volume of cotton cloth of the Alan Chamber of Commerce is about 30,000 horses a year, and the brocade-silk-satin can sell more than 2,000 horses a year, and now the business of the Alan Chamber of Commerce has expanded to the Manjiang Autonomous Region, and it is estimated that the sales of cotton cloth can reach 6-70,000 horses per year, and the sales volume of brocade-silk-satin is expected to reach 5,000 horses, but the price of this piece of cloth is not cheap, and the price of the cloth bought in the Nanjiang Chamber of Commerce is at least half expensive

The reason why the business of the Alan Chamber of Commerce is booming is that it relies on small profits and quick turnover-Huishi Huimin to drive related industries, but there is a precondition for small profits and quick turnover, that is, you have to have a cheap source of goods, you are like cotton cloth with a purchase price of 800 yuan a horse, counting the freight-worker wages - taxes are 900 yuan a horse, and the price of a cotton cloth has to be sold at least 1 tael of silver when calculating profits

Customers buy goods has always been to shop around, whose things are good and cheap to buy who has to go, the goods are expensive, then to you to buy things people will naturally be less, in Hangzhou city around a circle of large-scale cloth number is also more than a dozen, you can see from the specifications of the store and the decoration of the façade, so we came to a cloth number called "Sitong brocade".

As soon as he entered the door, he greeted us, while introducing us to the material and production process of the cloth, not to mention that the fabric style of this piece is quite complete, and what color has to look at it and listen to it, then simply come to each of them a horse, in addition to 10 horses for happy events with red silk, and so the guy will wrap the cloth after a check exactly 100 horses 1620 taels of silver

The shopkeeper is also a particular person and specially wiped a change for me, this time I bought 100 pieces of fabric and spent more than 1,000 taels of silver, then Li Yang is also a big customer in Sitong brocade, and the shopkeeper also wants to pull him a repeat customer to take advantage of the gap between the delivery of silver and weighing this period, and invite Li Yang to the side of the guest table for a short rest, and will make a pot of good tea for him

This can talk - people who can chat when there is a benefit, the shopkeeper and Li Yang casually chatted a few words and felt that others were good, so he gave Li Yang two horses of Sitong brocade unique Wantu embroidery, it is said that this Wantu embroidery - is to the mountains and rivers - famous paintings - birds and beasts as a table so it is named Wantu embroidery, Sitong brocade only spins 100 horses of Wantu embroidery every year belongs to non-sale, is the shopkeeper specially used to give to relatives, friends and dignitaries

Li Yang also has a good impression of the shopkeeper, and he is very open-minded, so he wants to use the supply demand of tens of thousands of cotton cloth and thousands of silk horses from the Alan Chamber of Commerce every year, and cooperate with Sitong Brocade for a long time to see what the minimum supply price he can give is

This talk I only know how much cloth is spun in Hangzhou every year, and the textile industry in Hangzhou is divided into official textiles and private textiles, half of the cotton fields in Hangzhou - mulberry fields are controlled by official textiles, you don't look at the large and small cloth numbers in Hangzhou City There are hundreds of large and small cloth numbers, and there are only ten or twenty self-sufficient, most of the cloth merchants are relying on the official textile and large cloth merchants to buy cotton-silk spinning cloth to make a difference

There are also some thin cloth will be in the official textile and big cloth merchants to get the goods, the last day of each month will be sold to the cloth payment settlement, not sold the cloth and so on sold in the checkout, the style is not good to sell the fabric can be replaced at any time, compared with their own textile to make less money but there is no cost, if there is a big business to find the door, they will be with the official textile and big businessmen to make some hard money

In Hangzhou, there are only four major cloth merchants in Hangzhou that can meet the supply needs of the Alan Chamber of Commerce, and the four major cloth merchants are - Wanjing cloth - Yuanlin cloth - Hong'an cloth - Jianing cloth, Hangzhou - Yanzhou - Huzhou - Jiaxing have their cotton fields - mulberry fields, if you want to get cheap supplies you have to book a year in advance, and you have to pay half of the deposit first

Listening to what the shopkeeper said, Li Yang had a certain understanding of the cloth market in Hangzhou: the shopkeeper chatted for a long time, and he had not yet asked for his name

Shopkeeper: My name is Guo Hao, dare to ask Your Excellency how to call it

Li Yang gave his hand: Brother Guo, below is the big shopkeeper of the Alan Chamber of Commerce in Taizhou Prefecture - Li Yang

Guo Hao: It turned out to be the shopkeeper Li-Xinghui-Xinghui

Li Yang: Brother Guo's order a year in advance, how much cotton can be combined

Guo Hao: It is estimated that it can be combined to 700 yuan

700 wen yuan a horse is not much cheaper, and Li Yang's estimated price is 500 wen yuan per horse: Can Brother Guo be cheaper

Guo Hao: Shopkeeper Li won't hide from you, the needs of the Alan Chamber of Commerce are really powerless for our Sitong brocade, if you can trust Guo, I am willing to introduce you to the shopkeeper of Hong Anbu

Li Yang: Brother Guo, can you introduce me to the official textile

Guo Hao hurriedly shook his hand: Shopkeeper Li, don't deal with the people of the official textile, let me tell you that the gang should be black, the price of the cloth in Hangzhou is set by the official textile, and if the cloth is cheaper than the official textile, it will destroy the market balance, and it will be a lawsuit

Li Yang looked incredulous: There is still such a thing

Guo Hao: I just remembered that I was particular about catching goods in Hangzhou

Li Yang: What is important, please also ask Brother Guo for advice

Guo Hao: There is a ratio between cotton cloth and silk for businessmen, generally 5 cotton cloth with 1 silk

Li Yang: I don't understand Brother Guo's consciousness

Guo Hao: If you want to buy 5 pieces of cotton, you have to buy a piece of silk, but this is just a general specific, you can also talk about it yourself

Li Yang: That's what happened

Under the mediation of Guo's shopkeeper, Li Yang

The stall shopkeeper of the Red Ambu number was in the teahouse, and the discount that could be given was basically the same as that of the shopkeeper Guo, and the price of 700 yuan for a cotton cloth Li Yang was obviously unacceptable, and he calculated that there were still 12 days left in the marriage period of the third child, and the time was quite enough, so the group found an inn in the city to stay

Li Yang plans to stay in Hangzhou City for two or three days, ask a few more cloth numbers to see by the way to understand the market, a year 6-70,000 cotton cloth and thousands of silk supply, this is definitely a business not to be underestimated, as the old saying goes, the good catch up is not a business, so Li Yang moved a wit to put on a wealthy look, every time the cloth number asked me to buy 100,000 cotton cloth and tens of thousands of silk every year What is the lowest price to give

The news soon spread in the cloth number, instead of me to go to them to bargain, it is better to let them come to me with the price, this is the thirty-six plans in the brick throwing jade, and now Li Yang has to do is to wait for the cloth merchants to come to the door, this is much easier than me to ask from door to door, Li Yang also set a rule that he only sees 10 cloth merchants a day, whoever has the right price to buy who gets the cloth

Not to mention that there are really a lot of cloth merchants who came to hear the news by him, and some cloth merchants even stuffed some silver to Kangze-Zeno in private, in order to meet with Li Yang to talk about this business, even the four major cloth merchants in Hangzhou, Jianing Buhao and Wan Jingbu, also sent people to greet him with delicious food and drink, and Jianing Buhao also brought Li Yang to the cotton field to open his eyes

However, during the visit to the cotton field, there was a small episode, an old man with white hair in his 70s was kneeling on the ground, begging a young man who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old in gorgeous costumes, and begged pitifully not to take him away, and their family's livelihood was all on this job, and they hoped that the young owner would leave a way for their family to live for the sake of their twenty-five years of hard work

Saying that, the old man kowtowed to the young man several times in a row, but the young man was not moved, and ridiculed the old man: Old guy, others can pick 300 catties of cotton a day, but you can only pick less than 150 catties a day, others can take care of an acre of cotton field a day, and you can't even take care of half an acre a day

As he spoke, the young man took out a money bag from his arms, and threw it to the ground with a disgusted expression: The old man, this 10 taels of silver was rewarded to you for your twenty-five years of conscientious work

This scene in front of him gave Li Yang an idea, the old man has worked in the cotton field for twenty-five years, then he must know what kind of land can grow cotton, and he should know a little about the technology of planting cotton, Li Yang plans to invite the old man to Alan County to see if Alan County and Manjiang Autonomous Region are suitable for planting cotton, and everyone with cotton will not have to worry about winter

After visiting the cotton field before leaving, Li Yang asked Kang Ze to inquire where the old man lived, and when he returned to the inn, Li Yang talked to the people of Jianing Cloth, and the price given by Jianing Cloth was 650 Wen per cotton cloth, as for the silk, it could be taken 10 to 1, and the price given by Li Yang was up to 550 Wen per cotton cloth, and the two sides also broke up unhappily because the price was not negotiated

The people of Jianing Bu had just left for a while, and then Kang Ze came back, he had already inquired about the old man's residence, Li Yang heard and quickly asked Kang Ze to take him to find the old man, it turned out that the old man lived in a small village outside Hangzhou, when Li Yang saw the old man, he showed him his identity and intention, and also gave him an attractive condition

As long as he can help the Alan Chamber of Commerce find a suitable place to plant cotton, every acre of cotton field Alan Chamber of Commerce will reward 100 yuan without a cap, and the cotton field will be handed over to him to take care of the monthly two taels of silver, if you can't find a suitable place to plant cotton, you don't have to worry, the Alan Chamber of Commerce will provide you with a job for 1200 yuan per month, and will also provide you and your family with a house to live in

The price offered by Li Yang was undoubtedly a relief for the old man, and the old man decided to go to Alan County with Li Yang after weighing it to fight for the rest of his life, and Li Yang and his party also embarked on the road home