"Qian's cloth shop? I vaguely remember that this was a cloth shop in Gangnam County. ”

"Yes, in fact, Qian's cloth shop is the largest cloth shop in Jiangnan County."

"Over the years, my father has tried to expand his business to Jiangnan County many times, but he has been blocked by the Qian cloth company."

"It can be said that he is our family's biggest opponent in Jianghuai."

"Could it be that we can't choose the imperial businessman, and it has something to do with this Qian family's cloth shop?"

"Naturally, the selection of the emperor is not only about the production of fabric, but also about the good quality."

"There are many female workers in our family, and there are many textile machines, but in terms of cloth quality, we are inferior to others."

"What? In terms of cloth quality, it is inferior to others? Shen Liangfu heard this, it was incredible.

You know, the best silk in their family is the watery satin that his father showed him just now.

Judging from his experience in the cloth merchant industry for more than ten years, the quality of water-like satin is high enough, although it can't be really smooth and light like water, but it is also first-class comfort when worn on the body.

Such a rare cloth is still not as good as Qian's cloth shop?

"Father, what is the pressure box cloth of the Qian family's cloth shop? Even our family's water-like satin can't compare. ”

There is an unwritten rule in the cloth merchant industry, the best quality and rarest cloth in the shop is called press box cloth.

The quality of the pressure box cloth can often directly determine the status of the cloth in the local area.

It is precisely because of the quality of Shen Ji's family heirloom press box cloth - like water satin is good enough, that Shen Gui can occupy nearly ninety percent of the market in the cloth merchant industry in a short period of time and become a real cloth merchant giant crocodile!

Because the pressure box cloth is too precious, most cloth shops are particularly strict about the secrecy of textile secret recipes.

Generally speaking, it is only passed on to one's own children, and it is passed on to men but not women.

Female workers are invited to weave, and the steps are also carried out separately, and then the trusted domestic servants are combined.

In short, the pressure box cloth is the product that best reflects the level of a cloth industry, and it is estimated that it is also the selection standard of the imperial businessman.

However, hearing Shen Liangfu's words, Shen Gui could only sigh and said, "It's Liuyun Satin." ”

"What! Flowing cloud satin? Hearing this, Shen Liangfu frowned slightly, and continued: "How come I have never heard of this kind of fabric? I don't think it should be some precious fabric, how can it be better than our water-like satin? ”

"Silly son, the reason why you haven't heard of Liuyun satin is because it's not my brocade at all, but from other countries."

"Other countries? But among the three kingdoms in the east, when it comes to textiles and cloth, we should take our great cadres as the most. ”

"And the two places in Jianghuai are the most developed places for the entire large dry cloth merchants to do more."

"So even if it's Da Liang and Da Yan, it must be difficult to come up with a better brocade than water-like satin."

"You're right, but what if this cloud satin doesn't come from the Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Regions?"

Hearing this, Shen Liangfu was stunned and muttered, "Isn't it from the Three Kingdoms of the East? ”

"The Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Regions are located in the southeast, and the Great Yan in the north borders the Great Yuan further north, and it is rumored that it is a kingdom founded by foreign races, and their people are all sons on horseback."

"There are cattle and sheep everywhere, and most of the troops are cavalry."

"However, the textile industry should not be very developed."

"The Western Great Liang borders on the Great Wei of the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains, the Great Wei is a vast land, and there are countless capable people, saying that they can come up with a better brocade than water satin, I believe it."

"But the Qian family must not have the courage or the channel to bypass Xiliang and go to Dawei to buy goods."

"The rest is only Nanliang, which borders our Daqian."

"Nanliang is located in the southernmost part, with prosperous poetry and songs, developed economy, and in recent years, the textile industry and iron smelting industry have flourished."

"Presumably the richest of all the vassal states."

"If this cloud satin is from Nanliang, then the child has nothing to say."

Listening to Shen Liangfu's analysis, Shen Gui gradually showed a pleased smile on his face.

"I'm eloquent and coherent."

"If you are an official in the future, you must also be a first-class good official."

"You guessed right, this cloud satin is indeed from Nanliang."

"And it was three years ago, the royal brocade of Nanliang."

"Over the years, the cloth merchants of Nanliang have updated and iterated and created better brocades, and Liuyun satin was abandoned by the royal family, but it is still loved by many dignitaries and dignitaries, and it is the first-class cloth of Nanliang."

"In comparison, I am only a small country, and the Shen family is just a small cloth shop in Huainan, how can it be compared with Liuyun Satin."

Shen Gui sighed as he spoke, this recent incident has really tortured him enough and made him unable to sleep at night.

Even if it can be beaten like water satin, it can't compare to flowing cloud satin! That's the royal brocade that Nanliang once had! I don't know how those old things of the Qian family came to such brocade recipes.

The cloth merchants in Jianghuai and Huai, headed by the Qian family and their Shen Ji respectively, were in a delicate balance.

But if the Qian family was elected as an imperial businessman, and Shen Ji was not selected.

Then the balance will be broken, and the cloth merchant forces in Jianghuai and Huai will also be reshuffled.

This is a big crisis for Shen Ji.

What's more, the Qian family has gained benefits, in order to prevent future troubles, the first person to be killed must be Shen Ji, the biggest opponent in the past.

Therefore, today's Shen Ji, not to mention the autumn of critical survival, but the situation is really not optimistic.

But on second thought, what did I say to my son?

He couldn't help much, and it was plain to make people feel bad when he said it.

"It's okay, it's just a businessman, my father knows it, my son doesn't have to worry."

"You follow that Gu Shijun and study hard."

"If in the coming year, my Shen family can produce a Jinshi master, and I will be satisfied with my father."

Shen Gui said with a smile.

"Rest assured, the child must listen carefully to the teacher's teachings." Shen Liangfu replied, and at the same time noticed the worry between his father's eyebrows.

After Shen Liangfu understood the truth that "it is better to believe in books than to have no books", he wanted to go to Nanshanju immediately and study with his mentor Gu Beichuan.

But because he was worried about his father and the family's business, he simply stayed for a few more days.

But it was precisely in the past few days that he found that his father's condition had not improved, but had deteriorated.

Early in the morning, he went out to visit friends, saying that he was looking for a new brocade.

But it was often not until late at night that my father came back with a look of exhaustion and disappointment.

At night, I couldn't sleep at night, tossing and turning.

Obviously, the situation is not as good as my father said.

But he was helpless, after all, even his father, who had been in the cloth merchant industry for decades, couldn't think of a way, so what could he do?

The only thing I can do is to spend more time with my father at home.

However, after Shen Gui found out, he was a manly man, and he should focus on his studies and rushed him to Nanshanju to study.

At the same time, he also instructed him to bring three fine satins to Gu Beichuan as a meeting gift.