my grandmother

Chapter 138 Welcome
"The Pingjiang government doesn't dare, but the silk industry has money and someone has means, can you handle it?" Gu Yan let out his choked breath and asked angrily.

"I think I can do it." Li Xiaonan didn't dare to be too confident when she thought about the elder sister's confession.

Gu Yan squinted at Li Xiaonan, and after a moment, he let out a long sigh, "You look like a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers."

"I want to be the richest man. The richest man, that is to say, I am the person who is the best at doing business in the world. If I can't even deal with a Pingjiang silk company, how can I be the richest man?" Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan , asked seriously.

Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan, blinked a few times, lit the folding fan on Li Xiaonan, didn't say anything, but burst out laughing.

Li Xiaonan picked up another piece of scallion pastry, ate the scallion pastry, looked at Gu Yan and smiled.

"Tell me, will they use dirty tricks? For example, beat me up, beat up my eldest sister, find someone to make trouble in our shop, and force Yin's sister-in-law to dare not partner with us?" Li Xiaonan After eating the scallion pastry, he asked.

"If you can force you to quit in business, talk and business, definitely not, after all, you are with me all day long.

"But you are the richest man in Li. If they are pushed by you, maybe they will. But~" Gu Yan dragged his voice, "You have Ah Wu by your side. Although Ah Wu is short-sighted, she is very skilled. She can protect you. Her cousin is also a cruel person.

"As for your eldest sister, catch the thief and capture the king, you are good, they hurt your eldest sister, they will only irritate you, they are all smart people, they will not use such stupid tricks.

"If that Sister-in-law Yin can be forced to leave by them, it will be unusable. You just need to change to another shopkeeper." Gu Yan analyzed them one by one.

Li Xiaonan nodded while listening.

Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan, "Have you ever thought about it, if they follow suit and start the business of collecting fine cloth on credit looms, what will you do?"

"Then let them do it!"

Li Xiaonan's voice was cheerful.

"Now it's just our family doing it, even if it's just to make every household in Pingjiang Mansion have a hedging loom, how many years will it take? How much money will we get? Well, it may take many years to do it, and I don't have that much money.

"If they are willing to follow suit, and everyone pushes the hedging looms to each village and family together, it will be very fast, right? Maybe in a year or two, or even half a year, maybe every household in Pingjiang Prefecture will be able to weave fine cloth. it is good!"

Li Xiaonan's eyes sparkled.

"If that's the case, even if there is only one place like Pingjiang Mansion, every family has a hedging loom, and every family can weave fine cloth. With one loom, a piece of cloth can be produced in a day and a half if you are familiar with it. How much muslin!"

"Pingjiang Mansion has more than 15 main households." Gu Yan answered slowly.

"You know so much! Let's count it as one family out of ten. There are more than 1 bolts of fine cloth in one day."

Li Xiaonan rested her chin, looking yearning.

"More than 1 horses! One day! If that's the case, I can only think about how to receive more cloth, how to let everyone weave better cloth, and how to make people have what I have and what others have. excellent.

"Well, I wish they could follow suit."

Gu Yan listened carefully, raised his eyebrows and frowned slightly, silent for a moment, looked at Li Xiaonan and said, "If that's the case, the imperial court can't let it go, it has to collect taxes."

"Well! I've already thought about it. My cloth is only [-]% cheaper than the fine cloth of the silk shop. Logically speaking, it should be half cheaper and still beneficial." Li Xiaonan smiled.

"How much is your gross profit now? What about your net profit?" Gu Yan asked.

"It's only [-]% profit now, I haven't calculated the gross profit and net profit, and I can't calculate it in detail now.

"First, the looms are bought one by one, and the price is high. We eat the money to send the loom porters. This piece is a lot of copper coins, and the fine cloth is run around by Awu, Awudo What about expensive, and her horse, a bucket of fine material a day, and black beans.

"I don't know how long it will take to get back the cost of looms on credit, and weaving threads, they all go to the cloth store to buy at random. The uncle said that it is at least [-]% more expensive than the Yangzhou spinning factory. It's not worth it, uncle the lobby He also said that the toll for yarn coming from Yangzhou is very expensive, and in the future, when the quantity is large, we can talk to Yangzhou spinning mill and let them open a spinning mill in Pingjiang City."

Li Xiaonan rested her chin and sighed.

"There are still many things, such as more looms in the future, how to calculate the copper coins for loom maintenance and repair, and how to calculate the copper coins that go online. There are not many people who will go online. Now they don't want copper coins to help in vain. In this way, there may be other costs, I don’t understand, and I will learn while doing it.”

Gu Yan listened intently, and hummed, "If your business is really as you said, not to mention that every family has a loom, even if every ten households have one loom, the imperial court must have a regulation for this amount, and I will write a letter first. Send the letter back and tell Dad, you have to be prepared."

"I take [-]% of the budget tax money." Li Xiaonan replied, "I want to do business with large volume and low profit."

"Large quantity and low profit." Gu Yan repeated in a low voice, unable to express any expression on his face, he was stunned for a moment, looked at Li Xiaonan and said with a smile: "Perhaps, your business can reproduce the grand scene of every household in the south of the Yangtze River. If so, I bow to you and thank you."

"Oh! Your grandfather~" Li Xiaonan trailed off, "Did you regret it later?"

"You're so clever!" Gu Yan snorted. "I can't say I regretted it. At that time, the shipment of silk and fine cloth in the south of the Yangtze River was huge, but the imperial court could hardly collect tax money, so that when there was a severe drought in Hebei, the imperial court could not even collect enough money for relief.

"Also, the weaving workshops in the south of the Yangtze River all imitated the apprenticeship system of the Meng family in Yangzhou, but they became more and more harsh and inhumane, so that a large number of women were detained in the weaving workshops like slaves. , the poor are extremely poor, the farmland is abandoned, and the people's livelihood is difficult.

"Grandpa didn't regret it, he just regretted not being able to revive Jiangnan."

Li Xiaonan sighed, "Human nature is profit-seeking, you have to think about this regulation, I think it's quite difficult."

"I was very arrogant when I was young. I often said that this thing is easy and that thing is easy. Father and the emperor taught me that when you think it is easy, you have already made a big mistake."

Gu Yan paused, lowered his eyelids, and picked up his cup to drink tea.

In the past, he just felt that there was nothing difficult in the world.

"The emperor also taught you, the emperor?" Li Xiaonan dragged the end of her voice, looking hesitant.

"What do you want to ask?" Gu Yan looked up at Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan put her arms up on the table, stretched out her head and asked, "What does the emperor look like? Does it look like a mortal?"

Gu Yan raised his eyebrows, wanted to laugh but held back, and coughed, "Of course he's not a mortal, the real Dragon Emperor, with horns on his head."

Li Xiaonan glanced sideways at Gu Yan.

It's not easy for her to ask clearly, but it's too much for him to coax her like a fool.

"In autumn, the crown prince passed by the Pingjiang mansion on his southern tour. When the time comes, I will take you to meet him. Although he is not the emperor yet, he will be in the future. On the day he ascends the throne, horns will grow on his head." Gu Yan raised his finger to his head. Go up and make gestures.

"That!" Li Xiaonan stopped immediately before finishing her sentence.

"what you want to say?"

"People don't grow horns." Li Xiaonan said slowly.

What she wanted to ask was whether the crown prince would be able to ascend the throne smoothly, but it was best not to ask.

Gu Yan laughed out loud.

(End of this chapter)