my grandmother

Chapter 204
Changzhou County, Pingjiang Prefecture.

Hong Zhenye followed his father, Hong Shian, into the woodware store.

"Can I help you?"

The apprentice who was learning how to make a Luban lock in the yard hurriedly stood up and asked with a smile.

"Is the head of your line here? I want to do business with him." Master Hong Shi'an laughed.

"Yes! You wait a moment." The little apprentice smiled and said loudly: "Master, a master is looking for you to discuss business."

"Look at your child, you can't ask what your family name is!"

With a reproach, an old man with a slightly hunched back came out of the house.

"My surname is Hong." Master Hong arched his hands and said with a smile.

"The child is ignorant, please forgive me, Master Hong." The old man hurriedly cupped his hands to return the gift, and bowed his body to let Master Hong and his party enter the room. "Please come in and talk. The little old man's surname is Zhang."

Master Hong entered the room, the two greeted each other again, gave way back and forth twice, each sat down, and the young apprentice made tea and brought it up.

"We came from Pingjiang City. We came to see Zhang Xingshou. We wanted to talk to Zhang Xingshou about the business of heald looms." Master Hong bowed slightly and got straight to the point.

"Master Hong wants to sell the heald loom?" Zhang Xingshou asked.

"It's not about selling, it's about buying." Master Hong laughed.

Zhang Xingshou was a little surprised.

In Linhai Town, almost all the people from the Jiangnan Silk Industry were arrested. President Zhu’s home was ransacked, and their silk industry in Changzhou County was also locked up and two people were taken away. They are still detained in Linhai Town today. .

This is the most disturbing thing in their Changzhou County recently. Everyone said that this incident is probably the same as the tax rate 50 years ago when the tax rate was [-]%. Fearing that it will not be able to continue, many weaving workshops have already transferred looms, weavers, cocoons for the coming year and silk threads ordered from Yangzhou.

"Both old and new are acceptable. Three and four are the best, and no more than six. As long as the price is right, I will take as many as I have." Master Hong laughed.

"Master Hong runs a weaving workshop?" Zhang Xingshou couldn't help asking.

"The main business of Trumpet is tea, but also some timber business." Master Hong said with a smile.

"Then Master Hong plans to open a weaving workshop?" Zhang Xingshou asked again.

"That's right." Master Hong laughed.

"Has Master Hong heard about Linhai Town?" Zhang Xingshou sized up Master Hong, wondering.

"I heard that there are many weaving workshops in Changzhou County, are they all okay?" Master Hong asked back.

"How can it be good! It's not good. Master Hong really intends to take away the heddle loom?" Zhang Xingshou was even more puzzled.

"Yes. I brought the deed. As long as the price is right, the more looms the better." Master Hong pointed to the steward standing beside him.

"Several weaving workshops are planning to sell their looms. Ask me to pay attention. I thought it would be difficult to sell, so I didn't ask for the price. Otherwise, I'll ask someone to invite them over and have a face-to-face discussion?" Zhang Xingshou said I wonder, but such an opportunity has to be seized quickly.

"Okay!" Master Hong readily agreed.

Zhang Xingshou came out and asked his apprentices to find a few more people, and quickly spread the word to them, and ordered several Xing elders to come over.

Hong Zhenye stood by, absent-minded and unhappy.Watching his father and the old steward negotiate the price and quantity of the old looms with several weaving workshops, set the price and monthly delivery quantity of the new looms with the woodworking shop, and sign the contract.

The steward stayed behind to check and accept the old looms in various weaving workshops. Hong Zhenye and his father got into the car and rushed to Wujiang County.

After getting into the car, Master Hong looked at Hong Zhenye and said, "Tell me about Zhang Xingshou, I'll see your eyesight."

"Father, Weng Weng really won't let me go to school?" Hong Zhenye didn't answer his father's question, but asked with grievance.

"Didn't you, Weng Weng, tell you clearly, it's not that you are not allowed to study, it is not that you are not allowed to just study and ignore your business, you have to learn to take care of the family business." Master Hong said.

"You have to concentrate on studying. This is what Weng Weng said, and you also said it! Now let me take care of the business, how can I concentrate?" Hong Zhenye almost cried out.

"You concentrate on studying, who will support you? Who will support the family? How old are you? Your father and I can't support you forever. If you don't hurry up and learn to manage the family business, when you are gone, your father I'm gone too, what do you do?" Master Hong raised his hand and slapped Hong Zhenye on the head.

"What can I do? The family's property is enough for me to last for several lifetimes. Besides, there are my cousins ​​who are in charge." Hong Zhenye was extremely depressed.

"Nonsense! If you don't learn how to run a business from me, you don't know how to teach your son? Doesn't it mean that you will sit on the mountain all your life, and your son will only sit on the mountain after following you? All industries like mountains If we can eat it up, how many years can we last for this little property of our family?

"How dare you stare at me, you bastard!

"I'll tell you why you sit and eat, it's because if you don't take care of the property business, you don't know that money is hard to earn, you don't know that people are sinister, you must spend extravagantly, and you will be cheated at will. empty!
"This is one. Second, your cousin has his own parents, wives and children, can he treat you like me and Weng Weng? They can only think of their own small family.

"Third, if you don't know how to run a business, the stewards will definitely fool you and try to turn the property they are managing into their own. How can there be any loyal servants!
"If you don't learn how to run a business with me now, when you Weng Weng and I are gone, in a few years, you won't even be able to eat.

"You bastard!" Master Hong slapped Hong Zhenye again.

"Then I have to study for a few more years, how old am I? Also, didn't Weng Weng say that my fate is good, and I can at least be a scholar in the exam." Hong Zhenye was slapped by his father. He shrank his neck from the beating, and lowered his voice a lot.

"You, Weng Weng, have someone read it for you. That noble person of yours is your daughter-in-law. This noble person is the only one in your life. Don't think about being a scholar, just read the account book carefully." Master Hong stuffed the account book into Hong Zhenye's arms .

"Ah! When Weng asked me to marry Yinzhu, he clearly told me that Yinzhu would be prosperous, and that he would make me a scholar and come back..."

"You, Weng Weng, can't believe everything you say." Master Hong patted his son, "Let's read the account book carefully."

(End of this chapter)