my grandmother

Chapter 210 Offense and Defense
After lunch, the group set off for Wujiang County, arrived in Wujiang County in the evening, and then rushed from Wujiang County to Jiaxing County around noon the next day.

Jiaxing is a large county, and it is also a place where silkworms are raised to produce cocoons. There are a total of 46 weaving workshops in the county. All the well-known silk shops in the south of the Yangtze River have weaving workshops in Jiaxing.

Without exception, these weaving workshops have all stopped working.

Like Changshu County and Wujiang County, the weaving workshops belonging to a dozen or so largest silk shops were the first to shut down, a day earlier than Changshu and Wujiang counties. One day, or two days later, they all stopped working.

Li Xiaonan sat on the porch, turned her head and looked around.

As usual, they booked a small courtyard. This is a very large inn. This small courtyard is connected to small courtyards. The lobby of the two floors in front is at least three or four courtyards away from their small courtyard.

You can't see her from the second floor of the lobby, and the small courtyard is surrounded by houses. As long as you don't quarrel at the top of your voice, or talk in the courtyard, you can't hear it outside.

"Second Tang uncle." Li Xiaonan raised her voice and shouted.

Li Wenru was chatting with Ah Wu, so he quickly responded.

Li Xiaonan looked at the second uncle who was full of scholarly atmosphere. The lobby uncle said that the second uncle was very knowledgeable and might be able to discuss it.

Li Wenru went up the steps, Li Xiaonan stood up and pulled a chair beside her.

Li Wenru sat down and looked at the sullen Li Xiaonan. Before he could speak, Li Xiaonan said first, "Uncle Ertang, the weaving workshops in these three counties stopped working together. What a coincidence?"

"Coincidence? How can there be such a coincidence! It must have been discussed." Li Wenru clicked his tongue.

"What's the benefit of stopping work after discussing it?" Li Xiaonan looked at Li Wenru.

"My lord will definitely not tell you this." Li Wenru chuckled and lowered his voice, "The hidden dragon and crouching tiger in Linhai Town! Since the lord washed Linhai Town with blood..."

"Ah?" Li Xiaonan was startled by the word "bloodbath".

"This is an analogy, not a real bloodbath. Think about it, the son of the world took advantage of people's quickness and ruthlessness, and collected all the people from the Jiangnan Silk Industry and the Customs Department, who were in the silk business. It is said that the Jiangnan Silk Industry is destined to be bloodbathed by the prince!"

Li Wenru clicked his tongue again.

"The people in their silk shop said that the bloodbath of the eldest son was to change the rules, like that old Prince Rui, not to mention anything else, even if it was to change the matter of two trips on the pier and one trip, For this one thing, the silk industry has to be overwhelmed, and for this one thing, it is Jinshan Yinhai!
"Let me tell you, cutting off a man's wealth is like killing his father. This is wrong!"

The corner of Li Wenru's mouth tugged down.

"Auntie, the second uncle told you that killing your father is nothing compared to cutting off your wealth. That Yi Ya could even steam his son in a basket for the sake of wealth. If Mr. Heng wants to eat meat, he will always chew it , Yi Ya must have killed his father, and then treated his mother as an extra!

"A person's favorite must be his own child, not his parents. This is human nature. Children can be steamed and buried, let alone parents.

"These people can even kill their own children, just for the sake of riches and honor. Killing their father is nothing. Cutting people's wealth and blocking their future is the real immortality, tsk!"

Li Xiaonan looked at her second cousin speechlessly. Her second cousin was right, but he was too good at digressing!
"You mean, they agreed to suspend work because the prince wants to cut off their money?" Li Xiaonan dragged the topic back.

"Yes! This happened once. At the time of Old Prince Rui, the weaving workshops unified [-]% of the tax, and those weaving workshops that originally paid [-]% to [-]% of the tax stopped working together. Sigh." Li Wenru sighed. The taste is similar to his tut.

"Did it work?" Li Xiaonan asked knowingly.

"Of course it didn't work, but that time was different from now. At that time, some weaving workshops paid [-]% and some paid [-]% to [-]%. Because of this, the silk industry was noisy all day long, and those weaving workshops that paid [-]% to [-]% stopped working. At that time, the weaving workshop that paid [-]% of the money rushed forward and robbed them of their points. Hey!"

"There are still many weavers out of work." Li Xiaonan said.

"At that time, there were still many weavers who did not have a body certificate. They wanted to come and go. They didn't work because they didn't want to sell their bodies. Now all the weavers carry their body certificates."

Li Xiaonan hummed in a low voice, "The second cousin thinks, what will happen to this work stoppage?"

"That's hard to say. It depends on whether the son is willing to give in. Can you see the temper of the son?" Li Wenru asked in a low voice.

Li Xiaonan shook her head, "Second Tang uncle, according to what you said, they stopped working to compete with the eldest son, so before the contest is decided, they will stop working, but they will not sell weavers outside, will they? "

"Yes, yes, yes! Your mind turns so quickly." Li Wenru raised his eyebrows.

"They don't resell the weavers, and they don't pay the weavers wages. They make the weavers hungry, and then let the weavers make trouble." Li Xiaonan continued.

Li Wenru was stunned for a moment, then kept nodding, "Yes, yes, it must be so!"

"Second cousin, what do you think, if we let the word out, how many weavers will we take in? Will someone compete with us to take in the weavers?" Li Xiaonan continued.

"There must be! The fact that my son treats you unusually is known to almost everyone in Linhai Town and Pingjiang City. There are also many people who know that my son has asked you about Gezhi and made friends with you. Someone has been following you for a long time. Behind us, whatever business we do, they will follow suit." Li Wenru nodded.

"Then how many weavers do you think we can hire if we let go?" Li Xiaonan looked sad, "I'm too scared,

"My original plan was that there would be two or three weavers in small counties, and five or six in large counties. It would be enough to go to each township and village in turn to teach everyone weaving. If we let go now, it will be in our hands." There must be more than two, three, five or six weavers.

"Weavers are too expensive, what should I do if I don't have that much money?"

"Don't worry about this!" Li Wenru stretched his upper body forward, "You Weng Weng asked me to come here, isn't it just to use it as a money bag for you?"

"How much silver does Second Tang Shu have? One hundred weavers can cost thousands of silver!" Li Xiaonan curled her lips.

"Second Uncle doesn't have much silver, but your Weng Weng has plenty of silver. Second Uncle secretly told you that although your Second Uncle doesn't know how much silver you Weng Weng has, but your Second Uncle has seen you Weng Weng touch gold once. Into silver, at least over ten thousand!" Li Wenru chuckled.

"Then what did Tang Weng say before you came? How about we try to speak out first?" Li Xiaonan looked at Li Wenru.

"It's best to let the word out first, otherwise, if someone speaks to the dental shop before us, then we have to follow behind and pick the rest.

"It just so happens that Jiaxing County is a big county. I'll go to the dental office right now and let them pass the message to each dental office for us. They will communicate quickly with each other."

Li Wenru stood up while speaking.

"I'll go with Second Uncle." Li Xiaonan stood up and followed Li Wenru out.

(End of this chapter)