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Li Xiaonan looked back at Zhou Chennian.

"Is there any fish?" Zhou Chennian asked with a busy smile.

Li Xiaonan nodded with a smile, leaned forward, and pulled up the bamboo basket immersed in the water to show Zhou Chennian.

"Yo, you really know how to fish. These crucian carp are not bad." Zhou Chennian stretched his head to look at the four or five fish in the fish basket, and said with a smile.

"I have half a piece of tofu at home, let's make crucian carp tofu soup, alas!" Li Xiaonan put down the fishing rod, stretched out her hand to pull up the fishing rod, and threw up a seven or eight inch long white water fish.

Li Xiaonan reached out to catch the fish, took off the hook and put it into the fish basket, smiling broadly, "Thank you, sir!"

"Steaming is perfect!" Zhou Chennian laughed.

Li Xiaonan picked up half an earthworm from a broken pottery shard and put it on, then unhooked it again.

"Sir, isn't he a local? Mr. from the government school?" Li Xiaonan looked at Zhou Chennian.

"Come here from Hangzhou, do I look like a teacher from a government school?" Zhou Chennian looked at himself.

"It's quite similar." Li Xiaonan looked at Zhou Chennian carefully.

"I can't afford to be a teacher in a government school with my knowledge. I want to work as an accountant in a family outside the city. Does the girl live near here?" Zhou Chennian looked at Li Xiaonan who wove coarse clothes.

This area is full of rich people's houses, this little girl is probably a servant of some family, or a child from a poor family whose family is far away from here, and came here to fish on a special trip.

"It's not too far. Mister is visiting friends?" Li Xiaonan gave up the pony seat and signaled Zhou Chennian to sit down.

"No, no, I have something else to do. It can be regarded as a visiting friend. The scenery here is not bad." Zhou Chennian laughed.

"Have you visited your friends, sir? Have you never met?" Li Xiaonan asked with a smile.

"You little girl, you still know how to visit but never meet." Zhou Chennian laughed, "Well, you often come here to fish?"

"It's quite often." Li Xiaonan looked at Zhou Chennian with a smile.

"Then, do you know any people in the vicinity?" Zhou Shennian pointed to several houses surrounded by green trees.

"That family's surname is Huang, and the owner's family is in the jewelry business. That family's surname is Wu, and his family has a scholar. This family's surname is Li, and his family also has a scholar. I don't know anything else." Li Xiaonan pointed at her home, And the left and right neighbors, introduced with a smile.

"This family's surname is Li, have you met the owner? I heard they are some sisters." Zhou Chennian asked calmly.

"Yes, sir, why do you want to inquire about other people's sisters?" Li Xiaonan looked sideways at Zhou Chennian.

"Hey! You little girl can't talk like that!" Zhou Chennian was taken aback, "I'm getting old, it's fine for you to talk nonsense, but everyone's family is full of little ladies, so you can't talk like that !"

"Thank you sir for your teaching." Li Xiaonan hurriedly bowed herself to receive the instruction, and then said with a smile, "Is your surname Zhou, sir?"

"Huh?" Zhou Chennian's eyes widened.

"Your Majesty wrote a letter, saying that sir should arrive at Pingjiang City today and tomorrow." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"You?" Zhou Chennian pointed at Li Xiaonan, and looked her up and down again.

"Didn't Mister recognize me?" Li Xiaonan also looked down at herself.

"I didn't expect the girl to be so simple." Zhou Chennian was a little embarrassed.

"Didn't Shi Gun tell you? My elder sister is a strict housekeeper.

"Just like today, sister Mei bought pork belly this morning, and there are eggs at home. I want to eat fish, and sister Mei said that there is meat, and I can't spend more copper coins. I have to come to fish by myself. Fortunately, the harvest is still there good."

Li Xiaonan was talking and pulled up the fishing rod, but the hook was empty and there was no fish.

"Forget it, that's enough, let's go back."

Li Xiaonan put away the fishing line and pulled up the fish basket.

Zhou Chennian wanted to reach out to pick up the fish basket, but the fish in the basket kept splashing out of the basket.

His satin gown has just been upper body!
"Sir, let's have dinner at our house today, steamed white water fish." Li Xiaonan carried the fishing rod and the fish basket, and led Zhou Chennian into the back corner door.

Li Xiaonan handed over the fish reel and rod to Sister Mei, washed her hands, carried a copper pot of water that had just boiled, went to the porch of the main courtyard, asked Zhou Chennian to sit down, and made tea.

"I heard from my son that the girl recruited weavers from the weaving workshop. I heard that the girl has already hired four to five hundred weavers. I didn't expect the girl to present herself so simply." Zhou Chennian looked around, feeling very emotional.

"Oh, there is no other way. My business has been up to now. The money going out is more than the money coming in. The hole is getting bigger and bigger. All the money earned by the Preserved Egg Bank has been subsidized in. I still owe more than 2000 silver in foreign debts. If there is Yinzi, I also want rich clothes and fine food." Li Xiaonan lamented.

Zhou Chennian was stunned and laughed out loud. "Does that girl know what I'm here to discuss with the girl?"

"I know, the son said it in the letter, and said it was the master's intention. It is much more suitable for me to do the matter of harvesting autumn silkworm cocoons than for the son to let someone come forward." Li Xiaonan sighed again.

"Are you talking too much?" Zhou Chennian carefully looked at Li Xiaonan's expression, and tried a few words.

"I think so too. I have a few things to ask you sir. One is the sea tax paid by the sea tax department for silk. How is the negotiation going?" Li Xiaonan looked at Zhou Shennian and asked.

"The most important thing in my hands is to review the changes in labor prices, grain prices, land prices, mulberry prices, cocoon prices, etc. in the south of the Yangtze River from the beginning of the founding of the country to the present. I have written two letters to report to the prince. Yes." Zhou Shennian answered very cautiously.

"In Mr.'s opinion, can the sea tax be lowered? By how much?" Li Xiaonan continued to ask.

"Well," Zhou Chennian said with a dry smile, "it's been less than a month since I came down to serve the Shizi, so I really don't dare to talk nonsense."

"Well. The second thing, how much do you know about our Jiangnan silk business?" Li Xiaonan then asked the second thing.

"You know what the girl said, where can you find out?" Zhou Chennian laughed.

"A weaving workshop that is good at silk, is it a piece of iron with almost no gaps, or is there a lot of gaps?"

"How can there be no gaps! It's not gaps, it's huge cracks, and some of them have feuds. But now, these skilled weavers are probably monolithic in what they are going to do to the master of the previous life." Zhou Shen Nian looked at Li Xiaonan.

"According to what I heard, the silk industry is too tightly controlled. The number of looms in each weaving workshop, the number of silk products of each category and grade are set once a year, and there is no room for them. It doesn’t make any difference whether Zhifang has skills or not. Is that so?”

"Yes! What's the girl's plan?"

"I asked the uncle about the silkworm cocoons in autumn. The uncle said that the amount of silver required is huge. He said that the silver is not difficult. When the cocoons are harvested, they must be boiled and reeled immediately. This is all handicraft work. Silk reeling and dyeing workshops have always lived on the breath of the silk industry.

"Besides, there will be next year's spring silkworms. If the silk industry is released, all silkworm farmers will reduce or even stop raising silkworms."

Li Xiaonan looked at Zhou Chennian, Zhou Chennian met Li Xiaonan's gaze, leaned over and smiled, "Then what does the girl mean?"

"There is an old man surnamed Yu in Pingjiang Silk Co., Ltd. I started the fine cloth business within a few days, and he followed behind and started the fine cloth business. I heard that the old man in this place is shrewd and manages the weaving workshop very well. , very good at doing business.

"You said, if we go to ask this elder, what will he do?"

"It's most suitable for a girl to go, let's go quietly first." Zhou Chennian said with a smile.

"Think about it for me, Mr. How should I tell this old Mr. Xing about this." Li Xiaonan smiled.

"I'll go and have a look at Xinglao in private first, and then ask someone to inquire about Yu Xinglao's family background. If you hurry up, I will give the girl an answer tomorrow afternoon." Zhou Chennian leaned over and said with a smile.

"Thank you, sir." Li Xiaonan thanked her with a smile.

"Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it. I will handle this errand immediately." Zhou Chennian stood up and said goodbye.

Li Xiaonan stood up and sent Zhou Chennian out of the back corner door.