my grandmother

When he received Li Wenliang's letter, Yu Chengfu had already felt the atmosphere of scrambling to harvest the autumn silkworm cocoons. After receiving the letter, he and his wife and brother immediately picked out a dozen capable men and set off immediately to other states and counties. Purchase autumn silkworm cocoons.

Li Wenliang sent a message to Li Jinzhu, Li Yuzhu, and other people who were running around the Liangzhe Road to set up weaving schools, collect fine cloth on credit looms, and even the members of the Hong family who were busy ordering looms. , By the way, harvest the cocoons of autumn silkworms.

Because the weaving workshops in various states and counties have stopped working, they have more free time to stretch their necks and prick their ears to inquire about this letter and that letter. People from other places ran to their ground to harvest autumn silkworm cocoons. Got it.

No matter what the Jiangnan Silk Industry said, it couldn’t be compared to the scariness of the autumn silkworm cocoons being snatched by others. The weaving workshops stood still on the surface, but secretly acted faster than each other. Every family was busy putting away the autumn silkworm cocoons.

From the day when the weaving workshop stopped working, Jiang Caosi sent a letter to all states and counties, asking all states and counties to pay attention to the livelihood of silkworm farmers.

After the autumn silkworms clustered, reports from all over the country came in one after another. Ten days later, the Caosi Yamen received a thick stack of reports from various states and counties about the autumn silkworm cocoons.

Mr. Ge, Jiang Caosi's most useful aide, entered the main room of Caosi's yamen with a thick stack of papers.

"All ready?" Jiang Caosi put down his pen and looked at Mr. Ge.

"It's ready, it's true!" Mr. Ge put down the thick stack of papers, picked up the top two pages of summary, and handed it to Jiang Caosi, "Dong Weng has a look."

Watching Jiang Caosi read it carefully, Mr. Ge said: "From the report, harvesting autumn silkworm cocoons first started in Pingjiang Mansion. It took only about ten days before it started to move. Our Liangzhe Road is like this. This is the case in about the whole of Jiangnan."

Jiang Caosi hummed, and pointed to several counties marked in red, "These places are still purchased at a premium. What do you think?" Jiang Caosi looked at Mr. Ge.

"This is the way of the son of the world." Mr. Ge answered very simply and affirmatively.

Jiang Caosi was silent for a moment, then sighed, "Fortunately, I listened to your words and passed the envelope to the crown prince."

When the crown prince was staying at the Wangfu Bieye in Hangzhou, Mr. Ge suggested that he should report to the crown prince about the suspension of the weaving workshop, so he wrote a secret letter to the prince, saying that the suspension of the weaving workshop might be related to the situation. Things related to the capital.Now it looks like a wise move.

"You write a letter carefully, and you have to tell Mr. Pang about this." Jiang Caosi pondered for a moment, and ordered Mr. Ge.

Mr. Ge nodded in agreement, and was about to speak when the servant outside raised his voice to report: "Master, Mr. Zhou is here to meet you."

"What Mr. Zhou?" Jiang Caosi frowned, this sentence made no sense.

Hearing the question, the servant raised the curtain and entered the room, took two more steps forward, put up a post with both hands and said: "This is the greeting post from Mr. Zhou, he said that you will know the master after reading it."

Jiang Caosi took the lacquer-sealed greeting card, opened it, glanced at it, and immediately motioned to the servant, "Please come in."

The servant bowed his hands and withdrew, Jiang Caosi looked at Mr. Ge and said, "He came from Pingjiang City, and he said he was serving as a counselor next to Shi Ziye."

Mr. Ge's eyes widened.

"You hide behind there and listen to the voice." Jiang Caosi gestured to Mr. Ge.

Mr. Ge stood up and hid in the tea room next to him.

Zhou Chennian came in with the servant, and bowed to Director Jiang Cao.

Jiang Caosi bowed slightly to return the gift, and motioned with a smile, "Please sit down, Mr. Zhou. Did Mr. Zhou come all the way from Pingjiang City?"

"It's not a special trip from Pingjiang City." Zhou Shennian sat down, thanked Jiang Caosi again, and replied with a smile.

"Oh?" Jiang Caosi raised his eyebrows, and replaced the awkward question with a high-pitched "Oh."

"The old steward He, who was stationed in Linhai Town in the Royal Palace, came forward and invited overseas merchants to Linhai Town. He wanted to discuss the silk business for next year. I will accompany the eldest son of the steward He Xiangsheng to pass the message to the silk shops in various states and counties. Passing by Hangzhou, please See Cao Si." Zhou Shennian leaned forward and answered.

"Oh!" Jiang Caosi's oh was full of surprise.

He didn't expect Zhou Shennian to be so polite, and directly said such important words, and he didn't expect that the son of the world would invite overseas merchants, which was a complete drudgery.

Zhou Chennian picked up the teacup and sipped the tea with downcast eyes.

"In the old years, when He Xiangsheng and his father He Lao shopkeeper came to Hangzhou, I saw it two or three times. It's really a tiger father without a dog."

Jiang Caosi eased the surprise with polite words.

"How is Mr. Zhou and He Xiangsheng going? How are the silk businesses in each prefecture and county?" Jiang Caosi asked with a casual tone.

"Better than expected." Zhou Chennian put down his glass, smiling comfortably, "Before setting off from Linhai Town, Mr. He was very worried. After all, the Jiangnan Silk Headquarters has been in charge of the Jiangnan Silk Industry for decades, and it has long been deeply entrenched. I know, shopkeeper He Lao is an extremely cautious person."

Zhou Chennian laughed as he spoke.

"I have agreed to go? How many months?" Jiang Caosi followed up and asked.

"I really didn't agree, not a single one." Zhou Chennian stroked his beard and smiled, "However, there must be a lot of families at that time, and they all have to rush to Linhai Town."

Zhou Chennian paused, leaned forward slightly, and said with a smile: "Look at the autumn silkworm cocoons, they've all been snatched up."

Jiang Caosi laughed, "That's true. How many months is it scheduled?"

"It depends on when the various sea merchants can arrive in Linhai Town, and it will be the first month of the twelfth lunar month at the earliest." Zhou Chennian responded with a smile, and continued: "The weaving workshop is related to people's livelihood. : When passing through Hangcheng, I came over to report to Cao Si, thanks to Cao Si, although the weaving workshop stopped working, there was no big trouble at all."

"Don't dare to do it, it's all thanks to the blessing of the son, the son has Jiangnan in his heart, and he managed it properly." Jiang Caosi hastily flattered and went back.

Thanks to him, he didn't dare to answer.

"I won't bother Cao Si any more." Zhou Shennian stood up and said goodbye.

"Thank you Mr. Zhou for taking the time. I'll see you off." Jiang Caosi stood up and sent Zhou Chennian out of the house, but Zhou Chennian firmly stopped him. He stood at the door and watched Zhou Chennian go out the second door.

Jiang Caosi turned back to the room, looked at Mr. Ge who came out of the tea room, frowned and asked, "What do you think?"

"This is the kindness of the son of the world." Mr. Ge replied.

"Yeah." Jiang Caosi hummed, then let out a long sigh, "Such kindness is hard to bear."

"My son is not what he used to be today." Mr. Ge clicked his tongue softly.

"Well, from him to Hangcheng, from Hangzhou to Pingjiang Mansion, until now, every step of the way, it's really not what it used to be!" Jiang Caosi clicked his tongue.

Mr. Ge's voice was extremely low, "The former Shizi was slightly worse than Mr. Pang Da, but today's Shizi is much better than Mr. Pang Da. I see, Shizi is so old, I'm afraid he is not worse than Mr. Pang What, Dong Weng has to think about it carefully."

Mr. Ge's last sentence slowed down and had a deep meaning.

Jiang Caosi frowned tightly, and after a while, hummed.

Pang Xianggong is already old, and the leader of the next generation of the Pang family, Mr. Pang Da, is far worse than his father. The eldest son is only in his early twenties, and he is as close to the crown prince as brothers...

He had to think carefully about whether it was time for the Jiang family to change their backer.