Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 175 The grandfather who makes wild boar skins
As soon as Wang Daoqiu led Jue Chang'an into Shen Yishi's business in Tongzhou Trade City, the storekeeper of the business that the Shen family had left here immediately walked out of the counter and stood beside Wang Daoqiu respectfully, with a face filled with fawning greetings. Said: "Uncle, why are you free to come here today?"

The shopkeeper of the Shen family also has the surname Shen, and is the parent of Shen Yishi.More than two months ago, when Wang Daoqiu brought these stores to Shen Yishi from Baiyunguan, Shen Yishi took Shen Zhangji to Wang Daoqiu's home, so both parties knew each other.

So now when he saw that Shen Zhang refused to come up to say hello, Wang Daoqiu also pointed at Jue Chang'an and introduced to Shopkeeper Shen: "Uncle Shen, this is my Jurchen friend, his name is Aixinjueluo Jue Chang'an, he is Get to know the current commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard, and we will all be friends from now on."

"Yes, uncle"

Wang Daoqiu asked Shopkeeper Shen to get to know Jue Changan. Although Shopkeeper Shen thought Jue Changan looked like those ferocious-faced statues in the temple, he was very scary.But Wang Daoqiu opened his mouth, and he didn't dare to refuse, so he plucked up the courage to go up and have a social show with Jue Chang'an.

After Jue Changan and Shopkeeper Shen got to know each other, Wang Daoqiu asked Jue Changan to discuss business with himself, Shopkeeper Shen, while he drank tea beside him.

When the business between the two parties was settled, shopkeeper Shen came to Wang Daoqiu with a look of disgust on his face and whispered to Wang Daoqiu in a low voice: "Uncle, what kind of commander is this? He's just a coward who doesn't understand anything. I'll pick him up." I gave him more than a dozen kinds of good tea from Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Sichuan to try, but he said those teas were too tasteless. Later, I brewed those teas specially for the shop assistants and made them for him to drink. But he said it was good tea and asked me to sell it to him for five thousand catties. Uncle, what do you think this is?"

"There is also our fine Jiangnan silk. He pulled out the silk with just a touch of his hand. He even pulled it forcefully. Ouch, a good piece of silk was just ruined. What's even more annoying is that. Yes, he didn’t say that his hands were thick. He also said that our cloth was not good and that he wanted to buy thicker cloth. Uncle, look what he is talking about? Uncle, this is a country barbarian who doesn’t understand anything. , we have no business to do with him."

Shopkeeper Shen didn't know what Wang Daoqiu was worried about Jue Chang'an, so he thought it was his uncle who had hired a barbarian toast to take advantage of him in his shop.So I was very dissatisfied with Jue Changan's behavior of buying only [-] kilograms of tea leaves and not knowing the high-end silks in his shop, so he wanted to buy thick homespun cloth.Therefore, when Wang Daoqiu was here, he said that Jue Changan was worthless, thinking that Jue Changan was just a stick who didn't understand anything.

Jue Changan didn't let Shopkeeper Shen make money, and Shopkeeper Shen had a bad impression of him, which was normal.Therefore, Wang Daoqiu did not blame Shopkeeper Shen for this matter. He just said calmly: "I heard from Xiangning that the Shen family also has a cotton spinning factory in Tongzhou Industrial Zone to weave cotton cloth. Then you can get some cotton cloth samples and give them That Jue Chang'an, do you want to read it? As for the silk, forget it."

"Hey, uncle, the ex-factory price of a piece of ordinary cotton cloth is only one yuan and five silver. We can earn more than a dozen copper coins at most. How can we afford such a small profit in our store! And our cotton spinning factory in Tongzhou Half of the woven cloth is due to your uncle's relationship. The government buys it to make military uniforms, official uniforms, and rewards for local officials and foreign vassals in various places. The other half is sold to a dozen big customers in the north. Anyway, after the cloth is woven, It was taken away from the factory, and there was no need to put it in our store to sell it. So I really don’t have any cotton in this store."

Wang Daoqiu understood what shopkeeper Shen said. To put it bluntly, Shen Yishi positioned his business in Tongzhou Trade City to serve high-end customers and not sell cheap goods.

Understanding this, Wang Daoqiu whispered to shopkeeper Shen: "Uncle Shen, this Jue Chang'an is different from other local officials. He is a Jurchen from Liaodong. He is of great use to the court and needs to be won over. Okay, let's not talk about this. Come on, Uncle Shen, please take me to our cotton spinning factory in Tongzhou! I'll ask Jue Chang'an to select cloth there."

"Hey, hey, hey, uncle, please sit here for a while. I'll give the guy a few words and I'll take you there later."

"Okay Uncle Shen"

I heard Wang Daoqiu say that wooing Jue Chang'an, a barbarian, was part of the government's affairs.The shopkeeper Shen didn't dare to be negligent. He first explained to the shop assistant a few words about the store, and then he brought the horse and took Wang Daoqiu and the others to Tongzhou Industrial Zone.

Arriving at the Tongzhou Industrial Zone, Shopkeeper Shen pointed to a factory building covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand acres by the Wenyu River, and said proudly to Wang Daoqiu: "Uncle, this factory is our cotton spinning factory, covering an area of ​​970 acres. The annual rent and management fee of the processing industrial zone cost more than 5000 taels, and it is the largest factory among the more than 500 factories in the Tongzhou Industrial Zone."

"There are more than 3000 looms in this factory, which can weave nearly 500 pieces of cloth a day. There are also dyeing workshops, printing and dyeing workshops, and embroidery workshops. Now the factory employs more than [-] workers, of which more than [-] are from the master. The masters invited by Suhang and Songjiang. Now in this factory..." Listening to shopkeeper Shen's introduction, Wang Daoqiu and his party entered the Shen family's cotton spinning factory in Tongzhou.As soon as he entered the door of the cotton spinning factory, he saw two well-dressed people. One stood there with his head raised and his head raised to the sky, while the other kept crouching next to him and begging.And there were dozens of large cars and people who looked like gangsters blocked next to them.

Seeing the appearance of these two people, Wang Daoqiu didn't know each other, so he didn't say a word, but shopkeeper Shen saw it, hurriedly got off his horse and said, "Old Yu, what's the matter?"

"Oh, Master Shen, you are here. Master Shen, please come and beg Master Jiu for me. His batch of cotton yarn is really not good."

Seeing that it was Shopkeeper Shen who was coming, the man who was begging for help and whom Shopkeeper Shen called "Old Yu" hurriedly shouted for Shopkeeper Shen to help him and ran over to help Shopkeeper Shen lead the horse.

After Shopkeeper Shen dismounted, Old Yu continued in a crying voice: "Master Shen, Master Jiu, this batch of cotton yarn is really bad, the quality is too low. This kind of yarn breaks too easily, even for an old worker, It's good to be able to weave seven or eight feet of cloth in one day. Moreover, the quality of the cloth is inferior, not wear-resistant and easy to break. This is not possible, it is not possible. If you use this kind of cotton yarn to weave cloth, it will definitely ruin the master's signature. Yes, this can’t be done!”

Listening to Old Yu crying there, Wang Daoqiu also dismounted and walked to Shopkeeper Shen's side.Seeing Wang Daoqiu coming, Shen Zhangju hurriedly approached Wang Daoqiu and whispered: "Uncle, in this Tongzhou Industrial Zone, we southerners are good at weaving and spinning. But they northerners can only spin. , we can't weave fine cloth. The master said when we first built the factory, we opened the factory on the territory of the northerners. We can't make all the money, we have to share some profits with the northerners. So we Cotton mills only weave cloth but not spin yarn, and the yarn comes from these cotton mills run by northerners.”

"Uncle, the old Yu in front of you, his name is Yu Liqiang. He is the old shopkeeper of the weaving factory hired by me from Songjiang. He has been working in this industry for more than 30 years. And you see the arrogant man standing there. His name is Lord Jiu, and his sister is the concubine of Duke Dingguo. He has opened a yarn mill in the Tongzhou Industrial Zone. We usually look at Duke Dingguo, as long as the quality of the yarn he spins is not too bad, we all It's based on the market price. The quality of the cotton yarn he sent this time may be too poor, so Lao Yu didn't dare to accept it."

Damn it!It turns out that the relationship between the owner and the dog is relying on the power of others, passing off inferior goods as good ones, and buying and selling by force!After understanding the whole story, and looking at the arrogance of Master Jiu standing there, Wang Daoqiu became angry immediately.Not bothering to ask what was right or wrong, Wang Daoqiu directly ordered the four guards behind him to beat that Jiu Ye to pieces.

Wang Daoqiu's four guards have been brutally trained in the Jinyiwei training camp since childhood. They only know how to obey orders, but they don't care about you, the ninth master or the eighth master.So Wang Daoqiu gave the order, and the four people rushed forward like wolves and tigers, knocking down the few followers of Master Jiu first.Then he picked up the ninth master like a chicken, and regardless of the title of Duke of Ding, he beat him up, and then threw the ninth master into the Wenyu River under Wang Daoqiu's shouts.

Seeing his guards throwing the Nine Masters into the Wenyu River, Wang Daoqiu turned to Shopkeeper Shen and Lao Yu and said: "Uncle Shen, Shopkeeper Yu, remember this. People who are good will be bullied, and horses who are good will be ridden. Both being a person and an official are the same. So when you do business in Beijing from now on, others will give us face, and we will give them face. If anyone thinks he has a backer and steps on our face with his shoe, then you should not follow him. Nonsense, just slap the big-eared melon seeds over there."

"Yes, yes, uncle. Thank you for making the decision for the kids, but will that bring trouble to you, uncle?" Shopkeeper Shen was very happy to see Wang Daoqiu supporting him, but he was also afraid that this would bring trouble to Wang Daoqiu. Qiu was causing trouble, so he asked.

Faced with Shopkeeper Shen's question, Wang Daoqiu replied angrily: "Uncle Shen, you are wrong if you think so. A mere brother who is the concubine of Ding Guogong dares to step on my face with his shoe. You guys If you swallow your anger, then do I, Wang Daoqiu, still have face? Okay, Uncle Shen, look at it, I will go find Duke Ding when I return to the city today. If Duke Ding doesn't admit my mistake in this matter, this bullshit Lord Nine will do it tomorrow. If he doesn’t kneel down and kowtow at the gate of our cotton spinning factory to apologize, then don’t blame me, Wang Daoqiu, the Duke of Ding, and have trouble with him in the future.”

"Uncle, this, this, is this too serious?"

"Okay, Uncle Shen, you don't understand official matters, leave it to me. And if something like this happens again in the future, you must come to the city and tell me. You have to know that you have no face. , I, Wang Daoqiu, have no face. If you want to be laughed at, then I, Wang Daoqiu, will be laughed at. Okay, Uncle Shen, tell shopkeeper Yu to call someone from the factory and immediately remove the dozens of carts of cotton yarn blocking the entrance of the factory. , throw them all into the river."

"Yes, yes, uncle"

(End of this chapter)