After several increases like this, the price of raw silk has more than doubled compared to previous years.

The people now have spare money in their hands and their desire to consume has increased, making the entire city of Suzhou show an unprecedented prosperity.

Zhu Yunxi changed into the clothes of an ordinary scholar and led Chang Jizu and Kong Yanjin to stroll on the street. He felt extremely comfortable looking at the crowded streets.

Zhu Yunxi saw a good food stall and immediately invited the two of them to go there and eat some of Suzhou's specialties.

Kong Yanjin frowned, while Chang Jizu stared at everyone on the road with his eyes wide open, for fear that someone would be harmful to the emperor's grandson.

"Young Master, why don't you continue to increase the protection price?"

"In this case, we will not be able to receive raw silk, and the textile workshop you are planning to build will not be able to operate!"

Zhu Yunxi did not answer immediately after hearing this, but just asked Kong Yanjin to sit down. After Kong Yanjin sat down, he explained.

"My original intention is to benefit the people, not to compete with them!"

"As long as it can benefit the people, what does it matter if the textile workshop can't be opened?"

Kong Yanjin was shocked on the spot when he heard this, and then bowed solemnly to Zhu Yunxi.

"Young Master is righteous!"

Zhu Yunxi smiled and invited him to sit down, eat and drink, and enjoy everything in Suzhou City.

While Zhu Yunxi was eating and drinking, Zhang Tianyou was inspecting the warehouses of various merchants. When he saw the raw silk piled up in the warehouse, Zhang Tianyou burst into laughter...

His father was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, but he defeated the emperor's grandson of the Ming Dynasty and snatched 800,000 loads of raw silk from him!

However, Qian Wenyong, the merchant who cooperated with Zhang Tianyou in purchasing raw silk, had a sad face.

I didn't pay attention when collecting it, but after collecting it, I realized that this thing is not easy to store at all.

If there is a fire accidentally, a million taels of silver will be wasted!

"Young master!"

"Now these raw silks, at least tens of thousands of looms, have been woven non-stop for a year. Do we still need to continue harvesting them?"

"receive!"

"We must hold all the raw silk in Jiangsu in our hands so that Zhu Yunxi can't get even one!"

"Right now, the Shipping Company is signing documents with the dealer. If he can't deliver the goods then, who will do business with the Shipping Company?"

"Hahaha!"

After Zhang Tianyou smiled, he left with his hands behind his back, leaving only the money with a bitter look on his face.

Continue to collect?

Then you have to rent a few more warehouses, otherwise there won't be enough space here!

After meeting with Jin Yiwei's people, Zhu Yunxi found out what was going on with the Zhang family, and directly ordered the Suzhou prefect to issue a document allowing the people to pay taxes with silver taels.

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Zhang Tianyou really guessed it right. The reason why Zhu Yunxi had this confidence was because his vision was never limited to Suzhou, but looked at the entire Ming Dynasty.

There are many places where silk is produced in the Ming Dynasty, not only in Jiangsu, but also in Huguang, and the price is cheaper.

When he introduced the protective price of raw silk in Suzhou, he sent people to Huguang area to purchase it.

The raw silk purchased there now exceeds one million tons, which is enough to support several weaving bureaus.

Zhang Tianyou wanted to understand this and immediately ordered people to stop the purchase. He even wanted his merchants to sell the raw silk they had purchased previously to the court at a protected price.

However, what surprised him was that when the imperial court announced that taxes could be paid with silver taels, it canceled the purchase point.

Now the only one on the market is his Zhang family's stupidly high-priced silk collection!

Zhang Tianyou wanted to understand this and was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. Even if his old friend Qin Xiangsi tried his best, he could not cheer him up from his weakness.

Zhang Tianyou pushed Qin Xiangsi away, then got out of bed with his upper body naked. Qin Xiangsi wanted to rush up to comfort him, but he pushed him away again.

"Go away!"

"I'm almost losing my pants right now, so I don't have time to be gentle with you!"

Zhang Tianyou's words are not an exaggeration. The price of raw silk is not cheap. In some places, it can even be used as currency...

He charged a price twice as high as in previous years, which can be said to be a big deal.

Although a local businessman from Suzhou contributed half of the money, he also subsidized half of it!

Therefore, the tone of his bet with Zhu Yunxi almost bankrupted him!

Qin Xiangsi sat on the bed aggrievedly, looking at Zhang Tianyou who was furious, feeling unspeakable grievance and distress in her heart.

"God bless, why don't you sell the house?"

Zhang Tianyou snorted coldly after hearing this.

"How much is your house worth? It's worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!"

"Even if I'm bankrupt, I can still buy a house like yours!"

"Including you!"

These words were a bit hurtful, but Qin Xiangsi did not dare to be angry.

After all, everything she eats and uses now is given by Zhang Tianyou, how can she dare to be angry with him?

Fortunately, Zhang Tianyou no longer sells raw silk, and the price of raw silk in Jiangsu has plummeted.

Seeing that it was not cost-effective to pay taxes with silver, the people turned to raw silk to pay taxes.

Anyway, the government notice clearly stated that silver can be used, so it doesn’t need to be silver?

Therefore, when it was time to pay taxes, people took out their worthless raw silk to pay taxes.

This move was very painful for Zhang Laiqing, the prefect of Suzhou. If the emperor's grandson hadn't been watching with eager eyes, he would have really wanted to tear up the notice.

This year, he has made plans to pay one million taels of tax money to the court, improve his test score, and strive to move it up before the end of the year.

Even if you can't be directly promoted to the capital, you can at least become a chief envoy.

Now that the emperor's grandson has done this, this year's promotion plan has been ruined again.

As carts of raw silk were transported into the warehouse, Warehouse Ambassador Sun Yuanle was so speechless that he couldn't close his mouth.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, except for a part of the raw silk in the warehouse that was transferred to the Suzhou Manufacturing Bureau, the rest was left to eat ashes or used as salary for officials, government servants, and servants.

Therefore, there is a lot of room for operation here.

For example, replace high-quality raw silk with inferior quality, or write it directly as loss, and bleach it layer by layer.

This kind of thing is his special skill, and he relied on this skill to quietly accumulate hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

What makes him happiest is that he has a big customer this year, who made an agreement with him half a month ago that he will buy his raw silk at a high price this year.

When the time comes, he secretly sells the raw silk, piles some firewood in the warehouse, and burns it...

Although this move will delay his official career, after doing this job, he has a net worth of one million, why should he be the ambassador of Ku?

ah?

After Sun Yuan saw all the raw silk put into the warehouse, he excitedly went to his major customer to discuss the next step of cooperation that day.

"Shopkeeper Qin, do you still want the raw silk you mentioned before?"

The so-called shopkeeper Qin is Zhang Tianyou’s best friend Qin Xiangsi in Suzhou City.

Zhang Tianyou ordered Qin Xiangsi to do many things that were inconvenient for him to do.

Qin Xiangsi saw Sun Yuan and replied without thinking.

"No more!"

"You set the fire on fire!"

"ah?".
Chapter completed!