On August 16th, Xiaoxiao slept until midnight before getting up.

Last night at Muxi Mountain, I only remember what I said with Wen Xixiu in front of Muxi Pavilion. After that, my mind was in a state of chaos.

I vaguely heard from Ruicai that drinking Xiangxue wine with any other alcohol will make you drunk. On that small island with Gong Basheng, although I drank very little Xiangxue wine, I was still drunk in the end.

Perhaps because of the chaos later, I remembered the things I had experienced before, and every sentence I said was remembered in my heart.

For some reason, Xiaoxiao always felt that it was his farewell.

It seems that I won't meet again for a long time.

"I didn't say anything nonsense last night, did I?" Xiaoxiao was scribbled and served her changing clothes.

In the middle of yesterday night, Shan Niang sent Taohong and Xiao Dier to Muxi Mountain to pick up Xiaoxiao.

"The girl left the table early last night. She didn't have the energy to say nonsense, so she fell asleep directly." Xiao Di'er smiled while folding the quilt.

Paihong also smiled and said, "For the blessing of the girl, I also left the moon last night."

Just don't talk nonsense.

"By the way, the old man said that he would go out with his old friend to appreciate the red leaves today, so the girl doesn't have to go to Xiaotang Village to pay her respects today." said Tao Hong.

Xiaoxiao then remembered that at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet last night, my grandfather said that there was something good for him today. It seemed that the old man had regretted it again...

Xiaoxiao came to her mother's yard and saw Shanniang playing with the flowers in the corridor: two pots of blooming wood hibiscus, which are white and pink at this moment; there are also a few pots of dark green and golden leaves that will not bloom until the end of the year; there are also a few pots of small bushes that grow to half a person tall, and small buds emerge between the black and green leather leaves. Xiaoxiao bent down and looked for a long time: "What kind of flower is this?"

Shan Niang smiled and said, "Last month, I went to visit the Wen family's Huajuan, but I didn't expect there were camellias in the south, so I bought a few pots."

"Camellia?" Xiaoxiao only felt that the leaves were narrower than ordinary Camellia. "It is said that there are many types of camellia, including eighteen bachelor's degree, and the top scholar red, mandarin duck phoenix crown, boy's face, and I also heard of a 'catching the beauty'!"

Shan Niang smiled: "I don't have all the things you said here, just because my camellia is not camellia, but a tea tree flower."

"Tea tree flowers?" Xiaoxiao had seen tea tree flowers in the south. They were small, snow-white, with lush golden silks and a veritable fragrance. "I really look forward to these flowers!"

"The flowers of tea tree flowers are smaller, and if they are tea plums, they will be more ornamental." Shan Niang carefully poured water on these tea trees.

"I remember my grandfather particularly likes tea plum, especially white tea plum."

"It's hard to remember Xiaoxiao, my grandfather didn't love you in vain." Shanniang looked at the plants bathed in the sunlight, "He also likes tea tree flowers. He often says that this flower is 'simple but has the fragrance of nobleness'. Xiaoxiao still remembers that two tea trees were planted in Lanxi's yard."

"I vaguely remember," Hyundai Xiaoxiao's grandfather could not plant two tea trees in his yard. Xiaoxiao had no choice but to say, "I remember that my grandfather planted many Buddha hands."

When my parents were young, they were at the Buddha's hand tree to make love. This was always true.

"After a while, the Buddha's hands should mature." Shan Niang said that there was homesickness in her words.

Xiaoxiao held his mother and sat in the corridor: "When my brothers can run away, we will go back to see my grandfather! I will live there for the first half of the year before coming back!"

Shan Niang smiled and said, "Are you hungry? I ate a lot of snacks last night. Let the kitchen make you a bowl of noodles?"

"Not hungry at all." Xiaoxiao sat with Shanniang, feeling that the years were quiet.

"Your father is waiting for you in the study." Shan Niang smiled.

"My father?" Today my father had time to rest at home. Xiaoxiao then remembered what happened to Qinyu last night.

Xiaoxiao didn't know much about Shan's mother, so she looked into the room: "I'll go in and see my father now."

When he walked into the study room in Dongshaojian, Qifan was also watering the flowers, and a pot of chrysanthemums on the desk were just spitting out huge buds, which were cold snow-green.

"Dad has never liked the chrysanthemum on the desk." Xiaoxiao stepped closer and saw the desk full of various envelopes.

Qifan looked at his daughter, as if he wanted to say: Xiaoxiao even knows this?

Xiaoxiao just vaguely remembers that when I was a child, I had two pots of chrysanthemums on the desk at home. They were very particular porcelain pots, with only a huge chrysanthemum in it. My father didn’t like it at that time.

Xiaoxiao looked at the big snow-green flower bud in front of her and suddenly remembered that there were no desk chrysanthemums in ancient times. This kind of chrysanthemum should have been developed in the 1970s. This may be the extraordinary part of the Yuanlong Dynasty.

"My daughter just thinks that the chrysanthemums should be unrestrained and have the wildness of the mountains." Xiaoxiao looked at his father, "Dad must have thought so too."

"Xiaoxiao's words make sense," Qifan pointed to the pot of chrysanthemums in front of him. "If you appreciate this pot of chrysanthemums carefully, there is only one in the expensive Jun kiln porcelain basin, which is full of lofty blooming, which has a sense of independence. But if you taste it carefully, it will inevitably make people feel frightened."

"fear?"

"This chrysanthemum has no companions, not even flowers and wild grass. How did it grow into such a beautiful plant? There are only two answers: either it is controlled by a gardener, or this chrysanthemum absorbs the nutrients of other flowers and plants for its own use, and eventually becomes a lonely plant that is "only my own."

Of course, it was developed by a gardener, but my father's words must have what he meant.

"What Dad said is the way to do business?"

Qifan looked at him and smiled, encouraging him to continue speaking.

Xiaoxiao thought about it and continued: "No industry can be an absolute monopoly, otherwise it will gradually become a lonely person, or be uprooted by the higher-level classes, or eventually be eliminated by nature. After all, those rare animals and plants are endangered."

As Xiaoxiao said this, he realized a deeper level of business in his heart, and he couldn't help but experience the fear of loneliness like his father.

It seems that "one-on-one dominance" is not an ideal, so what state is the most ideal? Xiaoxiao feels that his father patted his shoulder: "This is true for any industry. We strive to be the best, but we cannot pursue a single advantage."

Xiaoxiao nodded and looked at the envelopes on the table. He felt that the words on the envelopes were not good-looking, and some of them were even crooked. I don’t know who wrote them.

"In Xiaoxiao's opinion, what is the best way for us who run the silk industry?" Qifan asked.

"The first in quality, the first in sales, the first in profit, and the first in fame in the country." Xiaoxiao thought about it, but in the end he didn't dare to say "the first in the world".

Qifan laughed out loud: "It is worthy of being my smile, and the purpose I ask for is so direct. If it were someone else, he would definitely propose to be a monopoly partner of the weaving and construction organization. In the eyes of the world, only by doing this can it be considered successful."

Xiaoxiao analyzed it for a long time before she understood this sentence. The monopoly partner of the Weaving Agency? That is the contractor of the imperial silk for the court. Why didn’t he think of this just now? This is equivalent to the direct purchase of the Central Committee! If this is done, wouldn’t the people in the world flock to it! I just don’t know if such a business is allowed by the royal family to do business.

"Those who make clothes for the palace can't make clothes for ordinary people casually, right?" Xiaoxiao asked.

"The emperor does not care about this today, but some royal merchants do not have the energy, and they are unwilling to condescend." Qifan smiled.

"My daughter doesn't understand. Are there one or more cooperative businesses in the court's Weaving Agency?"

"Once one, it gradually became multiple."

It seems that Emperor Dada is very smart, limited to one family, and what kind of development and creativity are there? Only when a hundred flowers bloom can they promote each other and strive for excellence.

Qifan further said: "The weaving agency of the Yuanlong Dynasty used to do business with two companies, which were called 'Northern Yao and Nan Chu' by the world. Both Yao and Chu families were weaving families that had been passed down for a hundred years. Later, the Chu family seized the opportunity and gradually annexed the Yao family in the north, and the Chu family became the only royal weaving manufacturer in the world."

"How did the Chu family bring down another royal manufacturer?" Xiaoxiao was stunned and felt incredible.

"The Chu family in the south of the Yangtze River has always been mainly made of mulberry silk fabrics. The tussah silk in the north of the Yangtze River is more suitable for cold areas. Although the palace is in the north, it is equipped with enough charcoal fire in winter, so it is not afraid of the cold. Even if you go out, you will have good animal skins to keep the cold. Therefore, the demand for silk from the Yao family is much worse than that of the Chu family."

"Are the royal weavermakers prohibited from doing business in the people at that time?" Xiaoxiao asked.

"Yes, it was explicitly prohibited at the beginning. However, in order to meet the royal requirements, the fabrics supplied must be perfect. The Yao family gradually struggled a little, and finally could not resist the temptation of the small countries in the north and agreed to supply them to the palaces of these countries..."

"Is this something the Chu family finally took?"

"Or the purchasing behavior of these small-scale envoys was a trick that the Chu family came up with... In short, the Chu family has been unifying the world in manufacturing industry. The Yao family supplies goods to other countries' courts, and their behavior is suspected of treason, so they were sentenced to beheading the whole family. When talking about this matter in the business district, it called it "heard that Chu has changed in fear."

The whole family was killed. Xiaoxiao realized the dangers of the business world for the first time, and it was still light to lose money. Maybe he would have to lose his life, and even affect his whole family.

"Why did this company's royal supplier become many?" Xiaoxiao became more and more curious.

"This comes from Princess Jinyu's wedding fourteen years ago."

What a good guy, even the princess came out, smiling and blinking her big eyes, as if she was listening to a fantasy.

"Princess Jinyu is the only daughter of the late emperor, so she is also loved. Princess Jinyu loves brocade the most in her life, so she proposed to hold a championship competition on the wedding day so that silk merchants in the world can contribute the most beautiful and strange brocade, and the princess personally select it."

He is really a very thoughtful princess, Xiaoxiao asked, "Is this the origin of the first championship event?"

Qifan nodded: "Although the late emperor favored his daughter, he could not come from his willfulness. Therefore, the wedding was held in accordance with the traditional royal ritual. The championship ceremony was scheduled to be held grandly on the third day after the princess's wedding at the Princess's Mansion. After the conference, the princess selected her favorite batches of brocades to take them back to the palace."

Oh, three days later, it will be the day when the newlyweds return home. Isn’t the princess’s family the palace?

"Daughter remembers that our family's Yingzhu Championships took the lead at the championships, but that time?" Xiaoxiao asked hurriedly.

"That's right." Qi Fan had no smile on his face. "At that conference, the princess saw various brocades from all over the world, many of which were not inferior to those supplied by the Chu family to the royal family. Therefore, after returning to the palace, the princess proposed to the late emperor to change the only royal supplier to multiple, so that the royal face would be more glorious."

"It seems that the late emperor agreed."

Qifan nodded: "Since then, the Chu family has been reduced to one of the ten suppliers."

"With the Chu family's methods, they will naturally not give up."

Qifan smiled and did not answer this question for now: "Since then, the royal suppliers have not only supplied the royal suppliers, but also do their own business. After all, the Chu family was the largest, so they tried to suppress the smaller suppliers. So several suppliers joined forces to completely defeat the Chu family, especially the two suppliers were the Yao family's close friends back then, and they had deep resentment towards Chu."

"When suppressing the Chu family, was our family one of them?"

"No, because the young boss of the Chu family was my classmate and friend at that time. Even for the sake of my father-in-law, I would not harm him."

With such a large amount of information, Xiaoxiao couldn't digest it for a while.

"What's more," Qifan continued, "I have always advocated that merchant disputes must be resolved in the business world, and using any other means is a violation of business rules. But other merchants do not think so. They advocate that they should treat others with their own ways, especially those two Yao family's confidants."

"Is the Chu family also..."

"The Chu family did not end up as miserable as the Yao family, but was dismissed from the royal supplier by their superiors. The Chu family, which became a civilian businessman, was swallowed up by several other merchants in a flash."

Xiaoxiao couldn't help but shivered, and suddenly remembered that he had heard Youqing say that the Chu family disappeared bit by bit, just like the autumn brocade of their house.

Yes, this Chu family must be the Chu family that produces the palace Qiuwen brocade.

"So, the Chu family will also appear at this championship conference?"
Chapter completed!