Zhen Xing's words made Xu Lun suddenly enlightened. He smiled and said: "You have such a view that it is not an exaggeration to become a prefect with 2,000 dan. I even want you to be my chief administrator!"
It's a pity that Zhen Xing looked gloomy when he heard this. His birth determined that he would not be able to succeed in his official career, so he still had to find a way to fight on the ocean.
Xu Lun seemed to understand Zhen Xing's sadness, and immediately said: "Why don't you follow me to Jingzhou, and I will recommend you to the governor, let you become an official in Jingzhou, and provide advice and suggestions for the development of Jingzhou?"
Use your talents."
Zhen Xing shook his head and said: "Forget it, I'm still young and want to fight again. This time I found the rubber tree. When you see me from now on, you will call me king!"
Xu Lun smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that you really want to risk your life. I wish you all the best and find the rubber tree as soon as possible."
Just when the three of them were chatting happily, a man ran towards them and said: "Master Fu, my subordinates have finally found you. Something bad has happened. Jing Yi got into a fight with someone and is now captured by the capital's government officials."
He's been detained, please go over and have a look quickly, if he is really caught and imprisoned, we in Jingzhou will look bad."
Xu Lun immediately asked: "What's going on? Why did he hit people? Doesn't Jing Yi know that this is the capital? He thought he was a country bully and dared to mess around here!"
This time Jing Yi was discovered by the governor, and he couldn't even eat and was walking around in circles!
The visitor said angrily: "Today we are going to a silk shop to investigate the sales situation of our Jingzhou silk in Jidu and prepare for the next step of expanding silk production.
But he didn't expect to find counterfeit goods. The low-quality silk, who didn't know where it came from, was pretending to be our Jingzhou silk. Not only was it sold at a high price, but it was also affecting the reputation of our Jingzhou silk here. Jing Yi was so angry that he ordered the store to be destroyed.
It was smashed!"
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Hearing this, Xu Lun became even more excited. The silk industry was their pillar industry in Jingzhou. If its reputation was tarnished and the sales of silk were affected, Jingzhou's economic development would definitely be affected.
He immediately asked: "Where did you find the fake silk products!"
The visitor said: "It's a shop called Sihai Silk. Although they say it's silk from Jingzhou, the color and texture are far worse than the silk from Jingzhou. It's obviously not silk from Jingzhou."
Xu Lun said angrily: "Take me there to have a look. I want to see who is counterfeiting our Jingzhou silk here and ruining the reputation of our Jingzhou silk!"
At this time Zhen Xing said: "I'd better go with you. I also know the boss of Sihai Trading Company. He is related to the wealthy businessmen in Qingzhou and has considerable influence."
Xu Lun said angrily: "No matter how powerful he is, he can be bigger than our Jingzhou government. What Sihai Commercial Bank is doing now can be said to have offended all the thousands of officials in our Jingzhou government. What kind of background does he have that can be as powerful as my Jingzhou government?"
Thousands of officials."
When Xu Xulun said this, Zhen Xing could only smile bitterly and couldn't afford to be hurt. No matter how big the backstage of their merchants was, if Xu Lun wanted to punish Sihai Trading Company, the backstage of Sihai Trading Company would really be unable to withstand it.
On the other hand, Shen Jianxin said: "Don't act rashly. We are the only ones in the world who have silk in Dagan, and the origin of silk in Dagan is only Yangzhou, Jingzhou and Yizhou. That is to say, the backstage of Sihai Trading Company is not with Yangzhou." If there is a relationship, it means there is a relationship with Shuzhong.
You don’t have to worry about merchants like Sihai Trading Company, but if their backend meets someone you know well, it will be embarrassing. It’s better to find out the problem first and then find a way to solve it.”
Xu Lun calmed down and said: "It can't be Shu brocade. The history of Shu brocade is older than our silk in Jingzhou, and both the craftsmanship and quality are better than our silk in Jingzhou. There is no need for them to deliberately make some inferior silk." Come and pretend to be the silk of our Jingzhou. Although the silk of Yangzhou is not as good as the Shu brocade, it is not much worse than the momentum of our Jingzhou. Logically speaking, there is no need for them to do such a thing."
Shen Jianxin said: "Neither Yangzhou nor Yizhou, then where else can produce silk? Is it Jiaozhou or Yuzhou and Xuzhou?"
Xu Lun said: "You will know just after asking the shopkeeper!"
Soon Xu Lun followed his men to Sihai Store.
At this time, many people had gathered outside Sihai Shop. Everyone was watching the excitement, and many pieces of silk were knocked to the ground.
In the shop, the shopkeeper and the waiter who had been beaten into pig heads were staying aside, and they were following the Jidu Yamen who was beside them and said something.
When they saw Xu Lun coming, the Yamen servant immediately said: "Prefect Xu, you can take care of your subordinates. After all, this is the capital of Daqian, the most virtuous place. Even if you find someone selling fake goods, you can't We feel very embarrassed if we break into other people's shops and beat them up."
Xu Lun said: "You don't care if he sells fake goods. We are the victims. Those who sell defective goods should be taught a lesson."
At this time, the shopkeeper said with a mournful face: "We are selling silk, and what we sell is legitimate silk. How come it has become a fake? How come our goods are not silk? Your men are beating people here, and now they are beating us." A rake!”
Jing Yi said angrily: "Didn't you just say that all these silks come from Jingzhou? I work in Jingzhou Textile Factory. The silk in our Jingzhou Textile Factory is much better than yours. It is impossible for this kind of crap to come from our Jingzhou Textile Factory." It comes from a textile factory and uses our reputation as Jingzhou Textile Silk. This is not considered a fake!"
Xu Lun picked up a piece of silk on the ground and found that the color of the silk was extremely dull and the workmanship was rough. He even saw a few threads on the cloth. It was obviously inferior quality goods, and the silk weaving process was also very rough. Well, even though Xu Lun was not an expert in silk, he could tell that this batch of silk was completely different from the silk they imitated from Jingzhou.
Xu Lun took a piece of silk and threw it in front of the shopkeeper and said: "How dare you say that you are not selling fake goods. The quality of this silk is so bad that we have never seen it in Jingzhou. You dare to pass it off as our Jingzhou silk?" , where did your silk come from? Why are you pretending to be my silk from Jingzhou?"
The shopkeeper was startled by Xu Lun's official intimidation and could only say tremblingly: "The silk imported from overseas said that it came from Jingzhou, and we believed it because the price of this silk was half lower, so we
Use this silk."
Of course the shopkeeper knew that there was something wrong with the silk, but the price of the silk was more than half cheaper than elsewhere. He was greedy for cheap and used these inferior markets, but he did not expect that such a disaster would happen.