On this day, Peacock returned to the Zheng family and discussed the matter of 100,000 pieces of cloth with his family.
The person who received the peacock at this moment was her father Zheng Mingshang. As the two of them took their seats one after another, Zheng Mingshang hesitated a little, but he still spoke first.
"Yu Xin, how are you doing in the royal palace? Can anyone in the royal palace bully you."
"The King of Yue treats me well and gives me the power to operate outside." Peacock said here and said slightly,
"Now King Yue gave me a name to me, Peacock, and I don't have the right to call me Yuxin again. Please do not call me by the wrong name."
"Yu... Peacock, what's wrong with you when you return home this time? The Zheng family is your backing. Let's talk about it!" Zheng Ming said in a shopping mall.
"Are grandpa here?" Peacock seemed to be a little confused and told Zheng Ming.
"The head of the family summons, Grandpa has gone to the main house in Xingyang. He has not been here in the past few months." Zheng Mingshang said to Peacock, "Is there anything wrong?"
"Is there really a business to talk to my grandfather. If my grandfather is not here, is the Zheng family the master the decision?" Peacock asked.
"If a business worth less than ten thousand guan, I can make full decisions. If a business worth more than five thousand guan, I will decide after discussing with the second, third, fifth and sixth guan." Zheng Mingshang told Peacock.
"Since that's the case, I will talk about the direct purpose of this time.
The King of Yue wanted to order 100,000 pieces of linen within one month to cover the clothes of the people and refugees.
My workshop has limited production and raw materials, and it cannot be produced for a while, so the King of Yue wanted to go to the imperial warehousing room to exchange it.
But I persuaded me to live there, and I purchased goods from the Zheng family at a price of two floors at a low price. King Yue asked me to come over."
Peacock looked at Zheng Mingshang, but did not have hypocritical politeness, but said seriously.
"Sir, 80% of the market price of 100,000 pieces of cloth is more than one million yuan, which is a big deal.
But I have two requirements, one is to complete it all within one month, and the other is that the shrinkage of this linen fabric must not be higher than 150."
Zheng Mingshang couldn't help but breathe a little faster when he heard the peacock's words, and said,
"This is not a small deal. My father is not here. I need to hold a meeting to discuss for a few days before I can make a decision."
"Yes!" Peacock nodded, "But I can't wait indefinitely.
Sir, you should prepare a batch of about a thousand pieces of linen, and after one tenth, you will send it to the large shop in Gaoling for me to respond first.
If you want to come up with ten days, you will be willing to take on this business, so you will send another 5,000 stackcloths.
The remaining linen will be sent in one go next month, and all the money will be settled on the same day as the fabric is sent.
I will pay the money and deliver the goods in one hand. Of course, if you are not at ease, I can also make a business contract with you to give the Zheng family a guarantee."
"You must not be so!" Zheng Mingshang said after hearing the peacock's words, "I am your father anyway."
"But you cannot be the head of the Zheng family! This guarantee is not only for you, but also for the rest of the Zheng family!" said Peacock.
Hearing the peacock's words, Zheng Mingshang could only sigh.
If Zheng Mingshang really could control Zheng Fengchi's property, he would not have given his daughter to Li Tai as a maid because of Zheng Fengchi's decision.
Now my daughter can directly decide on the business with a total price of over 10 million and a profit of over one million.
But he still needs to discuss with everyone in the family, and this difference alone makes Zheng Mingshang feel a little ashamed.
Zheng Mingshang knew that this matter was considered the care of the peacock for his family, but when Zheng Mingshang gave the peacock to Li Tai, he never expected that the peacock would have such changes in less than a year.
After saying these things, Peacock didn't pay any attention to it, so he immediately said goodbye to Zheng Mingshang.
Zheng Mingshang immediately began to win over several houses of all sizes and began to discuss whether to do this project.
One hundred thousand pieces of linen, this is not a small amount.
Because linen is the lowest among all clothes, it is the clothes of ordinary people.
As the richest man in Chang'an who started his own cloth, the Zheng family must have a large amount of storage for this kind of cloth.
Even if there are only 50,000, the rest is enough to squeeze out inventory by relying on various channels in Chang'an.
However, the most important thing for the Zheng family is interests.
Only when they see this benefit can these two and three-bedroom Zheng family members work really, otherwise Zheng Fengchi will need to be in the Zheng family to be in a word.
This kind of discussion is naturally arguing for the Zheng family, and Zheng Fengchi also wants to take advantage of this opportunity to win over some tribe members who are willing to move closer to him and prepare for his future takeover of the Zheng family.
Zheng Fengchi chose Zheng Mingshang to sell his daughter to Li Tai, and he wanted to use Li Tai's power to stabilize Zheng Mingshang's position.
After all, after his death, his son's ability is not good and his personality is not tough enough, so he must find a backer for Zheng Mingshang.
In the future, after my death, I will be considered as finding a guardian for the Zheng family that can support at least ten years. As for a longer distance, it depends on Zheng Fengchi's choice.
This decade has been enough for Zheng Mingshang to master the Zheng family's industry and wealth. If you can't even do this, Zheng Fengchi feels that he should not count on Zheng Mingshang. Other children who have killed Zheng Mingshang and become the leader are probably more reliable.
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The benefits brought by Peacock in the Yue Palace are now faster than Zheng Mingshang expected. For Zheng Mingshang, this project can make him more at ease as the successor of Zheng Mansion, so no matter what,
It must be implemented.
Peacock itself has a complete cloth production line. It is not easy to expand its production capacity just by expanding it. Even if it wants to expand it, it will not be achieved overnight.
Because manpower needs to be cultivated, raw materials need to be collected, machinery needs to be tried, and more importantly, the market is the market.
For China in the feudal era, as long as it can change into two pieces of clothes every year and wrap itself tightly, it can basically be considered a rich peasant, and he is more or less a good family with acres of land at home!
For most people, it is normal to not be covered in clothes, and it is natural to spend the winter with a thin piece of clothing.
In other words, these refugees are not potential customers in the eyes of most cloth merchants.
Because they want to buy a new piece of clothing, they may have to save money for the previous year. In order to increase their manpower and equipment, they still sell the lowest-level linen and gauze cloth. For most cloth merchants,
It's really the job of the bottom-level cloth merchant.
Therefore, cloth shops are basically prepared for middle-aged and rich peasants. Ordinary people who have accumulated less than 200 citrus a year are not qualified to enter cloth shops.
Of course, this is just the money for cloth. If you want to buy a whole piece of clothing, you will need to reach 500 cents or even consistently.
This makes it difficult to integrate and expand the fabric production lines under the name of Peacock in a short period of time.
Because in the final analysis, the improvement of social productivity still requires further reduction in the cost and price of cloth.
At least Li Tai couldn't meet the requirements at all, because this could not be solved immediately by finding a way to find a way to find out what Jenny spinner or foot pedal loom.
These require sufficient textile materials, but unfortunately, all of these raw materials are in the hands of different families.
It is naturally no problem for Li Tai to make a small move to acquire it, but if it reaches a certain scale, it will definitely be stymied.
Another point is that all materials are basically economical plants.
Although other plants do not occupy too much resources except cotton, they have basically suffered natural disasters since Li Shimin ascended the throne.
This has led to the promotion of land cultivation for planting grain crops, and the implementation of cash crops has naturally slowed down.
Although as the population increases, cash crops are still gradually increasing due to market regulation, they are definitely not as highly respected as food crops.
Perhaps this is the case, so the great harvest of the four years of Zhenguan emerged.
Because the Tang Dynasty, which has been conservative for many years, has actually won a good harvest without illness.
This leads to the fact that this year there is no need to provide disaster relief everywhere like in previous years.
At the same time, no one expected that the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks would end completely this year.
Originally people predicted that it would be a war like a hundred years between the Han and the Hungarians, and it would be a peak collision between the two empires.
But no one expected that Li Jing, the four saints of the military gentry, made a grand appearance and directly destroyed the Eastern Turks with an incredible attitude. Even Jie Li Khan was captured to Chang'an to dance.
This made many families who store grains find that they have been storing them in their hands and intend to slowly exchange for political resources. If they don’t take action, they will probably rot in their warehouses.
So with multiple positive news, it seems incredible to just dry the grain until four or five cents per bullion.
Now, if Li Tai cannot directly extract resources, he can only solve the problem of cloth through large cloth merchants like the Zheng family in Chang'an. After all, money is easy to do, but the production of materials depends on the average social labor.
of time.
As time goes by, the drought remains the same. When it reaches June, the sun becomes hotter and hotter, making it unbearable.
Although the water levels of the Wei River and Jing River have not dropped significantly, the soil around the river has become somewhat white, and the soil is broken one by one after another after applying it. Obviously, at least the surface of the soil is quite dry and cannot solidify at all.
At the same time, sporadic refugees began to come along the river in groups of three or three, and then looked for their own chances in the big cities.
They ate grass-roots bark along the way, and occasionally ate relief food wrapped in fine sand and gravel for a few days to survive.
But all the refugees did not choose to give up, but continued to force themselves and come to Chang'an step by step.
Because Chang'an is the best place, if other cities may choose to close the city gates or even send soldiers to drive away the people.
But at the feet of the Emperor Chang'an, as long as there are no mice running inside the treasury, there will definitely be a porridge shed under Chang'an.
At least, let these people who are struggling to escape have a bowl of porridge a day so that they can survive by force.
The kind of monarch who escapes to other places and eats by themselves because of insufficient food, regardless of the lives of the people, would be fine if it was during the period of rising national strength, but in the period of downward national life, it would be basically no different from Yang Guang going to Yangzhou
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To be honest, when Li Tai really started to take over the people who fled to the Chang'an area due to drought, he soon discovered that compared with other disasters, the people who migrated due to drought were relatively unexpectedly orderly.
Originally, Li Tai thought that the disaster was a mob that would oppress the city to open the city walls, and then lose order and kill everything, destroying the tranquility of a city completely.
But in fact, this is not the case. The main people affected by drought are tenants and poor farmers.
They do not have their own land. When they are drought-affected generals, landlords and rich peasants, or even a large number of middle-aged peasants, they can rely on the land in their hands and the grain they have accumulated in their daily lives to force their support.
Some homes even have reservoirs that are stored in winter with snow, so they are not afraid of drought.
But for tenants and poor farmers who have no land and usually rely on helping and renting other people's land to make a living, the biggest problem caused by drought is that these people do not need tenants and hired farmers.
This directly made them who had no land and no survival information directly abandoned by the local society.
This is like an ordinary office worker who has no houses in modern cities. Under normal circumstances, the wages earned by selling labor can have a place in modern big cities.
Sometimes they were drinking coffee and standing on the tall buildings and looking at the beautiful neon lights, they thought that this gorgeous stage was prepared for their arrival.
But as long as the epidemic comes, all workers who don’t have a house will basically force the rent and living expenses to work at risk even if the epidemic is raging.
Because I can't live without work!
This is still the modern society. Faced with sudden natural disasters and man-made disasters, a strong government, a strong man willing to support the sky for the weak, and a people who work together to do their best to not drag themselves down, which has also consumed a lot of economic efforts.
The price of overcoming difficulties.
But in feudal society, it is impossible to fight against such natural disasters in several states and even the entire Guanzhong with the power of ordinary court governments, because this is not something that the lowest-level people with almost no survival information can resist.
With so much food stored, they planned to stay in the local area for a few more days to see if it would rain.
As long as it rains, even if you sell yourself as a slave, at least the landlord will prepay some of the food to keep you alive.
If they have little food to store and cannot even borrow it, they can only leave the local area.
Because they no longer have the capital to survive in the local area, they can only try to go to other different cities, even if they become refugees, they will do whatever they want because they want to survive.
Therefore, like other disasters, refugees are also constantly growing like snowballs.
But compared with other disasters, they will be relatively peaceful in the early stages, and it will be relatively easier to control these refugees.
If there are other earthquakes, plagues and floods, it will affect a large area in an instant. The people who have lost everything will be really a powder barrel that will ignite at any time.
But now, as long as the rules are formulated in the early stage and strictly formulated, the people who fled here due to drought can basically not cause trouble as long as they can find jobs that can make their own lives.
So in fact, Gaoling County, which was prepared early, did not have the difficulties that Li Tai expected to deal with these refugees.
But unlike other disasters, most of the other disasters are handled after the disaster, and some are the survivors of the disaster.
But facing the continuous drought at this moment, people need to endure the rain with their will in this despair.