After all, Zheng Haizhu was from the perspective of a later generation, and he immediately understood that there was a huge difference between serving as an internal manufacturing organization for the palace and supplying goods to Emperor Wanli to be sold to foreigners.
The former is a supplier of royal supplies, and the latter is like a contract factory affiliated with state-owned foreign trade.
The former not only requires the weavers to be incorporated into the craftsmen's households of the Weaving Bureau and hand over textiles, porcelain, tea, etc., but also the intrigues of various factions in the palace, the use of opportunities by the beloved concubines to find trouble, and the exploitation of large and small eunuchs for profit will all bring about
There are endless troubles. If any link is not handled well, the tribute items will be returned. There will be no credit, just hard work. If not, you may even be fined and imprisoned.
The latter, as a state-owned foreign trade agreement factory, is different. For example, fabrics from the Jiangnan side are mostly shipped to Yuegang, Fujian. The eunuch in charge collaborates with the local government-run dental shop to sell them to merchants and transport them directly by sea ship without passing through.
The capital will then release the silver earned from selling goods to the emperor's inner treasury.
In short, the man in front of me, Mr. Liu Shimin and Mr. Liu, can take charge of the overall situation and complete these orders by himself, so even if he has to take care of it, that is, Mr. Liu and his team, it will not be that troublesome.
Thinking of this, Zheng Haizhu felt a clear joy rise in her chest.
When she came to the Han family, she really didn't eat and drink around. In the past few months, she was not only focused on opening a kindergarten, but actually made new products with the masters of the Han family's weaving workshop.
Cotton is soft, sweat-absorbent, not delicate, and has advantages that satin does not have. The 30/70 fusion of velvet and cotton takes into account both practicality and beauty, making Songjiang cotton and Zhangzhou velvet complement each other.
Although this kind of innovation is not so grand, whether it is the facial cleansing towels purchased by the Songjiang Mansion Post House to receive senior officials, or today it is recognized by the dignified Suhang Weaving Supervisor and Eunuch, it shows that this small product of the Han family is successful.
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Of course, I have to thank one person: Yan Siqi.
If it weren't for Yan Siqi taking out the velvet shawl with a sunrise on the sea that looked like an oil painting on Daishan Island, Zheng Haizhu might not have had concrete inspiration.
After Zheng Haizhu thanked her ex-boyfriend Yan Siqi from the bottom of her heart, she hurriedly bowed a deep blessing to Liu Shimin and said with a face of joy and gratitude: "My father-in-law can like this veil, my master, and
I don’t know how happy these weavers should be. My wife, my wife is stupid..."
She was overjoyed to return, but she did not forget how moved she had just heard the word "lime" in the dye.
While flattering and thinking about how to change the subject, Liu Shimin said: "However, I won't hide it from your family. I don't know whether it can facilitate this matter. Our family will have to rush back in two days.
Capital Master, please apologize to the Holy One. Alas, it seems that I caused trouble in your Songjiang Mansion."
Zheng Haizhu thought to himself, most powerful people are very tight-lipped. If they express their feelings in front of a humble citizen like himself, it may be because the matter can be talked about in public. If he does not take up the issue, he will appear to be indifferent.
Then he responded with concern: "Ah? Is there some ignorant person in our Songjiang Mansion who offended Eunuch Liu?"
Liu Shimin did not answer immediately, but walked out of the computer room.
Then he said to Zheng Haizhu who had followed him: "We have the son of an old friend, his surname is Yu, and he lives in Qingpu. He bought a painting by Wen Zhengming from a broker this year, and he didn't want to find out later that the painting was a forgery. After a while, , the broker was even more courageous and went to a cultural gathering to continue to shout about the fake Wumen paintings. Master Yu happened to be there and stepped forward to expose it, and the two had a dispute. Several of the literati were admiring some Japanese swords at the time. , Mr. Yu stabbed the broker to death with a knife. Our family felt that the broker had repeatedly committed crimes and was a vicious and evil man. Mr. Yu had some intention of eliminating harm for the people, so our family was just like Suzhou. The prefect discussed whether he could be sentenced to manslaughter. Alas, somehow the censors in Nanjing found out, and they immediately filed a petition to impeach our family for bending the law for personal gain and manipulating lawsuits."
Zheng Haizhu lowered his head and listened carefully.
It is not unprecedented for weaving eunuchs to intervene in local lawsuits.
Nowadays, the officials in the two capitals are thinking every day about how to shut down several weaving bureaus in Jiangnan, just to supervise the eunuchs. This time, they are just looking for this excuse to give Eunuch Liu some color, right?
Zheng Haizhu then tried to say: "Eunuch Liu is in charge of such a huge matter for Long Live Lord, so it is impossible for him to completely ignore the local criminal prosecution. Furthermore, although I am stupid, I hear that Yu Young Master, it was indeed manslaughter. In fact, there is only one word difference between intentional killing and manslaughter."
Liu Shimin's expression changed: "What's the one-character difference?"
"Killing is therefore a matter of 'using' the knife. Killing by mistake is 'throwing' the knife."
Liu Shimin carefully examined it, his eyebrows widened, his eyes suddenly filled with admiration, and he sighed: "What a knife-throwing murderer! Our family knows how to tell the Lord. Miss Zheng is indeed what Magistrate Zhuang and General Xiaoma said, He came from a scholar's family, hehe, hehe..."
Zheng Haizhu thought to himself, I have to seize this God-given opportunity today for Brother Zhang Dai and Sister He.
So he humbly said: "My father-in-law is ridiculous. In fact, the common people are just borrowing the wisdom of their predecessors. For example, this method of weaving fake weft loops into cotton cloth would have been impossible without the modification of the loom by Huang Daopo from Songjiang. It couldn't be done. As for the difference between using a knife and throwing a knife, the young woman also heard it in the book. There was a county master who wanted to exonerate a chivalrous man who was doing harm to the people. The master asked him to write a confession like this and submit it to In the prefectural government office, the knight was indeed convicted of manslaughter and was able to survive."
Liu Shimin smiled and said: "Then you also need to be able to learn and apply it."
The atmosphere was so harmonious that Zheng Haizhu felt that the heat was almost over and suddenly knelt down on her knees.
"Eunuch Liu, the common women are brave, please ask your father-in-law to solve a mystery for the common women."
"Ah?" Liu Shimin raised his hand to her, "What do you want to ask our family? Get up and speak slowly. Don't panic."
Zheng Haizhu then stood up and calmed down, starting from the time when he was running for the nuns to kill the eucalyptus and found that there were no insects and ants around the bloody soil. He also mentioned that he had just heard Eunuch Liu teach him the key points of adding lime to red dye. It was like an enlightenment, which made him more and more sure. The murder scene was carefully planned.
As Liu Shimin listened, the Maitreya smile that always hung on his face disappeared, and his expression changed to one of deep contemplation.
"Miss Zheng, let's ask you directly, how many people avoid murderers? Are you rushing to help the Zhang family because you want to make friends with famous people and earn a good future for yourself?"
Zheng Haizhu replied calmly: "Eunuch Liu, if I say that I make friends with the intention of being close to Zhu Zhi, it is also true. The white head is as new and the head is as old as ever. Mr. Zhang takes good care of my friends when they meet by chance.
She has no intention of repaying a favor, and she is so concerned about the safety of his old servants. This shows that her temper is as clear as a spring. My wife really appreciates this kind of man and wants to try her best to help, but she is no more than an ant. I just listened to my father-in-law.
After talking about the incident of Mr. Yu from the neighboring county, the young woman was suddenly pleasantly surprised. She thought that her father-in-law had the function of supervising the jailers, and he was so clear in judging right from wrong and did not wrong the virtuous. Therefore, regardless of whether it was appropriate or not, she asked her father-in-law for help.
Already."
Liu Shimin stared into Zheng Haizhu's eyes.
It was rare for an ordinary person to talk to him without averting his gaze.
Not only does this woman have good eyes, but she is also very good at talking. The last sentence, there is no sense of propriety, it is obviously just right.
It actually gave myself a wake-up call.
He, Liu Shimin, had already been impeached by the imperial censor for interfering with the local prison for plundering people in Qingpu County. If the nun in Shanghai County was really wronged, and with the participation of his father-in-law Liu, the real murderer was brought to justice, then in front of Emperor Wanli, the two
Let’s take out all the cases and talk about them together, focusing on the cases where the injustice was done, and using the case of Qingpu as a supplement. The Holy Spirit should think that in these small counties in the south of the Yangtze River, the prisons are not clear, and those who have the status of imperial envoys of the Heavenly Family
Interrogation by internal officials is a kind act of correction.
Thinking of this, Liu Shimin said in a deep voice: "Today at Youshi, you bring the Zhang brothers to the inn where I am staying."
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It was another sunny morning, and the sunshine was shining brightly on the houses and bluestone streets of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, but the chill in the air seemed to be getting stronger.
A sturdy local man drove a mule cart and stopped in front of Hu Ji Dyeing Workshop.
The gate of the courtyard was wide open, and a young man came out of the courtyard upon hearing the sound of a mule's bell.
"Ajun, has the county master convicted the murderous nun from Jiulian Temple?"
The strong man asked curiously while unloading the bamboo basket full of Huzhou raw silk from the mule cart.
The boy named Arjun shook his head and said, "Not yet."
The strong man smiled evilly: "She is so good-looking, maybe the county boss couldn't bear it. He sentenced her randomly and sent her to the outside. He made up an excuse for her death from illness along the way, and then secretly brought her back and entered the bridal chamber with him. Ah!
Ah, the county master is already in his fifties, and he can sleep with a pretty nun in his youth, tsk tsk, what a feeling..."
Ajun's eyes widened: "You leprosy-headed second, don't say that to the little master's wife."
"Oh my god, I'm fifteen and have a strong waist. I'm looking for a pretty nun to fall into bed with. Ah Jun, you're craving for spring and your heart aches for a beautiful nun."
When the strong man was about to continue his dirty talk, a fat woman walked up to him. Her face was bigger than the bamboo plaque in Canhu's house. She smiled and cursed at the strong man: "I miss you, my wife, so good? Don't talk nonsense."
Si, you are not serious anymore. Come in quickly and count the first batch of dyed silk. You are a craftsman registered with the imperial court after all. If you delay in doing things, you are not afraid of being slapped by the imperial court."
The strong man salivated and said, "Don't be afraid. After the beating, I will feel sorry for you, sister."
When the two of them entered the spacious courtyard flirting like this, Ajun and other dyers had already pulled out ten or twenty baskets of dyed lake silk of various colors, red, orange, yellow, blue and green. The unique delicacy of silk shone in the sun.
The luster is really beautiful.
The strong man stopped being glib at this time, but took off the baggage he was carrying, took out the flower book wrapped with colored thread, squatted down, picked up the colored thread, and compared it carefully.
Each of the three counties of Songjiang Prefecture has a brocade workshop that submits tribute brocades to the Suzhou Weaving Bureau. This strong man is the weaver at the brocade workshop in Shanghai County. He and his companions are responsible for nearly a hundred colors of raw silk and are assigned to five counties in the county.
Six dyeing houses with excellent craftsmanship.
The brocade patterns supplied to the palace were determined by the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, and the colors could not be wrong at all. If the color inspection in the dyeing workshop was sloppy, both the flower master and the weaver head would be punished and their wages deducted.
After checking carefully for more than half an hour, the strong man stood up, rubbed his eyes, beat his buttocks, and said to the fat woman with a flattering look on his face: "Sister Hu, your dyeing skills are reliable. Come on, even Suzhou
The eunuch of the Weaving Bureau is standing here now, and he can't make a mistake."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a commotion outside the door to drive passersby away.
"Hu Guihua, Eunuch Liu, the weaving admiral, is here. Please kneel down with your guys to greet us!"
The gray-bearded man quickly trotted into the hospital and scolded.
After everyone in the dyeing workshop was frightened for a moment, they quickly threw away their work and knelt down.
The strong man who came to collect the silk lowered his head and stared at the ground, spitting in his mind: When talking about eunuchs, come eunuchs, how come you never give me money when you are nagging about money!
The admiral eunuch Liu Shimin, still wearing a simple Songjiang cloth robe, entered the courtyard.
This time, he did not wear his usual kind smile, but walked to the colored silk basket expressionlessly, looking at it with his hands behind his back.
Hu Guihua, the hostess of Hu Ji Dyeing House, heard a frosty voice above her head: "Are these baskets dyed by Xiuye, Huangjinhua and Bigye Rong?"
Hu Guihua moved her knees and said solemnly: "If I go back to my father-in-law, it was these dyes that dyed it."
"Is it the color the palace wants?" Liu Shimin asked again.
Hu Guihua pointed to the strong man lying on the side: "Father, that brother is a craftsman in our county's brocade workshop, in charge of colored silk."
Liu Shimin said "Oh", turned to the strong man and asked: "Is the color right?"
The strong man trembled and held up the sample of colored silk: "To return to my father-in-law, the sleeve leaves are dyed in eight colors including autumn fragrance, tooth yellow, and honey color, the yellow gold flower is dyed in amber, Garro, brown black, and coal black, and the ocher dyed by big-leaf banyan tree.
Ox blood red and sandalwood red are all correct."
Liu Shimin took the book, flipped through it, nodded and said: "The dyeing is good, especially the ox-blood red of the large-leaf fig. The blood color is very positive. The amount of lime added has made the dyers pay attention."
Hu Guihua seemed to be appreciating her own craftsmanship, so she felt a little relieved and thanked her repeatedly.
Liu Shimin ignored her and continued to ask the strong man: "The brocade workshops in Shanghai County all follow the rules set by the bureau, right? A certain color can only be sent to one dyeing workshop."
The strong man nodded repeatedly.
Liu Shimin asked again: "The ox-blood red Dayerong is the only one owned by Hu Jiran?"
The strong man didn't understand why the powerful father-in-law kept asking this question. He glanced at Hu Guihua and saw that her face seemed to change slightly.
Could it be that this old lady is out of her mind and secretly used the special colors ordered by the government to dye silk and cloth for other people?
At this time, of course, the strong man had to clarify his relationship first and show that he was a craftsman who was familiar with the rules, so he replied firmly: "My father-in-law, the most beautiful colors used by Long Live the Lord and the nobles in the palace, let alone us
Ordinary people, even the civil servants and the non-members, dare not use it. For example, in the flower book of the bureau, colors such as moxa blue, autumn fragrance, coal black, and brown black can be worn by the people. Even in smaller dyehouses in the county,
There are also similar colors, and I went to the silk merchants and cloth merchants to dye them, but the craftsmanship was inferior. But for the colors of oxblood red and carmine red in the flower book, I ordered a dyer, and other dyes could not even be saved.