Hong Zhenye followed his father, Hong Shian, into the carpentry shop.
"Who are you looking for?"
The apprentice who was learning to make Luban Suo stood up in the yard and asked with a smile.
"Is your head of business here? I want to do some business with him." Mr. Hong Shi'an said with a smile.
"Here! Please wait a moment." The young apprentice responded with a smile and raised his voice: "Master, there is a man who wants to discuss business with you."
"Look at this kid, you can't even ask someone what their last name is!"
With a scolding, a slightly hunched old man came out of the house.
"My surname is Hong." Mr. Hong raised his hands and said with a smile.
"The child is ignorant, please forgive me, Mr. Hong." The old man hurriedly returned the gift and leaned forward to let Mr. Hong and his party into the room. "Please come in and talk. My surname is Zhang."
Master Hong entered the room, and the two met Li again. They made way twice, and each sat down. The young apprentice made tea and served it.
"We came from Pingjiang City. We came to see Zhang Xingshou because we wanted to talk to him about the business of the heddle loom." Mr. Hong leaned forward slightly and got straight to the point.
"Master Hong, are you planning to take action on the heddle loom?" Zhang Xingshou asked.
"It's not about selling, it's about buying." Mr. Hong laughed.
Zhang Xingshou was a little surprised.
In Linhai Town, almost everyone from the Jiangnan Silk Shop was arrested. President Zhu’s home was confiscated, and two people from their Silk Shop in Changzhou County were also locked up and taken away. They are still detained in Linhai Town today.
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This is the most annoying thing in their Cheung Chau County recently. Everyone said that this incident is probably the same as the 50% tax rate increase 40 or 50 years ago, and more than half of the weaving mills
I am afraid that they will not be able to continue operating, but many weaving workshops have already rushed to transfer their looms, weavers, cocoons for the coming year and silk threads ordered from Yangzhou.
"It can be old or new, three or four is the best, no more than six. As long as the price is right, I will take as much as I can," Mr. Hong said with a smile.
"Master Hong runs a weaving workshop?" Zhang Xingshou couldn't help but ask.
"The main business of the trumpet is tea, and it also does some timber business." Mr. Hong said with a smile.
"Then Mr. Hong plans to open a weaving workshop?" Zhang Xingshou asked again.
"That's right." Mr. Hong laughed.
"Have Master Hong heard about what happened in Linhai Town?" Zhang Xingshou looked at Master Hong, very puzzled.
"I heard that we have quite a few weaving workshops in Changzhou County. Are they all okay?" Master Hong asked back.
"How can it be good? It's not good. Master Hong really plans to take away the heald loom?" Zhang Xingshou was even more puzzled.
"Yes. I brought the deed. As long as the price is right, the more looms the better." Mr. Hong pointed to the steward standing next to him.
"There are several weaving workshops that plan to sell their looms, and they asked me to pay attention. I thought it would be difficult to sell them, so I didn't ask the price. Otherwise, I will ask them to come over and talk about it in person?" Although Zhang Xingshou said
I'm confused, but I have to seize this opportunity quickly.
"Okay!" Master Hong readily agreed.
Zhang Xingshou came out and asked his young apprentice to find a few more people. He quickly spread the word and called for others, and also asked several senior practitioners to come over.
Hong Zhenye stood nearby, absent-minded and depressed. He watched his father and the old steward negotiate the price and quantity of old looms with several weaving shops, and then set the price and monthly delivery quantity of new looms with the wood shop.
,sign the deed.
The steward stayed and went to each weaving workshop to check and accept the old looms. Hong Zhenye and his father got in the car and rushed to Wujiang County.
After getting in the car, Mr. Hong looked at Hong Zhenye and said, "Tell me about Zhang Xingshou, let me see your eyesight."
"Dad, Weng Weng really doesn't want me to study?" Hong Zhenye didn't answer his father's question and asked with aggrieved words.
"Didn't I tell you clearly? It's not that I won't let you study, but I won't let you just study and ignore other things. You have to learn to take care of the family business." Mr. Hong said.
"You have to concentrate when you study. This is what Weng Weng said, and you also said it! Now that I am asked to take care of business, how can I concentrate on it?" Hong Zhenye almost screamed.
"If you concentrate on studying, who will support you? Who will support the family? How old is your Wengweng? I can't support you for a lifetime, your father. If you don't learn to take care of the family business now, when you Wengweng is gone, your father will
I'm gone too, what should you do?" Mr. Hong raised his hand and slapped Hong Zhenye on the head.
"What should I do? My family's property is enough to last me a lifetime. Besides, my cousins are in charge of things." Hong Zhenye was extremely depressed.
"Nonsense! If you don't learn how to manage property and business from me, how can you teach your son if you don't know how to do it? Wouldn't it mean that you will be sitting on nothing all your life, and your son will only be sitting on nothing if he follows you? An industry as big as a mountain is like a mountain.
How many years can our family last with this little property?
"How dare you stare at me, you bastard!
"I tell you why you are sitting on nothing. It's because if you don't take care of the property and business, you don't know that money is hard to make, and you don't know that people's hearts are sinister, so you will definitely spend extravagantly. You will be deceived by others at will. It's not that you are short-changed, but that you are deceived by others. You are ignorant and extravagant.
Sold out!
"This is one and two. Your cousin has his own parents, wife and children. How can he treat you like me and you? They can only think about their own little family.
"Thirdly, if you don't know how to manage, the managers will definitely fool you and try every means to turn the property they are taking care of into their own. There will be no loyal servants!
"If you don't learn how to manage property and business with me now, when you and I are gone, you won't even be able to eat in a few years.
"You bastard!" Mr. Hong slapped Hong Zhenye again.
"Then I have to study for a few more years. How old am I? Also, didn't Weng Weng say that I have a good fortune and will be a noble person in the sun? I can at least become a scholar." Hong Zhenye was slapped one after another by his father.
The beating made her shrink her neck and her voice became much lower.
"You have asked someone to read it for you. That noble person of yours is your daughter-in-law. This is the only noble person in your life. Don't think about being a scholar. Just take a good look at the account book." Mr. Hong stuffed the account book into Hong Zhenye's arms.
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"Ah! When Weng Weng asked me to marry Yinzhu, he clearly told me that Yinzhu would be a prosperous husband and that he could make me a scholar..."
"Don't believe everything you say, Weng Weng." Mr. Hong patted his son and said, "Take a good look at the account book."
