After lunch, the group set off for Wujiang County and arrived at Wujiang County in the evening. Around noon the next day, they rushed from Wujiang County to Jiaxing County.
Jiaxing is a large county, and it is also a place where silkworms are reared and cocoons are produced. There are a total of forty-six weaving mills in the county. Every well-known silk shop in Jiangnan has a weaving mill in Jiaxing.
Without exception, all these weaving workshops have stopped working.
Like Changshu County and Wujiang County, the weaving mills owned by the dozen or so largest silk merchants were the first to stop work, one day earlier than Changshu and Wujiang Counties. Dozens of other small weaving mills followed the dozen or so large weaving mills.
Days or two days later, work was stopped.
Li Xiaonan sat on the porch, turning her head and looking around.
As usual, they booked a small courtyard, which was a very large inn. This small courtyard was connected to the small courtyard, and the two-story lobby in front was at least three or four yards away from their small courtyard.
You can't see her from the second floor of the lobby. The courtyard is surrounded by houses. As long as you don't quarrel at the top of your voice, you can't hear her outside in the courtyard.
"Uncle Er Tang." Li Xiaonan raised her voice and shouted.
Li Wenru was chatting with A Wu and hurriedly responded.
Li Xiaonan looked at the second uncle who had a scholarly atmosphere. The first uncle said that the second uncle was very knowledgeable and they might be able to discuss it.
Li Wenru went up the steps, and Li Xiaonan stood up and pulled a chair next to her.
Li Wenru sat down and looked at the depressed Li Xiaonan. Before he could speak, Li Xiaonan said: "Uncle Ertang, the weaving mills in these three counties have stopped working at the same time. How is it such a coincidence?"
"A coincidence? How can there be such a coincidence! It must have been agreed upon." Li Wenru clicked his tongue.
"What's the benefit of stopping work after discussing it?" Li Xiaonan looked at Li Wenru.
"The Crown Prince will definitely not tell you this." Li Wenru chuckled and lowered his voice, "Linhai Town has hidden dragons and crouching tigers! Ever since the Crown Prince bloodbathed Linhai Town..."
"Ah?" Li Xiaonan was frightened by the word "bloodbath".
"This is an analogy, not a real bloodbath. Think about it, the prince used his quickness and ruthlessness to seize all the people from the Jiangnan Silk Shop and the Customs and Excise Department, who were in the silk business.
It is said that all the silk shops in Jiangnan are destined to be bloodbathed by the prince!"
Li Wenru clicked his tongue again.
"The people in their silk shop said that the prince's bloodbath was to change the rules, just like the old Prince Rui. Not to mention other things, even if they changed the two trips to the pier in one,
Just this one thing, I have to let the Silk House suffer from it. Just this one thing, that is gold and silver!
"I'm telling you, cutting off a person's wealth is like killing his father. This is wrong!"
Li Wenru pulled the corners of his mouth downwards.
"Ah Nan, my second uncle tells you that there is no comparison between killing one's father and destroying one's wealth. For the sake of wealth, Yi Ya even steamed his son in a steamer. If Lord Heng wants to eat meat, it will always be chewy.
, Yi Ya must have killed his father and then used his mother as a nuisance!
"What a person loves most must be his own children, not his parents. This is human nature. Children can be evaporated and buried, let alone parents.
"These people can even kill their own children, just for the sake of wealth. Killing the father is nothing. Cutting off people's wealth and hindering their future is the real fight to death, tusk!"
Li Xiaonan looked at her second cousin's uncle speechlessly. What her second cousin uncle said was right, but he was also very capable of going off topic!
"You mean they agreed to stop work because the prince wanted to cut off their financial resources?" Li Xiaonan brought the topic back.
"Yes! This happened once. At the time of Prince Rui, the weaving mills unified the 50% tax. Those weaving mills that originally paid the 20% to 30% tax stopped working together. Alas." Li Wenru sighed.
The taste is similar to his tsk.
"Did it work?" Li Xiaonan asked knowingly.
"Of course it didn't work, but it was different then. At that time, some weaving mills paid 50%, and some paid 20% to 30%. Because of this, the silk shop was noisy all day long, and those weaving mills that paid 20% to 30% stopped working.
At that time, the weaving mills that paid 50% rushed up and robbed them of their points. Hey!"
"There are still many weavers who are out of work." Li Xiaonan said.
"At that time, there were still many weavers who didn't have a personal indenture. They wanted to come and go. They didn't have any work because they were unwilling to sell their bodies. Now all weavers carry a personal indenture." p>
Li Xiaonan hummed in a low voice, "What do you think, second uncle, of this stoppage?"
"That's hard to say. It depends on whether the prince is willing to give in. Can you tell the prince's temper?" Li Wenru asked in a low voice.
Li Xiaonan shook her head, "Uncle Er Tang, according to what you said, they stopped working to compete with the Crown Prince. So before this competition is decided, they will stop working, but they will not resell the weavers, right?
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"Yes, yes! You think so quickly." Li Wenru raised his eyebrows.
"If they don't resell the weavers, they won't pay them wages. They let the weavers starve and then let them go make trouble." Li Xiaonan continued.
Li Wenru was stunned for a moment, and then nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, that's for sure!"
"Uncle Ertang, do you think that if we let out word that we will collect all the weavers, will there be people competing with us to collect the weavers?" Li Xiaonan continued.
"Definitely! Almost no one in Linhai Town and Pingjiang City knows that the Crown Prince treats you differently. There are also many people who know that the Crown Prince has asked you for advice, made friends with you, etc. There are people who have been following you for a long time.
Whatever business we do behind us, they will do whatever business we do." Li Wenru nodded and replied.
"Then how many weavers do you think we can take in if we let go?" Li Xiaonan looked sad, "I'm too scared.
"My original plan was to have two or three weavers in small counties and five or six in large counties, and they would take turns going to each township and village to teach everyone weaving. If I let go now, it would be in our hands.
There must be more than two, three, five or six weavers.
"Weavers are too expensive. What should I do if I don't have that much capital?"
"Don't worry about this!" Li Wenru stretched his upper body forward, "You asked me to follow you, didn't I just come to act as your money bag?"
"How much money can Uncle Er Tang have? A hundred weavers would have to have over a thousand silver!" Li Xiaonan curled her lips.
"Second uncle doesn't have much silver, but you, Weng Weng, have a lot of money. Second uncle secretly told you that although your second uncle doesn't know how much silver you, Weng Weng, have, your second uncle once saw you touching gold in exchange for it.
If it turns into silver, at least over ten thousand!" Li Wenru chuckled.
"Then what did I say before you came? How about we try to spread the word first?" Li Xiaonan looked at Li Wenru.
"It's best to let the word out first. Otherwise, if someone breaks the news to the tooth shop before us, then we will have to follow them and pick out their leftovers.
"It just so happens that Jiaxing County is a big county. I will go to the dental shops right now and ask them to send messages to various dental shops for us. They deliver messages quickly from one shop to another."
Li Wenru stood up as he spoke.
"I'll go with my second uncle." Li Xiaonan stood up and followed Li Wenru out.
