Next to the inn is the largest dental shop in Jiaxing County. Li Xiaonan followed Li Wenru there with a well-behaved look. She watched as Li Wenru left a message and explained how to deliver the letter. Then she watched Li Wenru chatting with the dental shop for a while before leaving.
Come out.
At the door of the inn, a young man with a rich family appearance was jumping off his horse. Li Xiaonan hurriedly stopped.
Li Wenru hurriedly stepped over, stood in front of Li Xiaonan, and signaled her to leave quickly.
Chang Sui hurriedly relaxed the reins, took a step forward, bowed and held up his hands, "Girl." Then he turned to Li Wenru and said "Second Master" at the end of the sentence with a slightly rising tone, conveying the meaning of inquiry.
"Oh, yes, yes. You are here, so fast, come in, um, come in." Li Wenru wanted to bow in return, but before he could do so, he felt something was wrong and hurriedly straightened his upper body.
People call him the second master, so he has to show his identity as the master, otherwise he will become a gangster!
"Send the horse in first, young one, and then report it to the second master and the girl." Changsui bowed again and stepped back.
"Okay, okay." Li Wenru put one hand behind his back and waved the other to Chang Sui. He watched Chang Sui go to the stable nearby, tilted his head slightly towards Li Xiaonan, lowered his voice and asked: "You are from another industry? You
Do you know?"
"I don't know you. You don't need to know each other. People from other industries are all the same." Li Xiaonan also lowered her voice.
"Huh?" Li Wenru raised his eyebrows and nodded repeatedly, "When you said that, I realized it too!"
Li Xiaonan glanced sideways at her second cousin, pushed him into the inn.
The commander brought two letters with him. One was a reply from Gu Yan. The reply was very short. He said that after receiving the letter, he immediately sent people to investigate Hangzhou and several surrounding counties. All the weaving mills had stopped working.
Changshu and Wujiang were one day early and said that they had sent people to check other places.
Li Xiaonan read the official letter again and handed it to Wan Qing.
The other was a letter from Mrs. Shi. It was quite long. After reading one letter, Li Xiaonan felt as if she had read a beautifully written prose. What is the scenery like today and the style of the dock tomorrow? It is all nonsense from beginning to end.
Li Xiaonan held Mrs. Shi's letter in her hand and thought about it for a while. Then she leaned over and brought a pen and paper. Wan Qing hurriedly took the inkstone to grind the ink.
Li Xiaonan was thinking and writing. She followed Mrs. Shi's writing style and wrote all the time. She came up with a word count similar to that of Mrs. Shi's letter. Before the end, she hesitated for a while and wrote about the closure of the weaving mills in Changshu, Wujiang and Jiaxing counties.
I mentioned the matter in a few sentences and ended according to the format.
"Has your letter been written?" Li Xiaonan folded the letter and asked.
"No, let's write it now. We are very strict about keeping things concise and to the point, and don't talk nonsense. Do you believe me? Just like yesterday, we arrived in Jiaxing. There are as many weaving workshops in total and as many as we have stopped working. That'll be fine." Wan Qing took a piece of paper and Li Xiaonan's pen, and said as she wrote, she rewrote yesterday's report letter with the number of place names.
"You can add one more thing. Uncle Ertang and I just went to the dental shop next door and told us that we would collect as many weavers as we wanted, and we also asked the dental shop to help deliver letters to other prefectures and counties." Li Xiaonan added.<
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Wan Qing added two lines, finished it, picked it up, blew it, and folded the letter.
"My letter is going north, your letter is going south, take them together? Should you go south first or north first?" Li Xiaonan looked at Wan Qing who was leaning towards the oil lamp to burn the fire paint.
"Of course we'll go south first, and your letter is not in a hurry." Wan Qing carefully dropped paint on the seal and stamped the seal.
"Do you have to check all the letters that come in and out? Do you, the prince, read them?" Li Xiaonan asked in a low voice.
"Our prince has so many things to do, how busy he is. Now that he is with the prince, how can he find time to read your nonsense letter?" Wan Qing's mouth curled up into a horoscope.
"Who said this was a nonsense letter!" Li Xiaonan glared at Wan Qing.
"You said it yourself! You said it three times!" Wan Qing immediately shouted back.
"I'm being modest." Li Xiaonan snorted, "What about Shi Gun? Where's Shi Gun's servant? Where's Shi Gun's servant? You have to check the letters and things that come in and out of your house, right?"
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"What does it mean to come in and out through our house? Our house is not a delivery shop.
"The letter that the eldest lady gave you was handed over to our bieye, and the letter you gave to the eldest lady was handed over to us by the bieye. This is a matter of formal invitation to our prince, and our prince nodded! You
Do you think any cat or dog can instruct us to receive and deliver letters? Humph!" Wan Qing glanced sideways at Li Xiaonan.
"No one really reads it?" Li Xiaonan shook the letter in her hand.
Wan Qing gave Li Xiaonan a roll of her eyes.
"Give me the fire paint." Li Xiaonan motioned to Wan Qing.
"Do you have a seal?" Wan Qing handed over the fire paint.
"Use yours." Li Xiaonan followed Wan Qing's example and baked the fire paint on an oil lamp. She rolled up the envelope and put two drops on it, then borrowed Wan Qing's seal to stamp it on it.
The messenger who delivered the letter set off for the prince's residence that night. Early the next morning, Li Xiaonan and his party continued to go south to check and inquire about the local weaving mills, and left a message for the weavers in Yahang.
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When he received Wan Qing's third report, Gu Yan, accompanying the prince, had already left Hangzhou and entered Mingzhou.
Gu Yan handed Wan Qing's letter to the prince and clicked on the last line.
The prince scanned the two or three lines of the letter at a glance. Looking at the last sentence, the weavers will collect as many as there are, the prince laughed out loud, "She is proficient in magic, so she must not be able to calculate accounts. How much money does she have?"
How dare you say such words."
"She is very petty. This means that the weaving workshop is unwilling to let the weavers go out." Gu Yan said with a smile.
"Jiangnan Silk Company has more than 100,000 weavers under its name. Even if one tenth is released, it is still not a small number." The prince reminded.
"Let's see how she responds first." Gu Yan said with a smile.
"She can't handle it, and you are here." The prince patted Gu Yan and winked at him.
Gu Yan smiled and nodded.
After receiving Wan Qing's first letter, he discussed with Zhou Chennian that the Jiangnan Silk Industry almost stopped working in its weaving workshops. This must have been initiated from the top down. In all likelihood, this was started from the construction of the factory. Lecheng stretched out his hand.
If this is the case, the work stoppage is just the beginning. The weavers are not a big deal, but the silkworms in late autumn are the first step.
He originally planned to wait until the silkworms were harvested in late autumn before taking action, but the prince's schedule could not be postponed any longer.
Except for late autumn silkworms, if the Jiangnan weaving mills are shut down for a long time, the silk shipped to sea will be out of stock...
But as long as he takes a step back, he will definitely retreat step by step until the cleanup falls apart. After that, the corruption of the Customs and Excise Department and Jiangnan will definitely turn into a Bengali and be unstoppable from now on.
That time in the past, he acted arrogantly and was impeached, causing harm to the country and the people. It was not wrong.
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In a deep house in the east of Pingjiang City, Mr. Zhu, with a somewhat sallow complexion, was sitting on a large Zen chair. Next to him was a middle-aged man with slightly sunken eye sockets. He put his hands on his knees, leaned forward, and whispered about the weaving of various places. The shutdown situation of the mills, as well as the words of the weavers extending all the way south from Jiaxing County.
"What kind of relationship does Li Xiaonan have with the prince?" Mr. Zhu asked with a frown.
"When I first heard about this Li Xiaonan, my eldest brother asked Shopkeeper He. Shopkeeper He said that she was a friend of the Crown Prince. I heard from the government school that Li Xiaonan was proficient in Ge Zhi, especially in magic. She said that the Crown Prince had asked her for advice. The study of numbers.
"The most common legend in the market is that she is the prince's wild pet. My eldest brother said this is unheard of." The middle-aged man replied in a low voice.
"It is indeed a casual conversation. If the prince really loved beauty, he would have found her by his side a long time ago. What does she look like?" Mr. Zhu asked again.
"Beautiful and sweet, like spring flowers." the middle-aged man replied.
He just took the opportunity to take a closer look a while ago.
Old Mrs. Zhu hummed in a low voice, "Since she has told us to take away the weavers, the prince must have a plan to respond. He will use the government to suppress us and force us to keep the weavers no matter whether we stop working or not. If we don't, we will keep the weavers." , we will be forced to resell it."
"Well, I'm afraid it won't work if we let the weavers go to the government to cause trouble." The middle-aged man sighed.
"You actually have such a plan? Stupid!" Mrs. Zhu cursed rudely, "Let the weaving workshop release some apprentices and stupid people to the tooth shop, let them buy it!
"Remember, none of the weavers who can manage the threads and threads are allowed to be let out, and no experienced weavers are allowed to be let out, but no one who can handle a knitting machine alone is allowed to be let out."
"Otherwise, don't let it go. They are all married, and they are just eating for free. Any weaving shop can afford it." The middle-aged man frowned.
"Stupid!" Mr. Zhu glanced at the middle-aged man, "This is not to make them unable to support themselves, but to consume their money! Just do as I say!"
"So that's it! My son understands." The middle-aged man suddenly understood and nodded quickly.
