Ming Zuo

Chapter 290
The flowers on the temples of the cloud are shaking, and the hibiscus is warming the spring night.

The spring night is short and the day is high, and since then the king will not go to court early.

Xu Ruolin didn't know how she woke up.

Obviously the body is very tired, but the spirit is very refreshing.

The long eyelashes trembled and trembled, and when they opened, they met the man's gentle and focused eyes.

In an instant, everything from last night came back to her memory, causing her to groan and just want to hide under the blanket.

Zuo Menggeng came up and whispered in her ear.

"Father-in-law and mother-in-law have been waiting for a long time."

Xu Ruolin was hot all over, and realized that she was going to be a joke, so she hurriedly sat up.As a result, she was very happy, but also unbearably shy, it was really a dilemma.

At the thought of being considered a troublesome woman, she was so anxious that she almost cried.

Zuo Menggeng hugged her and comforted her: "Today is our wedding day, everyone understands."

Zuo Menggeng hugged her domineeringly and turned around the screen, it turned out that the incense barrel for bathing had already been prepared.

When the two came to the main hall to meet the elders, they couldn't help being ridiculed by the brothers and sisters, and it was quite lively again.

Seeing a pair of Bi people, talented and beautiful, Liu Zongzhou was very pleased.

"Getting married and starting a business is the beginning of a man. From now on, we big guys will feel at ease."

Everyone knew what he meant and agreed with him.

"From then on, people's hearts are stable. What Zhongheng refers to is invincible."

Li Banghua abducted his old wife and nephew, and he was most enthusiastic.

In the past, Zuo Menggeng only had the name of a general, and he was a mere teenager. He always gave people the feeling that his name was not right, his words were not smooth, and things were not going well.

Now that they are married, their heirs will not be far away.Those who follow him will naturally have hope, and they are not afraid of the collapse of the great cause.

The biggest benefit of Zuo Menggeng's marriage this time is not to stabilize the hearts of the people inside, but to increase the number of allies.

In the afternoon of the same day, cloth merchants from Songjiang Mansion paid a visit regardless of the time.

Zuo Menggeng's cooperation with the Xu family, the Pan family, and the Qu family, as time goes by, the more the local cloth merchants know, the more excited they become.

Even if you can't participate in the production and operation of stockings, at least you must find a way to obtain hydraulic drive devices.

Otherwise, if things go on like this, they will definitely lose their advantage and be gradually eliminated.

All the families in Songjiang Mansion are closely connected, and they have deep ties with each other, and some have reasons to get involved.

Looking at the big families and celebrities and gentry gathered together, for some reason, Zuo Menggeng suddenly linked his marriage with a certain wedding in later generations.

That wedding was called Sino-US cooperation by people at that time, and it had a great impact on Chinese history.

Why does my own marriage have that smell now?
Although that marriage brought about the collusion of imperialism, the comprador class, and the feudal landlord class, my own marriage brought about the alliance of Qilu military forces, new industrial entities, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang industry and commerce.

He quickly warned himself in his heart that this alliance is progressive, but it is different from the "Sino-US cooperation" in that the real advantage lies with me.

With the pretext of Zuo Menggeng's big wedding, the atmosphere is very good.

Chen Jiru took the lead and gave Zuo Menggeng a congratulatory gift.

"Watching the ceremony yesterday, I deeply admired General Zuo and his wife's pioneering of customs. It is a good story. The old man is not respectful. I have a copy, and General Zuo will accept it."

Chen Jiru gave Zuo Menggeng a painting, which was nothing but the scene of yesterday's wedding.

At that time, Chen Jiru was a guest. After seeing it, he drew it when he went back.

Zuo Menggeng thanked him for picking it up, opened it and was overjoyed.

Needless to say, Chen Jiru's paintings are composed of ink and wash, but the dots are exquisite and the brushwork is delicate, making the whole painting lifelike and true to life.

Chen Jiru's paintings of later generations are all priceless treasures, and it is hard to find a painting even in this world.

It is not difficult to see that Chen Jiru wanted everything.

"My elders in Songjiang all make a living by spinning cotton. This business is related to the life and death of the people in Songjiang. I also ask General Zuo to take care of millions of people's livelihood and give me advice."

The others echoed one after another, waiting for Zuo Menggeng to respond.

It can be said that what he said today will have an earth-shaking impact on the cotton spinning industry in Songjiang Prefecture.

Facing everyone's eyes, Zuo Menggeng had no reason not to seize this opportunity.

This period of thinking has allowed him to sort out his thoughts.

Although Shandong is sparsely populated and has vast land, its technology and industry fields have never been comparable to those of Jiangnan.

In the absence of independent development, choosing to cooperate with the cotton textile industry in Songjiang Prefecture is definitely a profitable strategy.

However, as a semi-mature politician, Zuo Menggeng will not only look at this cooperation from an economic point of view.

First of all risk factors need to be minimized.

What is the danger?

Songjiang Mansion is too far away from Shandong, and his military power cannot interfere here.

Once there is any change, it will be too late.

Under such circumstances, how to strengthen the confidence of everyone in the Songjiang Mansion is very important.

"Songjiang Cotton Spinning is number one in the world. As an outsider, it is a great honor for the younger generation to be recognized by the seniors. However, the younger generation has some shallow opinions, and I would like to ask the seniors to clarify."

When the main show came, everyone cheered up.

Zuo Menggeng looked around and asked: "Songjiang cotton cloth is sold all over the world and is very popular. Everyone knows this. But I don't know how the seniors have benefited? Can you be satisfied?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, quite hesitant in their hearts, not knowing whether they should reveal the details.

For cotton spinning, everyone in Songjiang Mansion is of course very self-confident.

But if you want to say how much you can earn by relying on cotton spinning, everyone is really not as good as the surface.

"My nephew doesn't know anything, let alone cotton cloth. Any goods that are sold in a distant place must pass customs along the way, and the taxes and fees are heavy. Moreover, strong dragons do not overwhelm local snakes. I just want someone to buy cotton cloth. As for where to sell it, there is nothing I can do about it." .”

Pan Yunlong's bitter words revealed all the difficulties of the cloth merchants in Songjiang Prefecture.

When later generations commented on the commerce in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty, the general view was that the industry and commerce in Jiangnan was developed and created massive wealth.

However, Zuo Menggeng knew that most of the wealth created by Jiangnan's industry and commerce was exploited and robbed after seeing it on the spot.

Why do you say that?

Because the humble industry and commerce cannot open up business routes on their own, they must cling to the powerful nobles and nobles to do business.

Take the cotton spinning in Songjiang Prefecture as an example, only a small part of the cotton cloth woven here is transported and sold to other places by local merchants.

For example, Zhang Qi is in this line of work.

But Zhang Qi's sales share is less than one-thousandth of Songjiang's cotton spinning industry.

The vast majority of Songjiang cotton cloth is purchased by big businessmen from other places before being sold to various places.

And these big businessmen, without any surprise, are standing behind the powerful forces.

In the commercial field, the talents who master the channels have the dominance.

But in this way, what the cotton spinning merchants in Songjiang Prefecture can earn is only the most basic cost price.More profits are earned by middlemen.

When Zuo Menggeng decided to cooperate with the cotton merchants in Songjiang Prefecture, he made a decision to arouse the wolfishness of the cotton merchants in Songjiang Prefecture.

In the future, these merchants and his army will support each other in order to seize the market.

"Everyone needs cotton from Shandong, although the younger generation has ordered Shandong to prepare it. But on the canal, there are many checkpoints and checkpoints. After paying taxes and fees all the way, it will cost more than three times the price for cotton to reach the seniors. The younger generation thought, is there a way to reduce the transportation cost?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, they didn't expect Zuo Menggeng to be so ambitious.It never occurred to him that Zuo Menggeng was more eager than them on this matter.

Actually, this is a misunderstanding.

As a cotton supplier, it seems that Zuo Menggeng can pass the increased cost on to these cotton merchants.But in fact, the increase in transportation costs is the situation that suppliers don't like the most.

Because of the increase in cost, it will inevitably lead to a decline in the cotton demand of cotton merchants in Songjiang Prefecture.

If the transportation cost can be reduced, cloth merchants in Songjiang Prefecture can buy more cotton and expand production, which in turn will promote cotton planting and sales in Shandong.

In short, the cost of the road from Shandong to Songjiang Mansion is a trouble that both parties want to solve.

Zuo Menggeng felt that the only one who could solve this problem seemed to be himself.

And once he did it, the entire Songjiang Mansion would completely return to their hearts.

Outside of Shandong, he will have a second entrenched territory.

(End of this chapter)