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Chapter 162 The Heat Has Arrived ([-]-word chapter)
Shen Shuren promised his parents that he will marry a wife who is absolutely well-matched this year.

Shen Tingyang and Xu's no longer entangled, allowing him to ruin his reputation in terms of private morals of men and women outside, and no longer pursue Li Xiangjun's fault of "charming the lord".

His son's political strategy is already superior to his. Since it is a show for political purposes, there is nothing for him to interfere.

As for forcing Shen Shuren to go to Zhou Yanru's place to visit the pier immediately, Shen Tingyang stopped urging him and let his son control the rhythm.

In the next few days, Shen Shuren was able to relax for the time being, collecting information every day, clarifying the current situation, and making a decision before making a move.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is obsessed with women, hanging out with Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan, and Li Xiangjun every day.

Among the girls, Li Xiangjun was the most moved. In order not to let her be punished, the young master promised the master and his wife that he would marry a wife this year. What a sacrifice.So in the past few days, she tried her best to flatter and serve the young master in different ways.

Shen Shuren also magnanimously told her not to take it to heart, and said calmly every time:

This is what you deserve, you cooperate with my overall situation, how can I let you be wronged?Although I, Shen, is lustful, I will never let my woman suffer.

Li Xiangjun was more and more moved when he heard it, but he still had a faint sense of guilt for getting tired of being with the young master every day recently:

"My lord, Sister Xiaowan hasn't seen you for a year. You should accompany her these days. You are good enough to my family. In fact, as long as you can rub your shoulders and beat your legs every day, your family will be satisfied,"

Shen Shuren was also not polite to her, and he often explained calmly while raising his hand:
"Don't worry, I just want to spend more time with Xiaowan's mother and daughter during the day. She is only four months old after giving birth. It's better to take care of her body more, instead of having fun on the pillow. This time I will take her back to Wuchang, and we will see each other in the future." Shou, the future will be long."

Li Xiangjun didn't know, so she didn't say much. She didn't want to push the young master out at first, but she was just a little uneasy.

Shen Shuren knows a little bit about modern medicine. He knows that ancient women’s postpartum care is not as scientific as modern ones, so it’s better to be more conservative. It’s better not to have intercourse for half a year after giving birth.

Moreover, Dong Xiaowan is different from Chen Yuanyuan and Li Xiangjun after all.

The two daughters Chen and Li were sold as young horses and trained as skinny horses.Dong Xiaowan was born in a well-to-do family. Her parents died when she was a teenager, and she went bankrupt and her family fell into poverty, so she didn't specifically learn the skills to please men.

Chen Yuanyuan and her are sisters in need. After returning this time, she has been very concerned about her recovery and quietly helped her have an in-depth physical examination.

After understanding it clearly, Chen Yuanyuan secretly taught Dong Xiaowan to practice the sitting urn method, helping her to tighten her body again and relieve postpartum sequelae - these are the secret methods that Yangzhou thin horses would be forced to practice hard since childhood.

After Shen Shuren knew about it, he didn't mind at all. He is the soul of modern people, and he is very open-minded and accepts these issues.

Seeing that Chen Yuanyuan taught hard every day and was not very scientific, Shen Shuren used his skillful hands and spent a day or two thinking about a sketch, and asked the maid in the house to help build a gadget.
It looks similar to the "Pelvic Floor Muscle Rehabilitation Trainer" sold on Douyin in later generations. It is an elastic device that allows women to clamp the inner thighs and exercise muscle clamping strength——

Don't wonder why Shen Shuren did this, of course he was also a womanizer before time travel.So he will also see those videos of yogis rubbing their sides on Douyin, and like most lechers, he will leave a message "Brothers are here to learn yoga again today (dog head)"

It is not surprising that such a well-informed person invented such a small gadget.It's just that there was a lack of high-elastic materials in ancient times, so beef tendon and bamboo slices were used instead, and the urn work of the Ming Dynasty was completed for hundreds of years.

After the thing was made, several of Shen Shuren's women immediately practiced secretly.

Shen Shuren stayed with Li Xiangjun at night and Dong Xiaowan and her daughter during the day.

Li Xiangjun was idle and bored during the day, and occasionally went out to meet her at Bian Yujing's residence, which also reassured her sister that she should not worry about her situation in Shen's house.

Bian Yujing was quite happy for her sister when she learned that Mr. Shen was so protective of her sister, withstood the pressure of her parents, and would never let her own woman suffer.

Shen Shuren teased his daughter every day, and talked with Dong Xiaowan about her improved "Xiaowan Spinning Machine", learned about the recent business situation of the spinning machine, and gave some suggestions for optimization of the details.

Dong Xiaowan was originally born in a wealthy textile businessman's family, and she also has a bit of talent in this area. After two years in the Shen family, she has broadened her horizons and learned the basic skills of doing business. Now she has given birth to a concubine daughter for Shen Shusheng. Higher status at home.

The father and son of the Shen family are both officials, and the business was originally handed over to the side branch and the housekeeper. Now, taking advantage of the trend, all the weaving workshops, embroidery spinning workshops, and spinning workshops in the family, as well as all the textile business, are all handed over to Dong Xiaowan. .

The specific matters outside are handled by the shopkeepers. The daily account summary and the general direction of the industry trend are all reported by the maid to the "Young Madam" for record.

Shen Shuren had a little understanding of the accounts, and he learned that the Shen family's net profit from the textile industry this year alone exceeded one million taels, which was already higher than the family's original sea trade profit——

Of course, in the past two and a half years since Shen Shuren traveled here, the scale of the family's sea trade has also skyrocketed by at least several percent every year, especially since the official undertaking of the imperial court's reform of water transportation to the sea, the size of the Shen family's sea fleet can increase by more than 100 ships every year.This was not overtaken by the textile industry.

Some accounts don't know if you don't read them, and you are shocked when you see them.The net profit of the Shen family's self-spinning this year reached 20 taels, and the profit of self-operated silk weaving and cotton weaving was 90 taels, accounting for almost half of the profits of the textile industry in Suzhou Prefecture.

The net profit of the takeaway Xiaowan spinning machine is 60 taels, and the net profit of the takeaway flying shuttle loom is 45 taels—from this data, it can be clearly seen that the sales of looms have begun to slow down. The new type of spinning machine that appeared was extremely popular, so the price of the machine was extremely high, and the sales were very good. The profit of a single machine was several times that of a loom.

In the Shen family's self-operated textile workshop, the income from spinning is relatively low, obviously because it is still in the early stage of investment, and the current growth curve is still in the stage of expanding production capacity, so the output of cotton yarn reeling is not high.

When Shen Shuren saw this number, he couldn't help asking a few questions curiously: "After you built this new spinning machine, other big households obediently asked us to buy a new machine at a high price? No one thought that after buying a few machines, Go back and disassemble slowly, and then imitate?

Are we still the same as the cooperation with Xuge's hometown in Songjiang two years ago, relying on the local giants to help us fight against small imitators after sharing the profits? "

Shen Shuren couldn't help but be curious, because the accounts show that the new loom sold by the Shen family costs more than 100 taels of silver, and the cost is nothing more than some wood, labor, and auxiliary materials, which cost less than a dozen or 20 taels, which is too profitable Yes, the net profit is at least 80 taels for one set.

To be able to sell in this way, there must be a unique monopoly method, otherwise it would be unimaginable in ancient times when there was no patent law.

When developing the flying shuttle loom two years ago, Shen Shuren relied on cooperating with Xu Guangqi's family, using the Xu family's power in Songjiang Mansion to share the spoils, and suppressing those who were not good enough to imitate the machine.And the Shen family's influence in the Suzhou Mansion has all hands and eyes, so they can barely suppress it.

Dong Xiaowan also knew that her husband didn't want to understand, and she deciphered it proudly: "The method of the slave family this time is similar to the method of promoting the shuttle loom two years ago. On the Songjiang Mansion, we still cooperate with the old family of Xuge. of.

However, we adjusted the specific measures and changed it to 'keep the existence of the new machine secret from the outside world, and ensure that Suzhou, Songjiang and other prefectures only notify one of the most powerful wealthy families in private',
That is to let them know that we have made this new machine, and then use "only sell to their family exclusively in this province" in exchange for their promise not to imitate, buy our machine at a high price, and follow us, each family eats a house eating alone.

Although our machines are expensive, one machine can save four or five female spinning workers. Su Song's labor is expensive, and the price is also expensive. Does one worker cost nearly two taels of silver per month?At least fifteen to twenty taels a year.

Even if one of our machines earns them 80 taels, it's just more than a year's wages of the female workers they saved.And the machine can be used for at least many years after sale, and we still guarantee it. We only take the wages they saved in the previous year and a half as compensation, and those wealthy gentry can understand it. "

After hearing this, Shen Shuren couldn't help but his eyes brightened, and he took another high look at Dong Xiaowan's business skills.

Indeed, in an era without patent laws, this is the only way to best ensure monopoly interests.

Although the other party can imitate, as long as the Shen family finds out that there is a counterfeit and finds that there are more new looms in that mansion, then the Shen family will sell new looms there.

At that time, the prices of cotton yarn and silk reeling in that province will definitely drop by several percent, and the profit margins of the "sole dealers" who buy high-priced machines will also plummet.Therefore, it is better to maintain secrecy to the outside world and enjoy monopoly dividends for a few years first.

After all, this operation can only be played when there are few customers, because it is easy to control if there are few people involved. Only one of the most powerful monopoly capitalists is allowed to participate in each province, and the "tragedy of the commons" is also avoided. ".

Of course, this kind of control will certainly not last long.After all, every family has so many female spinning workers who will use this new machine, and as long as there is a profit margin, the spinning female workers will find a way to remember the structure of the machine, and then secretly go back to imitate it.

Even if all the female spinning workers were replaced by the monopoly family's own female slaves, there would be no guarantee that there would not be slaves who defected from their masters.

Therefore, no matter how powerful the monopoly capitalist authorized by the Shen family is in the local area, and no matter how slow the speed of information circulation in ancient times, it will not be able to cover it for two or three years.

Everyone will enjoy the dividends of information gap for a few years first, and technology will eventually spread after a few years, but this is enough, so let’s give back to the society.

Two years ago, when the Xu family joined forces with the Xu family to develop the flying shuttle loom, the Shen family could not use this trick. It was because the original accumulation of the Shen family and the Xu family was not enough at that time, and the family alone ate the market of the next mansion. , not so much financial resources.

But things are different now.After the big waves in the market, the allies who strictly followed the Shen family in the past two years have also greatly increased their power, and each has saved at least a few hundred thousand taels of cash.

So this time the Shen family asked them to spit out all the savings they earned in the past two years at one time, and buy new machines from the Shen family, so they could make a living.

To put it bluntly, to engage in industry is to reinvest all the large surplus value profits into expanded reproduction.

In the past two years, the other family seemed to have made a lot of money, but in fact they were still working for the Shen family.

And those who were disobedient in the past two years have already been kicked out of this game by the Shen family, and they have no chance to participate this time.

In this way, as long as the Shen family maintains sufficient research and development capabilities, all partners will believe that "the Shen family is extremely talented in strange techniques and ingenuity, and can always come up with some earth-shattering and big money every two years."

Then when they face immediate interests, they will weigh it up and figure out what will happen if they betray the Shen family and live alone.Thus forming a virtuous circle that dare not go alone.

Of course, this virtuous cycle more or less relied on the Shen family's power in the officialdom—especially in the second half of this year, Shen Tingyang had returned to Nanjing to become the servant of the Nanjing household department, and the old Shangshu Qiu Weizhen was no longer in charge.

To put it bluntly, anyone who wants to do business in the territory of Nanzhili, who is not afraid of the government looking for trouble, checking taxes, and plundering the business of the servant of the household department, is looking for death under the nose of a tiger.

Shen Shuren made a final calculation, and found that his family's net profit from the textile industry this year was more than 100 million taels, and the net profit from selling machines was similar.Haimaohe contracted water transportation for the imperial court and collected protection fees at sea, which added up to more than 200 million taels.

The current annual net profit of the Shen family has reached an astonishing four to five million taels!In the year before Shen Shuren crossed over, this number was only hovering around 500 million.

It took Shen Shuren less than three years to inflate his family's earning power by six or seven times!
It has risen from one-twentieth of the Zheng family to one-third of the Zheng family!It has firmly secured the throne of the second richest man in the world.

Such a large amount of financial resources naturally provided more protection and motivation for Shen Shuren's subsequent layout, allowing him to free his hands and feet to attract more resources.

Even, after reading the accounts, he found that the Shen family's new spinning machine business is currently only expanding the local market in Suzhou Prefecture, plus Songjiang Prefecture and Huzhou Prefecture due to insufficient production capacity.

The Shen family in Suzhou Mansion did it by themselves, and the Songjiang Mansion and Huzhou Mansion found reliable allies.According to Dong Xiaowan's original plan this year, the newly produced machines in the first half of the year must first meet the needs of Changzhou and Jiaxing.

After the layout of these prefectures was completed, the neighbors who basically circled around the Suzhou prefecture were all popularized by the new spinning machines.In the second half of the year, there is still room for production capacity, so we can continue to expand to distant places, such as considering Hangzhou and Ningbo.

Therefore, the candidate for the "exclusive partner" of Changzhou Mansion has not yet been decided. Originally, Dong Xiaowan consulted the shopkeepers at home and planned to choose another company with which he will cooperate for a long time.

Now, Shen Shuren can consider cooperating with Zhou Yanru, after all, he is the chief assistant of the dynasty who is about to take office.

Thinking of this, Shen Shuren became more and more grateful and doting to Dong Xiaowan. He not only stayed with her every day during the day, but also wrote some short articles by himself to commemorate this grand event.

Turn back to Gu Yanwu, the pen handed to him, and let Gu Yanwu polish it into a gorgeous prose, praising Dong Xiaowan's deeds of inventing the "Xiaowan Spinning Machine".

In the future, it must be more famous than Zhang Dai's prose, at least it must be included in Chinese textbooks.

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Shen Shuren stayed at home for four days. During these four days, many important events happened in the outside world. One after another, important military news spread to Nanzhili and Nanjing, which really made people's hearts flutter a few times.

In fact, it is not that those things that affect the overall military and political situation of the country all get together and happen during the Chinese New Year.But the place in Nanzhili is usually too idle, and everyone doesn't pay much attention to the war situation in the north, and they are "selectively deaf" during the Chinese New Year.

Now that the tenth day of the Lunar New Year has passed, the atmosphere of the New Year has also faded, and everyone is busy with business, and these news are gradually spreading.

On the Anqing side, Fang Yizhi did not disappoint Shen Shuren. He finally made an emergency landing on Lin Chengcheng on the tenth day of the first lunar month.
He also asked someone to report by flying horse and express boat. The four hundred li journey from Anqing to Nanjing was completed in one day. At midnight on the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the news was delivered to Shen Shuren.

Shen Shuren was very satisfied with this, and commended Fang Yizhi's messenger, saying that Fang Yizhi and Shi Kefa could rest assured that they would make good use of this credit and benefit everyone.

Afterwards, Shen Shuren read the letter carefully, and roughly asked some supplementary information.Knowing that Fang Yizhi's process of persuading him to surrender was safe and sound, Fang Yizhi went deep into the bandit's lair of the Dabie Mountains and persuaded him to surrender face-to-face.
Due to the shortage of supplies and the cut off of reinforcements, Lin Chengcheng finally agreed to accept the adaptation, and immediately led his troops down the mountain to surrender to Zhang Huangyan's troops.Only a small number of people trapped in the enclave and surrounded by Huang Degong from Anqing chose to surrender to Huang Degong on the spot.

On the one hand, it is because I heard that Shen Shuren treats his subordinates more favorably, and it is better to mix with him.On the other hand, it was also because Huang Degong was more violent and murderous. After thinking about it, Lin Chenggong felt that surrendering to a civil servant would save his life more than surrendering to a general soldier.

As for the more specific process of persuading the surrender, Shen Shuren hadn't seen it himself, so he really couldn't figure it out.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that Fang Yizhi is also quite good at recording his "heroic appearance". He personally ventured into the Dabie Mountains, and it was not in vain.

Although there were no photos or oil painters in this era to show him his achievements, Fang Yizhi was also considered one of the great writers of Jiangzuo’s four sons. He wrote three poems praising the majestic and steep scenery along the Dabie Mountains along the way, and wrote wrote a long poem preface, specifically explaining the cause and effect of this trip.

In the end, he also wrote an essay whose level was not inferior to that of Zhang Dai and Gu Yanwu, detailing his deeds of "sacrificing his life to go to the country, and seeing death as if he had returned home". People who didn't know thought he was Lu Zijing who went to the meeting alone.

Of course, Fang Yizhi also copied these prose and poems about scenery, and sent them to Shen Shuren along with the secret letter of victory.

Shen Shuren knew how to use these things, and when he bargained with Zhou Yanru for an official, this would be evidence.

In addition, in addition to Fang Yizhi's success in persuading Lin to surrender, there are several important military situations in the north in the past few days.

First of all, after a winter of consumption, Li Zicheng finally gave up the first siege of Kaifeng in the middle of the twelfth lunar month. The siege of Kaifeng, which lasted for more than three months, officially ended with a big victory for the government and army.

It is said that the casualties of Li Zicheng's direct line troops were not too bad, but Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying, the bandit chieftains who had recently attached themselves to Li Zicheng in the second half of last year, suffered even worse losses, so that some cracks appeared inside the bandits.

This incident actually happened a month ago, but the main officials in Henan's officialdom were afraid that Li Zicheng would be cheating, pretending to retreat and then kill the carbine, so they didn't dare to report it immediately.

It wasn't until New Year's Eve and the New Year's Eve were over, and it was confirmed that the thieves had indeed fled, that the Henan government happily reported the success.

Because the urgent report is mainly sent to Beijing, other directions can only wait for the news to spread naturally, so the Nanjing side did not receive the news until nearly ten days after the notification from Henan.

Another piece of news is bad news, and it is also related to Li Zicheng's follow-up actions after he was defeated and retreated from Kaifeng: since he retreated from Kaifeng and returned to the Luoyang Basin in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, Li Zicheng only took a short rest, and unexpectedly took advantage of the cold winter months to turn around and attack westward.

As a result, after the fall of Luoyang last year, the imperial court newly appointed Fu Zonglong, the three-sided governor of Shaanxi.

In fact, Fu Zonglong didn't have many soldiers, so he was very aggressive in doing so, because Shaanxi had been smashed for more than ten years, and it was the province with the weakest imperial power during the Chongzhen period.

He just felt that Li Zicheng had left Luoyang and was going eastward to Kaifeng with all his strength, so he dared to dig out Li Zicheng's rear.

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng's army was defeated and turned around, and directly ran into Fu Zonglong's troops outside the ancient Hangu pass. The two armies fought, and directly surrounded Fu Zonglong. After more than ten days of bloody battles, he was finally beheaded by the rebellious army.

The Shaanxi Army of the Ming Dynasty, which had just gathered for half a year, was sent away for nothing, and the rest surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Only one of them was led by He Renlong, a veteran general from Shaanxi. He originally disapproved of Fu Zonglong's advance into Henan underestimated the enemy.

And He Renlong's reason for not being rescued was "At that time, Fu Zonglong was already surrounded by Li Zicheng, and it was impossible for him to break through and send a request for help, so the letter of request for help must have been sent by Li Zicheng's people for the purpose of killing me. The troops also lured out of the ancient Hangu Pass and wiped them out."

This reason sounds valid for the time being, and the court can only accept it, which means that He Renlong has in fact become a warlord who raises troops and respects himself just like Zuo Liangyu.

The governor of Shanxi and Gansu died, and the imperial court had no choice but to let Shaanxi governor Wang Qiaonian temporarily take over the work of the deceased, continue to control the He Renlong tribe, guard Shaanxi, and block Li Zicheng's way back to his hometown.

This series of bad news about the defeat of the army happened in the first ten days of the first month, but because bad news often spread faster, it was almost as good as the protracted good news from the Henan battlefield, and it was sent everywhere.

On the Nanjing side, they also learned the news on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and they were panicked for a while.

Shen Shuren felt that the heat was almost ready, and finally on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, he asked his father to treat Zhou Yanru with wine through Qiu Shangshu, and chat with Zhou Yanru about state affairs and his views on the northern battlefield. Take credit.

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PS: The above is already [-] words.

A few days ago, someone sprayed me with spoilers, and I also admitted it.But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, I also feel a little uncomfortable, that's all I can do.The main reason is that the atmosphere in the late Ming Dynasty often likes to criticize and argue about who is the bad guy. Basically, in the history of Donglin, the Eunuch Party, and any faction in the late Ming Dynasty, countless people criticized them as garbage and traitors.

As a result, once the writer of the book wants to criticize and deal with people from a certain faction and treat them as villains, he has to clarify: I am not saying that Ma Shiying is a bad person, it means that he is heinous, and it does not mean that his enemy is a good person...

If these words are not stable enough, a bunch of people will come out to make trouble immediately.

Of course, if it’s for the sake of traffic, it’s okay to start a controversy appropriately, and it’s also good for the book’s popularity.These days, you can't be afraid of being scolded for the sake of fire.

But I'm a shameless person, sometimes I'd rather stay out of the circle than start a war.Especially this book had poor grades, and I was even more embarrassed.

I can only give a little spoiler before the villain comes out—it’s not even called a spoiler, just write about the bad things this person has done in history, and take an inventory in advance.Then it stated that "the protagonist wants to deal with him, it does not mean that the protagonist and his political opponent are in the same faction, and it does not mean that the protagonist thinks that his political opponent is a good person."

You can think whoever you like is a bad person, and you can think that everyone in the late Ming Dynasty is a bad person.

This is the first time I have come into contact with the end of the Ming Dynasty, and this is also the first time I have a deep feeling for this issue.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost any faction was stinked by people, and no one was a good person in the hearts of most readers.

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