Bachelor

Chapter 264 The New Economy

The lively and fulfilling day was finally over. After leaving Mu Shouli's place and returning to the county government office, Sun Jia had already prepared the evening.

Sun Dan was already so tired that his body was weak, so he pulled up his strength and ate two bowls of rice, and drank another bowl of rice wine. Then he regained some energy, sighed and said to Sun Jia: "It's better to have a woman by your side, if you don't see Jia Jia, your cooking skills are so good, it’s a pity not to be a cook. The system of the Ming Dynasty is also fucked up. Officials are not allowed to bring their family members to take office. Isn’t this forcing officials to mess around in other places?”

Hearing Sun Dan praise his cooking skills, Sun Jia was very happy.Later, when I heard Sun Dan say nasty words, I spat on it, blushed and said, "Sun Dan, you are talking bastardly again, if you say such things again in the future, Sun Jia, I will turn around and go back to Beijing."

"Don't talk, don't talk." Sun Dan hurriedly waved his hands: "If you leave, who will cook for me, just the rough-handed yamen servants in the yamen? Said to eat the food they made."

Sun Jia: "If you really like my cooking, I'll make it for you every day."

Sun Dan: "Forget it, it's overkill and a waste of talents for the big shopkeeper of the Lu family bank to be a cook. I will still have a place to use you in the future."

Sun Jia: "Sun Dan, what's the matter with you, even if you ask me, I, Sun Jia, have some means for business matters."

"Of course I can trust your ability."

"I don't know what's the matter with you?"

"I'll talk about this later. I think you'll be going to Jiangnan in a while. By the way, isn't Ruoying from Suzhou? Do you want to accompany her back to her hometown? I'll let Feng Zhen go with you and let him protect you." Safety."

"Go to Suzhou?" Sun Jia was a little surprised: "Why did you think of sending me there? If Ruoying knew that she was going back to Suzhou, she would be so happy. I will be in a bad mood when something happened to the Marquis Sun's family." Having said that, her expression darkened.

Seeing her filial piety and sad face, Sun Dan felt a little sad, and couldn't help but want to hug this weak girl who looked like a strong woman in her arms and whispered comfort.

However, he still forcibly suppressed the impulse in his heart, and asked in a low voice: "Jiajia, I'm sorry about Mr. He Nian."

Sun Jia shook her head: "I don't blame you, it's my father's fault. The fraud in the examination room is a felony of beheading. It's his own ignorance that is to blame."

Speaking of this, Sun Jia picked up the wine bowl and took a sip of wine, tears fell down: "Sun Dan, in fact, everyone in our family is grateful to you for supporting this family in times of crisis. With your ability, we believe You can restore the former splendor of the Marquis of Huichang."

Sun Dan nodded: "I will not let you down."

Sun Dan looked at Sun Jia: "It's what I said before, you, Sun Jia, are my Sun Dan's most trusted assistant and my Sun Dan's relatives, don't forget each other even if you are rich."

Sun Jia looked at Sun Dan quietly: "I believe in you."

After saying these heart-warming words, Sun Dan regained his energy and did not feel sleepy: "Since we are talking about Suzhou, I simply call Shi Wanquan over and let me talk about my ideas. Anyway, it is a great way to make money. Do it well." Now, not only Ze and the people in Fangshan, but we can also make a lot of money."

Sun Jia was a little surprised: "How big a source of income is, it can be stronger than the Lu Family Bank."

"Although the current income is not as much as that of the bank, the impact is very great, and the risk is not as big as that of the bank."

Sun Jia: "Okay, I'll ask someone to call Boss Shi over here."

Shi Wanquan was also extremely tired, and he had just had dinner, but he didn't go to bed, instead he sat in the living room and waited.

Shi Wanquan is a leading figure among Shanxi merchants, and he is a top-notch person in the business world. He knows that every business that Sun Dan handles involves dozens of millions of taels.Therefore, even though Fangshan is a small and inconspicuous county town, and there is no way to compare it with the market in the capital, he still happily followed.He also knew that Sun Dan would send him over for questioning after finishing the business at hand, so he had been waiting here.

When Sun Jia sent someone to invite him, Shi Wanquan's heart trembled: "It's finally started!"

Entering Sun Dan's study, Shi Wanquan hurriedly gave a long bow: "Xiaomin Shi Wanquan, I have met Grandpa Sun."

Sun Dan was looking at an account book, and when he saw Shi Wanquan coming, he threw it aside and said with a smile, "Old Shi, we have known each other for a long time, what are you talking about, sit, sit, sit."

Shi Wanquan thanked him, and sat down on the chair: "I don't know what orders the lord sent the villain over late at night."

"Tomorrow you will go to Suzhou with Sun Jia and Feng Zhen."

Naturally, Shi Wanquan knew that Sun Dan's letting him go to Suzhou would not be aimless, so he raised his spirits and asked, "What is the big deal that my lord wants to do by sending this villain to Suzhou?"

Sun Dan said lightly: "Get some looms, silkworm seeds, and mulberry seedlings. By the way, dozens of skilled textile workers are invited to come."

Shi Wanquan was a little dazed: "My lord is going to raise silkworms in Fangshan. It's not impossible to do this, but it's a pity that the profit doesn't seem to be very high."

"What if I let the whole house be changed to grow mulberry? What if I also set up a big business like Jiangning Manufacturing Bureau in Fangshan?" Sun smiled softly: "Boss Shi, tell me, all the farmland in Fangshan has been changed to mulberry fields." , how much silk can be harvested in a year, how many bolts of silk and satin can be woven. What if all the land in Shuntian Prefecture is planted with mulberry trees. We plant mulberry and silkworms on the spot, and do weaving on the spot. Isn’t it better than what you do? This weaving bureau will only take three years, only three years, with the help of your boss Shi, the ideas of my Sun Dan, and Sun Jia's management ability, Fangshan cannot be turned into the largest textile base in the north."

Shi Wanquan was completely stunned by Sun Dan's unconstrained ideas. He stammered and said, "Wait, wait, let me do the math. If the land in Fangshan is full of mulberry trees, every year... ..."

He quickly calculated in his mind, and came up with an astonishing figure: "[-] bolts of silk and satin."

"That's all your vision, my Boss Shi?" Sun Dan smiled lightly, "As far as I know, there are quite a few people in Hebei who grow silkworms. However, most of them raise tussah silkworms, and some use silkworms. The locust tree raises silkworms. Most of the silk produced after cultivation is sold to the south, because there are qualified weavers in the south, and only businessmen in the south are buying raw silk. All the way to transshipment, the profits are made by the southerners. If To be able to harvest all the raw silk from these free-range farmers in Hebei, you say, what a huge output.”

Shi Wanquan's body trembled: "If all the raw silk on hand of the free-range farmers in Hebei is purchased, the output can be increased by 40 horses per year. In addition, if the cotton in Henan and Hebei can be monopolized by us, it will produce millions of cotton every year. A piece of cotton cloth is also possible."

Sun Danyao: "I won't touch things like cotton cloth for the time being."

"Why?" Shi Wanquan asked with some doubts.

Sun Dan: "In the era of small-scale peasant economy, the people are self-sufficient, and no one has a spinning machine. Who do you sell the cotton cloth to?"

Shi Wanquan nodded again and again: "Grandpa Sun is right, Shi Wanquan almost made a big mistake. But who will we sell so much silk and satin to? As far as I know, most of the silk from Jiangning Weaving Bureau is supplied to the palace."

"Haiyuan, export." Sun Dan: "Old Shi, don't limit your eyes to one place. The era of great voyages has arrived. This is the era of the new economy, and new production methods will give birth to new production relations."

(End of this chapter)