Chapter 245 East Mansion Silk East Mansion

For cocoon prices, this is naturally not a small amount, so Zheng Qisheng immediately asked: "Jia Ji, did you know who was instructed? Write a letter to the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce in the three eastern prefectures, asking them to intervene. This lawless thing cannot be continued."

However, Zheng Jiaji gave an unexpected answer: "This matter was operated by the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce of the East Three Prefectures in the future. I personally went to the East Three Prefectures, but what they said was very unpleasant. He said that the eldest brother was from Ningguo Mansion, so why bother to fake Huizhou and take advantage of them!"

Zheng Qisheng couldn't help but be furious: "I have an ancestral home in Huizhou, why aren't I from Huizhou? I'm still the leader of the Huizhou Guild Hall in Linqing. I have to explain this matter clearly to them."

For Zheng Qisheng, this matter was related to his personal reputation, but Zheng Jiaji smiled bitterly and said, "I say that too, but they spoke even more harshly."

Zheng Jiaji did not specifically say what happened that "the words were even more ugly", but Zheng Qisheng also knew that it was definitely not a good thing. The facts were as Zheng Qisheng estimated. However, it was not the Huizhou businessman who came forward to scold Zheng Qisheng, but the real fellow Ningguo Mansion merchant who came forward to scold Zheng Qisheng.

The merchants of Ningguo Mansion had long disliked Zheng Qisheng. Zheng Qisheng was obviously a native of Ningguo Mansion, but he forgot about himself and went to pretend to be a Huizhou native and even got to the head of the Huining Association. When he thought that he was also pretending to be a Huizhou native, he was often kicked out of the venue by Huizhou merchants, the merchants of Ningguo Mansion were particularly angry.

The result of being particularly angry was that Zheng Jiaji was driven out directly. If he had carried the guards with him, he might have lost some property. Even so, Zheng Jiaji would understand that this year's Dongsi business might be particularly difficult to handle.

"I'll have a good chat with the old prince and let him come forward and take care of it!"

Zheng Qisheng felt that if the relationship between the Heng Palace was completed, things would naturally be possible, but Zheng Jisheng told me that it was too simple: "It is useless to just come forward to the Heng Palace. This year, the unethical guys from the East Three Mansions asked someone to come forward to grab the cocoons with us."

"Who is it? It seems that they didn't kill 180 people in the East Three Prefectures. They thought I was a sick cat, and they only realized to stop after Zheng Laohu showed his power!"

This incident was originally expected by Zheng Qisheng. He felt that the group of people from the East Three Mansions would not be bold enough to go out and rushed to buy raw silk from him. Zheng Jisheng gave a clear answer: "Is it the king of Dengzhou Prefecture?"

Zheng Qisheng really doesn’t know who Wang Daoyi is: “Who is this?”

Zheng Jiaji immediately replied: "He is a retired prefect. He was a Jinshi in the 23rd year of Wanli. He was the head of the Ministry of Works. He once let a prefect in Fenzhou Prefecture, Shanxi. He heard that he was too restrained in office and wanted to get enough capital after returning home, so he intervened."

It turns out that a retired prefect would not have any big problems, but the situation this year is a little different. The Heng Mansion did not dare to intervene too deeply in this matter because of the publication and postings all over the world. As a retired prefect, Wang Daoyi was naturally a natural thing to seek some benefits for the local government.

But for the Zheng family, this is a very unacceptable situation: "Only one king's way? Can a resignation from the prefect cannot cause any storm?"

Zheng Jiqi is a man with great hands and eyes. In his eyes, Wang Daoyi is just "can't cause storms". Zheng Jisheng immediately replied: "It's not a problem to be a king. However, there are many local officials who advocate the return of Dongsi to the east this year, especially..."

Speaking of this, Zheng Jiaji said embarrassingly: "I heard that Huang Tiren, the governor of Dengzhou, may have left office, so he had little contact with Dengzhou. As a result, Huang prefect advocated that Dengzhou should be taken over, and before leaving, he also gave us a retaliation."

Retired as a prefect is just a high moral character. Although Huang Tiren had just left office, his influence was much greater than that of the king. Zheng Qi was so angry that he slapped the table: "Second brother, you are just confused! Even if Huang Taigong left office, he was also a Jinshi of the second class. He was qualified to be the governor and governor in the future. Moreover, he would release a Taoist minister in our Shandong next time. There are many places we have to ask for him."

Huang Tiren did cause great trouble to the Zheng family's Dongsi business. Since he was a white-faced scholar, no one came forward to refute it when he called out. Whether it was Dengzhou, Qingzhou or Laizhou, they were all praised. Moreover, in the past few years, the Zheng family and the Heng Palace had made too disrespectful in collecting silk. Therefore, local officials talked about "Dongfu silk, Dongfu silk", and there were some powerful people who were impatient. The officials simply became agents of Wang Daoyi and Huizhou Chamber of Commerce, and came forward to buy raw silk with the Zheng family.

For the Zheng family, the raw silk market this year can be said to be extremely bad. Maybe it is only 20% or 30% of the normal year. However, Zheng Qisheng is very calm. The singer outside the door is still singing a song, and the raw silk in the East Three Mansions is still urgent. Now Zheng Qisheng asked slowly: "Who else is involved?"

"There are many people, such as the new Tao Prime Minister of Dengzhou Prefecture. As soon as he arrived at Dengzhou Prefecture, he found Wang Daoyi and others, and advocated that Dengzhou's raw silk be sold directly to Songjiang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture, and we will no longer go south to Suzhou and Hangzhou in Qingzhou."

"There are still many people in Laizhou who are against us!"

"I ran to the Heng Palace a few times, but this year, the Heng Palace is really taboo. I feel that it is in the limelight and dare not come forward. However, they all said that they will do their best and will definitely help us collect more raw silk."

There was bad news everywhere, and finally Zheng Jiaji also casually mentioned: "I heard that after Wang Dao collected all the raw silk, he was preparing to go out to sea through Longkou. It is said that Haikou in Longkou is now the property of Liu Pengpeng, a young master in a public sect in Huang County. He has been operating in Longkou for a long time and has made it his own iron bucket country. Moreover, this person has a connection with Sili Supervisor, and has a great conversation with Tian Shaojian and Yao Changgong."

"Is Young Master Tian? What is his constitution?" Zheng Qisheng suddenly felt spirited: "What do he think?"

Zheng Jiaji felt that he should persuade Zheng Qisheng to give up his thoughts: "Brother, you can't let Tian Shaojian know this financial path. If he takes action, he will not be able to get more than ten thousand taels."

"Don't be fooled!" Zheng Qisheng scolded Zheng Jiaji: "If you want to do a big business, you have to use more money. You must not be careful with the prefect Tao, so he will give us a warning when he takes office. Such carelessness is not enough. Young Master Tian can solve this problem. So what if he has more than 10,000 taels of silver? He can't stay in our Shandong every year! The key is whether he can help us solve this problem!"

The power of the eunuch is only part of Zheng Qisheng's plan. He quickly said: "Jiaji, hurry up and go to the East Three Mansions and prepare 30,000 taels of silver. Promise to the East Three Mansions that as long as we can get the raw silk this year, we can throw all the 30,000 taels of silver into it without a single cent."

Zheng Jiaji was surprised: "Brother, will we fill in all our profits in this way?"

For the Zheng family, 30,000 taels of silver is a big number. Although it will not hurt the bones, taking out 30,000 taels of silver in one breath really made Zheng Jiaji heartbroken. Bao was Zheng Qisheng, but he had his own opinion: "30,000 taels of silver is just a small matter, and breaking the cocoon road to the three eastern palaces is a big matter!"

Zheng Qisheng said in a deep voice: "Second brother, do you know that if the cocoon road in the East Three Mansions is broken, at least a thousand people in and out of our Zheng family will be vacant if they can't find work. Hundreds of looms will be stopped, and hundreds of families will be destroyed. Tell me, this is a fundamental matter that concerns our Zheng family's lifeline. Of course, I will spend more money."

When Zheng Qisheng said this, tears were all flowing down, his tone was vicissitudes and heavy, as if the sky in Linqingzhou was about to collapse, and he was extremely melancholy. After a while, he continued: "I will trouble my second brother in the East Three Palaces. I am also planning to meet with Young Master Tian. If Young Master Tian can't handle it, I am also planning to walk the canal."

Zheng Jiaji immediately asked, "Brother, where are you going?"

"A trip to the capital will also let these barbarians from the three East Prefectures figure out one thing. One or two prefects, procuratorial officials, and magistrates are just ants in front of the cabinet ministers and chief ministers!"

Over the years, all the juren who went to Beijing to take the exam and officials from Huining and Ning prefectures came to Linqingzhou, Zheng Qisheng personally served him carefully, for fear of any mistakes. His connections in Beijing can be described as extremely strong, which has solved many problems for him. Today is the time when Zheng Qisheng is preparing to use these people.

"Brother is mighty!" Zheng Jiaji saw Zheng Qisheng calmly responding to Tongtian, and immediately praised: "As long as the eldest brother takes action, this Dongsi problem can naturally be solved!"

Zheng Qisheng gave Zheng Jiaji a few more words and quickly reminded him: "Second brother, hurry back to the East Mansion. I will grant you 30,000 taels of silver this time. As long as the matter is done well, the amount of the 30,000 taels of silver will naturally be used to be nothing left."

Zheng Jiaji quickly strided out of the warm pavilion and immediately arranged to go to the East Three Mansions to handle matters. He was no longer panicked. As long as Zheng Qisheng made up his mind, the raw silk from the East Three Mansions was still the belongings of the Zheng family. You must know that the eldest brother has a deep and bottomless way in the capital.

There were still singers singing outside the warm pavilion. It was Zheng Qisheng's home-raising opera troupe. He sang there according to Zheng Qisheng's instructions. The sound was very beautiful. The six or seven singers used all their strength and tried their best to please Mr. Zheng, who usually likes to listen to small songs the most.

But everyone took turns to sing and roaring, and didn't hear Mr. Zheng calling for a reward. Just as a singer was singing again, he heard the window of the warm cabinet suddenly open. Mr. Zheng rushed out of the window with an angry face and roared outside: "It's so unpleasant. Get out of nowhere if you sing Hu!"
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