Chapter 254 The Zhang brothers

Liu Peng immediately replied: "I have to wait another day before I talk. My brothers have been away for so long and are a little tired. Let them take another day of rest and set off."

Zhang Yihe said loudly, "Mr. Liu, you have to hurry up. Hundreds of silkworm breeders are waiting for your horse team to come and walk around. As long as your horse team comes and go around, our autumn silkworms will have an additional 10% of the harvest."

"I don't have that ability. Besides, even if I have a lot of harvest, I have to be the spring silkworm next year."

Liu Peng has learned some common sense about the mountain silkworm industry. This year's autumn silkworms must have been specially kept last year. If there are too many harvests, they must have been next year's spring silkworms. This year's spring silkworms have achieved good harvests, so silkworm farmers will definitely have more silkworm seeds.

But Zhang Yihe laughed: "Mr. Liu, that's the way you Dengzhou people play. Our Qingzhou is different. Although we still have so many silkworm seeds, as long as the market is good, we should use our hearts more, and the autumn silkworms can reach at least 10%. Just wait for Mr. Liu's horse team to come and walk around. How about Mr. Liu's departure tomorrow?"

Whether in Jiangnan or Shandong, there are few mulberry silkworms with autumn silkworms, while tusser silkworms have spring and autumn. The yield of autumn silkworms is more than that of spring silkworms. However, tusser silkworms are small in comparison with mulberry silkworms. Therefore, only Wang Daoyi will Liu Peng come over to demonstrate forcefully, without triggering a rebound between the Heng Palace and Linqing.

After all, the autumn silkworms among the mountain silkworms are just small heads throughout the year. The kingly way is to collect more autumn silkworms, which will not have a fatal impact on Linqing. Liu Peng was a little worried: "After walking for so many days, we have to rest for two days, not to mention that we are not familiar with the place, and there are people from the Heng Palace in Zhucheng."

Zhang Yihe laughed: "Young Master Liu just come here, just leave it to me to take responsibility on Zhucheng. There is indeed a visit to the Heng Palace in Zhucheng. Do you know who he is?"

After Zhang Yihe said this, Liu Peng became curious. He immediately asked, "Who has the Heng Palace sent to collect silk in Zhucheng?"

Zhang Yihe smiled even happier, and he said, "It was my brother who helped Prince Heng's Mansion and Zheng's family collect silk in Zhucheng. As the first person in the association, I adhere to a neutral attitude. You can go anywhere in the raw silk, as long as the silk price is high!"

Liu Peng couldn't help but ask: "Brother Ling?"

"That's right, my brother, in the past, the Heng Palace only allowed him to help the Zheng family to transport silk and not allow him to collect silk. This year, Mr. Wang took action. The Heng Palace was anxious, and the Zheng family was anxious. In order to collect more silk in Zhucheng, he asked him to come out to collect silk!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yihe lowered his voice and said, "In fact, my brother helped the Heng Palace to operate in detail in the past few years, but the Heng Palace said that he was just using silk instead of collecting silk. The big head was taken away by the Heng Palace. This year, my brother collected 40% of the silk less, but he made 30% more money."

Liu Peng naturally understood: "Will Brother Ling still welcome us over?"

"Just leave the past, just leave the past!" Zhang Yihe said happily: "It's past, I have money to make money, and my brother can make money too. In the past, only the Hengwang Mansion family was collecting silk, but it made us suffer!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yihe added: "Did Boss Jiang put a gift on my face just now? He said that I can produce thousands of danks of mountain cocoons in spring and autumn in two years. That's a thing in the past. After the Heng Palace and the Zheng family intervened over the years, our silkworm breeders have not had a good life. In the past ten years, I have lost five years, made three years, and had to barely guarantee the capital. So the mountain farm can only be packed, and the spring silkworms must not have a thousand dan."

The market for mountain silkworms is not good. Many mountain fields like Dengzhou are in closure. Even silkworm farms such as Wangjia in Huangxian have been forced to close. The technical level and production level in Zhucheng are at the peak of the entire Shandong. Therefore, production can still be maintained, but it is also forced to reduce the scale.

Speaking of this, Liu Peng expressed his purpose: "This time he came to Qingzhou, I wanted to come and have a walk, and on the other hand, I wanted to introduce a few oak trees! I wonder if Brother Zhang can give up his love."

"No problem, no problem!" Zhang Yihe immediately said: "There was Chen Biexue coming to introduce the seeds in the first two months. I asked him to remove 70 plants, but I think it is definitely not enough. Mr. Liu will definitely come again. Now Mr. Liu is indeed here."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yihe said straightforwardly: "Since Mr. Liu has spoken, there is no problem with one hundred or two hundred!"

But for the silkworm breeding industry, whether it is one hundred or two hundred or a little drop in the bucket, Liu Peng can certainly not say too much about Zhang Yihe's face. He can only prepare to introduce the seed again based on this group of trees.

But Zhang Yihe suddenly changed his mind: "Mr. Liu, is your speaking in Dengzhou effective?"

Liu Peng laughed: "I may not be effective in Dengzhou, but when I speak in Huangxian, others dare not ignore me. If someone dares not listen to me thirty or forty miles from Longkou to Huangshan Pavilion, if someone dares not listen to me, he will naturally know the outcome."

After Liu Peng said this, Zhang Yihe suddenly became interested. He smiled and said, "Mr. Liu, if I go to Dengzhou to Baoshan, will Liu support me? If Liu supports me, we can join forces to book a few barren mountains."

Dengzhou Prefecture can be said to be the most backward and poorest area in Shandong Province. Because of this, Dengzhou has the lowest level of development, and it has even been greatly regressed compared with the Song and Yuan dynasties. There are too many barren mountains and wilderness in the territory that have not been developed.

Now Zhang Yihe’s suggestion is exactly what Liu Peng wants to do: “How to have a partnership method?”

Zhang Yihe replied: "Mr. Liu, I can provide you with three thousand oak seedlings. I will send someone to help you maintain it, and ensure that it will be produced in five years. If it does not produce the vegetation, I will be responsible for completing it for you!"

Three thousand oak seedlings, this is a bit interesting!

But Liu Peng asked immediately: "How many mountain farms will Boss Zhang plan to book in Dengzhou?"

"I'm buying!" Zhang Yihe was very angry: "I can buy as many mountain farms as I can. I'm different from you, Mr. Liu, I have the best mountain farms!"

This is the Shandong man in Liu Peng's mind. Liu Peng immediately replied: "Three thousand plants are too few, five thousand plants in two years, and how many plants will be transplanted in the future. I can talk about it slowly. Don't worry, as long as I stay in Longkou for one day, I will keep you safe."

"Thank you, Xiao Liu!" Zhang Yihe laughed: "I still have some ideas!"

Liu Peng became more and more curious: "What's your thought?"

Zhang Yihe immediately asked, "I heard that Wang Daoyi put a few looms on Mr. Liu's side?"

"It's true that this is the case!" Liu Peng replied: "Why, Boss Zhang also wants to put a few looms in Longkou, so I'm not welcome! With the same conditions as Master Wang, I won't charge a penny within three years."

Zhang Yihe laughed: "I not only want to put the loom, but also prepare to put the silk in Longkou. Mr. Liu, I am also planning to build a mountain cocoon market in Longkou. Mr. Liu, I know you are a tough guy who speaks like a mountain. I will ask you, can you do it in Longkou?"

Liu Peng did not expect that Zhang Yihe's ambition was so great. He immediately asked: "Brother Zhang is a native of Zhucheng, why should he move all his property to Longkou?"

Wang Daoyi's ambition is similar to Zhang Yihe, and he is also preparing to develop upstream and downstream. However, Wang Daoyi is thinking about the huge rewards of collecting the cocoon. He is only thinking about the development of upstream and downstream, and is not planning to invest too much money and energy on it. Therefore, the few looms he placed in Longkou can only be considered small-scale, and work will be started and stopped.

Liu Peng has already heard that Zhang Yihe is preparing to build the entire industrial chain of tussaurus silkworms in Dengzhou, to breed mountain silkworms and finally spinning, and even the extremely risky mountain silkworms and raw silk trade. He is not only preparing to intervene, but also preparing to be the leader.

But Liu Peng didn't understand that Zhucheng is suitable for both man and land for the mountain silkworm industry, and people in time and space are hard to get rid of their hometowns. Why would Zhang Yihe still have the same mind to develop in Dengzhou?

Zhang Yihe naturally had his own reasons: "Mr. Liu, it is natural to raise silkworms in our Zhucheng, but it is completely impossible to hold a weaving farm and silkworm market. If the Heng Palace does not burn my loom, the Zheng family will immediately attack me. With the Heng Palace, the place in Zhucheng can only raise silkworms, and even silkworms are difficult to raise!"

Liu Peng immediately understood and asked again: "But Boss Zhang said that in the past ten years, you have lost five years, two years of capital guarantee, and only three years of making money. You have to go to Dengzhou to confine mountains, hold weaving farms, and open markets. Do you have so much money?"

Liu Peng had to doubt Zhang Yihe's economic strength, and Zhang Yihe also gave a very clear reply: "We have been raising mountain silkworms for five generations. If anyone in Zhucheng really makes money by raising mountain silkworms, then it's only our family. Does Mr. Liu understand what I mean?"

Liu Peng immediately understood that this was also the choice of many Ming Dynasty merchants. What should I do if I have money? It was either buying land to build a house or hiding the money underground, rather than using it to expand reproduction.

It’s not that these merchants do not have enough business awareness and do not want to expand reproduction, but that these merchants have no way to expand reproduction. If they invest the profits in expanding reproduction, they will either be beaten by the royal palace or be favored by noble officials, or the great masters of the prefecture and province seek to seize your property.

Since the Zhang family has been raising silkworms for five generations, they don’t know how much money they have hidden underground. Now Zhang Yihe has finally seen a glimmer of hope to become the real overlord of the mountain silkworm industry. Not only did he invite Liu Peng’s patrol team to Zhucheng for a walk, but he even planned to bring a large amount of money to Dengzhou to develop the mountain silkworm industry.

Liu Peng laughed: "That's unwelcome! Boss Zhang, if you have any trouble, you can come to me at any time. I'm responsible for helping you settle it. Also, Boss Zhang, if you need money turnover, you can find my sister Mengyu at any time, and guarantee that the interest will be discounted and then discounted."
Chapter completed!