Chapter 25: The Disaster of Zhurong

As soon as Wang Yue made a move, the results were immediate.

The price of silkworm cocoons, silk, cotton, immediately rose.

This made the people of Suzhou feel a lot more at ease.

Cotton is fine.

First, there are more silkworm cocoons produced in the countryside near Suzhou, and silk is much more than cotton, especially Taihu silk is famous even in later generations.

Second, cocoons and silk cannot be stored for a long time, and there will be problems after a long time.

But now the price that has been suppressed is simply unacceptable to the people.

Almost immediately, the door of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau was jammed with people, and it was densely discharged two miles away.

Hundreds of people are carrying a few baskets, or pushing carts, and among the large and small rivers in Suzhou, all kinds of silk and silkworm cocoons are piled up on Wupeng boats.

You must know that although the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau is owned by Shaofu, its predecessor is a yamen, and the threshold of the yamen is very high, and generally few people come.

It is this street that is densely populated by yamen, and ordinary poor people never dare to come, lest they collide with high-ranking officials and nobles, and let people say a word, asking him to live rather than die.

It's like driving on the road now, and when you see a Rolls-Royce, you're far away. Otherwise, a careless, a little friction can make your income go down the drain for several years.

Wang Yue took people to look at the busy receiving scene, and he was very satisfied.

It is precisely because of the foundation of Jiangnan weaving that it can be so smooth, and you can start receiving goods with an order.

Some people think that purchasing is simple and that they just have money.

However, the quality of silk and silk is different, the types of silkworm cocoons and silkworm cocoons are different, and the varieties of cotton and cotton are different.

Moreover, this era has not yet advanced the standardization of later generations, and directly tells you what kind of silk is and what kind of cotton is.

It can only be judged by personal experience.

If you don't come from an industry background, it's enough to make people pay for death, and I don't know how to die.

However, with the familiarity of the weaving industry, there are few people in Suzhou who can compare with the master master in the weaving bureau.

Wang Yue saw this scene and said, "Yes, how are the preparations in other aspects?" ”

A eunuch beside him said: "My lord, we have begun to build a loom for sale on the market, and within a month or two, we will be able to start construction, and we can clean up the big scene." ”

Wang Yue said: "Okay, let people watch it tightly, don't do anything." Let the Jinyi guard send someone. ”

Wang Yue also worked in the mall.

To tell the truth, in the absence of perfect commercial laws, no, even when the laws of the Ming Dynasty were not yet under the control of the whole Ming Dynasty, under the prosperity of commerce, there was simply barbaric expansion.

Politically bribing officials from all sides.

Just like the Chen Gang case mentioned earlier, the reason why this case is so important is that it is a discussion of the punishment standards for official corruption

, but in detail, this Chen Gang may not be affected by the struggle between the two silk merchants.

There is no shortage of competition with each other in the mall.

In private, more black hands are not uncommon, who does Suzhou's developed fighting line serve?

To put it mildly, the local gentry don't need to do anything, they really have to do it, some of them are the children of their own families, and there are tenants.

It's really urgent, and the local gentry can pull out the army.

Only these merchants, although there are some guys or something, are not enough on the whole, and these customers are these big and small merchants.

Even this brutal development is not limited to competitors.

There are also cooperating businessmen with each other.

Among the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, there are certainly each other's righteous knots, advancing and retreating together in the shopping mall, and even after the death of the founder, the children of the two families are also friendly with each other.

But there are also those who are black hands with each other.

Looking through the case files of the government, there are many businessmen who have gone away, and finally know that they were killed, and the murderer who was found out was a partner of the same company.

This is still found out.

With the ancient crime solving rate, there will only be more that has not been detected.

Wang Yue is naturally not stupid and sweet.

Although he felt that the other party might not dare to use a trick, after all, behind him was the official government, and it was Lord Qincha Wang Shu.

But it also has to be guarded against.

I have to say that Wang Yue's worries are right.

That night.

Wang Yue was sleeping, but he heard a loud noise outside, and for a while, tens of millions of people shouted loudly: "It's water." ”

For a while, the sound of gongs, shouts, cries, and footsteps was instantaneous. Wang Yue was also awakened and came out in his clothes.

I saw a corner of the sky red.

Wang Yue was taken aback, didn't say a word, didn't care about putting on his clothes, half stepped on the clogs, and rushed out. In a few moments, it was in front of the fire.

But he saw the fire rising into the sky.

It is the warehouse where silk cocoons are kept.

Not one, at least two.

On top of the fire, countless people carried buckets of water and poured buckets of water over the fire, and many officials were directing the surrounding warehouses to be demolished.

Prevent the fire from spreading.

Fires were also common in ancient times.

The biggest fear is that once the fire spreads, it will stretch for miles and burn most of the city clean.

You know, there were too many wooden buildings in ancient China.

"Good, good, good." Wang Yue's face was extremely ugly, although the red firelight reflected on his face, making his face a little red, but this kind of ruddy could no longer hide the killing intent in his heart.

These words almost burst out between the teeth.

There are some things that don't need to be explained, just free mind.

Wang Yue also does not need evidence.

What Wang Yue needs more is action.

At dawn, Wang Shu came.

At the moment, the fire in the fire field has decreased a lot. It's because the combustibles are almost burned. But near the fire, there was a black ash suspended in the end. It was as if it was being held by an invisible hand, floating in the air, and it seemed that there was still a little bit of red light and flickering, and it slowly fell from the sky.

Wang Shu's official boots stepped on these ashes and asked Wang Yue, "How much is the loss?" ”

Wang Yue said: "300,000 taels." Several people guarding the warehouse were also burned to death. He paused slightly, and said: "Please rest assured, even if he burns another 300,000 taels, Shaofu will not retreat, but in this way, we will have a little less manpower in Jiangsu." ”

"Do you want to ask Mao Gong to transfer an army to Suzhou?"

In the center's arrangement of Jiangsu's troops, the first label that Jiangsu was given was the mainland.

So Jiangsu doesn't need much garrison.

And many health centers in Jiangsu have also been abolished. Moreover, there are many troops in Jiangsu, but these troops are not under the control of Jiangsu Province.

For example, the Cao soldiers in Huai'an, although the scale of Cao Yun has been decreasing, the number of troops is also shrinking. But the Ming still needed to maintain an army that built the canal, maintained the canal, and transported it on the canal.

Most of this army is a guard army, and it has no combat effectiveness. It can almost be understood as the manpower of the canal maintenance company.

But this army was under the management of the chief officer of Caoyun. Jiangsu Province can't manage it.

With this army in the Jiangbei region, Yangzhou and Huai'an do not need to place many troops, after all, it costs money to raise troops.

The other army is the coastal sailors.

Songjiang Prefecture is an important base for the Beiyang Naval Division, where there are thousands of troops. On the one hand, to maintain the military port shipyard and prevent pirates from coming ashore.

And this army is all recruited, and many of them have participated in wars, such as the Battle of Japan, although most of them are only responsible for transportation tasks, but the officer class has seen blood.

The combat effectiveness of this army can be guaranteed.

It's a pity that he is not under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.

In addition, there are 50,000 camps in Nanjing. There is no need to put many soldiers here in Jiangsu.

Therefore, if you really want to count it, the army under the command of the entire Jiangsu commander, whether it is the guards or the soldiers, is estimated to be no more than 20,000.

The 20,000 people were not in Suzhou either.

However, Suzhou is a large city of more than a million people, and it is likely that there are thousands of people who gather together. Not to mention the clan children and tenants influenced by the Suzhou gentry.

Now, even if Jinyiwei has a thousand households in Suzhou, this thousand households is responsible for the entire Jiangsu, and if you really start to do it, it would be good to be able to pull out 500 people among the thousands of households.

However, there are more people in Chen Yue's hands, and there are thousands of officials in Suzhou Mansion.

But this is not for fighting.