Prince Gong raised his eyebrows, "Shanghai? It's not Zuo Zongtang's territory, how can there be him? Without waiting for Bao Jun to speak, he said lazily, "What's wrong, it has nothing to do with us now, why should Gong Yu pay so much attention?" ”

He was very disheartened, although it was this ups and downs, for him, it was nothing at all, when Emperor Xuanzong was there, he was already the elder brother of the errand, Emperor Xianfeng ascended the throne, at the beginning of the taboo himself, just let him study in the study to nourish his heart, and later because of the Taiping Army rebellion, so he came out on an errand, but because he was a little complacent, let Emperor Xianfeng find a hair to do, go to all errands and continue to return to the study to study, and then Britain and France came to attack, and it was again in Beijing to handle the Fu Bureau, Immediately joined forces with the one in Chuxiu Palace, abolished the eight ministers of Gu Ming, and then it was a smooth twenty years, although there was Emperor Yingzong's rude deposition, but it was only a matter of two or three days, it was nothing, so carefully thought about it, it was already three ups and downs, and it could be regarded as the cold and warm in the world have tasted all the cold and warm, and the nature should be to watch the clouds roll up, and watch the flowers bloom and fall, but why is this time so disheartened, although Prince Gong is unwilling to admit it, but his heart is indeed different from before. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

One is to lose his authority, the other is to break his heart, sad things, but not only because of the death of the Guerjia clan, but he can't say it with Bao Jun, these days, Prince Gong is closed, all the entertainment has been refused, even if Bao Jun so solemnly came to tell Shanghai in person, he is not interested.

"Shanghai is not Zuo Zongtang's territory, so it is possible for me to know about this matter," Bao Jun said, "I was in case this matter was a rumor, and I specially asked the household department and the customs." Now with the French war, foreign trade commodity prices have naturally fluctuated, tea is mainly sold to the British, but it is enough, porcelain sales are sold to the French, now this price has been greatly affected, yesterday the export price of porcelain, has fallen by one percent. This is nothing, the most important thing is another, Lord Wang, do you remember who donated 600,000 yuan of silver to the front line in Shanghai before the Battle of Beining in the past? ”

"That businessman named Hu Xueyan, right?" Prince Gong said lazily, "I remember what kind of silk association he had, or your household department got it for him, but unfortunately, he helped Zuo Zongtang." It's nothing, it's just that so much silver was lost in Bac Ninh. ”

Prince Gong didn't mean to complain about Baojun, but he felt that in the battle of Beining, the Foshan Guild and Hu Xueyan paid a hundred taels of silver, but it was a pity to lose it there in vain. Ke Baojun showed an embarrassed look on his face, speaking of which, it was a move to help Zuo Zongtang boost his momentum, but this time is not the time to make amends, Baojun coughed, "This Hu Xueyan's momentum is very good, and this silk association was established before to fight with foreigners." Nowadays, there are two large fabrics on the market, one is cotton cloth and the other is our silk. The British use cotton cloth mostly, and their nobles mostly use silk, but if they use some silk, most of them ask us to buy, and they rarely produce, but the French are different, they are luxurious by nature, and the demand for silk is huge, so many years, not only merchants, but also customs have made a lot of money by this. ”

"After a long time, they naturally feel that it is too expensive, but the best silk in the world is in our Daqing, how can they find cheaper, but the quality is still so good? Therefore, during the Tongzhi period, there were already French businessmen who bought this weaving machine from us one after another, preparing to weave it themselves. ”

"What are you going to weave?" Prince Gong was a little absent-minded, and casually asked Baojun.

"Weaving silk by yourself," Bao Jun said patiently, "After so many years, their craftsmanship is not bad, and it is enough to gradually cope with their ordinary domestic merchants." ”

Bao Jun this is the Spring and Autumn period penmanship, not the French craftsmanship is good, it should be said that there is great results, great progress, France introduced the handmade loom to Paris, and then used the internal combustion engine to turn the manual into a motorcycle, in this way, the speed of spinning silk is naturally a thousand miles a day, but most of the silk weaving is fast, but there is no pattern, relatively simple, but in addition to the Jiangnan Suzhou, Jiangning, Hangzhou three internal affairs government officials made silk is perfect, extremely gorgeous French even if they take it can not imitate it, But the ordinary weaving mills were still relatively low-grade products, and in this way, the price was forced to keep the French export prices down. Fine products are still so expensive, but the silk that is usually exported to France is gradually not selling.

Domestic silk merchants are naturally complaining, the customs is in charge of the household department, the export tax silver is less, Bao Jun in the household department naturally has to jump to worry, in the past, this Hu Xueyan to set up a silk association, the first Bao Jun still thinks that he can help the domestic silk export, the second, naturally Hu Xueyan is very sensible. "But no matter how their skills progress, to say a thousand things and ten thousand, their most important raw materials are still in our hands!"

"You're talking about silk?" Prince Gong finally caught up with Bao Jun's rhythm and asked.

"Exactly," Bao Jun said proudly, "Nine out of ten of the silk in the world come from our China, and Chinese silk, eight or nine out of ten come from the area of Suzhou, Hangzhou and Jiahu. Hu Xueyan this person's brain is very bright, the timing is also very accurate, there are too many silk export merchants, each competing to reduce the price of exports, not only hurt the farmers, but also let the foreigners get cheap in vain, Hu Xueyan established this silk association, in the past two years, there is no big move, just the silk export merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have been brought in, this is also through the signboard of the household department to fox fake tiger power, "Bao Jun faintly regretted a little, the gold-lettered signboard personally approved by the household department is naturally extremely effective, did not enter this association, Pay a certain fee, it is not allowed to export silk, so that all the silk industry is dominated at once, but Hu Xueyan is very modest, a few years ago to deal with foreigners, it will not be a bully, with the silk association to suppress foreigners, raise prices, so they get along quite well, but then, it is not so kind as before. Facts have proved that Hu Xueyan's ambition will not let him master the weapon of mass murder without using it. (To be continued.) )