"What's going on?" Xu Yingwei said, "No one knows how to reel silk?"

"Who says it isn't?" Shi Jiuke sighed, "It doesn't matter if no one knows how to weave silk. At worst, we can just sell raw silk. But if no one knows how to reel silk, it's over. We can only let it rot."

"Then invite people over." Xu Yingwei said, "Now that the craftsman status has been cancelled, craftsmen can move freely. As long as the wages you pay are high enough, are you afraid that no one will come over?"

Shi Jiuke sighed: "Isn't it just because I can't afford the wages?"

After a pause, he continued: "I have spent tens of thousands of taels of silver on buying fields to plant mulberry seedlings, buying silkworm seeds, hiring workers to collect mulberry leaves, harvesting silkworm cocoons, and opening silk reeling and weaving workshops.

, I have completely emptied my family fortune, and now I really can’t put any more money into it.”

"Brother, you have found the wrong person." Xu Yingwei said directly.

"Our family can spare hundreds of taels of silver, but what you are short of is tens of thousands of taels."

At this time, Xu Shiyi, who was accompanying me, gritted his teeth and said, "It's no problem to scrape together a thousand taels of silver."

Xu Shiyi has never been an old-fashioned and warm-hearted character. The key is that being able to help the Shi family once gives him a unique sense of accomplishment. Their grandfather, the Xu family, can also help a famous family like the Shi family in Huangtan.

Xu Yingwei said angrily: "Dad, one thousand taels is of no use."

"Father-in-law, this junior is not here to borrow money." After Shi Jiuke finished speaking, he said to Xu Yingwei, "That's it. Yesterday I went to the county and saw an announcement about the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on the fourth page of the Huangming Times.
Chapter completed!