On this day, Qin Zhao took Qin Youli and two servants into the back hall of the Zheng family.

Zheng Chenggong was already sitting there, brewing a pot of Tieguanyin and waiting there. Seeing Qin Zhao walking in with beautiful clothes, Zheng Chenggong sneered.

Yesterday, he was a rural scholar with cotton cloth, but he became the most popular furniture owner in Guangzhou. Zheng Sen used to hear that someone had sailed on a boat of Ming silk and sailed to Luzon or Batavia and then turned over overnight, but he never heard that he could even leapt on the dragon gate overnight by making furniture.

The Feng Shui of Guangzhou City is really fast.

"Which gust of wind blows Boss Qin?"

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "Where can you use a big word for a small business? The Fourth Master was joking."

Zheng Chenggong smiled and said, "To be honest, I asked my friend to go to your store to buy goods a few days ago. I had to buy six spring soft chairs, but it turned out that it would take fifteen days to pick up the goods. In short, there are still twelve days before today."

"Look, even our Zheng family is waiting for your furniture. Are you not a big boss?"

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "The Fourth Master is really laughing. The Fourth Master came to my shop to buy goods and didn't say that it was for the Zheng family. The guy who came to buy goods must have not reported the Fourth Master's house clearly. Otherwise, even if I was working in the middle of the night, I would have to make six soft chairs for the Fourth Master within three days. How could I let the Fourth Master wait for so long?"

Zheng Chenggong smiled and said, "Buy some furniture, you don't need to report it everywhere."

Qin Zhao bowed and said, "The Fourth Master is a bold person, and he has different ideas from us. I admire him very much."

Zheng Chenggong put down the teacup in his hand and laughed.

After laughing for a while, he turned around and asked with a smile: "Boss Qin, the last time I used the gunpowder I bought here to kill the robber? How about the seizure?"

Zheng Chenggong was deceived by Qin Shan for the purpose of gunpowder last time, and at this time he couldn't help but urge Qin Shan.

What force is the Zheng family? Zheng Chenggong's father Zheng Zhilong was not only a maritime overlord at this time, but also called the Fujian general. The entire Fujian Province seemed to be the private property of the Zheng family. The appointment and removal of officials in Fujian, the arrangement of soldiers and horses, and every move required Zheng Zhilong nodded and agreed. Without the support of the Zheng family in Fujian, even if you hang the flag of the Minister of War and the Governor of Fujian, you may not even dare to leave.

Zheng Chenggong was in charge of Guangzhou for the Zheng family, and naturally attached great importance to the information of the twenty-one prefectures and one state in eastern and western Guangdong. He had a special channel to understand major events in various places. Qin Zhao had no movement before, and he did not know him. Now that the news of Qin Zhao bombing a tiger spread throughout Xiangshan County, Zheng Chenggong certainly knew it.

Zheng Chenggong read Qin Zhao’s household post that day.

Zheng Chenggong now knows better than Ning Dengyun, the magistrate of Xiangshan, how Qin Zhao exploded the Taoyun Peak.

Qin Zhao II was a man, but he had the specialty of shamelessness. His face was not red at all. He replied with a stern look: "The Fourth Master doesn't know that those lawless robbers live one day without any vision. The money they plundered from rural farmers over the years has basically been used up by them."

"I seized three fat pigs at one time in the mountain. These robbers seem to kill one pig every two or three days to eat meat."

"I have seized so much silver. All the things, including the sold materials, were only 1,600 taels." After a pause, Qin Zhao added: "After going down the mountain, I divided the silver with the villagers and the heroes. I only got 400 taels myself."

When Zheng Chenggong heard Qin Zhao send an accurate number to himself, he was stunned. Zheng Chenggong thought Qin Zhao would say a rough number and was excused, but he didn't expect Qin Zhao to say a correct number.

This is an attitude of knowing everything.

Last time I cheated and bought dozens of kilograms of gunpowder, but this time I showed such a sincere attitude.

Zheng Chenggong looked at Qin Zhao and thought to himself that this young man must have something to ask for.

Zheng Chenggong tapped the coffee table with his fingers, but did not speak.

Zheng Chenggong has always been curious about Qin Zhao. This young man has a strong temperament and does not make any plans when encountering problems. No matter how he looks, he doesn't look like a farmer who is digging for food.

Qin Zhao bowed and said, "The Fourth Master is clear! I am here to find the Fourth Master this time because I want to buy Su Gang from the Fourth Master."

"oh?"

Zheng Chenggong said quickly: "Su Gang is in the shop at my gate. Brother Qin just went there to buy it!"

Qin Zhao smiled bitterly.

"The Fourth Master is clear! The key cost of my business of spring soft chair lies in Su Gang."

"oh?"

"That's true. To be honest, the springs of the soft chair in my house are heated with Sugang and pulled into steel wire, and then coiled the steel wire on the steel pipe. This sofa costs more than ten taels of silver, and the cost on the Sugang steel wire alone is more than eight taels. It is precisely because of the quality of our springs that the soft chair is truly soft and comfortable to sit."

These are not secrets. You can understand by buying a sofa and opening it up. Qin Zhao is not afraid of Zheng Chenggong to listen.

"So open the skylight and say something bright, Fourth Master, the price of Su Gang is crucial to our business."

"We have made more than 100 spring soft chairs these days, but the price of Sugang in Guangzhou has increased. Originally, the price of Sugang was 7 taels and 2 jin per kilogram, which is acceptable. But today I went to the market to look at it and found that after I used more than 100 jin of Sugang these days, Sugang in the market and the blacksmith's office had increased to 8 taels and 3 jin per kilogram."

"Second Master, to be honest, we can't stand this increase."

"We will definitely continue to make soft chairs next. If Sugang continues to raise prices, our spring soft chairs will lose money."

After hearing Qin Zhao's words, Zheng Chenggong finally understood why Qin Zhao was looking for him.

Qin Zhao wants to wholesale raw materials and is unwilling to buy raw materials at retail prices in the market anymore, and bear the cost of disorderly rising raw materials.

Zheng Chenggong coughed, picked up the teacup and took a sip of water, and said, "Don't worry, drink a sip of water and talk slowly!"

Qin Zhao looked at Qin Youli and Qin Ning, nodded, and took a sip of tea.

Qin Youli also took a sip of tea, took a small sip and felt a fragrance seeping into his mouth. He couldn't help but exclaim: "Good tea!"

Zheng Chenggong smiled and said, "Brother Qin Zhao means that my Zheng family wants me to go directly to Wuhu, Wuxi, Suzhou and other places to buy Sugang for you? I don't want to get the price increase from these second-hand dealers anymore."

Sugang is a steelmaking method invented by Suzhou people. In this era, it was not only Suzhou, but also in Wuhu and Wuxi, Jiangnan. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, due to the lack of raw material resources such as iron, a large number of owners and craftsmen moved from Suzhou to Wuhu, and Wuhu became the actual production center of Sugang. From the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, there were 8 large-scale steel workshops in Wuhu. For example, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Hui merchant Wang Shangquan invested and opened a steel workshop in Wu, "returning the large-scale engineering and smelting iron and smelting, and commanding hundreds of people, killing in an orderly manner, and failing to work."
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