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To correct his body, Liu Yiping simply and clearly put forward the conditions offered by Wang Shixin:

It is recommended that Zhang Zhun be one of the hundreds of households in Fushan District.

Give Zhang Zhun 1,500 taels of silver.

Distribute three hundred acres of fertile land to Zhang Zhun.

Of course, the above is just a preliminary suggestion. If Zhang Zhun feels dissatisfied, there is room for bargaining. As long as you don’t continue to oppose Lord Qianhu, then everything is easy to say. As for others other than Zhang Zhun..., Mr. Qianhu expressed sincere apology for the harm and losses caused to the military households in the past. Of course, this sincere apology is limited to verbal ones. Mr. Qianhu deeply believes that as long as Zhang Zhun does not continue to incite the military households, the military households will not be able to oppose Lord Qianhu.

Liu Yiping finally said tactfully: "The Qianhu is very sincere, and I also ask the Qianhu to carefully consider it. In the future, the Qianhu and the Qianhu will be a family. It is difficult to share the blessings and share the same things. The glory and wealth are just around the corner."

Zhang Zhun smiled slightly, with a very serious expression and said seriously: "Thank you, Lord Qianhu for your kindness. In fact, I am very sincere."

Liu Yiping thought to himself, it would be strange if you are sincere.

Of course, these words cannot be expressed. You can feel uncomfortable and impatient. You are not? You are just a messenger who passes messages, and it is serious to save your life.

Liu Yiping subconsciously said: "Thank you for your support and understanding..."

Zhang Zhun shook his head, interrupted Liu Yiping's words, and said slowly: "Mr. Liu, you run a cotton cloth business. How much money can each piece of cotton cloth make?"

Liu Yiping was stunned and looked at Zhang Zhun in shock.

Instead of talking to him about Wang Shixin, he asked about his business?

He swallowed his saliva with difficulty. Liu Yiping didn't understand Zhang Zhun's intention, so he decided to tell the truth so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. Regarding business matters, Liu Yiping naturally spoke up and said: "In the past, each piece of cotton cloth could make about 100 or 200 cents. Now the price of cotton cloth in Jiangnan has risen a lot, and the profit has been greatly reduced, only about 80 cents."

Zhang Zhun nodded casually and said slowly: "Why is the price of cotton cloth in Jiangnan rising?"

Liu Yiping thought to himself, are you really going to talk to me about business? You can't figure it out, but you dare not put aside this topic. Anyway, you can't make the other party angry, you can talk about whatever topic you want. He followed Zhang Zhun's words: "Shaanxi is in chaos, Henan is in chaos, the cotton planting area has been greatly reduced, the price of raw materials has risen, and cotton cloth naturally rises."

He decided to tell the truth in front of Zhang Zhun, and naturally he would not lie.

In fact, most of the cotton planting area in the northwest and Central Plains in the Ming Dynasty was planted in only a small amount in the south of the Yangtze River. Now, the uprising army led by Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others have completely mixed Shaanxi and Henan into a pot of porridge. The cotton planting has naturally been greatly affected. In recent years, the amount of cotton imported into Jiangnan has been less than 30% of the previous ones, and there is still a tendency to be less and less. The lack of raw materials and the price of cotton cloth is inevitable.

Zhang Zhun nodded thoughtfully and asked in a deep thought: "Mr. Liu, can you effectively reduce the cost if you plant cotton in Shandong?"

Liu Yiping looked at Zhang Zhun with some confusion, really wondering what Zhang Zhun meant. Could it be that he really wanted to talk to himself about business? Or a professional cotton business? This is not his original intention! He dared not not to answer Zhang Zhun's question, so he had to say cautiously: "If cotton planting can be promoted in Shandong, it will be better. But, cotton is easy to compete with the people for land, so what?"

Zhang Zhun said calmly: "I will naturally solve the balance between cotton and grain. I just want to know that with Mr. Liu's professionalism, if Shandong can produce a large amount of cotton cloth locally, I wonder if Mr. Liu is interested in participating in the sales?"

Liu Yiping was immediately delighted and subconsciously said, "Of course I do."

I realized something, and he shook his head regretfully and said sourly: "Hundreds of people are joking. It is probably not easy for Shandong to produce a large amount of cotton cloth. Even if you vigorously promote cotton planting and solve the problem of raw materials, the cost cannot be lower than that of Jiangnan cotton cloth, right?"

Zhang Zhun still said calmly: "I only ask Mr. Liu if he is interested in selling cotton cloths produced by our own Shandong."

Liu Yiping said proudly: "Of course I do."

Zhang Zhun smiled and nodded, and said leisurely: "Then there is no problem."

Liu Yiping became more and more confused. He didn't know what Zhang Zhun was thinking. He couldn't help but look at Zhang Zhun, but found that he seemed confident. He couldn't help but be surprised and excited. Could it be that Zhang Zhun could really produce cotton cloth by himself? If this is true, wouldn't he be able to get the moon first?

Little did he know that Zhang Zhun had long been eyeing the cotton business. Later generations, Shandong was also a large cotton province with a cotton planting area of ​​more than 11 million mu, with a yield of about 60 kilograms per mu, and an annual output of up to 700,000 tons. It is a veritable cotton production province after Xinjiang. This fully demonstrates that growing cotton in Shandong has unique geographical conditions.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, Shandong's cotton yield was always among the best in the country. During the Chenghua period, there were more than 50,000 mu of cotton fields in Yanzhou Prefecture alone. At that time, the yield per mu of rice fields was about one stone (equivalent to 188.8 kilograms), and the net production of cotton fields was about 21 kilograms. At that time, rice stone was about 0.8 taels of silver, cotton was about 0.2 taels of silver, and 21 kilograms of cotton was about 4 taels of silver.

From the perspective of economic value, 1 mu of cotton fields is equivalent to 5 mu of rice fields. This greatly stimulated cotton production. In the sixth year of Wanli, Shandong was transported to Jingku, and the cotton cloth in the Bianku reached 600,000 pieces and 390,000 kilograms of cotton. Most of the cotton cloth transported to the Liaodong region came from Shandong. It was only because of the constant wars in Shandong in recent years that smelled the incense and Kong Youde that led to the rapid decline of cotton production and the glory of the past.

With the continuous growth of the peasant uprising army in Shanxi, more and more provinces affected by the Ming Dynasty will be. Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others are all people who only know how to destroy and do not know how to produce. Wherever their troops pass, they will only destroy more cotton and grain production areas, resulting in the continuous rise of cotton and grain prices, and eventually reaching a staggering height.

If Zhang Zhun wants to gain a foothold in this wave of competing for the Central Plains and not be defeated by others, he must prepare for the future and be self-reliant. Food must be planted, and cotton must also be planted. Only with food and clothing can one ensure the stability of people's hearts. In such a chaotic world, nothing is more important than having food and clothing.

Of course, it was just a whim he had just mentioned to Liu Yiping. Zhang Zhun was not interested in negotiating with Wang Shixin. There was no such word in his dictionary in negotiations.

Zhang Zhun suddenly tilted the corner of his mouth, staggered the topic, and said calmly: "I wonder if Mr. Liu has heard that two days ago, some Later Jin Tartars came to invade Maojiatun, but were defeated by us? We also captured several Tartars alive, one of which was called Lanfu..."

Liu Yiping was shocked and said in a daze: "What did you say?"

Zhang Zhun's expression remained unchanged and said slowly: "I said, we captured several Later Jin Tartars. They didn't know how they came to Shandong, so we couldn't ask what the situation was. At the same time, we also found some parchment paper on Fukushima, which obviously wrote some secret content. Unfortunately, no one could understand it. I'm looking for someone to think about it now!"

Liu Yiping said anxiously: "This... Lord Baihu, can you hand these Tartars over to Lord Qianhu for interrogation? The Tartars are cruel and it is too dangerous to stay with you."

Zhang Zhun said strangely: "Leave it to Lord Qianhu? Why do we have to Lord Qianhu? We caught the person, of course we dealt with it ourselves!"

Liu Yiping hurriedly said, "That's the reward for killing the Tartars! Before I left, Lord Qianhu said that he would buy it from Lord Baihu at the price of 100 taels of silver for each Tartar. If it was a living Tartar, he would be willing to give one person two hundred taels of silver. As long as Lord Baihu handed me the Tartars' head or the living Tartars, I would pay the silver to Lord Baihu on the spot."

Zhang Zhun said slowly: "Is this price too low?"

Liu Yiping hurriedly said, "Of course, if the Baihu Adult is not satisfied, the Qianhu Adult will also give some appropriate compensation. If the Baihu Adult has any requests, you can tell me that I will go back and tell the Qianhu Adult immediately. In short, it will definitely not be a loss to the Baihu Adult."

Zhang Zhun stared at Liu Yiping with a bright look and said meaningfully: "Mr. Liu can ignore anything else, just to take those Tartars back? And the heads of other Tartars? Is this what the Qianhu Lords have repeatedly told Wan to give in?"

Liu Yiping said: "Mr. Baihu, you are right. Before leaving, Mr. Qianhu did give me repeated instructions."

After a slight pause, Liu Yiping said again: "Mr. Qianhu also said that as long as you return all the Tartars to us, we can give up Fushan City and hand over everything inside to you!"

Zhang Zhun frowned casually.

What a Wang Shixin, he is loyal to the Tartars!

He was not ruthless in fighting and killing his own military households. He was so kind and righteous when dealing with the Tartars who died in battle, he was even more kind than his family. There were too many such traitors in the Ming Dynasty, which was vulnerable to the Tartars.

Zhang Zhun said calmly: "Sir Qianhu really said that?"

Liu Yiping said enthusiastically: "That's true. Lord Qianhu said that for Lord Qianhu, it is useless to detain these Tartars, right? It is better to use them to exchange for Fushan City. Otherwise, Lord Baihu will hand over the Tartars to Lord Qianhu, and Lord Qianhu recommends the Thousand Houses as the Thousand Houses of Fushan. What do you think?"

Zhang Zhun refused to comment.

Wang Shixin is really willing to spend a lot of money.

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