In Suzhou Prefecture, the trading of raw silk continues.
The Shen family led other businessmen in Suzhou Prefecture to eat almost all the raw silk in Suzhou Prefecture and offered higher prices than before, in order to attack Zhu Xuan.
Those sericulture farmers were naturally happy to make a lot of money and go back happily.
The Shen family and other merchants bought the raw silk and spent the money, but the several warehouses at home were full of raw silk and various goods that had been backlogged for several years.
The warehouses were so full that they couldn't even put them in. Looking at the condition of their homes, some businessmen began to worry.
"Brother Shen, is it really okay for us to do this?"
"In the past two years, our shipments have been almost zero, and our income cannot offset our expenses."
"Now we are spending a lot of money to buy raw silk, which is almost draining our wealth."
Businessman Zhao Jian said first.
This also speaks to the thoughts of all other businessmen.
If the purchased raw silk, woven silk, cloth, etc. continue to be unable to be sold, there will no longer be a market and they will have to be piled up in the warehouse as usual.
Now that there are more and more inventories, their economy will be more difficult, and even the economy of Suzhou Prefecture is not much better.
Most of the goods are destined for shipping. The silk market within the Ming Dynasty has long been occupied by merchants from other regions. They have not thought about exporting to domestic sales, but they will be boycotted and concentrated by other merchants who specialize in selling silk domestically. be opposed to.
After all, if I don’t interfere with your overseas market, you can’t interfere with my domestic market. No one wants their interests to be divided by others.
"Brother Shen, are you sure you can really do it?"
Suzhou businessman Zhang Mingjiang also raised his own questions.
It's not that they don't believe in Shen Bin, it's just that they don't believe in the current market environment, which is really unfriendly to them.
"It will definitely work, absolutely no problem!"
Shen Bin said with confidence: "When the little emperor's grandson can no longer collect raw silk, his silk reeling factories and weaving factories will be completely useless, and he will eventually come to us to beg us."
As for the components of his business, water transportation accounts for half, and overseas trade accounts for the other half.
Relatively speaking, it is much better than other businessmen, and the pressure is not that great. It can still be sustained now, but other businessmen are reaching their limit.
They hesitated for a long time, and in their current situation, it seemed that they could only trust Shen Bin. However, at this moment, a servant next to Suzhou businessman Li Jun hurriedly walked in and whispered a few words in his ear.
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Jun stood up suddenly and was stunned.
"Brother Li, what happened?"
Shen Bin asked.
Li Jun said in a trembling and unbelieving voice: "His Royal Highness, I don't know when I purchased a large amount of raw silk from other places. At this time, I am transporting it back to Wu County one after another..."
"What?"
"How could this be possible? I don't believe it!"
"It turns out that Your Highness... never thought about competing with us for raw silk from the beginning. What... should we do?"
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After hearing what Li Jun said, the businessmen were immediately shocked. They all couldn't believe it was true.
"impossible!"
"How could foreign merchants allow Zhu Xuan to buy their raw silk? I don't believe it."
Shen Bin's reaction was even greater. He stood up excitedly, his face full of disbelief.
But the entire Ming Dynasty belongs to Lao Zhu’s family.
Zhu Xuan is the grandson of the Ming Dynasty Emperor, and is very likely to be the next Ming Emperor. He wants to purchase raw silk from outside Suzhou Prefecture, and it is only a matter of words.
Shen Bin didn't want to believe this fact.
"Let's go take a look."
"Yes, go and have a look."
"Go together!"
Although the merchants were unwilling to accept this fact, they also wanted to see for themselves and see for themselves whether Zhu Xuan really transported the raw silk back.
They went out together and soon came to the government's warehouse.
Zhu Xuan's raw silk was not stored in silk reeling factories and other places. Instead, it was transported to the city in a high-profile manner and put in the warehouse specifically for Shen Bin and other merchants to take a look.
Even the surface of the raw silk is not wrapped with anything, leaving the raw silk exposed for those who want to see it.
Dozens of carts pulling raw silk lined up to go to the warehouse. The streets were full of Zhu Xuan's people, and the scene looked very spectacular.
When Shen Bin and the others saw this scene, they also saw that Cen Jing was leading people to count the numbers, with expressions on his face as if he had eaten a fly.
All true.
Xiao Huangsun really bought so much raw silk from other places, so he wanted to squeeze them all out.
"Brother Shen, what should I do?"
Another businessman asked Shen Bin worriedly.
In this way, Shen Bin's plan will be completely and completely blocked, and Zhu Xuan can't be helped.
Shen Bin's face was livid. He held it in for a long time and couldn't say a word. He turned around and left with full of unwillingness.
The other merchants left helplessly. They either followed Shen Bin back and asked what to do, or they hurried back to find ways to deal with the large amount of raw silk they had purchased.
They were even thinking about whether they could resell it to Zhu Xuan?
Raw silk became a hot potato, and none of them wanted it.
When the people of Suzhou Prefecture learned that Zhu Xuan also purchased raw silk from other places, they were thankful that their raw silk had already been sold to Suzhou merchants at high prices.
Otherwise, who in Suzhou would be willing to collect raw silk again?
"Brother, you are a little bad."
Xu Miaojin and the others happened to watch Shen Bin and others leaving with unconvinced and unwilling expressions, and smiled happily.
Cen Hua hummed and said, "Your Highness is such a bad person. This time he has completely offended all the businessmen in Suzhou."
"It doesn't matter!"
Zhu Xuan doesn't care about businessmen yet.
After all, those businessmen were extremely arrogant a few days ago.
But then, they could only beg themselves, and even beg him to buy raw silk and beg to let him go.
"Your Highness, if businessmen come to ask us, can we help them?"
Cen Jing asked.
Zhu Xuan nodded and said: "Help, but the price for purchasing their raw silk cannot be high. Keep it down to the price we are purchasing now and let them suffer some losses. I will have no problem purchasing all the raw silk in the entire Jiangnan area."
"Your Highness is still kind!"
Cen Jing spoke from the bottom of his heart.
If it were him, he would never pay attention to those arrogant businessmen again.
But Zhu Xuan is not Cen Jing, nor is he a businessman. When doing this, what needs to be considered is the overall balance, otherwise someone will impeach him for competing with the people, and he will have to go to court again.
"Songjiang Prefecture Trading Port, has the location been chosen? Has construction started?"
Zhu Xuan asked again.
Cen Jing nodded and said: "We have chosen and built it, but within a short period of time, it will be difficult to build one as large as Panyu. We can only build a very simple one."
"Just keep it simple."
Zhu Xuan said: "Start the first trade first, and then gradually improve the trade port to make Jiangnan merchants feel at ease before doing anything else."
In addition, the silk reeling factory and other factory buildings have already been put in place.
It is also relatively simple, and the machine can be placed inside.
When it becomes stable in the future, we can slowly develop it. The rest is not urgent.
After taking a look at the raw silk that was still being shipped back, Zhu Xuan knew that there was no problem with the plan. He ignored it for the time being and returned to the government office to wait for news.
