"Master Sang! Hello, hello! How is the harvest in the mulberry fields outside the city this year? Your family can control 30% of Suzhou City's mulberry leaf production. How high this year's silk production will be depends on your blessing..."
"You're welcome! Boss Jia is complimenting me. I am a mulberry farmer. I can only make some money with the help of the big bosses of the silkworm, silk reeling, and satin shops. If you don't buy my mulberry leaves, , I have long starved to death..."
The Suzhou silk and satin shop has always been very powerful. The Manchu and Qing court specially set up a Suzhou Weaving Yamen in Suzhou, which was a department dedicated to providing high-quality silk and satin to the royal family. This shows the great influence of Suzhou's silk manufacturing industry.
Mulberry leaves are the most upstream resources in the silk industry, equivalent to coal, iron and oil in later generations. They are cornerstone industries and the most profitable business. Of course, the competition in this industry is not small. In Jiangnan Every acre of cultivated mulberry field is the object of competition among various forces.
People who have no skills at all can't even think of holding on to this golden job. The black and white will have already snatched it away from you. Master Sang can monopolize 30% of the mulberry leaf production in Suzhou City. There is no need to guess how powerful this person is.
But right in front of Wang Liuyi, even with his status as Mr. Sang, he had to wait at the entrance of the bank, and he didn't look impatient at all. You can imagine how high-level this meeting in the bank was.
Wang Liuyi wandered around these big bosses like a timid mouse, listening carefully to business information that he had never heard in his life. Sometimes the words these bosses inadvertently revealed were a big business opportunity, a big business opportunity. They can all change Wang Liuyi's fate.
Mr. Sang and the silk merchants made a few polite remarks, but then the conversation changed and everyone showed a look of embarrassment: "Hey... it's not easy this year! Although our brothers are in this financial crisis, There is no big loss, but just a few of us cannot support an industry! If the big river is running out of water, why don’t the small rivers have to dry up too?"
"That's right, Boss Jia is right. When doing business, it is important to have water upstream and downstream. It is useless for just a few of us to make money. An industry must turn around! Mulberry fields produce mulberry leaves, and silkworm farmers buy mulberry leaves and produce silkworm cocoons. You have to come to the silk reeling factory to reel the silk, and then the raw silk can be put into the loom and turned into pieces of silk... This is not the end, the silk has to be sold by the shopkeepers with connections and shops..."
"In this way, all the river basins up and down will make money. This industry is related to the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people! Only when this industry makes money can hundreds of thousands of people have money to buy food. If you go to buy vegetables and meat, restaurants and wineries will prosper, and the land prices in Suzhou will also rise..."
"Everything is clear, and everything is clear. This is the case in our silk and satin industry. It is the same for tea shops, porcelain shops, salt merchants, etc. No one can do it if one link is missing... But now there is a shortage of cash in the market, and cash is scarce. Although the price of banknotes has recovered, there is no supply! We can still hold on, but so many small businesses have no cash flow and they can’t start operations!”
"What if this keeps going like this!" Boss Jia said worriedly.
Mr. Sang sighed, "That's right! In the past few days, I have met more than a dozen big sericulture farmers who come to my house and beg for credit. They have no money to buy mulberry leaves. Of course I know the principle of helping each other in the same boat. I give mulberry leaves on credit." Give it to them, but the crisis they encounter can't be solved with more than just a little mulberry leaf!"
"I can get credit, but can those grain dealers get credit? Can I get credit for working for sericulture farmers? Can I get credit for all walks of life that people need for food, clothing, housing and transportation? Alas... we still have to solve the problem at its root!"
Wang Liuyi was stunned. Regardless of his identity, he subconsciously said, "In the past two years in Jiangnan, the world has been divided equally between cash silver and Nan Piao. Although the cash silver is not enough now, we still have Nan Piao? The government has recovered." Now that we have Nan Piao’s credit, can’t we just spend Nan Piao?”
Several big businessmen looked at him in surprise. No one could understand how such a shabby guy could come in. Looking at the heavily guarded defense line in the distance, they knew that people who were not invited would never approach the bank. of.
No one looked down upon him too much. Mr. Sang nodded, "That's the truth. But we want to spend the Nanping tickets, but where are the Nanping tickets? The Nanping tickets have been taken away by the gambling stalls of those gangs. Until now, all the Nanping tickets have been taken away. All the gambling stalls in the city have disappeared without a trace, and all the circulating banknotes in the world have been drained, where can I find them?"
Wang Liuyi frowned and rubbed his hands and said, "Yes! We can't ask the Prime Minister for this matter. Lotte Bank doesn't dare to go all out to print banknotes. These things are required to be locked with the value of silver coins. If too many are printed, Once the money is lost, the consequences will be even more disastrous!"
"At this juncture, if anyone can release a large amount of banknotes, that would be a great achievement!"
The heavy businessmen all nodded, "Yes, as long as 200 million more Southern Tickets are circulated in the Suzhou market, all our industries will be revitalized, and all the sequelae of this crisis will be rectified within a year..."
Just as he was talking, a door panel of the bank was suddenly removed. The merchants present thought that the door was about to open and hurriedly stepped forward. However, they did not expect that only one door panel was opened. A young boy walked out from inside, his eyes wandering back and forth among the crowd. , I saw Wang Liuyi’s dodging figure for the last time.
"Wang Liuyi, Boss Wang...come on, come on, our special envoy has invited you, come over here!" The young man recognized Wang Liuyi and waved to him.
Wang Liuyi was stunned, and so were the big businessmen around him. They involuntarily made way for him in an alley, and watched as this inconspicuous man walked into the bank.
"Who is this? Why haven't I heard of it...and what else? What did the guy just say? Special envoy? Where did the special envoy come from..."
People were talking a lot. Wang Liuyi felt as if he was stepping on cotton. When he went up the steps, he almost fell down. Thanks to the help from Mr. Sang next to him.
In this city of Suzhou, there are only a handful of people who can be helped by Mr. Sang. Wang Liuyi has completely fainted.
Walking into the door panel, there are two worlds inside and outside. Wang Liuyi was shocked by the scene in front of him! Money! It's all money! Bundles, stacks, stacks... Behind the hardwood counter is a mountain of banknotes.
There are more than thirty clerks counting money, and the hall is filled with the rustling sound of counting money, densely packed like spring silkworms eating mulberry leaves. In the hearts of Suzhou people, this rustling sound is the most pleasant music.
In the middle of the hall, a man wearing a moon-white lake silk gown with a jade belt around his waist and hair hanging loose on his head was facing away from him. The man raised his head as if thinking about something, and did not notice Wang Liuyi at all. 's arrival
