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Chapter 235 To Suzhou

The night wind blew, and the boat was swaying on the water. It was already hot in late May. Chen Xie was so unpolite that he only wore a pair of big shorts. He suddenly pierced into the water and had a good time. Fortunately, the sky was already dark now, and a lantern was hanging on the bamboo pole. Chen Xie in the river could see it clearly.

Chen Xie, who had been wrong in water since childhood, was in high spirits and swam for a while before returning to the boat. When Gu Xi brought the clothes to change, Chen Xie realized that she had washed it too. Her hair was wet, with the fragrance of shampoo, which smelled very nice.

"Go dry quickly, and don't be afraid of the wind catching a cold." Chen Xie pushed her back, went ashore to find a place to change her clothes. He went to the big ship to take a look. Cui Xin was arranging a night guard, 12-person guards, divided into six two-person teams, taking turns to serve at night.

When I returned to the boat, a candle was in a glass cover on the small table, and a plate of fried broad beans, a plate of marinated ham slices, a plate of jerky meat, a plate of ginger, and a pot of wine.

Seeing Chen Xie come in, Jinlian, who has been dressed in 80% new clothes, greeted, "Young master, it's still early, drink some wine to pass the time." Gu Xi was wiping her hair while smiling. She was dressed like a servant, so she naturally was not qualified to go to the table.

"Okay, let's have a drink together and chat, and the time will pass." Chen Xie was not pretentious, and he realized something. However, he didn't plan to go with the flow. There was a Gu Xi on the boat. She was so easy to deal with, and she was not afraid of prickly heat coming out of her chest. The boat girl, A Yue San, is here now, and the two sisters are sitting opposite. When Chen Xie sat down, he looked up and saw that they were all thin short clothes, revealing her white arms, which were obviously different from the skin tone on her face. It was probably because it was hot, and there was empty inside, and two convex points were pushed out. There was no need to guess what the rhythm was.

He picked up the wine glass, Chen Xie drank it and smiled and said, "Tell me. Who has more looms in Suzhou? How many are there?"

"When it comes to looms, there are more than 500 pieces, and his family has the most mulberry fields. There are also the Zhang family. I heard that there are 300 pieces. Every year when I am busy, I shipped silk to Songjiang Mansion. It is said that it is sold to the red-haired and green-eyed ghosts. This is how to make a lot of money. There are many weavers in the Songjiang Mansion, and I just heard that it is impossible to tell in detail." Perhaps it was because Chen Xie's eyes swept over and stopped for a moment. A Yue San also relaxed. Whether it was himself or his sister, who liked each other, there was nothing to say. It was originally just eating this meal, not those red girls who could play the piano and sing music. The ship price of three taels of silver is worth the two sisters to go out together.

Chen Xie rummaged through the bag, found a model of a loom, and handed it over and said, "Look at the appearance of this loom, what's the difference?" A Yuelao took it and looked carefully and said, "This is a cotton weaving machine. I used it when I was a child. I first spin the thread and then put it on the machine. I slept a little later every night and could weave half of the cloth in a month. In Suzhou, weaving machines can account for half of them, and every year merchants from the northland come and sell them."

Chen Xie went to Suzhou to find a reliable partner. The textile industry needs to be industrialized, and only the Jiangnan area can achieve it. The ship behind brought modern society antique looms and spinning equipment. Although it was manual, the efficiency was much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Industrial development is not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty. The self-sufficiency small peasant economy is a catastrophe when it encounters industrial production. However, Chen Xie had to promote the development of this matter, because this is the trend of historical development.

Chen Xie put away the model and chatted with the two boat ladies. They were talking about things in Suzhou. Chen Xie listened quietly, asked a question occasionally, and then continued to listen to all his thoughts. Suzhou has always been on the front line of the anti-elebration party plundering. He resisted taxes and bans, and later wrote the story of "The Five-person Tombstone" written in the middle school textbook, which happened in Suzhou. The author Zhang Pu was not simple, the initiator of Fushe, and later promoted Zhou Yanru to the cabinet again.

When Chen Xie thought of Zhang Pu, he couldn't help but sneer. It was ridiculous that a leader of the Shilin who could bribe eunuchs. Everything he had done and said before was completely subverted in the process of operating Zhou Yanru to return to the position of chief minister.

The dispute between the Donglin Party and the eunuch Party is not about good or evil, but about interests. What the Donglin masters want to maintain is precisely the source of wealth needed by the Ming Dynasty. Commercial taxes, mining supervision, and these were basically gone in the early years of Chongzhen and after Wei Zhongxian fell.

Since it is not enough to compete with these people now, or even beat them, then cooperate with the interests they represent. Dig up your corner first, and when the dig is almost done, just raise your foot and kick it hard. Then, teach them how to be a human being.

While drinking and chatting, listening to the soft Wu Yin, the wine was in his stomach and his body gradually became hot. Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Xie said, "Please take it, go to bed early, and you will have to go on the road tomorrow." After Chen Xie finished speaking, he went out and came back to get ashore, he had already cleaned up. The mat in the cabin was cleaned and the curtains were put down. Gu Xi leaned against the wall, smiled at him, and opened his mouth and said silently: "I'll go to sleep?"

On the side of the curtain, the sisters were lying uneasy, and the daughter was already asleep. The two looked at each other and waited for the call there. They both fell asleep in a daze. They were really tired during the day and drank wine again.

Chen Xie, who was on the curtain, also slept. He was not tired, but could not do anything else. Through a curtain, he could not hide anything.

The cabin was not big, and Gu Xi, who was not honest when sleeping, quickly became a koala. Chen Xie, who was not very sleepy, opened his eyes, quietly got rid of it and left the cabin. Don’t get me wrong. I drank a lot at night and needed to solve it. When the smear returned to the cabin, a restless little hand came over and his hot body also touched it.

Conditions did not allow it. After a brief entanglement, Gu Xi, who was ecstatic and savory, turned around, and the oily and smooth damp heat...

When I woke up in the morning, the boat lady A Yue San was not in good spirits, and her eyes were a little strange. She was wandering around the two "men". When I woke up last night, I heard something wrong and gasped heavily. After A Yue San came back and lie down, the sounds kept coming from her ears were like an ant drilling in her bone marrow.

Jinlian, who was about to fetch water and cook, had a good face. She was all experienced and knew what was going on.

I didn't feel as a servant at all. I kept pestering the young master and not going back to the big boat, and I still slept in the cabin. A Yue San felt very regretful. Such a good guest was rare to meet. Why is he a good male style rabbit? When I was swimming last night, I peeked at it a few times and knew the approximate size. Alas...

With the desire to seize power to seize power, breakfast was fine. The young master and the servant were still sleeping. A Yue San gave Jin Lian a color. Jin Lian was listless and raised the curtain listlessly, and quickly put the curtain down. She said to her sister with a red face: "Don't call Xiaodie to get up."

A Yuelao sent Xiaodie to the back to watch the fire, quietly lifted a corner of the curtain, took a quick look, and breathed whispered after putting down the curtain. The servant was not a servant, but a daughter, and he was touching his hands without being honest when he fell asleep. The thin blanket could not cover anything.

Finally, the mystery in my heart was solved and I felt a little better. A young man came from the other side of the big ship, with fierce eyes and steady steps. He stood on the shore and called out, "Have you got up?"

I thought to myself that I was still a master, and A Yue San hurriedly replied: "Be gentle, I haven't gotten up yet."

At this time, Chen Xie's voice came: "Don't wait for me for breakfast, I have to sleep for a while, so let's get on my way first."

The winding waterways stretch all the way, and it seems that there is no end. When modern Chen Xie faces this geographical environment, he feels like he is walking in a maze. In this terrain, people from outside cannot find the north at all.

With such a good location and richest place in the world, the national policy formulated by the Southern Ming Dynasty was to "borrow the enemy and pacify the enemy" in one year. Moreover, this strategy was recognized by almost all the decision-makers of the Southern Ming Dynasty, including Shi Kefa and Liu Zongzhou.

Putting aside the overturn of the Ming Dynasty faced by the Southern Ming Dynasty, the situation of urgent need to be revived is not difficult to see that the Nanming Dynasty was a joke, and its understanding of the Qing Dynasty was basically a joke.

Chen Xie's thoughts flew thousands of miles away. Since this fertile land fell into the hands of some waste, he might as well scrape a few layers of oil and water first. As for the possible chaos, it will not happen for a while.

Suzhou is far away from the distance, Chen Xie left the cabin, and the bow of the boat replied that Gu Xi and Xiaodie were dressed up in their daughter, sitting side by side, playing with water barefoot. This woman was actually a big shot, which was really a surprise. Unlike Zheng Tuoni and Liu Rushi, they both wore embroidered shoes when they sleep. In the Ming Dynasty, this was an anomaly.

When the boat entered the water gate, someone was already waiting here. He called out from a distance: "Is Mr. Chen the one coming from the boat?"

Chen Xie looked closely and saw a short man standing on the dock, waving his hand, as if he was a little nervous. This time he came, he planned to come quietly and leave quietly, so he hired a small boat.

Chen Xie, who was on the boat, went up to the dock and bowed, "I'm the one with the surname Chen, how dare you ask your kind brother Taifu?"

"The young Shen Gaolin has met Mr. Chen. He went to Dengzhou to buy goods and met Mr. Chen from afar. The young man has seen Mr. Chen's letter from Lao Qian. It is the only time that Mr. Chen will arrive in the past two days." This man's face was a little yellow, which was because he had been away for a long time. His eyes were full of energy, which gave people a sense of shrewdness.

"So, what Mr. Shen mentioned was Lao Qian's partner in Suzhou. Mr. Shen knew about Chen's intention to come here?" Chen Xie put away his attitude of treating him equally and put on a superior attitude in his tone.
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