Chapter 162 Cloth dyeing, astronomy, calligraphy

Author: Fat Bird Goes First

Chapter 162 Cloth dyeing, astronomy, calligraphy

In the days that followed, Su Ze and the Cai family began to fight fiercely. The Cai family filed a complaint against Su Ze and "Surprise" at the county government. Chen Chaoyu and Fang Jing had a verbal altercation in the hall, but Bai Zhi County kept delaying.

drag.

You said "The Surprise" is defamatory? But the newspaper didn't say that the Cai family is your family member Cai.

These days, the Ming Dynasty Law does not stipulate how to slander people in newspapers?

Baizhixian was a highly motivated Ming Dynasty bureaucrat.

As an ambitious bureaucrat, Baizhixian's greatest wish is to prevent trouble in his own place.

For local gentry like Cai Yuanwai, Baizhi County generally stays on good terms with them.

Feihu Casino Baizhi County turned a blind eye. Under normal circumstances, Baizhi County would also facilitate the Cai family.

Everyone is a scholar and an official, so naturally they are all members of the same family.

But facing a lot of things caused by Cai Yuanwai, Baizhi County was also secretly angry.

The gambling house matter was not brought to the fore, but the Xiong Yue matter was indeed suppressed by the county. If the matter really got serious, a comment from Baizhi County that created an unjust, false and wrong case would not escape Shangguan's side.

Of course, Baizhi County was also angry at the trouble Su Ze had caused him. In the final case, both sides had a fifty-fifty fight. "Surprise" wanted to declare in the newspaper that the Cai family in its article was not Cai Yuan's family, and it had to compensate Cai Yuan's family.

The family has twenty taels of silver.

Yuan Cai did not allow any more complaints. Both parties signed the agreement. Su Ze smiled slightly. Would anyone believe this statement if it was published?

Of course, the Cai family is not willing to accept defeat. If they don't report this matter, they will naturally report the actual matter.

However, the Cai family soon fell into another trouble, and this trouble was related to the foundation of the Cai family. Cai Yuanwai soon began to give up his pursuit of Su Ze.

The Cai family’s dyeing shop is out of business!

Indigo dyeing is needed by ordinary people and lower-class scholars. The dyeing workshops scattered throughout Nanping County are the Cai family's largest industry.

This is also the Cai family's most important source of income besides the tea garden.

The dyehouse's income dropped sharply, and the Cai family spent a lot of money in litigation with Su Ze, and soon they were stretched thin.

Cai Yuanwai was no longer as calm as before. He personally went to the largest dyeing shop in his family and began to check the recent accounts.

The shopkeeper stood aside with his hands down in fear. Cai Yuanwai read the two accounts, pointed to the two months of accounts and said:

"Tell me! Why have there been so few people dyeing cloth in the past two months? Even if there is a riot by Japanese pirates, our city of Nanping is still safe. There are even fewer people dyeing cloth this month than when Nanping was surrounded by Japanese pirates!

Are you lining your own pockets?"

The shopkeeper was a slave of the Cai family, and all the deeds were in Cai's hands. He was so frightened that he knelt down and said:

"Dad Cai! It's not like a villain is greedy for ink. All seven of our Cai family's dye houses are like this. We can't all make false accounts together!"

Cai Yuanwai didn't say anything. Although the shopkeeper of this dye house had some dirty tricks, Cai Yuanwai was an official in the Ministry of Accounts and was best at keeping track of accounts, so his subordinates didn't dare to go too far.

It is also common practice for shopkeepers to take some money from it.

But the sudden drop in sales can probably not be explained by the shopkeepers of the seven dye houses being greedy for ink.

"what happened?"

The shopkeeper said with a sad face: "Last month, the Yu family's cloth shop sold a kind of blue cloth that said it would not fade even after being washed and exposed to the sun. At first, I thought it was the Yu family's propaganda. There is no such thing as fading in this world.

Dyeing cloth."

"But since last month, our business has started to decrease. The younger one went to buy a foot of blue cloth from home."

The shopkeeper took out a foot of blue cloth from under the counter. Mr. Cai looked at the bright blue color but didn't care.

In fact, the color dyed by indigo is also very bright, and Prussian blue fabric does not have much advantage in color.

But after the shopkeeper's next words, Cai Yuanwai's expression changed.

"Dad Cai, this piece of fabric has been starched ten times."

Cai Yuanwai grabbed the cloth and found traces of rubbing and washing on the cloth. However, the entire cloth was still dyed evenly, and there was no uneven color after the indigo water system.

Cai Yuanwai immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. If all Nanping County wore clothes made of this dye, would his own dyeing shop still have business?

"How much does this fabric cost?"

The shopkeeper lowered his head and said, "It's just like ordinary blue cloth."

Cai Yuanwai held back his dizziness and said: "Why didn't you report it last month?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "There wasn't much new blue cloth in the Yujia cloth store last month. Although it was selling well, I couldn't sell enough fabric for a few clothes in a day, so I didn't report it to the government."

"What about this month!?"

"A few days ago, the Yu family suddenly had a sufficient supply of new blue cloth. They even opened a new dyeing business, which can dye old clothes with new blue cloth..."

Cai Yuanwai could not stand and almost fainted.

Cai Yuanwai naturally knows the meaning of a dye that is not easy to fade.

If they only sell fabrics, the Cai family still has time, but if the Yu family's cloth shop also dyes cloth, then the Cai family will be completely out of business.

If other shops were doing this, Cai Yuanwai would have already thought of ways to crack down on it.

However, Commander Yu is not an ordinary person. Even if he is a more noble civil servant and a third-rank official who retired from the country, he is not something that he, a fifth-rank official, can handle at will.

"Where did this cloth come from? Isn't the Yu family's cloth shop business always bad?"

The shopkeeper said quickly: "According to the information I got from the Yu family, this cloth was sent by Changning Wei."

Changning Guard!

It’s Changning Guard again!

Cai Yuanwai's teeth were about to break, but he quickly figured out a way. As long as he found a few rotten men to make trouble in the Yu family's cloth shop, saying that there was something wrong with the Yu family's dyeing, they would definitely be able to suppress the Yu family.

momentum.

Trying to find a way to steal the dyeing recipe, Cai Yuanwai didn't believe that his seven dyeing houses could not compete with each other's cloth shop.

But the shopkeeper's next words made Mr. Cai feel cold again.

"I heard that the recipe was invented by the mine supervisor, Eunuch Hu."

Mine supervisor, Eunuch Hu.

Naturally, Cai Yuanwai knew about this strange eunuch outside Nanping City. Although Eunuch Hu was not famous, the eunuchs in the palace could reveal secrets to the emperor!

No matter how courageous Cai Yuanwai was, he would not dare to offend such a person.

Cai Yuanwai sat down on the ground. The cloth dyeing business was gone. What would happen to the food and drink for the dozens of Cai family members?

It's only October now, and the tea gardens have to wait until the spring tea is released around the Qingming Festival before they can earn any income. Is it possible that the whole family has been drinking northwest wind for the past six months?

But I'm afraid Cai Yuanwai didn't know that this was just part of Su Ze's series of slaps.

Dealing with Cai Yuanwai has entered the stage of slicing with a soft knife.

Su Ze has temporarily calmed down these days. He goes to the nursing home to give lectures to the children every day, and then practices calligraphy and solves math problems.

Now Su Ze has three skills that have reached Lv4, namely:

Calligraphy: Lv4,360/400

Mathematics: Lv4,152/400

Medical Skill: Lv4,95/400

The children in the nursing home were all sick after being treated by Su Ze, and their medical skills were still early to reach Level 5. Su Ze planned to return to Changning Wei after finishing the lectures at the County School in the middle of the month, and give them to Changning Wei Beibei Mountain Village and Mining Village.

One round of consultation should be able to raise it to Level 5.

Father Pierre relied on his mathematical skills.

The old priest searched his memory and wrote a collection of mathematics problems that he encountered. Su Ze has been studying this collection of mathematics problems these days, and finally reached 152/400 in mathematics.

But Su Ze had already wiped out all the Chinese and foreign mathematics books on hand.

Su Ze had asked Lin Deqing to look for a book on arithmetic when purchasing goods. If that didn't work, he would have to go to Yuegang to buy books.

I heard that Yuegang has all kinds of books, even foreign language books, and Su Ze can learn them just by brushing up on his language skills.

If you can't find it again, you will have to go to Macau to find Jesuit missionaries.

When it comes to missionaries, the general impression is of course that they are religious lunatics, backward and ignorant bastards.

But in fact, since the Middle Ages, priests have always been the class that possesses knowledge.

In fact, if we understand Confucianism as Confucianism, we can also understand the status of the clergy in politics in the West.

For example, in France a few decades later, Richelieu and Mazarin, the two French prime ministers, were both priests.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many missionaries entered China. These Jesuit missionaries entered Qintianjian and promoted the exchange of Eastern and Western mathematics.

Wait, astronomy!
To be continued...