The boatman went to Yanchi Village and came back soon. When he came back, the expression on his face was a little depressed.

His second sister in Yanchi Village didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup she was fed, and to be more precise, what kind of sobering soup she should be.

In the past, his second sister was so impatient that no matter what she encountered, even trivial matters would be urgent and turbulent.

This time I went to my second sister's house in Yanchi Village. My second sister and my second brother-in-law seemed to have changed, and I was not impatient at all when I encountered problems.

He speaks with reasonable grounds, just like a scholar who has studied.

The male in his family has never read a book, let alone a second sister. He can't even write his own name, but he will be a scholar.

The way my second sister spoke was indeed like a scholar who had studied.

The boatman came back in a hurry, but he didn't find any news about the Western businessmen.

Second, the second sister's family actually told him some great truths that they couldn't understand, saying that they lived such hard life because of local tyrants and evil gentry like Caokou.

The boatman does understand this truth, but his life is pretty good.

Although his family was bullied by Caokou a lot in the past, he is now making a living with Caokou.

As long as you can have enough food, no matter how badly you were bullied in the past, it will be a thing of the past.

The boatman couldn't stand the great truths that my second sister and his family said. Although he was reluctant to believe those words, he still knew very clearly in his heart that what my second sister and his family said were the truth.

The boatman had no choice but to go around the cotton workshop in Yanchi Village and roughly estimated the surroundings of the cotton workshop.

Caokou house.

After hearing the boatman's reply, the big shipowner was not surprised that he had not found out about the news about the Western businessman.

The Western businessman is like a ghost and cannot see any trace of him usually.

If it was easy to find out the news, there was a real ghost, and it must be the conspiracy of Western businessmen.

As long as you can find out the surroundings of the cotton workshop, it is enough.

The big shipowner walked into the main hall with the information from the boatman inquired.

Caokou was still thinking about this matter in the main seat of the main hall. When he saw the owner of the ship coming in, he took the initiative to ask: "How is the matter going?"

The shipowner replied truthfully: "The residence of the Western merchants was not found out."

"But, I found out the surroundings of the cotton workshop."

The big shipowner sat on the official hat chair in the lower head and said the surroundings that the boatman estimated.

Based on this surrounding area, Caokou began to estimate how many pedal looms can be placed in the weaving workshop at most.

In order to make the estimate more accurate, Caokou asked the servant to bring pen, ink, paper, ink, and inkstone and abacus.

After careful calculation, I calculated it no less than five or six times.

Caokou finally determined the number of pedal looms in the weaving workshop: "A maximum of 40 pedal looms."

The big shipowner heard the maximum of forty plus pedal looms and breathed a sigh of relief: "If nothing unexpected happens, you can weave up to 1,200 cotton cloth in a month."

"There are only one month for Western merchants and Black Island Pirates."

"As long as we sell more than 1,200 cotton cloth for the same price of two cents of silver per piece of silver, we can overwhelm the Western merchants and regain our cotton cloth transaction."

Speaking of this, the big shipowner couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied with the shipowner Zheng: "Damn it, we gave him a full twenty taels of silver."

"This grandson knew that he would come to scare us, and he would not even say anything useful."

After Caokou learned how many pedal looms there were in the cotton workshop in Yanchi Village, his expression on his face became much more relaxed, and he chuckled and said, "Even if he doesn't tell us, we still have a way to know."

"Since you know how many pieces of cotton can be taken out at most in the cotton workshop, the next thing will be much easier."

A smile appeared on the face of the big shipowner: "Boss, how many pieces of cotton we will take out."

"Two thousand horses? Or three thousand horses?"

Caokou did not answer this question for the time being, so he went to the bookshelf in the side hall to retrieve a account book.

After looking carefully, I found the number I thought of: "There are still ten thousand pieces of cotton in the warehouse."

"We strive to be safe this time and sell all these 10,000 pieces of cotton cloth."

Ten thousand horses?

The shipowner looked at Caokou in confusion, unable to believe that this sentence was true.

That's ten thousand pieces of cotton.

If you say you throw it out, you will be able to pay at least 500 taels of silver.

The shipowner also understood the meaning of Caokou, although the cotton workshop in Yanchi Village could only weave 1,200 cotton pieces.

But the identity of a Western businessman is a maritime businessman, and it is hard to guarantee that cotton cloth will not be transported from the sea.

In this way, the amount of cotton will definitely exceed 1,200, or even 5,000.

Thinking of this, the shipowner sincerely admired: "It's better to think carefully and comprehensively."

"As long as we can take out ten thousand pieces of cotton, we still don't know if the Western businessman knows it, we don't know that we are deliberately targeting him."

"Even if the Western businessman really took out five thousand pieces of cotton, it would not be enough to see in front of our ten thousand pieces of cotton."

Caokou nodded and said with a smile: "This is the foundation."

"Even if a Western businessman has 100 pedals, how can the cotton cloth produced in one month be comparable to the accumulation of several generations of Caokou?"

The owner of the ship, Zheng Keyou, quite agrees with Caokou's statement.

The two of them discussed in the main hall for a while, finalized all the details, and found any possible mistakes.

After all the details were confirmed, the big shipowner bowed his hands and walked out.

Just as the big ship owner was about to step out of the threshold, Caokou suddenly stopped him: "Big ship owner, you can go through this matter in person."

When the shipowner heard that he was going to visit Black Island in person, he looked a little embarrassed.

What kind of virtue is the Black Island pirates? Who does not know about the common people in the Laizhou Bay area?

That was a thief who really dared to eat people. All those living on the Black Island were a group of evil ghosts.

Even though the owner of the ship was stained with a lot of blood and killed many people, he couldn't help but feel a little upset when he heard the word "Hei Island".

Caokou knew why the big shipowner was so embarrassed, so he used the money to lure him: "Don't worry."

"As long as you can negotiate this matter with the Black Island Pirates, you will take over the salt class in Yanchi Village in the future."

No matter how much the owner of the ship is a confidant of Caokou, he is just a rural citizen with some status.

It would be different to be able to take on the salt classes in Yanchi Village, and he became a wealthy family in all villages.

The shipowner immediately smiled happily and clasped his fists solemnly, "Don't worry, Caokou, you must do this properly."

Caokou watched the shipowner leave here, and a hint of compassion appeared on his face, just waiting to watch the show.
Chapter completed!