What favor are you fighting for?The empress's harem has won a lot of business

Chapter 291

Suzhou Baijia
The matter of Concubine Bai seems to have passed for many years, and even the current emperor has taken his concubine to live in seclusion.

Bai Yunchu's body is no longer what it used to be, and the affairs of the dyeing workshop have long been beyond his control.

In his last life time, he put all his life's painstaking efforts into a book of colors, which records all the secret color recipes and cooking methods he developed.

Then, he retired from Xingsheng Dyeing Workshop and returned to his hometown. At the same time, he left his color collection in Xingsheng Dyeing Workshop for all craftsmen to learn and practice.

This behavior was slandered by many colleagues, saying that he was trying to gain fame, that he broke the industry rules, and that he deliberately smashed other people's jobs.

Bai Yunchu laughed happily.

"You can learn it too, since I announced it, everyone can learn it"

"In the future, it will not be the time when anyone can monopolize the city, and it will no longer be the time when everyone can monopolize the whole city and let the common people wear faded clothes."

"If everyone is afraid of learning, if they have a little bit of experience, they just cover it up, and they are unwilling to communicate with each other, when will my dyeing workshop in Dasheng Dynasty improve?"

He looked contemptuously at the three or five shopkeepers of the dyeing workshop who came to persuade and insult him, and sneered coldly.

"In the past few years, my Dasheng Dynasty has been doing business with neighboring countries, and one or two of you have also made a lot of money. If I remember correctly, you all started as shopkeepers, and then slowly came out and opened your own dyeing workshop."

"If no one teaches and no one takes it, how can you achieve such achievements?"

"You're being nice when you get cheap, I'm talking about people like you"

The shopkeepers below couldn't help lowering their heads, they just didn't have the guts to step forward to argue with a dying person.

Several people came out of Bai's house, looked at each other, and spread their hands.

"Let's go, what the old shopkeeper said is right. From now on, everyone will eat according to their ability, and no one can be fooled."

Some people left without regrets, and some people still harbor vicious thoughts in their hearts, thinking that they can make a lot of money together by keeping the recipes secret, so why do they have to make all the recipes public.

One of them, with rolling eyes, followed everyone to the intersection, turned around and went back, and broke into Bai's house through the back door.

Although Bai Yunchu has made a lot of money these years, he did not spend a lot of money to buy luxurious mansions, but spent almost all of his money on the dyeing workshop.

Compared with the beginning, Xingsheng dyeing workshop has 140 more large dyeing vats and drying racks on two acres of land.

The monthly wages of workers have more than doubled.

These almost exhausted all his financial resources, but he has no regrets.

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Bai Yunchu lay on the couch, closed his eyes and meditated, quietly as if waiting for something.

Suddenly the door moved, and he opened his eyes, staring straight at the person who came, watching him gently push the door open, and seeing him standing outside the door with vicious eyes.

"Third, it's you, you really came"

"Yes, I'm coming"

This man's name is Ge San, who was always by his side during the most difficult times.

Together they accepted the imperial court's dyeing workshop, built the dyeing workshop bit by bit, recruited workers, assessed them, and taught them skills.

Over the years, they have walked along the way, cherishing each other, even surpassing many married couples.

If nothing else, they will definitely keep going.

It's a pity that the disagreement still came. At the moment Bai Yunchu decided to disclose all the formulas, Ge San couldn't hold back anymore.

He began to frantically block, slander, and not understand.

He didn't know why the shopkeeper of his own shop gave everyone his life's hard work for free.

Others pass on the prescriptions of a lifetime to their descendants, or apprentices, even if the shopkeeper passes it on to himself, even if he accepts another apprentice to pass it down.

Unexpectedly, he made it public directly.

"Shopkeeper, you have disclosed all the prescriptions, what should we do? Who can we follow in the future?"

"Shopkeeper, I would like to ask you to go back one or two things, and also treat it as a family skill of my Ge family dyeing workshop. Why do you..."

Bai Yunchu smiled wryly.

"In the future, the skills will not be handed down from family to family. If our children and grandchildren are made of that material, they will definitely work hard to practice all the skills. If not, there is no need to force them to do this."

"Of course they have what they like to do, let them do it, the children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so we don't have to worry too much"

Ge San obviously disagreed, he showed his sharp claws like a beast that finally couldn't stand it anymore.

"Since you don't agree, then our master-servant fate is over."

"You always want to change everything by one person, how can this be possible? Have you ever thought about us people"

"Then don't blame me, Ge San."

He rushed forward and grabbed Bai Yunchu's neck, asking him if he really passed on everything, and where is the rest?
"No, it's all gone, you can search for it yourself"

Of course Ge San didn't believe it, he gave Bai Yunchu a sigh of relief, tied him to the bed with a rope, and ransacked the room by himself.

After half an hour, he finally found a brocade box with three locks on it, and it was carried lightly, not like a box of jewels.

Ge San was overjoyed.

"There must be a secret recipe inside. Where are the keys? Where are all the keys?"

He rushed over to question Bai Yunchu again, asking him where he kept the key.

"I thought you were so kind, you made everything public, it's because you kept some of it yourself"

"Hurry up, you old bastard pretending to be a saint, everyone is just a businessman"

Bai Yunchu's eyes were full of disappointment, and he shook his head: "This box has no key, even if you kill me, I won't have it."

Ge San, once his most capable subordinate.

Even when he became independent and started his own dyeing workshop, he still supported him as always, visiting him from time to time and giving him some guidance.

The relationship between the two went from master and servant to good friends, and Bai Yunchu always regarded him as the best brother in the end, never expected...

"Don't watch it", Bai Yunchu kindly advised him.

"Stop talking nonsense, are you talking about it?"

Bai Yunchu shook his head: "Really not."

Ge San couldn't wait any longer, stepped forward and knocked Bai Yunchu down, found a few stones by himself, and smashed the copper lock to pieces.

The box was finally opened, and there was indeed a booklet inside, Ge San's eyes almost popped out, he took out the things, and couldn't wait to open it.

Watching and watching, the greedy expression on his face gradually receded, tears fell instantly, his legs seemed to have had their bone marrow pulled out, they were limp and powerless, and fell to the ground.

"Big Brother"

"Brother Pat"

"You are... what is this?"

It turned out that what was recorded in the booklet were all the difficulties encountered by his brothers.

"In the eighth year of Fuxi, the mother of his brother Lin Lao Si was seriously ill, and he had to pay two taels of silver a month for decoction and medicine."

"In the ninth year of Fuxi, Xue Lao San had a fourth daughter. The family has a large population, and an extra tael of silver is added every month. If there is extra soft cloth, you can also send a few horses to make some clothes for the children."

"In the 11th year of Fuxi, Ge San wanted to set up a dyeing workshop on his own. His skills are still lacking, and he needs to be given advice from time to time..."

Ge San cried for a long time, but got no response. Turning his head, he found that Bai Yunchu had already died, and his body was still bound.

"Big Brother!!!"

A generation of heroes has just passed away, no matter how much the loved one cries, it will not help.

Ge San was so regretful that his intestines turned green, but so what?

He untied the rope himself, put Bai Yunchu on the bed, kowtowed several times before leaving.

The rest of the funeral will be handled by someone else.

Half a year later, there was an additional book, "Biography of the Bai Family", in various bookstores in Suzhou City, south of the Yangtze River. Someone asked someone to record Bai Yunchu's story and distribute it around.

Later, some theater troupes gradually began to compile the play scripts of the Bai family, describing Bai Yunchu as a multicolored god from the sky who descended to the mortal world to endure calamities.

Later, after an unknown number of years, the pages of the book were all yellowed, and the members of the Bai family had dispersed long ago. However, that "Biography of the Bai Family" was still performed repeatedly in the troupe and became a classic handed down in folk drama books.

(completed)

(End of this chapter)