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The first of October.

In this era, it is not a special day, but for Xue Poye, it is a happy day.

After rushing day and night, the first phase of Xue's silk and cloth factory has been completed, and the acceptance of the main warehouse and warehouse has been completed.

This has become a major event in Hangzhou. People don't know the difference between a so-called factory and a workshop, but looking at the unique style of the factory, everyone seems to understand something. Such a factory is obviously not comparable to a workshop.

The lion team celebrated and danced, firecrackers shook the sky, colorful flags fluttered, and congratulatory guests came and went like a tide. It is by no means comparable to the opening of Hanyuan. Many people visited the interior of the factory and were all full of praise.

Xue's factory is a non-workshop production unit in the history of Hangzhou and even Dachu, so it naturally has its unique significance.

On this day, everyone in the Xue family, from Xue Poye to Xiao Pan, greeted and sent them to the factory. The three kings of Nan Huaiwu, Qiu Zhili, and Huo Yuancheng were busy, and only Luo Ding was in charge of purchasing raw materials. not there.

After being exhausted and busy, everyone fell asleep.

Workers from Baishanfang began to move in on the second day.

Everyone marveled at their working environment, which was neither dim nor musty like a workshop, nor cramped and crowded, but a new, spacious and bright environment.

There are flowers, trees, grass and water around the factory, and the air is naturally excellent.

All the workers were very excited and couldn't hide their excitement. This way of survival was bestowed on everyone by shopkeeper Xue.

Huo Yuancheng is skilled in crafts, in other words, he is the chief technical officer. He personally selected a few smart workers, appointed them as team leaders, and taught them each one of their skills.

The workers in Xue's factory are divided into several groups, and each group is only responsible for one process. They cooperate with each other, which greatly improves the efficiency and quality.

Including picking, soaking hemp, sorting hemp, pulling silk, drying and other eight steps are divided in detail, and each has a team leader.If there is a problem, the team leader will be responsible.

The team leader will naturally be very strict with his subordinates, so that the quality will be improved by leaps and bounds.

With the support of Xue Nanpai, restaurants and factories continued to develop in an orderly manner.

Ten days later, a batch of silk cloth from Xue's factory officially left the factory. These silk cloths are not only of first-class quality, but also exquisitely packaged. It is the first time for Xue's factory to make such exquisite packaging for silk cloth, but no one can Denied, once the silk from Xue's factory is packaged, the overall grade has been improved too much. Things that are common in Jiangnan, at this moment, indeed have the style of Jiangnan.

The two imprints of "Xue's" are all written on the packaging bag. At any rate, this trademark right is to be snatched. Although it is impossible to have any trademark awareness in this era, the so-called word-of-mouth of a century-old merchant and the concept of a trademark are basically the same. There is a reason.

Xue Poye hopes that "Xue's" can truly become the most famous brand in Hangzhou and even Dachu.

A batch of silk cloth from "Xue's family" soon entered the cloth shop of Xue Nanpai, and many merchants even vacated their shops to sell Xue's silk cloth.

The battle in the entire shopping mall was a powerful attack by Nan Huaiwu and Zheng Qiu Zhili. The unified market price guaranteed the internal unity of Xue Nan faction merchants. The established market price should be adjusted, otherwise there will be no sales right of Xue's silk cloth.

The quality of Xue's silk is excellent. This is the technology accumulated by the Qiao family in Suzhou over the years. If it is not for Qiao Ting, I am afraid that they would not be willing to take it out.

Although the quality is good, the price is not expensive. In the market, the normal sales price of Xue's silk cloth is [-]% lower than that of Lu's silk cloth. Even so, these merchants are still profitable. Let's go back now Thinking of the Lu family, many merchants were cursing in their hearts. At the beginning, the prices given by the Lu family to the merchants were extremely high, and the selling price was definitely not comparable to that of the Lu family. They could only do some scattered business. Judging from the price, the profit is astonishing. No wonder the Lu family has been able to stand in Hangzhou and rule the roost for so many years. It is no accident.

Under the planning and arrangement of Nan Huaiwu and Qiu Zhili, Xue's silk cloth spread to every corner of Hangzhou in an instant. There were merchants of Xue Nan faction in every street and alley, and merchants of Lu faction were on the silk cloth. Seeing is about to collapse.

Xue Poye watched every move of the Hangzhou market very comfortably. He believed that the Lu family would definitely use tricks, and he also trusted the abilities of Nan Huaiwu and Qiu Zhili. With them, there seemed to be nothing to worry about, but Xue Poye still hopes to watch this scene well, to take a good look at the result of his hard work and luck.

However, the happy things in the world can't last for a long time. Xue Poye, who is extremely sharp in the mall, suddenly encountered another problem.

This is what he has been worrying about.

This time, another clerk handed over a note, another few simple words, and another lotus symbol, but the meeting place was changed.

This time it was at the Hongyan Pagoda, where the spiritual throne of the former emperor of Pian'an was enshrined.

Xue Poye dealt with the matter at hand, and went to comfort Yuezhu by the way, and then came to Hongyan Pagoda very carefully and secretly.

The old uncle Shu still looked sleepy and old-fashioned, but when he saw the Huadiao fine wine Xue Poye handed over, he finally grinned, patted Xue Poye's shoulder lightly, and came a message that everything is in place. It goes without saying.

Lv Niangzi and Qian Hong were in the sacrificial hall, and they seemed very anxious. When they saw Xue Poye coming, they hurriedly saluted and sat down with Xue Poye.

Seeing the unusual anxious expressions of the two, Xue Poye's heart sank. Could it be that the matter of the surprise attack on Zhu Yun has already been known?

This is not a good thing, since the incident happened, it has been very calm, but Xue Poye knew the meaning of thunder on the ground, and thought to himself: "Could it be that Xiaopan and Mingku didn't clean up their tails?"

"The rudder master!" Qian Hong said in a low voice: "There is news from Kyoto that he is back."

When Xue Poye heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief at first. It seemed that the matter had nothing to do with Zhu Yun's death, but he immediately recalled that the news from the capital was naturally about Duan Kezhang. Hurrying, his pretty face is not showing off, Qian Hong also looks like a bereaved star, knowing that the news is definitely not good.

Tapping the eaves of the chair lightly with his fingers, Xue Poye asked softly, "Is it news from the old Duan?"

Lady Lv shook her head, sighed and said, "No, although the matter is related to him, he didn't send the news back."

"what is that?"

"The rudder master asked us to send people to the capital to investigate the news, and the news was brought back by the spies." The green lady's charming face was completely gone from the old charm, and there was only a kind of seriousness and worry.

"News about Lao Duan?"

"Yes!"

"Alive? Or...!" Xue Poye frowned and whispered, "Dead?"

Lady Lv and Qian Hong looked at each other, and Qian Hong said, "Master, the lotus girl and I have been thinking about your question."

Xue Poye said unhappily: "Then the spies you sent still haven't brought back any useful information?"

Qian Hong gritted his teeth suddenly, and said slowly: "The spies brought back a piece of news, big news."

"Big news?" Xue Poye touched his nose, looked at Qian Hong and said, "What news?"

Qian Hong thought for a while, glanced at Lady Lv, and said, "You speak." His eloquence was poor, his logic was not very strong, and he was worried that he might say something wrong, so he asked Lady Lv to speak.

Seeing that they were cautious with worry, worry with fear, and fear with anger, Xue Poye was really curious about the news.

The green lady seemed to be sorting out her thoughts, she pondered for a moment, and then said softly: "When the spies arrived in the capital, they got in touch with the capital sub-helm, and even met a few brothers who went to the capital with the chrysanthemum boy."

"Isn't that good?" Xue Poye frowned and said, "Have you seen old Duan?"

The green lady shook her head and sighed: "That's where the incident happened. I heard from those brothers that Juhua Tong disappeared suddenly more than ten days ago, and there was also a brother Benduo named Zhang He who disappeared. The brothers waited hard and couldn't come back." , Eldest brother even sent brothers to search secretly in the capital, and even used hidden stakes in the court, but there was no news of Chrysanthemum Boy."

Xue Poye frowned, and said in a deep voice, "Missing suddenly? Why did he disappear suddenly?" He raised his head and asked slowly, "Is this the news that the spies brought back?"

"More than that!" Lady Lv immediately said, "What's even more strange is yet to come."

"strangeness?"

"Yes." The green lady looked a little startled, but said softly in a beautiful voice: "Our spies are going to arrange for Brother Benduo to return to Hangzhou first, and then continue to search for the elder brother's Kyoto branch, but after returning to Hangzhou The day before, a huge event happened."

Xue Poye was also very surprised to hear Lv Niangzi's voice trembling slightly at the end, not knowing what the so-called "big thing" meant.