The things first spread from a small workshop of the Wu family...

In the eyes of many, the Jiangning textile industry has always been filled with brilliant figures. Business talents skilled in commerce and calculation are active on various stages, showcasing their abilities. For example, Su Tan'er, Xi Junyu, the Wu brothers Qi Long and Qi Hao, Wu Chenghou, Xue Sheng, and even the older generation like Su Yu, all have commendable achievements, hence their current status. Search: \(Complete Book God Station\) to read high-quality literature for free.

These people are skilled in commerce and could probably achieve success in any industry. In addition, there are also some who are skilled in technology. Each household has its own strengths to some extent, and the support of these people is relied upon. Among them, the most famous is probably Luo Shenzhen of the Wu family.

Luo Minzhi of the Wu family is one of the most important veterans in the Wu family, the number one cloth merchant in Jiangning. In his early forties this year, he once pushed the Wu family's weaving technology to its peak. In recent years, the Su, Xue, and Wu families have stood on three legs, each with its own strengths. However, relatively speaking, even if the Su and Xue families have strengths, they are not very obvious, enough to create a distance at a decisive level. Only the Wu family's weaving has always been said to be a cut above the rest at the high-end level. These things are all due to Luo Minzhi's efforts over the years.

Nowadays, this Wu family steward usually no longer manages too many trivial matters. This person loves visiting brothels, is addicted to alcohol, loves being sought after, and has a somewhat unrestrained personality. Of course, in terms of weaving, he can also be called talented. The Wu family gave him everything he wanted, and he only needs to consider how to maintain the leading edge in weaving. However, recently, he has been a little busier.

As the Wu family's most trusted steward, regarding the imperial merchant matter, the workshop and warehouse aspects are actually being controlled and taken care of by him. This matter is more of an honor than a responsibility for him at the moment, because technically, whether it is weaving or dyeing, it has been resolved. What he needs to do is to watch the workshop produce the cloths that need to be sent to the imperial palace, strictly inspect them, and store them in the warehouse, preparing to send them to Bianliang as the first batch of cloth soon.

It seems like a heavy responsibility, but in fact, the Wu family is full of people who can do it. Luo Minzhi is nominally the manager of this matter, but the actual work is naturally done by the stewards who were originally responsible for these workshops and warehouses. Luo Minzhi only comes to check once a day, and the rest of the time, his eldest son Luo Xia sits in charge, building relationships with a group of shopkeepers and stewards, also to prepare Luo Xia for entering the Wu family's management in the future.

Luo Xia did not truly inherit Luo Minzhi's talent in weaving, but he has admired his father since he was a child, and at least he is commendable in terms of diligence. Even if he is not good at pioneering, he is at least more than enough to maintain the status quo. Learning step by step and being a step-by-step shopkeeper will not have too many problems in this life plan. Moreover, the Wu family is now about to carry out large-scale development, which is the time for him to do something.

This time, he was entrusted with this responsibility by his father, so he also tried to get along well with many shopkeepers and stewards to prepare for the future. In addition to this, the daily inspection is also meticulous—of course, even so, there is not much substantive work with technical content and operability.

Of course, he also understands that managing these things, nothing happening is the norm. His father let him come here to actually just let him meet with the other seniors and get along well with them, not expecting him to really do anything. It's just that the young man had already worked in the Wu family cloth shop for several years before, mostly learning small management matters in the weaving workshop under his father. This time, he was finally entrusted with a major task, but he lived even more boringly than before. There was nothing he could do at all, and he was actually somewhat disappointed in his heart, but on the other hand, he could only teach himself with the commercial principle that those who achieve great things must be able to endure boredom.

For a month, he had been following the rules, talking to several seniors every day, and actually talking about Luo Minzhi. This time, being able to obtain the imperial merchant status, in addition to cleverly obtaining the dye formula originally belonging to the Su family under the operation of Wu Qilong and others, the other trump card was because of Luo Minzhi's weaving. Otherwise, if it was just the same color cloth, the Wu family's advantage was not much, and it was impossible to easily make the Su family understand the situation and return in dismay. At the banquet a month ago, the Su family member named Ning Liheng threw his own cloth out of the window in anger because he understood this. This was all due to the existence of Luo Shenzhen.

Of course, the young man felt proud to be talking about his father all day long, but on the other hand, it was actually a bit boring to talk about these things with others often. Some shopkeepers talked to him about the affairs of brothels. Although Luo Xia, who was already married at this time, was not a greenhorn in this regard, the honest and upright him was still a little embarrassed to talk about these things with those old oily guys of his uncles and elders or to patronize those places together. He went to several workshops and warehouses every day according to the rules, and recorded according to the rules. There were uncles and elders in these places, and it was not his turn to point fingers, but perhaps because of this character, one day at the end of September, he discovered some inconsistencies for the first time.

"Dad, those Splendid Gold Brocades in the small warehouse over at Qinming Tower seem to be fading..."

He mentioned it somewhat unconfidently when he was having dinner at home that night. Fading is a big deal. Luo Minzhi was slightly stunned, and then said, "Over at Qinming Tower? That's the first batch that came out. Shopkeeper He of the dyeing workshop also said it might not be very good, but... where did you see it?"

"Those in the corner."

"In the corner... those are waste cloths, um, the very first batch, and also the cloths that Chen Steward and I thought were not ideal, so we just threw them there. The corner is also damp, it's inevitable... well, we'll go take a look tomorrow morning."

Recently, the Wu family has been preparing for development after the imperial merchant matter has stabilized. As one of the Wu family's most famous brands, he also has some banquets and social events all day long. Things have been developing for a month, and any problems should have come out long ago. Many people in the Jiangning cloth industry have even almost forgotten about the Su family. In such a stable situation, how could there be any more twists and turns?

However, Luo Minzhi is also a person who understands the importance of things. Since his son came back and said this, he followed Luo Xia to the small warehouse near Qinming Tower to take a look the next day. Sure enough, that brocade was the first batch that came out after obtaining the dye formula. He also threw it away because he was not satisfied with the experimental weaving method. Well, it was waste cloth, so it was inevitable that it would be a bit dirty and messy in the dark and humid corner. He couldn't see too much fading, so he comforted his son and let the matter go.

Luo Minzhi didn't take these waste cloths to heart, and Luo Xia temporarily stopped thinking about it. He still walked between several workshops and warehouses every day. The imperial merchant status has been determined, and in about a month, the first batch of two hundred and twenty Splendid Gold Brocades will be shipped first. This kind of brocade is currently considered the Wu family's signature, and it is impossible to let go of large-scale production. These small workshops are also working day and night, and are constantly trying to improve and screen. Some of the brocades that were initially produced were also screened out due to various shortcomings. Watching the spinning, watching the dyeing, watching the finished cloth, those golden colors, one day, Luo Xia went to the waste cloth warehouse of Qinming Tower again.

The fading of that cloth in the corner has become obvious. Although it is normal for these cloths placed in the corner to fade, some ominous premonitions still flashed through Luo Xia's heart. There were actually several brocades that had been discarded on the shelf next to him. These were better kept. He opened the box and looked at them, and several of them didn't look as golden yellow anymore.

"It was just adjusted using the Su family's formula, so there will definitely be differences. None of this batch can be shown to anyone..."

This is what his father said before. Luo Xia thought for a while, and turned around to check some other finished cloths. As the name Splendid Gold Brocade suggests, all the cloths were bright yellow, very gorgeous. However, in the following days, those few faded cloths always flashed in his mind, making him feel a little dazed. It was now October. One day he went to the warehouse and directly opened those brocades that had already been sealed in boxes, taking them out one by one and arranging them. When Steward Qin, who was in charge of this warehouse, came over, the silks had already piled up more than two meters high on the table, and the golden color was almost dazzling. No one could stop Luo Xia, he was still continuing to do it, and surprisingly, several warehouse assistants were also unpacking boxes there.

"Luo Xia! You..." Steward Qin's words were not finished, because he had already seen it at this time. In the middle of that pile of golden silks, there were actually two that presented a slightly different color. Luo Xia turned around holding a cloth.

"Uncle Qin, there's a problem with the first batch of Splendid Gold Brocades..."

Steward Qin only hesitated for a moment, and suddenly waved his hand: "Unpack, unpack them all!"

The fact that there was a problem with the first batch of Splendid Gold Brocades shocked Luo Minzhi and Wu Qilong and others. Fortunately, the rest were still fine. When everyone was put together, the fading of those few cloths was obvious, but the rest were all integrated, which at least proved that these later brocades were not a problem, but some small problems caused by the Wu family not being familiar with the dye formula before.

"We are not sure where the problem lies yet. In these days, we have also made some adjustments to the formula. We can only look back and see what caused these problems. Well, timely discovery is still the best situation."

Those cloths that had not faded were piled together, and the golden color looked like an unyielding wall. In addition to being grateful, Wu Qilong ordered to find out the reason, and then repack the cloths. Small twists and turns often occur in business. At this time, the twists and turns have passed, and Luo Xia, who discovered this matter, was rewarded for it. There were still twenty days before the first delivery of the imperial merchant's goods, and the remaining tasks were actually not many. Several workshops were still working in full swing. No one mentioned the fading thing again. The warehouse door where those cloths were placed was also closed, and the key was personally held by Steward Qin, but it was just a few days later that it metastasized.

On the afternoon of the ninth day of October, a shop assistant passed by the warehouse door and found that the warehouse door, which only Steward Qin could enter these days, was open. He walked inside. In the warehouse, which was not very bright, Steward Qin was sitting on one side of the warehouse. He was already a bit old, with white hair, and he looked a little haggard these days. Others only thought that he was too busy recently, but knowing at this time, some things finally showed their clues.

Steward Qin, who was sitting there, had a somewhat dull gaze and a haggard expression. One hand was shaking, staring straight at the cloths piled up on the other side, as if he saw something terrible.

The shop assistant called him, but the old man didn't respond, so he turned around and shouted: "Someone come!" When he turned back to look at the pile of cloths, he suddenly realized that in the somewhat dim room, the cloth wall that was originally integrated had some uneven contrast at this time. About eight or nine cloths mixed in it had changed color to varying degrees, no longer the original bright yellow. The faded cloths were mixed in the cloth wall, and at this time, it looked like a strange face, with two eyes up and down, pulling a distorted lip, showing a smile in this room...

The sunlight also seemed to fade and was blocked outside the door, refusing to come in for a long time. Perhaps the scene that happened in the Su family's cloth workshop a few months ago was finally being reproduced here, one by one, as if it had been copied.

In the workshops not far away, the workers were still working in full swing. One by one, new cloths were dyed. One by one, the stewards were talking and laughing among the crowd. Everyone was preparing to move towards a better future in the scheduled plan...

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When the news arrived, Wu Qilong and Luo Minzhi were drinking tea in a beautifully decorated teahouse, discussing the innovation to be made when the imperial merchant wanted the second batch of cloth, and the need to meet with a large cloth merchant tonight to solve the problem of the shortage of tribute cloth and fill the gap. A shop assistant came over and told him what happened in a low voice.

"What did you say?" The voice was too small, and Wu Qilong felt that he did not hear clearly, so he repeated it.

"Steward Qin... Steward Qin fell ill, and... the cloth is fading..."

"What... what cloth is fading?"

"Those Splendid Gold Brocades..."

"I know it's those Splendid Gold Brocades! Weren't those Splendid Gold Brocades that were fading already selected! The reason hasn't been found yet, what are you talking about..."

"But..." The shop assistant repeated the situation in the workshop and warehouse again. Even after this repetition, Wu Qilong still found it a little difficult to believe for a while. He understood every word, but he couldn't form a specific image in his mind. There were more than ten days before the delivery to the royal family. The cloth... perhaps all the problems? It's going to fade?

"You... what are you talking about?" He tilted his head, his eyes shaking, and then turned back, "What exactly has faded..."

A month and a half has passed, and at this time, some things have finally accumulated strength, breaking the deliberately created illusion that was as beautiful as heaven in this month and a half, and then began to pull everyone back hard...

At this time, Ning Yi was coming out of the small laboratory next to the school, closing the door on this late autumn and early winter afternoon, preparing to go home. Recently, he had no social events, and even didn't have to greet many people in his family, exceptionally leisurely.

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