However, no matter how Li Guodong did, he could not show dissatisfaction with the future elder Gong Dingzhi of the Three Dynasties. After all, Gong Dingzhi was not a elder of the Three Dynasties, nor a traitor, but a scholar in Jiangnan.

How can I miss wine at this time? The maid served wine and food, Zhang Pu, Gong Dingzi and Wu Weiye took turns to pick up the wine glasses to Li Guodong. Li Guodong sneered in his heart: Compared to drinking, you three are not my opponents!

After a few glasses of wine, Zhang Pu and others recited poems to drink. Li Guodong and Chen Zilong were able to talk about it, but they had no words to talk to these scholars of the society. They just talked about the Weaver in Suzhou. Then Li Guodong made a suggestion that he could build a loom with eight times more efficient efficiency.

When Zhang Pu, Wu Weiye and others turned their heads and looked expectant in their eyes when they heard Li Guodong say that they could improve the loom.

Suzhou was the largest handicraft city in the world at that time. How many fertile fields around it have become mulberry forests. The main income of Suzhou gentry was not rice, but silk. If it were not for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the British sheep-eating version would have been staged in the East, turning into silkworms and eating people!

"Can Mr. Li improve the loom?" Wu Weiye asked impatiently. If there is a loom with an efficiency of eight times, then for the Suzhou gentry, a big pie will fall from the sky. The efficiency of a loom is eight times, which means that their silk factory output can be increased by eight times.

Will the goods not be sold if they produce too much? It is impossible, how much silk does Zheng Zhilong buy every year? Moreover, the gentry in Suzhou, Songjiang and other places have their own boats to go to the sea, and they can't go to the south of the ocean. However, when they go to Japan and North Korea, they sell a ship of silk, and the profit is more than ten times.

"Of course I can't improve the loom myself. Our Dadewang Business Company built a new loom, which is just a cloth weaving, not a silk weaving loom. If you want to build a silk loom, you still need to ask a craftsman to improve it." Li Guodong replied. Then he took out a drawing of the new loom.

Wu Weiye, Zhang Pu and others couldn't wait to come forward to look at the drawing. After Li Guodong's introduction, they learned that this new loom could be connected to the same mill type machine. The mill type machine was pulled by various animals such as donkeys, mules, or cows, just like a donkey pulling a mill, driving the machine to rotate, and this machine could drive eight looms at the same time.

Zhang Pu showed joy: "With this kind of machine, the efficiency of weaving silk can be greatly improved!"

"It's just that it has not been made yet. Li is also looking for craftsmen to develop it together." Li Guodong poured cold water on Zhang Pu.

But Wu Weiye was very optimistic about this thing: "If you can build a new loom, please provide me with a batch of it, and I will buy as much as I can!"

"If this new loom is made, I will be auctioned. But Mr. Wu wants it, but Mr. Li can sell it to Mr. Wu for free, but Mr. Wu wants to give it a tick." Li Guodong said with a smile.

"Auction? What does it mean?" Zhang Pu and others were stunned.

"That is a trading method from Taixi Daqin. The Thais are still using it now. The goods are placed there, and the seller first quotes a low price and the buyer bids. Whoever pays the highest price will sell it to whom."

Wu Weiye thought of one thing: "What should we do if the loom we bought at a high price is copied by someone?"

"So we have to sell it to multiple companies and keep it secret. If anyone leaks the secret, then other companies should fight it together."

It was late at night, and the Suzhou city gate had already been closed, and Li Guodong, Han Dashan and the other three could not go back. So Xu Fo arranged a room for them in Guijiayuan, but Li Guodong refused to let the girl from Guijiayuan accompany him.

The next day, Li Guodong, who had drunk too much, slept until noon. After waking up, he saw that it was getting late, so he said goodbye to Xu Fo.

"Young Master Li, please leave after breakfast." Xu Fo said with a smile.

At this moment, a servant hurriedly ran in. When he saw Xu Fo, he said breathlessly: "Mama Xu, something is wrong! The old minister's family is here."

"Mr. Li, please wait. I will go and meet the old master and come back."

Wu Weiye happened to come out. When he heard Xu Fo say something about the old face, he said unhappy: "The old face? Who is it?"

"Zhou Daodeng." Xu Fo replied.

"Hmph! Stupid Master, mediocre person, Sister Xu actually dates this person." Wu Weiye snorted coldly.

"Mr. Wu, I have never dated Zhou Daodeng, but this person has been here. This time, I have taken a fancy to a girl I received a few years ago and bought it as a maid. Unexpectedly, I took the girl as a concubine later. This time I sent someone to come here again, I don't know what's going on, so I have to deal with it."

Not long after, Xu Fo returned with a frown. It turned out that Zhou Daodeng's family wanted to return the goods. The little girl he bought was favored by Zhou Daodeng because of her beautiful color and outstanding talent. However, Zhou Daodeng was a lustful person with a lot of wives and concubines at home. Because the girl was favored and her wives and concubines at home were dissatisfied, she framed the girl for having an affair with a servant.

Zhou Daodeng sent someone to return the goods, that is, he wanted to sell the girl back to the yard.

Li Guodong asked about the situation and found out that the girl was named Yang Ai, also known as Yang Yinglian. She was poor since childhood. She was first sold to her family as a maid, and later to Xu Fo’s home yard. She was finally bought by Zhou Daodeng.

"Go and get the money out and buy my daughter back." Xu Fo turned his head and ordered.

This Yang Ai is really pitiful. Yang Yinglian, should she be called Yang Yinglian? Li Guodong said in his heart. So he asked, "Sister Xu, how do you arrange it in the future after you buy this little girl?"

"How else can I arrange it?" Xu Fo smiled bitterly, "Since I bought my daughter back, will I still accompany the guests in the future?"

"Sister Xu, I think that girl is pitiful, so why would you sell it to me."

"If the young master wants it, then sell it to the young master." Xu Fo was easy to talk. After all, Yang Ai was bought and returned the goods, and she was still young and needed to be trained for a while. Since someone bought it, she would sell it.

Li Guodong paid 500 taels of silver, and Zhou Daodeng's servant had already brought the girl. After getting the silver, he let the girl go home yard.

Soon, a timid little girl stood in front of Li Guodong. Although this girl was only thirteen or fourteen years old, she was pretty and charming, and there was a kind of stubbornness between her eyebrows. It can be seen that she was a very strong and self-esteem girl. Such a girl was resold back and forth, and I don’t know how much harm it caused. When she saw this little girl, Li Guodong thought it was pretty good, and the only thing she was not satisfied with was that she had her feet wrapped.

"Daughter, this is Mr. Li who bought you. You will follow him in the future." Xu Fo pulled the little girl over and pointed at Li Guodong and said to her.

"I thanked the young master." Yang Aifu was blessed.

Xu Fo also introduced: "Daughter, this young master is not simple. He can kill the enemy with a horse. He is a great hero. He can write poems when he dismounts. If he only meets him for the first time in life, it will be written by Mr. Li."

"Then Li said goodbye first. Li didn't have much time. A friend was waiting in Huai'an. Li wanted to rush back to deal with a group of water bandits as soon as possible. When the water bandits were dealt with, Li would ask someone to come to Jiangnan again. Then two people would come, one was named Wang Quan and the other was named Zhao Feng. Just sister Xu remembered them." Li Guodong said goodbye to Xu Fo and Wu Weiye.

Unexpectedly, when I came to Suzhou, I had to bring another little girl back when I went back. Zheng Zhilong had to send two little girls. These three little girls should be placed in the water village in Hongze Lake first, and I won’t take them to the north for the time being.
Chapter completed!