Chapter 562 The Little Prince is the Little Prince (Update 2)

The four family heads never thought that the wealthy merchants in the city would stab them in the back.

In order to attract business from wine houses in various places, these wealthy merchants directly traded grain. They watched cartloads of grain being transported into the granaries in the city, and they were so angry that their eyes turned red.

Their hopes were completely shattered.

As long as the prince had potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, they would not lack food.

Soon, the big grain merchants in the city lowered their prices, and the price of rice and grain was completely stable at 10 wen a piece. There was no way. If they didn't lower the price, they really wouldn't be able to sell their grain.

So far, the four major families have completely kept their composure.

They have no other choice.

This time, they lost not only their wives but also their soldiers. The losses were too great!

They thought they could make a fortune by investing so much money in the early stage, but they didn't expect that they would still lose in the end.

In fact, the moment their granary was robbed by the Red Lotus Sect, the moment they had lost a large amount of rice and grain, they had already lost.

Although they cooperated with the big grain merchants, the rice and grain were in the hands of these big grain merchants. Maybe they didn't want to cooperate with the fifth prince at first, but after seeing the local or foreign merchants cooperating with the fifth prince, they couldn't sit still.

It was clear that the rice business could no longer bring them profits. If they did not recover their losses from other places at this time, and other wealthy merchants took advantage of the situation and snatched the business, would they still have a place in Gusu City?

They could only choose to exchange new ingredients with the fifth prince, develop the wine house business, and make profits from the wine house, and the four great families had no means to prevent all this from happening.

However, because the relationship between the noble families and the wealthy merchants was very close, it was not just the rice business. Therefore, as long as the wealthy merchants made a profit, they could also share the corresponding profits, so it was not considered a complete loss.

The four family heads were all in their place, and they could not cause any more trouble in Gusu City. The only thing they could do was to use the influence of their family and the scholars they cultivated to continue to do their utmost to smear the reputation of the prince.

In this invisible battle, the four great families all suffered losses, such as granaries and money, but in comparison, the Zheng family suffered the least.

Zheng Shanfu was somewhat proud of himself. This was his skill. Even if his plan failed, he still changed the pattern of the Jiangnan family. From now on, their Zheng family would be the leading family in Gusu City and would no longer be suppressed by the other three families!

The other three families naturally understood this matter. Even though they were not happy, they had no other choice since things had come to this point. At least, they had preserved their family foundation. A failure would not shake their foundation.

They only needed to continue to accumulate strength. After the disaster relief was over, they would develop for a few more years, and what they had lost would soon come back.

The four great families had very beautiful thoughts. They thought that the current situation was the consequence of their failure.

However, facts proved that offending the crown prince, delaying disaster relief, and secretly raising grain prices would not end so easily.

When the dam was being built rapidly, the fourth prince led the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works to work all night long, forgetting to eat and sleep, and finally made a new type of textile machine.

The new textile machine has many improvements and reduces many weaving processes.

The fourth prince went to the cloth shop to find a skilled weaver to experiment. The new type of weaving machine can increase work efficiency by 5 times!

This is simply unimaginable.

The moment the little prince got the result, he immediately asked someone to send the machine to the cloth shop, and began to recruit weaving women workers, and at the same time asked the fourth prince to continue to make weaving machines.

After the first finished product, it was very easy to make the subsequent weaving machines.

Among the victims of the disaster, there were many women who were skilled in weaving cloth. There were 20 looms, and the weavers took turns to work day and night, and one piece of cloth after another entered the market.

Although the young prince had not studied economics, he had opened a shop and done business. He knew very well that when a large number of the same goods suddenly appeared on the market and the goods continued to flow into the market, it would definitely impact the price of the goods, causing the price to drop again and again.

Recently, the cloth shops in Gusu City have been doing a booming business. Before, the cheapest piece of cloth in the city cost 1,000 coins, not to mention the expensive brocade, which made ordinary people dare not ask for it. It

was already very good for the people to buy a piece of cloth and make two clothes during the New Year and festivals.

After a flood, thanks to the efforts of officials led by the young prince, disaster relief has been put on the right track, and the people have recovered and have hope for life.

The city of Gusu has long since recovered its former bustle, and it should be said that it is even busier than during the flood.

After all, there is a world-renowned building in Gusu,

which has attracted many rich children to come and try it.

In recent days, a cloth shop has opened in Gusu. The cloth is not very outstanding, but low-end cloth. However, the price is ridiculously low. The price

of a piece of cloth that used to cost 1,000 wen is now cut in half to 500 wen.

The prices of other cloths of different quality also dropped accordingly, and they were prices that the people had never dared to think of before.

So what are you waiting for?

Those people who have already made money tightened their belts, bought a piece of cloth, and made a new set of clothes to replace the clothes that had already been tattered.

Those people who were originally worried that the price of rice in the city would rise again now have to queue up to buy cloth in addition to queuing up to buy rice every day.

It is not long before winter, and it is just right to buy it while it is cheap to make winter clothes.

At the beginning, the cloth shop was only popular in the city. After some small merchants and ordinary people rushed to buy it, the news spread.

When people from other nearby towns heard about it, they also rushed to Suzhou. How could they miss such a great bargain?

It can be said that for such an indispensable item, which is also cheap and affordable, anyone with a little extra money at home would definitely not miss it.

For a while, Suzhou had the largest flow of people since the flood. It can be said that almost more than 90% of people came for the super low-priced fabrics.

Suzhou seemed to have regained its former bustle and prosperity overnight.

The stalls on both sides of the street were very busy, with the sounds of hawking and bargaining.

There were skilled jugglers, delicious snacks, and crowded teahouses and inns. Everything returned to its former state, and was even more lively than before the flood.

And all this was only because there was a unique restaurant in the city that attracted wealthy businessmen and wealthy customers, and a cloth shop that attracted ordinary people.

As long as there were more people, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating would cost money. Bit by bit, the whole of Suzhou soon recovered.

During a disaster relief, officials from all levels in Jiangnan really admired the little prince.