At Yetu Wharf, Fatty Tang was enjoying the treatment of being the center of attention.

When the leaders of silk societies received the news, they rushed over immediately, wanting to invite the God of Wealth to their homes.

But no matter how much they said nice things, Tang Youde still sat on the high-legged stool as motionless as a mountain.

It was not until all the club leaders arrived that Tang Youde smiled and said, "I am flattered by your enthusiasm, but I am alone and cannot attend to everything."

"Yes, yes, yes." The heads of the clubs smiled and no longer had the toughness they had in the past. "Then let's do as Boss Tang wants and discuss it here."

Tang Youde fought against many enemies with a small number of people, and he was in high spirits. He felt that he was like Zhuge Kongming, who was debating with many scholars, but it was a pity that these opponents were really invincible...

It is already March. If we don't sell the stock on hand, we will lose everything when the spring silkworms spin cocoons in two months.

Even the head of the silk association in the county will not interfere with their selling price. As long as they can sell it, they are heroes.

As the saying goes, the situation is stronger than people. How could those heads of the societies have the capital to challenge him? Before Tang Youde made any move, they started competing to lower their prices.

"Boss Tang, the silk from our Liujia Village is of the best quality. In previous years, it was sold for at least one and a half taels of silver. Now I will only charge you one tael..."

"We're nine cents a pound!"

"We have eight cents..."

"Seven cents and eight..."

"Seven cents, seven..."

"Seven cents and six..."

Tang Youde kept squinting his eyes and listened to the sellers fighting each other, until the price reduction became smaller and smaller, he opened his eyes slightly and whispered softly: "I can only offer four cents at most."

Although he said it lightly, he cut the lowest offer in half with just one stroke!

"This, this, this..." Hearing this insulting offer, the heads of the societies couldn't help but change color and angrily said to Tang Youde: "Mr. Tang, the bigger your business, the more evil your heart becomes! You can't even get back your investment at this price!"

"That's right, we charge more than this price!" A group of heads of the community shouted angrily, "We don't want to sell it anymore, please go back."

"Don't try that on me!" Tang Youde spat and sneered, "Don't think I don't know that, minus the interest on the loan, the cost of taking the silk from the silk farmers is no more than two cents!"

"My surname is Tang. We do business with the belief that everyone will get rich. You will definitely not lose money if I offer this price."

"This..." The heads of the societies did not expect that Tang Youde, who had never been involved in the raw silk business, was so good at it, and they were so proud of it.

"Boss Tang," someone who couldn't hold back said, "The accounts between the silk cooperative and the silk farmers are not calculated in this way. In bad years, we will waive interest and even subsidize the principal..."

"Yes, Boss Tang, don't just watch the thief eat the meat, but don't see the thief being beaten."

"Now is the time for you to be beaten." Tang Youde sneered and raised his voice:

"Everyone knows what the situation is like now. At home, most of the weavers in Nanjing are unemployed, and the number of looms in operation is less than half of that in previous years. Overseas, how long has it been since the ships of Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants went out to sea? The day before yesterday, a ship ventured to Japan, but before it left Zhoushan, it was seized by the imperial navy, and tens of thousands of kilograms of raw silk were confiscated. In this year, the mulberry farmers in Nanjing have started to pull up mulberry trees and plant rice. Only you still treat those unwanted things in the warehouse as treasures..."

"Hiss..." Although the heads of the societies knew that the year was not good, they still felt extremely depressed when they heard Tang Youde speak so confidently, and they bent their backs again one by one.

Some people were not convinced and whispered: "Since you say raw silk is worthless, why do you still go to the countryside to collect silk?"

Tang Youde supported his knees with his hands and slowly stood up. His fat body seemed quite oppressive in front of the hunched heads of the society.

"As the saying goes, when others abandon it, I take it. The price of looms is now less than 30% of previous years, and the wages of skilled weavers have also been cut by half. I plan to take this opportunity to invest tens of thousands of taels of silver. As long as I grit my teeth and persevere for a few years, when other weavers change their business, my business will naturally improve."

As he spoke, he patted the shoulder of a club leader and said solemnly: "I am joining the industry at this time, and I am also putting my head on the belt. In order to survive this cold winter, I can only offer this price. Let's get through this difficult time together..."

Seeing that no one was talking, Tang Youde bent down, folded his stool, and pretended to turn around and said, "I don't have any plans to collect silk anywhere this time. I'm also planning to go to Hexian and Wuhu. How about you give me a definite answer after I come back from my trip?"

"This..." The heads of the societies panicked when they heard this. How could they not hear the threat in Tang Youde's words when they were so smart?

If you don't agree, I'll go collect the silk somewhere else!

"Boss Tang, don't go. Let's talk more..."

"Yes, Boss Tang, it's almost noon, we have to eat anyway..."

"Please add a little more. Four coins per pound is really not enough."

The heads of the societies knew that he was playing hard to get, but they still had to say all the nice things and try their best to keep him.

"At most, I can add one more penny." Tang Youde sneered and said, "Not even one more penny."

The heads of the societies were in a dilemma after hearing this. Although five cents of silver was pitifully little, it was still a win-win situation...

But compared to previous years, this is simply a fucking tearful sale!

Tang Youde saw through the situation and when he saw that they were about to give in, he immediately struck while the iron was hot and said, "I will only buy 5,000 kilograms of silk for the first time to test the waters. If everything goes well, I can buy more next time. Otherwise, it will be a one-time deal."

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All the heads of the societies have been controlled by him and are in disarray. They heard that he will only accept 5,000 kilograms of silk and there may not be a next time. Now they can no longer work together.

The inventory of each silk cooperative varied, with the largest being two or three thousand kilograms and the smallest being around a thousand kilograms. The combined inventory of these five or six heads of cooperatives exceeded ten thousand kilograms of silk.

Tang Youde only wanted 5,000 kilograms. Whoever agreed first could make the deal. If you agreed later, you would just have to let it go...

"Well, okay..."

Finally, someone couldn't stand it anymore and held out his hand to Tang Youde, saying, "I'll sell it for this amount."

The two men covered their hands with their sleeves and gestured for a while. Tang Youde nodded and said with a smile: "Deal."

Before that man could show a relieved expression, the other leaders of the society also started shouting one after another.

“I sell it too!”

"I'll sell it, I'll sell it!"

Seeing four or five hands reaching out to him at the same time, Tang Youde was about to take the opportunity to make another move, but suddenly he opened his mouth in surprise.

I saw Zhao Hao running towards me from a distance, his face and head covered with sweat, panting and supporting his knees, unable to speak.

Yu Peng rushed over, held Zhao Hao with both hands, and asked anxiously: "Master, what happened? Where is Brother Gao?!"

"Hurry, hurry..." Zhao Hao said intermittently: "Call someone, grab your weapons, and follow me..."

"Okay!" Yu Peng didn't ask any more questions and immediately whistled at the cargo ship!

The North City is the garrison of the palace army's rear guard, with more than a dozen military camps mixed together. For the men in Caijia Lane, fighting is commonplace.

When the whistle sounded, the cargo ship's hatch was kicked open, and a man with a bare upper body rushed out, holding a five-foot-long iron rod. The man took two steps, leaped over Tang Youde's head, landed steadily on the shore, and ran towards Zhao Hao and Yu Peng.

"this……"

Before Tang Youde and the others could come to their senses, another thug with his upper body naked and an iron rod in his hand rushed out of the cabin door and jumped onto the shore over their heads.

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