"I'm sorry! It's I who caused you to be reduced to this state. "
Li Zhi's eyes were filled with tears as he said with guilt. He knew that in the eyes of a rational person like Wu Meiniang, there was no use in covering up. The only way was to honestly admit his mistake.
Sure enough, Wu Meiniang sighed and said, "You are not wrong, it's our philosophy that is wrong."
Facing a man who loved her wholeheartedly, no woman could be ruthless, even if it was the intelligent Wu Meiniang.
"No, if it weren't for me, you would still be the high and mighty Senior Sister of Mo Family. You wouldn't have to work in a small broken cotton workshop." Li Zhi said with a face full of regret.
Wu Meiniang firmly said, "This is my own choice. This is the punishment I deserve. I don't blame anyone."
"You can rest assured. I will go and beg Imperial Father and Imperial Mother to end the concubine selection. Even if I don't want the identity of Prince Jin, I want to spend the rest of my life with you." Li Zhi said with pain.
Wu Meiniang bitterly smiled and said, "Please spare me! Do you think I'm not miserable enough? If Master knows that you are going to argue with His Majesty because of me, I'm afraid I will be assigned to the steel mill. "
Li Zhi stopped acting. He looked at the messy cotton workshop and heroically said, "You can rest assured. No matter how much cotton your workshop produces in the future, I will buy it all. Moreover, I will buy it at a high price."
Wu Meiniang shook her head and said, "No need. I appreciate your kindness. You better stay away from me. Otherwise, I will only be more unlucky."
No matter how Li Zhi persuaded, Wu Meiniang didn't accept Li Zhi's kindness. In the end, she could only helplessly leave.
"Wangye, how about we secretly create some trouble? I believe that Miss Wu will naturally ask Wangye for help when she is desperate." A eunuch suggested.
Li Zhi sneered and said, "Stupid. I only need to be responsible for showing goodwill to Mei Niang. As for these trivial matters, someone will do it properly."
"Your Highness is wise!" The eunuch flattered.
After Li Zhi left, Wu Meiniang threw herself into the tedious weaving. Looking at the warehouse full of cloth, Wu Meiniang couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.
However, when she tried to sell her meticulously woven cotton on the market, the market price poured a bucket of cold water on her.
"Eldest Senior Sister, it's not that I don't want to give you a high price, but the market is like this. I see that the quality of your cloth is not bad, so I'm willing to give you a high price." A cotton merchant looked at Wu Meiniang's cotton cloth and desperately tried to bargain.
Wu Meiniang frowned. Recently, the price of cotton cloth in Chang 'an City had plummeted. This was the highest price that the merchants in Chang' an City could offer. However, even if she sold all the cotton cloth and paid the wages, the cotton workshop would still suffer a loss.
Of course, if she could find the Mo Family to sell, with her status, the price would naturally be higher. However, the arrogant Wu Meiniang didn't want to take advantage of the situation. She gritted her teeth and sold the cotton cloth at a low price. She knew that the more she didn't want to overstock the goods, the more she couldn't save the cotton workshop.
After selling the cotton cloth, Wu Meiniang walked on the streets of Chang 'an City and couldn't help but fall into deep thought. She could see that under such a vicious cycle, the cotton workshop wouldn't be able to hold on for long. Now, she had to think of a way to break the situation.
"If I want to revive the cotton workshop, there are only two ways. One is to increase the efficiency of the textile and reduce the cost of the cotton cloth. Price is king. This way, the cotton cloth produced by the cotton workshop will be in an invincible position. The other way is to make high-quality cloth and earn high profits. "Wu Meiniang thought to herself.
"If I'm going to do it, I'll do it big." Wu Meiniang made up her mind. Finally, she set her eyes on silk. Only silk could perfectly meet her requirements.
"Mei Niang, please reconsider! The price of silk has been dropping year after year. It's not as valuable as it used to be. Who knows what the market will be like in the future? "The accompanying Mo Family's daughter-in-law advised.
Wu Meiniang smiled bitterly in her heart. How could she not know the reason for the decline in the price of silk? It was her master's vigorous promotion of cotton cultivation that caused the value of cloth to plummet. If it weren't for her master's vigorous promotion of the Silk Road Plan, the price of silk would have collapsed. Even so, the price of silk continued to drop.
"It's precisely because silk is not valued that we have a chance to make silk. Nowadays, in the Tang Dynasty, cotton cloth is everywhere. It's very difficult to sell it. Even the cotton clothes made from it are very difficult to sell. However, silk is different. As the saying goes, those who wear silk are not silkworm rearers. Those who can afford silk are mostly from wealthy families, and this group of people is the main force of silk buyers." Wu Meiniang calmly analyzed.
In the era of farming, no one would spend money to buy anything that could be made by themselves. Silk was an exception. Moreover, there were many wealthy families in Chang 'an City. The business was prosperous, and the silk business was very promising.
"But now the silk business has been monopolized by the Wei Family and other aristocratic families. How can we compete with them?" The daughter-in-law of the Mo Family was worried.
Wu Meiniang patted her chest and promised, "Don't worry. From now on, I will start to design a more advanced spinning machine. In addition, Mei Niang got the secret printing and dyeing formula from Taoist Changsheng. Once it's successful, the silk of our workshop will definitely be popular in the Tang Dynasty."
"This … Okay!" The daughter-in-law of the Mo Family had no choice but to comply. Now that the cotton industry had reached a bottleneck, changing to spinning and weaving silk might be a way out.
"At that time, I want all the men in Chang 'an City to see that I, Wu Meiniang, a woman, can also achieve something with my own hands," Wu Meiniang said proudly.
"We believe in you!" The daughter-in-law of the Mo Family who accompanied her clenched their fists and said.
"Brother Liu's words are too biased. Who said that women are inferior to men …" Wu Meiniang hummed a little tune and couldn't wait to turn the carriage around and return to the cotton workshop. No, perhaps it would become a silk workshop in the future.
After returning to the cotton workshop, Wu Meiniang seemed to have changed into a different person. She hid in the workshop all day long and kept experimenting, while the other daughter-in-law of the Mo Family were still spinning cotton and struggling to make ends meet.
As time went by, the cotton workshop where Wu Meiniang worked became more and more difficult. It seemed that it would be difficult to make ends meet.
"Who said that women are inferior to men? Even the dignified Eldest Senior Sister of the Mo Family will disappear into the crowd without the support of the Mo Family. This world has always been a man's world. The so-called female lead is just a joke. "
Many people who were secretly paying attention to Wu Meiniang gloated. In their opinion, after losing the platform of the Mo family, it wouldn't be long before Wu Meiniang would disappear into the crowd like most other women.
And the person in the dark, Yin-yang Zi, sneered. Wu Meiniang's current situation was carefully planned by him. Once Wu Meiniang's situation became difficult, over time, her heart would change. At that time, the Yin-yang School would take advantage of the situation.
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