Reaching an Agreement
After Wang Yue got married, all the artisans in Qingzhou were gathered in the Langya Kingdom. He began making the essentials for a transmigrator, such as soap, perfume, and glass. Of course, he hadn't forgotten to help Liu Yuru build workshops for weaving and dyeing cloth.
At the same time, he built several shipyards, preparing to construct seagoing merchant ships and escort ships.
He felt that if he wanted to develop in secret, the only way was to trade by sea. That way, no one would know where the merchant fleet came from.
Fortunately, Qingzhou had a thriving fishing industry. There were already plenty of large ships, as well as many skilled shipwrights. Old Father Wang fully supported Wang Yue's shipbuilding plans, transporting all the local stage sets to the coastal shipyards. Not long after Wang Yue's wedding, more than a dozen large ships had been refitted.
During this time, the Liu Family also opened several shops, sticking to their old trade as cloth merchants. All their cloth came from Liu Yuru's workshops. The newly produced Muyunsha, in particular, was so popular that supply couldn't keep up with demand.
Wang Yue passed on all the cloth-making techniques he had learned from the Su family, where he had been a live-in son-in-law, to a group of artisans who had signed lifetime contracts. Then he handed their indentures over to Liu Yuru.
The large quantities of cloth they produced wiped out the old cloth shops. But since this was the business of the provincial governor's in-laws, the shopkeepers could only accept their bad luck. They didn't dare try anything underhanded.
Some quick-witted merchants bought unusual fabrics from the Liu Family's cloth shops and sold them in other prefectures and counties, earning a handsome profit on the price difference.
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