In the early morning of this day, in Hui'an Yang Mansion, the small courtyard where Yang Cong lived, as soon as the sky was bright, there was a sound in the main house.

Yang Cong hurriedly washed up under Xiaofeng's service, picked up the seafood porridge sent by Xiaoxiong and drank a few sips, and then hurried to the front yard, beckoning the fat tiger and the thin monkey who had been waiting there for a long time to walk towards his grandfather Yang Rong's compound together.

At this time, although he is already rich and rivals the country, he is not as poor and luxurious as those nouveau riche of the maritime wealthy, the courtyard where he lives is still the original Sanjin compound, and there is no luxurious decoration in it, it is still the same as when he was studying in the county, and even, he has not even changed the old mother who is a cronies, serving maids, and washing and cooking, and he is still the original team.

The only change in this courtyard may be that there are two more hostesses, but Zhang Zhen and Lu Ling'er haven't gotten up yet, the reason why he got up so early is to see the morning meeting of the Yang family, if it weren't for his grandfather Yang Rong who insisted on him to preside, he would probably rest on the bed for a while, after all, he finally came back to rest for a few days, and he didn't even bother to take care of political affairs, let alone family affairs.

The old man Yang Rong is also like him, and he has no problem pursuing pleasure, and the Yang family's mansion is still the same, and it has not undergone special decoration, and even the road between the yard and the courtyard is the same as before, it is still a smooth dirt road, and even the bluestone slab is not paved.

Yang Cong hurriedly walked through the familiar road, and soon came to the old man Yang Rong's compound, and at this time, the steward and shopkeeper of the Yang family did not start to report, because he, the head of the family, had not yet arrived.

After he walked into the lobby, he greeted the uncles and grandfathers cordially, and then sat on the left side of the main seat with a little embarrassment.

At this time, the old man Yang Rong had even sat down, leaving him alone to sit on the top, which felt a bit weird.

Now the Yang family's business is different from before, the timber business is no longer their main business, and even the salt business is not very heavy, and the major stewards and shopkeepers report basically the business at sea.

What is the supply of this merchant, how much is the value, how much is the prepayment;

What merchant requests settlement, and how many tens of thousands of taels in total;

Yang Cong was a little numb when he heard this business of tens of thousands of taels at every turn, because at this time, most of the old warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian Navy Division had been replaced, and the sea ships in the hands of Wang Zhi and Hong Tiezhu had already exceeded 100 taels, and the gross profit was tens of millions of taels in one trip, and their Yang family could at least share more than 4 million taels, and these tens of thousands of taels and tens of thousands of taels were just small businesses for him.

Of course, he also knows that tens of thousands of taels are a small business for him, but not for others.

The so-called "wealth is moving", tens of thousands of taels of business can not dare to take it lightly, because such a "huge amount of money" for the vast majority of people have a great attraction, once a person can not withstand the temptation of money to secretly make a ghost, and has achieved a huge return, others will definitely rush to follow suit, and then it will be chaotic.

Yang Cong listened carefully to the reports of the stewards and shopkeepers, and carefully dealt with everything, and an hour passed unconsciously, until the morning was over.

Before he had time to go back to his yard, there was a family outside, and a certain big merchant in Zhejiang asked to see him.

These people must have heard the rumors and knew that the shipments on his side had increased significantly, and they were already in short supply, so they ran over to say good things and asked to join the ranks of the maritime trade, so as to get a piece of the pie.

At the beginning, it was the steward and shopkeeper of the Yang family who begged these merchants who produced bulk goods to cooperate with the Yang family and supply to the Yang family, but now, it has been reversed, and the big merchants who came to the Yang family like this, and even asked for attachment to the Yang family, basically every day, and sometimes even several a day.

Yang Cong is not disgusted with these merchants, when he was not in control of the overall situation in the southeast, it was normal for people to hesitate, after all, whether he could do it or not was not in everyone's hearts, if he couldn't do it, wouldn't it be to find death if he followed him.

At this time, he had almost cleaned up the Longxi Chen clan and the Zhangpu Lin clan, and the maritime trade was getting bigger and bigger, everyone knew that they could make a lot of money by following the Yang family, and they took the initiative to come over and ask to join, which was also a normal move.

He hesitated for a moment, but still personally met with this big merchant who came from afar, because he wanted to learn about the situation in Zhejiang by the way, and at the same time listen to what these merchants think about the local economic development.

In these years, the officials basically looked down on the merchants, let alone the governors of the five provinces, even the governors or even the prefects would not personally meet the merchants, because they all felt that they had lost their status.

Yang Cong doesn't have this scruples, his identity is not so important in his opinion, how to make Daming develop is the key.

The merchant who came to ask for a meeting felt different again, he originally came to ask to see the old lady Yang Rong, but he didn't expect to meet him was the governor, this guy was a little incoherent with his excitement.

Yang Cong and the merchant discussed carefully, this hour and time have almost passed, and before he has time to get up and go back to the house, the family outside has come to report again, and the old man of Dongling Zhangjia Zhang and the old man of the Gu family of Nanzhili Gu Kexue asked to see him.

Gu Kexue is also a person, of course Yang Cong knows, because this guy is the elder brother of Gu Kejiu, the former prefect of Quanzhou, Nanzhi is affiliated with the Gu family, a two-way scholar, and the brothers are all in the department, which is quite famous.

This one is the father of his old father-in-law, and the other is a representative of the famous official family of Nanzhili, he naturally did not dare to slack off, so he immediately called his grandfather and went out together.

It's normal for this Zhang Shen to come over, because his baby granddaughter is here, and he pretends to be close friends with Yang Rong, when Zhang Yue was in power in the past, Yang Rong often went to Dongling Zhangfu, and now Yang Cong is in power, and it is normal for Zhang Shen to often run over to visit the door.

But why did this Gu Kexue come over with the old man of the Zhang family?

Yang Cong and the old lady Yang Rong welcomed these two people in and asked to know, it turned out that Gu Kexue and Zhang Shen both participated in the imperial examination during the Hongzhi period, and they were still in the same subject when they took the township examination, but in the end, Gu Kexue was admitted to the Jinshi, but Zhang Shen only passed the exam, and the two still had a little friendship when they were in Jinling, so Gu Kexue found Zhang Shen and asked him to introduce him.

Gu Kexue's purpose in running over is very simple, that is, to rely on Yang Cong on behalf of the Gu family of Nanzhili, in order to make a comeback!

This guy is a Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, and he is also in the second class, it stands to reason that he should have been in a high position a long time ago, but unfortunately, during the Zhengde period, he stood on the wrong team and was impeached and dismissed, and it has been almost 20 years.

Twenty years, for people in the officialdom, they may not be able to be an official for twenty years in a lifetime, fortunately, Gu Kexue is not an ordinary person, he was a high school scholar when he was in his twenties, so he is only in his fifties at this time, if he can re-enter the officialdom, as long as the starting point is a little higher, it is not that he has no chance to climb to an important position in the imperial court.

The reason why he has not stepped into the official career in his twenties is also because the starting point is not high enough, after all, his younger brother is still serving in the court, and they also have a little connection in the Gu family, and the court cannot hang him for twenty years, and the positions arranged for him by the main officials are too low, either the "idle position" below the fifth grade in the capital or the "petty official" below the fourth grade in the local government, he is really a little unsightly.

This time, he took the initiative to come to rely on Yang Cong, just because he took a fancy to Yang Cong's authority and the forces behind him, the governor of Zhejiang and the support of Yang Ming, it shouldn't be difficult for him to get a good position, right?