This is a checks and balances that Zhao Rui must do, and he has no real understanding of Du Wanyi, Zhao Rui, and his rights must be restricted.

At the same time, Zhao Rui stipulated that everything must be written to himself, so that Zhao Rui can be far away in Xiangyang or other places, and he can also control the White Lotus Society.

The thing Zhao Rui decided was the final result, and after handing over the matter here to Du Wanyi, Zhao Rui took Liu Sheng and 10,000 sect members and returned to Xiangyang immediately.

And the many sects represented by Manichaeism in the east are too small in scale, Zhao Rui doesn't pay attention to them, thinking that with the continuous development and growth of the White Lotus Society, and with the financial support of his own side, it is only a matter of time before they assimilate and absorb those small sects.

On this trip to the southeast, Zhao Rui can be said to have gained something beyond the troops.

The rule of the Southern Song Dynasty was rotten, and the people were in rebellion, especially the White Lotus Society, which was the largest, and now that Zhao Rui has mastered the White Lotus Society, it is undoubtedly the nail nailed to the Southern Song Dynasty deeper.

In the future, the overthrow of the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty will at least have a huge popular base, and in the future, the Southern Song Dynasty will have a headache for the growing organization of the White Lotus Society.

Zhao Rui's confrontational heart will not let go of the Yuan Dynasty that secretly made it bad, it seems that they are happy with the cloth trade, but in fact they are secretly harming themselves.

In this case, Zhao Rui doesn't mind burning the flame of the White Lotus Society to the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, and it may be more difficult to develop at the beginning, but the people of the Yuan Dynasty are more difficult than the Song Dynasty, and the so-called spark can start a prairie fire, and when the White Lotus Society really develops in the Yuan Dynasty, I am afraid that the Yuan Dynasty can only look at the ocean and sigh.

After returning to Xiangyang, Zhao Gong also happened to come back, bringing a large amount of ammunition and guns, which Zhao Rui needed at present.

Now that the Xiong brothers are conquering Shu in the west, with the support of firearms, they are even more devastating, and the Yuan Dynasty does not have too good control in Shu, or they are completely afraid of Zhao Rui's army, so the Xiong brothers' operation to recover the territory is still extremely smooth.

The Xiong brothers recovered Sichuan and Shu, and had already met with the forces of Sheliwei, preparing to destroy the last remnants of the Yuan army of Dali together.

And Zhao Rui was unwilling to do this, and asked the Xiong brothers to divide their troops, and by the way recovered Juzhou and other places, and then went all the way south, under the banner of crusading against the Yuan army, and collected the southwest city of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In this way, Zhao Rui's territory has greatly increased, and has occupied most of the territory in the west of the Southern Song Dynasty, it can be said that from Jinzhou, to Lingzhou, Chenzhou, Jingjiangfu, and even the west of Xunzhou, all of them have become Zhao Rui's territory, which is now considered to occupy nearly one-third of the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, and coupled with the Dali that is about to be defeated, coupled with the Jiaozhi that Zhao Rui has completely commanded, Zhao Rui's power has gradually evolved into the power of a powerful country.

The Yuan Dynasty was quite calm about what Zhao Rui did, but the Southern Song Dynasty court couldn't bear it anymore, and even sent troops to capture the cities that had already been occupied.

But now that Zhao Rui is in the limelight, he has firearms, and he can even repel the Yuan army, where is the Song army still an opponent?

Although the imperial court was reluctant to mention this, the generals with the troops knew it well, and most of them just walked in front of the city gate to take a situation, and then went back to report that they couldn't beat him.

Jia Yidao is naturally a person who sees the situation clearly, and he directly issued a death order for the generals who played soy sauce, and the generals who did not go through a bloody battle would be punished, or even directly executed.

In this way, not only did Jia Yidao not get the situation he wanted, but it caused many generals to take refuge directly to Zhao Rui's side, and Jia Yidao was half angry.

The war in Dali is still continuing, repelling the Yuan army is one thing, and the counterattack is more powerful, it is the Dali army, losing the rule of Dali, which is equivalent to taking their lives, so in terms of purging, it is also extremely time-consuming.

Zhao Rui is just seeking progress steadily, and the requirements for Sheliwei and the Xiong brothers are to advance steadily, not to cause too many casualties.

The situation in Dali is no secret, and after Zhao Rui captures Dali, he may not focus on dealing with the Southern Song Dynasty, and Jia Yidao, who thinks of this, is already very impatient.

And Zhao Yuan was still looking for an opportunity to give gifts to Zhao Rui because of the medicine, which increased his wealth to a certain extent, and later Zhao Yuan had nothing to give, so he actually sent Zhao Rui a Danshu iron scroll.

Such a death-free gold medal Zhao Rui couldn't cry or laugh, now where does he still need to get the Song Dynasty's death-free, if he hadn't been developing his strength, I'm afraid he would have gone to Lin'an a long time ago.

Among them, the reason why Zhao Rui is accumulating strength is also related to historical reasons.

Zhao Rui, who knows the history of the Song Dynasty, knows very well what the Song Dynasty court is, and once it can't be defeated, it will either be reparations to eliminate the disaster, or it will unite with the other side to strike.

It's like the Liao State and the Jin State, or the Jin State and the Yuan Dynasty, it is simply impossible to describe the decision-making of the Song Dynasty court in words, they are just guarding against military power, afraid of being overthrown, but they are defeated by foreign people, what is the difference?

Zhao Rui's defense is also in this aspect, in case the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty are united now, and the strength is combined, for Zhao Rui, he also has to take it seriously.

Therefore, taking advantage of this time, Zhao Rui must do his best to continue to be strong in order to be invincible in the future battle.

The sales of cloth have repeatedly hit new highs, and now after the penetration of Zhao Rui's products, basically in the Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, there are no more textile workshops, and even ordinary people buy cloth at home, no longer weaving by themselves, after all, it is not counted in terms of labor and time.

At this time, there was another trouble, that is, the separatist forces far away in Qiongzhou began to stir up trouble again, and the oppression of the imperial court was repelled by them, so they set their sights on the big ships that were constantly transporting money and cloth.

But these ships made by Zhao Rui were all equipped with artillery, how could they be easily defeated by them, just accurate artillery fire made them unbearable.

Zhao Rui felt that this Qiongzhou force was an excellent place for military training, so he sent Jiao Xian to launch an attack on Qiongzhou, on the one hand, with the suppression of the Shenzhou big ship, on the other hand, it mainly trained sailors, or the training of sailors landing, as well as the application of small and medium-sized warships.

These were Jiao Xian's old business, and he was very happy that he didn't have to transport fabrics anymore, and according to Zhao Rui's orders, he launched a continuous attack on Qiongzhou.

The Qiongzhou side was really beaten enough, to say that the battles were all beaten and killed, but these fleets were simply here to play, and they left after a while, and then came again, which was really unguardable.

Raids, landings, night battles, etc., have simply beaten Qiongzhou's military strength to the point of spitting, and at the same time, a strong and attacking naval army is constantly improving.

I have to say that Zhao Rui's decision laid a firm and stable foundation for the later Age of Discovery.

Now with a steady stream of income from fabrics, Zhao Rui sent Ma Yue to the north with a force of 10,000 people to develop his strength, giving a lot of financial support, and Zhao Rui did not break his promise for the White Lotus Society of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he also continued to support financial resources.

The forces on both sides are developing in a steady and orderly manner, and it is estimated that in the near future, it will definitely become a big help for Zhao Rui on the road to conquest.

And the money from the cloth flowed more into Zhao Rui's rear, Jiaozhi.

Zhao Rui's money has been invested in the development of science and technology, not only to create a large number of textile machines, looms, but also new equipment is still being developed.

Although Zhao Rui did not directly give money to the Jiaozhi court, the taxes they collected and the income of the common people were already a huge wealth.

The current days are basically better than those of the Southern Song Dynasty, so from top to bottom in Jiaozhi, they all admire Zhao Rui, and under Chen Xuan's decision, they even built a tall golden statue for Zhao Rui to admire in the world.

For all this, Zhao Rui knew that it was inevitable and did not pay too much attention to it, but now with the expansion of the textile scale, the cost of fabric has dropped again.

This means that Zhao Rui will make more money if the selling price remains the same.

But Zhao Rui did not do this, but lowered the wholesale price of the fabric at the same time.

At this moment, the merchants of both the Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were crazy, and they couldn't imagine how such a cheap price came about.

At this time, the Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were also alert to this, the continuous outflow of gold and silver was not a good thing, originally thought that Zhao Rui was just losing money and making money from other aspects, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Maybe he really has a knack for reducing the cost of fabric.

But at this time, it was already a little too late for the two courts to control.

At that time, some bans had already been issued, causing some panic among the merchants.

However, Zhao Rui proposed to increase the price at the right time, which caused some paralysis to the courts on both sides, but for the merchants, they were the most sensitive to the price, and they took out all their property and handed it to Zhao Rui to order.

Some merchants even did not hesitate to use usury to send money to Zhao Rui, which is called leverage in modern times, but in ancient times, it was already played by merchants very slippery.

From the beginning to the present, these merchants have really made a lot of money with Zhao Rui, the so-called buying up or not buying down, Zhao Rui announced that the price would rise as soon as the news came out, and the number of business trips to and from Fancheng increased greatly.

In the end, Zhao Rui's spot was sold out for the first time, the fabric delivered by Jiaozhi has not yet arrived, those merchants can't wait, the caravan outside is still entering, who knows if the goods can be grabbed at that time?

These goods to their own territory, not worried about selling at all, although the price is cheap, but for merchants, wholesale is also cheap, how much money was earned, may now earn more.

Some merchants couldn't wait and directly asked Zhao Rui if he could give the money first and then pick up the goods.

Of course, it didn't matter if Zhao Rui collected the money here, so he arranged for someone to go through the formalities for them, and collected a large amount of gold and silver, promising to deliver the goods to them after the merchant ships came.

At this time, in Fancheng City, the concept of "futures" appeared for the first time, and the merchants communicated with each other, knowing that the price of cloth was going to rise immediately, so more money entered Zhao Rui's pocket, and the delivery arrangement was even scheduled until the end of the year......