Ji Qingwen's attitude was to make it clear that he didn't want his wife to hand over the affairs of Songjiang Dianshan Port to Shen Liangzuo peacefully, so naturally there was no reason to continue to stay in the port. So after saying goodbye to Shen Liangzuo, he rushed back to Suzhou City overnight.

Shen Liangzuo's side naturally won't give up on this.

The first thing he thought of was to prepare a generous gift, run to John Tong's side, and beg him to translate the account books he had written down since last year into Chinese. But John Tang had known Ji Qingwen since he was in Xi'an, and his long-cherished wish was to repair churches and preach religion in China, so he didn't look at Shen Liangzuo's gifts of gold and silver treasures at all, so of course he wouldn't help this new promoter of the city.

Therefore, Tang Ruowang spoke Chinese for a while and German for a while, pretending to be stupid and stunned, and he didn't have anything to say, but he didn't want to inform Shen Liangzuo of the details of the account books anyway.

Shen Liangzuo talked with Tang Ruowang in detail a few times, but he felt that Tang Ruowang, a missionary, was not as sincere as those foreigners in the legend, but more like an old fritter who was used to dealing with the government.

So Shen Liangzuo finally dismissed the plan to get the account books from Tang Ruowang, and decided to come to him to draw salary, and use the face of his own celebrant and eunuch, and seconded eight or nine accounting masters from the Nanjing Household Department, the Governor of the River, Jiangning Weaving, and Hangzhou Weaving Yamen, and obtained the detailed account books from the maritime merchants who came and went from the Dianshan Port Wharf, and then compiled them into a general ledger - although this general ledger is somewhat different from the original account book, it is also eight or nine and ten.

But Ji Qingwen has already done his work in advance.

He knew that the maritime merchants who did business in the harbor were extremely stable, and most of them had a fixed number of maritime merchants going back and forth to Songjiang, Japan, Nanyang and other places to do business, and most of them would give the maritime merchant Zheng Zhilong some face.

So Ji Qingwen passed through Zheng Zhilong's channel in advance, asking the maritime merchants to maintain a passive and uncooperative attitude with Shen Liangzuo - it is okay to do business, but there are no account books.

However, Ji Qingwen's deployment later seemed to be a bit redundant.

Because most of the maritime merchants are farmers who can't get along in the Central Plains, and they can't recognize a liter of Chinese characters they know, they also pay attention to drinking today and getting drunk today, and they have never had any habit of keeping accounts.

However, Zheng Zhilong has always had different intentions, and he has long wanted to put all his wealth and life in Ji Qingwen's basket, and now for no reason, there is a city director in charge of dock affairs to promote Shen Liangzuo, of course, he has to be careful.

However, Zheng Zhilong's son Zheng Chenggong had just taken Ji Qingwen's path and was given an official position and fame, and it was not easy for him to completely abandon Ji Qingwen's line and switch to Shen Liangzuo's name for a while.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong, who has a flexible brain and is mercenary, decided to maintain the current lukewarm relationship with Shen Liangzuo for the time being, and then look at the situation.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, Zheng Zhilong certainly couldn't take the risk of completely angering Ji Qingwen and defected to Shen Liangzuo.

On the other hand, Shen Liangzuo naturally could not get the support of maritime merchants, including Zheng Zhilong, and could only continue Ji Qingwen's previous policy, but could not obtain the detailed accounts of the dock transactions that he was bent on obtaining.

Fortunately, when Shen Liangzuo arrived at Songjiang Dianshan Port, it was only the beginning of April, and if he started to keep accounts again, he could still grasp the operation of the wharf in the other three quarters of the year, and it was still too late.

But after a month of recording, Shen Liangzuo actually discovered something amazing.

He originally thought that the Dianshan Port Wharf was a good place to flow gold and silver, but he didn't expect that the daily expenses of the wharf were extremely large - the expenses of the wharf maintenance and dock workers alone were a lot of expenses, and with only a little tariff collected on the wharf, he couldn't even break even, let alone earn a lot of silver to pay tribute to the emperor.

This made Shen Liangzuo puzzled - the expenses of the wharf were personally controlled, and it was also true that Ji Qingwen had paid tribute of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for two consecutive years. Why is it that such a busy and prosperous wharf has become extremely difficult to maintain daily operations in my own hands?

What he didn't know was that Ji Qingwen's operation of this wharf completely referred to the idea of establishing a free trade zone in later generations.

That is, only a very small and symbolic management fee (i.e., tariff) is charged in order to create a cost advantage to attract maritime merchants from several competing traditional ports such as Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Ningbo. In the name of weaving the yamen, he sold the tribute silk produced by the yamen, bought the products from the maritime merchants, and sold the products at the same time, so as to earn a large price difference. At the same time, through the construction of cofferdams and other methods, merchants from other places were denied entry and business.

In this way, Ji Qingwen actually turned Dianshan Port into a big stage that attracted much attention, and the only protagonist on the stage was himself.

And Shen Liangzuokong has the identity of a stage master, but he has no ability to control the whole scene, which is tantamount to "making wedding clothes for others", with a false name but no reality.

On Ji Qingwen's side, because he didn't have to manage the affairs of the dock for the time being, he had more energy to handle other affairs.

On the one hand, he continued his previous practice and continued to dump the colorful brocade produced by the weaving yamen to the maritime merchants through the platform of Dianshan Port Wharf, and the money he should have earned was not less.

On the one hand, he used the silver taels he earned to let the ancient Chinese inventor Song Yingxing preside over the unified improvement and rebuilding of textile machines, rented and built factories, and hired a large number of skilled weavers at a price 10 percent higher than the market price, and gradually invested in the production of low-end cotton cloth and silk, occupying the low-end market around Suzhou and overseas markets.

On the one hand, let Yang Zhan, Huang Degong, Meng Hong and others take the lead to continue to strengthen the construction of the "Ming Wu Army", replenish the weapons damaged in the previous battles, re-study and improve the tactical routines in the face of cavalry and fortified cities, and continue to enhance the overall combat effectiveness of the "Ming Wu Army".

In addition, Ji Qingwen is also trying to find a way to open his own arsenal, striving to produce swords, muskets, cannons, and even warships and warships in the future. However, this matter, if you want to rebuild a heavy industry system, it is too difficult for Ji Qingwen, who is just a hard-working code farmer in later generations. Therefore, the progress of this matter was rather slow, and Ji Qingwen only bought some muskets and drawings of warships from maritime merchants.

In Songjiang Dianshan Port, although Shen Liangzuo brought 2,000 Beijing battalion sergeants over, he was never able to settle in the whole army, and there were old men from Ji Qingwen up and down the dock. Therefore, every move of the new city secretary was under the control of his deputy Ji Qingwen.

However, Shen Liangzuo could only rely on the contacts he had accumulated when he was a eunuch in the ceremonial eunuch, and through the door of Dongchang, he could find out more about Ji Qingwen's movements.

But the East Factory itself does not have the ability to detect and detect the outpost, and all the information depends on the professional strength of Jinyiwei. However, beside Ji Qingwen, there is a senior senior officer of Jinyiwei - Li Yuanyin, the commander of Jinyiwei.

Li Yuanyin has been in contact with Ji Qingwen for a long time, and has received countless benefits from him, and has long been loyal to Ji Qingwen.

But Ji Qingwen's handwriting in the past two months was too big, and when it came to Shen Liangzuo, he couldn't help but be suspicious - Ji Qingwen spent so much silver, could it be through some channel that the receipts that should have belonged to the wharf were transferred to the weaving yamen account......

Although he was suspicious, he had no real evidence, and after thinking about it, he could only go to Suzhou Weaving Yamen in person to have an interview with Ji Qingwen.

When he heard that Shen Liangzuo came to Suzhou to discuss matters with him, Ji Qingwen was drinking and chatting in the "Qianyun Building" on Guanqian Street.

It turned out that Ma Xianglan, the proprietress of Suzhou's "Qianyun Building", was also the proprietress of Nanjing's "Jade Courtyard", after a rebellion of the White Lotus Sect in Nanjing, the government took the "Jade Courtyard" as a place for the White Lotus Sect to contact the joint, and came to take care of it at two ends in three days, Ma Xianglan's business naturally could not continue, so she thought about completely relocating the "Jade Courtyard" to Suzhou. Therefore, she found the relationship between Ji Qingwen and Liu Ruyi, and wanted to find convenience from it.