When Ma Shouxin returned to his home in Songjiang Mansion and told his father about the matter, Ma Yong was a little unhappy to be honest. It's not that he complains about Ma Shouxin's self-made claims, the Ma family can also get hundreds of looms that are now idle, even if they spend money to buy new looms, it is not a big property for the Ma family, at most, the family property allocated to Ma Shouxin will be less. The main reason is that Runing is in a troubled area, and Ma Yong is afraid that his second son's life is in danger.

But when Ma Shouxin swore that the Runing Army could ensure his safety, Ma Shouxin thought that he could arrange a housekeeper to manage the weaving workshop in Runing, so Zuihou Ma Yong reluctantly agreed.

At least if his son wants to make a career, he should always support him as a father. As for those who befriended the sons and daughters of Nanjing City officials, Ma Yong didn't just have two sons anyway.

However, after the establishment of the weaving workshop, the supply of cloth immediately exceeded the supply. Although Henan is chaotic, but the overall consumption capacity is not low, clothing, food, housing and transportation and other industries are the basic needs of every people, but due to the inconvenience of transportation caused by the chaos, the price of cloth in the past remains high, curbing the consumption of the people.

And now there is a high-quality Majia Songjiang cloth, the price is not too expensive, and the armed escort of the Sihai Commercial Bank solves the transportation, so it almost immediately monopolizes the Henan market.

And the influence is not only that, the weaving industry in the Ming Dynasty is basically concentrated in the Jiangnan region, and the weaving industry in the interior is in a rudimentary state. However, the Runing Majia Weaving Workshop fills this gap. When they arrived in Zuihou, merchants from nearby Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Huguang regions also ordered large quantities from the Majia weaving workshop and sold them for huge profits.

As a result, Ma quickly went from reluctantly agreeing to support, and zuihou to strong support. The size of the weaving workshop has also increased from 100 looms to several hundred, and the scale of zuihou has reached 1,000.

And because later he was able to purchase local cotton from the Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank. The cost of raw materials was greatly reduced, and the Ma family was able to sell grain for profit, and the Ma family immediately transformed from a wealthy family in Songjiang Mansion to a wealthy family in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Runing Mansion has also become another important production base for the Ma family.

And that's not all. Later, after Ma Yong personally visited Wu Shigong in Runing Mansion, he immediately discovered the beauty of the "Patent Law" promulgated by Runing Army, and he immediately applied for a patent for the Jiangnan weaving printing and dyeing industry, as well as jishu in many industries.

Therefore, in a short period of time, in the area controlled by the Runing Army, the Ma family's goods were completely sold exclusively under the protection of the "Patent Law", and the Ma family also completely blocked the news of the Runing Army's investment promotion to their counterparts in the south of the Yangtze River, so they obtained a huge amount of wealth for the Ma family in just a few years.

But there are no impermeable walls. When the competitors of the Ma family in Jiangnan finally learned the reason for the Ma family's sudden wealth, they immediately discovered the paradise of Runing Mansion with a keen eye, so they either joined forces with the Ma family or came alone and opened a large number of workshops in Runing Mansion. And the whole complete industrial chain has gradually been established in Runing Province.

However, the entry of a large number of wealthy businessmen also brought many contradictions. The most prominent thing is that at that time, the Ma family applied for patents for many jishu that were unique to other wealthy merchants. This also led to a series of lawsuits later, which made Deng Qifan, who was in charge of civil affairs, anxious. Under the pressure of this situation. The Patent Law, which was somewhat rudimentary, has been greatly improved. So much so that in Zuihou, due to the mediation judgments of a large number of commercial dispute cases, the rudiments of the "Commercial Law" finally appeared here.

A stable environment, a huge market, a complete industrial chain, low labor, perfect legal protection, controllable taxation, basically no bad rules and embezzlement of people's property, and effective financial support ...... all these things have made Runing Fu have a wealth accumulation effect.

Moreover, the big businessmen were also actively involved in a large number of local business activities in Runing Province. For example, investment and speculation through the stock exchange, such as a joint venture with Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank to go out to reclaim wasteland. As a result, a powerful Yushang group was formed in this time and space.

After the establishment of this weaving workshop, Yuan Xingshan and Zhang Xuebin, who were in charge of business and investment promotion in Runingjun, immediately discovered a new way of cooperation. They immediately summed up Wu Shigong's method of attracting investment by throwing bricks and attracting jade into experience, and sent it to various local officials of the Runing Army for them to learn.

Since then, various local officials have waged a big fight for their own investment achievements, and many favorable investment promotion conditions have been thrown out. This also led to the great development of industry and commerce in the area controlled by the Runing Army.

Fu Wenzhai, director of the Propaganda Department, was also keenly aware of this new propaganda point, and he focused on publicizing Wu Shigong's behavior of not hesitating to give his land and property in vain in order to let the displaced people who took refuge live and work in peace and contentment.

This further increased Wu Shigong's prestige in Runing, and also made the displaced people who took refuge in Wu Shigong feel indebted. It's a bit funny that Wu Shigong has formed two completely different images inside and out.

Outside the area controlled by the Runing Army, some bandits and outcasts formed the image of Wu Shigong as a butcher because of Wu Shigong's massacre, and Emperor Chongzhen and court officials also considered Wu Shigong to be a money-greedy, lustful, cruel and unscrupulous martial artist.

However, in the area controlled by the Runing Army, the scholars believed that Wu Shigong was the son of a sage who had read the books of the sages; The local gentry considered Wu Shigong to be their sweetheart; And even those lowly-class domestic slaves also think that Wu Shigong is a good man with a deep benevolence and righteousness.

As for Wu Shigong's family and Ru Ningjun himself! Because of its own status, the Runing Army has participated in a large number of industries in the name of the Runing Army Headquarters and the Officials' Foundation, which has led to an explosive increase in the financial income of the Runing Army and the income of officials. And the veterans who retired from the bottom also received a batch of land or a large amount of resettlement fees.

You know, if there is no group of Runingjun, then these people will not have this benefit in the future, so the political group of Runingjun is more closely united, so the group composed of economic interests is the most unbreakable, is this a new explanation of political economy?

Under the staff of Zhao Ruya, the ladies of Wu Shigong's inner house, together with the officials of the Runing Army, local officials and gentry, also invested heavily in various industries, which also greatly expanded their private wealth. So when they arrived in Zuihou, an iron plate was formed in the area controlled by Wu Shigong, and everyone in Zuihou willingly accepted Wu Shigong's leadership.

Of course, it's not without noise. There were always some court officials who did not want their power to be deprived by the Runing Army, but they were immediately excluded and snubbed by their superiors, colleagues, and a large number of minor officials and officials who participated in the civil official system of the Runing Army and the Internal Affairs Department, so that Zuihou could not even receive a tael of silver, and could only stay in the yamen every day to count the ants on the ground, hoping to be transferred out of this ghost place as soon as possible.

The activity of industry and commerce also greatly relieved the pressure on the Runing Army to resettle the displaced people. Later, those merchants took the initiative to build bridges and pave roads for the development of commerce, and helped the Runing army build a lot of infrastructure. The establishment of a village for the reclamation of wasteland with grain and silver solved the cost of resettlement of a large number of displaced people for the Runing Army.

And those businessmen also showed their powers, through the officials of the DPRK and China who had relations with them. pulled a lot of upper-level relationships for Wu Shigong, which made Wu Shigong's path forward much smoother.

And the Yamakawa Division also took the opportunity to develop greatly, and they were finally not limited to Runing, Guide and other places, and stretched out the cobwebs of the Yamakawa Division through various relationships.

The finances of the Runing Army were also greatly developed, so that the Zuihou Runing Army gradually became wealthy. It's just that it is forced by various objective reasons. In a moment or three, the Runing Army will not be able to expand its army again.

However, due to the establishment of a large number of village protection teams, a large number of weapons and grain and grass were stored. The reserve source of the Runing Army is also extremely inflated. The structure of their troop sources is also gradually reasonable, and under the general mobilization, they can quickly form a jaw-dropping army.

In the aftermath, the only thing that gave Wu Shigong a headache was Yang Goudan's wife. To be honest, this Yang's energy in the Runing Army even surpassed Yang Goudan and Yang Rusong. Because when the Runing Army was first established, almost all the high-ranking officials were once cared for by the Yang family, and later a large number of marriages of Runing Army officers were introduced by her.

Because this time, Wu Shigong handed over the original weaving workshop and quilt workshop of the Runing Army to the Ma family to manage. Yang thought that this was Wu Shigong's punishment for her mismanagement, so she hid in her home and kept her emotions out of trouble.

After learning of the situation, Wu Shigong immediately sent Li Xin to the Yang family with gifts to appease the Yang family, but the Yang family was still very stubborn. He insisted on paying 1,000 taels of silver to buy 10% of the shares of these two workshops, and expressed his determination to live and die with these two workshops.

Wu Shigong couldn't laugh or cry, he immediately set up a women's and children's bureau under the inner study, and asked Yang to serve as the director of this women's and children's bureau, responsible for the affairs of those women and children in the Runing army, showing his importance to Yang's attitude.

However, in this way, the female officer system in the Runing Army first appeared. Although this female official system has not been promoted for a long time because of long-term habits, it has set a precedent after all. As a result, after a long time, some women finally participated in politics and became officials. Yang also became a pioneer in the emancipation of women in this time and space.

What Wu Shigong didn't expect was that he had built this institution in order to appease the Yang family, but it became prosperous under the auspices of the Yang family. In cooperation with the Women's and Children's Bureau and the later Medical Bureau, a great deal of work has been done for women's childbirth and postpartum recovery, as well as for the healthy growth of children. As a result, the survival rate of children in the Runing Army has been greatly improved.

As a result, there was a population explosion in the area controlled by the Runing Army, of course, this is also a matter of the future, but at this time, Yang's work was unanimously respected by all the personnel of the Runing Army.

When the shares she invested in the two workshops gained great value, Yang donated this huge amount of money and set up a prize every year to reward those doctors who contributed to medicine, so that a very influential medical award was later formed.

But these are still very far in the future. If Wu Shigong at this time could not ensure the tranquility of the area controlled by the Runing Army, then everything he did would be in the air. And at this time, the peasant rebels will also act again. (To be continued......)