With his father's approval, Yang Shen's path to the service was finally smooth.

But the thorn in my heart has already been planted.

Yang Shen is no longer able to bow down to his father without doubt as before, and now he begins to have his own opinions, and in some matters, he has different opinions from Yang Tinghe, and many times he no longer expresses them, but chooses to keep them in his heart silently.

Although he didn't quite understand why his father wanted to recruit Yu Chengxun and Zhu Hao back to Beijing, he still wrote a letter to Nanjing according to his words, even if there was an official way, it would take ten days and half a month to deliver the letter, and Zhu Hao and Yu Chengxun returned to Beijing after getting the information, and it was estimated that it would be the end of the year.

At this time in Nanjing, Zhu Hao still showed that he had nothing to do every day, but he was only in front of Yu Chengxun, and he was secretly very busy, in addition to delivering some information to Beijing from time to time, he also had to take care of the business on the ground in Nanjing.

In fact, it is because the deficit in the south over the years is too large, and many of them have been used to fill old accounts, and only a few are really greedy for ink, and three people are said to be greedy for ink, all of which are more than 10,000 taels......

Two of the suspects committed suicide in prison, and the other was robbed by bandits on the way to Nanjing...

It is likely that it was protected by the Nanjing garrison yamen, or it was done secretly.

It is to become a state of dead debts and bad debts, and it is impossible for people to check it.

It is not impossible to really check, but it is only necessary to turn over all the account books of the past few years in the south and compare them one by one...... But this amount of work is too big, Zhu Hao asked himself if he has the ability, after all, the audit is small, but the interests involved behind it are large, if he really wants to find out thoroughly, then he Zhu Hao may not be able to get out of Nanjing City.

The premise of doing one thing is to do what you can, and the current Zhu Hao's ability to ask himself is far from being able to turn over Nanjing officialdom.

Recently, Zhu Hao was busy setting up a workshop in Nanjing City, Luo An did not leave, he stayed in addition to secretly protecting Zhu Hao, and also had a very important task, that is, to cooperate with Zhu Hao to set up a military factory in Nanjing, and use Su Xigui's relationship to cast the new firearms needed for the southeast coastal defense.

If you let Su Xigui make it himself...... Even if his brother-in-law is the secretary of the Nanhebu, if this matter is found out, it will be a big crime to make firearms and plot against it.

But if there is a Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu envoy to come forward, then everything is much more reasonable, because Luo An has the secret edict issued by Zhu Si in his hand.

No one really cares about what the emperor issued that does not pass the cabinet, but in Nanjing, a place far away from the emperor, the secret edict is no different from the holy decree.

Because no one suspects that Zhu Hao is doing things for the new emperor now, even if Zhu Hao usually goes out, Yu Chengxun will not send anyone to keep an eye on him. Now Yu Chengxun is too lazy to care where Zhu Hao goes, and now he is more concerned about when he can meet Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, so that he can complete the task and return to Beijing as soon as possible.

Spying on Zhu Hao?

That is already an expired order, and now Zhu Hao is in Nanjing, but the emperor is still doing well in the capital, and even Yang Tinghe has been deflated again and again, which is enough to show that Zhu Hao is not the mastermind of the little emperor, even if he knows the people in Xingwangfu? Isn't it still an insignificant little person?

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End of October.

Ouyang Fei arrived in Nanjing.

She was supposed to arrive with Zhu Hao on the front and back, but was sent by Zhu Hao to Huguang Anlu to deal with the business over there.

Compared with Jingshi and Nanjing, which are areas that need to be gradually infiltrated by the new emperor's forces, Anlu is completely Zhu Si's "back garden".

After the Xingwang Mansion came out of the real dragon, the local government and military system in Anlu Prefecture were completely suppressed, plus Zhu Si and Empress Dowager Jiang only moved to the capital, and the team of the original Xingwang Mansion was still there, Zhu Hao wanted to open a workshop in the name of Xingwang Mansion and do something, there was no obstacle at all in Anlu Prefecture.

It is only because Anlu is located inland, and the transportation is inconvenient, and it does not involve the two major events of northwest frontier defense and southeast coastal defense.

To manufacture firearms in large quantities in Anlu, it seems at the moment

Not a good choice.

In the northwest, new firearms can be manufactured in the west of the capital, while in the southeast, the construction of a workshop is established in the boundary of Nanjing......

This is also to alleviate the disadvantages of inconvenient transportation in this era, the cost of transportation is one thing, timeliness is another, and there are safety considerations - after all, new firearms involve flammable and explosive materials such as gunpowder, which are not suitable for long-distance and high-intensity transportation.

"The ...... of the Owner"

When Ouyang Fei reappeared in front of Zhu Hao, she was dressed as a woman.

Although she has not yet passed her citizenship, she is already Zhu Hao's "concubine", and she may be directly incorporated into Zhu Hao's mansion when she turns around, and she can go through the process at the official mansion.

The Ming generation of men to take concubines, but also need to go through the official procedures, the Ming Dynasty is very restricted on the flow of population, everyone has their own household registration from birth, marrying a wife and concubine must be filed in the government, for those who do not have an identity household registration of the black household...... The bigger the city, the stricter the check.

Zhu Hao looked at Ouyang Fei, dressed in a tight-fitting suit that was convenient for walking around, with fair skin, long black and shiny hair tied in a knot, tied with a peach wood hairpin, big eyes watery, double eyelids, the bridge of the nose was as firm as a jade carving, willow eyebrows, a small cherry mouth, tall and tall, Tingting jade.

Speaking of which, this woman is indeed beautiful.

It's just that it looks like it's a little less mature and rational, and it can't help but make people feel that this is the perfect vase.

Since Ouyang Fei took charge of the family business, she made the Ouyang family bankrupt by herself, which shows that this is not a business material, such a woman should be kept in a cage as a canary, and live a life of worry-free food and clothing, and only responsible for dressing up to maintain her youth.

It's not that Zhu Hao looks down on Ouyang Fei, women in this era want to be a little assertive, and can be recognized by the society, and walk out of their own doors to take charge of themselves...... It's just too hard.

Thinking about the time when Zhu Niang's widow took her son and encountered so many difficulties, she knew how unfriendly this world was to women.

Of course, thirty years of daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law, no one will say anything, young women are so unrecognized by society, but whenever you go out of the house, you will be considered to show your head and break customs, Ouyang Fei, who has experienced this kind of education since childhood, will come out to take charge of the family business at the age of fifteen, and it is strange to be a good family.

"Show me Anlu's accounts."

Zhu Hao doesn't talk too much nonsense with Ouyang Fei.

Immediately, Ouyang Fei took out an account book from the baggage he was carrying, which seemed to be well kept.

After handing it over to Zhu Hao, there were some symbols on it that outsiders couldn't understand.

Zhu Hao took it over and compared it in detail.

Ouyang Fei asked puzzledly, "The owner, Anlu's current weaving workshop, most of the cloth produced is transported to Shu and the northwest, and very few are sold to Jiangnan, so it stands to reason that ...... Jiangnan is the place where the demand for cloth is the strongest, why did the owner do this?"

Ouyang Fei's most important thing now is to revitalize the family business.

Being a concubine for Zhu Hao is also to serve this goal.

"Our cloth is of good quality and low price......

Zhu Hao patiently explained, "If a large number of such fabrics are sold in Nanjing, it will cause a huge shock in the market, causing a large number of family-based spinning workshops to go bankrupt, touching the fundamental interests of vested interests, and they will definitely rise up against us.

"Now is the critical moment before Your Majesty takes power, more things are better than less, and it is better to use the cloth we weave as military supplies, so as to save expenses for the imperial court and give the two Shangshu of the south and north households...... Eliminate a lot of unnecessary trouble."

Zhu Hao's reasons are very good.

Sun Jiao, the Shangshu of the North Household Department, is his father-in-law, and Huang Zhan, the Shangshu of the Southern Household Department, is the person he made friends with early on.

These two people can be regarded as people who can be used by him in the future, and in the future, he will absolutely control only the household department, and it will be convenient for Zhu Hao to implement reforms

Since you can sell your goods as quickly as possible through a good relationship with the North and South Households...... There is no need to worry about the market collapse due to the low price of cotton cloth......

It can save a lot of trouble and benefit others and yourself.

Every place and every industry has its own laws and order, and Zhu Hao doesn't want to be born out of nowhere

, breaking this relatively stable order, in an era of feudal conservatism and very serious territorial protection, you go to rob other people's jobs, and others take advantage of the advantages of the head snake, which is not something that ordinary businessmen can afford.

As a traverser, Zhu Hao understands a truth, that is, order is a thing that exists in any era, like regional protection, even the imperial power can't be suppressed, just relying on the emperor to support you, you can't make local forces succumb and seize all the benefits, if you force it...... It can be crushed.

Zhu Hao is not an idealist, he is more willing to follow the rules and silently accumulate strength.

"I bought a batch of goods from the southeast side before, and I will ship them from the city, and you will contact me on my behalf when I come back." Zhu Hao said to Ouyang Fei.

Ouyang Fei looked puzzled: "What kind of goods, you want to leave from the city?"

In Ouyang Fei's view, the market is all about overseas trade, and at present, the activities of pirates and pirates on the southeast coast are becoming more and more frequent, and overseas is a country of savages who drink blood, how can there be any good goods that need to be purchased by Zhu Hao?

"You'll know if you ship it."

Zhu Hao said, "After you receive the things, they will be transported directly to the warehouse outside the city where the cloth is stored, and there will be people from the Nanhu Department to receive them when you turn around."

"Minami?"

Ouyang Fei's eyes widened.

"To be precise, it should be the owner of the Su in the name of Nanhu to receive goods related to coastal defense, this batch of goods was not available in the Central Plains before, but as a military supply, it must go through the door of the imperial court, and it will be shipped to the north when it comes back, but no one can know what it is." Zhu Hao said.

Zhu Hao is going to transport a batch of materials, and it is unclear whether it will be useful.

It was brought from the New World by the Franco.

Zhu Hao is currently looking for rubber, tobacco these cash crops, when he learned that there is such a shipload of goods outside Hangzhou Bay has been unable to enter the port, someone wants to trade with pirates privately, Zhu Hao can only through some connections, this batch of goods back.