Yu Ren was shocked and hurried to see it. Sure enough, Shen Minghang's mouth was already tilted to the side, and at the same time, his body began to fall backwards. Fortunately, Yu Ren found out in time and helped him.

"Quick, go and call the doctor. The old man has had a stroke! Yu Ren shouted.

The news that Master Shen had a stroke and Miss Shen eloped with someone soon spread in Songjiang Mansion. After all, the Shen family is still the number one in Songjiang Mansion. People are like this, when they see a person who has always been regarded as high by themselves, suddenly unlucky, they are excited. I'm even happier than if I won the jackpot. That's human nature. It is precisely because of this psychological effect that the affairs of the Shen family spread extremely quickly in Songjiang Mansion, and it didn't take long for it to become a well-known thing in the alleys.

Shen Minghang suffered a stroke. Although he was treated by a famous doctor in time, he was still half of his body and basically couldn't understand his speech. It's just a life.

This sudden accident made Yu Ren the real master of the Shen family all of a sudden, because Shen Minghang did not have too many relatives in Songjiang, not even a nephew, and some of them were relatives several generations apart. Yu Ren, the nephew, took over the Shen family as a matter of course. But what he had to face was not just his uncle's illness.

As the saying goes, blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular, and this is very reasonable. On the third day of Shen Minghang's fall, five of the Shen family's nine shops in Songjiang Mansion absconded with money.

This unexpected accident made Yu Ren panic all of a sudden. In the Shen family, he is a solid newcomer. In just ten days, he couldn't tell who was available and who wasn't; The people he is familiar with, in addition to Cao An brought by him, there is also Yahuan Chunmei beside him. However, the Shen family is a big family, and it is not something that one or two people can do.

He has to take care of the affairs of the family, and he also has to take care of his sick uncle; You have to take care of the things outside, otherwise it won't be long before I am afraid that the Shen family's great business will be divided up by those minions. Yu Ren was impatient, so he had to go to the government office to report to the official as soon as possible, so as to use the power of the government to hunt down the shopkeepers who had escaped with the money.

However, there is no prefect in Songjiang Mansion, and the biggest official is a six-grade pusher. Just because Yu Ren met the most famous lazy emperor in Chinese history - Wanli. He has never been very enthusiastic about political affairs, and I heard that he has not been to court for 20 years. This eventually resulted in a large shortage of personnel in the yamen. This is the case of this Songjiang Mansion, the entire government office, there is neither a prefect nor a general judgment. All big and small things, the magistrate has the final say. And this magistrate has been in this position for thirteen years, and the terms of office of both terms have passed, and his superiors have been transferred one by one, but no one has been transferred, and in the end he is left alone.

This magistrate's surname is Jiao, and he is an old man in his sixties. When Jiao Tuiguan heard about Yu Ren's family, he was very enthusiastic at first. also swore that he would help their family recover the absconding shopkeepers. So Yu Ren left with a thousand thanks.

However, after Yu Ren left, this Jiao Tuiguan did not react at all. There was not even a notice of the pursuit. Yu Ren suddenly realized that he must have given too little gift for his meeting. So, nervously, he sent someone to prepare another generous gift worth 100 taels and send it over.

But unexpectedly, this Jiao Tui official accepted the gift, but the matter was still not done. And he also borrowed the words of the people and brought them over. It is said that the pursuit of several fugitive shopkeepers of the Shen family this time will inevitably pass through the state, not to mention the hard work of the arresters, and the cost is very large, I am afraid that it will not be enough without a thousand taels of silver.

When Yu Ren heard this, he scolded this surnamed Jiao for being too black. This is simply taking advantage of the opportunity to rip off the bamboo. However, the shopkeeper of the Shen family's five rolls who ran away took away more than just a few taels of silver, they were all in collaboration with some other guys in the shop, and almost moved the shop empty.

Yu Ren roughly calculated, and the loss was no less than 10,000 taels. What's worse is that his uncle's illness is not the right time at all. At this time, the Shen family was waiting for a new batch of cotton cloth in the warehouse, and the silver in this turnover was very tight.

At this time, even if Yu Ren wanted to give Jiao Tuiguan a thousand taels of silver, he couldn't take it out for a while. In the end, Yu Ren was ruthless - forget it! This dragged on beforehand. Deal with it when you have empty hands.

In a chaotic situation, Yu Ren was in a mess. For the first two or three days, he was running around. Wherever there is something, there will be. But it soon became clear to him that this was not going to work. There are too many things in the Shen family. And he came too soon. Those few people in charge, he still can't figure out who is credible and who is not trustworthy.

So, Yu Ren boldly hired a few people. In the house, all the affairs of the inner mansion were handed over to Yahuan Chunmei beside him, and the affairs of the outer mansion were handed over to the original housekeeper Shen Zhong. He took Cao An to take charge of the Shen family's business.

Through understanding and combing in the past few days, Yu Ren gradually figured out some eyebrows. At this time, the Shen family, not counting the few shops that were swept away by the shopkeeper, the most important thing in the remaining business was the weaving house.

The Shen family's weaving house business accounts for seventy percent of the entire Shen family's business, and now minus five shops, it accounts for almost ninety percent. And the profit also accounts for more than 60%. Therefore, Yu Ren put almost all of his energy into the weaving house business.

He sent Cao An to stay in the weaving room for a long time, focusing on watching the warehouse. He himself ran back and forth between the Shen Mansion and the Weaving House. Fortunately, the Shen family's weaving house is also in the city, not far from the Shen Mansion.

The weaving house not only makes a lot of money here, but also uses a lot of money. Because there is not much liquid silver available on the Shen family's books, and the weaving house has to continue to purchase and produce, this makes Yu Ren very difficult. Of course, more importantly, since his uncle's death, the cotton cloth woven by their Shen family has not been sold for a few feet.

The reason is simple. There is not much cloth sold in the Shen family's shop, mainly relying on a few big customers. But since Shen Minghang fell ill, these big customers have also been poached one by one.

Seeing that the cotton cloth in the warehouse was piling up more and more, and the silver in hand was getting tighter and tighter, Yu Ren became worried.

Growing up so big, it was the first time for Yu Ren to take over such a large family business, and it was still in such an extraordinary period, and there was hardly any time for him to get familiar with the business. Yu Ren felt like he had fallen into a huge maze and couldn't get out.

However, although he was anxious, on the surface, Yu Ren still pretended to be calm. There are hundreds of people in the weaving room outside! If he's messed up, there's no telling what's going to happen.

In order to show his composure, so as to make his subordinates think that the situation of the Shen family was not very bad, Yu Ren deliberately took a birdcage and went out on the street early this morning to take a walk. Then he carried the birdcage and went around the weaving room.

It's still the same in the weaving room, and everyone is busy with their own work. The weavers were busy doing their work on the loom, and several stewards gathered together and did not know what to say. Seeing Yu Ren coming in, several stewards quickly dispersed. But their eyes immediately widened again.

Because they saw that Yu Ren actually walked in leisurely stomping in all directions.

Yu Ren walked around the weaving rooms as usual, and then went to the warehouse. The warehouse of the Shen family's weaving house is large, and it is full of cotton cloth of various colors like a hill. The Shen family's weaving house only produces cotton cloth, not silk. In addition to the warehouse manager, there is also a special bookkeeper.

The original person in charge of this warehouse was named Shen Zhou, a brother of Shen Minghang, and after Shen Minghang fell ill, Yu Ren sent Cao An over to him. The excuse is that the warehouse has been stocked with more goods recently, and there are many things, and I am afraid that he will not be able to do it alone. In fact, everyone understands very well in their hearts that this is Yu Ren's prevention from happening again like the shopkeeper and his accomplices stealing the Shen family's property like a few days ago.

Yu Ren came to the warehouse area. There are thirty or forty houses here. All locked with large iron gates. The first of these is an office room. Yu Ren came to the office with the birdcage, but saw that there was only Mr. Tent inside.

The tent man was in his forties, not very tall, and very thin. He rarely speaks, and Yu Ren has never paid much attention to him.

Seeing that Shen Zhou and Cao An were not there, Yu Ren put the birdcage in his hand on the table and casually asked the bookkeeper.

"Did Third Uncle Shen go out with Cao An?"

The bookkeeper glanced at Yu Ren. "Shen Sanye and Brother Cao went to the warehouse to order the goods. I'm a useless half-old man here, and the Yu Dong family doesn't have to pretend to be so hard. ”