Yuan Rui has been guessing the riddle, he can't figure out what is going on, so he sent himself a task for no reason, how did he know that the saint and King Huai had such a tacit understanding.

When he came to Songjiang this time, he didn't know what he was going to do or what he was going to do!

Seeing that the army of thorns was about to go south, he didn't know what he could do to help in the process.

Besides, even if he remembered something, but there was such a long distance from Songjiang to Longzhou, even if he made some useful armaments, he wouldn't be able to catch up!

So he really couldn't guess what the Holy Lord's intention was in sending him to Songjiang.

In fact, he asked Miss Xu, but Miss Xu didn't know how to shirk herself, so she didn't tell him.

When Lu Ergongzi came, he asked Ergongzi again, but Ergongzi didn't know the reason for this matter.

The second son also rushed from Yangzhou to Tonghai Jijiazhuang after two days, and the first person Yuan Rui wanted to bring to Songjiang this time was the second son.

Yuan Rui is honestly unfamiliar with that place in Songjiang, if he doesn't find a local snake, he is very worried about problems.

Of course, the second son doesn't matter, it's not as simple as making money now.

In the past two days, the most talked about on the boat is how to do Matsue's errand, it is said that there is no general errand down with a clear direction, and it is also a way to do it step by step.

Now there are no specific requirements, but it has become the most difficult, and I don't know where to start.

However, Yuan Rui, who came back from the border pass, had an idea, this time he came back to supervise the armaments, which is related to the future Longzhou War, and the current focus can be put on this first.

As soon as he arrived in Songjiang, Yuan Rui first took a post and sent it to the Songjiang Maritime Mission, which was a special yamen set up by the court in Songjiang.

In charge of the entire sea transportation, equipped with a 1,000-person maritime patrol battalion, the chief official of the yamen is called the shipping envoy, from the fourth grade, it is a very high official position in the local area.

I also asked people to go to Songjiang County to do the record, although there is no subordinate relationship between them, but it is inevitable to deal with them in the future.

A few people here have just settled down in the Lu family's house, and someone from outside has come to report that someone from Huaiwang's Mansion has come.

Yuan Rui didn't know the depth of the visitor, so he could only greet him at the door in person.

Yuan Rui had just arrived at the door here, and a middle-aged man who was waiting at the door saw Yuan Rui, first startled, and then hurriedly saluted.

"But Lord Yuan, torment the villain and give a gift to the adult."

Yuan Rui was also surprised, seeing that this person was about forty or fifty years old, looking very rich, wearing a satin robe and a jade square hat, not like an official body, and hurriedly returned the salute.

"Don't dare, it's the lower official, I don't know who the prime minister is?"

"Lord Yuan is polite, I don't dare to call it that, little old man, the steward of Songjiang in the Huaiwang Mansion, Zhao Jiang."

"Steward Zhao, the lower official has just arrived, and he hasn't had time to visit, it's rude, please forgive Steward Zhao."

Yuan Ruike doesn't care what identity this person is, if he can become the manager of the Huaiwang Mansion in Songjiang, he is generally close to people.

"Lord Yuan, you are too polite, the word has already been spread in the house, all the affairs of the adults in Songjiang, let the little old man fully cooperate."

Steward Zhao thought that it was better to set his identity first, so that he could communicate later, "In the future, as long as the adults tell me, I will do my best." ”

Steward Zhao had earlier received a notice from Zhao Changchun, the chief housekeeper of the Huaiwang Mansion and his uncle.

Tell him one thing, a person sent back from Longzhou by King Huai was appointed by the Holy Lord as a military envoy and would come to Songjiang on official business in the near future.

Not to mention that he wanted to cooperate completely, he also specially told him that this person's status was very noble, and he would be treated according to the qualifications of the master of the house, and ensure the safety of this person at all costs.

Yuan Rui hurriedly asked Steward Zhao to enter the house, and after sitting down, he asked people to serve tea, thinking that he could just ask about the current situation in Songjiang.

In the next few days, Yuan Rui was either entertaining others or being entertained by others, no way, now they are all officials, and many entertainments are not pushed by pushing.

For example, Songjiang Zhixian, the Wei army guerrillas, and some local big households, such as the Sun family, the Fan family, the Zhang family, and so on.

They all had their own intentions for the banquet, and they wanted to find out from Yuan Rui's mouth what kind of meaning and arrangement the Holy Lord meant to Songjiang this time.

Fortunately, Yuan Rui himself didn't know this time, so he could only be vague and misty, who knows, but it made these people lose their rules, and they felt more and more that Yuan Rui's trip must have a secret mission.

Yuan Rui still went to many workshops in Songjiang step by step and began to supervise the production of armament materials, including the quality of some categories, but he was not excessively harsh.

His idea is very simple, that is, to see if he can find a place in the middle where he can cut into, after all, he still knows a little about the workshop.

But he didn't expect that all the people in Songjiang had misunderstood, thinking that he was here to check something, and they all panicked.

On this day, Yuan Rui took Qi Feng to a workshop in Songjiang that produced leather armor according to the itinerary agreed the day before.

The front was normal, and when he arrived at the warehouse where the leather armor was stacked, Yuan Rui looked through a few pieces at random, that is, to make a show.

But suddenly he was stunned for a moment, his face did not show any expression, his body was on one side, but his hand quickly flipped over again.

immediately clapped his hands, pretended to be nothing, smiled at the workshop owner and asked a few words, and then gave a special advice.

A few days later, under Yuan Rui's deliberate attention, Yuan Rui found another small problem in a certain arrow workshop

。 But he was still not sure, and still didn't make any moves, not even Lu Ergongzi.

On this day, seeing that it was going to rain, Yuan Rui didn't go out, and took out some of the account books he took from the workshop and looked at them carefully.

As a mechanic, he is indeed not so profound in finance, but after arriving in the company, he has been in contact with a lot of reports and summaries, and he is quite sensitive to some data, and he knows a little bit about all the tricks in the middle.

He was very serious about the accounts of several workshops that he paid attention to in the early stage, and carefully checked the accounts while calculating.

The current accounts are still the old-fashioned running water in and out of the accounts, and when it comes to the evening, Yuan Rui carefully calculates it again and gasps.

Xiaohe came to urge him again, it was very late, and Xiaohe came to urge him several times.

Yuan Rui glanced at Xiaohe a little helplessly, it's not good to have a responsible sister, mother-in-law.

Yuan Rui looked at it almost over, so he didn't insist, ate the supper prepared by Xiaohe, washed his feet with hot water under Xiaohe's service, and lay down to rest.

As soon as he fell asleep here, Qi Feng in the wing room woke up, and as soon as he went out lightly, he found Lu Ergongzi hidden under the corridor of the main room, and the two glanced at each other, and there was no movement again.

Five men in black came, three fell into the courtyard, and two were still watching from the rooftop.

Qi Feng didn't care about the people in the courtyard, flashed his figure, and one leaped onto the roof, looking at the remaining two without speaking.

The two men on the roof glanced at each other and rushed up from the left and right. As soon as he saw it, Qi Feng knew that these two were not weak hands, so he was very energetic and fought with the two.

The three people on the ground also fought with Lu Ergongzi who was standing at the door of the room at this time, and in less than a moment, a whistle sounded, and the five of them withdrew, spilled a lot of hidden weapons in their hands, and turned around and left easily.

The second prince and Qi Feng were stunned, no matter how you look at this matter, it is a bit weird, it doesn't look like they are looking for trouble at all!

Early the next morning, Yuan Rui, who had no idea, had just gotten up, and he heard a report from the servant, and someone outside the door asked to see him.

This time, Yuan Rui didn't see the prayer post, and he didn't know who it was, so he could only invite people to the hall to sit first.

Yuan Rui looked at the person at the door of the hall, bowed his hand first, and let him into the house.

"Lord Yuan, I, the deputy commander of Yangzhou Silver Eagle, Qingying, came here this time for the incident of yesterday evening, we talked about hearing that someone was not conducive to the adult, but the matter was in a hurry, so we didn't have time to deal with it, so I came here to ask for guilt."

Yuan Rui was stunned, there was another accident yesterday night, why didn't he know!

Lian said that he bothered them to protect him, and he was grateful.

The person who came took out another letter and told Yuan Rui that the commander had made arrangements, and asked Yun Ying, the head of Yinying in the capital, to be in charge of the affairs here. Yuan Rui took the letter, and the letter did have this arrangement, and also let Songjiang's Silver Eagle take on the task of guarding.

Sending this person away, Yuan Rui hurriedly told Lu Ergongzi and Qi Feng about the matter.

The two of them are indeed not very familiar with this, there is no way, they are not people in this business, so they can only let Yuan Rui judge for himself.

A few days later, when Yuan Rui conducted a routine inspection again, several workshops with problems could not find out the problem at all, and he even wondered if he was suspicious, it was a simple mistake.

He was more careful and cautious about the verification of the workshop's accounts, not to mention, I don't know if he didn't notice some small loopholes in the middle at all, and it was the same as before, so that Yuan Rui found some flaws.

This made him sure that these small problems in the past were secretly made up, not inconspicuous mistakes, and it seems that there are no small problems in between.

After this period of understanding, he has a basic understanding of some of the current economy in Songjiang.

The merchants here already have the sense of scale that many merchants in later generations have, and they have also explored a lot of ways to deal with commodity competition.

When they find a business opportunity, they often combine several companies to form a unique production system, which is also an independent export to the outside world.

Similarly, before making the materials for the imperial court, they also negotiated with the government jointly with several major families to make them in accordance with relevant regulations, so that the government could complete the above tasks in this regard.

But while they help the government, they will also ask the government to allow them to make up for it in other ways and make some other materials as compensation, which the government basically does not ask.

Yuan Rui is not a stranger to these, and he can understand it, after all, many of the materials of the government have to be put into the money, and if these people are not given certain benefits, no big family can afford it.

However, just to make money, it is normal, if there are ill-intentioned people in the middle, it will be bad, and if you are not careful, the harm caused will be great, and Yuan Rui knows a lot of such examples.