Another World Da Ming: I use a hundred lives to become holy

"Sir, the Imperial Mansion has arrived."

After switching between boats and cars and spending some time, Zhao Zheng finally arrived at his destination, Huangzhuang, located not far outside Suhang City.

The economic development level of Suhang Mansion was almost the best in the Sun and Moon Dynasty.

The scale of Huangzhuang is the best reflection.

Just by looking at it, one can feel that the decoration of this imperial mansion is almost on par with the palaces of the princes in the capital, not to mention the area.

The side door alone is wide enough to accommodate three carriages at the same time.

Compared with that, the Imperial Mansion in Anyang Mansion was as dilapidated as a thatched hut.

"I don't believe in a place full of oil and water. I can't find any clues."

He has control over the prince who dares to put his idea into his railway project!

"I don't know that Mr. Zhao is coming today. I am a little far away to welcome you. Please forgive me, Mr. Zhao."

Soon, the steward of the Imperial Manor was called out by his servants.

Compared with the previous steward surnamed Liu in Anyang Mansion, this royal steward of Suhang Mansion is much more sensible, at least he can run faster.

"I don't dare to be the superior officer of the steward. The steward is too polite."

Zhao Zheng naturally gave him some courtesy, but only at the moment.

"What are you talking about, sir?"

Of course, the steward of the Imperial Mansion of Suhang Mansion knew that he belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was not in the same order as the imperial officials.

But he still claimed to be a lower official when facing Zhao Zheng based on his rank.

After all, you don't reach out and hit the smiling face.

Zhao Zheng also smiled and let him go, no longer taking this issue, and went directly to the topic.

"The economy of Suhang Mansion is booming. I am here to check on a small matter. I hope the steward can cooperate."

"Of course we can cooperate."

The Huangzhuang steward heard that it was a trivial matter, he breathed a sigh of relief and nodded quickly.

"My lord, I will go and get you the account book right now."

With that said, the steward wanted to get the account book in person.

"Hey, there's no need for the ledger. I'm not from the household department, so it's difficult for me to read and understand it clearly. I'd rather trouble the steward to take me to see the goods currently accumulated in the imperial manor."

The ledger needs to be verified word by word, so when it comes to checking, it's better to leave it to the puppet and do it himself.

Beside Zhao Zheng, the Jin Yiwei heard what Zhao Zheng said and stepped out to stop the steward.

The steward's expression changed instantly.

Is this a trivial matter?

But he quickly returned to normal, clearly confident.

It's just that I don't know whether he is confident in his innocence or confident in his cover-up methods.

"Then please, Mr. Zhao."

The steward walked in front, changing from holding a ledger to a tour guide.

"Master Steward, has there been heavy cargo being put into the warehouse recently?"

At the gate, the steward was still walking forward, but Zhao Zheng and his royal guards did not move at the gate.

The group of them were all looking at the ruts on the ground.

The gates of Huangzhuang are all paved with blue bricks.

It's hard for them not to notice even if they can leave traces on the green bricks.

"Your Majesty, the generals estimate that if the goods carried by these tracks are not full of grain, rice, meat and oil, they must be iron and wood."

"Oh? Does the Imperial Mansion still accept iron wood?"

After Zhao Zheng heard the reminder from the guard next to him, he directly asked the steward without using any language skills.

The steward's eyebrows raised unconsciously again, but he quickly calmed down and ran back to Zhao Zheng to explain to him.

"Go back to Master Zhao, because Suhang Mansion has gathered merchants from all over the world, so all kinds of rare things will also be gathered there."

"Furthermore, the Suzhou-Hangzhou River leads to the sea, and many of the offerings will be unloaded and reshipped here, so everything in the Imperial Manor in Xiaguan will be accepted."

"Then why not put it in a warehouse by the river, but transport it back to your royal estate by land?"

Zhao Zheng looked at the steward and asked a key question.

Normal people can imagine that even if you want to count or inspect the tribute items, wouldn't you be able to do these things just by unloading the goods directly by the river and transporting them to the warehouse by the river?

It will be more convenient to transport it away at that time, so why spend more effort to unload the goods from the ship, then transport them by land, and transport them to the Imperial Mansion for storage.

Even within the city of Suzhou and Hangzhou, land prices are indeed not cheap.

But leaving a large piece of land for Huangzhuang to be used as warehouse management is definitely indispensable.

After all, the whole world belongs to the royal family.

Who would have known that when this manager faced this problem, the logic in his answer would be perfect.

"Back to Mr. Zhao, there is indeed a warehouse under the jurisdiction of Huangzhuang beside the river. Originally, ordinary tribute items were stored there."

"But today's batch of ironwood is different. If Mr. Zhao is curious, you can go with your subordinates to see them together."

"Oh?"

Zhao Zheng really didn't expect this manager to be so sincere.

He also really became curious about this, what kind of iron wood would be considered unusual by this steward.

Only when the steward brought him to the batch of iron wood did he realize that this thing was indeed a miracle.

Ordinary ironwood has a slow growth cycle and is mostly found in high mountains. It is a good building material. However, there are a lot of them in the Sun and Moon Dynasty, so it is not a crime to import them from foreign countries.

But this batch of iron wood in front of me is extraordinary. Only one or two iron logs occupy the space of a pallet.

This is certainly not due to lack of space.

But the pallet's bearing capacity is insufficient.

Because each of these ironwoods has a strange shape, and there are many dots of inexplicable black luster on them.

"My lord, this is a magnet."

The steward promptly handed over the magnet that had been prepared in advance.

Zhao Zheng took it and slowly approached the black ones.

despair!

The magnet and these black dots stuck together as expected.

"Master Zhao, this is the strangeness of these ironwoods. They are the extraordinary combinations that the Malay Kingdom of Southeast Asia obtained from the place where the flying star landed in their own high mountains a day away and presented them to our court."

"With its tenacity, Ironwood blocked almost all the fragments of the flying star from the sky. The lower official was surprised when he first saw it."

"So these ironwoods will be delivered to His Majesty later?"

The magic was magical, so Zhao Zheng took a second look.

"No, Your Majesty refused to accept this batch of iron wood. The words are too miraculous to be useful and will harm your fortune."

"Then the envoy from the Nanyang Malay Kingdom returned directly to his country because he didn't want to transport it back, so he sent it to the imperial palace for preservation."

Just save?

After hearing what the steward said, Zhao Zheng wanted to ask another question, but he didn't have that much free time. He didn't want to deal with the corruption in the Imperial Manor, since it was the emperor's money that he was greedy for anyway.

……

"Back to Mr. Zhao, General Mo and others have checked all the goods and found nothing strange. There are only some simple deductions."

"Didn't find anything strange?"

That night, Jin Yiwei came to report to Zhao Zheng.

But who knew that things would happen in the Huangzhuang of Anyang Prefecture, which was not rich enough, but in Suhang, which was prosperous, there was nothing wrong with it. The steward just simply deducted some money.

Who believes.

After thinking about it, Zhao Zheng thought of a possibility.

If you become rich overnight, there is no need to plunder excessively.

So where should you start?

There's nothing strange about it secretly, but on the surface...