Yu Ren was shocked and hurried to look. Sure enough, Shen Minghang's mouth had already tilted to one side, and his body began to fall backwards. Fortunately, Yu Ren discovered it in time and held it in hand.

"Hurry, go and call the doctor. The master has a stroke!" Yu Ren shouted.

The news that Mr. Shen had a stroke and the Miss Shen family eloped with someone soon spread in Songjiang Prefecture. After all, the Shen family still counted people in Songjiang Prefecture. This is how people are. When they see someone who has always been regarded as a superior person, they suddenly become unlucky and are even more excited than if they win the grand prize. This is human nature. It is precisely because of this mentality that the matter of the Shen family spreads particularly quickly in Songjiang Prefecture. Soon, it became a well-known thing in the alley.

Shen Minghang suffered a stroke. Although he hired a famous doctor for treatment in time, he still stopped following his body and basically couldn't understand his words. He just saved his life.

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

As the saying goes, blessings come unparalleled, but misfortunes never come alone. This makes sense. On the third day after Shen Minghang fell, five of the Shen family's nine shops in Songjiang Prefecture had absconded with money.

This unexpected surprise made Yu Ren panic. In the Shen family, he was a solid newcomer. In just ten days, he could not tell which people were available and which people could not be used. In addition to Cao An brought by him, the maid Chunmei next to him. However, the Shen family is a big family and cannot be handled by one or two people.

He had to take care of his family's affairs and took care of his sick uncle; he had to take care of his outside affairs, otherwise it would not take long for the Shen family's large business would be divided up by those servants. Yu Ren was unbearable, so he had to go to the government office to report to the official position so that he could use the government's power to chase the shopkeepers who had escaped privately.

However, there was no prefect in Songjiang Prefecture, and the biggest official was a sixth-ranked prosecutor. It was because Yu Ren met the most famous lazy emperor in Chinese history, Wanli. He was not very enthusiastic about politics. He heard that he had not been to court for twenty years. This eventually led to a large number of lack of officials in the yamen. This was the case with the Songjiang Prefecture. There was neither a prefect nor a magistrate. The prosecutor had the final say in all matters of big and small. The prosecutor had been in this position for thirteen years. The term of both terms had passed, and his superiors were transferred one by one, but no one was transferred, and he was left alone.

The official's surname is Jiao, and he is an old man in his sixties. When he heard about the affairs of the Yu Ren family, he was very enthusiastic at first. He also vowed to help their family recover the fleeing shopkeepers. So Yu Ren left with great gratitude.

However, after Yu Ren left, the Jiao Tutor had no response at all. He didn't even post a notice of pursuit. Yu Ren suddenly realized that he must have given too few gifts for his meeting. So he nervously sent someone to prepare a generous gift worth a hundred taels to give it to him.

But unexpectedly, Jiao Tuiguan Li accepted the matter, but the matter was still not done. He also borrowed the words of his subordinates and brought him over. He said that the pursuit of several runaway shopkeepers of the Shen family must have passed by the State Administration. The arresters did not say that they had worked hard, but they also spent a lot of money. I am afraid that it would not be enough without a thousand taels of silver.

After hearing this, Yu Ren cursed the surname Jiao Taihei. This was just an opportunity to quarrel. However, the five shopkeepers of the Shen family who ran away were not just a few taels of silver. They all joined hands with some other guys in the shop and almost moved the shop away.

Yu Ren calculated roughly and found that the loss was no less than 10,000 taels. What's more, his uncle's illness was not the time at all. At this time, a batch of new cotton cloth was pressed in the warehouse and waiting for action, so the turnover of the money 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 cruel and cruel - forget it! He dragged it in advance and then dealt with it when he was empty-handed.

In a chaotic situation, Yu Ren was overwhelmed. In the first two or three days, he ran everywhere and went wherever he had something to do. But soon he realized that this was not possible. The Shen family had too many things. And he had been here too short. He could not figure out who could trust and who was not worthy of those in charge.

So Yu Ren boldly appointed a few people. In the mansion, all the affairs of the inner mansion were handed over to his maid Chunmei, and the affairs of the outer mansion were handed over to the former housekeeper Shen Zhong. He led Cao An to be responsible for the various business of the Shen family.

Through the past few days of understanding and sorting, Yu Ren gradually found out some of his shortcomings. At this time, the Shen family was not counted as a few shops that were run away by the shopkeeper with property. The most important thing about the remaining business was the weaving house.

The Shen family's house weaving business accounts for 70% of the entire Shen family's business. Now, if you subtract five shops, you almost account for 90%. The profit also accounts for more than 60%. Therefore, Yu Ren devoted almost all his energy to the house weaving business.

He sent Cao An to stay in the weaving house for a long time, with the focus on looking at the warehouse. He himself ran back and forth between the Shen Mansion and the weaving house. Fortunately, the Shen family's weaving house was also in the city, not far from the Shen Mansion.

The weaving house not only makes a lot of money, but also uses a lot of money. Since there is not much available liquid silver on the Shen family's books, and the weaving house has to be continuously purchased and produced, which makes Yu Ren very embarrassed. 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 very simple. The Shen family shop does not sell much cloth, mainly because it depends on a few large customers. However, since Shen Minghang fell ill, these large customers have been poached one by one.

Seeing that the cotton cloth piled up in the warehouse and the silver on hand was getting tighter and tighter, Yu Ren felt worried.

It was the first time Yu Ren took over such a large family business, and it was during such an extraordinary period, and there was almost no time for him to familiarize himself with the business. Yu Ren felt like he had fallen into a huge maze and could not get out of it.

However, although he was anxious, Yu Ren still pretended to be calm on the surface. The whole family, plus the knives outside, were hundreds of people! If he was in chaos, he would not know what would happen.

In order to show his calmness so that his subordinates think that the situation of the Shen family is not bad, Yu Ren specially carried a bird cage out of the street early in the morning to take a walk. Then he carried the bird cage and walked around the weaving room.

The weaver was still the same as before, and everyone was busy with their own work. The weaver was busy doing their own work on the loom, and several managers gathered together and were chatting about something. Seeing Yu Ren coming in, several managers quickly dispersed. However, their eyes immediately widened again.

Because they saw Yu Ren walking in leisurely in all directions.

Yu Ren walked around the various weaving rooms as usual, and then went to the warehouse. The warehouse of the Shen family weaving room was very large, and it was filled with cotton cloth of various colors like a hill. The Shen family weaving room only produced cotton cloth, not silk. In the warehouse, there was also a special accountant.

The warehouse manager was originally a man named Chen Zhou, a brother of Shen Minghang. After Shen Minghang got sick, Yu Ren sent Cao An to him. The excuse was that the warehouse had a lot of goods recently and there were many things, so he was afraid that he would not be able to be busy alone. In fact, everyone knew very well that this was Yu Ren's prevention of another incident like the ones who had a hand in the shopkeeper stealing Shen's property like the other day ago.

Yu Ren came to the warehouse area. There were thirty or forty houses here, all of which were locked with large iron doors. One of the first ones was the office room. Yu Ren came to the office room with a bird cage, but saw that there was only the accountant inside.

The accountant is about forty years old, not tall, and very thin. He rarely speaks, and Yu Ren has never paid much attention to him.

Seeing that Chen Zhou and Cao An were neither there, Yu Ren put the bird cage in his hand on the table and casually asked the tentman.

"Have Uncle Chen and Cao An gone out?"

The accountant looked at Yu Ren. "Mr. Chen and Brother Cao went to the warehouse to order goods. I am the only useless half-old man here. Dong Dong's family doesn't have to pretend so hard."
Chapter completed!