Zhao Xianqiu and Cen Xiaonian, the former has a strong foundation in Jiangnan, and the latter has a strong background in the DPRK and China.

Tong Guan is a newcomer, and his background is not very strong when he comes, so Zhao Xianqiu and Cen Xiaonian didn't take him too seriously.

But after all, Tong Guan is in charge of the weaving bureau, and the two of them are also trying their best to win him over, and Tong Guan's temperament is natural, so he naturally sees people talking about people, and talking nonsense when he sees ghosts, and flatters both sides, and no one dares to offend.

Tong Guan deliberately ran from Suzhou to Yangzhou to meet Yang Huairen, the purpose is self-evident, in front of Zhao Xianqiu to Yang Huairen courtesy, but also to show the friendship between him and Yang Huairen, it is clear that he is hugging his thighs.

Yang Huairen actually doesn't mind, as long as Tong Guan doesn't become the six thieves in the future, there is no problem in helping him with this little favor.

The City Shipping Division managed the maritime trade of the Great Song Dynasty, although the cargo throughput was far from being comparable with the Caoyun Yamen managed by Zhao Xianqiu, but the City Shipping Division did foreign trade and earned foreign exchange through exports, and the money earned by the imperial court was very considerable.

At present, there are more and more merchants doing foreign trade, the profits of maritime trade are also very large, and the commercial tax collected by the imperial court is also very high.

Yang Huairen knew that there were three major cities in the Northern Song Dynasty today, in addition to the Jiangnan City, there were also Guangzhou-Zhou and Quan-Zhou.

The goods exported by the three major cities are somewhat different, and the Jiangnan City Ship Division on the Jiangyin side mainly uses silk cloth and other textiles, and the other two mainly use porcelain.

The weaving bureau on Tong Guan's side will inevitably have close contacts with Cen Xiaonian's city.

Yang Huairen didn't need Tong Guan to explain too much to him, he figured out the relationship between Zhao Xianqiu and Cen Xiaonian, and he just felt funny in his heart.

He will never get involved in the struggle for power and profit between the eunuchs, even if they want to use him to do something, he will not really be fooled.

I thought in my heart that if I arrived in Jiangyin, Cen Xiaonian would sue Zhao Xianqiu, or play some other tricks, Yang Huairen would treat it as if he didn't know, and play with them at will, even if he was fooled.

In the future, if he wants to stay in Jiangnan for a long time, he will naturally form his own set of power circles, and get along with these three eunuchs in order to live comfortably in Jiangnan.

If they really make a big fuss, isn't there still a court, at most he will mediate in the middle and be a peacemaker.

The official ship entered the Yangtze River from the Yangzhou section of the Grand Canal, then turned around and headed east, and before sunset that afternoon, it flowed down to Jiangyin.

Jiangyin was originally just a county under the rule of Changzhou, but because the Yangtze River suddenly widened here, Jiangyin became a natural port connecting the Yangtze River, the Grand Canal and the East China Sea.

It's September, and the summer tropical storms off the southeast coast of China are coming to an end, the seas are calming down again, and maritime trade is getting busy.

When Yang Huairen's official ship entered the port, he saw from a distance the busy scene of ships entering and leaving Jiangyin Port. There were already small boats from the port to greet them, and the official ships were guided into the port.

The official ship entered the port and anchored, Yang Huairen stepped off the ship, and among the officials who greeted him, the first one in the line was obviously Cen Xiaonian and Cen Gonggong.

Yang Huairen was really taken aback when he saw him for the first time, this father-in-law Cen heard that he was over the age of six, but it looked like he was only in his thirties, and the most surprising thing was that he was born too much like a woman.

Eunuchs, without male roots and male hormones, more or less because they don't have beards and other body hair features, they don't give people the impression that they are like men, and there are some characteristics that only women have.

But this father-in-law Cen is fair-skinned, whether it is facial features or appearance, he is really no different from an ordinary woman.

Yang Huairen couldn't help but think in his heart, maybe this father-in-law Cen wanted to be a woman in his heart and become a eunuch, maybe he helped him fulfill this wish.

This may be proved from the light makeup on his face, between his eyebrows and on his lips, although he is wearing an official robe, no matter how you look at it, he deliberately makes himself look like a woman.

Yang Huairen stepped off the boat, and Gonggong Cen led the officials to salute the envoy, and Yang Huairen naturally dealt with it again, and finally expressed the idea of inspecting the Yamen of the City Shipping Division.

When Cen Xiaonian and Tong Guan accompanied Yang Huairen to the city to walk on the left and right, Cen Xiaonian spoke, "The prince patrols the sky on behalf of the hunt, and he can't go to Yangzhou to greet him, and I hope that the prince will atone for his sins." ”

Yang Huairen understood the relationship between Zhao Xianqiu and Cen Xiaonian, so he also figured out this matter, Tong Guan could go to Yangzhou to greet him, but Cen Xiaonian couldn't go.

There is Zhao Xianqiu's territory, and he can only find shame when he goes, but it is easy to suffer losses from Zhao Xianqiu.

Yang Huairen also had the intention to make peace, and even wanted to save Cen Xiaonian and learn from Zhao Xianqiu to play that bad thing with him, so he replied with a smile, "Zhao Geling has already mentioned to this king, and now September is the time when the city is busy, and Cen Geling is busy with official business for the emperor and the court, what is the crime?" ”

Cen Xiaonian smiled, his face was also a little strange, Zhao Xianqiu would take the initiative to say good things to him? It's impossible, but after thinking about it, I understood Yang Huairen's intentions, and some of the things he wanted to say might have to be held back.

The City Shipping Division is also not far from Jiangyin Port, but compared to the scale of the Caoyun Yamen, it is not much different from the general government yamen.

It is not surprising at all that the warehouse of the Caoyun Yamen was built inside the Yamen, so the entire complex of the warehouse occupies a large area.

On the side of the Municipal Shipping Division, it is a pure yamen for handling official business, and various warehouses have been built in the port.

So it is an inspection, in fact, there is nothing to inspect in such a large place as the city, and it is now at the beginning of the peak season of maritime trade, and the yamen is not specially cleared because of Yang Huairen's arrival, and it is still working as usual.

Yang Huairen also learned about the normal operation of the city's shipping department by the way, and learned that although the maritime trade of the Great Song Dynasty was open-minded at that time, the management was still quite strict.

For example, for some neighboring countries, there is a limit, but for other countries that are willing to submit to the Great Song Dynasty, or countries that have no connection because they are too far away, there are no restrictions.

As long as the maritime merchants put the merchant ship on record with the Municipal Shipping Division, and then report the number of goods entering and leaving the port each time, as well as the navigation route, etc., to the Yamen, the Municipal Shipping Division can issue an official certificate for running the ship.

In the future, maritime merchants will rely on this voucher to pay taxes, use ports, exit and enter ports, and the supervision and examination of them by the Municipal Shipping Department will also be checked according to the vouchers, so it is still difficult to evade taxes or carry out large-scale smuggling.