In mid-October winter, in front of the snail bridge in Yangzhou City, major salt merchants dressed in beautiful clothes gathered in the Hechunge restaurant, all looking unhappy.

"My Yaren in Hanyang Town also has 18,000 guan of salt capital and 700 shi of salt. Both residences were all detained. People were imprisoned in Ezhou City prison and their lives were unknown. All the money and goods were confiscated by Li Pushe."

"This money is a trivial matter. What if the government tortures the Teeth Man, randomly rushes to commit crimes, and uses the reason to connect with Huaixi, and the disaster will end up with us, what if it will happen?"

"Have you heard of it? Wang Liuhou went to ask Gao Ji Gong for help."

When they heard this, the salt merchants suddenly raised their ears and their hearts were in their throats. They were very concerned about whether Wang Haichao had accomplished anything.

The answer was that Wang Haichao came out of the military yamen in Shugangzicheng in shame. Gong Gao Ji invited him to drink tea, but it was just to drink tea.

Everyone was disappointed.

"This Ji Gong is famously tough. When he left the Bian River, Li Wanrong and Situ sent someone to Heyin Courtyard first and gave him a stunning look. The clothes are worth tens of millions of yuan. What do you think?"

“How?”

"Duke Ji asked the stunning man to play the pipa song for the soldiers, and sang and danced several times. The three soldiers burst into tears, and then thanked him and returned the stunning mantle to Bianzhou."

Hearing this, the salt merchants sighed collectively, not knowing whether they should admire Gao Yue or hate him.

"You all think things too simple. The reason why Mr. Ji is so tough and honest is that he has no connection with integrity and integrity is because he has the aid behind him, the merchants from Xingyuan, Shu and Fengxiang. I am afraid that after he pacified Huaixi, he still doesn't know how to deal with the entire salt administration of Huaiyang?"

This sentence suddenly made the salt merchants present cage into the hearts of thick clouds.

Gao Yue supported the merchant group west of the country. The main business of this group is to grow cotton, weave cotton cloth, and various workshops. It also has fleets, can raise horses, grow herbs, make divine thunder and gunpowder, and cannons. To put it bluntly, it is an industry.

What about Yangzhou salt merchants? They originally rely on the monopoly system of salt quotations, and then make high profits by false estimation. As Gao Yue said, they are just "maggots in the country". The money they get may be purchased by luxury houses, or seeking to buy manors and fields, and then they may buy a large number of beautiful concubines, wearing gold and silver to provide for their lust. There is no business to say.

One day Gao Yue changed the salt administration, and these beautiful salt merchants would probably have no power to fight back and all collapsed.

"I have to push someone out to ensure that the court's salt administration in the southeast remains unchanged. Look at the salt administration in Jingxiang and Eyue, in just a few days, it was all swept and occupied by merchants in the west. Gao Yue's battle was fought in Huaixi in the morning, but in fact it was us..."

When Chen Shaoyou was in Huainan, he was bribed by us and did not touch our plate;

When Du Ya came, we supported a large amount of money to calculate his political achievements, so we did not touch our market;

The emperor's uncle Wu came here and was expropriated for foot disease within three months. At this point, there was no military governor in Huainan, so we didn't have time to move our plate;

So this plate must not be smashed into Gao Yue's hands.

Before he finished speaking, several yamen ran to Hechun Pavilion and exclaimed, "That coach Gao Yue started to move from the military mansion, saying that he wanted to migrate to Shouzhou!"

These salt merchants all came out quickly, and they didn't know whether Gao Yue went to Shouzhou to be a good or a bad thing for him.

In front of the Zhongshu Gate, under the various flags of various colors of flying, the team of Gao Yueqian Town was a grand sight. The heads were 300 men who were killed. Each of them were covered with iron armor, covered with black silk shirts, and covered with silk curtains with scribble patterns on their faces. They did not reveal their true faces at all. It was terrifying to see that when the bloody battle of Pingrong Dao, even the warriors on Xifan were scared to death.

After hitting the line of the life-threatening man, there were guard servants holding high halberds. The colorful strips tied to the branches of the halberd were floating. Under the guidance of the dark Wei Tuotian, they opened the way in front of the horse of the Jiedu governor Gao Yue.

Next to Gao Yue, there were also horse-riding companions of the three yamen, including the supervisors of the three yamen, the Sima and the Judicial Office of the Yangzhou Governor's Office, and the Assistant Office of the Shogunate Camp. It can be said that the staff of the various yamen in Yangzhou City were covered with red clothes and green clothes, and the flowers were varied.

On both sides of the horse riding team and later, there are two-shirt-shirt-worn officials walking queues.

Then there were more than a hundred armoured cavalrymen, most of whom were Dangqiang people recruited by Mr. Ji in the northwest. They were generally taller and more powerful than the Han people. They were disheveled and had white yachts stuck on the horse's heads. The sole of the horse's hooves collided with the stone slabs paved on the road in front of the Zhongshu Gate, making a stirring echo.

"Mr. Ji moved his nature to Shouchun. He didn't know whether to continue to settle Huainan after pacifying Huainan or return to the court with triumphant success?" Yangzhou was surrounded by many bridges and buildings along Guanhechang Street, with many bridges and buildings. All the people and boats stopped and discussed.

"It's better to go back to the court..." More than a dozen salt merchants couldn't help but look forward to it at the same time in the tall yard of Chun Pavilion.

Gao Yue's business institution went west from Yangzhou, borrowed a route to Chuzhou, and took land to Shouzhou;

At the same time, Aunt Yu, the ships supported by Han Hui of Zhenhai, and the ships provided by Wang Haichao from Yangzi's posthumous life, were brought together with Xuanrun crossbowmen, carrying most of the wealth accumulated by the Yangzi Army Mansion, and then prepared to travel to Shanyangdu against the Huai River and transported to Xiacai, Shouzhou, and gathered with Gao Yue's troops.

Within the next few days, Gao Yue passed Liuhe and entered Quanjiao again, and then went to Chushui to Shen County east of Luzhou. Dou Yu, the then governor of Luzhou (according to the "Tang Governor's Complete Collection") came to the county border to welcome him.

Dou Yu, the county king and Dou Shen are the same as Dou Shen, both in Pingling in Youfufeng County. However, his group had long moved to Luoyang, Henan, so when they investigated Dou Shen's party, they had nothing to do with him. This time, they were also at ease to welcome Gao Yue.

Gao Yue was not in a hurry to rush to Shouzhou. He specifically asked Dou Yu to accompany him and go to Juchao Lake in the south of Luzhou City to take a good look.

What to look at? Of course it is not a trip to the mountains and rivers. Gao Yue wanted to actually investigate the new canal transportation plan proposed by Du Youzeng, the current governor of the Five Prefectures of Lingnan.

This plan was initially proposed by Du You when Li Xilie, Li Zhengji and Liang Chongyi were in rebellion. Du You thought at that time that the two Lis were reversed, Bian River and Huai River were likely to be blocked; and when Liang Chongyi reversed, the Han River might not be blocked. He suggested that the court dredge the Pipagou and Cai River, then transfer to the Ying River in Huaiyang, Chenzhou, and then go from Ying River to Huaichun, directly to Shouchun, and go south along the Xifei River. Then, as long as the 40-mile Jiminggang (who flows through Hefei and injects into Chaohu Lake, it is also called Nanfei River). (Find geography books in the Tang and Song dynasties, it seems that there is no such name. It is only mentioned in Du You's biography and food and goods records, and it is also in the Qing Dynasty draft.

When it comes to the fat water passing through Jiming Mountain, Huai River comes with it. There is Jiming Mountain in the north of Shushan District, Hefei City, which seems to be this), and two rivers can be connected. Then, the south Fei River can enter Chaohu Lake, and Chaohu Lake can pass through Dongguan and Ruxu River to merge into the Yangtze River: In this way, the rice, grain and wealth of various parts of Jiangnan, Eyue, and Sanchuan can go directly along the river and go directly to Dongdu from this Xincao River to the Dongdu, and there is no need to detour to Yangzhou. The so-called "no obstacles to the turbid river tracing through Huai River, reducing the old path by more than 2,000 miles" (The turbid river should refer to the mud and sand of the Yellow River entering the Bian River, causing the Bian River to be frequently blocked; the trajectory of the Huai River is that the ships from Yangzhou will pass through Shanyangdu, and after passing through the Huai River, it will take a section to go to the Bian River).

Unfortunately, after Li Xilie was pacified, Du You proposed this plan again, and was dissatisfied by Han Huai, which took the southeast of the Yangtze River and Huai River as its base, and was immediately dismissed. Since then, this new canal transportation plan has been left behind.
Chapter completed!