However, this is not the end. The next mistake of Li Qi, the new Zhenhai Army governor, is even more irresistible:

It restored the banned monopoly system in Liangzhe and Xuanshe. The government directly occupied wine shops and tea gardens, forcing tea farmers to make wine, plant tea trees, and then asked merchants to obtain the introduction. However, the specified price was several times more expensive than Gao Yue and Huainan. What was even more excessive is that merchants sometimes spent money to buy the introduction, but they could not get the goods. They had to spend extra money to buy another thing called "public stickers" from Li Qi's military mansion to get the final goods;

The Zhenhai Army produced a lot of silver. Originally, the jewellery would buy raw silver to process it as jewelry, or make it into silver tins to replace the large-scale copper coins trade, but Li Qi now stipulated that all raw silver would be collected by the government, and then spend a lot of money to hire craftsmen to process them into various silverware, engrave their own names, and store them all for the emperor's use in the next year;

The tax yard will not mention the heavy taxes of the past business and travelers, but also add miscellaneous taxes to the people. Each household will charge an additional ten cents of "body tax" for each person. Then the people will pay "farm tools" for farming, "five money" for winemaking, "shang money" for walking, "fuel money" for lighting lamps, and "market money" for buying things in the market... As a result, one or two months after Li Qi took office, the Xuanrun Suyue area, which was originally known as the most prosperous world, did not even dare to go up the streets, nor did they dare to go down the fields, nor did they dare to light the lights at night, and stayed at home to eat in black and black food, but that was not enough, and Li Qi came to collect "black lamp money" again.

After some operation, Xuanrun was filled with public grievances, and there was also a tragedy of merchants losing their money and hanging themselves into the water.

But Li Qi remained unmoved. He had his own magic weapon to "rest and strengthen the army":

He first spent a lot of money to win over shameless literati, gathered in the shogunate government, and set up "feasting money", and allocated 200,000 yuan a year from the military fees of the Zhenhai Army to eat, drink and have fun. Then he wrote a large number of flattering poems to thrive himself, with great momentum beyond the Gaoyue in Huainan, Zheng Yue of Fujian, and Yan Zhen of Eyue, and the rainbow farts of "the host and the host are good at the beauty of the southeast" and "I have Xie Dongshan in Tang" are everywhere.

Li Qi also learned quietly from Gao Yue: Why can Gao Yue gain the power of Huainan? That is, he would invite favors and strengthen favors. Therefore, Li Qi ordered the people's money and ointments he had collected, except for his own retention, and the others were ordered to go to the emperor. The ships of money, colored goods, and treasures were continuously set up from Jingkou to deliver them to the emperor, Li Qiyun and Pei Yanling, which was almost a "daily entry". Then Li Qi also set up a patrol in Runzhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Pei Yanling's Du Branch Office. He frantically encircled Taihu Lake, encroaching land around Taihu Lake, with nearly 30,000 mu, and claimed to be Duzhi's camp field. Then he stuffed "field officials" into it, and all the relatives and friends in Duzhi's camp were assigned to them, so as to give them salary materials. The harvests were all used as "orders to pay rice" and were prepared to be sent to the capital during the next year's two taxes.

In response to the Zhenhai Army, Li Qi began to seize the food and food that united his children and the outer town army, and the thick-supported army. In addition, in order to protect himself, Li Qi began to recruit despairers from the martial arts world and formed a fake relationship with him, known as the "backyard man".

Gao Yue’s military mansion is just across the Daojiang River from Li Qi’s military mansion.

Gao Yue knew Li Qi's openly and secretly thoughts. He said to Gu Xiu and Han Yu privately: "This Emperor Haofeng and Pei Yanling have a clear purpose. Not only did he want to be the governor of Zhenhai Army, but he also wanted to imitate the former Duke of Han and Jin and control the power of transporting salt and iron in the southeast."

"What kind of virtue is Li Qi? How dare you compare with Han Jingong?" Han Yu rarely said justice to the descendants of the Han family of the Zhengpai Changli.

"Do you want to report to the court secretly to expose Li Qi's crime?" Gu Xiu asked for instructions and said that as long as Gao Yue nodded, he would immediately arrange for the secretary to draft the document.

Gao Yue laughed at this and said, "If you do more unrighteous things, you will die."

"Then, Mr. Wei, you have to sit idly by?" Han Yu was a little anxious.

Gao Yue said again, "If you are unrighteous, you will be unfaithful, and you will be devastated."

The meaning was very obvious, and Gao Yue said that Li Qi's affairs were irrelevant. He made the wealthy prefectures and counties of Zhenhai Jun a mess. "We in Huainan just snatched the specialties on the opposite side of the river, no, take over." Then Gao Yue said, "Making paper, ink, and Shuzhou, I can do anything about tea, and there are silk weaving. Our Yangzhou is also very powerful, ceramics, ceramics? It's not enough to make ceramics on the west road of Jiangnan. So Li Qi's actions are against us, which is a good thing for Huainan.

"Li Qi is engaged in heavy tax exploitation in the tax field, so our goods will not be sold to Jiangnan, but to Eyue and Jingxiang. Before that, we had to work with the Wuchang Army Jiedushi Yan Zhen, the Jiangnan West Road Observer Lu Huan, the Jingnan West Road Observer Fan Ze, and the Shandong East Road Jiedushi Yu Di, the Jiangnan East Road Jiedushi, and the Jiangnan East Road Jiedushi, together to fight against the robbers and mountain sheds in the Qihuang'an area. As long as these bandits are cleaned up and the entire Yangtze River waterway is reopened, it will be wealthy, and even Shen Guang and Cai Fuxing are easy to get rid of. Then, taking advantage of the slack farm in winter, our road must review the drawings of the Jiminggang canal delivered by Meng Zhongyang and prepare to recruit large-scale military power and interest troops to dig it!"

After saying that, Gao Yue directly said to Han Yu beside him, "Get out, you write a letter for me, and then print it out, and send it along the post road to Yu Di, Fan Ze, Yan Zhen and Lu Huan. This road will set a strategy with them to eliminate the thieves in the river and the mountain pan.

Han Yu was about to bow his hands to receive it, and then suddenly realized: "No, Mr. Wei, I am the county magistrate of Jiangdu County, not the chief secretary of the shogunate."

At this time, Gao Yue nodded and said to Han Yu: "The secretary in charge has another dispatch. Are you also the procurator of the shogunate? Helping me to draw a letter and report a letter is also a matter of duty."

Han Yu was even more puzzled, wondering when I would receive the position of the sect?

However, Gao Yue said without saying anything. He said that Jiangdu County is Guoxia County in Yangzhou. Your county party is in Zicheng and is very close to me. So that day your wife Xue Hongdu came to ask for this position for you. Please help me more. The treatment will never be owed to you. Come on, the following is the oral statement, and you will compile it into a document by retiring.

Han Yu was shocked: I didn’t expect that, Hongdu, you betrayed me!

Helplessly, he could only sit in the military palace hall. Gao Yue walked and dictated his strategy of attack. Han Yu gritted his teeth and forced himself to follow Gao Yue's thinking, write and draw on paper with a pen, and first form a draft.

In the canteen next to it, there were jingling sounds of food utensils and utensils everywhere: the rules in Gaoyue's shogunate, the lords who had no important matters met at the Wu hour (19 o'clock), and then they finished their own homes; but if there were important matters, they would complete the work first, and then have a meal at the beginning of the Hai hour (21 o'clock).

This sound came from other staff members drinking and having a meal.

Han Yu had "there was an important matter". After Gao Yue finished his oral statement, he walked into another room and asked the secretary Zhang Peng to draft another document, which was passed to the governor of Caizhou Wu Yuanheng, who asked him to start raising people and prepare to deal with the Jiminggang project - the Huainan Jiedushi was really busier than the emperor, and he wanted to write the original draft into a formal document.

The autumn moon is glittering, while Han Yu is hungry and anxious.
Chapter completed!