The "tea owl" in the eyes is one of the top tea merchant princess in Xuanzhou.

Originally, when he pacified Huaixi and was in charge of Huainan, Wang Zifu, who had a good relationship with Gao Yue, donated a total of 200,000 jin to the court's military and horses at one time. Then Gao Yue opened a market, tax field, extensive trade, and implemented a paper currency policy in Huainan. Wang Zifu was confident in future development.

But all this came to an abrupt end with Li Qi's arrival.

Because Xuanzhou is a major tea production site, Li Qi sent officials to occupy all the tea gardens. When it was time to pick tea, he pressed the price and put all the tea leaves in the tea farmers in a bamboo cage. He placed them in the tent. The tea merchants first came to the tent to exchange for "tea induction". As a result, the tea price stipulated by Li Qi was the usual cash for a pound of medium-sized tea, which was more than three times the price of tent to Shoulu tea in Huainan!

But that was not over. Wang Zifu and the tea merchants reluctantly spent a lot of money to buy tea entries. But when they arrived in the tea garden to prepare for tea change, they saw that the tea was all in the big bamboo cage, with military officials and soldiers guarding them next to them. They held a short note in their hands called "tea stickers". They said to Wang Zifu, it's not okay to spend money to buy tea entries, and they have to add this tea entries to take away the tea in the cage.

With the addition of tea stickers, the cost of tea per kilogram has increased to 200 ci.

Therefore, the angry Xuanshe tea merchants called the bamboo cages that serve tea "big bamboo insects", describing the cruelty of eating people without spitting out bones.

But Li Qi's exploitation was not over yet. When Wang Zifu and the small and medium-sized tea merchants finally carried the goods onto the ship, preparing to leave the quarry and enter the Yangtze River, and then go to Eyue and Xiang Deng to traffic, they found that Li Qi set up a personal income tax site in the quarry, and passing goods had to be taxed.

Even if this batch of tea is sold to various places along the Yangtze River, the cost is too high and it is completely ineffective.

After entering the summer, Li Qi levied ten times the household tax on tea merchants.

After a while, even though the prince Fu's family was big and his business was big, his property instantly evaporated by one-third.

How could other tea merchants withstand such exploitation? There were seven or eight people who immediately fell into the water and hanged themselves in Xuanshe alone.

They had no choice but to appeal to the governor of Xuanzhou Liu Zan.

Liu Zan pleaded with the Jiedushi Li Qi, saying that the money for tea is too high and merchants will find it difficult to make profits. Under the long-term pressure, private sales will inevitably become a trend. Please ease it.

However, Li Qi only focused on dividing the exploited money into three parts: one raising a bag, one used for the military palace to spend money, and one sent to the capital to honor the emperor and the powerful.

Li Qi only asked the military advisor to reply to Liu Zan's petition, and angrily scolded and intimidated the monk, saying that even if the tea is inducing half of the money, don't blame me for not mentioning this matter, you are not polite to Liu Jun.

So Prince Fu had no choice but to take risks and smuggle - to spend money directly to buy tea from the tea garden farmers.

But soon the matter was revealed. The military officers in Li Qi came to hear the news like evil dogs, arrested dozens of tea farmers who sold tea to Prince Fu in private: those who gained more than ten cents of money were beheaded and those who gained more than ten cents of money were given rods to beheaded, those who gained more than five cents of money were given for scepters, and all the family property was confiscated, and their wives, sons and children were demoted to slaves, and they went to the government to do hard work.

In addition, Li Qi's military officers also wanted to arrest the "master behind the scenes" Prince Fu.

Prince Fu was furious immediately. After all, he was a person with a million yuan in property. Although he had never been an official or a householder, he was far more powerful than the powerful people in the village. So Prince Fu simply sold more than 100,000 yuan in his family, sold all the land and houses, and used his prestige to call on more than 100,000 local tea merchants and tea farmers. Finally, he gathered more than 100,000 local tea shops and peers, attacked six tea shops in Zhenhai Army, killed all the internal soldiers, burned all the tea and tea sticks, and then directly transported the tea seized on a ship to sell from the water. In less than two months, the "Tea Owl" Prince Fu's team quickly grew to more than 3,000, and walked crisscrossing the wild streams in Xuanshe Mountain, and the government could not control it.

Later, Lai Yunfan, a salt merchant in Xuanzhou, organized a "salt bandit", and also formed hundreds of thousands of groups of them, prepared their own weapons, flocked to the country, and went back to Huainan Prefectures and counties to buy salt, and then sold back to the people of Xuanshe at a low price.

Li Qi was furious and ordered the governors of Xuan, She and Wu to eliminate the Cha Xiao and the salt bandits.

But the governors below Liu Zan turned a blind eye completely, and even secretly bought and sold tea and salt from Prince Fu and Lai Yunfan to reduce the burden on the people.

In the end, even the quarrying army stationed in the local area came to trade with the tea owl and the salt bandits in order to buy cheap tea and salt.

Wang Qiqi, the military commander of the quarry army, sighed angrily and said, "Runshuai Li Qi doesn't care about us. If he buys in the military market, his children's annual salary is not enough to buy ten kilograms of tea, and what can he do if he doesn't buy it from the tea ow?" So he sent several ships to trade with the prince.

When Li Qi learned about this, he was furious, and someone said to him: "Wang Qiqi is a veteran of Han Jin Gong and has never been convinced of the rituals, and the governors of various states are also in harmony with each other's appearance."

When he knew that Lu Zhi and other prime ministers in the court were all dismissed and Gao Yue was about to be summoned back to the court, Li Qi was even more arrogant: "Let Wang Qiqi quickly lead the quarrying army to eliminate the Cha Xiao and the salt bandits, otherwise the general would send a forceful army and the French soldiers, and carry a sword to implement the law!"

The document was delivered to the Caishi Army. Wang Qiqi was even more determined to deviate, so he secretly wrote secret letters to Liu Zan, the governor of Xuanzhou and Bai Liangqi, the military envoy of Danyang Army in Runzhou, saying: "Duke Gao Wei and Li Qi are in the same state as water and fire, and the Holy Lord was deceived by treacherous officials such as Pei Yanling and Li Qiyun. If Li Qi is in power, we will die without a place to bury. It is better to take the initiative, introduce Wu Yi's army, capture and kill Li Qi, follow the story of Duke Han Jin, take charge of the wealth and wealth of the southeast, and persuade the Holy Lord to change his mind, and then enter the school of the Secretariat, recall Zhongxian, clear the king's side, and create a new world."

A few days later, Bai Liangqi arrived back: "The public statement is very true. I have written to Li Shangrong, the envoy of the Yisheng Army in Yuezhou, and agreed to raise the army at the same time to kill the bandits and rescue the people of Xuanrun's fifteen states. The public can be the "East Recruitment Envoy", and I also appointed myself as the "East Recruitment Envoy."

So Wang Qiqi made up his mind. On the surface, he took the order to suppress Wang Zifu, but secretly agreed with the other party that if Gao Weigong Wuyi's army could cross the river from Liyang, Hezhou, I would like to take the natural quarrying stones and lead the Wuyi army to capture Jinling Stone City!

The prince Fu was overjoyed and immediately sent someone to cross the river to contact the garrison troops of the Sanhung Towns stationed in Liyang first.

Then the town garrison hurriedly reported to Gao Yue from Yangzhou.

During this period, although the court fought to the death and bloody battles, and Gao Yue himself was in the middle of the whirlpool, the entire Huainan and Wuyi Army were terrifyingly quiet.
Chapter completed!