11. Southwest mutual insurance
Sure enough, as soon as Du Ya submitted a memorial, Liu Xuanzuo, the Xuanwu Army of Bianzhou, also submitted a memorial. Then the irrelevant Ziqing Li Na, Wu Shaocheng, Wei Bo and Tian Xu and others followed suit.
Although Bai Zhizhen from Xuanshe and Hanhui, Zhejiang and East Zhejiang are the emperor's people, the middle clans are in the hands of others. If you take the Yangtze River route and then transfer to Xingyuan Mansion, you are now blocked by the robbers of the river. The emperor cannot watch the Jiangnan West Road, and the wealthy Qian Milan from the east of Jiangnan is in Jingkou, Runzhou. After discussing with Li Mi and Dou Shen, he could only agree to it.
Gao Yue's memorial was not sent to Chang'an City, but from the Central Plains to the southeastern towns, they began to crazily divide the ships left by Han Huan, and built dense "treasures" at the boundary of the entire 2,000-mile canal route, in other words, it is about the current expressway toll station.
As a result, the two taxes this year were very bad!
When we arrived at Jingkou from the Jiangnan boat and then to the Huai River waterway, we sent boatmen to force the fiber to pull the fibers in various places in Huainan, and then demanded high tolls and fiber tolls;
Then he entered the Bian River and was blackmailed by many ponds.
According to convention, the two taxes that should have been transported to the capital should have more than 2 million stones of rice and tens of millions of guan. However, this year, they were "pulled by geese passing by" along the town of Fanglu, and in the end they arrived at Weikou less than half!
The emperor was in great flames.
This is almost equivalent to an open robbery.
Therefore, the emperor angrily accused Li Mi and Dou Shen of not being able to observe the interests.
Li Mi wanted to make up for it, but it was too late at this time: Liu Xuanzuo and Du Ya took the money extorted as legitimate income and rewarded the soldiers in the town with great honor. As a result, the soldiers of Fangzhen in Henan and Huainan Road became even more arrogant, and all supported the Jiedushi to continue to set up ponds and collect tolls for the canal, and did not take the imperial court's prestige into consideration.
At the same time, Ziqing and Huaixi also had the same energy and began to corrupt the salt method in the southeast.
In order to better use salt to support the Northwest Anti-Qiujun Town, Liu Yan had implemented the "false estimation method", which means that Liu Yan asked the salt merchants in the southeast to use more silk cloth to serve as the clothes for the soldiers of the Northwest Army Town, so they also asked them to use silk cloth to deal with salt (if copper coins are used, the transportation cost is much higher than that of the lighter goods such as silk cloth). The price of each piece of silk cloth is about 200 cents. In this way, salt merchants can exchange silk cloth for more salt to sell for profit, and at the same time they are willing to bear the money for transporting this batch of silk cloth to the northwest border.
But now the false estimation method is developing in a bad direction: Du Ya is in Huainan, cruelly exploiting salt farmers to lower the salt bank; on the other hand, he colluded with salt merchants and "failingly estimating" the salt price over the top. A piece of silk cloth was overestimated by four or five hundred people when changing salt. The extra part was divided by Du Ya and the salt merchants - and the salt price also soared. Not only the southeast, but also the people in the non-salt-producing areas such as Jingnan, Eyue, and Jiangxi are suffering. At the same time, the high profits of salt prices have made people who cannot afford salt or are jealous of salt profit turn into private salt dealers or bandits, and start to sell private salt. The court lost nearly one million chunks of money on salt profit every year.
Wu Shaocheng, Huaixi, seized the opportunity and smuggled salt from Ziqing. In addition to meeting his own needs, he also reposted the Zhongdao to Jingnan, Jiangxi and other places to make huge profits.
The bloody and cruel scene made Gao Yue understand that these canal interest groups colluded with Fang Zhen, which was separatist and semi-separatist, and finally began to do whatever he wanted after Han Huan died.
He immediately wrote a letter to his master Liu Yan, who lived in seclusion in Huazhou, seeking strategies.
Almost at the same time, the emperor was sent a secret letter that said that the two taxes and salt profits were corrupted by more than half, resulting in insufficient military expenditure and the Shence army could not be expanded. How to resist Xifan and how to suppress Xifan?
The emperor was discouraged, and Gao Yue was also depressed by the variables of the original plan.
He originally wanted to arrange a job in Xingyuan Mansion, so he took his family to Fengxiang Mansion.
But who would have thought that in this summer and autumn, so many unsettling things happened that left him stranded in Xingyuan for more than four months.
In fact, the situation was very good this year. The whole Guanzhong, northwest, Lingwu and Xingyuan were all harvested. They were full of soldiers and food, and they were waiting for the money, silk and wealth from the southeast to come again, but now...
When the holiday was on the day of the holiday, Gao Yue was indifferent, so he handed over the organization of the Autumn Club celebration to Liu De's room. He rode his horse and returned to Lujiao Village in a depressed manner.
"Qingqing, what's the matter? I sighed at you." After dinner, Gao Yue was wearing a white mid-lane in the main bedroom, put his hand on his raised knees, and sat in front of the short table. Ben, Yun Shao, Yun He and Zhihui flew to "ye Zi Play" to relieve his boredom, but when he thought about the past six months of the Southeast, he couldn't help but feel worried, so Yun Shao asked with concern.
Yunhe had long felt something was wrong with his brother-in-law, so he put his ears on.
Zhihui blocked Ye Zi on her face, her eyes flashed from side to side. They were playing with the "promotion picture" and they must not show their expressions to their opponents.
Anyway, before Liu Yan's reply arrived, Gao Yue spoke up and told the three beauties, and then put down Ye Zi, "The men of Zhuge in the military government have not decided yet. The women of Zhuge from Lujiao Village will tell me their ideas?"
So the three of them also put Ye Zi down, put their heads together, and smiled and gurgled. Then Yun Shao closed his mouth and laughed, pointing to the various things in the dormitory, and asked Gao Yue, "You are asked to tell me about you, tell me the source of the indoor home?"
Gao Yue first looked at the incense-filled copper stove and said, "The copper in Zizhou and the incense of Uighurs."
At this time, Yunhe raised his eyebrows and pointed to the purple gauze curtain hanging on the cross beam. Gao Yue said: "The silk of Shuzhou, the water of Shu capital, and the white jade of Xiaoguan, Yuanzhou."
Yun Shao pointed to the bed under Luo's tent, and Gao Yue thought about it, "The wood and bamboo mats in Yangzhou."
Yun Shao pointed to the makeup box listed on the long desk again, and Gao Yuebian replied, "The powder produced in Shudu, Xingyuan cinnabar, realgar powder, and the gold powder from Guizhou."
Zhihui smiled, revealing her fine white teeth, "Where is the kitchen yard?"
"Rice, wheat, medicine, Xichuan, and Dongchuan's salt."
"Where are the farm tools and horse houses in Lujiaozhuang?"
"The iron in Lizhou, Fengxiang, and the cattle and horses in Jingyuan."
"Where is the sheep fur burqa that the mistress just knitted for you?"
"It's also the hair obtained by the sheep on the other side of Jingyuan!"
After the three of you asked, Gao Yue suddenly felt thoughtful, touched his chin, and stood up excitedly, "What do women Zhuge mean?"
Now Sister Yun Shao and Zhihui covered their mouths with fan and laughed, saying that now Weichengwu Town, Du Huangshang Town, Dongchuan Town, Songqing Town, Fengxiang Town, Xingyuan Town, Xingjunya Town, Liu Haibin Town, Jingyuan Town, and Jingyuan Town, and only a few people from Banan Observer, Songqing, you ask the court to ask someone familiar to come to serve, and the whole northwest and southwest are not all His Majesty’s "backyard". Although the taxes of a single town are not as rich as the southeast, as long as Songqing, you contact Shannan East Road, Jingnan, Hunan, Eyue and other towns with the same spirit - everyone works together, these towns have rice, grain, salt, horses, cattle and sheep, copper, iron, gold and silver, and water transportation. There is nothing to be missing. Why should you be afraid of the southeast?
Gao Yue then smiled and said, "The female Zhuges are so wonderful. I will soon protect the southwest and northwest. No, it is the southwest and northwest royalty!"
"Okay, okay, let's continue to ascense as the official picture." At this time, Yun Shao saw that his husband was relieved, so he hit his arm with a fan and asked.
Who would have thought that as soon as he continued, the three girls called in unison, "Qingqing (Songqing, third brother) you have been demoted!" Then he put down Ye Zi - Yun Shao to the Taifu, Yun He to the Taiwei, Zhihui to the Shizhong, only Gao Yue was Cai to the "stolen goods" and demoted to the county lieutenant.
"It's unlucky, you colluded just now, right?" Gao Yue rolled up his sleeves, and then suddenly realized...
Chapter completed!