When Liu Bowen first arrived in Jinling, he directly sent troops to arrest several major salt merchants in Jinling City, which caused a sensation in the entire Jinling City for a while.

The salt merchants of Jinling are rich enough to rival the country, even if they brag about it, anyway, if they are rich, they are arrogant, and more than half of the hundreds of flower boats on the Qinhuai River are directly supported by the rich people in Jinling, and they are all specially used by these rich merchants to entertain guests.

For example, entertaining Zhang Chao, the history of Jinling salt.

After the Great Zhou army captured Jinling, it immediately introduced a series of policies, one of which was the strict prohibition of illicit salt trafficking.

This is a huge cake of Jiangnan commerce, how can these wealthy merchant families who have been inherited for hundreds of years easily comply.

Guo Zongxun pacified such as the Northern Han Dynasty, Fuzhou, and Jinling, including Yanyun, which Guo Rong recovered, and in terms of appointing officials, the vast majority of Han officials were retained.

This kind of measure has had a very good effect in the north, and none of those officials are not trembling in order to protect their black yarn, and even if they are greedy, they do not dare to take action for the time being.

Jiangnan is different.

In Jiangnan, where the wealth is flowing, the officials have long colluded with the rich businessmen, and as long as they can make money, there is no one who these businessmen dare not buy and sell, including selling information to the secret agents of Jinyiwei in the East Factory.

The generals were more closely connected with the merchants, who had to be protected by the military if they wanted to transport their goods safely.

In the entire small court of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the civil officials were busy with the vassal elegance of the lord of the country, and at the same time quietly colluded with the merchants to make a fortune together.

Otherwise, Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty sat in a rich land, but he couldn't even train decent soldiers, and in the face of the attack of the Great Zhou army, he was almost so weak that he was powerless.

The merchants were not afraid, or they were not too worried about what would happen to them when the Great Zhou Emperor called.

Jinling is adjacent to the Yangtze River, and the merchants eat the rice of the Yangtze River, so they naturally have an understanding of the Great Zhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, in order to obtain more business information, merchants also engaged in some smuggling business in the Huainan area on the north bank of the Yangtze River, bribing local officials to obtain asylum and intelligence.

Merchants were the first to use espionage.

In the eyes of the merchants, there is a lot of business to do with the Great Zhou, not only the salt, iron, grain and other materials that the Southern Tang Dynasty strictly prohibits from selling to the Great Zhou, but even the population can be resold to the Great Zhou.

Liu Bowen used simple, rude, and clean methods to arrest all the leaders of the Jinling salt merchants, and put them all in prison without asking the reason or talking about the crime.

As for Liu Bowen himself, he spent an afternoon meeting with officials of all sizes in Jinling who were qualified to come to meet him.

The officials who were imprisoned by Liu Bowen on the spot, thirteen people.

Twenty-five officials were dismissed by Liu Bowen on the spot.

Yang Ye raised his eyebrows today, just sending troops to escort these officials to arrest people sent a full seventeen thousand troops.

It can be said that when Liu Bowen first arrived in Jinling City, he arrested all the leading figures in Jinling City's various transactions, and none of them slipped through the net.

"General Yang, let's stop here today, the officials who have been imprisoned and dismissed, the Governor of Pontus has given them a chance to make up for their mistakes, and they are allowed to use the last night of today to deal with political affairs as soon as possible, and those who have been dismissed can be demoted and retained, and those who are in prison can save their lives."

Yang Ye sighed in his heart, who said that military generals are more ruthless than civilian officials, military generals kill people with knives, and civilian officials kill people...... It's just invisible.

"The governor has worked hard, and tonight the official will prepare a little wine for the governor to catch the wind."

"But I don't know where General Yang is going to pick up the wind for the governor of Pontus?"

"This ...... The subordinate knows that you are frugal and honest, so you ......"

Before Yang Ye finished speaking, Liu Bowen interrupted him.

"The governor heard that the flower boat of the Qinhuai River in Jinling is very good, it is a good place to go with boundless wind and moon, it is better to find the most luxurious flower boat on the Qinhuai River, the governor has a tiring journey, and he has dealt with so many government affairs as soon as he comes, and he is really a little exhausted, if he can drink flower wine and listen to a little song, it would be great."

Yang Ye stood in front of Liu Bowen dumbfounded, isn't it, is this Liu Ji Liu Bowen, who has always been honest and self-disciplined and noble in Kaifeng City?

Why does it seem to be a different person?

"General Yang, you are a person, joy, anger, sorrow, sorrow, and sorrow, all on your face, this is not good, today this governor will teach you a trick, if you want to understand Jinling thoroughly, the flower boats of the Qinhuai River must go, pass on the orders of the governor, and all the flower boats on the Qinhuai River will be requisitioned by the imperial court tonight."

"With Bendu, there are many young talents, as well as the meritorious soldiers who have made great achievements for my Great Zhou, tonight, Bendu Governor will be with you on the Qinhuai River, merry and happy, drunk and resting."

"By the way, the defense of Jinling City and the safety of the governor of Pontus and his party will depend on General Yang, well, the governor of Pontus will rest on the flower boat tonight."

Yang Ye admired Liu Bowen more and more, and said that the most smelly, shameless and rogue in the world is a cultured person, which is true.

The more educated a person is, the more hooligan he is.

Even after Jinling City was captured by Zhao Kuangyin's army, the wealthy families of Jinling were not affected in the slightest, as long as a generous gift was sent to the army and placed in front of Zhao Kuangyin, it would be regarded as loyalty to the Great Zhou Dynasty.

This is also another reason why Liu Bowen first started with these businessmen, among these businessmen, there must be Zhao Kuangyin's people, they either take the initiative to take refuge in the rudder, or passively obey and be controlled......

In short, if the merchants in Jiangnan are not completely suppressed, it is impossible to truly subdue Jiangnan.

That night, Liu Bowen took Zhu Junsheng, Jing Shouxun, Jing Yanfu, and hundreds of Dongchang Jinyi guards to requisition all the large and small flower boats on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

It has been a long time since there has been such a grand occasion on the banks of the Qinhuai River, and all the painted boats are full of warblers singing and dancing, and the intoxicating aroma overflows the entire Qinhuai River.

As for Yang Ye, he sadly led his troops to strictly control Jinling City and Qinhuai River to protect the safety of Liu Bowen and others.

"General, you said that when we first came to Jinling, if we were so arrogant, how good it would be."

The subordinate generals who have followed Yang Ye for many years are envious.

"You have it, our General Yang has always cherished the people, this kind of bullying of men and women, our General Yang will not do it."

Another general, Dou Wolf, also looked envious, but said the opposite.

"You two, learn a little, this is called domineering, this is called thunder means, Liu Dudu grasps both hands, and both ends are hard...... I admire Yang Ye, ah......"

Yang Ye was draped all over his body, his hand pressed the handle of the knife, standing on the bank of the Qinhuai River, looking at the flower boat full of bright lights and dancing warblers, and thought to himself:

"I regret it, it turns out that His Majesty let me Yang Ye govern Jiangnan is such a meaning, and I blame myself for being too cautious, as a martial artist, I want to do so many twists and turns, just do it, how good it is......"