In fact, more than 40 concubines of Han Yanzhou must also be fighting, but Han Yanxuan's status keeps them from rising to the point of dying and living.

Liu Rui smiled: "Stay for a few days, I'm too tired these days, slowly." ”

"Well, me too, I need to rest for a few days, so I left Lin'an and went to this Xishan Courtyard."

Liu Rui didn't leave, but he passed Han Jiang's intention to arrange his cronies back.

Liu Ruilai has a second thing.

I just want to see with my own eyes Han Jiang's workshop called the research institute in Xishan, the new steel knife formula and forging method, there is a lower cost, better ordnance, Liu Rui as a soldier, he wants to pay attention to it personally.

But Liu Rui didn't want to reveal his identity, so he just paid attention to it secretly.

A few days later, Yangzhou, Daming Temple.

Daming Temple is still a temple and a temple.

There are golden-bodied Buddha statues, and so are monks.

Master Kumi.

It used to be called Sorumi, then it was called Sorumi Master, then it was Sorami Abbot, and now it is Sorumi Master.

This status has improved little by little.

Because he manages Yangzhou's black market, the most valuable goods in Yangzhou's black market are salt, followed by iron, and grain.

Because of the flood of the Yellow River, the Huai salt banknotes have smashed into the floor price, the short quotation is like waste paper, and the lowest batch of transactions for the long quotation is 18 percent of the original price, which has exceeded the expectations of all merchants.

But in the past few days, some people have sold the value of Huai salt banknotes at a five-fold discount.

Does anyone buy it?

The businessmen are talking about who buys and who is stupid.

But that afternoon, Master Kongjian personally brought a merchant to the trading hall, who only glanced at the selling price on it, did not ask anything, and directly asked his entourage to carry out a box of gold, asked for 3,200 salt bills, and then took his things and left, without staying here for long.

What is the situation, many businessmen are confused.

In just half a day, someone inquired about a teahouse in the middle of Taiming Temple.

"There is really salt, or the best salt, the merchant is from Jinghu South Road, and he took away a boatload of salt on the big beach on the river, a boatload of salt. The official warehouse on Jinghu South Road is out of salt, and the high price of salt on the market is scary. ”

At this time, someone rushed in: "I heard, I heard." Lizhou, Zhilizhou wrote to the imperial court, and the current salt price in Lizhou is 320 Wen per catty. ”

Many merchants stood up violently, and the price of salt frightened many people.

Someone immediately asked, "Is it because of the war over there in Lintao?" ”

"No, as early as last year, the price of salt rose to 200 wen, and in the spring of this year, it was already 260wen."

Lizhou is far away and unfamiliar to the merchants here in Yangzhou, because it is too far away, and the place name before Han Jiang crossed was Guangyuan.

At this time, another person came in: "Which of you still has salt money in his hand?" ”

A businessman replied: "I'm afraid of turning into waste paper, and if I can exchange some money, it is a little less loss, and I still change it early, and I will be out of half of my hands." ”

The person who came said: "I still have some salt money in my house that are not with the original salt money, and there are not many of them. I also went to change it, but I only got 6,000 catties of salt. ”

"How did you change it?"

"On the beach, one salt banknote is exchanged for sixty catties of salt, and then the same money is paid, and sixty wen is paid for loading the ship."

The merchants began to calculate, this price must be a blood loss according to the price of the salt money itself, but.

At present, because of the catastrophe of the Yellow River, the salt fields of Lianghuai are destroyed this year, not to mention the two roads of Jinghu without salt fields, and now the salt of Liangzhejiang is afraid that it will rise.

To put it scarily, it is very likely that there will be people in Lianghuai, a place where salt is produced, without salt.

In the city of Yangzhou.

Li Er and his staff are also carefully studying the current situation.

The shopkeeper Lin in charge of the business has already finished his report: "General, even if there are millions of quintals of grain north of the Huai River, it is not enough, and such a catastrophe can be said to be that tens of thousands of quintals of grain are thrown into it without making a sound." ”

Li Er didn't answer, he knew it in his heart.

I am afraid that there are tens of millions of people affected by the disaster in Jinguo this time, and 100,000 loads of grain is barely enough for these people to eat for a day.

Li Er stretched out his hand, and a general stood up: "Du Shuai, the area affected by the disaster is very large at the moment, and the hard-hit area is just a hundred miles long for me to investigate, and the section of nearly a thousand miles to Haizhou is the hardest-hit area." Sizhou was extremely heavy, and the entire city was flooded, so he finally investigated the headquarters, fearing that millions of people would be homeless and another million people's homes would be damaged. ”

"Right now, the victims are divided into multiple groups. The largest number of people is predicted to be no less than 300,000 people, and the family is heading to Xuzhou, and my spies reported that if the disaster relief of the Jinren in late autumn is unfavorable, I am afraid that there will be people going to Xuzhou. ”

Li Er nodded, this news is useful, and his subordinates have not wasted rice in vain.

The general continued to report: "There is still a road to the north, and I heard that the Jinren Jinan Mansion has set up a checkpoint to prevent the victims from going further north. There are more than 100,000 people in the first {vinegar literature - fastest hair} to the west, and they go to Bianliang, and I think they will eventually turn to Wancheng. At present, there is another group, and more than 100,000 people are heading south, and the first batch of victims from Sizhou are already rushing through the pass. ”

Li Er knocked on the table lightly: "Recruitment." ”

"This! Please think twice, general. ”

Although there were no official documents, the imperial court had already sent several letters hinting at Li Er's efforts to prevent the exiles.

Li Er didn't answer, and the shopkeeper Lin said: "Presumably this letter was written by the uncle of the Taiguo Dynasty, and now Li Tong is gaining power again, and Shi Hao, the father of his henchman Shi Miyuan, once contemptuously called the northerners a reformed person, and this title is still used to this day, and I think that there will be an official document sent to the general soon, so please think twice about the general." ”

Li Er slapped the table and shouted: "Recruitment!" ”

"General." The military attaches present stood up together and urged them.

Li Er stretched out his hand and pointed at everyone here: "Li Xiaoer, who is your uncle?" Niu Wulang, who is Niu Sandao of the righteous army in the north, he is not related to your Niu family, but just admires. You are a descendant of the Niu family, do you remember what you said when you first arrived in Yangzhou from Lushan Village? Speaking of this, Li Er's face changed: "Go and do something for Lao Tzu." ”

The generals bowed their heads.

Some of them were converts themselves, and some of their ancestors were converts.

They are the kind of people who are slandered and distrusted by the court.

They are cannon fodder on the front line.

It's not that they don't want to save the victims who fled from the north, but right now, Li Er is working against the court, and those people in the court will not let Li Er go.

Shopkeeper Lin stepped forward: "If the general must give this order, there is a plan below." ”

"Speak."

"Let the people of Fujian Road do it, the three major tribes of the She tribe, the mountain tribe, and the Yue people."

"Go on." Li Er listened to this suggestion interestingly.

The shopkeeper Lin said: "Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty to Lin'an to become the capital, the salt law of the Great Song Dynasty could not be implemented only in Fujian. ”

Coup!