Zhen Feng dragged his tired body back to the tree, and finally found Martin, who had been waiting in the tree, and the two took advantage of the local chaos to leave the Flower Building.

Martin told Zhen Feng the information he had just inquired about, and Zhen Feng knew that the Wei Ruan had infiltrated so many court institutions and officials. If this continues, it is normal to have a few more Huangfu Jixun who are always full of "descending songs".

As for what happened to Zhen Feng just now, Zhen Feng basically kept his mouth shut, and just said that he set the fire on it. He really couldn't open his mouth to talk about that black history.

Zhen Feng was a little worried in his heart, Xu You wouldn't be the target of the Wei Ruan's sugar-coated cannonballs, right? If so, it's all over. However, Xu You is a relative of the emperor, so he shouldn't fall so soon. If you don't see it, it's fine, now you can't be a don't know, gamble, only Xu You can be found.

On the second day, that is, on the twenty-ninth day of October, Zhen Feng set off from the back door and went to Xu Youfu. The main entrance has been closed, mainly for fear of being attacked by an unknown mixture of solid liquids when going out from the main entrance during the day.

Zhen Feng entered the Xu Mansion smoothly this time, and the housekeeper Xu Fuji arranged him in the side hall where they met last time, and Xu You had not returned to the mansion yet. I guess something important is entangled.

At this time, Xu You was in the Chengxin Hall, Li Yu's face was pale, the prince and the prince Xu Liao, and Zhang Xun, a scholar from the middle school and a scholar of the Qinghui Palace, knelt silently behind the desk and did not dare to speak. This is the real core of the Tang Kingdom's decision-making, and they have just experienced the wolves of the court.

Li Yu flipped the thick stack of official canons in front of him to the ground, and scolded sharply: "These villains with honey-bellied swords, they keep saying that they are thinking about me, but they come to make trouble for me. You see, Wuchang Lin Huzi forcibly suppressed the price of salt, and they are all impeaching him for being arrogant and domineering, and suppressing the good people by force, am I blind? This Lin Huzi is also really, and he will use the army to suppress it for a trivial matter, which will really gather the will of the army. ”

Li Yu pointed to the pieces scattered on the ground again, and said: "Look at the salt and iron transfer envoys, who keep saying that if they want to share their worries for me and solve the problem of salt prices, they will support Weisoft to merge the illegal salt dealers in the black market, and then let me give me the official salt business qualifications. It Wei Ruan wants to monopolize all the official and private salt of my Tang Kingdom! ”

Li Yu lost his temper, sat down again, and asked weakly and helplessly: "Ladies and gentlemen, what is the best plan?" ”

Zhang Xun said righteously: "Official, Lin Huzi's move is disrespectful, although it is effective, it is arrogant. In the final analysis, there is no one in the eyes of the Wei Ruan, and now there are so many colleagues who are deep or shallow in it, why not find a reason to take it down in one fell swoop and completely relieve the trouble. ”

"How dare the Wei Ruan be so arrogantly put on the surface, how can I not know who is behind it. Song Guo's move is really too deceitful, how can the salt of the Tang Dynasty be held in the hands of the other party, sigh! Li Yu could only sigh, he could only scold the Song Kingdom, but he could not complain or spit on the history of the Tang Kingdom, after all, it was his father who lost the salt-producing places of Chuzhou and Yangzhou in Jiangbei.

"Maybe this method of infiltrating the officials of our dynasty is just the idea of the Song State salt and iron transfer envoy to inspect Chuzhou, so you might as well negotiate directly with the Zhao and Song officials?" Xu Liao on the side made a suggestion.

"No." Zhang Xun retorted mercilessly: "The salt and iron transfer envoy of the Song State is concurrently served by Prime Minister Zhao Pu, and Hao Qiang, the inspector of Chuzhou, is Zhao Pu's subordinate, this plan should not only be the idea of Hao Qiang and Wei Ruan, but even Zhao Guanjia and Zhao Pu already know about it." We made representations, but instead we fell into the middle of the Northern Dynasty and lost our face without any evidence. What's more, if the cancellation of the annual salt supply is put on the table, it will be even more inappropriate if something that has not been discussed again. ”

"I think this assertion is a bit unfounded......"

Xu Liao's statement was quickly interrupted, Li Yu looked at Zhang Xun, and asked earnestly: "Shi Di, this statement is not unreasonable, the Song Kingdom is like a hungry tiger, and we have thrown ourselves into the net and happened to be in the calculations of some people in the Song Kingdom." What do you think is the best way to deal with it? ”

Shi Di is Zhang Xun's expression, Li Yu's exit represents his attitude is to agree with Zhang Xun's point of view, Xu Liao on the side is like a fly eating a meal, no longer refutes, but echoes: "It's still an official sage, and he thinks far-reaching." ”

There was a hint of disdain in the corners of Zhang Xun's eyes, and after thinking for a while, he said: "The official family, as long as the price of salt can be suppressed and the matter can be delayed until next year, the official salt will be transported from Jiangbei, and all this may be alleviated." ”

Xu Liao said lightly: "To put it lightly, there is a steady stream of private salt behind the Wei Ruan, how can we curb the price of salt?" Moreover, if the price of official salt is reduced, who can guarantee that the people who buy salt are people in need, and not that Wei Soft is manipulating behind their backs? At that time, the official salt will flow into the Wei Ruan, and the private salt will be controlled by the Wei Ruan, so how can it be compensated for the loss? ”

When Li Yu heard this, he nodded slightly, and agreed with Xu Liao's question. Zhang Xun was silent and snorted coldly, Xu Liao's questioning was indeed reasonable, and he had not thought about it carefully, so he would not make suggestions for the time being.

Xu You pondered on the side, he learned from Zhen Feng that after two days of investigation, he had learned in advance, and he could guess a thing or two based on his long-term political experience, but the turbulence of the previous court discussion was indeed beyond his expectations, from the beginning of Lin Renzhao's deployment of troops as a military general to suppress the impeachment of the salt price, it was not a matter of people, and the salt price incident and the suggestion to recommend Wei Ruan to come forward to rectify the endgame were introduced.

He clearly felt the powerlessness of Li Yu and Cheng Xintang. Everyone knows that Guan Yan was choked by the Song Dynasty, and behind the Wei Ruan was the salt and iron transport envoy of the Song Dynasty. As long as the problem of salt deficiency is not solved, this knot cannot be untied.

Li Yu looked at Xu You eagerly, at this time Xu Liao and Zhang Xun had already died down, and only Xu You's old god was on the ground. Xu You sighed and said: "Official, in fact, the old minister investigated a little bit as early as yesterday, and I wanted to come here today to study it, but before I had time to report, I encountered a dispute between the court." The soaring price of salt was just an introduction, and the result was that the people were crying out, and too many officials in the court were deeply or shallowly involved, and the energy behind it should not be underestimated. ”

"Gong Xu, how could you go to investigate in advance?"

"Do you still remember that Zhuge Wolong? It was he who came to Lao Chen three days ago with doubts and speculations about Wei Ruan, and he said that the soaring price of salt was not just about unscrupulous merchants embezzling huge profits, and there must be an unknown purpose behind the scenes, so Lao Chen spent two days to investigate and secretly visit, which gave him a little eyebrow. It's just that the results are not optimistic, and the old minister warned him last night to be cautious. ”

"It's him again. This kid has a bit of insight on the ground. So does Xu Gong have a way to deal with it? ”

Xu You shook his head and said: "What Shi Di said about suppressing the price of salt is the direction to solve this matter, but the official family is extremely worried, Lin Huzi should not privately transfer troops to suppress it, but his method can be used as a reference." ”

Xu You just said a direction, and did not express his position clearly, and he was very cunning. Zhang Yi felt that this was an opportunity, so he echoed: "Weichen seconded it." This kind of matter of winning the hearts and minds of the army and the people can only be ordered by the official family, and then a trustworthy person can be sent to supervise this matter, and perhaps the new official salt will be able to enter the Tang Dynasty next year, and the matter can be stifled. ”

Li Yu touched his chin and pondered for a while, Lin Huzi's decisiveness did have an effect, but as a general with military power in his hands, he sat on the distant frontier and was completely uncontrolled, but he won the hearts of the army and the people.

Li Yu nodded, looking at Xu You, he still looked like an old god was there, who should be sent to the governor for this matter? He looked at Zhang Xun again, maybe only Zhang Xun could be trusted enough, and said: "Zhang Qing's family, there are only a handful of credible people at the moment, so you will work hard and draw up a will, and you will supervise this matter." ”

Zhang Yi showed a faint smile, and Shi Li said, "Huh." ”

Xu Liao smiled secretly in his heart, this is a matter of offending people, if it is done well, it may not be beneficial, and if it is not done well, it is not only a matter of official position, but it may become the target of public criticism.