Ye Qinyu got out of her arms, his eyes were misty, and said, "Uncle Jung, I don't know why Brother Pei Qi became like this. He is the prince of the Houmen, what do you want, why do you want to rely on King Xu anymore......"

"He has everything, but not you!"

Xue Peiqi's psychology in this regard, Ye Cizhun can understand it very well, because Su Yuming, who he loves, was also someone else's woman, and he can understand the pain of asking for it but not being able to get it.

Ye Qinyu pursed his lips, and after a while, he said, "When Chunyue comes back, can I leave Changxing with him and go back to Haizhou to continue my previous life?" ”

Ye Cizhun looked at her helplessly, "Haizhou? It's not your place anymore, at least, not now......"

"Then he and I are incognito, wherever we go to live, isn't Xi Hexing leaving the state? I can also go back to the state with him. In short, is it possible to stop getting involved in these political, familial, and business battles? ”

Ye Cizhun sighed, turned sideways slightly, looked at the bright and spacious courtyard in front of him with slightly frowning eyes, and said slowly, "Qinyu, our new life has just begun. God has destined everyone to have no way back, but to move forward. ”

"You, Chunyue, Brother Peiqi, what happened between you? How many things are hidden from me? Ye Qinyu's mood was a little unstable and almost collapsed, "What about me and Sister Yuming, have you ever thought about us?" ”

"Naturally, I thought about it! Chunyue and I will definitely protect you! ”

Ye Cizhun turned around, hugged Ye Qinyu's arms, and comforted her softly again, and after a long time, Ye Qinyu gradually calmed down.

In the late spring of the eighteenth year of Hongyuan, Xue Chunyue finally entered the amnesty order of the imperial court, and Su Yuming was pardoned with him.

The peach-colored scandal three years ago was forgotten by the world intentionally or unintentionally with the gradual improvement of Ye Cizhun's status in the imperial court. After being pardoned, Su Yuming, who left her nationality and returned to the world, quietly settled down in an ordinary house in the southeast corner of Changxing, and depended on the cuckoo for her life.

Meng Xia, the imperial court officially issued a decree to recruit Xue Chunyue into the court, and served as the water and land transfer envoy from Sipin Taifu Temple, officially in charge of the development and guidance of the water and land official roads of the Great Industry State, and assisted the Junyi Division to complete the transfer and allocation of tribute taxes in kind, and became the chief helmsman of the official water and land transportation army of the great cause.

Xihexing was gradually handed over to Su Qi and his son, and continued to expand to Binzhou Port and Tongzhou Port according to Xue Chunyue's established direction.

In the eighteenth year of Hongyuan, Xue Chunyue once again set foot in Changxing City in this season of growth of all things, this time, he is no longer a fledgling young man in Tsing Yi, but a popular minister of the imperial court who has gone through ups and downs and has been reborn from the fire, and the chief helmsman of the water and land transportation of the Great Cause.

The moment Xue Chunyue stepped into the land and water transfer envoy's mansion, Ye Qinyu ran out of the hall and rushed into his arms.

Xue Chunyue hugged her tightly, trying to tilt her head to prevent her tears from flowing, after all, when Danyang was on the line of life and death, he didn't shed half a tear.

Ye Qinyu was full of tears, opened his big watery eyes, and stretched out his right palm, as if asking Xue Chunyue what he wanted.

Xue Chunyue smiled slightly, carefully took out a golden flute from his arms, gently put it in her hand, and said softly, "Xihe's flute, you have taken it back ......"

Ye Qinyu's tears finally couldn't be suppressed and rolled down......

There are only two tokens between her and Xue Chunyue, one is a double-layer hollow plum blossom jade pendant, and the other is a set of twelve gold silk inlaid beads and emerald dragon and phoenix flower branch headdress. She was in a hurry when she was coerced out of Haizhou by Xue Peiqi, except for the jade pendant that she had been wearing, the headdress had not had time to be taken away, so she had been placed in Haizhou Xue Mansion Xiheju as it was.

On that piece of paper, Ye Qinyu didn't dare to write too much, for fear of being jealous of Xue Peiqi and bringing death to Xue Chunyue, so he could only say a few words to express his lovesickness, and the implication was to hope that Xue Chunyue would return safely, get back the set of dowry gifts exclusive to her in Xiheju, and re-hire her.

"There are eleven more pieces, in the late bag, if the young lady has Yaxing, it is better to follow me into the house and enjoy it together."

Ye Qinyu burst into tears and laughed, and snuggled into his arms again......

Soon after Xue Chunyue took office, he chose a day to go to King Jing's Mansion to re-employ, but unexpectedly, Xue Chunyue was hired this time, and was rejected by Prince Jing.

Ye Qinyu was puzzled, but Xue Chunyue was very calm, as if he had expected it, so he silently left the headdress and left King Jing's mansion directly.

Ye Cizhun and Xue Chunyue's reform of the equalization of the great cause of the country gradually kicked off.

The first to bear the brunt is Haizhou Dingtaihe, which monopolizes inland transportation routes.

After Ding Taihe took power with Xue Huijin, he gave up Xue Chunyue's market-oriented route and returned to Xue Chenggui's old path of relying on the imperial court. Since Ye Cizhun left, the average loss business has also come to a standstill, because the imperial court can not find a chief operator like Ye Cizhun who can be qualified to form a transportation team, so the important support of the average loss - shipping responsibility, will fall back into the hands of Ding Taihe under the control of King Xu.

Xue Huijin sat back on Xue Chenggui's merit book, and made money every day.

However, on the first day of Xue Chunyue's tenure as a land and water transport envoy, he began to reorganize the imperial court's transportation team, encouraging adult men to serve the next five years of conscription at one time, three months a year, a cumulative period of one year and three months, with a period of three months, familiar with the characteristics of water and shipping, the next year of ship transportation, three months before retirement, began to bring a new batch of conscripts to work, to achieve the recycling of the transport team. As a result, the business volume of Dingtaihe shrank instantly.

Secondly, with the power in their hands, they forced the government offices of each waterway to assume the responsibility of dredging and channeling the river, but firmly grasped the right to use and manage the river in the hands of the Taifu Temple of the imperial court, cracked down on the monopoly of all gangs or merchants, established the prestige of the imperial court, and established the guidelines for the use of the river that the imperial court gave priority to and the common people shared equally.

Finally, it is to fully cooperate with the goods dispatching instructions of the Equalization Division, and take the market as the guide, and safely and quickly transport the in-kind tribute tax collected from the private sector to the leveling agency of the corresponding state capital, so that it can be put on the market in time to maximize the benefits of the in-kind tribute tax.

In order to solve the food problem of the border garrison and reduce the pressure on the grain supply of the border state capital, Xue Chunyue came up with another method. Daye has always implemented the salt and iron official system, and a group of salt merchants who want to obtain the qualification for the purchase of official salt must obtain the corresponding amount of salt stamps, and only with salt stamps can they purchase official salt from the salt affairs agency of the imperial court, so as to put it on the market.

Xue Chunyue encouraged salt merchants to transport grain and grass to the border state capital for sale, and the border garrison used silver taels and salt stamps as trading chips in exchange for salt merchants' grain and grass, so that salt merchants could not only earn back the transportation costs, but also obtain the necessary salt stamps, and the most important thing was that this law encouraged private merchants to spontaneously purchase grain and transport grain to the border, which greatly reduced the pressure on the imperial court to dispatch and transport grain and grass, and could put more transportation capacity into the transshipment operation of non-grain and grass tribute taxes in kind, so as to increase profits and enrich the treasury, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

With the strong support of Emperor Hongyuan, Ye Cizhun and Xue Chunyue's new policy of equalizing losses quickly took effect, and in less than a few months, the treasury has become increasingly full, and as the gatekeeper of the treasury, Shangshu Wei Yingshi also had to admire Ye Cizhun and Xue Chunyue's management talent, and the three provinces and six ministries praised the two.

Emperor Hongyuan was very satisfied with the merits of the two, and promoted Xue Chunyue to the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, and concurrently served as the water and land transfer envoy, becoming the second-in-command of Taifu Temple after Ye Cizhun.

What followed was the rapid decline of Dingtaihe and the rapid rise of Xihexing.

Dingtaihe, which relied heavily on the imperial court's transportation business, suddenly lost its profit pillar, and Xue Chunyue's market-oriented reform was abolished, which led to Dingtaihe falling into a very passive situation, even if it hurriedly readjusted its routes to cater to the market, but it was also caught off guard. At the same time, Xihexing met the transportation requirements of merchants from all over the country with reasonable routes and flexible scheduling, and quickly captured the inland river transportation market from the Yangtze River basin in the north, the Huai River basin in the east, and Shuzhou in the west. Binzhou Port is firmly controlled by it, and Tongzhou Port is just around the corner.

Dingtaihe was already a gloomy fog, but Xue Huijin, as the head of the family, was still mixed in the Changxing officialdom at this time, operating the so-called Xuwang sphere of influence, trying to re-shake the court's even-loss policy through lobbying, giving up self-built fleets, and re-requisitioning private shipping forces.

Xue Huijin didn't go back to Haizhou, there was another purpose, he wanted to get Su Yuming!

Taifu Temple has been so busy in the past few months, Ye Cizhun and Xue Chunyue are both lacking in skills, and almost all of their food and accommodation are in the official office, but they don't want to give Xue Huijin an opportunity to take advantage of, and it is not difficult to find someone in Changxing City by the power of King Xu.

In autumn, the cuckoo went out to buy something, and when he turned a corner, he was surrounded by several big men and tied up strongly, and he didn't have the slightest chance to ventilate and report the news.

Then came Xue Huijin, who pushed open the courtyard door and looked at Su Yuming, who was reading in the sun while basking in the courtyard.

Su Yuming didn't realize the danger coming, thinking that the cuckoo forgot to bring something and turned it back, so he smiled without raising his head, "What did you forget to take this time?" You have such a memory, don't ask me to go to the market next time to redeem you. ”

Xue Huijin looked at Su Yuming, who was leisurely bathed in the morning light, dignified and elegant, soft and lovely, but a thought of destruction rose in his heart. Because she had almost never shown such a gentle and lovely side in front of him, and more importantly, no matter what she was, she no longer belonged to him. What he can't get, others can't even think of!

Xue Huijin slowly approached, Su Yuming finally realized that someone was wrong, looked up, was shocked, and hurriedly stood up and wanted to run. Xue Huijin let her escape, reached out and grabbed her and pulled her to himself.

"Madam, I've been looking for you for a long time."

"I'm not your lady! I have a letter of resignation, and I have nothing to do with you for a long time! Let me go! ”

"Really? I have a good collection of your marriage book, don't want to break up with me in this life! ”

In a fit of rage, Xue Huijin had long forgotten her sense of proportion, and her arm was bruised.