The southwestern border was unstable, the court officials were in turmoil, and Hongyuan was in trouble at the beginning of the 20 years, but unfortunately the disaster did not go alone, and soon, a major case broke out in Jingnan Province on the southern border that caused a sensation in the government and the opposition.

Zhuang Kang, the commander of Binzhou City, seized a batch of forbidden drugs for the great cause - A Furong from the ships and warehouses of the merchants of Binzhou Port, amounting to 400 catties.

A hibiscus is a medicine from Persia and the Great Food area, similar to the "Five Stone Powder" in the Central Plains.

At the beginning, it was introduced by Dr. Fanbang, for the treatment of headaches, dizziness, ear diseases, coughs, and even head diseases such as strokes, and later the world found that it had the effect of causing people to hallucinate, "fluttering like walking on the clouds", and then there were good people who preached that this thing can "help the yang and strengthen the lean vitality", so this medicine was pushed to the list of "miracle medicine".

This drug can confuse people's minds, confuse people's minds, and after the dose reaches a certain level, it will be addictive, and then the dose of reuse will gradually increase, and finally cause people to go crazy and die suddenly, so it has been listed as a banned drug as early as the first emperor. According to the laws of the great cause, the smuggling of a Furong can be punished with imprisonment and confiscation of family property, and in serious cases, exile or even death.

Four hundred catties of Ah Furong is enough to make the offender die a hundred times.

Yuan Su, the secretary of Dali Temple, was ordered to personally go south to Jingnan Province to investigate the whole story.

It's okay if you don't investigate, but when you investigate, it's another corruption nest case.

In less than half a month, Jingnan Province Jiedu made Zhang Yi and Binzhou Assassin Wang Yu arrested one after another. Zhang Yi has been deeply involved in Jingnan Province for more than ten years, and has moved from the county order to the envoy from the Sanpin Festival, and has been intricate and powerful in Binzhou. In Jingnan, everyone in the world knows that there is Zhang Yi, but there is no Son of Heaven.

According to the laws and regulations of the great cause, all states want to trade with the great cause, they need to go to the provincial government yamen to apply for a "public certificate", and only after obtaining the "public certificate" can they have trade qualifications, and the state capitals and cities levy taxes on the import and export goods according to the official certificate, and issue a "reciprocal citation" after the tax is paid, and the merchants can reliably load and unload the goods on the shore with the referral, and trade freely and unhindered in the territory of the great industry.

Obviously, it is impossible for Fanbang merchants who do not have public certificates, and whose public certificates do not match the real thing, to swagger to the shore.

Several of the Fanbang merchants who were imprisoned identified the Binzhou "Yifenghe" firm as the connector who provided them with the convenience of docking, loading and unloading, and warehousing.

Yifenghe, the largest trading house in Binzhou engaged in the trade of import and export goods, is in charge of Zhang Yi's brother Zhang Xu on the surface, but the actual holder is Zhang Yi, the envoy of the festival.

With Zhang Yi's protection, regardless of whether Yeefung and the public certificate of the goods are available, they can be unimpeded in Binzhou Port.

Within three days, Yeefung and all its warehouses were seized overnight.

This time, it was not just four hundred catties of Hibiscus, but the eye-opening things that opened the eyes of the imperial court appeared one after another.

First, as many as tens of thousands of stone of cast iron, which had been loaded onto ships and prepared to go to sea; and then the treasures paid tribute by various countries, as soon as they landed in Binzhou, they had been selected by Zhang Yi first, and the rest were transported to Changxing and entered the palace; After that, the in-kind tribute tax recovered by the Jingnan Provincial Lost Division was piled up in Yifenghe's warehouse like a mountain!

In fact, the biggest middleman is Yi Fenghe, and the evidence shows that Yi Fenghe first intercepted the tribute tax and resold it to the state and Xiangwangfu, and then forced the average loss to make false accounts and deceive Taifu Temple!

The so-called largest middleman, Xi Hexing, who turned himself in at the beginning, resold less than half of Yee Fung He!

Before Yuan Su's closing report was finished, Emperor Hongyuan smashed the teacup on the spot!

There was silence and dead silence in the imperial study.

Under the Jingnan Daowo case, Cui Yong's little sesame mung bean big private morality is no longer important, and Emperor Hongyuan immediately terminated all the investigations of Wei Yingshi in Dali Temple, and comprehensively investigated the various taxes paid to the household department of the imperial court in Jingnan Province for more than ten years, not only the tribute tax in kind, but also three other major items - grain tax, household tax and Ding tax.

Needless to say, all the taxes paid by Jingnan Province are not true.

Zhang Yi was completely cold, and all the family property was confiscated.

Shen Yue, the transfer envoy of Jingnan Province, was promoted to the envoy of Jiedu, and Zhuang Kang, who was the first to discover that Yifeng and colluded with Fanbang merchants to smuggle A Furong, began to enter the eyes of Emperor Hongyuan.

Less than half a month after the case was closed, Zhuang Kang was promoted to Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, and he was in charge of both losses and equalization.

Cui Yong's case was shelved, and soon after Cui Yong was demoted three levels in a row and demoted to the rank of Liyang County Commander in Jingnan Province.

In the selection of Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, King Xi and Han Yang did not get any benefits, but the relationship was bad, Han Yang and King Xi completely broke up, and since then the Ministry is no longer the sphere of influence of King Xi.

The turmoil of the Great Cause gave the state a chance to breathe.

Wei Shaoqing, who was originally in a favorable situation, was affected by Wei Yingshi's involvement in the case, and his command failed, and he was counterattacked by the state. Most of the cities that had already been captured were reconquered by the Prison Prefecture and taken back into their pockets. In order to turn the tide of the war, Liu Yi, the son of the king, led an army of 60,000 to aid Wei Shaoqing.

Shen Yue, the envoy of Jingnan Province, Lu Yun, and Xue Chengren, the envoy of Jingnan Province, led the military forces in the province and assisted in the defense of the main battlefield of the adjacent Guannan Province.

The situation in the southwest and southern borders of Daye was tense and all industries were depressed, and Taixiangxing, a business name that had risen in Luo'an for a short time, ushered in the first test after its development and growth.

With the fall of Yeefung and Binzhou, there was a vacuum in the Binzhou import and export trade market, and whoever could take the lead in encroaching on Yee Fung He's market would become the largest business in Jingnan Province.

Whether it is to consolidate the vested interests of Taixiangxing or continue to open up the trade market in Jingnan Province, Taixiangxing must exert its efforts as soon as possible. After all, Ye Qinyu is Xue Chunyue's wife, and it is inconvenient to show up in front of everyone, and he only returned to Changxing to reunite with Xue Chunyue, and he was reluctant to part, Yi Ruhai took care of Dingtaihe in Haizhou, so Binzhou's business affairs could only be handed over to Xuecheng to deal with.

Xuecheng and Du Juan were about to set off from Changxing, and there was an urgent report from the front, Xue Huijin also wanted to get a piece of the pie in Binzhou, and he had already set off and would arrive in a few days.

The Xue family in Haizhou lost Ding Taihe and Ding Tai Fung, and there were only eighteen commercial houses left, and they were not able to swallow Yi Feng He at all. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the rotten ship has 3,000 nails, so when Xue Huijin arrived in Binzhou in the name of the imperial merchant Xue family, it still caused a lot of sensation to the local business community.

Xue Huijin is not an easy person to deal with, and Xuecheng may not be able to deal with him to the end.

Ye Cizhun, who was detained on the border of Jianzhou, was about to return to Changxing with Su Yuming and Wei Zhiyu, and after hearing the news that Xue Huijin had arrived in Binzhou, he hesitated whether he should go to Binzhou to help Xuecheng.

Located in the southwest border, the climate is warm and moist, and the four seasons are like spring. Ye Cizhun stood on the lookout and was distracted, seemingly admiring the spring scenery after the rain, but in fact he was thinking about how to send Yu Ming back to Changxing, and he rushed to Binzhou alone.

Wei Zhiyu came quietly and said to him, "Brother Ye is thinking about where to go?" ”

Ye Cizhun was slightly stunned, looked back at her, and then smiled, "It turned out to be you, I have wronged you this time, and Ye is ashamed of the name of the concubine for no reason." ”

"It's okay, I know Brother Ye, you are worried about the chaos here, in case there are gangsters plotting against me, married status is an excellent talisman. I wonder when Brother Ye thinks we should leave? ”

"After all, this place is someone else's place, we are the people of the great cause, and it will be more dangerous to stay for one more day. I wanted to go back to Changxing, but I was worried that Tai Xiangxing would not be able to beat Xue Huijin in Binzhou...... What a dilemma. ”

"Since that's the case, Brother Ye will go to Binzhou, as for Sister Su, I will send her to my brother, and then return to Beijing with the team."

"With Zhiyu's understanding of the border, if it is in normal times, I can rest assured that the two of you will go on the road, but now it is wartime, and it is difficult for you two girls to pass through the smoke-filled Detention Prefecture."

Wei Zhiyu hesitated for a moment and continued, "Actually...... I had a bold idea. ”

Ye Cizhun frowned and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"According to my observation of Duan's father and son in the past few days, I found that these two people still retain the habits of the Central Plains in their diet and daily life, especially Duan Zhenggang, who is still dressed in the Central Plains, so it must be unforgettable to the homeland of the Central Plains, and deep down in their hearts they are still towards the great cause. And judging from the familiarity of their tribe with Lord Shen, they should have a lot of friendship, and if they manage their relationship with the officials of the great cause so carefully, I am afraid that they have found a good way out for themselves and have a heart of obedience. ”

Ye Cizhun pondered for a while and nodded, "What you said is reasonable, what do you think?" ”

"I want to identify myself and build a bridge between Lord Duan and my brother."

Ye Cizhun was shocked, "No! ”

Wan Duan's father and son are concerned about Qiang and Barbarian, once Wei Zhiyu's identity is exposed, he will definitely become the biggest hostage in the state!

"Brother Ye, listen to me first. Zhiyu grew up on the border since he was a child, and he is used to seeing wolf smoke everywhere and the sunset over the long river, and he is very envious of his brother who can serve the country immediately and on the field, and he no longer cares about his own life. Now that the war between the imperial court and the state of the state is tight, if you can rebel against the father and son of the Duan family in the rear, you can work with your brother to form a flanking attack on the hinterland of the state in the middle, and then you will be able to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop with all your strength! ”

Unexpectedly, Wei Zhiyu had such a thorough understanding of the current battle situation, and Ye Cizhun couldn't help but secretly praise her.

"But what if a father and son are in love with power and don't want to be obedient?"

"Then Zhiyu will only die, in short, he will never let himself become a hostage in the state of detention and let his brother fall into trouble."

"It's too risky, I won't let you do it. Lord Wei and Mrs. Wei are still looking forward to your brothers and sisters returning home safely. ”

"I haven't tried it, so how do you know it can't work? If Duan's father and son defected, it would be more useful than Liu Yi's 60,000 reinforcements. ”

"Absolutely not! Zhiyu, I will take you and Yu Ming Yuan Road back to Kannan Province tomorrow, and then decide on the next move when I return to Kannan Road. ”

"You're going back to Kannando? Such a round trip, when you go back to Binzhou, I am afraid that it will already be the world of Xue Huijin. ”

"It's nothing to give him Binzhou Port, anyway, Dingtaihe has already arrived, and he will try to do big things in the future."

"Taixiangxing has just merged with Ding Taihe, the financial resources are empty, and now there is smoke everywhere, all industries are depressed, and it is not possible to re-enrich the financial resources overnight. In this gap, if Xue Huijin accumulates strength in Binzhou and makes a comeback, he will definitely be able to become a big consortium that competes with Taixiangxing. In the future, how many chances will there be to knock him down? ”