Lu Youwei saluted Lu Wei respectfully and turned his head to leave.

Seeing Lu Youwei's back disappear at the door, Lu Wei sighed and wanted to say something, but the 'salt girl' suddenly rushed in front of him and said: "Master, the Hongnong Yang clan sent to Fanyang County, and the old man named Huang Shuren supposedly would come to us, but he hasn't come to the door recently, so it won't have fallen into the hands of Wang Junlin, right?" ”

Lu Wei's expression froze, and he said: "There is this possibility, but this person falling into the hands of Wang Junlin does not have much impact on our Lu clan, even if the ins and outs of a thousand cavalry are known by Wang Junlin, there is no evidence, Wang Junlin can't do anything with us." ”

The salt girl nodded, remembered something, and said with her eyebrows: "I always feel that with Li Zixiong's current status, the Hongnong Yang clan should not be able to move after Yang Su's death, otherwise the emperor would have replaced Li Zixiong from the position of the head of Youzhou." ”

Lu Wei thought for a moment, his eyes flashed, he was shocked, and he lost his voice: "You mean Yang Su is not dead?" ”

Yan Nu shook her head and said: "The slave family just feels that there is this possibility, after all, after Yang Su pacified and annexed the state at that time, he was already enough to make a high achievement, and he has been a powerful minister for so many years, with the habits of His Majesty today, if he continues to live, not only will his end be unpredictable, but even the Hongnong Yang family may be implicated." ”

If Wang Junlin was here at this time, he would have been surprised when he heard what the salt girl said, and regarded this woman as a great enemy. This woman only guessed that Yang Su was fake death through the fact that the Yang family asked Yang Zixiong to send a thousand cavalry to cooperate with the Lu family to besiege him, which is enough to see that this woman's mind is at the level of demons.

Lu Wei was speechless for a long time, and only after a while did he sigh and say with some emotion: "Now it seems that Yang Su was forced by the emperor and Wang Junlin to fake his death. ”

After a pause, Lu Wei said, "I still feel that Wang Junlin shouldn't be so calm. ”

After thinking about it, the salt girl replied calmly: "Wang Junlin naturally shouldn't be so calm, but after all, the Lu family is the most first-class gate valve today, and it is a great Confucian family, and its status in the Great Sui Shilin is extremely high, and there are many people in the court who are officials of the Lu family, and many other family lords are also related by marriage, if Wang Junlin has no justified reason or evidence, even if he has the support of the emperor, he will not dare to follow our Lu family."

I made a move. ”

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"My lord, Fan Yang. The sailor came out of the nest in the early morning of this morning, returned to the garrison this afternoon, and immediately reported to the imperial court that they had annihilated all the 5,000 pirates who had invaded Fanyang County a few days ago. Before that, the day before yesterday, Dou Shihai, the general of the water division, had gone to the Lu manor in Zhuo County. "The county town of Fanyang County is too guarded in the mansion, and Shen Guoer reported to Wang Junlin.

"Isn't there any news from Xiaoyu yet?" Wang Junlin's brows furrowed tightly, and he was a little worried about Nie Xiaoyu and his party.

Shen Guo'er was also a little worried, her little face frowned, and she shook her head and said, "Not yet." ”

Wang Junlin pondered for a while, and said, "We can't sit back and wait for news, you go back and send someone to find a ship to go out to sea and go to the snake island to have a look." ”

Shen Guo'er's expression was solemn and said, "Guo'er remembers." ”

Wang Junlin asked again: "Is there no news from Youzhou?" ”

Shen Guo'er said with a look of grievance: "My master and the predecessors of the Spring and Autumn Slave are also true, just thinking about killing people and doing things, they have never thought of sending someone to pass on the message. Fortunately, I had already thought of this, and sent someone to the Lanyi Weifu branch office in Youzhou in advance to say that they had just sent a message today, saying that the families of Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong had been rescued, and now they are waiting for my master to save the more than 500 cavalry at the moment when Li Zixiong sent someone to kill them, and then bring them back. ”

Wang Junlin nodded and said, "Have you found any useful news?" ”

Shen Guo'er thought for a moment and said: "Fanyang County is one of the largest sea salt producing areas in Dasui, but the annual salt tax is less than 200,000 taels of silver, and according to the news I inquired, there is a salt shop in the hands of the Lu family that sells illegal salt, and the annual profit is not less than one million taels of silver, and this salt shop is not only the Lu family's, it is likely that many officials in Fanyang County account for the molecule, I suspect Fan Yang. There are also many molecules in the sailor Dou Shihai. ”

A cold light flashed in Wang Junlin's eyes, and he said, "Does Ying Yanglang have anything to do with Xue Li and this salt shop?" ”

Shen Guo'er said: "Judging from the current situation, Xue Li has nothing to do with Yanxing, but whether it has a relationship or not will be further determined in the end." ”

Wang Junlin snorted coldly

, said: "Make a big effort to investigate this salt shop, I want to know who in Fanyang County has divided the silver from this salt shop." ”

Shen Guo'er hurriedly said, "Guo'er understands how to do it. ”

Wang Junlin took a slight breath and said, "Okay, Guo'er, you can go and get busy!" Don't forget to send someone out to sea as soon as possible to find a way to go to Snake Island to investigate. ”

Shen Guo'er nodded and said, "Guo'er will arrange it as soon as possible, if there is nothing to do, Guo'er will go down first." ”

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The next day, Wang Junlin went to work in the county government, and only then did he enter the door and sit down, and called the official in charge of the salt tax over.

Now Du Ruhui will not be able to come from Changxiang County for half a month, and the official who was called by Wang Junlin to be specifically responsible for the salt tax is named Qian Zhengkuo, Wang Junlin remembers that this person has been silent and cautious since his first day at work and meeting.

Wang Junlin glanced at Qian Zhengkuo, who was respectfully saluting, signaled him to be exempt, and asked, "How much is the salt tax in this county now?" ”

Qian Zhengkuo didn't think about it, so he blurted out: "Returning to Lord Taishou, since Your Majesty ascended the throne, the annual salt tax in this county ranges from 200,000 taels of silver to 250,000 taels of silver. ”

Wang Junlin said quietly: "Why so few? ”

Qian Zhengkuo thought for a while, glanced at Wang Junlin carefully, and said: "At its peak, Fanyang County boiled the sea for salt, and you can get 500,000 stones a year!" ”

Wang Junlin calculated, more than 500,000 stone salt is a lot of money, converted into money, there are enough two million taels of silver, this should be the bulk of Fanyang County's finances, according to his plan, after the next initial control of Fanyang County, he will have to do a lot of things, and each of these things requires a lot of money, he can't use his own money to do a lot of business! Therefore, if the county government has no money financially, he can't do anything, which is a very important thing.

But what Qian Zhengkuo said next made Wang Junlin's face become more and more gloomy, and he seemed to hesitate slightly, and said: "My lord, although Fanyang County has taken the salt and iron under the ownership of the government, the result is ...... ...... of salt produced annually Every year it is getting less and less, and now there are only 100,000 stones......"

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