"Good news, big handsome." Gao Shiming walked into the General Military Mansion with a smile, and when he saw Yang Hongzhang, who was burying his head in sorting out the training plan, he said with a smile, "Dashuai, the people from the Datong Prefect have been selected." ”

Hearing this, Yang Hongzhang stopped the work in his hand and looked up at Gao Shiming, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, since he came to Datong, he completely abandoned the appearance of being unpleasant to look at in the palace, and almost ignored what Yang Hongzhang did in the Datong Guards, and occasionally followed to review the training of recruits and the construction of Yanggao City, and seemed to be willing to be a green leaf.

What Yang Hongzhang didn't know was that Gao Shiming had also experienced earth-shaking changes during this time, from the excitement after receiving the order at the beginning, to the loss after seeing the ruins of Zhenyuwei and other places, and then to the worry that the Mongolian cavalry would come at any time, to the joy and comfort of the whole day.

"It's good news, it is said that this new prefect has been an official in Jiangnan for many years, and he will definitely not be embarrassed by you in the future." Gao Shiming saw that he had successfully attracted Yang Hongzhang's attention, and he couldn't help but be complacent in his heart, and he had the intention to show off.

"Oh, Gao Gong, do you have any details about this person?" Yang Hongzhang was also relieved when he heard this, and the people from Jiangnan were somewhat of a fellow countryman.

"The new prefect is called Ye Kaitai, and it is said that he is also very young, and he has served as the prefect of Shanghai and Songjiang, and he has a good relationship with Lord Ni and Lord Qian in the court."

Hearing this, Yang Hongzhang smiled, at this stage, except for Song Yingxing, Ye Kaitai can be said to be the person Yang Hongzhang hopes to cooperate with the most, although the readers of this era may change with the change of position, at least Ye Kaitai and himself have an intersection in Shanghai, and Gu Yanwu's words that you and I are all the same kind of people still linger in my ears. Thinking about it, Emperor Zhu Youzhen also made up his mind to support himself, the general soldier of Datong.

Yang Hongzhang looked at Gao Shiming with a happy face, pondered for a while, and then said: "Gao Gong, this prefect has a bright future, it seems that you and I should do some things that need to be done before he arrives." You can't let the reader be infamy. ”

Gao Shiming put away his smile when he heard this, and asked cautiously: "Dashuai is talking about the checkpoint?" ”

"That's right, it's time to run out of green and yellow soon, and those lackeys who built slaves should also increase their trafficking. The plague in Zhili and Shanxi last year was in a big drought last year, and the people had no food in their hands, and it was estimated that the government warehouse was about to be long, and these lackeys and traitors also transported grain to the side wall in dozens of cars, and what did they earn from black money? ”

"What is the boss going to do?"

"From Zhenyuwei to Yanghewei, the whole line is opened, and the entire side wall is all screened for inspection." Yang Hongzhang said without thinking.

"Will it be too big, so I'm afraid that Shanxi won't even be able to fly a bird." Gao Shiming said a little embarrassed.

"Gao Gong, Hongzhang has been coming to Datong for some time, and there are a lot of things that need to be told to the emperor, why don't you ask Gao Gong to take a trip?"

"What are you talking about, Dashuai, underestimating our family, aren't you? Although our family does not have the ability of Fang Zhenghua and Li Fengxiang, we also know that the handsome is for the court and the Ming Dynasty, and if our family leaves, it will not be for the handsome to take responsibility alone. Those Shanxi businessmen are obedient, if they are disobedient, our family will have to tell the emperor to send someone to copy their home. Although our family has not read so many books like Dashuai, we also know that Jingzhong serves the country, what Dashuai wants to do, as long as he informs our family, our family will advance and retreat with Dashuai! ”

Yang Hongzhang looked at the beardless young eunuch in front of him, and sighed in his heart, no matter whether Gao Shiming was sincere or not, at least he didn't intend to be an enemy of himself on the surface, and he was much stronger than Yang Sichang, Wang Lenian and others.

"Gao Gong, do you really want to get involved?" Yang Hongzhang asked with a smile.

"You are the chief soldier, our family is the supervising army, Datong Town has insufficient soldiers and insufficient financial resources, and our family can't sit idly by, so I'm sorry for the emperor's trust in our family, our family is involved in this matter!"

"Good! That being the case, Hongzhang has a reluctant request, and there will definitely be a business backlash at the beginning, so in order to strictly implement the orders of the General Military Office, he also asked Gao Gong to deign to go to Tianzhen County, where Ben Shuai joined forces with Gao Gong to intercept those traitors! After speaking, Yang Hongzhang stood up and bowed to Gao Shiming, and then took the holy decree given by Zhu Youzhen to Gao Shiming, and then called Soap Li, and wrote more than a dozen notices with a brush.

Half an hour later, all the generals above the garrison of the Yang family army of the General Military Mansion arrived, looking at Yang Hongzhang with a serious face, no one dared to breathe, and seriously looked at the notice in front of them, everyone secretly peeked at Yang Hongzhang and Gao Shiming with their eyes while watching, and found that the two were also reading the notice carefully.

The content of the proclamation is actually very simple, that is, from now on, a checkpoint will be set up in the border wall of several hundred miles from Zhenyuwei to Gaoshanwei, and the main object of inspection is all goods that trade through the checkpoint to the outside of the country.

The notice lists more than 20 kinds of restricted goods, including grain, pig iron, beef tendon and other eleven kinds of prohibited items included in the list of prohibited items, into the system of sale, once it is found that there are these goods in the caravan, the goods will be confiscated directly, and according to the severity of the situation, the person responsible, the remaining dozen kinds of restrictions are restricted from export, in order to protect the interests of the people of the Ming Dynasty, from now on these restricted goods will be subject to a tax of two percent!

The generals read the proclamation and discussed it again and again, and finally some people couldn't help but look at Yang Hongzhang, they wanted to know what the young general soldier wanted.

Yang Hongzhang also seemed to see everyone's thoughts, so he stood up, holding a section of Huangling in his hand, and it was actually a holy decree.

Yang Hongzhang said to everyone while standing and watching: "This handsome man is appreciated by the emperor, and he is in a high position, thinking day and night about how to share his worries for the country. Over the years, there have been many unscrupulous merchants who have continuously delivered grain, pig iron, cattle tendons and other strategic materials to Jiannu, and after Jiannu got these things, he could equip more cavalry and feed more troops, and then invade my Ming Dynasty in the south. Therefore, from now on, all the cards in Datong Town will be subject to the strictest inspection system, once the illegal businessmen are found to be severely punished, and the sergeants who are found to have colluded with the illegal businessmen will be cleared out of the ranks, Gao Gong Gao Shiming and Zhang Hu, Sun Fei led the second and third battalions of infantry to garrison the town guards and Tiancheng guards respectively, coordinated by Gao Shiming in the center, and Zhang Hu's new battalion instructor was temporarily replaced by Xia Dongwei. I hope you will live up to your mission and guard the side wall! Material inspection is a war, a war against traitors and Mongol Tatars and Jiannu, if anyone is soft in this war, get out of here! ”

With Yang Hongzhang's order, the entire Yang family army moved quickly, especially next to the Yanhe River near Yanggao County, under the personal supervision of Zhang Linfeng, it took only half a day to build a temporary checkpoint, and Xia Dongwei led the cavalry to patrol back and forth at several checkpoints to supervise the checkpoint formation. The proclamation of the General Military Office was quickly sent to all prefectures and counties in Datong.

Suddenly there was an uproar in Datong Town, at first there were merchants who did not take it seriously, and the caravan passed by as always, but when they came to the Yan River and wanted to cross the river from the shallowest place in the past, they found that a pontoon bridge had been built, but the south side of the pontoon bridge was guarded by sergeants, and some people who often ran merchants also whispered that this trusted general soldier seemed to be really a little capable, but when they tried to cross the river, they were stopped.

Seeing this, the leader of the caravan walked out of the team with a smile, and then came to the majestic Xia Dongwei, and said with a smile: "This general, we are from the Fan family's caravan, and we are going to trade with foreign countries, do you see if it can be convenient?" As soon as he said this, his sleeves flicked, and a small bag with silver was handed to Xia Dongwei, who checked it, there were at least forty or fifty cars.

Xia Dongwei secretly sighed in his heart that these guys are really generous, and if they are generous, the profit will not be low, so his face is blank: "No problem, but according to the regulations of the General Military Office, all incoming and outgoing goods need to be inspected, you look carefully at the notice next to it, don't say that this general is embarrassing for you!" ”

As soon as he said this, dozens of sergeants stepped forward, and Xia Dongwei passed the package handed over by the leader into his arms and took a few steps back.

Where do the team leaders still need to read the notice, they are prepared for the general military mansion to inspect the passing goods, thinking that it is just Yang Hongzhang taking this opportunity to blackmail the passing merchants, so he gritted his teeth and waved to a person next to him, the man trotted over and handed him a brand-new package, he chased Xia Dongwei again, and his attitude was more modest: "The general is hard, this bag of gold is taken to sell some wine for the brothers." ”

Xia Dongwei sneered when he heard this: "I said that you didn't bring a lot of prohibited goods, if so, hehe......" Xia Dongwei took the other party's package while talking, I have to be obedient This time it is heavier than the last time, and the other party said that it is gold!

"General, it's funny, we are all businessmen, how can there be prohibited goods, general, see if you can let us go first, or it will get dark in a while......"

Just when the team leader was trying to persuade Xia Dongwei, a general ran over and reported: "General, there is a lot of grain and pig iron in this team!" ”

Hearing this, Xia Dongwei's face changed instantly, he glared at the team leader, and then snorted coldly: "Come on, take this person and the entire caravan to the general, this person is suspected of selling goods prohibited by the imperial court order to get out of the customs, the crime is extremely heinous, and he will be directly put into the prison of the General Military Mansion to wait for the delivery, and the rest will all be brought back!" ”

"General, you, you, you...... We are the caravan of the Fan family, you, you are ......" Before he finished speaking, someone came up to block his mouth, and the guys of those caravans tried to resist when they saw this, but they found that a group of cavalry rushed quickly from a distance, and there were more than 300 heavily armed sergeants at the checkpoint, so they had to be captured.

After all the caravans were settled, Xia Dongwei asked people to count the Fan family's caravan, and then the result shocked him, the caravan of two hundred people actually transported nearly 13,000 stone of grain, 5,000 catties of pig iron and a large amount of cloth, and the others were all prohibited or restricted goods in the list listed by Yang Hongzhang.