I don't know how many people Han Qian left behind in the inn opposite, Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng stayed in the tea shop, and they didn't dare to act rashly, and they didn't even dare to send people out easily, for fear of causing unnecessary misunderstandings.

After dark, they still stayed in Jianyuan, and Hu Sui came over for fear of what would happen, and when there were enough people to guard the tea shop, Yin Peng personally led people to surround the inn opposite, but rushed in to search for it.

After a lot of chickens and dogs, Yin Peng angrily took people, grabbed a thin man who was tied up by five flowers and ran back to the tea shop, and said: "There is only one person in the inn opposite, we have fallen for Han Qian's traitor's empty city plan!" ”

Yin Peng didn't have the face to say that they searched the room on the second floor of the inn, except for a few iron arrows that showed out of the corner of the window, they didn't even find a crossbow or bow, but they were so frightened that they stayed in the tea shop across the street for more than an hour, and they didn't dare to move.

Wang Wenqian's face was also ugly, there were more than ten guards around them, but they were frightened by a person's bluff, not to mention that this is still the outskirts of Yangzhou where he is in charge, and there are nearly 2,000 garrisons three or four miles away.

"Chishan will Guo Xiao, I have seen Lord Thorn Shi." Although Guo Xiao was tied up with five flowers, he stood there fearlessly, trying to arch his hand and greet Wang Wenqian.

Hearing the new word "Chishan Society", Wang Wenqian was stunned, but he didn't mean to interrogate Guo Xiao in the tea shop, so he took Wang Jun and Yin Peng to Jianyuan first; Guo Xiao, who was also tied up with five flowers on the left and right, went up the mountain first and then talked about the rest.

Wang Wenqian had long expected that the more realistic choice of Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, was to divide Huaidong first, and he also secretly disposed of the Wang family's family business left in Runzhou long before the Jinling Incident, and converted it into money and goods to Yangzhou to annex the Tianzhai.

In addition to Jianyuan, tens of thousands of acres of land west of Zhuyu Bay were also purchased by Wang Wenqian in recent years, and it is currently the place where the Wang family settled down after crossing the river and moving north to Yangzhou.

For the time being, the garrison was not alarmed, but in addition to the dozens of guards in Jianyuan, Wang Wenqian also temporarily transferred more than 100 soldiers from the mountain Grange to guard Jianyuan.

"Jun'er, tomorrow, you will live in the city with me."

Wang Wenqian shuddered when he thought that he was in Zhuyu Bay today and his net worth and life were under Han Qian's control, and asked Wang Jun to move into the Thorn Shi Mansion in the city with him early tomorrow morning.

Wang Jun was a little reluctant, but Yin Peng was present, and she was embarrassed to refute her father directly.

Wang Jun was silent, Wang Wenqian agreed to her, and thought of something else.

Yin Peng asked, "Do you want to inform Zhao Zhen?" ”

Wang Wenqian is the assassin of Yangzhou, and Yin Peng is the Sima of Yangzhou, who is in charge of local military and political affairs.

However, Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng were able to directly mobilize only more than 4,000 soldiers and horses in the state battalion, and in addition to the state battalion soldiers and horses, the real elite garrison in Yangzhou was the Yangzhou marching army directly under the palace of Huai Wangfan.

The total size of the Yangzhou marching army, the naval division and the horse infantry was as high as more than 25,000 people, and Zhao Zhen led the battalion to supervise and protect, but only nominally accepted Wang Wenqian's moderation.

Now that the lights are dark, Han Qian is likely to have crossed the Han River by boat, and at this time, it is too late to send someone to ask Zhao Zhen to transfer troops and horses to intercept Han Qian, but in order to avoid the suspicion of King Xin, such a critical matter, Yin Peng feels that he should send someone to talk to Zhao Zhen first.

Wang Wenqian nodded, walked to the back of the bookcase, and quickly wrote a short message, briefly stating that Han Qian had infiltrated Yangzhou, and the steward of Jianyuan immediately sent someone into the city with a letter to see Zhao Zhen.

At this time, he sent someone into the city, and waited for Zhao Zhen to reply to the letter, not to mention that it would take an hour, Yin Peng sat in front of the case, hesitated for a while, and said: "Then the Chishan meeting that Guo Xiao said is probably really the old department of the Zuoguang German Army convened by Han Qian......"

There was no need for Yin Peng to remind him, Wang Wenqian could naturally think of this, what he was worried about at this time was the changes involved in this matter and Han Qian's true intentions.

And as a counselor who was deeply trusted by King Xin, he couldn't simply send someone to Chuzhou to report on this matter, he still gave some specific and clear suggestions for King Xin's reference.

In the past, when Han Qian returned to Xuzhou, he had little to do with Guangde Mansion, but at this moment, he not only infiltrated Jianghuai and summoned the old department of the Zuo Guangde Army, but also secretly communicated with Huaidong, what advice could he give to His Royal Highness King Xin?

In order to avoid the forbidden army after recovering Chaozhou, the imperial court followed to clean up Huaidong, and they chose to cooperate with Xuzhou?

With such a change in the whole thing, what is Han Qian's fundamental intention?

Is it a small southwest corner, and he can no longer be satisfied with Han Qian's ambitions?

If this is the case, Huaidong cooperated with Han Qian and connived at the Chishan Society to rely on Yangzhou to gain a foothold, is it indeed not to raise tigers?

Seeing that Wang Wenqian was silent for a while, Yin Peng asked, "Are you worried that cooperating with Xuzhou will raise tigers?" ”

Wang Wenqian nodded, thinking that Yin Peng still knew his thoughts.

"It seems that there is no way to refuse," Wang Jun said as he stood aside, "If Xuzhou really wants to have a new method of drying salt to the imperial court, Huaidong will really become very passive." ”

The salt and iron envoys are located in Huaidong along the beach, and more than 40,000 households are placed in the salt farm, boiling the sea for salt, and getting 1 million quintals of sea salt every year to be sold in all parts of Jianghuai and Jingxiang.

After deducting the huge expenses of the salt and iron envoys and salt officials, stove households, and salt soldiers in various places, they can still get more than 600,000 yuan of salt profits every year, which is an important foundation for the maintenance of the Great Chu Empire.

Yang Yuanpu Xu Xinwang seized Huaidong and made some concessions in many places, but on the issue of Huaidong salt farms, he did not give an inch.

It can be seen that the Huaidong salt field is of great importance to Dachu.

In order to raise funds for the repair of Jinling City and the supply of the forbidden army, the Salt and Iron Envoy Department has raised the price of salt twice in the past year to ensure that the annual salt profit will increase to 1 million.

If Han Qian really had any new law, which could make the Huaidong Salt Works produce an additional three or five hundred thousand sea salt every year, and could also save an additional five or six thousand young men to be elite salt soldiers, Wang Wenqian thought with his toes, and he could also know that Yang Yuanpu and the princes of the court would definitely ensure that the new law could be implemented as soon as possible.

In addition to the fact that the scale of Huaidong and the imperial court's wealth will rise and fall, once the Huaidong salt field is reformed by the new law, the system becomes more stringent, and the salt soldiers who search for illegal salt become larger and more elite, which will make Huaidong's situation more embarrassing.

At that time, in addition to increasing the corresponding military deployment on the eastern front, Huaidong will also have to pay a large amount of money and grain to ensure the supply of salt in the territory because it is difficult to obtain sufficient private salt.

As a result, Huaidong's finances became more stretched, and the people of Huaidong became more impoverished......

"Since the previous dynasty, no one has tried to dry and marinate salt, but there are many drawbacks, and it is not as good as boiling sea and frying marinated ......" Yin Peng was still worried about Han Qian's empty city plan just now in Zhuyu Bay, and he suspected that Han Qian's brazen mention of the new method of drying salt was just another form of empty city plan, luring them into it.

"Han Qian is not afraid of exposing such a big secret of the Chishan Society to us, the method of drying salt, it is really difficult to say that he is bluffing." Wang Wenqian frowned and said.

Since Han Qian had already started to gather the old headquarters of Zuo Guang's German army, if they told Yang Yuanpu at this time, Jinyun Si would be able to find some clues, but Han Qian was not afraid of this, which showed that he was still a little self-assured.

This matter is really going to be broken up, and Han Qian's intention to reconvene the old headquarters of the Zuoguang German Army will naturally be hit hard, but Han Qian can still retract Xuzhou to form his own and slowly manage the southwest Hunan region, while Huaidong's life will become more difficult.

"Then you really want to cooperate with Han Qian, tolerate the so-called Chishan Society, and gain a foothold on the side of Yangzhou's couch?" Yin Peng asked.

Wang Wenqian laid out the situation in Jianghuai and asked Wang Jun: "Jun'er, you said that Han Qian's intention is that the old department of the German army in Zuoguang wants to rely on Yangzhou to gain a foothold, where do you think it will be?" ”

"Such a simple question, why does Daddy need to test me?" Wang Jun said.

"Civil unrest broke out in Sizhou, and the imperial court sent Chen Jingzhou out of the Guangde Mansion to stabilize the situation there, but before Chen Jingzhou, there were four or five hundred people from the old department of the Zuo Guangde Army who were unjustly imprisoned, and more than 100 were tortured and disabled in prison, in addition to nearly 3,000 households that were robbed of their homes—presumably these people were the old troops convened by Han Qian in Xuzhou this time," Wang Wenqian said, "With so many people, and their children and daughters, it is not easy to find a place to gain a foothold, and the choice of places near Yangzhou that can give them a foothold is also extremely limited." And even if that Guo Xiao doesn't speak, as long as I send someone to infiltrate the eastern part of Chuzhou at this time, I should be able to easily find clues. ”

"Wei Zhen is the new assassin of Chuzhou, and he still hates the old department of the Zuoguang German army, Han Qian will not place the old department of the Zuoguang German army under his nose, only Shiliang County is nominally subordinate to Chuzhou, but the situation is complicated, Huaidong, Anning Palace and the forbidden army are jealous of each other, and no one can control this area in a short time. If the old army of Zuoguang can get the necessary supplies from Huaidong, it will be able to gain a foothold there," Wang Jun said, "Even if the matter is revealed in the future, the imperial court should not rush to kill them." ”

Wang Wenqian's gaze moved to the location of Shiliang County on the topographic map, looked at it for a while and nodded, and said: "Even if Han Qian wants to keep his father's little false name, he will not easily rebel, and he chooses Shiliang County because he has more thoughts in it," and then said to Yin Peng, "You go to Chuzhou in person, and explain this matter to His Highness, everything depends on His Highness's decision......"