Cao Gan came over, mainly on behalf of Changxiang Hou to discuss the specific cooperation between Yuzhou and Yueyang.

It is impossible for anyone to let the salt ships of Shu pass through the Chu realm.

Generally speaking, the best place to come to the Ishio River is either Jingzhou, which is adjacent to Kipju, or Songzi, which is on the south bank of Kipju, and which used to belong to Jingzhou and now belongs to Langzhou.

In the past, the imperial court was still there, Sichuan salt wanted to enter Chu, and the leading power was in the salt and iron division of Jinling, and it was a great rebellion for the local government to dare to meddle in this matter, even if the trading place was selected in Jingzhou or Langzhou Songzi, it was all sent by the salt and iron division to set up the salt and iron courtyard or the salt and iron field to take charge of its affairs.

Now Hunan Xingshangshu Province reprimanded Anning Palace and the crown prince Yang Yuanwu as murderers and father-killers, Shen Yang and others naturally hope that after the Sichuan salt leaves Sichuan, they will send salt officials to Songzi City to receive it, and then sell it to Hunan, Jingxiang, Jiangxi and other places.

However, even if Wang Yong and Cao Gan, the Marquis of Changxiang, were willing to do this, they would not be able to explain it to Wang Jian, the lord of Shu.

Between the militarists, not to mention the love between sons and sons, it is common for fathers and sons to kill each other.

As far as Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, is concerned, even if he is unable to send troops to capture Jingxiang at this time, he must first ensure that the eastern front is safe, which is not to fully support Yang Yuanpu, his son-in-law, and fully cooperate with Hunan Xingshangshu Province.

If one day Yang Yuanpu takes charge of the power of Great Chu and aspires to take the world, where will he not take the land of Shu because he has a son-in-law relationship with the lord of Shu?

If Jingzhou and Xiangzhou can form a mutual balance with Hunan Xingshangshu Province, it is best for Chu to be fragmented forever, so that it can completely fail to pose a threat to Shu, which is the most in line with the interests of Shu.

At the beginning of the planning of the war to cut the domain, Shu initially increased the army in Kipzhou, and it was difficult to lead Zhang Ji to lead his troops to cross the river to attack Langzhou, which was this strategy, but it was a pity that the war of cutting the domain, Han Qian and Zheng Hui attacked from Xuzhou all the way along the Yuanshui to Buyou, too fast, too fast, and waited until Li Zhihe led his troops through Dongting Lake into the Yuan River, and the Ma family had been beaten to the point that there was no power to fight back, and the Shu State completely gave up the Ma family.

Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, is now more worried that he will repeat the misfortune of the murder of the two monarchs of Chu and Liang, but if he can successfully eliminate the hidden dangers within Shu, why doesn't he have the ambition to dominate the world at all?

Therefore, before Cao Gan went to Xuzhou and Yueyang to meet Han Qian and Yang Yuanpu on behalf of Changxianghou, Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, had already agreed with his generals in Shudu on the strategy of Sichuan salt out of Sichuan, one was that Yuzhou was responsible for the salt and iron trade with Jingzhou and Hunan Xingshangshu Province, and the other was that Liangzhou was responsible for the salt and iron trade with Xiangzhou.

Knowing that Yuzhou would not hand over all the well salt transported out of Sichuan through the Yangtze River waterway to Hunan Xingtai to take over, and at the same time sent people to contact Jingzhou, Yang Yuanpu summoned Shen Yang, Wang Lin, Feng Yi and others to ask for advice.

Since Hunan Xingtai did not set up a special branch division and salt and iron transshipment department, the financial statistics and branch adjustment, salt and iron sales and others were merged into the Xingtai household department.

Shen Yang is the leader of the Xingtai Zuo Cheng and the leader of the Household Department, which can be said to be the head of the small court name Justice Shun in Hunan Xingtai; Wang Lin and others, as the head of the household department of Xingtai, are specifically in charge of various affairs such as land, money valley, tribute, sales, degree support, and warehousing.

Feng Yi accompanied Cao Gan to Yueyang to deliver the message, and was temporarily retained by Yang Yuanpu in Yueyang, and from time to time had the opportunity to participate in the planning of confidential matters.

Before Cao Gan came to Yueyang, he first went to Xuzhou to meet Han Qian, and learned about Yuzhou at this time

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On top of the salt matter, he also sent someone to Jingzhou to see Zhang Ji, and Yang Yuanpu also specially summoned Feng Yi to meet him and asked him what he thought about this matter:

"Feng Yi, what kind of attitude do you think Zhang Ji will have?"

Feng Yi accompanied Cao Gan to Yueyang, Han Qian once said that Hunan Xingtai should be at peace with all parties at present, so he decided that Zhang Qian would not easily win over this side, and it was impossible to lead the elite of the Zuowu Guard Army to join Hunan Xingtai to listen to the order.

Feng Yi straightened his mind for a moment and said: "Even if Zhang Qian doesn't have the heart to secede, the annual salt profit of tens of thousands of yuan will probably make it difficult for him and his subordinates to give up......

"Zhang Ben should have taken his family to Jingzhou, but there are still many generals in the Zuowu Guard, and their families are drowned in Jinling, these people will persuade Zhang Ben to wait and see according to Jingzhou, and at this time, Shu will give up such a rich salt profit in vain, and they have no reason not to give it up." Shen Yang frowned slightly and said.

At the time of the Jinling Incident, the small relatives left in Jinling by the Longque Army were divided into two groups, and escaped from Jinling with the men and horses of Xinchang Marquis Li Pu or Lanting Lane and withdrew to Qiuhu Mountain.

Although when Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang, led his troops to withdraw from Qiuhu Mountain, tens of thousands of women and children were slow to move, and they were all beheaded as rebels after being captured by the Anning Palace, but these were mainly the dependents of ordinary soldiers.

The families of military attachés and generals at all levels of the Longque Army were taken care of and safely evacuated to Runzhou, and then the families of the core generals were evacuated to Yueyang with the concubines Wang Chan'er, Han Daoming, Zheng Chang and others.

At the time of the Jinling Incident, the dependents of people like Zhang Jiao and Du Chongtao who stayed in Jinling were quite sensitive when the situation was at its most tense.

Since then, Jinling City has been under the strict control of the Anning Palace and the prince's family of soldiers and horses, and it will be extremely difficult for these families and dependents who are powerless, old, weak, sick and children to escape from Jinling City again.

Although Anning Palace was a little frantic in the matter of torturing and killing Han Daoxun and Zhong Yuli, and did not directly detain the families and dependents of these generals afterwards, it also successfully deterred many people from throwing rats and not daring to act rashly.

Therefore, whether Zhang Pan and Du Chongtao want to secede the local area and stand on their own, or join the king of Tan or the king of Xin, they need to adjust the generals and officials who have a small family stranded in Jinling.

The intelligence of the Shu army may not be so accurate and timely, but the Shu lord Wang Jian's subordinates are not without capable ministers, and it is not difficult to analyze the current fragmented situation of Great Chu, and use salt and profit means to lure Zhang Ji to further maintain independence, and there is really no good way to resolve it on their side.

Feng Yi said again: "Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong is currently intending to pass through Luobanan, and he needs to join forces with Sizhou to attack the Wu bureaucrats - Jingluo Banan, in addition to cutting off the financial resources of the rebellion of the southern Sichuan bureaucrats, Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, can also support Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, before the prince Qingjiang. Therefore, from these two points, even if we cannot prevent Shu from transporting a part of Sichuan salt to Jingzhou, we can also strive for more favorable conditions for us; In addition, Yuzhou is eager to purchase a batch of weapons from Xuzhou, and it also needs the permission of His Royal Highness. ”

"It's easy to say," Yang Yuanpu looked at Shen Yang and said, "When discussing the salt matter with Cao Gan, maybe Feng Yi can also be involved?" ”

Shen Yang nodded, and Feng Yi came on behalf of Xuzhou

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, they did not let Feng Yu participate in the salt negotiations, and Feng Yu would also have a private conversation with Cao Gan - Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong was eager for meritorious service, so that the more urgent Yuzhou's demand for weapons produced in Xuzhou, it was also the most beneficial to them, even if Zheng Yu and others knew about it, they never had a reason to isolate Feng Yu.

Feng Yi arched his hand towards Shen Yang and Wang Lin, and said, "Feng Yi is young and shallow, and I have to ask Shen Xiang and Lord Wang to take care of him." ”

Coming from Xuzhou, Feng Yu got along with Cao Gan day and night by boat for four days on the way, and almost figured out the bottom limit of Yuzhou, Shu planned to transport about 150,000 stone of Sichuan salt from Yuzhou to Chu through Wushan Changxia every year, and they could strive for 10 to 120,000 Shichuan salt to be unloaded in Songzi, which was controlled by Hunan Xingshangshu Province (before the Qianjiang River channel was opened, there would be no Sichuan salt flowing into Sizhou, and even if the Qianjiang channel was opened, the Sichuan salt would flow into Sizhou, and it would also spread to the ancient county of Qianzhong through Xuzhou, and it would not damage the salt benefits in the east and north of Xuzhou), Three to fifty thousand stones will be left to be transported into Jingzhou and handed over to Zhang Ben for disposal.

In addition to these, in the direction of Hanzhong in Liangzhou, there will be 50,000 Shichuan salt, which will flow into Xiangzhou through the Han River and be handed over to Du Chongtao.

In this way, with a salt tax of 200 yuan per bucket of salt, Hunan Xingshangshu Province can net 200,000 yuan of revenue and revenue in salt affairs every year.

Of course, Cao Gan and Feng Yitou also need the weapons produced in Xuzhou now, among which the scorpion cannon and bed crossbow that can be placed on the warship for long-range attacks are the most urgent

There are cliffs on both sides of the Qianjiang River, and the cottages of the Wuyuan people are also mostly built on the cliffs of the river.

Although the waterways of the middle and lower reaches of the Qianjiang River are still quite open, and the Yuzhou warships can enter the waterways of the middle and lower reaches of the Qianjiang River unimpeded, it is difficult to even find a foothold along the coast that can spread the troops, let alone attack the dangerous village built by the Wuyuan people on the river cliff.

For example, if they can be placed on the deck of a warship, and even five or six people can carry a mobile scorpion cannon and bed crossbow after going ashore, they have become a sharp weapon for attacking these dangerous villages.

Although Han Qian gave the patterns of the whirlwind cannon and the scorpion cannon to Shu as a welcome gift, when the craftsmen of Shu really set out to make it, they found that the huge and bulky whirlwind cannon was easy to imitate, and the scorpion cannon had too high requirements for materials, and they imitated more than a dozen scorpion crossbows, and the range and projection power were not as good as the ideals of Xuzhou's origin.

In addition to these, Yuzhou also wants to purchase eight double-decker sculls from Xuzhou.

When Han Qian fled from Shu, two 4,000-stone sailing ships failed to withdraw in time due to the large target, although they sank in the Tuojiang River, one of the sailing ships sank in a relatively shallow position and was salvaged and dragged to the shallows by the Shu army.

Obviously, the sailing ships produced in Xuzhou, in addition to the shape of the pointed head and pointed bottom and the overall multi-groove watertight cabin structure, also used a large number of fine iron components, and the structural strength and speed of the ship were much stronger than the warships produced in Shudi.

Although the Shu army can imitate the new warship from the wrecked ship, it will take time.

For the Changxiang Marquis at this time, he urgently needed to establish meritorious service and cultivate his descendants, soldiers and forces, and what he lacked was time.

After negotiating many things, Cao Gan did not wait for the marriage of the county lord of Qingyang and Yang Yuanpu, so he hurried back to Yuzhou, and waited for the first batch of Sichuan salt from Yuzhou to be transported into Songzi, and the weapons and warships produced in Xuzhou would be handed over to the men and horses from Yuzhou to bring back.

Yuzhou wants to use troops against the Wuyuan people before the end of May, and the time is still very urgent.

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