"Yang Yanshi, what do you want?"

After arriving at the Xiaodongmen Tower, Governor Li immediately lost his arrogance, and asked Yang Xin directly in a low voice.

"You're from Fujian, aren't you?"

Yang Xin said.

"Xiaguan is a native of Anxi, Fujian, and a Jinshi in the forty-first year of Wanli."

Governor Li said.

"Since you are from Fujian, why do you have to get involved with a group of Nanzhili people? After all, you studied hard to get admitted to the Jinshi, after all, in order to be promoted and make a fortune, and this official was given to you by the emperor, you don't stand on the side of the emperor and still expect to continue to be promoted?

Wanli forty-one years of Jinshi.

Supposedly, it's time to continue to rise a liter. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Yang Yan, if you have something to say, please say it directly."

Li Yan said.

"First, I need to know who organized these scholars and who provided convenience for them, and second, I need to know which people in Yangzhou City are the richest, and tell me these, so that I will ensure that you are unscathed afterwards, and even after the end of the term of office of the prefect of Yangzhou, you can at least get a vacancy of political envoys.

If you don't want to tell me,

Although it is not enough to kill you because of this incident, but as the prefect of Yangzhou, you sit back and watch the scholars block the canal like this, and let the Wenxiang Sect rebel against the party, then this official will also come to an end.

Basically, you just go back to your hometown and stay for the rest of your life in the name of dismissal. ”

Yang Xin said.

Anxi Li family, this is Brother Ma's cronie Li Guangdi's family!

Such a person should be aware of current affairs.

He didn't care about the organizers of those scholars, and he didn't know it, but the problem was which salt merchants in Yangzhou City were the richest, he really didn't know, the only thing he could know was that the salt merchants sacrificed wine at this time, that is, the merchants of our Qing Dynasty were always Zheng Zhiyan.

Hui merchants.

I am a student.

His son, Zheng Yuanxun, was a Jinshi of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

The others really don't know, although these people are also very easy to inquire, but some deeper things are difficult for him to inquire through normal channels, if you can find the original Yizhen eunuch in the capital, this person is most familiar with these salt merchants, but here he needs the prefect to be a traitor. In particular, the estimation of the wealth of these salt merchants, the industries under their names, the resistance forces that can be mobilized, and even how much illicit salt they sell each year......

Salt merchants also sell smuggled salt.

The scale of their smuggling of salt is probably more than that of official salt.

Lianghuai has the largest illegal salt trafficking network, and hundreds of ships are rushing to the customs here, and in this case, if the salt merchants do not sell illegal salt, then there will be ghosts. In other words, Chen Zilong later made it clear that during the Wanli period, Yangzhou salt merchants had assets of 30 million and annual profits of 9 million, and what about the taxes they paid? Last year, the entire Daming Salt Class plus the confiscated private salt and dirty silver all added up, which was 1.45 million, which was the entire Daming, plus Changlu, Sichuan Jing Salt, Shanxi Salt Pond, etc., not Lianghuai Salt.

But this is only the legal salt trade.

In fact, last year's legal salt trade volume was 2.16 million yuan, less than 500 million catties, and with the most conservative estimate of the current population of the Ming Dynasty, the actual transaction volume should be more than three times, that is to say, the amount of illegal salt exceeded one billion catties. And a large part of this more than one billion catties is the salt merchants, the most example is that a salt introduction will bring ten acres of smuggled salt, and this is tacitly approved or encouraged by officials, because salt merchants do not carry smuggling salt, and it is difficult for them to extort money from it.

If people don't break the law, how can they make money?

Only if the salt merchants themselves break the law, then the officials can follow and share a piece of fat.

In the end, it was the collusion between officials and businessmen to hollow out the country, which also created the extravagance of Yangzhou salt merchants, and it was these people who ate hundreds of sheep at a table and only ate a piece of meat on the sheep's lips.

The big landlord was stunned.

In the Huaiyang area, millions of stones are spent on brewing wine alone.

In this way, in the beautiful life of collusion between officials and businessmen, the salt merchants lay in their elegant gardens, ate a banquet of a hundred sheep, drank fine wine, listened to the songs and music of famous prostitutes, and dreamed of death until the whole city was washed in blood.

Wouldn't it be intolerable not to cut them down?

One million taels.

Of course, this is for the apocalypse.

As for how Yang Xin himself has to fish for the same number, you must know that there are a bunch of people waiting behind him, and two million taels is his next goal in this city, but before that, he must do a good job of intelligence work, which key targets are selected, and the rest, this has to be determined by the Wenxiang Sect against the party. I have to say that he is really grateful to this behind-the-scenes planner now, no matter which side he is, it is real that he sent a knife to Yang Yanshi, otherwise Yang Xin would have to bother to study a good crime.

There's no need to study it at all.

As long as you can catch a real incense sect rebel party, all that remains is to directly arrest and torture which salt merchant you like......

Just like Liu Zongmin.

On the clamp stick, be sure to clamp the stick.

Directly told his family to bring the silver, and if he didn't take the silver, he would continue to torture, and then concoct a confession and go to his house.

Of course, Governor Li didn't know this, but he could guess that he fell silent for a while.

"My words are as simple as that, think about it yourself!"

Yang Xin said.

Immediately afterwards, he asked people to throw Governor Li to the city tower, and then sent a pen and paper to look at it himself.

At this time, the Dangkou army had completed the control of the city gate, and there were indeed some small-scale conflicts during the period, but after Yang Yanshi forcibly arrested the Li prefect, those officials guarding the gate also died down, after all, they were all from Yangzhou Mansion, and Yang Xin even dared to arrest them. Even the governor, the deputy imperial envoy, and the real officials of the military department were defeated in front of him, and these small officials who were in charge of affairs were in charge of the fart, and they were the Qincha who came on behalf of the emperor, so naturally they could do whatever they wanted.

In the final analysis, the emperor has the final say.

The two east gates, large and small, were controlled by Huang San's subordinates.

The ten gates of the outer city and the water gate must be closed, at least until Yang Xin ordered the closure to be lifted, this Yangzhou is only allowed to enter but not to leave, but the flow of people at the two gates in the city is not restricted.

As for Yang Xin himself......

He had to complete the theoretical official task of the trip.

Outside the Rujiang Gate.

"Good!"

Yang Yishi emerged from the water and shouted at the shore.

There, hundreds of forcibly hired porters easily towed a boat without a bottom directly to the shore......

The bottom of the ship was scuttled down by Yang Xin.

These green worms were premeditated, and they sank a total of fifteen large river boats on the main channel in front of the pontoon, and the boats were all equipped with sandbag ballast, and it was very difficult to salvage them. But for Yang Xin, who can continue to work underwater for more than ten minutes, and has his own violent energy, it is not worth mentioning. It was nothing more than taking his big iron cone down, and then priing off the entire upper part of the hull, which could easily be smashed into the planks of the hull, and the remaining pry basically disintegrated.

Then pry open at the key connection points, and the entire upper hull floats out on its own.

Then just drag it away.

As Yang Xin continued to dive underwater to violently dismantle the sunken ships, the hired boatmen propped up the boats left by the green worms across the pontoon bridge, and the originally blocked channel was cleared.

But......

The boats that were already able to walk still did not go.

"Look, this is the original form!"

Yang Xin wiped the water on his head and looked at the lights on the canal in front of him and said.

It was late at night.

He knew it would be like this.

He cleaned up the channel just to remove the excuse of these green worms, originally these guys blocked the river on the grounds that the river was blocked and could not be passed, and it could not be clearly said that it was intentional, but now that the channel has been cleared and not left, it is really deliberate. They couldn't say it was a crime before, but now they are, but these green worms have also been riding tigers, people like them are very face-conscious, so the joint action of thousands of people, if they take the initiative to retreat, it will become a complete joke.

If they fail even this move, then it means that they have completely failed.

At this time, Ye Xianggao and Zhu Guozhen were already conveying what Yang Xin had opened on behalf of the emperor, and if they failed here, then they could only wait for the little emperor's three swords to fall.

So it has to be held on.

"Yang Yanshi, Marquis Huaiyuan asked me to convey to you that the Governor's Office of the Five Armies in Nanjing has issued a military order, and no one from the local guard offices is allowed to leave the defense area."

Li Chengzuo said.

He had escorted Ye Xianggao and others to Nanjing before, and had just rushed back from Nanjing.

This means that the Order remains neutral.

Of course, this statement is just a meaning, who can the Nanjing Five Military Governor's Office manage?

Chen Daoheng still brought soldiers from Nanjing!

I have to say that the Xungui group at this time is also very embarrassed, this struggle between Qingworm and Yang Xin is actually the struggle between the gentry and the imperial power, the struggle between civil officials and internal officials, but as the Xungui group, they can only silently squat in the corner as spectators.

"Thank you!"

Yang Xin said perfunctorily.

"Yang Yanshi, how are you going to clean up these people?"

Li Chengzuo said with a little embarrassment.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow."

Yang Xin said.

At this time, He Kun ran over with an excited face.

"Dashuai!"

He saluted.

"What's the good thing?"

Yang Xin said suspiciously.

"Dashuai, Wang Haoxian caught it, he wanted to slip away from the water gate, and was recognized by his brothers."

He Kun said with a smile.

This former little leader of the Smelling Fragrance Sect has completely renounced his faith, and he can still be so happy to catch the sect leader who he once worshipped as an immortal. However, Sect Master Wang was indeed unlucky, how could he have thought that he could have died peacefully in Yangzhou, but suddenly countless acquaintances poured into the city. In the past, these soldiers of the Dangkou Army were proud to worship him, these people remembered his appearance deeply, and they remembered it even more after knowing that the Wang family was so rich, and they knew that the Wang Sect Leader who continued to hide in Yangzhou would definitely be discovered, and hurriedly tried to sneak out of the city at night.

It turned out to be discovered by a patrol of Bandits.

Two of them used to worship him!

He couldn't remember these believers who used to deliver money to their doors, but these past believers recognized him at a glance.

And so he was caught.

"Let's go, go and meet our Sect Leader Wang, I hope he is also a smart person."

Yang Xin said with a smile.