With Aunt Yu's order, on the humphead ship with a load of 9,000 stones, the boatmen all blew the conch and beat the copper drum, which sounded like a giant whale roaring in the sea from a distance.

Under the bow of the ship, several monks who followed Yu Damiang's fleet sat down, folded their hands, chanted words, and then the shipwrights burned the fire paper, flying ash all over the sky, and loudly sacrificed to the "mother-in-law official", blessing the journey all the way safe.

"It must be safe, this trip, there is Huaixi without my Aunt Yu, and there is no Huaixi with my Aunt Yu!" Ming Huaiyi saw with his own eyes that after Mrs. Yu finished speaking, she cut her fingers with a dagger, and made a blood alliance with the gods and goddesses in her heart.

And the so-called mother-in-law is the legendary wind god Meng Po, who is most believed in by all beings on the Yangtze River.

"Since March, there have been bird letters......

Since May, there has been a letter of Maixin......

July and August, there is a letter! ”

With this rough sound, the long boatmen on the boat of Aunt Yu's seat, each with several strong boatmen swayed, like the feet of a centipede in the waves of the river, and then the wild fox sail began to turn dexterously, and the boat opened.

Then the entire Xingyuan Mansion, Xiangyang City and Jingnan Jiangling's various fleets, thousands of sails competed, hundreds of boats competed for the stream, began at the confluence of Xijingshui and Hanshui, merged into one, the drums were noisy, and began to go to the next stop, Ezhou City.

At the same time, Yicheng to the southwest, leading to the land route of Jiangling Mansion, there was a cavalry of Shannan Dongdao, they were dusty, because this road is connected to Jiangling and Xiangyang, the two major hub cities, so the residential hotel is also particularly prosperous, when the cavalry dismounted, standing in front of the well water, there was a shopkeeper's daughter hurriedly stepped forward, for the sons and daughters to serve food and wine, after the cavalry smacked their feet, they urged the war horses, and continued to rush to Jiangling Mansion, the purpose was to deliver news to Fan Ze!

This news was jointly issued by Chang'an Daming Palace and Zhongshu Menxia, from Shangluo to Xiangyang, and then from Xiangyang to Jiangling Mansion.

Soon, Jingnan Jiedu envoy and Jiangling Yin Fanze received an order and flew out of the document: "Go out of the states to unite the children, go to Jingmen to arrest the salt merchants from Huaixi, and search for the goods that are not stored in the mansion, there must be no mistake!" ”

Almost when the official and military fleets entered the Yangtze River from the Han River and arrived at the city of Ezhou, Li Jian, the training envoy of the Eyue Capital Regiment and the envoy of the Wuchang Army, had also received the news, so he summoned Yang Ping and Liuzhen, who had been pardoned and returned to the town, "The imperial court has an urgent order to arrest all the salt merchants in Hanyang Town." ”

Yang Ping and Liu Zhen had already noticed it, so they asked, "Is this really true?" ”

"Of course, I used to be able to open one eye and close one eye, but now I can't." Li Jian said, "Originally, several towns in Shannan East Road, Jingnan, Eyue, Hunan, and Jiangnan West Road did not produce salt, and they were all people from the southeast of Jianghuai who came here to sell sea salt. Since Wu Shaocheng's secession, shipping has been repeatedly robbed and killed, so the identity of the merchants who can still come to Jingmen, Hanyang, Yicheng and other places to sell salt every year is not difficult to guess. ”

It is not difficult to guess, because they are all connected with Huaixi Town: part of the profits obtained will be paid to Wu Shaocheng, and in addition, they will purchase some scarce materials for Wu in Fang Town, such as silk cloth, medicinal materials, timber, grain, etc.

"Now that the imperial court has recovered Helong, the Du Branch Division has integrated the salt of Hezhong, Hedong, Shuofang, Longyou, Sanchuan and Bakui, and the Zhongshu Shilang Gao Yue and the Men's Shilang Lu Zhen have previously secretly played the Holy Lord, and they will use the West Salt to return to Jingxiang and Hubei to cut off Wu Shaocheng's hands and feet stretched out here."

"After that?"

"That's right, the western salt approved by the Duzhi Division has a unified cloth bag packaging, and there is a quasi-saleable goods introduction certificate, if there is no salt merchant, salt and even the mansion warehouse of the salt, all of them are the reverse production of Litong Huaixi, and they will be confiscated!" Lee's words are full of unquestionable elements.

So Yang Ping and Liu Zhen quickly received the order, and then led the tooth soldiers of the Wuchang Army in Ezhou City to ride their horses and run towards Hanyang Town.

Soon, Hanyang, one of the most prosperous commercial towns in the world, was full of soldiers who were hunted and searched, some merchants were dragged out of their residences, others were locked up when they were about to escape by boat, and then they were arrested and tortured in prison, crying and crying, "We have all given Li San a ...... before"

But before he could finish speaking, the whip that split his head and covered his face beckoned.

Most people do have dealings with Wu Shaocheng and Li Shigu, but this is originally a normal business, but whoever wants the court to talk to Li Jian will turn their faces!

For a time, most of the salt merchants in Yicheng, Jingmen and Hanyang, the three most important commercial towns in the Jianghan region, suffered a catastrophe, people were detained, not to mention, and all goods and mansions were confiscated.

Instead, the salt merchants who came by boat from Xingyuan, Xichuan, Dongchuan, and Kuifu, all of them are honest and legal operations, and there are certificates issued by the branch and salt introduction, and the salt they transported not only has a unified cloth bag packaging, has a legal logo, and the quality is also very good, especially the green salt and white salt at Shuo Fangling and the salt place, which is better than the taste of salt in the southeast sea.

With the support of the armed violence of the envoys of several towns, the salt merchants in the west quickly swept and occupied the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the merchant group supported by Huaixi behind the scenes, as Gao Yue said, was suddenly beaten into a "half-body", and lost all their money and business connections.

A few lucky businessmen escaped, hid in the wilderness on the shore of Ezhou, and then took advantage of the night to rush like rabbits in the direction of Huainan Gate and Anlu City.

Anlu City is located in the boundless Yunmengze, there are countless water lanes, swamps, lakes and grass wastelands, and this is also the hidden abyss of the Huaixi river thieves, countless boats and nests are listed in the meantime: the river thieves are outside, robbing and killing ships, chariots and horses on land and water, and the goods obtained will be sent back to the hundreds of miles of Yunmengze, and handed over to the Huaixi natives or merchants to "sell the stolen goods and wash the goods".

After the fleeing merchants entered Anlu City, the local Huaixi town general hurriedly delivered the news to Caizhou.

But before Wu Shaocheng reacted, the huge fleet of Yu Damiang, Yi Shen, Zhang Xi, and Wang Yi had already finished supplying in Ezhou City, and began to break into the most dangerous "forbidden area for river thieves", the Qihuang area.

Here, on both sides of the river, there are towering ochre-red or red-yellow stone cliffs, on which strange trees are lined up, and the earthen ramparts and grass huts where the river thieves live are looming, but they are hiding behind the autumn grass, and when they see this endless and powerful fleet, they are still frightened and gasp, and they dare not light a fire to report the news, because no matter which river thief comes out, they cannot intercept the pace of this official fleet:

Yu Da Niang's house, three eight or nine thousand stone building ships stand proudly in front, and the two wings are full of thousands of boats, such as stars and moons;

Wang Yi's flyship, which supervised Xingyuan and Jiannan's ships transporting supplies and flag sticks on both sides, was in the middle section;

And Yishen's warship was in the rear, serving as a cover.

The three-section fleet, dozens of miles from the beginning to the end, at dusk, all the masts are hung with oil and fire, just like the bright and vast general march in the galaxy!

At the bow of the boat, Mrs. Yu took out a flute, which was made of smoke and bamboo, as solid as iron and stone, and then blew, loud and bright, resounding through the clouds on the river, with the flute as a guide, the ship was everywhere, dragons and crocodiles, etc., all escaped.

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