A few days later, the whole Shouchun City was a sensation, saying that Gao Tang Lao made a wooden note about tea and hung the coffin, so the large and small tea merchants and tea households all stood in front of the thorny gate of Xiangguo City, Gao Yue climbed the tower, and said loudly to everyone:

"From today onwards, the tea rights of the Salt and Iron Transfer Division will be dismissed, the officialdom tea plantation will be dismissed, and the officials will be dismissed. Shou, Lu, Shu, and other prefectures and counties around the tea mountain, tea households can demarcate their own boundaries to plant tea trees, the income of tea to pay one-tenth, instead of the tax paid to the government, the remaining nine-tenths by the government tea farm, and then sold at a price to the tea merchants, the price increase, marketing Quartet, from the money can go out of the world, the profit belongs to the envoy, but also harmless tea merchants, no disturbance to tea households. ”

Meng Zhongyang next to him can only make promises.

Hearing this, the tea merchants and tea households under the thorny door are very excited, you must know that in the Shoulu area, the tea tree industry accounts for two-tenths or three-tenths, many people were originally forced by the tea law to have no way out, so they swore that "they can't kill the tea officials of the imperial court, so they go into the mountains to rebel!" ”

But now that Gao Yue has abolished the tea law, people's hearts have suddenly calmed down.

Later, within a month, three or four thousand mountain sheds in Shouzhou were brought down the mountain, and they became legitimate tea growers again, and the public order was greatly improved.

After the emperor's edict was approved, the mountain sheds of several states west of Huainan suddenly disappeared.

On the other side of the Yangtze River, the tea industry was also prevalent, and after Han Wei heard the imperial edict, he had no choice but to revoke the tea law and return to the tax tea law. The prince of Xuanzhou, the great tea merchant, was inexplicably excited, and he was going to come to Shouzhou to thank Gao Yue, so he set off by boat.

Almost at the same time, Gao Yue ordered Cai Fengyuan, Zhou Ziping, and Mi Yuan, the generals of the Dingwu Army, to lead 300 iron horsemen to Anfeng County, and tied Yin Di, the general of Yingtian Town, who was endangering the place, directly from the camp and escorted him to Xiangguo City.

Yin also shouted wronged.

Gao Yue displayed all the complaints of the people's bitter lords, and then said that Yin Di's crime would not be killed, and it would be better to be punished with a cane.

"Thirty rods!" Gao Yue sat in the case and was sentenced immediately.

As soon as they heard the word "painful decision", everyone understood, and as a result, four tall and strong men came to the death of the man, and he pressed Yin Di down, and when he went down to the seventeenth cane, this Yin Di rolled his eyes, his back was broken, and he was killed.

Later, Gao Yue ordered the abolition of camp fields in various parts of Shouzhou, and returned all the fields occupied by the united soldiers to the people.

The Tea Law was abolished, and tea merchants and tea households immediately lived and worked in peace and contentment; The camps in Shouzhou Anfeng, Huoqiu and other counties were completely abolished and retired, and the people all applauded and praised Gao Yue for being worthy of being a dignified prime minister and doing things with a vigorous and resolute momentum.

However, this is not the end, but Yin recruited more than 2,500 field soldiers to "camp the field", most of them are so-called unity soldiers, rights and interests soldiers, they are different from the regular official health, the town and state officials and health "all have constants, and they recruit to give family food, spring and winter clothing", that is, there is a quota, there are clothes, the court also has to manage the food of their families, in addition to the festival envoy to give them a reward; The united soldiers, that is, the "soil regiments", were recruited only in the state, returned to the peasants in spring and summer, and collected in autumn and winter, and only paid for their own "clothing, food, and pickles".

But food, clothing, and pickles also cost money, and they are also a financial burden!

So in the shogunate office of Xiangguo City in Shouchun, Gao Yue directly found Xu Ziyu, the assassin, and told him that Yin Di's soldiers who camped in the field were all drastic and dismissed to return to the peasants.

Shouzhou's soldiers were reduced by a quarter at once, but Gao Yue was still not satisfied, and he said to Xu Ziyu: "I Huainan Town, west of Shenguang Cai, with Shouchun as a barrier; The north covers Ziqing, with Shanyang (Chuzhou) as a barrier. And the festival makes the town of Yangzhou, in the center of the control of two places, a thousand miles of place, 38 cities, a total of 35,000 troops, of which 15,000 are guarding Yangzhou, the remaining 20,000 garrisons, with Shouzhou and Chuzhou as the focus of defense, Shouzhou has nearly 10,000 soldiers, Chuzhou also has 5,000 soldiers, and Chu, He, Lu, Shu these four states, about 500 to 1,000 garrisons. However, according to the Dao, the expedition to Huaixi mainly relied on the eight generals of the Dao (Dingwu, Yining, Baoda, Fengyi two generals), Shouzhou local to do so many Tu Tu Tu to do? Of the 10,000 soldiers in Shouzhou, only 3,000 officers and 500 war horses will be retained from now on, and all other local regiments will be dismissed and returned to the peasants. ”

Xu Ziyu was a little confused, but he had to do it.

Next, Gao Yue issued another order, according to the Xingyuan military system, the three thousand officials in Shouzhou who had not been cut down, divided into five battalions of infantry and one battalion of cavalry, and replaced the original town generals, with his three cronies Li Xian and Zhou Ziping as the Shouzhou men and soldiers, each leading half of them, respectively into Tunhuoqiu and Suyu (now Lu'an) to protect the people's tea gardens and fields from being plundered by Huaixi, and strictly ordered the second general to train these troops, and all standards were also in accordance with the rules of Xingyuan.

At the same time, Gao Yue sent a document to Hezhou (now Hanshan, Hexian, Anhui), and asked the assassin to personally supervise the shipbuilding in Liyang on the Yangtze River for requisition.

It didn't take long for Yu Damiang and the Yangzhou fleet to send all the equipment and materials to Shouchun, and Gao Yue was ready to send the Eight Generals' Tooth Army into Yingshui and march in the direction of Nanton, waiting for an opportunity to attack Yuncheng, the gateway of Caizhou, on the flank.

At this time, heavy snow suddenly fell on the Huaishui River, and the originally undulating river surface was suddenly mixed with a lot of ice and snow, and it was low and sluggish.

Gao Yue was dressed in a gray coat, and when he climbed the stone bridge gate, he saw that whether it was Dongtai Lake or Chuanguan Lake, all of them were frozen, and the large and small ships were frozen inside, unable to move, and the boatmen and soldiers all went ashore and gathered in the lakeside camp to warm up.

"Oh my God, are you here to stop me?" Gao Yue had no choice but to stand still for the time being.

But over there, Huaixi Wu Shaocheng moved.

On 14 November, Huaixi general Yu Boliang led 3,000 soldiers out of Caizhou, recruited more than 2,000 Huaishui Yingshui river robbers, braved the snow to attack the boundary of Yingzhou, Yingzhou assassin Shi fled from the battle, Huaixi army quickly captured Shenqiu, Nanton line, blocked the water transport route between Shouchun and Yuncheng.

Three days later, Wu Shaocheng suddenly led more than 10,000 fresh troops, personally went out into battle, and also braved the wind and snow to rush to the front line of Yuncheng, and then together with Wu Shaoyang and Dong Chongqing, gathered nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses. Subsequently, Wu Shaocheng simply selected 5,000 elites, led by Dong Chongqing, and everyone rode a big mule, with a Lei Gong pattern painted on the mule clothes, and rushed to attack the official barracks at night.

Liu Chang, Zhang Wanfu, Qu Huan, Yan Zichu and other battalions were cut off by the Huaixi Mule Army at night, and suffered a lot of losses in the chaos, but fortunately, Liu Chang set up a barrier behind the camp in advance, contained the defeated soldiers, and then launched a counterattack.

At this time, Wu Shaocheng and Wu Shaoyang led Huaixi's successors to attack again.

The officers and soldiers also resisted desperately, and at night the camp was on fire everywhere, and the bloody battle was chaotic.

At a critical time, Liu Yihuai of the Xuanwu Army on the flank rarely led the army into battle, and the Huaixi Army saw the military flag of Xuanwu before withdrawing from the battle one after another.

In the battle, 3,000 officers and soldiers were killed, and 2,000 Huaixi troops were also killed, and the fields north of Lingyunzha were all soaked in blood.