However, this is not the end, and the next new town naval festival makes Li Qi's misdeeds even more noisy:

The government directly occupied the wineries and tea gardens, forced the common people to make wine, plant tea trees, and then let the merchants take the lead, but the price was several times more expensive than Gaoyue Huainan, and what was even more excessive was that the merchants sometimes spent money to buy the lead, but they could not get the goods, and they had to spend extra money to buy something called "sticker" from Li Qi's military palace in order to get the final goods

Originally, the jewelers would buy raw silver to process it into jewelry, or make it into silver collars instead of large copper coin trade, but Li Qi now stipulated that all raw silver would be collected by the government, and then spend a lot of money to hire craftsmen to process them into various silverware, and also engrave their own names, all of which were stored and sealed in the cellar, ready to be presented to the emperor in the coming year

The tax field extracts the heavy taxes of business travel in the past, not to mention, but also adds miscellaneous taxes to the people, each household has to draw an additional ten Wen "body tax", and then the people have to pay "farm tool money" according to the mu, and the wine has to pay "qu money", walk to pay "dai money", light the lamp to pay "oil money", go to the market to buy things to pay "market change money" As a result, Li Qi took office for a month or two, and the Xuanrun Suyue area, which was originally known as the richest and the most famous in the world, the people did not even dare to go up the street, nor did they dare to go down to the fields, and they did not dare to light the lights at night, and they ate in the dark at home. But that's not enough, Li Qi came to collect "black light money" again.

Under some operation, Xuanrun is public resentment boiling, and there was also a tragedy of businessmen going bankrupt and throwing themselves into the water.

But Li Qi did not move, he has his own magic weapon of "settling people and strengthening the army":

He first spent a lot of money to win over a group of shameless literati, gathered in the shogunate, and also set up a special "banquet money", from the town navy's military funds every year to allocate 200,000 yuan for this group of people to eat, drink and have fun, and then wrote a large number of sycophancy poems to coax himself, there is a momentum that surpasses Huainan Gaoyue, Fujian Zheng Qi, and Eyue Yan Zhen, what "the guest and the host are good at the beauty of the southeast", "I Tang and Xie Dongshan" rainbow farts abound.

Li Qi also quietly learned from Gao Yue: why Gao Yue can get the power of Huainan is that he will invite pets and fix pets, so Li Qi will collect the people's fat and people's ointment, except for his own retention, the rest will play with his life to serve the emperor, and the boats full of money, colored silk, and treasures will be sent from Jingkou in an endless stream to the emperor, Li Qiyun, and Pei Yanling, which can almost be called "Rijin". Immediately, Li Qi also set up a patrol courtyard in Runzhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Pei Yanling's degree branch, and frantically encroached on land around Taihu Lake, with a number of nearly 30,000 mu, known as the degree branch camp, and then stuffed it into the "camp field official", and put the relatives and friends in the degree branch division and the degree branch patrol courtyard into the post, so as to send them materials, and the harvest obtained was also used as "purpose rice", and then sent to the Beijing division when the two taxes were in the coming year.

In addition, in order to protect himself, Li Qi began to recruit outlaws from the rivers and lakes and formed a fake relationship with them, known as "Langjun in the backyard".

Gao Yue's military mansion and Li Qi's military mansion are just separated by the Daojiang River.

Gao Yue had a very clear grasp of Li Qi's secret thoughts, and he said to Gu Xiu and Han Yu in private: "This Emperor Houfeng and Pei Yanling, the purpose is obvious, he not only wants to be the envoy of the town navy, but also wants to follow the example of the former Han Jin Gong and master the power of transporting salt and iron in the southeast. ”

"How can Li Qi dare to compare with Han Jingong?" It is rare for Han Yu to say justice to the descendants of the genuine Changli Han clan.

"Do you want to secretly play the imperial court and expose Li Qi's crimes?" Gu Xiu asked for instructions, meaning that as long as Gao Yue nodded, he would immediately arrange for the secretary to draft the documents.

Gao Yue laughed at this, and just said, "If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself." ”

"Then Wei Gong, are you going to sit idly by?" Han Yu was a little anxious.

Gao Yue said again, "If you are unrighteous and unjust, you will collapse." ”

The meaning was very obvious, and then Gao Yue said that Li Qi's matter was irrelevant, and he made a mess of the rich states and counties in the town and navy, "We in Huainan just robbed the specialty industries on the other side of the river, no, we will take over." "Then Gao Yue said, papermaking and ink and Zhou, Shuzhou can, tea what, and silk weaving or something, we Yangzhou is also very strong, ceramics, ceramics? Ceramics are made on Jiangnan West Road, isn't it. Therefore, Li Qi's perverse behavior is a good thing for us in Huainan.

"Li Qi is heavily taxed and exploited in the tax field, so our goods will not be sold to the south of the Yangtze River, but to Eyue and Jingxiang. Prior to this, he had to join Yan Zhen, the envoy of the Wuchang Army, the observation envoy Lu Huan of the Jiangnan West Road, the Fan Ze envoy of the Jingnan Jiedu and the envoy Yu Di of the Shannan Dongdao Jiedu, and they would go out of the boat division together to suppress the robbery ** and mountain sheds in the Huang'an area. As long as this group of bandits is wiped out and the entire Yangtze River waterway is reopened, it will be infinite wealth, and it will be easy to revive Shen Guang Cai. Then, taking advantage of the winter slack, Bendao had to review the drawings of the Jiminggang Cao Canal delivered by Meng Zhongyang, and prepare to raise rights and interests to dig it! ”

After speaking, Gao Yue said directly to Han Yu beside him, retreat, you write a letter for me, and then print it out, and send it along the post road to Di, Fan Ze, Yan Zhen and Luhuan, this road will set a strategy with them to exterminate ** and mountain sheds.

Han Yu was just about to give it up, but then he suddenly realized: "No, Wei Gong, I am the county commander of Jiangdu County, not the secretary of the shogunate." ”

At this time, Gao Yue hummed, and said to Han Yu: "The secretary has another dispatch, aren't you also a shogunate when you retreat?" Helping Bendao prepare a book and play a document is also an internal affair. ”

Han Yu wondered even more, thinking when did I receive the shogunate?

However, Gao Yue couldn't help but say, he said that Jiangdu County is Guoxia County in Yangzhou, and your county party is in Zicheng, which is very close to me, so that day your wife Xue Hongdu came to ask for this position for you, give me a lot of help, and the treatment will definitely not be owed to you.

Han Yu was stunned: I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, it was Hongdu who betrayed me!

Helpless, he could only sit in the military palace hall, Gao Yue dictated the strategy of attack and suppression while walking, Han Yue hardened his head, forced himself to follow Gao Yue's thinking closely, wrote and drew on paper with a pen, and formed a draft first.

In the cafeteria next to it, there was the sound of eating utensils and utensils clanging: the rules in the Takatake shogunate, the unimportant wingmen had a meal at 7 p.m., and then finished the inspection, and if they returned to their homes but had important matters, they would finish the work first, and then have a meal at 21 o'clock.

This voice came from the other staff members drinking and eating.

And Han Yu "has something important", after Gao Yue dictated, he paced into another room, and went to ask the secretary Zhang Peng to draft another document, which was passed to Wu Yuanheng, the assassin of Caizhou, and asked him to start raising manpower to prepare for the Jiminggang project, which Huainan Jiedu envoy was really busier than the emperor, and he wanted to write the original manuscript into a formal document.

The autumn moon was curling, and Han Yu was hungry and anxious.