Some were denounced by relatives and neighbors, and immediately Wu Yi soldiers rushed into the house, dug out a basket of gold, silver and copper coins from the cellar, and all the bronze utensils were also collected and left.

After all, this group of salt merchants relied on the salt method and the false valuation method, and they had earned a lot of brains before, and the surplus money was either to buy concubines and slaves, or to annex the land.

But Wei Guogong just stipulated that during this period of buying and selling land, the government must take a full half of the "tap money", plus the warp painting is going on, and no one dares to take the risk to buy it.

There are people who dare to buy it, but these people are either Xingyuan merchants appointed by Wei Guogong himself, or the "Huaixi merchants" (whitewashed) who are newly attached to Wei Guogong, and the price of the fields is extremely low, and the salt merchants who are guilty of the crime have exhausted the fields and mansions, and they can't get much life-saving money.

Next, they can only sell concubines and slaves, and the concubines who can enjoy the habit of fine clothes and food are gone, so they are even more intensified, and they are the first to report the crime, and they want to use the money from the "lawsuit" to offset the loss of their youth and beauty.

The salt merchants who committed the crime could only borrow from other salt merchants, but the other party did not dare to borrow at all, and the contradiction intensified again, and the "sue" climbed more and more intensely, and the Yangzhou salt merchant group, which was originally unbreakable and advanced and retreated together, fell apart in an instant, one after another, crying shockingly, led by shackles and ropes, and sent to the prison of the Yangtze Patrol Hospital, where Xu Cang had ninety-nine ways to make them bankrupt and life was better than death.

"In the past, I asked you to use one-twentieth of your family property to help the army, but not only did you not do it, but you also regarded me as an enemy, and even secretly supported traitors like Pei Yanling and Li Qiyun, and wanted to slander and bring me down. It just so happens that autumn has arrived, and it is the right time to settle accounts, and this way says that if you want to shovel your home, then you have to shovel, and you will never break your word. "Gao Yue had offended this group of salt merchants by abolishing the false valuation method and pushing the salt introduction system before, and now he simply offended to the end.

The remaining salt merchants were like frightened birds, and then they thought of the only way, which was to use all the money in hand to exchange for the salt introduction of the government, and the salt introduction suddenly became a "life-saving charm": in front of the salt field in the entire Yangzhou county, it was crowded with salt merchants who came to buy salt introduction, and countless hands waved enthusiastically in front of the wooden fence, and countless pairs of eyes were full of tears, which was more lively and boiling than the vegetable market.

But soon, the lifesaver became a life-saving charm.

Because Xu Cang quickly said that there has been too much salt sold recently, and there must be profiteers who see the opportunity to sit in the market, so he followed the example of Li Qi, the former Zhenhai Jiedu envoy, and in addition to the salt introduction, he had to spend money to buy the right stickers to pick up the goods.

In less than two months, east of the Guanhe River in Yangzhou City, the rich Fang City, where the salt merchants gathered, was "every family broke the door, and there was not one in a hundred", the originally arrogant salt merchants, some were killed in prison, some committed suicide because of the defendant, some were thrown into the water, some were hanged, all the Wanguan family property was levied and fined, confiscated, and the courtyard villas full of exotic flowers and flowers were also owned by the military government officials at a cheap price, or owned by the Xingyuan and Caizhou merchant groups that had entered Yangzhou, and thousands of slaves and maids were deregistered and released as civilians. Gaoyue stipulates that some of the fields are granted for farming, and some of them have craftsmanship.

Xu Cang came to report the results, and the money stored by this group of salt merchants was actually more than 7 million yuan, as well as countless gold and silver, which could not be calculated for the time being, and then Xu Cang asked whether to send this money to the military treasury?

"Nope."

Gao Yue asked Xu Cang to send all the money to Yangzhou to exchange the quality warehouse, which was operated by Gao Yue's confidant Xiao Yi, who had no official background.

If so, the reserves in this large treasury have been tens of millions.

It is equivalent to the full revenue of Datang's treasury for a full year.

Subsequently, Gao Yue instructed Xu Cang and Gu Xiu, who had returned from Beijing, to print and issue 2.5 million yuan of coins based on the principle of one-quarter of the reserves, and prepare to invest them in the transfer, and promised users to exchange them for new coins for a period of three years, so as to promote the circulation and expansion of commerce and trade with the credit of the government's treasury.

In addition, only 5 million were left in the city of Yangzhou, and the other shares were scattered, carried by ship, and sent to the Jingshi Jinjuyuan, Ezhou, Xuzhou and Jingkou, respectively, to set up a "quality warehouse".

At that time, the small private quality warehouse in the Tang Dynasty had a capital of two or three hundred yuan.

Now the "Huainan Sub-quality Bank" each has a reserve fund of one million, which is naturally a behemoth.

"The pledge has to find a way to spend the money."

How to spend? Gao Yue said to the merchants of Xingyuan and Huaixi, "It is not for you to enjoy the same enjoyment as they do if you resell the offended salt merchants' fields, houses, mansions, cars and boats at low prices, and if you fall like this, someone else will eradicate your family in the future!" (Merchants all shrink their necks)

fields, give me mulberry planting, cotton planting;

house, add Xingyuan looms to me, and hire people to work;

In the house, I will stock up and circulate good goods from all over the world, especially silk, cane sugar, porcelain, and paper;

In the future, you will not only have to use them in inland rivers and canals, but you will also have to build more sea ships to carry goods to the east of the sea.

If the need is not enough, you can borrow from the pledge bank, and the interest rate is guaranteed to be very low.

As for salt, only some of you should make it, and then the state and county shall buy it at their own price, and shall not exceed the price previously set by this way, so as not to cause a burden to the people.

Gao Yue eradicated the old salt merchant group that developed by eating the carrion of the country.

In addition to his fill, he wanted to set up a new industrial and commercial group.

In the future, he will rely on this new group, including the new army, to carry out even greater innovations.

Two years of southeast salt profits, a total of five million guan cash, and two or three million guan worth of cloth and silk light goods, with the permission of the Zhongshu Men and the emperor's imperial notes, was left as Gao Yue's military expenses for the expedition to the south, Gao Yue also reciprocated the peach, and played a thank you to the emperor, and promised to be crowned by His Majesty after the triumph, in addition to sending a document to the Zhongshu Sect, saying that the expedition to the south does not need to spend military expenses again, as for the other nine provinces do not need to send troops, as long as each self-retention of the money is spent 50,000 yuan, to the Hunan observation envoy Li Xun: Li Xun got this money, It was necessary to focus on building the city defenses of Wugang (now Wugang County in Shaoyang, Hunan) and Daozhou, and let the Wugang warlord and Li Jifu, the assassin of Daozhou, recruit troops freely.

Then, the main battlefield in the area will be handed over to my Wu Yi three armies.

At the same time, Gao Yue also officially issued an order that the Buddhist temples in Huainan shall not keep large and small Buddha statues, Jialan, copper tiles, copper bells, and bronze utensils.

Violators will be deemed to have violated the "Prohibition on Illegal Accumulation of Copper Coins" and will be convicted and punished.

As an example, the bronze Buddha statue worshiped by my wife was the first to be handed over to the furnace.

In the military mansion building, Yun Shao sat on the Yin seat, looking at the three-foot-high Xuanzhou bronze Buddha statue in the shrine angrily, and at the same time scared, complaining to Yun He and Zhihui: "Why did Qingqing let the Buddha statue enter the furnace and then forge it into a murderous cannon!" ”