"Cai Zhoutian is also willing?"

"Wish!"

"Ploughing the field and harvesting, you will divide it into seven, and the government will take three, are you willing?"

"Wish!"

"Then take the money back and go to Caizhou on the same day, are you willing?"

"Wish!"

Then Gao Yue pointed his hand to the west - the soldiers who had been loosened could only support each other with their families, staggered in a long line, and embarked on the long road to Caizhou in the face of the bloody remnant sun.

Under the white flag, the blades were all down, and more than 30 of the initiators of the chaos were beheaded on the spot, and Bai Lian was instantly dyed with red blood......

The rebellion in Yangzhou caused by the selection and retreat of the town soldiers was quickly suppressed by Gao Yue by brutal means.

Soon the navigation of the Guanhe River returned to normal, and at this moment in Huainan Kyushu, no one dared to challenge Gao Yue's authority.

Gao Yue made a note of the hatred of the salt merchant for the time being, and when he got the right moment, he was determined to eradicate this group of maggots who did not know the height of the earth.

And the change of the naval marshal in the town opposite the Yangtze River also made him instantly alert.

"Originally, it was a good thing to say, the town navy is divided into three observation envoys: Xuanxi, Zhexi and Zhedong, why did you let Zongzheng Shaoqing come to be the envoy of the festival?" At sunset, in the field of the Tooth Courtyard of the Military Mansion, Gao Yue was wearing plain clothes, and after bowing, he rolled up his sleeves and said to Gu Xiuyan while washing.

"This must be the court's suspicion of you." Gu Xiu is outspoken, and he is not a character who is afraid of big things anyway.

"Again, again!" Gao Yue said twice in a row, obviously scolding the emperor, and then he said, "I don't know what kind of character this Li Qi is, tempting and tempting." ”

When he returned to the official residence in the backyard of the military government after he finished exercising, he learned that Zheng Qi, the Fujian observation envoy, had replied to him.

Gao Yue read it in front of his wife, and anyway, he had to pinch his nose at the beginning and listen to Zheng Qi's count.

Zheng Qi's responsibility for himself is mainly concentrated in three places:

Ping Cai killed too much;

After the war, Shen Guangcai was not exempted from taxes;

Although the implementation of armor protection can indeed eliminate bandits, the powerful armor head security chief will soon leap into a new hero, "arbitrarily cut off the country's songs", and hinder the imperial government.

Gao Yue recognized Zheng Qi's dissatisfaction and disagreed.

However, Zheng Qi also admitted that Gao Yue engaged in the parallel taxation of real money, and used the coin to fly money, and a series of measures to form an army to choose and retreat were good, and he was also ready to learn from it in Fujian - Zheng Qi told Gao Yue that the northwest of Fujian is mostly mountainous, and the southeast is all near the sea, although the fields are fertile and there is no danger of water and drought, but the arable area is too narrow, the Hanyi peasants are scattered, and the disputes around the land are particularly frequent and intense, he is overwhelmed, coupled with the inconvenience of Fujian's transportation, paying two taxes, whether it is grain or copper coins, it is very difficult, Even the imperial court disliked the Fujian people's weaving technology being too coarse, so he decided to simply open more silver pits and forge "platinum" (silver is platinum) to pay taxes, so that he could leave more rice and grain for the people and expand their household registration.

In addition, Zheng Qi also replied to Gao Yue's previous inquiry in the letter:

Pacify the chaos in Lingnan, trace the Hunan River and take the Lishui or Lingqu, there are difficulties, the supply line is too long, the cost is extremely huge, and the soldiers will be unbearable and miserable, so your opinion is right, it is best to take the sea route, to my Fujian Quanzhou transit supply, and then to Guangzhou Prefecture.

For this reason, I have begun to hoard grain in Fujian and Liao, and let the soldiers dig silver pits in Jian, Ting and other places, and let the Hu merchants of Dashi and Persia survey and map the nautical charts.

"Why did I build the ship?" Gao Yue was greatly dissatisfied when he read this.

Sea ships, the kind of big ships that carry thousands of Hu or even ten thousand Hu, how expensive it is to build one!

As a result, in the following text, Zheng Qi immediately said, of course, you built the sea ship, you sat on the Jianghuai rich Kyushu, the soldiers were good and the food was sufficient, and the imperial court was originally interested in you to send the army, and the south of the Lingnan was barbaric, how could you be embarrassed to let me be a small and poor Fujian observer to fund shipbuilding?

"Hmph."

So Gao Yue replied with a note, and Yun Shao helped to study the ink on the side.

In the early winter, the delivery shop in Min County, Fuzhou, sent Gao Yue's letter to Zheng Qi.

At this time, the snow should fall in the Central Plains and the Northland, right?

The weather in Fujian is still warm, Zheng Qi often and his wife Bi Sheng, with two children, and the servant Liu Jing, along the edge of the county water, climb high and look far away at the sea, the day is full of buildings, blue waves, and the weather is thousands, in fact, during this time, Zheng Qi feels that he has lived the most peaceful and tranquil.

When he saw things, he was lightly dressed, riding a horse, walking on the post roads of various states in Fujian to patrol, because the water and land transportation between the states was not very convenient, so Zheng Qi simply let the states assassin history behind closed doors to govern the people, so as to be pure and inactive.

That is, there are Hu people and maritime merchants recently, because the ship was rescued in distress, it is a major event that happened in the territory, Zheng Qi is quite courteous to it, this Hu people travel a circle, come back and tell Zheng Qi, there are rich deposits of mines everywhere in Fujian, Jian, Ting, Fu, Zhang have a large number of copper, silver and iron, lead pits, if you send people to dig, deepen one zhang every year, you can mine for a hundred years, and the annual profit can be two or three hundred thousand.

This set off waves in Zheng Qi's heart.

In addition, the Hu people also offered Zheng Qi two things, one is "iron cylinder fire oil" and the other is "hot mining method", which is said to have come from the far west.

"The West you are talking about, but the Western Regions are further west?"

The Hu man laughed and said, it is farther than the Western Regions, not less than 10,000 miles, and it will be a full year if you sail on a sea ship.

Iron cylinder oil can be sealed in a cylinder of fire oil of a large food product, with an iron hoop to avoid burning, laid in the bow of the ship during the battle, can breathe fire ten zhang away, when encountering water, its flame is full, burning the enemy's ship is the most effective;

The hot mining method is a special method to burn the veins of stone cliffs with fire, and then excavate, which is crisp and easy to dig, and it is best used to mine copper and silver.

After Hu Ren finished speaking, he presented the drawings to Zheng Qi again, and then sailed away by boat.

Zheng Qi treasured the drawings.

When Gao Yue came to the letter, he roughly told Zheng Qi a few points, one is that he hoped that Zheng Qi would dig and forge more silver in Fujian, and then use it for tax payment and trade; In addition, I heard that there was an official village in Fujian, which raised a large number of buffaloes—so you asked the merchants to drive the buffaloes, consign silver ingots, and go to eastern Zhejiang to exchange rice seeds, looms, and printing tables, and then ask the merchants of eastern Zhejiang to transport the cattle and silver water to Yangzhou, and I will buy them with money. It just so happened that I was in Huainan, and I was short of cattle and silver.

Also, I want to discuss with you the matter of Huainan-Xuanrun-Fujian Metropolitan Treasury, so that long-term trade will not be a problem with only coins.

So Zheng Qi gathered a caravan, drove cattle and silver, crossed the mountain road, and went to Kuozhou in eastern Zhejiang, ready to trade according to Gao Yue's words.

However, a month later, the bad news came, Zheng Qi's caravan was suddenly stopped by the town navy's daitang at the border of Kuozhou, and then said that they were smugglers who smuggled trade from the small road, and then confiscated all the cattle and silver.

Zheng Qi was shocked and angry, so he wrote to Li Qi, the envoy of the Zhenhai Navy, to negotiate the matter and take the things back.

But Li Qi thought that Zheng Qi was just an observer in Fujian, so he ignored it at all.

Over there, Li Qi set up tax yards in Jingkou, Jinling and Wuhu, and extorted money from merchants who went to Yangzhou to trade, and the daicheng money reached 100 wen per run, and the entire Zhenhai caravan was stuck.

"This Li Qi is a bastard!" Gao Yue of Yangzhou City was furious, and he immediately understood what kind of character this was.