In the middle of winter and October, in front of the Luosi Bridge in Yangzhou City, the major salt merchants in splendid clothes gathered in the Hechun Pavilion restaurants, all of them looked uncertain.

"My Yaren in Hanyang Town, there are still 18,000 yuan of salt, and 700 stone of salt, and the two mansions, all of which have been lost, and the life and death of the people in the prison of Ezhou City are uncertain, and all the money and goods have been confiscated by Li Fu."

"This money is a trivial matter, the key is that the government tortures and plunders the tooth people, climbs the crime indiscriminately, and uses the Huaixi as an excuse to cause trouble to us, what should we do?"

"Have you heard? The queen went to ask Gao Jigong for help. ”

As soon as they heard this, all the salt merchants immediately pricked up their ears, and their hearts rose to their throats, they were very concerned about whether Wang Haichao had done anything or not.

The next answer was that Wang Haichao came out of the military office in Shugangzi City, and Gao Jigong entertained him to drink tea, but it was just tea.

Everyone was devastated by all.

"This Ji Gong is famous for his tough wrists, when he walked through the water, Li Wanrong Situ once sent someone to Heyin Courtyard first to give him a stunning look, and his clothes and ornaments are worth tens of millions of dollars, guess what?"

"How?"

"Ji Gong asked the stunning color to play the pipa for the soldiers, and sang and danced a few times, and the three armies wept, and then thanked him and returned the stunning beauty to Bianzhou."

Hearing this, the salt merchants collectively let out a sigh, not knowing whether to admire Gao Yue or hate him.

"You guys, you all think things are too simple, the reason why Ji Gong is so hard-hearted, and it has nothing to do with honesty and integrity, just because he has Austrian aid behind him, and he is a businessman from Xingyuan, Shudi and Fengxiang. I'm afraid that after he pacifies Huaixi, he doesn't know what to do with the salt administration of the entire Huaiyang? ”

This sentence suddenly cast a thick cloud in the hearts of the salt merchants present.

This Gao Yue, he supports the merchant group in the west of the country, the main business of this group is cotton planting, weaving cotton cloth, as well as various workshops, there is also a fleet in hand, can raise horses, can grow herbs, can make thunder gunpowder, can make armor and artillery, to put it bluntly, it is an industry.

What about Yangzhou salt merchants? Originally, it was attached to the monopoly system of salt and then relied on the false valuation method to earn high profits, as Gao Yue said, it was just a "maggot in the middle of the country", and the money obtained from it, or the purchase of luxurious mansions, or the purchase of manors and fields, and then the purchase of a large number of beautiful concubines, wearing gold and silver, for their lewd pleasure, how can there be any industry at all.

One day, Gao Yue changed the salt policy, and this group of bright-looking salt merchants was afraid that they would not be able to fight back at all, and they would all fall apart.

"You have to push someone out to ensure that the salt policy of the imperial court in the southeast remains unchanged, you look at the salt affairs of Jingxiang and Eyue, but on the tenth day, it was all swept and occupied by the merchants in the west - the battle of Gaoyue, Mingli is fighting Huaixi, but in fact, it is also our ......"

When Chen Shaoyou was in Huainan, he was bought by us and didn't touch our plate;

When Du Ya came, because we wanted to build the water conservancy of Chuzhou Lake, we supported a large amount of money, counting his political achievements, so we didn't touch our plate;

The emperor's uncle Wu came to the court, and within three months, he was requisitioned back to the court due to foot disease, so far Huainan did not have a temperance envoy, so he did not have time to move our plate;

Therefore, this plate must not be smashed in Gao Yue's hands.

Before he could finish speaking, several tooth people ran to Hechun Pavilion and exclaimed-That section of Shuai Gao Yue was opened from the military mansion, saying that he was going to move to Shouzhou!

This group of salt merchants hurriedly came out, and they didn't know if this Gao Yue's trip to Shouzhou was a good thing or a bad thing for him.

In front of the door of the book, advocating the noisy sky, fluttering under the banner of various colors, the team of Gao Yue Qianzhen can be described as a grand view, the head is three hundred life-threatening lang, each covered with iron armor, covered with black silk shirts, and the face is covered with a silk curtain with a fierce pattern, which does not reveal its true face at all, and it is terrifying to look at.

After the fateful lang queue, there was a guard cabinet servant holding a halberd, and the long ribbon tied to the halberd branch fluttered, and under the guidance of the dark Wei Daotian, he opened the way in front of Gao Yue's horse in the festival.

Next to Gao Yue, who was also accompanied by horseback, there were the supervisors and marquis of the three ya, the Sima and the judge of the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion, and the wingmen of the shogunate's camp, which can be said to include the personnel of the various government offices in Yangzhou City, with scarlet clothes and blue shirts, and flowers.

On either side of the procession, and later, there was a walking procession of out-of-school officials wearing two-gear shirts and black heads.

Then there were more than 100 cavalrymen in armor, most of them were the Dangqiang people collected by Ji Gong in the northwest, who were taller and more powerful than the Han people, with scattered cloaks and white yaks on their heads, and the hooves on the horses' hooves collided with the stone slabs laid on the road in front of the Zhongshu Gate, making a stirring echo.

"Ji Gong moved the institute to Shouchun, and I don't know whether to continue to control Huainan or return to the dynasty in triumph after Pinghuaixi?" Yangzhou along both sides of the long street of the Guanhe River, many bridges and buildings, onlookers and boats all stopped and discussed.

"It's best to return to the court......" and the tall hook bar of the Spring Pavilion, more than a dozen salt merchants couldn't help but look forward to it at the same time.

Gaoyue's business organization, from Yangzhou to the west, to Chuzhou to borrow the road, by land to Shouzhou;

At the same time, the ships supported by Yu Damiang and Han Wei of the Zhen Navy, plus the ships honestly provided by Wang Haichao, the queen of Yangzi, were combined to protect them with Xuanrun crossbowmen, loaded with most of the goods accumulated by the Yangzi Military Government, and began to march towards Shanyangdu, and then prepared to go against the Huaishui and arrive at Xiacai, Shouzhou, to meet with Gao Yue's soldiers and horses.

In the next few days, Gao Yue passed Liuhe, and then entered the whole pepper, and traced Chushui to Shen County east of Luzhou, and at that time, Dou Yu, the history of Luzhou Thorn (according to the "Tang Thorn History Examination Complete Edition") came to the county boundary to greet him.

Dou Yu, Junwang and Dou Shen are the same, they are all in Pingling in Youfufeng County, but his group has already moved to Luoyang, Henan, so when he checked Dou Shen's party, he was not involved.

Gao Yue was not in a hurry to go to Shouzhou, he deliberately asked Dou Yu to accompany him and go to Juchao Lake in the south of Luzhou City, just to take a good look.

What to see? Of course, it is not a tour of the mountains and rivers, Gao Yue wants to actually investigate the new Cao Yun plan proposed by Du You, the current envoy of the five provinces of Lingnan.

This plan was initially put forward by Du You when Li Xilie, Li Zhengji, and Liang Chongyi were in rebellion. Du You thought at that time that the two Li and the other were reversed, and Bianshui and Huaishui were likely to be blocked; And if Liang Chongyi is reversed, Hanshui may also be blocked. It is suggested that the imperial court, dredge the pipa ditch and Cai Shui, and then turn into Yingshui in Huaiyang, Chenzhou, and then enter Huai from Yingshui, directly to Shouchun, go south along the West Shui Shui, and then as long as the water is dug through the water and the water (flowing through Hefei into Chaohu Lake that is, the water, also called the South Shui) between the forty miles of Ji Ming Gang (check the Tang and Song Dynasty geography books, there seems to be no such name, only mentioned in Du You's biography and food and goods chronicles, and the Qing Dynasty historical manuscript talks about the Fei Shui Ji Ji Ming Mountain, Huai Shui to meet with it, now there is Ji Ming Mountain in the north of Shushan District, Hefei City, it seems to be this), The two rivers can be connected, and then the Nanqi water can enter the Chaohu Lake, and the Chaohu Lake can cross the Dongguan and the water of the water to flow into the Yangtze River: so that the rice and grain wealth in the south of the Yangtze River, Eyue and Sanchuan can go directly down the river, from this Xincao River to the eastern capital, no need to detour to Yangzhou, the so-called "no obstruction of the turbid river traceability, reduce the old road by more than 2,000 miles" (the turbid river, should refer to the sediment of the Yellow River into the water, resulting in the frequent congestion of the water; Tracing the Huai, that is, the ship sent from Yangzhou, after crossing the mountain and Yangdu, it is necessary to trace a section of the Huaishui before entering the Bianshui).

Unfortunately, after Li Xilie was pacified, Du You proposed this plan again, but Han Yun, who was based in the southeast of Jianghuai, was dissatisfied and was immediately deposed, and since then this new Cao Yun plan has been shelved.