After some detailed discussions, the two reached a deal.

Chen Yue went to the imperial court to ask for credit for Liang Huanping and urged him to remain in the position of salt transport envoy.

Chen Yue is the governor of Jiangbei, and the two Huai salt politics are very important to the imperial court, if Chen Yue speaks, the imperial court will consider it. And Chen Yue will also promise Chongzhen that he will never delay this year's salt tax. Therefore, Liang Huanping is very likely to continue to stay in Yangzhou.

Of course, Chen Yue let Liang Huanping go and sought for him to continue to stay in this fat shortage, Liang Huanping naturally wants to work for Chen Yue, and he must listen to Chen Yue in the future, otherwise as long as Chen Yue throws out the evidence he has, he will beat Liang Huanping to the point of no return, which Liang Huanping knows.

For the sake of his own future and reputation, in order not to be imprisoned, even if he knew that he would be on the thief ship from now on, Liang Huanping could only admit that he had been forced to a dead end.

A few days later, Li Chengdong caught the rebel bandit leader Mantianfeng from the reeds in Dongtai and escorted him to Yangzhou.

Shan Minglei led people to torture him, and Man Tianfeng finally confessed his guilt, admitting that in fact, the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng sent a detailed work to Lianghuai, with the purpose of starting an incident in Lianghuai, echoing with the thieves in the north, and seizing the Ming Dynasty.

In the confession, Man Tianfeng confessed that his army was cooperated by several major salt merchants in Yangzhou, and the salt merchants stopped collecting salt and caused turmoil in the salt area, so he saw the opportunity to start an incident.

Therefore, Chen Yue played to the Nanjing court in the name of the Jiangbei Governor's Office, narrating the beginning and end of the turmoil, and at the same time sent the confessions signed and drawn by the relevant criminals to Nanjing.

At the same time, Chen Yue ordered the arrest of a salt merchant who was supposed to be involved in the rebellion. Thousands of Pingnan troops were dispatched to launch a large-scale search and arrest inside and outside Yangzhou, and Jiang Heming, Lin Xiaotian, Shen Mo and others who were hiding outside the city were arrested and brought to justice.

Shan Minglei, director of the Governor's Mansion Zhenfu Division, together with the Yangzhou Governor Ma Zhi, was responsible for hearing the case, and a large amount of evidence was collected, and the relevant personnel were arrested one after another. The officers and soldiers of the Governor's Palace confiscated all the mansions and courtyards of these salt merchants and sealed their shops and warehouses. Countless amounts of gold and silver were seized, and a constant stream of caravans carrying stolen goods brought them into the governor's palace.

Yangzhou salt merchants are rich in the world, although their belongings may not all remain in Yangzhou City, and there are other nests in other places in their hometowns, but in just a few days, the silver copied out on the surface alone is no less than five million taels, and there are countless other wealth and materials.

Chen Yue ordered that fifty percent of the money obtained from the robbery be taken out and escorted to Nanjing. With this batch of silver, the life of the Nanjing court will be incomparably rich, and Chen Yue can imagine the smiling appearance of Emperor Chongzhen.

For the sake of Yinzi's face, Chongzhen and the imperial court should also acquiesce to their behavior! Chen Yue secretly thought, this time the action of coming to Yangzhou is too big, presumably Chongzhen's patience with himself has already reached the limit, with this batch of silver, he is quickly calming down the turbulent situation, no matter what, Chongzhen will pinch his nose and acquiesce to his behavior!

The salt merchants were raided and arrested, but the Huai salt had to continue to be transported to the provinces, and the local government had long complained to the imperial court, for which the salt transportation envoy was reprimanded by the imperial court several times.

Due to the fact that the salt merchants were deeply involved in rebellion, Liang Huanping, the envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Transport, ordered to take back the rights of their nests, and then re-sell the rights of the nests. The so-called nest right is the monopoly right of salt, with the nest right of a certain place, the salt of this place belongs to you for sale, and other salt merchants who want to engage in salt business in this area must obtain your consent.

It is precisely because the three major salt merchants of Jiang, Lin and Shen have the right to nest that they have accumulated such a huge wealth.

But now the three largest salt merchants in Yangzhou have been arrested, and there are many other salt merchants involved.

These days, everyone has seen that the Governor's Mansion has long regarded Huai Yan as a bag, who would dare to provoke Pingnanhou to dare to go against him at this time?

As a result, only one merchant named Sihai Salt Company applied to the Salt Transport Envoy to purchase the nest rights, and bought the salt monopoly rights in Jiangxi, Huguang, Nanzhili, and Henan provinces for ten years at a price of 1.5 million taels of silver.

From then on, the monopoly rights of salt in these places belonged to Sihai Salt Company, and without the consent of Sihai Salt Company, other salt merchants could not engage in salt sales in these places.

Of course, those who are familiar with the inside story know that Sihai Yanxing is subordinate to Sihai Commercial Bank and is controlled by Chen Yue, Hou of Pingnan. The money used to buy the nest was obtained from the confiscated salt merchants......

Seeing this batch of white flowers, Liang Huanping was relieved, with this batch of silver, today's salt tax will be overfulfilled, last year, the salt tax of the two Huai Salt Transport Envoys was only 800,000 taels, and now only the right to sell the nest will get 1.5 million taels of silver.

With this amount of silver, coupled with Pingnan Hou Chen Yue speaking for himself, his position as the two Huai salt envoys can be regarded as secure.

However, the big salt merchants who had a bad relationship with him were arrested one after another, and the Four Seas Salt Company was controlled by Chen Yue, and since then, not many people have given him silver, and it is really hard to say whether this gain or loss is true.

However, Liang Huanping was already very satisfied with being able to get rid of the dismissal of the official and questioning the crime, which of so many salt merchants did not have a good reputation and which one did not have a deep background? But in an instant, he was in prison, and all his family property belonged to others, and Liang Huanping was secretly frightened. If you don't choose to give in, I'm afraid your fate will be the same!

At this time, Chen Yue was like a demon in Liang Huanping's heart, which made him extremely afraid, and he didn't dare to have other thoughts.

With the nest right, the business of Sihai Salt Bank is official salt. With the monopoly right of salt in several provinces, Sihai Salt is already the largest salt merchant in Daming!

While making money by himself, he naturally has to give others a sip of soup to drink, and Sihai Salt Bank does not have so many manpower to run the salt business in several provinces, so the shopkeeper who was sent to the counties of the salt district to be responsible for exchanging grain for salt is still transferred by Wu Wan'er with great difficulty, after all, Sihai Commercial Bank is newly established, and there are not many talents who understand business.

Therefore, under the instruction of Chen Yue, Sihai Salt Bank attracted investment from all over the country and recruited second-level salt distributors. The Sihai Salt Company is only responsible for collecting salt from the stove households in the salt area, and then these salt merchants are responsible for the specific salt sales in various places. However, the Four Seas Salt Guild set the maximum price of the retail price of salt in various places, and it was not allowed to sell salt beyond this price.

In this way, the price of salt in various places will be lowered, and ordinary people can also benefit from it. As for Sihai Salt Company's own profits, it is nothing more than selling the salt collected from the stove households to secondary distributors at ten times the price.

After all, the Sihai Salt Company still has to pay the imperial court salt tax, and it also has to feed thousands of employees in the salt store, and the silver earned has to be used to support the huge army of the Pingnan Army, and Chen Yue has to do the same!