In the face of hunger, Ren is an honest stove and salt farmer, and he has also become a robber who kills people and sells goods. For the survival of oneself and one's family, conscience and morality are nothing.

In order to incite civil unrest and put pressure on the governor's palace of Yangzhou, Wang Xian, a wealthy merchant in Rugao, sent people to rob the grain store at night, who knew that in the blink of an eye his Zhuangzi was captured again. No one touched the mountains of salt in the Zhuangzi, but hundreds of loads of grain and tens of thousands of taels of silver used to purchase salt were robbed, the old housekeeper who guarded the door was killed, more than a dozen thugs in the Zhuangzi died, and when the robbers left, they set a fire and burned the whole Zhuangzi. When he returned to Zhuangzi the next morning, when he looked at the devastated Zhuangzi and still burning, Wang Xian wanted to cry without tears.

The strongman took advantage of the night to rob the grain store outside Rugao City and the manor of Lord Wang, like a gust of spring breeze blowing all over the salt area, and the other broken stove households were encouraged and saw the hope of survival. For a time, Haizhou in the north, Tongzhou, the entire two Huaiyan areas were in chaos.

The archers of the various salt inspection divisions became nervous and all went out to suppress the unrest, but the once docile stove households were emboldened by the threat of hunger, and dared to confront the government.

In Baijuchang, hundreds of stove households attacked the Salt Inspection Division at night under the leadership of a nickname Mantianfeng, killed more than 100 archers of the Salt Inspection Division, snatched a large number of weapons to arm themselves, and clamored to attack Dongtai County. Countless nearby stove households rushed to gather, and when they arrived at the county seat, there were already more than 2,000 people, and the gate of Dongtai County was closed, and the county commander hurriedly sent people to Yangzhou Mansion to ask for help.

On the coast of Tongzhou, the stove households gathered noisily and petitioned the Tongzhou Salt Transportation Envoy Branch, asking the government to buy the salt in the hands of the stove households, so that they could make a living with grain. The Tongzhou Salt Transport Envoy hurriedly sent someone to the Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy to deliver a letter, asking for instructions on how to solve the problem.

In the city of Yangzhou, Liang Huanping, the salt transport envoy, and Ma Ming, the prefect of Yangzhou, came to the governor's palace together to ask to see Chen Yue, the governor of Jiangbei, Pingnanhou, but was told that Pingnanhou was not in the city, but went to the new barracks in the north of the city to preside over the assessment of the guards officers from all over the city.

"When is it, Huai'an, Taizhou, Tongzhou, the three sub-divisions have sent people to report the turmoil in various places, the salt inspection department has been unable to suppress the rioting stove households, and if this continues, the entire salt area will be turned upside down, Pingnanhou He is not in the governor's palace at this time, to preside over the assessment of the officers of the guard, it is really unreasonable!"

Liang Huanping was furious, as a salt transport envoy, if there was a big chaos in the salt area, he would be the first person responsible, and he would not be able to escape the relationship no matter what.

However, the root cause of this turmoil was Chen Yue's brazen raid of the mansions of the three major salt merchants, and Liang Huanping felt that he was too wronged by this black cauldron.

If there is no Chen Yue, everything here is still the same as before, and he would still make this fat difference in front of the salt! Liang Huanping thought hatefully.

"The coastal counties also came to report, there were many stove households to make trouble, a group of strongmen actually robbed the grain store outside Rugao City and a rich manor, although it was night, but it was really bold.

What's more, the mob in Dongtai brazenly surrounded the county seat, and the leader actually pulled out some bandit horns in the sky, which was clearly a rebellion! ”

Ma Mingli smiled bitterly. He was worried that there would be turmoil, but he didn't expect it to be so big. Rugao and Dongtai are both counties under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Prefecture, and he, the prefect, is also responsible for the accident, which is why he came to the Governor's Mansion to meet Chen Yue. It is hoped that the Governor's Office can come up with a way to eliminate this disaster.

Of course, the best way is for Chen Yue to give up his actions against the salt merchants, return the wealth of the confiscated mansion to the salt merchants and declare them innocent, so that the salt merchants can continue to collect salt, and the salt in the hands of the stove households can be sold, and naturally there will be no more trouble.

However, Pingnanhou is young and vigorous, will he easily succumb? Ma Mingli worried.

In a courtyard outside Yangzhou, Jiang Heming, Lin Xiaotian and Shen Mo, the three major salt merchants, were celebrating each other.

"Haha, it's so cool, Rugao is in turmoil, Dongtai Zaohu is besieging the county seat, and other salt areas are also in turmoil, I think this surnamed Chen should be done? This year's salt tax can't be collected in any case, last year Lianghuai also collected 600,000 taels of silver, this year it is estimated that there is not even 300,000, I think the court will tolerate him Chen Yue will not! ”

Lin Xiaotian laughed.

"Not only that, I heard that Jiangxi Huguang has made a salt panic, and the price of salt has risen to one or two dollars a catty. Most of the people could not afford to eat salt at all, and the local government had already made a request to the imperial court to quickly transport salt to the local area. Shen Mo also smiled.

"There is a salt panic in the mainland, but the stove households in the salt area can't sell the salt and make noise, and under the attack of the two, this surnamed Chen is not far from getting out." Lin Xiaotian said with a smile.

"It's not the time to celebrate, you can't despise this Marquis of Pingnan, you have made such a great contribution at the age of the weak crown and have to be named the Marquis in charge, how can you be a light person?" Jiang Heming shook his head, but poured cold water.

Although he also thought that the overall situation had been decided, he was faintly uneasy, he didn't think that he could defeat this Pingnanhou in this way.

"It's already like this, what other spells does the surname Chen have? He can send troops to exterminate the rioting stove households and salt farmers, but how to solve the problem of salt not being sold, and what to use to support countless stove households? You know, the total number of stove households in the entire Lianghuai is more than one million? ”

Lin Xiaotian laughed and said, "A young man in his twenties, who made some contributions by chance, didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and he dared to use a knife against Lianghuai Yanzheng, and he didn't weigh how many catties and taels he had." The entire Lianghuai is not only our three salt merchants, but involves the interests of thousands of people, and has cut off the jobs of so many people, how can he be a small marquis who can afford it? ”

Shen Mo also smiled and nodded, agreeing with Lin Xiaotian's opinion.

"In any case, don't be careless!" Jiang Heming shook his head and said, "We still have to mobilize the forces of each family to give Chen Yue another wave of offensive in the court, only by driving him out of Yangzhou completely, can we sit back and relax."

By the way, we can't be despised by Yan Du Yushi Fan Zhengdao, Brother Shen Xian, have you seen Master Fan? What did he say? ”

"What else can I say? 10,000 taels of snowflakes and silver, even the king of Hades has to bow his head. He Fan Zhengdao is just a seven-grade imperial history, and he earns more than 100 taels of silver in the imperial court every year, and he can't earn so much silver in ten lifetimes! ”

He smiled silently.

"Brother Fan Xian, I am naturally relieved to do things, so everyone can go back and prepare, and strive to drive the surnamed Chen out of Yangzhou as soon as possible!" Jiang Heming nodded.

ps: The second update, it will be updated normally during the Spring Festival, the author strives to drink less, strive to keep changing, and please continue to support all book friends.