Yang Chong didn't show up for five days in a row, and no one knew if he asked, in Gaochang City, Yang Chong was a god-like legend, every time he appeared, something big would happen, and normal affairs were handled by Fang Xuanling. Gao Gong had to admit that Yang Chong's vision was very accurate, Fang Xuanling, Du Yan, and Dai Zhou were all good at internal affairs, and it was difficult to see one on weekdays, but Yang Chong unearthed three of them at one time, and they were all brought to a remote place like Gaochang.

Gao Gong and Cui Kaiyuan both think that Fang Xuanling is just a pearl found by Yang Chong, and he is not a person who is Yang Chong, neither a friend of Yang Chong like Du Yan, nor a personal part of Yang Chong like Sikong Xing, Fang Xuanling is a person who is an official. Gaochang City is thriving by Fang Xuanling, there are thousands of shops on the street, and most of them are full of smiles and confidence on their faces.

All the way from the post house, the poplar trees are shady, the bridges, pavilions and pavilions are continuous, gold and silver shops, lacquerware shops, medicine shops, jewelry shops, flower and fruit shops, charcoal shops, hotels, everything. Gaochang is located in a key location, and the jewelry, blankets, glass, spices and other goods from the Western Regions and the porcelain and silk goods of the Central Plains can be seen.

The county guard mansion is still the Shangshu province in the Gaochang Kingdom, the dome of the building, the blue brick columns, because of the age, looks a little old, but the yamen is cleaned clean, and the things are placed in a very orderly manner. When Gao Gong saw Fang Xuanling, Fang Xuanling was dealing with the trouble caused by Chen Kui, the salt supervisor; After Chen Kui returned to Gaochang from Yancheng, on the first day of his tenure in Yamen, he did a major event that shook Gaochang and transferred salt from Yiwu and Shanshan.

This is actually everyone together with Yiwu County Shou Li Yuan, Shanshan County Shouhuang Fujuan, Yiwu Salt Supervisor Cheng Geqian said that the salt produced in Gaochang County is bitter and unpalatable, and the salt transfer from Yiwu and Shanshan not only helped Gaochang's government to use salt, but also solved the difficulties of Li Yuan and others in selling. The problem is that as soon as Yiwu's salt arrived in Puchang County, it was discovered by the checkpoint, and Du Yan's text was quickly reported to the county, and Fang Xuanling could only find Chen Kui.

Fang Xuanling didn't get angry, but patiently analyzed with Chen Kui: "Ge Qian himself is the contractor of the salt field, so he buys and sells salt at will in Yiwu, because the profit and loss are Ge Qian's alone, and the county only cares about taxes. Gao Chang and Shanshan can't do it, the contractors of Yantian are just pure businessmen, if you collect salt tax, you have to ensure their interests, you can sell it, and you have to negotiate when you buy it, otherwise who will you contract it to next year? ”

Chen Kui said disdainfully: "The salt industry is very profitable, and it is said that when the Qiang clan was contracted, the county guard was also ready to take it over and do it himself, so it was a big deal to let them lose a little." ”

Fang Xuanling asked with a smile, "If Yiwu's salt can't be sold, what will you do?" How are you going to deal with Geqian's money, do you owe it first, or do you pay it yourself? ”

Just kidding, can the Cui family owe the money first? It is even more impossible to pay for it yourself. Chen Kui was about to say that he would arrange to sell it in the market, when he suddenly thought that Gaochang's salt was controlled by the county, and all salt merchants needed licenses, and the purchase number of which ones had already been filled; Chen Kui was unwilling to say: "I will arrange new merchants to sell salt." ”

"It can't be." Fang Xuanling said mercilessly: "Lord Chen, you should go to the streets, and you will know that no one wants to be a salt merchant; If there was no underwriting by the army and the government, the salt business in Gaochang would have been a loss-making business. ”

Gao Gong stepped into the threshold and laughed loudly: "Chen Kui, you should listen to Lord Fang's opinion more." ”

Fang Xuanling hurriedly got up to salute, gave up his seat, and stood aside with his hands down; Gao Gong was not polite, sat down and asked, "Since they are not willing to be salt merchants, why do so many people still get certificates?" ”

Fang Xuanling explained: "Eighty percent of the shops are opened by the Fuqu and Qiang families, and the two of them have benefited from the mines, so under the suppression of the county guard, they will lose a little bit in the salt industry; The remaining 20 percent were run by retired veterans, usually near barracks or in small castles, and since the salt for the army was bought by the government, the profits were equivalent to subsidies. Even if ordinary people have good salt to sell, the poor salt sold locally will drag them to death, unless Master Chen has another way to subsidize it. ”

Placement is a helpless measure of the government, and the good ones sold must be matched with a certain amount of poor ones, otherwise there will be no big salt merchants to package the salt fields, where will the salt tax come from; The problem is that Chen Kui has no choice but to look at Gao Gong. Gao Gong asked tentatively, "Can you let the Fuqu and Qiang families eat this salt?" ”

Fang Xuanling thought about it seriously and said, "They don't dare." The sub-achievement of the Beacon Hill Iron Mine is to promote the development of Yancheng, which is not only a salt pan, but also the planning of Gaochang County for Yancheng, and the profits given by the county keeper are unimaginably high. If the Fuqu and Qiang families dared to bypass Lord Yang and trade with the outside world themselves, the price they paid would be unbearable. ”

If Yang Chong acquiesced to the first time, Fuqu and the Qiang family would dare to come a second time, and they would not tolerate adultery if they were Gao Gong himself; Gao Gong nodded and said: "Chen Kui's starting point is good, but I don't know about Gao Chang's situation, so let's do it, where is Yang Chong, I'll go and see him." ”

Fang Xuanling said respectfully: "The county guard is usually in Nanping City, and he went to Tiandi County this morning, and there is a batch of ordnance to be transported to Shanshan. ”

Yang Chong, a county guard, actually took care of the ordnance matter, it really got into the eyes of money, and a mocking smile appeared at the corner of Chen Kui's mouth; Gao Gong frowned slightly, and suddenly asked, "Are you ready to fight?" ”

Fang Xuanling said in surprise: "Don't you know that on the day you arrived in Shanshan, the army had already set off to attack Xihai County?" ”

"What?" Gao Gong could barely support it, and when he came to the Western Regions, no matter who he was, he would think that he brought the secret edict of the imperial court, and Yang Yichen suddenly sent troops. Gao Gong understood, the soldiers were treacherous, Yang Yichen had long been ready to send troops, and what he was waiting for was an opportunity, it should be when he arrived in Yiwu County, Yang Yichen issued a battle order; Gao Gong asked gloomily, "Master Fang, when did you find out?" ”

Fang Xuanling picked up a document on the table, handed it to Gao Gong and said, "This morning, Yang Junshou sent someone to send it. ”

The document was an order issued by Yang Yichen, asking Yang Chong to send 2,000 pairs of armor, 10,000 arrows and as many military supplies as possible to Shanshan Huni City, and hand them over to Huangfu Juan to transport to the front line. Maybe Yang Chong knew in advance, but this document blocked all the words that Gao Gong wanted to ask, and Qu Tutong said it well, he shouldn't have made this trip.

Half a month later, the news came that Zuo Kunlun and Shi Daqian's 9,000 cavalry first attacked Shunli City in the west of Qinghai Lake, and annihilated 3,000 defenders. More than 20,000 people of the Notibo tribe of Ledu City surrendered when Yang Yichen's army arrived, and Yang Yichen then captured Xingwu City; Liu Quan's 30,000 Tuntian soldiers repelled the Tuyuhun army at Kushan, occupied Niuxindui, and advanced to the city of Shunli.

Fearing the annihilation of the whole army, the fairy king Ma took the initiative to evacuate Fu Qi City, and under the cover of 20,000 people who controlled the strings, the whole clan was armed, leading more than 50,000 people to retreat to the Xingsu River, and the rest surrendered. After Yang Yichen obtained Xihai County, he captured five cities, obtained 50,000 people, 200,000 cattle and sheep, and controlled the green space of Qinghai Lake; At the same time as the good news spread to Beijing, Yang Yichen recommended Liu Quan as the county guard of Xihai County.

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