After the wedding, Deng Yu did not enjoy the imaginary leisure, but was pulled by Li Ke to deal with various internal affairs, one of which was the implementation of the salt policy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Deng Yu married Li Chenghui, a big salt merchant, Li Chenghui began to buy a large number of salt pans with his strong financial resources and Deng Yu's funding.

At the same time, Zhang Qi, the general of Zhengnan, led the 8,000 Wu navy, with the assistance of Lin Xu, a captain of Zhaowu who was born as a salt dealer, to exterminate the pirates and smugglers entrenched on Shengsi Island in one fell swoop.

After the two measures were taken together, Deng Yu's salt industry monopoly system began to be officially implemented, and at this moment, the salt merchants in Wu suddenly realized that they had been deceived by Li Chenghui.

The salt merchants who felt that they had been tricked were all so angry that they denounced the Li family in Gaoyou, saying that the Li family had betrayed them, and threatened the Li family that if they did not give them an explanation, then they would cut off contact with the Li family in the future, as well as commercial cooperation.

Li Chenghui was disdainful of the condemnation and threats of the salt merchants, and the Li family married Deng Yu, the king of Wu, as long as he got a little support from his son-in-law, the Li family could easily become the first official businessman of the Wu State.

The policy of the salt industry is a big blow to the salt merchants in Wu State, and it is undoubtedly a broken bone and marrow sucking, and the implementation of the salt industry is official, and the value of salt hoarded in the hands of salt merchants will plummet, and God knows how much salt these salt merchants will accumulate for several years, and some or even several generations.

Moreover, salt is a necessity of life, and controlling salt not only means having huge wealth, but also the salt merchants can control the private soldiers under them, and constantly recruit the displaced people for their livelihood, and even seek a place in such a troubled era as the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

For the salt merchants, everyone will have more or less ambitions, and everyone wants to control one side, salt, private soldiers, this is the necessary conditions for the implementation of their ambitions.

The implementation of the measure of official management of the salt industry can be said to have forced the salt merchants in Wu to stand on the opposite side of Deng Yu.

The first counterattack of the salt merchants in the state of Wu soon came, and they united and sent private soldiers in the palace to pretend to be bandits and pirates to destroy the salt fields of the government and the salt dings who helped the government to do things.

And Deng Yue seemed to have expected that they would have this bad move, and had already ordered the local governments to secretly watch their every move, and once they made a move, they would immediately send troops to suppress it.

At the same time, Deng Yu also ordered Lin Xu, the captain of Zhaowu, to organize the pirates and salt dealers who had been recruited and set up a special anti-smuggling patrol battalion.

In this process, the salt merchants in Wu gradually found that the tribesmen they had placed in the government were not as good as they used to be, from Deng Yu's initial purchase of salt fields, cracking down on pirates and salt dealers, to the implementation of the official policy of the salt industry, these clansmen in the government did not transmit any effective warning news at all.

In the wealthy merchant family, without exception, each clansman has cultivated the idea of taking family interests as the core since childhood.

Then why did these clansmen not take action when they saw that the interests of the family were damaged, and they didn't even send back a message to warn.

When these clansmen who were arranged in the official mansion returned to their families one after another, they discussed with their patriarchs, and found that Deng Yu was ready to turn against them salt merchants from the beginning.

When Deng Yugang claimed that Wang Jianguo, the promotion of these salt merchant clansmen to official positions was often overt and covertly, secretly depriving them of their power, and the new official positions given were simply inconsequential idle positions.

Moreover, Deng Yue arranged for the newly appointed officials to form their own line, although on the surface they were courting these officials of the salt merchant family, but secretly they were monitoring their every move.

This discovery immediately shocked the salt merchants in Wu State, and now, there are too few things in their hands that can threaten Deng Yu.

All over the world, all states and counties are official governments, and the scholars and wealthy merchants each account for half of the country, but Deng Yu wants to centralize power and wealth, and firmly control the entire Wu State in his own hands!

Of course, the scholars and wealthy merchants in the territory of Wu would not let this happen, and they gathered together to discuss how to deal with Deng Yu.

Xinghua County, Gaoyou Prefecture, the Chen family, Xinghua Chen started by selling illicit salt, and later became the top salt merchant in Xinghua by buying off the officials of the Yuan Dynasty.

Today's Chen family can be described as very lively, the carriages and horses in front of the door are continuous, all of them are gorgeously dressed nobles, these people are arrogant, they have always looked at people with their heads held high, and they know that they are either rich or noble at a glance.

In the main hall of the Chen Mansion mansion, the gold lacquer pillars, the left and right silver carved bronze, the precious jade can be seen at the eye, the whole main hall is very luxuriously decorated, each table and chair is made of rosewood, people sit on it in the summer and warm in the winter, even the furniture is very valuable.

Chen Lin, the patriarch of the Chen family, sat in the first place, and on the left and right sides sat the wealthy business owners who came from various counties in Wu State, namely Yancheng Liu's, Wu's, Liang's, Xinghua Li's, Chang's, Rugao's Jiang's, Gao's, Tongzhou's Xu's, Zhang's, Haimen's Zhou's, Wang's, plus Xinghua Chen's, a total of twelve people.

These twelve wealthy merchant families not only have great influence in the field of salt industry, but also have strong power in other business fields, and their combined power is enough to control a land or cause chaos in a country.

After waiting for a few Chen Mansion family members to serve tea, Chen Lin, who was in the first place, waved his hand, signaled the family members to retreat, and ordered sharply that within two hours, there would be no summons from the whole mansion and no one should enter the main hall.

After taking a sip of tea, sitting at the head of the left seat was a majestic old man in his fifties, dressed in brocade clothes, he was the patriarch of the Xu clan in Tongzhou, only to hear him say angrily: "This Deng Yue is really too deceitful, we sold it to him so well at the beginning, he turned his face and didn't recognize people, and stretched his palm into our pocket!" ”

As soon as the patriarch of the Xu clan finished speaking, the patriarch of the Liu clan in Yancheng, who was directly opposite him, had a dark face, and said in a cold voice: "Hmph, this Deng Yue is not moving, and it is like a raging storm and rain as soon as he moves, endlessly, rising and descending secretly, secretly buying salt fields, exterminating sea bandits and salt dealers, and implementing the salt industry official camp, these means are all aimed at you and me wealthy businessmen, now, our clansmen have no power in the official government, and once the salt industry official system is completely stabilized, then we will lose our business and ruin our family, and we can only become beggars on the street!" ”

The patriarch of the Wu clan, who was sitting next to the patriarch of the Liu clan in Yancheng, took a sip of tea, and then also spoke: "We must not sit still and let Deng Yue control the salt industry, this person has just established the country and become the king and will play us around, if we don't make a move now, I am afraid that Deng Yue will become even worse in the future!" ”

"Not only Deng Yu, but also the Li family, if it weren't for Li Chenghui's helpers, how could we be deceived by them to go to a large number of salt fields, after solving Deng Yu, the Li family can't stay, what do you think?"

As soon as the Wu clan patriarch said this, it immediately aroused the approval of many people in the audience: "Wu Lao said very reasonably, the Li family betrayed us and went to be a dog for Deng Yu, then the Li family does not have to exist!" ”