Su You couldn't help but laugh when he saw Lu Sheng immersed in the story of the wheat iron rod, "What is a pity? Didn't he later become an official in the Sui Dynasty? ”

Lu Zhongsu added, "I can't imagine that Your Majesty is more open-minded than the queen lord, and he only looks at talent and not morality, so he let him guard the land of Longxing back then." ”

Yang Guang was named the king of Jin before he became the prince, but he has always been the governor of Yangzhou, and it is not an exaggeration for Lu Zhongsu to say that this river is the land of Yang Guang's Longxing.

Lu Sheng listened to his father's words, and only sighed, "This Mai Taishou is also an extraordinary person, so he did this extraordinary thing." ”

Su You nodded and said, "Mai Tie Staff can also be regarded as a Rong Ma Xuan, after entering the Sui Dynasty, he was transferred to the Yang Gong Army, lived in Qingliu County, and repeatedly made military exploits, because Pingjiang Dongzhi was awarded the three divisions of Yitong by the first emperor, and later followed the Turkic expedition and was crowned on the Kaifu; After His Majesty succeeded to the throne, the Han King Yang forged the rebellion, and he followed Yang Gong to conquer, and he always took the lead in every battle, and then served as the general of the Zhu State. ”

After listening to Su You's introduction, everyone finally stopped feeling abrupt for Mai Tiezhu wearing armor to greet Su You; If they didn't come to Yangzhou with Su You, how would they know that there was such a fierce general in the Great Sui?

Su You looked at everyone with a look of sudden realization, and continued, "In your hearts, you must think that this Maijun Shou has courage and no strategy? When he first went to court, Dou Wei, the examiner, also thought so, and he also laughed at the iron rod and said, 'What is Mai's surname?' ’”

"What's Mai's last name?" Lu Sheng and the others muttered, they only knew that this surname was extremely rare, in fact, Mai Tiezhu was the ancestor of the Lingnan branch of the Mai surname.

Su You looked at them and said with a smile, "At that time, Mai Taishou replied, 'There is no difference between wheat beans, what's so strange?' When Dou Wei heard this, he was speechless. ”

"Wit!" Everyone nodded their heads and couldn't stop praising them.

When Su You and the others were chatting in the mansion, they saw Mai Tiezhu hurriedly entering the courtyard with a few guards, Su You hurriedly stood up, greeted him and asked, "Have you recruited all of them?" ”

"Worthy of the mission." Mai Tiezhu nodded immediately, and then pulled a white-faced military general in his thirties next to him and said, "Zhao Juncheng, you must obey Su Yushi's command today." ”

The white-faced military general nodded, and then said like Su You, "Jiangdu County Cheng Zhao Xin, see Su Yushi, the lower officials have already ordered a thousand soldiers, just waiting for the order of the imperial history." ”

Su You nodded, and then said solemnly, "Your Majesty sent this official to Jiangdu for two purposes, I'm afraid you can also see it from your official position." The first purpose is to investigate the impeachment of Zhang Xin for collecting business taxes for private purposes, and this purpose has basically been achieved.

Mai Tiezhu and Zhao Xin didn't interject, but listened to Su You continue with great sincerity.

"The second purpose is to open a field in Yangzhou. There is nothing difficult to set up a farm, but to ensure that the field is running well and to ensure that the field achieves the purpose of collecting a certain amount of commercial tax, it is facing some embarrassments, such as the canal is not smooth today. You may be familiar with the reasons for this, right? ”

Mai Tiezhu and Zhao Xin looked at each other, the Yuan's boat company and the Zhang family's boat company monopolized the canal transportation, they probably still knew about it, but they didn't have anything to do with it. Jing's officials, how dare they poke this big basket?

Seeing that the two of them didn't speak, Su You could only continue to say, "If you want to talk about this commercial competition, as long as you use legitimate means, this official will be happy to see it; But an organization like Zhang's Boat Company, do they still have Wang Fa in their eyes? They actually put people to death in order to occupy the canal, and because of this, when the official first arrived in Jixian County, he witnessed a bloody clash with his own eyes, and more than 30 people were killed and injured at the scene."

"And such a thing?" Mai Tiezhu and Zhao Xin couldn't help but say in unison, if more than 30 people were killed or injured in the war, it would not be a big deal, but now it is a peaceful and prosperous era when all countries come to the court, if this matter reaches the ears of those foreigners, will they still come to the court?

"Can this be faked? Let's let these two talk about it," Su You spoke, and then sent the form to Mai Tiecane's hand, and pulled the family members of the two bitter masters who came from Kaifeng to his side.

Mai Tiezhu was illiterate, so he took it from Su You and handed it to Zhao Xin, who immediately unfolded it.

One of the family members of the bitter lord complained with tears in his eyes, "My brother went down to Jiangdu from Kaifeng three months ago, and when he passed through Pengcheng, he encountered the black hand of the Zhang family's boat company, they not only scuttled more than 20 ships, but also killed the people on board. ”

Mai Tiezhu's face was red and white for a while, and before the bitter master's family finished complaining, he was already heartbroken, "I actually did this!" It's tolerable, it's unbearable. ”

Zhao Xin's face was also a little unnatural, and after he handed the form back to Su You, he also said solemnly, "These people are too frustrated, how does Yushi plan to deal with them?" ”

Su You said fiercely, "Of course, it is resolutely banned." ”

Mai Tiezhu and Zhao Xin glanced at each other, and said in unison, "Please give the order of Yushi." ”

Lu Zhongsu, Wang Bodang and others were also eager to try, Su You had actually arranged what he was going to do today on the ship, but they didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

Su You glanced at the people standing beside him, then looked at the Mai Tie Staff and Zhao Xin in front of him, and immediately ordered, "General Zhao Ke is commanding 200 people to strengthen the defense of Yangzhou City gates, docks, warehouses and other places, Mai Jun Shouke can go with me to the inner city wharf and seize the Zhangjia Boat Company; At the same time, the county government issued a notice to summon the merchants who had been intercepted by the Zhangjia Boat Company, and we will compensate them from the seizures. ”

"Is that really good? Won't it be too much? Although Mai Tiezhu had such and such doubts in his heart, at this moment, Su You was ready to fly, and he still chose to accept the order without objection.

At the same time, a fast horse was rushing from Pengcheng to Yangzhou, and the passenger on the horse was Zhang Xin's henchman Zhang Guoli.

As early as the night when Su You left Pengcheng, Zhang Guoli heard the news that Su You went to Yangzhou, but this news that I don't know whether it was true or false did not attract Zhang Guoli's attention, and the more important reason was that Zhang Xin was getting drunk, and Zhang Mo was unconscious.

Until the next morning, Zhang Xin was still a little confused, and then he heard that a group of cavalry from Jiangdu was asking people about Su You's whereabouts.

"Cavalry from Jiangdu? Why did they ask Su You why? Su You wants to go down to Jiangdu! When Zhang Xin thought of this question, he suddenly came to his senses.

In fact, after Su You left, Zhang Xin was ready to write a self-defense and apply for resignation, and this unsalvable official position can be lost, because only by abandoning the pawn can he protect the car.

However, as soon as he heard that Su You had gone to Jiangdu, Zhang Xin was suddenly not calm, this hard-earned belongings was his car, could he watch the ship collapse for several years and all his hard work in vain?

When Zhang Xin thought that everything was going to be lost, he regretted his foresight and backwards, and his brother Zhang Jin said it really well.

Strike first!

But now Zhang Xin is behind Su You in every move, and at this time, he can only indiscriminately instruct Zhang Guoli to go to the doctor for illness, "You go to Jiangdu in person, and you must keep the boat." ”

Zhang Guoli responded to the promise, but he was bitter in his heart, "How easy is it to keep the ship?" ”

Zhang Guoli was still galloping, but Su You led Mai Tiecane and 800 officers and soldiers and more than 100 people under Lu Zhongsu to the dock again.

At the inner city wharf in the north of Jiangdu City, Su You and the others had already surrounded the largest building complex.

This building complex covers an area of eight acres, there are two or three hundred houses, three large shops have been opened on the street, and there is a big plaque on the top of the storefront in the middle, which is written 'Zhang Ji Boat Company' four big characters painted in gold, and here is the head office of Zhang's Boat Company.

This shipping company, which mainly operates Cao Yun, seems to be inconspicuous, and it has only been open for two years, but it monopolizes seventy percent of the freight transportation in Tongji Canal, and they have thousands of thugs all over the wharves along the Tongji Canal; Under Zhang Xin's blind eye, the people of the shipping company used various means to prevent other merchants from operating the transportation and used the method of forcible monopoly to seek huge profits.

Zhang's boat company closed down two days ago, and the gate was closed at this time, and there were only a few guys in the boat shop; They opened the side door and looked at Su You in purple robes with great horror, as well as the wheat iron staff in military uniform, and the hundreds of people behind them.

"Open the door for investigation!" Mai Tie Staff shouted and raised the silver spear in his hand.

Under the double deterrence of official authority and violence, the guy who watched the store naturally did not have the slightest heart to resist, and hurriedly opened the door.

"Thorough search!" With a wave of his hand, Mai Tie couldne to advance first.

Su You followed closely, and hundreds of officers and soldiers behind him also rushed into the store and began to search the world......

Then, a fast horse was late, Zhang Guoli rolled off the horse unwillingly, stretched out his hand and cried to Su You and hundreds of soldiers who flocked into the boat, "Wait, what are you doing here?" ”

"Who are you? Is this boat owner the owner? A soldier stopped him with a knife on his face and asked with a smile.

Zhang Guoli shook his head vigorously and asked with some puzzlement, "Is something wrong with this ship?" ”

"Nonsense! Don't you see a notice posted anywhere? This ship's monopoly on Cao Yun can be said to have touched the reverse scales of the Son of Heaven! The soldier said impatiently, although he didn't know what "monopoly" meant, but he felt very powerful.

Zhang Guoli didn't know what was written on the notice of the government, and seeing that the ship could not be saved, his mood was so depressed that everyone was about to shed tears.

Su You couldn't stand it either, he felt that he was still a little late, because after looking for so long, he didn't find even a single piece of paper in the ledger and records, and there was not even a penny in the warehouse.

The Zhang family boat company has obviously already gotten the news, and their property is only those boats on the surface.

"If you say that you will compensate those sufferers, do you want to pay for your own money?" When Su You thought of this worst-case plan, he finally said ruthlessly, "Pass on the official's order to completely burn the ship and auction off all their ships!" ”

"Auction? Is that really good? Although Mai Tiezhu didn't want to oppose Su You's idea, he still said it carefully.

Su You's side came to Yanbei, Lu Zhongsu, Wang Bodang and others also felt that Su You's order was a little capricious, but they couldn't fall into the well at this time, but they all looked at Su You with incomprehensible expressions, hoping that he could calm down.

Su You immediately said, "Why are you looking at me?" Go ahead and draw up the notices to clear the ships out of the docks before the end of the year. ”

Mai Tiezhu nodded, and smiled bitterly in his heart, "At least the people of Yangzhou City can have a good year, as for whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway." ”