"Fighting for eighty days, I would rather die than surrender." Ye Guan stood by the river and blew the river breeze, looking at the busy crowd by the Yangtze River, and suddenly thought of this sentence that has been circulating for hundreds of years.

"Jiangyin County, the state of loyalty and righteousness!" Standing at the wharf, thinking that one hundred and fifty-one years later, hundreds of thousands of people in Jiangyin County stubbornly resisted the Qing army's siege of the city for 81 days under the leadership of three low-ranking petty officials, and finally the whole city was martyred, and the sea breeze blowing seemed to have a trace of blood.

"The wheel of history has come to the sixteenth year of Hongzhi, and I don't know if I have a chance to change the tragic events that are about to be staged on the land of China. There is the beauty of the chapter uniform, and the great summer of etiquette. Two hundred and seventy-six years after Emperor Taizu restored the Tang Dynasty system, the people of Shenzhou will usher in an even greater cultural destruction, and then more than a hundred years of backwardness and beating. Ye Guan stood on the boat while resisting the feeling of seasickness, while recalling the scenes of the later life.

"What are you talking about, my lord?" Zhang Ling, the captain of the Jinyi Guard, saw Ye Guan muttering to himself through the mulberry, and Ye Guan wanted to give something, so he stepped forward and agreed.

"Go away, I'm ...... Boat. Ye Guan suddenly felt a churning in his stomach, covered his mouth, and said to Zhang Ling vaguely.

"Boat family, is our son-in-law calling you?" Zhang Ling vaguely heard Ye Guan shouting something about the boat, and hurriedly called the boatman at the ferry.

"This guest officer, why did you call the little old man here?" The boatman was an old man, and when he heard the guests calling him, he hurried forward.

"Don't come, I can't do it......"

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The boatman looked at his clothes with a little annoyance, crying and laughing. How can there be seasickness and shout the truth in front of people, now it's okay, the people in our boat, as long as they are close to you, are all porridge that has been sprayed, it seems that this kid has eaten a lot in the morning. There is also mustard, I guess I also drank tofu brain, so you can eat less seasickness. Eat so much and don't you feel tired when you squirt?

The boatman didn't know what to say, looked at Ye Guan, who was supported by two subordinates, thought for a long time, and had to say: "Young man, you have a good appetite." ”

"Thank you for the compliments of the boatmen, good teeth, good appetite, good body, and delicious food." Ye watched the food he sprayed out, he was quite embarrassed, thought for a while, and finally replied.

After crossing the wharf, we came to Jingjiang County, the capital of Changzhou. After lying on the dock like a dead pig for half an hour, Ye Guan felt that his head was no longer dizzy, although he couldn't go up to the fifth floor in one breath, but he could barely do it if he didn't get sick and walked two steps.

Originally, Ye Guan wanted to go straight to Beijing along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but looking at the seasickness situation, it is estimated that he can only take the land route.

Just like there is always a KFC next to McDonald's, there will always be a "Yuelai Inn" on every official road.

Ye Guan and the three of them hurried one after another, and finally arrived near Tai'an Mansion five or six days later, seeing that it was getting late, they decided to find a random inn to spend the night.

Yuelai Inn can be regarded as one of the most important inns on this official road, and the cost of a night has reached fifty yuan a night, which is equivalent to the consumption of a star-rated hotel in later generations. Although this Yuelai Inn is clean and clean, the others really have nothing to do with star-rated hotels.

In the room, Xiao Er was called to the bathtub to get hot water, and Ye Guanmei, who had worked hard for several days on the pomma horse, lay down in the hot water and enjoyed it for a while.

"Guest officer, are you and the two guests next to you dining in the room or in the lobby downstairs?" The guy is sharp-eyed, although Ye Guan and the three of them live in three rooms, but he knows at a glance that the two are just followers, and the person in front of him is the person in charge, so he asked.

"Well, let's dine and get a better table for us." Ye Guan thought for a while, and felt that it was better to eat in the room than to eat in the hall downstairs, and it was also a good choice to see the life scenes of the people in the Ming Dynasty, so he decided to dine with Zhang Ling and Liu Fan below.

"It's been a hard journey, I'll give you a glass." Zhang Ling and Liu Fan have also become familiar with Ye Guan in the past few days, plus they are originally from Beijing City, Ye Guan went to Beijing, and he was not familiar with the place, so he befriended the two local snakes, so as not to make detours in the future.

The two of them didn't dare to say that they hurriedly replied to Ye Guan. These two also hope that by befriending Ye Guan, a young guard of the forbidden palace, there may be a place to find him in the future, and under deliberate flattery, the three of them are staggered, and they have a happy scene.

Just after three rounds of wine and five flavors of food. Zhang Ling walked away, and after asking the shopkeeper about the location of the latrine, he confessed and went to the latrine.

After a while, just when Ye Guan wondered if this kid had fallen into the pit and whether he wanted to catch him, Zhang Ling came back. After looking at the people around him, he whispered to Ye Guan and Zhang Fan: "My lord, when I passed by the kitchen just now, I heard someone talking about the problem of salt. I stuck in front of the window and listened carefully for a while, someone was selling illicit salt to the shopkeeper, and there were quite a few of them, if this was reported to the local government and the local Jinyi Wei Hundred Households, it would be a great merit! ”

"Brother Zhang, is this true?" When Liu Fan heard that there was merit, he also hurriedly asked.

"Of course it's true, I also heard the smuggler inside say that he wanted the shopkeeper of this Yuelai Inn to introduce him to the next home, and the number of people introduced was more, and he returned it to the shopkeeper's maid. The smugglers also said that they were so powerful that they didn't have to worry about the local garrison and the government, they had bought them all. Lord Ye, let's go and inform the local Jinyi Wei Hundred Households, this is good for the country and the people, for you and me. Zhang Ling said.

Ye Guan was a little moved by what he said, this private salt is definitely the target that must be cracked down on for the feudal dynasty. The salt tax has always been the second largest tax after the field tax, which is related to the fiscal revenue and political stability of the feudal dynasty. In all dynasties, selling illicit salt is a big crime, and Huangchao is a family of illicit salt. Relying on the abundant capital accumulated by selling salt, he soon gathered hundreds of thousands of troops and almost killed Tang Xizong. Although illicit salt began to flood in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has not stopped cracking down on these salt dealers.

"Well, let's go, let's go to the local Jinyi Wei Hundred Households, where the illegal salt is so rampant, it must have something to do with the local Salt Transport Envoy and the government, first go to the local Hundred Households to see how the situation is." Ye Guan is not a stupid person, he was originally a passerby. The passer-by officer does not care about local affairs, this is the rule of officialdom. The fact that the illegal salt here is so flooded must be inextricably linked to the local salt transport envoys, the prefect, the county, and even the garrison. Ye Guan was going to go to the local 100 households to see the situation, if the 100 households were also corroded, then they would have to go to the Chengxuan Political Envoy Si Yamen and Jinyi Wei Qianhu in Jinan Mansion in Shandong Province to report.

A few people left the inn early the next morning, Ye Guan observed along the way, and found that the local business was extremely prosperous, but some of the wasteland in the city was originally uncultivated. They came to the local Baihu Office and found a brocade cloth Baihu stationed in the local area. This Baihu is about fifty years old, and his name is Zhen Neng. Hearing that it was a colleague passing by, although I wondered why this colleague would visit, I didn't think much about it, so I hurried out to greet him.

Ye Guan and the local Zhen Baihu greeted each other for a while, and they talked for a long time, but neither of them got down to business.

Ye Guan is a little younger after all, and he has been pulling for a long time, from outer space to the inner womb, from the Catholic Bible to the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon. This Zhen Neng Baihu is really capable of pulling it, but it doesn't leak, Ye Guan still can't drag him, he is a bad move, and he accidentally leaks his mouth.

"Zhen Baihu, I stayed here for a day, and found that the local public security problems are mostly due to the overflow of illegal salt, which leads to the fluctuation of people's hearts, most of the local farmers abandon their fields and turn to business, agriculture is withering, and there are many thieves. I don't know what Zhen Baihu has to say. Ye Guan asked tentatively.

"What Lord Ye said, the official has already heard about it. Helplessly, the official was a small official in the local area, so he could only report to the Qianhu Office of Jinan Prefecture, hoping that the Qianhu Lord could dispatch troops from other places to capture those salt dealers who colluded with officials and businessmen in one fell swoop. Lord Ye came just in time, you are the upcoming Beijing official, let's jointly play to the Zhenfu Division Tongzhi and the thousand households of Jinan Mansion. It's not in vain that Lord Ye made a special trip to my small hundred households. Zhen Baihu saw Ye Guan confiding in him, but he spoke bluntly.

"Okay, then the official will jointly sign this fold with Zhen Baihu to the above." Ye Guan saw that Zhen Neng was so unabashedly that he shared the credit of being a passer-by, so he believed that he might not have anything to do with the local private salt trade. asked Zhang Ling to repeat what he heard at the Yuelai Inn yesterday and showed it to Zhen Neng.

Zhen Neng was furious when he heard this: "I just thought that these smuggling salt dealers just bought off the wardens and inspectors in the yamen, but I didn't expect that the local garrisons were bought by them, this is a big deal, and many people will lose their heads." Lord Ye, after we jointly hand over the excerpts, you will leave with two subordinates first. There may be big turmoil in the officialdom here, I'm a local old man, I should be able to hide from it, you have to be careful that they jump over the wall. For your safety, you should still leave Tayan first. ”

Ye Guan only now feels that things are not small, although he is in the Ming Dynasty, he still has not changed some views. In later generations, selling illicit salt was at most a fine or a sentence. But this is in the Ming Dynasty, the smuggler salt dealer is a head-killing business, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, if they knew that they were the obstruction, but they would dare to do anything, so they wrote an excerpt and handed it to Zhen Neng to send to the post station, and left Tai'an Mansion in a hurry, and quickly went to the capital.

Ye Guan and the three of them hurried day and night, and finally left the Shandong boundary four days later and came to the jurisdiction of Beizhili.

"Lord Ye, we have left the jurisdiction of the Shandong Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, and those smuggler salt dealers will not cross the line to stir up trouble, no matter how capable they are. The horses are so tired that they are foaming at the mouth, so they can rest. The three of them walked to a canyon mouth, and Liu Fan took a breath and said. In the past few days, they have been on the road non-stop, and they also want to take a break.

"It's better to enter the county seat quickly, then it's really safe." Ye Guan was afraid that the boat would capsize in the gutter, so he still thought that he would be safe after entering the city.

"My lord, how can there be robbers here, in the past few years, Beizhili has been quite smooth, and horse thieves rarely appear on official roads." Zhang Ling often runs around, so he knows a little about the road conditions in various places.

Maybe Zhang Ling should go to buy lottery tickets, as soon as his words fell, he heard a gong sound, and a group of masked thieves in their twenties suddenly appeared in the mouth on the other side of the canyon.

"Well, I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to live from now on, kill or bury!" The masked man in the lead sat on the horse, pointed to the three Ye Guan opposite, and said.

"Lying in the groove, the land of Yan Zhao, there have been many generous and sad people since ancient times. As soon as I entered Hebei Province, I saw these heroes! The ancients did not deceive me! Ye Guan looked at the horse thieves in front of him dumbfounded