With the help of Yang Chao's prestige, Wang Xiao successfully established a fairly harmonious relationship with several salt merchants, but he has not yet completely entered the salt business circle and cannot enjoy the huge profits of the salt industry.

This time, Yang Chao won a big victory, defeated more than 300 captives, and killed more than 200 soldiers, as soon as the record spread, Wang Xiao immediately seized this opportunity to feast the wealthy businessmen, intending to integrate into the salt business circle in one fell swoop.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the sediment of the Yellow River, which was seized into the sea along the coastline of the south of the Yangtze River, pushed a lot into the sea, and the salt content in the sea water decreased. Therefore, the salt production center moved northward, from Huainan to Huaibei, and the sea water near Haizhou Bay has high salinity and longer sunshine hours than the north, so it has become a salt production center.

Haizhou was captured by the soldiers, and the salt merchants could not get enough salt supply, although they did not go bankrupt, but they did suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, this time Yang Chao went to rescue Haizhou, all the salt merchants were supportive, so they were willing to associate with Wang Xiao who was under the banner of Yang Chao, but they really thought that Yang Chao could defeat the captives and relieve the siege of Haizhou in one fell swoop, but there were few, the most optimistic, I just hoped that Yang Chao could help defend Haizhou City, and not let the captives attack Haizhou and loot the people there, so that Haizhou would not only be unable to transport salt for a year and a half, but the salt production would be completely destroyed.

Therefore, Wang Xiao's desperate propaganda used to just make these wealthy businessmen believe that the Wang family could rely on Yang Chao, a brave general, and that's it.

As for whether Yang Chao is so powerful and invincible, few people really believe it, and some people even think that Yang Chao will never return to the battlefield and maintain a relationship with the Wang family under the banner of Yang Chao is just out of sympathy.

But as soon as the news of the victory arrived, not only did these salt merchants shock, but also gave birth to other thoughts.

Haizhou is the center of the salt industry, Haizhou was besieged, and Yang Chao rescued Haizhou. Solved the siege of Haizhou in one fell swoop, and the connection between these several things is really too imaginative.

Countless people will think. Will the Wang family take advantage of this opportunity to talk to the salt producers in Haizhou? formed a close relationship with the government of Haizhou; Will the Wang family take advantage of this opportunity to break into Haizhou's salt industry?

With these salt merchants' understanding of the strength of the Wang family, they don't think this is a difficult thing, although under the salt monopoly system, the most lucrative thing is not the production of salt, but the trafficking of salt.

However, Haizhou has been besieged for such a long time, and even after it is opened, it is impossible to produce a large amount of salt immediately. At that time, the price of salt will inevitably rise, and the Wang family has opened up the relationship between salt production, it is worth their co-optation, not to mention anything else, just say who to supply salt first, which is enough to make the first to make huge profits in the good market of high salt prices.

Therefore, several big salt merchants quickly accepted Wang Xiao and promised that the Wang family could participate in the Jianghuai salt transportation.

Of course, it's just salt transportation, anyway, the Wang family was originally engaged in transportation, and it has a relationship with the salt-producing areas, so it is reasonable to do salt transportation. As for the core interest of selling salt to various places, these salt merchants will never give it up, because selling salt is not only a business. And it is a power, not everyone has the right to sell salt, without the relationship established with the government for several lifetimes, and the connections formed with various joints, this business cannot be done, and it is still impossible for the Wang family to squeeze in so easily.

But just the business of transporting salt from Haizhou to Huai'an is enough to make Wang Xiao wake up with a smile, you must know that Huai'an has become one of the four major cities on the canal in the past hundred years. Faintly fighting against Yangzhou, it is precisely because the Jianghuai salt industry has been transferred from Huainan to Huaibei. To be precise, it is the coastal area centered on Haizhou.

The canal in Haizhou leads directly to Huai'an, so the salt in Huaibei basically has to pass through Huai'an. Then it runs all over the south of the Yangtze River, which creates the status of Huai'an, otherwise why can a small city in the early Ming Dynasty compete with a thousand-year-old commercial traditional city like Yangzhou.

Think about the most important link in the salt industry that has created the status of Huai'an, the salt transportation from Haizhou to Huai'an, and their Wang family can operate it in the future, so the strength of the Wang family can have a huge span, and it is just around the corner to become one of the top wealthy businessmen in the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Wang family is a wealthy merchant in Hangzhou with millions of family assets, there is still a difference in strength compared to those big salt merchants who eat salt monopoly and eat for several generations. In order to maintain stability, the government will not easily move a salt merchant who has a salt distribution network, which is related to tens of millions of people eating salt and huge salt tax payments, and the common people pay a price equivalent to grain to support these salt merchants because of salt, so these salt merchants are the real elite class among merchants, which rich merchant family does not want to become a salt merchant like this, the government and the people can not offend the group.

Therefore, Wang Xiao can be said to have made a great contribution to the Wang family.

It's just that it seems a little inauthentic under the banner of Yang Chao, after all, Yang Chao and Wang Xiao are still friends.

But this is a businessman, and when a friend is in danger, he will also care, but he will never be polite when he can use it.

However, Wang Xiao still has some righteousness in the end, while he uses Yang Chao, he also sincerely hopes that Yang Chao can return safely, it doesn't matter whether he wins the battle or not, he just uses the big victory to fool those salt merchants.

So when the news of Yang Chao's victory came, Wang Xiao was very happy not only to finally get those salt merchants, but also to send someone to send the news back to Nanjing immediately and tell Yang Chao's family to know.

At this point, Wang Xiao, a businessman, is very comfortable, the reason why businessmen have been suppressed by the government for thousands of years, is still an active class in society, and their style of dealing with the world is inseparable, he can always make people comfortable, make people feel like a spring breeze, whether it is the government or customers, when they can get along happily, it makes no sense for them not to get rich.

Wang Xiao's news through the fast horse, faster than the government's Tang newspaper, first from Huai'an with the fast horse pipeline directly to Jiangpu, through Puzikou to the new Jiangkou camp, the land Pegasus is indeed faster than from the canal south to the west to turn back, but it also took three days.

But Wang Xiao's news arrived a day earlier than Pegasus, because in addition to Pegasus, he also used flying pigeons.

That's right, it's a carrier pigeon, the Wang family is a wealthy businessman who runs a transportation business, and information from all over the world is very important to them, so they have a strong information network. Keeping pigeons is also one of the ways, but this is one of the most unreliable ways, and carrier pigeons often disappear inexplicably.

It's all because the ecology is too good. There were still many barren mountains and mountains in the Ming Dynasty, and there was not a single mountain that was not full of greenery. There is no mountain forest without birds and animals, carrier pigeons to deliver news in such a primitive environment, it is really difficult for this group of postmen, actually flying, flying through a beautiful mountain forest, before they have time to enjoy the beautiful scenery, they were brutally killed by a vicious eagle that rushed out of nowhere, okay. In fact, you don't need an eagle, a yaozi is enough.

Always the pigeon to pass the message, in addition to their own mistakes to get lost, the probability of being eaten by birds of prey is very large, so the transmission of the message is very unreliable, but the speed is really fast, so the Wang family still raises a lot of carrier pigeons, but only when the time is most needed will release the carrier pigeons, but also will send fast horses or fast boats, to make a backup of the carrier pigeons.

Good luck this time. The pigeon flew for a day, and after a few laps, it landed in Nanjing. Fell into the pigeon coop of Wang Yihe's grocery store, cooing and asking for the master

Give it water and food.

Then the news quickly spread to the Yang family.

The Yang family made an exception to set up a table of good wine and good food, Yang Yong had a rare drink of wine, and Yang Yue had a rare meal of meat, for most of the past six months, Zhao Lan, the mother of the Yang family, was like a grumpy tigress, pressing on the heads of the Yang family's father and daughter, making them breathless.

Drink? Eating meat?

Who dares!

The son's life and death on the battlefield are uncertain, and he still has to enjoy himself at this time. I really don't want to live anymore, Yang Yong and Yang Yue don't even dare to speak out loud at home these days.

The news of Yang Chao's victory came. Zhao Lan's face, which had been gloomy for several months, finally cleared after the rain, and she yelled at her subordinates to buy wine and meat. At the same time, a large firecracker was set off at the door.

In fact, Zhao Lan is not because of her son's big victory, but because of her son himself, and winning the battle proves that his son is safe.

While the Yang family celebrated, Zhao Lan did not forget to tell her mother's family the news that her brother and sister-in-law's family were also anxious about their son Zhao Kang.

The news spread to Jinchai Tower again, and then the entire Nanjing Qinglou circle knew about it.

I heard that there are several girls who got together for this purpose and held a poetry meeting, which is a poetry meeting about the side poems of Jin Ge Iron Horse, and I have to say that Yang Chao has been mixed up in the Qinglou circle.

Of course, it also spread to officialdom, and as a result, it caused some chain reactions.

First of all, Xiong Mingyu rejected the reconciliation of Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Zhaoji to seek the resurrection of his brother-in-law and serve as the deputy general of the water camp again, and bluntly refused.

In the end, Feng Kezong, the fiery Nanjing Jinyi Wei envoy who fought with Xu Zhongxiao of Jinyiwei Qianhu during this period of time, suddenly changed his mind and ruthlessly refused Xu Qianhu's invitation to drink flower wine many times.

In addition, there were a few military attachés who were seeking a total shortage of 1,000 in the middle of the new Jiangkou camp after Yang Chao went north, and they immediately reined in and did not mention their intention to be promoted.

In fact, what Yang Chao doesn't know is that his energy in officialdom should not be underestimated, especially in Nanjing officialdom, he can already be regarded as the number one person, and he is a figure that no one else can understand.

Of course, the biggest impact is actually in the shopping mall.

When Yang Chao was there, he had the final say on the freight pricing on a waterway near Nanjing, and the pricing details were announced through the trading hall of Jinchai Building, and only the best price freight orders were accepted.

However, after Yang Chao went north, the freight rate market began to fluctuate, and Zhang Dawei and his fleet not only became more and more difficult to control the freight rate, but encountered many competitors, many of whom began to imitate Yang Chao's fleet and engage in escort business, including other officers and soldiers of the water battalion, and dart shops in the Nanjing area.

As a result, Yang Chao walked for half a year, the freight business on the Yangtze River was very chaotic, and the freight earned by Zhang Dawei was less than half of what Yang Chao had when he was there.

As a result, after the news of Yang Chao's victory came, many perennial people who had been registered on the river, including those dart thugs, came to visit Zhang Dawei one after another, expressing the hope that everyone would have money to earn together, and the freight rate would be discussed, and no one should maliciously rob other people's business.

The reason why Yang Chao's news has caused so many reactions, in addition to the fact that he already has a certain weight, the biggest reason is actually the relationship between winning the battle.

This time, Yang Chao of Haizhou didn't know, but other places more or less knew some of the situation, such as the people in the officialdom knew that the Dongyu was ravaging Shandong, and Zhou Yanru took the initiative to ask for the superintendent in order to invite merit in front of the emperor, but as a result, he didn't go south at all in Tongzhou with a large army, and he didn't go to Shandong at all.

Lai drank and enjoyed himself with officials at all levels in Tongzhou all day long, but reported good news to the emperor at every turn.

The whole world knows what Zhou Yanru's good news is, but the emperor doesn't know, all kinds of rewards and awards, not stingy at all.

However, Yang Chao's military exploits are different from those so-called repelled hundreds of captives reported by Zhou Yanru, Yang Chao's military exploits are real, each of them has a head as evidence, and he also captured two captives alive, one of whom is still a captive chief who led the troops to plunder, which is too different.

Therefore, it is simply shocking in the officialdom, plus the side eyes, basically no one doubts that Yang Chao will soar because of this military feat, as long as Yang Chao has always been able to fight, it is very possible to grow into the next Zuo Liangyu, so it is unwise to offend Yang Chao at this time.

Therefore, Xiong Mingyu had already planned to reconcile with the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion and promised Gu Zhaoji to let his brother-in-law go back out of the mountain, but as soon as the news came, Xiong Mingyu immediately used the power of the Nanjing Military Department to give Gu Zhaoji's guarantee a negative sentence.

So originally because Xu Zhongxiao was very good at being a man, when Yang Chao went north and decided that Yang Chao would definitely die, Feng Kezong had long lost the mind to clean up Xu Zhongxiao, and enjoyed Xu Zhongxiao's filial piety with peace of mind, but when the news of Yang Chao's victory came, Feng Kezong immediately made up his mind to break off relations with Xu Zhongxiao.

In fact, hearing this news, Feng Kezong was scared half to death at that time, Yang Chao's operation in Nanjing really brought too much damage to Feng Kezong's weak mind, others just knew that Yang Chao was not easy to mess with, Feng Kezong Ke has always regarded Yang Chao as the living king of Hades. But not only did he not do the things entrusted to him by the Living Yama King, but hooked up with Xu Zhongxiao and shared the benefits.

Feng Kezong suddenly recalled the feeling of the past, and scolded himself for being stupid in his heart, Yang Chao went to kill the Tartar, how could he fail, how could Yang Chao be the kind of reckless person, how could he do something that he was not sure of, Yang Chao was going to kill the Tartar, who cares about the legend that the Tartar is invincible, Feng Kezong only knew that as long as Yang Chao wanted to do something, it would be impossible to do it, he wanted to kill the Tartar, and the Tartar just lowered his head and obediently let him cut it, Feng Kezong didn't feel strange.

As a result, now that the news came, Feng Kezong was immediately at a loss and out of proportion.

But within a few days, another news about Yang Chao spread in Nanjing, and Yang Chao was surrounded by 100,000 troops in Haizhou City! (To be continued).