One hundred thousand silver is really an astronomical amount in the ears of middle and lower-level military attachés, and among the people present, I am afraid that only Luo Zhifu can stay calm after hearing this number.

It's not so easy to really move people's hearts these days, but the reason why Li You's words can make everyone excited is not because of empty words and white teeth, but because there is a real basis.

The two Huai salt fields of the national dynasty were exported, Huaibei salt went to Huai'an Mansion, and Huainan salt went to Yangzhou Mansion. However, the salt production of Huainan accounts for about three-quarters of the total output of the two Huai, so ordinary people often default to Huainan and Yangzhou when talking about the two Huainan salt, and Huai'an Mansion can only be called Little Yangzhou aggrievedly.

The reason why the sales of two Huai salt can account for half of the world is that the water transportation is convenient, and merchants like to transport Huai salt. Between the 30 salt farms in the coastal area of Huainan, there are winding rivers that connect the salt farms, which are called the Kushiba River. Turning out of the Kushiba River, there is another east-west river called the Yunyan River.

Every year, hundreds of millions of catties of Huai salt are transported out of the salt works through the salt river that stretches for hundreds of miles, and you can imagine the busyness of this river. From the map, you can see clearly, the Yunyan River is connected to Taizhou and Tongzhou Salt Farms at one end, and Jiangdu County at the other end. After passing through Jiangdu County, hundreds of millions of catties of salt can arrive at Yizhen Port on the river and be transferred to Huguang, Jiangxi and other places.

In other words, as long as Huai salt wants to be shipped abroad, it must go to Jiangdu County when it comes out of the production area, whether it is official salt or private salt. Therefore, Jiangdu County was called the "fence" place to contain and crack down on illegal salt, and of course it has also become the hardest hit area of illegal salt flooding and unsalable official salt.

Selling illicit salt is an industry, and investigating smuggled salt is also an industry, you know.

In another time and space, the pseudo-Qing may always be just a low-level military attache in charge of hundreds of people. But in the garrison department of this dynasty, the Zhengqipin battalion officer, who is always in charge of hundreds of soldiers, is not small, and he is the same as the Zhengwupin garrison, and he is not so uninformed.

If someone else ran in front of the three generals, patted his chest and promised: "Brother will take you to check the illegal salt!" ”

The three of them scoffed at the general manager, and when they were in a bad mood, they had to beat him up to get angry, is this something that ordinary people can do if they want to? But if the young six-grade official in front of him said so, the effect was different... The three generals involuntarily read Lord Li's official position in their hearts, and Lord Li, who is also in charge of the garrison department of the government, in addition to the official title of this nonsense façade, is also the main hall of Jiangdu County. He has the final say on the ground in Jiangdu County, and how to check the law of private salt is not a matter of his words!

I heard him say that he has a total income of more than 100,000 taels a year... If you can get involved in it, at least thousands of them fall into your hands every year, and in comparison, the current annual income of 240 taels is really pitiful!

Li You observed the words and looks, and had a grasp in his heart, and he always looked up to the sky and sighed at the three handfuls.

"There are hundreds of patrols in this county to crack down on smuggling, but most of them are locals, and it is extremely ineffective to check and ban smuggling salt. This official, an outsider, actually felt that there were no reliable people in the city, but recently he heard that the battalion soldiers were all recruited from other towns, and he thought that the military spirit could be used to create a great cause of anti-smuggling! When I saw it today, I was greatly disappointed! Great disappointment! ”

Lord Li was very angry, very angry, and hated that iron could not be made of steel, but he was very high-sounding. Even if an enemy surnamed Luo is here, he is not afraid of his report and exposure when he hears it, he just justifiably says that he will crack down on illegal salt, and everyone can make up for the rest of the meaning.

Not to mention the three generals, even the Xin garrison, who had just pitted Li You, was fooled into feeling a little resentful of the same enemy - among the people who ate the bowl of rice in the salt industry, the salt merchants were from Yangzhou, the patrols were locals, and even the smuggled salt sellers were mostly locals, so why could we, the outsiders, only stay in Yangzhou Mansion and watch them eat?

The demeanor of the four military attachés from the fifth rank to the seventh rank fell in the eyes of Luo Zhifu, and he felt that the atmosphere in the hall was no longer right, and Xin Shoubei, who was conspiring with him, also showed a vulgar appearance of fascination at this time.

I thought to myself, this bait thrown by Li You temporarily is too tempting, and there are not many people who can resist it, so he can't let him incite people's hearts with his tongue.

So Lord Fuzun immediately coughed heavily, interrupted Xin Shoubei's thoughts, and ordered: "Lord Li is an official of my Yangzhou Mansion after all, and this mansion naturally wants to ask." Since Lord Li is suspected, then the garrison will report the mutiny to the government in detail, and the government will report it as appropriate and apply for disposal after reading it. ”

Governor Luo's arrangement is absolutely tenable in principle, and the procedure is absolutely correct, and the result will definitely develop in the direction of hope... As long as the ironclad case is completed, even those in the DPRK and China will not be able to do whatever they want? What's more, Li You is famous for having many backers but more enemies, and there are a lot of offended elders, and no one will let him go if he has the opportunity.

At the same time, it is also a warning to the three generals that it is still unknown whether Lord Li can gain a foothold in the garrison division and continue to be in charge of the troops, and not to be easily confused by the ethereal mirage.

Xin Shoubei woke up and quickly realized his situation, even if Lord Li organized the battalion to investigate illicit salt, he was afraid that he would not have his own share.

Alas, why didn't Master Lee speak out about it earlier? There is such an errand as a large-scale investigation of illicit salt, who cares if it is a few hundred taels less to buy spare money every year? Who cares if the Seal Messenger is in their own hands? It's a pity that it's too late to regret it.

Xin Shoubei was annoyed, and weakly promised to the Luo Governor's Mansion: "Obey the order, and report to the government in detail when you say it." ”

Li You frowned and glanced at Luo Zhifu, of course he understood that he couldn't follow the other party's script, Fuzun's approach was like a dark box, and it wasn't that he could write it as he wanted.

Where do you start, and how do you break the situation?

Governor Luo didn't believe that Li You could have any other plan, and was about to leave. But I saw Master Li take out a roll of yellow silk, slam it on the table beside him, and said loudly: "This official is ordered to manage the garrison department of the government, where is the seal of the letter and order?" The official is going to receive it now! ”

According to the system, the seal letter is kept by the chief official of the yamen. In the past, Xin Garrison was the chief officer of the Garrison Division, and it was logical that he was in charge of the seal letter. After the imperial court decree was issued, Li You became the chief official of the garrison department as the "garrison department of the government", although the official rank of Xin garrison remained unchanged, in fact, he degenerated into the deputy of the garrison department's yamen, and the military attache and the civil official competed for power, which was absolutely useless, so Yin Xin should be handed over to Lord Li to take charge.

Governor Luo Xingye heard Li You ask for the seal letter, thought about it carefully, and concluded that Li You must not be allowed to get the seal letter warrant! Everyone knows that military orders are like mountains, and if they recognize orders but not people, if they have a seal in their hands, the whole battalion is not at the mercy of Li You, and there will definitely be problems.

He took out the shelf of the mansion and shouted to Lord Li: "Before accepting the seal letter of the garrison division, you are still only the general judge of Yangzhou Mansion and the main hall of Jiangdu County, and this mansion has the right to control you as the official of Yangzhou Mansion!" In view of today's mutiny, this official orders you to postpone your appointment as the garrison department of the government! ”

I'm waiting for you... Master Li quickly replied: "With the meaning of the Mansion, this official has not been sealed, so he has not officially taken office?" The government accused the official of abusing the sentry officer and causing chaos, so the official did not take office at that time, which was a chaotic life. Why can a chaotic life still be carried out, and whose fault is it? Presumably, the person in charge of the garrison seal is to blame! If it weren't for the palm prints who aided the abuse, how could there be chaos! ”

Li You forcibly dragged Xin Shoubei down the quagmire together, and he had to take responsibility and take responsibility together, and he had nothing to do with him.

Luo Zhifu and Xin Shoubei were all speechless, and they couldn't find any words to refute them for a while. These two can be regarded as having experienced first-hand the combat effectiveness of being able to punch and kick the heroes of the imperial history... Is this okay? The three always admired it very much, and sighed in their hearts that literati are exquisite, and they can find such a big loophole in all directions, and now the mansion and the garrison are in a dilemma.

Luo Zhifu glared at Xin Shoubei fiercely, and scolded in his heart that this guy is really a person who is greedy for small and cheap and suffers big losses! At that time before, he was clever and reluctant to take out the seal of the messenger to set the wolf, but now let him catch it! Do you want to ask him to sacrifice himself?

The momentum gradually came back, and Lord Li took advantage of the favorable opportunity to suddenly say to the three generals: "I don't know which battalion the sentry Hou Bing belongs to?" Whose subordinate are you waiting for? ”

The tallest one, Li You remembered that the general manager named Shi Juexing hugged his fist and said: "This person is a lowly subordinate, but the lowly committee really doesn't know about the matter today, I hope to calm down and investigate it!" ”

"So... The soldiers who made a disturbance in front of the yamen were all from his sentry? The captains and captains involved in it, please find out, they are all in your camp, it shouldn't be difficult. ”

Li You could guess that dozens of battalions of soldiers dared to deliberately come out to make trouble for no reason, and there must be a team leader and a team leader of the low-level soldiers. As long as you can catch a few of them and torture them, you can't find any clues if you don't believe it.

This is very difficult to choose, Shi Jiang always pondered for a moment before saying: "I can also see the lowly position, there are a few captains in the crowd, please give the lowly position a quarter of an hour to bring them to the hall!" ”

The reason why he fell so far to Li You was that he felt that Xin Shoubei and Fuzun were really not playing conspiracy, second, he was looking forward to Lord Li's proposal to use battalion soldiers to fight smuggling, and third, he admired Master Li in his heart.

Li You praised with his eyes and praised: "Very good! ”

Shi Shoubei didn't look at Xin Shoubei's side, turned his head and left, Xin Shoubei shouted with an ugly face: "Shi Juexing! You stop! ”

Shi slowed down his steps, but did not stop, and still walked towards the door.

Another general, Wu Xianhan, suddenly hugged his fist at Li You and said: "I remember that there are also subordinates in the battalion involved, and I am willing to arrest and get the hall for the suppression!" ”

For those who came to take refuge, Li You naturally welcomed it, "Thank you for your help!" If the truth is found out, this official must not write to Lu Shangshu of the Ministry of War to talk about this matter! Right and wrong are at ease in people's hearts! ”

Hearing the word "military department", Xin Garrison's expression changed greatly. For military attachés, the military department is equivalent to the status of the military department in the minds of civilian officials, and the military department has a literary selection department, and the military department has a military selection department, and the promotion of military attachés is based on this. couldn't help but ask, "What is the relationship between Lu Shangshu and you?" ”

Li You faintly seemed to say a trivial matter, "It's a fellow villager, if you talk about it carefully, the official body of this official is still from Lao Shangshu's family, and this favor is difficult to repay in case." ”

The last general, Liu Shaowen, couldn't stand still, and clenched his fists hard and said loudly: "Today, the camp is unstable, and the suppression is afraid that there is a danger of safety. ”

"Thank you." Li Youlai did not refuse.

Xin Shoubei's expression had already turned to nothing, no matter what the consequences were, he would definitely lose completely, and he would be the biggest loser. At this point, he didn't even bother to complain that Governor Luo was hiding from him.

Seeing that Xin's garrison spirit had collapsed, Li You turned to Luo Zhifu and said: "Fuzun is a little calm, don't be impatient, and discuss Fuzun's trespassing in the military camp and causing trouble." ”

(To be continued)