So when the night was thick, Lu Li was already guarding the official road, and saw that there was no one on the official road, only the crows kept chirping, and the surrounding environment looked very bleak, which made Lu Li a little puzzled, and he didn't know why Liniang asked him to guard on the official road, and he didn't know who he was going to arrest, if it was so late, no one would pass by the official road, after all, the official road was full of people during the day.

But Li Niang said so, there must still be a reason for her, so Lu Li obediently stayed here, after waiting for two hours, Lu Li was a little anxious, looked at the moon on his head, and gradually disappeared behind the dark clouds, to say that it has been so long, this official road is still empty, what is Li Niang's plan, she will not let herself pounce.

You must know that although the weather has just warmed up now, it is also a little cold when the cold wind blows at night, although Shang Xiaoman brought a cloak to himself, but Lu Li still feels creepy and very uncomfortable, probably the environment at night is too desolate.

Lu Li naturally didn't want to stand in such a place for a night, just when Lu Li was very dazed, he heard a sound of horses' hooves, you must know that he is the general of Donglan Kingdom, his ears are naturally very sensitive, hearing the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, Lu Li simply hid behind the trees to hide his figure to see what the intention was.

I only saw the person on the horse, using the best fast horse, the horse had some red mane on it, Lu Li recognized at a glance that it was a precious horse breed bought from the Western Regions, which could run for eight hundred miles a day, but I didn't expect that there were still people in Yangzhou City who could come up with such a thousand miles of good horses.

The direction of looking was really to go to Beijing to think, this person who came was the person Li Niang wanted, so Lu Li immediately took a little step, ran a light gong and flew over, grabbed this person's collar, and directly dragged him off the horse, this person also looks like an ordinary person, he doesn't know any martial arts, he was dragged by Lu Li like this, and he was directly scared and screamed, and thought that the king of Hades was looking for him to ask for his life.

Lu Li put him on the ground, and he kept kowtowing and kneeling in fear.

"Spare me, Lord Yama, spare me."

Lu Li frowned, where was the Lord of Yama, and he didn't mean to kill him, so he hurriedly asked this person to look up at himself.

I'm a human, not a ghost, and I'm not taking your life.

Hearing this, this person was a little relieved, and looked at Lu Li's fierce look, and began to tremble again.

"What the hell are you holding me for, I don't have any money, I don't have anything."

Lu Li naturally didn't know what he was going to do with this young man, but Li Niang wanted him to arrest him, so Lu Li could only take him back first, so he directly pulled this person and put him on the horse, Lu Li was behind him, and directly rode the horse, returned to the residence, and put the person in front of Li Niang.

Seeing the current atmosphere, this young man is even more nervous, to say that he is just a letter messenger, I don't know why he was inexplicably called here, the woman in front of him looks very kind, I don't know what her temper is, next to a few clothes are dressed luxuriously, can it be said that he sent a letter and provoked any dignitaries?

"Spare my life, I'm just a messenger, this business is cheap, that's why I set off so late, I've never done anything hurtful."

Li Niang asked with a smile.

Who asked you to send this letter?

This person saw Li Niang's domineering aura, his lips were red as if he had just drunk human blood, and he didn't dare to lie, so he told Li Niang everything.

"This is the president of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, so I must send it to Beijing tonight."

"What, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, he has no connection with Shangjing Sulai, why did he suddenly send the letter to Shangjing?"

Wei Xiuyuan asked strangely, with a confused brilliance in his eyes.

Li Niang sighed, she didn't expect Wei Xiuyuan to be a prefect, but she didn't know what the salt merchants were doing under his nose.

"Lord Wei, how did you become this prefect, these salts are doing nonsense in Yangzhou, you don't even know, I think they must have a connection in Shangjing, otherwise how could their salt selling business be so big, maybe there are still some dirty money, black money, not found out by you."

When Wei Xiuyuan heard Liniang say this, he naturally regretted it very much, thinking that as a parent official in Yangzhou, the salt merchant was so hateful, but he didn't notice it at all, and let them collect money inch by inch, isn't this just looting the people's fat and people's ointment.

Li Niang took out a dagger from her clothes, seeing this dagger, everyone didn't know what Li Niang wanted to do, but she didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, Li Niang put this dagger on the neck of the messenger, the messenger obviously didn't expect this soft and weak woman in front of her, with a bit of mature atmosphere, but this would be so ruthless, she actually thought of the killer.

Seeing Li Niang doing this, Xiao Man naturally couldn't bear it, and Lu Li hurriedly stopped Li Niang.

"This man is just a messenger, just to deliver the news to the salt merchants, not to the point of death."

Li Niang, you used the cold blade to slash the messenger's neck twice, and the messenger was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, although he didn't cause any wounds, but he knew that his current head was already in danger, and he could fall to the ground at any time.

So he immediately asked.

"Madam, whatever you want, I can give you anything, just ask you not to kill me.

Li Niang charmingly crossed the messenger's chest, and then directly touched the gap between his clothes, and took out a letter from it, when Li Niang just took out this letter, the messenger still wanted to snatch it back, after all, this letter was sent to Beijing by the owner of the gold, and this time it was naturally a little reluctant to gold.

But Li Niang immediately increased the strength of her hand, and put the dagger against the throat of the messenger, and the messenger did not dare to move.

Li Niang didn't open the letter after she took it in her hand, because her mind was smart, and she already knew what was written in the letter, so she handed it over directly to Wei Xiuyuan, Wei Xiuyuan saw the letter, and felt a little hesitant in his heart, for fear that there would be something in it that he could not accept.

The letter was printed with the logo of the previous time, and I don't know who the salt merchants were trying to contact and do so many hurtful things.

So he hurriedly opened the letter and read it himself, and the few sentences on it were all asking Master Liu for instructions on how to act next, to obey Wei Xiuyuan, and to continue to oppose him.

Wei Xiuyuan understood why he had been an official in Yangzhou for so long, and none of the decrees could be implemented, it turned out that it was because these salt merchants colluded with Lord Liu to make trouble and put all the money in their own bags, resulting in Yangzhou's economy not developing much.

Lu Li sighed, Lord Liu is very keen on the annexation of land, as long as Yangzhou's economy declines, he can buy and sell more land, it seems that this time, he has not been less obstructed.

"The salt merchants in Yangzhou have gone too far this time, since they have usually gained so much ill-gotten gains, it would be unreasonable for us to let them go."

Li Niang nodded, thinking that Lu Li had finally opened up, and added.

"That's right, these salt merchants are now the only ones who are Lord Liu, and they don't listen to Lord Wei at all, if we want them to spit out money, we must use some means to make them obedient."

When Wei Xiuyuan saw this letter at this time, his face was already flushed with anger, and Xia Wanrou hurriedly brought a cup of tea to her husband and asked him to drink a few sips of tea to extinguish the fire.

After taking a sip of tea, Wei Xiuyuan still felt that the anger in his heart could not be calmed, he didn't expect that Lord Liu was so powerful, his hands were stretched out to Yangzhou, and he wanted to benefit the people of Yangzhou, so naturally he couldn't watch Lord Liu do whatever he wanted, and asked Lu Li to intercept the messenger who sent a letter to Lord Liu, this was Liniang's second plan.

Thinking about it, Li Niang is indeed like a god, and even these salt chambers of commerce sent letters to Lord Liu, she knew it clearly, and she didn't know what this third plan was.

So he immediately consulted Li Niang.

"Senior Liniang, may I ask what this third plan is?"

Li Niang smiled.

Now the salt merchants are not in the active position, you want them to send the letter, but they didn't send it, and they didn't get the instructions of Lord Liu at this time, so naturally they don't know what to do, as long as we use a little trick, we can defeat them and let them mess with themselves.

Wei Xiuyuan nodded, this is indeed the truth, but he himself does not know what kind of method to use to make these salt merchants afraid.

Looking at Wei Xiuyuan's puzzled expression, Li Niang stared at Xiao Man, Xiao Man seemed to have some ideas at this time, Li Niang originally wanted to accept Su Xiaoman as an apprentice, and now she naturally wanted to see if Xiao Man had the talent and whether she could come up with this third plan herself.

So Li Niang asked Xiaoman a question.

Xiaoman, what do you think we should do in these three steps?

Xiaoman was suddenly asked at this time, naturally she was a little surprised, to say that no one had ever asked her how to deal with these government affairs before, and she was a little confused and confused for a while, and she didn't dare to speak.

Just looked at Li Niang a little timidly.

"Senior, what's the use of you asking me, I'm just a deep girl, where can I do this."

Liniang shook her head and sighed, Xiaoman is too restrained by herself, who said that Mrs. can't talk about political affairs, and women can't help their husbands come up with good methods.

"Xiaoman, since you have such a mind, if you can't make good use of it, wouldn't it be a pity?"

Hearing Li Niang say this, Xia Wanrou also nodded, she never felt that Xiaoman should only stay in the backyard and be a woman who only handles family affairs.