After returning to the boat, Li Mingyuan asked a little angrily, "Why do you care so much about him?" ”

"I'm with Shang Jing from Yunzhou, so naturally I have to care about him." Lin Qingran thought, of course.

"Aren't we all in this together?" There was a hint of vinegar in his words.

"Have you forgotten that I was arrested by you that day......" Lin Qingran didn't understand what he meant.

"How do you remember something so long ago......" he grumbled.

"For a long time? Wasn't that just a month ago? ”

"In short, the past is over, and you don't have to worry about it so much." How could this Lin Qingran still be so cautious.

Sure enough, he was arrogant and willful, "Forget it, I don't bother to bother with you." After speaking, Lin Qingran went inside to rest.

How does this seem to be my cautious eye? Li Mingyuan sensed that something was wrong.

After Chen Chongcai bought the supplement and got the medicine patch, he and the rest of the guards returned to the stop on the shore. After arranging the ships behind, the fleet will set off again.

In order to avoid too much contact with the officials in Huizhou, Li Mingyuan decided not to dock in the city before arriving in Yangzhou City, so as to have less business.

The fleet continued south along the canal, and in addition to the yellowing woods on both sides, there were many villages that depended on the river for their livelihoods.

"This Jiangnan house looks pretty." Li Mingyuan looked at the houses on the banks of the river.

Lin Qingran leaned against the railing of the pavilion and said, "Yes, when the canal passes through the city, it will be more beautiful there!" ”。

"Have you ever been to Yangzhou City?" He wanted to know a little bit about Yangzhou.

She thought for a while and said, "I went there when I was a child, but I usually go to Xinzhou a lot, and I don't have any memory of Yangzhou." ”

"But Yangzhou is rich in beautiful women." She continued.

"Oh, no wonder you don't have any memory." Li Mingyuan said.

"You ......, I'm ...... Why am I not pretty? Lin Qingran seemed to be a little weak-hearted.

"If you're like this, you probably won't be able to come to our palace as a maid." He looked at her and said with a look of regret.

Maid? Lin Qingran gave him a blank look. "Fortunately, I didn't go, with you like this, I guess I can burn down the palace!"

"That's quite possible." He said with a smile.

He said nonsense, "In addition to beautiful women, Yangzhou is famous for salt." ”

She continued: "The Jiangnan salt transport envoy is a very fat errand, and in the north, most of the salt we usually eat is transported from Yangzhou. Generally, those who can transport salt have official backgrounds, and you see that those bandits in Taizhou dare not rob salt merchants, so you know how powerful the salt merchants in Yangzhou are. Lin Qingran has also been in contact with some salt merchants in recent years, but they are limited to their own purchase and use, and they are not sold, "I don't know much about the others, and I have never sold salt." ”

"Looks like you know quite a bit." Li Mingyuan sometimes admires her, a woman can do so many things.

"I'm not like you, the little marquis of the palace, you need to worry about this kind of thing."

"You can't speak softly, you have a Jiangnan woman who is gentle and elegant."

Lin Qingran thought to himself, what does it have to do with you whether I am gentle or not, "It is estimated that I have stayed in Yunzhou for a long time, so what is gentle and elegant." ”

"There are so many reasons, you can continue to enjoy the scenery, I'll go down first." With that, he turned around and went downstairs.

Li Mingyuan knew that she would have a lot of inconvenience when she was a woman on the boat, so he usually went down to the first floor to discuss with Chen Chong when he had something.

"Is there any news for Liu Wei?" He asked.

Originally, Li Mingyuan asked Liu Wei to ride a horse to Yangzhou City, first inquire about the news, and then send a message back.

"According to the people who came back from the message, they will be able to get to Yangzhou City in the next two days, and there is nothing wrong with them along the way, originally Dingwangfu had contacts with some salt merchants in Yangzhou City, this time they will contact these salt merchants first, and there will be news back." Chen Chong explained the matter.

"Very good, then this matter will be left to you, and you will tell me if there is any situation." Li Mingyuan still trusts Chen Chong very much.

"Yes!"

After a few days, the boat is about to arrive in Yangzhou City, compared with a few days ago, there are obviously a lot more fireworks on both sides of the canal today, blue bricks and tiles, red walls and white towers, everywhere reveals a gentle and elegant feeling.

"Little Hou Ye, they have been contacted, and they are waiting on the shore in front." Chen Chong said.

"Okay, let them all come up." Li Mingyuan said.

After a while, the boat stopped at an improvised docking point, and Liu Wei took some people on board.

"I've seen the little marquis." The crowd said.

Among these people who boarded the ship, in addition to Liu Wei, there were some local salt merchants in Yangzhou City.

"Let's talk about it, what's the situation in Yangzhou City now?" Li Mingyuan asked.

"Little Marquis, although Yangzhou City is now under the management of Huizhou in name, the real person in charge of Yangzhou City is the Jiangnan Salt Transportation Division, which is directly controlled by the household department, and the one in charge of the Jiangnan Salt Transportation Division is the Jiangnan Salt Transportation Envoy." One of the salt merchants said.

“…… I see, so the local officials in Yangzhou City have no real power? Li Mingyuan continued to ask.

"In fact, the local officials in Yangzhou City are also under the orders of the Jiangnan Salt Transport Envoy, it turns out that there are some people in our Dingwang Mansion who take care of them in Yangzhou, but after Dingwang went to the capital two years ago, they were all transferred from Yangzhou to Huizhou, and if the little marquis has a need, the villain can contact them." The salt merchant continued.

"Then you don't have the government to take care of it now, how do you operate the salt transportation?" Li Mingyuan is very concerned about their current situation.

"Our current salt team can only take on some small businesses, and most of them are monopolized by the Jiang family and the Ma family."

Another salt merchant continued: "Not only is the salt shipped to the north supplied by the two of them, but the salt envoy has stopped distributing most of our salt in order to suppress us, and we have been severely suppressed. ”

"It seems...... Most of the Dingwangfu's power in Yangzhou City has been cleared. Li Mingyuan thought for a while and said.

"Yes, little marquis, and it is said that there are more powerful people behind them."

"The situation in this Yangzhou City is very complicated, in this way, you go to contact the old department of the Dingwang Mansion first, and wait for my news, I will go to meet the Jiangnan salt envoy first." Li Mingyuan secretly thought in his heart that if he could restore some of the forces of the Dingwang Mansion in Yangzhou City, this would definitely help to rescue his father.

"Liu Wei, you let the others continue to be on standby in various places in Yangzhou City, and contact them again if necessary."

After setting up the guards and these salt merchants, the fleet continued to sail towards Yangzhou City.

After entering the canal section of Yangzhou City, it is really prosperous a lot, there are many shops on both sides of the canal street, peddlers and pawns shuttle among them, and all kinds of shouting and shouting are here and there, which forms a strong contrast with the depressed city in front.

Li Mingyuan was carefully observing these streets at the bow of the boat, and after a while, a larger and more luxurious double-decker boat came from the other side of the canal, the canal passage in the city was not wide, and it was not possible to pass through two boats at the same time, and seeing that the boat on the opposite side had no intention of retreating, the boatman could only stop the boat.

"You're from that caravan? Have you seen the word river on our boat! The man on the boat on the other side shouted, "Get out of the way!" Offend the Jiang family, let you go around without eating! ”

Chen Chong was just about to shout in response, but was stopped by Li Mingyuan, "Let's let!" ”

"Little Marquis, we are the Dingwang Mansion, so we don't need to make way for a vendor." Chen Chong didn't quite understand.

"It's better to have more than one thing now. Moreover, there will be opportunities in the future. Li Mingyuan understands very well what the situation in Yangzhou City is now.

"Okay, little marquis." Chen Chong then asked the boatman to get out of the way.

Lin Qingran was on the second floor, and after seeing Li Mingyuan's operation, he was puzzled, is this still the Li Mingyuan I know?

When the Jiang family's boat passed, Li Mingyuan saw a middle-aged man with a big belly in the mahogany carving pavilion on the bow of the boat on the second floor, drinking wine and eating delicious food, and holding two beauties in his arms, "The atmosphere of this Yangzhou City seems to be really not good!" ”

Soon, the ship docked at the dock in Yangzhou City, and several local officials were already standing on the pier.

"Welcome to the little marquis!" The officials said.

"Which of you is the Jiangnan Salt Transport Envoy?" Li Mingyuan asked.

"Salt transport envoy, Lord Feng, today is full of affairs, and the special subordinates are here to greet you." The head official said.

"Well, since it's all too busy, it's not a hassle." Li Mingyuan knew very well that this salt transport envoy did not take him seriously at all.

"Little Marquis, please go down to the inn with your subordinates to rest." The official said.

Coming to the door of the inn, Li Mingyuan stopped, looked around, and didn't want to go in. The officials of Yangzhou City who were traveling with him didn't quite understand what the little marquis of Yunzhou wanted to do.

"I think it's too noisy here, and I like to be quiet on weekdays, and I don't like places that are too noisy." Li Mingyuan is looking for a place with fewer people, after all, there are many people and miscellaneous eyes, and it is not convenient to do things.

"What the little marquis said is, but after all, this is Yangzhou City, and some noise is inevitable, not to mention that the transportation here is convenient, which is more convenient for the little marquis to travel." The accompanying officials did not want to change their accommodation temporarily, after all, everything had already been arranged.

"I've come all the way from Yunzhou, and I'm tired of traveling, what's wrong? Looking for a quieter place to rest? Li Mingyuan began to press.

"Of course, of course, we will arrange this for the little marquis immediately!" Sure enough, this little overlord in Yunzhou is domineering and willful.

Lin Qingran began to think that Li Mingyuan wanted to do something, but when she looked around, she immediately understood that there were many people, and this place was indeed not suitable for accommodation.

Not long after, an official came forward and told him that there was a slightly remote inn in the southeast corner of the city where he could stay.

"How can it be done, so biased." The head official said.

"Is it quiet there?" Li Mingyuan asked.

"It's quiet, it's far from the city." The official replied.

"Just there, you lead the way." Li Mingyuan felt that far away from the city, there were few people, and it was easier to detect the approaching of the living.

When the group came to this remote inn, Li Mingyuan felt quite satisfied, and then they stayed. The accompanying officials left one person to arrange the rest of the matter, and they all left.

"I can't see it, you're quite cautious!" Lin Qingran wanted to praise him.

"You think they're all like you, doing things recklessly." She knew he was talking about Taizhou.

"I'm not giving you room to play." It's really a villain.

She looked at the back of the line, but found no shadow of Shangjing.

"You're closing Shangjing again?" She asked.

"Can you not always care about your little lover." Li Mingyuan couldn't see her open and shut her mouth.

"What, the last time I quarreled with you in Taizhou, Shang Jing persuaded me to apologize to you." Lin Qingran wanted to say something good for Shang Jing.

"That's his purpose, forget it, don't fight with you, I'm going to rest." Li Mingyuan did let people arrange Shangjing to another inn.

"I just praised you, you are a ......" Before she could finish speaking, Li Mingyuan entered the room.