It turned out that Zhu Gaoxu confiscated more than 100 large ships of Annamite in Annam, and many ships were transported to the vicinity of Yong'an, because Saigon Port has not yet been established, and there are many natural harbors in the Tieshan Port Area, which was famous for thousands of years in later years.

Zhu Gaoxu drove the big ship with more than 100 materials to Yong'an Station first, and the crew and ship were all detained here, waiting for the task to be assigned for the time being.

For a time, hundreds of boats competed near the Tieshan port area, and the ships covered the sea, which was not spectacular.

When Li Yuan came to Yong'an, hundreds of large ships with more than 200 materials had been received on the spot, and all large ships with more than 500 materials were temporarily parked in the deepest part of the port.

Li Yuan quickly found the local prefect and several county magistrates, all of whom were involved in the profits of Li Yuan's salt farm, and the relationship was quite good.

"The imperial court captured a large number of merchant ships under Annam, and the king of Han gave free ships to the coastal residents of Guangdong."

"A merchant ship of 100 to 200 materials will be distributed to the people everywhere for free, and if the people are not enough to have a crew, they can use one for several families, and the king of Han does not charge any fees, but there is a request, in the future, the king of Han will requisition, and they will help transport it."

Li Yuan spoke one Han king and never mentioned the imperial court, because he knew that the Han king was about to send troops, and there was no need to mention the imperial court.

From the success of Jingnan to the present, it has been four years into Yongle, and the king of Han said that he will raise troops in about three years, and it is almost the same when the time is calculated.

The officials were very surprised to hear the news, but they were very much in favor of it, because it was a free ship.

This will be a ship of 100 or 200 materials, let alone a few thousand taels of silver, the king of Han sent it like this, and the people did not cheer and sing praises of virtue.

As for why it was sent by the King of Han, whether it was the will of the imperial court or not, it was their business.

The so-called Tiangao Emperor is far away, what is happening, as long as a few of them don't say it, the emperor knows a fart.

"But it's up to General Li to call the shots." The local prefect took the lead in expressing his position, and then several county magistrates also expressed their positions.

Li Yuan also felt that the Han King's trick was very good, first of all, the Han King did not have so many crew members available, but suddenly sent the boat to the people, and the people along the coast would organize their own crews, and many people would use one boat because of the small number of people in their families and the lack of crew.

These people got a few thousand taels of silver ships out of thin air, and of course they had to support the king of Han.

In case the emperor wants to confiscate it back in the future, do you think they will be happy?

Moreover, the king of Han needs to be transported in the future, and a large number of ships and crews can be mobilized, which is the best solution in a short time.

Li Yuan didn't know how King Han's head grew, and he came up with such a brilliant idea.

So, with the cooperation of the local government, an unprecedented ship delivery campaign was vigorously carried out along the coast of Guangdong, and the local health offices also joined it.

The people along the coast of Guangdong were extremely excited, and they swore that they would not say that they were sent by the king of Han to be killed.

On this day, Li Yuan was distributing ships near the Yong'an Station, when suddenly a personal soldier came to report that Bi Ruzhou, the right political officer of the Guangdong Political Division, had arrived.

Bi Ruzhou first found Du Si, learned that Li Yuan was not there, went to Lianzhou Mansion, and rode a horse to chase Lianzhou Mansion.

However, the coast of Lianzhou Mansion is full of salt farms of the guards, so Li Yuan usually asks the soldiers and horses of the Yangchun Institute to conduct an inventory on the main official roads to prevent suspicious people from coming.

After all, Lianzhou's side is very biased, the lower left corner of Daming, usually fine, who will run over.

So Bi Ruzhou was actually stopped on the official road in front of Gu Liangsi.

Bi Ruzhou was furious at that time, and immediately said to the human: "You quickly inform Li Yuan, I came to find him, he will not come to see me again, something big will happen." ”

The people of Yangchun did not dare to slack off, and sent someone to inform Li Yuan quickly.

Li Yuan's heart moved, Bi Ruzhou came over and even the officials of Gaozhou Mansion didn't know, there should be an emergency.

Bi Ruzhou was the prefect of Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong before the Jingjing, an official of Emperor Jianwen, after the Jingjing, Zhu Di promoted him to the right of the Guangdong political secretary to participate in politics, and the official was promoted to one level, but from the first to the fourth, and from Dengzhou, which was rich and close to Beijing, not far thousands of miles to Guangdong, Bi Ruzhou was unhappy at that time, which was equivalent to being assigned.

After Li Yuan arrived in Guangdong, he first wooed the local health center, and secondly, he wooed officials who were unwilling.

Like Bi Ruzhou, it belongs to the object of his wooing.

Li Yuan himself was relegated to such a far place in Guangdong, so he and Bi Ruzhou hit it off at first sight, and they became friends and acquaintances as soon as they arrived in Guangdong.

Li Yuan hurriedly got on his horse and hurried away with his own soldiers, and finally came to Gu Liangsi before dark.

Bi Ruzhou stayed in Guliangsi that night and did not go back.

After seeing Li Yuan, he was shocked and said that there were two important things.

"First, there are hundreds of households in the health office to report that you don't train soldiers in Tuntian, but sell illicit salt?"

"What" Li Yuan's face changed slightly.

However, when he came to Guangdong to do this, he knew that one day he would not be able to hide it, and there would always be people who were dissatisfied with so many health centers in Guangdong doing this.

According to Bi Ruzhou, the report was reported by Zhou Yun, a hundred households in Guangning.

Guangdong will be located in a remote place in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court does not attach much importance to it, so there are only fifteen guards in the local capital, plus twenty or thirty offices, and the total number of soldiers and horses is probably less than 100,000.

There are only three places in Li Yuan's salt, the most important of which are near Lianzhouwei, and then there are Dianchengwei (Pisces) and Guanghaiwei (near the west of Changsha Village of Zhu Gaoxu Shipyard).

Therefore, when distributing the silver, it was mainly the officers of the three guards, and all the sergeants involved in the three guards.

But in order to win over other guards, Li Yuan has changed his henchmen and generals on the one hand in the past two years, and on the other hand, he has distributed silver other than military salaries to officers.

The name of the silver is to help the cost of helping, for example, a salt merchant wants to transport salt to Guangxi.

For example, the Guangning Institute is next door to Guangxi, and Li Yuan often sends soldiers and horses to escort the salt merchants.

Each time the officers and soldiers in charge of participating in the meeting, they will receive two cents of silver.

Originally, everyone made money together, and it was not a big sin, and they have been in peace all the time.

The hundred households Zhou Yun participated in several escorts, and each time he was divided into three or five taels, although it was not much, it was not too little, and he could get more than ten or twenty taels in a year.

You must know that the salary of the Ming army is usually calculated together with silver and grain, and even salt and others, so it is not bad for him to get so much silver.

But after this guy got rich, he started to block gambling, lost several times in a row, lost all the money, and owed a lot of debt.

Now he felt unhappy, and then he felt that every time he asked officers and soldiers to escort the salt merchants, did the salt of these people come from a normal way? Who's behind it? Can you take the opportunity to make a big profit?

Zhou Yun lost his red eyes and wanted to make money in the dark.

Another time when he was escorting, he had the intention to eavesdrop, and finally heard that it turned out that these salts were actually dried by other guards in the Guangdong Dusi.

The guard is training in the local tuntian, guarding the country, and they are not doing business, but they are doing business? Still colluding with salt merchants?

Zhou Yun also has fellow villagers in the coastal guard, and he tried his best to find out the news, only then did he know that a hundred households here can buy at least 100 taels of silver a year.

Now his heart is completely unbalanced.

He asked his fellow villagers to find the commander of the guard station, and wanted to transfer himself to the Hailang station next to the Pisces station, but the local commander was of course unwilling.

Zhou Yun was furious, so he took the risk and found the political envoy to report the smuggling and selling of salt at the seaside guard.

This week, Yun also knew that in order to report, he had to find a big enough official, so he directly wanted to find the political envoy left and right.

And Wang Jun, the political envoy of the left cloth in Guangdong, was an official at the time of Jianwen, who had been in the local area for many years, and was about to become a minister, Zhou Yun thought about it and found the new political envoy Xu Qi of the right cloth in Guangdong.

Xu Qi was originally just a member of the household department of the Jingshi Xiaoshi, and he was a seven-rank Beijing official.

After Zhu Dijing succeeded, he was released as the political envoy of Guangdong in the first year of Yongle, and he jumped several levels in a row.

Therefore, Xu Qi is a well-known Zhu Di faction in Guangdong, and he fully supports the various wills of the new emperor.

In the first year of Yongle, after Xu Qi, Zhu Di was in the Guangdong City Ship Lifting Division, according to the old system set up the promotion, deputy promotion, and at the same time ordered the eunuch Qi Xi to supervise the Guangdong City, which was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty by the imperial court to supervise the affairs of the Guangdong City.

In the second year of Yongle, because there were sea vessels along the coast of Fujian to "traffic to foreign countries" and robbery, the Ming court "forbade people to go to sea" and ordered that all the original sea ships be changed to flat-headed (should be "bottom") ships, so that they could not sail to the ocean, and ordered the relevant coastal government to prevent sea vessels from entering and leaving without permission.

Both of these things are promoted along the coast with the strong support of Xu Qi.

Zhu Gaoxu's boat in Changsha Village could only run inside the Ming Dynasty because of the ban on the sea in the second year of Yongle.

Xu Qi got Zhou Yun's report, and he couldn't believe it, because the entire guard station joined the salt, which required the support of very heavyweight generals.

Moreover, the matter of smuggling smuggled salt by the military generals is not big, nor is it small, Xu Qi has a little headache.

And to be honest, in the past two years, Li Yuan has borrowed the hands of the officials below to pay Xu Qi some silver every year, and Xu Qi also estimates that he has some points in his heart, but he doesn't know that the general behind him is Li Yuan.

He is estimated to be the commander of the guard.

So Xu Qi asked Bi Ruzhou to come down to solve this problem, and asked Li Yuan to appease Zhou Yun and stop reporting it.

If Zhou Yun doesn't report it again, Xu Qi can naturally treat it as if it didn't happen, continue to take money in the future, and everyone will be happy together.

If you report it again, this matter will have to be strictly investigated.

Li Yuan thought for a while: "Zhou Yun, I will solve it, please participate in politics and return to Lord Xu, after verification by the capital department, it is a famous hundred households in Dianchengwei who privately organized more than a dozen relatives in the family to secretly make salt and smuggle it, and this governor will definitely punish him, and he will not be an example." ”

Bi Ruzhou said the second thing, in the past two days, there has been news that a large number of sea ships have appeared along the coast, all from the southwest, outside the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has banned the sea, why are there so many sea ships coming?

"Because the imperial court attacked Annan, the war caused the people of Annan to flee north, and when the war passes, we will urge them to return to China as soon as possible, and do not affect the people of our Ming Dynasty."

"Deal with it as soon as possible." Bi Ruzhou said.

"Definitely, definitely." Li Yuan said, stretched out his hand to summon a subordinate, and handed over two boxes: "A few days ago, the little ones on the beach bought the gadgets transported by the foreign feudal people, saying that they were spices, from Nanyang, and the women loved them very much. ”

Bi Ruzhou frowned with joy when he heard this, his famous wife was strict, and he was a prefect in Dengzhou, and there were occasional merchants there, so he knew that this thing was a tight sale in Daming, and the women of Daming liked it.

"Thank you Governor Li, thank you Governor Lee." Bi Ruzhou happily went back to Guangzhou.

As soon as Bi Ruzhou left, Li Yuan returned to Dianchengwei, and the next day, he convened the commanders of the coastal guards and the more than 1,000 households to hold a meeting.

After Li Yuan arrived here, every time he held a meeting, the representatives basically wanted to share the money, so the commanders of the guards and the generals of the thousand households rushed to Dianchengwei in a hurry.

Guanghaiwei was relatively close, and Guanghaiwei's people arrived first that day, and the commander Cao Kun shouted loudly before he entered the door: "Isn't this the money just distributed last month, it's divided again, hahaha." ”

Behind Cao Kun, a group of bigwigs such as Guanghaiwei's commander and commander all laughed.

But as soon as everyone entered the hall, they felt that the atmosphere inside was different, Li Yuan's face was pale, his expression was very ugly, and there were several rows of sergeants on the left and right sides of the hall, all wearing armor and sharp.

Cao Kun felt a sigh in his heart, and hurriedly gave the generals a look, don't make a noise.

Then the generals of the guards entered the door one after another, and everyone was a little strange when they saw this scene, but no one thought that Li Yuan would do them, so everyone whispered and discussed what happened.

The commander of Nanhaiwei seemed to hear some rumors, and whispered: "It seems that someone reported that we were drying salt, and the top is going to investigate." ”

"Ahh There was an exclamation all around, and then someone was furious: "That dog thing that cuts off children and grandchildren, cutting off people's financial resources, is like killing parents." ”

Cao Kun's face turned green, and he almost gritted his teeth: "Let Lao Tzu know who it is, Lao Tzu will kill his whole family." ”

This will be the coast of Guangdong is relatively poor, Yongle came to power and banned the sea, in addition to the health stations that can be patrolled at the sea are also a little beneficial, other health stations are poor jingling, finally Li Yuan came, took everyone to dry salt to make a fortune, and now someone actually reports?

There was a sudden scolding at the scene, and everyone hated to drag the whistleblower out now, and then make a big eight pieces.

At this time, Li Yuan saw that the generals were almost here, and coughed lightly: "Ahem." ”

Li Yuan has only been in Guangdong for more than three years, but he has made a fortune with everyone and established a very high prestige and popularity.

"I'm sorry brothers." Li Yuan's voice seemed to be a little choked: "Everyone's good days are coming to an end." ”

"Presumably the brothers have also heard the rumors, some people are jealous of the small money made by our guards, and reported to the Yamen of the political envoy in Guangzhou, and now even the southern general's mansion has sent someone to question me, so that I must give an explanation."

Li Yuan said that the Zhengnan General's Mansion is Tan Qing who hangs the seal of the Zhengnan general, Tan Qing, as the general of Zhengnan, controls the capital of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, and is in a high position, at this time, it is the time to pull him into the water.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Yuan said this, the scene that had just been quiet immediately exploded again.

"Governor, what the hell is that dog? Find him. The commander of Huizhou Wei made Tan Dahai almost jump up, and as he spoke, he stretched out his hand to his waist and put it on his waist, and then saved it, he couldn't bring a knife in, he really wanted to use a knife to cut people, if Zhou Yun was on the spot, Tan Dahai would definitely cut Zhou Yun with a knife.

"The brothers earn a little money to support their families, but the officials don't let them?"

"Which official in the Ming Dynasty is not greedy, now they are greedy for a lot of money, let's get some small money, or get up early and get up in the dark for the hard-earned money, don't let us live?"

"Explain it, the brothers are involved in this matter, and the governor can't be left alone."

"It's kind of freeing us all."

Everyone was noisy and noisy, and they all scolded at the Guangdong political envoy and the Zhengnan General's Mansion, scolding and scolding, and suddenly someone in the crowd shouted: "If you force us again, we will rebel." ”

The sound was very loud, and suddenly there was a loud roar, and the audience suddenly fell silent again.

(End of chapter)