Chapter 362: Abolish South Taicang
Since the theft of grain and wages in Nantaicang, Chang'an has been boiling and people are panicking. In order to stabilize the hearts of the people of the imperial court and Chang'an, Qiu Shiliang forced Emperor Kaicheng to permanently abolish the disrepaired and dilapidated Dongwei Bridge Cang in the court meeting. This incident made the court, especially the officials of the Ministry of Industry, breathe a long sigh of relief.
The location of South Taicang is awkward, and now the Guangyun Canal is not blocked, and the rainwater can be on the ship, and the rainwater is not good. The Ministry of Industry has no money to clear the dredging and dredging, let alone repair the Taicang Department, and it can't even find anyone to make up for the lack of the Taicang Order, so there are people participating in them every day.
And because of the unforeseen salary dispute between the Shence Army and Qiu Shiliang, Nantaicang still barely maintained its status as the main warehouse for the world's grain and salary, and even if the household department wanted to close it, the Shence Army would not agree.
Now that the Gyeonggi camp has lost the Bashu autumn salary, Qiu Shiliang took the opportunity to make trouble and abolished South Taicang, which can be said to be a great joy for the Southern Yabei Division. The only ones who will be dissatisfied are, of course, the generals of the Shence Army. Now all the imperial taxes have to be collected into North Taicang, and directly into the Forbidden Garden.
Wanting to pull out a little more money from Taicang is tantamount to pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth.
But now that Qiu Shiliang has lost his food and salary, and is on fire, no one dares to stand up and say a word for South Taicang.
On the third day after the theft, the court meeting also came to a conclusion. In the afternoon of the same day, Nantaicang was not only abolished, but also recruited by Qiu Shiliang to set fire to the Gyeonggi Xingying Battalion to vent his hatred of losing food.
Since then, this ancient Taicang, which was established in the Xianheng period and lasted more than 170 years, finally completed its mission in this tragic form and withdrew from the stage of history.
The news of the destruction of Nantaicang reached Chang'an, and it was known to the important members of the Arrangement Bureau such as Yu Xuanji in the Zangjiao Building, and everyone was relieved.
The main purpose of their visit to Chang'an was to abolish South Taicang and make North Taicang the only choice for storing grain. In this way, the Flying Fish Lady ship can provide an opportunity to dock in the Forbidden Garden.
Once the Flying Fish Lady boat stopped in the Forbidden Garden, they imagined Lei Changye's various operations a little, and they all felt that Qiu Shiliang was eating jujube pills.
In the secret room of Zangjiaolou, everyone in the Arrangement Bureau congratulated Yu Xuanji. On that day, she put on Qian Mi's usual outfit, dressed as a thin and withered Xingsuo, and performed a big scene in front of South Taicang, and finally blinded the eyes of the two thousand soldiers guarding the warehouse with the golden retriever flashbang carefully created by Lei Changye for the arrangement bureau.
This Golden Retriever flashbang is so easy to use. As soon as a talisman fire ignites a golden knot made of ten fire rat golden retrievers, it will immediately burst into a magical light that is enough to blind a quarter of an hour. If Yu Xuanji hadn't covered her eyes in time, she would have been blind.
In the face of the congratulations and praise of everyone in the Arrangement Bureau, Yu Xuanji really felt a little embarrassed. Because in fact, in addition to dressing up to act in a scene, basically Lei Changye did all this.
It was the golden retriever flash bomb made by Lei Changye, and it was also Lei Changye who transported away the full warehouse of food by means of a mysterious magic weapon. She was also a good hand at stealing the eight doors at night, but she asked herself if she had the ability to steal all the autumn salary.
And the most desperate thing is that Lei Changye and Yongqiang don't know what way they will find to steal South Taicang. But after the theft that night, Yongqiang ran to the Gyeonggi camp for the first time to explain his mistakes, as if Lei Changye had already guessed the calculation of the fish mystery. This makes Yu Xuanji feel extraordinarily unfathomable.
In fact, of course, this was not the case, but the pharmacist reported to Lei Changye in advance through the painting box. Lei Changye immediately controlled Yongqiang to make a contingency, which further aroused Qiu Shiliang's coveting of himself, and laid the foundation for entering the Chang'an assassination eunuch group in the future.
Moreover, the scene that Yu Xuanji came up with to pick up the stars and find Yongqiang to take revenge, Lei Changye is also ready to make great use of it.
As long as Yongqiang is not unlucky in Chang'an, Xingsuo will come out at any time to steal food and salary. This made Qiu Shiliang want to park the Flying Fish Lady ship in North Taicang in the Forbidden Garden, so as to control the environment.
Now the Flying Fish Lady has another amount of food on the boat. For Qiu Shiliang, this ship is not only a source of wealth, but also a paradise to escape from the surveillance of troubled people, and a dream place for him to become a man in the future.
These three greed have made this ship in the eyes of Qiu Shiliang, like a peerless beauty in the eyes of a maternal bachelor, and she has long lost her minimum vigilance. What's more, now his mind is still all in the entanglement of dealing with the troubled world and Bai Qi, and he doesn't have the heart to think about what Lei Changye has to calculate against him.
In Qiu Shiliang's eyes, a person who can treat a hero like Yongqiang and make friends with money is a neurotic with a brain. Making friends with heroes costs more money than marrying a hundred gold worshippers. It's not what the brain has a bag for.
Lei Changye, through the treasures arranged in secret, knew Qiu Shiliang's intentions well, and he was secretly happy in his heart. In this way, he will become Qiu Shiliang's psychological blind spot, which will make it more convenient for him to plot and kill him.
Now that the task of the Arrangement Bureau has been successfully completed, it is only necessary to continue to stay in Chang'an to open up all links and prepare for the actions of the Flying Fish Lady after the ship enters the city.
Yongqiang, who was manipulated by Lei Changye, stayed in the camp in Gyeonggi day and night, with Qiu Feiying, Zhao Huan and Dong Yan, chatting a few words of martial arts and Chang'an customs every day, which was also very pleasant. He was interested in making friends with these Gyeonggi soldiers and keeping them as his followers. When the time comes, these soldiers will play a key role.
Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.
Lei Changye stood on the boat of the Flying Fish Lady, looking at the brightly lit new Yangzhou City, secretly calculating the days of the autumn grain harvest.
At the beginning, he asked Qi Ke to chase and plant 2,500 acres of Y double-excellent rice, and the growth was gratifying. He originally thought that these rice seeds were planted too late, and with the bloodline of the witch world, they might not grow well in the human world. Unexpectedly, they are like fish in water in the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, growing rapidly, and the heading is also very fast, and now in November, these paddies can be harvested together with the late rice in the south of the Yangtze River.
Lei Changye thought about using the nearly 30,000 stone Y Shuangyou rice as a seed as a reserve for spring sowing in Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Bashu and Jiangnan next year.
Now, he is only waiting for news from the eight towns in the southeast.
Approaching the autumn harvest season, in order to make Xuanjin Biao loyal to the newly established Huainan Jiedu, and strive for the right to enter the Luocheng New District of Yangzhou and the storm port of Leigong Town, when the autumn grain harvest season has just arrived, they will give priority to the integration of the grain and salary of each town into the government treasury according to the equal share of the imperial court branch.
Because this year's tax payment method in the eight towns is completely different from previous years. They did not have to organize Cao Yun and migrant workers to transport the grain and salary to Yangzhou at their own expense, and then they were transported to Chang'an by the Cao soldiers in Huainan.
This year, with Lei Changye's newly upgraded Flying Fish Ladyship, he can sail to the southeast towns, collect food and salaries from all over the country in turn, and transport them to Chang'an by air.
This is a great spectacle that has not been seen in a thousand years. The mood of the observation envoys and the soldiers and horses in each town to deliver the food and salary was different from that of previous years. In previous years, when paying taxes to the imperial court, he not only had to raise it himself, but also recruited his own people to transport them to Yangzhou. It's like paying taxes on the Blue Sea Star plane and taking a taxi to the tax office in person.
Even the observer envoys who are loyal to the imperial court feel annoyed, plus the luck of this troubled era is a mess, it would be good to be able to leave half of the grain and salary in Yangzhou, and it would be a rebuke from the imperial court. No matter how loyal the courtiers are, they are not happy to be in this big trouble.
Now Lei Changye sailed to collect the tax in person, and the local towns only needed to put the tax in the designated warehouse and wait for the collection. With such peace of mind, it naturally also mobilized the enthusiasm of local town officials to pay taxes. Because their taxes would be shipped to Chang'an in full, it was a great opportunity for them to show their loyalty.
The Chang'an Imperial Court still has a high status in the hearts of many important people in Fang Town, and it is not the forty-eight Fang Town that is against each other.
After November, after a period of hot construction, Yangzhou Luocheng New District and Leigong Town have been preliminarily completed, and Storm Port has also begun to receive sea ships to and from Yangzhou, becoming another unloading terminal in addition to Guazhoudu, sharing the flow of sea ships in Yangzhou City that has long been overwhelmed.
Because of the new opening of the storm port and the continuous operation of Guazhoudu, the cargo throughput on the ground in Yangzhou has surged every day, and more and more sea ships have come to Yangzhou.
The competition between the shops in Luocheng New District and Leigong Town has become the top priority of the local town forces and major commercial banks. In order to compete for Lei Changye's performance, everyone rushed to help him raise food and salary for the eight towns in the southeast.
In addition to doing the business of Lei Gongju and Lei Gongpai, Lei Changye's Flying Fish Lady Ship has now added the business of Yangzhou freight, storing the precious goods of many large commercial houses in the warehouse, and waiting until the tax and grain are collected, and they will be transported to Chang'an together.
The air freight fee he charged was not cheap, but it still made the wealthy businessmen and tycoons of the entire Jiangnan rush to it. Because now the local towns are not only taking the buckles, but more importantly, many Fang towns who want to cause trouble have begun to grab good goods and hoard assets. It is difficult for the goods received in Jiangnan to be transported smoothly to Jingshi and sold in the east and west cities for profit.
Even if he gets Chang'an and encounters Qiu Shiliang's Shence Army, he will not be able to escape a new round of exploitation.
But on the thighs of Lei Changye, it is completely different. Lei Chang's night boat was loaded with the taxes of the eight towns in the southeast and the lifeblood of the imperial court. Then he is the God of Wealth of the Imperial Court, even if the Shence Army has to call him Dad, who dares to touch the merchants under him.
Moreover, it is the biggest dream of Jiangnan businessmen to fly over thousands of rivers and mountains to Chang'an on the Flying Fish Ladyship, get rid of the shackles of the envoys of various towns, and transport rare goods to the magnates of Chang'an to make a lot of money.
Now Yangzhou has become a place where department stores gather. Things shipped from overseas cannot be sold at a high price in Jiangnan, and must be shipped to Bashu, Hanzhong or Chang'an to make a lot of money. Among them, Chang'an is the most profitable. The business route from Yangzhou to Chang'an is the most profitable gold trade route today, and even in the world.
And Lei Changye became the man who controlled the gold trade.
Now every day on the ship, he meets businessmen who ask him about the progress of his salary.
"Boss Lei, how is the food and salary raised?"
"That's pretty much enough. ”
"Is it really enough?
"No, you don't. ”
"Let's make up for it. ”
"I hate it, I don't need to. ”
"If you hate it, let the family make up for it. ”