Some were reported by relatives and neighbors, and immediately Wu Yi's soldiers rushed into the house and dug out baskets of gold, silver and copper coins from the cellar. All the bronze ware was collected. Then the evidence was confirmed. The salt merchants who violated the ban were tied to the prison of the patrol, and their families had to rescue them. Xu Can said that it would be okay to save them, and just take out a "finishment" that was enough to offset the crime: the first thing the salt merchants who committed the crime thought of was selling land.

After all, these salt merchants used the method of salt debating and false estimating to earn money before, and the surplus money was either buying concubines and slaves or merging land.

However, Duke Wei just stipulated that during this period, the government must take away half of the "tick money" in buying and selling land. In addition, the paintings in the music industry are underway, so no one dares to take the risk to buy them.

Some people dared to buy it, but this group of people was either Xingyuan merchants personally appointed by Duke Wei, or the "Huaixi merchants" newly attached to Duke Wei (whitewashed), which suppressed the price of land very low. As a result, the salt merchants who committed the crime sold all the land and houses, but they could not get much life-saving money.

Next, I could only sell my concubines and slaves, but the concubines who were used to being frugal and frugal were quit, so I became even more serious and reported my crimes, and used the money of "reporting the prison" to compensate for the loss of their youth and beauty.

The salt merchants who committed the crime could only borrow from other salt merchants, but the other party did not dare to borrow at all. The conflict intensified, and the "reporter" was becoming more and more intense. The Yangzhou Salt Merchant Group, which was originally unbreakable and advanced and retreated together, instantly fell apart. One after another, the crying sounded and was led by shackles and ropes, and sent to the prison of the Yangzi Patrol. There, Xu Can had ninety-nine ways to make them lose their money and live a life rather than death.

"In the past, you asked you to use only one-twentieth of your family property to help the army. Not only did you not do it, you also regarded me as a hater, and secretly supported such treacherous slander and as Li Qiyun, who wanted to slander me. It just so happened that autumn was coming, and it was time to settle the accounts. I said that if you want to shovel your family, you have to shovel it and never go back on your word." Gao Yue had previously abolished the false estimation method and promoted the salt system, and had offended these salt merchants, but now he just offended it to the end.

The remaining salt merchants were like frightened birds. At this time, the only way to think of was to exchange all the money in hand for the government's salt guitar. The salt guitar suddenly became a "life-saving charlatan": the salt guitar in front of the entire Yangzhou county and county were filled with salt merchants who came to buy salt guitar. Countless hands waved enthusiastically in front of the wooden fence, and countless pairs of eyes were filled with tears, which was even more lively than the vegetable market.

But soon, the life-saving talisman became a life-saving talisman.

Because Xu Can quickly said that the salt has been sold too much recently, some lunatic businessmen must have been on the market at a glance, so they imitated Li Qi, the former Zhenhai Jiedushi, in addition to removing the salt, they also had to spend money to buy the pair of stickers before picking up the goods.

In two months, east of Guanhe, Yangzhou City, the wealthy market where salt merchants originally gathered was "every family broke through, and no one left in a hundred." Some of the arrogant salt merchants, some died in prison, some committed suicide due to the accusation, some fell into the water, some hanged themselves, all of the property of thousands of families were all confiscated and confiscated, and the courtyard villas full of strange flowers were also given to the military government office, or to the Xingyuan and Caizhou Shangjia Group, which originally belonged to them, and thousands of servants and maids were dismissed and released as civilians. Gao Yue stipulated that some of the property were granted as farmers, and some of the arts and skills were entered into the Kufang House.

Xu Can came to report the results. The money stored in this group of salt merchants was actually more than 7 million guan, and there were countless gold and silver, which could not be calculated for the time being. Then Xu Can asked whether to send the money into the military treasury?

"No."

Gao Yue asked Xu Can to send all the money to Yangzhou’s mass replacement warehouse, which was run by Gao Yue’s confidant Xiao Yi, and had no official background.

Therefore, the reserves in this large warehouse have been worth tens of millions of yuan.

It is equivalent to the full treasury income of the Tang Dynasty for a full year.

Then Gao Yue instructed Xu Can and Gu Xiu, who returned from the capital, to print and issue paper coins with a quarter of the reserve fund as the principle, to prepare to invest in the paper money, and promised users to exchange them for three years, and then endorse the credibility of the government's quality warehouse to promote the circulation and expansion of trade.

In addition, only five million coins were left in Yangzhou City, and the other shares were scattered and carried by ship to the Jingshi Jinzou Academy, Ezhou, Xuzhou and Jingkou, and "quality distribution warehouses" were set up respectively.

At that time, the small-scale private quality warehouse in the Tang Dynasty had a capital of two or three hundred stagnants.

Now the "Huainan Quality Database" each has millions of reserve funds, so it is naturally a huge thing.

"The quality warehouse needs to find a way to spend the money."

How to spend it? Gao Yue told the merchants in Xingyuan and Huaixi that he would resell the offended salt merchants’ land, houses, residences, and vehicles to you at a low price. It is not for you to enjoy it like them. If you fall into this way, someone else will destroy your household in the future! (The merchants all shrink their necks)

Plant mulberry and cotton for me;

In the house, I added Xingyuan loom and hired the people to work;

The residence hall, stock up on good goods from all over the country, especially silk, sugar, porcelain, and paper;

In the future, you will not only use the inland canals, but also build more sea boats to breed the sea to the east.

If the requirements are not enough, you can borrow from the quality deposit, and the interest rate is guaranteed very low.

As for salt, only some of you can do it. After that, according to the price, the prefectures and counties will buy it by themselves. The price shall not exceed the price previously stipulated by this road, so as not to cause burden to the people.

Gao Yue has completely eliminated the old salt merchant group, which has developed national carrion.

While he was full, he wanted to establish a new industrial and commercial group.

In the future, he will rely on this new group, including the new army, to carry out greater innovations.

Two years of Southeast salt profit, a total of 5 million guan of cash and 200 million guan of cloth and light goods worth 200 million guan, were left for Gao Yue's military expenses for the expedition of the south by the emperor. Gao Yue also reciprocated his favor and submitted a memorial to thank the emperor and promised to follow His Majesty's feudal ancestor Hua Yue after the triumph. In addition, he also sent a letter to the Secretariat, saying that the expedition of the south did not require the military expenses of the Duzhi Department, and as for the other nine guans, there was no need to send troops. As long as each guan is left to spend 50,000 guan each of the guans, it would be for Li Xun to pay for the Hunan Observation Envoy: Li Xun got this money, he had to focus on building Wugang (now Wugang County, Shaoyang, Hunan), the city defense of Daozhou, and let Wugang garrison and Daozhou governor Li Jifu recruit soldiers freely. With these two places as a means of relying on the power of the two places, it was like a horn to severely strangle the attempt of Huangdongman to invade north through the Gui channel.

Then, the main battlefield in Rongguan area was handed over to me, Wuyi's three armies.

At the same time, Gao Yue also issued a formal order that all Buddhist temples in Huainan must not retain large and small Buddha statues, Jialan, copper tiles, copper bells, and bronze ware. Due to war requirements, they must be delivered to the government office and cast into cannons!

Violators shall be deemed to have violated the "Public Saving Coins Order" and shall be punished with punishment.

As an example, the bronze Buddha statue that my wife respected was the first to hand it back to the furnace.
Chapter completed!