Soon, he asked Liu Deshi to write a letter and quickly sent it to Li Jian, the Eyue Capital Tuan Training Commissioner, to ask about the ins and outs of the matter.

"Shi, the river from Ezhou to Xuanzhou is now full of thieves. It is very dangerous to kill and rob. Zhongling, you can't go back for the time being!" Then, he sent someone to quickly notify Wu Cailuan who was packing his luggage.

Half a month later, Li Jian's reply was sent to him, saying that not only the ships from Xingyuan Mansion were robbed and killed, but the same was the ships from Ezhou and Yuezhou, as did the ships from Shandong and Jingnan. This year, the robbers of the river suddenly became fierce, and the waterways from Ezhou to Xuanzhou were all harmed by them.

Only then did Gao Yue realize that the "Yangtze River" that connects the southwest and southeast has been completely cut off by the thieves thieves rushing out of Huaixi.

In the past, in spring and summer, the northeast wind was the tide that people called it. At that time, ships in Xingyuan and Shu followed the Yangtze River to Xuanshe and then entered the West Road in Jiangnan, or went to Hunan in Yueyang. Some even sailed far to the Jingkou of Runzhou and then to the southeast Zhuchengzhen, and carried out herbs, wood, silk, salt, rice, fish, tea and wine, etc., and the large ships in Jiangnan and Jiangdong would sail west to enter Shu. During the three sides of the officials, businessmen and the people generated millions of profits, and countless prefectures and counties along the river benefited from it.

Gao Yue worked so hard at the time, and he smashed the dangerous shoals and reefs on the Yunzhou channel of the Han River, with the purpose of doing a "subdivision trade" between the Han River and the Yangtze River, and getting a share of this huge wealth.

The effect is also very obvious. Xingyuan Prefecture, Yangzhou, Jinzhou, and even Xiangyang, the Caoshi Wharfs relying on water in various places were driven and flourished, and household registration and financial resources were breeding very quickly.

But now, the hateful thieves of the river robbery have begun to cut off this lifeline without restraint.

According to Li Jian's letter, these thieves not only robbed and killed cargo ships passing by the river, but also went ashore to rob Caoshi in Qizhou, Huangzhou, Ezhou and Shuzhou. They were extremely arrogant. However, when Li Jian raised his troops and warships to capture them, the thieves hid the ships in the valley cave on the bank of the river, and then instantly sold the robbed goods and the people rushed north and dissipated in the wilderness south of Huaixi. Li Jian went to Qizhou and asked the local people, all of whom were ignorant and had no clues.

"Call Zhang Xi." Gao Yue threw the letter on the desk angrily.

Soon, Zhang Xi came to the military mansion hall. He was originally a general under Han Huan's command. He was a native of Runzhou. He was good at shooting crossbows. Later, he came to Xingyuan Mansion as a guest general. Now he settled down here and never went back.

Because Zhang Xi was familiar with the inside story of the Yangtze River, Gao Yue called him to ask for advice.

"Dayin, I know these people, both mountain sheds and river thieves. During the Chaoxin period, they drove ships everywhere and attacked the caravans of the southeastern counties. If the imperial court came to encircle and suppress them, they would leave their boats to climb the mountain, sometimes they would make tea to sell, and sometimes they would plow the fields in the mountains and fields, building hangars with each other, grouping them, wandering outside the king's law and the village."

"Then why didn't these people be so loud before?"

Zhang Xi sighed, "When the Han Jingong was in Jingkou, there were tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the Zhenhai Army, and there were heavy armored crossbows, and there were powerful soldiers and fleets guarding the quarry and other places. There were still 800 to 1,000 united children in each state to prepare for emergency. Han Jingong added a riverside beacon in Shitou City. Once something happened, the beacon fire spread thousands of miles away, and the warships arrived in a moment. Therefore, how dare the mountain pans and river thieves in Huainan Road, Henan Road and Huainxi? Everyone was afraid that Han Jingong would be afraid to die, and they were all reluctant. They took the opportunity to recruit a lot of them. Therefore, when Jingong was alive, whether the ships entered the Huai River, the Bian River, or went west along the river, they were all at ease. But when Jingong died..."

Speaking of Han Huan, Gao Yue's eyes also turned red.

No matter what, the court lacks a strong and iron-fisted pillar like Han Huan, who can be literary and military!

Now he died suddenly at the hands of Xiao Xiao, so on the Jianghuai land, the bandits emerged from the dark nest again, showing off their might in the sun, and openly murdered people.

What's worse, after the reduction of Zhenhai Army, many soldiers, shipmen and even officials, who had no way out, turned into Jiang thieves, and were in a squad with Caizhou.

In short, in Gao Yue's eyes, the thief of the river robbery was a monster with many colors mixed with "bandits, square towns, fierce soldiers, merchants and native local snakes".

"The Wu brothers from Huaixi Town are behind this group of robbers. Gao Yue made a mistake in his judgment.

He first reported this matter to the emperor of Zichen Palace.

The emperor was also furious, so he asked Yin Zhizhen and Guo Zhuanjian to select some of the quick-witted and quick-witted children of the City Passing Office to disguise themselves as merchants, either leaving Tongguan or Shangluo Road, and go out to inquire about the news.

The final answer was indeed revealed: Wu Shaocheng recruited thieves and desperadoes from Xianzhou, Yuzhou, Qizhou, and Yingzhou everywhere, mixed with local soldiers from Shenguang and Cai, built ships, robbed and killed merchants, and colluded with some indigenous merchants around to share the stolen goods and sell the stolen goods. After the incident, he fled in all directions. The official bandit family could not catch their handle.

Wu Shaocheng asked the people of Caizhou to take the money they robbed back, exchanged for the skins of merchants, and ran to Shouzhou, Shuzhou and even Xuanzhou on Huainan Road to buy tea, and then went to Henan Road to make profits.

It was also found that Wu Shaocheng also asked women from every household in Caizhou to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms to weave the so-called "earth silk". This kind of earth silk is obviously not as good as those in the east of Jiangnan or Shu, but it is because it is cheap and is popular for a while, making a lot of profit for Caizhou. Not only that, Wu Shaocheng also secretly encouraged the bandits to sneak into the mountains in the east, secretly dig and buy copper mines, and then transported them back to the town to cast fake money, mix them into the market, mixing them with inferior products as good ones, which made the chaotic trade in the entire southeastern. Han Hui sent troops into the mountains many times to catch them, but the results were very little.

The emperor asked Gao Yue where Fang Ce came out.

Gao Yue asked the emperor to issue an edict, asking the troops and horses of Zhenhai Army, Eyue, Hunan, Jingnan and Shannan East Road to escort the caravans along the river.

However, two months later, the whole situation became worse.

Judging from various trends, Gao Yue felt that Huaixi Town was definitely not just messing around.

Previously, Du Ya, the governor of Huainan, suddenly submitted a memorial saying that when Xuanrun, Hanhuai Town, the Changgang ship used to transfer the Changgang ships used in the patrol were replaced by different ships from the Jianghuai River to the Bian River and then to the Wei River, but they were all handled by Hanhuai. Du Ya said that this long-range ship model caused great trouble to the military and prefectures around the canal transport. Not only could they not make profits from it, but they also had to bear the repair and transportation costs of ships. Therefore, Du Ya strongly suggested that the local patrols would be abolished again and that the towns and states would preside over the canal transport of the roads on their own.

"This is Zhu Bajie's luggage is going to be divided." Gao Yue thought to himself.
Chapter completed!