"Yang Qianshi, what do you want?"

After arriving at the Xiaodongmen Tower, Prefect Li immediately lost all his arrogance and asked Yang Xin with a humble look on his face.

"You are from Fujian, are you?"

Yang Xin said.

"I am from Anxi, Fujian, Xiaguan, and was a Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli."

Prefect Li said.

"Since you are from Fujian, why do you have to get involved with a group of people from Nanzhili? After all, you studied hard and passed the Jinshi exam, and you were finally going to get promoted and make money. This official was given to you by the emperor. If you don't stand on the side of the emperor, you still expect to continue to be promoted?

Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli.

It should continue to rise."

Yang Xin said.

"If you have something to say, please tell me."

Li Jue said.

"First, I need to know who organized these scholars and who provided convenience for them. Second, I need to know who is the richest in Yangzhou City. Tell me these things, and then I guarantee you will be unscathed after the end of your term as the prefect of Yangzhou. At least one of the lack of a governor will be at least ashamed of the government.

If you don't want to tell me,

Although it wouldn't be enough to kill you because of this incident, as the prefect of Yangzhou, you watched the scholars block the canal like this and even let the scent of the incense sect cause rebellion, and then this official will be over.

Basically, you will just go back to your hometown and stay in the name of being dismissed for the rest of your life."

Yang Xin said.

Li, Anxi, this is the family of Li Guangdi, the confidant of Brother Ma!

Such people should be aware of the current affairs.

He didn't care about the organizers of those scholars. He himself knew it, but the problem was which salt merchants in Yangzhou were the richest. He really didn't know this. The only thing he could know was that the salt merchants offered wine at this time, that is, Zheng Zhiyan, the merchant officer of the Qing Dynasty.

Hui merchant.

I am a student.

His son Zheng Yuanxun was a Jinshi of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

I really don’t know the others. Although these people are easy to inquire about, it is difficult for him to find out some deeper things through normal channels. If you can find the original eunuch Yizhen in the capital, this person is most familiar with these salt merchants, but here he needs a prefect to be a traitor. Especially the estimate of the wealth of these salt merchants, the industries under his name, the resistance forces that can be mobilized, and even how much private salt is sold every year...

Salt merchants also sell private salt.

The scale of their private salt selling is probably greater than that of official salt.

Lianghuai has the largest private salt sales network, and hundreds of ships formed a group to overcome the pass and said that this is the case. If salt merchants do not sell private salt, there will be a ghost. By the way, Chen Zilong later made it clear that during the Wanli period, the assets of Yangzhou salt merchants were 30 million yuan and annual profits of 9 million yuan. What about the tax they paid? Last year, the entire Ming Dynasty salt class plus the fines and confiscation of private salt and silver were 1.45 million yuan. This is the entire Ming Dynasty, plus Changlu, Sichuan Jingshen, Shanxi Salt, etc., rather than Lianghuai Salt.

But this is just a legal salt trade.

In fact, the legal salt trade volume last year was 2.16 million, less than 500 million jin. According to the most conservative estimate of the population of the Ming Dynasty, the actual transaction volume should be more than three times, which means that the amount of private salt exceeds one billion jin. A large part of this more than one billion jin was entrained by salt merchants. The most common example is that one induces salt, which will entrain ten induces private salt. This is a tacit consent or encouragement by officials, because it is difficult for salt merchants to extort money from it without entraining private salt.

How can they make money if they don’t break the law?

Only when the salt merchants themselves break the law can officials divide a piece of fat.

In the end, officials and businessmen colluded with empty-handed countries, which also created the luxury of Yangzhou salt merchants. These people were the ones who served hundreds of sheep and only ate a piece of meat on the lips of the sheep.

It shocked Mao Pijiang, who was a big landlord.

The rice consumed in the Huaiyang area alone consumes millions of stones of rice every year.

In this way, salt merchants were lying in their elegant gardens in the beautiful life of collusion between officials and businessmen, eating a banquet of hundreds of sheep, drinking wine and listening to the songs and music of famous prostitutes, and dreaming of death. They were drunk and dreaming of death, and they were drunk and dreaming of death until the whole city was washed away by blood.

Wouldn't it be so untolerated if you don't attack them?

One million taels.

Of course, this is for apocalypse.

As for how Yang Xin himself had to get the same number, you should know that there were a bunch of people waiting behind him. Two million taels were his next goal in this city. However, before that, we had to do a good job in the intelligence work and choose the best goals for the knife. The rest depends on the Wenxiang Sect's rebellion. I have to say that he is really grateful to the behind-the-scenes planners. No matter which side he is on, it is real that he brought a knife to Yang Qianshi, otherwise Yang Xin would have to worry about studying a good crime.

No need to study it now.

As long as you can catch a real scented scent traitor, the rest is to catch a salt merchant who is attracted to directly arrest him and torture him...

Just like Liu Zongmin.

To hold the stick, you must hold the stick.

He told his family to bring the money, and torture him if he didn't take the money, and then he fabricated his confession and searched the house.

Of course, Master Li didn't know this, but he could guess that he fell into silence for a moment.

"My words are that simple, think about it yourself!"

Yang Xin said.

Then he asked someone to throw Master Li onto the city tower, and then sent him to the paper and pen and leave it to him.

At this time, the bandit army had completed control of the city gates, and some small-scale conflicts were inevitable during this period. However, after Yang Junshi forcibly arrested the prefect of Li, the officials guarding the gates were stopped. After all, they were all from Yangzhou Prefecture, and Yang Xin even dared to arrest the prefect. Even the governor, deputy commander, and military commander, were defeated in front of him. These little officials who were doing things were just in charge. They were imperial envoys on behalf of the emperor, so naturally they would do whatever they wanted.

After all, the emperor has the final say in the Ming Dynasty.

The two east gates of all sizes were controlled by Huang San.

The ten gates and water gates of the outer city must be closed. At least before Yang Xin ordered the closure to be lifted, Yangzhou was only allowed to enter and not exit, but the movement of personnel at the two gates in the city was not restricted.

As for Yang Xin himself...

He had to complete the theoretical formal task of this trip.

Outside Yijiang Gate.

"good!"

Yang Qianshi emerged from the water and shouted at the shore.

There hundreds of forced-hired boatmen easily towed a boat without the bottom directly to the shore...

The bottom of the ship was chiseled down by Yang Xin.

These greenworms had planned it for a long time. They sank fifteen large inland boats on the main channel in front of the pontoon bridge, and all of them were equipped with sandbag chambers, so it was very difficult to salvage them. However, for Yang Xin, who could work underwater for more than ten minutes and had violent power, it was not worth mentioning. It was nothing more than taking his big iron cone and prying the upper part of the hull. The iron cone could easily pound into the wooden board of the hull, and the rest would basically disintegrate.

Then pry it open at the key connection points, and the entire upper hull floats out on its own.

Then drag it away.

As Yang Xin continued to dive underwater and violently dismantled the wrecks one by one, the hired shipmen supported the ships thrown by the green worms across the pontoon bridge, and the originally blocked waterway was cleared.

but……

The boats behind that were already ready to leave still did not leave.

"Look, this is the true form!"

Yang Xin wiped the water from his head and said as he looked at the lights on the canal ahead.

It was already late at night.

He knew that this would be the result.

He cleared the waterway and opened the waterway and removed the excuse of these blue worms. Originally, these guys blocked the waterway on the grounds that the river was blocked and could not pass, and it was not clear that it was intentional. But now the waterway has been cleared and not left, it was confirmed that it was intentional. They could not say that it was a crime before, but now it is, but these blue worms are also difficult to get off. People like them are very concerned about face. If they take the initiative to retreat, it will be a joke.

Even if this move fails, it means they fail completely.

At this time, Ye Xianggao and Zhu Guozhen were already conveying the things that Yang Xin had issued on behalf of the emperor. If this failed here, he could only wait for the little emperor's three swords to fall.

So you have to hold on.

"Yang Qianshi, Marquis Huaiyuan urges me to tell you that the Governor's Office of the Five Army of Nanjing has issued a military order, and no one in the garrison stations in various places is allowed to leave the defense zone."

Li Chengzuo said.

He had escorted Ye Xianggao and others to Nanjing before, but had just rushed back from Nanjing.

This means that the nobles are still neutral.

Of course, this statement is just a meaning. Who can the Governor's Office of the Five Army in Nanjing manage?

Chen Daoheng was still the soldiers brought from Nanjing!

It has to be said that the noble group was also very embarrassed at this time. The struggle between Qingzhe and Yang Xin was actually a struggle between gentlemen and imperial power, and between civil officials and internal officials. However, as the noble group, they could only squat in the corner and serve as spectators.

"Thank you!"

Yang Xin said perfunctorily.

"Yang Qianshi, how are you going to deal with these people?"

Li Chengzuo said a little embarrassedly.

"Let's talk about it tomorrow."

Yang Xin said.

At this time, He Kun ran over with excitement on his face.

"Master!"
To be continued...