In the former Song Dynasty, due to the country's border defense needs, the court needed a large number of war horses to ensure the strength of the army. The former Song Dynasty purchased a large number of war horses from the Liao Kingdom. At this stage, the merchants of Shanxi Road once again played an important role.

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Border states set up forays to trade with the feudal lords, and merchants along the border went deep into the borders to engage in foreign trade.

Although the former Song Dynasty was worried that it would endanger the court's political power if it continued to be tolerated, and repeatedly ordered a ban on cross-border trade, the situation at the local level had long been difficult to recover, and everyone only cared about immediate interests.

By this dynasty, the Kaizhong system had been implemented for twenty years.

Merchants on Shanxi Road have already extended their tentacles from the Hedong Salt Pond, which was initially permitted by the imperial court, to the Jianghuai Salt Fields and other places.

Moreover, these big merchants, who were already extremely wealthy, once again accumulated a huge amount of wealth in just twenty years after the turmoil in the late Yuan Dynasty ended.

You must know that money and silk move people's hearts.

Shanxi merchants who have money will naturally use various means to ensure the wealth they have in their hands in order to earn more money, and also to ensure they earn more wealth.

Shanxi merchants, who hold the food and fodder supply for hundreds of thousands of troops in Jiubian Town, will use their power to the extreme.

"Introduce troops into the pass!"

Qiu Fengzhen suddenly exclaimed, her hands trembled, and the letters in her hands fell to the floor, and his whole face was full of fear.

The imperial prefect finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground.

Zhu Yunxi and others looked over with indifferent eyes.

Qiu Fengzhen, the prefect of Fengyang, could only think about the letter she had just opened.

It's full of treacherous words.

Qiu Fengzhen raised her head, but her eyes were empty.

"They...how dare they..."

"How dare you do this?"

"This is treason...this is treason..."

Zhu Yunxi sneered.

For these people, is there any time or thing that they dare not do?

Gao Yangzhi looked around: "This matter must be sealed and no news will leak out!"

The relationship is really huge.

The case that has been exposed is not something like Henan Road.

This is a major military case involving hundreds of thousands of troops from all nine sides of the Ming Dynasty!

If you are not careful, everything will be lost. The now impregnable Ming Dynasty's important nine-border town will receive a heavy blow from the inside.

At that time, what would the Mongolian Tatar tribe and the Oara tribe outside the Nine-sided Great Wall, these wolf-like and ambitious people, choose?

Will they give Ming a chance to take a breather and deal with its internal affairs?

The answer is clear and clear.

Zhu Yunxi nodded: "Please order some of the property here."

Sun Cheng, who was on the side, had long disliked Qiu Fengzhen, the prefect of Fengyang, for being such a coward. When the grandson said this, he immediately waved his hand.

Immediately, two imperial guards came forward and dragged Qiu Fengzhen aside, but did not leave but stood behind her.

Obviously, this was after listening to the words of Mr. Gao Ge, to prevent what happened here today from being leaked.

Sun Cheng personally took the people and began to count the belongings in the box.

Gao Yangzhi moved his steps and came to Zhu Yunxi's side.

"This matter is of great importance, involving the military, state and society. If you are not careful, it may lead to great chaos. I think that I should send a letter to report to His Majesty, and then start to make plans."

Zhu Yunxi tapped the armrest with his fingers and said softly: "What are your thoughts?"

"Originally, they were plotting things in secret, and the court didn't know about it. Now with these things, the court is in the dark, and they have surfaced."

Gao Yangzhi straightened up his words and continued: "When two armies are facing each other, they must also know where the enemy is. Now, all kinds of things on Shanxi Road have surfaced, and it is important to clear them out.

I believe that the most urgent task for the imperial court is to stop and recover the food and supplies for the Nine-Border Army.

Nowadays, the imperial court controls the Jiaozhi Road. Large ships cover the sea, and freight is constantly flowing. Grain and grass can be transported from the Jiaozhi Road, directly to Peiping, and forwarded to various places on the nine sides.

In the past, our country could only rely on merchants on Shanxi Road to supply food and supplies to the frontier army, but now it is different. Negotiations like that back then were a helpless move, and it was precisely because of this that it gave some people the confidence to think that they could use this

Take control of something you shouldn't have.

In this matter, the imperial court only had to take back the right to negotiate step by step and cut off Shanxi merchants from supplying food and grass supplies to the border army, so that the border army would have no worries.

If the frontier army will not be short of food and grass, then the morale of the frontier army will be stable. If the frontier army is stable, then the nine frontiers will not make mistakes.

There are no mistakes on the nine sides, and there are no opportunities outside. By stabilizing the nine sides, His Highness will have more opportunities and choices to calmly deal with the rebellion of Shanxi merchants in Shanxi Province.

At that time, whether it is mobilizing the troops and horses of the nearby Henan Province, or mobilizing the Beijing army under the command of Liang Guogong and Xipinghou to go north, they can thunder and shake off the Shanxi Road situation.

At that time, events in Shanxi Province will not affect the nine sides, let alone cause turmoil in the Central Plains."

After Gao Yangzhi finished speaking, he put his hands together and looked at Zhu Yunxi quietly.

In his plan, the imperial court wanted to completely replace the grain and grass sent by Shanxi Road merchants to the border army with grain and grass from Jiaozhi Road step by step.

As long as the imperial court stabilizes the hundreds of thousands of nine-border border troops, the influence exerted by Shanxi Dao and Shanxi merchants over the years will disappear.

The border troops are not in chaos.

The imperial court had countless ways to rectify Shanxi merchants.

Zhu Yunxi groaned softly.

It has to be said that the solution Gao Chunfeng came up with in such a short period of time was the most appropriate solution for the court.

Just when he was about to speak.

Sun Cheng, who was counting the belongings in the box, raised his head and shouted.

"Your Highness, the inventory has been completed."

"Including treasures, the total wealth here is no less than three hundred thousand taels!"

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Chapter completed!