Ma Mingli told Chen Yue in detail what happened in the salt area. At present, the most serious disturbance is the Yan District under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Prefecture, and the county seat of Dongtai, which is besieged by thousands of stove households, is also under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Prefecture.

"There was a stove riot? Small things, when I send a large army forward, it will be calmed down in an instant. Chen Yue said indifferently.

Hearing this, Liang Huanping's face softened a lot, what he was most worried about was that because of the disturbance of the salt people in the stove household, it would affect his future as a salt transport envoy, if Chen Yue could really send troops to suppress the riot as soon as possible and calm down the entire salt area, his guilt as a salt transport envoy would be much smaller.

And the gloom on the face of the Yangzhou prefect Ma Zhi was even worse.

"Master Hou, I'm afraid it's not that simple." Ma Ming Road.

"What's so rare? There is no need to use other armies, just the 30,000 new troops I have newly trained and the standard battalion of the Governor's Palace, even if there are hundreds of thousands of salt people rioting, it will be easy to suppress them. Chen Yue said lightly.

"Hou Ye's martial arts are world-beating, the Pingnan army is invincible, his subordinates naturally know, and they also know that as long as the Pingnan army comes out, the riot can be easily eliminated." Ma Mingli first praised Chen Yue, and then said, "But my subordinates think that things are not so simple, and the reason why the salt people in the stove household have rioted is because the salt they cook cannot be sold, and they have no money to buy grain to support their families." If this fundamental problem is not solved, even if the riot is suppressed for a while, it will not help at all. ”

"Yes, yes," Liang Huanping also hurriedly said, "The salt people are hungry to make trouble, unless the Hou Ye kills them all, they will continue to make trouble." ”

"Kill them all?" Chen Yuehu looked at Liang Huanping suspiciously, "After killing all of them, who will make salt, how can the people of Daming live without salt?" Isn't it because they can't sell their salt and have no money to buy grain? Helping them sell the salt won't be long enough! ”

"Master Hou, you said it easy! The three major salt merchants in Yangzhou have all been raided by Hou Ye, and the other salt merchants are also in a hurry, who is willing to come out to do business at this time? Liang Huan said calmly.

"Heh, if there is no Zhang butcher, will you eat hairy pigs? Without these salt merchants, there is no way? Chen Yue sneered.

"It's not impossible, it's just that the stove households are about to make trouble, in addition to these salt merchants in a short time, where can they find so much silver, and then where can they get grain if they have silver?" Liang Huanping asked with a sneer.

There was such a big thing in the salt area, and the grain merchants naturally did not dare to transport grain to the salt area. In addition, the grain merchants and the salt merchants were originally one, and they were controlled by the three major salt merchants, and the grain transported to and from the salt area in the past two months was much less, which was another reason for the salt people's troubles due to the sharp rise in grain prices in the salt area.

You don't know anything about a stinky kid, but you have caused such a big disaster, and the official who harmed him will eat melons! Liang Huan looked at Chen Yue with a bad face.

"So, as long as there is food, the problem can be solved?" Chen Yue smiled.

"Of course!" Ma Mingming said, "But the total number of stove households and salt people in the salt area is more than one million, where are you going to get so much grain?" Although there is grain in Yangzhou City, this is to feed hundreds of thousands of people in the city and the army of Hou Ye, but there is no surplus grain to send to the salt area. ”

"Don't worry about the food matter, I'll take care of it." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"Ahh Liang Huanping and Ma Mingli were stunned, and looked at Chen Yue suspiciously. That's not a small amount, but it supplies millions of people in the entire Lianghuai salt area!

"Don't you believe you?" Chen Yue asked with a smile.

"It's not that I don't believe it, it's really a huge amount of food, even if Master Hou takes out the military rations of the Pingnan Army, it's a drop in the bucket." Ma Mingli hesitated. Although Liang Huanping did not speak, the look on his face was full of disbelief in Chen Yue's big words.

"In that case, you two come with me." Chen Yue stood up and walked out of the hall.

Liang Huanping and Ma Mingming followed behind Chen Yue, walked out of the lobby, walked out of the governor's palace, and then got into the carriage and headed out of the city.

The guard of honor opened the way, and one hundred and ten cavalry guards, and a group of people walked along the street to the outside of the city, and the people retreated one after another, and it did not take long to leave the city.

Outside the city, you can see the wide canal to the north to the south, and the water flow is turbulent. Thanks to the diversion of the Yellow River and the silting up of the estuary to the east, the turbulent Yellow River flows into Hongze Lake, and then overflows into the Yangtze River through the canal.

The guards had already cleared a place on the wharf, and the three largest officials in Yangzhou City stood by the river, raising their eyes to look into the canal.

"Master Hou, I wonder what you want me to see?" Liang Huanping looked into the river and didn't see anything unusual, so he asked.

"Don't worry, don't be impatient, just wait a while." Chen Yue smiled and said, "The river is going south, the green mountains and weeping willows on both sides, the two adults are both scholars and scholars, so you might as well do some poetry or something." ”

I also make poems! Liang Huanping suddenly became angry when he heard this, twisted his head, and no longer paid attention to Chen Yue.

"Dignified Chinese land,

Captives gallop freely;

Full of feasters,

It's full of moths!

When Hou Ye was in Tongzhou, he scolded all the people who were vegetarian in the corpse, and the lower officials admired it tightly. ”

Ma Mingming laughed and joked.

"Not long ago, when Hou Ye was in Nanjing, he made a seven-word poem,

'The autumn wind laughs at the end of the war,

Savages prefer to offer yellow flowers.

I have seen the iron bones through the frost old,

Don't send the golden heart with the rain slanting. '

Heroic, chivalrous and soft-hearted, the subordinate officials are ashamed of themselves. ”

Listening to Ma Ming's admiration, Chen Yue suddenly became embarrassed, and the poem written in Tongzhou was purely his own feelings and made a few nonsense sentences, but Nanjing's poem was plagiarized from Zhang Huangyan.

"I said a few words, but I didn't expect it to reach Ma Fuzun's ears." Chen Yue said embarrassedly.

The two of them talked about it, the ink in Ma Mingjinshi's stomach was naturally not comparable to Chen Yue, plus he was funny and talkative, chatting with him was like drinking alcohol, Chen Yue felt very comfortable.

Liang Huanping's mind was too heavy, and he didn't have the heart to talk about the negative at all, so he stood aside and kept silent, staring at the canal.

After a while, Liang Huanping's eyes widened suddenly, and he saw a huge fleet coming from the south, more than ten miles away, and the sails on the mast of the huge cao ships were full of the south wind, and the speed of the fleet was extremely fast.

When the boat in front of it reached the vicinity of the city, the sail descended at a reduced speed and slowly leaned towards the pier, and then someone got down from the boat and talked to the guards of the governor's palace by the pier.

A personal guard walked over quickly, gave a military salute to Chen Yue, and then said, "Master Hou, the grain ship has arrived." ”

"Grain ship!" Liang Huanping's eyes suddenly widened, if so many boats were full of grain, I was afraid that there would be hundreds of thousands of stones!

"Two adults, please!" Chen Yuesu invited him and took the two of them to the board of the boat and boarded the boat.

The deck of the ship was piled high, covered with tarpaulins to protect from the rain, and some guards lifted the tarpaulin, revealing yards of neat and long cloth bags.

Chen Yue pulled out the dagger on his waist, slashed through a cloth bag, and saw the rice flowing out of Baihuahua.

It turned out to be really food! Liang Huanping and Ma Mingming glanced at each other, and their hearts were all ecstatic. With so much food, the riots in the salt region will be solved!

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