"This is a Shangshu Taiting sent that I just received. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

When he was struggling, Gu Wei handed over another official document, with the seal of Shang Shutai on it, and took it in a sentence, Gu Wei sighed: "The imperial court is already urging, the treasury is still tight this year, and the imperial court hopes that we will receive three million taels of silver in Yangzhou." ”

After reading the official document quickly, Shang Shutai clearly told them in the official document that the reform of Yangzhou's salt administration, the auction of the official salt fields, and the auction of salt quotation should try to obtain more than three million taels of silver, and the minimum should not be less than three million taels of silver, and at the same time urge them to report the strategy to the imperial court as soon as possible.

This is the official document of Shangshutai, and the tone is quite peaceful, however, the sentence guesses that this is the result of the transfer of the princes of Shangshutai, and the emperor has begun to be anxious.

Ju Yi sighed heavily: "It's difficult, what do you have in mind Master Gu?"

Gu Wei also sighed in return, shook his head and said: "The humble position is not broken, Fang Zhen refuses to come forward, let us mobilize the Huaiyang Society, but this Huaiyang Society is reckless, this is going to be transmitted to the imperial court, what will the imperial court think?"

Ju Yi's brows twisted into a river, his heart was irritable, he looked up at the bright spring light outside, and said with a wry smile: "We have fallen into the bellows, and the splints at both ends are angry, Lord Gu, do you have any good ideas?"

Gu Wei smiled bitterly: "What your lord said is very true, we are now in the bellows, angry at both ends, my lord, this time we are afraid that we will offend one party, either the court or the gate valve." ”

"I've also thought about this matter, Lu Yuzhang, these are nothing, but the problem is that they control the salt pans, and they are powerful in Yangzhou, without their participation, this salt pans can't be auctioned. Ju Yi looked at the official document in front of him, and his expression became even more depressed.

Gu Wei's gaze also fell on the official document, his eyes narrowed, he didn't answer the sentence, and after a while of sighing, he also fell into silence, and for a while, the two of them had no meaning to speak.

After last night's investigation, the whole situation of Yangzhou salt administration, the two of them have counted in their hearts, Yangzhou's salt fields are divided into three parts, one part is the salt fields of salt households, and the other part is the official salt fields, the former is privately owned by salt households, and the salt produced can only be sold to the salt and iron supervisors, and the latter is naturally the government's; the third part is the salt fields recorded in the family of the gate lords.

Gu Wei and Ju Yi have not been idle in the past few months, not only are they feeling the situation, but they will also send their entourage to various counties in Yangzhou to secretly inspect the situation of Yantian in various places, and after a few months, the situation in Yantian has been roughly clarified.

In the past ten years, the salt fields of the salt households and the government have been damaged one after another, and the salt households have either abandoned the land as displaced people, or barely survived, and the biggest problem lies in the official fields, according to reason, the official fields should not have problems, even if they are affected by disasters, they have money to repair them, but the official fields are also seriously damaged, and the output has seriously declined, and the funds for repairing the salt fields have either not been allocated, or they do not know where they are used.

The best maintenance of the salt field belongs to the gate valve family, so the decline of the official field and the salt households, and now the salt in Yangzhou is heavily dependent on these gate valve families, but they report disasters by fifty to sixty percent every year, and the rest are sold to the imperial court, and only two percent at the worst time.

"My lord, we must have a strategy and report it to the court. ”

After a long time, Gu Wei broke the silence and spoke.

Ju Yu sighed, and nodded lightly after being silent for a while, Gu Wei's proposal is reasonable, since the imperial court has begun to urge, it means that the imperial court is already impatient, and they must appease the imperial court and give the imperial court confidence.

"But how do you write it?" asked Ju Yi with a wry smile.

Gu Wei also smiled bitterly, it is not so easy to appease the imperial court, what the imperial court wants is a tax, a minimum of three million taels of silver, and last year, the salt tax received by the imperial court from Yangzhou was only 800,000 taels of silver, which will be increased nearly four times this time.

The family of gate lords had clearly told Ju Yi that they could not accept it, and asked the imperial court to lower taxes, and even asked the imperial court to restrict ordinary merchants from entering the salt business.

But the imperial court absolutely could not accept it.

Juyi knew with his toes what the reaction of the imperial court would be if he accepted such a condition, and the impeachment of him would drown Shang Shutai.

Gu Wei obviously also knew, he was silent for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "There is nothing to say to these insatiable guys, just ask the internal guard for assistance." ”

Ju Yi turned his head to look at Gu Wei in surprise, as if he didn't know him, this was an extraordinary request, among the officials of the imperial court, especially those who were born as scholars, they never took the initiative to ask for the assistance of the internal guards, of course, there were also Peng Zhu, when the internal guards took the initiative to help, they would not and could not refuse.

If Gu Wei's proposal came out, he would be attacked by the gate lord family and the scholars, and he might even be assassinated.

Ju Yu thought about it for a while, and shook his head with difficulty: "Lord Gu, this matter is not proper, He Wei and Geng Can are just in front, and there are many Jianghuai Gate Valves such as Lu Yuzhang in the back, and even the King of Huainan," When talking about King Huainan, Ju Yu lowered his tone, and then said in an accentuated tone: "What's more, Lord Gu, if these people are arrested or killed, our salt policy reform will also be over, this discussion is not appropriate!

Gu Wei was silent for a while, and did not refute the sentence, his concerns had a certain reason, if he dealt with He Wei and Geng Can in a tough way, it might scare away those potential businessmen who were originally going to participate in the salt policy reform.

"We need one person to break the game. Gu Wei sighed.

Ju Yu nodded: "Huaiyang will ?!!!"

Gu Wei shook his head slightly: "Huaiyang will not be advisable, I have learned about this gang, it has a very bad reputation, we have to use them, I am afraid that we will also be impeached by the ministers of the DPRK and China." ”

After saying that, the two of them sighed heavily almost at the same time, and the matter is now frozen here,

"How do you write this song?" The sentence sighed with a sad face, and Gu Wei also sighed: "My lord, just report it truthfully and tell the court that we are doing work, and my lord will go to visit the king of Huainan again, and the officials will go to meet the people of the Lu family, since they are behind, they will do their work directly, my lord, what do you think?"

After thinking for a long time, he reluctantly nodded, thought about it, and hugged his fist at Gu Wei: "I see, Master Gu is famous all over the world, and I also ask Lord Gu to write this piece of music, I don't know what Lord Gu wants..."

Gu Wei scolded in his heart, this old slippery head, frowned slightly, and asked with a fist: "The adult is the righteous and the lowly is the deputy, according to the rules of the imperial court, it should be written by the adult himself, and the lowly position will be written, and it will not make the court wonder." ”

The meaning of these words is very vague, but I still understand it, which means that according to the rules and regulations of the imperial court, this chapter should be written by you sentences, if I write it, the imperial court will not suspect that you and I are fighting for power and profit here, which has led to the delay in the implementation of the salt policy reform, if this is the case, the imperial court is afraid that the imperial court will immediately send someone to arrest them and return to the court.

"That's right," the sentence replied categorically after a little contemplation: "It's okay, after Brother Gu drafts it, I'll just copy it once, so that even if the court knows, it will understand that this is the result of our deliberation." ”

Gu Wei thought about it and got up, clasped his fists and said, "That's very good, the next official will go." ”

Ju Yi also got up to send him off, Gu Wei turned to leave, Ju Yi looked at his back, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, this sneer disappeared in a blink of an eye, and his brows immediately furrowed, still with a sad face.

After a while, he ordered to change clothes and prepare the car, and after a while, he went out and went to the Huainan Palace.

Time is like flowing water, flowing fast, the battle of Shilipu passed ten days in a blink of an eye, seeing that the ice of the Yellow River is getting smaller and smaller, the willows on the bank are getting greener and greener, the withered reeds have grown tender young stems, and there are geese flying back from the south, falling in the reeds, and began to build their nests busily.

Xiao Yu's injury has healed a lot, he can take a walk in the yard, Chu Fei's injury is almost completely healed, with the help of two pills, he successfully broke the mirror, entered and stabilized in the realm of the martial artist eight grades, Wu Jian, who had been lying for more than half a month, could also walk a few steps with the support, not to mention Ding San and Ding Si, their wishes were also satisfied, Liu Han took advantage of the gap of a few days to practice a batch of pills that satisfied the realm of warriors, and also gave them one person and one bottle, and the two of them accepted it happily and gratefully.

After Gou Kuang's death, Liu Han continued to attack, and in two days, the main leaders of the Sanjiang Society, from the incense lord to the helmsman, killed a few, drove away a few, and the entire Sanjiang Society immediately collapsed, divided into several gangs, and each of them fought in a melee, which caused an excellent situation for Jingzhao Mansion, and Jingzhao Mansion immediately started, dividing the south of the city into several large pieces, and supporting several small gangs.

After these small gangs were helped up, the officials of Jingzhao Mansion suddenly found that their status was raised, and each gang had more filial piety every month, and when they walked on the street, their heads were raised a little higher.

Chen Xuan restored the security of the imperial capital in just ten days, although it was three days overdue, but the emperor was still satisfied, but the ministers of the court and the central government did not let him go, and the impeachment was still overwhelming.

But all this had little impact on Liu Han, during this time, he was always vigilant against the counterattack of Wang Xutian and Ding's four families, Ding Xuan was very desperate, always hiding outside the city, refusing to return to the city, Liu Han let him go for the time being.

Of the four captives locked up in the underground cell in the backyard, three were crushed by hunger and fear, and only the square-headed double hammer was still holding on, but it was already the end of the crossbow, and it could survive for ten days at most, but at that time, it was unknown whether it would be useful or not.

Liu Han originally wanted Liu Tong to interrogate the three Hulu, but Tianna asked Ye Xiu to pass, saying that he would try it himself, Liu Han also agreed, the Yueluo Palace has their set of secret methods, he has seen it, and it is very effective to try prisoners, especially female prisoners, otherwise, he would not have asked Tianna to clean up the woman.

Wang Xutian's three families, there has been no movement, this can not advance, can not retreat, so that Liu Han is a little unhappy, he pondered to take some action, let them move, however, this idea was opposed by Lao Huang.

Lao Huang judged that these three families were also in hesitation, and continued to fight, Liu Han's strength was too strong, and there was still support from the palace behind him, and it was bound to suffer a lot of losses if he continued to fight;

"Now, what you have to do is to give them a step to step down, these thousand-year-old families, in fact, what they are most afraid of is losing face, as long as they have face, they will retreat. Lao Huang said, Liu Han didn't answer, of course it would be good if it could be like this, but would they be willing? It took so much effort to kill so many people, but they ended up making wedding clothes for people, and they couldn't make people laugh to death when they spread it.

If they want to save face, they have to get Caoyun, otherwise, no matter what, they will have no face.

But did he give it to him!!