"The imperial court has urged several times," Gu Wei's expression was still so calm, but his tone added a bit of mockery: "Lord Ju and I, several times to find out, several times to urge, but the businessmen in Yangzhou have repeatedly prevaricated, which makes me not understand, they really invest a lot and can't make money, or are they just using this as an excuse to ask the court for more benefits?"

Fang Zhen was embarrassed, why could the reform of Yangzhou salt politics be delayed for a long time, the reason was that, he knew very well, could he have said? This has to be passed out, and the Cao Gang may not be able to move an inch in the south of the Yangtze River. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info if you don't say it, it will inevitably offend Gu Wei, and then offend the imperial court, and the Cao Gang will still be uncomfortable in the future.

The sound of the piano was still leisurely, Gu Wei took a sip of tea steadily, and then said leisurely: "Gang Leader Fang, now there are only you and me, out of your mouth and into my ears, no third person will know, and the helper doesn't have to worry about anything." ”

Fang Zhen smiled bitterly, looked up at Gu Wei and said, "Alas, let Master Gu laugh, the older you are, the less courageous you are, hehe." Laughing self-deprecatingly, Gu Wei also smiled: "There is nothing wrong with being cautious, the gang leader is a cautious person, so the prestige of the Cao Gang is getting louder and louder." ”

Fang Zhen shook and sighed: "The base camp of my Cao Gang is in Yangzhou, if you offend the Yangzhou Gate Valve, the Cao Gang will not be able to move an inch in this Jiangnan waterway, but the Lord is doing a major matter of the imperial court, and Fang does not dare to hide it." ”

Gu Wei nodded with a smile, Fang Zhen thought about it before he said: " According to my understanding, Yangzhou Yantian, or the best salt field, in fact, is not controlled in the hands of salt households, but in the hands of Lu Yuzhang and several other gate valves, and part of the control is in the hands of King Huainan, of course, if the adults go to check, it is definitely not the case, for the Lu Yu family to come forward called He Wei, for the Zhang family called Geng Can, both of them are the largest grain merchants in Yangzhou, but in fact, they are also the largest salt merchants in Yangzhou, to tell the truth, the boats on the Grand Canal, except for a few official ships and boats, the others have brought some private salt, and these two people are the largest private salt merchants in Yangzhou。 ”

Gu Wei's brows furrowed slightly, a trace of dark clouds flashed on his handsome and beautiful face in an instant, Fang Zhen noticed it, he smiled bitterly and said, "Understand, these salt pans don't need to invest much money." ”

"In this way, they are blackmailing the imperial court and want to get more. Gu Wei's tone was still calm, without a trace of emotional fluctuations.

Fang Zhen nodded slowly.

Neither of them spoke, quietly listening to the sound of the piano outside the room, the bamboo fence and the bamboo door, unable to stop the melodious sound, and the fragrance of tea wafted in the room.

At this moment, Gu Wei thought a lot, and Fang Zhen paid attention to Gu Wei, he had seen it in the imperial capital before, but it was far away, and now this distance is the first time. Gu Wei, the boy in white, is famous all over the world, although he is not a person in the rivers and lakes, but the men on the rivers and lakes will say yes loudly when they mention him, and they are even willing to serve him.

There was a rustling sound outside the window, the bamboo forest swayed in the wind, Gu Wei looked at the layers of bamboo shadows, and sighed softly: "In this world, the most difficult thing to satisfy is people's hearts, Fang Gang Master, are you interested in taking a few salt pans?"

Fang Zhen shook his head without thinking about it: "Although the salt is thick, it is not easy to pull, no one in Jiangnan dares to offend the Lu Yu family, and no one in Yangzhou dares to offend the Zhang family, not to mention that there is also the King of Huainan here, my lord, this matter is easy to say, as long as these three families are explained, the salt innovation will be completed....."

Speaking of this, Fang Zhen didn't say any more, but the meaning was obvious.

Gu Wei didn't expect that he was unequivocally rejected by Fang Zhen, and after thinking about it, he had to admit that such a choice was most in line with Fang Zhen's character.

The rivers and lakes are mixed, not by being domineering, but by being cautious.

Domineering exposed, it looks very cool, heroic, and heroic, but in fact, while being dazzling, it is also in the center of the storm, and its strength is constantly consumed, and it finally collapses.

In the rivers and lakes for thousands of years, there have been many heroes who have risen like meteors and disappeared like meteors, they are brilliant and dazzling, even if they disappear, they still leave a long legend, but they are not victors!

On the contrary, the cautious and cautious person is not easy to become the target of the public, and can hide on the edge of the storm, so that he can accumulate strength, advance and retreat freely in the storm, and then become the final victor.

The salt reform is in trouble, the emperor's words in his will are becoming more and more harsh, and his tone is becoming more and more impatient, if it is postponed any longer, will the imperial court recall the two men to punish them?

"I have a way to solve the problem for adults. Fang Zhen broke the silence and said.

Gu Wei raised his eyes to look at him, and Fang Zhen continued: "My lord, why don't you look for the head of the Huaiyang Society." ”

"Huaiyang will ?!!" Gu Wei repeated hesitantly, looking slightly embarrassed.

This Huaiyang Association is a private salt organization, which is a semi-public activity in Yangzhou, and the difference with the Cao Gang is that the Huaiyang Society has a very poor reputation, and compared with the Cao Gang, it is simply a world of difference.

If it's just smuggling smuggled salt, it doesn't have such a bad reputation, but Huaiyang can't help but smuggle smuggled salt, what to make money, half of the Qinglou painting boat casino on the boundary of Yangzhou is theirs, in addition, they also occupy a lot of good land, these good fields are all snatched by ingenuity, forcing many people to death.

Such a gang should be eradicated, but the Huaiyang Association has always been as stable as Mount Tai, the reason is very simple, the Yangzhou government, up and down, all received their silver, and even the soldiers of Yanding County stationed in the garrison were all bought by them.

Because of this, Gu Wei did not have the Huaiyang Association in the cooperation list, and even once thought that the Huaiyang Society would be completely eradicated, but he thought that his main job in Yangzhou was not to maintain law and order, so it was best not to cause another branch at this time, so he gave up.

Working with such a notorious gang, Gu Wei hesitated.

Seeing this, Fang Zhen shook his head slightly in his heart, Gu Wei still cherished his reputation too much, in fact, Lu Yu and Zhang's thousand-year-old gate valves controlled a large number of salt fields, which had already caused the dissatisfaction of some small gate valves in Yangzhou, but no one dared to attack the control of these gate valves, and this Huaiyang Association could just play this role. If Huaiyang really breaks out a crack in the dam of the gate valve, the back will inevitably surge out, and the control of the gate valve over the salt industry will collapse quickly, and Gu Wei's mission in Yangzhou will be a perfect success.

"Perhaps, this is also a way. Gu Wei looked up at Fang Zhen and smiled reluctantly.

In fact, what Fang Zhen thought of, Gu Wei had already thought of, but Fang Zhen ignored the factors of the imperial court. Gu Wei quickly thought of Lu Yu Zhang's counterattack method, which must be to impeach him and sentence to the imperial court, the emperor supports the reform of salt politics, but can the emperor accept this kind of illegal salt dealer?!!

Gu Wei couldn't be sure.

Pan Lian is in Shangshutai and can block most attacks, but how long can he block it?

Lu Yuzhang, these three thousand-year-old families, have close contacts with the gate valve family in Xuzhou, Jingzhou and Yuzhou, if they ask these three state gate valves for help, the anger accumulated by the gate valve family in the land inventory of Chen Guo is likely to be detonated.

"Is there no other way?" Gu Wei muttered to himself, Fang Zhen sighed: "Of course, if the adults are ruthless, under the pretext of arresting illicit salt, they will take He Wei Gengcan, and at the same time strictly investigate the illicit salt, so as to force them to give in, however, the risk of this strategy is that once Lu Yuzhang decides to resist and fall to the bottom, salt production has just stopped, seventy percent of Yangzhou's salt production will be gone, and the price of salt in various places is bound to skyrocket, and the imperial court will investigate it, this.... Can you afford it?"

Gu Wei smiled bitterly, even if he smiled bitterly, it was just as bright, Fang Zhen couldn't help but feel jealous in his heart.

Gu Wei had already given up the main purpose of tonight and persuaded the Cao Gang to come out to be the game-breaker, but with Fang Zhen's cautious and spicy, Gu Wei was not sure to persuade him at all, so he simply gave up, however, tonight's harvest was still very big, and the things behind the Yangzhou salt affairs were revealed, no wonder Yangzhou salt tax was so small.

The salt tax was reduced, and everyone said that it was a disaster in the salt fields, and Gu Wei once thought that this was the case, but now it seems that it is complete nonsense, what is the disaster in the salt fields, the salt fields are affected, but it is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster.

The family of gate lords occupied the best salt fields, and the imperial court could not collect their taxes, so they sold the salt to private salt dealers, and then used various means to make the salt fields of salt farmers abandoned, so that the salt tax of the imperial court naturally declined.

After drinking tea for a while, Gu Wei said goodbye and left, Fang Zhen respectfully sent him to the car, and when the car disappeared into the night, he turned around and entered the teahouse.

Fang Mei stood in the hall with a smile, and when she saw Fang Zhen coming in, she greeted her with a smile.

"Thank you. Fang Zhen thanked him warmly, and Fang Mei smiled: "What the husband said, this is the duty of a concubine." ”

Fang Zhen breathed lightly, every time he was with this woman, he felt relaxed, he gently pulled the woman's hand, under the light, the palm was slender and white and soft, and there were a few green tendons faintly.

"I have long heard that the boy in white is handsome and incomparable, and when I see it today, it is really extraordinary. Fang Meishi chuckled, letting Fang Zhen hold her hand in his hand, these hands were thick and thick, strong and powerful.

"Beautiful is beautiful, but there are too many concerns, and the matter of Yangzhou, I'm afraid it is not so easy to solve. Fang Zhen sighed softly, as if he was a little regretful.

"Oh," Fang Mei was a little surprised, she heard the faint derogation in her husband's words, and raised her eyes to look at him: "Why is this?"

"Today's Yangzhou affairs, when you do it decisively, how can you look forward and look backwards, Lord Gu still thinks too much. Fang Zhen thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow I will go south to Jiankang." ”

"Husband, do you want to avoid it?" Fang Meishi was a little puzzled, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she was very puzzled.

Fang Zhen nodded: "This is just one of them, in addition, after the Cao Yun is about to start, I will go to Jiangnan to take a look, the storage situation of grain depots in various places, and the maintenance of grain ships." ”

Fang Meishi frowned again: "If you are not here, who will hand over this helm to Xiao Jie?"

Fang Zhen couldn't help frowning, let go of the woman's hand, the little jie in the woman's mouth was his son Fang Jie, Fang Jie was already in his twenties, and he also had a small reputation in the rivers and lakes, and his cultivation was not bad, he had six grades of martial arts, and the only drawback was that he was straightforward and lacked dim sum eyes.

"Let him be in control, but I'll give you a token that you can hold and veto his decision if you feel it's wrong. ”

The woman's brows furrowed even tighter, and she opened her mouth to refuse, but looking at Fang Zhen's expression, she couldn't speak, so she had to sigh softly and nod her head gently.