Li Gang glared at Chen Dong like a rookie: "Yang Zhi is killing chickens to show monkeys, just like ambushing the defeated army in Yongqiu County, killing almost 6,000 people in one go, scaring all the big thieves fleeing one after another, and even the displaced soldiers did not dare to stay longer." These eighty-seven families were ruined, and most of the merchants and squires in Bianliang City were probably honest immediately. ”

Hu Shunzhi nodded and said: "Lord Li is reasonable, Lu Yihao is preparing to build a salt and tea division, and Yang Zhi is also transferring materials from all over the country through several commercial houses. ”

The news that Sun Ding said was soon confirmed, Xue Guang was appointed by Yang Zhi as the commander of the soldiers and horses of Yingchang Mansion, specifically responsible for the construction of the fort and the fort and the defense of the city; Yang Zhi appointed Hu Yin as the governor of Huazhou, and Zhao Shilong, who followed Zhao Shifu back, went to Huazhou with his men to serve as the regimental training envoy, Li Qiong was transferred back by Yang Zhi to serve as the fourth general of Bianliang, Yang Zhongwu served as the fifth general of Bianliang, and only Yang Jin's general Han Qing and 2,000 people were still stationed in Weicheng County, Huazhou.

Hu Yin did not follow Zhang Jun to Chuzhou, Runzhou did not appoint a position, became an idle official in Bianliang, but he did not expect to be appointed by Yang Zhi as the governor of Huazhou, Hu Yin did not refuse, as a clear stream, he always maintained the idea of serving the country, said that he would carry out all the instructions of the left-behind division, and happily took office with Zhao Shilong.

After Li Qiong came back, Yang Zhi specially greeted Xue Guang and others, and told the military discipline of the Dingbei Army in public, which was regarded as the three chapters of the law, Xue Guang and the others agreed on the surface no matter what they thought in their hearts;

Yang Yizhong and Lu Yihao asked Yang Zhi once, why did they let Zhao Shilong go to Huazhou, even if Yang Jin was more suitable than Zhao Shilong, Yang Zhi told the truth to the two, Zhao Shilong was a clan after all, Zhao Shihao said hello again, they couldn't arrange like Zhang used them, and they couldn't be placed in Huaining Mansion and other places, only Huazhou could. Now he can only let Zhao Shilong play a role in resisting the Jin army, and hope that Zhao Shixing can train the three thousand selected people in Bianliang.

Lu Yihao knew it as soon as he heard it, just keep it normal, anyway, Huazhou was originally the forefront of Bianliang, from the actual situation, as long as it was not Yang Zhi's army, there was no chance of winning in the face of the crushing of the Jin army. Lu Yihao's mind was on the transfer of materials, after all, the war is about money and food, and the task of the transfer department is very heavy.

Since the betrayal of the Western Xia, most of the war horses and skins needed by the Great Song Dynasty relied on the Liao State in the north to supply, and now there is no place for the Jin people to establish a mutual market with the feudal people, only smuggling and relying on the control of Taiyuan in the clouds. Similarly, the Jin State also needed silk, tea, paper, etc. from the south of the Yangtze River in the north, and Zhao Kai and Yang Zhi's original idea was a trade route between Bianliang, Puzhou, Taiyuan, and Jincheng, and the Dingbei Army controlled the price difference.

Now that there is a salt tea division, Yang Zhi naturally put green salt and anti-salt in the category of salt tea division, but the price is different, according to the quality of the salt into different grades, the north and south line began to sell a kind of refined salt, including sea salt and green salt two varieties. Tea Yang Zhi promoted the tea in the south of the Yangtze River, and stipulated that in Bianliang, the salt money and tea can be replaced with grain, which can be cheaper. In addition, the same is true of several trading houses that monopolize the trade of horses, mules, cattle and sheep, salt, furs, and ginseng, and grain is cheaper than gold and silver.

Li Gang didn't feel anything at first, but soon discovered the abnormality, a large number of businessmen purchased grain from all over the south of the Yangtze River and went to Bianliang to trade, so that the grain prices in Bianliang, which had been raised all the way, began to decline; and Yang Zhi did not make much of a move except to make the market come alive, more than half of the seventy-eight people caught by Shi Mojie were confiscated and their assets were confiscated and at the disposal of the Transshipment Division, but this number was not enough to support Lu Yihao's operation.

Li Gang knew the mystery Lu Yihao and the others would not say, so he asked Xu Jingheng for advice; Xu Jingheng smiled with a rare smile: "Yang Zhi's hand is ruthless, people can not drink tea, how can they do without eating salt? On the surface, the two proposals on Yang Zhi's chapter did not help him, and they were purely for the sake of Shengshang and Jiangnan; but don't forget, the salt works in Xiuzhou are in the hands of Shengshang and Princess Yingluo, and it is Princess Yingluo who is specifically managed, and in addition, the salt solution is in the hands of the Dingbei Army, so the merchants naturally believe that Yang Zhi can cash in kind. The salt money is in Bianliang, and the merchants have to exchange grain for salt money, even if King Kang is brutal, it still can't stop the enthusiasm of the merchants to come to Bianliang. ”

Li Gang smiled bitterly and said, "What about Chuzhou?"

Xu Jingheng put away his smile and said: "I have participated in the meeting arranged by Yang Zhi and Lu Yihao, they actually think that Chuzhou will be defeated, and now King Kang is just waiting for the speed of the Jin army to approach step by step, and when the Jin army hits Chuzhou for a hundred miles, it will be the day when King Kang flees south." Lu Yihao even prepared an emergency takeover of Ying Tianfu's materials for the record, Lord Li, under the fame, there is no vanity, and the Dingbei Army can fight a bloody road, this kind of vision is incredible. I went to Huaining Mansion, Li Guang was full of praise for Chong Bin, why, those who disturb the people are severely punished, whether you are a robber, a rout, or your own people, as long as you disturb the people, you will not let anyone go. ”

Li Gang's experience in politics is far from being comparable to that at the beginning, and he naturally knows that this is easier said than done, but now is actually a turbulent era, and how many people in power do not know what is underneath and do not know the truth of many things, but for various reasons, they can only turn a blind eye.

Xu Jingheng saw that Li Gang didn't squeak, and continued: "Yang Zhi also asked for Tuntian, does that Lu Yi know, Yang Zhi specially set up an organization to plant all the fields around Kaifeng, which can be rented by the government and the military, or planted by the military and the people, and that posture is intended to solve most of the food problems by himself." ”

Li Gang knew that Zhao Ding was carrying out this kind of work in the seven counties of Yingchang Mansion, Niu Gao and Li Gui who was later sent were responsible for cracking down on the displaced people who came and suppressing the local backlash; the Tuntian army and the people brought by Niu Gao suddenly increased the number of outsiders in Yingchang Mansion, half of whom were still in the army, and the local heroes and strong were eaten to death, but the complaints flew to Runzhou, but Zhao Ye and others knew that Yang Zhi was also relieving pressure for the imperial court and supported Yang Zhi's approach.

But to do it in Kaifeng, even after the Jin people ransacked, many magnates fled to Jiangnan, but the power of the squires and magnates in Kaifeng is still very strong, Li Gang understands a little, why Yang Zhi hurriedly took those seventy-eight people to open the way, he doesn't care if there is strategic value, just to deter the squires and magnates, and pave the way for the cultivation in the future.