Quan Yutianxia GL

Before going out, Situ Mao looked back at Su Mingyue again, and then went downstairs to the guest room where Mr. Zixu lived.

Mr. Zixu was kneeling and eating at a low table. There were two small dishes and a jug of wine on the table. Seeing Situ Mao sitting opposite him, he took a cup, filled it with wine, and poured more wine. I got a pair of chopsticks.

Situ Mao took a sip of his wine, then sighed, "Mr. is still at ease."

Mr. Zixu put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and said with a smile, "Lord Situ is deeply trusted by the lord. He has a high position and heavy responsibilities, so he is constantly busy. Such a good job, I wait for idlers, and I can't get it."

"Sir, don't gossip like this anymore. There is something important. I would like to ask you to help me with the details."

Seeing Mr. Zixu nodding, Situ Mao just continued: "I just met Su Mingyue today. She has a beautiful face and a delicate body. She has a peerless appearance. She is very pleasing."

"You want to dedicate her to the prince?" Mr. Zixu was slightly startled: "I'm afraid it's not appropriate."

"It's not dedicated to the prince." Situ Mao said: "Before Yuan Xiangguo asked Jiang Shijun to marry Wu Yuanxin, but Bai Shi refused..."

"My lord wants the prince to send Su Mingyue to Yuan Xin?"

"Yes." Situ Mao nodded and said, "If the imperial court really wants to pursue the matter of the rich households in Huang County, then the siblings will be pushed out to block the knife sooner or later. Haven't pursued it yet, let's establish a good relationship with the Prime Minister's Mansion first."

With Su Mingyue's peerless appearance, there are few men in the world who can't be tempted. Maybe they can use this to win over Yuan Xiangguo and get the Jiaodong Palace out of this matter.

"Inappropriate." Mr. Zixu shook his head when he heard the words, dipped his finger in the drink, and wrote the word 'eat the Lord' on the table.

"Oh?" Situ Mao raised his eyebrows and said in doubt: "This Su Mingyue is just a brothel girl. As for Liu Ling, let's not talk about it...why do you think Mr. Liu is so respectful?"

Liu Ling was young and arrogant, and his mouth was unreliable. After a few glasses of water and wine, he revealed his life experience as a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty, even the contacts left by their ancestors, such as the Huang County Xiao Duan's family, because they were extremely disappointed with him, turned to Jiaowang East Mansion.

Because of this, Situ Mao guessed that they had no other choice, so Si Cai dared to go to Donglai in person.After all, after dealing with the two brothers and sisters, the gold-selling cave of Chunfenglou still needs to be taken care of. Instead of falling into the hands of others, it is better for Situ Mao to have it in his pocket.

"As I expected, the Bloody God Sect in Jizhou must have a close relationship with the siblings. Besides, the siblings are not easy to get along with."

"what?!"

Situ Mao was shocked. The Bloody God Sect in Jizhou is very famous. It has been making troubles since the beginning of the dynasty. The previous emperor sent troops to encircle and suppress it. Even now, it is still ridiculous. I have nothing to do with my hands free.

"You know the envoy from Liaodong, right?"

Situ Mao nodded, and Mr. Zixu continued: "After the envoy went to the east last year, Su Mingyue and her brother set up a murderous situation, and fought with the Bai family."

Hearing this, Situ Mao was stunned, and then understood, clasped his fists and said, "Thank you sir for reminding me later!"

After finishing speaking, Situ Mao turned around and went out. He didn't dare to go back to the room to get things, and he didn't dare to go to his own guards. He just stole a piece of clothes and changed when he passed by other people's rooms, and covered his face with his hair. , ready to sneak away.

But who would have expected that when he walked out of the courtyard, Su Mingyue stood in front of him with a sword in hand, "Where are you going, Master Situ?"

Situ Mao didn't reply, and immediately turned around and fled in another direction, but he couldn't escape very far. After fighting and resisting for a while, he was surrounded by several strong men and caught him alive.

When Su Mingyue returned to the guest building, she saw Liu Ling leading people down with a livid face, and she immediately understood: "Mr. Zixu has already escaped?"

"When my sister went to arrest Situ Mao, I took people to Mr. Zixu's room... but the building was already empty..."

Su Mingyue was furious when she heard the words: "Then why are you still here in a daze? Why don't you go find someone?"

Liu Ling hurriedly led his hands to search for it.

When Su Mingyue searched the ground three feet to find Mr. Zixu, Bai Su was having a feast for merchants in the heaven and earth in Donglai County City. Many merchants who heard of her going west gathered in Donglai early and waited. After the banquet, they Then he will follow Bai Su to the west, looking for more business opportunities.

After the banquet with the merchants, Bai Su had an in-depth conversation with Jiang Junshou, Huo Yunshu, Wang Yi and others for half the night. The next day, he took advantage of the early cool weather and set off westward.

The 24th year of Yongwei in Daqing was a year full of great changes, and historians of later generations are always amazed by it when they study this year.

First, the Daqing Dynasty implemented the official salt and iron camp; then the Liaodong county government was restructured; then there was a civil war between the Murong tribe and the Duan tribe of the Xianbei in the east; The number of Buddhist believers has increased greatly, and they have spread all over the country in just a few years.

Among these great changes, the one that attracted the most attention was Bai Wuhui, the head of the nine elders of the New Chu Senate, who traveled westward.

According to records, this westward journey started from Muyang City in Liaodong. At that time, there were no more than [-] merchants accompanying him. After passing through Donglai, the number of merchants accompanying him doubled. There are thousands of accompanying merchants, large and small.

Although this record is so short, it does not affect people's love for this period of history. People can even imagine that the young businesswoman, dressed in white clothes like snow, led her commercial army to march westward, wherever she went. ——Prosperous every step of the way!

——The post road, because of them, the population is gathered!

——The poor land is full of fruits and vegetables because of them!

——The barren field becomes a mulberry field because of them!

——The port is full of merchant ships because of them!

——Young and strong, they are busy farming because of them!

——Women are weak, because of them, they step on the loom!

……

Therefore, on this commercial road that starts from Muyang City in the east and connects with the former Silk Road in the west, the place where this young female businessman stops and sees—prosperity blooms!

Due to the increasing number of accompanying merchants, coupled with the deployment and transactions along the way, it was delayed until late August before Bai Su brought several powerful caravans into the border of Chang'an.

Li Rui, who had received the news a long time ago, waited by the Weishui River outside Chang'an City for several days. It was not until the afternoon of August 27 that he received Bai Su and his party.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the two went straight to the guest room that had been prepared in the heaven and earth.

The Tiantianrenjian branch in Chang'an City was not built in the city, but outside the east and west cities, near the Wei River, and next to it was the large warehouse used by the Kyushu Bodyguard Company for turnover, which was convenient for merchants big and small to rest and unload goods.

After Bai Su entered the room, she went to take a bath first, and when she came out after changing into clean clothes, the deacon under her command had come to report that all the goods had been unloaded and loaded into the warehouse.

Li Rui was tossing a new set of tea sets with Bai Su's maid, and after Bai Su finished talking with his subordinates, he couldn't wait to invite her to taste the new tea.

The new tea brought by Bai Su is completely different from the tea soup that Li Rui has eaten in the past. There is no need to mix it with other things to cook, just boil a pot of boiling water, pour it into the delicate small porcelain pot containing the tea leaves, soak it up and wash it After that, you can drink tea with a pleasant fragrance.

After retreating from the waiter, the two of them sat opposite each other and drank tea. Seeing that Bai Su looked a little tired, Li Rui asked caringly, "Wu Hui has traveled all the way, but encountered trouble?"

"Trouble...it's okay, it's just that I'm a little tired after a long journey." Bai Su put down her teacup gracefully, and asked, "How's the situation in the imperial capital?"

"Not so good." Li Rui continued a cup of tea for himself, and said: "At the beginning of the year, the emperor recalled Gu Wenxiong and Li Zhan to Chang'an, and wanted to exchange Gu Wenxiong for Wei Chuyan, but Yuan's rebelled. "

Bai Su frowned slightly: "Aside from proposing marriage to me, what other arrangements did Yuan Shi make?"

"Proposing marriage to you is Yuan's small means of knocking mountains and shaking tigers, and the emperor will not show cowardice." Li Rui explained: "The main reason is because of Sangluo wine. This year, Sangluo wine suddenly rose to sky-high prices. With Yu Guan fighting, the Yuan family made a lot of money, and even won over many nobles from aristocratic families, I heard that even Liu Yunji is now hooking up with them..."

Yuan's proposal of marriage to Bai Su is to show the emperor that he has the ability to move the chess piece that the emperor has placed in Liaodong, and to win over Liu Yunji is to demonstrate to the emperor-although Gu Wenxiong is loyal to the emperor, he does not agree with the emperor. The Yuan family and other aristocratic families are natural allies, but Wei Chuyan is not. Once the emperor uses Gu Wenxiong to exchange Wei Chuyan back to Chang'an, then the original balanced relationship between the emperor and ministers in Chang'an city will be broken. Repeat Huo's old pattern.

After thinking about it, Bai Su said, "The Emperor should not compromise on this."

"Naturally." Li Rui said: "The Yuan family made money by borrowing mulberry wine, and the emperor also took advantage of the official management of Yantie to re-cultivate his own power. Not only did he set up a Yantie Cheng under Da Si Nong, to take charge of the national salt and iron affairs. , and also set up salt officials or iron officials in local counties and counties, responsible for managing the production and sales of salt and iron."

"In this way, it is the people and the salt and iron merchants who suffer." Bai Su sighed: "The price of salt in Huang County last year was about three hundred yuan a bucket. Although it rose slightly last year, it was still affordable. This year When I left Huang County, I heard that the price had already risen to five or six hundred yuan a dou..."

"Chang'an City has now risen to almost two pennies a bucket."

"Salt is the great treasure of the country, it is closely related to the people and the country, and it is the cornerstone of a strong country, but now it is so expensive!" Bai Su couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "If this continues, the people will not be able to eat salt, and will not be able to cultivate the land. I'm afraid..."

Although Bai Su didn't say the following words clearly, Li Rui was as clear as a mirror, and said helplessly: "In the past, there were salt merchants and salt lords. They had manpower, horse-drawn carts and boats, and they could easily transport salt to various places for sale. But now The imperial court not only restrained the salt merchants, but even punished many lords, preparing to implement a new method of salt and iron management..."

Bai Su knew about the court's new salt and iron management measures.The imperial court provided large iron pots for cooking salt and recruited common people as salt people. These salt people not only had to cook salt, but also borne a series of expenses incurred during the salt cooking process, such as firewood and other costs.After the salt is boiled, sell the salt to the salt officials of the imperial court. When these salt officials buy salt from the people, they usually keep the price extremely low, and then sell the salt at a higher price.

There is only one reason for the officials to exploit the salt people. On the other hand, after leaving aside the merchants, the imperial court needs to arrange transportation and sales by itself, and the high cost will inevitably be transferred to the common people by the imperial court.

Therefore, as early as when he heard the news of the Yantie official camp, Bai Su had already expected the chaos in the salt industry.

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