Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 78 Yangzhou
There are many salt fields in Daming, very many, but the Lianghuai salt fields are absolutely important.That's why there is a saying that "the benefit of boiling salt since ancient times is more important than that in the southeast, and Lianghuai is the most", and "the tax on salt in Lianghuai is the best in the world". Add a hand to the salt.

When mentioning Lianghuai Salt Fields, one place has to be mentioned. This place is Huai'an. Huai'an prefecture governs Shanyang, Qinghe, Andong, Yancheng, Taoyuan, Suqian, Shuyang, Suining, Ganyu, Pizhou, Haizhou, including 9 counties 2 states, and more importantly, the Governor of Water Transport and the Governor of Nanhe are stationed in Jiehuai'an.

The Governor of Water Transport also often served as the governor of Jianghuai, controlling the four prefectures of Huai (an), Yang (zhou), Lu (zhou), Feng (yang) and Xu (zhou), Chu (zhou), and (zhou).

In addition to Huai'an, Yangzhou is the city where the Lianghuai salt industry developed. As the so-called fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March, Yangzhou's blooming flowers are largely because this is the distribution center for Lianghuai salt transportation.Why did Yangzhou become the distribution center for salt transportation between Lianghuai and Huaihe Rivers?First, because of Yangzhou's geographical location, the transportation is convenient.

The other most important reason is that there is a Yamen in Yangzhou. This Yamen from the third rank was not very eye-catching in the Ming Dynasty, but it was in charge of the lifeline of the salt fortune of the Ming Dynasty.Its power is not manifested in transshipment, but in its power.

Dutransport Salt Envoy set up a Dutransport envoy, from the third grade, under the jurisdiction of various salt departments, salt warehouses, etc. Transshipment is in charge.

Yangzhou, the place of wind and clouds, the land of heroes, some people become famous here, some people lose here, this is heaven, and this is also hell.

It was originally a very ordinary afternoon in Yangzhou. The sunset was beautiful, and there were countless flower boats on the Slender West Lake.The boat was playing, playing and singing, and the laughter was endless. Among the crowd, a group of people strolled along the embankment of the Slender West Lake, which was not really eye-catching.

The leader is a young man with a very strange appearance, with a slender figure, holding a folding fan in his hand, chasing a jade pendant around his waist, with a faint smile on his face, looking at everything in the Slender West Lake.

"On a moonlit night at the 24th bridge, where can jade people teach you how to play the flute? Yangzhou is such a good place, the Ming Dynasty is so prosperous, nothing compares to Yangzhou!" The bewitching young master closed the folding fan, and then said with a smile: "Everyone, we have arrived in Yangzhou It's been a while, shouldn't it be time to get down to business tomorrow morning?"

Naturally, this strange young man was none other than Yang Lian, who was sent by Zhu Houzhao to Lianghuai, and the godson of Yang Peng, Dongchangchanggong.

Although the aptitude of eunuchs varies from high to low, it is natural to be able to be selected by Dongchang Changgong's side since childhood, and to bring along the eunuchs trained by him.Last time, Zhu Houzhao was entrusted to him to handle the affairs of the Ye family in Jianghuai, and the result was good. Yang Lian did a very good job. This time Zhu Houzhao asked him to come to Yangzhou again, so Yang Lian naturally planned to do well.

There are more than a dozen people behind Yang Lian, and these people are members of the noble alliance surrounding Zhang Heling.

In addition to the person who came from the capital with Yang Lian, there was another person who was on the boat halfway, and he was from the Duke Wei's mansion in Nanjing.

It is basically impossible to do things in the Jianghuai area, or what you want to do in Yangzhou, if you don't bring Wei Guogong's mansion with you.In addition, the people of Cheng Guogong's mansion are also the top priority, because the current defense of Nanjing is Cheng Guogong Zhu Fu, although the nobles have declined, and the guards are not working, but the military power is still in the hands of these veterans. Inside the noble.

This is also the reason why in the Ming Dynasty, even if the Donglin Party was killed by the eunuchs, no one rebelled, because the military power was always in the hands of these old-fashioned nobles, even if they were bad.It's just that later, when peasant uprisings increased and the smoke of war broke out everywhere, these people became unusable.

After hearing Yang Lian's words, everyone laughed and said, "It's up to Mr. Yang to decide, and he can do whatever he says."

Although there were many people involved in this matter, there was only one person who took the lead, and that was Shouning Hou Zhang Heling.

The participation of these nobles is to give Zhang Heling face. He is very popular now, and secondly, he is really rushing to make a fortune. What if it happens?Even if it failed, it would be Shouning Hou Zhang Heling at the front. Can His Majesty kill Shouning Hou or give up his title?
It is impossible for the first offender to be severely punished. Naturally, people like myself will not have any major problems. Since this is the case, what are we waiting for such a good thing?

Under such circumstances, these people naturally followed. As for who this Mr. Yang is, no one knows. As for whether they pretend not to know or really don't know, this is unknown, anyway, they don't know.It's just that after Mr. Yang appeared, everyone's enthusiasm increased a lot.

"In this case, let's make a decision on this matter. Tomorrow, Guan Zhang and I will go there first to explore the way." Yang Lian said with a smile, her tone was calm and her smile was like a flower.

The group of people quickly turned back to an inn, which was naturally booked up long ago, and there was no one else except them.

There was nothing to say all night, Yang Lian got up early the next morning, and went out with the steward of Shouning Hou Mansion. This steward Zhang was named Zhang He, and he was Zhang Heling's trusted confidants.Three generations have been working in the Zhang family, and they have been managing business for the Shouninghou Mansion these years. If the matter is not important, Shouninghou would never send him out.

This is a thin man in his 40s, wearing a blue gown, wearing a square scarf, and a mustache. He looks more like a teacher from a certain family.

Yang Lian brought Zhang He to a yamen. This yamen was no other place, but the yamen of the Yangzhou garrison eunuch.

Guarding the eunuch's yamen, which is a peripheral institution of the ceremonial supervisor, is controlled by the ceremonial supervisor, or the emperor.Local civil servants can participate, but they must not be arrested and punished. It can be said that this is a special group. In such an important place as Yangzhou, there are naturally guarding eunuchs.

Yang Lian entered the garrison eunuch's yamen, naturally it didn't take much effort, a token was enough to notify.

Not long after, a chubby eunuch ran out of the house. He was taken aback when he saw Yang Lian and Zhang He. Are these two young people here?But he is an eunuch, so his vision is naturally sharp. He saw Yang Lian as an eunuch at a glance. The fat eunuch was shocked, and looked at Yang Lian in disbelief and said, "It's you!"

Yang Lian nodded with a smile, and said, "It's said inside!"

(End of this chapter)