The Golden County Magistrate

First, the risk of exposure is too great. If the court notices and discovers the "abnormality" of Qingshan County, it will be a big loss.

Second, his human resources are limited now. Each salt field needs at least one experienced technical expert to be in charge. If there are too many salt fields, such high-tech talents need time to cultivate. How can there be so many now?

Third, the Salt and Iron Bureau cannot hand over all the salt mining rights. It is related to the lifeline of the country, and the main part must be in hand.

So after weighing the pros and cons, he only asked Zhou's Chamber of Commerce to obtain the mining rights of abandoned salt sources.

Now the negotiation is finally completed and the work has begun.

Now, the first salt shop will soon open in the capital.

In order to avoid Chen Yan's suspicion, Tang Yun also secretly ordered the Salt and Iron Bureau to give Zhou's Chamber of Commerce a salt permit and announce it through the official newspaper.

For Chen Yan, this is another profitable business, so he is naturally happy.

Moreover, the salt business is just the beginning.

He had a bigger goal for this deal, but he had to take it step by step.

After having fun with Lu Qing'er for a while, Chen Yan was about to go to the vegetable garden to take care of his beloved baby when Zhang Dabiao arrived and said, "Sir, good news! Great news!"

Chen Yan was used to this guy's surprise and said unhappily, "What good news can you have? Last time you caught a fish in the river, you also shouted to me that it was great news, but it turned out that it was not enough to fill the gap between your teeth!"

Zhang Dabiao smiled and said, "This time it's really good news. Our brothers in Fuzhou sent back news that they found the lair of Gongsun Cheng!"

Chen Yan was refreshed: "Really? What's the news? Show me!"

Not long after, Chen Yan finished reading the secret letter sent back, and his face suddenly became solemn.

Zhang Dabiao was surprised and said, "Sir, is there something wrong with this news?"

Chen Yan shook his head and said, "The news is fine, it should be true."

Zhang Dabiao scratched his head and said, "Why don't you look happy? We found the old nest of Gongsun City. This news can be sold for a lot of money! Not to mention 100,000 or 80,000 taels, if it is sold to Zhou's Chamber of Commerce, it must be sold for at least 30,000 or 50,000 taels, right?"

Chen Yan glared at him and said, "What do you think Zhou's Chamber of Commerce does? Even if they know the news, they can't move in such a place!"

The old nest of Gongsun City mentioned in the news is Yiyang City, a big city in Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou is in the eastern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The area is not too large, but it is one of the prefectures with the strongest economic strength in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Like Longzhou, Wuyin City is the most prosperous city, and other cities within the prefecture cannot compare with it.

But in addition to the prefecture capital, Jiangzhou also has several big cities that can be compared with the prefecture capital, and Yiyang is one of them.

Chen Yan's spies in Jiangzhou found out Gongsun Cheng's hometown, which was in Yiyang City.

Even the place where he was born and grew up was found out clearly.

This man lost both his parents when he was young, and suddenly disappeared after he was ten years old.

When he appeared again, he was already twenty years old.

From time to time, he would hang out in places like wine shops and restaurants, but he often appeared under a pseudonym.

If there were no portraits, the pseudonym alone would make it impossible to find out his past movements.

In short, this guy is a gangster with no legitimate livelihood. Even his name is not included in the government's household registration statistics.

In other words, he is a "three-no" person.

But after summarizing and comparing all his whereabouts, the spies found that he would often go in and out of a local brothel called Xihualou.

It was not strange for a man to go in and out of this place, but the spies found out one thing: Gongsun Cheng never looked for girls to do that when he went there.

Every time he went there, he went to find Yu Linglong, the owner of Xihualou and a famous prostitute who once stuns Yiyang City.

And what's even more strange is that he stayed there for one or two hours, one or two days, and sometimes he came out right after entering.

When the spy investigated further, he was shocked to find that the real boss behind Xihualou was actually a big shot.

The uncle of the current emperor, Prince Yi Tang Mo!

Unlike Prince Ning Tang Qian, who has been idle for many years, this Prince Yi has a position in the court, and is the chief of local security in the capital, Jingzhao Yin.

It is not uncommon for princes and nobles to hold this position, but they basically stay for three to five months and then resign, as a training.

But he has been doing this for twelve years!

From the previous emperor to Tang Yun's accession to the throne, he has never left that position.

And Yiyang City, Jiangzhou, is Tang Mo's fiefdom. It is normal for him to be the boss behind Xihualou.

If we follow this logic, Gongsun Cheng is likely to have a close relationship with Tang Mo!

Therefore, Zhang Dabiao was overjoyed when he saw the news.

It would be strange if such explosive information was not valuable!

But he didn't expect that Chen YanUnexpectedly, he was not happy about it.

"Sir, Zhou's Chamber of Commerce does not need to move Yiyang City! As long as the news is passed to the court, the court will handle it, right?" Zhang Dabiao expressed his thoughts in confusion.

"Biaozi, Biaozi, things are not as simple as you think?" Chen Yan shook his head.

"I really don't understand, what is the difficulty of this matter?" Zhang Dabiao's brain is not so active, and he is confused.

"Do you remember, last time I said what Gongsun City will do next?" Chen Yan asked.

"Remember, sir, he said he would mess up Yongzhou, and then when the court army went to quell the rebellion, he would mess up Xuzhou." Zhang Dabiao still remembered what he said last time, "and these are all tricks to cover up possible killings in other places."

At present, it seems that Chen Yan may have guessed it completely.

Tang Mo's territory Yiyang is in the southern border, and Jiangzhou and Sili are adjacent. There is a direct road from Yiyang to the capital. If the army marches quickly, it can arrive within one day.

In Yiyang, Tang Mo has 30,000 royal soldiers. Although the individual combat power is not as good as the black armored cavalry of Duke Xuan and the Wei family army of Wei Han, it is also an elite division with a large number of people.

Now that the chaos in the Great Zhou has just subsided, this force will attack the capital, and the garrison of the capital will find it difficult to withstand this level of impact.

So it is necessary to stop this matter in advance and prevent the war from happening.

If the Zhou Chamber of Commerce spreads the news to the court, the court will take action on this point, such as arresting King Yi first, then it can prevent the disaster before it happens.

At least, Zhang Dabiao thinks so.

Chen Yan snorted.

"If it's that simple, why would I worry?"

"At that time, I speculated that there must be a military force behind the scenes, and they would attack the capital when the northern border is in chaos."

"But now it seems that I was wrong."

"If the person behind the scenes is really the Prince Yi, then the forces attacking the capital will not only be foreign forces."

"Because Prince Yi also has the Jingzhao Guards responsible for the security of the capital!"