In May of the third year of Tianbao, the Hangui King in eastern Yunnan was defeated by the Tang Dynasty. The Nanzhao coalition forces were defeated and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. In order to prevent Nanzhao from taking the opportunity to advance eastward, the court released the crime of Zhuhan's leader and ordered him to still lead Eastern Dian. The Tang army withdrew back to Yaozhou. However, Nanzhao did not withdraw his troops under the pretext of protecting the people of Southeast Dian. In this way, Nanzhao's power legally developed to Eastern Dian through this war.

In the same month, the court agreed to the report of Zhang Qiu, the governor of Jiannan, to set up the Zhongdu Governor's Office in Nanxi County, including Qilulang, Kun, Qu, Wei, etc., and appointed Li Mi as the governor and was governed by the governor of Jiannan.

It was also in May that the Nanxi County Wharf was officially designated for military use, and all commercial passenger ships turned their attention to Yibin County, the neighboring Yibin County, where a new wharf had just been completed.

It was mid-June, and the weather was already hot. Boats and oars were coming and going on the Minjiang River. The plump white sails shone in the sun, making people dazzlingly bright. The dense cargo ships lined up in long queues in the north, like a string of seagulls. Going north, the boatmen pulled long cables, low and rhythmic horns, and the sounds were shocking.

On the river surface, a small boat with white wings slightly shaking came from the north, as if it was a cluster of silver dandelions floating on the water surface. Around the boat were four brides, all of which were in blue clothes and black pants, with thick backs on their waists, and the tiger's mouths on their palms were all called up. They must have been rich men among the swords. Among the four men, a majestic man was half lying. His dark face turned red due to the sun, his eyebrows were slightly raised, and his slightly narrowed eyes seemed to be looking at the ships passing by on the river surface, but from his changing eyes, we can see that he was actually immersed in thinking.

At this time, a large cargo ship passed by the side of the boat, and a wave of white foam surged across the side of the boat, flowing into the boat along the inner wall of the boat. The boat then swayed violently from left to right. The person standing on the front almost fell into the water. The half-resisting man stood up, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes, and he gave a wink at his subordinates.

The body swayed, and the two of them had already jumped high. With a turn, they landed lightly on the ship, which made the owner of the ship who was laughing at the disaster on the ship, and their legs were trembling. They wanted to escape to the front cabin, but their legs could not move at all.

One of them slowly walked to him, took out a blood-colored iron plate, shook it in front of the owner's eyes, and said coldly: "You can go to the Chengdu Jiangshoujin Wharf within two days to receive punishment. If you are a moment later, the ship will disappear on the Minjiang River."

The voice is low and not loud, but there is no disobedience.

After saying that, the two of them jumped up again, and their feet were on the boat. They were like a titty swallow returning to the forest. They actually passed by the two-meter-wide river surface and floated back to the boat. Only the owner of the boat stood stupidly. He suddenly reacted, slapped his forehead hard, knelt down, kowtowed to the boat repeatedly to apologize, and then rolled and crawled to the bow of the boat, and urgently ordered the boat to turn around and go to Chengdu.

The man's eyes were drooping, as if he had seen nothing. He turned around and ordered the other two men: "You two go and help the boatman row!" The two nodded and immediately went to the stern of the boat to help.

Needless to say, this person is the new leader of the Min Gang, Wang Bingge, a native of Nanzhao. In the conflict with Emei Hall two months ago, the Min Gang won a complete victory. All three deputy leaders of the Emei Hall died suddenly at home, and countless gangs were killed and injured. Finally, the Hai family asked Li Daofu for help. Under the interference of the government, the two gangs sat down to negotiate. The battle ended with the entire Emei Hall gang wearing mourning clothes for the former leader of the Min Gang.

This time, the Wang Bing went south to expand the power of the Minjiang River and inspected the major wharfs along the Minjiang River. Yibin County was the last stop of his inspection and the most interesting stop. This is an emerging port. No gang forces have intervened. If the Minjiang River can gain a foothold here, it means that the head and tail of the Minjiang River are controlled by it. However, Wang Bing each has a deeper purpose. He wanted to use Yibin County as a springboard and the Minjiang Gang as a medium to bring the prosperity and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty to Nanzhao.

This small boat was rented by Wang Bingge in Jiazhou. The boss was from Yibin County. He was a thin black man about fifty years old. Wang Bingge only told him that he was an escort and went to Yibin County to take on a business. The boss of the boat saw their food, clothing and expenses, so he believed it. Besides, no big shot would be a big shot in a small boat like him.

Just now, his vision was blocked by the stern of the boat. Although he did not see the blood-red signs that were revealed, he had seen many ways of humanity and worldly affairs. From the fear of the ship owner, he could guess that Wang Bingge's identity was extraordinary.

At this moment, he had someone to help and got out of the cabin to drink a sip of water, but as soon as he left the cabin, he was called over by Wang Bing.

"Brother, come here to sit down!"

The boss of the ship was startled and had to go over tremblingly, standing in front of Wang Bingge, nodding and bowing.

"Come on! Sit down and talk." Wang Bing each chose a joint place and let him sit down.

The boss of the boat sided, sat half his butt, and smiled flatteringly again, "I wonder what the guest is doing to me?"

Wang Bingge's face was gentle, and he tried to make his tone gentle, "This is my first time in Yibin County. I have only heard people talk about how Nanxi County is like, but I have never heard of Yibin County. But it suddenly became popular in the past few months. I was busy with his affairs and didn't know the reason. Yesterday, I heard from my brother that you are from Yibin County. I want to ask my brother to tell me what happened recently?"

Wang Bingge's smile made the boss slowly calm down and raised his home. His heart began to become active. He also smiled and said, "If the guest doesn't bother me, I'll talk."

He pondered for a moment, his eyes showed joy, and there was a hint of emotion in his joy.

"Passes say that I have good luck in Yibin County and the military management of Zhannanxi County is not entirely true. The fundamental reason is that we have a good county magistrate in Yibin County."

A trace of disdain suddenly flashed across Wang Bingge's face, and he couldn't help but sniff: "Isn't your county magistrate the wine pot? Can he also call it "good"?"

The boss of the boat glanced at him and said angrily: "Is that wine bag worthy of me? He has already gotten out of here. I am talking about our current acting county magistrate, the former chief clerk, Lord Li. If he hadn't built a new dock in time, our Yibin County would not have been prosperous now."

Wang Bingge was stunned and then laughed, "You little people naturally don't understand. Officials like to do this kind of tune the most. How can you know? This time, he can make money from the middle when he moves the soil. If he runs the school and opens up land, I still believe that if he builds a dock, he will say that he is a good official, and such a good official may not be too easy to be."

The boss of the boat face became more and more gloomy, and the muscles on the corners of his mouth were constantly twitching. Suddenly he paused the water hyacinth and stood up suddenly, "If you have nothing to do, just rest by yourself! I'll go rock the boat."

He turned around and left, but was pulled by Wang Bing each and apologized slightly: "You should take a step back, I'll finish listening to you."

Seeing that he was humble, the boss of the boat was slightly angry and sat down and said, "Although we are ordinary people, everyone has a scale in their hearts, which is bright!"

He paused, suddenly remembered the other party's identity, and his heart suddenly sank, but the anger in his heart had not disappeared, his face turned half blue and half red, and the corners of his mouth squirmed for a while. Fang sighed and said, "I was a little disobedient just now, don't blame him!"

"I don't blame you, you continue."

The boat boss remembered the changes in Yibin County over the past few months and said with emotion: "Our Yibin County was originally a stepping stone for Nanxi County. Later, there was a tiger and wolf county magistrate and a Jiunan County Magistrate. Everyone felt that there was no hope. If you could leave, I went away. Even I went to Jiazhou. However, since the spring Li Zhuan took office, the change began. First, the county magistrate was cut off and the county magistrate got out. Later, the dock was built and all ships were changed to our Yibin County. Then it gradually became prosperous. But this can only be said that County Magistrate Li was a competent official and could not be called a good official."

The ship boss slowly flashed with dazzling expressions in his eyes, looking up at the sky without hiding the respect on his face.

"He used his own money to build bridges for the people. He set up official schools, cultivated tea gardens, and built wineries to benefit the people. He built wharfs, sold land, and built houses, and did not have enough money to fill his own pockets."

He suddenly looked at Wang Bingge with bright eyes, "Aren't such an official still a good official?"

"But how do you know that he has not enriched his personal pockets? Will such a thing be written on his face?" Wang Bingge shook his head, but still didn't believe it.

"Justice is in the hearts of the people. The guest is not Yibin, and maybe he doesn't believe it, but every ordinary person in Yibin County knows that he doesn't!"

The boss of the ship put on the straw hat, stood up and strode towards the stern.

Wang Bing looked at his straight waist, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing an undetectable smile, "This is a very interesting county magistrate!"

It was almost dusk, and the pier in Yibin County was busy. Golden cargo ships were waiting outside the new pier. The pier was about 500 steps long, paved with large pieces of bluestone. The surface was not polished and smooth, and it looked a little rough. The bluestone was tightly buckled and finely made. It was sticking with a thin layer of mortar. After passing the two-meter-wide platform, there were dozens of bluestone steps. At the top of the stairs, there were two huge warehouses about five meters wide. There was a passage about five meters wide between the warehouses. Hundreds of porters were passing through the passage like an ant colony and picked up boxes of good Shujin along the stone steps.

There were more than 30 ships of large and small, and three large and large cargo ships of Thousand Stone stood among the many small boats like giants, occupying nearly 20% of the seats in the dock. This was a sea ship from Yangzhou. He came to Jiannan to buy Shujin and planned to sell them directly to Japan, but it no longer had to go to Chengdu. Yibin's Li Ji business has a large amount of spot stock, and the price was the same as that of Chengdu East City. The fat owner of the ship gently waved his palm fan and stood by the boat with a smile, and took out a handkerchief from time to time to wipe the sweat beads on his forehead.

"Don't Master Peng stay in our Yibin County for one night?"

The owner of the ship turned around quickly. At some point, the county magistrate Li stood behind him. He quickly bowed and smiled, "No, the storm on the sea will be heavy in a few days. If you hold on, you can still get back and forth."

The person who came was Li Qing. In the past few months, everything went smoothly and he had a bit of official appearance. This Li Ji Trading Company was his private property, mainly engaged in Shujin and Tang business. Just now, Peng Dongzhu's words made Li Qing suddenly interested, "Does Peng Dongzhu's cargo go to sea? Where are you going? Goryeo or Japan?"

Peng Dongzhu is from Suzhou. He has been doing business in Yangzhou for many years and mainly engaged in silk and satin business. Jinling, Luotu and silk can make high profits. Recently, Shujin is popular in Japan. In order to make a fortune before the season, he rushed to Chengdu day and night. He planned to make some supplies in Yibin, but unexpectedly bought the best Shujin here. It was the same market price in Chengdu, which saved him five days. He immediately bought all the inventory and was about to return to Yangzhou overnight. When he heard Li Qing's question, he smiled and said with a smile: "Go to Japan, Shujin is in full swing. I want to make a peak season."

It was indeed Japan, the Fusang country, which was as deep as the sea of ​​hatred of China in later generations, was like what was going on now? Li Qing suddenly became very interested in it.
Chapter completed!