Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 374
As soon as Qiong Re Duojin seized the city of Baiyanchi, Zhang Zhao arranged for Yin Yaozi to lead [-] soldiers and horses to guard it, while he ran non-stop to Baiyanchi, more than [-] miles north of Yanzhou City.

"Your Majesty, there is a lot of salt! The salt in Minqin County, Liangzhou is nothing compared to this.

If we had this salt pond, we would no longer be short of salt in Longyou, Hexi, and the Jiedu Yamen would be able to collect a large amount of salt tax every year. "

Shen Nianpan, who didn't follow the expedition last time, followed this expedition. Looking at the boundless salt pond and the white salt in front of him, he suddenly lost his composure.

It is unknown how much salt this Baiyanchi produces, but the tens of thousands of catties of salt seized now is more than that of Baiyanchi in Minqin County in a year.

Of course, there is no shortage of salt in Longyou, Hexi. After Shanzhou is the West Sea (Qinghai Lake), there is as much salt as you want.

However, the tribes near the West Sea have not yet attached themselves, and there are no salt ponds and other facilities required for drying salt. Without large-scale investment, it is impossible to produce immediately.

Coupled with the rugged road and the short drying time caused by the cold weather, it still cannot be compared with Baiyanchi.

Zhang Zhao was also very happy, but what he was happy about was not only the salt from Baiyanchi, but also the extra income in Longyou, Hexi.

It's that he is now sure that he doesn't need to attack Xiazhou, it's Tongwan City, it's scary to think about it.

There is so much salt in the White Salt Pond that it may not be equivalent to more than [-]% of the annual income of the Ding Nan Army. Zhang Zhao will occupy the Bai Yan Pond and will not leave. I am afraid that Li Yiyin will not bring the Ding Nan Army to fight with him.

"Release all the Qingqi, expel all the nearby Dangxiang tribes, and not allow them to go east, and drive them all north to Lingzhou and Youzhou.

Hucile led Uighur Yi to go northward from Zuoying for [-] miles to prevent the party members from going south from Yuzhou, and the rest of the armies were repaired on the spot. "

While Zhang Zhao was dispatching troops, party members began to gather in Xiazhou City.

Raleigh, Yeli, Wuyi, Yueyi, Xueshan, Bawei, Nanshan and other tribal surnames all began to send troops, and the secret envoys who flew back to summon the Xifeng clan who attacked Gyeongju had also set off.

Li Yiyin slaughtered cattle and sheep in Xiazhou City, distributed coins to reward the tribes, and promised to return to the rebels' armor and tall horses.

Then he falsely claimed that the Central Plains imperial court ordered the Nan army to send troops to attack the Guiyi army, and the imperial court's [-] troops soon marched north from Binning to join them in attacking Zhang Zhao.

Therefore, in a short period of time, Li Yiyin assembled more than 30,000 cavalry, and with the addition of thousands of Pingxia's own troops, almost [-] people had already assembled.

However, Li Yiyin was not as anxious as Zhang Zhao thought. He knew that it was useless to be anxious.

Because the Dingnan Army Jiedushi sounds like a whole, but in fact, this is just an illusion. The Dingnan Army is still a party tribal alliance headed by the Li family of the Pingxia Department.

Although it has stronger cohesive force than the original Six Ministries and Momo, and the Pingxia Division has much greater prestige among the party ministries, it still cannot compare with the Guiyi Army.

Li Yiyin did not have the ability to gather all the soldiers and horses and send them to fight immediately.

He had to eat, drink and entertain first, and waited for the official to make a wish and so on to figure out, and these recruited soldiers and horses would also have combat effectiveness.

King Zhang judged the Dingnan army at this time by the mobilization level of that Xixia in the later generations, but he couldn't prevent that the Dingnan army at this time was much more hip than he thought.

More than [-] rebels occupied Baiyanchi, and when the flowers withered, the Dingnan army was still gathering in Tongwan City, Xiazhou.

Of course, in order to find out the movements of the Dingnan Army, and the Dingnan Army also wanted to find out the real purpose of the Guiyi Army, the Youyi Army cavalry on both sides confronted fiercely in the slightly rugged valley plain from Yanzhou to Xiazhou. stand up.

At the same time, both Zhang Zhao and Li Yiyin did not forget to report each other's crimes to the court.

Zhang Zhao pulled Zhang Xichong to write a letter to Shi Jingtang, saying that Li Yiyin invaded the imperial court, Pingxia's Dangxiang cavalry plundered the people of Yanzhou, and robbed the raw salt of Huamachi, Baiyanchi and Qingyanchi. He was invited by Zhang Xichong to send troops to expel Dangxiang's cavalry.

Li Yiyin also quickly dispatched three groups of urgent envoys to sue Zhang Zhao for crossing the border to kill Yanzhou defense envoys, harass the herdsmen of the party, and attempt to devour Lingzhou and Yanzhou.

He also received a secret letter from Lingwu Jiedu envoy Zhang Xichong, willing to raise troops to expel the Guiyi army and restore the peace of the people of Yanzhou.

However, when the secret envoys from both parties arrived at Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, they were immediately dumbfounded. It turned out that Shi Jingtang had personally led the army northward to Yedu to confront An Chongrong.

The left-behind King Zheng, Shi Chonggui, was rebelled by An Congjin, the governor of Shannan Dongdao. He was so worried that he didn't think about eating and drinking. He was holding the blank official document left by Shi Jingtang and throwing his official hat wantonly.

In particular, An Shenhui, the Jiedu envoy of the Weisheng Army of Dengzhou, who blocked An Cong's entry to the north, has been sealed as the official post of the inspector.

No one cared about the Guiyi Army and the Dingnan Army at all!

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Yecheng, Shi Jingtang is also in dire straits now, because the outside of Yecheng is occupied by countless hungry people, they are crying outside the city day and night, begging the emperor Shi Jingtang to let them enter Yecheng to survive.

Zhenzhou, which was originally guarded by An Chongrong, is also the Zhengding area of ​​later generations, and a large-scale locust plague occurred this year.

So even though it is the autumn harvest season, many farmers in Zhenzhou have no harvest and can only become disaster victims.

In order to disgust Shi Jingtang, An Chongrong used soldiers to disperse the victims to the south and asked them to find Shi Jingtang to eat.

An Chongrong's plan was that if Shi Jingtang didn't care about the hungry people, then Shi Jingtang would be said to be inhumane, even his own people.

If Shi Jingtang took care of it, he would bring more than [-] forbidden troops to the north. Originally, there was not enough food for the army. If he took care of the hungry people, Yedu might not be able to stay.

At least retreat to Xiangzhou, even Weizhou and Huazhou, where there is no locust plague and sufficient food, then he, An Chongrong, will have a chance to chase after him.

Poor Zhenzhou (Zhengding) to Yedu (south of Handan) is a full three hundred miles away, and more than [-] hungry people have nothing to eat, eating grass roots and bark all the way south.

By the time they arrived in Yedu, thousands of people had starved to death. To make matters worse, Shi Jingtang never opened the door.

With Shi Jingtang's intelligence, how could he fail to see through An Chongrong's tricks?
The son emperor is shameless, and he is not a lord who loves the people, but he is the son of heaven, and Shi Jingtang is not good at driving away the hungry people directly. After thinking hard for a few days, he finally came up with a 'good' idea.

These hungry people came from Zhenzhou, and they basically gathered near the north gate of Yedu, and An Chongrong's army was behind the hungry people.

After Shi Jingtang found out that An Chongrong's army had only more than [-] people, he immediately ordered Du Chongwei to go north to fight An Chongrong.

However, the north gate of Yedu was blocked by hungry people, the fastest way to get out of the city was to go through the north gate, other gates had to go around for several miles, Shi Jingtang took the opportunity to pretend to be angry, and kept urging Du Chongwei to go north.

This Du Chongwei was originally regarded as nothing in the Five Dynasties. The common people called him "Plague Lord" and regarded him as a plague.

This kind of person gets angry when Shi Jingtang urges him, so he doesn't care if he is hungry or not.

He led more than [-] imperial guards, guards and other imperial guards to open the north gate, and slaughtered the hungry people outside the city who could hardly walk.

The men were hacked to death on the spot and thrown into the moat, and all the women who had any color were taken away, and the old, weak and young were simply trampled on.

All of a sudden, there were screams outside the city of Yedu, screams of injustice, and Du Chongwei killed thousands of hungry people before killing An Chongrong.

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More than sixty miles away, An Chongrong got the news from the scouts that Du Chongwei had killed thousands of hungry people, and was immediately shocked by Du Chongwei's brutality.

However, he didn't think too much about it. He felt that since Du Chongwei had already gone north, his strategy of driving the hungry people as the vanguard was no longer effective, so he should hurry to the south for a decisive battle.

But what An Chongrong didn't expect, or simply ignored, was that most of his Chengde soldiers were from Zhenzhou!

Although the close relatives of soldiers would not be regarded as hungry people driving south, many of them were distant relatives from neighbors.

Hearing that thousands of hungry people were killed by Du Chongwei outside the north gate of Yedu, they did not seek revenge from Du Chongwei as An Chongrong thought, but hated An Chongrong even more for forcing the hungry people to go south.

At night, Du Ying, secretary of An Chongrong Jiedu shogunate, was scrubbing his eyes with clean water over and over again.

Because he was afraid that others would see that he had cried, among the hungry people driven south by An Chongrong was his grandfather's family.

As a poor literati, he certainly doesn't have the ability to protect his entire family after the locust plague in the whole town and state.

The secretary is not in charge of the secretary, the secretary in charge is the confidant of Jieshuai, and the secretary is just an official who handles some documents.

This An Chongrong, who was born in Daibei Wuxun, of course took a fancy to the brave generals, but he didn't respect the local literati in Zhenzhou so much.

In fact, let alone a small official like him, when An Chongrong raised his troops, Jia Zhang, the commander of the Jiedu Youjun Mabu, thought it was unwise to fight against the whole world with one town, and advised An Chongrong to stop.

As a result, An Chongrong thought that he disturbed the morale of the army, and immediately ordered the Yabing soldiers to beat Jia Zhang to death in front of everyone.

Even the commander of the first army said he would kill him. How could an official like Du Ying dare to ask An Chongrong because of his family's affairs.

But Du Ying didn't dare to go to An Chongrong, but he dared to go to another person, Zhao Yanzhi, the military envoy of Chengde Army Jiedu Yamen.

The soldier and horse envoy of the Jiedu Yamen was the second person in the Chengde army after An Chongrong, and Zhao Yanzhi was a native of the Chengde army, that is, from Zhenzhou.

An Chongrong was just a commander from other places who came to take up the post with a soldier, and often had to rely on the locals to sit on the ground. Therefore, Zhao Yanzhi controlled 8000 people out of the [-] German army, and he was regarded as a powerful local faction.

After Du Ying washed his eyes, he didn't go directly to Zhao Yanzhi, but went to the barracks.

This Du Ying has read a few books and knows the power of the prophecy, so he ran all over the barracks, spreading the words that Hedong is the son of heaven.

Du Ying said to the generals, "In the world, there is a certain number of luck, and there is a heavenly spirit in Hedong, so the kings of the two dynasties all started from Hedong."

Zhenzhou is remote, how can it be compared with Hedong?I have never had a kingly spirit. Today, starting from the east of the river, with great luck, we will be defeated! '

The generals in Zhenzhou were still willing to take a chance with An Chongrong. After all, this is the fifth generation. The soldiers are just looking forward to making troubles. How can there be any benefit if they don't make troubles?

If this succeeds, An Jieshuai enters Tokyo and becomes the emperor, and everyone becomes dignified like the people from Hedong.

However, An Chongrong drove the hungry people of Zhenzhou to the south and allowed them to be killed by Du Chongwei, which really hurt the hearts of the soldiers of Zhenzhou.

Coupled with Du Ying's provocation, the people below all thought that the riot was futile, and the morale of the army began to turmoil.

　In the last chapter, a book friend said that there was a problem with my iron production in the Tang Dynasty. I have read several opinions, but I personally think that the annual output of nearly [-] tons of iron in the era of the Tang Dynasty is a bit exaggerated.Of course, it is also possible that the tiger underestimated the ancients. Well, anyway, this kind of data seems to make sense, so everyone can understand it according to their own.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)