Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 529 Frontier Changes
"Clang! clang! clang! clang! clang!"

In the hustle and bustle of the market, the sound of the gong suddenly sounded rhythmically. The merchants who were doing business and the people who were buying daily necessities followed the sound, but saw that it was the pavilion chief of the market pavilion who walked out of the pavilion built on the rammed earth platform. He personally rang the gong to make a sound, while the pavilion soldiers under him posted the announcement on the bulletin board and yelled loudly, "Come here, come here, the official temple has a new decree, and the official temple has a new decree to announce!"

Out of curiosity, many merchants and common people gathered under the earth platform of the pavilion, and stretched their necks to see the new announcement just posted by the pavilion guard. Zhang Shui, who is recognized as the biggest business in Jiashi, was also among them. The pavilion chief Then he opened his throat and yelled loudly on the earthen platform, "Listen up, Yuyang County Official Temple has issued a new decree from the imperial court. From now on, all people who smuggle prohibited goods to the barbarians of the Huns will be severely punished, no matter whether they are registered or not. In the future, anyone who dares to sell grain, cloth, salt, and ironware to the Xiongnu will be severely punished as long as he is caught! The lightest punishment is a prison sentence, and he will do hard labor for a lifetime! , beheaded directly, and the whole family will be demoted to slavery!"

"Especially ironware! Whoever sells one catty of iron to the Xiongnu will be punished as a prisoner! Anyone who sells more than three catties of iron to the Huns will be beheaded immediately! Those who sell more than ten catties of iron will be beheaded, and the whole family will be demoted to slavery! Anyone who has become a farm tool or weapon is counted! Those who are not afraid of death, and those who want to wear prison clothes for the rest of their lives, you can give it a try!"

"Also, there is a big reward for reporting! Anyone who finds that other people are smuggling prohibited goods to the Xiongnu can immediately report (report) to the official temple. Once verified, the seized goods will be divided into three parts, and one part will be handed over to the court of Yan Kingdom , one part goes to the officer army seized, and one part goes to the person who made the first accusation! If the first accusation is true, but the confiscated goods are not much, and the first accuser cannot get a reward of one hundred yuan, the local official temple will make up one hundred yuan. , reward the first person to file a complaint!"

"If you want to get rich, keep your eyes wide open for Nai Weng. Once you find someone smuggling and smuggling, you should immediately go to Nai Weng to sue. Nai Weng will get a share of the benefits. Of course, you will never forget your kindness! Find our border garrison, or Go directly to the official temple to sue Dudu!"

The head of the pavilion yelled hoarsely on the earthen platform to publicize the new policy of combating smuggling in Yan Guoguan Temple. Of course, the people and businessmen in the audience were also talking about it, and a small businessman asked Zhang Shui very curiously: "Brother Zhang, your Well-informed, do you think the official temple is here for real this time? Or do you pretend to show it to the higher-ups like before, and forget this bullshit post in a few days?"

"It doesn't matter whether he is pretending or he is serious, anyway, I never do this kind of business." Zhang Shui replied lightly, then glanced at the merchant who asked the question, and said with a smile: "Brother Li, you have to be careful , you specialize in the farm tools business, if anyone finds you pleasing to the eye, find a way to sue you in the official temple, and you will be in trouble."

"I have a clear conscience, and I'm not afraid of these things." The merchant replied confidently, and said with a pun: "As for the farm tool business, who in our Gonggong Pavilion would dare to compare with you, Brother Zhang? As long as Brother Zhang dares to continue to do it Of course we dare to continue to do the farm tools business.”

Zhang Shui smiled without saying a word, the smile was still very disdainful, and he subconsciously thought of the letter that his own uncle, who worked as an errand at the official temple in Yuyang County, sent him the letter the day before. He also hinted that it was time to pay him tribute, so Zhang Shui couldn't help but snorted quietly, and said to himself in a low voice: "It seems that it's still the same as before, just pretending."

It was also a coincidence that on the same day, Zhang Shui's minister on the grassland sent a message to order a large amount of pig iron and salt from Zhang Shui, and said that the goods should be delivered as soon as possible. It just so happened that these things were hoarded too much, and they were easy to be targeted by others, so Zhang Shui just thought about it for a while, and soon sent his cronies and servants to go up and down to manage, got a piece of imperial edict (trade license) for selling pottery, and quickly organized The caravan, after a few days, personally delivered the goods to the north to the grassland to earn more than five times the huge profits.

Gonggong Pavilion must go through three checkpoints to go north to the grassland. From south to north, they are Crouching Tiger Mountain, Heishanzui and Songshuliang. An old acquaintance, even the two beautiful maidservants he secretly hid next to the checkpoint were sent by Zhang Shui, and Zhang Shui's goods have always been unimpeded here.This time was no exception. Even though the trucks transporting the so-called pottery were clumsy and heavy, anyone could tell that the goods on them were definitely not pottery.

But the wind was really tight. When the goods passed through the customs, taking the opportunity of chatting, the head of the Crouching Tiger Mountain Pass suddenly whispered to Zhang Shui: "Brother, be careful, there has been a replacement at Heishanzui, and the garrison has been replaced." With the expansion to 100 people, the threshold may not be as easy as before."

"Who is the newcomer?" Zhang Shui hurriedly asked in a low voice, "What are your hobbies?"

"I don't know what my hobbies are." The head of the village replied in a low voice: "I only know that the person who guards Heishanzui is a man from Hedong. Most of the subordinates are foreigners."

"Hedong produces salt, and most of them love money." Zhang Shui smiled and said, "Thank you for reminding me, brother, and please rest assured, whether he loves money or not, I promise to take care of him. The big deal is to earn less this time, and earn it back later.”

Knowing how capable Zhang Shui is, the head of the village nodded and smiled reassuringly. At the same time, he took the package delivered by Zhang Shui himself without blushing, and then sent Zhang Shui's caravan away. Go home to enjoy beautiful maids and wine.

After another day or so, Zhang Shui's caravan successfully arrived at the Heishanzui checkpoint. The Heishanzui garrison, whose garrison had doubled, immediately mobilized dozens of people to stop Zhang Shui's caravan. Going forward, he stuffed a heavy small package into the hands of the head of the village who came up to check, and said with a smile; "General, it's a little fun, let's have a glass of thin wine."

To Zhang Shui's surprise, although the head of the village he had never dealt with before took the package, please open it directly in front of everyone. After seeing that the package was all filled with golden copper and gold, the head of the village still fucked He said with a foreign accent: "Have a glass of beer wine? You want to get me drunk to death with so much gold?"

"General, this...." Zhang Shui smiled wryly, and said, "Why did you open it in front of so many people?"

"This is Baichang Bao's order." The head of the village replied very directly, and said: "Baichang Bao ordered that someone deliver something, you can accept it, but you must open it in front of the brothers, and the goods must be carefully packed." Check, take out your biography and edict, and I will check against it."

Zhang Shui hesitated and did not dare to directly take out the imperial edict for the pottery business, but the head of the village asked again, and threatened that if Zhang Shui did not take out the edict of Chuanyin, he would open the truck for inspection immediately. Zhang Shui had no choice but to be Bite the bullet and took out the biography of the imperial edict, but the head of the village just glanced at the imperial edict, and immediately yelled, "Pottery? Fuck you! Your goods are so heavy that the axles are almost broken, how dare you say It’s just pottery? Brothers, search carefully for me to see what’s in the car?!”

Some customs guards with non-local accents agreed, and immediately rushed up to search the vehicles. Zhang Shui saw that he was in a hurry, and hurriedly picked up another package and stuffed it to the head of the village, while saying repeatedly: "General, general, don't search, please Don't rush to search! Let me meet your Baichang Bao, I beg you, let me meet your Baichang Bao."

Begging, Zhang Shui quickly turned to a few local guards next to him, and quickly said, "Brothers, you don't know me yet? Zhang Shui from Gonggong Pavilion used to deal with you all the time. I beg you, hurry up!" Help me persuade this general to let me and Bao Baichang meet, just meet once."

The former guards of Heishanzui refused to say a word, but a strange general in bright armor came over from the checkpoint. He first asked what happened with a foreign accent, and then said to Zhang Shui: "I am the hundred-year-old general here. Chang Bubu, you said you want to see me, what's the matter?"

"General Bao, General Bao." Zhang Shui was overjoyed when he heard that, and hurriedly asked two of his followers to carry a box. He nodded and bowed to Bao Bu and said, "General Bao, villain Zhang Shui, this villain honors you!" Just a little thing, please hold your hand high and let the villain's goods go, and the villain will take care of it..."

"Don't say any more." Bao Bu coldly interrupted Zhang Shui, and ordered: "Take down this man, and all the people he brought with him. Watch carefully. Anyone who dares to defy him will be killed! His Move all the goods down, and give me a careful inspection of each truck!"

"General, you say a number! You say a number!" Zhang Shui lost his soul, his voice was filled with tears, and shouted: "You just need to say a number, and the villain will not lose you even a single coin! As much as you want, as much as you want!"

"Shut up!" Bao Bu roared, and said: "If Nai Weng was someone who could be bought by money, General Cao would not have named Nai Weng to guard this Heishanzui! General Cao had Nai Weng removed from the dead If you recite it, Nai Weng can do something that makes him feel sorry and embarrassing?! Take it down! Let Nai Weng search it carefully!"

In the end, the more than 20 carts brought by Zhang Shui were all opened by the guards in Heishanzui. Any imprinted salt also appeared in front of everyone present.Zhang Shui and his entourage looked ashen when they met, but the Heishanzui defenders led by Bao Bu burst into cheers, "We caught a big fish."

"Hahahaha, there is hope for Naiweng to be promoted to [-] this time." Bao Bu smiled the happiest, and couldn't wait to turn to Zhang Shui and shouted: "Say, where did you get so many contraband, sell them?" Who is the person who gave you these things? Also, how did you pass the Crouching Tiger Pass? Those people took your benefits?"

Zhang Shui didn't dare to answer with a mournful face, and he was not in a hurry to bury him. He just smiled grinningly and said, "I don't want to say? It doesn't matter. I have plenty of ways to get you to speak up. As explained above, those who smuggle more than ten catties of pig iron can use military law to interrogate their confessions. Blessed are you to experience how comfortable our batons are! Come on, drag this fellow down and serve him with a baton until he speaks! You don't have to be polite, and if you kill him, I'll take care of you, Ben Bai Chang not only buried, but also killed and carried!"

After being beaten to pieces with a thick army stick, Zhang Shui, the biggest smuggler in Yuyang Gonggong Pavilion, finally opened his mouth. He not only confessed his upper and lower families, but also confessed his accomplices in Crouching Tiger Shanguan. He also confessed to his own uncle who worked as a servant in Yuyang County. The Han army defenders at Heishanzui Pass, as if they had found a treasure, quickly sent someone to report to the Yuyang County Governor's Mansion immediately. Feng's border anti-corruption and anti-smuggling operation also started. Many border officials were imprisoned for trial, and many generals and soldiers of the Yan Army's border were also implicated. The newly appointed Yan Prime Minister Sun Tong also visited Yuyang County to personally preside over the anti-smuggling campaign. Action against corruption.

After a while, Zhang Shuihan, who was covered in bruises and bruises, was taken back to the Gonggong Pavilion to be tortured in public. Then, under the instigation and persuasion of the officials of the Han army, in order to die more quickly, Zhang Shuihan, who was sentenced to be tortured by car cracking, went to the Gonggong Pavilion again. He confessed several Gonggongting smugglers he knew, and traded the lives of his family members in exchange for the postponement of his execution, and also changed it to the most happiest direct beheading.And similar situations can be seen not only in various border markets in Yuyang County, but also in the entire Yandi.

This also caused a chain reaction. Seeing that Hanting really came to crack down on smuggling this time, and coveted the reward promised by Hanting, many people on the frontier went to the government to report and expose the smugglers they knew. After these people received the real gold and silver rewards from the Han court, such a situation quickly formed a trend. Not only did the people scramble to inform and expose, but some slaves from the smugglers’ homes also ran away one after another in order to get rid of slavery. He exposed his master in front of Han court officials and the army, and the rampant smuggling businessmen in Yandi were hit hard, and the behavior of traitors and smugglers for huge profits was greatly reduced.

The Han army spared no effort to crack down on the smuggling of Yandi, blocking the mouth of Yandi that was no different from a sieve and colander, and soon achieved results. Reflecting it on the grassland, it brought a huge blow to the Huns tribe on the grassland. Disasters, the food that could not be grown on the grassland was no longer available, and many tribes could only feed their hunger with cattle and sheep that had not yet grown up and fattened all day long. It became not much different from the beggar’s Baijiayi, and the number of tents was also greatly affected. A large family lived in one tent, and it was difficult to even turn over at night. a place to sleep.

The most deadly thing is salt and ironware. Once people eat less salt, they will lose their strength. Cattle, sheep and horses also need to eat salt to grow and grow fat. Under the severe salt shortage, the population of Huns, cattle and sheep, have been greatly affected. .As for ironware, it has become more expensive than gold, so that the Xiongnu tribe can only replace it with iron weapons, even the most basic production and life can only be replaced by copper, stone or bone tools. He complained endlessly, and because of this, he was full of resentment towards the Central Plains, and voices demanding that Maodun send troops to retaliate kept coming and going.

Of course, these situations were quickly reflected in the Shan Yuting of Guyan Mountain, and Maodun had to hold a meeting to discuss countermeasures. Then during the meeting, the Huns nobles also suggested that Maodun dispatch the main force of the Huns to go south to retaliate against the Han court for blocking the border. The shameless act of trade also used force to force the Han court to open the border ban and supply various necessities to the grassland.However, the talented and general Mao Dun was cautious. After thinking for a long time, he shook his head and said, "Don't be in a hurry. Gathering the main force to go south is a very important matter. We must carefully consider it."

"After Zang Tu, king of Yan in the Central Plains, surrendered to Ben Khan, Ben Khan talked with him many times and learned a lot about the situation in the Central Plains." Mao Dun said slowly: "The current emperor of the Central Plains, Xiang Kang, is a very powerful person. He is good at commanding troops and fighting, and he has many generals who are good at recruiting and fighting. The population of the Central Plains is dozens or even hundreds of times that of ours. In the decisive battle of the Central Plains army's main force, we may not have absolute certainty of victory."

"Especially the current climate is not suitable." Mo Dun said again: "It is only summer now. If our tribesmen go south in a large scale, they will easily get sick because they are not used to the hot climate in the south, which will affect their combat effectiveness. On the contrary, the Central Plains The Han people are most adapted to the grassland climate of this season, and they can display all their fighting power. Therefore, it would only be foolish to gather the main force to go south at this time."

"But Shan Yu, if we don't use troops against the Central Plains, what will we do with our salt, cloth and grain? We can't eat those immature cattle and sheep every day, right?" A Xiongnu nobleman asked: "There is still pig iron, which cannot be bought. Pig iron, our plan to make [-] tribal people switch to iron weapons can't be completed?"

"Two ways." Mao Dun made a decision, and said, "First, send an order to King Zuo Xian to organize a small army, and use light horses to attack the markets and village pavilions of the people in the Central Plains at the border, and kill anyone they see. , grab everything you see, withdraw immediately after fighting, do not fight head-on with the army of the Central Plains, let the army of the Central Plains run back and forth on the border, exhaust them, let the Central Plains people know how powerful we are, and completely wipe out the Central Plains people It hurts!"

"Second, send someone to negotiate with the emperor of the Central Plains, and in exchange for a border truce, force the Central Plains Emperor Xiang Kang to let go of the border ban and sell us what we need." Mao Dun continued: "This is as long as we succeed. , we really temporarily ceased war with the people of the Central Plains, first passed our lack of salt, iron, and cloth, and then freed up our hands to deal with the Yuezhi Kingdom in the west, eradicating hidden dangers on our flanks, and finally went all out. Deal with the Central Plains army."

"Great Khan is wise." The Xiongnu nobles who were present hurriedly complimented each other, but one of the Hun nobles asked cautiously: "Khan, what should we do if the emperor of the Central Plains refuses to accept our negotiation terms?"

"If you were the emperor of the Central Plains, and your borders were restless day and night, would you accept our negotiation terms?" Mao Dun asked back, and then said: "The key to this plan is King Zuo Xian, tell him, no matter what he thinks, The method, no matter what price he pays, must beat the Central Plains people to Ben Khan! Beat fear!"

(End of this chapter)