"Huangdi killed him (Chiyou) in Zhongji. Chiyou dismembered him, his body and head were different, and his blood turned into a wuro, which was also the salt pond in Jiezhou."

"The Record of Confucius' Three Dynasties"

(Yuncheng Salt Lake is one of the three largest sodium sulfate inland salt lakes in the world)

——I am the dividing line—

In the summer hot wind full of salty smell.

Li Cunjin (real name Sun Chongjin), the newly appointed deputy envoy of Yi'er Army and Shizhou Guardian, also looked at the Great Salt Lake called Jiechi with an unexpected look. He rushed to the territory of Anyi County to seize the collapse of King Chongrong's troops in the river to control the key to salt output in the pond.

However, what disappointed him was that when he traveled day and night across many mountains and ridges, he exhausted many animals and horses. Even the prefectures, counties and villages along the way did not stop to rob, and what he could finally get was just a few hundred bags of salt in the salt patrol beside the pond.

As for more things, there was no hope for them. What's worse, the local salt workers who were seeking life, Mrs. Salt's family had already fled one after another. Therefore, even if they were left with a large salt pond, they could not be used. Could it be that their subordinates would change their careers to scrape salt?

You should know that although he was named the deputy envoy of Yier Army and was the eighth-ranked order of Zhufuzi. In fact, except for the more than a thousand troops he personally led to rush to the two capitals, he could no longer move one soldier and one soldier in Yier Army.

On the contrary, the assignment of the Shizhou Guardian was the place where he could actually control food and support his army. However, Shizhou, as one of the western barriers outside the Taiyuan Prefecture, was the first place to be plundered and poisoned by the vassal states from Yanmen.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the local area will be declining to varying degrees; it was later attacked by the Beishanghe Central Army. Therefore, the three counties that are known as the five counties have only been located in the north for a long time. They are still under the control of the Daibei Alliance Army.

In this case, even as a guardian who has the power of governance, it is difficult for him to obtain and collect enough money, grain and men from the local area, thinking that he can strengthen his strength. However, at the same time, he also has to bear certain taxes and labor service for Hedong Town/Daibeixingying.

In addition, during the four seasons of New Year holidays, he should also have enough to "fulfil his filial piety" in private; otherwise, after falling into the false, he would be criticized and criticized, and even attempted to replace it, and even lost the territory that he relies on for his own life and maintenance.

Recently, because the adoptive father Li Keyong supported the new king and revived and restored Li Tang, he began to build a large-scale construction to rebuild the Taiyuan Palace and build Yanxinyuan, and Yan returned to the palace (the palace of the Jin Dynasty); these fakes had to voluntarily and unwillingly bleed a lot.

As one of the few fakes from the Han family on the outside of Taiyuan Prefecture, Li Cunjin was the most embarrassed person in his pocket. Therefore, this time he asked for advice from his second brother Li Sizhao (Han Jintong), which was the opportunity to go south with such a light army.

I thought that if I had issued a military order and risked going deep into the enemy's back, I could search and gather in the relatively prosperous and stable hinterland of Hezhong Prefecture to enrich my wealth and luggage, and relieve the lack of concealment and resentment accumulated by the lack of food, salary, and clothing under my command;

You should know that this Jiechi is a famous high-quality and rich place in the world. Since the Dali period, the local area has generated 1.5 million salt profits every year by the "reclamation and watering method", accounting for about one-quarter of the national salt profit income and one-eighth of the total income of the imperial court.

After he arrived in Hezhong Town, he was dissatisfied with sending the state, supplying the army and losing the third-point method, and began to intercept and monopolize the salt profit of the pool, he even built Hezhong into a strong town with strong troops and the place where the town is located.

During this period, he obtained horses and fine machinery from all directions with salt profit, and became stronger and stronger. Even the people in the capital where the imperial court had to rely on the gifts from Hezhong Town to avoid eating lightly every day.

In order to ensure that the interests of the Yanchi do not flow out or be stolen on a large scale, the local government even did not hesitate to recruit labor and build a circle of ban walls with a circumference of more than 60 miles around the Yanchi dormitory; and set up decent stores and gatehouses.

Li Cunjin naturally did not dare to expect to monopolize and monopolize such a huge profit from the salt pond; he was satisfied with being able to take advantage of the first contribution of this occupation of the place and become a transitional minister for several years and enrich his military horses and private pockets.

But he didn't expect that his enthusiasm would soon hit the wall in reality. You must know that in order to occupy the benefits of Yanchi for several years, he patted his chest and promised it in front of his second brother Li Sizhao and others, and he must give enough rewards and rewards afterwards, thinking that he was grateful.

Thinking of this, Li Cunjin couldn't help but feel more and more depressed and angry. Why did everything seem to be in trouble at the beginning? It would be fine if Wang Chongrong, the iron-headed man who did not give up after hitting the south wall, but what confidence and resistance do the ants and civilians in these places have?

Could it be that he was not good at the sword in his hand, and there were not enough heads cut down along the way? He had obviously sent people to negotiate secretly with these "local elders" and "leading figures", expressing enough to show kindness and win over.

He even promised that as long as they could hand over enough salt goods and wealth and slaughter in time, they could protect the country and the people on the spot and continue to maintain their livelihood. However, when Li Cunjin's men arrived at the bank of Jiechi, the people sent to negotiate disappeared, and the local salt steed and salted men almost escaped.

The Shizhou soldiers who had almost nothing had to vent their anger and burned all the dilapidated sheds and huts; then tied the few villagers who had no time to escape or were unable to hide, regardless of men, women, age and young, and tortured them to death or dying.

Then by torturing the captured confessions, they divided their troops to search for the hiding local people among the duck pond, Shengang, Changchi and other places around Jiechi, among the grass swaying and water siege, and then collected the first batch of people who entered the large pond to collect salt.

However, after only one night, the accident resurrection occurred. That night, there was a sudden noise in the wilderness outside the camp and fires were running around, which made them disturb the soldiers and horses from Shizhou who came from afar and could not live in peace all night.

After dawn, he found that the majority of the people who were arrested for labor had fled, leaving only some unhealthy old, weak, sick and disabled. Therefore, Li Cunjin ordered several teams of light cavalry to be sent to hunt them down separately without hesitation.

Then, at this time, another bad news came. In Anyi City, several miles away from Chibei, he refused the conditions for opening the city and surrendering, and he was tough and drove his messenger back with arrows.

At this time, Li Cunjin smelled a certain uneasy and dangerous atmosphere; he woke up from the wisdom of the wisdom caused by the huge expected value of salt goods, and in anger and shame, he quickly ordered troops to attack Anyi City as a threat, and at the very least, he would stop this important stronghold by the salt pond.

However, when Li Cunjin led his troops to the city of Anyi, the city of Anyi, which had been discovered to be quite empty, was still closed and silent. Only a few flags of the Hezhong Army were rippling weakly in the wind.

This made Li Cunjin a little surprised but even more uneasy. Despite this, he still made the soldiers near the neighboring army shout and thought they were called the city. As a result, the call to the city in unison came out with a fierce drum sound that was higher than the wave.

Then, on the east and west sides covered by the city walls, a Kunpeng-patterned green flag leaped out almost at the same time, and there was also the word "Taiping" in the middle; it randomly turned into a large army formation singing the song and the fish lily appeared in the blue-gray tone.

The unison and shouts from the Shizhou army were interrupted immediately, and they turned into screams like a burst of exclamation:

"It's a thief!!!"

"The thief is here to kill..."

"Hunbatou Army..."

Amid the heart-wrenching shouts, Li Cunjin, who was struggling to hold down the horse's head, finally understood the thing he had ignored. It was the Taiping Army, which was said to be vaguely eyeing the Yellow River.

These enemies who left unforgettable memories such as fierceness and toughness in the pass also advanced to the vicinity of the Yanchi Lake, and became the repeated reliance of Anyi City. It was a pity that his scouts and wandering whistles seemed to be unaware of it.

However, with the Taiping Army's unique songs, the trajectory of gunfire that came to rescue amid the thunderous roar, suddenly bombarded the sound of earth and rocks flying and people flying up and horses falling out in the unexpected lineup of Shizhou Army.

Although Li Cunjin tried hard to maintain his close lineup and morale, and beat the drums to fight. However, those Daibei Vanguards who had encountered similar scenes in the pass, turned around and ran without hesitation like frightened birds.

Then, the Shizhou Group trainers who rode on mules and horses and collapsed immediately without a single arrow. They directly rushed Li Cun into the left and right rushing capital where the formation was located, exposing them to the firearms fired by the Taiping Army in front.

The next moment, under the first round of calibration ejection a hundred steps away from raising the muzzle, Li Cunjin ordered his troops to turn around without hesitation. However, the next retreat became difficult.

Because near the road that is accessible, many obstacles and attacks suddenly emerged. They dug small holes on the ground, tied ropes between the trees next to the road, or placed them on the trees to form obstacles.

This is of course useless for the normal military formation of Xu Ran, but it is enough to cause enough difficulties and obstacles to the defeated troops in retreat. Therefore, the retreating Shizhou soldiers are constantly tripping, falling, or intercepting them.

Then these injured soldiers who were alone were rushing up by Minzhuang holding various instruments while looking around in fear and confusion, leaving only a few terrible corpses.
Chapter completed!