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Chapter 12 Key Information – Salt

 "Servant, in front of the Jiedu Yamen, all the people are escorted to the Yamen, and they serve as the guards of the Yumen Army. The eldest son, Qi Gong, is the eldest son. Qi Jingtong, bow to the Taibao Gong!"

Sure enough, old Zhang Zhong's few words were dismissed by Qi Xiahu, whose real name is Qi Jingtong, who was eavesdropping outside the door just now.

Otherwise, I would never have kowtowed to the statue of Zhang Yichao as soon as I came in. It was broken to pieces on the ground and was only briefly picked up. His face was flushed with excitement and was full of emotion.

Zhang Zhao also knew why Qi Xianghu hung out with old Zhang Zhong, because this guy's father turned out to be Qi Jiarun, the governor of the Jiedu Yamen during Zhang Chengfeng's period, and served as the guard of the Yumen Army.<

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This is the highest rank among the Jieduzhen officials of the Guiyi Army. This is a false position, but its status is very high. If the Guiyi Army is a unified dynasty, then the governor of Jiedu Yamen will be the highest rank.

Approximately equivalent to the rank of Taiwei.

The guardian of the Yumen Army is a very important practical military position in the Guiyi Army. The administrative divisions of the Guiyi Army during the period of Zhang Chengfeng Jinshan Kingdom and Cao's Guiyi Army were divided according to the model of two states and eight towns.<

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The two prefectures are Guasha and the eight towns are Shouchang, Ziting, Changle, Xuanquan, Yonggui, Xincheng, Xinxiang and Kuaiji.

Most of these eight towns are integrated into the town and county. That is to say, the town's envoy is both the highest officer of the military town and the county magistrate in charge of civil affairs, which is equivalent to the Jiedushi envoy among the Jiedushi envoys.

So where is the Yumen Military Envoy? It is near today's Yumen Pass. He is the highest military organization in charge of Xinxiang and Kuaiji towns and the fortress Yumen Pass. Therefore, other towns can only be called garrison envoys or containment, but Yumen

The army is called the military guard.

To the east of Yumen Pass is the feudal enemy of the Guiyi Army and the biggest source of threat, the Ganzhou Uighurs.

The Yumen Army Guardian was specially established to defend against the Uighurs in Ganzhou. It has always been a high-ranking authority in the Guiyi Army, second only to the Jiedushi and the Erzhou Governor.

Therefore, during Zhang Chengfeng's time, all the people in front of the Jiedu Yamen were escorted to the Yamen, and Qi Jiarun, the garrison guard of the Yumen Army, needless to say, was definitely his confidant.

Moreover, according to Qi Xiaohu, Qi Jiarun was rescued from the Canwei people by Zhang Chengfeng's troops. Such a top confidant would probably be able to save his life by the time the Cao family replaces Zhang, even if it means burning incense.
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"It turns out that brother Qi's father was Qi Gong, the governor of Yamen. He is indeed a famous general. A tiger father has no sons!"

Zhang Zhao timely sent another high hat, and at the same time he felt a little more confident about persuading Qi Xiaohu.

The person in front of me is almost deeply bound to him. What we have to do now is to break his heart of being willing to conspire with the Kucha Uighurs and even become a Uighur in order to survive.

"Don't praise me, Mr. Erlang. My father is such a hero. Now my descendants have been reduced to the point where they can no longer survive. I am just a loser!"

After prostrating, Qi Xianghu stood up, with tears already beginning to fill his eyes.

"Is the situation in the village difficult?" It was originally just a compliment and a word to win over, but Qi Blind Hu's reaction made Zhang Zhao feel a little emotional. Qi Blind Hu is a dog, so Zhang Zhao is probably not even a dog.

Right?

"It's not that it's difficult, but it's simply unsustainable. Although there is no shortage of food, the village has been short of salt for two months. Women and children can only get a small bowl of salt water every five days to survive, while Jingzhuang only gets one bowl of salt water every two days.

We live on a pinch of salt, and we are short of linen and not much fabric to keep out the cold."

Cao Sanniang's face suddenly looked a little embarrassed, because he knew who Qi Xianghu and the people in the village were.

After Zhang Chengfeng failed in the war with the Ganzhou Uighurs and was forced to recognize the Ganzhou Uighur Khan as his father, the Han people in Guasha and Shazhou resented Zhang Chengfeng for ignoring his own strength and forcing him to follow the example of his grandfather Zhang Yichao in conquering the east and west, and suffered great consequences.

The catastrophic disaster caused heavy casualties to the people of Guasha.

After that, the prestige of the Zhang family in the hearts of the people in Guasha disappeared. Even Zhang Chengfeng's favorite minister, Zhang Wenche, the prime minister, abandoned Zhang Chengfeng.

Qi Jiarun, the Yumen Army garrison who returned to Dunhuang City, brought a small number of Yumen Army soldiers to serve as Jiedu Yamen soldiers. It can be said that he was Zhang Chengfeng's last confidant.

When her grandfather (grandfather) Cao Yijin entered the palace and forced Zhang Chengfeng to abdicate, the only obstacle was the small number of Yumen troops led by Qi Jiarun.

Therefore, these people were directly exiled after Cao replaced Zhang.

To the east of Shouchang, there are the Qiuci Uighurs coming down from Jinshan Mountain in the south, in the west there are the Canwei people from the Zhongyun Kingdom occupying the Loulan area, and in the north there are the Yizhou Uighurs. The sandbank in the east also restricts the inflow of supplies, so it can be said that there are enemies on all sides.<

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Therefore, if the people in this village do not join forces with the Kucha Uighurs, or in other words, rely on the Kucha Uighurs, they will indeed have a dead end. In fact, they have been able to hold on until now. It has been almost twenty years since they disappeared into the rolling yellow sand.

It's amazing.

And to persuade these people who can no longer survive immediately to give up the only way to survive, Mrs. Cao Sanniang has given up any hope. The best thing in the world is to survive.

But Zhang Zhao didn't see it that way. He took Qi Xianghu's hand and asked him to sit down opposite him.

"Brother Jingtong, why did your ancestors follow Taibao Gong to sacrifice their lives to regain the six counties in Hexi? At that time, Tubo had not declined as it is today, but Taibao Gong raised his arms and the heroes of the six counties followed the scenery. Isn't it just for us descendants?

No more slaves to the Tibetans?"

Qi Blind Hu took a deep breath and shook his head with difficulty, "Erlangjun, do you know the pain we are waiting for? In this village, a pinch of salt can make a young woman undress and take off her belt, and a small piece of linen can make a brother

There are many people who turn their eyes against each other, become weak due to lack of salt, and cannot walk.

I don’t know the loyal man’s strategy, which is to drink poison to quench his thirst. But does Mr. Erlang know the pain of hunger and cold? Do you know the pain of eating without salt? It is incomparable to the pain of thousands of ants eating through the heart!

Qi would rather be hacked to death or burned to death than experience the feeling of burning internal organs again. Therefore, even if Qi knew that he would not be able to go to Jiuquan to see his ancestors after death, he could not just watch them freeze.

Starved to death."

Lack of salt is a big problem. In fact, it was a big problem throughout Hexi in the Tang Dynasty, because the salt in the Hexi Corridor was mainly produced in two areas.

One is the Liaoquan area northwest of Ganzhou City occupied by the Ganzhou Uighurs, which is the vicinity of Gaotai County, Gansu in later generations. The other is Chengzhou, which is Li County of Longnan City in later generations.

However, there seems to be something wrong!

Zhang Zhao stared at Qi Blind Hu with an intriguing look. Gradually, the generosity on Qi Blind Hu's face to save everyone's life faded away, and after a while, he showed the same embarrassed look as Cao Sanniang.
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Since there is a lack of salt, and since Qi Blind Hu knows that Lao Zhang Zhong’s plan is to drink poison to quench his thirst, or to lure the wolf into the house, then he still wants to follow it?

Are you guaranteed a sufficient supply of salt?

Without this guarantee, just following Zhang Zhong and messing around will not solve their difficulties!

So where does salt come from? Can there be excess salt in the Qilian Mountains where the Kucha Uighurs live?

Don't be kidding, the mountains there are high and the wind is cold. Compared with them, Shouchang County, where there are two or three sandstorms every year, is considered a paradise.

Otherwise, these Kucha Uighurs would not have run down the Qilian Mountains as soon as they escaped the control of the Tubo people.

So those with sufficient salt supply can only come from Ganzhou. In other words, behind the Qiuci Uighurs entering the sandbank, there is likely to be support from the Ganzhou Uighurs, and Qi Blind Tiger is also likely to have carried Zhang Zhong on his back.

I have had contact with the Kucha Uighurs.

What a risk! If he hadn’t mentioned the word salt repeatedly, Zhang Zhao would never have thought about it.

And Zhang Zhaoneng discovered the connection, because in history, the biggest reason why the Guiyi Army failed to resist the infiltration of the Kucha Uighurs was that the Ganzhou Uighurs, who had the same origin as the Kucha Uighurs, were behind it, so this was not

Guess, but something that happened in history.

Of course, Cao Yijin is still alive, and the situation between the Guiyi Army and the Ganzhou Uighurs is that the Guiyi Army has the upper hand.

But historically, since Cao Yijin, the Ganzhou Uighurs have gradually gained the upper hand. In order not to depopulate the Ganzhou Uighurs, the Guiyi Army has not dared to specifically target the Qiuci Uighurs in the territory.

With the support of the Ganzhou Uighurs, the Kucha Uighurs gradually began to control other nomadic tribes in Shazhou, and finally the Shazhou Uighurs were gradually formed.

Even in history, the name Cao Xianshun, the leader of the Shazhou Uighurs, appears in the records of the Northern Song Dynasty and Liao Dynasty, which means that the Guiyi Army has been gradually submerged and assimilated by the Uighurs.

In today's situation, if Ge Du is replaced by the Shazhou Uighurs and Qi Xiaohu is regarded as the Guiyi Army, wouldn't it be a small-scale repeat of history?

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