Five hundred and seventieth chapters stand apricot yellow flag again
Except for a few people in Liangshan who left Zhongyi Hall indignantly, the others received the imperial wine. After just getting the imperial wine, everyone's eyes turned to the Su Taiwei in the field.
Taiwei Su looked at the figures of Wu Song and Lu Zhishen who were leaving far away and silently spoke.
He knew that some people were willing to surrender to the court, but he did not think that every Liangshan people would surrender or be invited by the court. He didn't care about these people who did not want to be recruited. Su Taiwei glanced at everyone and said, "Now we are all from the court, we will protect the Song Dynasty together."
At present, many people showed firm eyes, most of which were surrendered by the court.
Wu Song and Lu Zhishen left angrily, and Sun Erniang chased after him. Before they could walk out of Zhongyi Hall, high music sounded in Zhongyi Hall.
Sun Erniang stopped Wu Song and said, "Brother Wu Er, Brother Wu Er, what's wrong with you? Stop!"
Wu Song in front walked with his head shut and didn't want to look back, but when he heard Sun Erniang's words, he suddenly froze. Sun Erniang was kind to Wu Song after all. Although he fought with her during the Cross Slope, she also gave him a dress and gave him a way out.
Wu Song looked back at Sun Erniang, his face looked ugly, but when he saw Sun Erniang holding the wine bowl, he was quite angry, "I don't want to drink this wine today."
Sun Erniang held the wine bowl and advised, "What did you say? This is the imperial wine, it tastes very good!"
Lu Zhishen next to him punched Tingzi Muzhu and said, "I'm so frustrated today. Even if it's Buddha's wine, it's not rare for the family to sprinkle it."
Wu Song seemed to have a sip of anger and said, "If I drink this wine, I have to be loyal to the government, but how can they keep drinking it?"
Sun Erniang held the wine bowl and said, "Brother Wu Er, you are so humble. Now it is not the government, but the court."
Lu Zhishen punched the wooden pillar again. The wooden pillar trembled, and the gray fell off the top of the wooden pillar beam. Then he snorted coldly and said loudly, "Court, you can watch it! It's not the government's tricks."
Lu Zhishen snorted coldly and left, leaving Sun Erniang holding the wine bowl with an awkward look on her face.
On Sanhuang Island, Zeng Yunfeng was studying the topographic map. At this time, Li Ying walked in and said, "Brother, Liangshan has taken the call, and the army is ready to set off."
"What are they doing now?"
"According to the information, they are now rectifying the troops on Liangshan, packing up food, fodder, gold and silver utensils, and preparing to move them away. They can dismantle them, and they will take them away all the ones they can take away."
Zeng Yunfeng turned around and said, "If you take it away, let them take it away. What are these things for? It's useless. I just want that mountain. As long as I don't move the mountain away, other things will be as they please."
"By the way, how are you in touch with Fang La from Jiangnan? How is the business in Fang La from Jiangnan now?"
Li Ying looked up and said, "Fang La didn't know that we were from Liangshan, and he thought we were wealthy businessmen in the north to make some transactions without telling the court."
Zeng Yunfeng put down the pen in his hand and said, "This Jianghuai area is also extremely important. Now that the imperial court can't bear it, Jiangnan Fangla can't stand it."
"Now that we control the salt field, Fang La has to bow to us." Li Ying stroked his beard and said.
"There are two words in this war, one is human and the other is food, but there is another word that is often ignored, that is salt. Without salt, you often have no strength. Therefore, if you put this salt in your hands, your army will have combat effectiveness."
"The Song army in Qingtang area has not been taken back. The largest salt farm is now in the Jianghuai area. As long as the Song court grasps the Jianghuai area, his tax revenue will continue to rise."
"We also have to mix sand from the middle and divide one or two from the middle. These wealthy merchants have been eating for so many years, but they are still greedy and harming the countryside. Now that we are mixed up, they dare not say anything, but are we prone to offending these local wealthy merchants like this?" Li Ying said.
Zeng Yunfeng looked up at Li Ying, "Let them try it out. We just took the banner of the way to heaven, and there were a few heads for sacrifice to the flag."
"In the future, we will occupy Liangshan Riverside and control the Jeju waterway. The Grand Canal from south to north will be pinched to us. We will pay as much as the salt tax we say," Zeng Yunfeng said coldly.
The salt in the Song Dynasty was official salt, but this private salt was repeatedly banned because there were strong demands in many places, but many places still couldn't afford it. However, the local salt prices were twice, triple or even five times, but those salt merchants frequently raised prices.
When Zeng Yunfeng was an official in the Jianghuai area, he killed many of these salt merchants, confiscated their families and exiled them, but countless people were exiled, but later generations were still in a constant stream.
He knew the most about what these salt merchants did. 70 to 80% of the salt merchants sold were not official salt from the government. In other words, these taxes were not paid to the state treasury and used for the private sector, but were evaded by these wealthy merchants and were all stuffed into their pockets.
Moreover, in the local area, they even imposed heavy taxes, bullied the countryside, and forced countless lives to death. The long-term workers in the salt farm lived a miserable life and were worried. The countless silver rolled under these salt merchants were all born in their lives.
Three days later, Li Ying came to Zeng Yunfeng with great interest and said, "Brother, Liangshan, Song Jiang and others have all withdrawn from Liangshanpo."
Zeng Yunfeng's face was flashing with excitement and said, "Okay, since these people who occupied the magpie's nest have left, let's go directly to Liangshanpo and raise the banner of taking over the heavens again."
Li was a little worried, "Will Song Jiang be instigated by the court to turn around and attack us!"
Zeng Yunfeng snorted coldly and said, "He thought, but the Liangshan River waters are all in my hands. It's okay to rely on the three or two people in his hands to go up the mountain to be a spy. If you want to attack Liangshan, it's simply a dream, unless Song Jiang has the ability to let all the scholars of the army swim over."
Zeng Yunfeng brought his more than 3,000 naval troops back to Liangshan. Now the Liangshan Mountain Village has been stripped away, and only half of the wood in Liangshan Mountain Village has been demolished.
Zeng Yunfeng and the others have a long way to go. Fortunately, there is one thing that is more complete, that is, Zhongyi Hall. Basically, these chairs and tables, including the plaques of Zhongyi Hall, have not been removed, and the flagpole with a large flag was also standing there.
Zeng Yunfeng and many other leaders including Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaoqi returned to Zhongyi Hall. Zeng Yunfeng glanced at the plaque on Zhongyi Hall and said, "Come on, take this plaque off for me."
Suddenly, several people went up to remove the plaque of Zhongyi Hall Qili and replaced it with the plaque of Juyi Hall brought back by Zeng Yunfeng.
The apricot yellow flag that was used to walk on the flagpole outside was hung again, but the flag now has changed its shape and is no longer the same as before.
Chapter completed!