There are three salt-making places in Pengcheng, Heiyan City and Taizhou City in Xuzhou. The number of people reaches tens of thousands. The scene is very huge. In order to save more people, tens of thousands of Taishan soldiers work day and night to boil water and boil salt. Each additional bucket of salt produced is
Just one more person can be saved, one more load can be produced, and a family can be saved.
The surrounding people volunteered to help, transporting coarse salt and coal. All the craftsmen in Black Rock City who did not even forge weapons participated in salt production. Black Rock City alone could produce more than 1,000 to 500 metric tons of fine salt in a day and night.
When bowls of porridge are delivered to the people's hands, their desperate hearts have a trace of tenderness. When buckets of rice are delivered to the people's homes, the fire of survival is ignited, and the fire of hope sets a prairie fire in the hearts of the people.
The Family Chamber of Commerce held a gathering at Fulitang Manor, where most of Xuzhou’s wealthy businessmen from aristocratic families gathered.
Chen Xiliang, the head of a wealthy businessman, actually looks round when viewed from a distance. Layers of fat accumulated to form his current double chin. He is plump and his face bounces when he walks. It is strange to say that the fat is so strange.
They all sink down and form a pear shape.
"President Chen, is Xu Hanwen trying to cut off our financial path?"
"He wants to be a saint, and it's a thankless job for people like me. It can't be more than thirty coins. I worked hard to get it from Bingzhou."
"Liu Yuanwai, don't worry, I'm further away. Yizhou has a long mountain road. I won't let my hard work become someone else's wedding dress. The price of thirty cash is not enough for me to have a meal."
"Yes, President Chen, we are all counting on you. You are the in-laws of the King of Zhennan. Xu Hanwen does not dare to do anything to you."
"It's just President Chen, Xu Hanwen has already met many businessmen in Xuzhou"
"The Xu family, a salt merchant, promised to exchange salt for grain and received 50,000 dans of grain. And I also heard that he was appointed as the water transport envoy."
"Even if a small salt merchant is named a water transport envoy, he, a salted fish, will not be able to stand up."
Yes, there is also the Qiao family, which has surrendered to the crown prince. The crown prince appointed him as the escort and defense envoy. He has pledged the family's five thousand loads of grain and one thousand loads of fine salt to Prince Xu.
A salted fish is a salted fish. Even if it turns over, it cannot become a dragon or a carp.
"I wonder where Xu Hanwen got so much fine salt?"
"Don't worry, they won't survive for long. The fine salt is all natural and there isn't much of it."
"That's good"
"As for the food from other chambers of commerce, if they encounter natural or man-made disasters on the road, the food will not be transported in."
"President Zhang is very clever, will Xu Hanwen come to beg us when the time comes?"
After getting a thousand tons of fine salt, Qiao Lixian immediately asked the guards to send the fine salt to Hanzhong for his brother. However, less than a day after leaving Xuzhou, he was robbed by bandits at the Nanyang border.
The Qiao family's guards suffered heavy casualties. Less than a hundred of the thousand guards survived. Qiao Lixian ran to Hanwen and cried,
"Your Highness, you have to decide whether my Qiao family will die or not."
This incident made Hanwen very angry.
"You bastard, you are such a bandit. You did evil things during the war, and I didn't take any time to deal with you. Now you are fine. You even dare to steal the people's life-saving food. It is a disaster for the country and the people. I think I will live longer."
"Liang Chen, you led three thousand troops to Nanyang to capture the robbers in person. They exposed them to the sun for three days outside the city gate of Nanyang and then executed them on the spot as a warning. If anyone in Nanyang tries to stop them, they will be killed without mercy."
"Follow your orders"
At the same time, Xu Hanwen immediately wrote to Chang'an and reported to the emperor that he would eradicate all banditry in Jiangshan within a month, and at the same time asked the Taishan Army's messengers to spread the word throughout the state.
In Jiangshan, all bandits must surrender to the government within five days, that is, July 3, and seek leniency. The people must also persuade their children to return to their hometowns as bandits, otherwise they will be executed immediately if caught. Those who are not cleared within a month
Those who deal with banditry in the county will be considered derelict in their duties and will be removed from their official positions and will never be hired. Those who have made contributions in suppressing bandits will be rewarded.
"Thank you, Your Highness, for avenging my people."
"I will not let my people sacrifice in vain. I will definitely make them repay double the amount. Qiao Lixian, I will accompany you and give you three thousand dans of fine salt. At the same time, I will bury the deceased and give you double the resettlement allowance."
"Thank you, Your Majesty"
"Xiao Wu, you will lead three thousand Taishan troops to escort you. Anyone who interferes will be executed on the spot."
"Follow your orders"
"Yuan Tong, please inform all counties and counties in Xuzhou that anyone who meets the Xu family salt merchants must be given convenience. If anyone dares to have a bad idea about the people's relief food, he will be sent to the underworld to eat leopard bile."
"Follow your orders"
Liang Chen accelerated his march for two days and two nights and arrived at Nanyang County late at night. In Biyang County, he conducted an undercover investigation and found out that those who attacked the Qiao family's caravan were bandits from Tongbai Mountain. The leader was named Lei Yuan, nicknamed Lei Zhentian. There were nearly a thousand bandits in this group.
People, entrenched in Tongbai Mountain, do evil and evil
Tongbai Mountain Range refers to the vast mountainous area starting from the eastern edge of Nanyang Basin, extending to Wushengguan in the southeast, Guangshui City, Suizhou and Zaoyang City in Hubei Province to the southwest, and Dabie Mountain in the east. The terrain is dangerous, as evidenced by poems.
At dawn, I rode a white deer straight up to Tongbai Mountain.
The ring is like a city wall, with towering trees.
The green grass guides me, as if I were entering the top of Kongtong.
The Yao grass is covered with mottled green, and the pistils are covered with frost.
There is a Zhumadian at the foot of the mountain, which is their intelligence point.
Liang Chen turned into a businessman and controlled thirty people in Zhumashi's shop. He questioned them one by one to understand the situation of the bandits in Tongbai Mountain. He used the fake ones to read the real ones at night, sneaked into Tongbai Mountain and Longhu Village, cooperated inside and outside, and killed nearly a thousand bandits overnight.
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All hundreds of surrenderers were taken to Nanyang County.
The Taishan Army beat gongs and drums all the way and paraded hundreds of bandits through the streets.
"Lei Zhentian, a bandit from Tongbai Mountain, bullies men and women, burns, kills, and loots, and does all kinds of evil. It has rained heavily recently, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River have become a swamp. Millions of people have been displaced and have no food to eat. All over the country are fighting floods and providing disaster relief. These pigs and dogs are not as good as
These things actually robbed the people of their relief food. Today, under the orders of the Prince of Zhenbei, Xu Hanwen, we will exterminate this group of lawless people and parade them through the streets for three days to serve as a warning to others."
"What did they say"
"Didn't you see that the Taishan Army wiped out the bandits in Longhu Village in Tongbai Mountain?"
"All robbers and bandits who commit evil will surrender to the county government in two days. Those who resist stubbornly will be killed on the spot. Please tell the people to tell each other to let them abandon evil and do good."
After the people heard this, this group of people robbed the relief food. Filled with righteous indignation, they picked up rocks and rotten vegetables and kept throwing them at them. They wanted to kill these bastards immediately. They were doing evil and harming the people.
"The Taishan Army is really powerful. It wiped out nearly a thousand bandits who had been entrenched in Tongbai Mountain for decades in one day."
"The Taishan Army is a mighty force. Even the 200,000 people from the Annan Kingdom are no match, let alone mere bandits."
The war in the southeast was suppressed by the Qing Dynasty, thousands of bandits were killed, and the country was harmed by thousands of people. The loyal and filial piety persuaded people to return to their hometowns, and the mother was responsible for all the people's affairs. The children and the children were happy and happy. When the years came, people were happy with their work, and they lay down drunk on the dragon and sang songs in congratulations.
Under the scorching sun, a hundred bandits were beheaded on the spot. The scene was extremely bloody. Some of the little bandits who escaped were so frightened that their legs shook and they kept touching their heads.