Chapter 888 Lin Zhao Enters Beijing, Li Wan Appears
When Lin Zhao was enjoying his time in Songjiang, Guo Zhenlu, the newly ennobled Marquis of Zhenyuan, came to visit him.
Last year, he destroyed Jinchuan and Jinchuan, beheaded tens of thousands, and killed all the local barbarians. This time he came here specifically to thank Lin Zhao for coming.
It turned out that after Guo Zhenlu received the elite Jinyiwei who were supported by Lin Zhao, he also had 800 elite soldiers around him, plus some Sichuan soldiers with extraordinary combat capabilities. Both his strength and confidence were greatly increased.
What's even better is that under the leadership of Lin Zhao, businessmen from Sichuan and Shu took the initiative to approach Li Hualong, willing to help Master Wang and do whatever they could.
The so-called support used to mean giving money and food, but the information these big businessmen provided to Guo Zhenlu was not just this. Jinchuan and Jinchuan are not a paradise. If you want to survive, you must communicate with the outside world. At least the salt must be outside.
Buy, the big businessmen in Sichuan and Sichuan made a lot of money between the acquisition and sales.
I went to Songjiang Mansion once to show some goodwill to Lin Zhao. The best way to express goodwill was to make Jinyiwei make great contributions. Everyone threw away all their previous relationships. In fact, despite the fact that the government has already
It is gradually tightening, but there are always businessmen selling salt and weapons to Jinchuan and Jinchuan, and there are shadows of some big bosses in the government behind this businessman. We cannot delay making money anyway, and everyone above and below thinks this is a small mess.
The first battle of the imperial army that wiped out the Jinchuan and Jinchuan was not with these chieftains, the Miao soldiers in Jinchuan and Jinchuan, or the bandits who took advantage of the situation. Instead, they went to Zigong to wipe out the largest salt owl in the area.
The output of Sichuan salt is huge, and Sichuan's salt gangs also have their own system. In addition to smuggling it to Huguang, their real huge profits come from selling it to various ethnic groups in the southwest. The villages of various ethnic groups in the mountains are short of salt, and the price is extremely expensive.
Before the rebellion in Jinchuan and Daxia, they first purchased a large amount of salt, and then set a high price with the salt lord to collect salt continuously. Thanks to this, many local chieftains came to serve him. This kind of news has always been well known to everyone.
They were just pretending not to know, but the Jinyiwei had their own system and didn't care about the local production and sales channels. With the information provided by Sichuan and Sichuan tycoons, the elite Jinyiwei immediately asked Guo Zhenlu to destroy the salt owl.
The Yan Owl could mobilize nearly three thousand men, which was quite difficult to deal with, but Guo Zhenlu did not even move. He only sent out the Jin Yiwei, and only a thousand men were dispatched.
Everyone in Sichuan and Shu, from the governor to the businessmen below, felt that they had underestimated the enemy.
But the result surprised them.
The elite Qianqian Yiwei defeated Shan Qianqian and Yan Xiao with just one charge.
More than two thousand people were killed and the rest were captured.
He only suffered less than fifty casualties.
The Yan Xiao originally wanted to resist for a while and let the government suffer a loss, and then negotiated better recruitment conditions. He knew how rotten the officers and soldiers in Sichuan and Shu were, and he also thought that the government wanted to deal with those chieftains.
He still wanted his men to contribute, but he never expected that the elite Jin Yiwei would arrive so quickly and have such strong fighting power, so he had no choice but to surrender himself and hope that the lives of women and children could be saved.
The Jin Yiwei attacked the Salt Owl to establish their prestige, and everyone understood this truth. They did not expect that the Forbidden Army was so successful in establishing its prestige, so simply and swiftly.
Such a big salt owl was destroyed in an instant, how dare others dare to mess around?
The Sichuan and Sichuan government issued a strict order for two years, but some people still did business with Jinchuan. After this time, the order was banned and no one dared to move.
However, since Jinchuan and Jinchuan dare to cause chaos, they have naturally accumulated enough supplies, which is also the reason why they can recruit a large number of copycat followers. However, having enough supplies does not mean that they do not need to import them.
Everyone understands this truth. If there is no supplement of external supplies, with terrain like Jinchuan, it will be a dead end. We haven't beaten out many places yet, and we are trapped and surrounded. The end result is that the supplies will be slowly consumed, and then
Collapse and waiting to die.
You can't expect the Buddhas on the plateau to produce salt by chanting sutras, right?
The chieftains also understood this truth. On the fifth day after the import of salt was cut off, 15,000 troops from Jinchuan and Jinchuan joined forces and launched a fierce attack on Li County. After opening up this side, it was a smooth road to Chengdu and to the end of Sichuan.
This rich area makes it easy to obtain any kind of supplies.
But the ideal is full and the reality is backbone.
Guo Zhenlu was familiar with mountain warfare, and had five thousand elite men under his command. He fought in formation with the opponent. In the end, in just one morning, he killed tens of thousands of chieftains and routed the rest.
Then, the big and small Jinchuans, together with the eighteen chieftains, all knelt down.
Guo Zhenlu was also granted the title of Marquis of Zhenyuan due to his meritorious service, rising from a fierce general to a qualified military commander.
Emperor Xiaode intended to promote him as governor of the Western Regions and let him succeed Yue Qilin.
After hearing the news, Guo Zhenlu rushed to Songjiang and asked to see Lin Zhao.
No one knows how much the two talked about. They only know that Guo Zhenlu left Songjiang with a happy face, and later happily accepted the position and went to the Western Regions to take up his post.
This has been the eleventh year of Xiaode.
The northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the internal Sichuan-Shu rebellion, Ping'an Prefecture, and many nobles were all cleared up under Emperor Xiaode's layout. Finally, attention could be focused on the southern border, led by the Fenxiang Kingdom.
Seven Nations Alliance.
So we are seeing a war in the south.
At this time, Lin Zhao ended his supervisory career in Songjiang and was transferred to the capital, succeeding Prince Zhongshun and serving as the commander of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
This is also the first non-royal family to serve as the leader of the Ministry of Internal Affairs since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty a hundred years ago.
However, everyone understood that the emperor wanted to use his talents to raise military expenditures and go all out to deal with the Seven Kingdoms Alliance in the south.
Because of his entry into Beijing, Lin Ruhai was ranked third in the cabinet.
People of insight have realized that Lin Ruhai will never be the first assistant or second assistant again in this life.
But even so, he already stood at the top of the civil servants of the Zhou Dynasty, arrogant among the others.
After Lin Zhao entered Beijing, he became low-key.
The first banquet he attended was the birthday banquet for Wang Ziteng's sixtieth birthday.
Due to Wang Ren's transfer, several other girls of Wang Ziteng also got married, and their husbands' families were serving as officials in other places. Therefore, during Wang Ren's birthday party, Sister Feng ran around.
At this birthday banquet, unexpected people came: Li Wan and Jia Lan.
Their appearance was something Sister Feng never expected: Didn't they already cut off relations with the Jia family cold-heartedly? Why did they come out again? And prepared such a generous gift?
Showing courtesy for nothing is either adultery or theft.
Sister Feng immediately gathered all her energy to deal with Li Wan.
After all, in the past few years, as Jia Lian has gradually made progress in the business, Feng Ji'en has regained some of his demeanor as a steward of the Rongguo Mansion. Now that he feels that the "palace fight" is coming, he is naturally full of energy.
But after listening carefully to Li Wan's words, Sister Feng couldn't laugh or cry: Li Wan was actually trying to get Wang Ren's idea. Is this because of seniority? If it really happened, how could he be called a person?
It turned out that Li Wan became more active when he saw that Feng Ziying and others relied on their military exploits to become full-level guardsmen at a young age, with little use of his father's influence.
After the incident, the Jia family kept urging Jia Lan to practice riding and archery, intending to let him earn an official position through martial arts and military merit. After all, the impact of the Jia family's affairs had not yet passed. No matter how innocent Jia Lan was, no matter how good his writing skills were, he would not be able to win the imperial examination.
Can hit.
Even if I got lucky, it would be very difficult to have a smooth career. My mother-in-law was a civil servant, so I couldn't help her enough. My family had never been close to the Lin family and had almost no contact. Later, due to a fit of anger, I lost touch with my ancestors.
Contacted me, and when I learned that my ancestor had passed away, it was too late to go to the funeral.
At this point, it is useless to regret, but it is impossible to use the Jia family's connections to gain access to the Lin family.
When Li Wanchou's hair was about to turn white, Wang Ren's wife died of illness, but Wang Ren relied on his hard work in the past few years to be promoted to the rank of deputy military commander of the fourth rank. This time Li Wan's eyes lit up.
After all, his sister Li Qi is still waiting to be married. If this can be accomplished, Jia Lan's future is promising!