Before dawn the next day, Guo Song led the army to continue to set off, they crossed the Fushui pontoon bridge, and continued to march in the direction of Chengdu, it only took two days for them to reach the city.

At the same time, Shang Dongzan also received information from the spies, Guo Song personally led an army of 50,000 or 60,000 to arrive in Mianzhou Fushui, Shang Dongzan immediately became nervous, he did not expect that it would be the Jin King Guo Song personally commanded the troops to the south, it was not as simple as coming to rescue Bashu, like himself, he also wanted to take the opportunity to annex Bashu.

Shang Dongzan already had plans to evacuate Chengdu, so he would recruit people to carry supplies and food, but he still had a glimmer of hope, in case Chang'an only sent 10,000 or 20,000 people to support, then he could still deal with it and ambush the other party with a strange trick, so as to keep Chengdu City.

But the other party is an army of fifty or sixty thousand people, and the trick is not easy to work, but in the face of the obvious comparison of strength, he has no choice but to retreat, once the other party enters Chengdu and starts a street battle with his army, he will be annihilated.

In the afternoon of this day, Shang Dongzan received news that the enemy's 10,000-strong forward cavalry had arrived fifty miles north of Chengdu, which really made Shang Dongzan unable to wait, and he immediately ordered the army to withdraw from Chengdu and Yazhou to retreat.

In order to appease the dissatisfaction of his subordinates, Shang Dongzan ordered the palace to be set on fire, and in an instant, dozens of arson points were ignited, and hundreds of exquisite palace pavilions were engulfed in flames.

The Tubo army quickly evacuated Chengdu, all the way to the south, accompanied by hundreds of carts, full of pig iron, the Tubo army did not carry grain these days, they are not short of food at present, the lack is pig iron, armor and other strategic materials, they forcibly conscripted the people for these materials.

At this time, Pei Xin and Yang Xuanying led 10,000 vanguard cavalry to arrive on the official road twenty miles away from Chengdu City, only to see thick smoke billowing over Chengdu City in the distance, as if a fire was burning in the city.

Pei Xin ordered the army to pause its advance and quickly assemble into a battle formation, and they waited patiently for news of the scouts.

"General, did the Tibetan army set fire to evacuate?" Yang Xuanying asked.

Pei Xin nodded, "There is this possibility, but His Royal Highness the King of Jin has repeatedly instructed that this Shang Dongzan is very cunning, maybe there are ambushes in front of him, and he will use ignition to attract us, we must be cautious." ”

At this time, a group of scout cavalry rushed over, hugged his fists for the leading brigade commander and said: "General Pei, the Tubo army has definitely retreated south, and there are no more enemy troops in the city!" ”

"Where did the fire start?" Pei Xin asked.

"It's the Imperial Palace, it's been completely swallowed up by fire and can't be saved anymore."

Pei Xin nodded, "March!" ”

10,000 cavalry slowed down and continued to run towards the city of Chengdu, an hour later, 10,000 cavalry arrived in the east city, at this time the city gate was wide open, many people fled from the city in panic, the huge flames and smoke brought a great sense of oppression and fear, although they were reluctant to leave their homes before, but now they also had to flee from the city.

Pei Xin led his men directly into the city, and the army came to the outside of the palace, only to see the flames of the entire palace soaring into the air, and the tongue of fire was as high as more than ten zhang, looming in the billowing smoke, but the palace was blocked by a high wall, and there were wide streets and squares between the houses, and the fire could not affect the houses.

The Jin army was unable to put out the fire, and watched as one large hall after another collapsed and disappeared in the flames.

The fire burned for two days, and when Guo Song arrived in Chengdu with an army of 50,000, the fire was finally extinguished, and a moderate rain followed, completely extinguishing the last few embers.

The army was stationed in the camp of the Shence army outside the city, Guo Song entered the city accompanied by hundreds of soldiers, and they came directly to the palace, at this time the palace covering an area of thousands of acres has been burned to a white ground, everywhere is ruins and broken walls, burned into black charcoal thick columns, large and small palaces are only a pile of rubble.

In the drizzle, the heat inside had subsided, and many people rummaged through the rubble, trying to find something valuable.

"Your Highness!" Yang Jun reminded Guo Song in a low voice.

As soon as Guo Song turned around, he found that there were countless people standing behind him, there were tens of thousands of people in the dark, many of them did not have umbrellas, standing in the rain, and everyone was silently looking at him, his eyes were full of sadness.

The three old men staggered forward and knelt down in front of Guo Song, and tens of thousands of people knelt down behind, their emotions could no longer be controlled, I don't know who cried first, and they suddenly wept.

The elder of the leader burst into tears, and he couldn't cry and said: "We look forward to His Royal Highness King Jin every day, you are finally here!"

Guo Song hurriedly helped up the three old men, with a sour feeling in his heart, and nodded silently: "It's me who is late, and everyone suffers!" ”

He waved his hand to everyone again, and shouted with all his might: "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, since I, Guo Song, am here, I will no longer let everyone be exploited by the eunuchs, and from today onwards, your hard days are over!" ”

More and more people came from all directions, and their weeping gradually turned into cheers, and countless people raised their arms and shouted, "Hurray!" Long live His Royal Highness King Jin! ”

The anger that had been pent up in their hearts for a long time was vented at this moment, and the shouts of Banzai resounded in the sky.

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Guo Song was in Chengdu for several days, and did not rush to lead the army south, from Chengdu did not suffer looting, Guo Song judged that Tubo's strategic intention was to annex Bashu, not to plunder, Tubo was obviously to use Yazhou as the foundation to compete with himself for Bashu.

The granaries and material warehouses of Beiya have been burned down, and tens of thousands of stones of grain that have not had time to be transported have been burned into black charcoal, and many materials have also been burned, but pig iron, copper ingots, and other materials that are not easy to melt have been preserved intact.

Three days later, the first logistics team of the Jin army arrived in Chengdu, bringing 50,000 stone of grain, and at the same time, the logistics team consisting of 100,000 people and 30,000 carts was on their way from Hanzhong to Bashu, where they would bring food, tents, and a large amount of military supplies.

A large number of people who fled from Chengdu before learned that the Tubo army retreated south, also began to return home one after another, for several days, the official road was an endless stream of returning refugees, carrying burdens, pushing carts, dragging families and mouths, everyone was like an arrow, after learning that the army of the King of Jin had entered Chengdu, they had never been so eager to go home as today.

In the early morning, Guo Song, accompanied by Zhang Qi of the former household department, came to the Minjiang wharf outside the city, where there were dozens of large warehouses, which the Tubo army did not have time to burn down, and the warehouse group was spared.

The warehouses here are mainly transit warehouses, which are basically civilian materials, including well salt, tea cakes, grain, oilseeds, cloth and so on.

Zhang Qi is also Zhang Yansheng's nephew, Zhang Yu's brother, after Zhang Yanxian's suicide, aroused the general dissatisfaction of hundreds of officials, the eunuch group in order to calm down the incident, Zhang Qi was not imprisoned, but only dismissed the post of Hubu Langzhong, idle at home, this time the people fled, he did not follow the south because his wife was not in good health, and stayed in Chengdu.

After Guo Song entered Chengdu, he asked him to come out to serve as the governor of Chengdu to maintain law and order in Chengdu, and Zhang Qi gladly accepted the appointment.

Zhang Qi ordered someone to open the warehouse and introduced it to Guo Song: "These warehouses are not all official warehouses, there are a total of forty-five, of which the first twenty are official warehouses and the last twenty-five are private warehouses. ”

Guo Song came to a huge warehouse, the door of which had been opened, and the materials inside were piled up, all packed in jute bags.

"What's in there?" Guo Song asked.

The head of the warehouse next to him bowed down and said: "Your Highness, there is salt here, all well salt, there are four warehouses in total, 200,000 stones." ”

It turned out to be salt, Guo Song nodded and asked, "Is there a private salt warehouse?" ”

"Nope! The four salt warehouses here are all directly under the Beiya. ”

Guo Song turned back and asked Zhang Qi, "How is the salt sold?" ”

Zhang Qi bowed and said: "Your Royal Highness, the salt is directly managed by the Beiya Salt Supervisor, and after the well salt is transported to Chang'an, it is sold to the four major commercial houses at 300 wen per bucket, and the four major commercial houses increase the price by 200 wen and then give the salt shops in Bashu to the salt shops in Bashu, and the salt shops are sold to the people at a price of 40 or 50 wen, so the price of salt in Bashu is basically about 550 wen per bucket. ”

"What are the four major commercial houses, and the price increase is so ruthless?" Guo Song was surprised.

Zhang Qi smiled bitterly and said: "The four major trading houses are the four major families of Wang, Huang, Wu and Wei, all of which are the righteous sons of several major eunuchs, originally Wang, Huang, Zhao, and Jin, after the death of Song Chaofeng, the Zhao family and the Jin family were copied, and the two righteous sons of Ju Wenzhen, the Wu family and the Wei family, are currently all following the eunuchs to flee to Yuzhou, these four big families control the civilian resources of the entire Bashu, grain, salt, wine, tea, oil, and cloth are controlled by them, and a steady stream of huge wealth is delivered to several eunuchs through their hands. ”

Guo Song suddenly remembered the Mianzhou Governor Shi Wei Chengyang, and asked, "Is Mianzhou Governor Shi Wei Chengyang from the Wei family here?" ”

"Exactly! He is the brother of the head of the family, Wei Chenghong, the righteous son of Ju Wenzhen, and the cloth business is very large. ”

Guo Song nodded, and asked the head of the warehouse again: "In addition to salt, how many other materials are there, including the official warehouse and the private warehouse!" ”