Yuancheng is the state of Weizhou, and it is also one of the three major cities in Hebei, second only to Jixian County in Youzhou and higher than Xindu County in Jizhou.

In addition, Tian Yue imposed heavy taxes on salt and wine, and monopolized the sale of salt, which was 550 wen per bucket of salt, which was the same as the price of salt for Li Wujun and Li Na, which was the price agreed upon by the three companies.

Wine is also a monopoly, but people can not drink alcohol, or make a little fruit wine by themselves, the wine tax is not much, but people must eat salt, so the salt tax is the bulk of the three families.

Tian Yue, Li Wujun and Li Na all realized that in order to get more salt taxes, the population base was the key, and the more people there were, the more salt they consumed, and the higher the salt tax.

Strictly restrict the concubinage, and link the qualification of concubinage with the amount of tax paid, and if a merchant wants to take a concubine, he must pay enough taxes to obtain the qualification of concubinage.

On the surface, it seems that the three families are all right, but in fact, in order to gain more population, the three families are desperately digging into each other's corners, and all kinds of small actions are constantly taking place, lowering the price of land in the border areas, and implementing low rents in the official fields, attracting the peasants of the other side to settle down.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, the great emphasis on commerce and the gradual formation of a highly developed commodity economy were also the result of the more pragmatic and commercial importance of various feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty.

The commerce of Yuancheng is very developed, Yongji Canal and Zhangshui boats come and go, merchants sell cheap and expensive, merchants and goods from all over Hebei gather in Yuancheng.

There are more than a dozen restaurants and inns standing next to the wharf outside the city of Yuancheng, and the most marginal restaurant is called Huang's Big Head Fish Restaurant, which is famous for making fish, and the business is not bad.

At noon that day, there was a middle-aged man sitting by the window on the second floor of Huang's Restaurant, his name was Li Mian, the shopkeeper of the Qualcomm Inn in Yuancheng, and he was also the intelligence head of the Jinwei Mansion in Yuancheng.

Li Mian's index finger tapped lightly on the tabletop, his eyes glanced at the staircase from time to time, he received an order from Chang'an yesterday morning, asking him to get detailed information about the Anyang River shipwreck as soon as possible, as well as follow-up information.

It should be said that Chang'an's request is not very difficult, Li Mian immediately found their people inside Tian Yue, asked to investigate this matter, and met at Huang's Restaurant at noon today.

At this time, a person walked up from the staircase, a scribe in his thirties, polite and polite, his name was Wang Rui, who served as a staff member to deal with various intelligence in the Wei Palace, this position was not high, but he could access some important information, he was bought by the Jin Wei Mansion two years ago, and sold a large amount of important information to the Jin Wei Mansion.

Wang Rui sat down opposite Li Mian and said with a smile: "Coincidentally, this morning, King Wei issued a gag order, not allowing anyone to talk about the shipwreck of the Anyang River, and all the relevant reports were sealed and handed in. ”

After speaking, he put a booklet on the table and pushed it to Li Mian, Li Mian put away the booklet, got up and said: "I have to rush back, I have already settled the account for this table of wine and food, and the cloth bag on the table is your material for this month, you use it slowly!" ”

Li Mian arched his hand, then turned around and went downstairs.

Wang Rui pinched the cloth bag, there were five ingots of silver, he checked it again, it was estimated that there were fifty taels, he smiled with satisfaction, put the silver in his pocket, poured himself a drink and ate it.

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At noon the next day, Guo Song received information from Yuancheng, the eagle letter is not large, the sender tries to use condensed words to explain things clearly, and then Chang'an's Jin Wei Mansion will restore the information into a report of about 1,000 words, which is also a professional skill of Jin Wei Mansion, which has more or less a shadow of the intelligence code of later generations.

At the same time, information from Xindu also described the impact of the shipwreck on Li Wujun.

By combining the two pieces of information and then referencing each other, you can intuitively see the impact on both sides after this happened.

What Guo Song really didn't expect was that Luo Sinan also died, which was definitely a major blow to Li Wujun, and Li Wujun decided that Tiehuo Lei was snatched away by Tian Yue, and Tian Yue killed his military advisor Luo Sinan.

Tian Yue also seems to be unable to explain the truth, nor does he bother to explain, which further confirms Li Wujun's judgment.

This result is what Guo Song is looking forward to, the two sides have turned against each other before, and this time it is even more torn apart, judging from Li Wujun's personal killing, Li Wujun's hatred has reached the verge of breaking out, but there is still a fire left, Li Wujun can fight Tian Yue recklessly.

How do you light this fire?

Guo Song paced back and forth with his hands down, pondering for a long time, he turned around and asked Song Tiandao, "What is the biggest contradiction between the two of them?" ”

"Salt and population!"

Song Tian blurted out, he explained to Guo Song with a smile: "Tian Yue often sent people to smuggle smuggled salt to Li Wujun's territory to sell, three hundred and fifty wen a bucket, the people in the countryside are willing to buy, although it is cheaper, but the salt tax that originally belonged to Li Wujun was stolen by Tian Yue, followed by recruiting population, Tian Yue has more land on his territory, so he used a rent-free way to recruit the people under Li Wujun's jurisdiction to rent seeds, which caused Li Wujun's extreme dissatisfaction, and sent people to negotiate several times, but the effect was not good.

Of course, Li Wujun is not a good bird, and he has not done less dirty things, but he has suffered a lot of losses, so he has always held a grudge and expressed his intention to retaliate against Tian Yue to his subordinates many times. ”

"How important is Luo Sinan to Li Wujun?" Guo Song asked again.

"Luo Sinan has followed Li Wujun for more than ten years, and many of the big things Li Wujun has done are planned by Luo Sinan, Luo Sinan is not only his military advisor and prime minister, but also Li Wujun's father-in-law, and Li Wujun's second concubine is Luo Sinan's daughter."

Hearing this, Guo Song had a bold idea in his heart, he pondered for a long time, and said to Song Tian: "Give me the detailed information to investigate Han Jincheng, the chief general of Nangong County." ”

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Jingcheng County in the northwest of Beizhou and Nangong County in the south of Jizhou are close together, and the two county towns are only separated by a river, called Jiangshui, which is also the hardest hit area where Li Wujun and Tian Yue infiltrate each other, and a large amount of Tian Yue's private salt goes deep into the villages of Jizhou and Xingzhou along Jiangshui, grabbing Li Wujun's most important salt tax revenue.

Li Wujun deployed 3,000 troops in this area, and beheaded the smugglers sent by Tian Yue on the spot, but Li Wujun's army would also cross the river to plunder the population in the countryside of Jingcheng County, and Tian Yue also deployed 3,000 troops in Jingcheng County.

In the middle of the night, a dozen people in black infiltrated a two-acre private house in Nangong County, and the owners living here were a young woman and a two-year-old boy.

The man in black broke into the inner courtyard, grabbed the young woman and the child, gagged and tied them up, and several maids and women were so frightened that they hid, at this time, there was a conflict within the man in black.

"General Sima said, as long as the boy is a boy, this woman will drag us down!"

"! General Sima said that the mother and son were arrested together. ”

"You two don't quarrel, catch it back first and then confront each other!"

More than a dozen men in black put the mother and son into a sack and quickly left........

At dawn the next day, Han Jincheng, the chief general of the army stationed in Nangong County, rushed to the county seat, and he had just received the news that his concubine and son had been arrested at night.

Han Jincheng was shocked and angry, and he rushed back to the house of the concubine in the county seat like crazy.

His family is in Xindu County, and he has two daughters and a son, who died five years ago.

Han Jincheng lost his son in middle age, was hit hard, three years ago he was stationed in Nangong County, accepted a concubine, the concubine was very competitive, and gave birth to a son the next year, which made Han Jincheng, who was nearly fifty years old, ecstatic.

He usually has to go back to the county seat at night to spend the night, but last night he had to inspect the night defense situation in the camp, and he didn't return to the city, but something happened last night.

In the courtyard, the child's nurse told Han Jincheng what happened last night with a handful of tears.

"They are fierce and vicious, the little lady was tied hand and foot by them and put into a sack, the little boy is still asleep, and he is also tied up like a small rice dumpling by them, and his mouth is also gagged with rags......"

When Han Jincheng heard that his wife and children were being abused like this, he couldn't help but feel like a knife, and he asked with a blushing face, "Who are they?" ”

"I don't know, but they seem to mention General Sima, as if one person said that General Sima only wanted children, and the other said that General Sima wanted both mother and son, and they quarreled a few words and quickly left."

"Sima Li!"

Han Jincheng gritted his teeth, he knew who it was, the city lord must have taken revenge for killing fifteen salt sellers last month, he was prepared that Sima Li would come to attack and retaliate, but he didn't expect Sima Li to attack his son.

"Sima Li, you even want to arrest my son, so don't blame me Han Jincheng for not following the rules."

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