Ye Hua found that Zhang Yongde is a very good thug - if you don't consider turning your face!

He is ruthless, and he has no scruples about what he does. After entering Yancheng, he captured all the defenders and killed them all together, cleanly. As if those captives were not human beings at all, in Zhang Yongde's dictionary, there are four words after forever: repay grievances with straightforwardness!

Li Hongji dares to kill the captives of the Great Zhou, and Lao Tzu will kill your soldiers!

And if you kill one, Lao Tzu will kill ten!

By the time Ye Hua arrived, it was already a river of blood.

"You'd better not pretend to be a good person, or I'll look down on you!" Zhang Yongde said viciously!

Ye Hua gave him a blank look, "Let me ask you, are the salt merchants in the city still there?" ”

"In!" Zhang Yongde said twice, bloodthirsty: "They are so fat, how can I be willing to kill!" How about knocking out the money and opening it five-five? ”

"Not good!" Ye Hua said angrily: "Go, kill all the salt merchants, whether they are the merchants who boil the salt, or the merchants who are in charge of transportation, and not one will be left!" ”

Zhang Yongde is a little blind.

The salt merchants are all fat sheep, what are you doing by killing them, isn't it good to extort some money?

Ye Hua disdainfully despised you, and thought you were a ruthless person!

It turns out that he is also a coward!

"Kill, don't leave one, in front of all the people, kill, kill cleanly!"

Zhang Yongde had no choice but to follow Ye Hua's order to find out the salt merchants, line them up in a large row, and then cut off their heads. Every time he cuts off a head, Zhang Yongde's heart is bleeding, damn it, how much is that!

In the end, Zhang Yongde felt pain and couldn't do it.

But Ye Hua's face still did not change, and almost more than a hundred salt merchants were swept away by him.

Many people who witnessed this scene were dumbfounded, and suddenly someone knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing, and wept bitterly. Zhang Yongde initially thought that these people were salt merchants who were crying to death, but later he figured out that he was grateful to Lord Qingtian for avenging them and getting rid of the villains!

Zhang Yongde was confused, Lao Tzu came to kill people, when did he become the master of Qingtian? Isn't this nonsense!

Ye Hua pulled him to the middle of the people and let him see it with his own eyes.

Looking at those pairs of hands, Zhang Yongde was used to killing, but in the face of this situation, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide, revealing a surprised gaze.

Some people say that in ancient times, the sea was boiled for salt, and this statement is also true and incorrect.

In fact, the ancients would dig out a salt pond, introduce seawater, and wait for the seawater to be concentrated, and then take it to the pot to boil to produce clean and crystalline salt.

Strictly speaking, it is a combination of drying salt and boiling salt.

But either way, producing table salt is not an easy word.

A large wooden barrel weighing dozens of kilograms, filled with concentrated brine, has more than 200 kilograms. From the coast to home, there are dozens of round-trips every day.

The worker's back was bent and his shoulders collapsed. What's even worse is that after long-term exposure to brine, everyone's joints are twisted and deformed to varying degrees, and their wrists are even as thick as ordinary people.

There are even worse, because of the corrosive nature of the brine, their ears are deaf, their eyes are visually reduced, and even blind, and they are also infected with skin diseases, which are difficult to heal.

Many salt workers have reached old age, are lonely, suffer from severe rheumatism, and cannot survive or die.

Zhang Yongde looked at one salt worker after another, and he felt that his heart had been strongly impacted, it turned out that life was really torture for some people! To live is to suffer!

The salt workers will only count their painful experience on the salt merchant's head, and if they kill the salt merchant, they will naturally be happy, no matter who it is! Even if it is the king of the bandit mountain, if he ascends to the heights, there will be a large group of salt workers who will rebel!

Ye Hua called Zhang Yongde aside, "Master Horse, you're surprised, right?" Haven't seen it? ”

Zhang Yongde had a calm face, "Killing those people has cheapened them, it's time to cut them all!" ”

Ye Hua chuckled, "What about Da Zhou?" There are so many salt merchants in our territory, should we kill them all? Do you still eat salt or not, brush your teeth with or without salt? ”

"This ...... So, what to do then? Zhang Yongde didn't pay attention.

Ye Hua shrugged his shoulders, the best way is to reform the process and adopt a complete salt drying method, but after using the salt drying method, the salt production cannot be controlled, and the private salt will definitely increase, which will impact the salt method and affect the annual revenue of the treasury...... So, any reform is not so simple.

If a benefit is moved, it will cause a series of reactions, and even what effect it will have in the end, no one can say.

Ye Hua didn't have the heart to use the salt method.

He just wants to destroy the salt production area of Nantang, it's that simple!

"Immediately distribute the salt merchant's property to the salt workers, and then send my people to flee to Da Zhou with the salt workers, telling them that when they arrive in Da Zhou, they will be granted land, and they can be farmers, and they don't need to be salt workers!"

Ye Hua smiled: "Without salt merchants and salt workers, even if Nantang wants to resume production, it will take time!" Then pass on my order, bring in seawater, fill the salt farm, and throw all the salt into the sea, and not a single grain will be kept! ”

Zhang Yongde always thought that he was a ruthless person, but when he really compared to Ye Hua, he felt that he couldn't even compare to that little finger!

The salt hoarded in the Yancheng treasury is no less than 100,000 stones!

In this era of relative material scarcity, it was not table salt, but money! It's even better than money.

In the past, in addition to money and food, there were also physical goods, cloth, silk, and green salt, and the most popular of them was green salt, which not only ate themselves, but also exchanged for food, clothes, and anything.

So the precious thing, the surname Ye didn't even frown, and directly ordered it to be destroyed, how a loser are you?

Zhang Yongde really wanted to talk about it, but Ye Hua had already taken out the Sword of the Son of Heaven.

"Disobey the general's order, and there will be no mercy!"

There was no way, Zhang Yongde could only obediently go and destroy the salt.

They tossed for most of the day, and the entire Yancheng was ruined.

Almost all the salt workers took some money, and some of them also took clothes and dry food, and fled north to the territory of the Great Zhou.

Of course, among so many people, there are also some people who have different ideas, and they choose to flee south and go to the hinterland of Southern Tang.

"Champion Hou, these people are still thinking about Nantang in their hearts, I'm going to intercept and kill them!" Zhang Yongde shouted to make a move, but Ye Hua stopped him, "Forget it, I just need these people to send news to Li Hongji!" Without salt, I'll see what he can do! ”

Ye Hua immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for the battle and send the Tanma out, and he sent someone to contact Wu Yue, so that their sailors could transport military rations as soon as possible, and send personnel to assist in the battle.

Lao Tzu sent troops to help Wu Yue, and he couldn't let those grandsons be idle, he had to let them shed some blood!

Ye Hua is like a philistine businessman from the inside out, calculating every pound and not eating at all.

Zhang Yongde was confused, Ye Hua didn't blink his eyes when he treated salt, he was a loser, he didn't give in to Wu Yue, and he didn't want to have the face of the kingdom at all!

I really don't know which face is the real Ye Hua?

Although Zhang Yongde was confused, he was accustomed to obeying Ye Hua's orders, faithfully carrying them out, and even learning Ye Hua's virtues, taking the head of a Southern Tang general, and running to negotiate with Wu Yue's fleet.

Finally, Wu Yue dispatched 300 ships, 200 of which were stationed on the front line of the Huai River to prevent the Southern Tang Navy Division from cutting off the pontoon bridge, and a hundred large sea ships were parked off the coast of Yancheng.

Anyway, he is carrying out a sabotage mission, and he is not desperate, he can fight if he can, and he can't run away quickly!

The longer I stay with him, the more I feel that this kid is not like a hero invincible, the champion of the three armies, but like a scoundrel, completely outright, I can't find a little heroism!

"Grandma's, the heroes are all killed in battle, I haven't become a Ding yet, a life is expensive, I can't afford to fight!" Ye Hua crossed Erlang's legs and said disdainfully.

The closest to Yancheng is Chuzhou, where there are 20,000 Southern Tang troops, commanded by Huang Fuhui, he learned that the Great Zhou people, after attacking Yancheng, he was shocked, and immediately sent troops to rescue, but the front Guo Wei has launched a fierce attack, Zhao Kuangyin and Yang Ye two strong generals, led the men and horses, stormed Chuzhou, Huang Fuhui had no time to care, can only send people to Li Hongji for help.

When the request for help was delivered to Shouzhou, it was placed on Li Hongji's desk.

The great prince is faced with one of the biggest choices in his life.

I just sent the news, saying that it was a wealthy businessman in Suzhou, and someone wanted to betray Dazhou and take refuge in Datang.

If the news is true, taking Suzhou is equivalent to opening the door of the Great Zhou, going north along the canal, capturing Bozhou and Songzhou, and you can directly take Kaifeng!

The dream of competing in the Central Plains will soon come true.

Li Hongji's young body was full of enthusiasm and high morale, and he couldn't wait to go north immediately.

But at this time, Huang Fuhui's urgent document came.

"Yancheng! Zhou soldiers attacked Yancheng! Are they going to be pirates? Guo Wei is simply an old scoundrel! Li Hongji slapped the table and yelled angrily.

General Chai Kehong still has some vision, "Your Highness, if Yancheng is lost, Datang will definitely be short of salt, and the situation is critical, and the general thinks that Yancheng should be rescued immediately!" ”

Zhao Duo also agreed with this view.

Only Li Hongji, he thought about it, "Salt is indeed very important, but now it is winter, and the most salt production is in summer and autumn, and it is not important to lack a little for the time being!" It can't be eaten as food, who hasn't had some salt at home? Even if it is more expensive on the market, it doesn't matter, as long as it lasts for a month or two, and when Zhou Bing is defeated, there will naturally be salt. ”

Chai Kehong's face changed, Your Highness, salt is not so simple?

He wanted to persuade Li Hongji again, but who knew that the eldest prince sank his face and ordered directly, "Tell Huang Fuhui and let him send troops to rescue, the lone king has his own ideas!" ”

After finishing speaking, Li Hongji flicked his sleeves and left the others in front, and he turned back to the inner account to think about how to win the Wang Tu hegemony in Suzhou.

But as a veteran, after Huang Fuhui got Li Hongji's reply, he was so angry that he was crazy!

Child, Li Hongji, you have been pampered since you were a child, grew up in the royal family, and occasionally won a few battles, but there is no one in your eyes, how do you know the people's livelihood and suffering!

No matter how Huang Fuhui scolds, it doesn't work, he just needs to grit his teeth and divide 8,000 men and horses, hoping that they can recapture Yancheng, otherwise Datang will be in trouble......