Liu Zhang felt innocent.

At this time, it was April in the city capital, but Liu Zhang didn't feel any warmth, and rarely ordered someone to go to the ice warehouse every day to get ice to cool off.

Originally, during the first month of the third year of Xingshun, Liu Zhang received news from the imperial court that the imperial court had finally applied for Zhang Lu and ordered him to stop the attack on Yizhou; In addition, the blockade of the caravans to Chu by Ba County has also begun to bear fruit, and the price of Sichuan salt has steadily risen......

Although he knew that Zhang Lu would not obey the court's request so easily, Liu Zhang was still secretly happy when he thought of Zhang Lu's request for the founding of the country and the rejection of the country.

And after blocking the exchanges between Bajun and Chu, the price of Sichuan salt really picked up again - the reason why Liu Zhang "boycotted Chu goods" before was also because Chu salt was too fierce.

Not only high quality, but also ...... Transported from the coast to Ba County, the price is still in an advantage, which makes the salt sellers in Xichuan want to vomit blood!

In fact, it is not surprising that the price can be so low - the cost of Chu salt is very low, and the "salt tax" collected by relying on salt and salt is high, while the exported salt can be exempted from tax.

Selling salt internally is part of the tax revenue, and selling salt is an additional plundering of the outside, and Bai Tu naturally calculates this account......

Even if Liu Zhang doesn't understand that "salt" is actually a "tax", he also knows that because of Chu Yan, his annual income has been greatly affected.

Even if Liu Zhang could not completely control the salt in Yizhou, the impact on the Yizhou Mansion was not small, so Liu Zhang united several Xichuan families and began to block the inflow of goods from the Chu State.

Even at the suggestion of Zhenghou Zhang Yan, the horses and other things that blocked Yizhou no longer flowed to the state of Chu.

Now that Zhang Lu was rejected, and the influence of Chu on himself gradually disappeared, it should have been double the happiness, but at this time, there was amazing news from Chu State!

In the territory of Chu State, it seems that the color of Shu has changed recently...... The people of Chu are beginning to fear themselves?

At first, Liu Zhang felt that this was three times the happiness - it must be because my previous Taoguang Yang was exposed, and everyone found that I was so wise and powerful that even the enemy trembled......

Therefore, Liu Zhang ignored Zhang Song's warning to him at that time, and resolutely decided to cooperate with the propaganda of this gust of wind in Yizhou!

Let those stupid and wealthy families know that I, Liu Zhang, am an existence that makes the Chu State fear and the King of Chu panic all day long, you don't want to do things, let alone say that I am incompetent and cowardly behind my back, that can only show that you have no vision!

Liu Zhang himself couldn't wait to read Chu Guo's rumors about himself every day, and even ...... Enthusiastically, he took the initiative to order people to collect the news from the Chu State.

Sometimes Liu Zhang himself is thinking - do I really have 100,000 cavalry?

However, it didn't take long for the situation to change further, and the fear of the Chu State was sublimated into hatred and even the spirit of war......

Liu Zhang's active attention was crooked, so that he got the news in a more timely manner.

More than a month after the New Year's Festival, Liu Zhang heard that the people of Jinling stopped Bai Tu's car and asked Chu to start a war with Yizhou.

Liu Zhang: ???

Liu Zhang's whole person was confused.

Aren't you afraid?

Why do the weak fight? If you don't fight, you won't die, don't you understand?

Liu Zhang couldn't understand the brain circuits of the Chu people at all, and was vaguely flustered - the direction of things seemed to be a little beyond his control!

It was precisely because of the delay in this news that when Liu Zhang heard about it, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong were already meeting in Yiling, and began to shuttle through Xiling Gorge and approach Zigui County.

The road construction plan has been carried out for nearly three years, and the speed of army mobilization within Chu has been greatly improved......

Yiling is not considered the boundary of Jingzhou, and what can really be regarded as a "border" should be Zigui County, which Bai Tu visited during his western tour, that is, Zigui, where Li Yan served as the county commander before.

In history, the reason why Lu Xun faced Liu Bei in Yiling was because Zigui and Yidao west of Yiling were strategically abandoned by Lu Xun, and no major war broke out, so he was crushed by Liu Bei all the way.

From Yidao to Zigui, it is already in the easternmost part of the Three Gorges "Xiling Gorge" category, when the car drove to Zigui County, Baitu was delayed for a lot of time.

Zigui to the east, is the more dangerous, narrow Wu Gorge, and Qutang Gorge, the west entrance of Qutang Gorge, is the pass from Jing into the benefit of the "Qutang Pass", also known as "Kuimen".

To the west of Kuimen, there is a mountain city built by taking advantage of the dangerous terrain at the foot of Kuimen Mountain, which echoes with Qutang Pass-White Emperor City.

After the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei's army was not only burned by Lu Xun, but even the back road of Kuimen was cut off by Sun Huan, so he could only retreat to Kuimen over the mountains and mountains, and died of illness in the White Emperor City.

When Liu Bei took Yizhou, it was Zhuge Liang who broke through Qutang Pass with Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, and then won many battles along the way......

In comparison, the terrain of Xiling Gorge is better, and it is the boundary of the Chu State, the road is barely repaired, and after Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong converged, they quickly began to move towards Zigui.

By the time Liu Zhang heard that the Chu army was really showing signs of gathering, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong had already returned from Zigui, crossed Wuxia and Qutang Gorge all the way, and "knocked on the door" outside Kuimen.

Liu Zhang, who realized it later, was reminded by Zhang Song to order Ba County to be strictly guarded!

"Bajun Taishou is an old general...... General Yan is old and strong, comparable to Jingzhou's fierce general Huang Zhong, Wu Lan and Lei Tong are all leaders of the younger generation, not weaker than Sun Ce and Zhou Yu in Jiangdong.

Yes, immediately let Wu Lan and Lei Tong lead troops to Jiangzhou, and they must intercept the Chu army! Liu Zhang muttered to himself with some gods.

Zhang Song: ......

Zhang Song was a little suspicious, this guy already had some hysteria - but it can also be seen that deep down in Liu Zhang's heart, he should understand that he was making something out of nothing, secretly Chen Cang, imagining out of thin air, and fabricating out of thin air......

Therefore, after blowing for a long time, the final order fell on "sticking to it", rather than really going down the river and slaughtering Chu.

Zhang Song also silently told himself in his heart: I am a national scholar, I am Yanzi, you are Linggong, Zhuang Gong, Jinggong, I can also assist you, I am not afraid of pits, I am not afraid of pits, I am not afraid of pits......

I can vaguely hear that when Zhang Song was ordered to leave to pass the order, Liu Zhang was still muttering about the "rumors" of the Chu State to persuade himself to calm down one by one!

Liu Zhang's subordinate military generals are definitely not comparable to the Chu State, before Bai Tu and Xiahou Juan worked all night to use their brains, and they made up something nonsense, which is definitely not comparable to Chu Wei.

However, the configuration of Yizhou Mansion at this time is indeed not weak, and even before Bai Tu, countless beards were cut off, and countless talents who should have flowed into Xichuan now were left in the Chu State, and they were still stronger than Jingzhou Mansion in its heyday.

Even comparable to Liu Bei, Marquis of Qi, even if it is slightly inferior, it is better than other Yonghou, Saihou, Gongsun Kang, Zhang Lu and others......

Perhaps in terms of force, no one under Liu Zhang's command can defeat Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, and no one can defeat Zhang Yan's strategist Sima Yi in terms of wisdom.

However, it is a rare civil and military system, from the general who has an overview of the overall situation and commands the three armies, to the county officials at the grassroots level, Yizhou is not lacking, and the whole is very stable.

Although it is precisely because of the stability that Liu Zhang's transformation into a warlord is not complete, and his control over the counties under his rule is weak, this is not the main reason for Yizhou's weakness, and the most prominent problem is that Liu Zhang's incompetence has dragged down Yizhou's civil and military ......

For example, at this time, Ba County's Taishou Yan Yan said that he could talk to Huang Zhong, which is nonsense, but he is not talking about it!

Yan Yan himself is also good at sticking, but because he didn't have too much defense before, Yan Yan is still sitting in Jiangzhou City, the seat of governance in Ba County.

Don't look at the romance, after Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang broke through the Kuimen and divided the soldiers into two ways, it seemed that they arrived in Jiangzhou the next day and fought with Yan Yan.

In fact, "Shuojiang River and conquer Padang" is by no means so simple.

From Qutangguan to Jiangzhou, even if it is two points and one line, the shortest distance, it has to pass through the five counties of Yufu, Quren, Linjiang, Pingdu and Tongxian......

No matter in history or now, if Ba County is strictly defended from the beginning, it will be difficult for the Jingzhou army to enter.

However, in the same way, whether it is history or the present, there is no "if" - when Yan Yan got the urgent report from Qutang Pass, the orders of the city capital had not yet arrived in Jiangzhou!

In fact, since the Chu State occupied Jingzhou, Yan Yan repeatedly asked for permission to expand his army in Ba County, especially Qutang Pass.

However, neither Liu Zhang nor the wealthy families of Yizhou cared about this matter, the Yizhou government was unwilling to increase this expense, and the wealthy families of Ba County were even more opposed to Yan Yan transferring Jiangzhou's soldiers and horses to Qutang Pass - after all, the richest area in Ba County was Jiangzhou, and this was their foundation.

The reason why Qutang Pass is now more precautionary than the Qutang Pass attacked by Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei in history is mainly because it is necessary to guard against caravans trading privately between Ba County and Chu State!

Quren County is a large salt-producing county - it produces well salt, and because of technical reasons, the cost is much higher than that of sea salt in Chu State.

Therefore, the powerful and wealthy families in Padang themselves support the "boycott of Chu goods".

Even if it was Gan's family, after all, he was still mixing in Ba County, and he didn't dare to commit this public anger, and after being held down twice, he didn't think about it anymore.

In contrast, the wealthy families of Shu County were more disgusted by Jiangdong brocade - again, this kind of brocade was not only of higher quality, but also extremely low cost, which hit Shu brocade hard.

Gan's ...... In this regard, he was even more afraid to speak, after all, when Jiangdong Jin started, Gan's family also sent a lot of weavers to Gan Ning.

It is precisely because the quality of Jiangdong brocade is too high, but no one suspects that Gan's collaborator with the enemy, after all, Gan's own technology is not that kind of technology, as a wealthy family in Badong, Gan's two strokes in brocade are not first-class in Yizhou at all!

As for the establishment of a split family in Jiangdong, it is common among wealthy families, and no one is holding on to it.

"Boycotting Chu goods" does cut off some people's financial routes, but in general, it is in the interests of most wealthy families in Yizhou, so it will be implemented so efficiently in Yizhou.

But...... With just some anti-smuggling troops, trying to block the attack of Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong is obviously a fool's dream!