The winter of the third year of Guangxi seems destined to be an eventful season for the nascent Jin Kingdom.

First of all, there was a sudden riot in Yuyang City, and many places were burned on fire, disrupting the normal life of the local people; then there was a mutiny in the army of Ma Teng in Wuwei, Ma Teng was killed, and two of the left, center, and right armies actually fell into the hands of Han Sui. Without waiting for the neighboring Liang Kingdom to respond, a larger crisis against the Jin Kingdom suddenly broke out.

At that time, Jia Xu and the generals of Liangguo had already predicted the changing situation in Ma Teng's army, and the Shadow Team members lived up to their trust and rescued Ma Teng's two sons. As soon as Pang De, who was sent to the west of Wuwei, came into contact with the rebellious Qiang people who were pretending to be a big deal, he found that the Qiang people were just a rabble, and when he was about to return to the army, he suddenly received a warning letter from Peng Jian. Pang De hurriedly led 10,000 cavalry to the south along the edge of the West Sea (Qinghai Lake), entered the Linqiang area of Jincheng County controlled by the Liangguo army, and then sent his henchmen to Guzang to inquire about the news.

After learning that Ma Teng had indeed died, and that the military power of the Chinese army and the right army had been seized by Han Sui, Pang De guessed the cause and effect of Ma Teng's attack. He didn't believe the results of Han Sui and others at all, saying that the arrows in Ma Teng's body were the standard weapons of the Jin Kingdom, and the spearhead of the assassination of Ma Teng was directly aimed at the Jin Kingdom. Because Pang De clearly remembered that when Ma Chao came back from a long-distance attack on Wuyuan last year, the three thousand cavalry were equipped with the standard equipment of the Jin State, and most of these cavalry are now in the Chinese army represented by Yan Xing.

According to the simple logic of who benefits the most and whose suspicion is the greatest, Han Sui, who has mastered 20,000 cavalry, is undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary, and Peng Jian has listed Han Sui's recent abnormal behavior in Ma Teng's mansion one by one in a secret letter, so Pang De firmly believes that Han Sui is the mastermind behind this mutiny.

Soon after Pang De entered Jincheng with 10,000 soldiers and horses, Hu Che'er came with 10,000 Huangxuan cavalry to express his condolences. Hu Che'er clearly demarcated a large area of territory for Pang De's army as a temporary shelter, and suggested that Pang De stay still and see what Han Sui's next move was. As for the matter of avenging the main male horse Teng, Hu Che'er also very sincerely dissuaded everything and waited for Ma Chao to return to Xiliang before making a decision.

The friendly actions of the Liang army made Pang De understand Han Sui's sinister intentions even more, and he carefully analyzed and reviewed all kinds of abnormal behaviors since the reorganization of the Western Liang army, and found that all changes began to occur after Ma Teng secretly met with him and Han Sui.

Soon after, Pang De saw Ma Teng's two young sons who were rescued, Ma Dai, Ma Tie, and Ma Xiu had learned the tragic news that their father or uncle had been assassinated, and when they met, they hugged their heads and cried, gritting their teeth and waiting for their eldest brother Ma Chao to come back and slash the enemy.

Not long after pacifying Pang De and the two little princes, half of the forces of the Blue Wolf Army, Huang Xu's Division, and the vanguard army that had been secretly assembled were preparing to press on Wuwei Guzang with a thunderous momentum, and as a result, a greater change completely put the troops of the Jin Kingdom, Youzhou and Liang States into a state of high alert and tension.

Zhuge Liang's nationwide salt ban campaign has finally broken out!

Because the state forces that had secretly formed an offensive and defensive alliance with the imperial court had sufficient time to prepare, they had a clear understanding of the strongholds of the four seas trading warehouses distributed within the state, so when they received the order to synchronize the action at the appointed time, the action was very accurate and neat, and almost wiped out the merchants of the Jin State distributed in other states, and a large number of Jin goods that had not yet been sold, including high-quality snowflake salt, were all confiscated by the state ministers.

In the states where the actions were more thorough and vicious, such as Jizhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou, and the Sili region, these officials who carried out the task took a lot of effort to empty the goods stored in the warehouses of the Jin State, and roughly counted, Yuzhou, which had the smallest harvest, actually confiscated more than three million taels of silver.

By the time the news reached the Jin Kingdom, the Liang Kingdom, and Zhao Xing, who was still on his way back, the situation had become even more severe.

The four most hated forces of the Jin State and Zhao Xing in the Sili region, Yuan Shao in Jizhou, Yuan Shu in Yangzhou, and Sima Fang in Yizhou mercilessly executed all the captured merchants of the Jin State, and rows of bloody heads hung on the doorways of each city, so that the people in the past were terrified after seeing it.

Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Liu Yan of Yuzhou were a little more timid and fearful, and symbolically killed some merchants, but secretly showed mercy to the main person in charge and the merchants of the Jin Kingdom with prominent family backgrounds, and quietly expelled them and let them escape back to the Jin Kingdom.

The most slippery ones are Cao Cao in Yanzhou and Sun Jian in Wuzhou. Cao Cao's seizure of the Jin State Commercial Bank was also very strong, but he only took advantage of it and did not kill anyone, and the Jin merchants who were active in Yanzhou were all arrested by him and imprisoned in the military prison. In order to cope with the interrogation of the imperial court, Cao Cao had death row prisoners in government prisons in various places executed, and these heads were used to pose as Jin merchants.

Sun Jian didn't plan to completely tear his face with the Jin Kingdom from the beginning, so he had Lu Su's advice. When the salt ban movement broke out, Sun Jian asked the counties to release the wind to these Jin merchants a few days in advance, asking them to flee quickly and return to the Jin Kingdom, and as for the items stored in the warehouse, Sun Jian asked them to be sealed. Wuzhou is rich in products and the people are rich, Sun Jian did not pay attention to these benefits obtained from the seizure of the Jin State Trade Warehouse, he just felt that acting like this would not bring ruin to the Sun family in the future.

Zhao Xing, who had already led the team into the territory of the Jin Kingdom, first received an urgent report from Liang Guo to Jia Xu in the area of Pingcheng, and learned that Ma Teng was dead, Han Sui judged that Zhao Xing did not show too much anger, but felt that such a result was not a good thing, which could not only clear the obstacles to the westward advance of the army under the pretext of avenging Ma Teng, but also completely subdue the hearts of the five tigers of the Ma family.

In order to prevent Ma Chao from making irrational moves under impulse, Zhao Xing did not tell him the shocking news of Ma Teng's murder at first, but continued to lead the team south. When Zhao Xing came to Yangqu, another urgent piece of information came, but the report was that the foreign states and the imperial court were working together to seize the Sihai trade warehouse, arrest the merchants of the Jin Kingdom, and carry out a huge salt ban campaign. At this time, Zhao Xing was already a little difficult to contain his anger, but he had already predicted this result when he was selling salt in other states without the consent of the imperial court at the beginning, so he could still hold back this evil breath.

When Zhao Xing came to Jinyang City, the most astonishing piece of information came: the merchants of the Jin Kingdom who walked in various states were killed in large numbers, and all the goods were confiscated by the local government!

This time, Zhao Xing could no longer restrain his emotions, and he stood in the Jin King's Mansion very rarely, and scolded for a whole hour. Rude words such as "Niang Xipi", "Fake Squid", "Biche", "Fuck His Mother", "Greetings to the Eighteenth Generation of the Ancestors of the Bastards" and so on, one after another, popped out of the mouth of the originally elegant and handsome Taifu, only to hear the children of Liu Rong and Zhao Xing, the king of Jin, stunned.

I don't blame Zhao Xing for being so angry, just because he really didn't expect the imperial court and the states to do things so desperately! I Zhao Xing can understand the seizure of the Chamber of Commerce, and I Zhao Xing also recognized the person who arrested me, just let the Jin State pay a sum of money to redeem it, but you cut melons and vegetables and kill all the "money rakes" I scattered to all the states across the country, isn't this fucking cutting off my financial route!

Zhao Xing, who was furious, then calmed down, left behind the female dependents and the large team of the family group, and took Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Dian Wei, Pang Tong and others without saying a word, and rode fast horses in the direction of Crouching Tiger City.

Zhao Xing wants to rush back to Crouching Tiger City as soon as possible, sit in the center, and command a huge counterattack!