At this time, Mo Lin's reminder immediately attracted the attention of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, of course, he knew that the common people could not lack salt, and even the soldiers could not lack it.

Because when the Ming border army was paid, it also included salt.

After carefully reading the letters handed over by Shizi and Guo Zi, Zhu Di decisively chose Zhu Gaoxu to escort Mo Lin to Changli County, Yongping.

The task he gave the two of them was, first, to recruit soldiers in the local area and recruit strong men as soldiers, and second, to set the salt for military control, which would be distributed by Beiping in the future.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't think much about receiving the task, took his own 1,000 soldiers and horses, and asked for 1,000 horses from Qiu Fuzhong's army, a total of 2,000 horses, to escort Mo Lin to Changli County.

Zhu Gaoxu originally had more than 800 people, divided into four cavalry teams of 100 men and four infantry teams.

The cavalry was led by Wang Bin, Wei Da, Song Meng, and Zhou Hu, and the infantry was led by Sheng Jian, Wang You, Zhang Jie, and Zheng Xing.

After the Battle of Huailai, Zhu Gaoxu took the opportunity to surrender another batch of people, enough for 1,000 people.

Chen Wen and the newly surrendered Yang Yun each led a team of 100 people.

After the Battle of Huailai, King Yan got more than 8,000 horses, and Zhu Gaoxu asked for hundreds of war horses to come over on the grounds of escorting Mo Lin, so that all his 1,000 soldiers and horses became cavalry.

Zhu Gaoxu himself led Wang Bin, Wei Da, Song Meng, Zhou Hu, and Chen Wen to ride 500 horses.

Xu Xiang led Sheng Jian, Wang You, Zhang Jie, Zheng Xing, and Yang Yun to ride five hundred horses.

In this way, all of Zhu Gaoxu's generals are currently in the formation, and they can be regarded as all his cronies.

On the 19th, Zhu Gaoxu and Mo Lin came to Kaiping.

The full name of Kaiping is Kaiping Zhongtunwei, and it is also the place where Song Zhong stationed troops before.

This place is in the west of Changli County, to the west can attack Beiping, retreat can defend Yongping.

When Zhu Gaoxu arrived, it was already close to dusk, he discussed with Mo Lin, and decided to stay in Kaiping at night and go to Changli County the next day.

That night, Zhu Gaoxu invited Mo Lin to a banquet, but Mo Lin politely refused, because it would make the civil officials in Beiping generally resist the generals in the army.

The next day, Zhu Gaoxu continued to set off, before he was riding a horse with Mo Lin, this time he directly ignored Mo Lin and rushed forward with a group of generals.

Mo Lin was not in a hurry, and followed behind the army slowly.

Seeing that there was no Mo Lin by his side, Xu Xiang and Chen Wen followed Zhu Gaoxu one after another, slowly distanced themselves from the large army, and the three of them walked side by side.

"It is ominous to kill and surrender without permission, and the king of Gaoyang should refuse King Yan that day." Xu Xiang said in a deep voice at this time.

On that day, King Yan originally asked Tan Yuan and Xue Liu to deal with the surrender of troops, but suddenly called Zhu Gaoxu again, Xu Xiangjue, Zhu Gaoxu should politely refuse.

Xu Xiang said again: "The officers and soldiers here and we are all brothers, and everyone is transferred back and forth in various guards, many of them are acquaintances, and even fellow villagers. ”

"The king of Gaoyang County has killed so many generals in public, I'm afraid that the impact will not be good."

Zhu Gaoxu's face was not good-looking, and he sighed: "My father has an order, how can I refuse to be a son." ”

"This is to let His Highness be a villain, what does King Yan think." Chen Wen also said at this time.

He spoke openly, and he didn't know if it was intentional, and Xu Xiang's face changed slightly.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know what King Yan thought, but he had already seen that King Yan was really good at routines, and he really had the ability to succeed in rebellion in history, because he was a good hand at playing military and politics, and he had to be more careful.

"Father must have his reason, let's not speculate, because any speculation is meaningless, the current major event, or unity, hit the Jingshi, Fengtian is difficult." Zhu Gaoxu said categorically.

Xu Xiang immediately asked, "Does the King of Gaoyang County think it will be successful?" ”

Chen Wen also looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu laughed: "My father's destiny is destined by God, but the two generals, you should think about this king, where to put the fief in the future is more refreshing." ”

Xu Xiang was really thinking about it, and after thinking about it, he smiled and said, "It's best to be Jiangnan." ”

Chen Wen remained silent: "I look at Jingshi better." ”

“。。” Xu Xiang.

"Hahaha." Zhu Gaoxu laughed, clamped the horse hard, and took the lead in accelerating, and the two behind him immediately followed.

When Chen Wen ran, he waved his hand back, and immediately two hundred horsemen quickly followed.

The three of them followed quickly, because Zhu Gaoxu's war horse was the best, and he had to slow down and wait for them from time to time.

Around noon, the three of them arrived in Changli County first.

When Zhu Gaoxu arrived at the county seat, he found that the city gate was closed, and there were generals guarding it, and when he heard that it was the Yan army, the guards came out to look and look, and after confirming that it was the Yan army, he opened the city gate.

Changli County is closer than Yongping to Shanhaiguan, so the people here are very afraid that the officials and troops of Shanhaiguan will come over.

It was stipulated in the city that the gates should be opened only for one hour a day, and that they should leave the city for half an hour in the morning and return to the city for half an hour in the afternoon.

The gates are closed the rest of the time.

Zhu Gaoxu took 200 people into the city, and when he asked, he found out that the county order had run away, and there was a king master book left in the city, this king master book was almost sixty years old, and he was originally the third in command.

Guo Liang of Yongping recommended him as the new county commander on the spot according to Zhu Di's intentions.

According to Zhu Di's request, Zhu Gaoxu asked Wang County to immediately organize the recruitment of the county's elites, and draw one ding for every ten households and make it a family member.

Half of the family will be used to defend the city, and half will be drafted into the army.

Wang Xian ordered them to agree one by one.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu had already discovered that the Chinese people were really easy to control, whether it was conscription or conscription, or recruiting soldiers, no matter how many they drew one, everyone was honest.

If Zhu Gaoxu is allowed to do this, he will definitely give the selected family a field, and it is best for each household to take turns to draw troops, now that he thinks about it, he seems to be too merciful.

After meeting the county order, Zhu Gaoxu asked the newly appointed local inspector to take them to the salt factory.

The salt field of Changli County is in the north of the Hulu River (later called the Luan River).

The Hulu River is connected to the Bohai Sea in the east, and the salt field is on the seaside, and the salt water is directly drawn from the Bohai Sea for drying.

After arriving at the scene, Zhu Gaoxu saw that there were thousands of acres of salt works, but there were not many workers (stove households), only two or three hundred.

According to the inspector surnamed Liu, after the outbreak of the war, many people ran to Shanhaiguan, and some people ran to Jinhai.

Salt production is now much lower, and half of it is unmanned.

It's summer, and it was supposed to be the best season for drying salt, but it's a war, and everyone is scared and can't do anything.

Zhu Gaoxu asked, how much salt is still in the salt farm?

Inspector Liu took him to the warehouse of the local salt department to check, but found that none of them were stationed, and the gate of the scene was still open.

However, when you go inside, you can see that a large amount of salt is scattered on the ground, and a lot of salt is piled up.

Obviously, someone has robbed and taken a lot of salt in private, but now there is no one to care about it.

Liu was a local green-skinned hooligan before, and the previous inspector ran away, and he was temporarily appointed as an inspector.

He himself found an opportunity to come here and tow a few truckloads of salt home.

So it's a lot of chaos right now.

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while, and said slowly: "In the afternoon, officials from Beiping came here to reorganize the salt field and the salt department, you go and call everyone together, listen to Lord Houmo's lecture, during this time, you must take care of the warehouse, don't let people steal anymore, if you continue to steal, it will be almost gone." ”