Liu Tai patiently arranged the game against Shi Le and began to wait for Shi Le to prepare for the end.

As for the matter of salt stamps, in ancient times, it would not really shake the rule of a regime.

After all, it only drains the liquidity of the upper level for a short time, but for the people at the bottom, because they can't access such a large denomination of currency, there is nothing to do.

After all, if you want to do business with Liu Tai, for the convenience of trading, you will inevitably gradually use the salt ticket, a reputation currency with stable value.

Especially when Liu Tai's luxury goods flowed to Shi Le's Han family, if he still followed the barter trading method, there would be a lot of unnecessary losses on the road, as long as he made a transaction, then the flexible merchant would quickly accept the salt ticket.

But it is undeniable that the family in this era took the route of the feudal manor economy, basically under the role of the dock fort, as long as the manor is still there, the manor itself can support the family for a long time.

Even for some families, these liquidity funds are gone, and their wealthy families look down on these money.

But it cannot be denied that as long as Liu Tai occupies the places where these families are located, these food stamps, which became waste paper under Shile, will directly become money that can be spent under Liu Tai's rule.

No one likes to lose money, and they don't like to lose money even more with these families.

Originally, they could completely help each other and sit and watch Liu Tai and Shi Le compete.

It's a big deal to wait until which side competes for victory, and then surrender to the winner, after all, the family is like this, and there is no shame.

But now, because of Liu Tai's operation, they suddenly found out that Shi Le and Liu Tai had not started fighting, and they had inexplicably invested in Liu Tai, at least if Liu Tai was destroyed by Shi Le, would Shi Le admit the salt ticket in his hand?

Not to mention, if Shi Le and Liu Tai are in a stalemate, and he is on Shi Le's side, will Liu Tai still exchange salt tickets?

Even they were a little worried, if they didn't help Liu Tai, would Liu Tai still recognize these food stamps after defeating Shile?

Even they understand that this is a good system for Liu Tai to control the family, but the family is the family, and the individual is the individual.

Such a salt ticket system may survive, but won't it be a small reckoning!

It can be said that this is enough to make some originally neutral families waver slightly, or even biased.

It is not because Shi Le is of the Qiang nationality and Liu Tai is of the Han nationality that everyone is biased towards Liu Tai because of the Wenhua habits of the same race, but because the two sides have common interests and favor Liu Tai.

And this is Liu Tai's positioning of the family, Liu Tai does not expect the family to be loyal again, but at least our interests are one.

And Shi Le understood this, and Liu Tai's plan caused his regime to have a large number of salt votes in hand.

As long as there are people who doubt this thing, the salt ticket will not be used, but if these people do not doubt it, Shi Le can be sure that where Liu Tai's army goes, the family under his rule will support it.

Liu Tai's hand not only destroyed the normality of his rule, but more importantly, he inexplicably created a rift between himself and the family.

Of course, if Schleken had paid for it, these families would have supported Schler.

But Shile can't fill so many families, and as for only one family, if this kind of thing is done, it will definitely lead to detachment.

Therefore, now Shi Le is forced to fight Liu Tai or surrender Liu Tai.

The purpose of destroying Liu Tai is to give confidence to the family, and as for surrendering Liu Tai, then the local family has nothing to worry about.

In other words, Liu Tai's move actually played the role of a catalyst.

Either he was determined to surrender himself, or he was determined to destroy himself.

Liu Tai knew very well that with his announcement against the Xiongnu Han State, no, it was to defend the Han Dynasty.

Then we must take the entire north of the Yellow River into our own hands as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if he has been entangled with Shi Le for a long time, who knows how Liu Yao and Zu Ti in the south will react.

As for Shi Le, if he is really willing to surrender and send all this entire foundation to his own hands, he is not Sima Yi, he must be a man of his word, just like Liu Bang divided Yongya and Liu Xiu let Zhu Kun go, and he is willing to give Shi Le a lot of wealth.

At that time, Wang Mi's revenge will not be a problem, after all, the public enmity is greater than the mortal enmity.

But Liu Tai judged that Shile would not choose to surrender to him.

Because everyone is a person who has climbed up from the bottom, and there are a few people who are willing to give up the military power in their hands, hand over their lives to others, and let others take the initiative in their own destiny.

Liu Tai felt that he was the same kind of person as Shi Le, and compared to himself, a guy who was an anti-thief son, Shi Le's slave start was not much better.

At least to the extent that he was held by the other party's throat, then even if he died, he would bite the other party.

Therefore, Liu Tai waited patiently for Shi Le, gambling that Shi Le has ambition and dares to fight, and when he falls into adversity, he will find a way to hold the throat of fate and change his fate!

In the following time, the entire Qinghe County began to be lively under the management of Yuan Yan, even because it was originally an important hub for transactions between Liu Tai and Shi Le.

Therefore, when the news of Shile's surrender to Liu Tai was delivered, the people of Qinghe County breathed a sigh of relief, and took the initiative to assist Yuanyan in organizing this ceremony.

And in the expectation of everyone, Shi Le successfully gathered his soldiers in all sides, and wrote to Liu Tai that he would send all the soldiers and horses over to Liu Tai to count, and I, Shi Le, also wanted to contribute to the defense of the Han Dynasty.

This letter was naturally sent to Liu Ming, and after Liu Ming saw this letter, he naturally understood Liu Tai's worries.

Liu Tai has handed over all the rights in Qinghe County to Liu Ming, as long as Liu Ming covers his absence in Qinghe County.

So only verbally, let the person who played Liu Tai tell the messenger through the curtain, and the messenger went back to report to Shile.

This made Shi Le a little suspicious in his heart, but Shi Le was originally a suspicious person, and everything would turn in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

Soon, it was the day when Shi Le came to Qinghe to surrender to Liu Tai, and Liu Ming told Yuan Yan that Liu Tai would wait for Shi Le in Qinghe County, and allowed Shi Le to bring 500 guards into the city.

Seeing Liu Ming's attitude, Yuan Yan thought for a while, but he also felt that Shi Le's five hundred guards were enough.

Therefore, Yuan Yan went to meet Shi Le outside the city, and at the same time told Liu Ming's conditions.

When Shi Le heard this, he said, "This is naturally as it should be, but please give us the gift first!" ”

Shi Le clapped his hands, and soon saw a large wave of cattle, sheep and horses in the army.

"These livestock are my gifts to the King of Qi, let these gifts go into the city first, and I and five hundred guards will follow immediately!"

Yuan Yan didn't suspect Shi Le, and after greeting the guards on the city wall, he saw these cattle, sheep and horses entering the city one after another.

I have to say that this time Shi Le was quite bloody, and there were a lot of cattle, sheep and horses, until they pushed the wooden carts to the city gate and the cost of the urn city one after another, these cars were directly stuck on the city gate.

At the same time, these soldiers beat the livestock fiercely, and the livestock were suddenly in chaos, and the city gate of Qinghe County could not be closed!

"Brothers, our glory and wealth are in this day!" Shi Le couldn't help but shout as he looked at the scene in front of him.

With Shi Le's words, Kong Chang led his war department to take the lead and directly kill this Qinghe County city!

"This, this, this!" At this moment, Yuan Yan looked at the big changes in front of him with an ugly expression, but he decisively saluted Shi Le beside him and said,

"King Zhao, you can suffer me, Qinghe County, which I have worked hard to govern for several years, I am afraid that it will be destroyed in one fell swoop today!"

When Shi Le heard Yuan Yan's words, he glanced at Yuan Yan and said with a smile:

"Don't worry about the wall, after the war, this place still needs you to govern, and it will be more than just a position of the Taishou in the future!"

Yuan Yan looked at the situation in front of him, knowing that at least for a short time, this situation had been controlled by Shile.

In this case, Yuan Yan showed his value as soon as possible, saying that he was there, and the aftermath could be handed over to him.

It can only be said that under the usual safety situation, Yuan Yan's IQ is only the level of an ordinary person, and he has no suspicion that Liu Ming sent someone to pretend to be Liu Tai to deceive him.

But as long as it falls into a crisis situation, Yuanyan will calm down, and the IQ will rise sharply, and the more critical the situation, the calmer Yuanyan will deal with it.

And Yuan Yan and Shi Le have no hatred, not even a political enemy, at most they are just a messenger, and they were originally just a middleman between Liu Tai and Shi Le.

Na Shile had the upper hand, and he took refuge in Shile to settle down first, but it was nothing.

So Yuan Yan decisively said with a bit of flattery, "Thank you for the gift of King Zhao, Yuan Yan is grateful." ”

Shi Le looked at Yuan Yan's knowledge, but he didn't say anything more, but set his eyes on Qinghe County.

In any case, Shi Le knew very well that Liu Tai occupied the land of the three continents, and if he didn't take Liu Tai down, then if he wanted to fight Liu Tai, he was afraid that the experience price he would have to pay would be too high.

After all, the Yecheng where he is located, for Liu Tai, is almost a flat river with no danger to defend.

Liu Tai was afraid of Shi Le's cavalry, and Shi Le was also afraid of Liu Tai's undefeated golden body.

So this time in the collision, Shiler can be doing his best.

Soon, Kong Chang led his troops and horses to enter Qinghe County with the help of the opportunity of the wooden cart blocking the door and not closing.

The Qinghe County soldiers of Yuanyan collapsed at the touch of a moment when they were in chaos, and they couldn't form half a point of resistance at all.

But after Kong Chang's command rushed into Qinghe County, in front of them were rows of soldiers dressed in silver armor.

These soldiers are tall and well-armed, and it is clear that their commands are all elite in Shile's army, but when facing these soldiers in armor, they can't help but feel inferior!

"Kill! They have been trapped in this city, and the outside are all our people, killing a Han soldier will reward ten gold, and killing Liu Tai can be ten thousand households! ”

At this time, Kong Chang announced Shi Le's reward for Liu Tai, thus stimulating the willpower of the soldiers.

I have to say that stimulated by wealth, these soldiers are also red-eyed one by one.

For these low-level soldiers, the promise made by their general will definitely come true, which is the experience and inertia accumulated over many years of following Kong Chang to cut people.

Therefore, these soldiers will definitely not lack courage and fighting spirit at least in a short period of time, and they will fight bravely forward!

However, Kong Chang looked at the armor of Liu Tai's army in front of him and understood that as long as Liu Tai's army was not extinguished, it would be very difficult for him to eat this group of people.

After all, what kind of defense will a soldier with metal scale armor have, his own soldiers don't know, don't he, a general wearing scale armor, still don't know!?

So Kong Chang immediately asked the scout to report to Shile, explain the situation here, and ask for support!

In fact, it is indeed as Kong Chang expected, the soldiers under his command are already considered elite, and the weapons in their hands are at least excellent among the Shile army, but the weapons in their hands are sonorous when they cut on the scale armor of this soldier, if anyone really cuts through the opponent's fish scale armor, it is very rare!

What made Kong Chang feel even more incredible was that the elite under Liu Tai's command, they held iron knives in both hands, and although the soldiers under his command were not wearing fish scale armor like themselves, they were also wearing hard leather armor.

But in the face of the blades in the opponent's hands, the leather armor on the soldiers' bodies seemed to be fake, and they were directly cut by the opponent's sharp two-handed machetes, and the blood splashed, which was quite irresistible.

Obviously, the soldiers under his command have armor on their bodies, but at this moment, they seem to be just unarmored cannon fodder!

Kong Chang was happy and surprised in his heart, Kong Chang was sure that Liu Tai was in this city, after all, except for Liu Tai, whose guards were wearing such elite armor and had such a sharp blade that ignored armor.

So Kong Chang gritted his teeth and commanded his own guards to go up, after all, his reinforcements were endless, and Liu Tai could be trapped in the lonely city!

At this moment, Shi Le also looked anxiously at the situation in the city, originally thinking that after taking the city gate and the urn city, Kong Chang's troops drove straight in, and they should soon take down the opponent.

But he didn't expect that Kong Chang had been in for so long, and the killing shouts in Qinghe County had not stopped.

This made Shi Le a little undecided, and he didn't know what was going on inside!

And at this time, Kong Chang's envoy came to ask to see Shi Le, and Shi Le hurriedly said, "Spread quickly! ”

When Shi Le saw Kong Chang's envoy, he immediately spoke, "What's going on inside?" ”

"After General Kong Chang passed through the urn city, he was stubbornly resisted by Liu Tai's army, these soldiers were wearing fish scale armor and holding two-handed sharp blades, General Kong Chang asked for support, otherwise our army was afraid that it would be killed and retreated by Liu Tai's army!"

"Kong Dolphin, the two of you each led 5,000 headquarters to support Kong Chang, Liu Zheng, Liu Bao, and Zhang Chofu, you lead the troops to control the four gates of Qinghe!" Shi Le gave orders to the troops under his command, and his expression was a little calm!

"Order!" The generals under Shile's command received orders one after another at this time.

Shi Le didn't let his troops fill it in again, because Qinghe County restricted all his troops from being put in, and it was definitely not that Shi Le was afraid of death.

But in any case, with the confirmation of the armor on Liu Tai's army, Shi Le can be sure that Liu Tai is definitely in Qinghe County.

After all, what is the fish scale armor, even if he doesn't dare to say that all the generals above the captain level are wearing it, it turns out that the entire army here is wearing fish scale armor, and it is strange if it is not Liu Tai's personal guard!

And as Shi Le began to recruit troops towards Qinghe County, at this time, a burst of red fireworks began to rise in Qinghe County.

"Send scouts to inspect the surrounding twenty miles, Liu Tai must have prepared an ambush to deal with Qinghe County!"

Shi Le's face changed as he watched the rising wolf smoke, and even at this moment, Shi Le still firmly believed that Liu Tai was in Qinghe County.

(End of chapter)