After Li Hongji and Li Congjia left, Li Jing said, "General Murong, is there a response to that matter?"

"What's the matter?"

"Nonsense, of course it's a matter of the Kunlun faction's head Xue Wang assassinating Zong Xin, what do you think I will talk to you about? You have almost no value in existence now except for contacting King Xue. All the military salaries, grain and grass are mine, otherwise your army will not survive this winter. Li Jing didn't give Murong Yanchao face at all, but Murong Yanchao also understood it, because Li Jing was originally a person who picked on the door, he himself was terribly poor, and now he has to support other people, of course he doesn't feel good in his heart.

Murong Yanchao raised 40,000 troops in Xuzhou, which was originally an unreasonable thing, and the small city of Xuzhou could not support so many soldiers. Although he increased taxes in Xuzhou City, he still couldn't support so many soldiers, at first Murong Yanchao spent his own savings, until Zong Xin summoned heavy snow, Murong Yanchao had almost no choice, and his money was simply not enough to buy cotton clothes for all the soldiers for the winter.

Until now, it has been more than two months, and the entire hundreds of thousands of troops in Xuzhou have eaten, drank, and clothed all the money spent by Li Jing. Li Jing has no spare strength, because the Datang treasury has been in a state of loss, and now Zongxin has made public the salt law and stopped sharing it to everyone......

At this time, Li Jing knew that he was in a hurry, and at this time Li Jing knew that the so-called sharing was, all the money belonged to Zongxin, and Zongxin loved to give it to whomever he wanted. At the beginning, Zong Xin was worried that he would look red and rob him halfway, so he gave him 20% of the profits.

Now that the trade route is peaceful, with the name of Lei Hong and Gu Guozhang, the two black giants, protecting Yandao, no one dares to rob Yandao at all, because these two people control almost all the bandits and bandits in the entire Central Plains, how can they rob themselves. Therefore, no matter where the salt is lost, they will not look for local bandits and bandits, but directly find local officials, because the people who dare to rob Salt Island do not have the courage and strength to do so except for officials.

Lei Hong, Gu Guozhang, Zong Xin, if these three people provoke one of them, they can make the creator go up in smoke, and now these three people have a joint business, who dares to provoke them? Even Li Jing does not dare to rob Zong Xin's salt, because Gu Guozhang can control all the bandits in the entire Tang Dynasty to rob everywhere, and Li Jing will only be more troublesome at that time.

What's more, the salt tax is still a very important pillar tax of Datang, and Li Jing will not only not destroy it, but also support Zongxin and Yandao. If Zongxin's salt does not come to Datang, it will not only affect Li Jing's taxes, but also affect the lives of Datang residents.

Li Jing hated Zong Xin to the core, but he didn't dare to provoke him, so he had to ask Murong Yanchao to contact King Xue to assassinate Zong Xin. If Zongxin disappears, this battle will be won.

Murong Yanchao sighed: "I have already received a reply, a letter sent by my father-in-law from Kunlun Mountain, he said that he could promise this matter, but my father-in-law said it...... Maybe by the time he comes, the battle has already been decided, so it doesn't matter whether he comes or not. ”

Li Jing said depressedly: "I deliberately wrote a reply letter just because I didn't want to offend Zongxin, I can understand this." If he really intended to assassinate, he didn't need to send a letter over, but went directly to Weizhou to take down Zongxin's head, and then personally sent it to Xuzhou to negotiate terms with me. The matter is urgent, and deliberately delaying it means refusal, but he doesn't want to say it explicitly. ”

"So I haven't responded to the matter. Murong Yanchao was not stupid, he saw his father-in-law's intention to refuse, so he didn't tell Li Jing about it, because he was afraid that he would be angry.

Li Jing said: "Okay, although Zongxin is powerful, he can't control the war on his own. Unless Zong Xin learns to sprinkle beans into soldiers, it is only a matter of time before Weizhou will be broken. I believe that Zong Xin has tried all means to protect Wei Zhou at this time, but there is no way to know whether Wei Zhou is broken, I really hope that the battle report will arrive soon, I really want to see Zong Xin defeated. ”

"We just wait here for the good news from Weizhou, and we hardly need to do anything more. After Weizhou conquers Kaifeng Bianliang City, we can also sleep with peace of mind. "Murong Yanchao hasn't slept well in recent months, and every time he sleeps, he feels scared, afraid that he will die of cold and starvation, because this is Zongxin's criticism, and only by killing him can this ending be completely avoided.

Of course, as long as Liu Chong sits firmly, this kind of thing can also be avoided. What Murong Yanchao is most afraid of is the way he is now, the soldiers under his hands are all dependent on others to eat, if there is no Li Jing, he will really be cold and hungry now.

Murong Yanchao didn't dare to be afraid, because Zongxin's criticism was too accurate. So far, I have not heard of a single criticism of Zongxin that has not been fulfilled. Zongxin said that he would die of cold and starvation, which was one of the most tragic ways to die, and I don't know how long this pain would last......

Li Jing said: "But to be honest, I'm still more worried about the situation in Weizhou. After the last war report came out, I felt panicked. Liu Chong was scheming but not brave, and he would be beaten to the ground by more than 10,000 people, fortunately, there was a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, otherwise the whole army would be annihilated. ”

"Yes, Zongxin's soldiers are like gods, if the eldest brother doesn't pay attention to it, I'm afraid it won't be difficult to surround Weizhou, but it's not easy to capture Weizhou. Murong Yanchao said: "In fact, there is such a huge difference in strength, it shouldn't be difficult to attack the city directly." If it were me, I would close my eyes and fight directly, so that no matter what poisonous plan Zong Xin set up, as long as I opened the city gate, I would win. ”

"Stupid. Li Jing said: "When the strength of the defending side is four times, the troops should be divided into four ways, and the city should be attacked from the four gates, and the opponent will not be able to reach the end, and the victory and defeat will soon be distinguished." Attacking with your eyes closed is a method used by those who don't know how to fight. ”

Murong Yanchao thought about it carefully, then nodded and said, "It makes sense, why don't we write a letter and let the eldest brother attack the city like this?"

"It's late, I'm afraid that Liu Chong has already attacked the city according to the method you think, although the loss will be slightly greater, but there is no problem. After all, with such a big gap, there is no reason to win. Li Jing said: "Next, it's up to Liu Chong to see how he swallows the entire Great Zhou step by step." However, since Guo Wei is also in Weizhou City, as long as Guo Wei is killed or captured, Da Zhou will not attack himself, but there is nothing to worry about. ”

"Yes. Murong Yanchao didn't have the slightest doubt, because Guo Wei almost had no soldiers, and the Song Valve was also suppressed by the eldest brother and didn't have much strength, not to mention that with the help of the Khitan army, it was not a problem to capture a small Weizhou.

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The east gate of the main city of Xuzhou

Although Xuzhou is fighting, there are a lot of people coming and going from the east gate, the west gate and the west city of Xuzhou are facing each other, the soldiers and horses are out of the city from the west gate, and the east gate is idle. And this battle is nine times out of ten, and no one cares about such a trivial matter. The mercenary merchants felt that this was a good opportunity, so they frequently came and went to Xuzhou City.

At this time, Liu Chengjun, who had been on the road for more than a month, finally came to the outside of Xuzhou Xicheng, and only he knew how much suffering he had suffered along the way. When he first left Weizhou, he was still a son-in-law, but now he is full of messes and looks like a beggar.

In order to avoid Zongxin, Liu Chengjun deliberately took a small road and deliberately took a long detour, the fewer people there were, the more he went to this kind of place, and sure enough, the road was quite safe, and he did not meet Zongxin. But the food on the trail is poor, the sleep is poor, and even a lot of the time there is only hunger.

It doesn't matter if the horse is there, as long as there is grass, but the man must eat meat, otherwise the whole body will be weak. Liu Chengjun finally saw the east gate of Xuzhou City, although there was still some distance away, Liu Chengjun was already so excited that he was about to cry. Now he finally knew how hard those heralds worked, and how much time it would take to get the battle report from Weizhou to Xuzhou. I'm afraid that only these heralds themselves know that life is like this, and no matter how hard and tiring the work is, there will always be someone to do.

Finally arrived in Xuzhou, and now I can relax. Liu Chengjun is now hungry and sleepy, but he keeps telling himself that as long as he persists a little longer, he can have a good rest. It's just that before resting, you have to eat something.

There was a small tea shed on the side of the road, Liu Chengjun sat down with a buttocks, and said with a long sigh of relief: "Xiao Er is serving tea, what is there to eat here?"

Xiao Er took the teapot and stepped forward to fill the bowl for the uncle, and then said: "There are no good things in the shop, steamed buns, cold dishes, noodles or something." If you can, you can eat a little, if you don't feel good, you can eat a good meal after entering the city. Anyway, the distance is close, and you can see the city gate here, less than six miles. ”

"Forget it, I'm hungry. Cook me two bowls of noodles for some cold dishes, a basket of steamed buns and wine. ”

"Okay~!"

Xiao Er immediately brought a basket of steamed buns, which were steamed and hot. Two plates of cold dishes and a pot of wine were served. Liu Chengjun couldn't wait, he directly reached out and grabbed the bun, ate most of it in one bite, the soup in his mouth was blocked, and he swallowed the bun hard while exhaling, and then took a sip of the wine jug, and felt warm all over his body in an instant.

I didn't care about my identity, so I immediately grabbed the bun and started eating. After eating a basket of steamed buns, the noodles were also cooked, and after eating a basket of steamed buns, two bowls of noodles, and drinking a pot of wine, Liu Chengjun was finally satisfied.

After eating, he ordered a basket of steamed buns to taste carefully, and then Liu Chengjun noticed that the steamed buns here were like this...... I ate too much just now, and I didn't even taste it. I feel that the taste of this bun is not bad, but the taste is relatively light, although the price of salt is relatively cheap, but it is only relative, the price of salt will never be too cheap, the transportation cost is very high, plus the local government tax and civil tax, it is not much worse in the hands of the people.

However, the current price of salt is much cheaper than before, and it used to be as high as 800 yuan per catty of salt, or even 1 or 2 yuan. Now the price is maintained at about 500 to 700 yuan, which is a good thing that Zong Xin has done. Because of Zongxin, the people were able to eat fine and delicious salt, and the tax revenue increased a lot.

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