Anyone who can catch the calm storm in Huaihe will answer this subject after hearing the truth.
If you are not alone in the confession, you will definitely talk and laugh.
Buried sword halberd in mud is hard for a long time, and water can be used by flood dragons.
Forty forty is the Scarlet Army Sima, but the man's official position has not been squandered.
"Wen Li Liujingjian gave Tang and Deng Xingjun Sima from Hedong Order, and congratulated him with poems"
Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi
—I am the dividing line —
In Chang'an City, in the Cardinal Hall of the Central Library of the Imperial City, Zhou Huai'an looked at the southern end of the Hedong Road on the big sand table. A bunch of small flags were newly inserted to give orders over and over again like flowing water.
"That said, if we take down a small half of Hezhong Town, our army has won another 30,000 strong and captured prisoners?"
"No, no, don't rush to expand the army on the spot, first transfer it to the pass for transformation for a period of time..."
"If you keep expanding like this, you will still be overwhelmed in the end. There are some things that you can't rush."
"Money, food, equipment, and military training have corresponding regulations and procedures. They can't be solved by changing the banner. Even if it is a temporary assistant soldier, it will not work."
"What I want is a righteous, well-equipped, well-supplyed, benevolent teacher and kingly journey with ideas and perseverance, not a hegemony that will overcome troubled times..."
"Of course I know that some people want to build troops today, tomorrow they can spread to the world depends; but this is to eat ass, and it is also blasphemous and irresponsible for my Taiping army, livelihood, and survival..."
"Does the beautiful official lady and the family lady have a lot of storage, and even the waist and legs are soft? Turn back and let the social mediation department and the anti-rebellion committee check it out separately..."
"If you just love the tender country and kill your ambition and intentions, then give way to Xian early, go home and take your children and raise them all year round. Some people are waiting to take their place."
"If you are involved in the interests of the old dynasty, and you directly or indirectly agitate and brag about it, you want the governor to let go of the remaining wealthy families; that is the degenerate black sheep, so don't blame the governor. The government was so painful to treat the illness and save people..."
And outside the city of Xie County (southeast of Yuncheng in the southwest of Shanxi), Wang Guoer, who is already a surveying and mapping officer in the camp, also has a sour grass stalk in his mouth, holding a long single-lens mirror, looking out On the white lake in the distance, he asked the guide beside him:
"This is Jiechi? It's a big place..."
In the distance, the Nakajo mountain range is majestic, and the azure blue lake is as smooth as a mirror, with only the dots of gray and white things scattered; and that is the pool salt that was piled up by steaming at the time.
It's just that when you get closer, it looks like the other side; as the saying goes, it looks like a silver mountain from a distance, and a fan of a jade screen up close, and it looks like the wind and waves pile up a thousand piles of snow, but all this is as if it was frozen by time and space. In general, it presents a static scene. .
However, in addition to the large areas of sandy land and mottled bare rocks surrounding the lake, there are also many messy shacks and huts, which make this scene somewhat inharmonious and bleak.
"In the words of Lord Hui, this is just the mother pond among the ponds, also known as the female salt pond. It is 25 li long from east to west and 20 li wide from north to south. There are about a thousand households in the nearest neighborhood..."
The temporary guide by the side carefully explained:
"However, the long pond, which is several times larger in the east near Anyi, is also known as the location of the Great Pond. Tens of thousands of people have lived in between for many years."
He is a typical local who lives near the local salt pond, so his head and face are blew, sun and rain, and the black is red and chapped, and the exposed parts of his hands and feet are rough like a rocky surface, which makes people look at him. When you get up, you have to be honest and accommodating.
"Does this salt pond have male and female divisions in addition to its size?"
A young sergeant nearby couldn't help asking:
"Jun Ye didn't know! Because the salt pond brine here is so bitter, the color and quantity of daily piles are far less than those of the big pond, and even when the water runs out, nitrate is produced, so it is also called the salt pond, or the female pond."
This guide, who looked much older than his actual age, grinned, but inevitably showed a rotten yellow tooth that had been worn out.
"Except for some people who come to collect and make crude drugs, it is left for us nearby people to scrape and eat. However, this bitter salt can't eat more, even if it is soaked in it, it will be swollen and numb in hands and feet... "
"You said that this place is rich in nitrates? It seems that you have found the right place..."
Wang Guoer's eyes lit up suddenly.
"Don't you go to Dachi and see again? That's where the Hezhong Mansion depends on it!"
The guide couldn't help feeling panicked, for fear that the promise and cost as a guide would be innumerable; then he saw that the other party threw a small bag of heavy copper over without hesitation, and said loudly:
"No, the county will explore it on the spot. But you can wait for a while, and then you will use your place again 1"
Then, I saw that these sergeants quickly took off many long and short tubular instruments from the pack horse that was behind the mount, and then waded from the shore to take samples, and then someone started to open a wooden paddle on the shore, toward Go deeper into the lake and slide away.
Afterwards, several half-hardened salt crystals of varying sizes were retrieved and sent to Wang Guo'er. Then he was immersed in a small bowl of temporarily soaked potion, and then slowly ups and downs while shaking gently, precipitating and filtering out many gray-white impurities.
Subsequently, the sergeant king who was in charge of the operation, the filtrate that became more and more turbid, could not help but said with joy: "Jiji, the color and concentration of the nitrate are very high, and there is no need to extract it again..."
"Great, let people go back quickly; ."
Wang Guoer decisively said:
"Then continue to dispatch personnel to carry out the surrounding surveys, and estimate the approximate production capacity and scope.. Such a large lake, I am afraid that it is not an exaggeration to produce ten thousand stones each year."
At this time, between the contiguous huts on the shore of the lake, several fireworks faintly appeared; then there were faint cries and roars, coming with the wind on the lake. However, Wang Guoer used the long tube mirror to look at it for a while before sternly said:
"Prepare for war! Suspected Sha Tuo Army in the east of the river is running along the bank..."
"Preparing to retreat and returning the samples and records to the city with escort is the first priority..."
Then, he threw another straw bag containing several pieces of compressed dry food to the guide, and then spoke to the bewildered opponent:
"You can't keep up with us. Just find a place to hide with your family. If these Shatuo troops just came to copy and plunder, they probably won't stay for long. These are enough to support you in hiding for several days. Up..."
"This...this, how can it be made..."
The guide's increasingly panic and horrified hands and feet didn't know where to put them:
"Since you are working for my Taiping Army, you naturally have to make some compensation. This is our rule, and it's just for my peace of mind..."
Instead, Wang Guoer comforted him and said:
However, after a short while, the guide who parted ways had walked a certain distance, and slowly straightened his rickety back, and the wrinkled and humble and humble back gradually disappeared. Then he laughed out of nowhere:
Then, not long after, he walked to a dilapidated earth temple where the "Salt Temple" was hung. As soon as I heard it, Tuan Tuan was surrounded by young and middle-aged people holding various equipment in the nearby rocks and ridges, and they greeted them respectfully:
"Turn your head..."
"Uncle..."
"Salt long..."
"Nen's okay..."
After all, as people who work in the vicinity of Yanchi, their lives are extremely difficult, but the benefits of salt are very expensive; how many are really good people in the true sense; at least those who are weak or whose lives are not hard enough, None of them survived for a long time.
In particular, while dealing with the government and the garrison, it is necessary to deal with the salt owls and private traffickers who secretly cross the border; there is no brutal blood and the means of daring to fight, I am afraid that it will be impossible to deal with it.
And this seemingly prematurely declining guide is obviously the leader of one of the saltman gangs. I saw him holding up the two bags in his hands at the same time, and said to these young adults:
"Uh, it's already confirmed, those Taiping Army people have already taken a fancy to our salt pond, and I'm afraid they will come to take over in a few days..."
Those young and middle-aged people couldn't help but become agitated and yelling when they heard the words, but they were suppressed by the guide waving their hands, and then continued to speak:
"However, I see that those people who give money to do things are also righteous. If the Taiping Army is doing this, it is a situation that can be done. In the future, taking control of Yanchi may not make the situation worse..."
"But oh, these young and old want to get ahead. If you don’t regenerate, you can only guard this bitter brine. There is an idea to put out some contribution capital. At least, you can't let those Hedong Fan dogs be in place. It's rampant..."
"When they reached the Aconitum and Huangzhutang, they all suffered, and the remaining people in the White Watershed were also unable to support it alone..."
"Uncle Yu, what to do... It's all based on tenderness..."
Immediately there were young people clamoring again. However, someone poured out the copper in the bag and couldn't help but exclaimed:
"This is pretty good new money."
Someone tried to lay down a corner of the dry food in another bag and called out again:
"This is a delicious bird..." (End of this chapter)