For Lin Shenhe, it was possible for him to give up the relatively well-off and comfortable position in the rear, and the self-exile request to be sent out to run and take risks was just to avoid the annoying things that might happen at home.
You know, compared to having a little sister in the family who has been attached to her elder brother from small to big things, and is full of vigilance and fear for all women, it is more daunting and tormenting. There is no doubt that another is shrewd and capable, caring and considerate in every possible way. But it seems to be forcing you to make a certain attitude.
And the years of rushing between Southern Shu and Northern Guizhou for half a year made him feel like a real barbarian after being battered by the wind, sun and rain, making it impossible to see the original appearance at all. Of course, the achievements thus obtained are quite fruitful.
As a secret representative of the Shangshi Bureau, during this period he not only used force as a backing, but also used the salt production of the Gorge River states as weapons. He obtained insect wax, skins, bristles, tung oil, wood oil, sulphur, and gallnut from the negotiations in Eastern Guizhou. , The franchise rights and interests of many products of crude drugs.
The supply of salt was also used to divide and disintegrate. Wuduyi, Naxi Man, and Changning Man entrenched in the Luzhou and Rongzhou areas; and then designed teams to snatch each other, and mobilized mutual disputes and feuds.
He even bought the local Lushui Man, attacked the relatively empty Dongzhai Mountain Village behind him, captured a large number of old and weak women and children, and then sold them as salt to Yuzhou.
Therefore, it did not cost a single soldier at all. In the past, Gao Renhou convened in the territory of Luzhou, and used the danger of the mountain gorge to cause a lot of trouble to the Taiping army who moved westward along the river. No time.
The obstacles in Luzhou are gone, and then there is a strategy for Gongjing County in Rongzhou (now Zigong City). Those old ministries who succumbed to the line were of course a mess in fighting, but they did a good job in terms of sabotage and disruptive methods that circulated everywhere.
Therefore, many ancient self-preserving dew wells in Rongzhou were unavoidably brutally killed by them; derricks and brine cooking workshops were burned, artisans were abducted or dispersed, and even the mouths of the wells were sealed with stones and mud.
Therefore, nowadays there is a serious shortage of salt in the Shu area, and the local food is light and tasteless, and the body is swollen everywhere. The so-called blockade and ban on the occupied areas have become empty talk.
On the other hand, it caused a series of turmoil and riots in various states in western Sichuan. Mainly from the remaining parties and tribes who were surrendered to the five leaders of the Western Sichuan Rebellion.
Although Gao Renhou was recruited by the village to settle on the spot, and appointed corresponding guards and guards, most of the people's living conditions have not been improved much, that is, they are barely working hard.
Especially when Gao Renhou, who occupied Dongchuan and Xichuan Jiedushi Chen Jingxuan, launched a series of battles north of Chengdu; the officials who were placed and assigned by Gao Renhou in the southern states were also brutally liquidated by the governors.
The original promise of exemption from taxation for three years was completely abolished after six months of implementation. In addition, the price of publicly sold salt has risen to a bucket of 8,000 yuan, and the supply is not enough. .
Many people who can't eat salt have to boil the soil to get the ointment as a taste. As a result, people who are poisoned and swollen like a dolphin abound. Therefore, all kinds of people's feelings in the countryside are very angry, and after encountering external incentives, it will be like dry firewood.
In many places, almost whole villages, under the leadership of guards and guards who were also insecure, regrouped into bandits or blatantly resisted the orders of the government. It even killed and wounded the subordinates and officers and soldiers who were recruited to the countryside.
Then, these forces in the southern Shunan villages that gathered into chaos or self-contained became the best potential market and customers for the Taiping Army salt ships that successively trafficked northward after opening up the Luzhou Inner River waterway.
Nowadays, even the new Meizhou provincial governor Feng Juan, who has been decree not to leave the city near the city, has found him, the "Lin Dongman" who specializes in selling salt in northern Guizhou.
In this way, it also means a way and a channel to collect information in the hinterland of Xichuan. Thinking of this, Lin Shenhe deliberately used a strong accent to pretend to kick:
"The nobles of the Ming Palace are on top, can there be small effects..."
In front of the siding background of the sea of pine trees, Feng Juan, a shishi with a light scarlet robe and a clean face, also frowned as he looked at the black-colored naturalized barbarian in front of him. He spoke with restraint for a while. :
"You Yier...how much salt can you get for this house..."
"The villain travels between Qianzhong and Shu, and there are forty-five caravans available..."
Lin Shenhe humbled and reserved.
"What the mansion said is not the kind of soil salt that pigs and dogs eat, or the gray stone salt for people who are cold, but the spring salt cakes from the Fujiang area..."
Feng Juan frowned.
He needs such a condescending to meet such a barbarian of suspicious origin, there is no way he can do it. Because the city of Shu has also begun to lack salt, he needs his follow-up means of retribution.
On the other hand, he has already paid a large donation to brother Tian Lingzi for this position, and he has not recovered much capital yet. However, the method of collecting tax collectors has been repeatedly frustrated.
Most of the united soldiers under the state were mobilized by the Xichuan Jieya to fight in Chengdu, and the rest was not enough to attack the self-reliant villages in those places, so he needed to open up a new way to make money.
"Don't dare to hide it, it's a bit difficult..."
Lin Shenhe is also the reason why.
"What's the difficulty?.. Let's just say it sounds..."
However, Feng Juan noticed sensitively that the words were not impossible, but rather difficult.
"That's only under the rule of the thief army. The officers and soldiers everywhere have always been extremely strict and banned, and there are robbers along the way, and they are dead at every turn. The villain really doesn't dare to take the risk."
Lin Shenhe suddenly said with a bitter face in shock:
"Then if I allow you to do it expediently... it's okay to quote a price..."
Feng Juan raised his eyebrows in disdain. However, he still had to pinch his nose patiently and use him, because there was no other choice for the huge land of southern Shun.
"In the final analysis, this is also for Nishikawa Jieya. If you can do your errands well, you might be able to grant you a future and a background...comer..."
Following his call, a servant brought up a blue robes, and then Feng Juan continued to speak:
"This is from the ninth rank of the gown and body, as long as you work hard, you can borrow your name and log in to the version. In addition, I will give you five hundred pieces of Shu brocade as a rule."
"This... It's too much love. It's just..."
Lin Shenhe sighed with difficulty and heart.
"It's just that the local price in Hejiangkou, Luzhou, has been sold; the price of two silk and one stone is the price and the cost and management of this way... I am afraid that it will not make the nobles happy..."
"I don't care about this, as long as you can bring me five hundred dan salt cakes in three days, don't say that this is yours. It is where Xichuan Chen Jieshuai is, and I can recommend one or two for you..."
Feng Juan couldn't help but sternly said:
After Lin Shenhe, who was the only one who was the only one, retreated, one of his staff came forward and asked carefully:
"Palace, do you really want to recommend your birth to this generation, and also introduce it to the festival..."
"This is also unthinkable. Gao Renhou's servant surrounded Jinguan City for the fourth time and is now stationed in Mochi Irrigation Garden. The soldiers in the city have not eaten up their food, but they are already severely short of salt..."
Just now, Feng Juan was still awe-inspiring, but at this time he looked like a punctured skin.
"Even if this generation has been in contact with thieves, they can't care so much; if Xichuan Town is not protected, do you and I still want to be able to save yourself... The thieves army is far away in Yuzhou, but Gao Renhou is close. Right now..."
Of course, he still has the inconvenience to resort to the internal information, which is an important task of his appointment as the governor of Meizhou, which is to eliminate the remnant party and influence of his predecessor Gao Ren.
It's just that what he did was so good that many places gathered as bandits or closed the mountains for self-restraint, so that his governor could only maintain the last remaining influence in a few counties.
Therefore, he also urgently needs the imported salt from the Xiajiang Road to win over and unite the rich and powerful households in those places, and contribute to his own governance methods.
—I am the dividing line —
Zhou Huaian, who was visiting the historic sites in Kuaiji City on a routine basis, and was brewing some masterpieces that could be written down (copied), also received an unexpected report again.
Actually caught the Mingzhou governor Zhong Jiwen who was about to flee in the city; this is undoubtedly good news. At least compared to Dong Chang and Jiang Huan, whose whereabouts are still unknown and don't know whether they are dead or escaped, they are somewhat useful.
For example, in the follow-up strategy against Mingzhou, whether it is a living target or the first level, it can effectively combat the morale, fighting spirit, and determination of the corresponding remaining forces.
This result also reflects the serious drawbacks of the grass-tou king forces that have emerged from time to time in this troubled world, and their foundations are generally unstable and their strengths are arrogant.
They often use the township party and clan as the link, or the corresponding gray-black interest groups such as salt lords, salt households, private traffickers, pirates, boat people, etc., to maintain a rampant rural armed group, and eventually expel or replace the government. The presence.
In a short period of time, it can rely on violent agglomeration and coercion methods to rapidly develop and grow into a party power, and then merge with each other and accept the defections of local magnates, wealthy households and other rural armed forces, and finally obtain a decent political structure.
But in fact, apart from the vague concepts and vague slogans of protecting the homeland and the land, as well as the deterrence and internal checks and balances created by violent killing and cutting off dissidents, there is not much long-term planning and stable governance strategy.
When the so-called downwind is, a pig can fly on the wind and leaps; but once it encounters a bit of setbacks and failures, it will immediately collapse and disintegrate.
Compared with Dong Chang, who is at least a local tycoon, or Jiang Huan, who is a family of maritime merchants; who is born as a pirate and private dealer and is based in Mingzhou, the foundation of Zhong Jiwen, who seems more powerful, is undoubtedly more shallow. Many.
Therefore, Dong Chang and Jiang Huan have not been found after the defeat; and once Zhong Jiwen suffered a series of miserable defeats, the remaining subordinates were all unwilling and planned to sell him for a good price.
For this reason, Zhou Huaian was still in the prison camp in the city, and through random interrogation subjects, he gave a practical lesson for lieutenant generals and officials who are about to be appointed. Then another question arises
In other words, how can we improve the general happiness, gratitude and acceptance of people in the newly occupied area? Of course, it is necessary to lower all the lower limits as much as possible first, to ensure an attitude of killing at all costs.
Then there are enough violent machines and execution power to make people feel that they are really powerless and desperate; then, if you raise your hand a little bit higher, you will naturally have a contrast of gratitude and a sense of gratitude for the rest of your life.
Now this kind of lowering the line has been done by the unscrupulous Zhong Jiwen, so as long as Zhou Huaian accepts it with peace of mind, the city sergeants who have been suppressed by their psychological expectations are grateful.
Although this kind of thing will not last long, it is still somewhat good for the current situation and the follow-up promotion. It's just that Zhou Huai'an hasn't been in the city for a long time before the investigation of the city. (End of this chapter)