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At the request of Yi Ji, the king of Tang organized an army to gather at the border of Wu State to contain her at the end of July and help Yi Ji seize the throne.Tang State, like Wu, is a coastal country, and the eastern part of the land faces the sea.

Both Tang and Wu had salt fields, and the salt-making process in this time and space was to boil brine with seawater and fry it into salt.This primitive cooking of salt is labor-intensive, fuel-intensive and less productive.In Tang State, because there is a large river running across the middle of Daqin from its territory into the sea (the big river is similar to the Yellow River, and the long river in Wu State is similar to the Yangtze River), the salinity of the seawater near the salt field in Tang State has decreased, and burning sea salt will consume more fuel and manpower.And Wu State’s East China Sea Salt Farm has good sea water quality and high salt concentration. It is easier to burn sea salt than Tang State, and the sea salt is also of higher quality than Tang State.

Salt is indispensable in everyone's life. It was not easy to boil salt at that time, which led to a high price of salt in the market. The two places suitable for boiling salt in Tang State and Wu State were the main sources of the internal treasury of the monarchs of these two countries. source of income.

People in this time and space did not know how to drill wells to mine mineral salt, nor did they realize that there were natural brine and rock salt deposits underground. The source of salt was not only sea salt but also lake salt.Apart from half of the table salt boiled in the Tang State was consumed domestically, half was sold at a high price to inland countries without lake salt.Many inland vassal states like Zhao, Qi, Chen, and Chu needed to import salt.The salt sold by Tang to the outside world is the biggest source of income for the king of Tang.

After the exquisite brocade, porcelain, and glass products produced in Nanbu and the valley appeared, the luxuriously living King Tang of course had to spend a lot of money to buy and enjoy them. After the flow of money flowed into merchants and manufacturing places, Tang Wang felt that the economy began to be tight.

Over the past 20 years, due to climate change, famines have frequently occurred in the territory of Tang, and farmland taxes have decreased.The king of Tang collected more land taxes many times. It was always because of the lack of food for the people in the disaster year. As a result, many people abandoned their land and fled to the mountains or surrounding countries, and more than half of them fled to Ulsan.

The king of Tang could not increase his income from the land, so he wanted to increase the tribute paid by the nobles. This idea was unanimously opposed by the nobles.Tang Wang's second idea of ​​increasing income was aborted.

Tang Wang has increased all the places where income can be increased, and the increased income has made Tang Wang very dissatisfied.In the end, Tang Wang could only toss more about his own saltworks, trying to get the saltworkers to boil more salt to increase production.

Because salt is made by boiling, a large amount of fuel is needed. The trees near Tang Guo Salt Fields were cut down and dried in the sun to boil salt. As a result, there was no firewood available around the salt field. The dry firewood for cooking salt in the salt field had to be traveled by mule carts dozens of miles away. Ship it.Light transporting firewood and fuel wastes countless manpower and animal power.The fuel for cooking salt cannot be guaranteed, and of course the output cannot be increased. Tang Wang's hope of increasing the output of the saltworks has failed.

When the king of Tang failed to increase his income by trying all means at home, he turned his attention to the surrounding countries.Except for Wei State, the countries bordering Tang State are stronger than Tang State, and Wei State, which is weaker than Tang State, because most of the land area is the buffer area of ​​the border between Zhao and Wu, it has become a game between the two countries. Anti-obtaining security, Tang Guo faced Zhao and Wu, and of course he did not dare to snatch Wei Guo.It is simply impossible for Tang Wang to make a fortune by launching wars against weak and small countries.

Just when King Tang was at a loss, Yi Ji contacted King Tang through Dr. Jiang, hoping that King Tang would send troops to help her plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain.After the king of Tang found out Yi Ji's intentions, he was overjoyed and asked Yi Ji to use the coast of the East Sea of ​​Wu State as a reward. After several negotiations with Dr. Jiang, an agreement was finally reached.

Tang Wang was full of confidence to get the coast of the East China Sea. He promised generous benefits to the Tang nobles who sent troops. He quickly summoned more than 1 tigers, and forced more than 2 auxiliary soldiers. He led the army to camp on the border, waiting for Yi Ji. After successfully seizing the throne, he can get the shore of the East China Sea as a reward from Yi Ji.

In Tang Wang's view, Tang Jun's action this time is to travel around the mountains and rivers, and to visit here on the border of Wu State.What Tang Wang didn't expect was the sudden emergence of Ulsan Gongziming's crusade army, preventing him from quickly fulfilling his wish.

The Ulsan army wiped out Yiji's [-] tigers and [-] troops at the Ulsan crossing. When they sent troops to the north to conquer, the king of Tang was not calm. He was afraid that Yiji would fail. No one compensated.

After pondering for a long time, Tang Wang felt that he should take advantage of Wu's civil war and seize the coast of the East China Sea first.Tang Wang didn't pay attention to the Wu army on the border of Wu State, because he knew that the food and grass of this army were controlled by Yi Ji.

For the safety of the king's capital, Yiji has repeatedly asked the Tang army to retreat, so that the Wu army squadron on the Wu border can rescue him. Since Yiji asked the East Sima and South Sima squadrons, the Tang king believed that the woman would definitely use all means to intimidate the Wu army. Therefore, cutting off food and grass and forcing troops to retreat is the best way.An army without food and grass, no matter how many and brave it is, is a paper tiger.

The paper tiger's army is vulnerable, and Tang Jun can easily break through Wu Jun's defense line and take down the coast of the East China Sea when fighting such an army with no combat effectiveness, and achieve the fact that they occupy the coast of the East China Sea.

If Yi Ji wins, the shore of the East China Sea is the reward she promised, and Wu Guo will naturally not send troops to take it back.If Prince Ming of Ulsan wins and his background is questioned by the world, the Tang State can use this as a reason not to recognize the puppet regime of the Wu State, and then contact the surrounding princes to denounce it unanimously.

Tang Wang felt that his plan was perfect.Immediately ordered Tang Jun to march to Wu State with light clothes, and he wanted to take the coast of the East China Sea into his pocket with lightning speed.

Tang Wang's perfect calculation was defeated by the wooden boat that Nanbu set up in the small bay port of his own border.The large wooden boats in Nanbu transported food, clothing, and ordnance from Ulsan to the army on the Wu border, ensuring the combat effectiveness of the East Sima and South Sima armies.The Tang army who entered the border of Wu State encountered strong resistance and was stopped in a mountain depression in front of the East China Sea.The Ulsan army quickly broke through the city, and the division of troops at the border dealt a fatal blow to the Tang army.

The Tang army was besieged by the army led by the East and South Sima, Chu Chaohui, and Zhou Cheng without any mental preparation.After Tang Jun was surrounded, Wu Jun just besieged and did not take the initiative to fight, but he would always deal a severe blow to Tang Jun's organization to break through.

The king of Tang tried to break through the siege three times, but found that there was no hope of breaking through the Wu army's defense line except for the loss of soldiers and horses. Tang Jun had to stop his useless behavior and wait for a good opportunity.

God did not give Tang Wang a good chance, not only did not give him the possibility to leave safely, but on the contrary, the temperature dropped and heavy snow fell on a large area.When the Tang army invaded the state of Wu, they marched lightly, and they did not have enough food and clothing. After being surrounded by the Wu army for a few days, the food and grass in the army ran out, and they began to slaughter horses and mules and dig grass roots to satisfy their hunger. Lack of clothing, lack of heating fuel.In one night, hundreds of corpses that died of starvation and freezing would always be carried out from the camp of the Tang army, and the number of deaths increased as the siege time doubled.

After half a month of siege, no one could see anyone carrying dead bodies out of the Tang Army camp. The soldiers of the Tang Army were too hungry to bury Paozhe, and the lack of food forced them to cook and eat Paozhe's corpse.The soldiers who stood guard in front of the barracks would fall down and get up while walking, while the soldiers who were on duty at the gate of the camp often froze to death silently after one night.The Tang military camp seemed like a hell on earth.

Faced with an army that he had no combat effectiveness at all, King Tang could only make a peace request to Wu Jun.The negotiation site was set in the open space of the military camps of the two countries, and a tent was set up in the open space for peace talks.

Tang Wang was afraid that he would be "clicked" by the Wu army if he went out to negotiate a peace in person, so he only sent his confidant generals to negotiate with the Wu army.The negotiating representative of Wu State was Chu Chaohui who came overnight from the capital.

"General Sima, with what sincerity will the king of your country express his apology to Wu?" Chu Zhaohui looked curiously at General Sima of the Tang Kingdom. Tang Ying starved and froze countless soldiers to death every day, but the face of Sima in front of him looked pale. Except for the messy clothes on his body, the whole person looks good.

"Our king said that he will pay 80 coins to Wu Guo as compensation." Tang Sima said cautiously, Chu Chaohui's tall body gave him a kind of coercion.

"Haha! The king of your country is so funny. Is this compensation sincerely asking for peace?" Not only Chu Zhaohui laughed, but also other Wu generals present laughed.

Tang Sima gritted his teeth: "Then pay a million gold coins as compensation." This is the limit stipulated by King Tang.

Chu Chaohui leaned back, shaking one finger again and again: "No, no, don't say a million, even if you pay ten million, it will not be able to offset the losses caused by your king to Wu. It is simply delusional to use this little money to offset his crimes!"

"Ten million?" Tang Sima was dumbfounded, ten million would not be enough to collect the entire Tang Palace.

Chu Chaohui stood up and walked back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his back. While walking, he denounced the king of Tang for his crimes: "The king of your country conspired with the treacherous concubine to transfer my two loyal ministers and good generals from the king's capital, which harmed our country. The prince was murdered by the traitorous concubine, the king was put to death by the traitorous concubine, and many ministers in the court died unexpectedly. The Northern Marquis took the opportunity to split up, and Wu fell into civil war. Can gold coins be paid for? What's more, your country has directly launched an invasion of our land, just thinking about my crimes on the shore of the East Sea, a million gold coins cannot be used to express apology."

Tang Sima was wiped off in cold sweat by Chu Chaohui's scolding. In fact, Wu Jun can completely destroy Tang Jun now and capture Tang King alive.Tang Sima didn't know why Chu Chaohui stood still, as if he intended to give King Tang a way to negotiate peace.

"General Chu, our country's domestic finances are really difficult, and we can't afford more than 100 million coins." Tang Sima was telling the truth. Half of the million coins had to be scraped from the common people and nobles after returning home. However, it is impossible for the king of Tang to take it all out of the palace treasury. The king of Tang bears half of it, and he is so distressed that he is rolling in the king's tent in the barracks.

"Hmph! In fact, the ruler of your country has lost morality, benevolence and morality, and is no longer worthy of being the ruler of a country. My great Wu can completely deal with the Tang ruler on behalf of Qin Tianzi." Chu Zhaohui snorted coldly.

Beads of sweat stood out on Tang Sima's forehead, and the dirty work of the backbone of his own country could be a reason for his dismissal. "My king has already realized that he regrets it. He sent him down sincerely to apologize and pay compensation. However, the compensation in too much money is beyond the capacity of my Tang country. Please be lenient with me, General Chu."

Tang Sima's cautiousness made Chu Chaohui's anger gradually disappear. "Forget it, since there is no compensation of tens of millions of coins, let's offset it with land and cities."

"Here, I can't be the master. General Chu can tell me the request, and I will go back and report to my king."

Chu Zhaohui smiled slightly, and glanced at Zhou Cheng. Zhou Cheng immediately took out a pen and ink and put it on the table. Chu Chaohui dipped the brush in the ink and wrote four articles.

"There are only four compensation claims in our country. These four are the bottom line of our Great Wu, and no bargaining is allowed. Please bring them back to the King of your country, and hope that your country will give you an answer tonight. I will fight to the death with your army, and at that time, I believe that your king will not have another chance to negotiate!"

"Yes! Yes! I will go back immediately and present it to my king, and I will reply to your country before dark." Tang Sima took the paper and nodded repeatedly.

Chu Chaohui's first request was to assign one-sixth of Tang's territory, more than 5000 square kilometers in the south, to Wu, including coal mines, small bays, and the estuary of large rivers in the north.

The second is that Tang State compensates Wu State for 80 gold in military expenses.

The third article is that businessmen from the state of Wu are protected when they do business in the Tang Dynasty, and they cannot arbitrarily seize goods or levy more business taxes.

The fourth is the border between the two countries. The Tang State cannot have a permanent garrison here, and the Wu State also promises that it will not initiate a war against the Tang State.

After reading the four conditions put forward by Chu Chaohui, Tang Wang couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when he found that he was not required to cede the cornucopia-like salt field.The king of Tang was most afraid that the state of Wu would ask him to cut off the salt farm in turn.

Chu Chaohui was the first to ask Tang to cede the land, more than half of which was hills, and only the area around the mouth of the big river was a plain.Although the ceded area accounted for one-sixth of the land of the Tang State, it was not the main tax area of ​​the Tang State.The amount of monetary compensation in the second article is within the psychological tolerance of Tang Wang.The third article Tang Wang didn't think it was a problem at all.As for the fourth article, after this war and the subsequent compensation, King Tang himself has no financial resources to set up a permanent army on the border. If Chu Zhaohui does not specifically propose, King Tang will do so.

An hour after Tang Sima returned to the camp, he returned to the negotiating tent between the two countries, and handed over the map of the ceded land to Chu Chaohui, and promised the contract of compensation.After Chu Chaohui stamped the contract with the great seal of the military prime minister, the agreement between the two countries officially came into effect.

In the early morning of the next day, King Tang led more than 5000 tigers through the gap left by Wu with only his ministers and followers. He abandoned the other 1 auxiliary soldiers who survived.

Huben in the army of the Tang Dynasty were all nobles, and the auxiliary soldiers were either domestic servants brought by Huben, or civilians who were forcibly conscripted into the army.After being besieged by the Wu army, when the Tang army was short of food, clothing and fuel, the army's food, clothing and fuel for heating were supplied to the tiger first, and the auxiliary soldiers only had a small amount of military food supply.After the cold snap came, the auxiliary soldiers froze to death and suffered the most frostbite. After the military rations became scarce, the king of Tang ordered to cut off the ration supply of the auxiliary soldiers. When Chu Chaohui led the Wu army into the Tang army camp, the tents in the camp had already been dismantled and taken away by the king of Tang. , There are not many left, the remaining camps and open spaces are full of dying auxiliary soldiers waiting to die.Many Wu Jun vomited on the spot seeing this scene.

King Tang can abandon his own people, but Chu Chaohui cannot abandon them.Most of these auxiliary soldiers of the Tang State were conscripted into the army by the King of Tang in the border areas. These areas already belonged to the State of Wu. The auxiliary soldiers in the border areas were already considered citizens of the State of Wu.

After Chu Chaohui issued the order to rescue Tang's auxiliary soldiers, Wu Jun entered a more tense state than fighting Tang Jun. He fed the auxiliary soldiers with food earlier, let the auxiliary soldiers warm up earlier, and could save their lives earlier.

Immediately, tents were set up again in the camp abandoned by the king of Tang. In the tents, a pond fire was lit with coal, and the angry Tang Guofu soldiers were carried into the tents.Hundreds of iron pots were set up outside the camp to cook corn porridge. After the millet porridge was cooked, they took a bowl and drank it by themselves. If they had no strength, Wu soldiers brought it to feed them. People, they are the most active in treating their hometown folks.Wu Jun's military doctors were busy treating those Tang Guofu soldiers who had hoped to survive.The corpses of the dead Tang Jun were transported outside the camp and discharged. The cold temperature can ensure that the corpses will not rot. After the recovery of Tang Jun's auxiliary soldiers, these corpses will be disposed of.

"General Chu! Do you want to stack the corpses of those Tang troops into a Jingguan?" Dong Sima and Nan Sima asked when they saw the corpses discharged outside the camp.

"No, don't pile up into Jingguan. Wars cannot be won by deterrence alone. After the auxiliary soldiers of the Tang Dynasty recover, let them take the remains they know back to their hometown for burial." Chu Chaohui shook his head.

The princes of the Great Qin Dynasty used to pile the corpses of defeated enemies on both sides of the road, cover them with soil and compact them, forming a pyramid-shaped mound, in order to deter the enemy and show off their martial arts.

"Here!" Dong Sima and Nan Sima respectfully bowed their heads and accepted orders.Without Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming, their families would definitely have been murdered by Yi Ji, and they themselves, after running out of food and grass, would end up in the same fate as Tang Jun.Without Zheng Chu and Zheng Chu, it would not be the two of them who are standing here discussing the view of the capital, but the king of Tang and his courtiers.

"The turmoil in my Great Wu is over here, and I will do my best to rebuild my homeland in the future!"

Chu Zhaohui stared into the distance, and a sense of pride rose in his heart. He and Zheng Yuming will be the ones to splash ink on this vast country in the future!

The author has something to say: Jingguan, a high mound formed in ancient times to show off martial arts, gather enemy corpses, and seal the soil.There are records of Jingguan in many ancient books, such as the Battle of Changping in "Historical Records", Xiang Yu pitted and killed 20 Qin prisoners of war; There are many "Song History", "Ming History" and so on.