Regarding the city defense of Luzhou, Luo Youdu had already made arrangements.
Pan Mei led the Imperial Camp Division to station in the Luzhou government office, Cao Bin was in charge of Luzhou city defense, and Shi Shouxin and Zhang Xiong were stationed in the military camp in the city.
As for some of the original guards in Luzhou, they were defeated by Shi Shouxin, Cao Bin, and Zhang Qiong at Dongfei River. Others learned that Zhou soldiers had entered the city and fled in all directions.
Luo Youdu did not forcibly arrest them, but issued a notice to calm the people, and did not specifically pick out these stragglers.
He knew that once the soldiers were asked to search house to house, the ban would be untenable.
What Luo Youdu wants is long-term, not short-term victory, let alone immediate victory.
Everyone else felt that Southern Tang was vulnerable, but only Luo Youdu knew that a centipede would die without becoming stiff.
The Southern Tang Dynasty did not act so weak. As the strongest existence among the Ten Kingdoms, they just did not react and sent out Liu Yanzhen and Huangfu Hui. They directly met opponents like Luo Youdu and Zhao Kuangyin and beat them.
caught off guard.
As long as they keep their temper and resist desperately, and Shouzhou does not fall for a day, the battle of Huainan will be fought.
In the chaos of war, a group of generals who are truly capable of fighting will emerge in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
At that time, it is time to test the pressure of Zhou Jun.
Everything Luo Youdu did today was for future consideration.
Arrive at Zhang Xiong’s camp.
Luo Youdu originally thought that Zhang Xiong's camp would be in a mess, but he was a little surprised that Zhang Xiong actually arranged more than 2,000 peasants and soldiers properly.
I can't say it's great, but it's not messy at all.
Zhang Xiong's two sons, Zhang Zhong and Zhang Xiao, came to greet him.
The two boys were newborn calves not afraid of tigers. They had knives on their waists, wore leather armor, and looked excited.
"I've seen it all, Commander!"
Luo Youdu smiled and said: "Well done, the camp is in good order!"
Zhang Zhong said ashamedly: "It's dad. He went to Shidu School, and Shidu School arranged for someone to teach dad how to do it."
Zhang Xiao said with some grievance: "School Shidu also forced dad to drink three bowls of wine..."
Zhang Xiong is an authentic farmer. He doesn’t even have enough to eat. How can he drink wine?
"Erlang!" Zhang Zhong shouted with a serious look on his face.
Luo Youdu smiled lightly and said: "School Shidu is probably bored by drinking alone and wants to find someone to drink with."
He had no intention of standing up to Zhang Xiong. In the army, the jungle was the law of the jungle. If he couldn't bear this pain or grievance, it would be better to go home and farm.
"I'm looking for your dad in the camp."
Zhang Zhongdao: "I'll report it."
"No need!" Luo Youdu looked at what Zhang Xiong was doing, waved his hand, and told them to go about their business.
Entering Zhang Xiong’s tent.
Luo Youdu saw Zhang Xiong lying on the ground writing, writing "A, B, C, D, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui..."
This is the content of Liujia.
Liujia is the enlightenment book for children in this era and the foundation of literacy.
He was completely unaware of Luo Youdu's arrival.
Luo Youdu squatted down on one side, looked at the crooked handwriting, and said, "Yes, Zhang Dutou is very thoughtful."
Hearing the sound, Zhang Xiong noticed Luo Youdu beside him and quickly stood up and said: "I've seen the Commander-in-Chief! I made the Commander-in-Chief laugh."
Luo Youdu said: "It's ridiculous to study hard. But it doesn't mean much for you to be literate now. It's better to let someone who can read read it to you. During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a great general in Shu State, Wang Ping. He just listened to others reading, read the art of war, and then through actual combat,
I’ve learned a lot.”
Zhang Xiong was a little shocked and said: "It turns out that the ancients also used this trick..." He smiled uprightly and said: "I used to love hearing stories told by the speaker. I thought I couldn't live up to the trust my brothers had in me, so I found someone to read them to me.
"Book of War. It's not time yet, so I'm thinking of learning how to write."
Luo Youdu immediately looked at Zhang Xiong with admiration and said, "Sit down and talk and ask you something."
Zhang Xiong sat down at the side in a polite manner and said, "Commander, please speak."
Luo Youdu signaled him to relax and said with a smile: "I looked through Luzhou's government affairs files and found a policy called 'Bo Zheng'. Please tell me about it."
Zhang Xiong got angry when he heard the word "Bo Zheng" and said angrily: "I don't know which animal with conscience has been gnawed by evil spirits came up with this bad idea. We can't survive this day, and they force us to use corn."
, silk cloth was exchanged for salt and tea. I didn’t have any cloth on hand, and the family had three sets of clothes. The eldest man and the second man had one set for each person to work, and another set for whoever goes out. I don’t know what happened to my sack clothes.
Which wealthy family used it to store corpses?"
"Tea leaves are of some use. They can be boiled and drank, soaked in rice, and eaten to enhance the flavor. Salt is really useless. Eating too much of it will harm your health. There is so much salt in my house that there is nowhere to store it. Most of it is just thrown away.
Fell into the ditch and river."
Luo Youdu said with burning eyes: "What will happen if I collect salt at a low price?"
Zhang Xiong stood up suddenly and said: "Others don't know, but everyone in my family will be grateful to the commander for his great kindness."
Salt has been a method of making money for the imperial court since ancient times.
Jianghuai has always been a salt-producing place since ancient times, and Huai salt became famous as early as the time of King Helu of Wu.
Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, salt tax revenue has often accounted for one-third to one-half of the country's entire fiscal revenue, and the Lianghuai salt tax revenue has ranked first in the country. During the Shunzhi era of the Qing Dynasty, the Lianghuai salt tax revenue accounted for the largest share of the national salt tax revenue.
As much as 60% of the total tax amount.
This shows the huge profits from the Huainan salt tax.
But when it came to the Southern Tang Dynasty, it actually became a burden, which must be said to be a great irony.
There is no other reason. Looking for the root cause, it is actually something done by the Guo family.
The annual output of salt from the Lianghuai River is huge, and the largest sales place is the northern Central Plains.
However, starting from Guo Wei, he noticed that the Li family in Jiangnan was not well-intentioned, and was also worried about the control of Jiangnan's life. He refused to allow salt from the Lianghuai River to enter the Central Plains, and supplied salt from Hedong to the whole country.
I would rather the price of salt rise than eat Huaiyan salt.
Without consumption in the northern part of the Central Plains, Huai salt can only be sold to remote areas with insufficient population such as Nanping and Southern Han.
Second only to the Central Plains, Shu, a great country in the Southern Tang Dynasty, had its own well salt, and also refused the entry of Huai salt.
With such a blockade, Huaiyan salt, which had never been sold, had nowhere to sell it, and more and more of it accumulated.
As a last resort, the policy of expropriation was adopted, and the accumulated salt was forcibly exchanged with the people for rice and silk cloth, forcing everyone in the Jianghuai area to complain.
After hearing Zhang Xiong's words, Luo Youdu immediately felt relieved and stood up and said: "I won't hinder you from practicing calligraphy. I will give you some military books later. How much you can understand depends on your own ability. Remember, books are dead.
People are alive and must be supplemented by experience, learning and applying."
Zhang Xiong kept nodding his head to express his understanding.
Luo Youdu strode towards the government office. The Southern Tang Dynasty did not have the ability to sell Huai salt to the Central Plains, but he did.
In this case, why not collect the useless salt from the people in the Jianghuai River and transfer it to the northern part of the Central Plains?
It not only wins the hearts of the people, but also gets money, which is the best of both worlds.