Early in the morning, the sky is filled with morning glow.

Dongfanghong, the sun rose, and the eight general managers didn't sleep all night last night. They stayed in the camp and listened to the sound of fighting in Liangying ten miles away.

The Liangying camp was in chaos all night last night, and the fires surged into the sky. It was not until dawn that the shouts of killing stopped.

Manager Eighth General wanted to lead his troops to take advantage of the situation, but Li Chao issued a military order early, prohibiting attacks, and those who violated the orders were killed.

An itchy night.

Li Chao slept until the sun was on the tent before getting up.

After walking out of the tent, stretched his waist and yawned. Last night, he saw the head of Liang Shidu. After knowing that the Jihu people had already taken action, Li Chao slept with confidence. He marched along the way, and he was calculating all day long. He worked very hard and relaxed completely. He slept very well in this battle.

After taking the toothbrush handed over by Ya Bing Erniu, Li Chao slowly brushed his teeth with white salt powder with green onion.

The eight general managers squatted in a row, watching Li Chao brush his teeth together with big eyes and small eyes.

Li Chao knew what they wanted to say, but he just ignored them and still brushed his teeth on his own.

The green salt used to brush teeth seems to be produced in Shuofang, and it should be produced in Yanzhou. The reason why Yanzhou is named after salt is because there are many salt ponds here.

The salt pond is also a salt lake, and the salt lake in Yanzhou is of excellent quality. Due to drought and rainwater, the salt production conditions are good, and the salt produced is also large and blue and white. It is commonly known as green salt, which is the best salt.

While brushing his teeth, Li Chao was thinking about salt.

Now the imperial court has a lot of expenses but has little income. Li Shimin is not the kind of person who can always pretend to be a grandson. He is in a hurry to fight against the Turks and destroy Tuyuhun to conquer Goguryeo. All of these require money and a lot of money.

The current tax system of the imperial court was difficult to support his plan.

Last time, Li Chao offered a plan to make money quickly, adding tea, salt, tea, wine, and levying salt tax, which was equivalent to levying a cap tax and tea, wine tax, which was equivalent to levying consumption tax and mining tax on the rich, which was also a considerable tax.

Although Li Chao suggested that a tax of ten cents was added for each bucket of salt, roughly one pound of salt plus one pound of tax. Li Chao believed that Li Shimin had such a big appetite, and after finally getting the sweetness, he would definitely not meet the salt tax of one pound of dime, so he would definitely have to pay more, and the salt price would inevitably increase a lot.

Salt will soon become an important material. It is no longer time for anyone who wants to make salt, and whoever wants to sell salt. Issuing certificates to the people, obtaining salt qualifications, registering and paying taxes, and the salt produced can only be sold to the court. The court collects salt from the salt owners, then increases taxes, and then resells it to salt merchants, allowing them to transport and sell it. This new salt industry policy will break the interest chain of the entire salt industry and re-form.

Since Yanzhou has such good salt resources, how could Li Chao let it go?

After all, Yanzhou is close to Lingwu and is not far from Chang'an. The salt here is good, easy to pick, and good to transport. Li Chao even thought about it for a long time, and he could use these salt resources at that time and develop a Chinese and French development.

Just like he did when he was in Taozhou, Taozhou was short of grain, but it was a large market for re-export trade. He asked the merchants who came to bring some grain, which allowed Taozhou, which was short of grain, to obtain a lot of grain at a low cost.

Now that Shuofang Town has so much salt, he can ask the salt merchants who come to buy salt to transport the various supplies needed by Shuofang Town to exchange goods for salt instead of selling them directly.

This is simply a treasure house. Li Chao has already thought of his development plan after he controls this place.

Animal Husbandry, agriculture, and salt industry, three future pillar industries. By then, 50,000 soldiers and their families will be moved here, and the place will be lively immediately.

Cheng Yaojin squatted there and watched Li Chao brush his teeth. He had been brushing for a long time and was still poking and poking there. Finally, he was impatient.

"Bo! Master, when will you still want to fight? Liang Jun over there was a mess last night!"

Li Chao came to his senses, picked up the water, rinsed his mouth, and washed his face.

After washing up, I feel refreshed.

"What's the hurry, everything is in control."

"Beat the drum, gather the generals, raise the tent, and discuss matters!"

When Li Chao was dressed neatly, the Eighth General Manager and his respective generals had already gathered in the Central Army tent.

Li Chao walked to the top with a phoenix-winged helmet.

"Master General, I will request to go to the battle!"

"I will request a fight at the end!"

A group of generals and schools called out together.

Li Chao smiled and said, "Come on, present the box!"

Niu Jianhu came up proudly with a box. Although the Taozhou fangs were finally taken by Li Shimin to form part of his Northern Imperial Army Yulin Guard, Li Chao sent troops this time and took another 800 soldiers to form a new Shuofang fang soldiers. It was still divided into four capitals as before, and Niu Jianhu was the four capitals.

The four founding uncles were their own fangs, and Li Chao, the Duke of the Kingdom, was also very majestic.

"Everyone, do you know what's in this box?"

Cheng Yaojin and others shook their heads.

It’s not like the boss who saw that everyone hadn’t eaten breakfast, so he prepared breakfast.

"Do you know why the Liang Camp fires soared into the sky last night and why did they fight all night?"

The Eighth General Manager is still unclear.

There are scouts and cavalry in the army, but the information they get will not tell them. Military laws are as mountains, and military rules stipulate that if they dare to inquire about military information from the scouts privately, not only will the inquirer be killed, but even the scouts who leaked their military information will be killed.

The generals could only get military information from Li Chao, and could not inquire directly by themselves.

"See the tiger, open the box and show you what it is inside."

"Yes, Grandmaster."

The box opens and is a well-preserved head, very fresh.

It is preserved in mercury.

"Who is this?" Niu Jinda asked his son.

Niu Jinda made great efforts last time. He was one of the nine generals whom Li Chao brought into the palace. In front of Xuanwu Gate, he was Duke of Langya County. The new emperor ascended the throne and was granted a great meritorious official. He was granted the title of Duke of Lu and actually a thousand households.

However, Niu Jianhu did not answer his father, father and son were in battle, but in the military tent, there was no father and son, just up and down.

Li Chao smiled and said, "This person is very famous. Maybe most of you have never seen him, but you have heard of his name."

"Is it the Master Liang? It's impossible." Luo Shixin didn't believe it after he said the Master Liang's name. Yesterday, Master Liang was still in front of the formation and was thumping, how could he be in this box today?

Li Chao clapped his hands.

"Duke Tan guessed it, it's amazing, this person, no, this is the head of Liang Shidu."

"Huh!"

A burst of exclamation.

"How is that possible?"

"When did Master Liang die? How did he die?"

"Mr. Liang is just a traitor. It is easy for me to take his head. Although he is hidden among the troops, I only need an assassin to retrieve his head. Last night, there was a fire in the Liang camp and then a great chaos began! "

"ah!"

Luo Shixin rubbed his head, but he felt like he hadn't woken up yet, he was dreaming.

Among the tens of thousands of troops, the head of the enemy emperor was not used for a single soldier, but only one assassin was used.

This simply subverts their perception, is it still fighting like this in war?

"What, do you think there is something wrong with this? This is also a name above military law, called beheading tactics. Assassination of enemy generals can disrupt the enemy's command, make them lose their heads and command chaos."

Yuchi Gong and others looked at Li Chao, and looked at the middle-aged man who looked ordinary and had his hands in his sleeves, a sense of awe arose in his heart.

This person is Li Chao's personal bodyguard or the instructor of Shuofang Yabing. I heard that he is very skilled in martial arts, but few people have seen him take action. But now the head of Liang Shidu is placed in front of everyone, undoubtedly, he must have taken action.

"Master General, there is something to be puzzled. Even if he implements beheading techniques and kills Liang Shidu, why did the Liang army dare to do it all night last night? Could it be that the Liang army whistles last night?"

Xue Wanche asked.

Camp whistle.

This is a very terrifying thing. The army is under too much pressure. At night, due to some unexpected situations, it may be that just a person has a nightmare and shout, which may lead to crazy chaos in the entire camp.

The most serious camp roar was even a crazy act of chasing more than tens of thousands of people.

"It's not the camp. The Liang army was killed last night, and the Liang camp caught fire. Then, the Jihu people abandoned the secret and turned against each other, and took the opportunity to fight the Liang army."

That's it

This is just that, Manager Eighth has the urge to beat Li Chao.

You have everything in your hands, but why don’t you tell everyone and make them anxious all night?

"Master, since he successfully implemented the beheading tactic of the Liang army last night and killed the Liang Shidu capital. And the Jihu tribe took the opportunity to turn against each other, why didn't the Master let us take advantage of the situation to attack last night?"

"Yes, if we had launched a joint attack with Zahu yesterday, wouldn't we be able to destroy the Liang army in one fell swoop and win a complete victory?"

Why?

Of course, Li Chao has his own considerations.

First, Li Chao did not completely believe in Zahu. Who knows whether they really turned against each other last night or faked them? What if they faked them? The Tang army went to attack in the middle of the night, and the situation was unclear, which was also a great risk.

Secondly, Li Chao would rather sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Let Jihu and Liang Jun bite the dog, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are precious.

"Use troops to be steady, and taking risks is not my style!" Li Chao answered the generals with this sentence.

"Report to the commander, you will find Liang Jun ahead!"

"Report, someone from Liang army raised the white flag and came over!"

"The report came, the person called himself Liu Hou, the son of Liu Gan, the chief chief of Jihu!"

"The report is indeed Liu Hou who has been here before."

One day later, Liu Hou entered the Tang Camp again, but his attitude was completely different.

"The last general Liu Hou pays homage to the general!" Liu Hou knelt down.

Li Chao smiled and said, "The young general Liu Hou is here. I accidentally got something last night, but I don't know the authenticity. I just asked General Liu Hou to tell me about it! Come on, bring the things up!"

Liang Shidu's head was taken up again.

Liu Hou recognized at a glance that this was Liang Shidu, the emperor of Liang State, and couldn't help but be stunned.

It turned out that the Liang camp was in chaos last night, and the Liang army was suddenly cut off. It was indeed the Tang army who did it.
Chapter completed!