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Chapter 864: Heading south to Haizhou

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    As far as Li Guoyao knows, there are two main types of groups engaged in illegal salt selling, one is survival-driven and the other is profit-driven.

    The former are mainly concentrated in salt households, poor people, refugees, unemployed people, etc. They are the people at the bottom of society. They are forced by high salt prices to embark on the road of smuggling.

    The latter is mainly composed of officials, legal salt merchants, salt lords, etc. These people are the best at doing business. Under the temptation of huge profits in the salt industry, they collude with each other and break the law.

    The scary thing is that the anti-smuggling officials in the past dynasties were very "savvy": whenever they encountered a survival-driven salt smuggler, they would pursue them fiercely and hunt them down with all their strength to cope with the errands and seek rewards.

    Whenever they encounter private salt dealers who are driven by huge profits, because such people either have gangs, have backers, or have the ability to pay bribes, they will ignore them or even secretly protect them.

    If things go on like this, the salt dealers driven by survival will merge into the salt dealers driven by huge profits.  The gang-oriented and armed nature of private salt trafficking has become increasingly apparent since the late Tang Dynasty.

    In some places, the whole village mobilized for collective smuggling, and even contacted several surrounding villages to act in a unified manner to enhance the ability to fight against the government in the form of group armed forces.

    Once these two types of salt traders merge and form the Great Salt Lord, a dynasty will basically come to an end.  Similar situations have happened many times in history, which is like a curse imposed by the salt industry on the rule of the empire.

    For example, in the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao, who had failed many imperial examinations, and Wang Xianzhi jointly sold illicit salt. Within a few months, they gathered tens of thousands of people and dealt a fatal blow to the Tang Dynasty.

    At the same time, another group of salt lords who started out as salt traders, such as Wang Jian, Qian Liu and others, chose to enter the system and stood out in the suppression of the Huangchao Uprising and the annexation war of vassal towns, becoming the founders of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms separatist regimes.

    At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Fang Guozhen, who "has been selling salt on the sea for a long time", was accused by his enemies of selling illegal salt. In desperation, he embarked on the road of anti-Yuan.

    Almost all of the initial support for Fang Guozhen when he was forced to revolt came from private salt traders who, like him, grew up on the seaside.  After they raised their troops, they accurately attacked the empire's grain and shipping system, burned official ships, and robbed grain. The once prosperous Yuan Dynasty shipping was forced to suspend operations amid numerous crises, causing a serious food crisis in most of the Yuan Dynasty and accelerating the decline of the Yuan Empire.  .

    It is really not an alarmist statement that a grain of salt can bring down a great empire.

    The reason why Li Guoyao wanted to join this industry was not only to get a share of the pie, but making money was only one of the reasons. More importantly, Li Guoyao needed to control the salt industry in Lianghuai to attack the foundation of the Japanese and puppet troops in China.

    The profits generated by the huge profits in the salt industry are constantly being used as military expenditures and various guns and bullets, and these things will eventually appear on the battlefield, and Chinese soldiers will need to pay for them with their lives.

    Since you are lucky enough to come to this era, what should you do?

    At the same time, Li Guoyao also wanted to use his identity as a private salt dealer as a cover to secretly develop the army.

    After listening to Li Guoyao¡¯s explanation, Ma Desheng fell silent.

    He is a qualified chief of staff, and he also has his own ideas on marching and fighting. Although he is not as good as someone like Li Guoyao who often makes scheming, he is not bad either.

    However, he found that his thoughts could never keep up with Li Guoyao's unbridled imagination. The young commander's thoughts might still be on the frontline troops at this moment, but he didn't know where he was flying to the next moment.

    Just like today, he was thinking about how to get the money back to relieve the financial pressure, but Li Guoyao instantly jumped to becoming a private salt dealer.

    ¡°And through Li Guoyao¡¯s analysis and explanation, I clearly feel that Li Guoyao¡¯s idea is not only very good, but also very feasible and necessary.

    Once a private salt team is formed near Haizhou City, not only can they obtain salt, but they can also use smuggled salt to attack the Japanese and puppet troops and develop their troops.

    The most important thing is that the biggest opponents of the Japanese army at the moment are the regular National Army and the Eighth Route Army. They do not value those smuggled salt dealers. This can be seen from the fact that they rarely use regular troops to fight against smuggled salt dealers, but use so-called anti-smuggling teams.  One or two.

    After thinking for a while, Ma Desheng nodded and said, "Okay, I just don't know how many people you plan to take south, Commander?"

    Li Guoyao thought for a while and said: "Soldiers are valuable and quick, so we can't bring infantry this time, and the number can't be too large, otherwise the target will be too big. I think we should draw a brigade from the cavalry column!"

    "Well, which brigade should we use?"

    "Use Gu Mingtang's third brigade!"

    "This is not good, okay. Gu Mingtang's headquarters has just been reinstated, and the brothers are worried about this guy.Not too worried yet!  "Ma Desheng said.

    "It doesn't matter. Although there are many puppet troops in the third brigade, the backbone is still our people. With them here, you are still worried about what Gu Mingtang will do to me!"

    Li Guoyao then continued: "Besides, I think Gu Mingtang is okay. Although he seems a bit arrogant, he has a true nature, otherwise the Mongolians wouldn't accept him."

    "Commander, I think it's better to take Xu Da's troops with you. We can rest assured about this person. After all, it is related to your personal safety!" Ma Desheng insisted.

    "No, just let Gu Mingtang gather his troops. Whether this person can be used or not, you have to give him a chance to show off. Say no!"

    "Oh well!"

    "Go and notify, the troops will leave shortly!"

    "yes!"

    The gathering of the troops did not waste much time. Firstly, it was because Gu Mingtang's troops were currently undergoing training in the hinterland of Xiong'er Mountain. Secondly, they were all cavalry and had war horses to travel around, so their speed was naturally astonishing.

    Soon, more than 1,500 cavalry were gathered!

    Then Li Guoyao took dozens of special forces members of the guard, and then the whole army quickly went south and headed straight for Haizhou City.

    When the troops left the defense area of ??the Shandong Guerrilla Corps, Li Guoyao immediately ordered them to put on the standard Japanese military uniforms. Even every soldier put on simple makeup. Those who needed to wear beards put on beards, and those who needed to change clothes changed their clothes.  The crotch cloth was not changed, but the rest was replaced.

    After all, it¡¯s a long journey, and emergencies are inevitable, so it¡¯s better to be well prepared.

    After doing everything, Li Guoyao set off with this cavalry unit!

    At the same time that Li Guoyao went south, the 21st Division Headquarters in Xuzhou also received a telegram from the defenders of Haizhou City asking for help.

    After learning that Haizhou City was unexpectedly attacked by the Chinese army, the garrison headquarters was breached, and the commander died in battle, the new commander of the 21st Division, Sakai Hoji, was furious and immediately ordered the troops in Xuzhou City to assemble immediately to prepare to reinforce Haizhou.  city.

    However, as soon as the order was issued, an emergency telegram was received from the Jiawang Town stronghold, saying that half an hour ago their patrol team discovered a Chinese guerrilla group on the east side of the railway, and the other party attacked a railway bridge in the north of Jiawang  garrison.

    Fortunately, the patrol found out in time and defeated the opponent. Otherwise, the railway bridge would probably be destroyed by the opponent.

    Immediately afterwards, Zhangji Town in the southeast of Xuzhou was attacked by unknown armed forces. A strengthened garrison in Zhangji Town was wiped out in less than an hour. More than 10,000 kilograms of grain and a small amount of ammunition they had hoarded in Zhangji Town were lost.  The loss is huge.

    The Chinese army was discovered in the south and north of Xuzhou City at the same time, and the opponent's strength was not small, which made Sakai Hoji hesitate.

    Haizhou City is certainly important, but compared to Xuzhou City, Haizhou is not worth mentioning at all.

    However, just when Hoji Sakai was hesitating whether to send troops to reinforce Haizhou City, he suddenly received a telegram from the North China Front Army Headquarters, saying that many salt fields in Haizhou had been devastated by the Chinese army, especially the Qingkou Salt Fields, which had been destroyed by the opponent.  Blow up the sea defense levee and divert seawater back into it, which is considered a complete ruin.

    Now the front army headquarters orders them to immediately march eastward to Haizhou for reinforcements. They must ensure the safety of other salt fields and resume production as soon as possible.

    With the order from the North China Front Army Headquarters, Sakai Hoji no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the garrison troops in Xuzhou City to assemble immediately and rush to Haizhou City.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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