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Who is Shang Junchang? Li Guan reacted so much when he heard this name?

Li Guan asked Cangcao to join the military affairs of Han Zhongwu: "Do you know who this Shang Junchang is?" Unexpectedly, Han Zhongwu did not hesitate at all and immediately replied: "This man is a salt merchant in Puzhou. He is a generous man. He often goes south and north and walks across various states. He is a big merchant."

Li Guanben just asked casually, but he didn't expect that Han Zhongwu had actually heard of Shang Junchang, and he also said that he was a generous salt merchant. This surprised Li Guan, which was different from his understanding of Shang Junchang. Shang Junchang was very famous in the history of the late Tang Dynasty and left a heavy hand. But that was definitely not because he was a generous salt merchant, but because he was the second-rate figure under the great rebel King Xianzhi in the late Tang Dynasty, one of the ten heroes.

According to historical records, at the end of Xiantong, he was still hungry and thieves prospered Henan. In the first year of Qianfu, the famous thief king Xianzhi in Pu disrupted Changyuan.

The first year of Qianfu, that is, the fifteenth year of Xiantong, is this year. The current year name is still the year of Yizong, and the Yuan Qianfu will not be changed until October. Therefore, this year is both the fifteenth year of Xiantong and the first year of Qianfu. The famous thief King Xianzhi in Pu is in chaos in Changyuan, which is what Wang Xianzhi gathers to rebel this year.

What kind of person is Wang Xianzhi? Here he is said to be a famous thief. Pu is Puzhou. The famous thief is a famous thief. According to the memory in Li Guan's mind, he knew that Wang Xianzhi was indeed a sensational figure. Puzhou was between Qingzhou and Luoyang, not far from Wagang, which started the storm at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Just like the gathering of Wagang to rebel, Wang Xianzhi did not rebel in a hasty uprising. They were prepared, or they had the capital to rebel.

In the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, before joining Wagang, Shan Xinyi, was a famous gangster brother in Henan, and the second brother of the second brother of the second brother of the second prince of the second prince of the second prince of the second prince of the Nine Provinces and Five Roads, and was known as the leader of the Green Forest Heroes of the General Piao. There are also villages and mountains below, which are under his jurisdiction.

More than two hundred years have passed, and another famous gangster brother has appeared on this land. That is Wang Xianzhi. What is more coincidental is that the tenth generation descendants of Shan Xiongxin, Shan Xing, Shan Wang, Shan Mao and Shan Sheng. The four of them later participated in the Huang Chao Uprising and were called the "Four Masters of the Yellow Army" for their bravery. Wang Xianzhi, like Shan Xiongxin, has also appeared to be a rich man. The Wang family has been selling salt for generations, and by the time of Wang Xianzhi, they were already a salt seller in Puzhou. They were considered to be a gangster family with another salt seller in Caozhou. Wang Xianzhi was selling official salt and a salt merchant on the surface, but in fact, they were doing private salt business. They took risks and sought wealth in danger.

As the central government of the Tang Dynasty became more and more difficult to make money, the court used salt tea as a means of making money. Tea and salt were sold in a monopoly manner. The tax was extremely heavy. The people could not afford salt. The higher the price of salt, the greater the profit of selling private salt. The salt bank was just boiling the sea for salt, and the cost of salt was only a few cents, but it was sold for more than a hundred cents. The profit was dozens or even a hundred times. Such profits were enough to make those bold people take risks for it.

Many salt merchants who originally sold official salt began to join the ranks of private salt traders. Because the imperial court investigated and punished private salt, those who sold more than one stone of private salt were executed. Therefore, in order to escape and deal with it, these private salt traders often began to arm their armed trafficking. In the end, an entire organized trafficking group was established. Wang Xianzhi was the largest private salt trader in Puzhou. He had ten armed salt traders under his command. These ten leaders were all brothers of Wang Xianzhi, and the underworld was known as the ten heroes.

Piaoshuai is the leader of the tough leader, and can also be called the master of the armed gang of Wang Xianzhi, the fragrant master. In the late Tang Dynasty, the smuggling of private salt was much more guilty than at the end of the Sui Dynasty. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Cheng Yaojin sold private salt and went directly to the yamen to sell it, shouting for private salt, but he was just beaten and then put in prison for dinner. But in the late Tang Dynasty, it was different. He caught private salt and was directly exiled for thousands of miles to be sold, and those who were more than one stone were executed. This punishment standard was completely equivalent to the armed drug lords in Colombia who sold drugs in armed with drugs, and they were all desperate.

Who is Shang Junchang? That is Wang Xianzhi's first leader, the first leader of Zhongxiangtang, right-hand assistant, and trusted subordinate. After Wang Xianzhi's uprising, Shang Junchang has always been Wang Xianzhi's second-in-chief, the second-in-chief. He also has a younger brother named Shang Rang, who is also a master of Xiangzhu. In the end, after Wang Xianzhi's defeat, he defected to Huang Chao, the current leader of the Caozhou Salt Gang, and became Huang Chao's second-in-chief.

It can be said that Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao were the most influential figures in the late Tang Dynasty, while Shang Junchang brothers were the second leaders of these two influential figures. It is conceivable that they are not ordinary people. Shang Junchang was about to rebel with Wang Xianzhi. At this time, he suddenly came to Shamen Town and asked to see Li Guan, which made Li Guan surprised.

However, Han Zhongwu saw that Li Guan was a little confused and said directly: "Shang Junchang is a famous salt merchant in Puzhou. He must have known that the new salt on our Nantuo Island is white in color, big and dry. I guess he wants to come to us to buy salt."

Li Guan said in surprise: "We are the official army, he is the salt merchant, but now we come to us to buy salt instead of from the salt transport envoy. Then this is to buy private salt. Aren't he afraid that we will take him down and send him to the official?"

Han Zhongwu smiled: "To be honest, it is actually a violation of the imperial court's control over salt. We privately dry salt, neither sending the salt produced to the salt, nor paying taxes. In fact, it is no different from those salt vendors who sell private salt. Since this Shang Junchang came, he must have thought so." The Jinshi from the merchant family has now become Li Guan's brother-in-law, and he doesn't have so much concern when speaking. "I think we can meet Shang Junchang. They are the largest salt vendors in Henan. Our salt is so good that no matter how much we have, they can eat it. If we sell the salt, it would be a lot of money. Otherwise, although there are many military and civilians on our island, the salt cannot be eaten as food. We can't really give it to the emperor."

Li Yan had a plan to sell the salt on the spot. However, if he wanted to sell it to Shang Junchang, Li Yan did not make up the decisive idea. Shang Junchang is the leader of the treason who is about to rebel. Now he is doing business with them. Will this involve himself at that time?

"How many people did Chief Shang Jun bring?" Li Guan asked.

"He brought about a dozen people, one of them seemed tough. They were probably all salt gang thugs."

Li Guan hesitated in his heart. He wanted to take down Shang Junchang now, but in what name he said he was a private salt dealer? Then this reason was too far-fetched. Shamen Town is not a salt transportation yamen, so there is no way to deal with these matters. But would he be asked to say that Shang Junchang is about to rebel and be the second-rate figure of the thief? Who believes this?

After pondering for a long time, Li Guan finally decided to give up the business. Doing business with the thief or private salt business is too dangerous. However, this person is Kexin first, "bring people."

Soon Shang Junchang was brought in. Although Shang Junchang was wearing silk and silk, as soon as he met, his tall and burly body revealed a sense of turbulent and fierceness. He was less than forty years old. He was seven feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a big beard on his face. When he saw Li Guan, he immediately bent down politely and bowed, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he shouted loudly like a lion's roar: "Shang Junchang, a salt merchant in Puzhou, has seen the Yanei!"

When Li Guan looked at this man who was as big as a tiger or a wolf, it was hard to imagine that such a person would dare to raise the banner of rebellion with Wang Xianzhi in a short time. Isn’t it very profitable to be a salt merchant, or they already feel that they have accumulated enough strength. Can you take a gamble?

Li Guan remembered last year's famine. Puzhou and Caozhou under the Taiping Jiedu west of Ziqing Town were the most severe places. They even caused dozens of refugees, big and small, to gather and plunder and lose the countryside. Liu Shouqian's home was robbed by the vagrants. According to Liu Shouqian, although most of the thugs were hungry, they were actually bandits and salt vendors who guided and organized them. Although they were finally pacified by the government, these things were covered up and did not attract enough attention.

Perhaps, behind the turmoil last year was the possibility of Wang Xianzhi, Shang Jun asked others to manipulate and test it.

"What is Wang Xianzhi busy with recently?" Li Guan asked suddenly.

Shang Jun was slightly surprised, but he didn't expect that he suddenly asked Wang Xianzhi and was speechless.

Li Guan asked again: "I heard that Wang Xianzhi and you and the generals are creating weapons day and night, recruiting soldiers and horses, gathering refugees, and gathering people to rebel, right?"

With such a powerful voice, Shang Jun changed his expression after hearing it, and his right hand was used to draw out the weapons. But after touching it a few times, he remembered that under the stone sculpture of the blue wolf outside the hall, the long sword he carried with him was detained by the guard.

Li Guan sat in the hall and watched Shang Junchang coldly as he lost his innocence by his words. He couldn't help but feel sure that Wang Xianzhi was indeed as he expected, and had long been rebellious. It was recorded that Wang Xianzhi had only officially launched an army at the end of the year, but he had just cheated and had already opened up. Wang Xianzhi was already making preparations in secret. Otherwise, how could he have joined forces? There would be thousands of people.

Shang Jun could not keep this forever, and he could not do business with them.

"Come on, take this traitor down and send it to the Dengzhou Governor's Mansion immediately." Li Guan did not have real evidence of rebellion from Wang Xianzhi and others, but he felt it was necessary to remind Song Wei that the Tianpingjie was close to Pinglu Army, and Wang Xianzhi of Puzhou reversed the situation. The first thing that was to bear was Ziqing Town, which was close to them. Send people there. As for whether to believe it or not, it is their business.

Li Yan originally wanted to kill Shang Junrang with one knife, but thought about it, he would leave someone to give to Song Wei so that he could interrogate him personally.

Seeing Shang Junchang being tied up in a ship to Dengzhou, Li Guan couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this time, perhaps there would be a sensational figure in the history of the late Tang Dynasty. He is dead now, but he is just an unknown private salt dealer. Compared with the status of the number one general under Wang Xianzhi, who caused the world's rebellion, he is far inferior to the status of the number one general under Wang Xianzhi.

He even couldn't help but think, if he asked Li Wei to lead a team of people to sneak into Puzhou and Caozhou and kill Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, how would history go? Will the thirty years of troubled times that are about to begin in the late Tang Dynasty be eliminated?

There was a son-in-law god in silence. The footsteps of patrol soldiers woke Li Yan up. He shook his head and sighed inwardly what happened to him? Even if he killed Wang Xianzhi, how effective could Huang Chao have? Although history is full of accidents, it is also full of necessity. With the current situation in the Tang Dynasty, as long as the natural disaster continues and the famine continues, the people have no food to eat. Any one or two ambitious people stir up, and this great unrest will still be inevitable.

Since this turmoil is inevitable, Shamen Town will speed up its preparations. In the past, Li Guan always felt that everything in the world is peaceful and always feels a bit prosperous. But when he saw Shang Junchang with his own eyes, he suddenly realized that Dengzhou where he is now is a real wealthy place in the late Tang Dynasty, and there are no such good days in other places. Moreover, the disaster continues, and a new wave of refugees is about to begin. Wang Xianzhi and the end of the Tang Dynasty will be opened.

Back at the head of the general's mansion, Li Guan immediately summoned Zhang Hong, the military officer of the general's mansion of the general's mansion, Han Zhongwu, and Li Chun, as well as the military officer of the general's mansion, as well as the military officer of the general's mansion, as well as the military officer of the general's mansion, including Cui Zhiyuan, Feng Guoyong, and Zhang Chengye, the military officer of the general's mansion. In addition, the military officers and the military officers of the two towns below also came to attend, and more than a dozen staff members and civil servants gathered together, which was the first time that no other military generals participated.

"Han Cangcao, how much food have we reserved?"

In times of troubled times, food is the lifeblood. Li Guan has been increasing his food reserves all the time, but there will never be much food.

"At present, we have stored a total of 370,000 stones of grain, including rice, wheat, corn, sorghum, soybeans and other grains. A large part of these grains is the income from the fight against bandits and thieves in the past, and a large part is our continuous purchase. Another batch is half of the income from our current liquor workshops for purchases."

370,000 stones of grain, calculated based on the standard of three stones per person a year, is enough for 120,000 people to use it in a year. If considering that there are women, children and the elderly, the standard is reduced to an average of two stones per person, or even one and a half stones, then it is barely enough for the people on the island to eat two years.
Chapter completed!