It turned out that Tong Gu said something strange in the letter.
Li Sheng and his cronies fled in panic after being betrayed by other rebels in Xiazhou City.
Tong Gu, Du Wei, Shi Yong, Tian Qing and others led their troops into the city, took inventory of the equipment warehouses and storehouses, and selected and reorganized the surrendered rebels.
Among Li Sheng's close confidants, more than a hundred of them had no time to escape and were forced to resist in a corner of the city.
Tong Gu personally led the troops to capture these people.
These men fought desperately and refused to surrender.
Tong Gu ordered them all to be shot.
They knew that their lives were coming to an end, so they were not afraid of death and took out something from their pockets.
Then these people actually put the finger-thick and shit-yellow thing into their mouths, shook the fire stick to light it, and then took a deep breath.
Then two streams of green smoke came out of their nostrils.
The air is filled with green smoke and a strong fragrance.
Tong Gu thought that they had used some magic before they died, so he immediately reminded his men to be extremely careful and not to get close to them for the time being.
However, these people took a puff of it, with an expression of great enjoyment on their faces.
Tong Gu was very surprised and ordered his men to put away their compound bows and prepare to capture them alive and hand them over to Zhao Muyun.
The knowledgeable Lord Zhao will definitely satisfy Tong Gu's curiosity.
Just when Tong Gu ordered his men to surround them, these people threw away the smoking things in their hands, and each of them was full of energy, waving their weapons and rushing forward to kill them.
Tong Gu subdued the hundred people only after sacrificing more than fifty people.
More than seventy of them were killed, and the remaining thirty or so were ready to die. They lit the thing again and waited for death to come.
Tong Gu did not kill them, but searched their bodies and found the object that could ignite and smoke.
He found that it was something rolled up with a withered yellow leaf.
When you smell it, a particularly refreshing and mellow fragrance enters your nose.
Then he lit it up as well. The aroma was thick and a bit choking.
Tong Gu became even more curious, so he immediately wrote a battle report and sent someone to deliver the incident, the thirty captives, and the flammable leaves that were found to Zhao Muyun in Jincheng.
Tobacco is definitely a strategic material for a country.
The taxes and profits it brings provide the country with a steady stream of military funds.
People often joke: If you don’t smoke and I don’t smoke, how can we get the money to build an aircraft carrier?
What we smoke is not a cigarette, but a bullet fired at the enemy.
In his previous life, Zhao Muyun was in the army, and all the officers and soldiers around him were smoking cigarettes.
In addition to being truly refreshing, it can also relieve soldiers from the tense and boring life in the barracks.
Compared with fine salt and coal mines, this is a more profitable business.
Even if you eat salt every day, you won’t consume much.
But once you start smoking cigarettes, you're addicted, and the benefits they bring are long-lasting, stable, and continuous.
Currently, Zhao Muyun wants to strengthen the army, upgrade equipment and weapons, and even wants to create Mo Dao, heavy infantry, and heavy cavalry. However, it is difficult to support it by relying solely on the income from private salt, coal mines, and sheepskin.
He has always wanted a more profitable industry to realize his ideas.
It’s not that he hadn’t thought about tobacco, but Yinzhou, Shuozhou, Weizhou and Yanzhou didn’t produce it at all.
The tobacco we knew in the previous life was a species introduced from another continent.
Now in this Dayin Empire, the original owner, who grew up in Shuozhou, has never left Shuozhou.
Zhao Muyun was not sure whether tobacco could grow in any area of Dayin.
Therefore, before Tong Gu told him about this matter, he had no illusions about it and thought that the probability of this thing appearing in Dayin was very low, or even impossible.
However, conquering Xiazhou brought such great gains.
This is more significant than killing Li Jingang's general Hou Zongmin, retaking Xiazhou, and gaining tens of thousands of people.
Zhao Muyun couldn't hide his excitement and anticipation at this moment, and immediately asked, "Where were those captives and the ignitable leaves sent to?"
He couldn't help but feel an itch in his throat and tingling all over his body, as if some unstable factor in his body had been activated.
"My lord, judging by their walking speed, they should have reached Liuli Mountain." The messenger replied.
"Old Tang, take your men and set out now to take care of these people. They must be brought back to me in one piece, leaving no one behind!"
"Li Si, go get Zhao Gongshi and Bai Canjun to come to Jincheng. I have something important to tell them." Zhao Muyun rubbed his hands excitedly, "Right away!"
Tang Yanhai and Li Si were startled.
It was the first time they saw Zhao Muyun so excited.
What is tobacco? Is it more important than food?
Although the two were extremely confused, Zhao Muyun's orders were unquestionable.
"Yes, sir!"
The two did not dare to hesitate and turned around and quickly left Zhao Muyun's room.
Looking at the backs of the two people leaving, Zhao Muyun's eyes were full of heat, as if a business empire led by tobacco was rising, and the huge income brought in provided him with sufficient military funds to develop weapons and equipment and train new arms.
His Modao and heavy cavalry also began to take shape and showed their ferocious fangs.
The Tatar cavalry in the northern Di grasslands trembled in fear before the composite bows, Mo Dao and heavy cavalry, and from then on they became good at singing and dancing.
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at the same time.
Yang Dingguo, the Minister of War of Dayin and commander-in-chief of the four routes of Hedong, Guannei, Longyou and Jiannan, was in the Puyuan camp northeast of Xijing City, deploying troops and making plans.
Li Jingang's troops gathered at Bailuyuan, and Yang Dingguo also gathered there, separated by the city of Xijing.
There was no large-scale fighting between the two sides, but small groups of troops fought frequently.
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