Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Lin Wan sent people to keep an eye on Chu Mo's team all the way. Relying on his identity and power, he successfully allowed them to cross the border and go to Shaanzhou without telling Chu Xiang.

Chu Mo didn't know that it was because of Lin Wan that he could successfully enter Dazhou.

Along the way, he thought it was Chu Ruowan and her secret guards who were so powerful that they passed through the checkpoints and patrols and successfully entered the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

The first stop when entering the Northern Zhou Dynasty is naturally Shaanzhou City, which has been in confrontation with Shaanxi Guoguan for many years.

Shaanzhou is connected to the hinterland of the Central Plains in the east by Mount Laoshan, in the west by Tongguan and Qinchuan, which block the main east-west transportation routes, in the south by two lakes, and in the north by Shanxi, which is the throat of north-south trade. It is a strategic location for military strategists in ancient times.

Xiaoshan, Hangu, and Yanling guard the east, west, and south sides of Sanmenxia. To the north, a natural barrier - the Yellow River meanders eastward. Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan are governed by the river based on Shaanxi Province.

It can be said that the role played by Shaanzhou was indispensable for Chu Xin to be able to demarcate and govern with the Tang Dynasty.

Due to the war, the road from the border to outside Shaanzhou City was full of refugees fleeing.

Among these refugees, 90.00% are people from the Tang Dynasty.

Most of these people were from Shaanxi Guoguan and the people around Shangzhou City.

When Shangzhou City was suddenly massacred before, some survivors learned from Chu Mo that it was the Imperial Guards of the Tang Dynasty who massacred the city.

Therefore, the people were panicked and felt that the Tang Dynasty court was crazy and actually let its own troops massacre its own people.

Because of the continuous battles and various corvee taxes, the people of the Tang Dynasty had long been miserable, and now there was a massacre of the city. The people were worried that such a thing would happen again, so they decided to go to the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Before that, Chu Xin had already begun to make plans, not only sending a large number of agents to sneak into the Tang Dynasty, spreading the beauty of the Great Zhou Dynasty, as well as his various preferential treatment policies to the people.

At the beginning of the battle, Chu Xiang was asked to send people to encourage the people to move to Dazhou.

If it were done before, Chu Xin's methods would definitely not be very effective.

The most they can do is to lure some of the Tang clan who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

But this time the situation was different. With the assists of Li Changlin and Chu Mo, and the news of Li Ji's death in the battle from Shaanxi Guan, the people's balance directly tilted towards Dazhou.

They were worried that after the defeat of the Tang Dynasty, those defeated troops would turn into bandits and poison the countryside. Therefore, as soon as the news of Li Ji's death in battle came out, the people living around Shaanxi Guoguan and Shangzhou City set out from various places to secretly They set off from various small roads and headed for Shaanzhou City.

This can be regarded as Li Shimin and Li Ji shooting themselves in the foot.

Chu Mo and his group were mixed in with these refugees and arrived at Shaanzhou City.

Of course, some interrogations and inquiries were inevitable during this period, and among Chu Mo's team, there were mostly middle-aged men, with almost no elderly or children, so they would naturally be regarded as key targets for investigation.

However, with Chu Mo's financial offensive and Lin Wan's secret help, the group of people arrived outside Shaanzhou City without any danger.

Looking at the closed gates of Shaanzhou City and the tens of thousands of refugees gathered outside the city, Chu Mo hurriedly asked Chu Ruowan to send someone to find out the situation.

You must know that this group of people is too dazzling. If they hadn't spent gold and silver on the road, they might not have been able to reach the gate of Shaanzhou City, and they would have been captured and taken to the army.

Now that the situation outside the city was unknown, Chu Mo was worried about an accident, so he immediately sent someone to find out the news.

Soon, the secret guards sent out came back.

After some inquiring, Chu Mo knew the general situation here.

It turned out that a few days ago, after the news of Chu Xiang's successive defeats came from the battlefield ahead, Zhang Daoquan, the governor of Shaanzhou City, closed the gates of Shaanzhou City and turned away all the refugees on the grounds of safety.

Originally, according to the wishes of the empress and Chu Xiang, Dazhou should actively accept these refugees and create an illusion to the outside world.

That is, the Great Zhou will not reject anyone who comes, and anyone who wants to join the Great Zhou will be accepted.

As for how to arrange it after acceptance, whether to kill or keep him, that is another arrangement.

However, Zhang Daoquan, the governor of Shaanxi Province, was a conservative and always followed Chu Xin's will.

What's more, I can't stand this woman Chu Xiang, who became the guardian of this place at a young age. Therefore, the two sides have always been at odds with each other.

Chu Xin, for the sake of balance, did not abolish Zhang Daoquan, but wanted to use him to restrain Chu Xiang.

This kind of thing, when Chu Xiang is in power, basically does not see any harm.

But now, as soon as Chu Xiang lost power and the news of the defeat from the front came, Zhang Daoquan, the governor of Shaanxi Province, started to make small moves.

The city gates were directly closed and all refugees were kept out of the city. Even the battle reports sent back from Chu Xiang and the requests for reinforcements and supplies were suppressed by the other side.

Naturally, Chu Mo and the refugees outside the city became victims of the game between the two sides.

The only thing that pleased Chu Mo was that after Zhang Daoquan closed Shaanzhou City, although no one was allowed to enter and exit on the grounds of protecting military secrets, he would still select some wealthy gentry to enter when he was giving porridge twice a day in the morning and evening. City negotiations.

However, the information that the secret guards found out made Chu Mo frown a little.

After these wealthy gentry entered the city, they basically never returned, and there was no news after that. Many people suspected that Zhang Daoquan was using power for personal gain, so he killed all those people and took their money.

Chu Mo didn't believe this.

After all, with so many people entering the city, if Zhang Daoquan were killed, Chu Xin would definitely not be able to spare him if the incident was leaked.

And he is not a governor, but he is not a guy who can control the sky with one hand. There is also a guard envoy Chu Xiang, but the two sides have always been at odds. If Zhang Daoquan dares to do this, he will definitely not escape the eyes and ears of Chu Xiang.

When Chu Xiang wins and returns to the city, he will definitely use this excuse and reason to punish Zhang Daoquan as soon as possible.

As for the other party closing the city gates, not accepting refugees, and not arranging supplies and support, this is very simple.

As long as Zhang Daoquan said that the troops in the city were limited, and there were tens of thousands of refugees entrenched outside the city, he was worried that Tang spies would be among the refugees and pose a threat to Shaanzhou City, and he could get away with most of the blame.

But having said that, so many people entered the city and there was no news. This matter is definitely related to Zhang Daoquan.

The only thing that worries Chu Mo now is that if he and his party enter the city, they will lose contact inexplicably.

It would be okay if he was arranged to go elsewhere. If he was killed and cheated as rumored, wouldn't it be too late for Chu Mo to cry?

Does this count as giving someone a thousand miles away?