Popularity is destined to be only temporary, but not permanent.

Cinnabar is not a necessity of life, so it is destined to explode in a short period of time and quickly become silent. In comparison, people's demand for salt has remained unchanged for thousands of years. A person can not eat fish, not accept the golden elixir for his whole life, or even not seek women (masturbate and solve the problem), but he cannot be salt-free for a day.

For ancient people, just as oil in the later world, whoever controls salt will take the initiative. Not all places with water will have salt. On the land of Bashu, only salt wells are excavated in the places where the Bas are living.

It cannot be denied that Bayanzi is a shrewd businessman, which inherits his mother's inheritance. As a big businessman, he would not be unclear about the huge profits of Yanjing. Although the cinnabar industry is pretty good now, it is inevitable that it will decline.

Today's Qin State is no longer the Qin State during the First Emperor. In fact, after Fu Ge came to power, the construction of Lishan Mausoleum and the palace of Afang Palace had stopped, which caused the demand for cinnabar red to plummet. The only project to start construction was the Memorial Hall of the Deadly Soldiers in Afang Palace. However, in order to express condolences to the deceased, the walls of the house were painted white.

The Qin State no longer built a large-scale construction of palaces, and the six Kanto countries had already been destroyed. In this way, the resources of cinnabar were only used as a way to refine alchemy. Fortunately, the Qin King Ziying believed in seeking immortals and asking for advice, and also had the hobby of taking golden elixirs. Otherwise, Bayanzi would really not even be able to find a place to cry.

For Jiaba Yanzi, a businessman with cinnabar as its main business, the biggest crisis now is that if Ziying, a monarch who believes in immortality, dies one day, the demand for alchemy will be completely completed. Under this crisis, if you want to maintain the long-term prosperity of your family, you must find another way to make a fortune.

Taking to Yanjing - This huge temptation was truly placed in front of Bayanzi, making him irresistible. In fact, long before the rebellion was initiated, Bayanzi had already obtained guarantees from the Fan and Fan clans that if they could grab control of Yanjing from the Qin people, they would give Bayanzi a share of benefits. It was this greed that made Bayanzi choose to remain silent at the beginning of the rebellion.

Just as Fu Ge led reinforcements to the Ba people's guide, Luan Bu, the Qin army commander, was trapped in a tough battle at the salt well of Baoyuan Mountain in Wuxi.

Since the meeting with Fu Ge in Chen Cang during the Battle of Hanzhong, Luan Bu's talent has been valued by Fu Ge, who loves talents and cherishes talents. He also had the hope of being transferred to Guanzhong to command a powerful army like Li Yao and Li Lie, and became a famous generation of famous generals on the battlefield. However, Luan Bu rejected this great opportunity.

Like Peng Yue, Luan Bu, who was born in poverty, had a very distinct personality. He was unwilling to rise to the top by appreciation. In Luan Bu's heart, only by making honors and military achievements step by step on the battlefield can he be qualified to receive the respect and trust of his soldiers. After being ordered to lead 500 soldiers to Ba County, Luan Bu, who knew the importance of salt well, immediately drove his army to the earthen encirclement of Baoyuan salt well in Wuxi.

Luan Bu's move is actually very normal, it is to restore Qin's control over Yanyuan. In Bajun, controlling Yanyuan is equivalent to controlling the entire county.

However, Luan Bu's move quickly triggered panic among the local Ba tribe's wealthy families. In fact, after the large-scale turmoil broke out in Guandong, the rule of the Qin Dynasty in the Bashu area that had lost contact with Guanzhong was already in name only. In Shu County, due to the large number of people who had migrated to Guanzhong, the officials appointed by the Qin Dynasty still had a certain say. In Ba County, which was more remote to the south, the officials of Qin State were not tenable at all. When the heads of the Ba tribe saw the chaos in Qin, they also took advantage of the situation to seize important resources such as Yanjing. So when Luan Bu's troops stationed in Yanjing, the Ba tribes who felt that their interests were infringed began to conspire to rebel.

"The Qin people occupied the Yanjing, which was equivalent to cutting off all of our financial resources. If this continues, it is not a solution. It would be better to rebel against him!" Unlike Bayanzi and the cinnabar industry, these other large households in Bajun have a very deep dependence on Yanjing. They are unwilling to be deprived of vested interests. In order to ensure the success of the rebellion, these people also contacted the army of Yelang Kingdom. Yelang, who had long been ambitious to embezzle Bajun, immediately sent more than 4,000 barbarian soldiers to assist.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away. In the eyes of the rebel Ba people, Qin is too far away from Ba County, so far that it takes more than 40 days to walk. According to their information, the total number of Qin's troops in Ba and Shu is less than 5,000, and there are only 500 people stationed in Ba County, which is not enough to worry about this amount of force.

Five hundred people were really nothing, but when the barbarians began to attack the earth encirclement, they were disappointed because they found that these five hundred Qin troops were a difficult "stone".

November 8th.

The barbarians of Yelang Kingdom and the Ba people rebels, a total of more than 6,000 people began to attack the Yanjing stationed by the Qin army. At the beginning, the barbarians who did not take their opponents seriously rushed into the earth encirclement. In the eyes of the Yelang general who led the army, this earthen encirclement, which was only one person high, could jump over and jump, which could not be called an obstacle at all.

"Swoosh, swosh--!" The sharp cluster of arrows broke through the air in a dense voice.

Soon, the barbarians who rushed in the front tasted the pain. The Qin army's crossbows made the barbarians who were not wearing armor-worn clothes a target for movement, and screams and wails came one after another.

In the first wave of attacks, the barbarians suffered more than 300 losses. When they thought that the total number of Qin troops in the siege was only 500, this made the Yelang general who was commanding the battle and was furious and angry.

When the second wave of attacks, the barbarians finally learned their lessons. They no longer rushed forward foolishly, but spread out their formations and besieged from all sides. In this way, Luan Bu, who was in a state of rushing to fight, immediately had trouble. When he could only send soldiers to defend the defense, the strength of the Qin army's resistance was greatly reduced, and the crossbows lost their power because they did not have enough number. At the same time, the barbarians of Yelang Kingdom were able to rely on precise archery to effectively kill Qin soldiers who only poked out half of their heads.

"The barbarians are precise in archery skills, so they bend me down, otherwise they won't know how to die if they die." Luan Bu, who led the poorly-feared reserve team to help him everywhere, shouted anxiously. His lips were blisters, and his eyes were covered with red blood.

In the past, when fighting with the enemy, the Qin army often used crossbow arrows to win an overwhelming advantage, but this time the opponent had a more superb shooting technique than the Qin army. Although the Yelang people's crude bows and arrows were not as powerful as the Qin army's crossbow machines, they were all archers, and the arrow clusters were highly poisonous. As long as they were shot, they could only wait for the poison to die.

Luan Bu only had five hundred soldiers in his hands. If this person rushed out of the earth and surrounded the field, it would not be enough to block the barbarians' teeth. His only choice was to defend the enemy and stay until the reinforcements arrived.

"Where are reinforcements?" Looking at the pain-rolling soldiers dragged to the later point, Luan Bu's despair was gradually spreading.

The sharp horn sounded again. This was the first time. Luan Bu was too lazy to think about it anymore. He suddenly pulled out the iron sword from his waist and stroked his arm hard. A sharp pain suddenly came into his mind.

"General, you--!" The Qin soldiers beside him exclaimed.

"Don't be nervous, I just want to be sober and rest assured. If I don't kill a few more barbarians to cushion the back, I won't close my eyes." Luan Bu gritted his teeth and opened his eyes wide. This time, the preparation time of the barbarian soldiers was much longer than the previous charge. Luan Bu knew that this was a sign of a large-scale charge. The third wave of the barbarian soldiers' attack was about to begin, but the Qin army in the ground was less than 200 soldiers who could gather together to fight.

What is even worse than the number of people is that the Qin army's arrows are very few. Without the most lethal crossbow arrows, the exquisite bronze crossbow machine has become a pile of waste. It can be imagined that it will be difficult for the Qin army to gain any advantage in close combat.

"Send the order, all the soldiers who can fight will gather here to me! Take your weapons and kill the barbarians with me!" Luan Bu roared, holding the iron sword handle tightly with both hands. This iron sword was sent by Prime Minister Fu Ge to Peng Yue. Due to the lack of excellent iron and stone in Guanzhong, the iron sword can only be built to seek quality but not quantity. Therefore, among the Qin army, only generals who were respected at the level of the lieutenant and had military achievements were honored to wear the iron sword. Therefore, when Luan Bu touched the sword, he was full of gratitude for Fu Ge's kindness for his understanding.

"If a soldier dies for his confidant, it's better. Let me repay Fu Shuai's kindness with my passion today!" Luan Bu's heart flashed through, and the Qin soldiers in the surrounds had gathered together.

If you fight, you will fight to the death. If you fight to the death, you will earn enough money for one, and you will earn one for two.

With such a determined desire to die, the Qin soldiers glared in their eyes one by one, held the bronze sword tightly, and waited for the barbarians to jump up again to make a desperate attempt.

"Oh, drink—!" The barbarians shouted closer and closer.

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps-.

"kill!"
Chapter completed!