Collect the party Chen Mo already has several sets of strategies in his heart, one by one, Taiyuan and Shangdang are in his hands, and it is much easier to take Yanmen, control the grain road, Yanmen has no self-sufficiency, so in Chen Mo's plan, Taiyuan is followed by Shangdang and Yanmen, as for Xihe, it was put last by Chen Mo, as for the farther Wuyuan and Yunzhong, Chen Mo is not ready to move for the time being.

Those places are sparsely populated, and it is useless to take them, but they will contain Chen Mo's combat power.

The sound of the piano flowed in the courtyard, Yun Si and Juan'er were by Cai Yan's side, Yun Si understood the rhythm of music, so he could naturally hear the level of the piano sound, as for Juan'er...... As long as it sounds good, as for how good it sounds, Juan'er can't say it.

Cai Yan quietly stroked the piano for Chen Mo, the sound of the piano carried a sense of tranquility, which can make people's hearts calm, but the eyes like water were quietly looking at Chen Mo who was making the sand table in the courtyard, the two sides did not disturb each other, but Chen Mo liked this feeling of thinking about problems in the sound of the piano, and his mind would be more relaxed than before.

The state is just a temporary place, if you rely on the state to do something big, it is impossible, the entire Taiyuan county household registration can not add up to 60,000, this is the most populous county in the state, it is just close to 200,000, even if you add Shangdang, Yanmen, Xihe and other places, the population may be a little more than the current Hedong County, this is almost the entire population of the state.

Even if Chen Mo is in charge of manure and promotes it in Bingzhou, Chen Mo has carefully calculated, not counting Hedong, with the population of Bingzhou expanding to 600,000 people by relying on various internal affairs to encourage fertility and reclamation, I am afraid it will take at least 20 years.

This is still when everything is going well, there are no natural disasters, and there is no war.

Why does Chen Mo want to swallow Hanoi? Because Hanoi is also a wealthy county, it can be developed, and it is difficult to develop rapidly unless a large number of people move in in a short period of time.

In these years, food is important, but population is even more important, but now it is not difficult for Chen Mo to take the state, and even the next war does not need him to lead the army to fight in person, but after taking the state, he must find a place as soon as possible that is enough for him to grow rapidly.

At the beginning, Chen Mo wanted to plot Jizhou, but through the meaning of Xu You's visit this time, Yuan Shao had obviously begun to plot Jizhou, although Yuan Shao only had one county at this time, and it seemed that it was not as good as Chen Mo, but the reputation of the fourth and third princes was too terrifying, and the information obtained from the negotiations with Xu You these days shows that although Yuan Shao has not officially started to do it, most of the gentry in Jizhou welcome Yuan Shao.

Fighting with Yuan Shao, Chen Mo is not afraid, but it will definitely take a long time, fight a war of attrition, Chen Mo can't fight, the most important thing is that most of the hearts of the scholars in Jizhou are towards Yuan Shao, even if they can attack the county, it will be troublesome to defend it, this is also the reason why Chen Mo agreed to form an alliance with Yuan Shao, since he can't fight in a short time, then join forces, there are no absolute friends and enemies in politics.

Youzhou, like Bingzhou, is vast and sparsely populated, and it also has to face a wide range of prevention from the invasion of Xianbei, Wuhuan and other Hu people, even if you eat it, it is thankless.

Therefore, Chen Mo's final choice was only the place of three auxiliaries, but Dong Zhuo was there, and Chen Mo had no way to make a move.

"Lord, are you looking for me?" Yang Ping trotted in from outside the park, saluted Chen Mo, and saluted Cai Yan who was stroking the piano in the distance, and when he saluted Cai Yan, he didn't dare to raise his head at all, for fear of angering Chen Mo.

"Are you still used to living in Anyi these days?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

"Thank you for your concern, Anyi is rich and prosperous, and the people are rich under the governance of the lord, and it is an honor to be able to do things here!" Yang Ping hurriedly smiled.

"Yes, I said, you're a talent!" Chen Mo patted Yang Ping's shoulder and said with a smile: "It seems that the position of the chief bookkeeper is not suitable for you, now that Taiyuan County lacks a county, I think you are quite suitable." ”

Yang Ping's heartbeat suddenly increased a lot, his breathing became a little short, and he bowed a little lower and said: "Everything in the humble position is given by the lord, no matter what the lord wants to do, the humble duty will never be resigned!" ”

"Don't die." Chen Mo stretched out his hand to help Yang Ping up, and said with a smile: "You go to Taiyuan this time, don't worry about other things, only one thing to help me do well." ”

"Please command, my lord!" Yang Ping said solemnly.

"Secretly collect evidence of Wang's crimes." Chen Mo approached and smiled.

"The Wang family is ......" Yang Ping felt a chill down his spine when he heard this, and pointed to the west.

"Not bad." Chen Mo smiled and nodded.

"I don't know if the evidence of the lord's crime is greedy ink or a certain Wang clan...... Yang Ping asked.

"All, no matter what, as long as it is the evidence of the Wang family's crimes, but there are two things to remember!" Chen Mo said in a deep voice.

"Please command, my lord!" Yang Ping hurriedly bowed and said.

"First, this matter is secretly investigated, on the surface, I still have some friendship with the Wang family." Chen Mo said with a smile: "In addition, no matter how big or small these evidences are, they all need to be conclusive, and they cannot be arbitrarily determined, let alone wronged. ”

Although the Yang family is not a big family, but it is also a local wealthy family, Yang Ping, as the real power of the Yang family, naturally knows this truth, Chen Mo is going to clean up the Wang family, but why clean up, Yang Ping doesn't know, and he doesn't dare to ask more, so he responded respectfully at the moment.

"After that, if you can do it well, you will do it for me." Chen Mo said with a smile, Yang Ping is a kind of person, if you put him in the place for a long time, it may be full of resentment, but if you stay by your side, there are some dirty jobs that Chen Mo can't do, but he can, some people can't figure out why there are traitors and ministers around the ancient Ming Jun, this is the reason, a monarch can't look at it from the black and white point of view of being a simple good guy or a bad guy, some things that are not suitable for themselves but must be done, they need these people to do it, and even help themselves to be infamous, Chen Mo feels that Yang Ping is very suitable for doing this kind of thing, Yang Feng is still grateful to Yang Ping.

"The lord rest assured, peace and stability will live up to the trust of the lord!" Yang Ping tried hard to suppress his excitement and saluted Chen Mo.

"Go ahead, someone will give you the paperwork in a while, and leave as soon as possible!" Chen Mo nodded and said.

"Whoa!" Yang Ping bowed and retired.

For the Wang family, it was not because of the previous personal grudges, but Chen Mo felt that if he wanted to extend his hand to Sanfu, Wang Yun was a good breakthrough point.

It's just that how to disturb the situation in the land of Sanfu now, Chen Mo hasn't thought about it yet.

"Madame has been playing the piano for a long time, and she must be tired." Sending Yang Ping away, Chen Mo came to Cai Yan's side, stretched out his hand to help her up, and said.

"The husband doesn't have to think of being a concubine, he should focus on official duties." Cai Yan got up and said to Chen Mo.

"I won't have to have so much etiquette at home in the future, it's tiring." Chen Mo smiled.

"Childe, that person didn't look like a good person just now." Juan'er looked at the direction Yang Ping left and whispered to Chen Mo.

"The official husband naturally has a number, and we can't interfere!" Cai Yan frowned and looked at Juan'er, her pretty face a little serious.

"The slave knows what is wrong!" Juan'er was taken aback, now this Chen family's mansion is not as loose as before, Chen Mo doesn't care much, Yun Si is about the same status as himself, and he is discussing, now according to the rules, Cai Yan is the master of this backyard, if Cai Yan wants to punish her, Chen Mo can't open his mouth to plead.

This time, Chen Mo didn't stop him, Juan'er stayed by his side for a long time, and there were some unruliness, just Cai Yan was in charge, Chen Mo called Yang Ping to the backyard to say this, but he didn't want others to know.

"Madame is weak these days, so she walks around a lot." Cai Yan didn't reprimand, the first offense was violated, but if he committed it again, Cai Yan, the female monarch, would have to follow the rules, Chen Mo said with a smile while taking Cai Yan out.

Cai Yan's face turned red, and he replied lightly: "There is something that the concubine has always been puzzled about. ”

"Tell me about it." Chen Mo took Cai Yan's hand and asked as he walked.

"My husband has a natural talent, and he is familiar with chess, calligraphy and painting, why don't you like the piano?" Cai Yan said with some curiosity.

"I can't say I don't like it." Chen Mo said with a smile: "These repertoire played by Madame are understood by husbands, and they can also compose music, so I prefer to enjoy them." ”

Cai Yan naturally knows this, his husband is not ignorant of music, and it is impossible for musicians to fool Chen Mo, but since he can appreciate why not learn, this makes Cai Yan a little curious, just looking at Chen Mo's appearance, obviously he doesn't want to explain this, so Cai Yan didn't ask more.

Chen Mo naturally couldn't go around publicizing the scene when the teacher stroked the qin, and began to talk to Cai Yan about some music score issues, Cai Yan can be called everyone here, and Chen Mo also has a lot of experience, but the two are not talking about some advanced scores, but military music.

After breaking Xu Huang's mixed yuan formation with a drum and trumpet last time, Chen Mo has been pondering this matter, this strategy is actually useless when encountering an ordinary battle formation, disrupting the enemy army, and his own side will also be chaotic, but if you meet an opponent who is good at using formations, this trick is quite useful, just like Xu Huang before, you can break the opponent with a chaotic rush, if you compose a special score according to the formation, can you let the enemy formation use it for yourself?

This idea is a bit fanciful, it is extremely difficult to do this, but it does not prevent the husband and wife from discussing and discussing, after all, although they are married, there is not much understanding between the two, and there are a lot of common topics, Chen Mo has gradually obtained the ability to remember through the system immortals, but his wife has indeed had the ability to remember since she was a child, and the wealth of learning in her chest is even more than Chen Mo, the two are together, there will be no lack of topics, in terms of knowledge, Chen Mo is probably not as good as his own wife, So sometimes Chen Mo would discuss some of his own whimsical ideas with Cai Yan.

And Cai Yan is the kind of personality that is more serious, and when he heard this, he really thought about it carefully, and finally shook his head and said: "If the formation is really trained into a battle formation, and the changes are unprovoked, it is possible to break it by relying on the rhythm, but it is extremely difficult to let the other party use it through the rhythm of the music as Xiang Jun said." ”

"On a whim, Madame doesn't have to worry about it." Chen Mo looked at Cai Yan, who was thinking seriously, and felt interesting in his heart, and said with a smile.

"But with some restrictions, maybe it will work." Cai Yan thought as he walked......