After Zhang Shumo finished speaking, he pointed to the three places of Mengzhou City, Xiuwuzhi and Jiudu Village on the map, and Su Yi couldn't help but laugh when he saw it.

"I thought you could have some idea, but I don't think it will work. Mengzhou City and Xiuwuzhi are the same as Qinghua, but they are only a county town with only 2,000 people, how can they oppose Liu Ye for us? As for Jiuduzhai, not to mention, although Jiuduzhai is an independent army, he still nominally belongs to the Northern Route Army, how do you know that Jiuduzhai and Liu Ye are not of the same heart? ”

Liang Jia pondered for a moment and also put forward his own opinion: "What the second prince said is not unreasonable, in my opinion, we might as well ask the Western Route Army for help and let them send troops to help defend the city." There is no need to allocate too many soldiers and horses, there are 5,000 people, once the Northern Route Army comes to attack the city, 5,000 men and horses are enough for us to support the Western Route Army. ”

Zhang Shumo nodded helplessly after listening. His original intention was to find allies other than the Western Route Army, so as to ensure the combat strength of the Western Route Army to the greatest extent. After all, the Western Route Army still had to resist the Wu State, and it was impossible to send out an army of 50,000 to deal with Liu Ye at most 30,000 horses. And Liu Ye's troops in Xu Liang are at least more than 10,000 people, he has the advantage of city defense, and he has tens of thousands of cavalry, and it is not impossible to deal with 30,000 troops.

Liang Jia saw that Zhang Shumo agreed, so he said: "The second prince has already sent someone to the Western Route Army to deliver the letter before, and the time is almost up. The eldest prince should soon send someone to greet Mrs. Su and the second son, and I will explain the situation to him at that time, and I think he will agree. ”

When Su Yi heard this, he nodded and said, "Okay!" Then let's decide. It's just that he was wronged by the county guard of Liang, and he had to temporarily take on the position of Qinghua county commander. ”

Liang Jia hurriedly arched his hand: "Thank you for the second son's love, the lower officials will do their best to keep Qinghua." ”

Zhang Shumo stood aside, his eyebrows wrinkled together. These two people actually put themselves in the air as they talked, and it seems that these two people don't trust themselves very much. But it's okay, I haven't been an official, this Qinghua City has just experienced a big chaos, there should be a lot of trivial things to deal with, since Liang Jia is willing to bear it, let it be given to him, anyway, as long as Liu Ye is dragged in the northwest, don't let him spoil his father's big business.

It was late at night when I got home, but Lou's house still lit the lights. The changes during the day were too big, and Lei Zi and his group of men and horses were still helping to sort out Lou's house. Lu Li and the others were also helping in Lou Mansion, but Liu was naturally asleep.

Zhang Shumo hurriedly stopped everyone, these people were already tired for a day, and Zhang Shumo sent them to rest. Looking at these soldiers, Zhang Shumo was quite pleased, as long as these soldiers were willing to obey their own dispatch, they would have room for turnover, in this troubled world, only military power is king.

When the soldiers left, Zhang Shumo left Lu Li and Hu Xing and Hu Kun and talked about his plans.

"The three of you are not outsiders, so I'll get straight to the point, I need your help to set up a scout team, and the current news is too closed to affect our analysis of the situation. The three of you are all from the Prime Minister's Mansion, so it won't be difficult for you to come here, right? Zhang Shumo said straight to the point.

After listening to this, Lu Li looked at Hu Xing and Hu Kun, and seeing that the two had no objections, Lu Li nodded to Zhang Shumo: "The young master's business is our business, but the candidate for this scout team?" ”

Zhang Shumo had already planned and said to the three of them: "I think the cooperation between Lei Zi and Brother Lu is very good today, so it is better to hand over Lei Zi's tun of men and horses to you to command." From now on, you will be the eyes and ears of the troops, but don't let me down! ”

The three of them hurriedly knelt down on one knee: "Please rest assured, young master, we will do our best to die!" ”

Early in the morning of the second day, Liang Jia ordered people to beat gongs and drums to publicize yesterday's events, listing the evil deeds of the Northern Route Army one by one, and listing the crimes and punishments of Zhang Jian and Yang Hua together.

But Zhang Jian and Yang Hua's families found it difficult to accept this fact, and the two families gathered some generals to make trouble at the county government. But Liang Jia's attitude was very tough, and he immediately sent someone to arrest the troublemaker and threatened to exile the two families, which frightened the two families.

When Yang Xue learned that her father was killed by Zhang Shumo's men, she didn't become devastated, she seemed to have a premonition, and this premonition was there since Yang Hua ordered Zhang Shumo to be arrested. At that time, although Yang Xue asked Shang Lei to inform Zhang Shumo to escape, Yang Xue felt that there would definitely be a battle between Zhang Shumo and his father, but he didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

Zhang Shumo naturally has no time to think about these trivial things now, killing Liu Kuang this time will inevitably be met with Liu Ye's crazy revenge. If you want to increase your certainty of defeating Liu Ye, in addition to finding allies, you need to enhance your own strength.

So Zhang Shumo thought of conscription. He told Liang Jia his thoughts, but Liang Jia called the Shaofu in charge of money, showed Zhang Shumo the accounts of the county government, and saw the financial situation of the poor and white, Zhang Shumo shook his head helplessly, it seems that if you want someone, you must first have money and food.

When it comes to money and food, Zhang Shumo first thought of Wang Chen's family, if it is about money in Qinghua City, the Wang family says that he is second, and no one dares to admit that he is first. So, Zhang Shumo took Liu Tiantian directly to visit Wang's house.

Wang Chen hadn't seen Zhang Shumo for a long time, and as soon as he heard that Zhang Shumo was coming, he rushed out without hesitation.

"Big brother, is it really you? You are amazing now, I heard my father say that you led people to kill Zhang Jian and Yang Hua yesterday? ”

Zhang Shumo nodded: "You won't be afraid of me because of this, right?" ”

Although he already knew the result, after seeing Zhang Shumo admit it in person, Wang Chen laughed: "How could I be afraid, it's too late for me to be happy." With a big brother like you, I see who in Qinghua City would dare to mess with me? After speaking, he looked high-spirited.

Zhang Shumo smiled helplessly, and then went straight to the point: "I need your Wang family's help with something, is your father at home?" ”

"At home, you come with me!"

The two came to Wang Geng's room, and when Wang Geng saw Zhang Shumo, he quickly got up and saluted, which made Zhang Shumo a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Uncle Wang doesn't have to be polite, Wang Chen and I are brothers, you are his father, that is, my elders, how can you let the elders salute." ”

Wang Geng was in a cold sweat, yesterday Zhang Shumo's killing of Zhang Jian and Yang Hua had already been spread by the villagers, Wang Geng naturally didn't expect that Zhang Shumo was actually a decisive master, and it was naturally better to be cautious in the face of this person who killed people without blinking.

"It's not that I'm polite, you now have the status of the imperial court, so I naturally have to salute. I don't know why Shumo came to my Wang's house? ”

Zhang Shumo cleared his throat and said with some embarrassment: "I can't hide it, in fact, I came to borrow money and grain from Uncle Wang!" ”

Wang Geng couldn't help frowning when he heard this, with Zhang Shumo's identity, since he came, he naturally couldn't help but borrow it. But Wang Geng, a person in the court, knows best, and he says that he is borrowing, but in fact, he is here to ask for it!