Two days later, the He family has been assigned to the Big Tea Castle, but the He family's property has just been liquidated, Zhang Shumo can't help but sigh, this He family is really a huge rich man in Xiu Wuzhi! In addition to money, the He family's fields and houses are countless, and now these fields are in the hands of Zhang Shumo, and Zhang Shumo no longer has to worry about the problem of food.

After solving the affairs of the He family, Zhang Shumo also made plans for Xiu Wuzhi's future discoveries.

Among the four cities of Xuliang County, Xiuwuzhi has the largest territory, and Zhang Shumo decided to divide Xiuwuzhi into two! He separated the current Xiuwu Zhi from the middle, with Xiu Wu Zhi in charge of the northern area and the Great Tea Castle in charge of the southern area.

So Zhang Shumo allocated a part of the money to be escorted by Pang Yuan to the Big Tea Castle for the construction of the Big Tea Castle. In this way, the big tea castle located in the southeast has become Zhang Shumo's rear base.

In addition to the territorial boundaries, Zhang Shumo also divided the existing personnel and army. Zhang Shumo ordered Niu Zheng to be the county commander of Dachabao and take the existing main officials to build Dachabao. Shang Lei is the county lieutenant of Dachabao, with 3,000 soldiers, guarding Dachabao.

On Xiu Wuzhi's side, the post of county commander is temporarily vacant. Niu Wen and Niu Ci were recruited by Zhang Shumo to repair Wuzhi, and served as the main Bo and Shaofu respectively, temporarily taking care of the political affairs and finances of the city. Lou Zaiying was also recruited to serve as a county lieutenant in Xiu Wuzhi, and Zhang Shumo also gave her 3,000 soldiers to guard Xiu Wuzhi.

At the same time, Zhang Shumo is also recruiting talents in the city, and network talents are used to govern Xiuwuzhi. Because Zhang Shumo only focuses on ability and does not look at his background, many people of insight came to take refuge, including Zhang Shumo's old acquaintance, Mr. Cai Zhi of Shanyang Academy! Zhang Shumo was very clear about Cai Zhi's ability, so Cai Zhi took the position of Xiuwuzhi County Commander.

In addition, Zhang Shumo named his army the Wuxiu Army, and in addition to the 6,000 soldiers who were assigned to guard the two cities, the Wuxiu Army still had 15,000 men and horses. Zhang Shumo himself served as a general to lead the three armies, Pan Feng gave 2,000 horses to the headquarters for General Yangwei, and Pang Yuan commanded the cavalry for General Zhichong.

Then Zhang Shumo recruited Zhu Qing, Zhu Man and his son and Wang Tu's family to Xiu Wuzhi, and ordered Niu Ci to hand over most of the money in the city to the Zhu family and his son, and let them be responsible for buying horses and iron ore; Let Wang Tu take the blacksmith in the city to be responsible for making iron clothes for the war horses, so as to create a heavy iron horse of his own.

Zhu Qing was originally a businessman, so he was naturally familiar with buying and selling. Huaiguo already produces iron ore, so it is not difficult to buy iron. But buying a horse is not so easy. The only countries that produce horses are Wu, Jing, and Yan. Now Jingguo and Huaiguo are at war, and Xiu Wuzhi is separated from Wuguo by Xu Liang, so these two countries can only be excluded, and there is only one way to go to Yan to buy horses.

Since Zhu Qing had never been in the business of buying and selling horses, for the sake of prudence, he decided to go to Yan Kingdom for a field trip. In order not to delay time, the matter of buying iron was handed over to Zhu Man after Zhu Qing familiarized himself with the route. In this way, Zhu Man's purchase of iron ore will not delay Wang Tu and others to build iron clothing, and when Zhu Qing buys it back to Malaysia, it can be used directly.

Zhang Shumo was very satisfied with Zhu Qing's approach, not only sent someone to protect his safety, but also directly named him the city peng, and handed over the management of the market to Zhu Qing.

Just when everything on Zhang Shumo's side was in order, Zhang Lu, who was far away in Qinyang City, the capital of Huaiguo, was already anxious.

Now the other six countries all know about Zhang Lu's usurpation, except for the Ye Kingdom in the southwest and the Yue Kingdom on the southeast coast, which do not border the Huai State, the other four countries are all ready to move.

"Your Majesty, Jingguo in the north has sent 150,000 troops and has been fighting with Liu Ye's troops in the northwest for more than ten days; Zheng Guo in the south was also preparing to send troops to attack Sima Xiao, and yesterday Sima Xiao sent a letter from Yihe, asking His Majesty to temporarily reconcile with his righteousness in the same root. In addition, although Yan and Wu have not yet taken action, according to the reports of their spies, the courts of the two countries have also begun to discuss the matter of attacking our country! ”

Under the hall, Xue Liang, the imperial historian, reported the movements of various countries to Zhang Lu one by one. Zhang Lu patted the table angrily after hearing this: "These countries usually boast of the demeanor of a great power, but now when they see that our country is in danger, they are all flocking here, especially Jingguo, I will definitely lead the troops to the north and set foot in Jingguo!" ”

"Your Majesty, the top priority now is to find a way to stabilize the Wu Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom, as long as they don't send troops, we still have room for maneuver!" Xue Liang said.

Zhang Lu has been the prime minister for many years, so he naturally understands this truth. He thought for a moment and said: "Wuguo has always been friendly with our country, and a big reason is that the ancestral home of Li Hong, the prime minister of Wuguo, is my country's inner capital county. I'll fix a letter now, you send someone to send it to Li Hong, let him say more good things in front of His Majesty Wuguo, if Wuguo is willing to make friends, I am willing to pay tribute to Wuguo for three years! ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Lu paused: "As for the Yan Kingdom, after the other countries said that they were the barbarians of the Northeast, they did not want to admit that they were the orthodox identity of the Central Plains. Let's do the opposite, preach that they are orthodox, take the initiative to make friends with them, and then send some treasures to them, hoping that they will let us go. ”

Xue Liang received the order and went to act according to Zhang Lu's instructions. Zhang Lu stood at the door of the main hall and looked at the northwest, and now what worried him the most was the northwest. Liu Ye rebelled, and Zhang Lu knew about Su Han's killing. If Su Han is still there, then the entire northwest will be twisted into a rope, and even if Jingguo sends an army of 150,000, it may not be able to defeat the northwest.

But now the northwest is in chaos, a few days ago I heard that Zhang Shumo broke with the Su family, and the northwest has become a three-legged trend, I am afraid that Liu Ye's strength alone will not be able to resist Jingguo's attack, do you want to give up the south and pacify the northwest first? After all, Shumo is still in the northwest!

Just when Zhang Lu was worried about the northwest, the war between Liu Ye and Jingguo had intensified. Although Liu Ye relied on the advantages of the terrain to retreat from the Jingguo soldiers and horses, the long-term fierce battle has overwhelmed Liu Ye, although the grain and grass are rich, but the soldiers are seriously insufficient. Without the replenishment of fresh blood, Liu Ye's Northern Route Army has been in a state of fatigue for a long time, and its combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced!

Jingguo, on the other hand, took advantage of the large number of people and divided the troops into three groups and continuously launched an attack on Dieling Pass, not giving the Northern Route Army a chance to rest. In this way, after more than ten days of continuous high-intensity fighting, the Northern Route Army could no longer hold it, and the Jingguo army broke through the Dieling Pass, took advantage of the situation to seize the next city, and went straight to Qinghua City!

After the remnants of Han Jia's Northern Route Army were defeated and fled to Thanh Hoa City, Peng Mao learned of the battle situation at the front. Liu Ye was killed in the battle of Dieling Pass, nearly 50,000 North Route troops were killed and wounded more than 30,000 people, and only Han Jia with a force of 10,000 people withdrew from the previous ones to rest, and only escaped the catastrophe.

Peng Mao almost fainted after hearing these news, without the advantage of the topography of Dieling Pass, it was easy for Jingguo's iron cavalry to set foot on the northwest, and it seemed that the northwest was about to change!