Han Yu is not only hungry, but also misses his wife in his house.

Finally, Han Yu wrote the pleadings to the envoys of the other towns, and it was rare for Gao Yue over there not to review, and I was relieved to say that the words of retreat.

When he arrived, the guest of honor ate in the canteen, although the food was quite good, and there was good Jiangxi wine to help the fun, but Han Yu was still unhappy.

"Retreat seems to be uncertain?" Gao Yue asked.

Han Yu didn't dare to say it explicitly, and hurriedly prevaricated that he seemed to be a little cold.

Gao Yue was surprised, and then asked the military officials to send medicinal herbs to Han Yu.

Han Yu was very moved, took the herb, and after another half an hour, he hurried home on horseback.

The next day, in Han Yu's house, he and his wife Xue Tao had a "quarrel".

The official residence of the Jiangdu County Public Mansion, the courtyard is not big, but there are more than 30 members of the Han family, most of whom are women and children, and in the end Han Yu had to rent a few mansion rooms to let all his relatives settle down.

In the early morning, Han Yuxian took turns to salute the three widowed sisters-in-law, shush the cold and ask for warmth, and then returned to his room, seeing that Xue Tao had freshened up early and was writing a manuscript, he was unhappy because he was inexplicably added a curtain job, so he was ready to complain to his wife before sitting in the office:

"Hong Du, you know that I don't like the curtain job, although the magistrate of the guild can get more than 30 yuan a month......

However, before Han Yu finished speaking, Xue Tao turned around and said to him very seriously: "Retreat, I do know that you are going to take the right path as an official, and you don't like the development of the doorways of the handsome people from all walks of life." Originally, I didn't want to get this job for you, I wanted you to sit in the government sooner or later, and then enter the military palace of the Duke of Wei Guo to run errands until late at night, do you think I feel good in the boudoir alone? ”

After speaking, Xue Tao's eyes turned red.

Now Han Yu was a little flustered.

Then Xue Tao choked up and said, "However, have you forgotten the letter from Zhang Wenchang of Hezhou before?" ”

So Han Yu was even more shocked, he was eager to know what his wife thought about Zhang Ji's letter.

Xue Tao said, Zhang Ji is really your friend, but you have to cherish it, he accused you of four deficiencies in the letter, all of which are insightful:

The first is that although you have the ideal of rejecting the Buddha, you are "arrogant and talkative" and like to scold, but you can't scold Buddhism and Taoism by saliva, and only writing books and speaking is the royal way;

Second, he said that you have the ambition to revive ancient texts, and he likes it very much, but since you were the commander of Changze and Jiangdu County, you have always written some miscellaneous games and groundless articles, where is this attitude towards learning?

Thirdly, you are too competitive to allow others to be short.

Fourth, it means that you have recently been contaminated with the vice of gambling and competing with others for money, which is the most important thing.

Although the words were said by Zhang Ji, they were repeated by Xue Tao's mouth, which made Han Yue sweat and remain silent.

Then Xue Tao helped Han Yu and let him sit on the bed, talked with him on his knees, and taught earnestly: "Look at you when you retreat, but after the Changli Gaomen (Han Yue is vigilant), the reliance of the whole clan is also the sustenance of the future of this national avenue, and Wei Guogong will regard you as a corporal, maybe you will inherit his mantle (Han Yu is vigilant), so you must not let your friends be disappointed in your knowledge." ”

"Hong Du, you're right, I'll quit the game immediately." Han Yu originally wanted to be cruel to his wife, but he first opened his mouth and admitted his mistake.

"It's not just a game, think about it, as the saying goes, 'turn into the world, don't talk about it; In the past, like Zhang Wenchang, I used to persuade you to write a book and say it, but you always said that you would have to wait until you were fifty or sixty years old, that would not work, you have to do it now, life is short. What's more, in today's world, up to the emperor, down to the ministers and generals, all worship Buddhism or Taoism, you can't rely on scolding, you have to go step by step - first use oral preaching, meet like-minded friends and children, expand influence, form a group, and then immediately write a book and say, so that you can not only avoid disasters, but also spread the book to future generations, this is the origin of my shogunate promotion for you! ”

"Hong Du ......" Han Yue was so moved that he couldn't speak.

"Although the affairs of this pusher are trivial, but the power position in the military government is second only to the marching army (Sima) and the judge, the marching and judging officer in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is concurrently served by Gu Xiu, you are the second-in-command, immediately Huainan Winter Township Test, you can undoubtedly be the chief secretary, if you are still the county order, how can you get it? If you want to be the main division, Zhang Wenchang and Meng Dongye are the answers, and it is very likely that they will be in the Beijing Division. If you retreat in this way, you can repay the grace of the public and select talents for the country; You can gather friends; Next, it will soon be able to make a name for itself and attract followers. In less than three years, 'Hanmen' will stand out, hard work is hard work, and it is always worth it. ”

These words made Han Yue wake up like a dream, and his heart was ecstatic, feeling that he could marry Xue Tao as his wife in this life, which was simply cultivated (no, no, it must not be explained by Buddhism), when even if he urged his body to bow respectfully to his wife, "The parents of those who gave birth to me, and the people who know me are also Hongdu!" ”

In the next period of time, Han Yu was as energetic as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, went to the county party to sit in the government twice in the morning and evening, and dealt with military affairs in the middle, and had to go to Gao Yue's side to help write a book at night, and he didn't even participate in the food, only ate the food box made for him by his wife, and his colleagues invited him to Yangzhou Changjie for entertainment, but he refused all of them, only to go home to accompany his wife, write books behind closed doors, and write hundreds or even thousands of words every day.

His change made Gao Yue extremely surprised, "Which of you said that Han Yu hated the curtain job?" I think it's a good performance. ”

Hearing this, Yun Shao was happy, while Yun He smiled secretly, knowing that Xue Tao really took care of Han Yu obediently.

During this period of Han Yue's hard work, the attack on the river thieves by all parties has begun.

Gao Yue did not adopt any strategy of gathering all the boat masters and destroying the thieves' nests, he knew that this was the next step to deal with the river thieves and mountain sheds, what he wanted was economic strangulation and the squeeze of armor.

On the river, the three towns of Huainan, Jiangnan West Road, and Eyue joined forces, along Qihuang until Liyang Mountain in Hezhou, and also imitated the beacon system of the border fortress, established the "Jiang Sui Water Station", organized the armor to defend the beacons, set up one at intervals, and built a barricade at the critical Jiangxinzhou, and used soldiers to suppress the garrison, with light boats, for patrol and escort.

Then, the ships built in Yangzhou and Hezhou in Huainan, together with the merchant ships of Uncle Wang and Aunt Yu, shipped goods with ten ships each, not carrying silver and copper coins, but carrying coins to carry cross-border trade.

In each program, the officers and soldiers were responsible for escorting and escorting with two warships, using the beacon fire of Jiang Sui as a guiding signal, and marching section by section, and the merchants themselves spent part of the money, employing volunteers to protect the goods with crossbow machines and firearms, and each boat had five to ten people - in this way, a small group of river thieves came to rob, and the merchant ships and escort ships alone could be repelled by their own strength, and if a large group of river thieves came, Jiang Suitai would be lit with beacon fire, and the warships of the town garrison army in various towns along the road would gather.

At the earliest, the income from commerce and trade was just enough to offset the cost.

However, the results were also remarkable, and the robbery activities of river thieves in Qizhou, Anzhou, and Huangzhou decreased sharply.