11. Containment of retreats

He didn't have time to think of the refiner, because Huo Zhongtang, a young eunuch, then confided in himself another trouble: When Yang Menlang was Sima in Daozhou, I asked my family to take care of him in many ways, and he also promised to help my parents and brothers find a few foreign officials with materials and clothes after returning to Beijing, but now Yang Menlang seems to have completely forgotten about this matter.

Gao Yue is actually like a mirror in his heart now, he smiled bitterly twice, and looked at Cui Qing Cui Eighteen, who was busy in the post stable, this honest man was also kind to Yang Yan, but he was also forgotten by this Baqiao post.

So Gao Yue comforted Huo Zhongtang a few words, and before leaving, he gave Cui 18 a total of ten yuan, saying that he knew that the eighteenth brother's family urgently needed money, and the previous horseshoe gold was given by his father-in-law, and this money was given by Gao Sanyi.

This moved Cui Qing to tears, and even said that he didn't know how to repay Gao Shiyu in the future......

In the evening, as soon as Gao Yue entered the Cui Mansion of Shengpingfang and handed over his mount to the servant to tie up, he heard his father-in-law in the middle hall being furious.

At the previous court meeting, Yang Yan's henchmen formally put forward a request, first, to let Han Rong, who had just been dismissed from the official position of the head of the household department, assassinate Suzhou, and second, to directly put the salt profits of the northwest second pool under the management of the household department.

Liu Yan was vehemently opposed to this, believing that since the salt profits in the northwest had been recovered, a salt and iron transshipment should be set up there, which should be run by himself for special purposes.

In the palace, Li Benshi asked Liu Yan, where do you want to use the salt in the northwest? Liu Yan replied unhurriedly: Yuanzhou is now no longer in the hands of Xifan, and now it can be built in Liangyuan, Baili, and Lingtai in the south of Jingzhou, and set it up as "Yuanzhou Xingzai" (similar to Qiaozhou, county, and county in the Eastern Jin Dynasty), and the governance office can be in Baili City, and the camp in Anxi of Jingzhou is a horn for each other, and the imperial court sent a special person to be "Yuanzhou Xingzai Yingtian Patrol Governor and Governor of Yingtian, and the order of Baili County", which was allocated to 3,000 battalions of soldiers by the Anxi Xing Battalion, and another 2,000 soldiers were added under the Zhongshu Gate, together with a total of 5,000 people, plus 1,500 households, and the military tun was implemented by Sinong Temple. In this way, after two or three years, a large amount of food, grain and grass can be stored to support the armies in the northwest, and then the counteroffensive against Pingliang in Yuanzhou can be successful.

But Yang Yan and his henchmen attacked it in groups, they all said that it was superfluous to set up "Yuanzhou Xingzai" in Baili City, and they could directly send Anxi Xing Battalion to send 5,000 troops to advance to Pingliang and Danzheng Gorge to build a city.

The two factions did not give in to each other in the court, Cui Ning supported Liu Yan because of his previous resentment, and many officials in Shangshu Province supported Yang Yan, and in the end the two sides had no consensus and broke up unhappily.

The father-in-law was furious in the hall, and Gao Yue quietly took off his boots, then hung his hands and sat on the porch to listen.

He knew in his heart that Liu Yan's official position of "Yuanzhou Xing in Yingtian Patrol Governor and Governor of the Hundred Miles County Order" and his support for the Northwest Tuntian Plan were actually set up specifically for himself.

That day, before leaving for Jiannan, in Pan Yan's house, Liu Yan once said to himself, "Yisong, you have ideals and ambitions, and you didn't throw them away in your bag, I can't bear to put it on the shelf, I will support you." ”

After a while, Cui Ning, who was blowing his beard and glaring, saw his son-in-law sitting there, and shouted loudly, "Gao Lang, you came back just in time, the rights and wrongs of this, you can help me take a good look at it." ”

The mother-in-law over there, Liu, came over unhappily and slapped Cui Ning on the arm, "Ah Ni has already prepared the dishes in the west hall of the middle hall, and he is waiting for Gao Lang to come back from Shu, you go back to your east hall!" ”

"Oh." Cui Ning followed Liu and walked towards the east hall.

"Father and mother." Gao Yue bowed his hand, called Cui Ning and Liu Shi softly, and then said to them, "After going to Ah Ni's place to eat, the little son-in-law will come to visit the East Hall, and there are some important things I want to tell my father." ”

"Hmm!" Cui Ning nodded.

In the corridor of the west hall, Zhi Hui walked out first, "Third brother, you have come back safely, the master mother can wait inside." ”

entered the porch, "Songqing! Yun Shao smiled so much that his eyes turned into a shining crescent moon, and he hurriedly knelt on the banquet again, pointing to the various dishes on the dining table and said, "I haven't seen Song Qing for almost three months, so let Song Qing see how Ah Ni's cooking skills have improved today." ”

"Didn't you let Zhihui help?" Gao Yue joked.

"Song Qing is really poor." Yun Shao said angrily.

Over there, Zhihui also flexibly lit the stove and picked up the whining treasure and threw it outside the west hall, while Acuo, who had just grown his hair down, dragged the clogs and held the soup that the master had just cooked, and rested it on the dining table.

"A-Ni, you and I don't have to divide the case." Gao Yue means husband and wife eat together.

As a result, the first bite of soup almost killed Gao Yue, and he hurriedly grabbed the wine cup and drank a few sips, because this was the only one in the table that had not been manually handled by Ah Ni Xiaoshu.

But when Gao Yue saw Ah Ni Baba's eyes, he quietly held the spoon and dagger, scooped up a few mouthfuls of soup and drank it, "Alas, although it is terribly salty, as soon as I encounter this taste, I know that I have to go home, because I know that Ah Ni usually repeats salt three times in the soup unconsciously." ”

Yun Shao saw that her husband's face did not change, and thought that this time it was really successful, so she also scooped it, this time it was good, and she almost didn't bite her tongue.

Then the little couple was stunned for a while and giggled at each other.

In the twilight of midwinter, the water surface on the release pond in Dongshi has long been frozen and solidified, and in the crack of the door panel of the front hall of the retreat, Jingsheng Ran Sanniang blinked her eyes and looked at the situation outside.

On the wall of the message, including the door panel of the retreat, there are not only densely pasted notes, but also a few arrows and feathers shot on it, and a few feet outside, a group of people carrying horizontal knives, some rubbing their hands on the frosty ground walking around, and some are squatting there on the fire, their eyes are staring at the door of the retreat, and their expressions are kind.

The horizontal knife was not considered a prohibited weapon in the Tang Dynasty, and it was sold in the markets of various provinces and states.

"It's over, it's over, it's camping and waiting!" Ran Sanniang complained bitterly, hurriedly walked to the courtyard, and said to Wu Cailuan, who was sitting on the Hu bed.

"If I go out now, I'm afraid I'll be hacked to death." Wu Cailuan's face was stiff, and his hands were crossed under his chin, so he judged.

Then there was a whimper, and the refiner almost cried, "Gao Yisong, Gao Yisong, even if I, Wu Cailuan, get some commission money from you, but I won't be trapped by you like this, the second edition of Ayang Hou's enmity and vendetta you wrote, because you gave Yun Niang to the thieves Qi Lian, although the 3,000 copies printed were sold out, do you know how many people blocked the door later?" ”

The other scholars gritted their teeth and gathered around Wu Cailuan, "Refiner Lianshi, I heard that Yi Song has risen to Pingfang, and the only feasible way now is to find Yi Song and beg him to change this edition and sell it again." ”

"That's all there is to it." Wu Cailuan nodded, then patted his thigh, stood up and raised his face: the towering west wall of Huile Zhai, the tile is covered with white frost, as long as you climb over this wall, and then walk through the four lanes, seven patrols and two horizontal streets, you can get to Shengpingfang.