Wang Wu seemed to ask Xiang Ao, but he was actually asking himself. When he was a teenager, he was like Xiang Ao, full of enthusiasm. However, the real Han court did not care about the border, but the border soldiers like him watched the people being bullied and the territory being trampled. In Xiang Ao, he saw himself when he was young, emotionally Wang Wu wanted to make a difference with Xiang Ao, but reason told him that he should persuade Xiang Ao not to do too much useless work.

After nightfall, everyone set up a simple tent and prepared to rest, for the sake of safety, Xiang Ao divided the two hundred people into four teams, one team for an hour, patrolling all night long, and even each team was equipped with scouts, extending five miles outward to explore. After everyone rested, Xiang Ao, Jiang Yan and Wang Wu began to discuss how to search for the abducted people, and even made a detailed plan for how to deal with emergencies in case they were chased out of the Shuofang border. In fact, it is very simple to say, Xiang Ao decided to attack on the cruise.

For a small group of troops can be annihilated directly, if the number of people is not too large, they will pretend to be horse bandits to attack along the way, and when the time comes, they will be annihilated. If the difference in numbers is really too large, it will be decided whether to give up for the time being or cruise around the attack, and no matter what, no matter what, there will be no head-on battle with the Xianbei army.

The team did not have any baggage, nor did it need to escort the people like the Xianbei army, although it was a rogue tactic, but the purpose of this trip was to save more people, and a large-scale confrontation with Xianbei was meaningless for a team of more than 200 people.

In this way, Xiang Ao led more than 200 horsemen to cruise around in the Yellow River Plain area north of Shuofang, and even crossed the Great Wall of Qin and Zhao to the northeast and north to chase to the Yinshan Territory at the deepest point. In this way, Xiang Ao and his entourage came to save tens of thousands of people, not only the people of Shuofang County, but also many of them from Yunzhong County of Wuyuan County.

The people of Yunzhong and Wuyuan are still well settled, and they can directly arrange people to escort them to the city on the border of the two counties, but the people of Shuofang County have to help send them to Shuofang with the help of the officials of the other two counties. For this matter, Ao also wasted a lot of time writing letters to Cai Yong and the county orders of the two counties for help.

However, there are also a lot of benefits, and now Xiang Ao's reputation for caring for the people and fighting bravely has spread all over the state, and the people in the three border counties of the state are all grateful to Xiang Ao. At this time, Xiang Ao, who was still fighting on the border, did not know that with the help of Cai Yong, the scholars and people in the Central Plains were also full of praise for Xiang Ao at this time.

Especially after Sima Hui knew, he made a name for Xiang Ao in front of many celebrities or scholars who came to visit, plus Xiang Ao's "Compassion for Nong" made when he was in Yingchuan before, Xiang Ao also had a little reputation in Yingchuan.

Despite this, Xiang Ao's actions were not too conspicuous in the eyes of many great families and powerful people in the world, after all, in their eyes, it was a small fight. In the eyes of the scholars of the Central Plains, what is the threat of Xianbei, but the barbarian people on the border of the Han Dynasty. However, what they don't know is that now the Xianbei power is growing stronger, and the border of the Han is constantly being harassed, but the Han is powerless.

What made Jiang Yan even happier was that the cavalry team under his command had expanded from 100 people at the beginning to more than 500 now. Coupled with other teams, the team led by Xiang Ao at this time has reached more than 1,300. According to the Han Dynasty, there is more than one of them, and they can be set up as captains.

If Cai Yong hadn't been prepared and reported to the Son of Heaven early, I am afraid that at this time, under the revenge of someone with a heart, I don't know what kind of crime Xiang Ao and others would be charged. The border of Bingzhou is too sparsely populated, and most of the people are too weak, otherwise Xiang Ao may be accommodated by the people of a battalion in the Han military system.

At this time, Wuyuan Taishou was Guo Hong, and the word Pengfei (apocryphal, the information was not queried), was a person from Yingchuan Yangzhai. Xiang Ao inquired about this person, and it turned out to be a famous Guo Xi, Guo Xi was proficient in ethnic law, and good at Confucianism, and was famous at that time.

His Guo family is also a big family in Yingchuan, and his family is famous for his Legalism, and he is also very proficient in Confucianism. Because they are all pedantic people, they have more or less understanding of each other, so they wrote to Guo Hong, and then together with Shuofang County's Taishou recommended Xiang Ao as the filial piety that Shuofang County had not promoted for several years.

Because of the help of several people around him, Xiang Ao also had a lot of reputation at this time, and during this period of time, after Xianbei reported to Emperor Han Ling, the son of heaven, it was also very easy to raise filial piety.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty may be extremely mediocre in the eyes of the world, but no matter how mediocre a person is, he also wants to leave a name in history. In the mind of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, if Xiang Ao really did something in Xianbei in the future, and did the thing of the wolf Juxu, as the emperor who gave Xiang Ao the words, then he would have to be famous in the history books for a hundred years.

It is not so easy to promote filial piety. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented the act of promoting filial piety and honesty, the number of filial piety and honesty in each county is different, and the requirements are different. For today's imperial court, the system of filial piety and honesty is limited to the population. The population of Shuofang County has been fluctuating in the tens of thousands, and filial piety is even rarer. Don't say three years, ten years, thirty to see if you can nominate someone.

In the entire number of counties, only Shangdang, Taiyuan and Yanmen counties have a population of barely 100,000. After the promotion of filial piety, the imperial court will recruit filial piety and honest people into Beijing to be idle, and after a period of study, they will be given real power positions in the imperial court or local government according to the situation.

The imperial court appointed the holy decree in a short time, and Xiang Ao prepared to return to Shuofang after receiving Cai Yong's letter. In fact, Xiang Ao had planned to return to Shuofang today, the border of Bingzhou in winter was extremely cold, and snow had begun to fall in many places, and such a cold weather in the north was very dangerous for everyone marching outside.

Moreover, after the winter, there are fewer and fewer Xianbei soldiers and herdsmen walking alone. After receiving Cai Yong's letter, he informed everyone to prepare to return to Shuofang, and everyone was also relieved after learning about it, and the weather for a few days was indeed terrifying when marching outside.

Rushing back to Shuofang, the angel of the court has been waiting for three days, but this time it is to bring the good news of Emperor Han Ling, and the angel who came this time is not as aggressive as the angel when Cai Yong was demoted last time. After seeing the angel receive the holy decree, the angel didn't want to delay because of the weather, but Cai Yong's housekeeper took some possessions and rushed back to Luoyang.

Originally, he wanted to return to the court with the angels since then, but some villains in the court did not want Xiang Ao to return to the court because Xiang Ao was a disciple of Cai Yong. However, this behavior is in the hands of Cai Yong, Lu Zhi and others. Cai Yong and Lu Zhi agreed to Xiang Ao's exile with his teacher, originally to see whether Xiang Ao was suitable for development outside the court, so as to deal with the people in the court.

Now, Xiang Ao's performance in February and March has made Cai Yong, Lu Zhi and others extremely satisfied. Especially Lu Zhi, seeing that Xiang Aowei's talent is so prominent, he praised him in various letters.

If Xiang Ao is not given any benefits, I am afraid it will be difficult to prevent Xiang Ao from returning to Beijing. However, what made Cai Yong and the others stunned was that someone actually proposed that Xiang Ao lead Shuofang County to the post of Taishou, so that everyone in the court and Cai Yong and Lu Zhi who wanted to fight for more benefits for Xiang Ao couldn't open their mouths like eating flies, and they were even more depressed and uncomfortable.

Shuofang County is bordered by Xianbei in the north, and the entire eastern border borders the Southern Xiongnu on the Hetao Plain, plus the population of Shuofang County is less than 10,000 people. If the Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei made a little bigger moves, wouldn't it be for Xiang Ao to bear the sin of losing territory. However, when everyone reacted, Emperor Ling of Han and most of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty had agreed to this decision, which made Lu Zhi and others very annoyed.

After learning about the cause and effect, Xiang Ao did not have any frustration, he was able to be an official at such an age, although it was too far from Ganluo's achievement at the age of twelve, but it was also rare in the world. What's more, wouldn't it be better to justifiably implement more policies that are beneficial to the people of Shuofang. As for the former Wang Taishou of Shuofang County, he was able to leave the poor land of Shuofang by taking advantage of this wind, although the imperial court has not yet set the whereabouts of Wang Taishou's post, but he has first recruited Wang Taishou back to Luoyang to wait for the order, and Wang Taishou is very satisfied.

For Shuofang County, such a big political change can only be quietly changed, and Xiang Ao took office so plainly. After taking office, Xiang Ao did not make any changes to the officials in the county, and most of the government decrees were implemented according to the previous ones. Although the number of people in Shuofang County is very small, the sparrows are small but have all kinds of organs.

Under the rule of Shuofang County, there are ten counties such as Sanfeng, Shuofang, Xiudu, Linhe, Hudao, Miohun, Qusou, Woye, Guangmu and Linrong. At this time, during the reign of Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many county towns had been abolished, leaving only six counties: Sanfeng, Linrong, Woye, Guangmu, Dacheng and Shuofang. Among them, Linrong is the county, located in the northwest of Shuofang County on the edge of the Yellow River, south of the Southern Xiongnu, to the north out of the Great Wall is the Xianbei cruising area.

Further west is the border county Sanfeng County, the north of Sanfeng County is close to the Great Wall is the chicken deer plug of the Du Wei Zhi, it was originally a border fortress, now in this city in addition to the stone city wall and houses, the others have been deserted how much, more uninhabited.

Linrong to the north and east, is the richest Fertile County in Shuofang County, this county has many rivers under its jurisdiction, the Western Han Dynasty imperial court had immigrated here to reclaim the fertile soil, and the water of the Yellow River into the plain for irrigation, so that the degree of agricultural development in this county does not even belong to many areas of the Central Plains; Along the east of the fertile field of the Yellow River, is Guangmu County, named because of the developed animal husbandry; Further east is Shuofang County, which borders Wuyuan County across the bank. To the south of Shuofang is Dacheng County.

After Xiang Ao returned to Shuofang to take up his post, he dismissed most of the people who had joined the army when he rescued the people, especially the people in Wuyuan and Yunzhong, leaving less than 500 people who were good at riding and still able to use force, or who had no relatives at home and were unwilling to leave. It's not that Xiang Ao is unwilling to have more troops, it's really a helpless move after understanding the situation in the entire Shuofang County.

The people of Shuofang County were less than 10,000 people, and even if they added more than 1,000 soldiers in Linrong and hundreds of militiamen guarding other counties, there were only more than 10,000. It is extremely difficult to raise a soldier in the early 1,000s with such a number, and if all of them are brought back, the number of more than 2,000 will not be crushed and forced away. If the previous Wang Taishou hadn't paid out of his own pocket to trade with foreign merchants, he would have crushed the people of Shuofang to death if he had raised more than 1,000 soldiers.