Liaodong, he thought it was a barbaric place, a barbaric place that no one wanted, but he didn't expect Li Jie to be interested in it, if he was just a scholar in cloth, he was young and rash and said a few words that didn't know the height of the sky, but this person has a noble temperament, and he is by no means a child of an ordinary official eunuch, if he is not a powerful person, I am afraid that he will have something to do with the powerful.

If even the magnates of the Tang Dynasty are eyeing Liaodong, it is really impossible to say who this flower will be.

After thinking about it, Li Mao said: "Starting from Dengzhou and crossing the Bohai Sea to Liaodong, the cost is very huge, and success or failure is difficult to judge. The twelve prefectures of Ziqing have a vast area, and their wealth is far better than that of the mainland, so if they don't defend Ziqing, they will conquer Liaodong, which is entrenched by barbarians, and do that thankless job, who will do such a loss-making deal? ”

Li Jiedao: "I understand this truth, Yun Shuai has a good account, and he will not do such a loss-making transaction." But that is the land of thousands of miles of the Tang Dynasty, and it is a pity to abandon it to Hulu. Qingmo said: "The Murowei and Khitan tribes have also paid tribute to Chang'an, and they also advertise themselves as the people of the Tang Dynasty, so they are not outsiders." Li Jie sneered: "If you want money, food, and titles, they will come to pay tribute, and when there is no benefit, you can't even see a figure, and they will plunder the border towns if they are a little lax, so they can be regarded as the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty?" Some people are just deceiving themselves. ”

Moqi God Channel: "Liaodong is connected to Youzhou, Bohai, and Silla, there are mountains in the west, and there are Murwei and Khitan entrenched in the north, but the place where the whole body is moved, the risk of cross-sea expedition is too great, which is as stable as the eastward expedition from Youzhou." Li Jie blurted out: "The Liu clan of Youzhou only wants to preserve the wealth and nobility, and the defense of the south is still insufficient, so how can they think of the eastward crusade." ”

Li Mao said: "This is the crux of the problem, Liaodong is sensitive, if the official army can not make a contribution in one fell swoop, it will cause the vigilance of the neighbors, and it will be delayed for a long time, and it will inevitably fall into a stalemate. Unless ......"

Li Jie also knew the crux of Liaodong's insurmountability, and when he was annoyed, he heard that Li Mao had an opinion, and hurriedly said: "Unless what? Li Mao said with a smile: "The matter of Liaodong is not in a hurry, for the sake of today's plan, first get in touch with the remaining Han people, help them gain a firm foothold, and when the time is ripe, send a strong army to the east. ”

Qingmo smiled: "This plan is called boiling frogs in warm water." After speaking, he muttered a sentence and asked Li Mao: "It's called boiled toad in warm water." Li Mao said: "The meaning is almost the same, that is, slowly warm up, do not let the enemy be vigilant, and when he notices it, the general trend has gone, so he has to wait for death." ”

Li Jie's attack case praised: "Good strategy, good strategy, the situation in Liaodong should be like this." Support those Han people who care about my Tang Dynasty to stand firm, and when the time is ripe, they will wave their armies to the east, and they will be able to recover the land in ten days. Li Maohua is also a tall person. ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "It's a piece of paper, it's lively, what kind of cleverness." Li Jiedao: "Why should my brother be modest, my eldest brother has also said such a scheme, but it is not as thorough as you say." ”

Qingmo said: "Brother Ling is also a master, what is his current position?" ”

Li Jie hesitated for a moment, and was about to answer, when he suddenly heard a big chaos outside the door, and saw a big man with his head held high, leading dozens of people to crash in. When the guests saw that the people were fierce, they avoided them one after another, and for a while people bumped into people, stepped on people, and made a mess.

Qingmo jumped up and went to find the sword, and Li Jie was also busy looking for the sword. Li Mao coughed and shouted, "Wait." He had already seen that it was Wu Yinzhong, and he had a smile on his face, which should be a good thing.

Sure enough, Wu Yinzhong knelt down for Li Mao as soon as they met, and dozens of people behind him also knelt together, and the momentum was very heroic.

Li Mao hurriedly helped, and Wu Yin said heavily: "'Hu is rude, neglected the father, and prays for forgiveness'." This was said on behalf of Hu Rongyu, and after speaking, Wu Yinzhong said again: "Da Lang went out of the city to pick up the old lady and sent a certain person to invite the Duke of Engong to come to the mansion." ”

Li Mao knew that he couldn't refuse, so he introduced Li Jie and Qingmo, and everyone went to Hu's house together.

When Wu Yinzhong first came, the shopkeeper Xu Laosi was checking the newly bought vegetables in the backyard, and heard that dozens of people from the Hu family's gun stick sect had broken in, so he ran out of the back door with a cigarette. Later, I heard that Wu Yinzhong was sent by Hu Yuchun to greet Engong, only to know that it was a false alarm, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile for a while, and ran back upside down.

After giving a great favor to the top wealthy families in the city, Xu Laosi felt that his waist was very strong, his confidence was very strong, the sky was very blue, and his life was very beautiful.

Seeing Li Mao go out, he hurriedly said: "It's okay for the guests to go, the luggage and horses have their own small care." Wu Yinzhong's apprentice scolded with a smile: "Don't be long-winded, Engong's guy can't take care of you yet." He took Li Mao's luggage and horses and went back to Hu's house.

After Li Mao informed the old woman of her whereabouts, Hu Yuchun's family quickly went to Hujiazhuang to look for it, and sure enough, they found the old man at Meng Yingchun's brother and sister's house.

Hu Yuchun learned that he had found his mother, and he hurriedly went to greet him with his younger brother, and the two brothers rushed to Hujiazhuang, but they were scolded by the old lady, Hu Yuchun laughed all the way, coaxed his mother to be angry, and then hurried back.

In the Hu family greeted Li Mao is Hu Yuchun's uncle, named Hu Nong Leopard, the old man's name has a "leopard" word, but he is kind and kind, very modest, and has a lot of special words, from his mouth Li Mao learned that Hu Yuchun's mother Li is good at eating sweets, Hu Yuchun's wife Zhang is from a medical family, knowing that it is not good to eat too many sweets, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law often quarrel about this matter.

Half a month ago, Li was bumped into by Zhang's in the house to eat sweet, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fought again, and in anger, Li dropped the sugar cake and walked away.

When it was dark, the figure of the old lady could not be found in the whole house, and the Zhang family was anxious, it happened that Hu Yuchun was drunk outside that day, and he was in a bad mood. Zhang's grandfather had been a doctor in the Imperial Medical Department, and he was one of the best people in Huazhou.

Hu Yuchun and Zhang's have always respected each other, and they have never blushed in the face for ten years of marriage, but this time there was so much trouble at once, and the hated Hu Yuchun was in a mess for a while, and after losing his temper, he ordered his brothers to search for his mother's whereabouts throughout the city.

The Hu family has been operating in Zhengzhou for decades, with houses and shops everywhere, Hu Yuchun is one of the leading brothers of the horse gang on Hangu Road, and has great influence in the city.

Seeing this, he thought that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he instigated the garrison outside the city to enter the town in the name of Hu Yuchun's rebellion.

There are many brothers in the garrison outside Zhengzhou, respecting Hu Yuchun as the leading brother, and the generals in the army also have friends with Hu Yuchun.

The town general Zhang He and Cui Fang have a good relationship, and Hu Yuchun is even more rebellious, seeing the conflict between the two, he expected that he could not persuade peace, so he shrank his head and let the two families make trouble, Zhengzhou military rebellion started from this, made trouble for three days and three nights, Yicheng Army Festival made Li Yuan send judge Xie Quanan to mediate, one persuaded Cui Fang to return to Beijing, two persuaded Hu Yuchun to restrain his subordinates, Cui Fang saw Hu Yuchun's energy, knew that he was not an opponent, so he got off the donkey, said that he was sick and hung up the crown and left, and the Zhengzhou military rebellion ended.

In the middle of the night, the Hu Yuchun brothers took their mother Li and the Meng brothers and sisters back, and the city gate was closed at this time, but this was nothing for a wealthy family like the Hu family, not only that, the streets were brightly lit, and the soldiers not only did not stop them, but instead added icing on the cake, playing lanterns to maintain order, and naturally the Hu family would not treat them badly.

Entering the main hall to help the old lady sit in the main seat, Hu Yuchun's brothers bowed their heads to worship, and Li asked Hu Yuchun: "Why don't you see the Zhang family?" Hu Yuchun said: "Disobeyed my mother, my son divorced her." ”

Li scolded: "Bastard things, I don't know what to do, what's so good about eating too much candy that the old lady's teeth are broken." "Hu Yuchun was depressed in his heart, you love to eat sugar, why is it on my head. However, in front of the public, he didn't dare to argue, and hurriedly changed his words: "Er Tianming will send someone to pick her up." ”

Li said: "Ask your brother to pick it up, you go to pick it up, it's hard to guarantee that you will be ridiculed by your father-in-law again." Hu Yuchun said yes again and again.

Li called Meng Yingchun and Meng Yuanba, and said to Hu Yuchun's brothers: "These two children will also be my children in the future, you should treat them like younger brothers and sisters, if they are not close, don't blame the old lady for running away from home again." The Hu brothers said yes again and again, and the Li family got up and saluted Li Mao, which frightened Li Mao and quickly avoided it.

Li said: "The old woman closed the door and became the boss at home, thinking that the world was just like this, and it was difficult to go out, if it wasn't for Yingchun and Yuanba to take me in, I don't know if I could live to this day, if it wasn't for the three of you to come and report the news, I don't know if I can return to this home." ”

Li Mao said: "Da Lang offered a reward of 100,000 yuan for finding the old lady, how many people have broken their heads, and in time, the old lady will still come home." Li Mao just picked up a favor. Nothing to speak of. Li said: "Since we met at Xiaoqiaotou, I knew that you were all good people, and later you came back to look for me, which made the old woman very moved." The old woman ran away in a bad mood, and met a nobleman, a great luck, a great luck. ”

Qingmo said: "The old lady does good deeds and accumulates virtues, and God will remember this blessing for you, which is called the blessed person has his own blessing." Li said: "Your kid's mouth is so sweet, but what he did was not light or heavy, my Yuan Ba tripped over you, broke his lip, and still can't eat." ”

Everyone laughed, and Qingmo touched his head and smiled embarrassedly. (Dissertation College)