Li Guang got the bird number bow, cherished and reluctant to let go, it was the height of summer, the border was also comforted, there was nothing to do, Li Guang carried the bird number bow with him, and lived in the school field. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there was a shortage of military horses, so the Han army basically had few large-scale cavalry battalions, and often relied on chariots to charge against the Xiongnu, and the flexibility of chariots was too poor compared with cavalry, and the scope of adaptation was small. Li Guang saw the huge Longxi defenders in the school field, but there were less than 500 cavalry, and the cavalry training was not in order, and the soldier's keen intuition told Li Guang that such cavalry was not a combat force at all, and he wanted to lead the army by himself and kill the old Hun camp, and he would capture all the Hun war horses.

At noon that day, Li Guang saw that the weather was hot and sultry, so he lay naked alone in the shade, sleeping comfortably. I didn't like it at the moment, it turned out to be a brocade-clothed post-student who came and stood outside the school gate, shouting a sharp voice to teach the garrison bravery. Li Guang's resentment in his heart had nowhere to attack, and when he saw that this person was unreasonable, he used it to dissipate his resentment.

Li Guang was resting, did not return to the camp tent to wear armor, only pulled his robe and wrapped it around his body, stood at the door of the school, like a scattered man, was about to take the door behind the angry anger, but saw Yan Shu riding a horse, hurried over, saw the outside of the door, busy greetings, it turned out to be a eunuch in Beijing, specially for Li Guang, but did not know Li Guang's identity, saw that Li Guang only joined the army, he looked down on him, and did not reveal his identity outside the school door, so he was about to break in, which caused a quarrel just now. That is, his identity has been explained, Li Guang is inconvenient to make trouble, seeing that it is a matter of himself, he has to half-kneel to receive the decree, and after the little eunuch passed the decree, he did not thank him, but just reached out and took the holy decree, and smirked vigorously.

It turned out that the decree this time was to promote his own official, let Bai Deng's order, and manage Bai Deng's military and political affairs, and finally had his own territory, how could Li Guang not be happy? It wasn't until Yan Shu reminded him that he woke up, and he knelt down to thank him and shouted long live (Li Guang has never bowed three times and thanked the emperor since he crossed over, and today he has received the emperor's favor, he doesn't want any principles, he wants money and power, and he doesn't want face.) In the evening, he reluctantly sent Shang Jia back to the Han Mansion, and when he returned to the mansion, Li Shang was already in the study, and told Li Guang in detail about the general situation of Bai Dengcheng, and sent Xu Ping, a staff member in the house, to assist Li Guang.

After Li Guang went, Li Shang and Yan Shu discussed the matter, Bai Deng was a barren and bitter cold and arid land, barely suitable for grazing, and the crops were difficult to harvest. On the second day, Li Guang got up early, Li Chen and Shuyue were busy packing their luggage, and Xu Ping was also waiting in the hall, just waiting for Li Shangwang to say goodbye, and then go to Bai Deng to take office. Wang knew last night that Li Guang was going to serve as Bai Dengling, since Li Guang was injured last time, where was he willing to let Li Guang leave, mourning for a while, making Li Shang upset, and immediately persuaded Li Guang not to miss his home and go to office quickly.

Li Guang hit the horse out of the house, Xu Ping, Li Chen, and Shu Yue each rode a horse behind him, and went straight to Bai Deng, along the way Li Guang was very excited, galloped wildly, and hated to fly to Bai Deng, only suffering Xu Ping, Li Chen and Shu Yue The three of them chased all the way hard. Only half a month, the four of them rushed to the city of Baideng, seeing that the gate of Baideng was low, Li Guang was immediately displeased, Xu Ping comforted Li Guang, Baideng is just a county land, how to compare with Longxi City, the city gate is naturally short, as long as the major general Bai Deng stays stable for two or three years, looking for an opportunity to make a military merit, he will be transferred to a good place, Li Guang has to accept the reality, anyway, Bai Deng is the first place he owns.

The four of them handed out the appointment documents under the city gate, and after the city defenders read it, they hurriedly let the four of them enter the city. Li Guang asked the location of the county government office, led the three people, and walked listlessly towards the county office, along the way saw that the streets of Bai Dengcheng were dilapidated, and he secretly hated the emperor for being insidious. Entering the county office, there was only Zhao Ang, a small official with a knife and a pen, who was on duty in the county office, the hall was dilapidated and old, and there was not even a chair next to the official case, so he had to stand and talk.

Xu Ping asked about the size of Zhao Ang Bai Deng, Zhao Ang also calculated clearly, Xu Ping didn't care, he knew that Bai Deng's details were detailed, Li Guang was very angry after hearing this, Bai Deng had to pay the imperial court taxes according to the population, less than 20,000 people but also had to pay 40,000 stones, but Bai Deng was desolate, and the harvest was not collected year after year, so as to owe the court 100,000 stones, the entire Bai Deng County Ya, the poor of the previous county order could not afford to hire a staff, and only hired a master, that is, Zhao Ang, and now there happened to be Li Guang to take the blame, but promised that he owed the master a salary, and he was free to pay for the next county order, I rolled up my luggage and ran early.

Li Guang had no choice but to answer Zhao Ang's salary and ask about Bai Deng's jurisdiction, but there are more than ten large Zhuangzi, and most of the villagers live by shepherding sheep, and other crops are not harvested. When asked about the border troubles, Zhao Ang replied that Bai Deng was already poor, but there were few people who were harassed by Hu captives, but despite this, there were still a few tribes every year who came to rob the people of sheep in late autumn every year. On weekdays, however, there are a small number of people who exchange sheep for herbs and leather with the Hu people, and a few Hu people exchange horses for horses.

Li Guang heard that the Hu people exchanged horses for sheep for the people, and suddenly thought about a story about his father Li Shang when he was in junior high school. Hurriedly asked Zhao Ang, "How many sheep are there in Baideng?" If you exchange food, how many stones can you exchange it for? Li Shang is still in modern times at the moment, but he doesn't know the gold of grain in the early Han Dynasty, especially in Longxi, where grain is more expensive than gold. Zhao Ang saw that Li Guang was interested in sheep, so he returned: "I don't know how many sheep are in Baideng, but there are no less than 100 sheep in each family. Sheep for grain, why a few stones, one stone of grain is enough for two sheep. "How much grain does the official store in the city have?" "Less than 3,000 stones, which can be eaten by soldiers and brave until the end of autumn with new grain."

Li Guang saw that his family background was too thin, and he couldn't help frowning, how should he take the sheep from the hands of the people and use the extremely vicious "desperate plan" in history? "Can the people use sheep to pay taxes?" "The court does not accept sheep, only grain." Li Guang laughed when he heard this, and he was so happy that Zhao Ang and Xu Ping were confused. Li Guang saw that the two were puzzled, so he said: "This autumn's tax collection will leave enough for consumption in the city, and the rest will only collect sheep, and the taxes owed in previous years can be offset by sheep." ”

Li Guang waited for Shu Yue to pack up the residence, and slept comfortably, and the next morning, Li Guang called Zhao Ang to meet him, and asked who were the Han people who were mostly engaged in the exchange of markets with the Hu people, and who among them was the most prestigious, so Zhao Ang invited all of them. In the evening, Zhao Ang brought a rough man with a black face and beard to see Li Guang, but it was Bai Dengcheng and the Hu people, the leader of the Sword and Horse Gang, named Kaohsiung. Kaohsiung didn't know what Li Guang asked him to do, but he was not afraid, the emperor still married his daughter to Hu Ren, and he did business with the emperor's son-in-law, so he was afraid that he would do anything. Seeing that Li Guangyan was talking, he did not feel a trace of embarrassment for himself, but was just interested in the Hu people's mutual market, and immediately patted his chest and said that if the county order wanted to change Hu Ma, he would definitely take effect. Li Guangxi immediately recruited Kaohsiung as a staff member of the county government, and he was in charge of the exchange of money and grain, and he only looked forward to the end of autumn in his heart, exchanging sheep for Hu people and horses.

Although Bai Deng is big, there are too few things, for several months in a row, nothing disturbs, Li Guang just practices archery every day, and Xu Ping is also relieved. The autumn harvest is coming in a blink of an eye, and Li Guang is focusing on the affairs of the county government, which is nothing more than paying attention to this year's food and salary. Kaohsiung had already told Li Guang's intention to tell the people of Baideng that on the day of the tax collection, but seeing the black and white in front of the yamen, the people shouted countless sheep, and hurriedly asked Xu Ping to order the county yamen to help the people, and put the sheep outside the garrison camp, and ordered the defenders to guard them strictly, so that there must be no mistakes.

Three days later, Kaohsiung's subordinates counted the sheep clearly, a total of more than 58,400, Kaohsiung is also in the desert, and some tribes communicate properly, with Hu Ma for sheep, five sheep can be exchanged for Hu Ma a horse, it should be a good deal, the original Xiongnu in the winter is short of food, a large number of Hu Ma is very easy to starve to death, today Bai Dengcheng said that a large number of sheep for Hu Ma, happy to the tribal leaders gathered horses overnight, actually drove more than 10,000 Hu horses into the customs at a time. After the settlement between the two sides was completed, there was no danger of abduction in the winter of this year, and the local people were happy to shout that Li Guang was the true parent of the people.

Li Guang got more than 10,000 horses, which had long been known by the imperial court, Liu Ying was overjoyed, exempted Bai Deng from the grain arrears, and rewarded 100,000 stone for the grain salary, and crowned Li Guang as Bai Denghou and received 1,000 stones. Liu Ying's move made Empress Lu unhappy, but the will had been made, so Empress Lu's intention to abolish Emperor Hui as soon as possible was even more resolute. Li Guang doesn't care about the feudal marquis, but his heart is secretly obscene, if the historical records in the future, the Han general Li Guang a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, with 50,000 sheep in exchange for more than 10,000 Hun war horses, two years, the Huns have no horses to fight, no grass to graze, Li Guang with the pacification of the desert, this is what a trendy thing. As soon as he thought of this, Li Guang missed his father who was still in Yanjing.