Yang Chong learned that Que Du set a thousand horses into the Jincheng territory, and immediately summoned Cui Zhen and Liucao to join the military for a meeting. The current capital of the Governor's Mansion is Ling Jing, and the other five Cao are Cangcao Shen Military Fu Qugu, Bing Cao Shen Military Sima Fan, Riding Cao Shen Military Song Qian, Armor Cao Shen Military Kan Zhong, and Shi Cao Shen Military Wang Jun was stunned. Yang Chong's target was Helan Mountain, and the operation was scheduled for three to four months, ending before winter came.

Ling Jing looked at the map and introduced the current situation: "Zong Luohu has already established a village in Helan Mountain, and the governor's mansion is named Barma Village; Starting from Barge Horse Village, Zong Luohu's men would escort the merchants along the way to Yuanwei County. In addition, General Suo Yanshou's desert battalion is active in the Helan Mountains and the desert on the west side of the mountain, and is familiarizing himself with the terrain and drawing maps; As Governor Yang had expected, Suo Yanshou and Qi Ge discovered an oasis deep in the desert, as well as a salt pond. ”

Fu Qugu joked: "Zong Luohu is a famous horse thief, let him escort him, can the merchants rest assured?" ”

Yang Chong blurted out: "Zong Luohu is now an official army in Hexi, and the merchant traveler should trust him, and with Cheng Yuan and Tang Bi here, there should be no problem; Not all businessmen can take this road, and the people from the state are in charge of Cheng Yuan, and the people from Guanzhong are in charge of Tang Bi. Zong Luohu is only the nominal person in charge of Barge Horse Village, and the real owner of the village is Jiang Duo, and his subordinates are Zong Luohu, Tang Bi, and Jing Pantuo. ”

Ling Jing added: "Tang Bi's Guanzhong battalion was all recruited by Tang Bi in Fufeng, five hundred cavalry and two thousand infantry; Jingpantuo's Bingzhou battalion was composed of the personnel of the original Jiang Duo's various businesses in Hedong and the people recruited by Jingpantuo Huijiang County, with a total of 3,000 people, including 700 cavalry; Zong Luohu's mad horse battalion had 2,000 cavalry, and the three battalions totaled 7,500 horse infantry troops. ”

Song Qian and Sima Fan glanced at each other, Yang Chong had really been planning for a long time, when Yang Chong waved his martial arts, if Guo Rong really went all out to reinforce Hexi, Jiang Duo's strange army was likely to attack Beidi, Anding and other counties; It was only later that the two sides negotiated, and Yang Chong could only put this group of men and horses in Helan Mountain for training, to put it simply, today's trade route is that Yang Chong's troops will go out of Helan Mountain in the future, and they will go north to contain the Turks, and they can go straight into the Hetao in the east, and force Longyou in the south.

Cui Zhen asked: "With so many people and horses, how can we solve the problem of food?" ”

Ling Jing pointed to the map and said: "In Yuanwei County, General Manager Yang's idea is that Jiang will take them to accept the displaced people and settle them in Yuanwei County for reclamation, and the grain in the early stage is to forage on the spot, and the other is to buy from Hedong and Longyou, and the governor's office will solve a part of the military rations." ”

"Foraging in situ." Song Qian said in disbelief: "Since you have joined the Hexi Army, you can't rob it." ”

Yang Chong made a reassuring gesture and said: "The reason why Jiang Duo has not appeared until now is because he and Tang Bi are in Guanzhong, and I am worried that Chang'an will impose an embargo on us, so I need a lot of people to help buy things." ”

Yang Chong's layout was originally for intelligence, but Chang'an began to embargo tea, and Yang Chong explained the reason a little higher; Kan Zhong added: "What the governor said is that Chang'an also has masters, in addition to the embargo, they also arranged for various families to bring a large amount of copper coins to Hexi and the Western Regions to buy goods, plundering the materials that should have been the army and the people, and in the long run, it will cause the supply of grain commodities in Hexi and the Western Regions to exceed demand." ”

Yang Chong nodded slightly and said, "So Helan Mountain is an area that must be fought for, and it is another channel for our materials. Jun Su and Sima Fan, you select a few scholars and merchants from Hedong, and ask them to help the governor's office buy tea, grain, cloth and other materials, which can be one or two percent higher than the market price. Elder Cui, the Cui family's caravan should be fine, right? No matter how bold Li Yuan is, he doesn't dare to check your Cui family's goods. ”

Li Yuan, the pacification envoy of Hedong, has replaced Fan Zigai, in charge of the army sent by Taiyuan, under the banner of begging thieves, the actual power is greater than that of Taiyuan to stay behind, and he has begun to set up cards in Taiyuan and Hedong to inspect the goods of the caravan. Cui Zhen felt that he was on a thief ship, and pretended to be annoyed and said: "Boling Cui's family must be fine, Cui Hongsu has already brought a letter, everything is as usual; Qinghe Cui didn't dare to say it, you should ask Cui Kaiyuan. ”

Yang Chong smiled indifferently and said: "Cities, metals, and food are the foundation of every government, and other things are just a little bit of profit; If the Qinghe Cui family followed the advice of the Xiao family, I couldn't help it. Cui Kaiyuan has such prestige as you in the family, and asking him is to embarrass him. ”

A room full of people laughed, Yang Chong said this, which showed that Yang Chong already had a plan in his heart, and finally agreed that Sima Fan, as Jiang Duo's deputy, would go to Yuanwei County to preside over the supply of Barge Horse Village; Yang Chong would order Jiang Duo to let some of the original business personnel set up shops in Yuanwei County to promote prosperity.

Regarding the trade war, Yang Chong is not afraid, Da Sui has a few necessities such as grain, salt, iron, and cloth, and most people have two meals a day, how complicated can it be. It's just that there are a large number of subordinates who are not with him and may even make trouble, this is where Yang Chong's worry lies, Yang Chong's first decision is to ask Cui Zhen to notify the county officials below, it is strictly forbidden to help Chang'an loot materials, and once found, he will be severely punished.

Yang Chong specially went to inspect Jiuquan County, in fact, he discussed again with his hidden think tank, in addition to Kou Jiuhui, there were also Yu Wenkai, Yu Juluo, Yang Hao, Kong Yingda, Master Fojia, and Yang Xuan. After Yang Hao lost Liyangcang, he took advantage of the chaos to flee to Hexi; Kong Yingda and Yang Xuansheng were rescued by Master Fojia, pretending to be monks all the way, and only Yu Wenkai and Master Fojia are currently publicly appearing in Hexi.

Regarding the trade war, the seven people have a deep understanding, but one thing is agreed together, that is, the powerful and wealthy families of the Xiao family will definitely participate in this battle in order to finally plunder the wealth of Hexi. Yu Wenkai frowned and said: "The person who came up with this method is very poisonous, as long as you launch a counterattack, all kinds of measures will become your future crimes, and when the war in Goguryeo is over and the center is going all out to deal with you, you will be difficult to argue." ”

Yang Chong said indifferently: "Then don't argue, it's really not good to fight, let the Holy Son of Heaven and the ministers of the center see, Hexi is not easy to gnaw." ”

Kong Yingda hadn't recovered from Yang Xuangan's defeat, and said worriedly: "Are you going to pull out the anti-flag?" ”

"How so." Yang Chong denied it: "The time has not yet come, and I haven't settled the Western Regions yet." However, I have some people in Hedong, so I can let them move first, and General Yu will help me formulate a plan. ”

Yujuluo came from Luliang Mountain, and he had long been suspicious, and said with a smile when he heard the words: "The war is from south to north, and even Guanzhong has fallen into a catastrophe, just Hedong is not in chaos, if you break Hedong, I dare to say, Yang Guang's last confidence is almost gone, you tell us about the situation." ”

Yang Chong said that Jiang Duo and Wu Duan'er had collected the information in Hejin, Longmen, Jiangjun and other places, and Yang Hao affirmed: "Since there are displaced people fleeing on both sides of Guanzhong and Liyangcang, and there are tens of thousands of miscellaneous people in the mountains, as long as someone climbs the heights and shouts, there will definitely be a large number of responders, and the most critical thing is the timing of the incident." ”

Yu Juluo smiled easily, and his body immediately exuded a murderous aura of galloping across the field; Yu Juluo thought for a while and said: "Three days later, I will give you a rough plan, but you have to tell Wu Wei'er that the soldiers are treacherous, and once the war starts, many of the originally planned plans will not be used, and the battle still depends on his own ability." "Yu Juluo's experience is obtained from the pile of dead people, and any sentence has a meaning, and Yang Chong promised to pass on the original words to Wu Du'er.

(End of chapter)