Macheng is still prosperous, and the traders from the south to the north have given the city a new life that the border does not have, and when Ye Zhao returned to his mansion, he saw that Meng Hu was already waiting there.

"Don't you have to be on duty today?" Ye Zhao handed the horsewhip in his hand to the subordinate who greeted him, teased casually, turned his head to look at the woman who was far behind, and said to Qiu Chi: "Find a few doctors to help her heal her injuries, if you want, let her stay here temporarily." ”

"Whoa." Although I don't know why Ye Zhao is interested in such an ugly woman, but this is a private matter after all, he is not easy to ask, he agreed, and walked towards the woman with two guards, this woman is too fierce, Ye Zhao can block the other party's attack casually, he doesn't have that ability, it is better to be careful.

"My lord, someone has come from the state capital." Meng Hu came to Ye Zhao's side and bowed.

"Oh?" Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows: "Guo Xun's people? ”

Guo Xun is the current Youzhou Thorn History, and he is also the brother of Guo Cheng, although Ye Zhao has a high degree of autonomy in Macheng and can not sell Guo Cheng's face, but this Guo Xun, he really can't ignore it.

"Hmm." Meng Hu nodded.

"Let's go, let's meet." Ye Zhao unsheathed his sword and walked towards the banquet hall.

Outside the living room of the county office, four warriors who were full of a fierce spirit stood outside the door, and when Ye Zhao came to the door with people, the four of them turned their heads to look at Ye Zhao at the same time, and a wave of evil pressure came over.

Ye Zhao frowned slightly, these four people are all warriors who have seen blood, and they are the kind of people who crawl out of the corpses, if they are ordinary people, if they are so frightened, I am afraid that they will be directly frightened by the momentum of these four people.

Dismounted?

Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows, this is the wrong object, no need for Ye Zhao to say anything, Guan Hai, who was standing behind him, had already sensed that these four people were provoking, snorted, took a step forward, protected Ye Zhao, and shouted: "Who are you waiting for?" ”

As he spoke, a ferocious aura exploded, in the past two years, as a general under Ye Zhao, he helped Ye Zhao to deter the Hu people, and experienced no less than 100 bloody battles, the fierce spirit honed in the battlefield was extremely fierce, although the four people in front of him were also considered elites in a hundred battles, but in front of Guan Hai, there was obviously a lot of fire, just a shout of anger made the faces of these four people change greatly, as if their lives would be in danger at any time, and subconsciously pulled out the blade in their hands.

"Presumptuous!" The four guards behind Ye Zhao drew their swords in their hands, and the guards in the mansion moved even more when they heard the sound, and quickly surrounded the huge banquet hall.

"Don't be rude, step down!" In the banquet hall, a dignified-looking man with a height of eight feet came out, smiled at Ye Zhao and clasped his fists and said: "Ye County Ling is not strange, these subordinates are on the border, they don't understand the rules, and they are disturbed, I hope Ye County Ling will forgive me." ”

The faces of the four subordinates were a little bitter, how could they see that the other party was disturbed, but they were a little frightened.

"Your Excellency?" Ye Zhao waved his hand, and the surrounding guards all retreated, Guan Hai glared at the other party fiercely, and retreated behind Ye Zhao.

"Changsha Zou Jing, now the history of the county magistrate, has seen Ye County's order." The man clasped his fists and smiled.

"It turned out to be Brother Zou." Ye Zhao nodded, made a gesture of please, and invited Zou Jing into the banquet hall together.

"And who is this?" When everyone entered the banquet hall, they saw that a young man of the same age as Ye Zhao was kneeling on the throne that originally belonged to Ye Zhao, and raised his eyebrows, Ye Zhao turned his head to look at Zou Jing.

"I'll introduce you later." Zou Jing hurriedly took two steps forward, arched his hand at the young man and said: "Son, this is Ye Zhao, the commander of this horse city and the commander of the horse, Ye Xiuming, the current scene in the horse city is all thanks to Brother Xiuming's efforts." ”

"Not bad." The young man stood up with a smile and nodded: "When Mao was in Luoyang, I also heard that this horse city is a barren land, when His Majesty sent Brother Xiu Ming here, I thought that there would be nothing to do, who would have thought that it would be only two years, and now there is such a scene in Ma Cheng, although it is not as prosperous as the Central Plains, but in this Youzhou, it can already be called a big county." ”

"Brother Xiuming, this is the third son of Zhonglang General, Liu Mao, Zisheng, his father is the current royal family, Liu Yan in the court, and now he is ordered to come to Youzhou to serve as the Zhonglang General." Zou Jing smiled at Ye Zhao.

"It turned out to be a member of the Han family, rude." Ye Zhao nodded, the clan of the Han family, and the son of the real power royal family, in this horse city, there is no problem to sit on the top, kneeling at Liu Mao's lower hand, looking at Liu Mao suspiciously: "Brother Zisheng came to my horse city, I'm afraid it's not to praise the next two sentences, right?" ”

"This ......" Liu Mao looked at Zou Jing with some hesitation when he heard this.

Zou Jing hurriedly arched his hand and said, "But I want to congratulate Brother Xiuming." ”

"Oh? Where does the joy come from? Ye Zhao looked at Zou Jing in surprise.

"As soon as my lord entered Youzhou, he heard that Brother Xiu Ming was able, in less than three years, not only the Macheng governance was extremely prosperous, from less than 3,000 households to now it is a large county with 10,000 households, but also made 17 Hu tribes naturalized, and the land outside the country was shocked, greatly increasing the majesty of my Han family, and I specially recommended to the imperial court, and promoted Brother Xiu Ming to the captain of Wuhuan Guard, which is an official document and a tiger talisman." Zou Jing waved his hand, and a soldier came to Ye Zhao's side with a tiger talisman and armor.

Ye Zhao didn't answer, frowned and looked at Zou Jing and said, "What about the original captain of Wuhuan Guard?" ”

Captain Wuhuan is the real power of the military position in Youzhou, and he, the captain of the cavalry, must be controlled by the other party, and there are three schools of men and horses under his command, and half of the military strength of the entire Youzhou is in his hands.

"Has been transferred to the state." Zou Jing said with a smile: "After all, according to the laws of our dynasty, an official cannot concurrently serve as a military and political leader in a state at the same time. ”

Guo Xun is the assassin of Youzhou, and theoretically speaking, his clansmen cannot serve as an important military position in Youzhou such as the captain of Wuhuan.

But this is only theoretical, but in fact, now the law of the Han Dynasty has existed in name only, and there are not many people who really abide by it, before the three brothers of the Guo family served as the assassin Shi, the Taishou of the county and the captain of the Wuhuan for several years, and the court did not pay much attention to it, and now an order is given, and a captain who holds nearly half of the military power in a state has been replaced, it seems that although the imperial court has been declining, but the control of the whole world is still there.

"Then this Ma Cheng ......" Ye Zhao looked at Liu Qiao.

Zou Jing said with a smile: "My son-in-law has now reached the age of becoming a general, and it is my lord who recommended him to the imperial court, and the son-in-law will serve as the commander of Macheng." ”

Ye Zhao nodded, but there was no resistance, although Liu Yan said that he took his Ma Cheng, but he fought for him a captain to protect Wu Huan, although the money is definitely not as good as Ma Cheng, but it is a real power official position in a state, it is not a loss, and it can be regarded as an exchange of interests with Cai Yong, Wang Fen and others behind him or himself.

Signaling Guan Hai to take the seal, Ye Zhao asked Gao Sheng to take his official seal and tiger talisman and hand them to Liu Mao, thought for a while, and said: "Although this horse city has nothing to do with me now, there is one thing, Ye Mou said, as for whether to listen or not, it all depends on Brother Zisheng's own decision." ”

"Brother Xiu Ming, Qiao Xi's ears are listening." Liu Mao hurriedly sat down and said solemnly.

"Macheng can have today's prosperity, one is business, here is the grassland in the north, I have formed trade contacts with the grassland tribes, communicate with each other, exchange salt and grain for war horses and population, and sell war horses to various states at the same time, so that it is prosperous today; The two, for the Hu people, if they are just communicating with each other, although my Han can benefit, but also let them continue to grow, over time, it will become a problem for my Han, it is one, you can give them weapons, but the method of smelting can never be transmitted, and the population trade must not stop, only in this way, they will continue to fight civil war in order to plunder the population, although there will be many tribes growing because of this, but on the whole, the population of the entire grassland, but because of this trade, and continue to decrease, the strength of the grassland is constantly weakening; Three, Gongzi must have the power to deter the Hu people, otherwise, these Hu people jackals, once they lose their deterrence, they will suffer from it, show their authority, and lure them to benefit, so that these Hu people can gradually domesticate from wolves to the dogs of my Han family, maybe after a hundred years, there will be no more Hu people. ”

Ye Zhao carefully explained his routine of dealing with the grassland Hu people, which can be regarded as reporting Liu Yan's recommendation, as for whether the other party listens or not, it has nothing to do with him.

In the history known to Ye Zhao, even if the princes were disputed later, to the period of the Three Kingdoms, the Hu people had to be people with their tails in front of the Han people, and what really caused the later Wuhu chaos was probably the Jin Dynasty after the Three Kingdoms, as for why the unification was weak, it is unknown, doing so now may curb the development of the Hu people, but it is not the main thing, because in this era, including Ye Zhao from later generations, I also don't think that today's Hu people can pose any threat to this great Han country.

"Remember." Liu Mao solemnly bowed his hand, he had studied the methods that Ye Zhao had implemented in Macheng in the past two years before he came here, and now he was a little bit enlightened by Ye Zhao, and he got up and bowed to Ye Zhao at the moment.

"There are still some things to sort out, because I am afraid that I will have to delay this Macheng for a few days, and the words of the army will ......" Ye Zhao frowned, the elite of the first school in Macheng was the elite soldiers he had trained for two years, and it was still a little distressing to give it up like this.

"Brother Xiu Ming, rest assured, when my father left Luoyang, he invited His Majesty to a school of tigers, all of whom are sharp soldiers, and Brother Xiu Ming's soldiers and horses are still at the disposal of Brother Xiu Ming." Liu Mao smiled.

"If you have the opportunity, I will go to the county in person and thank Zhonglang." Ye Zhao stood up and said with a smile.