After letting Yun Dingtian take away, Chu Ge came over to remind Zhao Ziliang: "General, you are going to see the city lord!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded: "You go and prepare, and leave immediately!" ”

"No!"

At the gate of the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Pan Leng saw Zhao Ziliang coming in civilian clothes, stepped forward and said with a smile: "Brother Xian is still coming here so late?" The matter of the more than 200 captives can be talked about tomorrow! ”

Zhao Ziliang arched his hand and shook his head and smiled: "The eldest brother is busy with affairs during the day, and the younger brother can't spare time, so I have to come tonight and disturb the eldest brother!" ”

Pan said coldly: "Don't bother, we are all about to become a family, and the virtuous brother is still so polite!" Let's go, let's talk inside" After speaking, he pulled Zhao Ziliang into the main hall.

After the maid served tea, Zhao Ziliang took a sip of tea and said: "Big brother, the matter of the more than 200 captives has caused trouble to the eldest brother, the younger brother has already thought about it, there is still a shortage of soldiers in my garrison, if these more than 200 horse bandit captives are incorporated into the army after some strict training and drills, and after eliminating the old, weak, sick and disabled, although the number is still a little worse, it is not much worse, and the rest will be recruited from the local area, and it should be able to make up the number!" ”

Pan frowned after hearing it coldly, "Brother Xian, those horse bandits are all unruly, they have done a lot of murder and looting, they are used to being free, can they stand the control?" I'm afraid that being incorporated into the army will bring about a bad atmosphere in the army! ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "Big brother doesn't need to worry too much, since the younger brother has incorporated them into the army to serve, there is naturally a way to make them obedient!" Tomorrow morning, the younger brother will send troops to the prison to escort people to the barracks, for the sake of these more than 200 prisoners, a lot of things have happened, the younger brother really can't go! ”

Pan Leng waved his hand: "It's okay, it's all one family, don't talk about two families!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was waiting for this sentence, and immediately said: "Since the eldest brother said so, the younger brother still has one more thing he wants to ask the eldest brother for help!" ”

Pan Leng was stunned for a moment, smiled and said: "What does the eldest brother need to do, even if the virtuous brother speaks, as long as the eldest brother does a good job, he will not refuse!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was not polite at the moment, and said directly to the point: "The eldest brother may also know that the town guard mansion let the military towns and the guard mansion raise their own grain and grass, and my guard mansion has been made into a miasma by Ma Han and Hao Jialin and others, and the treasury has been empty, although I copied their homes and got back a lot of losses, but I didn't get much grain, so in terms of raising grain and grass, I also ask the eldest brother to help!" ”

After listening to it coldly, Pan couldn't help but smile bitterly, and spread his hands: "Brother Xian, you are embarrassing the eldest brother, if it is something else, the eldest brother will definitely help you do it without saying a word, the matter of grain and grass, the eldest brother is afraid that he will not be able to help, the military grain and grass you need to guard the mansion have already been allocated by the city lord's mansion, and then ask us to ask for it locally, we are also powerless, if we buy it from the market, it will not only make the price of grain even higher, but also the cost is not a small amount!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "Big brother, don't be in a hurry to refuse, maybe the eldest brother can really help in this matter!" ”

"Oh?" Pan Leng was coldly surprised, stretched out his hand and said, "Please also ask the virtuous brother to speak clearly!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "As far as the younger brother knows, there are many local clan leaders and leaders who are big farmers, and others have no food, so they must have food in their hands, but if I negotiate with them to buy grain, I am afraid it will be inconvenient." So I wondered if I could ask my eldest brother to come forward and summon them to meet with me, as long as my eldest brother invited them, I would do the rest, no matter whether this matter could be done or not, I would remember my eldest brother's favor."

Pan Leng said helplessly: "It turns out that the brother fought this idea, and I can't hide it, the younger brother also thought about getting some food from the hands of these leaders and leaders, but then he gave up this idea, these people are not easy to deal with, and I want to get food from them, but I'm afraid it's not easy, but since the virtuous brother said so, my eldest brother will give up his face to help you find them anyway, as for whether you can get food, it depends on your ability, brother."

"Of course, even if you can't get food, my little brother will accept your affection!"

Pan Leng thought for a moment and said, "In that case, I will invite them all to the City Lord's Mansion in two days, and I will send someone to inform Brother Xian when the time comes!" ”

"Then the little brother will thank you in advance, it's getting late, the little brother will say goodbye first!"

Two days later, Zhao Ziliang, who was leading the troops to practice in the military camp, saw the people sent by Pan Lengleng, and Pan Lengleng really invited those tribal leaders and leaders to the city lord's mansion, and the people sent were notified to go and meet with these people.

Zhao Ziliang hurried to the City Lord's Mansion with his armor on his head, and the leaders and leaders of the local tribes were already sitting on both sides of the main hall, and Pan Lengleng, who was sitting in the first place, immediately stood up from behind the desk and greeted him: "General Zhao!" ”

Seeing Pan Leng Leng personally stepped forward to greet him, the leaders and leaders of the other tribes did not dare to slack off, and they all got up and saluted Zhao Ziliang, treating the conqueror, and anyone had to bow their heads and be a man.

The city lord's office is in charge of political affairs, and the guard government is in charge of military affairs, nominally the status of the city lord is in the guard and capture envoy, but in fact, in any border town, the city lord has to be a man with his tail between his legs in front of the guard or town guard, after all, one side is the subjugator, and the other side is the conqueror, which is like during the Anti-Japanese War, the traitor mayor of the occupied area saw that the Japanese garrison commander basically nodded his head, and the Japanese did whatever he wanted. The reason why Pan Lengleng posed as a boss in front of Zhao Ziliang was mainly because he was Panzhu Junxiu's own brother, and Zhao Ziliang was his future brother-in-law, if he had nothing to do with Zhao Ziliang, he would never dare to put on a big brother in front of Zhao Ziliang.

Zhao Ziliang arched his hand, "Lord Iwaki, could you please introduce these leaders and leaders to Zhao?" ”

"Good!" Pan Leng agreed coldly and began to introduce Zhao Ziliang.

There are many tribes living in the land of Anxi, even the people of Loulan who have disappeared can find some small tribes in the land of Anxi, in addition to the main locals of the four towns of Anxi, there are other people such as the Yueshi people, the Chebi people, the Hui people, the Tiele people, the Turkic people, etc., in addition, Anxi was captured by the Tubo people in the past few years, and later although it was recaptured by the Tang army, the Tubo people also left many small tribes in various parts of Anxi, and even the Qarluq people who were far north of the Tianshan Mountains also had branches in various parts of Anxi, The Zhaowu Nine Surnames in Central Asia also have some scattered tribes scattered throughout the land of Anxi.

After the introduction, Zhao Ziliang unceremoniously sat on the throne, this is not the time to be modest and cautious, to show a tough side, you must not let these tribal leaders think that he is weak and can be bullied. He looked at the tribal leaders on both sides and said, "I ask the city lord to invite you here today, mainly for one thing, that is, grain and grass!" Next year, I want to use troops on the turks, this is no secret, I believe you all know, the army needs to collect some grain and grass, originally you have already handed over the grain to the city lord's mansion once, do not have to pay again, of course, the general invited you to come over is not to let you hand over again, but to borrow a little food from you, since it is borrowed, that is, there is a loan and a return, and when the war is over next year, the general will definitely return the amount, I don't know if you are willing to give Zhao someone this face? ”

After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, several of these clan leaders secretly looked at Pan Leng's cold expression, but Pan Leng Leng looked at ease and drank tea with a teacup, as if he didn't care about it at all.