The sky, the red sun in the sky.

Fifteen hundred cavalry galloped like a whirlwind, and a cloud of smoke and dust rose behind them. Not far away, the fire echoed the scorching sun. This is the third dock fort that Zhao Xun led people to destroy, and the result is naturally the same as Xujiabao, all the people with their own surnames in the fort are killed, and the displaced people who are included are placed in nearby villages and towns, or new villages and towns are built nearby. After all, the supplies in the dock fort are still very complete, and as for the food, armor, and money, they are all confiscated.

"Brethren, I avenge you!" Qi He looked at the burned dock fort behind him and said silently.

After joining the infantry team, Zhao Xun led everyone back to Yanzhou City, and along the way, Zhao Xun also secretly pondered the situation in Yanzhou Mansion. After destroying the three dock forts, for these dock forts, Zhao Xun's heart was already bursting with murderous intent.

These dock forts, in addition to annexing the fields, private soldiers, private armor, independent of one side, more importantly, they often plunder passing caravans and pedestrians, they are no different from mountain bandits and robbers, even more hateful than robbers, for these, Zhao Xun now feels that it is time to completely eliminate them.

"Mother, we will be in Yanzhou City soon! Here, you can enjoy yourself, no one dares us to run thousands of miles, and no one can let us walk like before, wolf bèi. Zhao Xun looked at the hazy phantom of the city at the limit of his field of vision, and said with a proud face.

Mother Zhao looked at her son and found that he was no longer the child who needed to be taken care of before, she was relieved and said silently: "Husband, our son has finally grown up, have you seen it." ”

"Wow! What a big city! This is Yanzhou City? I've never seen such a tall wall. Xin'er looked at the city wall more than ten meters high from the car window and exclaimed. He grew up in the town and never saw a big city.

"When you get inside, you can have a good time, the current Yanzhou City is mine!" Zhao Xun said with a smile on his face, seeing that the little girl was so happy, Zhao Xun couldn't help but be infected.

"Your Excellency is back, line up!" Under the west city gate, the city gate order, which had already received the news of the horse exploration, waited under the city gate early. As for the people who came in and out, they also avoided it early, and they all watched from afar, wanting to see this big hero who defeated the Yan Ya army and saved Yanzhou Mansion.

When he arrived at the city gate, Zhao Xun also got out of the carriage, looking at the people who had settled down and had a smile on their faces, Zhao Xun couldn't help but feel happy in his heart.

"I've seen my lord!"

"Brothers work hard!" Zhao Xun also replied happily.

"Wow! He is Lord Zhao Xun, the leader of the Huolin Army? ”

"Nonsense, didn't you see it, the Huolin army defending the city is calling me an adult."

"What a young hero!"

The people in the distance were all talking, and they were very respectful of this benefactor who saved Yanzhou Mansion and gave them the seeds of the field.

After arranging for the soldiers to return to the camp, Zhao Xun rushed to the mansion with the personal guard battalion, Zhao Xiong, and Li Chenfeng.

"Here we are, this is our home!"

Outside the Zhao Mansion, all the subordinates and guards were waiting outside the mansion gate with Li Ruolan.

Seeing Zhao Xun and Zhao's mother coming out, Li Ruolan brought her subordinates to meet her.

"I've seen Madame! Young lady! Miss! ”

Mother Zhao is also from a big family, smiled lightly, and said indifferently: "It's all free of courtesy!" ”

Looking at the embarrassed Li Ruolan, Zhao Xun pulled her over, walked in front of Zhao's mother, and said with a smile: "Mother, you don't need me to introduce you, you also know Lan'er." Let's go inside. ”

Mother Zhao took Li Ruolan's hand and said with a smile: "I didn't expect it, I haven't seen it for more than half a year, and it's getting more and more beautiful, okay, let's go in and talk." ”

Seeing Zhao's mother speak like this, Li Ruolan let go of the worry in her heart. Turning his head to look at Xu Qinlian, he saw that she didn't mean anything bad, so he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart.

After entering the house and saying a few words, Zhao Xun was taken out, leaving a few women to talk privately, and when he saw that his mother, Li'er and Lan'er had a good conversation, Zhao Xun was relieved.

"Big brother!"

"Good! Today, all our brothers are gathered in Yanzhou Mansion, although the third brother and the eighth brother are not there, but we finally have a chance to get together, today, we are drunk. Zhao Xun came to the side hall and saw that all the brothers had arrived, and said with great joy.

"Xun'er, I found that you are different from before.!" During the banquet, Li Chenfeng said to Zhao Xun while drinking wine.

"Oh? Uncle Li said that what is different about me? ”

"Now you have the assets to be a hero." Li Chenfeng said slowly.

Zhao Xun was stunned, and then smiled: "It doesn't matter if he is a hero or a hero, I am still Zhao Xun, Uncle Li is always Uncle Li, and the brothers are always brothers." ”

Zhao Xiong also said: "What the eldest brother said is that we are always brothers, come, drink!" ”

"Drink, get drunk!"

Li Chenfeng said silently to himself in his heart: "The road to heroism is not easy to walk!" Then I also fought with these juniors.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and Yanzhou Mansion has changed greatly, and since September, the entire Yanzhou Mansion, except for Bai County, has been controlled by the Huolin Army. Subsequently, the Huolin Army launched sanctions against the dock fort in Yanzhou Mansion. Either comply with the new decree or be ruined. As for the people arrested in Fucheng and the four counties, they were all liquidated and killed one by one, so that the people of the entire Yanzhou Mansion knew the sharpness of the blade of the Huolin Army, which made those who were not clean in their hearts also frightened and retracted their claws that should not be extended.

Under the iron hooves of the Huolin Army, dozens of dock forts that did not fall in the hands of the Yan Yan army were all destroyed by the Huolin army, and the rest of the dock forts surrendered one by one, returned to the fertile land, laid off the families, and handed over the armor and weapons. The Huolin Army also began to build new villages and towns in various places, and rectified the disaster victims who had destroyed their homes under the invasion of the Yan Dynasty in the form of ten households and one mile, ten miles and one township, and more towns, so that everyone in the entire Yanzhou Mansion could have land. During the month, Yanzhou Mansion was busy with farming. Although the people were busy farming and building new homes, they all had hope, and the Huolin Army also reduced taxes for a year.

In order to establish prestige for the new brothers and cronies, Zhao Xun asked them to lead the army to clear out the dock forts and mountain bandits everywhere, which caused the security in Yanzhou Mansion to be quiet, and at the same time, let the soldiers see their bravery. For this reason, Zhao Xuncai completely erased the influence of the Long Xiang Army in the Huolin Army.

Of course, not everything is good, the big landlords and some businessmen in Yanzhou Mansion all hate Huolin Army and Zhao Xun to the core, and the land and property they have worked so hard to occupy were taken back by Huolin Army in this way, no one is comfortable, and they all want to wait for the reinforcements from Sanfu to arrive, so as to get rid of Zhao Xun and Huolin Army. But one piece of news shook their heads dizzy, that is, the land of Sanfu to the south and west had fallen to the hands of the Yan army. Suddenly, those upper-level people in Yanzhou Mansion understood why Zhao Xun was so bold and why he was so arrogant, and they all immediately died down, honestly obeyed the arrangement of the Huolin Army, and never dared to make any moves.

In this month, Zhao Xun also accompanied his family to familiarize himself with Yanzhou City, and also enjoyed the warmth of home, but he was not embarrassed to make love to Li Ruolan again.

"My lord, the people of Yanzhou Mansion have been counted." In mid-January, Situ Liang coordinated the distribution of land, and at the same time counted the number of households and people.

"Oh? How many people are there in Yanzhou Mansion? Zhao Xun put down the military affairs in his hand, raised his head and said, he also wanted to know the population under his rule.

"After the rebellion of the Yan Dynasty in Yanzhou Mansion, there are 180,000 households and 630,000 people, and the new loss allows those big households to take back the people's household registration from the new, otherwise, we can only count half of it."

"Oh? So much? Yanzhou Mansion has such a large population? Zhao Xun couldn't help but be stunned.

Situ Liang said with a smile: "Yanzhou Mansion is located at the intersection of Yan Kingdom and the north, although there are mountain bandits everywhere, but there has been no war in the past two years, and the imperial court has reduced taxes, and many people from the south have come to Yanzhou Mansion to make a living, so there are so many." There are quite a few people of other races in there. ”

"However, now Yanzhou Mansion is also very nervous, and it is surrounded by enemies on three sides, if it is not for the mountains in the west, I am afraid that it will really be ambushed on all sides. The most important thing now is to get back to Baixian, so that we can keep the enemy out of the country. ”

Zhao Xun looked at the map on the table and said: "Bai County, it's time to get it back, winter is coming, we must take back Bai County before the heavy snow comes, so that we can go to the north in winter to make some trouble for the Yan people." ”

"Your Excellency wants to fight back against the Lords? It's ......."

"Don't worry, it's just an idea, as for action, it depends on the situation."

Situ Liang froze for a moment, thought for a while, and whispered: "My lord, it's time for our current army to adjust, it's time to eliminate the influence of the government army and the Duwei Mansion, and now the people of Yanzhou Mansion only know about the Huolin Army, and don't know anything else." ”

"You! Keep that in mind. I'll make a new adjustment before I take back White County. You've done what you've done, there's no need to hide it, I've killed so many people, and I don't know how many people see me as a rebel. ”

Situ Liang said with a smile: "My lord, you can't say that, there are a lot of scholars who are recruited now, and many of them have been tested and absorbed into my Huolin Army, and the counties have also arranged our people." ”

"Oh? It seems that Yu Jing is still an enlightened person. Zhao Xun was overjoyed, as long as the scholar approves, his rule over Yanzhou Mansion can be stable.

Although the landlord's move hurt the landlord, hundreds of thousands of people survived, and no one knows it, how can they not see it? Now in Yanzhou Mansion, many people have painted portraits of adults, and worship and pray day and night. ”

In this regard, Zhao Xun couldn't help but sigh, the people's requirements are really simple.

"By the way, there are now nearly 3,000 prisoners of the Evil Army in our camp, what are you going to do with it? In the past three months, they have built our Yanzhou Mansion, but in addition to a lot of efforts. Situ Liang laughed.

"It's time to deal with them. Three days later, the Yanzhou Mansion reorganized its army and prepared to counterattack Baixian, and you prepared supplies. ”

"Your Excellency, rest assured, the supplies we have obtained from the dock forts are enough for what we need. Yanzhou Mansion is still ours in the end. Of course, Yanzhou Mansion is now clear."

"Big brother!" Seeing Zhao Xun, Xu He respectfully saluted, for Zhao Xun, Xu He is now very admired.

"How's your studies?" When Xu He arrived in Yanzhou City, Zhao Xun arranged for him to follow the officials of the Assassin's Mansion to learn financial and taxation affairs.

"Fortunately, I have generally understood, and I also understand what the eldest brother said." Xu He replied.

"Excellent! After recovering Baixian, Yanzhou Mansion will re-plan, you are a very important part of it, you must be careful. ”

"Don't worry, big brother, I will handle it carefully."