The royal capital was in a hurry for eight hundred miles, and Li Yao took out the edict and looked at it, and he was dumbfounded, which clearly read: "Give back the princess as the wife of Ninghou Ping, and go to Mazhou Guan to welcome her relatives in early May of the nineteenth year of Chengsheng, there must be no mistake!" ”

"Uighur princess?" Li Yao was depressed. Didn't the Uighurs always be at war with the Qi Kingdom? Why did the Uighur princess come to make me an equal wife?

Li Yao looked at his father-in-law who came from the royal capital, and said to the housekeeper: "Please take a seat, and take out another thousand taels of silver to thank your father-in-law!" ”

As soon as the father-in-law heard that there was silver to take, he immediately smiled, and almost set up with Li Yao: "Master Hou, speaking of which, we have a great relationship!" Don't you know, when you were born, I was waiting outside the palace! I saw you on the first day you came to earth! ”

Li Yao said with a smile: "Haha, I didn't expect me to be so close to my father-in-law, it seems that at the wine table, I want to give my father-in-law a drink!" ”

"Huh." The father-in-law covered his mouth and smiled, "Master Hou, you are too exalted to me, who doesn't know that you are the favorite son of King Qi, you see, this time the Uighurs and the Qi Kingdom are in peace, and the Uighurs have sent all the princesses of their own family, and the King of Qi has not even looked at it and said, give Yao'er as a wife!" ”

Li Yao said depressedly: "What does it matter to me between the two of you and your relatives, and you want me to insert a lever, is it because my cheap father is a little regretful that he has not married now, the prime minister's daughter does not marry, and Lao Tzu still doesn't want to marry?" You regret it! ”

But Li Yao could only think about it, and did not dare to speak, Li Yao asked again: "Father-in-law, why did the Uighurs want to make peace with the Qi Kingdom this time?" ”

The father-in-law said: "Master Hou, do you know that the Uighurs and the Tibetans are fighting, and the Uighurs do not dare to fight on two fronts, so they have no choice but to make peace with the Qi State to maintain peace for a few years, and then go all out to deal with the Tibetans!" ”

When the father-in-law said this, Li Yao immediately understood, it turned out that it was not that the king of Qi regretted that he had not married a wife until now, but that the king of Qi did not want to give up the fat on his lips, and the Tubo and the Uighurs fought a war, and the benefit must be the Qi country, if the Uighurs and the Qi country were reconciled at this time, and the Qi king still accepted it, then the Qi country would definitely not be able to send troops again, but the discord could not directly refuse, lest the Uighurs would not be willing to fight against the Tubo with all their might, and split their forces against the Qi country. Therefore, he gave the Uighur princess to Li Yao, and it was impossible for Li Yao to start a war against the Uighurs anyway. In this way, the Uighurs were stabilized, and it could be regarded as an explanation to Li Yao that he could not marry the prime minister's daughter.

Thinking of this, Li Yao couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that my cheap dad is not only superior in force, but also black-bellied!" ”

Li Yao understood the cause and effect, so he started to fight with the father-in-law of the edict, chatted, had a feast, the guests and the host were happy, and the father-in-law of the edict left the Hou Mansion and returned to the royal capital to resume his life.

Li Yao picked up the edict and looked at the time, at the beginning of May of the nineteenth year of Chengsheng, wouldn't it be only half a month, it seems that the war between the Uighurs and the Tibetans is about to break out!

Everything in Yi County is on the right track, and the refugees' food and clothing depend on Li Yao's money, and Li Yao basically consumes in this county, which makes Yi County a rich county, as long as you do business, you can get rich!

A simple set of clothes is 100 taels, and 900,000 sets of clothes are 90,000 taels of silver, which really makes Li Yao's heart ache, his own money has a total of more than 2 million taels, of which 1.2 million taels were copied in Dingbian County, and his family property is only 500,000 taels, and the rest of the silver is made by the autumn wind!

But now the thin monkey and the fat man spend money outside very much, and they continue to buy sulfur and saltpeter in Lu County and Dingbian County, and there are 900,000 refugees to support in their fiefdoms. Looks like I'm going to find a way to make some money!

The blind man's small force had already been found, and in addition to replenishing the city guard of a thousand men, he himself had recruited another thousand, so he trained the army of a thousand men all day.

Li Feng's battalion of city guards is still a separate formation, Li Yao did not disperse, these city guards have all been on the battlefield, and when they form their own army in the future, this battalion of city guards is the grassroots backbone of their own army.

Mazhou Pass is an important border pass of Qi State, mainly set up for the defense of the Uighurs, because there are many horses here, it was originally called Mazhou, so the pass established is called Mazhou Pass.

It only took five or six days to march from Yixian to Mazhou Pass at the usual speed, but Li Yao thought that the second brother was stationed in Mazhou Pass, and if he had gone earlier, he could get close to the second brother, after all, he had grown up together, and his feelings were still relatively deep.

But the dog head didn't think so, "Big brother, the three of you are both the sons of King Qi, but the relationship between the eldest prince and the second prince is very delicate, if you are too close to the second prince, it may be harmful to you!" ”

King Qi made you a marquis, the main reason is that he doesn't want you to participate in the party struggle between the two princes, King Qi is very important to the two princes, the second prince is very similar to King Qi, and he is deeply loved by King Qi, but the ancient saying of establishing a long heir has given the eldest prince the opportunity. So until the situation is clear, let's keep a low profile, lurk, and it's better to let everyone forget about us! That's how we're the safest!

Li Yao thought about it, since he wants to pretend to be weak on the outside, then I will prove to everyone that the title of the first gentleman in Qi Country is not for nothing!

Dog-head, you now issue a new decree, saying: "I will choose from among the 900,000 refugees who can shoot slingshots and throw stones for me to play with!" ”

The dog head said: "Big brother, don't pretend to be so obvious!" If you want to play, just find some random people to play, don't make it so exciting! ”

Li Yao said with a smile: "Play, you have to play big, otherwise how can you show my reputation as the number one gentleman in Qi country!" ”

The dog head saw that Li Yao's attitude was very resolute, and there was no way to notify the county order of this order and let him announce it!

Li Yao played big this time, especially big, 900,000 refugees were mobilized, Li Yao let every village have a big pot of roast, and each big pot was boiling large pieces of pork, and the fragrance was overflowing. Whoever passes the selection will be able to eat meat.

As soon as the 900,000 refugees heard that Li Yao was going to choose someone who was excellent at playing slingshots and throwing stones for Li Yao to play, they all laughed and laughed. But if you succeed in the selection, you can eat not only three meals a day, but also meat every few days! The temptation was so hard for the refugees to refuse, so the selection of stones and slingshots began at the entrance of each village!

The selection of throwing stones is to use two catties of stones, and throw the stones into a frame thirty zhang away, each person can throw three stones, throw one to eat a bowl of meat, if all three throw into that can eat three bowls of meat.

And the slingshot is, each person has three chances, to hit the wine bottle thirty zhang away, if you hit one, you can eat a bowl of meat, if you hit all three shots, you can eat three bowls of meat! At a distance of 30 zhang, the slingshot can't hit flat, but can only be thrown, so there are very few people who can hit it.

The selection is in full swing, but there are too few excellent people, among the 900,000 refugees, only 10,000 are qualified for the two categories, 8,000 are stone-throwers, and 2,000 are slingshots!

Li Yao singled out these 10,000 people individually, gathered them together, and let these people perform every day, throwing stones that should be thrown, and slingshots who should be slingshots!

In order to facilitate management, Li Yao managed these people in the form of company shifts, Li Yao knew that this was an extraordinary period, and he could not use the name of the ancient army to manage these people, so he could only use the modern army to divide them.

There is a squad of ten people, according to the three-three system, three squads are a platoon, three platoons are a company, three companies are a battalion, and three battalions are a regiment! The basic establishment of a regiment is a thousand people.

Because there were only 2,000 people playing slingshots, there were only two regiments, so they were temporarily organized into the first artillery regiment and the second artillery regiment.

The stone-throwing people were more numerous and divided into three brigades, the 1st Grenade Brigade, the 2nd Grenade Brigade, and the 3rd Grenade Brigade.

Li Yao smiled: "I play every day now, the outside world should relax its attention to me, and the day I am not paid attention to, it will be time for me to rise!" ”