"Well, Mr. Zibu is reasonable, I don't know if Zibu can be elected?" Han Lie nodded, obviously agreeing with Zhang Zhao's intention to arrange a deputy to assist Bu Qi.

"There should be someone in the hands of Master Gu, Peng Cheng Yan Mancai, Wu Jun Wu Kong Xiu, all of them are the world's Junyan." Faced with Zhang Zhao's sudden point to himself, Gu Yongfang suddenly said: "It turns out that these talented men and women are all recommended by Brother Zibu, and if they don't check for a while, they almost missed Gaoshi." ”

And at this time, Han Lie naturally woke up to the fact that Gu Yong said that many talented people had come to vote recently, and they were obviously recommended by Zhang Zhao's hand, so it seemed that Zhang Zhao himself was ready to defect to Han Lie, otherwise he would definitely not recommend these people to work under Han Lie's account.

"Mr. Zibu is righteous and deserves to be worshipped." Han Lie felt that he sat up straight and thanked him.

"As a minister, it is a matter of course to do everything for the master, so why say thank you." Zhang Zhao did not dare to take credit.

For Zhang Zhao's conscientiousness and loyalty, Han Lie praised him, and then said: "Tomorrow, I should have a banquet for all the wise men, Mr. Zibu, you and Yuan Si and Zishan can discuss it, and the good talent will be hired." ”

"Whoa." Although Han Lie has not officially appointed Zhang Zhao to the official position, with his appreciation of Zhang Zhao, everyone has already understood that Zhang Zhao will obviously not stay in Wu County, but will become a strategist in front of Han Lie's account.

Next, Han Lie was in Wu County for a few days, and appointed a large number of Jiangzuo scholars who recruited Xianguan Dengyong, several of which were famous, such as Pengcheng Yan Xuan, Zi Mancai was appointed as the governor of Wu County, Wu Jun Wu Cang, Zi Kong Xiu was appointed as the lord of Wu County, Wu Fan, Zi Wen Ze, that is, the Fang Shi in Gu Yong's mouth, was appointed by Han Lie as the deputy of the Du Wei Mansion of the Du Wei of the Du Wei Mansion, and was responsible for the construction of the Ye City.

Guangling people's Wei Jing, Zizi Qi was appointed as the northern lieutenant of Danyang, responsible for Lu Dai's proposal to set up Tuntian Port in Chungu, Wu Junren Yin Li, Zi De Hei was appointed as the governor of Danyang County, and at the same time appointed Yuhang Ling Ling Cao to concurrently serve as the eastern lieutenant of Wu County.

Among this group of people, the most eye-catching is naturally Zhang Zhao, who was appointed as the governor of the Right Zhonglang General's Mansion, that is, all the large and small government affairs under the rule of Han Lie, the commander-in-chief.

The second is Bu Qi, although his actual appointment is only the position of Wu County Commander, but he is actually the position of the commander of Wu County.

Really speaking, these people are mainly civil officials, and their arrival has filled the pressure of Han Lie's local governance, and their role can be described as very great.

However, in terms of military generals, Han Lie was not without gains, when he was on the Yangtze River before, he was taken refuge by Zhou Tai Jiang Qin, and in Wu County, he was loyal to Zhu Huan, a martial artist of Wu County.

Zhu Huan, who was born in the Wu County clan, was recommended by Gu Yong to join the office, Zhu Huan's family makes a living by selling illicit salt, and there are more than 100 ships at home, 5,000 servants and servants, and more than 10,000 acres of salt fields.

Zhu Huan is not good at reading since he was a child, he likes to ride a horse and shoot hunting, and he has been able to worship a number of martial artists since he was a child.

When Xu Gong was in power in the past, he would not easily provoke the brave Zhu Huan, but Zhu Huan, who was arrogant and did not like restraint, did not disdain to take refuge in Xu Gong.

As a clan surnamed Wu County, the Gu family and the Zhu family have had many friendships in recent decades, and the head of the Zhu family of this generation is Zhu Huan's grandfather and Gu Yong's cousin's father-in-law.

Zhu Huan holds a private soldier and has great bravery, such a character is undoubtedly a local uneasy factor, in the past, Gu Yong naturally didn't care, but now he is loyal to Han Lie and has served as the county guard of Wu County, so he naturally wants to stabilize the place and restrain Haoqiang.

So Gu Yong went to see Zhu Huan's grandfather, Chen said that there was a powerful relationship, to say that although Zhu Huan was not afraid of heaven and earth, he was only afraid of the old man, under the preaching of the old head of the Zhu family, Zhu Huan not only brought his private subordinates to vote, but also brought 10 million money from his family as a military salary.

Han Lie loved Zhu Huan's investment very much, especially after an in-depth exchange with him, Han Lie not only did not feel the slightest disgust because of his arrogant personality, but thought that this was a manifestation of Zhu Huan's ability.

In his opinion, although Zhu Huan is a little wild, he is a person who keeps his promise, but he uses it well, and he is a candidate for a general who can take on great responsibilities.

When he left Wu County, Han Lie gave Zhu Huan's 1,000 sergeants the best black light armor in the unified Han army system, as well as weapons such as the ring head knife, and awarded the post of Sima of other departments, and the formation was divided into his Chinese army camp.

In addition, Han Lie also appointed a new pro-soldier team leader, that is Zhang Zhao's nephew Zhang Fen, this kid is also a good martial and disgusting character, this time Zhang Zhao followed Han Lie to Guangling, Zhang Zhao's eldest son and second son, as well as the third wife and concubine and the old mother all stayed in Wu County to live, and only went to Guangling alone to work.

Originally, Zhang Zhao also objected to Zhang Fen going to serve in the army at a young age, but the young Zhang Fen replied to Zhang Zhao angrily: "In the past, Ganluo was twelve years old to worship the prime minister, and Ziqi was sixteen years old to govern A County. ”

Hearing Zhang Fen's words, not only Zhang Zhao was not opposed, but Han Lie and the others were also surprised, which was also the reason why Han Lie kept him by his side as the leader of the pro-soldier guards.

Returning to Guangling, where he had been absent for nearly three months, when Han Lie returned to the mansion, he couldn't help but feel a deep sense of longing and guilt for Cai Yan, so much so that he only met with the civil and military officials in a hurry, and then announced the decision to discuss the big and small affairs again tomorrow.

In this regard, everyone can understand, but no one said that Han Lie abolished the public because of private affairs, as the long history Zhang Zhao appointed by Han Lie, but was taken to the court by Guo Jia to deal with the mountain of government affairs.

Guo Jia is good at impromptu planning, figuring out people's conspiracies, and strategic military affairs are all his housekeeping skills, but government affairs are not his forte, so when he learned in the council just now, he learned that Han Lie appointed Zhang Zhao as the governor of the central government, but he was greatly relieved, and hurriedly handed over this large piece of affairs to Zhang Zhao.

In the backyard residence of the Taishou Mansion, when she saw Han Lie, even Cai Yan, who was usually quite reserved, rushed up in surprise, and it was not until Han Lie held her in his arms and spun in the air that she woke up to the inappropriateness of such behavior.

Sure enough, when Han Lie let go of her, she blushed, and she couldn't help but hear the chuckles of several maids around her, and she was a little angry, so she immediately patted Han Lie's chest and said, "It's all your fault, they are all watching other people's jokes." ”

"Haha, just laugh, laugh, is it true that the husband hugs his wife, and is he afraid that people will not laugh at it?" Han Lie really didn't care, but instead grabbed Cai Yan's thin waist with one hand, lowered his head and kissed Cai Yan's red lips.

"Hmm......" Cai Yan, who was broken through by Han Lie's long tongue, suddenly softened her body, and at this time she also forgot that there was a maid by her side, so she collapsed in Han Lie's arms.

After a while, she was panting lightly before she gently pushed Han Lie away, and when she looked left and right, she found that several maids in the mansion had already left, and in the living water diversion canal in the courtyard, a small head was staring curiously at their actions.

"Ah, don't look at the little fish, go back quickly." The little head on the shore of the pond has a pair of jet-black hair, big watery eyes, pointed ears, and skin that can be broken by blowing, white and red, beautiful and cute.

But after a closer look, I found that this little girl had fish body scales below her waist. If it was the first time to see it, I was afraid that many people would exclaim the fish monster, but for Han Lie's inner mansion and many officials under his account, it was obviously not a surprise.

Because this merman named Xiaoyu is the merman mother and daughter that Han Lie rescued on the overseas islands of the East China Sea in the past, the adult female merman back then, because she thanked herself and her party for killing the white dragon that hunted their mother and daughter, and sacrificed a large number of treasures for Han Lie, and was later brought back by Han Lie and kept in the mansion.

For this reason, Han Lie also deliberately built a canal to quote living water and pour it into the pond rockery of the mansion, as the habitat of the merman mother and daughter.

"Mother, mother......" Seeing Cai Yan waving his hand, the little mermaid thought that Cai Yan was going to hug her, so he opened his arms excitedly, and screamed indistinct words in his mouth.

"Xiaoyu, while playing, Uncle will bring you delicious food later." Han Lie stepped forward and gently pinched her pink face, and smiled lovingly.

"Giggles!" I don't know if he understood, but the little fish immediately let out a burst of cheerful laughter and jumped into the water.

"Okay, Yan'er, let my husband check it well, have you lost weight recently." Seeing that the plan had succeeded, Han Lie immediately reached out and hugged Cai Yan and rushed into the house quickly.

"No, husband, it's still daytime!?" Feeling Han Lie's hot gaze, how could Cai Yan not know what would happen next, although she had been prepared for a long time, she still blushed a little tremblingly, and hid in Han Lie's arms and didn't dare to confront it.

"Hehe, it's just right to check during the day, but I said that I will officially marry you when I come back this time, and today I will be the first cave room." Han Lie's eyes swept over Cai Yan's body with aggression, and he reached out to untie her belt.

He leaned over and kissed her lips again, and at the same time, a pair of powerful palms began to swim in the slowly falling clothes, and when one of his palms climbed up to the plump and firm part, the woman under him couldn't help but let out a soft gasp sound.

Then Han Lie's right hand slid down the smooth and flat lower abdomen, gently probing into the mysterious and unpredictable .......

"Don't ......"

Cai Yan, who felt the fall of his lower body, let out a soft cry again, but in Han Lie's fanatical kissing and caressing, he fell into confusion again, so that when Han Lie got on the horse with his gun and wildly vented the burning desire in his chest, Cai Yan, who was already lying on the couch like mud, looked at Han Lie's eyes with only strong affection.

In the blink of an eye, Han Lie had returned to Guangling County for half a month, and because of Zhang Zhao's strong and forbearant assistance in internal affairs, Han Lie was also a lot easier, of course, Zhang Zhao alone was obviously unable to finish everything.

However, Han Lie's recruitment order also played a role in Guangling, among which Xu Xuan, a native of Guangling, and the word Baojian, entered Zhang Zhao's field of vision through the recruitment hall, and was recommended by Zhang Zhao, and was considered by Han Lie to be the county of Guangling County, and Han Lie's former acquaintance in Beihai, Beihai Xiang Kong Rong's engagement Sun Shao, the word Changxu also defected to Han Lie's account because of his admiration for Han Lie's prestige, and was appointed by Han Lie as the head of the Zhonglang General's Mansion Bo, responsible for assisting Zhang Zhao in handling the government affairs at hand.

At the same time, under Guo Jia's assignment, Han Lie expanded the strength of the five battalions of the Red Flame Army to 21,000 people.

The former battalion captain was still Xu Huang, and the strength increased to 4,000 people, Zhao Yun was the captain of the left battalion, Tai Shici took over Xu Rong's position and served as the captain of the rear battalion, Zhou Tai replaced Dian Wei as the captain of the right battalion, and Dian Wei was reappointed as the lieutenant of the middle battalion.

In addition, Zhu Huan's 1,000 men and horses, which are subordinate to the middle battalion, still serve as the Sima of other departments, a total of 21,000 men and horses, these soldiers and horses are Han Lie's main army, so they are really standing forces.

As for the counties, there are also other garrisons, for example, Lü Dai has more than 5,000 men and horses in Danyang, Wu County Buqi also has 3,000 men and horses, Ling Cao also has 2,000 men and horses in Yuhang, Xu Rong in Licheng has 3,000 men and horses, Jiang Qin, the commander of Hengjiang, has 2,000 men and horses, plus 3,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Guangling City.

The total strength of the army is close to 40,000, but the garrisons in various places are mainly guards, and they cannot be easily mobilized, so the soldiers and horses that Han Lie can really mobilize are actually only 21,000 men and horses in the Red Flame Army.

This time the Red Flame Army was expanded, Han Lie also stepped down from the post of lieutenant of the middle battalion, and was really only responsible for the responsibility of commanding, while expanding the troops, Han Lie also asked Zhang Zhao to choose a date and prepare to marry Cai Yan.

In the past half a month, Han Lie has been **** to favor Cai Yan, who has already fed this little girl, plus each other's concubines, and the quasi-father-in-law Cai Yong is here, Han Lie can rest assured that he will get married.

Right now, it is undoubtedly the best time for Han Lie to get married. There are two reasons, one is that some time ago, the Haoqiang Que Xuan rebellion in Pengcheng in the East China Sea caused Tao Qian to be tired of coping, which was also the reason why Tao Qian ignored Han Lie's attack on Wu County and Danyang County.

The second is that Yuan Shu, who occupies Shouchun, sent troops to attack Lujiang, but encountered a strong counterattack from Lu Kang, who was too guarded by Lujiang, so that the two sides fell into a tug-of-war, which made Yuan Shu have no intention of caring about Han Lie.

It can be said that the current Yuan Shu, then there is also the heart Gong method Han Lie, if Han Lie doesn't beat him, he will already burn high incense.

However, it was the height of summer, but there were no good days, and it was best to choose the day of the wedding, which was August 16, that is, two months later.

Han Lie is not in a hurry about this, now he and Cai Yan are living in the rain every day, and the big wedding is only a matter of time, and it doesn't hurt to be late.

However, taking advantage of the civil strife in Xuzhou, Han Lie led Zhu Huan's men and horses to carry out a big battle, that is, he attacked Yandu County, killed Wu Jun, the commander of Yandu County, and confiscated seventeen private salt merchants in Yandu.

Although this battle was not fierce, it was the first large-scale killing under Han Lie's reign in Guangling, and as many as 69 people were killed, and more than 2,000 people were punished as slaves and moved to the Jianye Diannong Governor's Mansion as coolies.

The confiscated money alone was as high as 90 million, thus cutting off the Xuzhou clan's involvement in the Yandu Salt Farm in one fell swoop, and recovering the Yandu Salt Farm not only brought Han Lie a large amount of economic income, especially the confiscated money, but also alleviated the financial difficulties caused by the rapid expansion of Han Lie's power.

Although Han Lie killed sixty-nine people led by Wu Jun and others this time, not only did he not provoke infamy, but also won a lot of praise, the reason was naturally that Han Lie completely mastered the corruption and dirty achievements of Wu Jun and others through the secret agent organization of Zhang Yao and Diao Chan that had been arranged in advance, and announced the verdict in public.

It can be said that Han Lie was able to succeed in one fell swoop this time, and Zhang Yao and Diao Chan's two daughters were really indispensable.

Just when Han Lie summoned his second daughter to celebrate his second daughter's achievement, Tao Qian, who had also just successfully quelled the rebellion, received a news that shocked him.

It turned out that Cao Cao's father Cao Song, a few years ago to avoid Dong Zhuo's disaster, went to Langya County for refuge, at the end of last year after Cao Cao pacified Yanzhou, he sent someone to pick up Cao Song to reunite, at that time because of the cold and freezing, the old Cao Song did not move, but has been delayed until May this year, as a result, when passing through the East China Sea, in order to tie Cao Cao's Tao Qian, he immediately sent his subordinate Zhang Min to send troops to escort.

Unexpectedly, at that time, Que Xuan rebelled, Tao Qian was busy coping, and neglected the supervision of Zhang Min, the same Zhang Min came to see Cao Song's huge family assets, greedy, and secondly, he was worried that Tao Qian was defeated and he had nowhere to go, so when he escorted Cao Song to Taishan County, he killed Cao Song and other Cao family children, and went to Zang Ba of Taishan with money.

When the news reached Xuzhou, Tao Qian was only shocked and afraid. But when it reached the ears of Cao Cao in Dongjun, it became the revenge of killing his father, and the so-called hatred of killing his father is not shared, not to mention Cao Cao, who has long coveted the anointed land of Xuzhou.

Through the pain of losing his father, Cao Cao ordered the three armies to mourn and issued a document to crusade against Tao Qian, and the war in Xuzhou was about to break out.

And Tao Qian never expected that because of his kindness, he would be burned instead, crying in front of hundreds of officials in Xuzhou, and asking for the way to deal with it. (To be continued.) )