Zhang Xuangang sent someone to send Jiang Xiaobo home to rest, and at this time, a personal soldier in the hall reported: "General Qiqi, the head of the Huang family asks to see!" ”

Of course, Zhang Xuan knew that Huang You would come to see him, but he didn't expect him to come so quickly, it seems that the things he sent are very effective, Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "Please let him in!" ”

The Huang family is the county wang of Liyang County, they are the descendants of Huang Zu, a famous scholar in Jiangxia, who migrated to Liyang County during the Three Kingdoms period.

After hundreds of years of development, the Liyang Huang family is already a big family with nine halls and 23 rooms, with hundreds of clansmen and protégés all over Jianghuai, becoming one of the three major scholar families in Jianghuai, and extremely influential in the Jianghuai region.

The Huang family owns thousands of hectares of land in the Jianghuai region, and also owns two iron mines and three pig iron smelters, except for the pig iron controlled by the government, the Huang family almost monopolizes the private pig iron trade in the Jianghuai region, and a large amount of pig iron is shipped out of Liyang every year.

After Du Fuwei took control of Jianghuai, the Huang family inevitably came into contact with Du Fuwei, Du Fuwei not only treated the Jianghuai clan well, but also uprooted the Jiangnan Hui forces that invaded Jianghuai with a clear attitude, which won the support of the Jianghuai clan, and Du Fuwei has since been supported by the Jianghuai clan.

Huang You, the head of the Huang family, is about seventy years old, thin and thin, full of white hair, he was the Taishou of Lujiang County in his early years, and he has a wide range of contacts in Jianghuai, although he is nearly seventy years old, but Huang You's spirit is very strong, and his health is very good, but at this time he seems worried.

But just last night, Rat Lang went to deliver the letter but did not come back, and the Sui army immediately annihilated Du Fuwei's army in Liyang County, Huang You knew that the Huang family was in trouble, and he knew very well in his heart what happened in the middle, it must be that Rat Lang was caught by the Sui army.

Like Jiang Xiaobo, Huang You also spent a sleepless night last night, until this morning. Jang Hyun sent someone to send the body of the rat lang and the confession, and Hwang You breathed a long sigh of relief, Jang Hyun let them go, no matter what, he had to make amends to Jang Hyun immediately.

Huang You walked into the lobby accompanied by his eldest grandson Huang Jing, and he immediately knelt down. Kowtowed and said: "Xiaomin Huang Youte has come to make amends to General Zhang!" ”

Huang Jing was dumbfounded, and hurriedly followed his grandfather to kneel, Zhang Xuan smiled and helped Huang You up, "The old master doesn't have to be like this, please get up!" ”

Zhang Xuan asked Huang You to sit down, and let the soldiers serve tea, Huang You was very ashamed, "The old man was confused for a while, and he almost made a big mistake." The general's forgiveness, the Huang family is grateful! ”

Zhang Xuan smiled faintly: "I have been dealing with the bandits in Qingzhou, and I know the difficulties of the family very well, the imperial army can not destroy the bandits and can retreat, but the family can't go anywhere, either they will be raided and destroyed, or they will secretly cooperate with the bandits, and the government is actually the same." You can't say that the family betrayed the court, because the reality is here. Everyone has to survive, so after I swept away the bandits in the Qingzhou area, I neither retaliated against the local government nor punished the family, and the same was true in Jianghuai. ”

"The general is really a real person!"

Huang You sighed, "That's true. We are all landlords, and if we do not obey Du Fuwei's dispatch, we will never end well, and we are forced to do so. ”

Jang Hyun knew that he was a little insincere, and only said the superficial reasons. But he didn't mention Du Fuwei's eradication of the Jiangnan Society for them, but Zhang Xuan didn't want to mention it more, he changed his words, and said: "Although I am tolerant, it does not mean that there are no principles, I have told the families in Qingzhou that if I am not in Qingzhou, who they want to play with is almost irrelevant to me, but if I return to Qingzhou, they are still two-faced, then I will not be polite, Liang Zhi is their end." ”

Zhang Xuan's killing of Beihai County's Taishou Liang Zhi has been known to the government and the opposition, and even the Son of Heaven knows it, but he didn't say it, so Zhang Xuan didn't hesitate to move the matter out.

Huang You's face was red and white for a while, he knew that Zhang Xuan was talking about Qingzhou on the surface, but in fact he was using the Qingzhou incident to warn himself, he quickly got up and said: "I can assure the general that the Huang family will fully support the general, if you have to choose between Du Fuwei and the general, the Huang family will definitely choose the general!" ”

Zhang Xuan nodded secretly, this Huang You is worthy of being an old Jianghu, first stated that he would fully support himself, but it was not ruled out that he would also support Du Fuwei, and then said that if there was a choice between the two, he would choose himself, but what if the two did not face a choice? Huang You's statement left room for himself.

Of course, Jang Hyun also knows that these families will not be really loyal to anyone, they will only be loyal to the interests of their own families.

At this time, Zhang Xuan glanced at the young man who had been silent next to him, this should be Huang You's eldest grandson, "This is-" Zhang Xuan asked with a smile.

"This is Sun Tzu Huang Jing, Jing'er, hurry up and give General Zhang a salute!"

Huang Jing hurriedly got up and saluted Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xuan nodded and smiled: "I don't know if Huang Gongzi is famous?" ”

Huang You said with a smile: "My grandson went to the capital to participate in the imperial examination at the beginning of the year, but he was admitted, but there has been no news from the ministry, so I didn't let him wait in the capital, let him come back first, and he is currently at home for the time being, and he will take care of the grange for me." ”

Zhang Xuan almost missed his mouth when he heard him, he laughed secretly in his heart, saying that it was actually nothing to do some business, but these families wanted to save face and refused to admit that they were in business.

Zhang Xuan thought for a while and said: "It just so happens that there is a lack of Fa Cao in our army to join the army and be in charge of military law copywriting, I don't know if Ling Sun can give in?" ”

Huang You knew that Zhang Xuan was actually taking his eldest grandson as a hostage, but he didn't agree, he glanced at his eldest grandson and saw that his eyes were shining, obviously very willing, Huang You had to sigh secretly in his heart, and had to say: "The general doesn't think my grandson is stupid, then trouble the general to take care of it." ”

Huang Jing was overjoyed, and hurriedly saluted again, "I am willing to serve the general!" ”

Zhang Xuan's eyes narrowed with a smile, he didn't use Huang Jing as a hostage, he took a fancy to the pig iron in the hands of the Huang family

At noon the next day, Zhang Xuan came to the dock, and he made an appointment with Qi Liang that no matter whether it was successful or not, Qi Liang would return to Liyang County before noon.

Qi Liang's return is very important to Zhang Xuan, not Qi Liang himself, but Qi Liang's return means that Du Fuwei's little power on the Yangtze River has also been uprooted, which is very important for the Sui army to be stationed in Liyang County in the future, even if it can't hold Liyang County, it can also retreat from the waterway.

The sky is blue, the Yangtze River is sparkling, the end of the river is piled up with white clouds and mountains, from time to time fishing boats and cargo ships pass by the river, a soldier suddenly pointed to the distance and shouted: "General, they are coming!" ”

I saw sixty or seventy fast boats coming towards the dock, the bow of the ship was full of soldiers, and Qi Liang, who was holding a double halberd on the first five hundred stone boat, Wei Chigong glanced at Luo Shixin, and couldn't help but snort softly, but Luo Shixin was expressionless, turned around and strode away.

Zhang Xuan couldn't care about the subtle mentality between his generals, he hurried up to meet him, at this time, the dense sentry fleet had stopped a mile away, only Qi Liang's five-hundred-stone ship continued to move forward, the big ship came ashore, Qi Liang stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, "The humble duty lives up to the general's expectations, and all the brothers have been brought back, and they are all willing to serve the general!" ”

Zhang Xuan was overjoyed and hurriedly helped General Qi up, "From today on, General Qi is my naval general, I hope that not only the Yangtze River, but also the sea in the future!" ”

Qi Liang was excited in his heart, and said loudly: "The humble position will never live up to the general's expectations!" ”

At this time, a cheer came from the sentinel ship in the distance, "Long live General Zhang!" Banzai! ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

At the same time, Zhang Xuan appointed Zhao Liang as the chief general of the garrison of Liyang County, and led 3,000 troops to be stationed in Liyang County, and appointed Qi Liang as the general of the navy, leading 30 large ships and more than 100 sentinel ships to be stationed on the river of Liyang County, and receiving the Sui army of Liyang County at any time.

Du Fuwei suffered two defeats in Huaihe and Liyang County, losing nearly 30,000 elites, which greatly damaged his strength, Du Fuwei retreated to Huainan County, changed his strategy to a defensive position, and did not dare to fight against the Sui army again, at the same time, Du Fuwei also carried out major army adjustments, concentrated the troops scattered throughout the Jianghuai River to Huainan County, to prevent being broken by the Sui army, and at the same time strengthened the training of the army, and actively took the military power into his own hands.

After the Battle of Liyang, Zhang Xuan no longer continued to attack Du Fuwei, but adopted a confrontation strategy, at this time, Zhang Xuan's eyes turned to Donghai County, if Donghai County can be opened, Jiangdu County will be reconnected with Qingzhou. (To be continued.) )