Jiuniangguan is the gateway of Feng'an, Jiuniangguan is unharmed, Feng'an is just like his name, happy and stable.

Yang Hao, who has been troubled by the financial crisis, temporarily relieved the urgent need because of Meng Yao's five thousand taels of gold, of course, the financial problem has not been completely solved, although the blanket factory has considerable prospects, but it can not be counted on in the past one or two years, Yang Hao's planned wood factory and iron factory because of lack of funds and talents can not be launched for a while. After all, this is the first year of the Tang Dynasty, and everything has to start from scratch.

Yang Hao put all his energy into the blanket factory, which is not only the prospect of the blanket factory, it is hoped that it will become the financial pillar of Feng'an in the future, Yang Hao hopes to build it into a classic, and trigger a social change through its exemplary role, at least a change in Feng'an City. He worked around the clock to draw up regulations, train talents, supervise infrastructure and standardize processes. Everything is zero, everything has to start from scratch. Yang Hao selected a group of young people who have read books, have bright brains, and are willing to be motivated, and teach them hand-in-hand, a seemingly simple noun concept, often it takes half a year to make these Feng'an talents understand its meaning.

Everyone can see that Yang Hao is busy, but most people don't know what he's busy with, time, time, what he lacks most now is time.

Xiaoyu didn't understand what Yang Hao was busy with, but she was sure that Yang Hao was busy with a meaningful matter, she silently supported Yang Hao, and never complained.

In addition to Xiaoyu, Guan Suo also went all out, he was not among the twelve talents selected by Yang Hao, but his comprehension was not below the twelve talents at all. For this reason, when the blanket factory officially built the plant, Yang Hao gave him carte blanche to serve as the general superintendent. Not only did Guansuo build all the factories one month ahead of schedule, but also creatively transformed the roads in each factory from dirt roads to gravel roads. This detail was even ignored by Yang Hao when he designed the drawings.

At the end of May, the first blanket of the blanket factory rolled off the production line. After the review of experienced masters, all indicators meet the design requirements.

Yang Hao sent a horse to send the blanket sample to Luoyang for acceptance, half a month later, the messenger brought back Wu Chenglong's handwritten letter, and brought two experienced carpet masters. Wu Chenglong said in the letter that the samples sent were fully qualified, but the technical content of such products was low, and they could only be sold to small and medium-sized towns and rural areas, with meager profits.

Yang Hao adopted Wu Chenglong's suggestion, changed his business strategy, and hired the two masters as the chief directors of the factory, which was courteous. The two masters were very surprised by the new factory created by Yang Hao, and at the same time grateful to Yang Hao for his courtesy, so they taught what they had learned in their lives. After some improvements, the second batch of samples sent to Luoyang was highly affirmed by Wu Chenglong, and Feng'an Blanket Factory received an order of 5,000 high-end blankets.

The victory in the first battle made Yang Hao breathe a sigh of relief, although the twelve disciples he had carefully cultivated had roughly mastered the various skills needed to manage a factory, they were still inexperienced after all, and the difficulties encountered in actual work were simply everywhere.

Yang Hao understands that many problems can only be solved by time. The problem is that I still have this time.

Dong Bacheng, who occupied the surrendered city in the east, did not forget the humiliation of Feng'an's defeat for a moment. In order to raise military funds to expand the army, Dong Bacheng, who had always believed in Buddhism, ordered the demolition of six monasteries in the jurisdiction, dismissed 6,500 monks and nuns, and obtained nearly one million taels of gold and silver. By the beginning of June of the first year of Kaicheng, Dong Bacheng had nearly 20,000 troops, of which the six battalions of the fire phoenix army with 2,000 Hedong Army as the team were the most elite.

According to the establishment of the Hedong Army, one battalion was 1,200 men, and six battalions were 7,200 men. That's twice as many as the defenders of Feng'an!

Dong Bacheng, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, understands that veterans who have experienced the baptism of war are far better than recruits who have not been in battle. In order to temper the recruits into veterans, he chose Wang Qian and Dugu Chang as whetstones, constantly conquered the east and the west, and seized dozens of military villages of Wang Qian and Dugu Chang before and after, forcing the two to ask the northern capital to stay and Taiyuan Yin, the hussar general, and Li Zaiyi, the king of Wuwei County, to mediate.

Li Zaiyi is a famous minister in the world and has made great contributions to the imperial court. But Hedong has always been Liu Qingling's territory, and Taiyuan is the basis for Liu Qingling's business for many years. Li Zaiyi secretly sent people to win over Dong Bacheng, who was squeezed out by Liu Qingling, to return to Taiyuan to serve as the deputy guard of the northern capital and the young yin of Taiyuan, hoping to use Dong Bacheng's military strength to offset the pressure exerted by Liu Qingling on himself.

Dong Bacheng's reply was straightforward, he really wanted to return to Taiyuan Mansion, but the premise was to break through Feng'an City and avenge the revenge he had taken a few months ago. In order to facilitate Dong Bacheng's return to Taiyuan as soon as possible, Li Zaiyi put pressure on Wang Qian and Dugu Chang, prompting the three to unite and suppress the rebellion of Meng Bochang and Yang Hao.

Soon after the Battle of Feng'an, in order to control and improve the combat effectiveness of various armies, Yang Hao set up a staff office in the Assassin's Mansion, which was responsible for intelligence collection and analysis, drawing up and implementing operational and mobilization plans, and directing and coordinating the combat operations of various armies. Corresponding to the General Staff Office is the Military Orders Department, which is responsible for army building, training, military attachés, military registration, ordnance, military orders, etc.

The first fund allocated by Yang Hao to the staff office was used to collect Dong Bacheng's various movements. The staff office has a staff general, a staff general and a staff lieutenant, and the first two positions have not yet found a suitable candidate, and the post of staff lieutenant is temporarily represented by Guan Suo.

Guan Suo is a native of Taiyuan Prefecture, Zhenguan ancestors settled in Taiyuan, very familiar with Taiyuan and Hedong states, Guan Suo recruited a group of Hedong children to return to their hometowns to spy on the military situation, and successfully plotted against Xiao Yong, who was captured when Feng'an was defeated, and he contacted the old department in Dong Bacheng's army to obtain the movement of the eastern surrender city.

On the one hand, Yang Hao shared the information he had obtained with Meng Bochang, and on the other hand, he quickly reported it to the chief manager of the Baoli Society. Since Han Yue was killed, Yang Hao and Meng Bochang's horizontal knives have always been directly led by the chief manager, and the secret letter was transferred to the chief manager by the secret post station of the Baoli Society in Linzhou.

At dusk on the sixth day after the secret letter was sent, the messenger of the chief manager suddenly came to Feng'an Assassin's Mansion, and the messenger told Yang Hao that the chief manager was very appreciative of his ability to detect Dong Bacheng's movements in time. The chief manager has already used some means to let the imperial court issue an edict to transfer Dong Bacheng back to Hedong to serve as the deputy envoy of Jiedu, so that a Dong Bacheng will suddenly be inserted between Liu Qingling and Li Zaiyi, and the situation in Hedong will become very delicate.

Yang Hao admired the wisdom of the governor's methods from the bottom of his heart, and the messenger also brought a message from the governor, asking Yang Hao when he planned to send troops to expel Feng'an, Yang Hao told the messenger that if he could be sure that Dong Bacheng would not lead troops westward in the autumn, he planned to join forces with Meng Bochang to capture Feng'an City in the first month.

The messenger was silent. Yang Hao was suspicious in his heart, so he asked the messenger: "What instructions does the chief manager have?" The messenger said: "Recently, the ministers of the Niu Party have proposed to divide the Tiande Army into two, the east of Feng'an is still under the jurisdiction of the Tiande Army, and the three states to the west are to restore the division of Yuan and the early years, and the two prefectures of Feng'an and Yongfeng will be reduced to counties, which will be subordinate to Fengzhou, and then Fengzhou will be placed under the jurisdiction of Shuofang. ”

Yang Hao was shocked when he heard this, and said hurriedly: "This must be Qiu Shiliang's trick!" If His Majesty agrees to this proposal and lets Don't think about making the history of Fengzhou Thorn, he will definitely lean towards Shuo Fang for self-protection, and then Shuo Fang will have a reason to send troops to the north, but he is afraid that the soldiers of the three cities of Hetao will rise again. ”

The messenger sighed, "Who says it isn't? At the beginning of the year, Qiu Shiliang instructed his henchmen to ask His Majesty to marry Princess Yichun to Wang Chongwen, but this matter was blocked by the design of the chief manager, so Wang Chongwen withdrew from the army halfway. But this eunuch didn't give up, I don't know what method he used, but he got the approval of the Empress Dowager Xiao. Your Majesty is the prince of benevolence and filial piety, and the Queen Mother opened her mouth, and the chief manager would not be able to say anything more. I'm afraid this marriage is just a matter of ironclad. ”

Yang Hao's eyes appeared in front of the immature face of Princess Li Qing of Yichun, and he also remembered the situation when he first saw Wang Chongwen.

The eighth day of the sixth month was Yang Hao's birthday, and Meng Bochang sent Zhang Yannian to send five thousand taels of silver to Feng'an to celebrate his birthday, but he himself was dressed in civilian clothes and only brought two entourages to enter Feng'an Assassin's Mansion from the back door at night. After Yang Hao met with him, he naturally talked about the DPRK and China discussing the withdrawal of the state and the establishment of a county.

Meng Bochang said: "I'm here to discuss this matter with you. ”

Yang Hao said: "In my opinion, it is better to strike first, and this autumn we will join forces to capture Fengzhou!" At that time, let his enemies have all kinds of tricks, and it will not do you or me any great harm. ”

Meng Bochang smiled: "You think things too simply. According to the information I received, Qiu Shiliang's secret envoy has arrived in Fengzhou. This time, he not only gave Beisi 50,000 military expenses, but also sent a cadre to help, this person has experienced a hundred battles, and he is not inferior to Dong Bacheng. ”

Yang Hao asked in surprise, "Who is it?" ”

Meng Bochang: "Zhenwu Festival makes Liu Wei." ”

Yang Hao smiled: "I'm confused again when you say that, isn't the Zhenwu Festival Envoy Dugu Chang?" When did it become Liu Wei again? Could it be that Zhenwu can still have two knots? ”

"Why can't it be two knots?" Meng Bochang looked at Yang Hao, who looked puzzled, and said with a smile: "One is nameless, and the other is nameless." One is the country he has built, and the other is a member appointed by the imperial court. Yang Hao was speechless, after the Anshi Rebellion, there were many internal and external feudal towns, and the conquest continued, if there was a knife, he was the king, and if he had no knife, he was stabbed. The feudal towns were divided into local areas and did not follow the central government, and the feudal towns were also lined with princes who did not obey orders. Liu Wei was promoted to the envoy of Zhenwu Festival because of his merits, and Dugu Chang supported the army and did not hand over the territory, this kind of thing is not strange.

Yang Hao didn't want to waste time on these details, so he asked Meng Bochang bluntly: "What is the best way to deal with it?" ”

Meng Bochang didn't answer directly, but said something that seemed unrelated: "A month ago, Lin Zhongzhong sent someone to borrow grain from me, and I agreed. Alas, you listen to me. In the middle of the forest, there were natural disasters last winter and this spring, most of the cattle and sheep were lost, and the hunger of the people increased dramatically. ”

Yang Hao thought about it, and what he said was indeed reasonable, the Feng'an city wall is tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Uighurs were good at field warfare and were not good at attacking fortifications, and if they went south to plunder, most of them would bypass Fengzhou and take the cities of Yongfeng and Feng'an.

"But I didn't borrow this grain for nothing. I offered to let them send troops to expel Don't think about it, and retake the city of Toyosu for us. The envoy did not dare to call the shots and returned the report overnight, and three days later he returned to Yongfeng and brought a letter from Xiao Qijin, the leader of the central forest, oh, Xiao Qijin was the youngest son of Wu Liqiha who was killed by Mu Ling. Wu Liqiha was at odds with Wang Qian, but he always got along well with his uncle. After his death, the general Yingtan proclaimed himself chieftain, seized his wife and daughter, and killed his three sons. Xiao Qijin was in Fengzhou at that time, so he escaped. Yingtan is tyrannical, and he has always been an enemy of my Tang Dynasty, and his uncle broke off contact with him after he took power. ”

"Last winter, when there was heavy snow in the middle of the forest, many cattle and sheep froze to death, but Yingtan extorted a birthday gift to one of the favorite concubines of Zhangxin Khan Hu Teqin, which provoked a popular uprising, expelled him, and welcomed back Xiao Qijin as the leader. He knew that I was in charge of the army in Yongfeng, so he sent someone to contact him. Meng Bochang said this, took out a letter hidden in a sheep bone seal and handed it to Yang Hao.

The Uighurs are very sinicized, although they have their own writing, but the children of the Gaomen clan are proud of the all-night Chinese, this little Qi Jin has been in Chang'an for three years, Yang Hao blushed when he saw the strong face of the pen. In the letter, Xiao Qijin reiterated his intention to live in harmony with the border states of the Tang Dynasty, and expressed his willingness to send troops to assist Meng Bochang in recovering Fengzhou City.

"There is a precedent for borrowing troops from the Uighurs to drive away thieves. I think that during the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court borrowed troops from the Uighurs. When Meng Bochang said this, he turned around and asked Yang Hao: "Brother, what do you think?" ”

Yang Hao pondered for a moment, "When I first arrived in Yongfeng, I heard Brother Han say that Lin Zhongzhong and the Tiande Army have had a lot of filth for more than ten years, and Xiao Qijin's father died in the hands of General Tang, can he really abandon his old enmity and help me attack the city?" What if he doesn't leave after capturing Toyoshu? ”

Meng Bochang laughed, patted Yang Hao on the shoulder and said, "If he doesn't leave, wouldn't it be better." ”

Yang Hao was stunned when he heard this, and Meng Bochang's face sank: "Then we will trap him to death in Fengzhou and relieve the border trouble once and for all." ”