"Knock, knock, knock......"

The bronze bell of Fuguang Temple in the west of Feng'an City rang out in bursts, and the half-round full moon was still hanging in the western sky at this time, but the red light of the rising sun had dyed the morning glow of the eastern sky.

Yang Hao didn't sleep all night, and at dinner yesterday, the final version of the military reclamation plan drawn up by the Fengzhou Thorn History Mansion in conjunction with the General Staff Department and the Military and Political Department was put on his desk. This made Yang Hao a little embarrassed, he had already promised to go to the small fish room for the night, did he have to miss the appointment again?

I've been messing around these days, and I haven't been to the backyard for a long time. Qing'er and Lu Rui could endure not saying anything, but Xiaoyu couldn't, she was the kind of person who couldn't hide something in her heart. When I was having dinner two days ago, I suddenly remembered a business matter, and I was in a daze for a while, which made this little girl so angry that she almost didn't smash her bowl.

But Yang Hao finally missed the appointment, and the problem of eating tens of thousands of people did not allow him to delay in the slightest. In order to prevent Xiaoyu from coming over in the middle of the night to make noise, Yang Hao called several booksellers to sit in the study, and he read the seventy-six-page "Fengzhou Military Reclamation Strategy" at night.

It can be seen that Zhang Huchen, Ling Tong, Li Tong and others are very attentive, and it should be said that it is not easy to rush out such a weighty strategy with such a tight time. The location of the land, the quality of the soil, the water conservancy, the roads, the crops, the cost, the manpower, and the management agency are well described. But from the perspective of modern systems management, the shortcomings of this approach are also obvious. This consumed Yang Hao's energy. When he listed all the questions one by one, he unknowingly used ten notes.

Maybe it was because the secretary and the officials were present, Xiao Yu didn't come to make trouble all night, Yang Hao felt a little sorry for her, so when the morning bell rang, Yang Hao put down what he was doing, sent the book office and the little officials back to sleep, and pushed open the corner door to the backyard to visit Xiao Yu.

There were still lights and candles in the side hall, and there was a loud noise: Xiaoyu, Qing'er, Lu Rui and the maid Dongyu were playing mahjong around a table. Yawned one by one, and the hand shuffling the cards was a little stiff. There doesn't seem to be mahjong in the Tang Dynasty, and the mahjong played by four people is Yang Hao to draw a pattern, and let Guan Suo find a craftsman to do it, and the game is taught to them by Yang Hao himself.

The reason for this incident was that the three of them stayed at home all day because they had to guard against the Mosha assassins, and Yang Hao felt ashamed of their idle and boring appearances, so he came up with this method to kill them time. Who knew that after the three of them learned it, they were very addicted, and they pestered Yang Hao to play with them all day long. There was no way, Yang Hao had to pull the maid Dongyu to make up the numbers, and the four of them had a lot of fun in the dark from then on.

The maid Dongyu got this errand and didn't pour tea or water, as if she was the fourth hostess, and the envious mother-in-law outside spurted blood in her eyes.

When Qing'er saw Yang Hao walk in, she sneered and said, "What day is it?" Is the sun coming out of the west? Willing to come back so early? ”

Lu Rui looked out of the door and said casually: "It's early, it's not dark yet." ”

Dongyu suddenly exclaimed: "No! It's dawn, oh my God, we've been fighting all night. ”

Xiao Yu panicked and ran outside the door to take a look, and when he turned around, he stared at Yang Hao with a frosty face, Yang Hao shrugged his shoulders and snorted proudly.

"Winter Rain, clean up the table." Qing'er's voice was a little flustered. As the hostess of the house, I took the concubines and maids to play mahjong all night, and I still felt a little guilty.

"Winter rain, get water to wash your face." Lu Rui shouted, she heard that people who stayed up late had yellow and black faces, and they would have spots, so she hurriedly ran to the mirror to take a closer look at her face, and it seemed that she really had melasma.

"Dongyu, quickly ask Master Guan to bring breakfast. Don't let you go hungry. Qing'er always puts Yang Hao first in her heart.

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Yang Hao accompanied the four of them to breakfast, and after the meal, he criticized Qing'er without naming him: Even if you can't go out, you can't stay in the house all day, you can go to the yard to move your muscles and bones, and breathe fresh air. Sitting and playing mahjong all day, who is better than who to practice as a yellow-faced woman?

Qing'er lowered her head and didn't dare to speak. After the meal, Yang Hao persuaded the four of them to go back to their rooms for a nap. Lu Rui ran the fastest, and Qing'er also went back after explaining a few things.

Only the little fish stared at Yang Hao with hooked eyes, and seeing that Yang Hao had no intention of refusing, he hooked his fingers and pulled his prey back to the room with a smile.

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Yang Hongyang and Yangshan arrived at the Fengzhou Defense Embassy at noon, and Yang Hao had not gotten up at that time.

Yang Hao was only going to take a nap and get up, but the matter of military reclamation was like a boulder pressing on his heart, blocking himself from breathing. The programme must be finalized as soon as possible.

But Yang Hao didn't withstand Xiaoyu's soft grinding and hard bubbles in the end, and did something with her. Yang Hao didn't perfunctory Xiaoyu, he concentrated and went all out, and the result of the matter was that Yang Hao felt tired like never before. So he lay down in the arms of the little fish and fell asleep, originally only planning to rest for an hour, but he slept until the sun was three rods and did not wake up.

When it was time for lunch, the two had not gotten up yet. Qing'er had to send Dongyu to call. Yang Hao sat softly in front of the dressing mirror and asked Xiaoyu to comb his hair. The porter suddenly reported that a guest had arrived in Linzhou, and Yang Hao was puzzled. Yang Shan had already broken in in a hurry, and he didn't care about the embarrassment of Xiao Yu in a nightgown on the side, so he hugged Yang Hao.

Qing'er, who was busy setting up a meal outside, learned that Yang Hongyang and Yangshan were both Yang Hao's classmates and sworn brothers in the Thorn Horse Courtyard, so they hurriedly asked Master Guan to set a table for a banquet in the best Fuxiang Building in the city and send it. Yang Hongyang said with a smile: "Sister-in-law doesn't have to be busy, as long as our brothers meet, there will be wine." It's better that we eat at two tables, so as not to disturb your meal. ”

After Qing'er figured out the identities of the two sisters, Li Yunlai and Li Jasmine, she said, "Since my uncle doesn't mind, I'm not welcome." He said to Master Guan: "It's better for you to accompany them, I will accompany the two younger sisters." Secretly, he told Master Guan: "Stop, don't let him get drunk again." Master Guan smiled and said: "Madame, just go, there are old men here to watch, foolproof." ”

The banquet was set up, and they drank a circle of wine, and each said something after saying goodbye. It turned out that in July of this year, Yang Hongyang and Yangshan were full of teachers, and both of them were first assigned to Qianniuwei on errands. Soon after, Yangshan was transferred to Shaoyang Yuan as the prince's personal entourage, and Yang Hongyang was sent to Linzhou to serve in the Linzhou regimental training embassy.

Yang Hao asked the two: "This time you went to the Hundred Flowers Palace to save people, which family did you serve?" ”

Yangshan said: "The prince asked me to do it, I thought I couldn't do it alone, so I asked the second brother for help." ”

Yang Hao asked again: "Why did the prince save the two of them?" Donggong is only a teenager this year, and he shouldn't have a relationship with Lord Li Xiaoben. ”

Yang Hongyang said: "This matter is a long story, Lord Li Xiaoben was killed by the eunuch party because of the palace change last year. All the old and young of the family were stabbed into slavery with the right army of Shence, and the two young ladies were even punished as camp prostitutes. Fortunately, His Majesty was graced to bring the two of them into the palace to live, but this incident caused a misunderstanding of Lord Wei Mo, who mistakenly thought that His Majesty was greedy for women, and admonished him several times in person. His Majesty had no choice but to send the two of them out of the palace. Qiu Shiliang's henchmen sold the two of them to Bada Lane in Linzhou, and were later bought by You Lida to Baihuagong as prostitutes. Donggong was very hurt when he heard this, so he ordered the two of us to try to rescue, first arranged for me to go to Linzhou to listen to the news, and then sent the third brother to bring the palace guards to rescue people. God is merciful, let the two of us get it. ”

Yang Shan asked Yang Yang in astonishment, "What?" Your arrival in Linzhou was arranged by the prince, so why don't you tell me, and ask me to intercede for you in front of the prince several times. ”

Yang Hongyang blushed and said, "Third brother, I have made amends to you." It's because the prince is afraid that your mouth will be out of your mouth, so he didn't let me tell you the truth. ”

Yang Hao bowed his head silently when he heard this, and secretly thought: "It is said that the prince is not more important and has too much fun, which is quite criticized. But looking at him like this, he is actually a good prince with courage, strategy and a benevolent heart, and it seems that the rumors outside were made up by someone to maliciously slander him. ”

Yang Shan drank some wine, blushed, and said to Yang Hao: "The younger brother has a big gift for the eldest brother, I don't know if the eldest brother is willing to take it." ”

Yang Hao smiled: "Do you want me to attack You Lida?" ”

Yangshan said: "That horse bandit is rumored to be miraculous, but it is actually nothing remarkable. He set up a mule and horse market in Xiaochang'an, and bought and sold the robbed women and boys as if they were livestock. If such a person is not exterminated by raising an army, he will live in vain. ”

Yang Hongyang smiled: "You are here again, do you want to borrow soldiers from the eldest brother to serve his nest?" ”

Hearing this, Yang Shan became even more energetic, and raised his arms and shouted: "If the eldest brother is willing to lend me 500 soldiers and horses, I will immediately go to serve him!" ”

Yang Hao looked at Yang Shan, who was a tiger with a bear waist but a childish face, couldn't help but smile, stroked his sturdy back and said: "Dissatisfied with the two brothers, my brother is trying to send troops to kill him, but he doesn't know the depth for a while, so he doesn't dare to make a move." ”

Yang Hao's words were not casually said in response to the occasion. Even if the strategy of military reclamation can be implemented smoothly this winter, it will not be a year before the real results can be seen. The so-called far water can't quench the thirst of the near. What to do this winter? What about next spring? Where does the winter food for tens of thousands of people come from?!

Yang Hao originally planned to borrow some more silver and grain from a big Fengzhou family like Wang Rentong to survive, but except for Wang Rentong who promised to borrow 30,000 taels of silver, the other big families refused to let go. There was no way for Yang Hao to turn his gaze to the large and small ghost towns scattered around Fengzhou, just like Meng Bochang did in the middle of the year, snatching food from the wolf's mouth. But after these ghost towns suffered a few losses, they also became finer, and they formed an alliance to protect and advance and retreat together. Pulling a hair and moving the whole body, Yang Hao had to have more scruples.

In addition, Yang Hao also has a layer of calculations, although the people of the ghost city do not have a Tang household registration, in the end they are all Tang people, they usually do some robbery and businessmen without capital, but most of the people still rely on farming, grazing, and handicrafts most of the time. Regardless of whether you are strangled indiscriminately, you are indeed a little unbearable.

Just when he was in a dilemma, Wu Chenglong, the big shopkeeper of Haotian Trading Company, suddenly arrived in Feng'an, and the purpose of his trip was to urge Yang Hao to send troops to exterminate You Lida and other horse bandits active in the Hezhong area.

Fengzhou, Shengzhou, Zhenwujun and other border towns have to buy hundreds of thousands of stone grain from Hedong and Guanzhong every year. This business Meng Yao's Haotian trading company accounts for forty percent of five, and it has been improving every year in the past three years, transporting such a large amount of grain to the border town is both hard and dangerous, and thieves are infested hundreds of miles north of Suizhou, even the military rations escorted by heavy troops are sometimes inevitably robbed, not to mention the grain of the trading company.

In order to ensure the safety of grain transportation, Haotian Trading Company not only supported a large caravan team, but also paid a lot of money every year to the officials of the prefectures, counties, and towns along the way. Even so, the grain transported every year is still robbed by the horse bandits of the thirteen villages in the river, and the most greedy of them is the bandit You Lida who is entrenched in Linzhou.

This person was originally a warlord in Shuofang Town, and was exiled for his crimes, and he escaped by killing the escort on the way, and fell into the grass in Linzhou, and annexed more than a dozen bandits in the river in seven or eight years, known as the "King of the Northwest". Raiding homes and robbing houses, attacking cities and destroying villages, lawlessness. No one was able to govern the officials in Linzhou, and Shuofang, Xiasui, Hedong and other towns had sent troops to crusade, but in the end they all returned in vain.

Wu Chenglong said that as long as Yang Hao sent troops to suppress the bandits, the food and salary would be solved by Haotian and other seven merchants.

Yang Hao settled Wu Chenglong to stay temporarily, and summoned Ling Tong, Zhang Yannian, Yu Chong, Zhuang Yunqing and others overnight to discuss, Ling Tong and Zhang Yannian agreed to send troops to conscript, but Zhuang Yunqing opposed the dispatch of troops on the grounds that it was not easy to march rashly because the bandits were unclear, the army marched south, and the rear was empty.

Yang Hao couldn't make up his mind because of this.

Yang Shan laughed when he heard this: "With such a good thing, what are you hesitating about? What is there to discuss with those old men? If you can trust me and give me five hundred strong men, I will surely bring the head of Youlida to you. ”

Yang Hao smiled but did not speak, looking at the sheep to carry forward. Yang Hongyang pondered for a moment and asked, "It's not difficult to exterminate You Lida, but it's definitely not a moment's work. Big brother's backyard can be stable? Yang Hao knew that he meant to ask himself if Fengzhou would be in chaos after sending troops to suppress bandits.

So he said: "In August, Brother Meng and I fought a battle with the Uighurs in Fengzhou, and the loss of more than 5,000 troops in the middle of the forest was lost, and the leader Xiao Qijin was seriously injured and bedridden. As for the White Water Fox of the Vulture Division, I can't guarantee what will happen to him next year, but he won't make any moves this winter. As for Wang Qian and Liu Wei, the peace agreement between the three of us has been reached, and we can rest easy in a year or two. The rear of Toyosu is very stable. ”

Yang Hongyang asked again: "The horse bandit is like a cunning fox, coming and going like the wind, it is not easy to catch. Does Big Brother have an eagle dog that chases foxes? ”

Yang Hao knew that he meant to ask if there were any cavalry available, so he said: "I have four battalions of the ghost army, all of which are masters of fox hunting. ”

Yang Shan saw that the two of them were talking as if they were playing riddles, so he anxiously urged: "Then what are you waiting for?" Xiao Chang'an is piled up with gold and silver, and if he doesn't send troops, he can let people go. ”

Yang Hongyang also got up and said: "The eldest brother sent troops to suppress the bandits, and the younger brother is willing to be the striker." ”

Yang Hao asked again: "How many soldiers do you think is appropriate?" ”

Yang carried forward the five fingers of the fork: "Five thousand." ”

Yang Shan shouted: "There are not so many people, You Lida is only a thousand people, and five hundred people are enough to break him!" ”

Yang Hongyang said with a smile: "The more troops are sent, the fewer people will eat idle meals in the rear." It's cool in autumn, so it's time to pull it out for military training. ”

Yang Hao applauded: "According to this plan, send troops to suppress the bandits." ”