The Liang army camp was not far from Xu's mansion, Xu Liang walked and pondered while holding his hands behind his back, and the four Tsing Yi guards behind him followed closely and vigilantly, paying attention to the surrounding situation vigilantly.

Due to the thieves' capture of Pingliang Province, most of the refugees who escaped from the surrounding counties of Zhenyuan took refuge in Zhenyuan City. Along both sides of the street, groups of refugees sat in groups of east and west. The whole street was buzzing and bustling.

However, Xu Liang turned a deaf ear. Disappointment and anger had filled his heart. He was angry at the betrayal of Hu Xiaoyong and Hu Chenggong, but it was more of a disappointment in Huang Ziren, who had crossed over. From Feng Suqin's mouth, he already knew that after his accident, Feng Suqin had come to the door to find Huang Ziren, but until he was escorted to the capital and almost died, he didn't see Huang Ziren stand up and say half a good word.

Not only that, in the face of Hu Xiaoyong's betrayal, Huang Ziren not only did not stop it, but accepted it gladly, and did not take into account the brotherhood with Xu Liang at all, or did he Huang Ziren already expect that Xu Liang would die in the capital this time and never come back?

The disappointed responsible love has been with Xu Liang, and when he entered Xu's mansion, he could hear people's cordial and respectful greetings, and Xu Liang's love was a little better.

However, this kindness did not last long. In the living room, Luo Baiguan, the head of Liang Jun, and Wu Side, the shopkeeper of Liang Ji, had been waiting for a long time.

"My lord, my subordinates heard that my lord wants to vigorously recruit soldiers?" Luo Baiguan asked directly after Xu Liang sat down on the main seat.

Xu Liang nodded and said, "The thieves are powerful, and the strength of the Liang army alone is not enough to pose a threat to the thieves." Expansion of the army is imperative. ”

"My lord, my subordinates are not against the expansion of the army, but at the moment, we are extremely short of food, grass and silver, and even the current situation is barely maintained. There is really no way to expand the army. Although Luo Baiguan's voice is a little soft and not masculine enough, he is extremely serious and responsible. This is also something that Xu Liang appreciates very much.

"Ahem, my lord had an accident this time. The young lady ordered the requisition of more than eighty percent of the assets, and it cost seventy or eighty thousand taels just to deal with those yamen adults in the capital, plus the adults came out to thank them in person, this cost was nearly 100,000 taels. At present, the money stored in the books of the Xu Mansion is less than 10,000 taels, and if the army is forcibly expanded, the food and salary must be insufficient. ”

The amount of money spent on entering Beijing this time was so large. Even Xu Liang was very surprised, 100,000 taels of silver, almost 60 million yuan in Xu Liang's previous life, and the Xu Mansion took away so much silver at once, which undoubtedly hollowed out most of the Xu Mansion.

However, military expansion is also imperative. Xu Liang pondered for a while with his head on his lean, and asked, "Can Liang Ji still take out some silver taels from each store?" ”

Liang Kee's shopkeeper Wu Side took out a thick account book and looked through it for a while, shook his head and replied: "My lord, the cash in Liang Kee's stores is barely maintaining normal operation, and if the cash is withdrawn again, Liang Kee will only close the door." Do so. It is tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs. ”

What Woodsard said was true. If Liang Ji's business is stopped in order to expand the army, it is tantamount to tying his hands and feet, and Xu Liang will not use this kind of stupid trick. There was a deep groan. didn't think of any feasible way, so he couldn't help but feel annoyed, and waved his hand to let Luo Baiguan and Wu Side go back.

Xu Liang felt deeply tired at this time, and after returning to Zhenyuan, everything went wrong, especially Huang Ziren's failure to save him when he saw death, which deeply dampened Xu Liang's feelings. He returned to the bedroom in the backyard of Xu's mansion exhausted, and fell on the soft cotton bed with his head up.

Feng Suqin saw that Xu Liang looked tired, and stepped forward to take off his boots and jacket for Xu Liang. Squatting at the head of the bed again, he reached out from Xu Liang's calf and began to pat it gently.

"Hmm." Xu Liang opened his eyes, looked at Feng Suqin and said, "What are you doing?" ”

Feng Suqin looked pity. Yanran said: "I saw that Xianggong was physically and mentally exhausted, so I wanted to relax for Xianggong." ”

Xu Liang said in surprise: "You still have these?" ”

Feng Suqin didn't answer, she slapped it carefully, and a tingling feeling made Xu Liang feel very useful. Feng Suqin said softly: "A few years ago, when I fled with my mother, my mother was tired, so I slapped her old man like this, and my mother once praised me for doing a good job, Xianggong, how do you feel?" ”

Feng Suqin turned her head to look at Xu Liang as she spoke, but saw that Xu Liang had closed his eyes, breathed evenly, and was already asleep. Feng Suqin sighed lightly, put Xu Liang's legs in the center of the bed, pulled the quilt, covered it carefully, and finished these, Feng Suqin looked at Xu Liang for a while, and tiptoed the door to go out.

Guyuan Prefecture was originally under the jurisdiction of Pingliang Prefecture, but later due to the addition of a trilateral governor's office, its military and political status rose sharply, surpassing Pingliang Prefecture and Chang'an Prefecture to become an actual military town.

Xu Liang and the newly appointed Pingliang guerrilla general Dai Feng came to the yamen of the governor's palace early in the morning, met with Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, and went to visit Hong Chengchou, who participated in the politics of Shaanxi. By noon, the civil and military officials who had been ordered to rush from all walks of life basically arrived in the lobby of the governor's yamen, and the governor of Wu ascended to the hall to discuss matters.

Two months ago, when Xu Liang was still the magistrate of Zhenyuan County, whenever he went to Pingliang Mansion for a meeting, his grade was so low that he didn't even have a seat. Now Xu Liang is the same governor of Pingliang, leading the prefect of Pingliang, his status has risen sharply, and he has a meeting again, not only has a seat, but also a position in the front, next to Hong Chengchou, who is participating in politics in Shaanxi. Diagonally opposite, is Anton Zhongwei's commander Ye Yanqing.

Wang Tiqian of Dongchang was still in Guyuan City, Governor Wu held a meeting, and Wang Gonggong sat down.

Governor Wu looked much older and haggard than he had been two months ago. He said in a hoarse voice: "My lords, generals from all walks of life, it has been more than a month since the thieves captured Pingliang, and the matter has alarmed the court, and the emperor is furious. At present, Pingliang Tongzhi Xu Liang and Pingliang guerrilla general Dai Feng have also taken office, and the generals must be almost ready, and today the governor decided to fight a decisive battle with the thieves. ”

"Lord Governor, but I don't know who is Pingliang Tongzhi?" The first to speak out was Ye Yanqing, the commander of Anton Zhongwei.

Governor Wu pointed at Xu Liang and said, "Xu Liang, the former governor of the original town, is now the same knowledge of Pingliang. ”

Commander Ye looked at Xu Liang with a surprised face and asked in surprise, "It turned out to be Xu Zhixian!" Unexpectedly, Xu Zhixian was escorted into the capital by Jinyi Guard, and when he came back, he turned into a Pingliang Tongzhi, and the strange encounter and great ability made the official impressed. ”

Commander Ye said in a weird way, how could Xu Liang not hear it, Xu Liang looked at Governor Wu, as if he didn't hear Commander Ye's tone, and said coldly: "Where, Lord Ye is polite." ”

Commander Ye snorted lightly, turned his eyes to look at Dai Feng, who was sitting precariously, and said, "This dignified old veteran must be the new Pingliang guerrilla Dai, right?" Tsk, Master Dai is old, I don't know if he can still eat? ”

What Shang Nengfan said was originally a matter of Lian Po, but now Commander Ye asked Dai Feng in public, the meaning of the teasing was obvious, everyone in the hall ate and laughed, and several chief officers laughed out loud.

Dai Feng's face turned red with anger, he was originally a garrison in Jinan, and he had lived by walking darts for many years, sleeping in the open air, and his appearance was naturally much older than the adults of the official yamen. However, Dai Feng was a new guerrilla general after all, and his rank was under Ye's command, so he was wronged and did not dare to confront Commander Ye in public.

Dai Feng can bear it, but Xu Liangke can't bear it. Dai Feng was a candidate specially recommended to Emperor Chongzhen, in order to cooperate with his work. Now that he has been wronged, how can Xu Liang give up?

Immediately, Xu Liang chuckled, looked at Commander Ye with a smile and said, "Commander Ye really has good eyesight!" With sharp eyes, you can see the true and the false at a glance. It's just that this official was far away in the capital and heard people say that Commander Ye led the troops to the expedition this time, why didn't you use your sharp eyes to see the enemy's reality clearly, but instead fell into the enemy's encirclement, lost the general, and returned with a wolf? In the end, he let the thieves take advantage of the situation and captured Pingliang in one fell swoop? Could it be that Commander Ye was asleep at that time? ”

Laugh at! A few more people listened to Xu Liang's teasing words and chuckled. Commander Ye's face immediately turned the color of pig liver, this time in order to please the prince of Dongchang, he deliberately personally brought more than 5,000 soldiers of Anton Zhongwei to go out with the prince, originally wanted to be a good life in front of the prince, not to mention the loss of soldiers, but also lost Pingliang City! wanted to recapture Pingliang City, but there were not many soldiers under him, and his strength was not good, so he asked Governor Wu to send troops, but the generals from all walks of life pushed back and were not active, so that Commander Ye's heart was also tight.

Commander Ye hadn't spoken yet, and Wang Ti, the head of the Dongchang stall sitting at the top, suddenly raised his sword eyebrows, glared at Xu Liang and said, "What does Lord Xu mean by this?" Are you accusing our leader of having no way? ”

Xu Liang was stunned when he heard this, and then reacted, he had just scolded Commander Ye, and Commander Ye had an accident this time, in fact, he followed Wang Tiqian on the expedition, and scolded Commander Ye, wouldn't even the prince also scold?

Xu Liang hurriedly laughed and said, "What did my father-in-law say?" Lord Ye has lost soldiers and horses, but he has no way to lead the troops, what does it have to do with your father-in-law!"

"Humph!" The prince snorted lightly, glared at Xu Liang with cold eyes, and stopped answering.

Seeing this, Commander Ye smiled secretly in his heart.

"Alright, be quiet!" The governor of the three sides, Wu Zhiwang, said in a deep voice: "Let's discuss the war!" (To be continued)