However, before Li Haolin was about to leave, another group of people in the capital hurriedly came and brought back the news of the East Palace and the prince's handwritten letter.

Sure enough, the crown prince did not delve into this matter after all, except for reprimanding the crown princess, there was no other substantive punishment, which inevitably made Li Hao a little disappointed.

As for the handwritten letter, it was only an apology to Li Hao, and said that the crown princess would be strictly controlled in the future and would not let her come again.

But Li Hao really doesn't have much confidence in the prince's promise, if he can really control the people around him, the play will not be abolished.

It's just that the matter of this capital, Li Hao is out of the reach of the whip now, so he can only put it down for the time being, as long as the crown princess doesn't make any trouble, she can let her go away for a while, and everything will be planned when she arrives in the capital in the future.

Of course, if the crown princess makes another move, then naturally she can't get used to it, on Qu Lengjun's side, Li Hao said the same to her, in short, let her not wronged herself, if she is bullied, she will return it, and everything will be taken care of by him.

Although these words are not quite consistent with Qu Lengjun's usual temperament, she is the kind of person who suffers some grievances in order to take care of the overall situation.

But in her heart, Li Hao's words were enough, because this friendship was something she had never felt before, even if it was with the prince.

For this reason, she was very good to Li Hao in those two days, which made Li Hao a little reluctant to leave this gentle township.

However, it was important to get down to business, Li Hao finally set out on the journey to Yuzhou at the scheduled time, accompanied by five hundred parts carefully selected by Li Hao, more than double the two hundred people set by Li Hao at the beginning.

There was no way, at that time, Li Hao didn't think that he would find an opportunity to lead the troops so soon, and the plan did not change quickly, so he could only adjust it quickly.

For this reason, Li Hao also deliberately spent money for Qu Lengjun to buy a batch of slaves and maids to come back and fill them in the manor to supplement the lack of strong labor.

And Li Hao's first stop in Yuzhou was Yuzhou County, where he went to see Liang Wuji first, and by the way, he also wanted to learn the latest situation in Runan County from him.

Liang Wuji also welcomed Li Hao's arrival, although he was not from the Liang family, but after all, he was also his own junior, and he was naturally happy to see him attend.

It's just that Liang Wuji didn't understand why Li Hao had to go to Runan to work, so he deliberately left Li Hao to have dinner at night and asked his own doubts.

"Runan is such a complicated place, there are a total of 37 counties under its jurisdiction, among which the relationship between the families is complicated, and the fiefdoms of many feudal lords are here, the world situation is even more complicated.

Now in the border with Jingzhou and Yangzhou, several bandits have emerged, why do you have to wade into this troubled water. ”

Li Hao replied when he heard this: "It's better to be more complicated, if not, how can you show your ability, don't worry, uncle cousin, since I dare to come, I will naturally think of a countermeasure."

Before I came, I asked Xiaoyue Hou and Cui Hou to help say hello, and I thought that Xinyang Hou, Ancheng Hou and others would not make trouble for me in their faces.

As for those local families, my duty is to eliminate bandits, stabilize the place, and there is no conflict with them, after all, my Yuan family is also somewhat famous.

When the time comes, I will share a little bit of the benefits, not to mention let them obey their words, but it is always not difficult to get them to cooperate.

And the most important thing is not that you are watching from above, even if they eat the bear's heart and leopard gall, they can't fight you. ”

Liang Wuji still agreed with Li Hao's thoughts after hearing this, originally he was worried that Li Hao was young and vigorous, and he only thought about pressing others to bow his head, and it would be bad to cause trouble then.

Now that Li Hao knows how to use the resources in his hands to take advantage of the situation, he is a lot more relieved, but he said: "It's useless for you to say good things to me here, since you have made your own choice, then you have to break through by yourself, I can't keep staring at you to do things."

Your father thinks the same thing as I do, so when you arrive, remember to think twice about everything. ”

But having said that, in fact, Liang Wuji finally accompanied Li Hao to Pingyu, which was called to inspect the counties and counties, but who couldn't see the intention of escorting Li Hao.

Therefore, Li Hao's appointment in Pingyu was very smooth, and after the handover with the Ruyang County Guardian Association, he went to the Governor's Office to take over the soldiers and horses, and he did not suffer any difficulties, which can be regarded as a good start for this matter.

After that, Li Hao began to carry out two things simultaneously, namely inspecting Runan and using the pro-soldiers he brought to rectify the county soldiers in Runan.

After all, in this era, if you want to do things locally, you will inevitably have to rely on the power of local clans.

The main purpose of Li Hao's appointment in the place this time was to participate in the two major battles in Shuzhong and Longxi in the future, so before that, he had to spread the name of good martial arts.

Otherwise, not to mention Emperor Wen's side, even Liang Wuji and Yuan Pei would not be at ease to let themselves participate in a war of this scale.

In order to achieve this goal, Li Hao needs to completely exterminate the bandits in Runan County in the shortest possible time, and Li Hao is still unable to judge the specific time of the two wars, so this matter must be even more urgent.

Therefore, this inspection of Li Hao is to talk to the big families in Runan County, and it is best to let them help, for which Li Hao is also willing to spend some costs, such as white paper and glass.

Under Li Hao's bloodletting, he soon won over some families in Runan County, especially in Anyang, Yang'an, Xinxi, Yiyang and other eleven counties with serious banditry, and the families here basically agreed to Li Hao and were willing to help Li Hao find out the situation of the bandits.

Speaking of which, these people are the local snakes of Runan, and it is much more convenient than Li Hao to inquire about the news.

As for most of the rest, although they did not explicitly express their support, they also promised that they would not oppose this matter, and as for those princes' fiefdoms, Li Hao also went to say hello to ensure that they would not come to drag themselves back.

Of course, Li Hao believes that there must be some ill-intentioned people hiding in the shadows, after all, such a large-scale bandit, if there are not a few families involved, the possibility is too small.

But Li Hao didn't care, after all, just looking at the number of thieves, this is not too much from the thief's family, and his own side has a great advantage in terms of money and food and soldiers and horses.

Unless these bandits can all be combined, it may indeed make it difficult for Li Hao to start, but don't forget, there is Liang Wuji above Li Hao.

If they really dared to get together, Li Hao would dare to find Liang Wuji to transfer troops from other counties and counties to wipe out these people.

After connecting with the local scholars, Li Hao returned to Pingyu and devoted himself to the training of the county soldiers.

At this time, Li Hao is roughly set after the autumn harvest in September, and the early material reserves have already begun to prepare.

Li Hao's big move, naturally, could not be hidden from Wang Hui, after Wang Hui learned the news, he was not very relieved that Li Hao was going to suppress the bandits so quickly.

It's just that because of Liang Wuji's face, it's not good to stop it directly, so he sent a letter to Qian County to inform him, wanting Liang Wuji to come over.

But if Liang Wuji wanted to come, he would have come a long time ago, after all, he said earlier that he would not be staring, but in fact, he also sent someone, so when Li Hao was preparing at the beginning, he got the news.

At the beginning, Liang Wuji really had the impulse to stop it, but in the end, he thought of Li Hao's behavior over the years, and finally chose to believe Li Hao.

However, as an elder, he has prepared some means, such as the assembly of the county soldiers of Pei County and Yingchuan County, if Li Hao's side is frustrated by the bandits, he can help in time.

It's just that Wang Hui didn't know about this before, and after getting Liang Wuji's reply, since he was sure that he had a back hand, he didn't stop it.

In this way, after the autumn harvest, according to Li Hao's plan, it was to wipe out the bandits in the southern border of Runan from east to west.

For this reason, in addition to the county soldiers of the counties west of Runan County who stayed in the local area to prevent the sneak attack of bandits, and the county soldiers of Pingyu and Xincai counties as mobile forces, the rest of the county soldiers were concentrated in Shen County by Li Hao and began the official purge.

And the subsequent clean-up was actually very smooth, all the way to Anyang before encountering some resistance, Li Hao didn't care about it at first, after all, it is normal for bandits to be weak and strong.

And now the terrain is not as flat as before, under the mountains, the bandits' lair is indeed a lot more difficult to fight, anyway, it is generally smooth and I don't pay attention to it.

It was only later that Li Hao accidentally learned from his own subordinates that the thieves on the other side seemed to be divided, as if several groups of people were combined, and he immediately became alert.

Because according to the situation, this time he wants to clean up the bandits, and it has been spread all over the family in Runan County beforehand, so it is said that he should not be able to hide this gang of bandits.

If they really wanted to unite, they should have joined forces to block themselves layer by layer, why would it be so easy to sweep in front of them.

Of course, it is also possible that no one in this group of families in Runan has ever had contact with the bandits, but in Li Hao's opinion, this possibility is really a little small.

So Li Hao is a little worried now, someone called him all the way on purpose, and he wanted to pit himself here.

It's just that Li Hao asked himself that after coming to Runan, he was all the way to open the way with money, and he really didn't offend anyone, who would want to do this.

After thinking hard to no avail, Li Hao could only act cautiously, put aside the original rapid offensive, and began to fight steadily.

After breaking through the camp in front of him, he did not attack again, but stopped, repaired the camp on the spot, and began to rest.

Anyway, now that I have an obvious advantage, there is no need to be so aggressive, it is better to find out what the situation is in front of me first.

And Li Hao's change was indeed something that this group of bandits did not expect, and the previous bandits were indeed the bait they deliberately threw down, just to arouse Li Hao's arrogance.

After all, in their opinion, Li Hao's young man is proud, and it coincides with the succession of battles, and this follow-up battle will definitely become more and more aggressive, just so that they can seize the loophole and set a trap for Li Hao.

This time is the place where they want to collect the net, and the camp in front of them is also a bait to attract Li Hao, so as to lead Li Hao into the depths of the mountain, and then there is a sandwich road that is their preset ambush circle, and the result is just a kick in the door.

Of course, they still don't understand what the reason for Li Hao's sudden stop is, but they don't think that it was their true intentions exposed.

After all, judging from the front and back lines, Li Hao didn't seem to know their plans, so he thought about contacting the people who were secretly communicating with them to understand Li Hao's purpose.

It's just that things are so coincidental, when Li Hao had some suspicions, Li Hao immediately dispersed his subordinates to find out if there was anything wrong nearby.

As a result, the people sent by the bandits bumped into Li Hao's subordinates, and then they were captured alive and brought to Li Hao.

Li Hao didn't care about this, after all, the two sides clashed, and it was normal to send some people around to investigate the situation, and he did the same.

And this kind of person is generally a small minion, and he doesn't know about some confidential things.

So he handed him over to the tribe to go down for interrogation, to see if he could ask some information about the other party's camp, and there was an unexpected gain, and he learned that this person came out to find someone for questioning, and the person he was looking for was still in Li Hao's army, which gave Li Hao a feeling that it took no effort to get it.

Of course, this can't be said to be completely unexpected, among which Li Hao helped introduce some bizarre interrogation techniques, which also played a great role in it.

After all, many of them were developed by Li Hao in the Song Dynasty, and they were originally developed by the officials of Dali Temple in the Song Dynasty, and later Li Hao introduced them into the army with some results.

So this time, he took Li Hao to the Han Dynasty as well, and the result brought a surprise to himself.

Facing the bandits who were brought back again, Li Hao asked: "Just now you said that your leader asked you to come and look for someone, then you know the specific identity of the person you are looking for." ”

The bandit was still frightened at this time, and after a long pause, he replied: "I don't know the little one, but after the leader asked me to come over, he tied a few red strips of cloth in a conspicuous place on the hill opposite your camp.

Then he said that that night, naturally someone would come out of the camp to look for me, and let me ask him about the specific situation when I arrived. ”

Li Hao pondered for a while after hearing this, then looked at the person who came, and ordered someone to take him down to continue to reminisce about what he had just had.

After the others left, Li Hao asked the part that had just brought people back: "When you brought people back in front, did anyone pay special attention to you?" ”

The trilogy naturally understood the meaning of Li Hao's words, and replied: "Returning to Gongzi, we didn't know the details of this person when we came back, so we didn't avoid others, and there were not many people I saw along the way."

However, since this person has never seen the traitor, he doesn't know the traitor, even if he sees it, he may not notice that something is wrong. ”

Li Hao also understands this truth, but he just caught someone on his front foot, and then someone immediately came to contact the traitor, which is a bit of a coincidence.

But if you don't use it now, if you wait for two days and this person hasn't returned, it will also alert the bandits, and then I'm afraid that he will contact him in another way, and it will be even more difficult to find someone at that time.