"Lord Wang, it's here."

Li Huai shook his head and saw a dilapidated mansion in front of him, the pillars in front of the door were all rotten, half of the gate was crooked, and the other half was painted.

There is a plaque that reads: Jiuyuan County Taishou Mansion!

If it weren't for this plaque, Li Huai would have thought that he had gone to the wrong place and came to the ghost house.

Li Huai didn't know what to say, "Actually...... It's pretty clean. ”

Lu Youqi laughed a few times, and said embarrassedly: "In order to welcome the prince, the minister specially asked people to scrub it a few times, the snow was cleaned, and the stone slabs were paved. ”

"Why don't you apply for a grant from the imperial court for repairs?" Li Huai asked curiously, the imperial court should not be deducted.

Taishou Mansion is a door face in the place, broken like this, does it look like words?

"How can that money be enough, what is lacking in Jiuyuan County is the Taishou Mansion." Lu Youqi said with self-pity.

Li Huai nodded and said casually: "Also, the little silver taels allocated by the imperial court are not enough to drink a few pots of wine and raise two or three concubines." ”

Lu Youqi was stunned, and after reacting, he immediately raised his hand and said: "Lord Wang, the minister dares to swear to the sky, and he will never fill his pocket!" ”

Li Huai ignored him, and the most unbelievable sentence in the officialdom was 'so-and-so swore to the sky', which was no different from farting.

Turned his head to look at Tian Qing.

Tian Qing immediately straightened his waist and said: "Although the Taishou Mansion is decadent, it is thousands of times better than the county magistrate's mansion, so the ministers dare not invite the prince to stay." ”

All poor!

The officials are so poor, let alone the people.

So, where exactly does the money go?

Where did the money in Jiuyuan County and even the entire Liangzhou go?

This is food for thought.

Li Huai officially settled in Jiuyuan Taishou Mansion, although it was also very decadent, but at least the scale was still there.

Quite a few yards.

Lu Youqi had already made arrangements and divided the entire backyard and the east side and gave it to Li Huai.

The front yard and lobby are used for office work.

It is enough for Li Huai and others to live.

Li Huai also left only some entourage volunteers, and the rest of the personal guards were temporarily arranged in the military camp of Commander Yan Gaoyang.

"Don't look at it, this king is also very poor, and he can't afford to invite you to dinner, so go home and eat." Li Huai sent everyone away.

Lou Xiaowan was still collecting his room, Li Huai took advantage of this effort and came to the library pavilion, where all the civil, fortification, political, historical, and official rosters of Jiuyuan County in previous years were concentrated...... Wait a minute.

However, it is limited to Kuhara County, Yunzhong County and Beidi County.

It stands to reason that the Liangwang Mansion is set in Jiuyuan, which was set before he set off, and the three counties of Liangzhou should have received the news.

The two counties in the north of Yunzhong should send the relevant materials to Jiuyuan in advance and greet Wang Jia in person.

Li Huai will entertain them according to the etiquette system, hold a banquet, and everyone will eat and drink to their heart's content, and then let them go back.

However, except for the officials in Jiuyuan City, none of the other officials came, and the relevant information was not seen.

These guys.

Li Huai didn't bother to send someone to ask them, he could guess with his ass, they would definitely shirk their responsibilities on the grounds of heavy snow blocking the road.

Joke!

Luoyang to Jiuyuan, thousands of miles away, this king has come over, these hundreds of miles, they can't get over.

Find time to pack them up!

"Lord Wang, the room is cleaned up, when will the Lord eat?" Lou Xiaowan came over and asked.

Li Huai glanced up, this king is eating, how can she be more active than this king, and said: "Don't be in a hurry to eat, you go to Lu Youqi, ask for a few maps of Jiuyuan County, the more detailed the better, and then prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone for me." ”

"Yes."

Lou Xiaowan went.

Soon.

Li Huai had all the things he wanted, and Lu Youqi also dragged the small bowl with a sentence, saying that the map was precious, and he hoped that the prince would cherish it.

Can this king not know?

A swipe.

I just drew a stroke.

……

In the next few days, Li Huai basically didn't go out, just hid in the Taishou Mansion to read books and draw maps, and a few of them had been scrapped.

The people outside began to talk a lot.

If you want to say that they are most concerned about the point, it is naturally to be promoted to the knighthood, and there is a great opportunity.

I know it.

The prince did not open a mansion in Luoyang, so he went to the country non-stop, and there were almost no available personnel around him.

As a prince, the etiquette system allowed Li Huai to have generals under his command, which was equivalent to a small court.

"When does the prince plan to open the mansion?"

"I don't know, I guess this should be studied."

"The prince shouldn't be going to open a mansion, just be a free prince."

"That might be."

"Let's see."

Just when everyone was talking about it, Li Huai suddenly passed on and called the commander Yan Gaoyang to the Taishou Mansion.

Yu used the county system, and the head of a county was called the county guard, also known as the Taishou, who was in charge of the affairs of the county.

The Lieutenant was in charge of the army.

Normally, the Taishou and the Commander perform their duties and do not disturb each other, but the official position of the Commander is lower than that of the Taishou.

But there are also special ones, such as Sanchuan County, the first county in the world, where Emperor Yu authorized Zhao Sheng to take charge of the army and defend Kyoto.

That kind of right and status is by no means too attainable in general.

Otherwise.

Li Jirong would not be so polite to Zhao Sheng.

Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County were also unusual, because of the existence of the Great Wall, the imperial court did not intend to waste military funds on useless places.

Neither county had a formal army, only a small number of city defenses. The government officials are under the jurisdiction of the county order.

However, there is an army of about 10,000 people in Northland County, guarding the western gate, and it is not special to move.

Now that Li Huai is here, then everything is different, he can form his own army, but he is also responsible for military expenses.

The 3,000 men and horses promised by the emperor's grandfather, as well as the reward for the country, he didn't even think about it, and he definitely couldn't get it.

Thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, and if you want to be brilliant, you rely on yourself.

"Chen Yan Gaoyang see the prince!"

Li Huai put down the book and raised his eyes to look at Yan Gaoyang, who was kneeling on one knee, when they entered the city, they had already seen it.

At that time, Lu Youqi and Tian Qing chattered endlessly, and others had no chance to interject with Ben.

Although I have seen it, I am not familiar with it.

"Sit down!"

Li Huai said indifferently.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!"

Yan Gaoyang sat straight on Li Huai's right hand, which also has rules, the left and the right.

"How many men do you have?" Li Huai asked first.

"Returning to the prince, there are 1,005 foot soldiers, 300 archers, 80 cavalry, and the rest 800." Yan Gaoyang replied respectfully.

The rest refers to handymen, horse-feeders, cooks, transporters, etc., and does not need to be described in detail.

This point is reluctantly defending the city, and it is impossible to go out of the city to fight, which is equivalent to handing over the life to the Great Wall Army.

Once the Great Wall is broken, Yunzhong and Jiuyuan will become fish and meat on the chopping board of the desolate clan, and the entire northern defense line will retreat to Guanzhong.

This is the most reasonable and cost-effective way for the imperial court. After all, except for the Great Wall, there is no danger to defend the north of the Yellow River.

Fortunately, the Great Wall is impregnable, with Yang Lingyun guarding it, and he doesn't have to worry about the northern gateway at all, and he doesn't need to rush to expand his army.

At least until he had the confidence to conquer the Northlands, there was no need to rush to expand his army.

He called Yan Gaoyang here for something else.

"Do you know about the demons among the people of Liangzhou?"

Yan Gaoyang raised his head in surprise, the prince didn't leave the house, and he even knew that the people of Liangzhou were demons.

He nodded, "Know." ”

"Who's looking into this?" Li Huai continued to ask.

Yan Gaoyang thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know, it should be Lu Taishou, it may be Tian County Order, or they may be all investigating." ”

"They didn't ask for you?" Li Huai continued to ask.

Yan Gaoyang shook his head, "No." ”

Li Huai asked him again, "How long has the phenomenon of demons among the people appeared?" Say you know. ”

Yan Gaoyang recalled, "The minister first found out that about two months ago, when two people entered the city, they suddenly went crazy and injured a city guard. ”

"After arresting them, they were handed over to the magistrate yamen, and Tian Xian ordered doctors from all over the city to be cured."

Later, I found a charlatan, and he was the first to say that the people had fallen into the devil. After another investigation, it was found that there were already a lot of people in the demons. ”

"However, the people of the demons do not know that they are demons, and when they do not have an attack, they are no different from ordinary people, and they don't know when or why they are demons."

Yan Gaoyang knew so much about it, he should have been paying attention to this matter, but because of his position, he couldn't take the initiative to intervene, so he could only worry about it.

"Is it contagious?" This is what Li Huai is most worried about.

Yan Gaoyang shook his head, "It's not contagious." ”

That's fine.

According to what Yan Gaoyang said, combined with Zuo Wenjun's words, it can be concluded that someone must be making trouble behind his back, and he never stopped.

It's been two months.

Lu Youqi and Tian Qing did not make the slightest progress, otherwise they would definitely find Yan Gaoyang to find someone to quell the rebellion of the demons.

What a disappointment for this king!

"This king has decided that you will investigate the case of the demons among the people, and handle it with special authority, without asking for instructions." Li Huai said solemnly.

He couldn't fully trust Yan Gaoyang yet, but there was really no one available around him, and Li Xin had already been sent out to do something else.

Simply use people without suspicion.

Let Yan Gaoyang try his hand, if he does it well, he will do a great job. If it's messed up, I'm sorry.

Li Huaihui completely forgot this name, and he stayed in Jiuyuan County for the rest of his life as a lieutenant without soldiers.

"Yes!"

Yan Gaoyang didn't want to eat and wait for death, so he took the job and gambled.

Li Huai remembered one thing and said: "This king also has a message here, maybe it will be useful to you, people who have practiced demonic skills, their corpses have a strong attraction to the people of the demons, like a great supplement." ”

Yan Gaoyang firmly remembered it.