Yang Zhi has no objection to being appointed as the governor of Yingzhou, Zong Ze is in Ulzhou, Li Gang is in Youzhou, even if the Jin people go south, they will not be so easy to get; as for Shuozhou in the west, Yang Zhi believes that whoever is there can now block the invasion of Western Xia, and in the entire north, the variables that need to be paid attention to are the two variables of Guo Yaoshi and Zhang Jue, when Yang Zhi passed through Ulzhou, he talked with Zong Ze and reminded Zong Ze to pay attention to Xiao Gan and Guo Yaoshi.

Zong Ze is very strange, Yang Zhi can be said to be as cunning as a fox in this Northern Expedition, and if you want to talk about credit, he is definitely ranked first; now that the overall situation has been decided, Zong Ze can understand Xiao Gan's worries, but he is worried about Guo Yaoshi, Zong Ze always feels that Yang Zhi must know some unknown situations. Zong Ze still believes in Yang Zhi's character, and believes that Yang Zhi is not dissatisfied because of the official seal, and deliberately causes trouble, so Zong Ze asked implicitly.

Yang Zhi naturally didn't say that he came through and knew that Guo Yaoshi would be a big disaster for the Song Dynasty in the future, but he just explained lightly: "The resentful army family is ruined, and there is no sense of identity with the government, and the strange order that entered Youzhou for the first time has not found the person who issued it, I am a little worried, after all, the Han people of Yunyan do not all agree with the Great Song Dynasty, so many officials in Youzhou want to go to the Jin Kingdom, which is where the interests lie, either they are from the Double Dragon Society, or their families are in the territory of the Jin Kingdom." ”

Zong Ze nodded and said: "Looking at it now, it was not allowed in the original agreement, and it was our mistake to collect people from each other, but fortunately, you reminded them to catch Gao Qigong first, and with the capital to negotiate, they were exchanged for people who were willing to return to the Great Song Dynasty in places east of Pingzhou and Guihua Prefecture." Don't worry, I will pay close attention to the situation over there, Ulzhou is connected to Yingzhou, and if there is anything, it will be reported immediately. ”

Neither of them said anything, but they both believed that the order to kill all the Khitans and Xi people was given by Guo Yaoshi, maybe it was to vent his anger, or it could be for other reasons;

Yang Zhi absolutely believes in Zong Ze, this person is not only capable, but also responsible, much stronger than Li Gang, in another time and space, if Zong Ze dies a few years late, the outcome of the Song and Jin game will be changed; however, Yang Zhi still stayed in Shuozhou for half a month, and the key is in the selection of Shuozhou's guards, Li Gang, Tan Zhi, and Guo Yaoshi are in dispute. After several controversies, Han Zheng, a local tycoon in Shuozhou, was finally appointed as the training envoy of the Shuozhou regiment to recruit soldiers from the five forts such as Zhugujiang, and Tan Zhi's favorite general Li Siben was originally the supervisor of Shuozhou's soldiers and horses.

Wang Yuan, the governor of Shuozhou, was nominally in charge of the three prefectures of Wuzhou, Shuozhou, and Huanzhou, but in fact the army he could command was the 2,000 garrisons of Wuzhou and the 5,000 men and horses of the headquarters. Most of Wang Yuan's 5,000 men and horses were recruits, and at first they agreed to Tan Zhi's arrangement, wanting to keep half of Yang Zhi's Canglang camp in Shuozhou, but after Chong Bin and Zong Ying took away 5,000 people, Yang Zhi's establishment was also insufficient, leaving only more than 1,000 people who were unwilling to leave Shuozhou.

After Yang Zhi arrived in Yingzhou, he ordered Zhu Wu, Zhang San, and Kong Yanwei to serve as county commanders in Jincheng and Hunyuan counties respectively, in fact, they were preparing to develop the economy of Jincheng wholeheartedly. There are 8,000 households in Jincheng, most of whom are cultivating peasants; Hunyuan County has Hunyuan River, where most of the 5,000 households are herdsmen, and there are only 700 households in the county seat; Heyang County is even smaller, with more than 300 households in the county seat and more than 9,000 herdsmen distributed on the south bank of the Hunhe River.

And Jincheng County is the place where the Tang Dynasty made a fortune, Li Guochang and Li Keyong father and son believe that Zhu Ye's family originated in Longyou Jincheng, in order not to forget the ancestors, miss the ancestors, so named Jincheng. Three gangs and four towns guard the county seat of Jincheng, twenty miles southeast is the escort post where Emperor Yuanhong of the Northern Wei Dynasty Xiaowen Emperor was stationed, twenty miles east of the city is under the Longshou Mountain on the north bank of the Hunhe River is Zhao Bagang, Huairen, Shanyin, Huanghualiang at the junction of the three counties of Jincheng, these three mountains and the Hunhe River and the Sanggan River make Jincheng County become like a small basin.

The four military towns are Anbian Town, which was built in the Later Tang Dynasty by Zhaobagang in the east, Sima Town of the Northern Wei Dynasty on the edge of Lijiafang, 20 miles west of the city, Shenwu Town, where Li Keyong trained the army under the Huanghualiang 40 miles north of the city, and Daluo Town, Yukou, Dashanmen, which is far away from the escort post in the south. Han Tao stationed 2,100 cavalry in Anbian Town and was responsible for dealing with Gaotuo Mountain; Yang Yue stationed 500 cavalry in Sima Town and was responsible for relocating the Fan soldiers; Zhang 31,100 cavalry stationed in Shenwu Town to guard against horse thieves who were still in the clouds; and Zhang Heng led 300 new troops into Daluo Town, mainly to repair the city.

This appointment made Zhang Heng very surprised, and he went to ask Zhang San for advice in private, Zhang San smiled and said: "You only arranged three hundred recruits for training on your side, Yang Zhi must have something to order you privately, but it is better than me and Han Tao's life, and we also have to prevent the horse thief and the guy in Gaotuo Mountain." ”

Zhang San didn't tell the truth to Zhang Heng, after all, Zhang Heng is not a person in Yang Zhi's circle, Yang Zhi knows that Yingzhou is not as good as Shuozhou, but he thinks that Yingzhou is not at the border, although the profit of the business is a lot less, but the focus is on peace, and only Gaotuoshan can talk about fighting with Yingzhou. Gaotuo Mountain's current situation is very embarrassing, under the attack of Yang Zhi, Wang Ping, and Yang Weizhong's three-sided army, it is impossible to get out of Taihang Mountain, and then move to the south, which is the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, and Gaotuo Mountain does not dare.

Yang Zhi asked Zhang Heng to go to Daluo Town, just to arrange a person in the future to turn Daluo Town into a business intersection between the north and the south, and soon everyone saw Yang Zhi's actions; horses have become Tan Zhi's patent after Tan Zhi came to the clouds, as for those tribes who have already defected to Yang Zhi are only willing to do business with Yang Zhi, Tan Zhi did not ask, but secretly asked Wang Yuan and others to reduce the pastures of those tribes.

Tan Zhi doesn't care about Yang Zhi, but for Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, Tan Zhi still has a little idea, and he is not willing to offend for no reason, anyway, the imperial court exempted Yunzhong from paying taxes for three years, and the grain and grass are supplied by Taiyuan, Li Gang also said hello and went with Yang Zhi. Yang Zhi did not embarrass Tan Zhi, and found another way, set up a north-south goods bank, and purchased camels, cattle and sheep, gold and silverware, and herbs in the border field, making transactions with large quantities and thin profits.

Two or three months later, three or four thousand cattle, sheep, donkeys and camels were transported to Bianliang every month, and a large number of medicinal materials were transported by the way, and the purchase of medicinal materials in various parts of the cloud was almost monopolized by Yang Zhi. While Yang Zhi was moving around the caravan, he took in about 400 orphans, plus local students in Yingzhou, Jincheng Academy recruited 800 students at once, which frightened Li Gang.