After a full meal and chatted for a while, the sun was about to go west, Tong Liang refused the retention of Shi Tiezhu's father and daughter, and took Dou Yannian to leave Hejia Village and go to Tong'an County, less than two miles out of the village, there were already two townsmen leading the horses and waiting anxiously on the side of the road, Tong Liang and Dou Yannian got on the horse, took two townsmen, and galloped towards Tong'an County, and they must enter the county seat before dark, otherwise the city gate will be closed, but they will sleep in the wilderness.

On the way, Dou Yannian asked Tong Liang, "Tong Xianggong, do you really intend to marry Shi Cuihua?"

Tong Liang smiled and asked, "What's the matter?" when a man is married and a woman is married, can't I marry Shi Cuihua?"

Dou Yannian shook his head and said: "Tong Xianggong, you have great ambitions, and you have the support of nobles, and your future is limitless, why do you have to marry a people's daughter as your wife? If you can marry a daughter of a scholar family in the future, it will also help the promotion of officialdom, and it is not that a people's daughter cannot marry, just be a concubine!"

Tong Liang laughed and said disapprerovingly: "What if you marry the daughter of a scholar family? A manly husband does not rely on his own ability, but relies on his wife's maiden family? Besides, you think, I am just a small group training leader now, even if I pass the examination next year, I just have the qualifications to be a petty official! Isn't it possible to be a big wife with Shi Cuihua's appearance? Besides, marrying a wife and marrying virtue, this Shi Cuihua is a virtuous helper at first glance, and I don't need to take care of the family's affairs after marrying, I can let go of my hands and feet and toss outside!"

Dou Yannian heard Tong Liang say this, and it was not good to say anything more, after all, this is a private matter of others, just give a suggestion, people have their own ideas, and they can't be forced. Two people with Xiang Yong, four horses entered Tong'an County before the city gate closed, Tong'an County has a regimental training branch, there are four Xiang Yong on duty at night, Tong Liang came to Tong'an County, most of them live here.

The reason why Tong Liang attaches great importance to Tong'an County is because once a war breaks out, Yin Quan is likely to use Tong'an County as a breakthrough. The distance between Tong'an and Jiangzhou is not far, although there is a dangerous jade valley in the middle, it is only more than 100 miles away. Even though the road is steep and difficult to walk, if the enemy uses a light attack, it is enough to reach the west gate of Jiangzhou City in one day and one night.

Even if Jiangzhou can't be taken quickly, the enemy has already approached the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city are probably unstable. Besides, if Yin Quan's army occupied Tong'an, instead of taking Yuluan Valley, he could also go north along Tong'an County, and then detour more than 300 miles, completely bypassing the dangerous Yuluan Mountain, and coming back from the north to attack Jiangzhou County.

And from Jiangzhou County to the south to walk more than 200 miles is the southwest road Yuzhou City, between Jiangzhou and Yuzhou there is only one county town of Youtong, the city wall of Youtong County is low, not enough to use force, between Youtong and Jiangzhou there is only a Yuluan River barrier, the rest are some small hills, and it can not play much role in tactics. Therefore, the southern gate of Jiangzhou is difficult to hold.

Once Tong'an is lost, the enemy army will make a detour to the north of the city, and there will also be enemy troops in the south of the city, and Jiangzhou will be attacked by the enemy. Therefore, Tong'an is a place where the two families must fight, and it is also a place that Jiangzhou must defend, and there is no joke. Tong Liang once repeatedly deduced and calculated with Jin Junshou and others on the sand table that Tong'an might eventually be lost, but before it was lost, it should try to achieve the role of attrition and blocking the army of Yin Quan's side.

The next morning, Luo Zhengyong of Tong'an Zhixian County heard that Tong Liang, the head of the regimental training, had come to Tong'an County, and specially sent someone to invite him.

Although the head of the Jiangzhou regimental training is not a formal official, the Jiangzhou regimental training envoy is the county guard Jin Dazhong himself, Jin Dazhong is busy with official business, and he has no time to take care of the regimental training, and the daily affairs are all in charge of this child instructor. And this Tong Jiao Tou and Jin Junshou's nephew Jin Yunzhang have a bad relationship, and the Jin family even sent Dou Yannian, the head of the nursing home, to protect the Tong Jiao Tou, how can the county master not have a good relationship with this Tong Jiao Tou?

Tong Liang was treated in this kind of over-specification treatment in the seven counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou, because the county magistrate and the head of the regimental training had no conflict of interest. Tong Liang is not arrogant, if he doesn't have the support of Tang Jiusheng and Jin Junshou, he is nothing more than a poor talent from Tianchang City, who will take him seriously?

Now the opportunity is in front of us, it is a fool not to work hard to do a good job in the regimental training, and those who are good at building will not pull out, and now while they are still in a state of peace, train the villagers to build a good city

Prevention, on the day of the outbreak of war in the future, he will not be controlled by others, Tong Liang understands these truths better than anyone else. In the evening, Luozhi County invited Tong Jiaotou to go to the Qinglou to drink flower wine, and Tong Liang naturally went happily.

Tong Liang stayed in Tong'an for two days, nothing more than to check the daily training and recruitment of the practitioners. At present, the biggest problem in regimental training is still that there is a shortage of funds, and in order to fight a war and train troops, it is necessary to have money, and weapons, bows and crossbows, grain, grass, and equipment must be spent everywhere.

And the regimental training is not a regular army, there is no military salary, and you have to find a way to solve it yourself, and Tong Liang is also very troubled. Although the seven county magistrates have given a certain degree of support, it is still far from enough.

Two days later, Tong Liang and Dou Yannian returned to Jiangzhou County, and returned to the Jiangzhou League Training Office, where the Jiangzhou League Training Office was located on De'an Street in the county seat, not showing the mountains and water, three or five sect heads, five or six hundred people, originally a militia group, compared to the regular army, so it is more important to keep a low profile.

Recently, there is a person who is very interesting to Tong Liang, that is, a little guy who came from Quxiong County, Hengjiang County, Southwest Province to join the army, named Li Dazhui, this child is born with divine powers. Li Dazhui took a letter of recommendation written by Xin Zhiping, which said that Li Dazhui had no father and mother, was an orphan, and was a child that Xin Zhiping met when he went to Quxiong County to break the magic altar and get the Red Flame Spirit Stone.

Tong Liang knew that Xin Zhiping was Tang Jiusheng's friend, and he was also interested in helping the country, and he also helped Tang Jiusheng do a lot of things together, so he happily accepted Li Dazhui and left him in the regimental training office in Jiangzhou City to do things.

When Li Dazhui first came, this little guy only had natural divine power, and martial arts were basically nothing, Tong Liang tried with him, as long as he was not allowed to get close, he could easily defeat him with martial arts skills.

But after Li Dazhui stayed in Jiangzhou for more than two months, Tong Liang found that this little guy's ability was obviously good, not only could he not defeat him, but he would also suffer under his hands, he suspected that there was a master secretly teaching Li Dazhui martial arts, but Li Dazhui smiled and did not say no.

After being rescued by Yang Quansheng in Hejia Village two days ago, Tong Liang guessed in his heart that Li Dazhui's martial arts were most likely taught by Yang Quansheng. But Li Dazhui didn't say it, Tong Liang didn't ask, why bother asking so much, as long as Li Dazhui can practice martial arts well, it will be beneficial to his own side when a war breaks out in the future, then it's okay!

Tong Liang watched the practitioners practice the stabbing techniques and formations on the martial arts arena of the regimental training office, and was very satisfied. Several leaders of the regimental training office have their own division of labor, some are responsible for teaching guns and sticks, some are responsible for teaching sword techniques, some teach formations, and some teach bows and crossbows. Generally speaking, Tong Liang is quite satisfied with this group training office, but he feels that the number of people who practice Yong is far from meeting his requirements.

In order to hide people's eyes, Tong Liang maintained his excellent style, ran to the Qinglou every three or five days, mingled with the Oiran, eat, drank and had fun, of course, there are people in Qinglou this kind of place, it is especially convenient to collect intelligence, and they all say that scholars do not go out, they know the world, and Qinglou is almost the same, all kinds of things can be heard here.

But if you always run to the Qinglou, your reputation will be worried, and Tong Liang just wants to achieve this self-defiling effect, so he doesn't mind, and most outsiders think that the head of the group training surnamed Tong is a gangster who relies on his friends to eat.

Tong Liang finished watching the drills of the Lian Yong, and returned to the flower hall of the Tuanlian Office to drink tea, and while he was drinking tea, Li Dazhui hurriedly ran in from outside, "Brother Tong, Brother Tong, someone outside the gate of the office is looking for you, saying that he is the owner of Liancheng Commercial Bank, called Gu Wenyong, Brother Tong, do you see him or not?"

Liancheng Commercial Bank is one of the few big commercial houses in Jiangzhou, there are semicolons in several provinces in the southwest, the Gu family is extremely powerful in Jiangzhou and Jiannan Province, and he has no friendship with Gu Wenyong, why does this Gu Wenyong want to see him? Tong Liang groaned slightly, it is definitely not a bad thing for such a rich family to see himself, then let's see it! Tong Liang got up and went out with Dou Yannian and a sledgehammer.

There was not much time, and Gu Wenyong was let into the living room, Gu Wenyong was a middle-aged fat man in a square scarf and wide clothes, his fat eyes were almost narrowed, and he spoke very kindly, if no one introduced him, he would never have imagined that this fat man was not only one of the richest people in Jiangzhou, but also a showman.

Tong Liang and Gu Wenyong sat down separately, Tong Liang personally poured tea for Gu Wenyong, and greeted each other a few more times

sentence, Tong Liang went straight to the point, and asked: "Brother Gu, we have never met, let alone have any friendship, your sudden visit is really surprising, the younger brother is very flattered!

Gu Wenyong snorted, "Brother Tong, to be honest, I also have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace! I heard that my brother's ancestral home is Tianchang, how long has my brother been in Jiangzhou?

Tong Liang said with a smile: "My brother is twenty-three years old this year, his ancestral home is indeed Tianchang, and he has been in Jiangzhou for more than three months!

Gu Wenyong coughed twice, and stopped talking, as if he had something to say but it was not easy to say.

Tong Liang smiled: "Brother Gu, you don't have to be restrained, if you have anything to say, it doesn't hurt to say anything!"

Gu Wenyong said at this time: "Brother Tong, I can't hide it, I came today for my sister! I have a younger sister named Gu Wenqin, who is eighteen years old this year, and she has always refused to marry at home, and my father and mother are worried! My sister is not an ordinary person, she has set an ambition since she was a child, and she will not marry a talented person. In the past few years, the people who have come to propose marriage have broken through the threshold, but the sister can't look down on any of them, either because they are relying on the shadow of their ancestors, or because they dislike that they have no talent and ambition, and they keep saying that they want to find a talented man in the world!

Tong Liang smiled dumbly and asked, "Could it be that Brother Gu is here to propose marriage to Sister Ling? Sister Ling has taken a fancy to who in our regimental training office? Brother can be recommended on his behalf!"

Gu Wenyong nodded and said: "The inferior brother is here for the sake of the sister's family, and the sister's eye is you, Brother Tong!"

Tong Liang felt very surprised, and asked with a smile: "Brother Gu, Tong is not high, his reputation is not obvious, except for reading a few sage books, he has no long skills, and Ling Mei has never seen me, how can he take a fancy to me?"

Gu Wenyong shook his head and said: "Brother Tong, you don't know, the sister saw you in the county guard yamen a few days ago, the sister and Miss Jin Yulan, the niece of Lord Jin, are friends, and often go to the back house of the county guard yamen to play, one day you and Jin Yunzhang Jin Xianggong chatted together, talking highly, talking about current affairs, the political situation, and their own ambitions, the sister overheard it on the side, and since then she has been devoted to you and swears that you will not marry!"

Tong Liang was speechless for a moment, Li Dazhui stood aside and snickered, Dou Yannian's face was strange, Gu Wenyong looked at Tong Liang with blank eyes, waiting for him to reply. Tong Liang hesitated, this is really an accident, if there is such a big local family as a backer like the Gu family, this group training work will be much easier, but I have already been optimistic about the Shi family's Shi Cuihua girl before, what can I do?

Seeing Tong Liang hesitating, Dou Yannian joked on the side: "Tong Xianggong, I have also seen this Mr. Gu's sister from afar, and she looks quite good, it is rare to have vision, I think you might as well just follow!" Dou Yannian was afraid that Tong Liang would refuse Gu Wenyong's personal proposal because of Shi Cuihua.

Gu Wenyong and Li Dazhui listened to Dou Yannian's words and laughed together. Tong Liang thought for a long time, coughed twice, and said with some embarrassment: "Brother Gu, marriage is also a major event in life, if a brother marries a wife, not only family background, not only appearance, only virtue, since Ling Mei looks at each other with blue eyes, and my brother is also interested in this marriage, then there must be a matchmaker, tomorrow I will ask the county guard to come to your house to propose, how about it?"

Dou Yannian was overjoyed when he heard that Tong Liang did not refuse, Gu Wenyong was also overjoyed, and Li Dazhui said happily: "Then we have a happy wine to drink?"

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After sending Gu Wenyong away, Dou Yannian said with a smile: "Tong Xianggong, I'm really afraid that you will refuse this marriage, this is a great help! You said two days ago that you wanted to marry Shi Cuihua, I am really afraid that you will refuse Gu Wenyong without asking!"

Tong Liang said with a smile: "Dou Jiaotou, you don't know, although I Tong Liang has ambition, but I am a person who can bend and stretch, and I am not confused, can't I marry Shi Cuihua if I marry the daughter of the Gu family? I heard that Brother Xiao Tang also married a folk girl named Xu Dongmei as a side concubine, can't I marry another one? The original plan can only be a plan, after all, the plan has not changed quickly, right?"

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