There was a rustling sound in the room. Li opened his eyes as if he felt something, then stood up and sat up and looked out the still dim window. While picking up a piece of clothing to put on Dong Mao, he persuaded and complained in a low voice...

"It's not dawn yet. Even if the tiger baby wants to train his soldiers today, the husband will have to wait for dawn."

Before she could fumble on the fire, the maid had already pushed the door and walked in with a lantern, pushing the door and lowering her head.

Li didn't care about the maid walking in, and suddenly pulled his arm and said, "Husband, why don't you find another helper?"

Dong Mao frowned and laughed again: "Don't think about it, you will cause trouble for your father-in-law."

Li said a little dissatisfied: "My husband is very kind and unwilling to fight with others, but Hua Xiong really thinks about his husband's goodness? Isn't he just having a good relationship with him?"

Dong Mao smiled bitterly in his heart, and he knew who "he" was, and he showed a glorious feeling of comfort.

"Don't worry, Madam is not ignorant of Huwa's ability. General Hua Xiong dares not bully us."

Li stared at her dissatisfiedly, but she knew the ability of "Lintao Tiger".

"I know Huwa's ability, but..."

Dong Mao patted Li's back twice and said with a smile: "Madam, have you ever wondered why my mother refused her second brother to join the mercenary? Is it really as A mother said?"

Li was shocked and hurriedly grabbed him and asked, "Is it because Huwa doesn't like his second brother?"

Dong Mao sighed and said, "Dad, uncle, and uncle are all generals of the battle formation. Do you also know what kind of character of your second brother is? Do we have people who are familiar with writing and strategy?"

The three Dong Zhuo brothers were naughty when they were young and did not study hard. When they grew up, they realized their shortcomings. It was too late to become a "famous scholar".

Li knew about the Dong family's mess, and without thinking about it, he shook his head and was a little puzzled about why Dong Mao said these words, so he had to listen patiently.

"My father is not good at writing and writing, so our family needs a counselor like his brother-in-law."

Dong Mao frowned and said, "Xu Rong was the father who was conquered in Bingzhou. His ability to command troops should be the leader of the generals, and then his brother-in-law, Li Jue, Guo Si and other generals."

Dong Mao grabbed Li's white and tender palm and smiled and said, "General Xu Rong followed his father the earliest and had the greatest ability. But madam, General Xu Rong is from Xuantu, Liaodong, and his brother-in-law, Li Jue, and Guo Si are all considered from Xiliang. The status of brother-in-law is different. If there is no interest in dispute, it would be fine. Once the quarrel starts, who will they...including their second brother, who will they help?"

Li was shocked. He had never thought about these things. He watched a group of people coming and going at the school every day, nor did he see both sides making trouble...

"The brother-in-law has a status of respect for the rest of the generals because of her second sister. Moreover, her brother-in-law is more inclined to advisers and is as timid as a husband. Even if he has some disputes with General Xu, he will not really tear his face. The two generals, Li Jue and Guo Si, are a little different. One is a person who repeatedly robs the army, and the other is a bandit for robbery. If it weren't for his father's rescue, the two might have already chopped their heads. What if they had a dispute with General Xu?"

"General Guo is like this, and General Hua Xiong, who had just been taken over by his father, had just received a captain in his school in less than a month."

Dong Huang sighed, "My father has not yet resumed his post. All the generals under his name are the same family generals. He will not be dissatisfied. However, General Hua Xiong led a large group of 500 soldiers because of the expansion of the army. In terms of qualifications, General Hua Xiong could not compare with Xu Rong, brother-in-law and others, but he took the lead in leading a single soldier. How could they be satisfied?"

"It's the latest to get started with the weak and the average. The second brother has the same temperament. If others are not satisfied with General Hua Xiong, how could the second brother offend everyone for one person?"

Only then did Li understand what was going on, and then asked: "Why did your husband say that Xu Rong, Hua Xiong will surrender to your husband?"

Dong Mao thought about it carefully, shook his head and said, "Anyone with some skills will not easily join the sect of the vanish people. General Xu Rong will probably have a gap with his brother-in-law and others in the future, but this does not mean that he will choose us. It is more beneficial to just obey Ah Father. Moreover, Ah Father is more willing to have someone around him who can compete with his brother-in-law and others. But General Hua Xiong... According to Ah Moon's words yesterday, General Hua Xiong should have prepared for us."

No matter how much Dong's son looks down on his own, he is his own son after all. He has worked hard to kill him for half his life, and is really willing to give everything to outsiders?

Dong Mao had realized something yesterday. If he had not been forced by his worries and was forced by his aggrieved wife, he would not have said these words.

I remembered something again, for fear that she would anger her father Dong Zhuo, and said seriously: "Break Qiang and burn down the Qiang rebellion. Although the court has not yet sent troops to quell the rebellion, Longxi County will definitely be in chaos for a while. My father-in-law's county magistrate spent 20 million yuan to buy it. If she really angered her father or messed up Longxi County, the court will definitely blame your Li family for all the mistakes."

"So, we must not let our father-in-law intervene in the mercenary. We must not only not intervene, but also provide some support as much as possible."

When Dong Mao thought of what Li heard a few days ago, he felt a sigh...

"You were also here to listen to the words Huwa said to Ah Father in the backyard. Whether you defect to the court's civil and military service or to the ten regular attendants of the inner court, you will not be able to get a good end in the end. When the court is increasingly fiercely fighting, the states and counties in the world have been divided into two waves, either one or the other. In this way, it is particularly difficult to protect yourself."

"I just don't expect Huwa to find another way for my husband. As Huwa said, Empress He and Marquis Shi are the only targets that both sides strive for. If Ah Father got the protection of the queen, there would be no hidden worries behind it since then. And his father-in-law was different. He spent 20 million yuan to buy the position of prefect of Longxi County. From the perspective of the Qingliu people in the court, his father-in-law is already a disciple of the ten regular attendants of the inner court. If there is any mistake, how could the civil and military officials in the court let his father-in-law go easily?"

"But if you have a good friend to Ah Father, even if there is a mistake in the chaos in Longxi, you can spend money to ask for help from the queen to save the lives of the old and young family."

Li's face was slightly pale, with a lot of fear in his eyes, and he held his arm tightly and begged with a look on his face.

Dong Mao sighed in his heart. The two families were indecipherable. The Li family of Didao was richer than the Dong family in Lintao, but they were shorter than force, so they were not qualified to fight against the Dong family in Lintao.

According to the rules of Emperor Liu Hong, the court officials would have to pay 20 million yuan for their salary of 2,000 stones, which would be doubled if they were local officials in prefectures and counties.

In Dong Hu's eyes, Longxi County is an important border area. Such places are not only poor but also the people are brave and unafraid of death. The people are of such a temperament, and there are even more powerful people with different numbers of Ding's generals. If you want to scrape the land like the Central Plains Prefectures and County, it is a matter of no one to think about it. Even Dong Zhuo dared not do this.

In this case, who would like to buy such a poor and dangerous prefect?

Emperor Liu Hong openly marked the price and sold official positions in Xiyuan, and he could only be an official for one year. Didao and Li Kuan were naturally unwilling to spend 20 million yuan to buy a loss-making official, but he was the same as Meng Tuo, the governor of Liangzhou. It was impossible not to buy it. The eunuchs would force you to buy until you squeezed you dry.

Li Kuan needs the support of the Dong family and wants to suppress it, just like killing a chicken to scare the monkey. After all, 20 million yuan was spent, and he wanted to pay more or less. After suppressing Dong Zhuo, he would also be more smooth when he asked others for money, right?

Of course, Dong Zhuo would not pay attention to Li Kuan. Li originally thought that mercenaries were an opportunity. One wanted his men to be valued by the Dong family, and the other wanted his parents' Li family to be able to escape the control of the eunuchs. The Li family in the province also became the bankrupt Meng Tuo.

But when Dong Mao said this, she realized how dangerous her parents' family was.

Dong Mao knew her thoughts and was worried, but he had already said enough, and he was unwilling to let Didao Li's family climb to the top of the Dong family, and he was even more unwilling to let the Dong family break up because of his own reasons.

...

Dong Mao did not put on iron armor, but asked the servant to lead the mule out. When he first walked into the gate of the mansion, he was surprised that Hua Xiong was waiting outside the mansion.

Looking up at the sky, Dong Mao smiled and said, "General Hua Xiong hasn't eaten yet, right?"

Hua Xiong clasped his fists and said, "I had already eaten some when I came, but I didn't expect the eldest son to get up so early."

Dong Mao shook his head in his heart, and climbed up the mule with Hua Xiong's support. Several servants carefully helped him tie a bandage like a horse boot to his legs and feet.

Dong Mao tried his legs and couldn't help but smile and said, "No, what Huwa made is really good."

The servant was afraid that he would fall down and led the way with a mule in front of him. Hua Xiong also turned over and rode a war horse to protect him.

"General Hua Xiong has had some days in the city. Could he go to the Huwa shop to eat a bowl of mutton offal?"

Hua Xiong shook his head and did not speak. He was neither stupid nor stupid. He started late. Dong Hu beat Niu Fu Li Jue, Guo Si and others up. If he ran to Baba to eat sheep offal, wouldn’t it be too hated?

Dong Mao seemed to not know Hua Xiong's difficulties and said with a smile: "A few years ago, no one here wanted to eat sheep miscellaneous food, which is funny. At the beginning, we were not optimistic about the sheep miscellaneous food that Huwa made. It was indeed as expected. Few people were willing to eat it. Huwa had to find a group of beggar dolls outside the city to make face."

"But that's a strange thing. He really lets him revitalize the sheep restaurant, and it has become the best-business restaurant in Lintao. It would be a pity if General Hua Xiong didn't eat it last time."

Hua Xiong was unwilling to say that the Han Dynasty had epidemics almost every year. Some were smallpox, some were diarrhea, some were toad plague, some were flu, and some were red eye disease...

Either there is a temporary epidemic here, or there is an outbreak, or even a few times a year. Sometimes epidemics are life-threatening, while others are less harmful, which also causes no one to eat animal internal organs. Not only does it feel dirty, but it also lacks salt, oil, seasoning, and not much taste. It also has a strange smell of internal organs, so naturally no one likes to eat them.
Chapter completed!