"Dong, dun, dun..."

The bronze bells in Fuguang Temple in the west of Feng'an City rang out. At this time, half of the full moon was still hanging in the west, but the red light of the rising sun had dyed the morning glow of the east. Eight                                                                                                  �

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Yang Hao didn't sleep all night again. Last dinner, the military reclamation plan formulated by the Fengzhou Governor's Office, together with the General Staff Department, and the Military Affairs Department, was finally placed on his desk after seven or eight revisions. This made Yang Hao a little embarrassed. He had already agreed to spend the night in the Xiaoyu room, so would he break the appointment again?

These days, she has been busy and has not gone to the backyard for a long time. Qing'er can tolerate it. Lu Rui is a newly married woman and is still timid, but Xiaoyu cannot. She is the kind of person who can't hide something in her heart. When she was having dinner two days ago, she suddenly remembered something business and was stunned for a moment, which made the little girl very angry and confiscated her bowl and refused to eat.

But Yang Hao finally broke the appointment, and the problem of tens of thousands of people eating was not allowed to be delayed at all. In order to prevent Xiaoyu from coming over in the middle of the night, Yang Hao called several clerks to sit in the study, while he read the 76-page "Fengzhou Military Reclamation Strategy" at night.

It can be seen that Zhang Huchen, Ling Tong, Li Tong and others are very attentive to this matter. It should be said that it is very difficult to get such a substantial strategy so tight. The land location, soil quality, water conservancy, roads, crops, costs, manpower, and management agencies are described very well. But from the perspective of modern system management, the shortcomings of this plan are also obvious. This consumes a lot of Yang Hao's energy. When he lists all the problems one by one, he unknowingly uses ten notes. Of course, this is nothing. His words are already written very much, and he always likes to visit each other in a mess. Ten notes are just a thousand words.

Perhaps because the Librarian and the Little Officials were present, Xiaoyu didn't come to make trouble all night, Yang Hao felt a little sorry for her. Therefore, when the morning bell rang, he put down what he was doing, beat the Librarian and the Librarians to go back to sleep, and he pushed open the corner door and went to the backyard to visit Xiaoyu.

There were lights in the side hall, and a rustling sound came: Xiaoyu, Qing'er, Lu Rui and the maid Dongyu were playing mahjong together. His eyes were red, his yawned, and his hands were a little stiff when they shuffled.

Mahjong was drawn by Yang Hao and asked Guan Suo to find craftsmen to make it, and taught it to them by himself.

Because they had to be careful of the assassin, the three of them had to stay at home all day long. Yang Hao was afraid that they were bored, so he thought of this method to kill time for them. Unexpectedly, the three of them were so addicted to learning mahjong that they were so addicted to it. They pestered Yang Hao and played with them all day long. There was no way, so Yang Hao had to pull his maid Dongyu in to make up the number. The four of them had fun from now on.

The maid Dongyu got this job and even didn't pour water or take care of her. She seemed to be the hostess number 4. She was so envious that the eyes of the mothers outside were bleeding.

When Qing'er saw Yang Hao coming in, she smiled and said, "What day is it today? Is the sun coming out from the west? Are you willing to come back so early?"

Lu Rui looked out the door and said, "It's a ghost, it's not dark yet."

Dongyu suddenly screamed: "No! It's dawn, my God, we've been fighting all night."

Xiaoyu ran out of the door in panic and looked at it. When he came back, he stared at Yang Hao with a frost on his face. Yang Hao shrugged and hummed proudly.

"Dongyu quickly clean up the table." Qing'er's voice was a little panicked. As the hostess, she took her concubines and maids to play mahjong all night, and she still felt a little guilty.

"Dongyu should get water to wash your face." Lu Rui shouted. She heard people say that the people who stayed up late had yellow and black faces and had spots. She ran to the mirror in a panic and looked at her face carefully. It seemed that she really had melasma.

"Dongyu quickly ask Mr. Guan to bring breakfast. Don't let me be hungry." Qing'er always put Yang Hao first in her heart.

Dongyu ran around and didn't know where to run, and his feet fell and his butt fell to the ground.

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Yang Hao had breakfast with the four of them, and after the meal, he criticized Qing'er without saying a name: Even if you can't go out, you can't stay in your house all day long. You can go to the yard to exercise your muscles and bones and breathe fresh air. You sit and play mahjong all day long, can you compare who will become a yellow-faced woman first?

Qing'er lowered her head and said without saying a word. After dinner, Yang Hao advised all four of them to go back to their room to take a nap. Lu Rui ran the fastest, and Qing'er explained a few things and went back.

Only Xiaoyu stared at Yang Hao with a smile. Seeing that Yang Hao had no intention of refusing, he happily hooked up his fingers and pulled his prey back to the room.

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Yang Hongyang and Yangshan arrived at the Fengzhou Defense Envoy's Office at noon, and Yang Hao had not yet gotten up.

Yang Hao was only going to take a nap and get up, but the military reclamation incident was like a huge rock in his heart, making him breathless.

"We have to confirm the plan as soon as possible..."

When Xiaoyu was soaking and beating hard, he thought so. Afterwards, he still thought so, but his body was extremely tired and could not help but lie in Xiaoyu's arms and fell asleep drowsyly. Then he slept until the sun was noon.

It was lunch time, and the two of them had not yet got up. Qing'er had to send Dongyu to call him. Yang Hao sat softly in front of the dressing mirror and asked Xiaoyu to comb his hair. The doorman suddenly reported that a guest in Linzhou was here, and Yang Hao was still confused. Yang Shan had already rushed in. He hugged Yang Hao without caring about Xiaoyu in his nightgown, and he hugged Yang Hao without caring about the embarrassment of Xiaoyu in his nightgown.

Qing'er, who was busy setting up a meal outside, learned that Yang Hongyang and Yangshan were both Yang Hao's classmates in the Assassinate and sworn brothers, so she asked Mr. Guan to order a banquet to the best Fuxiang Building in the city. Yang Hongyang smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, don't have to go and do it. We brothers only need to have wine. It's better for us to eat separately so as not to disturb you."

After Qing'er found out the identities of the two sisters Li Yunlai and Li Moli, she said, "Since my uncle doesn't mind, I'm not polite." She said to Mr. Guan, "You should always accompany them. I'll accompany the two sisters." She secretly told Mr. Guan: "Stop it, don't let him get drunk again." Mr. Guan smiled and said, "Madam, just go, there is an old man staring at him, and this is foolproof."

The banquet was held, and after drinking a walk, they talked about some things after their separation. It turned out that Yang Hongyang and Yangshan had a full military service in July of that year, and both of them worked in Qianniuwei first. Soon Yangshan was transferred to Shaoyang Courtyard to be the prince's personal follower, while Yang Hongyang was sent to Linzhou to serve in Linzhou Tuanzheng Office.

Yang Hao asked the two: "Which family did you do you do to save people this time?"

Yangshan said: "It was the prince who asked me to do it. I don't think I can do it alone, so I asked my second brother for help."

Yang Hao asked again: "Why did Your Highness the Crown Prince save her two? The Eastern Palace is only in his teens this year, so he should have no friendship with Li Zhongcheng."

Yang Hongyang said, "This matter is a long story. Li Zhongcheng's palace was killed by the eunuch party last year. The whole family and the young all stabbed Shen Ce Youjun as slaves, and the two ladies were even punished as camp prostitutes. Fortunately, his Majesty was kind to him and brought her into the palace to live. Unexpectedly, this incident caused a misunderstanding from Wei Mo and Wei Shiyi. The old man misunderstood that His Majesty was greedy for women and advised him in person several times. His Majesty had no choice but to send her out of the palace. Qiu Shiliang's party members immediately sold her to the eight lanes of Linzhou, and were bought by Youlida as a prostitute. The Eastern Palace was very sad when he heard about it, so he ordered us to try to rescue him. He arranged for me to go to Linzhou to find out the news nearby, and then sent my third brother to rescue him. God was pitiful, so he made me succeed."

Yang Shan asked Yang Hongyang in surprise and said, "What? It was the arrangement of the prince's arrival in Linzhou. Why don't you tell me that you have to plead for you in front of the prince?"

Yang Hongyang blushed and said, "Third brother, I apologize to you. It was because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was afraid that you would miss it, so he didn't let me tell you the truth."

After hearing this, Yang Hao nodded silently and thought to himself: "It is said that the prince is young and does not care about his affairs, and he is very criticized. But from this matter, he is actually a good crown prince with courage, strategy, and a kind heart. It seems that some people fabricated the rumors outside to maliciously slander him."

Yangshan drank some wine, blushed, and said to Yang Hao: "I have a big gift for my elder brother. I wonder if I want to get it."

Yang Hao smiled: "Do you want me to fight Youlida? This man is not easy to deal with. He was originally a garrison lord of Shuofang Town. He was exiled for his crime. He was beaten to death and escorted the donor to escape from the army. He became a bandit in Linzhou. In seven or eight years, he annexed more than a dozen bandits in Hezhong, known as the "Northwest King". He robbed his family and robbed the city and broke the village, and was lawless. No one in Linzhou could govern the officials. Shuofang, Xiasui, Hedong and other towns had sent troops to conquer and suppress them, but in the end he returned without success."

Yangshan said: "I believe that Linzhou cannot defeat him. I believe that Shuofang, Xiasui, and Hedong cannot defeat him. People look down on him. The horse bandit was so eccentric that it was so amazing. He set up a mule and horse market in Xiao Chang'an, and traded the women and boys they snatched as animals. It would not be tolerated in such a manner! If such a person did not launch troops to wipe out the enemy, he would be a waste of life."

Yang Hongyang smiled and said, "You are here again. Do you want to borrow soldiers from your elder brother to take over his nest?"

Yang Shan became even more excited when he heard this, and he pulled up his arm and shouted, "If Brother is willing to lend me five hundred troops, I will take him immediately!"

Yang Hao looked at Yang Shan, who was childish and had a childish look on his face, and touched his strong back and said, "I'm going to send troops to suppress him, but I didn't know the depth for a while and didn't dare to do it."

Yang Hao's words were not casual and appropriate words. Even if the military reclamation strategy can be implemented smoothly this winter, it will be a year later. The so-called far-reaching water cannot quench near thirst. What should I do this winter? What should I do next spring? Where do tens of thousands of people get the food and clothing for the winter?!

Yang Hao originally planned to borrow some more silver and grain from a large Fengzhou household like Wang Rentong, but except for Wang Rentong's promise to borrow 30,000 taels of silver, the other large households were unwilling to let go. There was no way, Yang Hao could only turn his eyes to the ghost towns scattered around Fengzhou, just like Meng Bochang did before, snatching food from the wolf's mouth. But after suffering several losses, these ghost towns became energetic. They formed an alliance to protect and advance and retreat together. One attack and a hundred rescues made Yang Hao quite afraid.

In addition, Yang Hao also had a problem. Although the people in the ghost city did not have a household registration in the Tang Dynasty, they were all Han people in the Central Plains. Some of them were doing business without capital robberies, but most of them lived on farming and grazing and operating handicrafts. They were strangled without any worries, and they really couldn't bear it.

Just when he was in a dilemma, Wu Chenglong suddenly arrived in Feng'an again. The purpose of his trip was to urge Yang Hao to send troops to wipe out the horse bandits active in the Hezhong area, such as You Lida.

Fengzhou, Shengzhou, Zhenwu Army and other border towns purchase hundreds of thousands of stones of grain from Hedong and Guanzhong every year. In order to ensure the safety of grain transportation, various trading companies support a huge guard team. In addition, they also have to pay a lot of money to manage military and town officials along the way. Even so, the grain transported every year is still robbed by the horse bandits from the Thirteenth League of Hezhong Village, the most greedy one is You Lida, a bandit entrenched in Xiao Chang'an.

Wu Chenglong told Yang Hao that Haotian Trading Company was determined to intervene in the big business of selling military rations. The governments in various places had completed the management, and some bandits had also asked the Mosha killer to remove them. Only Youlida did not enter the oil and salt, and did not eat the soft and hard. He could not kill him or buy him. His appetite was amazing and he wanted to ask the official army to eliminate him. The town could not defeat him. Many officials in the big towns such as Shuofang and Hedong were bribed by him and were unwilling to send troops to clear him.

Wu Chenglong said that as long as Yang Hao sent troops to suppress the bandits, the food and salary would be resolved by Haotian Trading Company. After the matter was completed, there would be another thanks.

Yang Hao settled down Wu Chenglong and temporarily settled down, summoned Ling Tong, Zhang Yannian, Li Tong, Yu Chong, Zhuang Yunqing and others overnight to discuss. Li Tong and Zhang Yannian agreed to send troops to fight. Zhuang Yunqing opposed the situation of the bandits on the grounds that it was not easy to advance rashly. Ling Tong was worried that the central part of the Lin army might take advantage of the situation after the southern expedition.

Yang Hao was unable to make up his mind because of this.

Now, from the fact that Yang Hongyang and Yangshan went deep into the tiger's den to rescue the Li sisters, You Lida and Xiao Chang'an seem not as strong as they imagined. Perhaps Wu Chenglong is right. The reason why You Lida has been able to live freely for so many years is not because his troops are so strong that no one dares to fight, but because he is good at dissipating wealth and skillfully dealing with it.

When Yangshan heard that Yang Hao was willing to send troops, he smiled boldly and said, "No need for me to do anything, give me five hundred heroes, I will definitely bring You Lida's head to offer you."

Yang Hao smiled but said nothing, looking at Yang Hongyang. Yang Hongyang pondered for a moment and asked, "It is not difficult to destroy You Lida, but it is definitely not a matter of half a moment. Can the eldest brother's backyard be stable?" Yang Hao knew that he was asking if Fengzhou would be in chaos after sending troops to suppress the bandits.

So he said, "In August, Meng Bochang and I fought with the Uighurs in Fengzhou. The middle of the forest suffered more than 5,000 soldiers and generals. He led Xiao Qijin seriously injured and was bedridden. I think they would be unable to go south this winter and next spring. As for the Baishui Fox of the Wutu tribe, I dare not explain what he will be like in the next year, but he will not make any moves this winter. As for Wang Qian and Liu Mian, our three families have completed peace of mind, and you can rest assured within one or two years. The rear of Fengzhou is very stable."

Yang Hongyang asked again: "The horse bandit is like a cunning fox, and it is difficult to catch it when it comes and goes like the wind. Does the elder brother have any hawks chasing foxes?"

Yang Hao said: "I have the fourth battalion of the Ghost Army, and they are all masters of fox hunting."

Yangshan saw the two of them talking like a puzzle, and shouted impatiently: "What are you waiting for? Little Changan is piled up like a mountain of gold and silver. If you don't send troops, you will be able to go."

Yang Hongyang also stood up and said, "I'm so big brother sent troops to suppress bandits, I'm willing to be the vanguard."

Yang Hao asked: "It is appropriate to see how many soldiers you send?"

Yang Hongyang spreads his five fingers: "Five thousand people."

Yangshan shouted: "It's not necessary to use so many people. You Lida only has a thousand people, and five hundred people are enough to defeat him!"

Yang Hongyang smiled and said, "The more troops sent, the fewer people will eat idle food in the rear. The autumn is bright and cool, so it's just right to go out to train troops."

Yang Hao applauded: "Follow this plan to suppress the bandits."

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Chapter completed!