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When he saw the mountains of silver ingots piled up in Youlida's silver warehouse, Yang Hao completely understood the true meaning of this sentence. He never expected that a bandit would have such a huge fortune. The silver stored in this treasury alone would be less than 200,000 taels of silver, and Youlida actually owned five such silver warehouses.

"Cai, brother, we are rich." Yang Hao was so excited that he almost jumped up, like a hungry person who had been waiting to swallow a large piece of food immediately when he saw it.

But Yang Hongyang calmly picked up a silver ingot, cut off a corner with a knife, pinched it on his fingertips and looked carefully. The silver was of great quality, and more than half of it was authentic official silver.

"This Youlida is like a ground mouse on the grassland. It's all meat when he sees the little killer. How about the big brother? Is this deal worth it?"

"It's worth it." Yang Hao is sincerely grateful to Yang Hongyang and Yangshan. If it weren't for the arrival of them, he might have been unable to make up his mind to destroy You Lida. He originally thought that a bandit like You Lida who had been in trouble for many years would definitely be a stinger that was difficult to deal with. But when he fought, it was not the case.

Yang Hao used Linzhou as a base, and five thousand troops spread out in a fan shape to fight the thirteen bandits entrenched in Hejian. The Thirteen Village collapsed instantly. You Lida gathered two thousand bandits to set up a formation at Xifeng Bridge northwest of Xiao Chang'an to fight a decisive battle with the Xining army. Yang Hao sent four battalions of the ghost army and two battalions of the tiger and leopard, the best fighting fierce battles among the Xining army, and fought fiercely with You Lida for a day. The bodies of soldiers killed on both sides almost blocked the bridge hole of Xifeng Bridge. At dusk, Yang Shan asked for his order to attack, and Yang Hao handed over his own battalion of the fire camp to him for command.

Yangshan adopted a breakthrough strategy in the middle and fought head-on, killing two of the most powerful generals under You Lida, Du Zhenliang and Wa Liangjin, in front of the formation. The morale of You Lida's coalition was severely frustrated. Yang Hongyang seized the opportunity and immediately launched a general attack from the flank. His move touched Yang Hao and had to take a gamble and press all the reserve teams on the entire line. The bandit army collapsed instantly, and dozens of leaders below You Lida were killed. You Lida abandoned his subordinates and fled into the desert with dozens of personal soldiers.

Yang Hao followed Yang Hongyang's advice and forced the battalions to station outside the city, and urgently dispatched the Jinfeng who was on guard against the outside world to guard Xiao Chang'an. Because the second battalions did not fight with the bandits and had not yet formed enemies, the soldiers, civilians and people in the city were protected.

Yang Hao was given extremely generous rewards and comforted to the participating battalions.

You Lida obviously did not expect that he would be defeated at his doorstep, so he had no time to take away the nearly one million taels of gold and silver and mountain of food from the silver warehouse. Even his mother, the concubine of the six-bedroom, and a son and three daughters. Yang Hao sealed the silver warehouse, the granary and his various transactions, but did not make things difficult for his family.

"Two brothers, how about the remaining silver in the banknote, except for rewarding the sergeants and dismissing women?"

Yang Hongyang, Yang Shan was stunned when he heard Yang Hao's words, and then he smiled strangely. Yang Hao was a little puzzled and wondered: What? I think it's too little? These two kids have a big appetite!

"Hahaha..." Yang Shan couldn't hold it in,

"Hahaha..." Yang Hongyang also laughed: "Brother, we don't want any of these things."

"You have made great contributions to winning Xiao Chang'an this time, and you deserve this money."

"Hey, what's the use of asking for money? I'm giving me such a lot of money, but I don't have a place to pile it up yet?" Yang Shan smiled silly, revealing a pair of little tiger teeth. He is not very clear about the importance of money at his age.

Yang Hongyang did not immediately express his opinion. He thought for a while and said, "If you don't mind, I will take 100,000 taels from here."

Yangshan asked disapprovingly: "Hey, second brother, what are you going to do?"

"It's not for me, it's for His Royal Highness."

After hearing this, Yangshan couldn't help but sigh: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is not having a good life. If this money can help him, brother, I will also need 100,000 taels."

Yang Hao said: "I understand the feelings of the two brothers, but there is a saying that I must say. A few days ago, I heard someone say that there was an undercurrent in the court that wanted to pull the East Palace off. I don't need to say much about the fierce internal struggles in the palace. It's not necessary for me to say much about the fierceness of the palace. We outsiders like us cannot understand the tricks, but I have experienced the dangers once. I advise you to think twice when encountering things and not to put yourself in unnecessary trouble."

Yang Hongyang nodded silently and kept silent. Yangshan said quickly: "Thank you, brother, for your reminder, but the prince is deeply in love with us. At this critical moment, we cannot leave him alone. I will just consider this money I borrowed from my brother."

Yang Hao said: "Don't say this third brother, don't say this. You can go back to Beijing first. When I look back, I will use a flying ticket to spread hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the Tiande Army stationed in Zuoyuan. If you need the money, just go to Zhang Cheng to ask for it. But you have to listen to me. You must hand over this money directly to the prince, and never use it for others."

The two responded, and Yang Hongyang said, "Li Zhongcheng's two ladies will ask their elder brother to take care of them for a while, and then come to pick them up after returning to Mingming."

Yang Hao smiled and said, "Don't worry, second brother, with them here, your three sisters-in-law will not bother me to play mahjong."

Yang Shan said: "Where did this mahjong brother learn? It's very interesting. I will give it to the prince, and he will definitely like it." Yang Hao replied casually: "I learned it from a Hu person. I think you should not offer to the prince, so as not to say that you are not good at it and lead the prince."

Yangshan said disapprovingly: "Brother, why do you think the prince is not a good person? Let me tell you the truth. The prince understands it in his heart. He is just pretending to be confused."

Yang Hongyang coughed twice when he heard this, lowered his voice and said, "You must not talk nonsense about this kind of thing." Yang Hao seemed to have something unspeakable in his words, but he did not ask. He was not interested in knowing what was happening in the palace.

The day after breaking through Chang'an, Yang Hongyang returned to Beijing to report his life. Apart from the money given by Yang Hao, the two of them did not take more than a tael of silver. Yangshan took away You Lida's eight horses and a pair of falcons and prepared to offer them to the prince as a gift.

It took Yang Hao a lot of trouble to transport one million taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of stones of grain to Feng'an. Before this, Yang Hao had the idea of ​​moving the Feng'an Defense Envoy to Xiao Chang'an. Feng'an is a small border town, and its area and population are not as large as Xiao Chang'an, and the city walls are not as high as Xiao Chang'an.

Little Chang'an is located on a desert oasis, with Lianghe around the city. The water volume is not large, but the use of water for tens of thousands of people is not a problem. The small town is surrounded by endless deserts, and to the west is six or seven hundred miles away from Lingzhou, the capital of Shuofang Town. The mountains are high and the roads are dangerous. The desert is connected to the Gobi, and the Gobi is next to the loess slope, which is a natural barrier to the road.

One hundred and eighty miles east is Linzhou, an isolated small city with a population of less than 10,000 and only a few hundred troops stationed, which does not pose any threat to Xiao Chang'an.

Going south through the desert is Xiasui. At this time, the entire Xiasui Town is controlled by Baoli Society. There is no threat to Xiao Chang'an.

But Yang Hao finally gave up the idea of ​​relocating the envoy. After all, this is the territory of Linzhou. As Fengzhou's defense envoy, it is always unreasonable to move the envoy to Linzhou. Moreover, Fengzhou guards the northern gate of the Tang Dynasty and has just been pacified, so he needs heavy troops to garrison. The most important thing is that Xiao Chang'an is not suitable for large-scale military reclamation.

This is a place where one should keep one's achievements but not enterprising.

However, given the special status of Xiao Chang'an, Yang Hao did not intend to return it to the Linzhou government. Yang Hao left two battalions to station Xiao Chang'an, and used this as a basis to continue to clear the bandits in the river and ensure the smooth flow of the north and south trade routes. In order to strengthen control over Xiao Chang'an and the surrounding areas, Yang Hao planned to build an official road, starting from Feng'an in the north and ending at Xiao Chang'an. There are inns and road guards on both sides of the official road to maintain public order.

Building a large amount of money is required, and setting up stations and road protection stations requires a large amount of money. You Lida can only be regarded as a big rat at best. Killing him can relieve his temporary hunger, but it cannot protect the long-term. The headache-inducing financial problems solve the urgent problem, but it is far from being completely solved.

After finalizing the final details of the military reclamation, Yang Hao turned his attention to the mining and the establishment of factories. He could think about it or do it in advance that he could not think about it a month ago. Yang Hao was preparing to go to Yongfeng to visit Wang Rentong in person and asked him to come out of the mountain to preside over the mining of zinc mines. At this time, an unexpected thing suddenly happened.

Three prostitutes suddenly jumped off the building and committed suicide, killing one and two injured.

This was something that no one expected. Yang Hao had summoned Zhang Huchen and others to discuss how to place hundreds of prostitutes in the city long before breaking through Chang'an, but the disagreement among the people was too great and the end was left unresolved. When the city was broken, Yang Hao ordered the closing of Baihua Palace and other brothels in the city, and all prostitutes were dismissed on the spot.

In addition to their own private property, the Xining army also subsidized a travel fee at their discretion. It is necessary that they can leave Linzhou and find a place to settle down. Most of the 780 prostitutes were quickly dismissed, but more than 300 people from Baihua Palace only left a dozen. The prostitutes here all have four common characteristics: they are all destructive and have been punished for crimes, they have been deemed to be slaves, they are all abducted by human traffickers, they are all homeless and have no relatives to surrender. They are all forced to fall into the dust, and dismissal means they are forced to death.

So let Baihua Palace resume business and keep their jobs? Yang Hao must not agree to do so. Zhang Yannian suggested that Yang Hao accept all the women to stay in the camp as a prostitute.

The system of prostitutes was founded in the Han Dynasty and lasted for the Six Dynasties. The "Waishi of Han Wu" records that "there were no prostitutes in ancient times. In the Han Dynasty, the prostitutes were established to treat those who had no wives in the military." In fact, prostitutes had appeared before the Qin and Han Dynasties. Goujian established "you soldiers" and Guan Zhong established "nu's neighbors", which were established and changed as soon as possible, but the system was not formed. By the time of Emperor Wu of Han, the establishment of prostitutes was fixed as a system.

Emperor Wu of Han was a talented and generous emperor who was very fond of merit. He had been fighting abroad for many years and used a lot of troops. How to stabilize the morale of the army and improve morale became an important topic. Setting up a camp prostitute is one of the measures in this regard.

Before this, there was a system of women in the Han Dynasty that "repressed" military camps, which could be regarded as the predecessor of the camp prostitute system. The so-called "repressed" means compulsory betrothal. "Book of Han? Biography of Li Ling" records: "Ling Shi's army left Guandong, and the robbers moved their wives to the border to be soldiers. The women hid in the chariots, and all the women searched for them were killed by swords." (Li Ling led the army out of Guandong and escorted some robbers' wives to the army to "repressed" the soldiers as wives. The women were unwilling to hide in the chariot and refused to come out. After Li Ling searched them, he killed them with a sword.)

The recruitment system in the middle and late Tang Dynasty replaced the military system, and soldiers changed from "Fan Shangsuwei" to "Long March athletes", and camp prostitutes in border towns have long been common. When Yang Hao carried out military reforms a few months ago, he wanted to make up his mind to eliminate this chronic disease in the army, but in the end the opposition was too loud, and this became a heart disease of Yang Hao.

Therefore, when Zhang Yannian proposed to confiscate the singers of Baihua Palace as camp prostitutes, Yang Hao flatly refused. For the singers who were unwilling to be dismissed on the spot, Yang Hao ordered them to be taken back to Feng'an and set up a special female camp for them to live in. The doctor asked the doctor to diagnose and treat everyone's illness, and at the same time selected and hired elderly people with wise and virtuous and experienced people to comfort their souls, help everyone get rid of the shadows in their hearts, and be a human being again.

Everyone did not understand what Yang Hao was meant to do so, and Yang Hao did not explain much. A month later, Yang Hao suddenly sent the secretary Lu Guang, the chief secretary, to the women's camp in the name of the Defense Envoy's Office: The Defense Envoy's Office would recruit four clerks from the Women's Camp. The recruitment conditions were clearly written, and a special person was sent to guard the consultant's questions in front of the list. Lu Guang even set up an examination room in the camp, and the applicants could take the exam on the spot. Review the test papers on the spot, and announce the results on the spot.

There were many talented women in the women's camp. As soon as the list was released, dozens of people immediately signed up for the exam. Lu Guang tested the exam in batches according to the drafted test questions, and the teachers from Feng'an County and several well-educated scholars were responsible for marking the papers. Finally, six test papers were presented to Lu Guang, who selected four people and posted the four test papers in front of the camp.

Because of the fair work, everyone was convinced. Lu Guang brought the four people back to the Defense Envoy on the spot. This seemingly inconspicuous little thing seemed like a bowl of cold water poured into a oil pan, and the whole city of Fengzhou was overwhelming. All government offices, new factories, various workshops, and restaurants all made it fashionable to recruit new people from the women's camp.

Half a month later, there were only 38 people left in the women's camp, and this hot potato was finally thrown away.

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Chapter completed!