There is a not-so-large mansion in Jinyang City. It was originally vacant for many years, but these days a group of people who are said to be distinguished guests were moved in, and the door was very tightly guarded.

In a room in the mansion, an old man in his fifties and sixties placed a letter on the table, stroked his white beard with a very proud look on his face.

"Yang Luo is indeed cautious in his work, and he lives up to the trust of Mr. Yuan and me, and is not deceived by Liu He. As long as he enters Jizhou, many officials there will be my disciples of Mr. Yuan and me. Everything will be a foregone conclusion. I just don't know what the results of the operation in Yinguan City last night."

Although he said something with questions, the expression on his face seemed to be full of confidence, as if the ending of the matter had been expected.

"This time, our families gathered this batch of grain, which was a big problem. After that, each family would be subject to many restrictions on recruiting soldiers and horses in the local area. Fortunately, Liu He's son was about to die, and he sent his own people to take over the various places and troops under his rule. With the prosperity of these places, it should not be difficult to force a batch of grain. Then allocate a batch of military rations to the court, which can also make up for the losses this time."

As he spoke, the proud look on the old man's face became more and more obvious.

"Forty thousand war horses, our families are divided into one, and each family has thousands of horses. When Liu He dies, he will divide the huge military power under his command. Humph, wherever the world will go, it will be impossible for others to do so! The world is so big that my family is the only one of us!"

His old palm seemed very powerful at this moment, and he punched the table hard.

"After this matter, it's time to go back to Yingchuan as soon as possible. My group of children are about to celebrate the ceremony. In addition, I heard that the boy from the Xun family married Tang Heng's posthumous daughter. Hehe, the old fox Xun Feng is good at everything and actually asked his son to marry the daughter of a eunuch. It's no wonder that the Xun family suffered from the two party and corruption disasters. But this wedding still has to go. The Xun family's status is not much worse than that of the Yuan family. Now it's a lot of trouble, it's better not to make enemies for yourself."

"By the way, there is also the Guo family in Yangdi. In recent years, there is only one direct child left, and it is worthless. However, this child is extremely intelligent and has become more powerful than me. Unfortunately, this child is unruly and has no moral integrity as a scholar. If it weren't for the fact that he was using people now, seeing that his talent is of great use, I really wouldn't want to see him again..."

The old man seemed to have put aside the Yanmen incident that he had just been obsessed with, or because he was confident, he no longer took it seriously. At this time, what he was thinking was all about after he returned to Yingchuan.

At this time, a sound of footsteps came from the yard.

The old man looked up at the door and saw a servant jogging in quickly. He didn't pay attention for a moment and almost tripped by the threshold.

When the old man saw this man's appearance, he raised his face and shouted, "I'm so panicked, what's it like! There's news from Yang Luo? I guess he's already arrived in Changshan County at this time. What do he have to report to?"

After the visitor was scolded by him, he still couldn't hide his panic.

"Master, something is wrong! Lord Yang encountered robbers on the mountain road to Changshan, and his entire army was wiped out!"

"What! You...ah...ahah..."

The old man immediately stood up and was about to say something, but he didn't raise it up in one breath and kept coughing.

"Ahem... how... how could this happen! The Black Mountains have always been the disaster in the Taihang Mountains. Haven't they always fled in all directions when they saw Liu He's military flag and had no intention of fighting? How could this happen! Even if they can muster up the courage to fight against Liu He, with Zhang Yan's timid personality, it would be fine to deal with the local tyrannical strongmen. How dare they offend our aristocratic families after offending Liu He? I don't believe it!"

The old man changed his calm appearance just now, became furious and his voice became much sharper.

The servant's whole body trembled a little.

"Back... Go back to the master, it's true. The villain saw with his own eyes Lord Yang and hundreds of guards in the valley of corpses, who were being eaten by wild animals. There were signs of fierce fighting on the scene..."

When the old man heard this, his originally desperate eyes shone again.

"There are only a few hundred corpses? What about the remaining hundreds of people? Is it possible that they escaped with their war horses?"

The servant saw that he had no concern at all about Yang Luo and others throwing their bodies into food for wild animals, and he couldn't help but look gloomy, but he still reported the old man's problem.

"The villain had already found out the news early this morning. Last night, a group of bandits named Baibo Army killed hundreds of people, captured hundreds of people, robbed war horses, and exchanged food and weapons with merchants in batches, and... and..."

The old man's eyes seemed to be able to spew out flames, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "And what!"

The man replied, "And someone saw that when the sky was dawn, the bandits drove a large number of war horses to Yinguan City, and then pulled away a large amount of food from the city. The specific amount was unknown..."

"What, Liu He!"

The old man's whole body was a little shaking, and he held the pillar beside him so that he could barely fall.

"Okay, okay! After all my efforts, I went around a long way, and some of these war horses returned to Liu He's hands, OK!"

His eyes were like lightning, and he turned his head to look at the servant who was kneeling on you.

"Has there ever been a fire in Yinguan City?"

When this matter was mentioned, the servant's head hung lowered.

"Report to the master, there is no sign of fire in the city, and... and the villain is in the city. He heard some people talking about the patrol soldiers who caught dozens of people who intend to set fire to the granary last night, saying that they were beheaded at noon, and at this moment, I am afraid that these people have already..."

He looked up slightly at the old man and continued, "I'm afraid I'm already in a different place..."

"puff……"

Hearing this, the old man could no longer suppress his emotions. He squirted out a mouthful of blood and fell down.

"Owner!"

The servant hurried over and helped him.

The old man woke up slowly, his face full of despair.

"My aristocratic family stabilizes the world, why does God want to help that mere farmer Liu He! Ahem..."

His expression suddenly became a little frightened.

"No! Liu He has always been vengeful. Since he has already made a plan to frame us, now that things have been done, he will definitely send someone to kill me, prepare the car quickly, and must rush back to Yingchuan during the night... Cough cough... hurry!"

But in the prefect's mansion in Yinguan City, there was a celebratory atmosphere.

"I didn't expect that the lord would use a brief plan to solve the danger of food shortage. The lord is really a god!"

The money was filled with admiration for Liu He. He picked up the water cup and greeted him from afar towards the northwest Dingxiang County.

Shi Tao said: "This is a total of 6.5 million stones of grain. With this batch of grain, our army should be able to let go and do a big fight!"

"This time our army won a great victory, which made those who secretly opposed the lord cut their flesh. Even if the other party has a deep foundation, they will definitely be seriously injured this time. I was just afraid that they would be angry and would stumbling to the lord in the court."

Meng Jian said with mixed joy and sorrow.

Shi Tao disagreed.

"Don't worry, with this batch of food, and 40,000 war horses will return to our army. It won't take long for the lord to go on a war again. The situation of the Northern Expedition will be very good at that time. No matter how good the people in the court say any reason, they will not change this. What's more, if you are outside, you will not accept the orders."

"Okay, what Guangyuan said is reasonable. Since the matter here has been resolved, you and I should go north to Dingxiang. The lord is fighting in front of us, and we must not neglect the matter of governing the peace and security of the people in the rear."

"Okay, for the sake of the lord's great career, we will use water instead of wine and have a drink!"
Chapter completed!