Wang Abbot is the priest of Yanggu County, originally a scholar, he took the Ministry of Rites exam once, naturally there was no high school, and then he married a girl from the Fan family in Yanggu, and with the support of the Fan family, he became the secretary of the county government.

And Zhou matchmaker is a well-known matchmaker in Yanggu County, who used to be a matchmaker for Fan Zhijin of the Fan family and asked to marry Ximen Qing of the Ximen family.

Hearing that Wang Zhisi and Mrs. Zhou were coming together, the three old men of the Ximen family immediately understood their intentions.

"Big brother, let's go and meet." The seventh brother of Ximen Crane (in the order of the clan), an old man named Ximen Ying, said, "The face of the king is always given. ”

The priest is the clerk who handles the case and other affairs, and the king is the county-level clerk, usually a county has eight clerks, managing all kinds of documents and files, and is a smaller official than the sesame official. It's just such an official, and it's something that people like Yanggu Ximen don't want to offend.

After all, the deeds done by the Yanggu Ximen family are not innocent, and it is inevitable that they will be investigated by the government.

Ximen He sighed, and then looked at Ximen Qing, who was pitiful and kneeling on the ground to ask the ancestors for his guilt, "Qing'er, you kneel and reflect." ”

"Big daddy, my grandson knows it's wrong." Ximen Qing had a good attitude and admitted his mistakes repeatedly.

Ximen He stood up and said to the two brothers, "Let's go, let's go meet together." ”

"Okay, let's go together."

The three old men walked out of the ancestral hall while talking, and before they left, Ximen Qing stood up in a big way, and there was no trace of remorse on his face.

"Nineteen Lang!" Ximen Qing shouted.

A short and sturdy man from the North West Gate walked in quickly from outside the ancestral hall when he heard this, and when he saw Ximen Qing who had just stood up, he saluted respectfully: "Eldest sister, you called me?" ”

Beiximen, like Murong's Murong family, is a retainer of the Zhao family in Zhenzhou, and he also belongs to the Hao family. Therefore, the internal power structure is the same as that of the family, and the emphasis is on bloodline. At the same time, because he grew up in Liao, he didn't pay much attention to etiquette.

Ximen Qing is the eldest daughter, and her status is significantly higher than that of this Ximen Nineteen Lang, and it doesn't seem to be a big deal to sleep with people and have a big belly...... Therefore, Ximen Jiulang is still respectful to Ximen Qing.

"Hmm." Ximen Qing nodded, "Is Twenty Lang here?" ”

Twenty Lang is the younger brother of Ximen Nineteen, and Ximen Qing instructed him to stay in the Chai family and wait for Wu Haogu to arrive, and then immediately rush to Yanggu County with the children of the Chai family to report the news.

"Not yet."

"Oh." Ximen Qing's eyebrows frowned, "Why haven't you arrived yet?" Isn't there a lot of trouble? ”

"No," Ximen Jiulang comforted, "The Ma family has made great contributions in this rebellion in Xijin Mansion, and they can definitely protect Wu Dalang and them." ”

Although Ma Renwang, the Nanjing police patrol envoy, also had a rule of negligence during the rebellion in Xijin Mansion, but this time the chaos was caused by Longyan Tieshan in Xijing Road, and Xijin Mansion was only affected and quickly suppressed, and the Ma family certainly had merit. Therefore, after the rebellion in Xijin Mansion was quelled, Ma Renwang immediately served as the military envoy of Nanjing Province, responsible for suppressing the Bohai rebels in Nanjing Province. Ma Zhi was also promoted, temporarily taking over the position of deputy envoy of the Nanjing Police Patrol, responsible for the repression in the city of Xijin Prefecture.

With such power, Ma Zhi and Ma Renwang naturally would not let Wu Dalang be arrested...... Even the Bright Monarch won't really catch it. Therefore, as long as Wu Haogu did not die in the small civil strife in Xijin Mansion, he would definitely be able to escape safely.

Ximen Qing nodded, "Brother Nineteen, go and listen to what the matchmaker and Wang Zhusi said that week. ”

"Whoa."

……

"Outside the old man, if your eldest sister misses this marriage, there will really be nowhere to find it with a lantern. Think about it, Fan Zhijin of the Fan family in Yanggu, he has already passed the examination three times, even if he doesn't get into the Jinshi, he can quickly get the qualification for exemption, and if he takes the imperial examination a few times, he can ask for a special Jinshi, and then he will be an official......"

Mrs. Zhou's eyebrows fluttered when she spoke, blowing a fat man Fan Zhijin into the sky. The three old men of the Simon family frowned slightly, thoughtful.

Fan Zhijin's ability, they also know, a famous talent in Yunzhou! Maybe I'll be in high school next year!

And this Fan Dacai is not a very open-minded person, if the Ximen family rejects his marriage proposal, and then give Ximen Qing to Wu Haogu as a concubine...... In the eyes of Fan Dacaizi, I am afraid that it is a great shame!

Didn't Simon's house add a great enemy?

This is not a joke, after all, the Fan family is also a local tyrant in Yanggu County, and they don't know about the major events in the world, but they know everything about the Ximen family......

If Fan Zhijin becomes an official, and then uses the connections in the officialdom to investigate the smuggling activities of the Ximen family, the Ximen family will not be able to eat and leave.

Of course, the Ximen family does not mean that there is no backstage, their ancestor is the retainer of the Great Surrender faction of Zhao Zan, the Duke of Weiguo.

However, the relationship between Zhao Wei's family and the Ximen family is now very weak, and the Zhao family's generals are now the generals who eat, drink, have fun and engage in art, and they don't need the strong men of the Ximen family.

"Zhou Niangzi, this matter ......" Ximen He, the head of the Ximen family, finally opened his mouth, "You have to listen to Qing'er about this matter, you also know that she has always been a child of the rivers and lakes who walks outside, and she has always been very assertive." ”

"Outside the old staff," said Wang Zhusi, who came with Mrs. Zhou, "how old are the eldest sisters?" Twenty-three or twenty-four? It's all old girls, and if they don't marry, this life will be delayed. ”

Old man Simon smiled bitterly and shook his head, his granddaughter was no longer a girl...... The belly is making people bigger! How can I send it to Fan Xiucai now? Let Fan Xiucai be the pick-up man? But people are not nerds who have never slept with women.

And Ximen Qing is not happy!

By the way, that lewd thief Wu Dalang must not be happy. This lewd thief seems to be very powerful, mixed with Duanwang, he is still Cai Jing's disciple, and he also has millions of family assets, and he bought a festival envoy for Ma Zhi......

That's a real embarrassment!

……

"Dalang, this ...... Did you really write this? ”

"Of course I wrote it, sir, how about offering it in your name?"

"In the name of the old man?"

"Yes, you are Yanyun Zhang Zifang!"

"Zhang Zifang? Haha, the old man looks like Zhang Zifang! ”

Wu Haogu has now broken up with Old Man Chai and is hurrying to Kaifeng Mansion. On the way, Wu Haogu asked Lin Chong to buy a spacious carriage and then share it with Old Man Murong. The two discussed together in the car the issue of giving advice to the official family of the Great Song Dynasty.

The old man Murong looks a bit Daoheng, he can be blown into a "Beidi Zhang Zifang", if he can come up with any "Pingyan N policy" to offer, the official family will be happy to see it, and maybe he will give a big official to do it. Although he will not have real power, he will definitely take a lot of money, and most of them will be given ...... Murong Lao'er will send it!

In addition, Murong Lao'er also looks more like, and he can also blow, and having him install a Zhang Zifang in Kaifeng Mansion is very beneficial to promote Wu Haogu's plan. Compared with Wu Haogu's own advice, the effect is better.

So on the way to Kaifeng Mansion, the Wuhao ancient family handed over his "Pingyan Eight Strategies" to the old man Murong.

These eight strategies are roughly as follows: 1. Support the remnants of the Bohai Sea; Second, the Han people in the north are strong; 3. Recruit talents from the North; Fourth, attract the children of the rich and powerful in the north to enter the Song Dynasty; 5. Build a lighthouse market; 6. To develop shipping and trade between the Song, Liao, Li, and Wa; 7. Hoarding grain and grass in Lighthouse City; 8. Hoarding Northland slaves in Lighthouse City.

"I wrote it!" Wu Haogu said proudly, "These eight strategies are the method of attacking Liao with Liao, and there is no need to wantonly rectify the east and west roads of Hebei, nor do they need to transport a large amount of military food by canal and land, let alone use hundreds of thousands of people to accompany the army......"

According to Shen Kuo's record in his "Mengxi Bi Tan", the ratio of the Song army's soldiers to the auxiliary soldiers and civilian soldiers in logistics was ideally 1 to 3.3, and 330,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilian soldiers were needed to transport grain, grass and baggage for 100,000 troops.

If you want to send 150,000 troops to attack Liao, like the Xuanhe Northern Expedition in history, you will need to use as many as 495,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians!

In other words, the manpower needed for the Xuanhe Northern Expedition should be as many as 645,000!

The food and other supplies that 645,000 people needed to consume, as well as the consumption of livestock to participate in military operations, were astronomical, and they all needed to be raised by the Hebei East and Hebei West Transit Divisions—this was not something that could be prepared immediately at the first order, and it had to be collected long before the war began. The actions of raising grain and grass in advance and mobilizing the people were easy to be discovered by the Liao people, so they made preparations.

If the "lighthouse city" of Wuhaogu and the maritime trade between the Song, Liao, Li, and Wa wars are successful, then the pressure on logistics and supply will be greatly reduced. The baggage, grain and grass needed by the 150,000 army can be hoarded in the lighthouse grain market, and can even be purchased from the Liao State and the Goryeo State.

And the number of mobilizations of the people and auxiliaries can also be greatly reduced, because Wu Haogu suggested that slavery be practiced in Lighthouse City!

This allows Lighthouse City to buy tens of thousands to 100,000 able-bodied slaves, who are much more useful than the people......

Even the Northern Expedition's soldiers can be recruited through Lighthouse City, and the number will not be too many, but there is still hope for a few thousand elites, all of whom are unambitious Northland warriors.

"Add one more!" Old man Murong finished reading Wu Haogu's "Pingyan Eight Strategies", thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Add another sneak attack!" ”

"Sneak attack?"

"Yes! Grain, grass, baggage, and slaves can all be quietly concentrated in Lighthouse City...... What kind of battle is still fighting? Why not secretly mobilize 20,000 or 30,000 elite Western troops to raid Yanjing City? ”

"Raid? Can it be successful? Yanjing is a strong city! ”

"What about the fortified city?" Old man Murong laughed, "Yan Yun Haoqiang is a wall grass, as long as the Song army shows the momentum of thunder, and then tempts it to take advantage, it will definitely fall to the Great Song Dynasty." ”