Li Hao raised his head with his hands held high, and said leisurely: "Use him as bait, put a long line, and catch big fish!" ”

"You mean Cao Tian?"

"That's right." Li Hao said slowly, "Cao Tian is such a precious son as Cao Qingyun, he will definitely not ignore him." ”

Lu Yun nodded when he heard this: "This trick is good." ”

Li Hao was silent for a long time, and muttered to himself: "No matter whether Gaochang will attack or not, first catch Cao Tian, a traitorous traitor." ”

At this time, all the special forces returned one after another, reported the search situation, the bayonet team had gained, and found a secret grid in the Cao family's study, Li Hao hurriedly went to check it in person.

When I came to the Cao family's study, I saw a secret grid on the wall, and the bookcase that originally blocked the dark grid was moved aside.

Li Hao stepped forward to open the dark grid, and found that there was a rare pearl larger than a bull's eye and a few calligraphy and paintings, and there was also a stack of letters, all of whom were their own people, Li Hao took the pearl into his arms, took out the calligraphy and painting and handed it to Feiying, and then took out the stack of letters to check it out, and after looking at it for a long time, Li Hao found that these were all the correspondence between Zhang Yun and Cao Tian in Jiaohe City, Li Hao pinched this stack of letters, and said coldly: "With these letters, Cao Tian's treason can be confirmed, go, go back to the Shifu!" ”

Li Hao took everyone back to the Assassin's Mansion in a mighty way, wrote two twists and turns in a row and sent people to the post house, ordering them to send 800 miles to Chang'an urgently. Then he wrote another official document, handed it to Wang Yuantai, and said: "This is an official letter to recruit the reserve of government soldiers, you take it back and post it in the Zhichong Wei Mansion, and recruit two thousand reserve soldiers according to the official document." ”

Wang Yuantai took the official document and looked at it with a confused face, and then lost his voice in shock: "What an ugly word!" ”

Li Hao casually picked up the inkstone and pointed at Wang Yuantai: "Say it again!" ”

Wang Yuantai hurriedly covered his mouth and began to read the content of the official document, after reading it, he still didn't know much about the government soldier reserve, and asked: "My lord, what is the government soldier reserve?" ”

Li Hao dropped the inkstone, frowned and said, "Don't you know how to read, it's written so clearly." ”

Wang Yuantai scratched his head in embarrassment: "Humble position...... I don't read much and don't understand much. ”

"It's okay to read more books in the future." Li Hao rolled his eyes and explained, "The duty of the government soldier reserve is to participate in training, but it does not pay military salaries, if there is a war and the army is urgently needed, then these government soldiers reserve needs to fill in the Zhichong Guard Mansion and participate in the war against the enemy, at that time it will be no different from the ordinary government soldiers." ”

"Oh-" Wang Yuantai suddenly realized, and suddenly frowned again, "But without military salary, what fool is willing to come to the reserve of the army?" ”

Li Hao said: "Under normal circumstances, naturally no one is willing, but if the enemy country is eyeing it, it may come to attack at any time, my official document has already written that Gao Changguo is ready to move, and he can come at any time, as a man of the Tang Dynasty, he should take it as his responsibility to protect his family and defend the country." ”

Wang Yuantai was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Is what the adults said true?" Gao Chang is ready to commit my Tingzhou? ”

Li Hao said: "Cao Tian fornicated with Gaochang, now that he has been driven away, Gaochang has lost control of Tingzhou, if they are unwilling, they are very likely to come to attack, rather believe that they have, not believe that they don't, we must make plans in advance, take precautions." ”

Wang Yuantai nodded: "The lowly post knows, and the lowly post will go back to recruit the government soldier reserve team and step up training." After he finished speaking, he hurriedly left the Assassin's Mansion.

After sending Wang Yuantai away, Li Hao said to Lu Yun again: "The craftsman must step up, and the 100,000 arrows must be completed as soon as possible." ”

Lu Yun bowed: "Yes, I know." ”

Li Hao got up and paced in the yatang, seeing that his expression seemed a little anxious, Li Yuanzhong asked suspiciously: "My lord seems to have something on his mind?" ”

Li Hao nodded and said: "I'm struggling, if Gaochang comes to attack, I will ask the court for help at that time, I'm afraid it's too late, but now that the war has not started, and I can't ask for help, it's really difficult." ”

When Li Yuanzhong heard this, he said: "My lord, send 800 miles from Tingzhou to send documents to Chang'an urgently, and you can arrive in January." ”

"So what." Li Hao shook his head and sighed, "It will take at least half a year to bring troops here from Chang'an." ”

"If you bring few soldiers, it won't take that long." Li Yuanzhong said, "If you come to the aid of defending the city, less than 10,000 people, Your Majesty can send a marching chief to lead the guards on the road lightly, and borrow troops along the way when passing through Liangzhou Shazhou and other places, and it will only take more than two months to reach Tingzhou." ”

Li Hao was slightly overjoyed when he heard this: "In other words, if Gaochang comes to attack, as long as we hold the city for more than three months, we can wait for reinforcements?" ”

Li Yuanzhong nodded: "That's right." ”

"That's fine." Li Hao clapped his hands happily, thought about it, and said to himself, "The city wall here is too noisy, and it must be repaired and heightened." ”

After he finished speaking, he returned to the case, picked up the pen and wrote another official document, handed it to Lu Yun, and said, "You take this official document to the state warehouse to withdraw money, recruit workers to repair the city walls, and increase the height of all the city walls by seven feet." ”

"Yes." Lu Yun received the official document and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Li Hao stopped him again and added: "The more people, the better, the sooner the better, don't be reluctant to pay money, there are hundreds of thousands of dollars in the state treasury." ”

Lu Yun nodded: "Don't worry, young master, I understand." After speaking, he quickly left the yatang.

From the next day, the whole Tingzhou began to get busy, when Lu Yun recruited workers, he offered a price of 20 wen per person per day, and thousands of people heard the news and enthusiastically participated in the repair of the city wall, the people of the Tang Dynasty were real, no one wanted to be lazy, and they worked hard, for fear of being gossiped by others, the progress of the city wall fortifications was very fast, after all, the city wall here was an earthen wall, of course, it was fast.

Previously, because of the storage of corn, Li Hao stopped the winery business, several merchants came to Li Hao to ask, Li Hao now has 5,000 stone grain, so there is no need for the corn in the warehouse, so he promised them to resume the operation of the winery, and the merchants returned satisfied.

Tingzhou has temporarily settled down, Shi Najie is also ready to return to Persia, their caravan has been here for so long, it has brought a lot of benefits to Tingzhou City, after all, more than 300 people have to spend money on food, clothing and housing, as long as they spend money, the people of Tingzhou will make money, this is the truth.

Shi Najie helped Li Hao a lot, Li Hao personally sent him out of the city, and Shi Najie was moved, in fact, Li Hao originally planned to send special forces to infiltrate Persia, bring Shi Najie's family to Datang, and realize Shi Najie's plan to immigrate to Datang, but now he is too busy to take care of himself, and he has no time to help Shi Najie, so he can only give up.

After sending Shi Najie away, Li Hao went to Weifu by the way to check the training of the government soldiers and the government soldiers' reserves.

Although the government reserve team did not have a military salary, it was able to manage food, and all of them soon recruited a thousand people, all of whom were children of poor families, the youngest was only fifteen years old, but this was still far from the goal of two thousand reserves set by Li Hao, Wang Yuantai was also very helpless, after all, there were not many young and strong people in Tingzhou, and some people were not very conscious, as soon as they heard that there was no military salary to receive, they were unwilling to come to endure hardship.

Li Hao expressed his understanding, did not blame Wang Yuantai, personally formulated a training plan for them, Li Yuanzhong trained a thousand government soldiers, and the government soldiers were trained by Cheetah and Wang Yuantai.

The cheetah is a special soldier who has been trained like a region, let him train the troops, it is conceivable that this group of government soldiers will not have a good life, but Li Hao did not forget to tell the cheetah, don't be too anxious, you must take your time, so as not to promote the seedlings, which is counterproductive, and at the same time, it is easy to make the government soldiers dissatisfied.

Although the cheetah has no official position, Wang Yuantai is very convinced of him, because the murderous aura on the cheetah is very heavy, and he doesn't dare to talk to him at that station, Wang Yuantai is still like this, and those government soldiers dare not beep, so the cheetah, the head of the sect, has no pressure, and constantly increases the training quota for the government soldiers every day, and no one dares to squeak.

On April 27, in the middle of the night, there was a sudden uproar in the city, and the movement was very loud, which woke Li Hao up, and as soon as Li Hao put on his clothes and walked out of the room, a palace guard came to report: "My lord, the big thing is not good, the warehouse is flooded!" ”

Li Hao suddenly changed color when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Go and put out the fire!" No, go and save food! After saying that, a gust of wind seemed to run out, and a right guard had already prepared a horse for him and went straight to the state warehouse.

The state warehouse is not far from the Thorn Mansion, Li Hao just came out of the gate and saw the fire raging in the west, burning the sky, seeing such a big fire, his heart was cold, kicked the horse's belly fiercely, and went straight to the direction of the fire.

Before he got close to there, he saw that the figures on the street were crowded, all of them were shouting loudly, and the chaos was unbearable, Li Hao frowned for a while when he saw this, and suddenly thought of something, and waved his big hand: "All the soldiers obey the order, except for the firefighters, everyone stays in place and does not move, and no noise!" ”

Then he turned to Peng Hai and said: "Peng Hai, you take the right guard to save the food, remember, food is important, the lives of the soldiers are more important, just do your best, don't come hard." ”

"Yes!" Peng Hai took the order and left.

Li Hao turned his head to look at the twenty-eight special forces and more than fifty government soldiers left beside him, and couldn't help asking, "Where is Wang Yuantai?" ”

A government soldier replied, "My lord, Wang Duwei has already led people to put out the fire." ”

Li Hao nodded when he heard this, and said in a loud voice: "Lu Yun, you quickly take fifty people to the cornfield to protect the corn, Li Yuanzhong, you go back to guard the Assassin Mansion, in case there are demons to make trouble, and the others come with me!" After speaking, he turned his horse's head and ran towards the south, the twenty-eight special forces and Jin Li followed closely with them, Li Yuanzhong rushed back, and Lu Yun ran towards Xicheng with fifty soldiers.

Tingzhou granary fire, Li Hao did not go to command the rescue of grain, but went south, Jin Li and they were still very confused in their hearts, turned a few corners to the south, and suddenly heard the sound of shouting and killing in front of them, only to see torches and figures shaking in the dark night, more than 20 government soldiers and more than 30 people in black were fighting fiercely at the gate of the state prison, extremely tragic.

Li Hao's pupils shrank sharply when he saw this, and sure enough, it was not his surprise, it was Cao Tian who sent someone to rob the prison, and the fire in the state warehouse was just to divert the attention of the troops in the city, but he still had a doubt in his heart, he had already sent government soldiers and right Xiao to guard the martial law city gate, and strictly investigated, how these people mixed into the city.