Li Hao said slowly: "I want to encourage some people in Tingzhou to raise pigs and sheep. ”

Zhu Su was stunned when he heard this, frowned and said: "There are many people who raise sheep in Tingzhou, but there are ...... pig raisers I have never seen it. ”

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said: "Su Lao doesn't know, my method of raising sheep and pigs is relatively special, and the pork raised by my method has no fishy smell, even if it is mutton, the smell is light." ”

"Oh?" When Zhu Su heard this, he immediately became interested and asked, "What kind of magic method did Lord Assassin Shi use?" ”

"It's simple." Li Hao raised his eyebrows and smiled cheaply, made a gesture of cutting things, and said, "Castrate the pigs and sheep!" ”

"Emasculated?" Zhu Su Lao was shocked when he heard this, he had never heard of such a strange method, and it felt like a fantasy for a while.

Li Hao smiled and said: "Don't be surprised, I tried this method when I was in Chang'an, whether it is a boar or a sow, as long as it is castrated, it will grow fat very quickly, and the castrated boar meat does not have any fishy smell." ”

Veteran Zhu Su nodded suspiciously, and said, "It is understandable to castrate boars, but castrate sows...... How to castrate? ”

Li Hao explained: "After the sow is castrated, it is not possible to piggy, as for how to castrate, I know that the old man may not believe it, so it is better for the old man to go with me to see." ”

Elder Zhu Su nodded and said, "Okay, please lead the way." ”

Li Hao took Zhu Su Lao to a pigsty outside the Thorn Shi Mansion, where there were five piglets, each of which had a dozen catties, Li Hao asked Li Yuanzhong to prepare medicines and tools, and then personally went down to the pigsty to catch a gilt and began to sterilize the operation.

As soon as he talked about this sterilization operation, he was ashamed, in order to learn this thing, he could harm a lot of piglets, and even two piglets died directly under his scalpel, but fortunately he finally learned.

Li Hao first washed his hands and knives with spirits, then held a sharp knife, skillfully cut a small wound on the piglet's body, used his fingers to cut out a piece like a flower head, and then cut it off, and then he sprinkled some medicinal powder into the wound, began to stitch it, and carried the needle like flying, extremely skilled.

Zhu Su Lao watched silently from the side, he began to believe a little, after all, Li Hao's technique is too skilled, he has done it countless times at a glance, and he also thinks that Li Hao's character is good and trustworthy, if those bigwigs in Chang'an know that Zhu Su Lao has such an idea, I don't know what the hell it will look like.

After sewing up the wound, Li Hao put the piglet back into the pigsty, washed his hands with spirits, and asked with a smile: "Old Su, can you see clearly?" ”

"See clearly." Elder Zhu Su nodded and said, "Although the old man doesn't understand it very well, he thinks what Lord Thorn Shi said is credible. ”

"Thank you for your trust." Li Hao smiled and said, "I have agreed with some merchants in the city to add three restaurants in the city in the near future, so that there will be five restaurants in Tingzhou, Tingzhou has few vegetables, and the dishes in the restaurants are mainly meat-based, so the demand for pork and mutton is large, and raising pigs and sheep will definitely not be lost." ”

Seeing that Li Hao said so confidently, Zhu Su was also moved, and asked, "What does Lord Assassin Shi want to do?" ”

"It's simple." Li Hao said, "Elder Zhu first helped inform those veterinarians in the city, let them come to the Assassination Mansion, I will sterilize this operation, cough ...... That is, the method of castrating pigs and sheep is taught to them, and then the old man can find someone with reliable moral character, and say that they will come to the bank to take out a loan to raise pigs and sheep, and with the old man as a guarantee, I can not accept any mortgage from them. ”

Zhu Su thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, the old man will do what Lord Thorn Shi instructs, but how many people can be moved, the old man can't guarantee it." ”

Li Hao arched his hand and said, "Su Lao can do his best." ”

"The old man must do his best." Zhu Su returned the salute, he hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said, "My lord, the old man came this time to inform the adult. ”

"Oh?" Li Hao spread his hands and said, "Old man, please speak." ”

Zhu Su said: "This morning, the old man went to the Longchang grain store, met the shopkeeper Li, and knew the whole story, and the old man privately guessed that this incident was very likely to be the work of the enemy country. ”

Li Hao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but admire this old man Zhu Su a little, his vision was still very accurate, so he asked curiously: "Why did Old Su make this inference?" ”

Zhu Su said: "The gangsters robbed the youngest son of the shopkeeper Li and forced him to close the door and not sell rice and grain, in order to create panic, in addition to the enemy country's spies, who else would do such a thing, my lord, there are already enemy countries eyeing my Tingzhou, adults need to be vigilant as soon as possible." ”

"Thank you for the reminder." Li Hao bowed his hand and thanked him, "I wrote down this matter." ”

"If the adults have nothing else to do, the old man will retire first."

Li Hao nodded, turned his head to Li Yuanzhong and said, "Yuanzhong, send Su Lao." ”

Li Yuanzhong sent Zhu Su Lao away.

Li Hao returned to the Assassin's Mansion, and as soon as he sat down, the right guard guarding the door came to report, and Wang Yuantai, the captain of the right Guoyi, came to visit and gave a gift.

Li Hao took the gift list and looked at it, rice, grain, silk and jewelry were readily available, not to mention the value of two thousand yuan, Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said with a light smile: "Please come in, serve good tea!" ”

When Li Hao was working hard to develop Tingzhou, a team set out from Chang'an and headed north, bringing with them two holy decrees and some gold, silver and jewelry, and they went to reward the two sons of Zhenzhu Khan Yinan at the behest of Li Shimin.

The Tui En order discussed by Li Shimin and the ministers is very simple, that is, the two sons of Feng Yinan are little khans, each with a fief, so that the huge Xue Yantuo will be divided into three, and they will also compete with each other for territory and population, and there will be various frictions of all sizes, hurting each other, and they will fight a civil war, and the Tang Dynasty will be at ease.

The people of the grassland advocate strength and desire to be strong, under the temptation of powerful power, the father-son relationship of these grassland herdsmen is really vulnerable.

However, shortly after the team entered the territory of Xue Yantuo, they were ambushed and annihilated, and the ambushers robbed the team of all the belongings, including the two divine decrees of reward.

When the ambush man walked away, a staggering figure stood up in the group of corpses, it was a wounded cavalryman, with an arrow in the right shoulder and thigh, the injury was not light, but it did not hurt the vital point, so he did not die, he looked at the corpses all over the ground, grief-stricken, and limped towards Chang'an.

Two months have passed in a blink of an eye, and it has entered winter, and the winter in Tingzhou ...... It's really cold, Li Hao brought a thermometer, and found that it was more than ten degrees below zero every day, so he didn't dare to pee outdoors, for fear of freezing his little brother.

After more than two months of Li Hao's efforts, Tingzhou has changed very much, the restaurants and inns in the city are currently saturated, Li Hao's corn has also matured for a period, and the second period was frozen to death, it turns out that his corn is not invincible, at least he can't stand the cold weather in Tingzhou winter, but what surprised Li Hao is that the harvest of his corn in Tingzhou is actually a few points higher than in Chang'an, which makes him very puzzling, to say that the planting environment in Tingzhou is better than Chang'an, it seems that there is only enough sunshine.

After the first corn harvest, Li Hao began to let the merchants join the winery and chicken wishbone shop, winemaking, distiller's lees to feed pigs and chickens, those really poor people in the city can only go to the winery and farm to do coolies, although hard, but the salary is not low, gradually, the face of the people of Tingzhou has changed, there are no many taxes, there is a lot of income, the days gradually have hope, coupled with Zhu Sulao's publicity, Li Hao's reputation was slowly praised by the people of Tingzhou.

Since the house was burned, Cao Tian has become well-behaved, and he has not made trouble with Li Hao anymore, and he has no time to make trouble with Li Hao, so he is busy building a house, otherwise where will their family live and live in a tent on such a cold day? I guess I'm going to freeze him into a fool.

In the winter, Zhichong Weifu began to train, because Wang Yuantai gave Li Hao gifts several times, and he was close to him, everyone was also acquaintances, Li Hao handed over all the 2,000 soldiers to Wang Yuantai for training, as for Li Yuanzhong, he stayed by his side and continued to be a bodyguard, and he just put a name in Zhichong Mansion. Cao Tian was very happy when he learned about it, and quietly sent a lot of money to Wang Yuantai, asking him to have a good relationship with the brothers of the Wei Mansion, and not to be reluctant to spend money, so Wang Yuantai and the soldiers of the Wei Mansion often appeared in the restaurants and Qinglou in Tingzhou.

On November 15 of the twelfth year of Zhenguan, the ministers at the court meeting argued endlessly, for the issue of Xue Yantuo, but this time the argument was not about whether to push grace or not, but about sending troops to Xue Yantuo.

The envoy team sent by the Tang Dynasty to announce the decree was actually robbed and killed in the territory of Xue Yantuo, and the surviving soldier who fled back said that the enemy who attacked was dressed as Xue Yantuo, and he also spoke the Tiele language (Xue Yantuo called himself the Tiele Department).

When the news was transmitted back to Chang'an, Li Shimin directly blew up, not only Li Shimin, all the generals were blown up, the Tang Dynasty soldiers were almost invincible in the world, and now they were actually robbed and killed by the proclamation messenger team, it was worth it, it was more serious than a slap in the face, if this let other countries know, where is the face of the Heavenly Khan, so Li Shimin colluded with his henchmen and proposed to levy Xue Yantuo above the court, and to take the royal conquest in person.

For the conquest of Xue Yantuo, the ministers have no opinion, after all, Xue Yantuo slapped the face of the Tang Dynasty, this battle must be fought, but Li Shimin wants to drive the conquest in person, many ministers disagree, and they have jumped out to oppose it, and other people are okay to say, the key Wei Zheng is also opposed, which is difficult to do.

As early as the last court meeting, Wei Zheng and Li Shimin quarreled, and then the two had to quarrel in the Liangyi Hall every day, Wei Zheng began to scold Li Shimin again, and Li Shimin scolded him again for being a Tian Sheweng and hurting each other.

Fang Xuanling saw that it was not a way for the two of them to quarrel like this, if Li Shimin didn't hold back and really chopped Wei Zheng, it would be too late to regret it, so Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji discussed it with eye contact, and asked to postpone the expedition to Xue Yantuo, the reason is very simple, the weather is too cold.

But no, Xue Yantuo's territory is the modern Inner Mongolia and Mongolia regions, and when it comes to winter, the cold level is not a joke.

Li Shimin thought about it carefully and felt that what they said was reasonable, in fact, he also guessed the good intentions of these two people, so he decided to postpone the time of the conquest of Xue Yantuo until the beginning of spring next year, and as for the matter of the imperial conquest, he will talk about it at that time.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, Li Hao got up early, washed, had breakfast, and then went to the courtyard to practice boxing, these months, he insisted on practicing boxing every day, and never slackened, because he found that this set of boxing methods is very magical, as long as it is well matched with the breathing method taught by Yuan Zhenren, it can really strengthen the body, and now the outdoor temperature is minus 21 degrees, almost to the point of dripping into ice, but he said that there is no pressure, wearing two thin clothes in the yard to practice boxing, without feeling a little chill.

After Li Hao finished a set of punches, Qin Su came from the backyard, holding the fur cloak that Li Hao often wears, came to Li Hao's side to approve it for Li Hao, and reproached distressedly: "On such a cold day, how can the son be so uncaring for his body." ”

Li Hao smiled and said, "I am physically strong now, and I am not afraid of the cold at all." ”

Qin Su looked up and found that there were slight beads of sweat on Li Hao's forehead, and he couldn't help but pick up a handkerchief to wipe Li Hao's sweat, and said while wiping: "Childe seems to have grown taller." ”

She said casually, but woke up Li Hao, Li Hao also suddenly found that Qin Su was much shorter than himself, Qin Su's height is one meter sixty-two, which is considered to be the upper average height among women in this era, he used to be about the same height as Qin Su, and now he has to look down at Qin Su.

Thinking that he had grown taller again, Li Hao was excited, and quickly pulled Qin Su back to the room, took out a self-made tape measure and asked Qin Su to help him measure his height, and the result of the measurement was that the height of his bare feet was one meter six or eight, which had exceeded the average height of a man in the Tang Dynasty, Li Hao was so happy and excited, he picked up Qin Su on the spot and turned around twice, shouting excitedly: "I have grown taller, I have developed, I have finally developed!" ”

When he put down Qin Su, Qin Su's cheeks seemed to be smeared red, dizzy and charming, Li Hao was in a good mood, he looked a little stupid for a while, and he didn't know how to make a fool of himself, he lowered his head and kissed her lightly on the lips, Qin Su trembled violently, his body instantly became weak and boneless, and his arms were tightly wrapped around Li Hao.

Li Hao was in good spirits early in the morning, when he touched Qin Su's soft body, the reaction of the lower half of his body was too intense, and there was an urge in his brain to possess her, and at this moment, Qin Su whispered in his ear again: "Childe, take me." ”

"Good!" Li Haohu's body was shocked, he picked her up sideways, closed the door casually, and walked towards the bed.