Qu Yongjie stood at the gate, craned his neck, and watched a group of people hang the plaque of the Zhongyong Houfu with gold characters on a red background on the lintel, but there was no joy or anger on a face with a national character, so he just stood there lightly, looking thoughtfully at the shining four golden characters.

"Congratulations!" The family members and soldiers all came forward one by one to congratulate the master, once Da Chu is sealed, it can be hereditary for a generation, Qu Yongjie is now sealed Zhongyonghou, then his son Qu Ping can inherit the position of the lord regardless of whether he has a future or not. Qu Ping, who was standing behind Qu Yongjie, was overjoyed, took out a red envelope from his arms, and distributed one to his family.

Standing on the side of the new Hou Ye is a gentleman who was hired by Qu Yongjie after the year, surnamed Long, and was called a military advisor by Qu Hou Ye as soon as he came, quite valued, both inside and outside the house are respected as Mr. Long, Qu Yongjie in the past Qu Mansion, the current Hou Mansion has opened a single courtyard for this Mr. Long to live, and several old girls have been dialed to serve. And this Mr. Long didn't shirk it, and accepted it with a big grin, usually he didn't seem to have any respect for Qu Yongjie. Qu Ping is often called by his name.

Qu Ping couldn't look down on this dead face in his heart, and seized the opportunity to make things difficult for Mr. Long a few times, Mr. Long was good-tempered, and he didn't bother to make a noise after eating Qu Ping's teasing, as if he thought he was unlucky, but soon Qu Yongjie knew from the girl's mouth that his son had played tricks on Mr. Long, and beat Qu Ping to death in a rage, even Mrs. Qu knelt and cried for her husband's subordinates to show mercy, and in the end, if Mr. Long didn't come forward to beg for Qu Ping's mercy, Qu Ping would have to lie on the bed for several months.

With this lesson, Qu Ping is completely honest in front of this Mr. Long, and the other subordinates in the house are even more respectful, thinking about the eldest young master who offended Mr. Long and was beaten to death, if this person is himself, I am afraid that the family can only go to the mass grave to find themselves.

But then Qu Ping saw the ability of this Mr. Long, and I don't know how Mr. Long did it, anyway, since Mr. Long came, there has been a steady flow of gold and silver to Qu Yongjie, and even the weapons and armor have also been brought in a lot, which has greatly alleviated the backward situation of armor and weapons in Qu Yongjie's army. Qu Ping, who led a battalion in the army, was also eager to try, and now it was a chaotic battle among the heroes, and if he wanted to take advantage, he had to fight out.

Qu Yongjie is naturally not as impulsive as his son and subordinates, his own family knows his own family affairs, and Qu Yongjie, who has brought soldiers all his life, knows that the current Xingzhou soldiers look bright, and they are still far from the distance from the strong army, and it is more than enough to deal with Lu Xiaobo and Zhang Wei's former exile army, and it is really not enough to compare with the world's famous strong army.

"The owner has to be named the Waiting Lord, and now he is the top magnate of Dachu, why doesn't he look so happy?" Mr. Long, who had a dead face, asked in a deep voice.

Qu Yongjie smiled slightly, shook his head and said: "If it was the Taiping Festival before, if I had to wait, I would be very happy, at least I would have to put up a banquet for a few days and invite friends to celebrate, but now the world is in chaos, the heroes are rising, and the bees are everywhere, what is there to be happy about?" ”

Mr. Long raised his head slightly, "Listening to the meaning of the owner, I am complaining that the Son of Heaven is not kind enough to you, you have worked hard for decades, and you have not exchanged for the position of a waiting master, but as soon as you were defeated by Li Qing, you were punished out of the capital, and you almost became the soul of the exile army. ”

Hearing Mr. Long's slightly mocking words, Qu Yongjie's face was straight, he hugged his fist in the direction of Luoyang, and said: "Mr. Long is wrong, so the Son of Heaven has a lot of grace to Qu and has always trusted, at that time, after a certain family was defeated by Li Qing, no, it was lost to his subordinates, a little-known general, greatly damaged the prestige of the Imperial Forest Army, lost the face of the Son of Heaven, and indeed had no shame to stay in the capital anymore, the Son of Heaven understood the mood of a certain family, and let a certain family come to the south to quell the rebellion, if it were not for the Son of Heaven's move, how could there be Qu Yongjie today!" ”

Mr. Long nodded slightly, "You miss the old." ”

Qu Yongjie smiled and stretched out his hand to invite, "Mr. Long, now that the war in Qinzhou is in full swing, there are still many things to ask Mr. Long, let's sit in the study!" ”

Mr. Long nodded, "The owner pleases first." ”

After entering the study, the host sat down, and Qu Ping, who came in, became a waiter, making tea for the two of them, and then stood beside his father.

"The Battle of Qinzhou, what do you think?" Mr. Long asked Qu Yongjie.

Qu Yongjie pondered for a while, and said: "King Ning's mind is really difficult to fathom, it stands to reason that Lu Xiaobo and Zhang Wei have been taking refuge in him for a long time, and they should have a full understanding of the talents of these two people, these two people are categorically difficult to confront Xiao Yuanshan, and King Ning's subordinates, there is no shortage of famous generals who can fight well against Qu Yongjie, if King Ning sends these figures, with the current 100,000 southern army in Qinzhou, at least they can have the upper hand, but at the moment, Xiao Yuanshan is firmly occupying the initiative, which is really incomprehensible." ”

Mr. Long said with a smile: "What don't you understand, the army of exiles gathered by Lu Xiaobo and Zhang Wei, King Ning has not fully mastered it, these two bandits still have strength in their hands, since this is the case, let them touch Xiao Yuanshan, and win, of course King Ning is happy, if he loses, it is the men and horses of these two guys that are consumed, and King Ning's elite is not damaged at all, and he can even take advantage of the opportunity of the defeat of these two people to completely hold the remaining exile army in his hands, haven't you seen the information gathered a few days ago, Hu Zequan has already arrived in the army of Lu and Zhang, and I dare to assert that if Lu and Zhang suffer a big defeat, the military command will fall into the hands of Hu Zequan. ”

Qu Yongjie was shocked, "These exile troops only need to be tempered more, they will become a strong army, King Ning uses Xiao Yuanshan to consume them, it is inevitable that he will fold his wings!" "If the elite can't be in their own hands, then it's better not to have it!" Mr. Long sneered: "Look, when Hu Zequan fully takes over the command of this army, Xiao Yuanshan will usher in a real challenge." ”

"Hu Zequan is old and strong, and his military strategy is excellent, if he is allowed to command, the battle of Qinzhou will be quite interesting." Qu Yongjie said with great interest: "Xiao Yuanshan is also a veteran, and the two of them met together, but the tip of the needle was against Maimang. ”

"The battle of Qinzhou will not have any results for the time being." Mr. Long sneered: "Xiao Haoran and King Ning are both old schemers, they have been planning for decades, once they are launched, how can they see the results in three or five days, these two thieves, we will lie on one side, let them fight you to the death first!" ”

Qu Yongjie laughed, "Mr. Long said very well, you are not afraid of the stage height when watching a play, the more powerful they fight, the better it will be for us." ”

As the two were talking, a person suddenly walked in outside, and it seemed that his status in Qu's mansion was not low, so he went straight into the study, and the two people sitting nodded to him, and Qu Ping greeted him and called out respectfully, "Uncle Yuan!" ”

Just stepped into the study is the former imperial court staff of the command of the envoy Yuan Fang, the head of the entire Great Chu's spies, was by the deputy Ding Yu conspired back then, almost died, and later was rescued by Li Huaiyuan, the Duke of Anguo, who rescued him, has been hiding in Yizhou, An Guogong originally wanted Yuan Fang to join the shadow of the Li family or go to Dingzhou to help Li Qing, but Yuan Fang, who was well in health, categorically refused.

"The Dingzhou Statistical Survey Division is loud and loud all over the world, the White Fox Qingfeng has outstanding ability, and the Li Shadow is an old spy organization, and its leader Li Zonghua and Yuan Fang are in the world and said, whether I join the Statistical Survey Department or the Shadow, I will go to give them a hand, An Guogong, you know my surname, how can I be a subservient person?" Yuan Fang said at the time.

An Guogong Li Huaiyuan expressed his understanding of Yuan Fang's choice, and let Yuan Fang come and go freely, and the Li family did not interfere, and later when Qu Yongjie rose in Xingzhou, Yuan Fang intended to come to this old friend, Li Huaiyuan couldn't help but agree to let him go, and let Li Zonghua plan, and Yuan Fang was personally sent to Qu Yongjie by the shadow.

"Guogong's monstrous kindness to Yuan, Yuan remembered it, and he said that he would be rewarded!" When Yuan Fang was leaving, he simply said such a sentence to Li Huaiyuan, and then walked away, Li Huaiyuan smiled freely, but he choked Li Sanhou's anger.

Yuan Fang came to vote for Qu Yongjie, Qu Yongjie naturally greeted him, overjoyed, and immediately let Yuan Fang take full charge of Xingzhou's intelligence matters, and granted him the privilege of acting cheaply, and after Yuan Fang came here, it didn't take much effort, so he pulled most of the original staff Fang Si scattered all over Dachu, although Qu Yongjie's intelligence system is a rising star, but the scale is not inferior to other major organizations, such a person, Qu Ping'an dares to be respectful.

"Uncle Yuan drinks tea!" Qu Ping offered the teacup with both hands, but Yuan Fang didn't take it for granted like Mr. Long, stood up, took the teacup, and nodded slightly, "There is Lao Xiaohouye!" ”

"What a hard work!" Qu Yongjie said with a smile: "It is natural for the younger generation to serve Brother Yuan, and it is his blessing. By the way, Brother Yuan, come here today, what is the new situation? ”

Yuan Fang put down the teacup and nodded: "Yes, there is indeed a new situation, but it is about Li Qing in Dingzhou." ”

"Li Qing?" Both people in the room were moved.

"Li Qing has just pacified the grassland, and his strength must have lost a lot, does he also want to enter the Central Plains at this time to intervene?" Mr. Long asked.

Yuan Fang shook his head and said: "He did have a foot, but he did not enter the Central Plains, but began to support the Dongfang Zeng clan by sea, this is the information I just received, Li Qing's huge naval division set off from the port of Hailing in Fuzhou ten days ago." ”

Qu Yongjie took the information in Yuan Fang's hand and glanced at it, "Brother Yuan is really a good skill, this information is only afraid that it comes from within the opponent's sailor, otherwise how can it be so detailed?" ”

(To be continued)