Ye Chang also saw the look in Yang Hui's eyes when he looked back. The look was so strange that Ye Chang was startled. He never felt that he could conceal his hatred for Yang Hui forever, so when Yang Hui talked to him just now, he was still wondering whether the other party knew that he was the younger brother of Ye Shu who was killed by him. But now Yang Hui¡¯s eyes were so complicated that Ye Chang couldn¡¯t guess what he was thinking. Seems a littlefearful of him? With his status as a consort, there is no need to be afraid. Even if he can exert some influence on Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan, his influence is still far behind that of old traitors like Li Linfu and Gao Lishi. After this silent exchange of glances, Yang Hui turned and left, and Ye Chang also stepped towards Yuetang. Li Linfu summoned Ye Chang to meet him. After Ye Chang sat down, Li Linfu said with a smile: "Ye Chang, don't leave today at noon. Come and have a few drinks with me." Ye Chang was a little confused. Yesterday, he was still waiting for him, and even today In the morning, Hui Ming was ready to leave him alone at first, but now his attitude has changed? "Mr. Li wants to drink. I have some home-brewed wine, but it's quite strong. I wonder if Gong Li wants to drink?" He didn't understand in his heart, but he followed Li Linfu's intention. "Your Majesty said that he wants to arrange a marriage for you. I know it and I will arrange it. Just don't worry." Li Linfu said with a smile again. "Huh?" Ye Chang was stunned. This kind of daze was regarded as a surprise by Li Linfu. He laughed loudly: "You don't have elders in your family, so some things will inevitably not be considered carefully. If you have any questions, just ask me directly. Don't feel ashamed." Ye Chang just said He felt that his brain was a little weak, but Li Linfu showed no hostility. He couldn't be disappointed when he came up, so he smiled and said: "I have something that I really want to ask Mr. Li The situation in Liaodong" He is very talkative. Speaking of this, someone outside suddenly said: "The Ministry of War is reporting urgently, please see your husband." "Send it up." Li Linfu frowned immediately, feeling disappointed. However, as a powerful minister, he always has a desire for power, and he knew that since he was called the Ministry of War, reporting urgently. , that must be a very important matter. After a while, a junior official hurriedly came in and handed a military report to Li Linfu. After Li Linfu read it, his expression changed slightly: "Bring me the map." Someone took the map. When he arrived in front of him, Li Linfu was a little presbyopic and struggled to look at the map. After thinking for a while, he called Ye Chang: "The victory report of Anlu Mountain is said to be a great victory in the battle with the Khitan people, and the coalition forces of the Khitan tribes were defeated in Yanjin Prefecture. , the Khitan army dispersed to South Suzhou, and then went south to invade Gaimou Prefecture. The local Hu chiefs surrendered one after another, so An Lushan intended to go to Liaocheng Prefecture" Listening to him read, Ye Chang looked at the map, and then his expression changed. It became gloomy. To the south of Gaimou Prefecture was Liaocheng Prefecture. To the south of Liaocheng Prefecture were Anshi Prefecture and Jian'an Prefecture. To the south of Jian'an Prefecture was Jili Prefecture. In other words, the Khitan people were away from Jili Prefecture at this time. There are only three states in the state. "Can Anlu Mountain defend the Liaohe River?" "Li Linfu asked. "He can't keep it The news when I came was that I was ridiculing him and beat him to pieces." Ye Chang gritted his teeth and said. "He can almost guess that An Lushan's so-called great victory in Yanjin Prefecture only meant Afraid of a major defeat, it is best to just see the Khitans crossing the border and not dare to stop the Khitans. After crossing the Liao River from Yanjin Prefecture, they go north to east to the Bohai Kingdom. At this time, they are not very powerful, with eight tribes in total. There are only 100,000 or 200,000 people, and it is impossible to challenge the Bohai Kingdom, so they can only go south. With the skills of the nomads, these 200,000 people can produce 300,000 to 50,000 troops, and the Khitans were originally sent south to the states. The area under the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate was gradually abandoned after the Yingzhou Rebellion. Just like the Jili Prefecture before Ye Chang arrived, it was controlled by the native chiefs of various ethnic groups and was nominally canonized by the imperial court. It was impossible for them to stop the number of people. The attack of ten thousand soldiers, even if it is combined, will be able to withstand the Khitan people. "So, although this letter was sent in a hurry, the battle took place at the end of February, and it has been nearly two months now. . "Li Linfu pondered for a moment, then looked at Ye Chang: "You stay in Beijing" Li Linfu's meaning is very obvious. Now that the situation in Liaodong has changed suddenly, Jili Prefecture is facing a crisis. Let Ye Chang stay in Chang'an to avoid being in danger. Ye Chang would never make this choice. "Please allow me to return to Liao as soon as possible. "Ye Chang shook his head and said: "Don't let Khitan become powerful, otherwise Youyan will be in danger." "How do you say this? " "In the past, the Xi people were in Raole and the Khitans were in Songmo. Fanyang defended them with one town, and divided Pinglu to Fushiwei and Bohai to support Fanyang's power. Nowadays, there are millions of people in the land thousands of miles away from Andong. If the Khitan is allowed to take over and use it, and if this is the case in Goguryeo, then Liucheng will not be protected and Fanyang will be in danger. If the Central Plains is strong, it will harass and encroach on Youyan. If the Central Plains is weak, it will destroy the Great Wall and invade Hebei. This will bring disaster to future generations for hundreds of years and must not be allowed to go unchecked. Ye Chang pointed on the map and said,Lin Fu frowned and said for a while: "You are right. Although it is caused by ringworm and scabies, if it is ignored, it will bring disaster to future generations." But there was still a troubled expression on his face. Ye Chang understood why he was troubled: "The imperial court has no soldiers and food?" "Exactly, the saint wants to conquer Xiao Bolu, and he has ordered Gao Xianzhi to prepare for it." Li Linfu squinted, feeling quite embarrassed: "Longyou and Fan Yang, these two The town cannot relax, and over in Beiting, although Baimei is dead, the Huihe people can't do it if they are not prepared" Not only that, he looked at Ye Chang again: "There are also strange movements among the barbarians in the southwest. The imperial court is not only unable to send out soldiers, but also unable to mobilize money and food. If you can bear it, in two or three years, when the battle of Xiaobolu is over, I will allow you to take back Jili Prefecture." Ye Chang almost did not hesitate. Authentic: "The captives have occupied it for two or three years, and I have lost it for two or three years. We may not be able to do as we wish Mr. Sir, if I go to Liaodong, I don't need any money or food for the soldiers of the imperial court. I will accept a supply from the Free Andong Chamber of Commerce. All I need is Just allow me to recruit exiles and move to Jili Prefecture to prepare for war." Li Linfu was shocked. In his opinion, Jili Prefecture was really not an important place, and even the entire Liaodong was dispensable, but Ye Chang This attitude is clearly to coexist and die with Jili Prefecture. His understanding of Ye Chang has changed again. Ye Chang is by no means a person who doesn't know what to choose, but he still makes such a choice. What is the purpose of this? At this time, he felt that his relationship with Ye Chang was unusual, so he did not guess and asked directly: "What are your intentions in defending Jili Prefecture? Tell me directly. Do you still not believe me?" Ye Chang looked at it. Li Linfu glanced at him and was a little surprised by his attitude. He didn't know why Li Linfu would confide in him. Little did he know that Li Linfu mistakenly thought that Yang Hui was the person he invited to explain his difficulties. At this time, he was already very pregnant and looked at him like a son-in-law. "If you want to go overseas to find fairy mountains, you must protect Lushun. If you want to protect Lushun, , Jili Prefecture must be protected. If we want to protect Jili Prefecture, the old land of Andong Protectorate must not fall into the hands of the Khitan people." Ye Chang hesitated, and decided to use the excuse of searching for overseas fairy mountains: "Li Gong, if you can. Looking for the fairyland overseas, all the problems are no longer problems. He said it very vaguely, but Li Linfu was a man of one mind and nine things. His thoughts suddenly came to mind. One was Li Longji, and Li Linfu was very good. It is clear that whether he or Ye Chang, today's wealth and power are dependent on Li Longji, if Li Longji dies, then both he and Ye Chang will be in trouble if they can find the fairyland overseas to seek longevity. Medicine, then Li Longji can live longer, and his and Ye Chang's wealth and power can continue. Even if he doesn't consider Li Longji, he is actually older than Li Longji. Although he is still full of energy, he I also know that my body is gradually showing signs of decay. The second is to plan for the future. Even if I can't find the elixir, if I can't maintain power, there is still a way out in the land of Jilizhou - the story of the Three Cunning Rabbits in the Cave, Li Linfu was still very clear about this. Li Linfu's eyes flashed: "What you said is what you want, just ask. I will try my best to give you what the court can give you." He thought more deeply, Ye Chang only wanted to visit the fairy mountains overseas, so if the Jili Prefecture was large, someone would always need to control it. The Ye family himself had no one worth mentioning, and among his nephews, Li Linfu, although they were relatively mediocre, they were at least capable. Let¡¯s get a share of the pie in Jili Prefecture. What¡¯s more, if the marriage between Ye Chang and Tengkong can come true, half of Jili Prefecture will belong to his Li family. Without Yang Hui's visit, Li Linfu would never have supported Ye Chang unreservedly, and he might even have left Ye Chang in Chang'an, letting Jili Prefecture gain and lose again. But because of Yang Hui's few words of temptation. His words caused Li Linfu to misunderstand him, and he truly regarded Ye Chang as one of his own, so he said what he could to him. If Yang Hui knew about this, he would probably vomit three liters of blood again that day. It can be said that the guests and hosts were happy, but Li Tengkong did not come out to see each other again. When Ye Chang got Li Linfu's approval, he looked much more relaxed when he returned home. The support Li Linfu promised was the most important in three aspects. One was people. , allowing the recruitment of exiles, maids and convicts, etc. in Hebei Province and Henan Province. An average of 20,000 people can be recruited into Liao every year to enrich the population of Jili Prefecture. The second is grain, which is allowed to be purchased in Huainan Province and transferred to Liaodong. If someone has food, he has the capital to win in Liaodong. As for the third article, the post of general manager of Liaodong March is set up, and Xiangping's capture is transferred to the general manager of Liaodong to avoid being affected by Fan Yang's military envoy. The Andong Protectorate is in control and allows the recruitment of a formal army of no more than 3,000 people and a regiment training of no more than 15,000 people in Jili Prefecture. The expenses incurred shall be borne by the treasury taxes payable by Jili Prefecture as per the Jiedu of each town. example. If a new state is attached, it will be increased accordingly. The opening up of these policies almost allowed Ye Chang to develop in Liaodong without any restrictions, such as the salt industry and iron industry. These industries were originally exclusive to the state. Now he can do his business in Liaodong More importantly, Ye Chang does not need to care about An Lushan's control at all. To a certain extent, the Liaodong Governor has replaced the duties of the Andong Protectorate and has become half a military governor. The position of Marching Chief was not a new one, it was just changed to the Governor's Office. Now that it is taken up, it will not attract too much doubts and opposition. Moreover, the general manager of the march can be led by the prince from a distance, and his senior officials are the officials who are actually in charge of the work, which is convenient for Ye Chang to perform. With Li Linfu's active promotion, he only had to wait for three more days before Ye Chang's resignation was announced. His new official position was judge and recorder of the Liaodong Marching Army, and he joined the army, tried to accumulate Lizhou Sima, and inspected the school. Guerrilla general, heroic cavalry officer, Jilizhou camp envoy, Duzhi envoy, transshipment envoy, and many other titles, his rank was also upgraded from the fifth rank, and according to his wishes, his vacant official positions also include subordinates He appoints his own staff for all official positions. Therefore, Luo Jiuhe became the new Xiangping Shouchu envoy, Nan Jiyun became the training envoy of Liaodong regiment, Cen Shen became the secretary of Jili Prefecture, Zhang Hao became the official of Jili Prefecture, and the rest of them had their own duties. Even so, Ye Chang still has a long list of official positions that can be arranged, but not all the people he wants to recruit are in place. For example, when he came to II, Ye Chang invited him based on his position, but he was still hesitant, and Wang Changling At this time, he was still in Jiangning, and he didn't know whether he had received the solicitation letters sent by Ye Chang and Cen Shen. The matter in Chang'an has been completed, and Ye Chang has to go to Luoyang and practice martial arts, so he will not delay, and after saying goodbye to the relevant people, he is ready to leave Chang'an. This time he did not choose to take a boat, but took the land route. On the ninth day of April, everyone who had made friends in Chang'an came to Baqiao to say goodbye to him. He looked back at everyone, and when he was about to say goodbye, he suddenly heard crying. "I don't know who it is, but the separation is so painful." Cen Shen sighed next to him. "A man should strive to achieve success in all directions, how can he imitate his children?" Zhang Hao said with emotion. This is not to ridicule others, but to encourage myself. He had the widest circle of friends in Chang'an City, so more people came to see him off than to see Ye Chang off. He has lived in Chang'an for a long time, and he can't help but feel a little melancholy when he thinks that his trip will be to Liaodong, which is famous for its bitter cold and barren land. Under such circumstances, this is the only way to encourage yourself. "What Zhang Gong said is true. A good man has his ambitions in all directions. It doesn't matter if we are separated for a while. In the past, Wang Bo sent Du Shaofu to Shuzhou. There is a poem that says, 'There are close friends in the sea. If we are neighbors at the end of the world, we are close friends walking together.' There is little loneliness on the road." The two of them encouraged each other beside Ye Chang, but Ye Chang's attention turned to the other side, because he always felt that among the crying people there, there seemed to be a pair of malicious eyes staring at him. But every time he looked for it, he couldn't see anything. "Let's go" He smiled and shook his head, maybe he was too sensitive. But at this moment, someone heard someone shouting: "Ye Sima, please stay." Sima was referring to his position as Sima of Lizhou. Ye Chang heard that the sound was coming from where he was crying just now, so he looked past. I saw an old man coming out of the group of people. The old man was very haggard. He was dressed in ordinary clothes and slowly walked towards him. Zhang Hao was suddenly surprised: "Li Shizhi"