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

"You mean Cao Tian?"

"The answer is right." Li Hao said slowly, "Cao Tian is just a precious son like Cao Qingyun, so he will definitely not ignore him."

Lu Yun nodded after hearing this: "This trick is good to wait for the rabbit."

Li Hao was silent for a long time and murmured to himself: "No matter whether Gao Chang will come to attack, I will first catch Cao Tian, ​​a traitor."

At this time, the special forces returned one after another to report the search situation. The bayonet team gained something. They found a secret wall in the Cao family's study room, and Li Hao hurried to check it out in person.

When I arrived at the Cao family's study room, I saw a secret wall on the wall. The bookcase that originally blocked the secret wall was moved aside.

Li Hao stepped forward and opened the secret wall. He found that there was a rare pearl bigger than a cow's eye and several calligraphy and paintings inside. There was also a stack of letters. Everyone present was his own people. Li Hao put the pearls in his arms, took out the calligraphy and paintings and handed them to Feiying, and then took out the stack of letters to check them. After looking at it for a while, Li Hao found that these were all correspondences between Zhang Yun and Cao Tian in Jiaohe City. Li Hao held the stack of letters and said coldly: "Just relying on these letters, it can be confirmed that Cao Tian's treason is gone, go back to the governor's mansion!"

Li Hao and everyone returned to the governor's mansion, wrote two memorials in a row and sent people to the inn, and ordered them to send 800 miles to Chang'an in a hurry. Then he wrote another official document and handed it to Wang Yuantai, saying: "This is a official document for recruiting the reserve troops of the government. You can take it back and post it in the reserve troops of the Zhechongwei Mansion, and recruit two thousand reserve troops of the government according to the official documents."

Wang Yuantai took the official document in a daze and looked at it, then was shocked and lost his voice: "What an ugly word!"

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

Wang Yuantai hurriedly covered his mouth and began to read the official documents. After reading it, he still didn't understand the Mansion Reservoir Team and asked, "Sir, what is Mansion Reservoir Team?"

Li Hao left the inkstone and frowned and said, "Are you illiterate? It's written so clearly."

Wang Yuantai scratched his head awkwardly: "I read too little, but I don't understand it."

"Read more books when you have nothing to do in the future." Li Hao rolled his eyes and explained, "The duty of the Prefecture Army reserve team is to participate in training, but they do not pay military salaries. If there is a war and urgent need to use troops, then these Prefecture Army reserve teams need to fill in the Zhe Chongwei Mansion and participate in the battle to fight against the enemy. At that time, it would be no different from ordinary Prefecture Army."

"Oh——" Wang Yuantai suddenly realized and suddenly frowned again, "But there is no military pay, which fool is willing to come to the reserve team of the mansion?"

Li Hao said: "Under normal circumstances, no one wants to do it, but if the enemy country is eyeing it, it is possible to attack at any time. My official document has already stated that Gaochang is ready to move and can attack at any time. As a man of the Tang Dynasty, he should take it as his responsibility to defend his country."

Wang Yuantai was shocked when he heard this and asked, "What the Lord said is serious? Gao Chang is preparing to offend our Tingzhou?"

Li Hao said: "Cao Tian had an affair with Gaochang. Now that he was driven away, Gaochang lost control of Tingzhou. If they were unwilling to give up, they would be very likely to invade. It would rather believe that they had than they did not. We must make plans early and prepare for the future."

Wang Yuantai Ning pointed out: "I know, I will go back to recruit the reserve troops of the government and speed up the training." After he said that, he hurriedly left the governor'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 nodded: "Yes, I understand."

Li Hao stood up and walked in the yamen hall. Seeing that he looked a little anxious, Li Yuanzhong asked in confusion: "Sir, it seems that he still has something to worry about?"

Li Hao nodded and said, "I am struggling. If Gaochang attacks, I will ask the court for help again. I am afraid it will be too late. But now the military situation has not yet begun and I cannot ask for help, which is really difficult."

Li Yuanzhong heard this and said, "Sir, send 800 miles from Tingzhou to send documents to Chang'an in a hurry, and you can arrive in one month."

"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 have few soldiers, it won't take that long." Li Yuanzhong said, "If you come to help defend the city, there are less than 10,000 people. Your Majesty can send a marching chief supervisor to lead his personal guards to the road lightly. When you pass through Shazhou, Liangzhou and other places, you will only take more than two months to reach Tingzhou."

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

Li Yuanzhong nodded: "That's it."

"That's fine." Li Hao clapped his hands for a long time, thought for a while, and said to himself, "The city wall here is too hilarious and must be repaired and raised."

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

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

"Wait a minute!" Li Hao called him again and added: "The more people, the better, the faster, the better. Don't be reluctant to leave money. There are hundreds of thousands of chunks of stadium curry."

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

From the next day, the entire Tingzhou began to become busy. When Lu Yun was recruiting workers, he offered a price of 20 cents per person per day. Thousands of people actively participated in the repair of the city wall when they heard the news. The people of the Tang Dynasty were really honest. No one was willing to be lazy and worked hard, for fear of being gossiped about by others. The city walls were very fast. After all, the city walls here were earthen walls, of course they were soon.

Before, Li Hao stopped the winery business because he wanted to store corn. Several merchants came to ask Li Hao for questions. Now that Li Hao has 5,000 stones of grain, he does not need the corn in the warehouse, so he promised them to resume the winery operation. Only then did the merchants return satisfied.

Tingzhou has temporarily settled down, and Shi Najie is also preparing to return to Persia. Their caravan has been here for so long, which has brought a lot of benefits to Tingzhou City. After all, more than 300 people have to spend money on food, clothing, housing and housing. As long as they spend money, the people of Tingzhou will make money. This is the reason.

Shi Najie helped Li Hao a lot of help. Li Hao personally sent him out of the city, which moved Shi Najie so much. In fact, Li Hao originally planned to send special forces to Persia and bring Shi Najie's family to the Tang Dynasty to realize Shi Najie's plan to immigrate to the Tang Dynasty. But now he has no time to help Shi Najie, so he has to give up.

After seeing Shi Najie off, Li Hao went to the Wei Mansion to check the training of the Mansion Army and the Mansion Army Reserve Team.

Although the Prefecture Army reserve team did not receive military pay, they could manage their meals. All of them quickly recruited 1,000 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 the two thousand reserve team set by Li Hao. Wang Yuantai was also helpless. After all, Tingzhou was not many young and strong, and some people were not very enlightened. When they heard that there was no military pay to receive, they were unwilling to suffer.

Li Hao expressed his understanding and did not blame Wang Yuantai. He personally formulated a training plan for them. Li Yuanzhong trained a thousand prefecture soldiers reserve team, and the prefecture soldiers were trained by Cheetah and Wang Yuantai. Li Hao did not trust Wang Yuantai very much in terms of military training. At present, Wang Yuantai is still loyal, but his ability is insufficient. To be tactful, there is a lot of room for improvement.

Cheetah is a special forces soldier trained in the region. He asked him to train. It is conceivable that these soldiers in the palace have not had a good life. However, Li Hao did not forget to remind the cheetah not to be too eager to achieve success, and to take it slowly, so as not to force the seedlings to grow and backfire. At the same time, it is easy to cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers.

Although Cheetah has no official position, Wang Yuantai is very impressed by him. Because Cheetah has a strong murderous aura, he doesn't dare to talk to him when he stands. Even Wang Yuantai is like this, and those soldiers in the palace are even more afraid to talk to him. Therefore, Cheetah, the coach, is stress-free and constantly increases the training limit for the soldiers in the palace every day, and no one dares to say anything.

On April 27th, in the middle of the night, a sudden noise in the city started to break out. The noise was very loud, which woke Li Hao up. As soon as Li Hao put on his clothes and walked out of the room, a guard of the palace came to report: "Sir, the big thing is not good, the warehouse has gone from water!"

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

Zhoucang was not far from the governor's mansion. As soon as Li Hao left the gate, he saw a blazing fire in the west, igniting the sky. Seeing such a big fire, his heart was cold. He kicked his horse's belly and headed straight for the direction of the fire.

Before he got close to it, he saw the streets crowded with figures and shouting loudly, in chaos. Li Hao frowned when he saw this, and suddenly thought of something, and waved his hand: "All soldiers obey orders. Except for firefighters, everyone stays in place and does not move rashly, and does not make noise!"

Then he turned to Peng Hai and said, "Peng Hai, take You Xiaowei to save the grain quickly. Remember, food is important, and the lives of the soldiers are more important. Do your best and don't force it."

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

Li Hao turned around and looked at the twenty-eight special forces soldiers and more than fifty palace soldiers left beside him, and couldn't help but ask: "Where is Wang Yuantai?"

A soldier in the palace replied: "Sir, Wang Duwei has brought people to put out the fire."

Li Hao nodded and said loudly: "Lu Yun, quickly bring fifty people to the cornfield to protect corn. Li Yuanzhong, go back to guard the governor's mansion to prevent any demons from causing trouble. Others follow me!" After saying that, he turned his head and ran to the south. Twenty-eight special forces soldiers and Jin Li rode their horses to follow closely. Li Yuanzhong rushed back, and Lu Yun led the fifty soldiers to the west city.

A fire broke out in the granary of Tingzhou. Li Hao did not command the rescue of the food, but went south instead. Jin Li and the others were still very confused. They turned south for a few turns and suddenly heard the thunder of shouting and killing in front of them. In the dark night, they saw torches and figures shaking. More than 20 soldiers in the palace were fighting fiercely with more than 30 men in black at the gate of the state prison, which was extremely tragic.

Seeing this, Li Hao's pupils shrank rapidly. It was indeed not beyond his expectations. Cao Tian sent someone to rob the prison. The Huo Cang fire was just to attract the attention of the troops in the city. However, he still had a doubt in his heart. He had already sent the military soldiers and the Right Guard to martial law gate to strictly investigate how these people got into the city.
Chapter completed!