There was silence at the top of the city, except for the sound of his horse's hooves.
Extremely lonely and extremely arrogant.
Yang Xuan raised the reins, and the horseman stood up.
He pointed to the top of the city and laughed loudly.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The war horse spun in circles, its hooves hit the ground, and then galloped forward.
This horsemanship is truly exquisite.
The city was stunned for a long time before someone cursed: "Yang Gou!"
Yang Xuan was surrounded by Lin Feibao and Zhang Xu and arrived in front of more than two hundred riders.
More than two hundred riders spread out a passage, allowing him to rush through, and then followed closely.
There are not many people and horses.
A sergeant at the top of the city murmured: "How come I feel like facing thousands of troops? I'm a little scared."
An old soldier took a look and saw that Shangguan was not nearby, so he said: "That's Yang Gou! He is both civil and military, with unparalleled literary talent and unparalleled martial arts. He alone can defeat an army of 100,000 people."
"A hundred thousand troops, is that an exaggeration?" Some people were dissatisfied.
The old pawn looked at him with the eyes that said, "I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice, and I have walked on more bridges than you have walked on," and said lightly: "Does Princess Changling know?"
"Of course I know!"
"How many so-called talents in Ning Xing want to please the princess, but do you think the princess has ever looked at those people?" The old soldier sighed: "I once met the princess by chance. She was beautiful! She was so beautiful!
Such a beauty and talent naturally look down on those people. But she is very fond of Yang Gou. If Yang Gou's talent hadn't impressed her, do you think the princess would give in to her enemy? "
This area of the city was silent.
Yang Gou, who even his own people bowed to, is here.
…
Yang Xuan took his troops back, and half of the camp was already set up.
The infantry arrived later, along with the prisoners.
That is, the Northern Xinjiang Engineering Corps.
Yang Xuan stood at the edge of the camp, looking at Nangui City.
"...Before coming here, I asked Widow Luo." He Lianyan said: "She said that Nangui City is quite solid and has been repaired many times. The guard once said that Nangui City will be turned into a city that will never fall."
"How could she say this to you?" Yang Xuan asked.
Widow Luo is a special being in the Yang family. If you want her to surrender, it's wrong, because she still maintains an aloof attitude towards Yang Xuan. If you want her not to surrender, it's wrong, because the Yang family has no defense against her and can leave at any time if she wants.
She keeps the monthly money for herself. No one cares when she goes out, even out of town. If she wants to leave, she can just get a horse.
But Widow Luo never left.
"I said that if this battle fails, Lang Jun's life in Taoxian will be difficult. Lang Jun's life will be difficult, and her life will be difficult. I also said that Nangui City has no good impression of her, no, the whole
Even Beiliao doesn't like her, they all think this woman is ominous."
He Lianyan was quite curious, "Isn't Mr. Lang afraid of her?"
"Why should we be afraid of her?" Yang Xuan squinted at Nangui City, thinking about some details of this battle.
Helianyan's chest trembled with laughter, "That woman is ominous!"
"If a person is cruel, even God will be afraid of him!" Yang Xuan smiled.
This gentleman!
Really bold and uninhibited.
However, if this were not the case, how could I be willing to work for him?
He Lianyan couldn't help but smile when she saw Jiang He'er squatting beside him, as if he had caught a bird and was teasing it happily.
Then she saw the captive leaders Suo Yun and Lan Jian.
Just avoid it.
"I've met the deputy envoy!"
Suo Yun and Lan Jian knelt down, and Suo Yun held Yang Xuan's boots and kissed them devoutly.
Yang Xuan couldn't stand this kind of affection, mainly because he wasn't used to having other people's saliva on his boots... so he said, "It's been a hard journey and it's a good rest."
"It's not hard work." Suo Yun raised his head with a look of admiration in his eyes, "The villain has tidied up a lot this time. The deputy just gave orders. Even if it is a sea of swords and fire, they dare to go for it."
Yang Xuan stretched out his hand, gently touched the top of Suoyun's head, and said gently: "Okay!"
Helianyan saw that Suo Yun's eyes were actually red, tears gradually accumulated, and he choked with sobs, "I am willing to serve as my deputy as a hawk and dog."
Yang Xuan nodded, Suo Yun was overjoyed, stood up and left.
He Lianyan came over and said, "Suoyun is very stubborn at heart."
"I know, but no matter how unruly a person is, there are ways to deal with him." Yang Xuan said calmly.
Helian Yan smiled charmingly, "I have accepted this before."
This coquettish fox... Yang Xuan coughed dryly, "That's a bunch of nonsense."
"Yes." Helian Yan was blessed and deliberately imitated Zhang Siniang's method and twisted her hips.
Not long after, Boss Yang's voice came, "Dinner, please be lighter!"
So his dinner was very light.
If it is light, it will digest quickly. After the meal, Yang Xuan took a piece of cake and walked with Ning Yayun.
Under the setting sun, the two walked slowly.
"What do you think of that place, Master?"
Yang Xuan found a piece of land for metaphysics in the city. Ning Yayun went to see it and got several professors from Chenzhou who were good at layout to study it together for a long time.
"It's good, it's just that the water is a little small." Ning Yayun flicked her tail, looking like she was enjoying it. She didn't know what he was enjoying, "Without water, there is no spiritual energy!"
"How about diverting a river?" Yang Xuan asked.
"Okay! But, will it be too troublesome?" Ning Yayun was delighted.
Yang Xuan smiled and said: "What's the trouble? Take your time!"
This is to make my metaphysics teachers and students work as coolies... Ning Yayun coughed dryly, "After all, it is too extravagant and inappropriate!"
If those sticks were allowed to do hard work again, no one would dare to enter his room and burn his piano with a fire.
Yang Xuan asked seriously: "Really don't want it?"
"Definitely not!" Ning Yayun's attitude was very firm.
Why!
Yang Xuan felt a little regretful... The water source in the city was somewhat uneven. He was planning to divert water from the north to the east, but the project was not small. Those gentlemen of metaphysics are extremely powerful. If they are willing to take action, tsk tsk!
What a pity!
Boss Yang was extremely sorry. Ning Yayun was worried that he would continue this topic, so she smiled and said, "Why do you still need me to come to this expedition?"
"Normally, Nangui City doesn't need to be a master of such a powerful sword, but everything is possible! We are not afraid of outsiders, but we are afraid of internal traitors." Yang Xuan said meaningfully.
"You mean inside Northern Xinjiang?"
"right."
"You have not been very kind to the wealthy families recently, and you even kidnapped the Huang family. If those people...if they communicate with Bei Liao, aren't they worried that after the Northern Territory is broken, their homes will also be plundered by Bei Liao?"
Yang Xuan smiled and said, "You look down on them and you look down on them."
Ning Yayun smiled, "How do you say this?"
Lao Ning is good at everything, but he has been imprisoned in the Imperial College for many years and is not sensitive enough to many things in the outside world.
"They think highly of them because these people only have their own interests in their eyes. As for Northern Xinjiang, when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, they would shout long live the Tang Dynasty and look loyal. But once the Tang Dynasty became powerful,
If they are declining, they will not say they are worried, but will be ecstatic..."
"Why?"
“The decline of the country will inevitably be accompanied by the collapse of the official system, which is convenient for them to take advantage of...
How much land have been annexed by the powerful powers in northern Xinjiang over the years?
Let's talk about the Huang family. A lot of things were found during the confiscation of their property. In the past twenty years, the Huang family's farmland has increased from more than a thousand acres to more than ten thousand acres.
It can be said that it was during these twenty years that the Huang family made its fortune. Therefore, you have high regard for the strong moral character."
Ning Yayun nodded, "Human nature is ultimately ugly."
"To say that you looked down on them is still about human nature." Yang Xuan pointed to the left, where there was a cluster of flowers. The two of them walked to the edge and enjoyed the flowers under the sunset.
"People's desires will expand. When a person or a family's wealth reaches a certain level, in the eyes of him and his family, the country is a carrier, and he and his family just live on this carrier. So you can
Do you understand?"
Ning Yayun nodded, "It's like a blood-sucking leech."
Snap!
Yang Xuan clapped his hands, "It's exactly the leech you mentioned. When this carrier is sucked to a point of weakness and bullied by outsiders, they will throw away this carrier without hesitation and invest in a new carrier..."
"You have no king, no father, no country... but a family." Ning Yayun looked at the flowers with her hands behind her hands, "What's the use of having so much money? Can it be taken to the tomb?"
Lao Ning is really a person who doesn't eat fireworks from the world... Yang Xuan smiled, "Greedy is human nature, and I am greedy too. If I hadn't had a goal, I would have made Yuanzhou Ramen bigger and stronger in Chang'an.
Greedy like a blood-sucking leech..."
"It's not bad to be the richest man in the Tang Dynasty!" Ning Yayun said jokingly.
Yang Xuan shook his head, "It's good to be the richest man in the Tang Dynasty, but in order to protect your huge family property, you have to find a backer for yourself. Why should a reliable person help you? You can only give up some of your business and use it to bribe your backer."
"Are you willing?" Ning Yayun said with a smile.
"After all, it's not bad to be able to keep part of the family property. However, according to my temperament, if I get to this point, I will either win over a group of officials or go into battle without any shirt, and I will still take the road of becoming an official."
"It's not easy."
"Who says it's not the case!" Yang Xuan was really filled with emotion, "That's why I understand the thoughts of powerful people."
"If they hear what you say, they will probably get chills down their spines, and they will either seek refuge with you, or they will have no choice but to fight with you."
"I'm not that cruel." Yang Xuan smiled shyly, successfully disgusting Ning Yayun.
"Aning was humiliated over there. Why don't you move? Tell me." Ning Yayun felt that she couldn't talk about human nature with Yang Xuan, otherwise she would be disgusted by him.
"That's not a big deal." Yang Xuan said calmly: "It's just food. Isn't it available in Chenzhou? Is it not available in Taiping?
To be honest, I have been afraid of hunger since I was a child, so I like to store food.
Since arriving in Taiping, I have tried every possible means to collect food. It was the same when I arrived in Chenzhou...
The amount of food stored is quite large, if you just mix it out, it will make the faces of those powerful people hurt."
"Then why are you sitting back and watching?" Ning Yayun was puzzled. She was mostly confused and worried that Yang Xuan's attitude towards Zhou Ning had changed. But last time he asked An Ziyu, and An Ziyu said that the couple was in a good relationship.
!
In this case, why did Yang Xuan sit back and watch Zhou Ning get slapped in the face?
Yang Xuan smiled and said, "Let me tell you something."
"Say." Ning Yayun was quite dissatisfied with Zhou Ning's family.
Yang Xuan leaned over and picked a flower, brought it under his nose to smell it, and said happily: "Originally, outsiders called me a famous general of the Tang Dynasty. In Chenzhou, if I say a word, the Chenzhou army will follow it without thinking.
But the Northern Xinjiang Army was different. The Chenzhou Army was a local army, while the Northern Xinjiang Army was an elite force directly under the Jiedushi Envoy, so it was naturally superior to others.
It was okay when the two sides cooperated in the past. When I arrived in Taoxian County, the first thing I wanted to do was gather the Northern Xinjiang Army..."
He glanced at Ning Yayun.
Ning Yayun said lightly: "Why are you worried that I will spread your rebellious words? I have said that you are a high-ranking person. Just by looking at you, I can tell that you are full of disobedience."
Bar!"
hehe!
"I have never been able to find an opportunity to take action." Yang Xuan smiled awkwardly, "The Huang family took action. To be honest, I was overjoyed! After rectifying the Huang family, I also used the Chenzhou Army to scare the Northern Xinjiang Army. This is the first step.
.
Warriors! The only way to completely conquer them is on the battlefield.
Although the battle at Caijiang was successful, everyone in Northern Xinjiang was shouting for peace, and they only wanted to live in peace for a while. If I go out to fight at this time...
Let’s just talk about this expedition! Many soldiers and civilians in northern Xinjiang are dissatisfied and say that I am being militaristic!”
"You've been talking for a long time, does it have anything to do with Aning's matter?" Ning Yayun said dissatisfied.
"Of course." Yang Xuan smiled and said: "As the deputy envoy of Jiedu, I need this battle to subdue the army generals. But I need a reason!
Now those people are scolding me for being militaristic, but when I break through Nangui City and return with mountains of money and food, what will happen to those soldiers and civilians?"
"Say you are wise." Ning Yayun sighed.
Yang Xuan smiled and said, "There is more."
"What else?" Ning Yayun covered her forehead.
"Of course, otherwise how could it be worth it for me to go on an expedition in person?" Yang Xuan picked up the flowers, which bloomed brilliantly under the setting sun. "When I return in triumph with a huge amount of money and food, the money can be used to purchase food in other places, and the food..."
Yang Xuan smiled very innocently, "This time, those powerful men manipulated the price of grain, and those grain merchants took the opportunity to make a fortune. This money can be called a national treasure... This is a slap in the face. Master, do you think
Do you think I am a tolerant person?"
Ning Yayun shook her head, "If you are magnanimous, I will do it in vain."
Your metaphor is so appropriate... Yang Xuan smiled, "When I dropped the huge amount of food..."
Ning Yayun's eyelids twitched wildly, "God, why did those people offend you! You are driving down the price of food like this..."
Yang Xuan smiled and said: "Think about the people."
Ning Yayun has already thought, "The people will be ecstatic and their attitude towards you will suddenly change."
"Next time I go on an expedition, can you tell me what will happen to the soldiers and civilians in Northern Xinjiang?" Yang Xuan turned the flower between his fingers.
Ning Yayun looked at him carefully with a serious look on her face, "Next time you go on an expedition, the soldiers and civilians in Northern Xinjiang will look forward to following you to get something, look forward to it, and will be happy...
Zitai, in my opinion, you are a powerful official with your methods... If you continue to run Northern Xinjiang like this, when you want to do something, how will the soldiers and civilians of Northern Xinjiang decide? In this world!"
Ning Yayun felt a little painful, "Promise me not to let your ambition burn your conscience."
"I'm not that kind of person." Yang Xuan smiled innocently.
"But your methods... the world only saw that you were venting your anger for Aning, but they couldn't see the plans behind you, the plans for people's hearts. No, for human nature. You took advantage of the greedy loopholes of people's hearts to control Bei step by step.
Xinjiang’s military and civilians. Such methods..."
Ning Yayun looked at him, "This is an imperial method!"
Yang Xuan raised his hand, "I have sworn to live up to the Tang Dynasty in this life!"
Ning Yayun relaxed and said with a smile: "No wonder you dare to tell me this plan directly."
"I'll just tell you." Yang Xuan smiled.
Ning Yayun hesitated for a moment and patted his shoulder, "Are you so trusting me?"
Yang Xuan said: "There are not many people in this world who deserve my complete trust, and you are one of them."
Ning Yayun's eyes were slightly warm, "I understand."