Dou Xuan decided to immediately imitate Zhang Xutuo, the governor of Qi County, and immediately recruited the Zongtuan Township Tuan of Langya County to defend the city. Although Dou Xuan was unable to suppress the thieves under the current circumstances, he could not allow the thieves to capture the city and capture the entire Langya County.

Cui De was originally the most wealthy family in the Han family in Shandong. He was a member of the same path as Dou Xuan, a nobleman in Guanlonglu. The reason why he believed in Dou Xuan was that his real purpose was to use the Xuzhou thieves to capture Mengshan and put heavy pressure on Dou Xuan, forcing Dou Xuan to recruit Zongtuan Township to save himself. The Dou family is a relative of the imperial family, and Dou Xuan and the emperor are cousins. With this relationship, Dou Xuan can of course get the emperor's authorization to obtain the power to command the army.

As long as Duan Wencao and Dou Xuan obtained the power of commanding the military in order to suppress the rebellion and suppress the bandits, and with the Qi County Magistrate Zhang Xutuo, it is certain that Cui Deben would also obtain the power of commanding the military in order to suppress the rebellion and suppress the bandits. Once the emperor and the central government opened this hole, it would be difficult to block it. In order to increase their power, local administrative officials would inevitably follow the example. The result can be imagined. When the local power is greater, the central authority will weaken, and once the central and local governments fall into confrontation, the peaceful reunification of China-Turkey will be in danger.

Dou Xuan is not worried about the peaceful reunification of Central China. What he has to worry about is the stability of Langya County, so the second countermeasure he came up with was to ask for help from the right guard and Zhou Fashang. Zhou Fashang is the deputy commander of the navy and is also responsible for the garrison in the Qilu area, but his main energy is to take care of the garrison in the early stage of the Eastern Expedition, and he has no time to take care of the garrison in the Qilu area. This can be seen from the fact that Wang Bo and Meng Rang rebelled under Changbai Mountain, Zhang Xutuo has always been the ones who killed them. Zhou Fashang did not pay attention to these things at all. Perhaps he thought that a group of small thieves were not worthy of his attention at all, and Zhang Xutuo could handle it.

Dou Xuan replied to Cui Deben and expressed his gratitude to him. Although Cui Deben's real purpose of telling him the secret was not simply for the right to command the military, everyone was also the local administrative chief, and at the same time had to face the Xuzhou thieves who had occupied Mengshan. If they could obtain the right to command the military, it would be beneficial to everyone. Therefore, Dou Xuan did not blame Cui Deben for intending to use him. On the contrary, he was very grateful to Cui Deben for telling the truth about the Xuzhou thieves at the first time, so that he could get enough time to deal with it. He gave Cui Deben the rewards needed and cooperated on the basis of the consistent interests of both parties.

In terms of Dou Xuan's current situation, he must be flexible and flexible in order to get as much support as possible in Qilu and Xuzhou. Considering that Dong Chun will leave Pengcheng soon, Cui Deben will be the administrator of Pengcheng in the future. If he can quickly promote cooperation with him, he will definitely be able to help Langya. Therefore, Dou Xuan sent his close subordinates to Pengcheng day and night. On the one hand, he was to discuss cooperation matters with Cui Deben, and on the other hand, he was to explore the situation in Xuzhou. In particular, he should pay close attention to the development of the situation in Lu County and see if he could join forces with the forces of the three counties to encircle Mengshan, thereby creating opportunities for Langya County to reverse the crisis.

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Zhang Xutuo received a letter from Duan Wencao.

The bandits in Xuzhou occupied Mengshan and invaded Lu County. Now Sishui County has been trapped, Qufu was robbed, Xiaqiu was in a hurry, so they had to dispatch troops to rescue. The princess of Lu County was about to retreat from Juping, and Liangfu's line was retreating, and he was no longer able to cooperate with the army of Qi County to launch a north-south attack on Wang Bo. Meng Rang and other bandits. Please consider whether to attack the bandits immediately or to seek other plans?

Xuzhou thieves? Some thieves in Xuzhou rebelled? Zhang Xutuo was quite surprised.

Before the eastern expedition began, the domestic situation continued to deteriorate. First, there were floods in the river, and then there were rebels everywhere. There were Wang Bo, Meng Rang and other thieves in Qi and Lu, Liu Badao, Gao Shida, Hao Xiaode, and Zhang Jin in Hebei called them all thieves. The Henan thief Zhai Rang also gathered people to cause chaos, burning white horses, shocking the Eastern Capital. Now someone in Xuzhou has rebelled, which shows that the situation in the north and south of the Great Henan is deteriorating at a faster pace. Why can't the Yingyang Mansion in various places quickly quell the rebellion and stabilize the situation? The reason is that the Eastern expedition. In order to expedite the eastern expedition, the emperor and the central government almost drained Zhu Yingyang from the north and south of the Great Henan. Without an army, what should we use to suppress the rebellion? What should we use to stabilize the place?

Although Zhang Xutuo was anxious, he was not depressed. He was still very confident about the Eastern Expedition. The Central Turkish Prefecture Army was strong and the barbaric country of Goguryeo was not a match of the same level, and victory was at your fingertips. After the Eastern Expedition, hundreds of thousands of Guard Prefecture Army returned from the Far East, and the ghosts and monsters from the north and south of the Great River were like rootless duckweeds and were swallowed by roaring floods. Compared with the happy days in the future, this difficulty in front of him was nothing, but more importantly, if he could use this difficulty well, even if he could not kill the enemy on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition to make contributions, he could still make military achievements in the battlefield of suppressing thieves in the domestic battlefield, and he would still be praised by the emperor and promoted and promoted.

So, how to deal with the current situation?

After spreading the map and deducing it carefully, Zhang Xutuo immediately saw the problem, and his thick eyebrows were immediately frowned.

"Ming Gong, the thief from Xuzhou is strange." A young man in his early twenties, heroic and majestic standing opposite Zhang Xutuo and said in a pun.

Zhang Xutuo pondered but said nothing, but a hint of praise flashed through his eyes. He looked at the young man in front of him with a look of expression.

The young man was named Yang Qian, Sima of the Eagle Yang Mansion in Licheng. After General Ying Yang Lang and General Ying Ji Lang led the main force to Liaodong, he led a regiment to stay in Licheng. Zhang Xutuo formed an army to suppress the bandits by himself. After being recognized by the emperor and the center, Zhou Fashang, the commander of the right guards' palace, also supported him and ordered the four remaining brigades of the Eagle Yang Mansion in Qi County to accept the command of Zhang Xutuo and obeyed the orders under Zhang Xutuo. Before Zhou Fashang's order was issued, except for Yang Qian of the Eagle Yang Mansion in Licheng, the other three Eagle Yang Mansions refused to accept Zhang Xutuo's orders. Yang Qian consistently supported Zhang Xutuo, and his special identity was one of the reasons why Zhang Xutuo dared to form a local army to suppress the bandits at the risk of beheading.

Yang Qian was born into a royal family and was the grandson of Yang Xiong, the powerful and powerful king of the dynasty, and the son of Yang Gongren, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Now, the emperor trusted Yang Xiong and Yang Gongren and entrusted important tasks. With such a wealthy family supporting him, Zhang Xutuo was indeed a little confident. With the confidence, Zhang Xutuo dared to ask for help from his benefactor, Duke of Chu.

Yang Xuangan was the Minister of Rites of the current dynasty and inherited all the political legacy of the old Duke of Chu Yang Su. Yang Su was a famous general in Zhongtu, a hero of unification and a founding father. He once held the position of prime minister for more than ten years. With his full support, the emperor inherited the imperial throne and sat on the throne of the emperor. Such a person can be imagined how powerful his power is.

The Yang family of Hongnong is one of the great families in Middle Earth. Although it cannot be compared with the five super wealthy families of Cui, Lu, Wang, Li and Zheng in Shandong, it is not much inferior. The late emperor founded the country, established the Great Sui Dynasty, and unified the Central Earth. The Yang family of Hongnong became a royal family. Yang Su came from Hongnong, but he was a little far from the lineage of the late emperor in terms of blood, so he could not be listed as a royal family. However, as the closeness of the royal family, Yang Su and his family were still very prominent, and Yang Su's lineage replaced the royal family and became the leader of the Heluo noble group.

Zhang Xutuo also came from Hongnong and was born into an official family. He naturally became a member of the Yang Suyi group. However, Zhang Xutuo was born too low. With his aristocratic rank, it would be great to rely on military merits to achieve the fifth-rank Ying Yanglang General in his official career. If you want to go further and enter the ranks of senior bureaucrats, you have to rely on opportunities, and opportunities are hard to come by. The most realistic way is to cling to the powerful and powerful. The powerful and powerful are deeply involved in political struggles, and if you are not careful, they will collapse.

, The powerful and powerful have fallen, and the clingers will suffer, so this risk is very high, one step at a time, one step at a time, hell. Yang Xuangan is already a powerful and powerful person, and Zhang Xutuo is in his faction. It should be easy to cling to him according to principles, but the reality is cruel. Zhang Xutuo is too far from the core of Yang Xuangan's line. He can only exist as a marginal figure and is difficult to be reused, especially after he left the army and went to the local area to serve, the distance between him and Yang Xuangan was even further away.

After Zhang Xutuo arrived in Qi County, he was very disappointed and depressed. At this moment, Yang Qian suddenly appeared in Zhang Xutuo's sight.

When Zhang Xutuo first saw Yang Qian and learned his true identity, Zhang Xutuo could hardly believe his ears. The grandson of the powerful king Yang Xiong and the son of Yang Gongren, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was actually hidden in a small Yingyang Mansion. This was simply incredible. If this spread, it would not only cause a sensation in Qi County and even the Qilu area, but I am afraid that the Dongdu would be surprised.

Generally speaking, the first stop of the nobles' career is to work in the Three Guards and Five Mansions of the Imperial Guards. The Imperial Guards of this dynasty are under the left and right Yiwei Mansions, and are under the jurisdiction of the One Guards, the Two Guards of the Imperial Guards, and the Two Guards of the Imperial Guards. Now the Three Guards are changed to the Three Guards, so they are also called the Three Guards of the Five Mansions. Among them, the Seventh Class, the Xunwei is the Seventh Class, and the Yiwei is the Eighth Class. Generally, the children of the Second and Third Class aristocratic bureaucrats can be the Personal Guards in the Imperial Guards, and so on. In other words, as long as you are a noble child of a certain level, as long as you enter the official career, the lowest level is the Eighth Class. But even so, in the eyes of the nobles, the rank of the Three Guards is still very low, but fortunately, everyone has a high origin and can use this as a threshold to accumulate qualifications and gradually advance, so this way of entering the officialdom is still valued by the nobles.

With Yang Qian's identity and family background, he was a seventh-rank personal guard in the Dongdu Imperial Guard. He could be promoted after a few years. It was comfortable and comfortable. Is it necessary to run to an ordinary Yingyang Mansion to serve as a seventh-rank Sima? Zhang Xutuo couldn't figure it out, so he could only explain that this was either a purposeful arrangement of the Yang family or a quirk of the children of aristocratic families. The children of aristocratic families were not all gentle, elegant, talented, and many were dandy who were prodigal, and some were "strange people", with a dissolute manners, unruly and very individual.

Zhang Xutuo initially believed that Yang Qian was also a person with personality and was difficult to deal with, but after a period of contact, Zhang Xutuo changed his mind. Yang Qian's personality was exactly the same as his father Yang Gongren's reputation. It was relatively humble in the royal family. Of course, it was easy to deal with. What surprised Zhang Xutuo was that Yang Qian was always respectful and polite to him and was quite respectful in his words. This surprised Zhang Xutuo, and he also became interested. Since he could no longer count on Yang Xuangan in his career, why couldn't he think of a way in the line of observing King Yang Xiong? Although walking on two boats is a taboo in the officialdom, what's wrong with taking some risks for the sake of his future?

Zhang Xutuo's eyes slowly turned to another young man standing beside him.

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Chapter completed!