In the evening, it was raining in Yuyang County.
There were some lead-colored dark clouds in the already gloomy sky, which were pressing down deeply, as if they were about to press onto the roof tiles.
The tones of the streets and alleys in the city seem to add a bit of coldness.
An Zhilu sat in the room, the window was still open, and a wet and cold wind came in, but there was still a heat on his forehead.
There was a brazier under the chair where he was sitting, and a few pieces of red charcoal were placed. The lower body was wrapped with a circle of cloth to connect the chair.
These clans in Yuyang County said that he had been injured too much during this period and took too much medicine. According to the advice of some medical officials in Yuyang County, as long as he felt a little damp and itchy, he would have to roast it more and sweat more often.
However, those medical officers definitely do not recommend that windows be opened in such weather.
Recently, the Youzhou military's bandit suppression is still in full swing. The bandit army is in great power. At this time, it has occupied the three towns of Fox Slave, Anle and Daiyun, and has forced many strong men. The Youzhou military is in a predicament for the time being.
In fact, An Zhilu had no problem in killing the enemy at this time, but Xu Tuibei said that there was no need for military merits. He just waited for the appointment documents to come out and promoted step by step. If there were a large number of military merits to be declared, there might be some twists and turns in it. Moreover, some people in the military might think that this person was deliberately recommended by Youzhou, but instead wanted to interfere.
The word "size" is very good now.
Moreover, in terms of local conditions, Xu Tuibei always told An Zhilu that he didn't have to pay attention to the official ranks for a while. In places like Chang'an and Luoyang, even the carriages and food, clothing and consumption of Ping'an periods must pay attention to the order of the official ranks. However, in terms of local conditions, especially those who are in charge of soldiers like them, the official ranks are often just decorations, and in fact it depends on who can mobilize more troops.
Even if he is a minor official and becomes Hua Huaixian’s confidant, he will be able to mobilize more troops than ordinary generals at critical moments.
Moreover, in Youzhou and Yuyang County, various clans and major business activities have resisted bandits and the number of private troops is also large. An Zhilu is now brothers with these people, and the number of private troops that can be mobilized is enough to make An Zhilu a person in Youzhou.
Even An Zhilu felt that she was climbing fast enough.
It’s good to be idle, you can think about things when you have time and practice.
An Zhilu felt that it would be useful to calculate things well than to accumulate more military merits.
When the dark clouds were pressing down, he felt an indescribable strange feeling, always feeling that something seemed to be wrong today, or that it felt like something was going to happen.
At this moment, he saw a man walking into his yard.
A Hu man.
Wearing a green robe, she looks like a scholar.
An Zhilu just glanced at the Hu man. For some reason, he was only sweating on his forehead, but in the next moment, he was sweating unconsciously.
There are many soldiers guarding his yard outside.
If anyone wants to come in to find him, someone will definitely come to inform him.
But no.
The Hu man walked in like this, without any movement outside.
The Hu man walked directly into An Zhilu's house, but An Zhilu didn't dare to move. Looking at An Zhilu's appearance, he smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, it's useless to be nervous. No one can disturb us today."
An Zhilu nodded slowly, untied the cloth covering the chair, wiped the sweat from her body with a piece of coarse cloth, and said slowly, "Are you the leader of the thief army?"
The Hu people smiled faintly and said, "Hua Huaixian and Xu Tuibei are indeed not a good meal, and the news is quite well-informed."
After he said that, he looked at the scars on An Zhilu's body, especially those arrow sores, and a strange light gradually appeared in his eyes.
An Zhilu wiped her sweat clean, put on a burqa, looked at the Hu man and said, "Your Excellency's name?"
The Hu man said calmly, "The surname is Yang and the name is Can."
An Zhilu looked at him for a while and said, "I think you are not only seventh grade?"
The Hu man who claimed to be Yang Can smiled slightly and said, "If you practice Gu Tao, you will feel more sensitive than ordinary monks. Ordinary monks may not be able to detect the difference between me and him even when they reach the seventh level."
An Zhilu was no longer afraid at this time. He asked seriously, "Then my maid?"
"She might have wanted to attack me from behind me just now." Yang Can looked at An Zhilu's sudden change in expression and said calmly, "Don't worry, I didn't kill her."
"Thank you for your mercy." An Zhilu rubbed her wet hair with a piece of dry cloth and asked at the same time, "Since you are already in the eighth grade, you should know that there is not even an eighth grade in Youzhou. Then you can kill Hua Huaixian and General Xu, why do you have to work hard to command a bunch of thieves?"
Yang Can closed the window and let An Zhilu sit face to face. Perhaps because he felt An Zhilu had a bit of sweat and smelly smell. An inexplicable aura on his body shook for a while. A smell in the room seemed to be washed clean by a clear spring. A basin of the charcoal fire on the chair that was about to be extinguished suddenly shone, and then it turned into snow-white ashes in several breaths.
"Youzhou is Youzhou, and the world is the world." Yang Can thought about it, as if he was thinking about what words to use to make An Zhilu understand what he meant. "Killing a few people can't let me get what I want. Even if I assassinate a few major generals in Youzhou at once, the Tang army in Youzhou was in chaos all of a sudden, and the army gathered on the hills could not understand how to fight the battle, and I didn't know how to conquer the city."
An Zhilu understood suddenly, "Do you want to train the army? Do you want to train these thieves into a powerful army. You are not staring at Youzhou at all, but you want to rebel against the Li family's world? Could it be that you want to use this as a team and slowly build an army that can compete with Li Tang's army in the Central Plains?"
Yang Can looked at An Zhilu and said lightly, "Your mind is suitable for doing big things, but your experience is still a little shallow. You still don't think deeply about some things. Let me tell you this. There are many people in the Tang Dynasty who are proud of themselves, but there are also many people who are frustrated. Moreover, the best place for the entire Tang Dynasty is Chang'an. People who are not in Chang'an envy Chang'an, but Chang'an is like a monster, sucking blood from all over the world, and almost sucking the blood from all over the world. The Tang Dynasty is martial, and people who can fight wars and want to live a good life with courage. What you lack is real generals. It is difficult to find good generals who can rule over 100 people. Such generals are truly rare. You say that you are better at selecting good talents and refining some generals."
After a pause, looking at An Zhilu who was obviously thinking seriously, Yang Can slowed down his speech again and said, "As long as there is enough money, I can pull up an army of tens of thousands of people in one Qiuli, but this kind of rebels has no use at all without a neat team. But if there is a general who responds to one call, every order can quickly reach every commander below. If he can control hundreds of thousands of troops, he can use it as flexible as his ten fingers, then he can truly seize the country from the Li family."
An Zhilu took a deep breath and narrowed her eyes slightly, "Even if there are countless casualties in Youzhou, the battles and killings are just a means of choosing some generals?"
Yang Can smiled and said, "Then think about it carefully, is the Li family launching so many wars just to open up the territory? You have to think about the deeper reasons. After all, Li family just wants his country to be stable, just to make himself more control over the Tang Dynasty. As for other clans, they are like monsters sucking flesh and blood, all relying on such wars to make a fortune. Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, can they really be as high as those clans? In addition to the heroes when the founding of the Tang Dynasty, did they come later?"
"Then the change of dynasty will naturally change a group of powerful families. I understand this principle, but just select a group of soldiers from Youzhou. If it is so easy to rebel, then others will have already become." An Zhilu looked at Yang Can and said, "Your Excellency is very energetic, but I always feel that you cannot succeed like this."
"Rebellion requires soldiers and horses, and a justification. In addition to these, I also want someone with enough fortune." Yang Can smiled faintly and said, "I can have both of the first two things, but now I only lack one person with enough fortune."
An Zhilu was stunned and said, "Is it me who is the one you are talking about with enough fortune?"
"The most rare thing in this world is luck. People with poor fortunes are often manipulated by others, even if they have great magical powers, they will achieve nothing. However, people with excellent fortunes will appear in the most suitable position at the most suitable time. Wherever such people go, they will drop Hu cakes from the sky for him." Yang Can looked at An Zhilu with some emotion and said seriously, "An Zhilu, actually, I think my fortune is okay, but many plans have become empty. Suddenly I found that a person like you came here. Before I came, I used astrological constellation and various magic techniques, and the results were the same. I don't know how much your fortune is stronger. You are the choice that came into being. My Yang family's energy has been exhausted, and it really shouldn't be able to rebel, but I help someone like you rebel, but you should be able to succeed."
"Yang family?" An Zhilu's heart moved and thought of a possibility, "Are you the Great Sui royal family? Why are you a Hu person?"
Yang Can said indifferently, "If it weren't for some of our Yang family's Hu concubines, the royal bloodline that was born looked like Hu people, would such bloodline still be continued when the Sui Dynasty was destroyed?"
Looking at An Zhilu who was shocked and speechless, Yang Can laughed mockingly, "So you said that the thief army I won over? Li stole the Yang family's territory, who is the thief army?"
An Zhilu narrowed her eyes, and he almost didn't hesitate and said, "I'll do it with you."
Yang Can was a little surprised at his simplicity and said, "Don't ask me what benefits can I get now?"
An Zhilu smiled coldly and said, "How dare the person who dares to have such great confidence to say that he can still lose my benefits now?"
Yang Can sighed again in his heart.
Chapter completed!