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Chapter 30 Promotion

Macheng is still prosperous, and vendors traveling from south to north have given the city a new life that is not found in the frontier. When Ye Zhao returned to his government office, he saw Meng Hu was already waiting there.

"Don't you have to be on duty today?" Ye Zhao handed the horse whip in his hand to the servant who came up, teased casually, turned his head to look at the woman behind him, and said to Qiu Chi: "Let me find a few doctors to help her treat her injuries. If you want, let her move in for the time being."

"Here." Although I don't know why Ye Zhao was interested in such an ugly woman, this was a private matter after all, and it was hard for him to ask. He agreed and took two guards to walk towards the woman. This woman was too fierce. Ye Zhao could block the other party's attack at will. He didn't have the ability, so it's better to be careful.

"Lord, someone is coming from the prefecture." Meng Hu leaned over to Ye Zhao and bowed.

"Oh?" Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows: "Guo Xun's person?"

Guo Xun is the current governor of Youzhou and the elder brother of Guo Qing. Although Ye Zhao has high autonomy in Macheng and can not sell Guo Qing's face, he really cannot ignore Guo Xun.

"Yes." Meng Hu nodded.

"Let's go and meet." Ye Zhao untied his sword and walked towards the living room.

Outside the living room of the county government, four soldiers filled with a strong aura stood outside the door. When Ye Zhao brought the people outside the door, the four of them turned their heads and looked at Ye Zhao at the same time, and a evil aura came over.

Ye Zhao frowned slightly. These four people were all soldiers who had seen blood, and they were the kind of people who crawled out of the corpse. If they were ordinary people, if they were scared like this, they would probably be frightened by the aura of these four people.

Do you show off your strength?

Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows. This was the wrong choice. Without Ye Zhao's expression, Guan Hai, who was standing behind him, had already noticed that the four people were provoking. He groaned, took a step forward, protected Ye Zhao, and shouted sternly: "Who are you waiting for?"

As he spoke, a fierce aura exploded. In the past two years, as a general under Ye Zhao, he helped Ye Zhao shock the Hu people. He had experienced more than a hundred bloody battles. The fierce aura he had trained in the battlefield was extremely fierce. Although the four people in front of him were also considered elites of hundreds of battles, they were obviously not far behind Guan Hai. Just a shout of anger made the four people's faces change drastically, as if their lives were at risk at any time. They subconsciously pulled out the weapons in their hands.

"Rareless!" The four guards behind Ye Zhao drew their swords in their hands, and the guards in the mansion even moved when they heard the sound and quickly surrounded the huge banquet living room.

"Don't be rude, leave!" In the banquet living room, a handsome man with eight feet tall came out, smiled and clasped his fists at Ye Zhao and said, "Don't blame County Magistrate Ye, these servants are guarding the border and do not understand the rules. I hope County Magistrate Ye will forgive me if you are disturbed."

The four subordinates looked a little bitter, but they could not tell that the other party was disturbed, but they were a little frightened.

"Your Excellency?" Ye Zhao waved his hand, and all the guards around retreated. Guan Hai glared at the other party fiercely and retreated behind Ye Zhao.

"Zou Jing, Changsha, is now the chief of the county rushing county, and has met the magistrate Ye." The man clasped his fists and bowed and smiled.

"It turned out to be Brother Zou." Ye Zhao nodded, made a gesture of invitation, and invited Zou Jing to enter the banquet living room together.

"Who is this person?" When everyone entered the banquet room, they saw that there was a young man of similar age as Ye Zhao, who had already kneeled down at the main seat of Ye Zhao. He raised his eyebrows and Ye Zhao turned his head to look at Zou Jing.

"I'll introduce you here." Zou Jing quickly took two steps forward and bowed to the young man, "Young Master, this is Ye Zhao, the commander of the Macheng and the commander of the cavalry, Ye Xiuming. The situation in Macheng is entirely due to Brother Xiuming's efforts."

"No," the young man stood up and nodded with a smile, "When Mao was in Luoyang, he also heard that this Macheng was a barren land. When His Majesty sent Brother Xiuming here, he thought he would do nothing. Who would have thought that in just two years, Macheng would have such a scene. Although it is not as prosperous as the Central Plains, it is already a big county in this Youzhou."

"Brother Xiuming, this is the third son of the General of the Central Lang, Liu Mao, whose courtesy name is Zisheng. His father is Liu Yan, the current royal family and the current attendant of the dynasty. Now he is ordered to come to Youzhou to serve as the General of the Central Lang." Zou Jing smiled at Ye Zhao.

"It turns out that they are relatives of the Han Dynasty, and they are rude." Ye Zhao nodded. The relatives of the Han Dynasty and the real royal family are also children of the real power. There is no problem sitting on the upper head in this horse city. He knelt down at Liu Mao's attack and looked at Liu Mao in confusion and said, "Brother Zisheng came to my horse city, I'm afraid I'm not going to praise me for the next few words?"

"This..." Liu Mao looked at Zou Jing hesitantly.

Zou Jing hurriedly bowed and said, "But I want to congratulate Brother Xiuming."

"Oh? Where does the joy come from?" Ye Zhao looked at Zou Jing in surprise.

"As soon as my lord entered Youzhou, he heard that Brother Xiuming's ability. In less than three years, he not only managed Macheng very prosperously, but from less than 3,000 households to now, it is a large county with tens of thousands of households. He also naturalized seventeen Hu tribes, which shocked the land outside the border and greatly increased the majesty of our Han family. He specially recommended to the court to promote Brother Xiuming to the lieutenant of the Wuhuan. This is a document and a tiger talisman." Zou Jing waved his hand, and a soldier came to Ye Zhao with a tiger talisman and armor.

Ye Zhao did not answer, frowned and looked at Zou Jing and said, "Where is the former Wuhuan Captain?"

The guardian of Wuhuan is a real military position in Youzhou. He, the cavalry commander, has to be controlled by the other party. He has three troops under his command, and half of the military power of the entire Youzhou is in his hands.

"Has been transferred to Bingzhou." Zou Jing smiled and said, "After all, according to the law of our dynasty, an official cannot serve as the military and political power of a state at the same time."

Guo Xun was the governor of Youzhou. Theoretically, his tribe members could not hold important military positions in Youzhou like the Wuhuan Captain.

But this is just theoretically speaking, but in fact, the laws of the Han Dynasty have now been in name only, and not many are truly abiding by them. Previously, the three brothers of the Guo family served as governors, the prefect of the county and the guardian Wuhuan lieutenant for several years, and the court ignored them. Now, with the order, a guardian Wuhuan lieutenant who holds nearly half of the military power of a state was replaced. It seems that although the court has been declining, its control over the entire world is still under control.

"Then this horse city..." Ye Zhao looked at Liu Qiao.

Zou Jing smiled and said, "My son is now at the age of becoming an official. Therefore, my lord recommends to the court, and the son will serve as the Macheng Order."

Ye Zhao nodded, and there was no resistance. Although Liu Yan took his Macheng with this move, he brought him a lieutenant to protect Wuhuan. Although the money was definitely not as good as Macheng, he was a real official position in a state, which was not a loss. It was also an exchange of interests with him or Cai Yong, Wang Fen and others behind him.

Motivating Guan Hai to take the seal, Ye Zhao asked Gao Sheng to take his official seal and tiger talisman and hand it over to Liu Mao. He thought for a while and said, "Although this Macheng has nothing to do with me now, there is one thing that Ye said, as for whether to listen or not, it depends on Brother Zisheng's decision."

"Brother Xiuming, please speak with me, Qiao Xi's ears." Liu Mao hurriedly sat upright and said with a serious look.

"Macheng can have today's prosperity, one is Shang, here is connected to the grassland north, I have formed trade with the tribes of the grassland, and exchanged their existence and whether they have any or not, and exchanged salt and grain for war horses and population, and sold war horses to various states at the same time, so that they have today's prosperity; the other is, for the Hu people, if they only share the existence and whether they have any or not, although my great men can benefit, they will continue to grow. Over time, it will definitely cause the trouble for our great men. Therefore, one can give them weapons, but the method of smelting must not be passed on, and population trade must not be stopped. Only in this way, they will do it for

The plundering of the population continues to war, and although many tribes will grow stronger, overall, the population of the entire grassland has been continuously reduced due to this trade, and the strength of the grassland has been weakened. Third, the young master must have the power to shock the Hu people. Otherwise, once these Hu people lose their deterrence, they will suffer from it, show their power and lure them for profit. In this way, these Hu people can gradually become domesticated from wolves to the secret dogs of our Han family. Perhaps in a hundred years, there will be no more Hu people."

Ye Zhao carefully explained his routine against the Hu people in the grassland, which was to report Liu Yan's recommendation. As for whether the other party listened or not, it had nothing to do with him.

The power of the Hu people during this period has actually begun to decline since Tan Shihuai. In history as known to Ye Zhao, even if the princes later disputed and the Three Kingdoms period, the Hu people still had to be human in front of the Han people with their tails. The real cause of the Five Barbarians' invasion of China was probably the Jin Dynasty after the Three Kingdoms. As for why it was unified and weakened, it is unknown. Doing so now may curb the development of the Hu people, but it is not the main reason, because in this era, including Ye Zhao from later generations, he also did not think that the Hu people today could pose any threat to the Han Dynasty.

"Keep Mao in mind." Liu Mao bowed. He had studied the methods that Ye Zhao had implemented in Macheng in the past two years before coming here. Now Ye Zhao has realized a lot. He got up and bowed to Ye Zhao.

"There are still some things to be sorted out, so I'm afraid I'll delay in this Macheng for a few days. For the army..." Ye Zhao frowned. The elite soldiers in Macheng were elite soldiers he trained for two years. It was a bit distressing to give in.

"Don't worry, Brother Xiuming, when my father left Luoyang, he invited a school to Your Majesty to the school, all of whom were sharp soldiers. Brother Xiuming's troops were still sent to the dispatch of Brother Xiuming." Liu Mao said with a smile.
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