After taking down Youzhou, the army rested for three days. For three days, Yang Yuanqing was extremely busy... to calm the morale of the army, meet with officials, and count the materials. He formally appointed Hou Mo Chenyi as the general manager of Youzhou, and also appointed Yang Jiachen as the deputy general manager.

Although Yang Yuanqing has decided that Hou Mo Chenyi will be the general manager of Youzhou, he did not leave the Youzhou army to him and finished it. There are still many things to do here, mainly to ensure the loyalty of the army and follow the principle of separation of soldiers and generals.

The army will be transferred to Hedong, and the Hedong army will be stationed in Youzhou, and the total force will be reduced to 20,000.

Youzhou City is just the name of the military. Its administrative name is Jixian. It is the largest city in Hebei region. It is similar to Taiyuan City. It has a circumference of more than 30 miles. The city walls are tall and wide. Its permanent population is less than 200,000.

Due to the war disasters every year, a large number of people from Zhuo County flocked to Youzhou City, causing the actual residents in the city to exceed 400,000. The city was very crowded, and the arable land was deserted, and a large number of people made a living by the government's relief porridge.

Like Taiyuan City, there is also an Inner Cang City in Youzhou City, located in the northeast corner of the city, covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres and consisting of fifty large warehouses. In order to attack Goryeo, Yang Guang stored a large amount of military resources in Zhuo County.

The last half fell on Luo Yi's hands, and he transferred all these supplies into the warehouse city.

Accompanied by Lu Zhao, the new chief of Zhuo County, Yang Yuanqing went to Cangcheng to inspect. Lu Zhao was Lu Chu's third brother. After Lu Chu was killed by Wang Shichong in Luoyang, Lu Chu's second brother Lu Yu served as the head of the family.

Lu Yu is Lu Zhao's brother, and he also has a brother Lu Ce. He is now the young minister of Taifu Temple in Taiyuan.

Lu Zhao is about forty years old this year, with a thin face and a bright and bright eyes. He is an extremely smart and capable official. He served as Sima of Zhuo County as early as the sixth year of Daye. In the nineth year of Daye, he was promoted to the chief of the clerk. A few months ago,

Because Lu Ce led his clan to Taiyuan to participate in the imperial examination, and Lu Ce also became an official in the Sui Dynasty, this incident angered Luo Yi and dismissed Lu Zhao. After Yang Yuanqing occupied Youzhou City, he reappointed Lu Zhao as the chief of Zhuo County.

history.

When Yang Yuanqing was the general manager of Youzhou, he often dealt with Lu Zhao. They were very familiar with each other and had a good relationship. Lu Zhao took Yang Yuanqing into the gate of Cangcheng. There was a central axis street on the front, with dozens of large warehouses distributed on both sides.

These large warehouses were built by Luo Yi, and Yang Yuanqing had never seen them, but he discovered an interesting phenomenon. The warehouses on the left are all steep, while the warehouses on the right are flat, but I don’t know what the difference is?

Down

Lu Zhao smiled and introduced to him: "Your Highness, I was in charge of the construction of this warehouse city. The left half is the grain warehouse, and the right half is the military capital warehouse, so their appearance can be distinguished."

city

Yang Yuanqingji nodded. This was better designed than Jinyang Palace Cang City. The warehouses in Jinyang Palace Cang City were all the same, and the materials and grain were mixed. However, he found that there was no canal in the warehouse, so transportation would be inconvenient.

One

"Why didn't a canal be dug in Cangcheng?"

sigh

Lu Zhao sighed and said, "I was originally thinking about building a canal directly to Yongji Canal, which was not troublesome, but General Manager Luo refused. He said that the canal would become a defensive loophole in Youzhou City.

"Build one!"

Yang Yuanqing said: "Build a canal to facilitate material transportation. In the future, Taiyuan's materials can eventually be transported to Youzhou City by water."

"Since your highness has given instructions, I will arrange manpower as soon as possible, Your Highness asks you!"

They walked into the first granary. The warehouse space was huge, the warehouse was ventilated and dry, and bags of grain were neatly placed. Intuition, Yang Yuanqing felt that there was at least Wu Wanshi in the first warehouse. He saw that

The words "Daye Six Years" were written in red paint on the sack. I couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "Are these foods the "Daye Six Years"?"

"No! No! How can Daye's six-year-old grain be stored for so long? These are all Daye's ten-year-old grains. They were transported from Luokou Cang during the Third Battle of Goryeo. The bag says Daye's six-year-old grains. In fact,

No, but these grains have been stored for three years, and many of them are moldy and worm-related, and they must be treated as soon as possible."

Yang Yuanqing walked around the warehouse and asked him again: "I have read the report of Wen Taishou, saying that there are more than 300,000 stones of grain stored in Youzhou. Is there really so much?"

Lu Zhao nodded with a smile, "To be precise, there are still 345,000 stones, which originally had more than 600,000 stones, but nearly half of them have been consumed in the past two years."

"How much silk cloth is there?"

"There are still a lot of silk cloth, about 700,000 pieces."

Yang Yuanqing thought for a moment and said, "All residents in Zhuojun City can give each household a piece of cloth, five dou of grain and one dou of salt as a gift for me to meet them. In addition, spring farming is coming soon, and the government should hurry up and arrange spring farming.

It is probably too late to promote the field. You can measure the fields while spring plowing. How to do it? The court will send someone to help you. If you are not in enough staff, just ask the army to help. In short, you can’t delay spring plowing.”

"I understand, and today I will be preparing to discuss this matter with Prefect Wen."

When they walked into the Lu warehouse, Lu Zhao pointed to a warehouse opposite and said, "Biyi takes His Highness to see the military warehouse!"

Yang Yuanqing looked at the sky and it was almost noon. He shook his head and smiled, "I plan to go to Beiping County today. It will be too late if I don't leave. I will inspect the warehouse when I come back, and your Lu family, and I originally planned to do these two.

I'm going to visit you, there are so many things, I'll wait for me to come back! I'll have a good talk with your head...

Lu Zhao gave a deep bow, "The Lu family's door is open to Your Highness at any time!"

Yang Yuanqing turned over the horse and walked towards the gate. After walking for more than a dozen steps, he stopped the horse again and sighed: "One of the conditions that Wang Shichong and I have reached was to let Lu Chu come to Taiyuan, but I didn't expect... Actually, I was going to use it.

It’s really regrettable that Lu Chu is the sixth prime minister!”

After saying that, he took a deep look at Lu Zhao and urged his horse to run towards the gate.

Lu Zhao stared at Yang Yuanqing's departure in a daze, but he was experiencing the profound meaning of Yang Yuanqing's words in his heart.

...

Among the five surnames and seven hopes in the world, the Lu family of Fanyang is listed. It is one of the three famous families in Hebei, along with the Cui family of Boling and Cui family of Qinghe. The reputation of the Lu family is mainly due to the fact that their disciples and children are spread all over Hebei counties, and even more.

The bandit Lu Mingyue is actually a child of the Lu family, but the Lu family does not recognize it.

In the central court, Prime Minister Lu Chu was undoubtedly the most dazzling figure of the Lu family. He was also the head of the Lu family. His murder in Luoyang undoubtedly brought a heavy blow to the Lu family.

Like Wenxi Pei's family, the Lu family's ancestral residence in Fanyang was not in Youzhou City, but in Lujia Village, east of Youzhou City, moved to Youzhou City to avoid war. More than 300 Lu family children and their wives and daughters were nearly six.

Hundreds of people live in a huge house covering an area of ​​80 acres. The relationship between each house is close and the hierarchy is also very strict. Each house of the Lu family chooses an elder to form a family club, and all the family affairs,

It's all up to the family association.

But in fact, the main power of the Lu family is in the four brothers in the Changfang. The head of the family, Lu Chu, the second brother Lu Yu, the third brother Lu Zhao, and the fourth brother Lu Ce. Among these four brothers, Lu Chu is the prime minister in Beijing.

The specific affairs were under the responsibility of Lu Yu. Lu Zhao was a local bureaucrat. Lu Ce was in charge of the family's financial power. However, since the establishment of the New Sui Dynasty, the fate of the Lu family has gradually changed. First, Lu Ce was named Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, and Lu

Two children from the family passed the imperial examination and became officials in Hedong.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Chu was killed in Luoyang, and then Yang Yuanqing launched the Hebei Battle. The series of changes made the Lu family difficult to adapt, but after all, it was one of the seven hopes in the world. The Lu family did not panic, but used a kind of indifference.

The attitude is to face the huge changes in front of you.

At noon, a carriage was parked in front of Lu's mansion located in the south of the city. Lu Zhao got out of the carriage and hurried towards the inner mansion.

At present, the new head of the Lu family is Lu Yu, and also the younger brother of Lu Chu. Although he is not the elder in the family and his seniority is not high, he always holds the power of the Lu family. When the elder brother dies, he will naturally become a

The head of the Lu family.

Lu Yu is less than fifty years old, has a slightly short and fat figure, and has a slightly dark skin. He always likes to squint his eyes. Although his appearance is not very good, it does not hinder his prestige in the family. He served as the prefect of Liang County and has been in the nine years of Daye.

He was dismissed for suspected support for Yang Xuangan's rebellion and never became an official again. Dou Jiande once wanted to ask him to become a prime minister, but he declined it.

Yang Yuanqing has been in Youzhou City for three days, and there are endless famous gentry visiting, but Lu Yu is not in a hurry. He knows that Yang Yuanqing will come to visit him sooner or later. This is his confidence, and it is also Lu.

The nobleness of the clan family.

Lu Yu was sitting in the room reading a book, and hurried footsteps came from outside the door, "Second brother, can you come in?" It was the voice of his brother Lu Zhao.

"Come in!"

Lu Yu put down the book. He knew that Huangdi was very busy these two days and had to be busy until very late every day before he could come back. Today, he actually came back at noon. The footsteps were so hurrying and his voice was a little excited. Something must have happened. Intuition told Lu.

Yu should be related to Yang Yuanqing.

The door opened, and Lu Zhao walked in quickly, bowed and bowed, "Second brother, I have something to say."

"sit!"

Lu Yu asked his brother to sit down, picked up the teapot beside him, poured him a cup of hot tea, squinted his eyes and said, "Don't be anxious, just say it slowly."

Lu Zhao picked up the teacup and said, "I accompanied His Highness to the warehouse to inspect this morning. He said something to me, which I think is a hint."

"What did he say?" Lu Yu asked slowly.

"He said he had planned to let his elder brother enter Taiyuan as the sixth prime minister. He had already reached an exchange agreement with Wang Shichong, but he still couldn't save his elder brother. He was very sorry."

"Well! Do you think there is any hint here?" Lu Yu smiled and continued to ask without saying a word.

"Don't the second brother think the sixth prime minister has a profound meaning? Why did he tell me specifically? If it were just because the eldest brother was prime minister in Luoyang, he would not mention this matter again. Since he mentioned this matter in Youzhou,

It means that it is because of the Lu family that I want the eldest brother to be the sixth prime minister. He does not refer to the eldest brother, but to the Lu family."

Lu Yu was silent. Of course he understood that Yang Yuanqing's words were indeed a hint. Judging from Yang Yuanqing's prime minister structure, he cared about the family forces very much. Pei, Cui, Du, and Wang were all famous gentry. Could it be that Yang Yuanqing really planned to let him go.
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