Around mid-June, under the leadership of Yang Han, the governor of Runan County, Changsha Yishiqu, Xiang Xuan, inspected the counties of Xiyang and Ruyin in Runan County.

The cities in the eastern part of Runan County were recovered one after another in April and May by his general Zou Yuan. Given that the Jin court did not deploy heavy troops in the eastern part of Runan and even in Pei County, Zou Yuan was more relaxed when he attacked a certain city. Every time he attacked a city, he just needed to show up outside the city and prepare for a fierce attack, and the city almost gave up resistance.

It seems so easy, naturally because of the good reputation of Runan Yishi. Among the various thieves today, Jiangdong Yishi and Changsha Yishi are the only two thieves who do not kill officials. When Jiangdong Yishi and Changsha Yishi capture a city, the original official team of the city will be used to manage it in most cases. Therefore, for most cities, being captured by these two Yishi is actually just a difference between a flag, and the flag of the character "Jin" was replaced with "Jiangdong Yishi" or "Changsha Yishi".

Of course, under the control of these two righteous masters, the power of each county and county government is indeed much smaller, at least they will never dare or be unable to do the "collusion between officials and wealthy". The control of these two righteous masters in this regard is much more severe than that of the Jin court.

However, for this, former Jin officials like Yang Han, the governor of Runan County, are acceptable. Only those who have done some corruption and abuse of power in private will sigh: The world is difficult.

"What does Qu Shuai think?"

After inspecting Ruyin, Yang Han, the governor of Runan County, asked Xiang Xuandao.

Xiang Xuan nodded slightly and said to Yang Han with a smile: "Xiang is very satisfied. Thank you for your hard work during this period."

"Where are there." Yang Han waved his hand with a smile.

During this period, as long as the Changsha Yishi took a new city, Yang Han would immediately rush over. On the one hand, he helped the Jiangdong Yishi stabilize the situation in the county, and on the other hand, he re-appointed and removed officials. Xiang Xuan gave full power to Yang Han in terms of the appointment and removal of county officials, without any concern.

After all, Xiang Xuan cares about the result: when the harvest this fall is the time for him to verify Yang Han and other officials.

Because Xiang Xuan was not authoritarian and did not interfere with the operations of Yang Han and other officials, Xiang Xuan and Yang Han got along very well during this period.

To be honest in Lord Yang's opinion, he is actually living more comfortable with the Changsha Yishi's righteous army now than before, because Xiang Xuan never questioned him or interfered with him. As long as it was a government order in favor of Runan, Xiang Xuan would even order Changsha Yishi to fully support the land on Runan. Who dares to resist Xiang Xuan now?

With the full support of Xiang Xuan, the various decrees proposed by Yang Han were quickly implemented in various counties with amazing efficiency.

While the two were chatting, someone suddenly came to report: "Qi Zhuang Qu, General Zou Yuan has taken Qiao County."

"good!"

Xiang Xuan didn't care about Yang Han and others' presence and nodded with satisfaction.

He was not surprised that Zou Yuan took Qiao County at all.

After all, Qiao County is located in the west of Pei County. As far as he knows, the territory of Pei County is bounded by Xiangcheng, and the eastern part has been occupied by the Yishi of Jiangdong, and only a few cities in the west still belong to the Jin State.

Of course, Jiangdong Yishi is not capable of capturing this city, but Zhao Bohu doesn’t have time or extra energy.

After all, around May, Zhao Bohu's main purpose was to capture Xia Pi. Even after conquering Xia Pi, Zhao Bohu had no time and energy to capture the entire territory of Pei County. He was in a hurry to rush to Kaiyang, Langya County.

So Zhao Bohu sent a letter to Xiang Xuan, entrusting Xiang Xuan to send troops to attack the western part of Pei County, and at the same time, he also divided the eastern part of Pei County into Xiang Xuan's name. As long as Xiang Xuan captured the cities in the western part of Pei County, he could immediately go to Xiangcheng and take over the eastern part of Pei County.

It’s not like Zhao Bohu’s “giving concessions” to Xiang Xuan, it’s just that he learned from the former Jiangdong Yishi’s lesson that “was defeated because of greed for the city and land.”

As of the time when Zhao Bohu captured Xia Pi County, the Yishi of Jiangdong already had eight counties including Xia Pi, Peng County and Guangling, and the territory was already very large. Even if he went to Pei County, it would be just a icing on the cake.

Not to mention that the Jiangdong Yishi was about to face the main force of the Jin army led by Taishi Chen, and had no time to take care of Pei County, so Zhao Bohu simply assigned Pei County to Xiang Xuan.

Although Xiang Xuan also claimed to have three counties at that time, Changsha, Jiangxia and Runan, Changsha and Jiangxia were just small counties. For the Jiangdong Yishi, it was just a icing on the cake. It was a great help to the Changsha Yishi, which helped Xiang Xuan resist the attacks between Zhou Hu and Xiang Xuan at least on the surface.

After receiving the letter from Zhao Bohu, Xiang Xuan was overjoyed.

After all, Pei County is no less than Runan, Yingchuan, and Henan's large population counties, and very rich, no less than Guangling and Wu County in the hands of the Yishi of Jiangdong. As long as Xiang Xuan got Pei County, would he be manipulated by a guy named Zhou?

Well...probably.

Thinking of the guy named Zhou, to be honest, Xiang Xuan didn’t have much confidence in his heart.

At dusk, when Xiang Xuan, Yang Han and the officials from Ruyin were having dinner in a restaurant in the city, soldiers suddenly came to report: "Supervisor Qu, He Qu, of the Nanyang Yishi, asked for a meeting, and said that there was something important to discuss with Supervisor Qu."

"Why?"

Xiang Xuan frowned slightly.

From the side, Yang Han, the governor of Runan County, changed his expression when he heard this: "Is there something unusual about Yingchuan?"

Hearing this, everyone present also changed their color.

Although Xiang Xuan's Nanyang Army has always been using troops to attack the territory occupied by the Changsha Yishi Division, the Changsha Yishi Division, including Yang Han and other groups of officials who had fallen to the Changsha Yishi Division, were even more afraid of Yingchuan.

The reason is very simple, because Zhou Hu, one of the five tigers in the Chenmen, was lying in Yingchuan!

Of course, except Xiang Xuan.

His fear of Zhou Hu was completely different from that of others.

"No... forget it, please invite him in first."

Although he knew that Zhou Hu would not attack him, Xiang Xuan was not good at explaining to Yang Han and others. After all, who would believe that Zhou Hu, one of the five tigers of the Chen Party, had secretly communicated with him in Changsha's righteous army? Even Xiang Xuan's actions during this period were almost all the instructions of Zhou Hu.

Soon, He Yun, the coach of Daiqu in Nanyang, was taken to the house by several guards. Seeing everyone eating around the table and eating, he joked: "It's better to come sooner than to come..."

Before he finished speaking, Yang Han asked He Xun urgently: "Ship He Qu, you are in a hurry to come. Could it be that there is something unusual about Yingchuan?"

"Uh...that's not." He Yu replied dryly, looking at Xiang Xuan at the same time.

Seeing that expression, Xiang Xuan immediately understood: It must be that Zhou Hu gave some instructions to He Yu.

"Since there is nothing important, let's talk about it together." Xiang Xuan said in a suffocating manner.

The coach Qu, who is the righteous teacher in Changsha, was privately manipulated by someone. How could he not be frustrated?

Everyone present looked at each other, full of doubts: Since there is nothing important, why is He Wu coming?

But since Xiang Xuan has exposed this matter, they should not ask questions again.

So everyone drank and had a meal together just as nothing happened.

After drinking and eating, Xiang announced goodbye to Yang Han and others and took He Yu to the inn where he settled.

When he returned to the inn, he ordered a group of guards to be vigilant outside to prevent anyone from eavesdropping. Xiang Xuan then asked He Xu with a look of unswerving expression: "Is it 'he' who asked you to come?"

"Yes." He Xu said with a smile: "'That adult' has new instructions."

Seeing He Xu admit frankly, Xiang Xuan's expression became very ugly, but in the end he still restrained the anger in his heart.

There is no way, he can't afford to provoke that person. The Changsha Yishi can have such a situation now, all it depends on the other party's mercy.

While swallowing his anger, Xiang Xuan asked angrily: "What do 'he' want to do?"

Hearing this, He Xu walked closer to Xiang Xuan and said in a low voice: "'That adult' ordered Qu Shuai to prepare a batch of food and grass and transport it to Lu County..."

"Good guy, I'm just giving orders to me now?"

Xiang Xuan's face was tense, and he breathed a sigh of relief and asked viciously: "Why? Why should I use the food and grass of my charity master for him?"

He Xu shook his head and explained: "It's not for the 'that adult'. The priest has enough food and grass in his hands, but he is not suitable for this matter... He ordered the food and grass raised by Qu Shuai to help Taishan Yishi."

"You wait!"

Xiang Xuan was stunned when he heard this: "Taishan Yishi? Those groups of Taishan bandits?"

"Yes." He Xu thought for a moment and revealed a little: "That adult asked Taishan Yishi to do a big thing, but Taishan Yishi does not have enough food to do this big thing now. Therefore, the adult hopes that Xiang Qushu will provide food and grass for Taishan Yishi."

"Send those bandits of Taishan to do something big? When will Zhou Hu get involved with Taishan Yishi?"

Xiang Xuan looked at He Yi with a strange expression.

Suddenly, his expression changed slightly.

Speaking of it...

The Tai bandit who claimed to be a righteous teacher was the one who was chased by Zhou Hu from Jiyin and Dongping County...

I remember that Xiang Xuan once laughed at this incident, mocking Zhou Hu for going to quell the rebellion in the name of the Jin court. Although he quelled Jiyin and Dongping, he also created a more powerful bandit in Tai and became a major concern for Jin.

But who would have thought that today Zhou Hu asked him to prepare food for the group of Taishan bandits and said that he would let the group of Taishan bandits do something big. Doesn’t this mean that the Taishan bandits are actually under the control of Zhou Hu?

What a guy! That guy did it on purpose at the time!

He deliberately drove the bandits from Jiyin and Dongping to Mount Tai, causing the group of people to form a rope and become a righteous master of Mount Tai, with nearly 100,000 people.

"hiss"

As if he had learned some shocking secret, Xiang Xuanjing and others were all wide open, and they felt their mouths dry and tongues were dry.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that Zhou Hu was much more terrifying than he thought.

But why did Zhou Hu do that? Isn’t he one of the five tigers of Chen’s family?

"What, what big thing?" Even Xiang Xuan was shocked and stuttered a little shocked at this moment.

"I'm sorry, I'm not convenient to tell you." He Xu shook his head and said.

In fact, he didn't lie, he really didn't know.

After staring at He Yu for a while, Xiang Xuan suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!...How much food is needed?"

"At least, it will be for 50,000 people to eat for half a year." He Xu said.

This is at least 100,000 stones of food!

Xiang Xuan subconsciously glared at He Yi, but in the end, he agreed.

In fact, he was also curious, curious about what big things Zhou Hu wanted the bandits of Mount Tai to do.

Seeing this, He Xu bowed his hand and smiled, "Then please send me Xiang Shuai. By the way, that adult hopes that this batch of food and grass will be shipped to Lu County within half a month."

"How is this possible?!"

Xiang Xuan was immediately furious and frightened that Zhou Hu was becoming more and more disrespectful to him.

He Xiang Xuan is not his Zhou Hu's general!
To be continued...