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Chapter 176 Chapter 185: Cao Tian's Rebellion
Seeing Li Hao's malicious smile, Li Ping shook his head instinctively: "Forget it, I still don't watch it, my stomach is almost hungry, I want to eat."

"Look, I almost forgot." Li Hao slapped his head, walked to the door and called out, "Come here!"

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old maid hurriedly ran over to salute: "Young Master, what are your orders?"

Li Hao said: "Bring the porridge prepared for Miss Li."

"Yes." The maid stepped back upon hearing this.

Not long after, Li Hao brought a bowl of hot corn porridge to Li Ping. Seeing this, Li Ping frowned: "I don't want porridge, I want something delicious."

Li Hao said patiently: "You have been hungry for too long, and you can't eat other things for the time being, otherwise you will hurt your stomach, so you can only drink porridge, and you can't drink too much each time. Drink it once every hour, three or four times, it will be almost OK."

"Ah—it's so troublesome." Li Ping was discouraged and wanted to reach out to serve the porridge.

Li Hao avoided her hand and said with a smile: "You are weak now, and you may not be able to hold the bowl steadily. It doesn't matter if you spill it on you, but what to do if it spills all over the quilt. It's too cold. It’s not easy to wash the quilt.”

"What did you say!" Li Ping stared angrily at the words.

Li Hao grinned, took a spoonful of porridge and blew lightly twice, like coaxing a child: "Hey, I'll feed you, open your mouth, ah—"

Li Ping rolled her eyes and opened her mouth obediently. Li Hao fed a spoonful of porridge into her mouth. It was hot and warm, very comfortable and satisfying. She secretly escaped from the house and came all the way to Tingzhou. After suffering so much, when she ate the hot porridge made by Li Hao, she felt that everything was worth it.

In a blink of an eye, the bowl of porridge was gone, Li Hao put down the bowl, and chatted with her, Li Ping told him about his hardships all the way, even though Li Hao walked that part of the road in person, he was also touched by what she said, and was very excited She really suffered a lot along the way. She met wolves and horse thieves. If it weren't for those five loyal servants who swore to protect them, it would be impossible to reach Tingzhou. Based on this, Li Hao secretly Decided to save Zhang Bao and the others.

After listening to Li Ping's story, it was Li Hao's turn to talk about his experiences along the way. Li Hao's experience was wonderful, and his mouth was very eloquent. At the time, he was almost ready to say that he would kill all the horse thieves with a thunderbolt in his palm at the critical moment, but fortunately he felt that this was too nonsense, so he stopped in time.

The two chatted for a whole night. Although they talked a lot, they didn't mention Li Daozong tacitly. Why, I was afraid that the interest would be spoiled.

The inner courtyard is usually where the female relatives live, but now there are only four rooms in the inner courtyard. Li Hao asked Gu Lina and Elena to live together, and vacated a room for Li Ping. The two sisters were very obedient and did so immediately. Li Ping stayed in the inner courtyard.

In the blink of an eye, the New Year is coming. Thanks to Li Hao's hard work in the past few months, most of the people in Tingzhou have become richer, and this year is happier than before. Seeing the smiles on the faces of the people, Li Hao suddenly feels better Satisfaction, at the very least, he personally proved his worth, with five beauties by his side, and he didn't have the loneliness of being far away from home. This year is still very real and sufficient.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Shi Najie came back with a caravan, and brought more than 1000 catties of pig iron and 1000 logs. To be honest, more than [-] catties of pig iron sounds nice, but in fact it is just a little bit of iron. Naturally sank.

Looking at the more than 1000 catties of pig iron, Li Hao nodded with satisfaction. If he wanted to make a knife and gun, this thousand catties of pig iron would definitely not be enough. However, Li Hao used these pig irons to make arrows. An arrow only weighs more than 1000 catties of pig iron , can create nearly [-] arrows, or even more.

Shi Najie felt guilty about the fact that he only bought a thousand catties of pig iron, but Li Hao didn't care, and even took the initiative to comfort him. After all, pig iron is a controlled item and trade is strictly prohibited.

Before Li Hao bought iron and wood in the whole city, he has made more than 3 arrows. Now that he has pig iron and wood, he immediately asked the craftsmen to continue processing. library.

In February of the 13th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin once again brought up the matter of conquest of Xue Yantuo. It was the same sentence, Yujia personally went to the conquest. It happened that Wei Zheng contracted a cold and was seriously ill. He was bedridden. , After returning to Taiji Palace, he stepped up the discussion and decided on the matter of Yujia's personal conquest. He felt that His Majesty the great Tian Khan was a complete double-faced man, doing one thing to the face and another to the back.

On February 13th of the 25th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin led an army of 15 to conquer Xue Yantuo.

And on the same day, the shopkeeper Li from the Longchang Grain Store in Tingzhou went to the governor's mansion to meet Li Hao, and expressed his worries. Li's grain delivery team had been overdue for ten days and hadn't arrived yet.

Li Hao frowned when he heard this sentence. After a winter of consumption, the people in Tingzhou have not much food in their homes, and the rice grain shop in Longchang is about to be sold out. Wan Shi's food, but Li's delivery to the two teams was ten days overdue, which made him feel a little bit of crisis.

Li Hao remained calm on the surface, and asked Li the shopkeeper to go back and wait patiently, but he began to plan in his heart.

After thinking about it all morning, Li Hao ordered to start planting corn. Although the weather is still very cold, the temperature has returned to minus two or three degrees. In a few days, it should reach above zero. He can only pray that the corn seedlings can carry To survive the current cold temperature, as long as you can survive for two months, you can harvest more than 1000 shi of corn. With so much corn, the common people will not be hungry, but the taste is a bit poor, and the taste is also poor. .

Li Hao was lucky, the temperature returned to zero the next day, which made him very excited. He tried it when he was in Chang'an, and his corn could grow in a zero-degree environment.

It takes exactly 100 days from planting to maturity of corn. There are more than [-] stones of corn in his warehouse, and he will not make wine for the time being. However, those wine shops will be closed because of this, and the merchants may cause trouble. Emotions are the key. Li Hao can't tell them about the food crisis yet, so he can only rely on the authority to suppress them.

Another seven days later, Li Hao went to inspect the corn field himself, and found that the corn seedlings had all broken through the ground and had grown four inches high. As soon as he returned to the Governor's Mansion, the shopkeeper Li came to visit, and the news he brought was not good. The team hasn't arrived yet.

Li Hao didn't say much, just asked him to go back and wait for another two days. Shopkeeper Li had no choice but to bow his head and return.After sending shopkeeper Li away, Li Hao sat in the yamen and thought for a long time, cleared up the matter, and had a plan in his mind. This matter is most likely related to Cao Tian, ​​and... Cao Tian is very likely to Desperate, I have to prepare myself.

Sure enough, three nights later, there was a sudden noise in the city, and the sound of horseshoes was heard everywhere in the street. Li Hao had been sitting in the yamen, and after hearing the noise, he walked out of the yamen, looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, and Sighing: "This moment has finally come."

As soon as the words were finished, Feiying suddenly rushed in, knelt down on one knee and reported: "Master, there are a large number of people holding weapons and rushing towards the governor's mansion."

Li Hao raised his eyebrows and asked, "Can you see where the other party came from?"

Feiying said: "I see clearly, there are two thousand government soldiers and fifteen hundred horse thieves."

"Fifteen hundred horse thieves?" Li Hao frowned, then sneered, "I'm afraid there are fewer real horse thieves and more fake horse thieves."

What he meant was obvious, and the fake horse thieves naturally referred to Gaochang's army, after all, they often pretended to be horse thieves.

"How did they come into the city?" Li Hao asked.

Feiying said: "It is said that Wang Yuantai, the captain of Youguoyi, let it in, and the guards are also led by Wang Yuantai."

"Wang Yuantai." Li Hao murmured softly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and there seemed to be a cold light in them.

Li Hao was silent for a moment, and said: "Tell the brothers of the Special Forces and You Xiaowei to stop guarding outside and come to the mansion."

"Yes!" Feiying led the order to retreat, and in a short while, five hundred guards and more than 20 special forces all came to the courtyard.

Then he heard the constant voices of people and horses outside the courtyard, as well as the sound of people shouting. Gradually, the sound became quieter, and the night returned to calm. Although separated by the courtyard wall, Li Hao seemed to have seen more than 3000 horses waiting outside.

At this time, a loud and clear voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Humble post Cao Tian, ​​pay homage to Inspector Li."

Li Hao grinned and waved, "Open the door."

The two right guards stepped forward to open the gate of the governor's mansion, and saw a large torch outside, which would illuminate the leader, it was Cao Tian.

Li Hao took a few steps forward, and said with a calm smile, "Biejia Cao visited me late at night, and I don't know why?"

Cao Biejia laughed twice, and said, "Lord Li, you committed a crime."

"Oh?" Li Hao raised his eyebrows, "What did I do?"

Cao Tian sneered and said, "Master Li, you built weapons privately with the intention of plotting rebellion. The [-] arrows in the arsenal are evidence."

Li Hao asked with his hands behind his back, "Is there any more?"

Cao Tian raised his head and said proudly: "One crime of treason is enough to kill you ten times, and I don't need to mention other crimes."

"Oh? That's right." Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't you just want to convict me of treason. I don't know who gave you the courage, but there is an imperial decree from the emperor or an official document from the Ministry of Punishment. ?”

Cao Tian said calmly: "I have reported your crimes to the imperial court, but Tingzhou is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and it takes several months for the documents to go back and forth. Your rebellion is imminent, and there is no delay. I can only preemptively arrest you. Go to prison and wait for the emperor's order."

"Okay, okay, okay." Li Hao clapped his hands slowly, and said with a smile, "I admire your ability to talk nonsense, but... Cao Tian, ​​I just want to ask you, Tingzhou Weifu has only two Thousands of soldiers and horses, but you brought more than 500 people, I would like to ask you, what is the origin of these 500 people, can you explain?"

Cao Tian frowned when he heard the words. He didn't expect Li Hao to notice that he had brought an extra 500 people under such circumstances. It seemed that he had already known about the fact that he had lured people into the city. He didn't expect Li Hao to be so sensitive. Well-informed.

But he was only slightly surprised, and then smiled and said: "These are all my friends in the world, and I specially invited them here to deal with you, a traitor."

"Hehe." Li Hao sneered, "Friends in the Jianghu? 500 people, you know, even Lu Guogong, British Duke, and Zhao Guogong in Chang'an would not dare to make friends with so many people privately, even if these are all in the Jianghu. People, you are raising private soldiers, which is a serious crime of treason, Cao Tian, ​​the person who wants to rebel...is you."

　I don't want to write about conspiracies and tricks anymore, annoyed, come on, just face it!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)