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Dong Yuan rushed back to Luoyang from Chang'an, bringing bad news to Chen Lang, and the Taishi Mansion rejected Chen Lang's request for an increase in military expenditures.

Guan Yu frowned and said, "The Taishi does not increase military expenditure. It seems that we can't expand our army."

Dong Yuan said to Chen Lang apologetically: "I'm sorry, big brother, I didn't complete the task!"

Chen Lang waved his hand and said, "You don't have to apologize, it's none of your business." Looking at Xue Tong, he asked, "How are you talking with those big merchants?" Xue Tong said: "Those merchants are willing to They come up with funds, but the amount is limited, and they also hope to exchange some favorable conditions for doing business in Luoyang."

Dong Yuan shouted annoyedly: "How bold, dare to bargain with us!"

Chen Lang said: "Businessmen are real villains, but they are also straightforward and cute. They are better than the hypocrites of the wealthy and gentry!" Then he asked Tong Xue, "How much money can they put in?" Tong Xue said, "The total amount is about 100,000 yuan. "

Guan Yu said: "One hundred thousand silver at most can only relieve the urgent need!" Now Chen Lang and the others can only get from Dong Zhuo to maintain the one hundred thousand army. Now Ying Yang has 150,000 horses. In other words, Even if they don’t expand their army, Chen Lang still has a shortage of 50,000 troops. There is no problem with food and grass. After all, Dong Zhuo hurried to flee before taking away the piles of food and grass in Luoyang’s big warehouses, but payment and silver were a big problem. , Now Chen Lang and the others have owed half a month's payment to the officers and soldiers below. If we continue to develop in this way, let alone expanding the army, it will be a problem to maintain the current size of 150,000 horses.

Chun Yuqiong frowned; "I think we can only disarm!"

Gan Ning was the first to jump up and shouted: "No! Absolutely not!"

Guan Yu frowned and said: "Without the payment, it will not last long. If it is not cut now, it will be forced to be cut in the future! This matter should be done sooner rather than later, so as not to waste a lot of money and food in vain!"

Dong Yuan was frustrated and said to Chen Lang: "Big Brother, I'll go to Chang'an again, begging for daddy!"

Chen Lang shook his head and said: "There is no need for that. The Taishi has the Taishi's consideration. If you go again, it will only be a waste of effort. On the contrary, it may make the Taishi misunderstand." Dong Yuan asked depressedly: "Is it really only Disarmament?" Everyone looked very depressed.

Chen Lang showed a thoughtful look on his face, and said, "There is another way." Hope suddenly rose in everyone's hearts and looked at Chen Lang.

Fool Li is a woodcutter near Mianchi, who makes a living by looking at trees on Shangwang Mountain near Mianchi and selling money. This so-called Shangwang Mountain is actually a hill rising suddenly on the plain, which looks like a huge tomb from a distance. In fact, people of the Mianchi generation believed that this tomb was the tomb of a king of Shang at that time, but because of the age, the entire tomb is like a densely forested hill.

This day fool Li was cutting wood on the mountain and didn't pay attention to the time. When he went down the mountain with the heavy wood on his back, the sun had already set, the earth was covered by night, and the shadows of the trees looked like demons and ghosts. Fool Li heard the cuckoo's chirping from time to time in the forest, he couldn't help being flustered, and subconsciously speeded up. Suddenly, Fool Li felt something tripped under her feet, and was caught off guard. He fell forward and fell to the ground. Fool Li was so frightened, he yelled, "Don't pull me! Don't pull me!" Fool Li thought it was a ghost. I grabbed his foot!

Fool Li was lying on the ground feeling as if nothing happened, so he courageously looked back. In the light of the moonlight, I saw that my feet were just a root of a tree protruding from the ground, and there were no ghosts. Fool Li breathed a long sigh of relief, quickly got up, and ran down the mountain with the timber on his back. Finally came to the foot of the mountain, Li fool relieved. At this moment, Fool Li heard something coming from the mountain behind him, and couldn't help turning his head to look. Under the moonlight, there seemed to be countless shadows surging on the mountainside. Fool Li's eyes widened immediately, the three souls and seven souls flew out of his body in an instant, shouted in horror, threw away the firewood and ran for his life!

"Hey! Have you heard? The Shangwang Mountain is haunted!" A middle-aged woman said to the other woman as if offering a treasure. Another woman hurriedly said: "I also heard! I heard that evil spirits appeared on Shangwang Mountain. They are three feet tall, have blue-faced fangs, and their eyes can breathe fire. It's terrible!" The third woman also hurriedly said: " I heard that Fool Li was so scared that he didn't dare to go out for a few days!" Rumors arose in Mianchi County, and the people didn't dare to lean on Shangwang Mountain.

After a while, more rumors spread, saying that the tomb of King Zhao was also haunted, and that evil spirits also appeared in the tomb of the Han Emperor. Suddenly, various ghost and monster legends were raging, and the people of Luoyang were panicked at first, and they dared not go out at night. But gradually everyone got used to it, and this ghost legend became everyone's after-dinner talk.

auzw.com The expansion of the Yingyang Army is in full swing. The conscription site is crowded with people. People in Luoyang and Bingzhou refugees actively signed up to join the army. It took only ten days to recruit the 50,000 new recruits planned to be recruited, all of whom were strong and brave among the refugees from Luoyang and Binzhou.

At the same time, Chen Lang had already adapted his opponent's soldiers and horses, and abolished all the titles of Yulinjun, and collectively called Yulinjun. As Zuo Yulinwei, Chen Lang, it was reasonable to do so. The 200,000 soldiers and horses, including 50,000 recruits, were organized into five major battalions, namely Dadao Battalion (10,000 horses, commanded by Guan Yu) and Huben Battalion (30,000 cavalry, as they seized a large number of war horses from the Huns, so The cavalry was expanded, the commander was still replaced by Zhao Yun), the forward battalion (60,000 infantry, with Chun Yuqiong as commander), the broken army camp (60,000 infantry, Ganning commander), and the town army camp (40,000 infantry, including The retrained three hundred fangs cavalry, commanded by Chen Lang himself).

In addition to the reorganization and expansion of the army, Chen Lang also assembled all the blacksmiths in the Luoyang area and various other skilled craftsmen who could use them to build a huge military factory. From morning to night, they continued to build various war materials for the army, including those in the Dadao camp. The whole body of iron armor, the cavalry spears of the tiger camp, and the bows, crossbows, swords and shields used by the infantry and so on. The vigorous development of the military industry has also affected the recovery and development of the local economy. Luoyang unexpectedly reproduced the scene of prosperity before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

When Dong Min learned about the expansion of the army and the large-scale transformation of equipment, he was very surprised. He summoned several of his staff and asked: "The recent Chen Lang's actions have been huge! Where did he get the money? ?" Several of the staff looked at each other, unable to answer this question.

At this moment, the door officer came to report: "My lord, the Dong family and other patrons are asking to see my lord."

Dong Min said, "Let them in." The door official replied and stepped back. After a while, I saw the Dong family and other four big Luoyang family owners rushing in.

The four people hurriedly bowed to Dong Min, and the Patriarch of the Dong family said angrily: "My lord, the ancestral graves of my generations have been dug up, and all the funerary items have been looted!"

Dong Min was very annoyed and shouted angrily: "I came to tell me such a bad thing early in the morning! What do you mean? Do you suspect that I did this thing?"

Everyone, er, couldn't help but look at each other. Only then did they think that they were going to talk about plowing people's ancestral graves. Dong Zhuo's family recognized the second, but no one would dare to recognize first. I couldn't help but feel a suspicion in my heart: "Could it be that Dong Min sent someone to dig out his family's ancestral grave?" ! At this point, I was speechless.

The Patriarch of the Dong family quickly said: "No, no, no, we are not suspicious of adults. We suspect that Chen Lang!" The other three nodded in agreement. The Patriarch of the Li family said: "After the incident, we sent people to check the surrounding imperial tombs. It doesn't matter if it doesn't check, I was shocked! We unexpectedly found that all imperial tombs and royal tombs were seven to eight. There are all traces of being robbed on a large scale!" The Patriarch of the Zhang family said: "The haunting incident has been rampant recently. I think it is because of this tomb robbery that Chen Lang dare to rob so many imperial tombs. Wangling, his evil deeds are really outrageous!"

The Patriarch of the Dong family clasped his fists and pleaded: "My lord, this Chen Lang is full of evil, my lord has to be the master for us!" Other people also pleaded.

Dong Min muttered with annoyance on his face; "Why didn't I think of such a way to get rich? Let the kid get the first step! Damn! Damn!"

The Patriarchs did not hear Dong Min's words clearly and looked at Dong Min with puzzled expressions. Dong Min said, "I'll take care of this. Don't worry!" The Patriarchs exclaimed, "Thank you, sir!"

After the Patriarchs left, Dong Min said to his staff with an annoyed expression: "That Chen Lang is really damn! So many imperial tombs and the ancestral tombs of the wealthy, how much money is it! Damn him! It's a rebellious thing to get rich but not come to honor me and Taishi! You think of a way for me to tell Chen Lang to spit out all the money he eats! Haven't you bought several generals under him? Simply put a feast for him and get rid of him now!"

The staff member smiled and said: "Is it not easy to get rid of him? But if you do, I am afraid that the teacher will be unhappy! It is better to use other methods to let him highlight the money!"

"What can you do?"

The staff laughed; "There are so many methods. Chen Lang arbitrarily intervenes in the affairs of the government, and the adult has not settled with him! It is better to dismiss all the officials who confessed to him first, and give him a killer to let him know how powerful he is. Your lord! At that time, if an adult made any request, he wouldn't dare to refuse!" Dong Min laughed and said loudly, "Just do it!"

Chen Langjing was naked, leading three hundred with the same naked fangs standing in the waves of the Yellow River and brandishing a broad knife. The blade was brilliant and the water splashed. The momentum of the three hundred people actually gave people a feeling of surging waves.

Xue Tong and Old Man Ding hurried to the shore, strangled their horses, and rolled over. Xue Tong shouted: "General, urgent matter and urgent matter!"