In fact, Chen Xu was also very dissatisfied with Xiao Yao's practice of cutting first and then playing, and even a little angry!

Since he was reminded by Shen Keqing last time that this Xiao Yao was suspected of blackmailing himself and forcing him to appoint him as the assassin of Xuzhou, Xiao Yao was no longer the image of being very obedient and dedicated to serving himself loyally in Chen Xu's mind! Although he did promise to give Xiao Yao the assassin history of Xuzhou a long time ago, he forced himself to give him the position of assassin by stopping the attack, which made Chen Xu feel a little unhappy!

However, after he appointed Xiao Yao as the assassin of Xuzhou, he also gave himself a very satisfactory response, and took down Northern Xuzhou in one day, and he was still bloodless, so that Zu Yan surrendered the city and surrendered without a fight, which can be said to have earned enough face for Chen Guo!

But before Chen Xu had time to be happy, his mood completely fell to the bottom!

Because along with this good news, there was also a secret letter from Xiao Yao, which said that Xiao Yao had sent a letter of armistice to Gao Wei and took the initiative to ask for peace talks with Qi State, which made Chen Xu so angry that he almost vomited blood and died!

Originally, Chen Xu's own thoughts were still the same as most ministers, and he was ready to ask Xiao Yao to take advantage of the victory to pursue, take advantage of the morale of the army, continue to attack Qingzhou, and then bring all the Huaibei regions south of the Yellow River under the rule of Chen Guo! As a result, now Xiao Yao told himself that he wanted to stop the attack and hold peace talks with Qi State, which made Chen Xu feel a sense of frustration that he was about to climax but was suddenly stopped, causing Chen Xu's mood to be very depressed and angry!

Okay, you Xiao Yao, originally you were suspected of blackmailing me last time, I haven't even settled accounts with you, but now you are even more intensified, and I have a prelude to a prelude, a little assassin dares to decide to stop the Northern Expedition and negotiate peace with Qi, who do you really think you are? Where does this put my face!

In fact, Xiao Yao also listed several reasons to Chen Xu in the secret letter: the first is that Chen Guo's current strength cannot compete with Zhou State, if Chen Guo beats Qi State too badly, and even recovers the area south of the Yellow River of Qi State, it will definitely seriously weaken Qi State's strength and demoralize them! In addition, Hu Luguang, the general who had a complete victory record against Zhou State, was also killed and exterminated by Gao Wei, if Zhou State took the opportunity to suddenly launch an attack on Qi State at this time, it was very likely that he would be able to take Luoyang, and then drive straight in, directly capture Yecheng, and destroy Qi State in one fell swoop!

Moreover, the State of Qi and the State of Zhou were originally split from the same country, and all the Zhou States with some similarities will definitely be able to digest and absorb the soldiers and horses of the State of Qi soon, and the strength of the State of Zhou will definitely increase greatly at that time! The Chen State, which was already weaker than the Zhou State, was even more unable to resist the Zhou State at this time, and it was likely that the Zhou State would be wiped out casually, and then the great achievement of unifying the world that would go down in history would be picked up by Yuwenyong, who had just regained power from Yuwenhu for a year!

Therefore, when Chen Guo did not have the strength to compete with Zhou State, Qi State must not perish, and must use the enmity of Qi State and Zhou State to contain each other, so that Chen State can take the opportunity to develop national strength and recuperate, in order to be able to dominate the world in the future!

Compared with the objective analysis of the first reason, Chen Xu felt that it was a little reasonable, but Xiao Yao's second reason made Chen Xu a little unacceptable, and even vomited blood in anger, because Xiao Yao directly shouted poor!

Xiao Yao said that the reason why his forward brigade had invincible strength and was able to defeat Gao Changgong, who already had an artillery unit in Xiao County with a force of 5,000 troops, relied on mobilizing tens of thousands of skilled craftsmen and concentrating a large number of materials to make those powerful firearms for himself, without these firearms, it would be impossible for him to defeat the Qi army!

Although Xiao Yao is very confident in his forward brigade, as long as the ammunition and materials are sufficient, even Zhou Guo can ignore them, but the problem now is that the ammunition and materials are no longer enough!

After the Battle of Xiao County, the Forward Brigade has already used up the batch of ammunition and materials that used a lot of manpower and material resources and took a month to make, so if you want Xiao Yao to continue to lead troops to attack Qingzhou, then you must make a large number of ammunition materials!

And now Xiao Yao has served as the assassin of Xuzhou, so the main energy and financial resources of the general firm are focused on the recovery and development of Xuzhou, and because when the Qi State had just captured Huaibei, it announced that it would not collect local taxes for ten years, and now Chen Guo has regained Huaibei, and if he wants to win the hearts of the people and stabilize his rule over Huaibei, he can only announce that he will not collect taxes in Huaibei for ten years, so now Xiao Yao can't come up with much money to make a large number of weapons and ammunition for the forward brigade!

If Chen Xu still insists on Xiao Yao to fight, then he can only continue to pay from the treasury and mobilize the resources of the entire Chen State to make weapons and ammunition for the forward brigade like last time!

In the end, Xiao Yao also said that as long as there are enough weapons and ammunition, not to mention Qingzhou, even Yecheng can help His Majesty fight down! But if the ammunition and supplies are not enough, it will be a bit of trouble to even hold Xuzhou!

Sure enough, seeing Xiao Yao's half-suggestion and half-threat reason, Chen Xu immediately broke out, threw the secret letter on the ground fiercely and scolded: "Okay, you Xiao Shilang, I know that you are a little fox who likes to calculate others, and now you dare to calculate on my head!" Although I think the reasons you gave are very reasonable, and even some agree with your statement, no matter how good your reasons are, no matter how impossible you can refuse, you might as well tell me first, after all, I am your master, the emperor of the current Chen State! ”

"And in the end, you even dared to shout poverty to me, do you know how much money I spent that month, and I mobilized so much manpower and material resources to make weapons and ammunition for you! In a month, it cost Chen Guo more than a year's income, and now you actually say that it has been used up almost, and you still have to coerce me, if you want to continue the Northern Expedition, you must continue to manufacture weapons and ammunition for you? Do you really have a lot of gold and silver in our Chen country, and we have endless money? He also said righteously that the General Commercial Bank was making every effort to develop Xuzhou in order to stabilize the rule of Xuzhou for Da Chen, resulting in no money now! That's a good thing to say, believe it or not, I'll take the general firm back again and check it out! Chen Xu blew his beard angrily and scolded loudly.

But these are just Chen Xu's angry words, when he finished venting, he calmed down again, read Xiao Yao's secret letter a few times, and then sighed deeply, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Alas, this Xiao Shilang, I was really pinched to death by him!" As he said, his victory is based on strong national strength, if there is no strong enough national strength, even if we take advantage of the victory to pursue, defeat the Qi State, and take the entire Henan, we will not be able to resist the attack of the Zhou State, so I am indeed a little carried away by the previous few victories, and I want to defeat the Qi State and recover more land, but I ignore the powerful opponent of the Zhou State! ”