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The weather in April is still a little cool, and the rain in early summer makes the air look extremely fresh.

The news that Ma Yin moved his administrative office to Shaozhou and quickly sent troops to attack the southwest was transmitted to Yang Wu in a short time.

In the Huagai Palace, everyone quickly discussed whether to take advantage of the current dispersion of Ma Yin's troops to send troops to attack Tanzhou again.

"Ma Yin's purpose is actually obvious, after he experienced the last defeat, he should have realized that his strength alone is not able to confront our army, if he continues to hold on to Tanzhou, and wait until our army attacks in the future, he will not be able to resist sooner or later, and the only way is to destroy!"

"So he's planning ahead and looking for a way out!" As the head of the ministers, Gao Miao took the lead in speaking.

The southwest land, also known as Wuxi Man, or Wuling Man, is named because it has five streams.

The barbarians in this area are extremely famous, and the barbarian king Shamoke during the Three Kingdoms period came from here.

In this era, the number of local barbarians did not decrease at all, and even in later generations, the degree of development was still very low, and in the Song and Ming dynasties, it was still a great disaster for the imperial court.

From the geographical point of view, Wuxi Man belonged to the western part of Hunan and a part of Guizhou in later generations, and this area further west is the Great Changhe established on the basis of the Nanzhao Kingdom during the Tang Dynasty.

To the south, there is Jiaozhi, which has not yet split from China.

These two areas, in this era, were also standard barbarian lands, and even if they were defeated, there was no oil or water, but they required a lot of money and food.

However, for Ma Yin wanting to develop his influence in the southwest, the ministers of the court and China still have a great sense of vigilance.

"King, if Ma Yin is really allowed to gain a foothold in those places, it will be a little difficult for our country to exterminate him, and Ma Yin will inevitably become a big disaster for our country in the future. Therefore, the minister thought that it was better to send troops to attack now to contain Ma Yin's forces and prevent him from further expanding his power! Liu Wei, the secretary of the military department, stood up and proposed.

Yang Wu listened to it and said noncommittally: "Well, what are the opinions of other people, you might as well talk about it!" ”

As he spoke, he snorted as if he hadn't had a good night's rest.

In fact, he really hasn't rested well these days, or some indulgence. Excessive desire.

A few days ago, he took three concubines one after another, and finally calmed down the successive urgings of his mother, Mrs. Shi. The palace gradually became fuller.

However, Yang Wu is a young man in the end, and now he has ascended to the throne of King Wu and has become one of the few people in the world, coupled with the military camp life that has been fighting everywhere in the past few years, now that he is relaxed, he will inevitably have some slack pleasure in his heart.

The three Xinna's concubines were all born into small families, and two of them had parents who had previously served as petty officials in the Wu Palace; The remaining one has only one elder brother in the family, who is a scholar and is now preparing to take the Jinshi examination.

The reason why the concubines did not choose those nobles this time was that they didn't want to have too strong relatives, and it was enough to have a Zhou family with Zhou Mengjie; The second is to ensure the status of Zhou Mengjie and her eldest son Yang Jiong.

Without the support of the noble family, it is much more difficult for these girls from small families to threaten the status of Zhou Mengjie and their mother and son.

Of course, the most important point is that these three Xinna's concubines are all beauties who meet Yang Wu's aesthetic standards, and they have also read books and know how to be courteous, so they are favored by Yang Wu.

Of course, although there has been some slackness in the past few days, this is only temporary, Yang Wu has not forgotten his ambitions, and he has not forgotten Li Cunqiao and other examples of hard work in the early stage and perishing because of pleasure in the later stage.

He just wanted to relax for a while, and he should be reinvigorated in a few days.

At this time, Gao Miao and the others couldn't help but be a little worried when they saw the tired look on Yang Wu's face, of course, they couldn't persuade them to do this kind of thing.

"The king, the minister thinks that it is only a little difficult to send troops now, our army has just mobilized the main force to the front line of Jizhou and Fuzhou, and now the offensive of the king of Fujian is also being prepared, and I am afraid that it will be inappropriate to change the previous plan rashly!" Lee Seung-hei has a different opinion.

A few days ago, after Yang Wu clearly told his bottom line and conditions to Wang Xianzhi's envoy, he asked his envoy to return to Fuzhou immediately.

"The minister thinks that sooner or later Fujian will be owned by our country, Wang Shenzhi is weak in the army, and now he has the intention of surrendering, the king may wish to let Fujian go first, and see if Wang Shenzhi can be persuaded to surrender through negotiations; Now Ma Yin has an attempt to develop to the southwest, this is a big disaster for our country, and it should be extinguished as soon as possible! Liu Wei bowed to Yang Wu, but insisted on his opinion.

Although his son was transferred to the Xiang Army by Yang Wu because of the defeat caused by the merit, he basically lost his future, but Liu Wei didn't care about it, and he usually did what he should do, as if he didn't take this matter to heart at all.

At first, Yang Wu thought that it was because Liu Wei was worried that he would be jealous, so he did it on purpose; But after a long time, and after learning more about Liu Wei, Yang Wu realized that he was wrong.

Liu Wei's nature is a very open-minded person, when he and Tao Ya were transferred to the north at the same time to serve as governors, Tao Ya initially had a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, but Liu Wei looked calm from beginning to end, and did not care about the gains and losses of his power.

After knowing this, Yang Wu felt even more that these old ministers who followed Yang Xingmi were indeed outstanding.

In the opinion of the minister, it is not a good thing to let Ma Yin go to open up the southwest!" At this moment, Yan Keqiu said suddenly.

Everyone immediately became interested and hurriedly asked him.

Yan Ke begged: "Great King, in the southwest, barbarians are rampant, and all they rely on is the difficult and dangerous roads in the local area, if they really want to fight head-on, they are definitely not the opponents of the Chu army, let alone the opponents of our army!" And in the future, after the unification of the south, our army will inevitably need to eliminate the barbarians in the southwest. In that case, why not wait for Ma Yin to develop it first? ”

"You mean, let Ma Yin clear the way for us, and we'll follow behind to pick up the bargain?" Zhou Yin asked his meaning very bluntly: "But the military strength of the Chu army is already stronger, if he seizes the southwest land again, and has a greater geographical advantage, wouldn't the strength be further expanded?" ”

"Not necessarily! Ma Yin is also a person from the Central Plains no matter what, including his subordinates. Why was he able to gain a firm foothold in the land of Hunan and grow rapidly? It is nothing more than that Tanzhou and other areas were developed early, and the people were able to recognize Ma Yin as the lord of Hunan. ”

But when he arrives in Chenzhou and other places, will the local barbarians also recognize him? This is obviously impossible. ”

"The reason why the chieftains of the barbarians have so many troops under their command is because they themselves are recognized chiefs; But when Ma Yin got there, he couldn't be recognized, but he was afraid that not only could he not replenish his troops from the barbarians, but he also had to be on guard against the barbarians at all times, and wanted to expand his strength, but it was delusional in a short period of time! ”

Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads when they heard this, the biggest difference between the southwest land and Ma Yin's original territory in Hunan was that the local people were different.

Ma Yin was able to rapidly expand his strength after capturing Hunan, but he obviously couldn't after capturing the barbarian lands in the southwest.

Yan Keqiu continued: "So Ma Yin's seizure of the southwest is at most one more way to retreat. In the future, as long as our army seizes the original land of Ma Yin such as Tanzhou and Shaozhou, then the remaining territory of Ma Yin will not be enough to supply too many troops, and it will naturally not be able to threaten our country. ”

"Of course, another reason why the minister feels that there is no need to worry about Ma Yin's development to the southwest is because Ma Yin is now old, and his sons, I heard that they are all incompetent people with low eyes, and they are still competing for power and profit with each other, and now Ma Yin may not have any problems when he is still there, but it will be difficult to say in the future." Yan Keqiu finally smiled.

Yang Wu couldn't help but feel moved when he heard this, but then he was a little disappointed.

In this era, many of the founders of feudal towns generally possessed high talents and prestige, and it was generally very difficult to destroy them while they were still alive.

Like Qian Biao, if there was no Yang Wu's crossing, plus Qian Biao gave Huainan a chance because of the Wuyongdu Rebellion in those years, and it happened that Zhu Wen was restrained at that time, so he was able to eliminate it.

However, in this era, although the first generation of entrepreneurs in the major feudal towns were capable people, their children and grandchildren were often incompetent.

Zhu Wen, Wang Jian, Liu Rengong, Ma Yin, Wang Zhenzhi, etc., they all had problems in the second generation, and even if there was no Yang Wu's crossing, Huainan would also have problems in the second generation.

So it is undoubtedly a good idea to wait until after Ma Yin's death to take the opportunity to attack.

It's a pity that Yang Wu knows that this Ma Yin is a rare long-lived person in this era, and according to the historical lifespan, he can even live for more than 20 years!

Although I don't know if this life will be affected by Yang Wu's crossing in this life, Yang Wu feels that it is better not to be too hopeful.

Don't say more than 20 years, even if it is more than 10 years, Yang Wu also doesn't have the patience to wait.

However, as for Yan Keqiu's mention, Ma Yin can help develop the southwest, which Yang Wu agrees with.

Ma Yin no matter how hostile he was to Wu State, but he was at least a Han Chinese, speaking the same language as Wu State, using the same script, and having the same customs and the same system.