The economic crisis in the Central Plains, which lasted for more than a month, seemed to be slowly beginning to subside in the implementation of Xuan Yingwei's follow-up plan, but the Central Plains, centered on Bianliang and other places, fell into a state of mourning. The economy has stagnated, business has almost come to a standstill, and the entire marketization has become a silent backwater. However, the Xuanwu Army is not omnipotent, and the food consumed by millions of people in the entire Central Plains is not something that a Xuanwu Army can bear, so in August, it should have been the season of new grain purchase, but the grain in the hands of the people could not be circulated, the grain outside the city could not enter the city, and the people in the city could not buy food, so they all relied on the Xuanwu Army to collect grain to maintain.

"It seems that it is okay, it is estimated that Xie Tong should have reacted, and his next attention should be on those businessmen who fled to Zhu Jin's territory." Hu Xiaosi smiled slightly when he received the information from his subordinates, raised his hand and ordered: "Let the Flying Eagle Brigade immediately pick up the people from all walks of life and go to Guanzhong from the previously booked passage." ”

This order was quickly conveyed by the Xuanying Guard's secret guards, and in the hands of the people from all walks of life, these hundreds of thousands of people who had been secretly hidden by the Xuanying Guard for more than a month began to rush to Guanzhong day and night.

"Pass the order, immediately carry out the third step plan, let them mess up first, and cover our actions." When Hu Xiaosi saw the movement, he immediately gave the final order, and then disappeared from the Eastern Capital, and with the departure of the first intelligence person of the Tiance Army, the operation of the Tiance Mansion also reached the stage of closing the net.

The previously hoarded materials were reduced to zero, and as the people who entered the Guanzhong brought them into the Guanzhong, the grain of up to several million stones suddenly filled the granary of Tiance Mansion, and these people were quickly absorbed by the major emerging factories after entering the Guanzhong, turning them into the original driving force for the development of these industries and commerce.

However, it has just begun, and after the first batch of people entered Guanzhong, Hu Xiaosi's actions also began. I saw that another group of mysterious merchants appeared in the states of the Central Plains, divided into the countryside of these states and counties, and began to grab grain from the Xuanwu Army officials, and constantly used the seemingly endless copper coins in their hands to start grabbing shopping materials. At first, Xie Tong and Zhu Quanzhong didn't notice the purpose of this group of merchants, and thought that they were local merchants who came back from Zhu Jin's territory, so they planned to fund them, and once even ordered the Xuanwu army who went to the countryside to collect grain to make way for them. But soon these people did not go into the city to resell the grain, but began to disappear after buying it. This made Zhu Quanzhong feel that something was wrong, and at this time, Zheng Fan finally found out the origin of this group of people, who were the merchants of Tiance Mansion who mysteriously disappeared from major states and counties before.

But after knowing this news, Zhu Quanzhong had no way to start, and after these people came out again, they began to act on their own territory with great fanfare, so there must be a backhand.

And at this time, news came from the front line of Huazhou, and Yang Tiancheng's headquarters of the Eastern Army of the Tiance Army went out of Tongguan and began to deploy troops along the front line of Huazhou, suppressing the garrison of the Xuanwu Army in the east, so that Zhu Quanzhong could only watch these people buy their own grain and then disappear.

Originally, if it was just these grains, Zhu Quanzhong would definitely swallow this breath, but the news from Zheng Fan immediately made him angry. It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to pass through the state and Yue County without any rumors, Zheng Fan is different from Xie Tong, he has been staring at the Tiance Mansion in the northwest direction, so he quickly found out a little clue. However, at this moment, Zheng Fan's old opponent Hu Xiaosi didn't expect his small actions to be able to hide from the other party, so the Flying Eagle Brigade began to lurk secretly since entering the Central Plains, and finally began to launch at this time. Just when Zhu Quanzhong decided to start arresting those who were still buying grain, he suddenly made a move, and as soon as these soldiers made a move, they immediately defeated those ordinary soldiers of the Xuanwu Army.

Zhu Quanzhong of Bianliang also received an urgent report immediately afterwards, all his men were slaughtered within a few days, and the team of thousands of people was all killed, how could he not be frightened?

"Lord, I think it should be the Flying Eagle Brigade under Li Xuanqing. Only they have the ability to do it. Zhu Quanzhong's festival made Xie Tong in the mansion say to Zhu Quanzhong, who was frowning at the door.

"Then let Ge Cunzhou and Wang Yanzhang take people to kill them all, I don't believe it, just a few hundred people can stop my Xuanwu army?" Zhu Quanzhong said angrily when he heard this.

"The minister thought that it was still Shao'an, and Yang Tiancheng's corps in Huazhou on the western front line had already been waiting to start a war with us. Our main force is still in Caizhou and Huaisi for a generation, what should we do if Yang Tiancheng raises troops to the east? Seeing Zhu Quanzhong's angry face, Xie Tong hurriedly poured a basin of cold water on him.

However, at this time, Zhu Quanzhong was still very concerned about the words of his chief strategist, and after hearing Xie Tong's words, he was silent for a while and said, "Then what Mr. Yi said, how to deal with it at present?" ”

"There is only one way for the minister, that is, to stay put, find a way to call back those merchants who fled to Zhu Jin's territory, and then we will find a way to restore commerce and trade in Bianliang and other places on our own. If the minister's prediction is right, Li Xuanqing's focus should no longer be our Bianliang. Xie Tong pointed to the northwest direction on the map and said, "Lord Zheng Fan's arrangement in the northwest should have begun to work by now. Li Xuanqing's move should be a warning to us not to meddle in his eastern front, so that he can free up his hands on the western front to defeat the Tibetans. This time it was not the Tubo family, and the Wen Mo people were also provoked. ”

"It's just that in this case, our losses are too great, hundreds of thousands of people, tens of thousands of money and food?" Zhu Quanzhong sighed and said, "How many years have we saved up to save it?" ”

"Willing, willing, giving will be gained, lord." Xie Tong followed Zhu Quanzhong and squatted down and said, "If the lord can defeat Li Xuanqing, then these people and materials are still the lord's." If the lord is defeated by Li Xuanqing, then sooner or later, won't it all be the same? ”

Zhu Quanzhong was stunned and immediately understood what Xie Tong meant, he and Li Xuanqing will have to fight each other sooner or later, and the battle for the corner land at this moment is actually to put it bluntly, the two of them consciously or unconsciously began to clean up the off-site forces, and when these people are cleared out, then the war belonging to the Central Plains is destined to happen between the two.

"So what are we going to do?" Zhu Quanzhong asked immediately after understanding what Xie Tong meant.

Chen believes that Li Xuanqing's next plan is to lay down Sichuan and Shu or go north to the grassland, so as to gain room for strategic maneuver for himself. In that case, we can also fight for ourselves a strategic maneuver. Xie Tong shook his head and continued: "But the top priority now is to stabilize the interior, unify Shandong, and give us a place to breathe." This also gave Li Xuanqing of Chang'an a signal, he went to fight his Northwest War, and we fought our Shandong, and the two of them were well water and not river water. ”

Zhu Quanzhong was silent for a long time before he nodded slowly, staring at the peninsula on the map that jutted out of the sea, his face changed countless times, and he turned around and walked out, ignoring Xie Tong staying there.

However, when Zhu Quanzhong was discussing countermeasures with his own think tank, Li Xuanqing also waited for the latest news from the Northwest Front.

"Tianxiang, where did so many people come from Tubo? 100,000 people? Longyou Tubo can only get past 100,000 cavalry, right? After receiving the news, Li Xuanqing hurried to the military headquarters building.

Xu Tianxiang smiled bitterly: "I don't know, but the news from Xuanyingwei is indeed 100,000 cavalry, and they have already arrived in Yuanzhou." But so far there has been no movement from the Wenmen. ”

Li Xuanqing shook his head with a deep groan and said: "Regardless of them, Hou Chun and Wan Yi can deal with them, the General Staff gave them an order to the two of them, and the Tubo people will be dealt with by the Southwest Group Army, and let the Lingzhou side keep an eye on the Wen Mo people, and at the same time be prepared, as long as the time comes, I will immediately send troops to Liangzhou and subdue the East Road of Hexi." ”

Xu Tianxiang nodded and said: "Don't worry, the General Staff has already issued orders to Hou Chun and Wan Yi, all the preparations have been made, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs has also received a notification." After a pause, he continued: "Do you want to collect it over there?" ”

"It seems that Xiao Si scared his old opponent this time." Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "However, the news that Xiao Si came back this time said that the secret guard installed in the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu Envoy's Mansion said that Xie Tong seemed to be plotting something with Zhu Quanzhong, and Xie Tong persuaded Zhu Quanzhong to come over." ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and sighed: "It seems that we are the heroes of the world, this Xie Tong has guessed our strategic goal, so he will have the same mind as us." ”

Xu Tianxiang carefully compared the map and said: "This Zhu Quanzhong won't be doing something to his old brothers Zhu Jin and Wang Shifan under the guise of picking up the businessman, right?" These two people are his brothers-in-law, and when Zhu Quanzhong and Qin Zongquan were fighting for the most difficult, they did their best to help him. Wouldn't this make the world laugh if it started? ”

"I'll see if it's not." From Zhu Quanzhong's standpoint, this heartland must be taken, otherwise Zhu Quanzhong will not be able to concentrate the strength of the Central Plains to get out of the customs, even if he does not compete with Li Xuanqing in the west, then it will be difficult to continue to go south to Huainan and the north bank of the Yangtze River after stabilizing Xuzhou and Caizhou.

"Isn't the Lord really going to the Northwest?" Xu Tianxiang didn't bother with Zhu Quanzhong's moves, anyway, for him, it would be enough to sweep away thousands of troops with one move.

Li Xuanqing shook his head and said, "If you want to go, go by yourself, tomorrow Qiaoxi and I will go to Fengzhou to have a look." I heard that the industry over there is doing well, so I plan to take the technical experts of the logistics department to take a look, point out, Qiaoxi, the big boss plans to invest, and when the time comes, I will save some wife for you guys. ”

Li Xuanqing's words embarrassed Xu Tianxiang, but Li Xuanqing didn't continue to say anything, but turned away, leaving this guy alone in the general staff war room in a daze.

"Why don't I go and deliver a gift tomorrow?" After a while, Xu Tianxiang suddenly said a sentence, which made the staff officer who was busy on the side almost fall to the ground, has he, the chief of the general staff, changed his temperament?

However, whether Chief of Staff Xu went to give gifts or not was unknown to others, only that Li Xuanqing quietly left Chang'an and went north the next day. With Li Xuanqing's departure, Hu Xiaosi in the east also began the final deployment, all things were completed, Yang Tiancheng after receiving the last group of people, 30,000 troops and the second army behind him withdrew the Huazhou boundary under the cover, returned to Guannei, this inexplicable confrontation to outsiders ended suddenly, and the economic crisis in Shandong began to gradually subside, but the aftermath was inexplicably transferred to other places.

"Little four, haven't you all withdrawn? Why are prices in these places in Jiangnan starting to rise again? After receiving the information, Yang Tiancheng asked Hu Xiaosi, who was also smiling bitterly.

"Don't look at me, I've already asked Xuan Yingwei to investigate, Jiangnan is not my handiwork." Hu Xiaosi shook his head and said, "Don't worry, Xu Xingxia's home is in Shangzhou, and I have already asked someone to ask him." ”

"Forget it, no matter what, anyway, we soldiers can't manage such complicated things." Yang Tiancheng shook his head and shook out these thoughts in his mind and said with a smile: "Mr. Cen is in Tongguan, let's go and meet." We have been on the front line for more than a month, and Mr. Cen has hardly slept in the city. ”

"Let's go, why are you still stunned, let's go quickly, I tell you that I brought back a lot of good things from Dongdu, and those who see it have a share, and everyone will share it equally after returning to Chang'an." Hu Xiaosi took Yang Tiancheng's hand and said with a smile.

"Haha, I know that your kid has always been the master who takes advantage of the advantages and does not suffer losses. By the way, let me tell you, the lord left for Fengzhou, and Tianxiang also went to Lingzhou. Yang Tiancheng walked as he walked.

"The lord has gone to Fengzhou?" Hu Xiaosi was stunned for a moment, then remembered something and said with a smile: "Tiancheng, the No. 1 plan of the General Staff is the handiwork of you and Tianxiang, right?" ”

"I'll go, how do you know? It's top secret! Yang Tiancheng scolded with a smile: "I remember that the General Staff didn't say it to you people? And this plan is still being studied. ”

"Cut, what do I not know? I'm telling you, my lord told me. The lord said that when he went to Fengzhou, it would mean that this No. 1 plan would officially start. I said, should you be ready too? You can't let Chen Fan do it all when you clear the field, right? ”

"Damn it, am I the Minister of Operations or are you the Minister of Operations? Hurry up, Mr. Cen should be busy this time. Yang Tiancheng pushed Hu Xiaosi, and the two of them walked towards Tongguan with a grin, and the majority of the troops were handed over to the deputy.

Almost at the same time, the secret guard branch in Yanzhou sent out three messages, heading towards the economy in the direction of Chang'an, and the land of Shandong, like the northwest, began its own plans at the same time. The two families invariably attacked the forces around them. The difference is that Zhu Quanzhong's mind was on Zhu Jin, while Li Xuanqing handed over the front line to his generals and quietly went to the north.

And almost coincidentally, on this day, Li Keyong finally pacified Helian Duo and Chen Bing Youbei. The three northern families have reached a critical juncture.