Chapter 258: The Trouble of Qiongzhou
"What's next for you?" Shama asked leisurely. With-Dream- . lā
Yang Yi took out a handful of melon seeds, knocked two and said with a smile: "Eat, bathe, sleep." ”
Shama Naigu grabbed a handful of melon seeds from in front of Yang Yi, also jumped up, and said, "You know that this is not what I asked. ”
Yang Yi thought for a while and said, "First of all, govern Shuzhong, so that the people of Shuzhong can eat and sleep peacefully." ”
"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Shamanagu shook his head.
"Huh? Tell us what you think. Yang Yi straightened up and asked.
"I'm a general, so I only think about war." Shama Naigu put the melon seeds in his hand on the table, took out four of them, put them in a quadrilateral, and pointed over one by one: "There are four states in Shu, Chengzhou, Kangzhou, Mianzhou and Qiongzhou. ”
Saying that, Shama Naigu moved the two melon seeds on the right side slightly outward, and said: "Now that Chengzhou and Kangzhou are basically stable, Mianzhou in the southeast is under the attack of these two states, I believe the problem will not be too big." ”
Yang Yi supported his chin with his right hand and nodded his head to signal Shama Naigu to continue.
"But..."Shamanaigu pointed to the last melon seed and said, "I'm afraid that Qiongzhou in the northwest is a hard bone to gnaw. ”
"Since ancient times, there have been two roads connecting Shuzhong to the outside world, one is to rush out of the sword and rush to the Central Plains from Jingzhou Mansion, that is, the route you took when you entered Shu, and now there is a northern army stationed, I believe there is no big problem. The other road is to go north from Qiongzhou, go out of Shangjuguan and enter Wenzhou in Hanzhong, and then enter the Central Plains in the east, through the desert in the north, and enter the 24 countries of the Western Regions in the west. Strategically speaking, whether it is offensive or defensive, we must drag Qiongzhou to the death. ”
Yang Yi nodded, Shama Naigu spoke very concisely, so that he immediately grasped the key point, this Qiongzhou is undoubtedly the place where the soldiers written in the war book must fight.
"Why is Qiongzhou a bone that is hard to gnaw? Who is Qiongzhou Taishou? Yang Yi wondered.
"Qiongzhou Taishou is called An Taichu."
"This man is very powerful?"
Shama Naigu shook his head and smiled: "This person is not powerful, just a dog guarding the household, but this Antai Chu has always had a close relationship with Wenzhou Thorn Shi Yu Wenmang. ”
"Yuwen Mang?"
As he spoke, Shama Naigu put a slightly larger melon seed on top of Qiongzhou and explained: "Yu Wenmang has been an official in Wenzhou for many years, and his power is deep-rooted, and there are 50,000 mercenaries, and this person has always coveted Shudi, and when Tao Yong was in power, he secretly made small moves, intending to invade Qiongzhou and open the northern gateway of Shuzhong. That Qiongzhou Taishou Antai has been in close contact with it at the beginning, but he was forced by Tao Yong's pressure and did not dare to act rashly, and now the situation in Shuzhong is undecided, and the Central Plains are full of war, I am worried that Qiongzhou may have changes. ”
Yang Yi frowned, he knew that Shama Naigu was worried that Antai would defect to Yu Wenmang at the beginning, and Shuzhong would be in trouble.
After thinking about it, Yang Yining said, "How do you know these things?" ”
Shama Naigu smiled and said: "This matter is a secret, but it is not a secret, many high-ranking officials in Shu know it, but those big officials basically died some time ago, and they escaped, naturally no one told you, and..." ”
Yang Yi was quite surprised, if this matter is not handled well, I am afraid it will be a big trouble, and if Yang Yishu King's ass is not hot, he will be dragged down.
However, since Shama Naigu calmly talked about this problem, it means that he may already have a countermeasure in his heart, Yang Yi said: "Tell me what you think." ”
"Qiongzhou is too shou Antai at the beginning, this person has no opinions, he is a wall grass, so as long as we govern Yu Wenmang, Qiongzhou will naturally return to our hands."
Yang Yi thought for a while and said: "But now that Shuzhong is decided, the situation is still chaotic, if you start a war with Yuwen Mang, no matter whether you win or lose, it will be a lose-lose thing." Moreover, if the trade route that Shuzhong can survive to enter the northwest must pass through Wenzhou, once the two sides tear their faces, the blow to us is incalculable. ”
Shamanagu smiled: "This is the question you should consider, I am a general, and I only think about the victory or defeat on the battlefield." ”
Yang Yi pondered for a moment and said: "Don't act rashly first, tomorrow I will send some spies to the north to try to figure out the movements of Yu Wenmang and An Taichu, in addition, you transfer a group of elites to be stationed on the border of Qiongzhou, causing formal pressure on An Taichu, ready to attack at any time, I want to see if he An Taichu has the courage to add Yu Wenmang's ass!" ”
Shama Naigu nodded and added, "I think I can write a letter to Yu Wenmang to complain about you, His Royal Highness the Shabby King of Shu." ”
Yang Yi's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood Shama Naigu's intentions, he wanted to pretend to continue to be friendly with Yuwen Mang, first, to listen to the other party's reality, and second, to paralyze Yuwen Mang and An Taichu.
"Hmm... It's a good idea, but don't write the letter too urgently, and talk to him slowly so that he can let go of his suspicions. ”
The two looked at each other, and both saw the sly look in each other's eyes, and laughed again.
Yang Yi said secretly: "Lao Tzu has no military advisor now, so he can only deal with it by himself with two stinkers." ”
"Oh, there's one more thing I want you to help with." Yang Yi said suddenly.
"If you have something, just say it." Shamanai Ancient Road.
"I heard that many years ago, how did you have a lot of alchemists in the Zhen village?"
Shama Naigu glanced at Yang Yi with disdain: "You don't want to eat that Laoshizi's elixir too, do you?" ”
Yang Yi said with a smile: "It's better to eat two more melon seeds to eat that thing, I want to find two materials for alchemy." ”
"You know how to do alchemy?" Shamanagu said in amazement.
"Hey, what I want to refine is a hundred times more practical than the elixir, if it is really poured out by me, it can be compared to thousands of troops!"
"Thousands of troops?" Shamanaigu said disbelievingly, "What are you looking for?" ”
Yang Yi said: "Sulfur, saltpeter." Afraid that Shama Naigu didn't know these two things, Yang Yi explained: "It's the yellow mud and stone used to make fireworks." ”
Shama Naigu nodded suddenly: "That thing, there are many of them on the ancestral mountain of our Zhen clan, there is a cave dug out by the alchemists of the year, it is full of that thing, I went in it when I was a child, the smell is pungent, and it smells very bad." ”
Yang Yi was pleasantly surprised: "Damn, saltpeter mine!" ”
After careful inquiry, Yang Yi was basically sure that there was a pure saltpeter mine in the territory of the Zhen clan, which could also explain why those alchemists had to travel thousands of miles to the deep mountains and old forests to suffer hardships.
Regardless of Shama Naigu looking at himself like a fool, Yang Yi said: "When will we take the time to go to Lin'an County together, if it is really what I want, then... Hey..."
Yang Yi has already begun to fantasize about the scene where he has made explosives, whether it is digging rocks in the mountains or attacking the city, it is simply a person blocking and killing, and the Buddha blocking and killing the Buddha, not to mention any Yuwen Mang, even if he is on the bar with the fierce King Di, it is not inferior at all.